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For years, the engine that powered the rope tow at the Ski Bowl in North Creek – the first rope tow in New York State – lay hidden in the woods a few hundred feet from the access road to the state-owned Gore Mountain Ski Center. It was a ... Read More

With increasing frequency, the extreme weather traced to climate change collides with antiquated, obsolete infrastructure. A 2008 report titled “Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation” by the National Research Council (NRC) ... Read More

Sea Ray, once the contemporary boat most closely associated with Lake George, is back. F.R. Smith and Sons, the historic Bolton Landing marina, is now the line’s authorized regional dealer. For decades, the line was represented on Lake George by ... Read More

The Boy Scouts of America has been called the largest environmental organization in the country, and its handbook a conservation best seller. Both were launched 114 years ago on Lake George, at Silver Bay YMCA, the retreat and conference center on ... Read More

For the first time since 1883, when the first Sagamore hotel opened on Green Island, the resort will start lodging guests on the mainland. According to Tom Guay, the Sagamore’s general manager, three townhomes, housing eighteen two and ... Read More

Despite the fact that Joe Biden was Vice-President for eight years and President for four, he still campaigns as though he were a legislator, a class of politician that tends to confuse references to bill numbers with applause lines. On the campaign ... Read More

Lake George’s drive to honor the soldiers of the Continental Army who died at the smallpox hospital at Fort George in the first years of the American Revolution continues to gather momentum. At its April 18 meeting in Ray Brook, NY, the Adirondack ... Read More

The Town of Lake George’s recreation park at the McPhillips Preserve on French Mountain, comprising networks of hiking and biking trails, a pavilion for nature education, a parking lot and various amenities, is expected to open to the public in ... Read More

One frosty winter morning in 1995, I saw Mike Stafford walking down Albany’s State Street toward the Capitol with Secretary of State Sandy Treadwell; Mike had been assigned the job of Treadwell’s counsel by the new Governor, George Pataki. (As ... Read More

The artist and illustrator Rockwell Kent once suggested that Pete Seeger compose an opera based on Adirondack folk tunes, and that my father write the book. Despite the fact that  my father was a friend of Seeger’s, it’s hard to imagine him, ... Read More