Category: Short Stories

MY TRUE ADIRONDACK HIGH PEAKS BEAR ENCOUNTER Author’s Note: Originally appearing as “Cliff The Bear” – “A Memorable Encounter At Lake Colden”, this true life vignette was the second in a series of five articles I had published by Adirondack Life Magazine over a six year period beginning in...

Author’s Note: This piece was actually one I originally submitted and had declined by Adirondack Life Magazine. It was recently published in The Adirondack Almanack’s August 22, 2021 online edition. ********** There is a back story here that remains buried in time, long since forgotten and forever untold. Imagine,...

“An Adirondack Outlaw Rescue Tale” Author’s Note: This TRUE rescue tale was the 3rd in a series of five articles I have had published in Adirondack Life Magazine through the years. It originally appeared in their August 2016 Issue as the “Barkeater” entry under their title, “Mayhem on Middle...

“A memorable rescue – or robbery? – on Middle Saranac Lake” ********** Author’s Note: Originally written and submitted for publication under the title “Turtle Soup”, this true-life vignette was the fourth of a series five I have had published in Adirondack Life Magazine over the past several years. It...

The Kind Of Friends Who Keep You Afloat ***Author’s Note*** This story was originally published in Adirondack Life Magazine’s July/August 2019 Issue, pg.77, under the heading “Shenanigans”. It was the most recent in a series of five original vignettes I have published with Adirondack Life between 2014 and 2019....

“My Adirondack Baseball Journey” There Once Was a Time Where Every Town Had a Team Every Team Had a Star Every Boy Had a Dream **********      I grew up in the 1960’s and ’70’s.  An era when baseball was still our nation’s true pastime. When every stick was...

1-22 INF/1st BDE/10th MTN DIV (LI), Ft Drum, N.Y. 1988: Fort Drum was still under construction. The 10th Mountain Division(LI) remained a long way from full strength.  My unit, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, was billeted in old wooden WWII barracks on what would become “Old Post.”       We were...

*This story appeared as “An ‘Adirondack Outlaw’ at Cornell in the Adirondack Almanack’s April 18, 2021 on-line edition. ********** My Elegant Friend        I wrote the poem “Sweet Adrienne” sometime in early 1982, during the spring semester of my freshman year at Cornell.  Just before getting called into the...

I first drafted the poem “Ghost Lake” while working out of Lake Colden’s Interior Headquarters cabin as a DEC trail hand in the summer of ’83, haunted by memories from earlier trips into Colden with my dad.    On those shared journeys, in the late ’70’s, Dad still had...

     The event that I’m about to describe has haunted a dark corner of my mind since the night it occurred. Some may find it disturbing. I still do. **********   It was a Saturday evening in 1986.  I was a young lieutenant recently assigned to the 10th Mountain...