Memory and perception are illusive — and not only for the aged. Even children are suggestible and can be influenced by various factors that affect memory. If you doubt this, ask your brother or sister about some event that you recall in detail from your childhood. Chances are that he or she ...

The evening began in a most unbelievable fashion: With a 21st century piece that everybody seemed to like! They didn’t just like it, either. They liked it a lot! The piece was called “Chamber Concerto,” composed by Chicago area native James Stephenson and performed at the weekly Sunday ...

Had you been driving through Keene Valley last Sunday, you might have felt you had entered a time warp, with women dressed in white waving yellow, white, and purple striped flags and wearing sunflower pins in their lapels. It was as if women were out barnstorming for the right to vote, or at ...

(Editor’s note: Get a box of tissues before you read this. It’s a tearjerker.) By NAJ WIKOFF On Wednesday, July 27, with great sadness, I put my 17-year-old cat and companion Lucy to sleep. It was such a hard decision to make, but one made out of love. Lucy’s life began as a ...

I have often borrowed from my great-grandmother’s book, “The Successful Housekeeper,” published in 1886, when writing this column. It occurs to me now that the chapters I chose — elaborate instructions for hostessing a garden party or preparing for a camping expedition, accompanied by ...

The Tina Leonard Award was established by the Rotary Club of Lake Placid, Tina’s family and dozens of donors in memory of the late and great Tina Leonard, who passed away last year. I was the first to be recognized for the Tina Leonard Award, and it means the world to me, the universe, ...