This column was prompted by a story in the May 16 Enterprise concerning a new state law that paper boys and girls must be at least age 14. The Associated Press story by Michael Hill reports that New York’s child labor laws allowed kids as young as 11 to legally partake in the ...

The first sliders in America were the U.S. teams that participated in the 1932 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. And son-of-a-gun did the sport ever grow after that. The following information fell into my hands when John Morgan (of the Morgan Bobsled dynasty) gave me a beautiful ...

Oh, shucks. I promised myself that there wouldn’t be any corny remarks about the subject of this week’s column and I hauled right off and did it in the title. But wait until you read about the large footprint the Gladd family made in the village of Saranac Lake. This is a background ...

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 ...