December 2022

Solidly built and shrouded by bushy hair, beard and dark sunglasses, Wayne Failing looked like a modern mountain man....

My earliest memories of the local American Legion—Post 1619 in West Plattsburgh, less than a mile from our house—were...

For 33 years Noah John Rondeau, the best-known Adirondack hermit of the 20th century, lived in a crude cluster of hut...

As a young Jewish girl in Poland, Dana Fast’s non-religious, thoroughly assimilated family didn’t celebrate Hanukkah,...

Just after Christmas some years ago, a coyote emerged from a stand of evergreens on Pamela Underhill Karaz’s property...

Planning a table-groaning Thanksgiving meal for an army—while working around any number of schedules and eating habit...

Tired of the same old Thanksgiving side dishes? Mix it up with this staff favorite from food writer Patsy Jamieson, w...

What better way to wrap up 2022 than with an Adirondack-flavored tale or two from this year’s crop of regional reads?...

And then there are the mountain-bike trails he has spent more than a decade creating near Ausable Chasm, all bearing ...