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    Trailblazer

    Aug 26, 2020 5 minutes
    By Tracy Ormsbee

    For the first time in 30 years, the iconic dinner cruise ship W.W. Durant is sitting uncharacteristically quiet at the dock in Raquette Lake in the height of the summer season, due to COVID-19. No steaks are grilling. No stories of Adirondack history are being told at a stop in front of Camp Pine Knot, the first great camp in the Adirondacks built by the ship’s namesake William West Durant. The horn isn’t sounding for kids on their docks. And the ship’s only captain, Dean Pohl, is finding other ways to fill the seven days of the week he would have been piloting the boat and introducing passengers to the Adirondack experience.

    For many, a trip on the dinner cruise on the Adirondacks’ largest natural lake, with stories narrated by Pohl, is their first such introduction. And for Pohl, this is life—from Memorial Day

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