Adirondack Life

Windy Baker

’m never called by my real name. As far as the government knows it’s Wendell. I was born on a real windy night in Thurman, and I’ve been Windy ever since,” says 75-year-old Windy Baker, who lives in Indian Lake at the top of North River Hill in a house he built from scratch. There’s a big garden along the road, a board-and-batten shed crowned with a turban ventilator that spins in the breeze, a workshop with lumber stacked on most flat surfaces,

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