December 2022
Articles from this Issue

Late-Season Riding at the Ausable Chasm Mountain-Bike Trails
And then there are the mountain-bike trails he has spent more than a decade creating near Ausable Chasm, all bearing ...

Regional Reads 2022
What better way to wrap up 2022 than with an Adirondack-flavored tale or two from this year’s crop of regional reads?...

Butternut Squash and Leek Gratin
Tired of the same old Thanksgiving side dishes? Mix it up with this staff favorite from food writer Patsy Jamieson, w...

Wild Turkey: Dannemora’s Thanksgiving Tradition
Planning a table-groaning Thanksgiving meal for an army—while working around any number of schedules and eating habit...

Photographer Pamela Underhill Karaz Captures the Wonders of Wildlife
Just after Christmas some years ago, a coyote emerged from a stand of evergreens on Pamela Underhill Karaz’s property...

Yvona Fast’s Hanukkah Latkes
As a young Jewish girl in Poland, Dana Fast’s non-religious, thoroughly assimilated family didn’t celebrate Hanukkah,...

From Cold River to the North Pole
For 33 years Noah John Rondeau, the best-known Adirondack hermit of the 20th century, lived in a crude cluster of hut...

Service Stations: American Legions in the Adirondacks
My earliest memories of the local American Legion—Post 1619 in West Plattsburgh, less than a mile from our house—were...
