The Visionary

The Visionary

by | 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...
Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer

by | 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...
Nell Painter

Nell Painter

by | 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,...
The Quiet Collective

The Quiet Collective

by | 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...
The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home

by | 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,...