Adirondack Characters

Kasch is a lonely eccentric man in his forties who has survived a bitterly disappointing marriage only to fall in love, against his will, with a fourteen-year-old named Laney. An inhabitant of a distant, improverished region, Childwold, Laney embodies all that Kasch finds fatally irresistible. As Kasch succumbs to the beauty and mystery of Childwold and Laney's family, his control over his destiny loosens and he is plunged into personal catastrophe, even as Laney and her family are freed.

Frontier life in northern New York State in the first decade of the 19th century.

A doctor in a small town in the Adirondacks befriends a surreptitious wealthy newcomer and finds mystery and romance in his wake.

Fictional letters sent from an old Adirondack man from "Pea Soup Lake" about his life and memories.

The story of a woman who was rumored to have killed her husband in a small Adirondack village.

Mystery involving John Norton the Trapper and some unsavory characters he encounters at a camp.

v. 1. The story of the man who didn't know much.--v. 2. The story of the man who missed it; The story that the keg told me; Who were they?--v. 3. Mamelons and ungava, with supplementary notes.--v. 4. Stories of description and humor.--v. 5. Sermons, lectures and addresses. Variety of stories about life in the Adirondacks