April 2023
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Articles from this Issue

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 Ukrainia...

Picture This: Our 2023 Photography Contest
The winners of our 2023 annual photography contest.

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...

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 t...

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 ...

The Pleasures and Perils of a Frozen River
I learned to skate on thin ice with my grandfather. “Tickly bender ice,” he called it.

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...

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,...
