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
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
Behind the Music Annie Stoltie Recently, a historian friend known for sleuthing regional nuggets found the album Old Time and Jugband Music by a gr... Read More
Adi-rookie Nancy Davis Kho I admit it was a bit of an ambush. “Make a loon call,” I commanded my friend Maria, shoving my phone up to her mouth ... Read More
Kindervolk Lisa Bramen The keg had been tapped, the morning’s firewood–stacking conga line completed, and the day’s festivities were well un... Read More
Birding with Teddy Roosevelt Jaime Fuller The hermit thrush is a compact bird, a snowball with big eyes topped with feathers the color of sugar-maple bark dapp... Read More
Planes and Pancakes Jennifer Dorr-Moon Most summer mornings on Piseco Lake, you’ll hear only natural sounds: lapping waves, twittering birds, the occasional... Read More