History

There is a fable circulating in these mountains: “The Indians didn’t live up here.” It is false. Nevertheless, ...

If scholars, until recently, have failed to connect the dots between the eugenics and conservation movements, who can...

SO MUCH FOR THE MYTH OF THE "TRACKLESS WILDERNESS": Turns out people have been coming to the region we now call the A...

You may know Albert Einstein as the Nobel-winning physicist whose theories of relativity revolutionized our understan...

Boreas Ponds, featured in Adirondack Life’s 2016 Annual Guide to the Great Outdoors, played a key role in Adirondack ...

When thinking of talented artists brought low by early death, George Gershwin and John Keats invariably come to mind....

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The town of Dannemora lies in the iron-hard foothills of the northern Adirondacks. A massive wall the color of bone b...

The gerbil genius and rat wrangler of Brant Lake

Photograph by Aaron Hobson   Not far from the sunny side of Route 374, in the northern Adi­ron­dack ham­­let of ...