Four Peaks Mark Obbie IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS after moving my family back to my native New York after a long out-of-state exile, I wandered... Read More
Life Support Annie Stoltie Three-year-old Michael Hart II loves mud puddles, the Power Rangers and playing soccer—things most kids his age embra... Read More
The Rustic Life of Jim Schreiner Ben Gocker Down Hadley way, past Lake Luzerne, through the witchy shade of big white pines, beyond the motels and cottages dotti... Read More
Bark Eaters Ben Goldfarb On April 27, 1905, a four-man “Army of Liberation” departed from Old Forge for the Fourth Lake of the Fulton Chain, t... Read More
Path Finders Brian Mann It's a luminous autumn day and Kyle Drake climbs a slope of Dial Mountain in the Dix Mountain Wilderness Area, thread... Read More
Hike, Interrupted Lisa Bramen Memory can be an unreliable narrator. I realized this as I started on the trail up Hadley Mountain, where I found, in... Read More
The Chaga Hunter Shaun Kittle It’s a bright summer day, but the forest surrounding Tupper Lake is cool and dark. Garrett Kopp, the 20-year-old foun... Read More
A Woman’s Place Lorraine Duvall My draw to the Adirondacks began 50 years ago while on an Upper Saranac Lake canoe trip, and has continued ever since... Read More
Little School in the Big Woods Lisa W. Foderaro It was time for bean science in Kristin Delehanty’s second-grade class in Long Lake. The students peered down at thei... Read More
Home in the Woods Niki Kourofsky Big Moose Lake was nowhere near the path of totality for the Great American Eclipse. But the group that gathered at t... Read More
The Closet Amy Godine When Southern public schools were segregated, Clinton, North Carolina, educated its black high schoolers at Sampson H... Read More
The Fiddlehead Bistro Niki Kourofsky If you sit down to dinner at Saranac Lake’s Fiddlehead Bistro with dyed-in-the-wool locals, you’ll learn a thing or t... Read More