by Kristen A. Schmitt | May 18, 2023 | Featured, Guide to the Great Outdoors 2023
Photograph by Nancie Battaglia Wynde Kate Reese sets off for a day hike that will take her to the top of Rooster Comb Mountain in Keene Valley. She’ll pick her way over gnarled tree roots, pine needles and rock for several hours until she reaches the summit, just shy...
by Paul Greenberg | Feb 15, 2022 | February 2022, Nature and Environment
Terry Watson is usually much more careful. But when the chance to skitter across frozen Copperas Pond in search of big lake trout presented itself one spring day a few years back, the veteran Adirondack guide couldn’t refuse. In the course of Terry’s 60-plus years...
by Tim Rowland | Nov 4, 2021 | December 2021
Photograph by Yvonne Albinowski Warrensburg’s enterprising businessman Ash Anand When he was 12, Ash Anand’s youngest uncle took him to an open tract of land outside his home in West Bengal on the eastern side of India. “His motive was to inspire me to know that...
by Amy Godine | Apr 8, 2020 | June 2020
Illustration by Nip Rogers How life at Sacandaga Park shaped Robert Reich The son of an Adirondack pack peddler once told me his father knew the woods by memories of kindness, or its absence. From this farmhouse the young immigrant could hope for a seat at a kitchen...
by Lisa Bramen | Apr 4, 2019 | April 2019
Photograph by Ben Stechschulte A historian turned artist finds peace in the Adirondacks Nell Painter was born into segregation at the Houston Hospital for Negroes in 1942. If her family hadn’t relocated to Oakland, California, when she was a few weeks old,...
by Annie Stoltie | Feb 15, 2018 | February 2018
Photograph by Carrie Marie Burr A tribute to our everyday heroes A dying patient once confessed to hospice chaplain R. W. Williams, “You know, I’ve never done this before.” In the quarter-decade that Williams has been making house calls across the southern...
by Joe Connelly | Jun 27, 2017 | August 2017
Photograph courtesy of Dan Snyder A musician and cancer survivor reclaims his Adirondack roots Dan Snyder’s trek to raise money for cancer research lasted eight days, but the journey to get there took a lifetime. It started on a sunny morning on August 30,...