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Capital Region restaurants that closed in 2020 The Blue Hen at Adelphi Hotel, Saratoga Springs We learned in November that the Adelphi Hotel in Saratoga Springs closed its fine-dining restaurant, The Blue Hen, replacing it with an expansion of the hotel’s more casual offering, Morrissey’s Lounge. Brazilian Steak House, Colonie The quick-serve concept, featuring rotisserie meats, about 20 hot sides, salad bar and other food items that opened in 2019 in the home of the former Truman's Restaurant closed this year. closed Bumpy's Polar Freeze, Schenectady The ice cream stand closed down afte...

I met him only once. It was 21 years ago, in Athens, Greece, on the occasion of a speech he gave growing out of his wartime exploits as a British special agent serving with Greek resistance fighters in German-occupied Crete. At the time of the talk he was a world-famous author, traveler, and cultural and historical polymath. And what should have been, for me, the pleasure of a long-anticipated conversation about his singular brand of literary magic turned instead to dismay and embarrassment on my part and obvious anger on his over a question I had put to him. His name was Patrick Leigh Fermor...