Playmakers
Leadership isn’t always defined by the score. ********** It’s a play most Saranac Lake football folks besides me likely don’t even remember. It’s not glorified in yearbook photos. It never made any record book. It is, however, the one play from my high school football career that has...
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Just Roman Around
2023 Winter Carnival Musings Moments & Memories My Heart of the Adirondacks Hometown Carnival Montage FEATURING: Saranac Lake’s Illustrious Lawn Chair Ladies ********** What a perfect 2023 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Parade Saturday! Bright and sunny, not windy or snowing, the thermometer reading an Adirondack balmy mid-twenties. My wife...
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Saranac Lake Spirits
Take Care What You Seek! It Just Might Find You! In order to protect the innocent (and not so innocent) in this story, I’ll stick with our SLHS crew’s nicknames: Monk, Blind, Chet, Juan, Jordan, Feinie, Dupe, Missy, Krissy, Maryanne, Shelly & Leslie. Well, okay, mostly nicknames, anyways....
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Hometown Heroes
There Once Was A Time When Every Town Had A Team Every Team Had A Star Every Boy Had A Dream This is the fifth in my series of baseball card themed stories. As a boy growing up in Saranac Lake, despite the long, cold winters and short...
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Speaking In Tongues
An Adirondack Outlaw’s fight to give his survivor’s journey a voice. “You will most likely never speak again.” Those words were spoken as part of my Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer surgeon’s final grim prognosis. Just before they put me under and wheeled me into the operating room. Just...
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How Much Wood?
It’s An Age-Old Question: “How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?” It’s a mystery I’ve been pondering since I was a lad. I’ve dedicated a lifetime of serious research and study seeking to answer to this question. I’ve chucked my own fair...
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2022 Mountains & Valleys
My Adirondack Outlaw 2022 Year End Review 2022 was certainly a year of high peaks and steep valleys. Some days I felt like I had just successfully constructed and climbed my own mountain. Other days I felt like I’d just been run over thirty-six times by a snowplow....
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Sharpshooter
Never captured. Still believed to be at large. Outstanding warrants remain in two counties, both Essex & Franklin. Still sought by police. Last seen in and around the village of Saranac Lake. Goes by the Alias “Sharpshooter”. This Polariod image is his only know photograph. If spotted, contact authorities...
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Call of the Crow
He sat perched on a flat, sloping, moss-covered boulder at the edge of a cliff, overwatching the hardwood forest below him. The hunter scanned predawn silence through late October’s mid-fall morning mist. The year was 1981, more than a decade before cell phones. A time when hunters...
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An Adirondack Outlaw Announcement
I’ve been selected! I was just notified. My story “Olympic Outlaws” has been selected by Harmonny Performing Arts Community to be read aloud at their upcoming event at The Sackets Harbor Ballroom on November 16, 2022! As a cancer survivor with no tongue, this is especially meaningful to me....
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