Ginger Henry Kuenzel

Ginger Henry Kuenzel was born on northern Lake George in New York State and has lived there at least part of every year since. After college, she worked as a speechwriter and legislative assistant for a Congressman in Washington, D.C. As the Nixon presidency unraveled and the Vietnam war raged, she decided to be true to her hippie values and embark on a European backpacking trip, which involved hitching free rides and staying in youth hostels or with people she met on the road. Despite this frugality, her money finally ran out after six months, so she settled in Munich, married a German, and had two sons -- one of whom, in true hippie fashion, was born in the back of a VW bus. She became a journalist, writing articles for U.S. publications on topics as varied as German lifestyle, the economy, art, and politics, including the fall of the Berlin Wall. She collaborated with a Russian journalist on a blockbuster story about a private German collection of 100+ impressionist paintings taken from Germany at the end of WWII and hidden in the Hermitage Museum. Ginger moved to Boston in 1997 to work in corporate communications until 2010, when she moved back to her hometown on Lake George.