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...Saranac is another parking lot. More buses go to Saranac than to Marcy. Buses are a big thing in Lake Placid...
...there are very few people who couldn't care less, except for the press, of course. "ABC tried to get a group of us to turn over a car for their television camera," a young woman from New Jersey announces to the Marcy and Saranac lines. "But we wouldn't do it." Applause and cheers. Lake Placid is actually a big love-in; everyone is in a good mood, slowly freezing to death smiling like Cheshire cats. And in perspective waiting in line is okay because you get to meet people and talk about the lines and the games...
After congratulating the athletes, the spectators quickly form three lines outside, and when the wait gets long enough, Saranac and Marcy and Whiteface start talking to each other. Then they start singing together. By the time the Saranac bus pulls in, the three lines are belting out "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in rounds. Near the back of the lines, students are staging the Official Pretzel Tossing Contest...
...Walker Percy graduated from the College of Physicians at Columbia, and as an intern caught pulmonary tuberculosis from one of the many bodies on which he performed autopsies. America was just entering the war. While waiting to be admitted to the famous Trudeau sanitarium in Saranac Lake, Percy lived in a boarding house, all alone, reading and beginning to write. He says now, 'TB liberated...
...1650s, when the first Trudeaus moved from France to Montreal. One branch of the family stayed in Canada (and eventually produced Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau); another moved south, eventually to New York City, where Garry was born in 1948. When he was five, his family moved upstate to Saranac Lake; there his father, Francis, 56, still practices medicine. Garry and Sisters Michelle, now 24, and Jeanne, now 31, enjoyed a crystalline childhood in that fashionable vacation area. "It was a real Christopher Robin existence," Trudeau has recalled. "I was well schooled in fantasy and Beatrix Potter...