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For thirty-six years Bill Brown has been tramping over the mountains, foothills, and lowlands of the Lake George Wild Forest keeping tabs on old acquaintances and meeting new ones in out-of the way crevices, under rocks, or wandering the forest floor. Bill is a researcher who studies the Adirondack population of timber rattlesnakes, a threatened species in New York. In the…
ON HISTORIC land alongside a well-trodden passage between two lakes in the northern forest dwells a storyteller. She has practiced her craft before audiences from school kids to prisoners for many years, sharing tales of her own creating as well as traditional stories from around the world. There came a time following the illness and…
HERE’S SOMETHING you learn early on if you’re walking through the woods with Peter O’Shea: let him go first. Peter has the eyes of a man who has spent decades peering at the ground, reading the stories of the animals that have left signs there, taking account of the habitat, the type of vegetation, or…
Anne LaBastille was a larger-than-life figure who tramped across the wild and wooly narrative of the Adirondacks with gusto.