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Dec 10, 2024 | 
nny360.com | Neal Burdick
The great thing about self-publishing is that anyone can do it. It’s also the bad thing. For a competent writer, self-publishing is a way to avoid the hassles, delays and disappointments associated with the commercial – and profit-motivated – “houses” like Harper & Row, Penguin, university presses and so on. For an incompetent writer, it’s a way to unleash poor structure, grammar, word choice and every other sin our English teachers told us to avoid.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
friendsjournal.org | Neal Burdick |Alla Podolsky
On the grounds of the public school in our rural community, there grows a young white pine tree. But this tree is not rooted in the ground; rather it springs from the fork in a venerable old sugar maple, about five feet up. It appears healthy, and gains a few inches in height every year. How did this white pine come to live in a sugar maple, to share habitat so intimately with an entirely different species?
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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.
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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.
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May 30, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky
by | 2012 Guide to the Great Outdoors, History As of early April 2012, Peter Fish, of Keene, had hiked 5,344-foot Mount Marcy 763 times.
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May 30, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Annie Stoltie |Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky
by | Featured, Guide to the Great Outdoors 2024 The Northville–Placid Trail turns 100 years old this year—and communities around the Adirondack Park are ready to celebrate. Below is a list of highlights; for trail information, stories and more events, visit www.npt100.com.
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May 22, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky |Daniel Vollaro
Photograph by George Aman, courtesy of William “Jay” O’hernJune 1946. World War II has ended, the economy is rebounding, and life in America looks sunny. In the Adirondacks, Troop 1 of the Boy Scouts of America from Paoli, Pennsylvania, is on its traditional 15-day canoe outing, mostly on what is today known as the “90-Miler” route, from Old Forge to Saranac Lake. On one of those days, the Scouts stow their canoes and hike the Northville-Placid Trail upstream along the Cold River.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky |Brian Mann |Daniel Vollaro
Photograph by Johnathan EsperLast summer, when Gerry Delaney spoke at a public forum about the future of the Adirondack Park, the conservative councilman from the town of Saranac laid out a vision that’s become a startling new normal. He acknowledged deep policy divides while insisting that all the park’s factions embrace neighborliness and civility. “There are different interests between the environmental groups and local governments,” Delaney said. “But we all have to live together.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky |Brian Mann |Daniel Vollaro
by | June 2024, Nature and Environment Adult blackfly illustration by Robin Rothman, courtesy of the New York State Museum Make no mistake; I do my share of swatting during spring bug season.However, as a biologist, I do it with a touch of respect.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
nny360.com | Neal Burdick
As I write this on Dec. 15, the ground is bare, the temperature threatening to pierce the 50-degree mark. By the time you read it, the temperature may be zero and there may be a foot of snow on the ground. Or it may be 60 degrees. It becomes harder and harder to tell what the weather will be like in the days ahead, because it’s not like it once was.
