Rooted in Rock: New Adirondack Writing, 1975-2000 Book

	Foreword
	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction: The Case for a True Adirondack Literature
	Day Trip	1
	The Osgood River	5
	Excerpt, Mitchell Stephens, Esquire	8
	Excerpt, Cloudsplitter	15
	Adirondack Smithsonian	21
	The Last Stand	24
	Adali Wassak	25
	Carving	27
	Into the Cedar River	28
	Coming Down from Hurricane Mountain	29
	Fitting the Ground to Plant	30
	The Future of Adirondack Guiding	39
	Cyber Woods and Virtual Mountains	42
	A Century Wild	46
	The 1812 Homestead	52
	The Saranac River	56
	Adirondack Sounds	58
	Shadow Limb	59
	Adirondacks, Easter Sunday	61
	Cassie Pickett's Molasses Cookies	62
	In and Out	63
	When the Weather Turned Around	64
	She Starts from sleep in Winter	65
	Night Skiing	66
	Standing in a Canoe	66
	Islands in the Sky	67
	Why We Bagged It	71
	The Vanishing Cure Cottage	78
	Tyson's	82
	The Proving Grounds	90
	Birds	93
	Transit	93
	The Night Rockwell Kent Showed Me His Etchings	94
	Jewish Peddlers	96
	The Wolf at the Door	101
	A Letter to My Father in Winter	105
	Great Blue	109
	The Place of the Solitaries	114
	Solo	120
	Civic Literacy: The Johnsburg Library	127
	A Bacillus Grows in the Adirondacks	130
	All Aboard	136
	The Seven Months of Winter	139
	American Adam	143
	Pen and Paddle	151
	Preface, from An Adirondack Passage	158
	Excerpt, Old Forge to Inlet	163
	Rite of Passage: Why the Salamanders Cross the Road	171
	An Adirondack Wilderness: The West Canada Lakes	175
	Preface, from Is Summer This Bear	182
	Listening for the Elders	183
	Archeologist	184
	Walking Woods with Dogs: After a Snow Fall	185
	Garden	188
	A New Blueprint for Adirondack Towns	189
	The Man Who Would Be King	192
	Opening Camp	203
	Like a Kestrel	205
	Ninety Miles into the Adirondacks	212
	Deeper Twilight Still	218
	Save the Black Flies, Sort Of	222
	Home	230
	Home Again	236
	Forty-Six - But Who's Counting?	239
	It's Not a Model; It's a Mess	242
	How It Starts	253
	Reuben Sanford and John Richards, Surveyors, Make Their Report, October 1827	254
	I Do Not Know What I Did Do	256
	Around Here	263
	Glistening Slug on a Mountain Road	267
	Water	268
	Waking Alone in Winter, 5 A.M.	269
	Diners, Drugstores, and Dives	270
	Twenty-Five Years to Life	273
	How Cold Was It Last Night?	281
	The Old Log Cabin	286
	A Day in the Wilderness with Zahnie	288
	The Plantations	291
	Preface, from Adirondack Explorations: Nature Writings of Verplanck Colvin	293
	Empty at the Heart of the World	300
	Camp Life	318
	The Real Adirondacks	336
	A Girl in Winter	347
	You Hear Loons Calling	351
	Lone Watch in a Gold-Fobbed Forest	363
	What Should You Do When You See a Bear?	373
	Snowfleas	381
	Early Autumn in Keene Valley	389
	White-Throated Sparrow	390
	Fisher	390
	Tea	391
	What's So Funny?	392
	A Crisis Looms	397
	Kerosene	409
	Snow	410
	Visitors	411
	Walking Meditation	411
	Ghost Birches	412
	The Pools	414
	Bear on Scale	416
	Early Bear Season	418
	The Adirondack Painters	421
	When It's Carrion Time in the Adirondacks	425
	Two Existentialists	426
	Acknowledgments	429