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The Lake George Club opened its doors to its members for the first time on August 14, 1909. Once commissioning ceremonies came to a close, the club’s first official powerboat races were held. They would be the first of many and lay the foundations ... Read More

Bolton Landing and the state-owned camping islands in the Narrows are having a busier summer than usual if the number of boats inspected for aquatic invasive species at Norowal Marina is any indication. According to the Park Commission’s Justin ... Read More

The Garden Club of Lake George was founded in the summer of 1922 by nine women: Mary Whitman Knauth; Marianne Schurz; Gertrude Ranger; Elizabeth Brereton; Mona Hawkins; Mary Hayden; Elizabeth Kreitler; and Charlotte Hyde. These were no ordinary ... Read More

Traditional Turkish cuisine is more than the sum of its ingredients, although in the right hands, those ingredients produce a delicious meal typical of the eastern Mediterranean. “Turkish food is not just for the nourishment of the body,” says ... Read More

Dome Island is that rarest of things, an undisturbed piece of wilderness in the middle of Lake George.  Noah Chirnomas, an 18-year-old New Jersey resident who graduated from high school earlier this year, is among the hundreds of thousands who ... Read More

A lot has changed in Sweet Briar Bay since 1936,  the first year Dr. Doug Langdon looked out upon the lake from the property he now owns. Horace Barber’s Boat Livery is gone, and so is the Algonquin Hotel above the road. The hotel’s ... Read More

Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express now offers daily service between New York and Burlington, VT, with stops in Albany, Vergennes and Middlebury. Amtrak also restored service recently to cities between New York and Toronto aboard  the Maple Leaf. ... Read More

The Hyde Collection happens to own one of the world’s largest collections of mass-produced plaster statues by John Rogers (1829-1904). The most popular American sculptor of the 19th century, Rogers sold an estimated 80,000 plasters, known as ... Read More

“The Thatchers: Photographing Lake George 1880-1950,” the exhibition that opened last summer at the Bolton Historical Museum, has been expanded to include a gallery devoted to Fred Thatcher’s Lake George, titled “This Was Lake George.”  ... Read More

I happened to pick up this 1972 album by a band called McKendree Spring in Mike DeLarm’s Bolton Landing shop, Lakeview Antiques, which has a large selection of vinyl records. As it happens, McKendree Spring, which Billboard magazine once called ... Read More