This is a true story of a concept written on a cocktail napkin in Potsdam, New York late one night at a frat party in 1971. The discussion culminated with an idea for a band name. The napkin is long gone but the band has lasted more than 50 years, and their fans still come to hear them. ...

Renate Wildermuth’s wonderful new novel begins with precocious narrator Talya telling us of her last year of high school: “I had about 6,936 hours to go until I graduated from high school; if you don’t want to do the math, it was the first day of my senior year. It was a miserable ...

David Gibson’s new biography, “A Force for Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions,” brings attention to an important advocate for the Adirondack Park. Brought up in Schenectady, Schaefer’s focus began in the Warren County community of Bakers Mills, where his family bought a ...

Imagine it’s 1851. You and a companion, both aspiring landscape artists captivated by the Romantic principles of the Hudson River School of painting, are trekking across the central Adirondacks, west to east, in search of inspiration and subject material. It’s a nearly trackless, almost ...

For readers who love short stories, especially ones about local ghosts, “Adirondack Ghost Stories” is packed with 15 of them in a little over 200 pages. The reading level appeals to a wide range of ages from middle school to adults. Edited by Dennis Webster, who contributed “Chocolate ...

I received two recent prompts to read Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel about a murder in the Adirondacks. A friend whose taste I trust recommended it, having picked it up because a grandchild was reading it for school. And in her Adirondack Life essay about novels set in the Adirondacks, Amy ...