I will always remember Dec. 6, 2024, the day I buried my grandmother. As I helped shovel the dirt into the ground, I thought about how her passion for hiking shaped my life. After a decade of dragging my dad and uncle, her sons, up all the High Peaks of the Adirondacks, my grandmother became ...
To the editor: I’m replying to Kristina Clifford’s letter in the Saturday, Dec. 13 Enterprise. Let me share some Christmas history from our business district. Did you know that our business district used to do something called “Sparkle Christmas”? I have an article dated Dec. ...
To the editor: Once again, the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department’s annual toy drive kicked off the start of our Holiday Helper Program, collecting a trailer load of toys for us. It was immediately followed by a new event, a great concert by Frankie and the Moonlighters that collected ...
Most histories of the Adirondacks have been written by white men, about white men. Thankfully, that is changing: Indigenous peoples, African-Americans, women and other neglected cohorts are finally beginning to get their due. It is women — “Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks” ...
I was a decent high school athlete. But that was all ... decent. I never attempted to play an organized sport until eighth grade, when I went out for junior high basketball. I didn’t make the team. Instead, I became a wrestler, and along with football — you guessed it — had a decent ...