Saratoga Living
Winter 2011/2012 Vol. 13, No. 4
features
Skiers line up to use the rope tow at Darrow’s Ski Tow on
Locust Grove Road, town of Greenfield, on February 13, 1944.
40 Trailblazers
Ski tracks across time in
Saratoga County
By Ron Farra
45 Chickadee
True story of a courageous girl
takes flight as a film.
By Stacey Morris
60 Married to
the Mob (part 2)
The Saratoga honeymoon is over.
By Maria McBride Bucciferro
On the Cover
A wintry Batcheller Mansion, Saratoga’s most
exotic Victorian, now a bed and breakfast, was
built in 1873 at the corner of Circular Street and
Whitney Place in Saratoga Springs.
Photo by Lawrence White
A rare photo of the elegant Brook casino, which Arnold Rothstein opened out Church Street
in Saratoga Springs in 1919. A unique centerpiece–a mini-track with an actual horse in the
infield–graced a black-tie dinner of the Saratoga Association on August 12, 1927. (Courtesy of the
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.)
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The Lip Dub crew films the folks in front of
Roohan Realty on Broadway in Saratoga Springs.
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departments
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PRODUCTION DESIGN
TOM STOCK
Lucille Millarson
MARKETING DIRECTOR
5 Icons & Artifacts
37 Winter Seen
Clif Mark
Post office mural beckons from
Sights from the Frosty Season
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a bygone Saratoga.
By Lawrence White
By Jeff Durstewitz
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7 Wide Angle
Collaborative Divorce: Focusing on the
Doug and Annie Haller: Two for the Town
positive when parents split up.
TECHNOLOGY ADVISOR
By Lawrence White
By Joan Fox Rose
Chris Pascucci
MEDIA ADVISOR
8 Scene & Heard
50 Making a Difference
Ralph Pascucci
Dickens Festival, Yaddo, and the Lip Dub
Restored Spring Street school fosters
media@saratogaliving.com
By Maria McBride Bucciferro
memories, builds community
PROOFREADER
By Kirsten Ferguson
Kathleen Lippiello
16 Questions & Answers
Susan Farnsworth: Behind the Streetwalk
54 Shopping
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
and so much more
A Local Holiday Gift Guide
Laura Rappaport, Mike Kane
By Vera Kasson
By Leah Margolis
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Jeff Durstewitz, Ron Farra, Kirsten Ferguson,
Vera Kasson, Wendy Liberatore, Leah Margolis,
18 Essential Events
64 Road Trip
Cira Masters, Stacey Morris, Joan Fox Rose,
Snowflakes, Song, and Silver Bells
Fly south to sunny Saratoga Springs!
Lawrence White, Jon Wurtmann
By Jon Wurtmann
By Vera Kasson
CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
22 The Arts
Lawrence White
68 Subscription and Gift Forms for
Winter theater warms the soul.
Saratoga Living
CONTRIBUTING
By Wendy Liberatore
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Antonio Bucca, Leah Margolis,
80 Last Look
Terri-Lynn Pellegri, Randall Perry, Tom Stock
27 Dining
Photograph by Lawrence White
Max London’s makes its mark
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72 A Century of Service
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Twelve Saratoga businesses
that have endured.
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