Growing up in the North Country can be challenging for many youths. It was in the early 1950s and 1960s, and, in many respects, it is even more so today. Back then, we had school bullies, high levels of employment, especially during the off-season, and poverty. We also had many assets; ...
My daughter, Molly, often sends me links to stories she knows will interest me. Last week she sent an article by Denise Chow, a reporter for “NBC News Science,” describing how two different broods of cicadas — one that lives on a 13-year cycle, the other on a 17-year cycle — will emerge ...
Lake Placid airport - Stressing the need of suitable airports for the continued development of commercial aviation and stating that Lake Placid will undoubtedly have a proper airport even earlier than now appears possible, Leighton S. Bowker of Malone outlined the story of aviation past and ...
Few places in the United States, if any, exude as much Olympic pride as Lake Placid. Deep in the Adirondacks, the small town stands as a focal point of Olympic Winter Games legacy. With such a rich history to sift through, visitors may have a hard time fully grasping the importance of this ...
As we reflect on a century of Olympic Winter Games, we remember that successful experiment in the winter of 1904-05 at the Lake Placid Club on the shores of Mirror Lake. That’s when the club opened its doors to winter visitors for the first time, and it’s where this village’s Olympic ...
To the editor: I read Oliver Reil’s column, “Into the Trees: A Cultural Destination in the Snow,” with great interest, but what a pity this writer was unable to visit the “Dreaming of Timbuctoo” exhibition in the upper barn, which only opens in the spring. It would have challenged ...