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CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Lisa Lincoln CONTROLLER Joni Manning EDITOR IN CHIEF Annie Stoltie EDITOR IN CHIEF Annie Stoltie MANAGING EDITOR Niki Kourofsky DESIGNER Mark Mahorsky MANAGER Linda Bedard SALES Rob Igoe Jr. COORDINATOR Karly Garren DESIGN AND PR
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Box 410
Joan Burke’s story “Tahawus” (My Hometown, December 2024), about a town that no longer exists, reminded me right away of the song “The Street That Wasn’t There,” by Zoe Mulford. Thank you, Joan, for sharing your Tahawus memories with us. Diane Rockca
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The Healing Woods
Martha Rebentisch fell sick with the same disease that killed her mother. She dropped out of high school and left home in New York City to fight for her life at sanatoriums, where clean country air was the only hope for survival from tuberculosis, ra
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Bear Necessities
Please remember: When these omnivores make guest appearances among us, always give them space and never feed them, even unintentionally—keep food, garbage and strong scents contained. Last year a female and her two cubs got comfortable snacking at Ni
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Northern Lights
Showings of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, were more common at lower latitudes in 2024 due to the sun being at the solar maximum of its 11-year solar cycle, when the sun’s magnetic poles flip and the star blazes with solar flares and corona
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Answering the Call
It was a little after midnight when a team of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) forest rangers arrived in North Carolina. Rain had been falling all evening and the wind would soon reach 40 mph. “The hotel we were staying a
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High Peaks Hero
Long before Jonathan Zaharek stepped foot on an Adirondack mountain, his family had vacationed, summer after summer, in the southern park. It wasn’t until about a decade ago that Zaharek discovered the High Peaks while attending school in Pottersvill
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Adirondack Escape
If you check the index of any Harry Houdini biography, you will find an entry for Lake Placid. In the late winter of 1921, Houdini shot the cold-weather scenes for The Man from Beyond in and around the community. Houdini spent March and early April i
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How to Winter
FOR MANY, STAYING WARM in winter means quality time with an axe. Ever consider the provenance of yours? Or the go-to for Adirondackers of the past? Axe aficionado Brett McLeod breaks it down: As an axe collector, I’ve spent my fair share of time craw
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Lake George
SPECTACULAR, MAGNIFICENT, incomparable Lake George. … As President Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to his daughter dated May 31, 1791: “Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a
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Learning How To Fail
I'VE BEEN A SKI PATROLLER AT GORE MOUNTAIN, in North Creek, for more than 20 years, and in that time I’ve seen a lot of change, more trails, more lifts and more skiers, so much so that Gore now ranks as one of the biggest in the East and is a blast t
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Gifted
STORIES ABOUT SETTLING DOWN IN THE ADIRONDACKS usually involve love of the land. Jamie Meunier’s is no exception. His parents, Joe and Evelyn, first bought their 100-plus acres in Wilmington in 1970. At camp “Joeslyn,” as they called it, the Meuniers
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War on Whiteface
A decade after America’s triumph in World War I, a grateful public was still casting about for ways to honor its heroic Doughboys for making the world safe for democracy. Statuary of Brodie-helmeted infantrymen could be found in parks from sea to shi
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The Mill
As an entryway piece it’s stunning: a massive, rotating millstone dangling from the ceiling, made of foam but looking as if its weight could stop Wile E. Coyote in his tracks. The sculpture, A Stone Alone, greets visitors to The Mill, a former grain
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Fine Dining & Lodging
The Waldheim. Seventeen cottages with fireplaces overlooking scenic Big Moose Lake. Established in 1904, The Waldheim has changed little since. Rates include three delicious meals served daily in a central dining room. Unstructured opportunities allo
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Skinning Up
It’s still dark when my bedroom door creaks open. My father tiptoes in and sets the cat down beside me on the bed. I check the clock: 5:15. Last night we agreed on five; my father is being kind. Anyway, we both know that if light breaks and we aren’t
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In 1802 Elisha Bissell, a descendant of a Mayflower Pilgrim, settled in Newcomb. He helped found the remote Adirondack town, and his heirs have had a continuous presence there for nearly 200 years. One was Augustus Bissell, known as Gusty. In the ear

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