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 Derry Queen Niki Kourofsky Google “floating picnic table” and it’s easy to fall into a rabbit hole, chasing one link after another to curiouser ... Read More
Lean-to Etiquette Adirondack Life Forest ranger Megan McCone monitors 50,000 acres of state land, including parts of Saranac Lake Wild Forest and all o... Read More
Close Encounters of the Lean-to Kind Adirondack Life My father loved fishing and would go anywhere, by any means, to fish in new places. My mother, not so much. Many year... Read More
Sheltered Past James H. S. McGregor In 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War, hundreds of men and women from Boston and New York headed to the ... Read More
Chagall in Cranberry Lake Lisa Bramen Reviled as a “degenerate” by the Nazis, celebrated by the Paris art world and investigated for suspected Communist ti... Read More
By the Numbers Paul Greenberg On a hot, oppressive day in the summer of 1988, an ecologist’s Chesapeake Bay retriever named Muddy made off with my ... Read More
Sensory Fieldwork Christopher Shaw M y friend Adam Welz, a South African naturalist and journalist, identified fish crows flying around an island in mi... Read More
Olympic Flames? Alison Haas It is early in the morning, a day after the Notre-Dame fire in Paris, and I can’t sleep. I can’t stop thinking about ... Read More
The Big Chill Curt Stager Imagine an environmental challenge to the Adirondacks harsher than acid rain, invasive species and global warming com... Read More