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
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
Following a Thread Elizabeth Folwell This time at Cold River—the last time—his touch was light as pollen, no snapped twigs or bootprints on the familiar t... Read More
A Who’s Who of Adirondack Hermits Niki Kourofsky In 1852, a group of surveyors surprised an old man living in a crude shelter near Herkimer County’s Ice Cave Mountain... Read More
Crossing the Border Joe Connelly In early May of 2001, my wife and I packed up our 10th-floor apartment in Manhattan, loaded the kids in the car with ... Read More
A Blue Lining Bill McKibben It is, of course, difficult to predict the future. But since I have a half-decent track record, let me offer an Adiro... Read More
The Sweet Spot Lisa Bramen I drove for nearly an hour on quiet roads through the northernmost part of the Adirondack Park. T-shirt shops and twi... Read More