Digging up history
Students excavate 19th century farm field outside of Lake Placid
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A history of baseball and the players who broke through barriers
By Tim Rowland
More than 40 years before Jackie Robinson broke the Major League color barrier, black baseball players in the Adirondacks were making headlines
Bringing back an historic guideboat race
By Mike Lynch
The Willard Hanmer Guideboat and Canoe Race will take place in Saranac Lake on July 3, 60 years after the competition first took place.
The art of water pollution
Artists collaborate on an exhibit that calls attention to water pollution in the Lake Champlain basin
Ferry company scraps historic boat
By Tim Rowland
The end of an era for boat that was used in the now-shuttered Port Kent crossing
Rogers Rock: A battle on microspikes
By Tim Rowland
Trekking in the footsteps of Robert Rogers
ADK at 100
Trailblazers at Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) helped shape the park and their work continues a century later.
Summer camp sell-off: The end of an era?
By Tim Rowland
Adirondack Boy Scout camps' numbers in decline
Giving the gift of music
Professor forms nonprofit to help repair and distribute instruments to Adirondack school districts
Finding Timbuctoo
By Holly Riddle
How a nonprofit, archeologist and filmmaker came together to showcase a little-known Adirondack settlement