Like his mentor, Lake George’s John Apperson, Paul Schaefer mostly eschewed “the white trousers” of the conservation movement. “I’d like to throw some mud on them,” Apperson was wont to say, Schaefer recalled. Unlike the wealthy elites ... Read More

This is not the weed you, your father or perhaps even your grandfather purchased in dime bags in Harvard Square or Saint Mark’s Place. “Who knows what they were smoking?” asks Josh Silver, a lawyer and part-time Bolton Landing resident whose ... Read More

120 years after the Lake House hotel was demolished, the park that replaced it is slated to receive some of its most significant upgrades ever. Shepard Park – named in honor of the Brooklyn philanthropist and politician Edward Morse Shepard, whose ... Read More