A long-held belief is that the Adirondack Mountains, the land above 1,000 feet in elevation, were devoid of Indigenous peoples year-round; they mainly lived along the Lake Champlain, Mohawk, and St. Lawrence valleys. This belief was promoted, directly and indirectly, by retired banker Alfred L. ...
Biff says he knew the war our country is now conducting with Iran didn’t surprise him one bit. It was in the cards, Biff says. His sister Pearl and I, on the other hand, were completely thrown by it. We’re still feeling all up in the air. What a thing to wake up to on the first of March, a ...
Six of the many people from our region who have competed in the Winter Olympics, most medalists, shared their experiences and thoughts Thursday evening, Feb. 19, at a reception and roundtable held at the Mirror Lake Inn. Organized by two-time Olympic medalist Andrew Weibrecht, a benefit ...
Every once in a while, I look back at columns I’ve written over the years and reminisce. There was the time, back in the early 1990s, when a rogue logging truck lost its brakes coming down through the Cascades into Keene and took the kitchen off the house where my daughter, Molly, and I ...
This winter, Craig Wood, Mount Van Hoevenberg and Whiteface are not the only recreational venues where skiing and other snow sports are having a banner year; so too are such settings as the High Peaks’ cliffs and mountains, where backcountry skiers, ice climbers, and snowshoe enthusiasts ...
Yippee-ki-o-ki-yay, galloping all the way, here comes Year of the Horse! My apologies to Hanna-Barbera Animation Company and to Quick Draw McGraw, their cartoon wild West Sheriff horse, for appropriating Quick Draw’s theme song. And yes, as I type these words, Snake Year is slithering away ...