fiction
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THE DOCTOR WHO STOPPED THE CHATEAUGAY RIVER
A doctor stops a duel, then faces an opponent that ignores medical orders entirely: a spring…
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The Chateaugay Home Trade Improvement Society
A newspaper maxim meant to encourage contentment becomes an ingenious retail system once local merchants decide…
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THE PANTHER’S SECRET
A childhood account from Lower Chateaugay Lake follows one hunter, one hidden mine, and a panther…
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The Hotel That Lacked Nothing
A traveling show needs one best hotel. Chateaugay offers two, and the attempt to rank them…
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MINIMUM SAFE WITHDRAWAL
Any fool can scare a raccoon once; trouble begins when the raccoon starts taking notes and…
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THE BARBER DISCUSSES POLITICS WITH A RAZOR IN HAND
A nine-cent prisoner contract, one-dollar roads, and free county hanging leave Fort Covington officials chasing paperwork,…
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Gitaskog: The Myth of Chateaugay Lake’s Horned Serpent
The Gazette finds autumn splendid, roads advisable, and Gitaskog unusually persuasive whenever Chateaugay Lake begins calling…
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Dark Wings Over Brainardsville
Mordecai Vilecreek calls them Kleptoparati, old sky-robbers who do not hunt supper so much as audit…
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The Lickwari Beneath W Mountain
Beneath W Mountain, a black-stone city waits, where Lickwari critics judge sunsets, skiffs, and careless Chateaugay…
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Three Strokes at Banner House
A sober visitor studies Banner House history, then learns the oldest guestbook may not be kept…
