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LOOKING FORWARD
JULY 16-23, 2014 VOL.19 NO.46
ISSUE NEWS 14
‘Great Camps,’ Slopes and Condos: Tupper Lake Development Gets a Green Light
BY PAUL HEINTZ
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Another North Country Town Loses a Major Employer — a Prison BY MARK DAVIS
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The Karate Kid’s Dad Fights for a Mountaintop Zip Line
FEATURES 30
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8 Cuerdas Injects Summer Music Series with Latin Flavor
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In Plattsburgh, a Celluloid Fan Screens a Lost Art Form
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BY AMY LILLY
I Art New York
Adirondack Issue: A Vermontraised designer, hiker and paddler sells eco-conscious outdoor clothing
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Everyman’s Menu
Food: Taste Test: Blue Collar Bistro BY HANNAH PALMER EGAN
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End of the Road
Food: Lake Placid’s Howard Johnson’s Restaurant is still sizzling BY ALICE LEVITT
Running for Covers
VIDEO SERIES
Music: Checking in on Burlington’s trending tributes BY JOHN FLANAGAN
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Fair Game POLITICS WTF CULTURE Poli Psy OPINION Side Dishes FOOD Soundbites MUSIC Album Reviews Gallery Profile ART Movie Reviews Ask Athena SEX
SECTIONS 11 20 46 56 58 66 72
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The Magnificent 7 Life Lines Calendar Classes Music Art Movies
FUN STUFF
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Stuck in Vermont: Young circus performers take the stage around Vermont during Circus Smirkus’ annual Big Top Tour. Multimedia producer Eva Sollberger caught up with them in Essex Junction and donned a red nose for the day.
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LOCKED OUT
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A N.Y. prison closes
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GHOST HOST
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A spirited Plattsburgh tour
CHAIN OF TWO
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An ADK HoJo hangs on
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Working Geology
Adirondack Issue: The Slate Valley Museum honors past and present mining
BY SARAH TUFF
BY ETHAN DE SEIFE
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Old Haunts
Adirondack Issue: Touring “haunted” Plattsburgh with a costumed guide
BY KEVIN J. KELLEY
BY AMY LILLY
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Adirondack Issue: Summer whitewater adventures offer a chance to get your feet wet
BY ETHAN DE SEIFE
Renovations of Strand Center for the Arts in Home Stretch
BY XIAN CHIANG-WAREN
The River Mild
BY ANDREA SUOZZO
BY ALICIA FREESE
ARTS NEWS
Adirondack Issue: Discovering John Brown’s legacy BY KEN PICARD
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Madman or Hero?
JULY 16-23, 2014 VOL.19 NO.46 SEVENDAYSVT.COM
ADIRONDACK
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ADIRONDACK ISSUE New York’s tallest peaks sweeten our sunsets. In return, we write about the place once a year. For this issue, we ferried to Plattsburgh for updates on the Strand Theatre renovations (close!) and the emerging ROTA Gallery; to take a “haunted history” tour; to dine at a farm-to-table bistro; and, of course, to watch a vintage monster movie. In Lake Placid, we visited John Brown’s farm and one of America’s last HoJos. We talked to a new ADK-focused outerwear designer and pondered really old geology at the Slate Valley Museum. We investigated the economic impacts of prisons closing in the North Country and two controversial development projects — classic conflicts in the Adirondack Park. And why do humans get to live in this “forever wild” expanse? Read on, and you will see.
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