Golfer and Indian Lake resident Dewey Brown broke through barriers
By Amy Scattergood
June 19, 2021
Dewey Brown, the first Black PGA member, bough Cedar River Golf Course in Indian Lake in 1947 and stayed there for the rest of his life.
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Amy Scattergood is the former Food editor of the Los Angeles Times and the co-author of a book on whole grain baking and another of poetry.
By Amy Scattergood
June 19, 2021
Dewey Brown, the first Black PGA member, bough Cedar River Golf Course in Indian Lake in 1947 and stayed there for the rest of his life.
By Amy Scattergood
May 23, 2021
Camps home in on diversity as part of overall mission
By Amy Scattergood
April 25, 2021
This summer, camps across the Adirondacks will reopen, filling cabins, launching canoes and relighting those campfires, albeit carefully.
By Amy Scattergood
March 20, 2021
Mini Euromart brings hard-to-find continental cuisine staples to the Adirondacks.
By Amy Scattergood
February 23, 2021
Every Thursday, Pragma Prajapati turns her Saranac Lake convenience store kitchen into a tiny pop-up Indian restaurant.