Amy Godine

Aug 14, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Tim Rowland |Niki Kourofsky |Amy Godine

by | Nature and Environment, October 2023 Photograph by Jeff Nadler T here’s no reason to be bearanoid, especially if you understand our ursine neighbors. These lumbering giants—boars can weigh about 500 pounds—are a critical part of our Adirondack ecosystem and deserve our respect. But what if you encounter a bear on the trail?

Aug 14, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Tim Rowland |Niki Kourofsky |Amy Godine

Photograph by Ben Stechschulte When you’re 1,200 pounds with a set of horns fit for an oilman’s Cadillac, temperament is everything. As such, there is much to like about Drew, the herd sire at Raven Moon Yaks, a majestic creature who resides down there somewhere beneath his great blanket of black and white fleece, and moves slowly and elegantly around the pasture like a fringed parade float, seeking grass and adulation in the shadow of the low peaks that flank Lake Champlain.

Aug 10, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Amy Godine |Elizabeth Folwell |Erin Schumaker

Although this beloved Fourth Lake resort has been in operation since 1895, when it was known as Camp Monroe, Vikings didn’t land here until 1945. That’s when Al Byrnilsen, who’d been hired to broker its sale, took one look around and fell in love. Byrnilsen’s father, Olaf—a transplant from Norway—didn’t share that rose-colored view, worrying that it was foolish to take on a property that had seen better days and had no running water or electricity.

Aug 8, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Amy Godine |Elizabeth Folwell |Erin Schumaker

by | History, October 2023 Pastel and gouache illustration by Takeyce WalterIf by chance The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier lands in your bookstore this November and you are bold enough to try to lift it without a small crane, you will be amused to know I first envisioned this production as a pamphlet. Maybe 50 pages max.

Aug 8, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Amy Godine |Elizabeth Folwell |Erin Schumaker

Honey Hole, by Peter HornbeckPete Hornbeck and I shared a birthday, though we were born 10 years apart. My sign is definitely Capricorn, my stubborn little goat feet firmly planted. Pete was an Aquarius for sure, the water bearer was his spirit guide. But Aquarius is not a water sign, as you might think; it’s an air sign. His creative streak fluidly combined air and water in canoe design along with scores of Adirondack landscapes.