Ray Carr of Old Forge kept a bundle of issues of Old Forge’s first newspaper, The Adirondack Arrow (a weekly), that he found in the attic of a house he bought on Main Street Old Forge 48 years ago. The papers date from the 1930s when the economic climate was not unlike today. He had this idea to share them with readers of the Adirondack Express through this History & Heritage column, defined his concept, ...
Greg Klein of Old Forge, will exhibit his paintings in a signing show, Scenes of Solitude, at the Sorelle Gallery, 385 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, March 20 – March 31, 2010 with an opening reception Saturday March 20 from 2 to 5 p.m. The artist grew up in rural Nebraska, studied wildlife biology and art at the University of Nebraska and spent 10 years in Colorado, exploring and painting the vast countryside of the Rocky Mountains. ...
I have thought about it many times, how to describe the experience of eating in an authentic old time lumber camp. It is something that will not ever be duplicated again at least in this neck of the woods. When I first began my working career in the great north woods, there were still several working lumber camps scattered about in the remote parts of the Adirondacks. I had the privilege of being a table ...
The annual cardboard sled race held during Winter Carnival at McCauley Mountain is a fundraiser for the Town of Webb UFSD junior class. Sled entries are made of cardboard and held together with tape. This year’s winners are the following: Fastest time - The Torch, Best design - Pirates of the Adirondacks, Most people in sled - ASYO Deerfield Soccer, Biggest crash - Doggy Du, and Slowest time - Call to Duty. Below is an ...
Just came in from taking a long and snowy walk with my husband and our dawg, and because wintertime can sometimes make me feel a little, well, blue, I must say that our jaunt down Green Bridge Road was just what the doctor ordered. Give it up for a little Vitamin D. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and the fresh air was not too cold for the first time in a long ...
