Sensory Fieldwork

Sensory Fieldwork

by | Feb 6, 2020 | 50th Anniversary 2019

Former Adirondack Life editor Christopher Shaw excavates 50 years of change M  y friend Adam Welz, a South African naturalist and journalist, identified fish crows flying around an island in mid-lake when he was visiting our cabin on the Saranacs in the summer of...
Taking Off

Taking Off

by | Dec 10, 2019 | October 2016

Illustration by Mark Wilson When dreams are too big for the Blue Line 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 her October 2018 Short Carries column,...
Crossing the Border

Crossing the Border

by | Dec 5, 2019 | 50th Anniversary 2019

Bringing Out the Dead author Joe Connelly on finding home In early May of 2001, my wife and I packed up our 10th-floor apartment in Manhattan, loaded the kids in the car with our closest belongings, and headed north for a new life in the Adirondacks. We’d bought the...
Being and Belongings

Being and Belongings

by | Oct 22, 2019 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2011

Getting to know Margo through her things 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 2011, senior editor Lisa Bramen wrote about living among the mementos...
Rural Legends

Rural Legends

by | Sep 24, 2019 | February 2007

Some Adirondack myths and rumors never die. Which ones stand up to expert scrutiny? 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 2007, the editors of...

Mystery at Bog River Falls

by | Jan 29, 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. This intriguing tale from 1973 was written by Mary MacKenzie, the longtime Lake Placid historian who died in 2003. ...

Movie Stars to Missing Persons

by | Jan 22, 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. Kathryn E. O’Brien, who wrote this Fall 1972 portrait of the Warren County Mounted Patrol—which is...

Women Have Been Voting Ever Since

by | Jan 15, 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. This week’s selection is by Robert F. Hall, who was president of an earlier publication called Adirondack...

Early Work of Rockwell Kent

by | Jan 2, 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. First up is an interview with the acclaimed artist Rockwell Kent, by Peggy Byrne. Byrne was such a...