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Margaret Conrad passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Goshen News on 2024-05-29.

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Saranac Connection Robert Louis Stevenson at Baker’s with cigarette and skates — a diorama by Dwight Franklin. “Walking over the fields, with a stick in his hand and his skates thrown over his shoulders, he looked and seemed his happiest.” — Bertha Baker, Saranac Lake Behind glass in Robert Louis Stevenson’s former study at Baker’s in Saranac Lake lies a pair of very old and worn ice skates, the very ones used by the author of “The Master of...

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Saranac Connection The Episcopal Church of St. Luke the Beloved Physician is seen soon after its completion in 1879. At far left is the Cooper residence, where Robert Louis Stevenson met Mrs. “Libby” Custer. (Provided photo) Mrs. Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson, or “Maggie,” was the daughter of a high-ranking official in the Scottish Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Dr. Lewis Balfour. Consequently, churchgoing was in Maggie’s blood, and in 1887, t...