The Coreys Post Office ...
Tupper Lake Herald and Adirondack Mountain Press, February 28, 1929
The first air mail letter to reach this section of the Adirondacks, over the air route recently blazed by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, recently arrived at the Tupper Lake post office. It was then forwarded by star route to Corey's post office on Upper Saranac 11 miles, where it was received by the addressee, Archibald C. Petty, son of the Corey's post-master, W. Ellsworth Petty. The letter was mailed by the postmaster at Colon, Panama Canal Zone, and was postmarked in English and Spanish, via Havana and Miami bearing stamps of value as commemorating the great initial flight over this new route by 'Lindy.' The young recipient is a student at Saranac Lake public schools.
Ticonderoga Sentinel, March 11, 1943,
Rationing Hits Hermit Rondeau of Cold River
TUPPER LAKE — Noah John Rondeau, famed hermit of the Cold River country, crossed his fingers and headed for the Tupper Lake rationing board last week to find out how he could remain a hermit and still com- ply with the point rationing system.
Rationing had nothing to do with a hermit's life until last fall, when Rondeau discovered that the usual supply of sugar which his hunting friends brought in to him by arrangement each fall could not be obtained without Ration Book No. 1, which he didn't have. His friends and fellow members of the Adirondack Mountain Club and the "Forty Sixers' Club sent him enough from their own supplies to last until Christmas.
It has been the hermit's custom to come out of the woods over 18 miles of wilderness on snowshoes, just once a year, at Christmas time. He visited friends this year at Elizabethtown, Ausable Forks and Upper Saranac Lake, and answered the 80 to 100 letters which come into Corey's post-office and accumulate for him each year.
How to get Ration Books No. 1 and 2, and how to get around the time element of the coupon system so that he can hit the trail for his Cold River home with sufficient supplies to keep him there until next Christmas, is Rondeau's problem.
With a vegetable garden, gun and fishing tackle, the hermit manages to be almost self-sufficient, but sugar, coffee and other essentials that he can't grow, shoot or catch can't be obtained at Cold River.
