From 2000 until 2006, Lee Manchester was a feature writer and general assignment reporter for the Lake Placid (N.Y.) News. In 2004, Adirondack Architectural Heritage gave Lee its special recognition award for raising public awareness of regional preservation issues. Lee’s award-winning work can be found in two volumes: “Adventures in the New Wilderness,” and “Adirondack Heritage: Travels Through Time in New York’s North Country.” In 2008, Lee won the first Special Appreciation Award ever given at the Adirondack Literary Awards program for his efforts to preserve Mary MacKenzie’s research in “The Plains of Abraham: A History of Lake Placid and North Elba.” Lee has also edited a two-part definitive anthology of 19th and 20th century literature and research on the Tahawus Historic District — also known as “the Deserted Village” — in Newcomb township, Essex County, N.Y. Lee currently works in media relations at Wagner College. Email him at [email protected]