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Tag: History
Fifty Beds, Two Lakes, And An Otter: Bartlett’s Hotel In Its Heyday, 1854-1884
The late nineteenth century might be called the Golden Age of Adirondack Hotels. Among the humble and the grand, one establishment stands out above all the others for its character and for its characters: Virgil and Caroline Bartlett’s Sportsmen’s Home, which had its heyday from 1854 to 1884. “Bartlett’s,” as the place was often called,…
Saranac Lake Remembers Its Curative Past
Most of us have heard William Faulkner’s famous line about the past not being dead. His wisdom is nowhere more apparent than in the Adirondack Mountain village of Saranac Lake. Here, from the 1880s to the 1950s and a little bit beyond, tuberculosis patients arrived from near and far to rest on porches, breathe crisp…
All Roads Lead To Bloomingdale: 19th Century Crossroads Village Blooms Anew In The 21st Century
If Thornton Wilder had looked a little farther west, he might have set his Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Our Town” not in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire but in the Adirondack Mountain village of Bloomingdale. In the 1840s, the banks of a humble stretch of brook, a tributary of the Saranac River, gave rise to a…
You Can Get Anything You Want: On Schroon Lake, A Classic American General Store Still Thrives
Building on a history stretching back more than 150 years, the Adirondack General Store flourishes in the twenty-first century by offering the best of the old and the new. Maureen and Robert Diaz, who made a bold move from Queens to the remote hamlet of Adirondack to buy and run the place, are the hard-working…
“Little House” fans head to Malone, NY
Tourists may visit the boyhood home of Almanzo Wilder, famous as the “Farmer Boy” in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House” series. Produced by Paul Larson. Videography and editing by Ben Carstens of WFFF Local 44. This project is supported by a grant awarded to Mountain Lake PBS by New York State’s Empire State Development and…