The Legend of Hawkeye

The Legend of Hawkeye

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...

Talking Up a Storm

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...