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Anthony F. Hall

Anthony F. Hall is the editor and publisher of the Lake George Mirror.Anthony grew up in Warrensburg and returned to the Adirondacks and took a job with legendary state senator Ron Stafford. In 1998, Anthony and his wife Lisa acquired the Lake George Mirror, once part of a chain of weekly newspapers owned by his father Rob Hall. Established in the 1880s, the Mirror is America’s oldest resort newspaper.

The Red Scare: A Personal History

June 29, 2022 by Anthony F. Hall 1 Comment

New York Times, May 1948 The Seagle Festival will present the contemporary opera “Fellow Travelers” in Schroon Lake, NY August 3rd through 6th.

“Fellow Travelers” is set in the Washington, DC of the 1950s, as the anti-communist crusades of Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy and their ilk infiltrate and all but overwhelm every department, agency and office in government.

I can not help but reminded of my own family’s experience with “the Red Scare” during the administration of President Harry Truman. [Read more…] about The Red Scare: A Personal History

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Harry Truman, Journalism, Lake George, Peace Studies, Political History, Sarah Lawrence College, Social History, Socialism, Warren County, World War Two

Banner Year for Northeast Maple Syrup Makers

June 24, 2022 by Anthony F. Hall Leave a Comment

Maple syrup makers in Thurman, Warren CountyThe stock market may be down, but maple syrup production is up.

New York produced 845 thousand gallons of maple syrup in 2022, breaking the state’s own 75-year-old record from 2019, when its maple industry produced 820,000 gallons of syrup. [Read more…] about Banner Year for Northeast Maple Syrup Makers

Filed Under: Food, Nature Tagged With: Food, Maple Sugaring, Maple Trees

Lake George Village Eyes International Student Dorm

June 6, 2022 by Anthony F. Hall 1 Comment

Lake GeorgeStudents who travel from foreign countries to work on Lake George face a scarcity of affordable, safe housing, according to Mayor Bob Blais.

As a founder of the Student Connection, a group established to help foreign workers resolve issues related to their employment, Blais has promoted initiatives to improve the stock of available housing, from inspecting facilities to posting listings from landlords. [Read more…] about Lake George Village Eyes International Student Dorm

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY Tagged With: diversity, Housing, Immigration, Labor History, Lake George, Tourism, Warren County

Effort to Abolish Lake George Village Underway

June 1, 2022 by Anthony F. Hall Leave a Comment

Lake George Village courtesy Crown Focus MediaA vote to dissolve Lake George Village and force its assets to be merged with the Town of Lake George will, in all likelihood, be held in September. [Read more…] about Effort to Abolish Lake George Village Underway

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY Tagged With: Lake George, Political History, politics, Warren County

Lake George Boards Seek More Active Role in Historic Preservation

May 26, 2022 by Anthony F. Hall Leave a Comment

Towers Hall by Walt GrishkotThe Town and the Village of Lake George in Warren County, NY may play a more active role in preserving historic sites and significant architecture if both adopt laws creating a joint Historic Preservation Commission. [Read more…] about Lake George Boards Seek More Active Role in Historic Preservation

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Architecture, Historic Preservation, Lake George, Warren County

10th Mountain Division and Adirondack Ski History

March 29, 2020 by Anthony F. Hall 5 Comments

Ski troops training in the Rocky MountainsHal Burton. Arthur Draper. James Goodwin. These figures, each one an Adirondack legend, opened the area to winter skiing, from the backcountry ski trail on Wright Peak to the first downhill runs at Whiteface.

Not coincidentally, all three were members of the 10th Mountain Division, created in 1940 to provide the US Army with ski troops and soldiers who could fight an Alpine War.

The 10th would find glory in the Italian campaigns in the final months of World War II, as historian Maurice Isserman recounts in his new book, The Winter Army. [Read more…] about 10th Mountain Division and Adirondack Ski History

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Park, backcountry skiing, Military History, skiing

Rev War Remains: The 1st Pennsylvania At Ft George, Lake George

March 25, 2019 by Anthony F. Hall 1 Comment

archaeologists and assistants examine excavated soils at the siteThe remains dislodged from an 18th century military cemetery at a Lake George construction site will, in all likelihood, be reinterred on the grounds of Fort George Park, say Village officials.

The Village’s Board of Trustees has adopted a resolution calling upon New York State to permit the remains to be buried at the state-owned park, said Mayor Bob Blais.

Blais said New York State officials support the proposal, although the remains will be in the possession of state archaeologists for at least a year, undergoing examination and analyses. [Read more…] about Rev War Remains: The 1st Pennsylvania At Ft George, Lake George

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: American Revolution, AmRev, Fort George, Fort Ticonderoga, Fort William Henry, Military History, Ticonderoga

Conservation History: Northwest Bay, Lake George

November 14, 2017 by Anthony F. Hall 1 Comment

loines preserveLands above Northwest Bay acquired by Stephen and Mary Loines between 1898 and 1908 – in part to protect them from the same destructive forces that threatened the Adirondacks – and which were sold to private landowners over the ensuing decades, are now largely protected again, this time permanently, thanks to land conservancies and New York State.

That’s something Tim Barnett recognized last spring, when the Lake George Land Conservancy announced that it had purchased a 159 acre parcel that includes Wing Pond “This would appear to complete a four decade- long project to protect the Loines holdings,” remarked Barnett, the first director of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and a founder of the Lake George Land Conservancy. [Read more…] about Conservation History: Northwest Bay, Lake George

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Lake George

Cooper’s Cave: America’s First Roadside Attraction

April 16, 2017 by Anthony F. Hall Leave a Comment

19th century tourists visiting Cooper’s CaveJames Fenimore Cooper’s knowledge of the French and Indian War may have been sketchy, but he was interested enough in its history to contemplate  a visit to Lake George, which he finally did with a party of Englishmen in August, 1824.

Lord Edward Stanley,  who would later become the 14th Earl of Derby and  Great Britain’s Prime Minister during the reign of Queen Victoria, was a member of the party. As they crossed the Hudson River at Glens Falls on the return trip to Saratoga, Stanley noted in his journal, “Cooper… was much struck with the scenery which he had not before seen; and exclaimed, ‘I must place one of my old Indians here.” [Read more…] about Cooper’s Cave: America’s First Roadside Attraction

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Glens Falls, James Fenimore Cooper, Literature, Tourism

The Origin and Impact of the Adirondack Northway

March 28, 2017 by Anthony F. Hall 2 Comments

i87When my parents came to the Adirondacks in 1956, they believed they were moving to a place far removed – culturally and politically as well as geographically – from the cities in which they had worked as left-wing journalists.

Beyond the Adirondacks lay “the big world,” as our neighbor Peggy Hamilton called it. (It was a world she was familiar with, having been the companion of Vida Mulholland and, like Vida and her more famous sister Inez, an early advocate of women’s rights.) [Read more…] about The Origin and Impact of the Adirondack Northway

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Forest Preserve, I-87, Nelson Rockefeller, Public History, Transportation History

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