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Read in the Blue Line

Thrilling drama unfolds at Adirondack summer camp

The bed is empty. That’s the first of sentence of Liz Moore’s novel, “The God of the Woods.” Louise Donnadieu, a summer camp counselor, sneaks back into the cabin after a night of partying to find one bed empty. Barbara is gone. From here, the Adirondack-based story takes off like ...

Indian rebellions and the American Revolution

Bloomingdale author George Bryjak explores the connection between the people here before the Europeans and the America signed into being in 1776 Philadelphia. Consider the book’s epigraph from historian Jill Lepore: “The Revolution in America ... began not with the English colonists but ...

Nothing lasts forever

In 1874, a cadre of Methodists established a nondenominational education center for Sunday School teachers on Chautauqua Lake in western New York. Originally striving to enhance teaching strategies during summer sessions also offered respite and recreation. Reading circles and educational ...

New book traces the old and new in Adirondack surveying and cartography

I’ve always been fascinated by maps, especially old ones. Studied carefully, they can reveal a lot of history. Nineteenth-century maps accompanying the earliest guides to the region, by Seneca Ray Stoddard and E.R. Wallace, for example, show that the way to get from place to place on Long ...

A boy, a llama and the High Peaks

Did you know that llamas hum? Llamas are fascinating animals. Contrary to popular opinion, they don’t spit at humans unless they have been abused. They can see almost 360 degrees, they are loyal guard animals and they have padded feet instead of hooves. Intriguingly, they also hum to ...

A cyclist finds her way

The Adirondacks are a playground for cyclists. Riding intermittently for fun, training for a competition, joining a weekly tour for exercise and friendship, taking part in local cycling club events of the Adirondack Cycling Club and Bike Adirondacks — our region is full of opportunities and ...