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3 weeks ago | 
adirondacklife.com | Elisabeth Ward |Elizabeth Folwell |Annie Stoltie
Photograph by Nancie Battaglia “Something wonderful is happening here. The world is being changed,” Edward “Ted” Cornell says. The artist is talking trash: not in-your-face dissing, and not the stuff of yard sales, but the junk unworthy even of dragging to the dump. He’s talking wretched refuse dredged from the water during the Boquet River Association (BRASS) annual spring cleanup day Trashy Sculpture Contest.
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4 weeks ago | 
adirondacklife.com | Elizabeth Folwell |Annie Stoltie
by | April 2019, Home & Camp Maple TiramisuNo coffee-soaked ladyfingers or slices of poundcake in this light dessert. Use ramekins or pretty glasses. Makes 4 servings and can be doubled. 3/4 cup mascarpone 1/4 cup maple syrup1 cup granola4 tablespoons melted butter1 cup homemade applesauceCinnamon, maple nuts or fresh blackberries for garnishDIRECTIONS:Mix mascarpone and syrup.
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1 month ago | 
adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Elizabeth Folwell |Niki Kourofsky
The best part of the photo contest? Getting a chance to see the park—and its people and critters—through a whole new set of lenses. This year we wanted to share the fun, so we invited Manuel Palacios, of Zone 3 Photography, to join in as a guest judge. He gravitated toward his grand-prize pick right away, noting that Nancy LaFountain-Blow’s Crisp Autumn Sunrise on Middle Pond “portrays a calm, fleeting moment in nature, inviting a sense of quiet reflection.
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2 months ago | 
adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Elizabeth Folwell |Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh
Photograph courtesy of the Olympic Regional Development AuthorityLast year on a February afternoon, Danny Filippidis left Whiteface Mountain’s Mid-Station Lodge, clicked into his red Volkls and skied away. According to the Canadian Press, he’d told his friends, a group of fellow Toronto firefighters on their annual Adirondack ski trip, that he wanted to fetch his phone at the bottom of the mountain. And then he disappeared.
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2 months ago | 
adirondacklife.com | Elizabeth Folwell |Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh
Photograph by Nancie BattagliaI was four years into ski bumming and two years out of college when I met Betsy in the summer of 1993. I got tipped off that she was at Desperado’s, in Lake Placid, eating dinner; I walked in and asked for an internship. Never mind that she only accepted undergrads. She took pity and made an exception.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
adirondacklife.com | Elizabeth Folwell |Niki Kourofsky |Jane Mackintosh |Annie Stoltie
Cherry Patch Pond photography by Johnathan Esper Light has remarkable, changeable qualities in the Adirondacks. In winter it can be pink, floating warmth over a chill landscape, or blue, tinting a blank canvas of snow to mirror an austere sky. In summer, light has depth and heft to it, a physical intensity that bears down like gravity or hauls a scene right into the viewer’s eyes and brain.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
adirondacklife.com | Erin Schumaker |Elizabeth Folwell
by | August 2023, Featured Photograph by Carl Heilman II; illustration by Claire Harrup Huletts Landing, Lake George. Clear water laps at the docks as I wait for Tom Conrad, owner of Huletts Landing Marina. The trees are bare and there are pockets of snow in certain shadowy corners, but it’s sunny and unseasonably warm for April in the Adirondacks.
