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The 60-acre Clark Hollow Preserve, which will be a focus of the Lake George Land Conservancy’s July 29 Land & Water Conservation celebration, is summer habitat for the Timber Rattlesnake, according to the organization. Dr. William S. Brown, the ... Read More

“Nearby Faraway,” an original musical based upon the lives of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, will be staged July 22-24 and July 29-31 at the Carriage House Theater at Fort William Henry. “However complex their marriage, the story of ... Read More

Too much of the Adirondacks, parts of Warren County included, remain on the wrong side of the digital divide, a July 1 report from the Office of the New York State Comptroller reveals. Universal, high-speed broadband service, the goal of a state ... Read More

“The film asks a question: why has she been forgotten?” said Radka Franczak, a Berlin-based filmmaker and writer who traveled to Bolton Landing earlier this summer to resume work on a film about Marcella Sembrich. If Sembrich’s memory persists ... Read More

The Pavilion, a 19th century hotel and later, the summer home of the family that preserved and restored Fort Ticonderoga, has itself been preserved and restored.  A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on the porch of the Pavilion – the very spot ... Read More

Given the environmental and economic diversity of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, it’s not surprising that only a handful of organizations have a reach that extends to every town and village lying within the Blue Line.  The Lake ... Read More

Skidmore College’s reach extends beyond Saratoga Springs into the Adirondacks. Thanks to Evan Mack, a Skidmore professor, composer and Ticonderoga resident, local students are now able to study remotely with Skidmore music faculty. Mack, who ... Read More

Lurking in the barns and boathouses around this region are some very special boats. Last fall, Bernard W. Brock of Lake George donated one of these boats to the Adirondack Experience, the Museum at Blue Mountain Lake. The boat is on display in the ... Read More

Music was so important in  the life of sculptor David Smith that he hoped his two daughters, Rebecca and Candida, would become musicians – going so far as to hire Bolton Landing organist and harpsichordist Hugh Allen Wilson to give them ... Read More

On the surface, Afong Moy, the 14-year-old girl brought from China and put on display as the first Chinese woman in America, is nothing but “the gaze” – the western gaze, the male gaze, the gaze of those who attend the theater, the ... Read More