“Like painted kites those days and nights went sailing by. The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky.” (The Summer Wind). Have you been enjoying the summer? Don’t let it slip away without doing the special things you thought about for months? Make the most of it and enjoy an upstate NY summer, whether […]
Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve
Paul Schaefer is seen at his Adirondack camp in fall 1995.
(Provided photo â Dave Gibson)
Adirondack wilderness champion, conservationist, author, filmmaker and hunter/fisher Paul Schaefer (1908-1996) was a pied piper for young people in search of a cause, just as John Apperson and Bob Marshall had been for him when Schaefer was in his early 20s. During the 1980s and ’90s, Paul was in his eighth decade of life, and scouts, teens and Earth activists of all ages found a way to Paul’s doorstep in search of wisdom and to gain a sense of Adirondack history and current direction.