This photograph originally appeared in the December/January 2019 issue of Pacific Standard. Join our premium program to help support independent journalism in the public interest.
Letter From Pawling, New York: An Afternoon at Nuclear Lake
A secluded, Edenic lake just a mile off the Appalachian Trail was once the site of a fight in which locals tried hard to keep people away from what they believed to be an environmental menace. Were they right to?