Adirondack Life – September 2019

Lower Ausable Lake from Indian Head. Nicholas Spooner-Rodie FACING PAGE: Fire-tower view of Hurricane Mountain’s summit and beyo ...

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Dueling colors during a late- September paddle on Henderson Lake. Nancie Battaglia September + October 2019 ADIRONDACK LIFE 39 ...

40 ADIRONDACK LIFE September + October 2019 BY LISA W. FODERARO GIANTS OF THE FOREST CHECKING IN ON THE ADIRONDACKS’ SMALL BUT T ...

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42 ADIRONDACK LIFE September + October 2019 They are so much a part of the iconogra- phy of the Adirondacks that you would think ...

September + October 2019 ADIRONDACK LIFE 43 Moose are enormous. Bulls weigh between 600 and 1,200 pounds and stand up to six fee ...

44 ADIRONDACK LIFE September + October 2019 in all, including a dozen adult cows, two juveniles, two calves and one adult bull. ...

September + October 2019 ADIRONDACK LIFE 45 Clinton, Franklin and St. Lawrence Coun- ties. “It’s got a lot of wetlands and a lot ...

46 ADIRONDACK LIFE September + October 2019 How outsiders saw struggling Adirondackers— if they saw them at all “WASTE PEOPLE. O ...

Country Public Radio and Mountain Lake PBS, from bestsellers like Hillbilly Elegy to poverty-themed symposia and confer- ences i ...

48 ADIRONDACK LIFE September + October 2019 “ARTISTS DON’T RETIRE,” says Jean-Jacques Duval, sitting in his Willsboro studio in ...

September + October 2019 ADADIROIRONNDDACACK LIFEK LIFE 4949 church, but he wasn’t especially moved, he says—either by the scrip ...

ICONIC WOMEN OF ADIRONDACK HISTORY BY GRAPHIC NOVELIST SABRINA JONES 50 ADIRONDACK LIFE September + October 2019 LEA DIN G LA DI ...

September + October 2019 ADIRONDACK LIFE 51 Anne LaBastille came to Big Moose Lake as a young woman, where she fell in love with ...

Barbara McMartin —a fixture at Canada Lake—had a PhD in math, but she was also a tireless bush- whacker, hiker and historian. Sh ...

Raised in Minerva and deeply passionate about the surrounding mountains, Grace Hudowalski was the first woman to climb all 46 pe ...

As a leader of the women’s suffrage movement, Inez Milholland carried on her family’s tradition of fiery political activism—her ...

September + October 2019 ADIRONDACK LIFE 55 Orra A. Phelps was a physician—she once made a late-night house call to a backcountr ...