At Home in the Adirondacks 2022
Articles from this Issue
Adirondack Made: Furniture Artisan Russ Gleaves
Stepping into Russ Gleaves’s workshop, well off the beaten path in the town of Hope, is like stepping back in time. Gleaves is a self-taught cabinetmaker and rustic furniture craftsman who has been building in the Adirondack woodworking tradition for more than 20 years. His shop reflects his love of all things old.
The Long Drop: Craftsman Wayne Ignatuk’s Room with a View
When your backyard covers 200 acres, chances are good that you’ll need more than one spot dedicated to the call of nature.
Mystery Man: Unpacking an Adirondack Life
Bids at 30, now 30, would you go for 40, I hear 40!” Numbers were rattled off in a mesmerizing chant. The crowd listened, huddled in an unheated warehouse beneath a domed wooden roof. “Now 40, would you give me 50? Now 50, would you go to 60? Come on folks, chance of a lifetime. Trunk’s never been opened, key lost, might be treasure in this here trunk, 60, 60?”
Steel Pines: A “Tree to Table” Adirondack Enterprise
Darcie Burroughs calls the custom-building and -milling business she and her husband, Mark, own and operate “tree to table.” Among the services Steel Pines offers is a story for their customers to share with future generations, about how the timbers in a beloved home or camp came from surrounding trees, bringing the forest inside. It’s the ultimate in local.
The Roots of Rustic Style
Everyone can—and generally does—have their own idea of Adirondack style, making it a knotty concept to nail down. The form has branched into ever-evolving offshoots, but there’s a common origin, a beau ideal that was conceived in the heady days of robber-baron excess. If you close your eyes, you can probably conjure it—satiny wood, coarse bark, tangled sticks, river-smoothed stones. And some very dead animals.
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