KEESEVILLE — Adirondack Architectural Heritage officials recently announced this year’s AARCH Preservation Award winners, recognizing exemplary historic preservation work throughout the Adirondack region, including sensitive restoration, rehabilitation, adaptive use, long-term stewardship, ...
Just as I threw the disc at the Whiteface Mountain Disc Golf Course in Wilmington, the wind picked up. Like watching a train derailment in slow motion, my drive carried to the left and seemed to hover there for one painful instant. The first hole was 385 feet away, and I seemed to be on track ...
I muttered to myself, “Mama didn’t raise a coward.” Stepping up to hole 16 at the BarkEater Disc Golf Course (on Osgood Pond) in Paul Smiths, I grabbed a driver from my bag and ignored the shorter tee box. Shorter tee boxes are for cowards. Thus reassured that it was nothing less than ...
Staring at the sign at the Dewey Mountain Disc Golf Course in Saranac Lake, I started to philosophize. What does “NEXT TEE” really mean? Maybe I was taking the sign too literally. There certainly weren’t any tees around. Could it be some sort of statement on my choice of clothing? ...
LAKE PLACID — In its mid-season report, the Adirondack High Peaks Summit Stewardship Program reported a busier-than-average spring followed by a drop in visitor contacts to start the summer hiking season. On the four peaks with the most coverage by stewards — Marcy, Algonquin, Wright ...
WILMINGTON — The Wilmington Historical Society will host author Glenn Pearsall for a talk and slideshow entitled “When Men and Mountains Meet: Stories of Hope and Despair in the Adirondack Wilderness after the American Revolution” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16 at the Wilmington Community ...