Pilot Knob resident Bill Creighton is the new chairman of the Lake George Association, the nation’s oldest lake protection organization and arguably, its best funded and most effective. Creighton was elected to succeed Dr. John E. Kelly III, who ... Read More

As you approach, depending upon the light, it may strike you as an English country house on a summer afternoon, lifted from the pages of a novel by Henry James or E.M. Forster. It is, however, a restaurant: The Club Grill, the Sagamore resort’s ... Read More

In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte  arrived in New York City with little more in his luggage than a copy of  Machiavelli’s play “Mandragola,” one of the primary sources of his libretto for “Cosi fan tutti,” which he wrote for Mozart 15 ... Read More

Recalling his first glimpse of Lake George in the 1920s, the artist Rockwell Kent wrote: We’d crossed the all but endless flat plain north of Saratoga and passed through Glens Falls. Mountains? Still far away, you’d guess. Just rolling farmland ... Read More