The City as a Work of Art: Venetian Vistas at The Hyde
“Venice,” said William Merritt Chase, “is the most artistic place that I ever was in.” Since the eighteenth century, countless American and European artists have felt likewise, and the responses to...
View ArticleTax Auctions Comply with U.S. Supreme Court Ruling
Warren County’s sale of tax delinquent properties to the highest bidders raised $1.7 million in October, 2023, but the county did not retain any funds in excess of what was owed in back taxes and...
View ArticleAn Adirondack Journal: An Adirondack Great Camp “Colorama”
Since last summer, when I wrote an article for Quest magazine about John Hendrickson’s decision to put the 36,000-acre Whitney Park up for sale, I’ve been following, somewhat more attentively than in...
View Article120 Years Ago, Wildfires Gave Rise to NYS Forest Rangers
The smoke from the distant wildfires that drifted over Lake George last summer are probably an approximation, albeit a dim one, of 1903. That summer, the late Clarence Petty once recalled, “Heavy...
View ArticleAppellate Court to Review Case Against LG Herbicide in March
A panel of five New York State appellate judges, convening in Albany this week will review Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Muller’s 2023 decision invalidating a permit that would have allowed the Lake...
View ArticleHousing Studies Lead to a Search for Solutions
Having released a “Housing Needs Study” in November, Warren County is now taking steps to identify “concrete objectives that we can accomplish at the county level to address our housing challenges,”...
View ArticleFDR, the Boy Scouts and the New Deal
The first New Deal was the largest expansion of federal power since the Civil War and many of its programs had their origins in Albany, in the policies of Governors Franklin D. Roosevelt and Al Smith...
View ArticleA Tribute to Lake George Supervisor Dennis Dickinson
Dennis Dickinson, who died on April 3 at the age of 77, campaigned for the office of Lake George Town Supervisor in 2011 on a platform of generating new tourism dollars. And yet when aquatic invasive...
View ArticleWarren County: If You Listen Closely, You Can Hear the Future
As Dr. John E. Kelly III, the chairman of RPI’s Board of Trustees, avid Engineers fan and Lake George resident likes to say, “skate where the puck is headed, not where it is.” One of the benefits of...
View ArticleAn Adirondack Journal: The Memory Keeper
The artist and illustrator Rockwell Kent once suggested that Pete Seeger compose an opera based on Adirondack folk tunes, and that my father write the book. Despite the fact that my father was a...
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