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
