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Wild Center’s ‘Clothesline’ shines a light on the people behind the farms

By Tom French

Donated clothing documents labor behind Adirondack agriculture

Small Adirondack community rallies to change racist hill name

By David Escobar

Name-change petition circulates for renaming hill in Franklin County after historic Black settlers

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Adirondacks, defined

By Adirondack Explorer

An Adirondack vocabulary list

author aurora pfaff

Aviators and adventurers: Airplanes’ impact on the Adirondacks 

By Holly Riddle

New book “Aviation in the Adirondacks” by Aurora Pfaff explores regional flight history

Black and white photo of miners working in an iron mine.

Boomtown to bust: The lasting impacts of the rise and fall of industry in the Adirondacks

By Tim Rowland

Economic disruption that hit the Adirondacks in the post-WWII era can still be seen today

Two museum visitors look at a faded white and pink vintage army uniform.

Untold Revolutionary War stories unveiled at new Fort Ticonderoga exhibit

By Tim Rowland

In a place rich with Revolutionary War history, never-before-seen artifacts go on show

Lois Perret Schaefer, left, and Gertrude Schaefer, with skates in North Creek, 1933.

Schaefer family: Pioneers of conservation and adventure in the Adirondacks

By Contributing Writer

The Schaefers’ multi-generational influence on the Adirondack Park

People dig in a test pit at the Lake George Battlefield while two bystanders watch

Rediscovering smallpox hospital history at Lake George Battlefield Park

By Gwendolyn Craig

Animal bones and 18th-century glass among the latest findings

Woman waves from the front of a small wooden boat on the water. She is wearing an orange life jacket. A man in a red life jacket sits behind her and drives the boat.

The buzz on boat racing: Hague author preserves her town’s hidden history

By Arietta Hallock

In her new book release, Ginger Henry Kuenzel recounts the boat racing frenzy of a bygone era on Lake George.

an old stone house that's now the Underground Railroad Museum

Untold stories of freedom: A journey through the North Star Underground Railroad Museum

By Tom French

Tour of sites planned for Juneteenth

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