The name Northville, New York, says much about its character. Sitting at the tip of the northwest spear of Great Sacandaga Lake inside Adirondack Park, Northville forms a tiny nodule in a sea of ...

Wells spent a lifetime working in 5&10s. He began at a chain called D&C, which once had 53 stores in Michigan alone, but which now doesn’t exist. Then Bur-lers Variety, another local dime store ...