In an era during which everyone with a cellphone lays claim to being a photographer, there’s still immense pleasure in enjoying the art and skill of those who are true professionals. Regular readers of my work know I place great store in vintage work by the likes of Seneca Ray Stoddard, ...

The gift-giving season is on the horizon. What to get your children to entice them away from mind-numbing electronic devices and toward reading a stimulating book? How about one that has some connection to the Adirondacks? We recommend three that meet those criteria. The hilarious “Eric ...

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 ...