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The authentic history of Mt. Pisgah, I think

I believe that most of the following information was in a feature story in the Enterprise. The background pieces were gathered and archived by the late Natalie Leduc (nee Natalie Bombard Corl), my friend and 1948 Saranac Lake High School classmate. I really loved the night skiing. Just imagine ...

The variable tomato sandwich

Fresh, locally grown tomatoes are plentiful at farmers’ markets and farm stands right now. We use them in salads. We cook with them. But they truly shine in the tomato sandwich. Choose your tomato. There are so many varieties — yellow tomatoes, red tomatoes, heirlooms of all types. ...

Tips to handle peer pressure

Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if I can decompress some of their concerns and provide some information on this topic. - Effects of peer pressure - Peer pressure can have both positive and negative ...

Where winners always lose

The third Immutable Truths of My Home Town is: Everyone is half the man his father was. It is as established a fact and as impossible to escape as gravity. It’s also most “provable” if father and son were in the same line of work and were lifelong residents, because then the ...

Drone dreams

The other day, fall sent an unrequited love note in a chilly 44-degree envelope. Wrapped in my bathrobe, I zipped out to feed the hens and found this darling bumblebee clinging in sleep under a flower. I turned on my bee GPS, finding them on coneflowers, hastas and daisies awaiting the power ...