I was recently invited to go on an overnight backpacking and fishing trip to the Siamese Ponds area, one of the largest wilderness areas in the Adirondack Park. I haven’t walked with a pack on my back or spent a night curled up in a sleeping bag in a pup tent and cooked my meals over an open fire in years.

Maybe the only reason Graham Parker getting back together with the Rumour seemed any more likely than a Beatles reunion is that several Beatles are deceased. And, yet — Graham Parker re-teams-up with the Rumour on Wednesday at The Egg.

For years, bricks-and-mortar retailers have groused about the unfair advantage their e-commerce brethren had in pricing, particularly when it came time to tally the bill and pay the sales tax. But that’s about to change.

At this time of the year last year, temperatures had already hit the 70s and it felt like spring had sprung. This year is quite different. We celebrated the first day of spring with a fresh blanket of snow. But sooner or later spring will arrive, and one of her most delightful harbingers will be the pussy willow.

Upstate New York in the spring of 1913 was on the fringe of what they didn’t yet call a “superstorm.”

March and April were the months for the annual Sportsmen’s Shows put on by the Amsterdam Fish and Game League from the 1930s into the 1950s.

Believe it or not, a Capital Region quintet still owns the greatest team performance in USBC Championship history. In 1993 in Tulsa, Okla., when this prestigious tournament was still called the ABC Championship, Kenny Hall, Mark Hilton, Hugo McGroty, Ron Priester and Dave Wolfe knocked down 3,537 pins to set the tournament record that still stands.

For decades, northeast outdoorsmen and women have been plagued by an seasonal epidemic illness known as “cabin fever.” It usually begins to fester not long after the New York state big-game season ends and continues to rise for several months. Those who walk on water also get it, but less severely. Research has not been able to find a vaccine or medic­ation, but it does have a very strange remedy, especially for anglers.

When Bopitude postponed its Van Dyck show after the storm on Feb. 8 to this Saturday, it seemed like a safe bet. And the forecast seems strong for two shows of post-bop jazz.

When the principals behind the Healthy Living Market and Cafe decided to open a second site just outside Saratoga Springs, they wanted to replicate the look and feel of the original store in South Burlington, Vt.
That meant big windows and earthen tones, bins for bulk coffee and trail mix, a butcher shop with hormone-free beef and poultry, and a well-stocked cheese department. And “we knew we wanted to have wine,” said Eli Lesser-Goldsmith, general manager and co-owner of the family business, a natural foods grocery founded by his mother, Katy Lesser, in 1986.

The male hooded merganser is arguably among the most beautiful of our birds. Like the northern pintail, the hooded merganser has a costume that is almost monochromatic, but ducks have a flair for beauty and elegance.

Born about 1735 to Christian Mohawk parents in the western Mohawk Valley, Molly Brant’s life of influence began in 1759 when she became the consort of British Indian agent William Johnson.

Edward “Ned” Rooney will be retiring March 29 after 13 years as chief deputy, third in command under the sheriff and undersheriff.

Dave Adams is bowling like a kid again. The 62-year-old left-hander is having a banner season, and he’s rolling the ball like he was 30 years ago. For the second time in his career, he tossed back-to-back 300 games last week, and now has five perfect games this year alone. He’s lost track of just how many 300s he has, but he estimates he’s got about 55.

Pond skimming is a rite of spring. The ski area creates a large puddle, usually close to the base lodge, and intrepid skiers and boarders — often in body paint, maybe in costume, and sometimes in no more than a pair of shorts — come down the hill and try to make it across the water. Most don’t and the dunking (and post-dunking) is part of this spring ritual at many areas.