Mitchell Reiss — the former president and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and before that, director of the Reves Center for International Studies and vice-provost for International Affairs at the College of William and Mary — was asked by Spectator, the prestigious British ...

The full moon is shining in through my window as I type this column for Valentine’s Day. It is very early in the morning. Across the street, huge plow trucks are clearing mountainous piles of snow in the moonlight. They are loading what must be tons of snow into dump trucks that cart it ...

By NAJ WIKOFF The first World Cup Ski Jumping competition in the United States that featured both men and women jumpers was in Lake Placid from Feb. 6 to 9. In another first on the international level, the women received parity in prize money with the men. As is true in many sports, male ...

The Lake Placid skating community took a double hit this past week with the death of former two-time Olympic champion Dick Button and the tragic air accident in Washington, D.C., that claimed the lives of many up-and-coming skaters, coaches and family members. Many of whom have trained and ...

An old friend once advised me to shake my wallet at the waxing crescent moon, just after the phase of the new (invisible) moon. Doing so will bring money, she said. Well, the sky was clear the other night, and I went outside and saw the crescent moon and shook my wallet at it, and it worked! ...

Dr. Edward Lozasky was a Soviet nuclear physicist who during the height of the Cold War became a dissident. Lozansky’s father-in-law was one of the Soviet Union’s top generals. To avoid embarrassment, he arranged for Lozansky to leave the Soviet Union and become an exile. He promised ...