Writing instructors have helped hundreds of inmates learn to express themselves at FCI Ray Brook. Photo by Mike Lynch Adirondack workshops help prisoners make sense of world By Betsy Kepes Jackie Keren stops at six locked doors on her way … [Read more...] about Stories of release: Inmates become writers
History & Culture
Grants to help diversify two Adirondack destinations
By Gwendolyn Craig People of color are not often visiting two major attractions in the Adirondacks, and more than $330,000 in state and federal funding will go toward figuring out why -- and how to change that. The Adirondack Experience … [Read more...] about Grants to help diversify two Adirondack destinations
Cocoa ‘on the edge of nowhere’ at Camp Santanoni
Newcomb's Camp Santanoni provides a warm welcome 8 days a winter By BRANDON LOOMIS The Adirondacks offer several woodsy windows into the Gilded Age, with opulent summer “great camps” whose urban owners are long gone and whose private … [Read more...] about Cocoa ‘on the edge of nowhere’ at Camp Santanoni
Adirondack Diversity Initiative director seeks to enrich park life
By BEN WESTCOTT For many people, building a more inclusive and diverse Adirondack Park seems like a challenge. For Nicole Hylton-Patterson, the Adirondack Diversity Initiative’s new director, it’s all a matter of perspective. Born in Jamaica … [Read more...] about Adirondack Diversity Initiative director seeks to enrich park life
A mountain shaped by fire
By Tim Rowland From an outcropping of high bluffs just off the trail to Bear Den Mountain in the heart of the High Peaks, it almost appears (with a little imagination) that you could pitch a penny and hit the roof of the venerable Ausable Club in … [Read more...] about A mountain shaped by fire
A look at the 30th-anniversary edition of ‘Forest and Crag’
By PHIL BROWN When Laura and Guy Waterman began researching and writing a history of hiking in the Northeast in 1979, they figured the project would take three years. Ten years later, the Appalachian Mountain Club released “Forest and Crag: A … [Read more...] about A look at the 30th-anniversary edition of ‘Forest and Crag’
