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    The lean-to fellowship

    Dec 28, 2019 4 minutes
    By Tracy Ormsbee

    TRAILBLAZER: HILARY MOYNIHAN

    One hundred yards from the 221-year-old farmhouse Hilary Moynihan is renovating in Saratoga Springs is a structure common in the Adirondacks, but less so outside this Victorian city known for horse racing and mineral baths: the humble lean-to.

    It was built for Moynihan by friends she has made through her work as volunteer coordinator of the Adirondack Mountain Club’s Adopt a Lean-to program. She asked people she has come to know through the Adirondack Lean2Rescue and friends John Willis and Wayne McCormick to help her build one and they said, “How quickly can we build it for you?”

    “That’s the type of guys they are,” Moynihan says. “I was just floored. Such

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