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History is Cool

HISTORY IS COOL: 100 years ago

Hospital needed - The Chamber of Commerce is again agitating the matter of a hospital for Lake Placid. The convenience and need of such an institution here requires little argument to be convincing. At the meeting held last evening, several sites were discussed, among them the village park ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 90 years ago

Dogs help stock fish - Dog sledges in this resort not only transport humans traveling the snowy stretches in a search for novelty or convenience but are also used for more prosaic tasks. A million and a quarter whitefish fry in cans were transported to selected spots on Lake Placid and ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 100 years ago

A vision for tourism - Seymour Dunn, golf director at the Lake Placid Club, has been meeting with the committee of the chamber of commerce, of which he is a member, while they have been planning for a new public golf course and has expressed many of his views regarding the needs of sports ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 100 years ago

New golf course? - A committee of the chamber of commerce, of which Frank Swift is chairman, and the other members are Seymour Dunn, golf instructor at the Lake Placid Club, Fred Dashnaw, E. E. MacConnell, Thomas Roland and Frank Leonard, met about a dozen other businessmen in the town hall ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 100 years ago

Winter sports future - The Sno Bird flag will be furled on Friday, March 9 at 2:30 p.m. This does not mean that there will be no skating, skiing or other forms of winter recreation. As long as there is ice or snow, enthusiasts will squeeze out every hour of enjoyment of them possible. But ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 99 years ago

Renaming a peak - Declaring that the movement to name one of the peaks in the Seward range Mount Donaldson, in honor of Alfred Donaldson, well-known writer of Adirondack history, was inappropriate, O. Byron Brewster, district attorney of Essex County, has entered a protest against the ...