Table Talk: The Diamond Point Grille
I love the friendly little hamlets that make up our region. Driving through Bakers Mills, Wevertown, Cleverdale and Sunnyside evokes memories of old. A church, a country store, perhaps a firehouse...
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Rich and Diane Hyman spent fifteen years looking throughout the United States and Canada for the perfect place to build a home. “We wanted easy access to an airport, and to arts and culture; we knew we...
View ArticleThe Return of the Sound Interclub
Led by Lake George’s John Kelly and Reuben Smith of Hall’s Boat Corp., the Mystic Seaport maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, is documenting a once-famous class of sail boat that has slipped into...
View ArticleThe Lake George Club Centennial
This is the year when many historic anniversary celebrations converge—the 400th for the explorations of Champlain and Hudson which bracket our region, the 250th for General Jeffery Amherst’s successful...
View ArticleYankee Boating Center Welcomes Hornet, First New Boat Company to Come to Lake...
Once there was the Donzi classic. Now there’s the Hornet 17. Hornet Marine, a new company based in Bristol, Connecticut, is manufacturing the 1960s era-inspired speedboat, and Yankee Boating Center has...
View ArticleSweet Temptations of Loudonville Opens New Location In Diamond Point
Sweet Temptations, the cake emporium that’s become a Loudonville fixture since it opened in 2010, has expanded to Lake George. Naturally, says Nina Crisafulli, who helped start the business with her...
View ArticleDavid Lloyd, Lake George Opera Festival Visionary, Dies at 92
David Lloyd, a founding director of the Lake George Opera Festival (now known as Opera Saratoga) died at the age of 93 on February 8 in New York City. A tenor who became famous for his roles in works...
View ArticleA Passion for Racing
Gold Cups Races and Sailing Regattas at the Lake George Club The origin of The Lake George Club is intimately tied to boating and the need for waterfront to dock and race power boats. Its precursor,...
View ArticleArtists of Lake George: Haskell Coffin
In 1917, Russell C. Leffingwell, a young lawyer who was serving as assistant secretaty of the treasury, commissioned a series of posters by well-known American illustrators to promote the sale of war...
View ArticleGo Glamping!
Diamond Point Couple Making a New Life with a New adirondack Business People come to the Adirondacks for the woods, the waters, the mountains. Some have come for their health, others to make their...
View ArticleNew Owners for Diamond Point Grille
There can’t be much that Jesse Foy doesn’t know about restaurants. He’s cooked, waited, hosted and tended bar. He’s managed restaurants in New York and Bolton Landing. His three small sons took their...
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