Adirondack Life

A STRANGER STORY

ON AN EARLY FALL EVENING an actor with Our Town Theatre Group needed a cup of tea before rehearsal at North Creek’s Tannery Pond Community Center. So she drove the mile and a half to Stewart’s convenience store, where, as she searched for a pot of hot water, she overheard a woman firing questions at two teenage boys sitting in one of the booths.

The woman asked them the name of the town, its population, what kind of police protection was available, how many kids

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