Lisa Bramen

Jun 21, 2024 | adirondacklife.com | Mark Obbie |Niki Kourofsky |Lisa Bramen

Photograph by Johnathan EsperThis spectacular view of the Whitney Wilderness Area and Little Tupper Lake comes to you courtesy of a very good boy. In 1933 two veterans of Byrd’s 1929 South Pole expedition, Jack Bursey and his lead sled dog St. Lunaire, hauled the bones of a 60-foot fire tower up Buck Mountain, in Long Lake. Now the tower has been rehabbed, and an easement donated by Cedar Heights Timber allows a new generation to follow in St. Lunaire’s pawprints.

Jun 21, 2024 | adirondacklife.com | Mark Obbie |Niki Kourofsky |Lisa Bramen

Photograph courtesy of the author The Northville-Placid Trail cuts through the West Canada Lakes Wilderness in some of the most remote terrain in the Adirondacks. It’s about as far from human hubbub as one can get. But one rainy July morning, it’s anything but placid. Deep in a blowdown-filled beaver swamp, the woods reverberate with the voice of my daughter, Rae, who at the moment has—let us be frank—quite the potty mouth.

Jun 18, 2024 | adirondacklife.com | Lisa Bramen |Annie Stoltie |Neal Burdick

There were times during his retirement to the Adirondacks when my grandfather, the 20th century’s greatest classical percussionist, Saul Goodman, fell silent behind the helm of his large automobile. With a half-smile on his lips he would take in the sweep of the Great Range while his fingers drummed out something specific on the rim of the steering wheel. “What’s playing, Dad?” my mother or her twin sister would ask. “Schubert!” he would reply.

Jun 10, 2024 | adirondacklife.com | Lisa Bramen |Annie Stoltie |Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky

Bartender Graham Chrystie photograph by Carrie Marie Burr After sitting vacant for a decade, Bolton Landing’s former Sagamore Pub had lost whatever luster it once possessed. But on their visits to Lake George, Paty and Richard Boccato—who have launched successful businesses on both coasts—saw it as a diamond in the rough. Situated at the intersection where guests leaving the swanky Sagamore Resort turn onto Lake Shore Drive, the empty building “seemed so wrong in this cute little town,” says Paty.

Oct 4, 2023 | adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Mark Phillips |Lisa Bramen

Mooers Forks is a North Country no-man’s-land. It’s a teeny island of modest houses, trailers and a few businesses within an agrarian channel of open roads and spurts of silos just a handful of miles between the Canadian border and the Adirondack Park’s northernmost tip. Here, international truckers haul loads along Route 22, locals pick up basic French by listening to Quebec radio, and most residents commute to Plattsburgh or Rouses Point or cross the border for work.