Wayne Failing: Master of Fun Michael Virtanen Solidly built and shrouded by bushy hair, beard and dark sunglasses, Wayne Failing looked like a modern mountain man.... Read More
Free Skate: How to Build a Backyard Ice Rink Adirondack Life For some Adirondackers, the ultimate in North Country living is being able to ski out the back door. But for Harold S... Read More
Henry Beach and the Art of Deception Sally Svenson The first version of Photoshop was issued in 1990, but the art and craft of manipulating photographs has existed sinc... Read More
Service Stations: American Legions in the Adirondacks Niki Kourofsky My earliest memories of the local American Legion—Post 1619 in West Plattsburgh, less than a mile from our house—were... Read More
A Waking Dream: Novelist Russell Banks on His Adirondack Home Russell Banks Nearly everyone can name a place or two or, if they’re lucky, three, that for them is like no other. Those are the pl... Read More
The Upside Down: Introducing Another Lake Placid Annie Stoltie Lake Placid is the most wonderful town in the world,” says Giggles. “The people here are so friendly and giving—talki... Read More
To the Rescue Adirondack Life North Country weather has always been a wild ride of ups and downs, and climate change hasn’t made it any easier to p... Read More
Avalanche Safety 101 Tim Rowland Social media images show you the good stuff. That arcing spray of white powder against a bluebird sky, fronting a gli... Read More
From Cold River to the North Pole Adirondack Life For 33 years Noah John Rondeau, the best-known Adirondack hermit of the 20th century, lived in a crude cluster of hut... Read More
Yvona Fast’s Hanukkah Latkes Adirondack Life As a young Jewish girl in Poland, Dana Fast’s non-religious, thoroughly assimilated family didn’t celebrate Hanukkah,... Read More
Photographer Pamela Underhill Karaz Captures the Wonders of Wildlife Annie Stoltie Just after Christmas some years ago, a coyote emerged from a stand of evergreens on Pamela Underhill Karaz’s property... Read More
Adirondack Made: Furniture Artisan Russ Gleaves George Hanstein Stepping into Russ Gleaves’s workshop, well off the beaten path in the town of Hope, is like stepping back in time. G... Read More