Program Description
Event Details
Albany Public Library and The Adirondack Experience welcome author Tim Rowland who digs into the story of a 100-year-old unsolved Adirondack murder mystery. In 1924 two Lake Placid guides were hired by a local recreational association to cut a trail up Whiteface Mountain. It was a job from which they would never return. Hikers descending from the summit discovered the mutilated body of George Martin in the brush near the new trail, and his co-worker, Jesse Crowningshield, was later found riddled with bullets.
Speaker bio:
Tim Rowland is an author and outdoors writer whose work regularly appears in the Adirondack Explorer, Adirondack Life and Cato’s Regulation magazine. For 30 years he was a political and humor columnist for Herald-Mail Media in Hagerstown, Maryland, and before that covered state legislatures in Maryland and West Virginia. His books include High Peaks, a History of Adirondack Hiking From Noah to Neoprene, and Happy Lonesomes, a guide to remote Adirondack hikes. His book Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil
War was a New York Times bestseller. His weekly Substack essay As the World Burns can be found at timrowland.substack.com