“‘Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish!” This is Sir John Falstaff, in Shakepeare’s “Henry IV, part I,” mincing no words as he berates young Prince Hal for, basically, calling him fat. Falstaff gives it right back, ...

As winter gives way to spring, the days are lengthening, and temperatures are rising. The library is actively preparing an array of programs for adults, teens and children for the upcoming spring and summer seasons. For details of upcoming events, please visit the library’s website at ...

So far this winter, ORDA’s Mount Van Hoevenberg staff and volunteers have hosted an array of back-to-back and — at times — simultaneous events, often under very trying conditions. Taking days off is, at times, catch-as-one-can, as when working with weather-dependent events, as ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. Following my escape from the Nazi slave labor camp, and after encountering my brother-in-law, Bela Engel, on the streets of Budapest, he took me to one of the Swedish Safe Houses, established by Raoul Wallenberg, the legendary Swedish diplomat, ...

The blackbirds should be showing up any day now. I’m on the lookout. When the blackbirds are back in town it means spring is coming. Or at least the blackbirds seem to think so. I watch for them every year. Blackbirds, like the Summer People, are seasonal residents. The blackbirds’ ...

On Friday, Feb. 28, the Mount Van Hoevenberg and Ski Jump crew installed a 10- by 15-foot mural representing the U.S. flag on the sliding track finish platform as U.S. bobsled and Skeleton athletes and their competitors arrived in Lake Placid to begin their final training and practice runs ...