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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Robert Lawrence, a retired teacher on Adirondack place names
Description: Robert C. Lawrence and his wife, Carol Ann, were kayaking on an Adirondack lake, watching some loons, when she asked him how the mountain looming over them, Blue Mountain, got its name.Lawrence thought he’d buy a book on Adirondack place names at the Blue Mountain Museum to answer the question. But there was no such book.So he wrote one.He and his wife, both retired teachers, operate as a team, Lawrence says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “We just enjoy life,” he said — traveling cross-country in their camper, gardening, playing wi...