Yes, yes, history it is — even when I am forced by my own lackadaisical approach to any journalistic rules of order, I am backing into a story because I always have trouble getting down the lead paragraph. So here I am, and don’t stop me if you have heard this before, I want to hear it ...

This 84-year-old Adirondack Daily Enterprise was loaded with bad news, including a story with the following headline: “Train Wreck Kills 20, 114 Injured.” “Reno, Nev., Aug. 14 (AP) — The fiendishly plotted wrecking of a $2,000,000 streamliner train left at least 20 people dead and ...

Today is a history in photos, thanks to my friends Chantal and Howard Lyeth and Bob Callaghan, the Lake Clear historian. I was in school with Bob Lyeth, grandson of George, who was the photographer of last week’s hunting photo. Howard and Chantal are friends of my son Keegan. Bob was a ...

Last week in this space we covered a bit of hunting news from this wonderful little tabloid, “The Shopping News.” It is also filled with these short — and some unusual — stories, all on page one, the only page in my possession. I wish I knew more about this newspaper. Above the logo ...

The late John Duquette, an honest-to-god Saranac Lake historian — and I might add, Ruth Fortune’s dad — supplied all the historical material for Saranac Lake’s 1992 Centennial book. In my column here 15 years ago, I quoted from a piece John had written many years before about the ...

Right there on page one with a Bill McLaughlin photo and byline was the big story of the Tupper Lake football victory. But in Bill’s eminent writing style, one might believe, in a quick read of the story, that Saranac Lake had won the game. The story never gives the final score. So, ...