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The Hunter’s Home: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Saranac Connection

The VSL years, Part III

Tip Roseberry was known as “The Roving Reporter” when he or she wrote this for the Albany Times Union in 1955: “The present tenants of the Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage are from Albany, and warm welcome awaits anyone with an area license plate who pulls into the parking area across the ...

The VSL years, Part II

A low-profile water fountain was placed in lower Lake Flower in Saranac Lake several years ago to honor Bill McLaughlin, a reporter for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise for decades. In the 1950s, following the annexation of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Cottage by the Village of Saranac ...

The VSL years, Part I

“The annual meeting of the Stevenson Society of America was held at the Stevenson Cottage on July 21, 1951. The weather was good and the meeting was held in the open air … The great event of importance during the past year was of course the transfer of the Stevenson Cottage to the village ...

Dr. Kinghorn’s success

In the mail that arrived at Dr. Hugh Kinghorn’s home on Church Street on Aug. 25, 1951, was his signed copy of the much needed satisfactory biography with the title: “Voyage to Windward—The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson” by J.C. Furnas. In the doctor’s thank you letter to the ...

‘Voyage to Windward’

“Behind glass in the Stevenson Museum at Saranac Lake, New York, is preserved a black velveteen jacket, the sprig of heather in its upper pocket annually renewed by admirers of its long-dead owner. A robust girl could not possibly struggle into this narrow garment. Its wearer must have been ...

A gift for Henry James

Headline: “Dr. Kinghorn Receives Stevenson Picture,” By Bob Waters, Special to the Watertown Daily Times. “Saranac Lake, March 5, 1948, -- Dr. Hugh Kinghorn, president of the Stevenson Society of America, has received another relic of the famous author to add to the already impressive ...