The theme for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival of 2024 is “Creepy Carnival.” I just can’t wait to see what the citizens of our home town will come up with as they let their imaginations run wild and creepy. It looks like there was no theme in 1969, but, “This 1969 commemorative ...

That sassy headline was lifted from the lead paragraph of a great story in this 87-year-old magazine. Time, created by Henry Luce, was first published on March 3, 1923 followed by other great magazines — Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated. Time was the first weekly news magazine in the ...

It is unusual to find old copies of newspapers, especially since I have no filing system, and then discover a follow-up story from a previous edition. Well, guess what? After last week’s column from the Jan. 7, 1971 Lake Placid News about the creation of the Adirondack Park Agency, I found, ...

What a difference a day makes; what I really mean is — what a difference 18,980 days make. Ellen George was editor of the Lake Placid News in January 1971. She was a prolific editor and reporter and filled this front-page edition with stories about the creation of the Adirondack Park ...

It’s incredible that this 112-year-old copy of the Enterprise contains a letter to the editor in praise of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau from a former patient who knew him personally — suggesting that the village of Saranac Lake change its name to Trudeau. The letter writer was Michael ...

It’s incredible that this 112-year-old copy of the Enterprise contains a letter to the editor in praise of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau from a former patient who knew him personally — suggesting that the village of Saranac Lake change its name to Trudeau. The letter writer was Michael ...