Bad birds of New York are back in town. Now that it is spring in the Adirondacks, you have probably seen and heard the flocks of red-winged blackbirds and their cousins, the brown-headed cowbirds, that are congregating in the trees of our North Country neighborhoods. These little harbingers, ...
I spent Easter weekend in and around Montreal, a trip that included a haircut, visiting a friend with fourth-stage cancer, shopping and attending Anglican services. An aspect of it, of course, was hearing many Canadian’s takes on us, which is about missing a friend and neighbor as well as ...
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 ...