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 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...
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...