The other rainy morning at a local coffee shop an elderly man held the door for me. Whitehaired and slightly stooped, we exchanged smiles. As I walked out, a woman passed me going in. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the man touch the brim of an invisible hat and say to her, “M’lady,” ...
To the editor: We wanted to follow up on our previous letter to the editor, “Planned Parenthood shouldn’t be excluded from Tri-Lakes Pride” on June 26. We want to personally extend our gratitude to the Board of the Adirondack North Country Gender Alliance for taking swift action ...
Stephen Cernek and I have some things in common. We both grew up in towns on the edge of the Adirondacks whose economies were shaped by paper mills — he in Corinth, myself in Plattsburgh — and we both graduated from high school in a turbulent time — he in 1969, one year after I ...
In December 1960, at the age of 11, I moved from Long Island to Phelps, in the northern Finger Lakes. There were a number of things that were radically different from Long Island, but one stood out: All my classmates were eager to get their green work permit to earn money as soon as they turned ...