LOCALadk Magazine

W H O ' S W H O ERIC Eric Adsit can't cross a bridge without looking for a river beneath it. He calls Lake Placid home and spends as much time as possible on the rivers, trails, and mountains of the Adirondacks and beyond. When he's not helping with LOCALadk, he can usually be found with a camera in hand producing films and photos celebrating the outdoors and the communities found in the Adirondacks. RHIANNON Rhiannon Berry Adsit runs, bikes, swims, and writes whenever and wherever she can, gets unreasonably excited about beautiful trees, and has yet to meet a dog she didn't love. Born and raised in North Syracuse, NY, she seeks to instill hope, empathy, and kindness (along with vicarious fandom for Syracuse University basketball) in her high school English students and beyond. When she isn't writing, teaching, or playing outdoors, she loves to read, play music, and spend time with loved ones. LOCALadk CAROLYN Carolyn Walton is a wilderness expert, poet, storyteller, girls lacrosse coach for Saranac Lake Central School Dis- trict, and the president of High Peaks United, a Not-For-Profit which runs adult recreation sport leagues to create healthy connection through play. She resides in Saranac Lake and holds her space living here as a steward in high regard. She grew up in Syracuse, NY, received a public education, and graduated with a degree in Political Science from SUNY Cortland. ERIK Erik Schlimmer is the author of twelve books and is the dude behind Place Name Dude, a research endeavor that's historically decoding 1,000 Adirondack toponyms. As he likes to say, "Behind every name there's a story, and the story's usually pretty good." Find him at placenamedude.com. LARRY Larry Master is a conservation biologist, a zoologist, and, in his retirement, a conservation photographer living in Keene, NY. With a Ph.D. plus post-doctoral studies in biology from the University of Michigan, Master served for two decades as Chief Zoologist for The Nature Conservancy and for NatureServe, including starting several natural heritage programs and creating central zoological databases for the Natural Heritage Network, along with advanced methodologies for tracking, mapping, and assessing the conservation status of elements of biodiversity. SUZANNE Suzanne Schnittman wrote her Ph.D dissertation on a 1980s vintage computer, huddled next to a fireplace in the family Otter Lake Camp. Since then she has kept her home base in Rochester, New York, and acquired a larger camp on Fifth Lake, where she is writing a book about Inlet families. She lives next door to the Inlet Common School on Route 28, where she gets her fresh produce and writing inspiration.

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