John Noerr and his 5-year-old son were chasing snakes in the Adirondacks last month when they stumbled on a grimy, expensive digital camera sitting in a foot of water in a stream.Mr. Noerr, a 39-year-old art teacher, took a screwdriver and pried open a flap that concealed the camera's memory card. Gore Vidal's colorful career behind (and in front of) the camera.He extracted the card, cleaned it off and put it in his computer.
On it he found a mystery.There were 581 pictures. Many seemed to be from New York City, 250 miles away. There were pictures from Union Square. There were pictures of a sign that said "real estate." A woman had taken a picture of herself in a mirror. The most recent picture, from June 2009, had been taken very close to the spot Mr. Noerr found the camera, north of Pharaoh Lake.
For three weeks, Mr. Noerr, who lives in Vermont but is spending the summer in the little town of Adirondack, N.Y., searched for the owner of the camera, a Canon Rebel XT that no longer appears to work.Dead ends were many. He noticed the name "Ziggy Comeau" on the real estate sign in the photo, called the agent and spoke with his wife, who didn't know anything about the camera.
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