A Schroon Lake Love Affair Jennifer Dorr-Moon Couples swayed to “By the Light of the Silvery Moon,” but the young man stood transfixed. He held his hands over his ... Read More
Cliff the Bear Dick Monroe We all have experiences that stay with us. Some are firsts—first kiss, first home run. Some are tragic. Some are book... Read More
Club Adirondack Galen Crane "May you live in interesting times,” goes the expression purported to be a Chinese curse. Well, golf may be living th... Read More
Trail Safe Scott Van Laer When I pass hikers on the trail in the High Peaks, they often say to me, “I bet you’ve seen it all.” After 19 years a... Read More
The Secret Life of Ponds Curt Stager A pond can seem to be many things. A fishing hole. A fallen piece of sky. A secret lair of magical beasts and ancesto... Read More
Frozen in Time Adirondack Life In the darkest days of winter, when the ice on Pontiac Bay reaches 12 inches thick, a tribe of volunteers brings in a... Read More
Jazzing Up Lake George Michael Coffey Four years ago during Jazz at the Lake—Lake George Arts Project’s annual music festival on the western shore of Lake ... Read More
Johns Brook Lodge—The Last Resort Luke Cyphers Dominick Riccio, on the other end of the phone line, remembered the comment card. The critical one my hiking partner ... Read More
Smallville Annie Stoltie Last night a friend called to tell my husband and me that, earlier that day, a mutual friend had died of a heart atta... Read More
Conservation’s Dark Side Amy Godine If scholars, until recently, have failed to connect the dots between the eugenics and conservation movements, who can... Read More
Love My Neighbors Annie Stoltie A bug crawled in my ear during a High Peaks family camping trip last summer. I had been asleep an hour, snug in my sl... Read More
Small Feats Lisa Plumley Mintz I am not one of those people who can gaze at the Adirondack mountain summits and know them by name. I can’t boast of ... Read More