I remember this convention well. Hundreds of volunteer firemen and their families attended the Northern New York Volunteer Firemen’s Association, Inc. convention and the village was rockin’. The detailed program opened with this greeting: “The Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department, ...

I have a short piece of Mr. Harding’s obituary from The Enterprise purloined from the archives of the Saranac Lake Free Library but it tells what an active guy he was in the community. “John Harding, widely-known hotel operator, former president [nee Mayor] of Saranac Lake and three ...

Just returned from a long weekend trip and nothing to write about to fill this revered space but You Know What? Enterprise stories from the archives of the Adirondack Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library just seem to fall into my hands as I paw through my meticulous files. Our village is ...

I mentioned in last week’s column that my parents knew Brother André when he visited the farm in Gabriels owned by the Order of the Sisters of Mercy. It was managed by my father Dennis, and along with my five siblings, we were all born in that farm house. Brother André’s visits ...

Back in the 1940s, when my Mom needed a few things at the grocery store, I would just scoot up from our home at 5 Pine St. to Mullen’s Cash Store, located at the corner of Bloomingdale Avenue and Church Street Extension. It was owned and operated by Percy Mullen and I believe it was his ...

Wondering how I would lead into a story of a mistake I made in my column of Saturday, March 8 about Legs Diamond, Bert LaFountain, et al, a letter arrives from my friend Mark Wilson, solving that problem. The mistake was my recalling a much-told story that Gabriels speakeasy owner Bert ...