“The annual meeting of the Stevenson Society of America was held at the Memorial Cottage, Saturday, Aug. 23, 1930, before the customary large gathering of Stevenson-lovers from far and near. Showers prevented out-door activities, but the verandah and ground floor rooms (in so far as their ...

“The annual meeting for 1929 held Aug. 24 at the Memorial Cottage, Saranac Lake, was attended, as usual, by a large number of enthusiasts who had come to join in paying homage to the beloved R.L.S. Colonel Scott as presiding officer introduced the Rev. Albert Aune who gave the invocation … ...

“The annual meeting of the Stevenson Society of America was held at the Memorial Cottage, Saranac Lake, Saturday, Aug. 25, 1928. An exceptionally large audience gathered on the lawns fronting the verandah so well-known to legions of Stevenson lovers, and ideal weather added its share to the ...

“The annual meeting was held at the Memorial Cottage, Saturday, Aug. 27. Owing to rainy weather, the audience of about 175 persons gathered in the rooms on the ground floor. “At 3 p.m., the president, Colonel Walter Scott, called the gathering to order and said, ‘My friends, it has ...

The so-called “golden age” of ancient classical Greece was about 50 years, circa 480 to 430 B.C. The golden age of the Stevenson Society of America, Inc., in Saranac Lake, was even shorter: 1916-1931. The purchase of their Stevenson Cottage “shrine” in 1925 from their evictor, Joseph H. ...

In the aftermath of their surprise eviction from Baker’s, members of the Stevenson Society of America, led by Col. Walter Scott, held an emergency meeting. The colonel came all the way from NYC to preside over it. Thanks to them, Baker’s had become internationally known as the Robert ...