April 2023

Articles from this Issue

illustration of a cemetery where the gravestones cast shadows of people

Silent as the Grave: A Forgotten Quaker Burial Ground

The humble, plain-living Quakers who lie buried here rejected displays of vanity and so kept death, as they had life, as simple and unemotional as possible.

a man with a long white beard stands by a stream

From Old Mountain Phelps to Today’s Adirondack Guides

Plenty has changed—not just the park’s physical landscape, with its trail system and network of highways that connect even our tiniest communities to the outside world, but also how, in the modern world, people learn about and experience this place.

A close up of dark lake ice with cracks in it

The Pleasures and Perils of a Frozen River

I learned to skate on thin ice with my grandfather. “Tickly bender ice,” he called it.

The Revolutionary Roots of Lake Luzerne’s Name

A few months ago I came across a 1788 handwritten letter by a French nobleman, the Chevalier de La Luzerne, that was being auctioned in a gallery in Boston. I was astounded, to say the least.

Ice Jam Inn Brings “Elevated Comfort Food” to Upper Jay

It’s doubtful that moules frites and Upper Jay were ever mentioned in the same breath before chef Zack Ryder opened the Ice Jam Inn restaurant in late 2020.

Man with beard drilling hole in maple tree

As Maple Goes High-Tech, the Romance of the Old Ways Lingers

I know I’m not the only one who took on chickens as a pandemic project. Tomatoes and raspberries too. But the big one, for me, was making my own maple syrup.

illustration of a bearded lumberjack playing a whistle with leprechauns

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at P2’s Irish Pub

P-2’s Irish Pub, in Tupper Lake, has all of that and more at its annual St. Paddy’s Day blowout. What it doesn’t have is any claim to an Irish pedigree.

Helping Ukrainians Far from the Front Lines

Five thousand miles away in Lake Placid, Beth Brunner was frustrated. She wanted to do something to help the Ukrainian people. Not just write a check, but something “direct.” Brunner searched, and eventually connected with the organization North America for Ukraine.

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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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