History, Natural History & the Arts
This week on The Historians Podcast the guest is Alan Maddaus, author of Wright Peak Elegy: A Story of Cold War, Nuclear Deterrence and Ultimate Sacrifice (Epigraph, 2022).
The book tells the story of a US Air Force B-47 jet bomber that crashed into Wright Peak in New York’s Adirondack Mountains in January 1962. [Read more…] about A New Book On The 1962 B-47 Crash At Wright Peak
New York State Forest Rangers led the efforts in difficult and dramatic rescues from nearly the same spot in the Adirondack High Peaks this week.
On Tuesday, December 13 at 2:25 pm, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Ray Brook Dispatch office requested Forest Ranger assistance with a hiker who may have broken their ankle near the junction of the trails to Wright and Algonquin Peaks in the High Peaks Wilderness in the town of Keene, Essex County. [Read more…] about Two Dramatic Adirondack High Peaks Rescues From Same Area