NO ONE EVER FORGETS A BEAR

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The owner of the Pinecone Inn in Wanakena — a sleepy one-general-store Adirondack hamlet nestled at the mouth of the Oswegatchie River where it flows into Cranberry Lake — woke with a premonition honed over six decades of living year-round in the rugged 6-million-acre north central New York wilderness.

An Indian Summer moon flooded the driveway and foo…