by Jay Lawson
Walt Hagues, author of the book “An Artist’s View of Inlet, NY” has introduced his second book, “An Artist’s View of Old Forge, NY,” which he describes as his latest “pictorial guide” to an Adirondack hamlet.
Both books feature Hague’s art and illustrations, along with some personal anecdotes and history. Continue reading
Louise Gaylord's latest novel set in Adirondacks
Author, Louise Gaylord, a summer resident of Old Forge for 40 years, will be signing her latest Allie Armington Mystery, “Dark Lake”, at the Old Forge Hardware on Saturday, August 20, from 10 a.m. to noon.
The story centers around a family’s summer compound on Fourth Lake and Allie Armington’s return visit after a lapse of 15 years, when she finds her Aunt Sallie murdered and her cousin Arlene bound, gagged and drugged in their cottage.
A close-up look at life in the Adirondacks is revealed as Armington, an attorney and private investigator, sets out to solve her aunt’s mysterious death at the family’s once tranquil summer retreat.
Gaylord, has written three previous Allie Armington Mysteries: Anacacho, Xs, and Spa Deadly.
She has also written the novel, Julia Fairchild and a cookbook, Recipes from Camp Trillium.
She has been writing since 1989, she said, and her first works were short stories.
What inspired her to write the latest Allie Armington Mystery that is set in the Adirondacks?
“Well, actually it was Linda and Sarah Cohen who said to me, ‘You’ve been coming here for years. Don’t you think you ought to write something about it?'”
Consequently, “Dark Lake,” is dedicated to the Cohen sisters.
“But what initially intrigued me about writing the book was the passing of camps from generation to generation and what often happens in big families,” Gaylord said. “So I set the book in a family compound of four families, where the properties were supposed to go to the sons and not to the daughters.
“Allie’s Aunt Sallie gets the cottage, and what happens after that-well, that’s the story,” Gayord said. Continue reading