My life changed when I bought it,” says Roger Jakubowski.
The “it” he’s referring to is Camp Topridge, on Upper St. Regis Lake near Paul Smiths. And more than 30 years later there’s still plenty to say about that, like how a hardworking hot-dog vendor rose from the Atlantic City Boardwalk to the soaring great room of General Foods founder Marjorie Merriweather Post’s summer estate.
For years I’d been trying to get Roger to tell me—on the record—about his Adirondack life, about what it was like to own Topridge, one of the most iconic Great Camps. I’d visit him at Ledge Rock, in Wilmington, the motel he runs and where he
