“Oh my gawd, how am I going to tell my friends?” says Marissa Jonke, impersonating her mother’s Queens accent when Jonke broke the news that she was becoming a taxidermist. “They’re going to say, ‘What, is she a serial killer?’”
December 2021
Millionaire’s Row
The view from the top of Lake George’s Prospect Mountain is amazing. You don’t have to take a long, sweaty hike to enjoy it, either, because of the Veterans Memorial Highway that opened in 1969. It is the only scenic drive through the state-owned forest preserve that Laurance Rockefeller built in the Adirondacks. He wanted more, but Harold Hochschild stopped him.
Old Craft, New Twist
John Henry Rushton was a trendsetter. The Canton-based boatbuilder, who made top-of-the-line watercraft in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was egged on by his famous customer George Washington Sears, aka “Nessmuk,” to design smaller and smaller boats for the diminutive adventurer.
Wishful Skiing
As summer turns to fall, foliage just beginning to pop and the air cooling, Olympian Andrew Weibrecht is looking forward to snow. Last winter, from January through March, the 35-year-old Lake Placid native skied 22 of the Adirondacks’ 46 highest peaks to raise funds and awareness for Make-A-Wish Northeast New York, a chapter of Make-A-Wish America, an organization that helps kids with critical illnesses realize their dreams.
The Visionary
When he was 12, Ash Anand’s youngest uncle took him to an open tract of land outside his home in West Bengal on the eastern side of India. “His motive was to inspire me to know that big things can be done,” Anand said.
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October 2026
Lost hikers, splintered bones and wildfires—a forest ranger reflects on more than two decades of coming to the rescue. Plus the oldest tavern in the Adirondacks, a trip through James Bond’s Lake George, and new energy in Schroon Lake.
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