Day 22-
With Pipe and Book-Lake Placid NY
One of my favorite life long memories is going to Lake Placid as a family. We tried to go every year at least once and fall was our favorite season to go. The air was crisp and fresh and invigorating. The perfect season for a hike or to read a good book. We would spend our days exploring and visiting places like Santa's Workshop and quaint little towns like Keene and Keene Valley, Jay, Ray Brook and climbing White Face Mountain. The area is so rich in history and beauty you can go there every year and still find new things to discover each time. At night we would walk the town of Lake Placid, have dinner at our favorite restaurants and enter our favorite book store "With Pipe and Book".
The minute you walk in the door the smell hit your nose. Cherry, rum, bourbon whiskey and maybe even cavendish?, the very smells I remember all to well from my father's pipe tobacco. Memories, that stay with you for a lifetime. Ahhh...
With Pipe and Book was full to the top of each of it's shelves with the most wonderful antique books, the best collection that I had ever seen. The scent that came from the old leather bound books is etched in my memory. They had a wonderful collection of local maps as well, road maps, camp maps and everything in between. I really enjoyed sitting in one of the leather wing backed chairs reading about Teddy Roosevelt and his midnight ride to the presidency. He traveled from the ADK to Buffalo to be sworn in after the assassination of William McKinley. He was sworn in at the library of the Wilcox Mansion with only 40 people in attendance. No photos exist of the occasion. Roosevelt was the first president to find conservation of our resources to be an important goal. He is our son Ethan's favorite president.
We spent many hours in the book store, learning and sharing each treasure found there with our children. Everyone walked away with some sort of treasure from the day usually in the form of a book or a trinket souvenir. Sadly the book store closed it's doors in 2006. It was an old school store that carried a specific arcane genre of books, a place that you never walkout of empty handed. They had everything from the affordable to rare and expensive, cigars and the cigar boxes, pipes and posters. The old wooden floors creaked as you moved from book shelf to book shelf as high as the ceilings searching for that special treasure.
One of the North country's landmarks, closed after 29 years. The village of Lake Placid has never felt the same since it's closing. A sad day for anyone that had the privilege of knowing this magic place and great memory for all of us to keep.
Until Tomorrow-Be Safe
" Those who don't believe in magic will never find it"........Ronald Dahl
With Pipe and Book-Lake Placid NY
One of my favorite life long memories is going to Lake Placid as a family. We tried to go every year at least once and fall was our favorite season to go. The air was crisp and fresh and invigorating. The perfect season for a hike or to read a good book. We would spend our days exploring and visiting places like Santa's Workshop and quaint little towns like Keene and Keene Valley, Jay, Ray Brook and climbing White Face Mountain. The area is so rich in history and beauty you can go there every year and still find new things to discover each time. At night we would walk the town of Lake Placid, have dinner at our favorite restaurants and enter our favorite book store "With Pipe and Book".
The minute you walk in the door the smell hit your nose. Cherry, rum, bourbon whiskey and maybe even cavendish?, the very smells I remember all to well from my father's pipe tobacco. Memories, that stay with you for a lifetime. Ahhh...
With Pipe and Book was full to the top of each of it's shelves with the most wonderful antique books, the best collection that I had ever seen. The scent that came from the old leather bound books is etched in my memory. They had a wonderful collection of local maps as well, road maps, camp maps and everything in between. I really enjoyed sitting in one of the leather wing backed chairs reading about Teddy Roosevelt and his midnight ride to the presidency. He traveled from the ADK to Buffalo to be sworn in after the assassination of William McKinley. He was sworn in at the library of the Wilcox Mansion with only 40 people in attendance. No photos exist of the occasion. Roosevelt was the first president to find conservation of our resources to be an important goal. He is our son Ethan's favorite president.
We spent many hours in the book store, learning and sharing each treasure found there with our children. Everyone walked away with some sort of treasure from the day usually in the form of a book or a trinket souvenir. Sadly the book store closed it's doors in 2006. It was an old school store that carried a specific arcane genre of books, a place that you never walkout of empty handed. They had everything from the affordable to rare and expensive, cigars and the cigar boxes, pipes and posters. The old wooden floors creaked as you moved from book shelf to book shelf as high as the ceilings searching for that special treasure.
One of the North country's landmarks, closed after 29 years. The village of Lake Placid has never felt the same since it's closing. A sad day for anyone that had the privilege of knowing this magic place and great memory for all of us to keep.
Until Tomorrow-Be Safe
" Those who don't believe in magic will never find it"........Ronald Dahl
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