A new book by Skip Murray and Caperton Tissot serves as a very nice paean to the village of Saranac Lake, New York. “Saranac Lake: An Adirondack Portrait,” with its combination of poetry and photography, is clearly a labor of love. Promoted as a record of the community from 2017 through ...

Still looking for a last-minute gift for that Adirondack history book fan? Following is a critique of some of what’s out there. Unless noted, they can be found either online or in local bookstores. Try a bookstore first — let’s support our communities’ booksellers. The earliest and ...

Looking for a true story with the 1920s glamour and tragedy of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Check out “American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the ‘It’ Girl, and the Crime of the Century” by Paula Uruburu, current English Department Chair at Hofstra ...

Karma Brown’s novel “What Wild Women Do” is the story of two women who share the same space, physically and psychologically, almost 50 years apart. In 2021, would-be screenwriter Rowan rents a cabin in the Adirondacks. With Rowan is her fiance, Seth, who has been recording their ...

A new non-fiction account by independent historian Amy Godine sheds light on a most interesting, yet frequently overlooked and misunderstood, 19th century chapter in Adirondack history. In “The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier,” she tackles the history of ...

Humans can be dramatic. We describe an annoying incident or a mild confrontation as traumatic or as a PTSD-inducing experience, but most of us don’t understand what kind of strength it takes to not only survive a terrible physical and mental ordeal but to then continue living an ordinary life ...