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Ghosts: A Word With A Double Meaning

Do you believe in ghosts? The Essex County Courthouse has several of them. Now I’m not writing about the spirit of abolitionist John...

Elkanah Watson – A Man of Many Talents

Travel along Lake Street in Port Kent and it is easy to see why this hamlet became a popular location of hotels and the tourist industry....

An Adirondack Mountains National Park?

Ever get the opportunity to visit the Adirondack Mountains National Park? Now, this is not to be confused with the New York State...

Ghosts: A Word With A Double Meaning

Do you believe in ghosts? The Essex County Courthouse has several of them. Now I’m not writing about the spirit of abolitionist John...

Elkanah Watson – A Man of Many Talents

Travel along Lake Street in Port Kent and it is easy to see why this hamlet became a popular location of hotels and the tourist industry....

An Adirondack Mountains National Park?

Ever get the opportunity to visit the Adirondack Mountains National Park? Now, this is not to be confused with the New York State...

An 1888 Trek to Mount Marcy’s Summit

In 1936, W.J. Brown decided to take pen to paper and composed a lengthy letter to the editor of the Essex County Republican, a weekly...

John Brown’s Body Comes Home

On the evening of December 1, 1859 within the confines of the Charles Town, Virginia jail (now in present day West Virginia which became...

The ‘Adirondac’ Grape

People make their mark in history in assorted manners: bravery, politics, leadership, writing, discovery, inventions and the list goes...

The Man in the Photograph: Ashley Leach (1857-1926)

It is said that a picture is worth 1000 words. There’s a photograph in the Adirondack History Museum of a mustachioed man in his 20s...

A FURTHER LOOK At The Story Of The Museum’s Concord Coach

In the September 21, 1950 edition of the Adirondack Record-Post recounted the story of the wayward coach. In 1919 Arthur B. Wells, summer...

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