by Adirondack Life | 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...
by Adirondack Life | 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...
by Niki Kourofsky | Nov 22, 2022 | December 2022
Planning a table-groaning Thanksgiving meal for an army—while working around any number of schedules and eating habits—sometimes feels like a losing game of 3D chess. But chefs in Dannemora and the surrounding communities have another stumbling block to consider: the...