That's the view from my corner office (above). I am not very important in the scheme of things, so getting a corner office in the Adirondack Wild was the result of serendipity as much as pecking order. We are a county of small hamlets dispersed among huge swaths of wilderness. Tourism is big here and existing businesses are small and independent
I was having a conversation last week with someone who asked how the tourism season will shape up this year. He was concerned about gas prices.The season will be fine despite gas prices IF the weather is good. That is reality for outdoor destinations.After weather, it is the general state of the economy more than gas prices that dictates demand and spending in the tourism world, particularly for
My daughters played in the woods behind our house in the Adirondacks, unsupervised, from about the age of five. They were always within shrieking distance – even when perfectly happy, little girls scream as if they are being tortured. Pretending they were rabbits out-smarting coyotes or building forts out of brush, my children played outdoors with the same intensity
Hamilton County is the least populated county east of the Mississippi. That statement surprises a lot of people because we are in New York. New York is completely paved and has Wall Street, crime and towering buildings, right? Few people understand that upstate New York -- most of New York State by far -- is very rural. The Adirondack Park in
