Bob Liseno works with students at the Adirondack Educational Center in Saranac Lake. Photo by Mike Lynch By Tracy Ormsbee Bob Liseno is quietly doing his part to keep an important Adirondack tradition alive. A few times a week he joins a … [Read more...] about Trailblazer: Bob Liseno
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David Kanietakeron Fadden
Storytelling — stories about Native American history as told by the people who lived it and not the abridged school textbook version — is part of Dave Kanietakeron Fadden’s makeup, his DNA. He is Mohawk. Read more about how the Six Nations Indian … [Read more...] about David Kanietakeron Fadden
Kathleen Suozzo
Kathleen Suozzo’s work is at the heart of one of the more difficult issues facing the Adirondacks today: upgrading aging waste-water and drinking-water treatment facilities in small communities where the cost is borne on the backs of local residents, … [Read more...] about Kathleen Suozzo
Park Perspectives: Not your average peak bagger
By Tom Woodman In some circles the label peak bagger has a negative, almost sneering, connotation. The criticism is that these hikers are so intent on checking names off lists of mountain ascents that they overlook a deeper experience of being in … [Read more...] about Park Perspectives: Not your average peak bagger
Park Perspectives: Soaring for science
By Tom Woodman “Lake Placid control: experimental craft, eight, four, one Echo Mike preparing to take off…” Driving to meet Ed McNeil this morning I worried that after thirty-six years in journalism I might be in danger of violating one of my … [Read more...] about Park Perspectives: Soaring for science
Park Perspectives: Stories at his fingertips
For centuries Lake Champlain has been a thoroughfare for history. Naval engagements helped determine the outcomes of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. In the nineteenth century, a thriving iron industry used canal boats to transport ore down the … [Read more...] about Park Perspectives: Stories at his fingertips