Adirondack Memories - by Jon Kopp
An 1897 Canoe Trip through the Adirondack and Tupper Lake - This is a photo story about Professor D. R. Campbell, Thomas Wilson, Fred Hodges and Harvey Selden from Rome and Harold Johnson from Prospect, who took a two week canoe trip in the Adirondack Lake Region, up through the Fulton Chain and Tupper Lake in 1897
Ampersand Mountain - This is an article written by Henry J. Van Dyke for the June - December issue of Harper's Magazine in 1885
Savage Times - a story about a found skeleton along the banks of the Raquette River and a Man named Joe Downs
The John McConnell Story - He was the first editor of the Tupper Lake Herald in 1896
The First Tupper Laker - The civil was veteran Horatio Nelson Shene purchased the first piece of property in the new Village of Tupper lake
"Uncle Mart" - Mart Moody of Tupper Lake was the premier Adirondack Storyteller between 1860 - 1910
"Fishers of Men in The Wilderness" - An article written by Ellen Osborn for the Watertown Herald on September 12 1896
"The Philosopher's Lament" - Men once thought that wilderness needed to be domesticated, tamed of its wildness, defoliated and made into factories and farms. It was God’s work, so not many questioned it. Except for a group of New England pundits, who in 1858, from the staid confines of Cambridge and Boston decided to amuse themselves with a trek to the Adirondacks and left us memories worthy of our lament.
Sir John Johnson's Cannons - A photo was found on E-Bay showing a cannon in the Adirondack Forest. The card was mailed from Moody in 1906.
Tragedy at The Franklin Hotel - "A wasted life! A wasted life! By day or night, no peace for me; Still, still before me I can see, the fragments of the dear dead past, Which I (Oh! fool) from me have cast –"
Hoofs on Ice - As long as our Village has been around the proximity to the lake has provided our community a winter arena for special events.
The Town That Made Me Me - Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot, before the days of Dylan in an opened Adirondack woodlot, there lived a race of innocents, in a place called Tupper Lake, a land of Spruce and Hemlock and bobbins we would make.
An 1860 Trip Through the Fulton Chain - As early as the 1850s, with its lush wilderness, rich wildlife, and plethora of lakes and rivers, the Adirondack Mountains were a popular sporting and fishing destination The Adirondacks’ rugged lakes, mountains, and rivers proved a daunting obstacle for 19th century surveyors and cartographers. In 1860 a medical doctor from Rochester, William Watson Ely, wrote an article for Moore's Rural New Yorker. (article below) In 1867, this enthusiastic Adirondack sportsman helped open the region cartographically by producing one of the earliest maps of the region "The New York Wilderness"