August 2019

Google “floating picnic table” and it’s easy to fall into a rabbit hole, chasing one link after another to curiouser ...

Reader's favorite lean-tos

Forest ranger Megan McCone monitors 50,000 acres of state land, including parts of Saranac Lake Wild Forest and all o...

My father loved fishing and would go anywhere, by any means, to fish in new places. My mother, not so much. Many year...

In 1869, four years after the end of the Civil War, hundreds of men and women from Boston and New York headed to the ...

Reviled as a “degenerate” by the Nazis, celebrated by the Paris art world and investigated for suspected Communist ti...

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 ...

Recently, a historian friend known for sleuthing re­gional nuggets found the album Old Time and Jugband Music by a gr...

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 ...

The keg had been tapped, the morning’s firewood–stacking conga line completed, and the day’s festivities were well un...

The hermit thrush is a compact bird, a snowball with big eyes topped with feathers the color of sugar-maple bark dapp...

Most summer mornings on Piseco Lake, you’ll hear only natural sounds: lapping waves, twittering birds, the occasional...