Bat Week is observed October 24-31 annually to build support for the conservation of bats – a frequently misunderstood ...

James Bond may be synonymous with exotic destinations, but Ian Fleming’s 1962 novel The Spy Who Loved Me takes an unexpected detour through the Adirondacks. Set largely near Lake George, the book ...

Amid Trump administration threats to historic preservation, the largest cultural resources management company in the United ...

It is debatable as to when the first outboard motors for boats initially appeared in America. Some boating historians cite the year 1896, when a Long Island business named the American Motor Company ...

A whitetail deer was found with a hammock wrapped tightly around one of its antlers and tangled in the vines of a tree.

The Adirondack Railroad has a Halloween Train scheduled this Saturday, October 24, 2026. Children in costume will receive one free pumpkin.

The New York Almanack recently heard from Will Katerberg, the curator of Heritage Hall, the archives of Calvin University, Calvin Theological Seminary, and the Christian Reformed Church. They have ...

Local men who worked the bay, known as baymen, dredged and raked the shallow bottoms of Great South Bay for the oyster and clam industries.

Paul Revere was Joseph Warren’s brother Mason. In 1760, when Revere was 25, he entered St. Andrew’s Lodge, a newer lodge whose members were mostly craftsmen. It met at the Green Dragon Tavern on Union ...

The settlers developed full-fledged oyster ( Crassostrea virginica) and then hard clam ( Mercenaria mercenaria) industries and fished striped bass, bluefish, flounder (fluke), and weakfish.