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Cabbage, fried and tender

What’s your favorite cabbage? And what’s your preferred way to eat this healthy, hardy vegetable? Many Americans are only familiar with coleslaw at summer cookouts and boiled cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day. But in Europe and Asia, cabbage is a popular vegetable. In Asia, Oriental ...

Largest class at Trudeau School

Thank you to Historic Saranac Lake for preserving the story of our beautiful village in the Adirondacks. That story, as we all know, centers on the health industry; more specifically Saranac Lake became known as the best place in the world to cure for tuberculosis when Dr. Edward Livingston ...

Halloween fears

With Halloween approaching, parents have been scaring me with questions about their younger children’s fears of ghosts, monsters, and simply going out in the dark at night to trick-or-treat. Well let me try to have the courage to answer some of those questions and provide some fearless ...

What a difference a dash makes

In recent years, my reading preference has been mysteries. One can never know about such things, of course, but I think being a lifelong lover of history may have inclined me toward them. After all, isn’t the study of history just a who (or what) dunnit? Aren’t all historians creatures ...

Climate change and the election

Since I was 7 years old, I’ve heard about climate change and looked for explanations about what it is and guidance about what I can do about it. It was an intimidating topic to me, but I didn’t really understand the science behind it. Now that I’ve had a few years to do my own research ...