Veteran newsman Jack LaDuke has been behind a camera for over 65 years. For 30 years he was the WCAX Channel 3 News Adirondack Bureau Chief. Now semi-retired, he produces human interest stories for Mountain Lake PBS. He can be reached by email at jladuke@mlpbs.org.
Still only in his mid 20’s Tyler Rand shuttles through Adirondack rivers and streams looking for a special rock; one that talks to him.
The Lake Placid artist sculptures in stone. When he sees an exceptional rock in the water it sends a signal to him that triggers inspiration.
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There was a time in the Adirondacks when American ingenuity was plugging into a new invention, called electricity.
I recently attended a yearly celebration at The Penfield Homestead Museum in the hamlet of Ironville, Crown Point, where they harnessed that new-age power to create an amazing tool used in the processing of iron ore – an early electromagnet.
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