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Picasso Bucks: The Dark Horse Challenge
“Picasso bucks?” said Chris Irwin.“Picasso bolts,” said his owner Emmy Pavelka. “Whenever anyone tries to get on to ride him, he bolts.”First though, Chris Irwin, Canada’s and one of the world’s...
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Community Gardens: How Did Your Garden Grow?
How did your garden grow? In Keene, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Paul Smiths, Minerva, Bolton Landing, and an increasing number of other Adirondack villages and hamlets residents are coming together to...
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Military Voices: Helping Veterans Come Home
Tom Smith shouldn’t be alive. In Vietnam, he was a 1st Cavalry Division helicopter scout pilot. Helicopter pilots, especially scout pilots, flew through the heaviest enemy fire of the war. Cavalry...
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After I Pick the Fruit: The Lives of Migrant Women
A large percentage of the farm workers who harvest New York State’s apples, potatoes, onions, and other fruits and vegetables are immigrants working long hours with no overtime pay, few benefits, low...
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At The Bobsled Track: The Best School Day Ever
“This was the best school day ever,” yelled dozens of Lake Placid Sixth Graders, waving their flags across the finish line for the day’s winners of the two-man bobsled World Cup Bobsled Competition out...
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ADK’s Winterfest: Wet, But Not Washed Out
The Adirondack Mountain Club’s Winterfest on Saturday January 11th was wet, but not washed out. While snow was in short and diminishing supply the level of enthusiasm and good cheer held firm against...
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Ski Jumping in Lake Placid: For the Love of Flying
“I really like the sensation of flying through the air,” said Will Rhoads, winner of the Art Devlin Cup. “There is nothing better than having a really good jump and having the feeling you are never...
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Naj Wikoff: A Better Way to Divorce
Once in LA, I saw this middle-aged woman driving a black Porsche Carrera GT. The license plate read, “WAS HIS.”Divorce can be nasty, expensive, and tough on the kids, families, and friends. I have...
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In Upper Jay: The Running of the Cows
Cows run. Not only that they hop about, kick up their heels, and act like school kids released for their summer holiday. The occasion? Being released from living in a barn all winter and finally being...
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Healing Soul Wounds At Wiawaka Holiday House
The Adirondacks have a long tradition as a place for healing, the most prominent example being the thousands who came to “take the cure” for tuberculosis at the Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake...
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Celebrating An Upset Victory Fought On Snowshoes
Recently a large crowd came to the Olympic Arena in Lake Placid to commemorate and celebrate the 35th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice,” the upset win of the US hockey team over the world champion...
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The Unique Legacy of Lake Placid’s Old McDonald’s Farm
On Saturday an Adirondack Diversity Symposium will be held in Newcomb as part of an effort to make the Adirondacks more attractive to people of diverse backgrounds. In July, one family celebrated it’s...
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Making The Adirondack Park More Welcoming
Disney has the most-visited theme parks in the United States. Disney’s marketing material depicts families having fun, families that represent a wide range of cultural diversity. Disney offers a lot of...
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Seeing Stars: The Adirondack Night Sky
On a clear night stargazers can often be found at the heights of Norton Cemetery in Keene looking up. A recent weekend provided stellar nights for gazing. Not perfect as high cirrus clouds shaded a few...
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The Passing of Adirondack Guide Brett Lawrence
Adirondack Guide Smith Brett Lawrence passed away on Thursday, June 30, every bit as much an icon of Keene, NY as Giant Mountain, Noonmark Diner, and the old red barn at the bottom of Spruce Hill (at...
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Making The Park More Welcoming: Challenges and Opportunities
Imagine you’d been hired to coach a hockey or soccer camp for the summer, teach music for the Seagle Colony or figure skating at the Olympic Arena, or serve as a waiter, housekeeper, lift attendant or...
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Adirondack Diversity: The Challenges and Opportunities (Part 2)
This is the part two of our report on the issues raised at the recent Adirondack Diversity Symposium. Part one can be found here. One aspect of making the Adirondacks more welcoming is in how we treat...
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Nature’s Benefits: Adirondack Forest Bathing
Have you heard of Forest Bathing? It’s the literal translation of a program developed in Japan for experiencing nature as a means of de-stressing one’s life. I first learned about it in a 2012 Outside...
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Rebuilding An Adirondack Middle Class
On average workers born in 1942 earned as much or more over their careers than any worker born since, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research’s 2017 Niber Working Paper. From 1967, the...
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Naj Wikoff: The Healing Powers of Nature
Is being out in Nature healing? An increasing body of evidence says yes according to Florence Williams, the author of The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes US Happier, Healthier, and More Creative. What...
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