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Edward M. Shepard and the Making of a People’s Park
Sixty years ago, in 1955, the main building on the campus of the College of the City of New York was renamed Shepard Hall in honor of Edward Morse Shepard, the political reformer who died on Lake...
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Museum Pieces
What Do the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum’s Trolley Car Diner and Early Launch Have in Common? They’re Both From Lake George If the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh, NY...
View ArticleLake George Pays Tribute to Its Police Forces and Law Enforcement History
The late Ed Litwa, Lake George’s last Chief of Police, was honored at the opening last weekend of a new exhibition exploring law enforcement in the resort community. The exhibition, which is mounted at...
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Women, Boats, and Lake George
“As to ‘physical exertion,’ there is no such exertion known here. It is the laziest of all imaginable places….” So “Adirondack” Murray appealed directly to women, even those “fragile or delicate,” in...
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Lake George Commemorating Women’s Suffrage
Women won the right to vote in New York State in 1917, three years before the 19th amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. To commemorate that event and raise public awareness of the role of New...
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A Main Street Republican Who Liberals Can Love
Liberals, even and especially liberal Republicans, were never fans of the Republican Senator from Ohio, Robert A. Taft (1889-1953). Here in upstate New York, he was disliked for attempting to deprive...
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Dr. Irving Langmuir and the Brothers Vonnegut
Is there a dark, malignant side to science? To even raise that question in the 1950s, as the novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr did, was to cast doubt upon the entire, mid-century American project. It’s no...
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Once Every Town Staged Historical Pageants
Lake George’s historical pageants were not so much entertainment for visitors as civic exercises meant to strengthen the community, Margy Mannix told an audience at the Lake George Institute of...
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Adirondack Bookshelf: Empires in the Mountains: French and Indian War...
Empires in the Mountains: French and Indian War Campaigns and Forts in the Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Hudson River Corridor, the most recent by historian Russell Bellico, is available in local...
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Cooper’s Cave: America’s First Roadside Attraction
James Fenimore Cooper’s knowledge of the French and Indian War may have been sketchy, but he was interested enough in its history to contemplate a visit to Lake George, which he finally did with a...
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