Saving The Hedges

by | Jan 24, 2019 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2018

A Great Camp love story It’s hard not to be romantic about The Hedges, on Blue Mountain Lake. Some of us first fell in love at the old Great Camp and then with the place itself. It’s a place that’s so part of our identity that, even if we stay just a week or two each...
The Irondequoit

The Irondequoit

by | Jan 3, 2019 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2018

photograph by Carrie Marie Burr   A million-dollar renovation transforms a Piseco Lake inn The Irondequoit Inn sits on a small rise at Piseco Lake’s northern end. Eight wooden steps lead from hillside to front porch. When I arrive for my first visit on a fall...

Saving Account

by | Dec 13, 2018 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2018

For the Hales on Willsboro Point, homes, land and history are intertwined. How one family rescued the legacy of another Every old house has a story or two. You might read it in the architecture, how native and exotic materials were combined; how tastes, tools and...
The Bark Eater

The Bark Eater

by | Nov 9, 2017 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2017

New Life for a historic High Peaks Inn Below Sentinel Mountain’s jagged profile on Keene’s northern border, where Limekiln Road meets Alstead Hill Road, there’s a farmhouse painted the color of freshly churned butter. The surrounding acreage has...