Page One was loaded with local stories, 67 years ago, from Lake Placid’s First Annual Eastern Invitational Ski Jump to the Saranac Lake Free Library looking to buy the Guild House. And you know what else? Jim Ellis and John McGill won oratorical awards ... and my friend, Mr. Ellis, hasn’t ...

I’m on my way to Singapore to visit my father with my daughter C, 40,000 feet above ground, hurtling through thin air at 500 miles an hour, feeling a bit lost and restless. There is an atemporality and aspatiality to air travel that at once saddens me and wakes me up. - The freedom of ...

While I’ve never thought of myself anything special. but I think one thing distinguishes me from most people. It is I’ve lived my whole life through radio. Of course that was a given when I was a kid, since when it came to electronic home entertainment, radio was the only game in town. In ...

“Santa’s Watching” was a dead-stop phrase thrown down year-round with the power to stop nefarious marshmallow-hoarding of Lucky Charms. The Naughty List was real, and I wanted toys. Compliance was a struggle for me; I was hardwired to push back and ask why. By December, though, it was ...