All Points North - Navigating the North Country

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Discovering the North Country's Rich History

A Miracle Reborn

Amidst the political and military tension of a nearly half-century Cold War was a town called Lake Placid, lost in the euphoria of a global competition: the Olympics. Though the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., brought the political rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the forefront, it was from the stories from the best skater in the world, to a group of skaters that performed miracles on ice that captivated a nation.
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On August 23, 1853 Rev. Jean-Pierre Bernard came to Plattsburgh with nine dollars in his robe and a plan to create a catholic church for the French speaking residents of the North Country. Rev. Bernard had been chosen two days prior by Rev. J.P. Santoni, Provincial of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, to create the church that would become St. Peters. Read More

The mission began with a note. Just a note, a young teenager’s quiet musings. On a piece of paper ripped from a notebook, a 14-year-old Wisconsin boy scrawled two lifelong goals. One was to become a doctor, an orthopedic surgeon like his father. The other was to become an Olympic speedskater. Lofty ambitions, the kind of stuff that’s usually dismissed as the pipe dreams of an impetuous youth. Read More

In 1955, Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim, C.A., a park themed to entertain families in a fun nature. Before creating the legendary park, however, Disney visited a small park in Wilmington, N.Y. called Santa’s Workshop to get ideas for Mickey’s new home. Though Disney took his ideas into a global phenomenon, the Adirondacks are full of small parks that have grown, and evolved over time. Read More