Of the many distinguished Europeans who visited Lake George and Lake Champlain, the least often mentioned, and yet certainly one of the greatest, was the botanist Peter Kalm, a member of the Swedish Royal Academy who traveled through the region in ... Read More

Where does landscape end and abstraction begin? Perhaps at the point where the artist “abstracts” from a reimagined or recollected landscape, leaving in its place not merely a residue, an ash of light, but its very essence. That, at any rate, is ... Read More

Just north of Lake George, at the southern end of Lake Champlain, a small cable-guided ferry carries travelers between Ticonderoga, New York, and Shoreham, Vermont. I walk my bike onto the platform, and as we glide across the lake, the densely wooded ... Read More