Frances and Steve Waltien To-day my thoughts wandered back to our evening together out on Smith s road on Saturday and I thought of holding you close to me and I could actually hear and feel you breathing. But I don t know what comes of all this thinking except pleasant memories of the past and a grim realization of the circumstances of the present. Excerpt from a letter to Frances O Brien from Steve Waltien, October 21, 1930, Saranac Lake, N.Y. Ali Waltien didn t expect much when she read the email s subject line: Grandparent Letters. A child life specialist at the University of Vermont Medical Center, she routinely coached her clients and their families through end-of-life work, including helping terminally ill patients write letters to loved ones.
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SARANAC LAKE â The Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Committee has released two different buttons for this yearâs Carnival, designed as always by Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau.
Using the Winter Carnivalâs designated theme âMask-eradeâ â although the button spells it the standard way, âMasqueradeâ â Trudeauâs illustrations show six Doonesbury characters, three on each button, wearing a variety of masks.
Mike Doonesburyâs mask features pine cones, BDâs has a skier, Boopsieâs has a bunny, Joanieâs has Hudson Bay blanket colors (green, red, yellow and indigo on a white background), Uncle Dukeâs has a hole for his cigarette holder, and Zonker wears a snowflake mask over his eyes.
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No two individuals did more to put this village on the map than Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau and Robert Louis Stevenson. The appearance of the latter’s letter in the New York Evening Post in March 1888 had put the world on notice that a new, improved and affordable fountain of “Juventus” was in the making at the upper reaches of a river valley somewhere in the mountains of the American Northeast. It was the place RLS called his “little Switzerland in the Adirondacks,” the town four generations of lungers would call Saranac Lake. Just like the health resorts in Europe, Dr. Trudeau’s open-air experiment here drew an international clientele. How much influence Stevenson’s letter to the Post contributed to that success is incalculable, but there was probably no better source of free publicity for Trudeau’s efforts than this expert on TB resorts, who was also the most popular writer of his time. Out of all the doctor’s pat
amy@historicsaranaclake.org This statue of Dr. E.L. Trudeau was made by Gutzon Borglum.
(Postcard provided by Historic Saranac Lake) Dr. Francis Berger Trudeau treats a patient. (Photo provided by Historic Saranac Lake) Dr. Frank B. Trudeau opens the doors of the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake for the first time in 1964. (Photo provided by Historic Saranac Lake) The Saranac Laboratory on Church Street was established by Dr. E.L. Trudeau. (Postcard provided by Historic Saranac Lake) St. John’s in the Wilderness Cemetery in Paul Smiths (Photo provided by Historic Saranac Lake)
St. John s in the Wilderness Cemetery in Paul Smiths (Photo provided by Historic Saranac Lake)
One of two 2021 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival burrons, designed by Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau
One of two 2021 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival burrons, designed by Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau SARANAC LAKE The Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Committee has released two different buttons for this year’s Carnival, designed as always by Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau. Using the Winter Carnival’s designated theme “Mask-erade” although the button spells it the standard way, “Masquerade” Trudeau’s illustrations shows six different Doonesbury characters, three on each button, wearing a variety of masks. Mike Doonesury’s has pine cones, BD’s has a skier, Boopsie’s has a bunny, Joanie’s has Hudson Bay blanket colors (green, red, yellow and indigo on a white background), Uncle Duke’s has a hole for his cigarette holder, and Zonker wears a snowflake mask over his eyes instead.