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British Representative Nicholas Rankin was born way too late to employ the bragging right his predecessors had enjoyed, that of having a personal friendship wit
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. âLibbyâ 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, there was only one legitimate outlet in Saranac Lake to satisfy that urge — St. Luke’s Episcopal ...
Andrew and Mary Baker, the landlords of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1915. (Provided photo) “He looks extremely well and plays much on a battered old piano we have hired from a livery stableman.” — Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, Dec. 6, 1887 “In the daytime, when the blizzard piled snowdrifts window-high, the Penny Piper made ‘big medicine’ in his little room under the southern gable of Baker’s. In this room there was an old desk adorned with pens, ink and paper, also a piano …” — The Penny Piper of Saranac, by Stephen Chalmers Visitors to the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Co...
info@robertlouisstevensonmemorialcottage.org The Cooper house as it appears today was also once the home of Dr. Lawrason Brown, a charter member of the Stevenson Society of America. (Photo provided) Stephen Chalmers, charter member of the Stevenson Society of America and author of the society’s little book, “The Penny Piper of Saranac,” had three things in common with Robert Louis Stevenson. Both men were sons of Scotland, both became professional writers, and they both came to Saranac Lake for the same reason, though not at the same time. Chalmers was only 25 when he felt his life der...