By JERRY McGOVERN Special to the Enterprise Public Broadcasting’s film “The Vietnam War,” by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, brings that conflict back into America’s living rooms. After so many years, there is context to examine the concepts, events, and consequences of a war that ...
“Relentless Pursuit” by Maj. Charles Guess is a book written from the first-person perspective of the incident commander in charge of recapturing escaped convicts. The major is in charge of coordinating the search efforts during the infamous escape from Dannemora. Two convicted ...
“An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman,” by Susan M. Ouellette --- In an era of Facebook and Twitter, it can be a treat to find someone describing their thoughts and activities during an earlier era in longhand. Is it a love of history that makes discovery of a journal that valuable to us? ...
“Shadow Child” by Randall Stark Beach, 2017 --- In this engrossing memoir, Altona native Randall Stark Beach details an otherwise unremarkable childhood that suddenly becomes utterly changed when his younger brother is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In this sensitively presented ...
“Final Season,” by Richard Frost (who reviews books for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise), is a first-person novel about baseball and dying. When 55-year-old physician Dan Jameson’s cancer progresses, he rejects further therapies and follows his passion: the Baltimore Orioles. The novel ...
“Dark Kills,” by T.J. Brearton, is a page-turning whodunit detective story. Set in Plattsburgh and the surrounding communities, the story follows Detective Gates in a race to solve the mystery behind multiple deaths. But the serial killer has another victim tagged to be next. The ...
“A Guide to Architecture in the Adirondacks,” by Richard Longstreth --- Adirondack Architectural Heritage, the historic preservation entity for our region, has just released its long-awaited guide to the North Country’s man-made environment. Entitled “A Guide to Architecture in the ...
‘Body of Water’ by Madeline Hennessey, Ra Press, 2017 --- Saranac Lake resident Madeline Hennessey’s book of poems takes off from the double-entendre of its title to dive deep into details of the natural world, absorbed and transformed into poems of memory, longing and ripples of sound. ...
The America Civil War has been chronicled and analyzed so extensively (the SUNY Plattsburgh Feinberg Library, for example, has about 9,000 books related to it) that a writer might be foolhardy to think he can bring new light to the subject. But George Bryjak’s “Voices from the Civil ...
Books are beginning to pile up on my desk, so this week I’ve chosen to address two. For my money, New York Archives is one of the most underappreciated magazines around. Inaugurated in 2001, each quarterly issue offers well-written perspectives on aspects of our state’s history. Famous ...
Ben Stiller should have talked to Michael Benson. There’s a great risk in retelling true events, especially events of the recent past. Michael Benson wrote “Escape From Dannemora.” He got it right. The book is a heavily annotated text with information drawn from interviews, press ...
‘College for Every Student: A Practitioner’s Guide’ by Rick Dalton andEdward P. St. John --- In the mid-’90s, President Bill Clinton launched the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, pumping funds into states to implement career awareness/readiness efforts and partnerships with ...
Literary Contest fiction submissions - “Lay Down Your Weary Tune,” by W.B. Belcher “Strange Appetites,” by Lale Davidson “Freight Car and Other Stories,” by Jeff Kelly “God Made Us Monsters,” by Bill Neary “Leaves Torn Asunder,” by Glenn L. Pearsall “Rooster,” by ...
I expected this anthology of essays to be informative — early explorers of the Adirondacks, efforts to preserve and educate, initiatives to maintain wilderness status and trails — which it certainly is. But I did not expect it to be so moving and full of passion as well as good humor and ...
‘Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings Of Howard Zahniser’ By RICHARD FROST Special to the Enterprise I’ve again been stimulated to read up on an individual important in the environmental movement who was heavily influenced by time in the Adirondacks. For my ...
“Adirondacks Artemis,” written by D.L. Luke, is a novella set in Clinton County in the Adirondack wilderness. It’s a story about survival and healing. The premise is noted to be autobiographical, but the events are fiction. The main protagonist of the story is named after the ...
Elizabethtown-based author T.J. Brearton’s latest novel, “Dead Gone,” is a procedural set in southwest Florida. Brand-new Special Agent Tom Lange of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is called to Rookery Bay, Naples, where a decomposing body has been discovered by kayakers. ...
“Always Close, Forever Careless” by Michael Carrino, Aldrich Press, 2016 By MARILYN MCCABE Special to the Enterprise Plattsburgh resident Michael Carrino issued a new book of poems in 2016. “Always Close, Forever Careless” was published by Aldrich Press. The collection is ...
“Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks,” edited by Phil Brown --- The opportunity to hear a talk recently by Adirondack Explorer Editor Phil Brown led me to reread “Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks” (Lost Pond Press), a collection of Marshall’s writings that Brown edited and published in ...
“Crusoe of Lonesome Lake,” by Leland Stowe --- In his award-winning “Adirondack: Life and Wildlife in the Wild, Wild East,” Ed Kanze described the struggle to make a home for his family — wife Debbie and two children — in the unforgiving Adirondacks near Saranac Lake. It ...