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From a distance, I thought I could see some of the family on the screened-in porch already tucking into blueberry pancakes, bacon and fruit salad. I pushed the screen door and was half a step in when I realized the shape I saw from a distance wasn’t my father but a bear up on its hind legs eating the family breakfast right off the picnic table.
Scholars say composer Samuel Barber wrote Adagio for Strings in Austria. But watch a sunrise from Lake George’s shoreline—waves lapping, light breaking through the dawn mist—and you can imagine how Barber’s heart-stirring masterpiece that crescendos and crashes might have been inspired by this place.
Five-year-old Ivan Cook considers the question, looking from goat to goat. After some thought, he rattles off the names of several of the herd, while all around him, the goats dance, sniff his small hands, and nudge him for attention.
The first time I saw Cali Brooks it was 1999 and she rose like a yellow-haired spirit out of the vegetable garden at the Blue Mountain Center, the former central Adirondack Great Camp turned writers’ retreat.
Our first Adirondack Life Challenge, in 2019, was a lot of fun—and not just for our readers. It was a blast looking at all those pictures of families living park-perfect summers. (We were especially tickled by your visionary recipes for wacky new s’mores—S’morito, anyone?)
This spectacular view of the Whitney Wilderness Area and Little Tupper Lake comes to you courtesy of a very good boy.
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