Through the Light Hole: A Saga of Adirondack Mines and Men, by Patrick F. Farrell Anyone who has lived in or spent any considerable time exploring the Adirondacks is apt to have at least a passing familiarity with the mining history of the region. From the margins of the mountains at Ironville, Mineville, or Lyon Mountain to the Tahawus and Adirondack in the High Peak region, the impact on the landscape and culture is very apparent. It is hard to enter the Adirondacks from some directions without having the history stare you in the face, for example when you are crossing the bridge from Vermont to Crown Point and can see the looming slag piles on the hills of Mineville and Witherbee. Old buildings at Adirondack Mining is not one of the first associations many people have of the region, and books such as this go a long way toward making the public record a bit more accessible. There is no shortage of books, museums and local knowledge, to be sure, but this well researched and presented work does a very good job of not only synopsizing and cataloguing the material, but also of giving it some wider historical context. His ...