Tommy Rockhurst, a first-time author from Queensbury, has something to say about summers spent on Lake George. Rockhurst’s characters in “Back to the Lake” do all the things kids love to do and adults love to remember doing in the summer when they were kids. They swim, fish, hike, and ...

A Clinton County Museum Day visit in June to Heart’s Delight Farm in Chazy (https://youtu.be/2cGTsU4O79Y) provided some wonderful information and prompted more questions about North Country industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Miner. Former SUNY Plattsburgh President Joseph C. ...

The title of Sally Svenson’s third book on history in the region, “Adirondack Photographers 1850-1950,” tells it all. She has somehow managed to compile a list of everyone who toiled behind a camera during transition from the earliest days of photography through the ubiquity of the ...

It’s well known that books and periodicals (words, in other words) helped promote the Adirondacks as a vacation destination after the Civil War. But so did pictures. One pioneer, in particular of photography’s uses in persuasion, was Seneca Ray Stoddard of Glens Falls. His principal ...

“So begins a tale of one summer, two friends, 46 mountains, and 5 million years.” This succinct explanation of “Forty-Something: An Adirondack Tale” by Michael Keeler, stated on the book’s back cover, is the essence of the tale but there is so much more to discover in this ...

Not all the mountains in our region are meant for climbing, some are meant for mining. Lawrence P. Gooley’s “Lyon Mountain: The Tragedy of a Mining Town” is the history of such a mountain — a history of industry, immigrant labor, and even baseball. Mountain lions were present during ...