From Cold River to the North Pole

From Cold River to the North Pole

by | Dec 19, 2022 | December 2022, History

Photograph from Adirondack Experience For 33 years Noah John Rondeau, the best-known Adirondack hermit of the 20th century, lived in a crude cluster of huts and shanties along the Cold River northeast of Long Lake. High Peaks hikers sought him out for conversation and...
Yvona Fast’s Hanukkah Latkes

Yvona Fast’s Hanukkah Latkes

by | Dec 15, 2022 | December 2022

Photograph from iStock As a young Jewish girl in Poland, Dana Fast’s non-religious, thoroughly assimilated family didn’t celebrate Hanukkah, even before Germany invaded the country in 1939. Still, they were forced into the horrid conditions of the Warsaw ghetto, as...