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Stony Creek Inn
By 5:30 p.m. on a foggy Sunday in December, the Stony Creek Inn was already half-full, the hot dishes crowding the co...
Aaron Mair
Aaron Mair smiles when he tells the story of his first meeting with the Sierra Club, in 1994. But the smile does not ...
Boreas Ponds
Whose woods these are I think I know. As I write in late March, the 20,758-acre Boreas Ponds tract belongs to the Adi...
The Smartest Lake on Earth
Everyone’s got a smartphone—no status points there. But at least for the moment there’s only one truly smart body of ...
Back to the Future
In the spring of 1964 a portal into the future opened in Flushing Meadows, Queens. For two six-month seasons, the Wor...
In Good Spirits
A smooth liquor can stimulate the senses. It can stimulate a smile or a conversation. And, yes, it can even stimulate...
Jazzing Up Lake George
Four years ago during Jazz at the Lake—Lake George Arts Project’s annual music festival on the western shore of Lake ...
Johns Brook Lodge—The Last Resort
Dominick Riccio, on the other end of the phone line, remembered the comment card. The critical one my hiking partner ...
Smallville
Last night a friend called to tell my husband and me that, earlier that day, a mutual friend had died of a heart atta...
Conservation’s Dark Side
If scholars, until recently, have failed to connect the dots between the eugenics and conservation movements, who can...
Love My Neighbors
A bug crawled in my ear during a High Peaks family camping trip last summer. I had been asleep an hour, snug in my sl...