As Fix community for TB Mountain town holds onto its heritage
Tuberculosis set Saranac Lake up for life. Through the center of the twentieth century, feeble individuals looking for a “rest fix” leaned back on bungalow yards in the network to take in the fresh Adirondack Mountain air. Saranac Lake developed into a small scale city of medicinal consideration, with twelve trains chugging in and out day by day, an acclaimed mountainside tuberculosis sanitorium, inns — and three funeral directors. “It was a bustling place,” said 89-year-old Howard Riley, who worked more than seven decades ago as a “tray boy,” delivering…
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