Jeremy and Cherí DeGroff recently launched Adirondack Outdoor Enthusiast (ADKOE), an outdoor lifestyle boutique in Essex, New York. This long overdue addition to Essex's Main Street is the perfect complement to Champlain Area Trails (CATS) and Lake Champlain boating, … [Read more...] about ADKOE: Adirondack Outdoor Enthusiast
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Best Fall Foliage? Travel + Leisure Readers Vote for the Adirondacks
A colorful autumn shoutout to Jim Carroll for putting us onto a local-ish fall foliage showcase featured on Thrillist. The post, "Fall's 10 most gorgeous American towns, voted by Travel + Leisure readers", includes some familiar postcardy standbys peppered with a couple of … [Read more...] about Best Fall Foliage? Travel + Leisure Readers Vote for the Adirondacks
Gratitude to Beavers
The beaver, our region’s largest rodent, is also one of its most important ecological players. Beavers are what ecologists consider a "keystone species", meaning they have disproportionate importance to their natural communities – effects far greater than their modest numbers … [Read more...] about Gratitude to Beavers
Create Your Own Sunshine
I'm not sure who originally taught us this lesson, but Sonny and Cher, Neil Sedaka and many others have reminded us over the years. Some days you just have to create your own sunshine. I love that Essex sunburst motif presiding over the principal intersection in the middle of … [Read more...] about Create Your Own Sunshine
Dueling Banjos: An Adirondack Reflection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0eknUtEMWw Note: The following post is excerpted from "Dueling Banjos: An Adirondack Reflection" which first appeared on Rosslyn Redux. I’ve loved "Dueling Banjos" since I was a boy, but there’s another less obvious reason that this song, … [Read more...] about Dueling Banjos: An Adirondack Reflection