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Articles by Mary Thill
Adirondack Life Magazine
Photograph by Nancie Battglia “Do you have a favorite?” Five-year-old Ivan Cook considers the question, looking from goat to goat. After some thought, he rattles off the names of several of the herd, while all around him, the goats dance, sniff his small hands, and nudge him for attention.
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It was July 1973. Richard Nixon was trying to contain Watergate; Marlon Brando had just won an Oscar for The Godfather; I had completed my junior year of high school. That month found me catching bullheads with my grandfather on Adirondack Lake, in Indian Lake. I’ll never forget the horrifying news and the palpable tension. Robert Garrow was on the run. The 37-year-old who grew up in the Adirondacks hunting, fishing and trapping had left a trail of terror in the wilderness.
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The first time I saw Cali Brooks it was 1999 and she rose like a yellow-haired spirit out of the vegetable garden at the Blue Mountain Center, the former central Adirondack Great Camp turned writers’ retreat. It was only my third or fourth day in the Adirondacks. I was utterly lost. Brushing her dirty hands on her blue jeans, Brooks put me at ease with a laugh (I asked, she has no memory of this meeting) and sent me in the right direction.
Take the Great Adirondack Life Challenge
by | August 2024, Featured Wood sorrel, ermine and campfire photographs from shutterstock. Lake photograph by Jamie West McGiver. Diner and Hammock photographs by Nancie Battaglia Sometimes we need a little nudge. Our first Adirondack Life Challenge, in 2019, was a lot of fun—and not just for our readers. It was a blast looking at all those pictures of families living park-perfect summers.
High Drama: OK Slip Falls
Photograph by Johnathan Esper From the river, the mouth of OK Slip Brook is little more than a comma in the epic poem of a trip down the Hudson Gorge. For decades, white-water guides longed to beach their rafts here and pause by a quiet pool before shooting the steepest rapid on the Hudson. The guides knew that this little break in the trees was a portal to an alluring but private inner kingdom.
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It can be overwhelming to get a handhold on climate change and the extinction crisis. Really, what can I do to stop smoke from distant forest fires, or to put bats and birds back into in the sky? Extreme weather finally has people focusing on solutions. But if you’re not one of the few attending COP26, where to begin? “We are told to think globally and act locally. Quite honestly, if you think globally you’re just so depressed,” Jane Goodall said in a recent interview.
Adirondack Life Article - Marooned - Adirondack Life
June 2007 Marooned When Norwegian sailors found refuge in Saranac Lake by Mary Thill Photograph courtesy of Natalie Leduc Natalie Leduc is the only person at Saranac Lake’s Pine Ridge Cemetery early on a drizzly May 17. Except for the fading laugh of a loon flying toward Moody Pond, it’s quiet. Every year on this date, Norway’s independence day, Leduc visits the graves of Norwegian sailors buried here.
Adirondack Life Article - Pier Group - Adirondack Life
August 2003 Pier Group Star Lake's dock culture comes undone by Mary Thill Throughout 2019, in celebration of Adirondack Life’s 50th anniversary, we’re sharing an article per week from our archives—one for each year since 1970. In 2003, Mary Thill explored the unique floating-dock culture of Star Lake. At some point in prehistory, hominids came to water not to drink or to fish, but merely to enjoy the meeting of liquid and land.
Why They Stay: Soaked, Shell-shocked and Still Here
by | August 2016, Nature and Environment Photograph by Mark Hobson Jodie Frederick’s birthday cake had been baked and decorated, ready on a platter in her new refrigerator. Frederick’s family had planned a party that also celebrated the success of her recent hip replacement. But there wouldn’t be any kind of celebration. That day—August 28, 2011—Tropical Storm Irene dumped seven inches of rain on the northern Adirondacks, saturating the High Peaks and pummeling the river valley settlements below.
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by | From the Archives, October 2005 Illustration from shutterstock In fall 1964 Arthur Kleps, a bored school psychologist for Clifton-Fine and three other North Country districts, was captivated by a New York Times article about psychologist Timothy Leary and two colleagues fired from Harvard for pursuing altered states of reality through a chemical compound called lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD for short.
Changes afoot at nation’s largest seafood event
More than 18,000 people from 120 countries are attending this year’s International Boston Seafood Show, which wraps up today on the city’s waterfront. Every year, the glass-enclosed, aquarium-like convention center becomes a spectacle of sushi, salmon, scrod, and the people who import, export, wholesale, retail, filet, package, refrigerate, and ship them.
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