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The Life Dr. Joseph Warren: The Revolution’s Lost Hero
This week’s Lake George Battlefield Moments podcast is the first of a two-part interview with historian Christian Di Spigna, author…
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Twitchell’s Troubled Waters: An Adirondack Lake Water Quality History
As heir to a log cabin in the Adirondacks, I have caught myself imagining the mile-high glacier that carved out…
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Brooklyn’s Triumphal Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch Restored
Famed architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Grand Army Plaza as the grand entrance to Prospect Park at…
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Upper and Lower Lakes Wildlife Area Dam Rehabilitated
DEC and Ducks Unlimited have recently completed a major dam rehabilitation project at Upper and Lower Lakes Wildlife Management Area.…
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A History of the New York Gypsum Industry, 1790-1930
New York State has been identified with the American gypsum industry from its start. The deposits in the central counties,…
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Sports and Amusements in Old New York
In the middle of the eighteenth century we find that New Yorkers were fond of all kinds of sports and…
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Eastern Towhee: Dapper Sparrow of the Underbrush
From forest edges and thickets on late spring mornings in the Northeast comes what sounds like an exhortation from across…
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Bull Moose Closes Popular Adirondack Goodman Mountain Trail
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has temporarily closed the Goodman Mountain Trail in the Horseshoe Lake…
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Adirondack Rail Trail Community Day Planned for Saturday, June 21
Bike Adirondacks and the Adirondack Rail Trail Association (ARTA) are hosting Adirondack Rail Trail Community Day on Saturday, June 21.…
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Archaeologists Return to Lake George 18th Century Military Sites
After an absence of several years, archaeologists returned to Lake George’s Fort George last summer, led by Dr. Siobhan Hart,…
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