True Crime of the Adirondacks

Albany Public Library and The Adirondack Experience welcome author Tim Rowland who digs into the story of a 100-year-old unsolved Adirondack murder mystery. In 1924 two Lake Placid guides were hired by a local recreational association to cut a trail up Whiteface Mountain. It was a job from which they would never return. Hikers descending from the summit discovered the mutilated body of George Martin in the brush near the new trail, and his co-worker, Jesse Crowningshield, was later found riddled with bullets.

Tim Rowland is an author and outdoors writer whose work regularly appears in the Adirondack Explorer, Adirondack Life and Cato’s Regulation magazine. For 30 years he was a political and humor columnist for Herald-Mail Media in Hagerstown, Maryland, and before that covered state legislatures in Maryland and West Virginia. His books include High Peaks, a History of Adirondack Hiking From Noah to Neoprene, and Happy Lonesomes, a guide to remote Adirondack hikes. His book Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War was a New York Times bestseller. His weekly Substack essay As the World Burns can be found at timrowland.substack.com