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Tracy Ormsbee is publisher of the Adirondack Explorer. When she’s not working – and it’s not black fly season – you can find her outdoors hiking, running, paddle boarding or reading a book on an Adirondack chair somewhere.
By Tracy Ormsbee
October 9, 2020
World-renowned stone sculptor John Van Alstine’s interpretation of nature’s interaction with the man-made world extends from his art to his home to his appreciation of the world around him.
By Tracy Ormsbee
September 28, 2020
The Adirondack Explorer published a story 20 years ago on crowding in the High Peaks that could have come from the pages of the most recent edition.
By Tracy Ormsbee
July 23, 2020
The Fuhrs know how to get things done. They have one of those can-do Adirondack stories of going where the jobs were so they could continue living in the place they love.
By Tracy Ormsbee
May 4, 2020
Peggy Mousaw, a USA Luge race official, is in constant motion between the athletes coming off the track, a scale where they’re weighed, a station to check the temperature of the sled’s runners and the “Yanke gauge”—a machine that measures the sled itself.
By Tracy Ormsbee
February 20, 2020
Bob Liseno is a volunteer at the Adirondack Education Center in Saranac Lake, where he teaches students how to build lean-tos.
By Tracy Ormsbee
January 27, 2020
David Fadden uses the Six Nations Indian Museum in Onchiota, his talks, and storytelling to dispel stereotypes about Native Americans.
By Tracy Ormsbee
January 27, 2020
Kathleen Suozzo’s work is at the heart of one of the more difficult issues facing the Adirondacks today: upgrading aging waste-water and drinking-water treatment facilities in small communities.
By Tracy Ormsbee
November 12, 2019
Go ahead, tell Sam Eddy something can’t be done—hardening 800 feet of trail in one day; taking apart a bridge, moving and rebuilding it in one day; hiking from Wanakena to Wolf Pond after dark—and the challenge is on. Just about every story Eddy tells begins with someone saying the task he’s proposing is impossible. He thrives on proving it isn’t.
By Tracy Ormsbee
October 9, 2019
In early October, Wildlife Veterinarian and Biologist Nina Schoch led a group of enthusiasts to catch, study and band Northern Saw-whet owls after dark at the John Brown Farm state historic site in Lake Placid in the Adirondacks.
By Tracy Ormsbee
August 28, 2019
The Adirondack Explorer presented Climate Action: What We Can do to Protect the Future with Bill McKibben. The sold out event, which featured discussions with McKibben and The Wild Center's Stephanie Ratcliffe, can be watched here.