A brown, irregularly shaped hunk of fossilized dinosaur dung is circulating around the stone-floored rock shop. The middle-school students, surrounded by shelves full of amethyst, pyrite, quartz crystals, and cracked open geodes, let their hands roam over the hunk and then pass it along. They…
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Need an idea for a romantic date? Count on the Lake George Area to deliver great places for fun, romantic, and creative dates. Year-Round Date Ideas Whether you are art aficionados, history buffs, or just interested in something outside the predictable date night routine, the Lake George Area has…
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April gives us showers, that bring May flowers, but it also offers National Library Week and World Book Day. Given that reading is such a universal pursuit, we thought we’d share just a few of the ways that books and authors come from and or focus on this area. If you have ever needed to visit the…
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It was a cool September morning, yet men under the command of General William Johnson broke sweat as they labored to erect a hasty breastwork around their wilderness encampment. They felled tall white pines, dragged the tree bodies into place, and filled the gaps with overturned carts, tree stumps…
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Welcome to the Lake George Area, the birthplace of The Original Vacation . How one man and his guidebook shaped America’s first getaway! In the mid-1800s, the Adirondacks were an undiscovered natural treasure. Hidden ponds with mirror-like surfaces teemed with native rainbow trout. White-tailed deer…
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