Log and Timber Home Living

Rooted in Tradition

hen Larry Brown was growing up, he spent summers bunking at a tiny cabin on the banks of Lake George in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. The area is known as the “birthplace of the American vacation” — and for good reason. Larry recalls weeks of pure magic, an endless blur of boating, swimming and fishing. “We would move up there on Memorial Day and not come home until Labor Day,” he says. In the hopes of reliving

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