I have only read snippets of Alfred L. Donaldson’s volumes on the history of the Adirondacks. However, If you find and read the book our centennial committee published, the historical content by John J. Duquette is, in my opinion, also one of the best Adirondack/Saranac Lake historians. ...

The Lake Placid School Board apparently was not moved by the arguments put forth by members of the John Birch Society on allowing folk artist Pete Seeger to present a concert in the high school auditorium. The school board members, for more than one hour, politely debated and discussed the ...

Birthdays of beautiful Winter Williams, 2-year-old daughter of Johnny and Isabel Williams, Sally Spadaro and Howard Riley. That is the big news. Now, 65 years ago, this is what the Enterprise had to say in stories and advertisements. - Ski bids At Big Tupper - “A special ...

This column was prompted by a story in the May 16 Enterprise concerning a new state law that paper boys and girls must be at least age 14. The Associated Press story by Michael Hill reports that New York’s child labor laws allowed kids as young as 11 to legally partake in the ...

The first sliders in America were the U.S. teams that participated in the 1932 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. And son-of-a-gun did the sport ever grow after that. The following information fell into my hands when John Morgan (of the Morgan Bobsled dynasty) gave me a beautiful ...

Oh, shucks. I promised myself that there wouldn’t be any corny remarks about the subject of this week’s column and I hauled right off and did it in the title. But wait until you read about the large footprint the Gladd family made in the village of Saranac Lake. This is a background ...