by Caperton Tissot | Nov 15, 2022 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2022, History
Illustration by Gwen Jamison Vogel 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,...
by Niki Kourofsky | May 2, 2019 | April 2019
Photographs courtesy of Shane Ash Old cars, old money, and an enduring mystery Once, not so long ago, a gearhead paradise lay hidden along the stretch of Route 86 near Donnelly’s ice-cream stand. There, at a weathered farmstead, John “Hawkeye” Hawkinson spent a...
by J. Robert Williams | Apr 16, 2019 | History
Throughout 2019, in celebration of Adirondack Life’s 50th anniversary, we’re sharing an article per week from our archives—one for each year since 1970. In 1984, J. Robert Williams profiled a colorful and loquacious innkeeper whose tales often blurred fact and fiction...