October 2019

Art of Glass

“Artists don’t retire,” says Jean-Jacques Duval, sitting in his Willsboro studio in front of an unfinished abstract painting on an easel. Another work in progress leans against a wall.

Moose. They are so much a part of the iconography of the Adirondacks that you would think the state’s largest land mammals were ubiquitous. There is the Moose Tooth Grill in Lake George, the Big Moose Inn on Big Moose Lake and, of course, countless coffee mugs and magnets etched with their image.

Ghosts in the Woods

In the weeks prior to my son’s birth, I would enter his nursery and gaze at the furnishings. It had taken me years to become pregnant, and spending time among the stuffed animals and fresh linens reinforced that my dream of motherhood was finally becoming real.

Kate Smith Today

Cooper Holmes has a cold.

Yet the virus hasn’t prevented the 17-year-old from showing up at 7:15 a.m. to sing for the Lake Placid Rotary Club, and to be honored with the club’s Kate Smith scholarship, a 1,000-dollar award given annually to Lake Placid High School’s most deserving music student.

The Ganzi

I’m a sucker for noodles. And handmade noodles? Piled in a rich oyster-mushroom broth? Yes, please. That’s what’s for lunch today—along with a salad of local greens and feta, a braised pork belly from Vermontville’s Kate Mountain Farm, and a scrumptiously sticky maple-syrup cake—at The Ganzi, Paul Smith’s College’s student-run restaurant.

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December 2025

Pulling back the curtain on the rough-and-tumble world of backcountry guides, plus Old Forge’s beloved Strand Theatre, the life of a master woodworker, Santas on the slopes and more!