Andrew Baker had a farm, and on that farm, he set up big tents with 10-inch poles, 10 of them, making for a tent motel. He always waited until spring to do it, for 40 years, starting in 1867. If you were a city dweller back in the day, planning your next Adirondack getaway, you might have ...

(This week begins a new section of this series which will feature the legacy of the Baker family and the formation of the Stevenson Society of America.) In the spring of 1852, Colonel Milote Baker, 46 years old, crossed the first bridge over a section of the Saranac River near some rapids. ...

“Blows the wind today, and the sun and the rain are flying — “Blows the wind on the moors, today and now “Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, “‘My heart remembers how!’ “Gray, recumbent tombs of the dead in desert places, “Standing ...

Jack London and his wife, Charmian, were huge fans of Robert Louis Stevenson and sailing in the wake of his voyages in the great South Seas, in their own yacht, the Snark, was what they liked to do in their spare time. Jack was an amateur photographer and his bucket list included taking a ...

Only a few weeks before Robert Louis Stevenson had his last experience in the form of a fatal stroke that struck “like a wilful convulsion of brute nature,” he had thrown a party at his home called “Vailima.” Its purpose was to dedicate The Road of the Loving Heart, a construction ...

“It seemed unprovoked, a wilful convulsion of brute nature.” — “Weir of Hermiston,” by Robert Louis Stevenson With those words committed to paper, Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous invalid author from Scotland, quit writing for the day. It was late in the morning on Dec. 3, 1894. ...