The Big Break

The Big Break

by | Oct 30, 2017 | December 2017

Illustration by David Owens   A new miniseries brings Hollywood to an Adirondack prison town “Numbers 95 and below, please come up front!” a young woman called into a microphone, and a scattering of people rose from their seats in Plattsburgh’s Strand Theater....
Manhunt

Manhunt

by | Oct 26, 2015 | December 2015, History

The town of Dannemora lies in the iron-hard foothills of the northern Adirondacks. A massive wall the color of bone burdens the hardscrabble main street. Behind it lies one of the largest communities in the park, one that has existed here, hidden away, since the...