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You Know What …? (local history), by Howard Riley

Homecoming Weekend

In a tabloid format, the Enterprise staff, of which I was a member, cranked out a special edition of the newspaper on Friday, Sept. 29, 1959. Page one carried a boxed notice highlighting the weekend program beginning Friday night at 9 with an “Open House” at the Elks Club. On Saturday ...

Area hammered by weekend storm

The Enterprise had an incredible detailed lead story by Katy Odell Wilson, excerpts which follow; also a full picture page with photos by Tom Henecker, Chris Lenney and Andy Flynn (who is now Enterprise and Lake Placid News Editor/Publisher). Now we’ll squeeze in as much of the story as ...

Readers are going to love this — or not

The photos are from a 1914 “Picture Book” published by the Enterprise of many, many sites around the village. I can’t wait for the winter months to publish a picture trove of carnival and skating events. In the meantime, this is breaking news from many sources; the following was 113 ...

Enterprise sports stories — 1974

Still unfolding the great folder of history on loan to me from native Saranac Laker Marilee Dupree — not only the Saturday Evening Post magazine from 1951 with the detailed story about Saranac Lake but a page from a 1974 sesquicentennial edition of the Enterprise written by the students of ...

Old photos, old stories

The photos in this column are rare and unique. They were published in a booklet entitled “Picturesque Saranac Lake” in the heart of the Adirondacks by Kenneth W. Goldthwaite, Publisher of The Enterprise — Copyright, 1914. I’ll do the math for you. That was 110 years ago. There was ...

Saranac Lake — ‘A Colorful City’

This is part two of last week’s column about a story in the high circulation New York Post magazine by William Chapman White about Saranac Lake including a two-page spread of colored photos by Frank Ross. This boxed note by the Post editor was also on the front page of the story — ...