by Annie Stoltie | Feb 24, 2022 | April 2022
Illustration by Mark Wilson On a recent trip to Park Street in Tupper Lake, I scored a tasty panini, a pretty pair of beaded earrings, fringed leather booties and a box of maple chaga tea. I’m from the North Country and I’ve known Tupper since I was a kid, but you can...
by Lisa W. Foderaro | Oct 29, 2019 | June 2012
For these Tupper Lakers, camp is just across the street Throughout 2019, in celebration of Adirondack Life’s 50th anniversary, we’re sharing an article per week from our archives—one for each year since 1970. In 2012, Lisa Foderaro reported on a community of Tupper...
by Zohar Gitlis | Jun 27, 2019 | June 2019
Ben Gocker’s From the Library Window An unlikely collaboration between a young artist and the painter he never met The whitewashed walls in Ben Gocker’s Tupper Lake studio are hung with large wooden boards, each almost entirely covered in small sticks and scrap...
by Elizabeth Folwell | Jan 11, 2018 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2017
Photograph by Yvonne Albinowski Blacksmith Dan King forges works of art for camp or castle Tupper Lake Junction’s Wheel Inn had a reputation—dive bar, strip joint, a place where patrons went at it hammer and tongs on many nights. For the past 10 years master...
by Christian Woodard | Jan 6, 2015 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2014
For a time—about a minute—I led Tupper Lake’s second annual Warrior Run, held at the Big Tupper Ski Area. A lanky guy danced past at the first obstacle, then a man with “RENEGADE” tattooed across his solar plexus. By that time, though, blood roared through my ears and...