Retiring school mascots
By Mike DeSocio
Adirondack schools move away from Native American team names, although some remain unchanged.
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Christine Campeau: Passionate about Adirondack history
Christine Campeau, school programs manager at the Adirondack Experience for more than two decades teaches children about Adirondack history.
A park like no other
Decades of experience suggest the state needs to do more to protect shorelines, uplands, and the privately owned backcountry
Regulators and Rebels pt 8: The rebellion
Tony D’Elia led call to 'abolish the APA'
Rustic Adirondackana
Birchbark Bookshop in the Adirondack foothills is a rough-hewn slice of North Country history
David Starbuck: Excavator of lost arcs
'Indiana' Starbuck unearthed park’s hidden tales. The Adirondack native taught thousands of diggers through 70 archaeological field schools.
No longer underground
By Mike DeSocio
A North Country museum looks for new ways to tell the stories of the Underground Railroad
The year without Canadians in the Adirondacks
By Stephen Leon
New York's wildland trails, ski slopes and lakes have had less of a Canadian accent with the border closed during a pandemic year.
A little kindness, and a look at the week’s top stories
By Melissa Hart
The legacy of Tupper Lake department store owner Mose Ginsberg and more of the week's stories from the Adirondack Explorer and Almanack.
Public, preservationists voice support for Debar Lodge
The proposal to remove an Adirondack camp is a state Constitutional conundrum that has opened the floodgates of public comment.