In the novel “Laughter in the Dark,” author Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and 20 years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about ...

(Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part story.) I was recently recounting to the members of our Williamsburg Barnes & Noble bookstore salon the story of my father’s 1938 spy trial. It took place 80 years ago. They had many questions to ask. The story, as I had ...

Now that September is here, the Lake Placid Public Library has a few updates for our friends and patrons. We are proud to announce the winners of the “Reading in Lake Placid” student poster contest that were chosen from so many amazing entries. The winners in each category are: Isabelle ...

President leaving - President Calvin Coolidge leaves the Adirondacks tomorrow after a stay of 10 weeks at White Pine Camp on Osgood Lake. He feels greatly benefited by his stay in the North Country, but he does not plan to return next year, it is said, preferring to continue his policy of a ...

The I Love BBQ and Music Festival returned after canceling last year’s event to a new date and location. Shifting from the Olympic Speedskating Oval and the Fourth of July weekend, the festival opened at the North Elba Show Grounds on Labor Day weekend, from Friday, Sept. 3 to Sunday, ...

My great-grandmother’s book, “The Successful Housekeeper,” published in 1886, contains everything a homemaker needed to know, and more. Its instructions for hostessing a garden party, written in high-flown language, might give readers a lopsided, even downright false, view of 19th century ...