Glens Falls Chronicle Serving the Glens Falls/Lake George region; Warren, Washington and northern Saratoga counties since 1980
By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
I am very excited to announce the imminent publication of The Chronicle Reader, the first-ever Chronicle book. By that I mean, this book isn’t my book, as PermaFrost was in 1986, or my wife Sandra Hutchinson’s book, as Jumping Off Cliffs was in 2007.
This book, “The Year’s Best from The Chronicle weekly newspaper in Glens Falls, New York, 2013-2014,” is 284 pages comprising the work of more than a dozen writers and photographers plus selected letters to the editor.
It contains well more than a hundred pieces. I invite you to check it out. I think it showcases this region and its people as well as our newspaper and our staff and freelancers. My hope is that you’ll buy it, give it, read it, think it’s great! It’s a paperback priced at $20.
Our motto being “Locally Owned, Locally Committed,” the book will be printed on Finch Paper. It’s being printed by Glens Falls Printing, whose Bob Beyerbach thankfully put us on an unbelievable fast track.
We didn’t provide the perfected page files until Monday morning of this week. Later that morning I wrote the words for the cover. Monday afternoon, Jennie at Glens Falls Printing called to ask: Don’t you want some art on the cover? Within an hour Gabrielle Katz on our production crew — who did all the graphic and tech aspects of the book; it could not have happened without her — executed the cover, incorporating a photo that I took in August from the top of Hadley Mountain.
Tuesday, because it turned out we had three available blank pages, I added two more chapters.
Assembling The Chronicle Reader has been a frantic challenge, and so many members of our staff stepped up to take weight off me so I could keep the book project as my overriding priority.
As you can see from the 56-page Chronicle you’re holding in your hands, we’re busy right now just doing the newspaper. Adding a book to the “to do” list made for some marathon nights and weekends.
It brought to mind what a nephew of the legendary folk painter Grandma Moses told me in the Washington County Town of Hebron nearly 40 years ago. If memory serves, his name was Wilfred Robertson. He said that when his aunt urged him to paint, too, he told her, “I don’t have time,” to which Grandma Moses replied: “You make time.”
For several reasons that I explain in the book’s preface, this was the moment that I felt compelled to make time, finally, to edit and compile The Chronicle Reader.
It will debut at our Glens Falls Chronicle Book Fair on Sunday, Nov. 2, from 11 to 4 at the Queensbury Hotel. Come see us — and all the other authors and book sellers, including golf great Dottie Pepper, Lake George Mayor Bob Blais and perennial fave Carl Heilman.
Full Book Fair details in this week’s Chronicle.
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