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Tag: Saranac Lake NY
Economic Award Money Helps Adirondack Company Expand
A small company in Saranac Lake, NY is taking products from nature and turning them into a spray that keeps mosquitoes and ticks from getting under your skin. As our Jack LaDuke reports, some of the North Country’s recent economic development award money will help the Carpe Insectae company buy equipment that will speed up…
Teardrop Trailers
Jack LaDuke introduces us to campers who don’t believe bigger RVs are better. They prefer the smaller, simpler Teardrop trailers. Every year, fans of the pint-sized campers gather at the Fish Creek Pond Campground in Saranac Lake.
Ice Palace inspires novelist Sara J. Henry
Novelist Sara J. Henry writes of a horrific scene as the ice palace construction is underway in Saranac Lake. She joins me for an “Author Visit” about her new book, “A Cold and Lonely Place.” Click the box below to watch the video.
Pioneer In Medicine
Tuberculosis was one of the deadliest diseases in human history that struck America with a vengeance in the late 1800s. Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, a tuberculosis sufferer himself, opened the nation’s first sanatorium to treat patients in the Adirondacks, while doing exhaustive research looking for the cure that would elude scientists until the discovery of…
Saranac Lake Winter Carnival 2017
Saranac Lake is also famous for winter carnival. The 120th Saranac Lake Winter Carnival kicks-off this weekend. It is the oldest festival of its kind in the nation. As Jack LaDuke shows us, year-after-year volunteers cut huge blocks of ice from Lake Flower to create a grand spectacle of ice that is the center piece…
World Snowshoe Championships
Snowshoe racers from around the globe are coming to the Adirondacks to compete in the World Snowshoe Championships in Saranac Lake, New York February 24-25. It will be the first time these World Championships have been held in the United States. Jack LaDuke introduces us Bob and Denise Dion, two snowshoe racers who also manufacture…
Asleep Beneath The Sod: Saranac Lake’s Historic Pine Ridge Cemetery
Saranac Lake’s Pine Ridge Cemetery sprawls over a sandy hillside in the heart of the village. In it lie the last remains of the village’s first settlers, along with hundreds of others, some well known, some not, who followed them across the great divide. Join Mountain Lake PBS and Curiously Adirondack in a ramble through…
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,…
Catch Our Drift: Why Adirondackers Love Winter, Sort Of
Do we in the Adirondacks love snow and cold? Do we hate them? Hear dyed-in-the-wool locals speak their minds about our long, cold, crystalline season of white. Produced for Mountain Lake PBS by Josh Clement (http://www.joshclementproductions.com) and Ed Kanze (http://edwardkanze.com). Thanks to all our business and individual supporters for making Curiously Adirondack happen! Best…
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…