An excerpt from “Spring Trout and Strawberry Pancakes”
Harold “Nitty” McNitt, like many other Adirondack camp owners, enjoyed living off the grid in a turn-of-the-20th-century Adirondack cottage complete with a canoe, a rowboat and a boat with a small outboard engine. He drew water from a spring, bucket by bucket, and used a bucksaw and sawhorse to work up wood for fuel. It was an idyllic mountain-spun life. Inspired by those pioneer years, his ancestors, and the elderly Atwell natives, he’d spent a lifetime learning about old-timey ways, backwoods cooking, common wisdom and tall tales.
