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From Cold River to the North Pole

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...

Good Time Charley: The Life of Theme Park Patriarch Charles R. Wood

by Niki Kourofsky | Jun 27, 2022 | August 2022, History

photograph courtesy of Bobbie Wages Wood Once upon a time, there was a larger-than-life man named Charles R. Wood—better known to all as Charley—who dedicated his life to fun. He strode onto the North Country’s mid-century scene with little more than a smile...

Trouble in Santaland

by Lisa Bramen | Dec 23, 2016 | December 2014

Passing through the gates of Santa’s Workshop with my two-year-old son on a sticky July day, we are greeted by teens in elf suits wishing guests a Merry Christmas. “It’s not Christmas,” retorts a blond boy of about nine, an implied “duh” in his tone of voice. One...

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