A Northern Light(91)

Jerold Pepper, director of the Adirondack Museum's library, allowed me access to a transcript of the Gillette murder trial and much else, including the diaries of Lucilla Arvilla Mills Clark—a Cranberry Lake farm wife—and ephemera from the great camps. The museum's exhibits provided me with information on logging and transportation. The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York, gave me valuable insight into earlier methods of farming and animal husbandry. I am obliged to the staff at both of these excellent museums. They could not have been more helpful, or more patient, with my endless questions.

I am also indebted to Peg Masters, Town of Webb historian and former director of the Town of Webb Historical Association, for allowing me to view the associations collection of photographs as well as its census and tax records. She also provided information on early Inlet businesses and the Inlet Common School. I would also like to thank the librarians at the Port Leyden Community Library, who gave me extended loans of out-of-print Adirondack titles.

My thanks, too, to Nancy Martin Pratt and her family for keeping the beautiful Waldheim just as it always was, and to the staff of the current Glenmore (originally the Glenmore store, now a pub) for letting me prowl the premises and play with their very own "Hamlet."

A very heartfelt thank-you goes to my mother, Wilfriede Donnelly, for introducing me to Grace Brown; my father, Matt Donnelly, for lessons in botany and the fine art of bug roping; my grandmother, Mary Donnelly, for telling me stories about her lumberjack father and her waitressing days at the Waldheim; and my uncle, Jack Bennett, for having more stories about the woods than the woods has trees. Lastly, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Steven Malk, my agent; Michael Stearns, my editor; and Doug Dundas, my husband, for their unstinting encouragement, wisdom, and guidance.