The Saranac Laker who saved Einstein, dead at 78

Don Duso has been an icon, a fixture, a pillar in Saranac Lake for decades. He passed away over the weekend at age 78.

In Chris Knight’s remembrance in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, we hear about a man who anchored the Winter Carnival, kept the fire department functioning, ran a local business, and oh by the way, saved Albert Einstein’s life.

Duso also gained notoriety as a 10-year-old in the early 1940s when he helped rescue Albert Einstein, a frequent summer visitor to Saranac Lake, after Einstein’s sailboat overturned on Lonesome Bay – a story Duso retold throughout his life.

Chris will have a remembrance of Duso tomorrow morning on NCPR.