North Country Living Magazine - Summer 2021

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Publisher's Note Cel • e • brate Acknowledge (a significant or happy day or event) with a social gathering or enjoyable activity.

Summer is a time with many celebrations. The end of school, graduations, Independence Day, family gatherings, and many other events all take place during the summer months. Over the last year and a half, many celebrations have taken a hiatus due to the pandemic. These events would have been celebrated with big parties with lots of family and friends. During this time I saw how people adapted and still found a way to celebrate these milestones with their families, whether it was a drive-by parade or a virtual zoom party. They found a way to connect with friends and family.

With the right perspective, you can turn a horrible situation into a better situation.

I am glad to say that things are slowly starting to come back and return to some sort of normalcy. We need to celebrate how far we have come and try to embrace the positives that have come from this pandemic. One of the things I am most grateful for is the added time I got to spend with my children. They are seven and eight — the added time I have had with them is priceless.

Here is a small list of things to celebrate that we may take for granted; your home, electricity, food, water, clean air, freedom, vaccines, jobs, working remotely, the internet, your faith, and many other things. The list could go on and on.

We would like to thank all of our readers and advertising for supporting our North Country Living Magazine and our community newspaper The Sun. We can’t do what we do without the support of our loyal advertisers. We encourage you to shop local and support the businesses in our magazine and our weekly publication.

Stay safe this summer and celebrate the small stuff!

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Adirondacks, A Home For The Rich And Famous

Discover A Lost World Of Fossils In Vermont This Summer

What better place to find solace and creative freedom?

"In situ" field sites and museums

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Remembering the legacy of the former Warrensburg Supervisor

Museum Remembers What Used To Be

Twisting And Turning: A Vermont Road Trip To Remember

Telling the story of the Plattsburgh Air Force Base

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FOREVER WILD Spring Wildflowers of the Adirondacks

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EYE ON BUSINESS The Club On The Hill

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CONSERVATION Schroon Lake's Protectors

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HISTORY Meet The 1960's Hoopologists, The North Country Way

Maynard Baker Fought Many Battles In His Legendary Life

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Next Generation Field Guide Changes The Way We See Nature

The Michigan Hot Dog Stands of Summer

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The best place to leave the curious behind is where the rural philosophy is

The rich and famous also like their space and lots of it.

So what better place to find solace and creative freedom, away from the camera lenses of the paparazzi, than the Adirondack Mountains? Local residents may catch glimpses of their famous neighbors, but they tend to respect their privacy and ask for an autograph only when the moment seems right.

Since the 1800s, the Adirondack region has been a destination for vacationers and real estate investors or a mountain idyll for escape and inspiration; it’s perfect geography for the “who’s who” crowd from U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt to today’s pop culture icons such as TV chef Rachel Ray and rocker Bruce Springsteen.

“The fact that many celebrities have chosen to buy homes in the Adirondacks speaks to the privacy offered by the beautiful mountains and lakes,” according to North Country Realtor Keir Weimer. “This region also supplies the uniqueness and sophistication that global travelers are accustomed to and expect.”

While it’s impossible to include every famous person linked to the North County, this overview of the rich and famous, past, and present, is but a glimpse. But if you know a notable celebrity we might have missed, please feel free to drop us a line and let us know for inclusion in a future update.

PRESIDENTS, FEMINISTS, ARTISTS

By Lou Varricchio When the rich and famous plan an escape from their fawning, sometimes smothering public, they often seek out-of-the-way places; places, where the locals aren’t much impressed with either their notoriety or wealth. The best place to leave the curious behind is where the rural philosophy is “live and let live”.

President Grant, the Union’s hero during the Civil War years, was a visitor to the region which included spending his last months in Joseph W. Drexel’s Adirondack cottage in Wilton. Grant found the wilderness an ideal setting to finalize his monumental account of the American Civil War as well as his troubled, Trump-like presidency.

“President Grant arrived at the cottage on June 16, 1885, with a large entourage of family, friends, servants, and physicians in order to complete his memoirs. He died just four days after his final proofreading,” according to New York Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. “Today, the cottage and its furnishings remain essentially the same as during the Grant family’s stay for six weeks in 1885. Guests to the cottage may visit the spacious porch, tour the cottage’s four rooms, and view floral arrangements that remain from Grant’s Aug. 4 funeral.”

Later, another U.S. president found solace in the Adirondacks.

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Native New Yorker Theodore Roosevelt already enjoyed hunting and hiking in the Adirondack forests. But on a fateful trip to conquer New York’s highest peak, Mt. Marcy, the then vice president found himself thrust into the national limelight.

“On Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot twice while receiving guests at a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,” writes Jared Paventi on New York Upstate Online. “His vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, was vacationing with family in the Adirondacks and immediately traveled to Buffalo fearing the worst. Roosevelt returned to his family on Sept. 10, believing that President McKinley was rebounding. It was during his hike up Mt. Marcy when messengers informed him he was needed back in Buffalo. His ride from the Adirondack high peak to the North Creek train station has been commemorated with a historical byway designation. Signs mark New York State Route 28N as the RooseveltMarcy Trail. Today, travelers to the Adirondacks can follow Roosevelt’s journey by visiting the same buildings and sites.” a home for the rich & famous

Earlier, in 1886, the Lake Clear Lodge & Retreat began as a stagecoach inn, livery, post office, and trading post, according to the establishment’s Ernest Hohmeyer. It, too, welcomed a few famous sojourners of the day.

“Built by the Otis family, when Lake Clear was known as Otisville, the area became America’s first prominent nature-based tourist destination,” Hohmeyer posts on the lodge’s website.

Of the era, several well-known authors, poets, and even America’s leading impressionist Mary Cassatt visited and treasured their visits to the old Otisville region.

“Cassatt and her contemporaries enjoyed the wave of feminism that occurred in the 1840s, allowing them access to educational institutions at newly coed colleges and universities, such as Oberlin and the University of Michigan,” according to art historian Delia Gaze. “Likewise, women’s colleges such as Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley opened their doors during this time. Cassatt was an outspoken advocate for women’s equality, campaigning with her friends for equal travel scholarships for students in the 1860s, and the right to vote in the 1910s.”

Another famous painter, Maxfield Parrish, was afflicted by tuberculosis and found a cottage in Saranac Lake to heal and paint.

Parrish, known for his idealized Greek classical imagery, was raised as a Quaker.

According to Parrish scholar Natalie Yurkoski, he began drawing for his own amusement, showed talent, and his parents encouraged him. Between 1884 and 1886, his parents took Parrish to Europe, where he toured England, Italy, and France where he was exposed to architecture and the paintings by the old masters.

Novelists, even their mystical kin, found their mojo in New York’s northernmost mountains.

According to Ticonderoga-based journalist Laurel Carroll, “The brothers James

summered in the Adirondacks. Henry was the novelist and short story writer (author of ‘Turn of the Screw’ and ‘Daisy Miller’) and William was a philosopher, Theosophist, and psychiatrist who wrote the classic, ‘The Varieties of Religious Experience’.”

William often hosted his brother at his retreat in Keene Valley in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. You can learn more about the James brothers and their Adirondack legacy at the Union College Kelly Adirondack Center in Niskayuna, New York.

THE WILD WEST AND THE ADIRONDACKS Western frontiersman, dime novelist, friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, and bosom buddy of immortal “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” lawman Wyatt Earp, Ned Buntline, called the Adirondacks home between his wild, wild west trips. Buntline is best known locally for shooting Adirondack guide Alvah Dunning’s dog along Raquette Lake.

By accident or intention? Who knows.

Buntline genuinely took the credit for coming up with Bill Cody’s “Buffalo Bill” nickname; he also helped make the former Indian scout, now buried on a mountaintop overlooking the Coors Brewery in Colorado, a wild west show star.

The old Elizabethtown Post newspaper wrote, “During ‘Ned Buntline’s’ brief sad and checkered career in the Adirondacks, he made some friends and a good many enemies. He was a man of rough exterior and spasmodic changes. A man of education and training, one who had associated with those in the highest walks of life, he also associated with those whose only creed — total depravity — kept them down on the lowest possible level.”

When not shooting dogs and pounding out western tales, Buntline spent time in the Raquette Lake area drinking and working on his famous “Buntline Special”, an extra-long six-shooter revolver that packed a wallop.

According to Buntline’s Wikipedia biography, “The revolvers were said to be chambered in .45 Colt with 12-inch barrels, removable shoulder stocks, standard sights, and wooden grips into which the name ‘Ned’ was ornately carved... These revolvers came to be known collectively as the Buntline Special... Wyatt Earp kept his at the original 12-inch length, but the four other recipients of the revolvers cut their barrels down to 7.5 inches.”

Wyatt Earp biographer Stuart Lake wrote in detail about the Buntline Special during the 1930s but some revisionist historians take exception in giving Buntline the credit.

No matter, Buntline most likely crafted the now-famous gun when he brought his wild west élan back to the Adirondacks.

Always the showman, Buntline was instrumental in bringing a wild west show to the New York stage.

Buntline produced, and also joined the cast of, “The Scouts of the Prairie” in 1872.

The on-stage wild west spectacular starred Buffalo Bill Cody (playing himself), the original Spaghetti western gun-girl Giuseppina Morlacchi, and Texas Jack Omohundro. It is possible that Buffalo Bill visited the Raquette Lake area with his producer and co-star, between a break of the Broadway show’s run; however, nothing was recorded of the visit so it must remain a question mark.

(Top Left) Philosopher William James, brother of author Henry James.

(Above) Ned Buntline (left) with Buffalo Bill Cory (second from left) in an 1872 wild west cast photo taken in New York City. (Left) Celebrated painter and feminist Mary Cassat in 1913 (Wikipedia).

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(Left) Great Camp Sagamore where the Adirondack allure began with the rich and famous (Mwanner/Wikipedia). Alfred Vanderbilt (Library of Congress). (Above Left to Right) Actor Gary Cooper began his career in silent pictures. He loved the Adirondacks (Public domain). Composer, songwriter Jerome Kern (Public domain). U.S. Army Gen George C. Marshall (Public domain).

VANDERBILT’S XANADU The lifestyles of the North Country’s rich and famous became inextricably bound to the Adirondacks when Gilded Age giants such Alfred Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Thomas Edison built their fancy summer camps and retreats, mostly on prime, mountain lake shore land.

Some historians say the age of modern Adirondack celebrity began with billionaire Alfred Vanderbilt.

During the early 1900s, Vanderbilt, the New York City monied sportsman who drowned during the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, acquired an imposing circa-1897 retreat known as Great Camp Sagamore and expanded it into an alpine Xanadu.

The 1,600-acre great camp, situated on rustic Sagamore Lake, offered fresh brook trout, lake whitefish, lake trout, white sucker, black bullhead, yellow perch, and sunfish for guests. Late-night carousing and entertainment kept guests occupied as they enjoyed outdoor bowling, croquet, flush toilets, a modern sewer system, with ample hot and cold running water.

Vanderbilt was “off the grid” before the term became a 21st-century ideal; he built his own mini hydroelectric plant using abundant lake water.

Sagamore later became a resort as it played hosts to the likes of Montana cowboy-turned-Hollywood star Gary Cooper, composer of musical theater and popular movie music Jerome Kern, and World War II hero and Secretary of Defense General George C. Marshall were just a few who called Camp Sagamore their home away from home in the woods.

Today, Great Camp Sagamore continues to lure celebrities as a plush resort as well as an educational institution dedicated to the preservation of this National Historic Landmark. Even today, you never know with whom you’ll rub elbows during a stay at this greatest of Adirondack great camps.

FAMOUS NAMES Today, television reruns and even YouTube Online have a way of keeping dead Hollywood stars alive and well albeit as electronic ghosts.

For example, the late, luscious, golden-tressed Hollywood actress Veronica Lake lives on thanks to the popular, award-winning Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel.

A Brooklyn, New York, native, Lake is best known for her consummate film-noir roles which are much screened by TCM. Movies such as “This Gun for Hire” and “The Glass Key”, among her many other Hollywood films, have near immortality. Lake’s deadpan acting style, at least when paired with the likes of tough-guy actor Alan Ladd, remains the stuff of movie legend.

According to multiple movie-history sources, Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman. Her father, Harry Eugene Ockelman worked for an oil company aboard a ship.

After he died in an industrial explosion in Philadelphia in 1932, Lake’s mother, Constance Frances Charlotta, married Anthony Keane, a newspaper artist. A year later, young Veronica Lake began using his surname.

The Keanes lived in Saranac Lake where the young Lake attended St. Bernard’s School.

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“She was then sent to Villa Maria, an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from which she was expelled,” according to a report in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Wikipedia adds that “Lake later claimed she attended McGill University and took a pre-med course for a year, intending to become a surgeon. This claim was included in several press biographies, although Lake later declared it was bogus. Lake subsequently apologized to the president of McGill, who was simply amused when she explained her habit of self-dramatizing... She had a troubled childhood and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to her mother.”

Lake wrote a 1970 tell-all autobiography about her career and time in the Adirondacks, titled “Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake”.

It’s ironic that in June 1973, while traveling in Vermont after visiting her Saranac Lake roots, she visited a local doctor, complaining of stomach pains. The doctor found she had cirrhosis of the liver.

On June 26, she checked into the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, for treatment. Sadly, she died while in bed at UVM Medical on July 7. Wikipedia reports that “Her son Michael claimed her body.

Lake’s memorial service was held at the Universal Chapel in New York City on July 11. She was cremated and, according to her wishes, her ashes were scattered off the coast of the Virgin Islands. Then, in 2004, some of Lake’s ashes were reportedly found in a New York antique store.”

Talented, patriotic singer Kate Smith, who appeared in movies and on TV, made singing the hymn “God Bless America” worldfamous. Few know that the soprano loved her time spent living quietly in Lake Placid.

When Smith lived in Lake Placid she regularly attended Sunday mass at St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church. She often cheerfully greeted fans with a smile and sometimes an autograph pen.

After her passing in North Carolina in 1986, Smith is best remembered for her gentleness and friendly years spent in Lake Placid. Yes, there were a few controversies that dogged Ms. Smith but they are not the focus of our story.

Smith’s request to be buried in a mausoleum on the St. Agnes cemetery’s grounds was granted after some bickering among the parties involved in her legacy.

Her private burial service took place on Nov. 14, 1987.

Requiescat in pace, Veronica Lake and Kate Smith.

(Left) Kate Smith on the cover of Radio Mirror, October 1934 (Public domain).

(Right) Veronica Lake (Paramount/public domain).

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TODAY During this new decade of the 2020s, the Adirondacks continue to lure a new generation of the rich and famous.

How about the immensely popular TV chef Rachel Ray? The celebrity chef and Food Network Star grew up in the Adirondacks and currently lives in Lake Luzerne after rebuilding her fire gutted home last summer. Her current house is a stone’s throw from where she grew up.

Ray was born in Glens Falls and moved to Lake George, where her mother managed restaurants when she was eight years old.

In a recent online interview, Ray talked about her favorite things to do around Lake George.

“Her family once lived here, and she returns to the area about once a month,” according to a post by realtor Keir Weimer.

“Rachel shares her favorite restaurants. She likes the Ridge Terrace for its fantastic food and classic, old-school style of preparation.

Another one of her favorites is Harvest Pizza, where a pizza is actually named after her. Rachel also shared her favorite things to do in the area and gave recommendations for visitors to try. Her favorite season is fall, and she enjoys apple picking at Hick’s in Granville, New York. Hick’s is known for its amazing cornfield maze, haunted hayrides, and apple picking.”

In the world of song, we wondered what languid pop singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey has in common with the late Kate Smith? It’s Lake Placid and St. Agnes Church.

Del Ray, better known by some locals under her real name Lizzie Grant, grew up in the famous Olympic Village.

According to writer Melissa Giannini,

“her father worked for a furniture company before becoming an entrepreneurial domain investor; her mother worked as a schoolteacher. There, she attended St. Agnes School in her elementary years and began singing in her church choir, where she was the cantor.”

In a 2012 Telegraph interview, the singer waxed philosophical. “When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis.

I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

For some reason that knowledge sort of overshadowed my experience. I was unhappy for some time. I got into a lot of trouble. I used to drink a lot. That was a hard time in my life.”

“The internet has allowed figures like (Del Rey) to come rapidly to the fore of the cultural landscape, whether or not their emergence is planned by a record executive or happens spontaneously from someone’s bedroom,” writes Britisher Paul Harris. “It has speeded the fame cycle. It is worth noting that the huge backlash to Del Rey is happening before her first album had even been released. This reveals a cultural obsession with the authenticity that fans, artists, and corporations all prize above all else.”

Not everyone liked Del Rey’s 2010 debut record album. It was a troubled venture since the album “was eventually pulled from retailers soon afterward because,” according to Del Rey, “the label was unable to fund it.” Del Rey now owns the rights to the first album. With each passing year, she has built a solid fan base Another familiar face in Lake Placid is rock star Bruce Springsteen as well his E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg. Both are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Not to be outdone by the Boss, “The nearly $1.1 million-per-acre purchase price (by Weinberg) is the highest for a single lot without buildings in the Adirondack Park,” according to a statement from Select Sotheby’s International Realty.

Superstar actress Sigourney Weaver who played tough sci-fi astronaut Ellen Ripley in the “Alien” big screen franchise has a compound in Long Lake. And not too far away is actor Kevin Bacon’s house in Old Forge. Bacon has since become a proud member of the Adirondack League Club.

Harder to pin down is Canadian singer Shania Twain’s whereabouts in the North Country. She has multiple homes in the USA

and Europe and she may (or may not) live on Lake Dexter, which is not technically in the Adirondacks, but close enough.

So why the allure of the Adirondacks for any of us, be we rich or not so rich?

Well, someone asked naturalist John Muir that question back in 1898. Muir didn’t take long to respond: “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers but as a fountain of life.”

Lana Del Rey at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 (Georges Biard/ Wikipedia).

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Biography

Maynard Baker relaxes with a cup of coffee last year in the Northway Diner on Main St. in West Glens Falls. Renowned in the Adirondacks as an ardent advocate for motor vehicle access to wilderness lands — he also was known to enjoy conversations and exchanging one-liners with friends and family.

Maynard Baker fought many battles in his legendary life

By Thom Randall Former Warrensburg Supervisor Maynard Baker was nothing less than a legend in his own time. He died April 19, but his legacy will endure for countless years— and tales about his exploits will be passed on from generation to generation among residents of the southern Adirondacks.

Baker, 91, died at home with his family at his side, just two months after he was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Baker was an ardent fighter for property owners’ rights and motorized access to wilderness, battling state agencies and environmental causes through most of his adulthood, until his sunset years when he focused on barrier-free access for people with disabilities.

Maynard was one of the organizers of the infamous Northway blockade of May 12, 1990, when about 500 property-rights advocates protested state regulations by driving their vehicles at a crawl down Interstate 87, side-by-side in dozens of rows across all lanes, for 57 miles southbound from Exit 30 to Exit 17, then turned around and repeated the blockade back to Exit 30. With the vehicles moving as slow as 15 miles per hour at times, traffic was backed up for miles, 49 tickets were issued, and 12 people were arrested.

Former news correspondent Carol LaGrasse of Stony Creek said that Maynard and others were protesting the report of the Commission on the Adirondacks in the 21st Century, which proposed far stiffer regulations to be imposed by the Adirondack Park Agency. The local citizens’ collective anger, she said, was also stoked by the rumor that the state had amassed enough money to purchase all the privately held acreage in the Adirondacks.

“Maynard was a real believer in the people of the Adirondacks and the fairness they deserve,” she said.

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Maynard was elected Warrensburg town supervisor five times, serving from Jan. 1, 1988, through 1997, campaigning on promises that in today’s era seem incomprehensible. He promised voters he would never allow municipal zoning in town, he’d stop the state from forcing the town to build a municipal sewer system — although raw sewage had historically flowed untreated into the Schroon River — and pledged to ignore the state mandate to close the town’s garbage dump. All three of these edicts came to pass, however, Baker accomplished the latter two at bargain prices.

He also fought for trails and old roads into the Adirondack wilderness to be opened up to motorized vehicles.

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Baker achieved national fame in 1990 when he and several dozen other Adirondack residents — including some members of his Adirondack Freedom Fighters’ group — protested the state’s closure in 1990 of Crane Pond Road to motorized vehicles in compliance with state law protecting wilderness areas. For the prior 70 years or so, motor vehicles had traversed this two-mile unpaved lane into the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness to access

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BAKER’S POLITICS: RESISTANCE TO STATE EDICTS

Crane Pond. During this protest of the road closure, Baker slugged a counter-protesting environmentalist from Vermont, knocking him to the ground.

This week, Moriah Supervisor Tom Scozzafava recalled the punch, which was recorded for posterity by local news videographer Jack LaDuke — and ended up nationally telecast on the CBS’ 60 Minutes.

“He decked the ‘EarthFirst’ guy — he touched Maynard first, and that’s all it took,” Scozzafava said. “Maynard was definitely a fighter — you knew where you stood with him….

He didn’t ‘back door’ people. If he didn’t like you, you knew it.

MAYNARD HAD HIS OWN WAY OF GETTING THINGS DONE

Scozzafava, who ran for state Assembly in 2002, recalled how Maynard had been his campaign coordinator for Warren County. He recalled how Baker introduced him to hundreds of people and boosted his votes in Warren County.

In campaigning, one of the people Baker introduced him to handed over a $10,000 check, which Scozzafava refused, as it far exceeded state laws for political donations, he said. But weeks later, “Scozz” received dozens of checks for smaller, legal amounts from people he didn’t know, he said. ”Maynard called me up and asked me if I had received a lot of checks,” Scozzafava said —Apparently Baker had instructed the generous donor how to skirt the election law on donations.

Baker got into politics in an unconventional way, current Warrensburg Town Board member Bryan Rounds recalled this week — it stemmed from when Baker was arrested on suspicion of “jacking” deer at night, according to tales repeated for decades. Maynard ended up spending weekends in jail, his daughter Star Baker Mowery confirmed.

“Maynard felt he had been railroaded by ‘the system,’ so he decided to run for Thurman town judge,” Rounds said.

While behind bars, Maynard asked jail guards for a phone book, and he spends his idle hours copying phone numbers of people to call when released, to solicit their vote, Mowery and Rounds said. In the next general election, he won the post of town justice.

Rounds relayed a local tale that as a judge, Maynard heard a plea from local resident who was worried he’d have his gun confiscated if he was apprehended for deer jacking — and Baker had given him reassurance.

“Maynard told him, ‘If they bring you in, I have to take your gun, but there’s nothing stopping me from loaning you mine,’” Rounds recalled.

dropped out of school as an eighth-grader, so he could go to work as a butcher at the old county home and farm — to help feed his parents’ family, Mowery said.

As a 16-year-old boy, Maynard lied about his age so he could enlist in the U.S. Navy and serve his country, which he did for two years, Mowery continued. During his tenure in the service, Baker wired money home to support his parents and siblings back home. Several months before he could vote, he was awarded a World War II Victory medal and honorably discharged in July 1948.

A LIFETIME OF HARD WORK; BARROOM BRAWLS

His lengthy career of hard work included employment at Karl Duell’s Oldsmobile Garage in Warrensburg, Warrensburg Pulp SANTANONI PROTEST: YET and Paper Mill, Double A Provisions in Glens ANOTHER SHOWDOWN WITH Falls, American Locomotive in Schenectady, STATE AUTHORITIES then Alfred Najar’s sawmill in Wevertown.

In June 1997, Maynard led a group of On Oct. 4, 1953, he married Ruth Glenda protesters, riding all-terrain vehicles heading Rounds at the Kenyontown Methodist toward an access road to Camp Santanoni. Church in Thurman. In 1964, he and Ruth They were clamoring for ATV access by launched a 24-hour truck stop known as people with disabilities over roads and the Toll House Diner at the corner of routes improved trails that extended into forest 9 and 28, and Maynard became well-known lands and were closed off to motorized for his homemade soups and pies. vehicles — yet DEC employees occasionally Later, he worked for area mason Gene drove ATVs and trucks down these venues.

Therian and later ventured out on his own DEC blocked the protester’s progress as a masonry contractor. Slinging concrete with half-ton barricades and told them that blocks for many years gave him considerable they were all were welcome to walk into strength which he retained in his 70s the area or hire a horse-andand 80s — useful in standing his buggy service that could ground when necessary. legally take them over the No question, Baker roadway — stoking had a reputation as a barroom brawler. anger among the Maynard didn’t take DEC as Approaching 80 protesters who didn’t years old, Maynard achieve their goal of the supreme authority — knocked a man half his obtaining access. DEC, age across the barroom however, responded of Ashe’s Hotel when to public concerns over someone questioned the the ensuing years and integrity of one of his made accommodations family members, according for appropriate access for to local news archives. Also, people with physical limitations.

Rounds said he heard of a bar fight “Maynard didn’t take DEC as the supreme authority — he fought them over involving Maynard in which the battle ended up with furniture smashed and a piano what he felt was unjust,” Rounds said. destroyed.

MAYNARD LEFT SCHOOL AFTER “For all of his toughness, he never left 8TH GRADE TO SUPPORT FAMILY the presence of his family without telling One of Maynard’s daughters Starr Baker them he loved them, and he had a real soft Mowery detailed Maynard’s younger years. spot for kids,” said Rounds, an in-law of the She said he used to talk about how as a Baker family. child, he would watch his mother sweep the Maynard also worked on constructing dirt floor of the family home. Maynard the Adirondack Northway in the mid-1960s,

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laying concrete. At about this time, he began manufacturing concrete burial vaults, forming them in the garage of his Thurman home and he turned it into a successful enterprise. During this era, he served five years as Thurman town justice and on the town board for eight years.

In 1968, he launched a funeral home in Warrensburg bearing his name, selling it in 1986, and in the following year launched his political career.

BAKER’S OUTREACH TO THE LESS FORTUNATE During this era, he helped various town residents by personally helping install sewer service lines at their homes during his free time — assisting people who could not afford the mandated hookups, Mowery said.

“Being a town supervisor wasn’t just a job for Maynard, he took his position to heart, looking after people who were less fortunate,” she said.

Scozzafava said Baker had a heartfelt concern for others in distress.

“He was a great guy,” he said. “If your vehicle broke down at 20 below zero some night at 1 a.m., he’d stop and help you out,” he said. “That’s the kind of person he was.”

A considerable number of municipal infrastructure improvements were complete during his decade as town supervisor.

Several years after tenure ended, he had a

new funeral home built in Queensbury bearing his family name. He accomplished much of the work personally.

During this era, Maynard also developed and operated Bakersfield East Campground and Events Center on Schroon River Road in Warrensburg.

In 1998, Maynard sought to extend his political influence onto a national level, and he ran for U.S. Congress, representing the 22nd Congressional District. He ran on a conservative platform featuring state’s rights, empowering local government, opposition to gun control, restoring property rights, downsizing government, and restricting abortions — as well as moderate principles including tax relief for the middle class, and access to health care for all citizens. He outpolled former state Labor Secretary John E. Sweeney in northern Warren County, but Sweeney ended up winning the election and serving eight years.

About 17 months before Maynard died at the age of 91, he told Scozzafava he wanted to get together with him and organize a campaign to secure barrier-free access into state parklands, the Moriah supervisor said.

“Maynard told me, ‘By God, I’m gonna get this done before I go,’” Scozzafava said.

Baker’s calling hours and funeral drew hundreds of people. Held on April 23 and 24, the services included full military honors as well as gestures of respect by the many community organizations in which he was active.

Concluding her reminiscences about Maynard’s life, Starr Mowery offered her thoughts.

“Dad left quite an impact on this world,” she said. “How many people do you know that lived a life as he has?”

See Maynard’s obituary at Legacy.com for a detailed history of his career, affiliations and achievements.

MAYNARD’S ACTIVISM ENDURED INTO HIS FINAL YEARS After his exit from politics, Baker continued fighting for access for people with mobility impairments, which spurred his parallel campaign to rescind APA restrictions banning seaplanes on various lakes that were within Forest Preserve areas of the Adirondacks.

Maynard’s commitment to his convictions extended into his final years.

For all of his toughness,

Former Warrensburg Supervisor Maynard D. Baker was buried with full military honors May 24, and attending were representatives of community groups in which he was active, as well as his family and friends.

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Spring Wildflowers of the Adirondacks

Bloodroot

(Sanguinaria canadensis)

Andrew Nelson

NY Flora Atlas

Fertile woods; juice bright red; roots used for swellings and aching joints

Bluebead Lily

(Clintonia borealis)

Sara R. Stebbins

NY Flora Atlas

Moist woods; leaves similar to Pink Lady’s Slipper; named after N.Y. Governor DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828)

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Blue Flag

(Iris versicolor)

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Stately blue iris found at the edges of marshes and in wet meadows; used to treat vomiting and bruises

Canada Mayflower

(Maianthemum canadense)

Andrew Nelson

NY Flora Atlas

Also called Wild Lily of the Valley

Carolina Spring Beauty

(Claytonia caroliniana)

Andrew Nelson

NY Flora Atlas

Moist woods

By Laurel Carroll Plants are pretty amazing and adaptive beings. I’ll never forget the cherry tomato covered with tiny red fruit that caught my eye one fall as it grew out of a crack in the asphalt of a parking lot in lower Manhattan. The primary directive of life to reproduce is basically the single driving force of nature, and given that directive, plants, particularly in urban areas, aren’t too choosy about where they establish their roots; however, in the Adirondacks, plants can be pretty fussy when it comes to where they thrive. The New York Natural Heritage Program recognizes roughly 250 plant communities within the Blue Line. They range from shallow marshes to moist, rich woods with slightly acidic soil to limestone downthrust mountains with an alkaline (base) pH to sandstone cliffs with a thin soil layer to fens and bogs, where the environment is so acidic and nutrients so poor that they host a unique community of animals and plants. Soil pH, hydrology, elevation, latitude: They all mix in complex ways to form a particular plant community’s unique profile. The more informed you become, the more you’ll understand the need to keep them free of invasive species and other forms of destruction.

THE FLOWERS Spring is an exciting time of year, bringing forth the so-called “spring ephemerals,” flowering plants that seem to suddenly appear out of nowhere and just as suddenly vanish, as they take advantage of the narrow window of time that sunlight reaches the forest floor beneath the canopy of deciduous trees before they leaf out. These include Dutchman’s Breeches, Wild Ginger, Columbine, the Hepaticas, Trout Lilies, Spring Beauties, and Trilliums. They flower, set seed, and die back quickly, leaving nary a trace of their existence.

Other wildflowers, though they may begin to flower in the spring, continue to do so through the summer and/or leave behind a healthy, evident plant. Two examples are Herb Robert and Pink Lady’s Slipper.

Something I suggest doing is finding a place you can revisit throughout the season. This will give you a sense of the succession of what’s flowering when.

Looking around to see what trees and shrubs are growing there as well will tell you about the “plant community,” essentially what woody and nonwoody species tend to grow together.

Alas, space being an issue, I had to leave out many beautiful spring wildflowers, so bring along your favorite field guide.

Many plants were used by Native Americans to treat just about every ailment known to them. I included notes on some of these, but beware that if a plant is potent enough to heal, it is probably also poisonous in larger amounts.

A field in the Adirondack Mountains, NY. ©jonbilous/Adobe Stock

Coltsfoot

(Tussilago farfara)

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Just about the very first wildflower to bloom; roadsides and waste places; introduced; formerly widely used to suppress coughs

Wild Columbine

(Aquilegia canadensis)

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NY Flora Atlas

Open dry woods

Corydalis, Pink

(Corydalis sempervirens)

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Dry, sandy soils; burned on hot coals to “clear the head”

Dutchman’s Breeches

(Dicentra cucullaria)

Sara R. Stebbins

NY Flora Atlas

One of the first flowers of spring; moist, semi-shaded places, even roadsides; used as a stimulant and diuretic

Foamflower

(Tiarella cordifolia)

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Dainty spray of white flowers; moist areas at low elevations

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Starflower

(Trientalis borealis)

Painted Trillium

Purple Trillium

Cool moist woods

VIOLETS

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A common orchid found in dry or moist woods

Yellow Trout Lily

Large-flowered Bellwort

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Blue Marsh Violet

Downy Yellow Violet (Viola pubescens)

NY Flora Atlas

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(Uvularia grandiflora)

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Forms large colonies in moist woods

Very wet areas

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Forms large colonies along streams; a delicious edible provided it’s prepared using three changes of boiling water

Moist hardwoods; used to treat palpitations and lung and liver ailments

Andrew Nelson

(Cypripedium acaule)

(Erythronium americanum)

(Viola cucullata)

NY Flora Atlas

Moist wet woods and streambanks

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(T. erectum)

(Viola labradorica)

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UVULARIAS

Distinctive greenand-white-striped flower, folding over the little “man in the pulpit”; moist, shady places

American Dog Violet

Wild Oats

NY Flora Atlas

Rocky woods and areas with thin soil; used for wounds and ulcers; diseases of the bladder; gargle for mouth sores and sore throats; powder used as a styptic

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(Uvularia sessilifolia)

Woods and thickets

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TRILLIUMS

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A dainty wildflower of moist woods; it was believed that the scent of the dried and burned root ushered deer to the hunter

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(Trillium undulatum)

TRILLIUMS

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(Caltha palustris)

(Arisaema triphyllium)

VIOLETS

Woods; supposedly cured vertigo and crossed eyes

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HEPATICAS

HEPATICAS

NY Flora Atlas

Pink Lady’s Slipper

Marsh Marigolds

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Dry woods; bruised leaves used to treat boils of the head

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UVULARIAS

(H. americana/H. acutiloba)

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Jack-in-the Pulpit

Herb Robert

(Geranium robertianum)

VIOLETS

Round-lobed and Sharp-lobed

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An indicator species for alkaline soils, as in limestone downthrusts

Wild Ginger

(Asarum canadense)

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NY Flora Atlas

Prefers limestone areas; flowers very low to the ground, barely peeking out of the duff; dried powder used for palpitations and to bring on menses

SUGGESTED MEANDERS

Smooth Solomon’s Seal

(Polygonatum biflorum)

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Rich woods

Bellwort

(Uvularia perfoliata)

UVULARIAS

Jacqueline Donnelly NY Flora Atlas

Moist hardwoods

Wood Anemone

(Anemone canadensis)

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Damp woods, fens; a tea made of the root was used for eye troubles

These are just some of my favorites: Putts Pond trails generally, the Lost Pond Trail specifically, Ticonderoga (DEC): Moist mixed hardwoods/conifers. Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Pink Lady’s Slippers, Trilliums. Later in the season, Sundews and Pitcher Plants on hummocks at the southern end of Putts Pond.

Sharp Bridge, North Hudson (DEC): Moist mixed hardwoods/conifers. Trailing Arbutus, Lady’s Slippers, Violets. Cardinal flower in the summer.

Coon Mountain, Wadhams (Adk Land Trust): Limestone downthrust. Wild Ginger; Uvularia species, including Large-flowered Bellwort; Toothwort; Corydalis at the summit. A great spot to study the gradient of acid-loving ferns at the bottom and alkaline-loving ferns toward the summit.

Berrymill Pond Trail, Paradox area, off Rte. 74 (DEC). Moist mixed hardwoods. Several species of Violets in May. Essex Quarry, Essex (part of the CATS trail system): Limestone flatlands. Large-flowered Bellwort and other alkaline-soil indicator plants.

Ausable Chasm, Essex (private but commercial venue accessible to public): Lots of wild geraniums (e.g., Herb Robert) and Corydalis peeking out of rock crevices.

Silver Lake Bog, Tupper Lake (Adirondack Nature Conservancy): A classic bog. Sundews, Pitcher Plants, orchids.

MOM WAS RIGHT: DON’T PICK! Beautiful though they are, don’t be tempted to dig wild plants up for your own garden. Many wildflowers are protected in New York State, and it is illegal to remove them. Nowadays, many nurseries propagate wildflowers without “mining” wild colonies. (Look for terms like “Nursery propagated,” and steer clear of “Nursery grown.”) Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Wild Columbine, Trout Lilies, and others can be purchased legally and leave you guilt-free and the plant communities intact. Don’t you feel better already?

FIELD GUIDES “Peterson’s Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North Central North America.” Flowers are keyed by color, making this book a quick and easy way to I.D. something. There’s no intimidating, cumbersome keying out by leaf arrangement, number of petals, etc., to deal with. It was my first wildflower guide and I still keep a copy in my car and refer to it spur of the moment. Line illustrations, some in color.

“Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide,” Lawrence Newcomb. This guide keys plants out by flower and leaf parts (“Flowers with 5 regular parts with basal leaves only, leaves toothed or lobed,” etc.), which takes time to get used to and time to find your plant.

It also uses a lot of scientific terminology, which,

depending on your baseline enthusiasm, can lead you to a higher pitch of botanical passion or leave your brain flat-lining and your passion cold. A quick way to I.D. something, it’s not, but of the three field guides listed here, it describes many more plants and offers good botanical descriptions, taxonomic information, habitat, and flowering season. Line drawings, some in color.

“Wildflowers of the Adirondacks,” Donald J. Leopold and Lytton John Musselman. This recently published (2020), color-keyed guide is a pleasure to look at and easy to use. The photographs are not just exquisite, but useful. The botanist authors include lots of backstory information on each entry, including Indigenous peoples’ pharmacological use, specific habitat, and other interesting tidbits.

NATIVE AMERICAN USE OF WILD PLANTS FOR FOOD AND MEDICINAL PURPOSES “American Indian Medicine,” Virgil J. Vogel, Univ. of Oklahoma Press.

“Indian Herbalogy [sic] of North America,” Alma R. Hutchens, Shambhala.

“Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants,” Charlotte Erichsen-Brown, Dover.

“American Medicinal Plants,” Charles F. Millspaugh, Dover.

These titles are from my personal library. While they’re fun to read, they do not include scientific updates on the plants’ actual pharmacological effectiveness or safety; that said, they are entertaining, if not sometimes gruesome. Remember: If a plant is beneficial in small quantities, it’s probably toxic in larger ones.

GEOLOGY “Roadside Geology of New York,” Bradford B. VanDiver. Covers the multitude of geological features throughout New York State; includes locations, definitive photos, and text. Another book in this series covers the geology of Vermont.

ORGANIZATIONS New York Flora Atlas. Interactive website listing plants by county, habitat, photographs, rare plant status, search by common as well as botanical names, comprising the work of many — apparently indefatigable — field botanists. A really wonderful resource (NewYork.plantatlas.usf.edu).

New York Natural Heritage Program. Full geologic background of plant communities and where in New York they’re located, with lists of plants typically found there, as well as well-chosen, definitive photographs exemplifying each (nynhp.org).

Special thanks to Stephen Young, Chief Botanist, Natural Heritage Program, for generously providing me with checklists for Coon Mountain and Essex Quarry Park; and Troy Weldy, New York Flora Atlas, for permission to use their photographs.

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By Stacey Morris Chase Twichell recalls the day she and Russell Banks met for the first time 30plus years ago. She was teaching poetry at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and he had just arrived for a fiction-writing tenure as visiting professor. As fate would have it, Twichell, who was the only woman in the Creative Writing department, was tasked with giving Banks a tour of the town, and the rest is history.

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Don’t stop until you know what you’re going to do next.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY Two years later, they married and continued teaching, leaving the south for a decade-long stay at Princeton University.

Being writers at the core, Twichell a poet and Banks a novelist, craved more tranquil surroundings that would foster hours of quiet time for writing. The couple bought a home in Keene in the late ‘80s – a wooded retreat that allows Banks uninterrupted stretches of writing in the property’s sugarhouse, with Twichell dividing her time between poetry-writing and gardening.

They count dinners at the Au Sable Inn and breakfasts at the Noon Mark Diner, both in Keene, as favorite outings, but ultimately decided against year-round Adirondack living. “It gets too isolated after the fall,” said Banks. “Our driveway is a third of a mile long, and we just couldn’t see spending winters there.”

Saratoga Springs proved to be the antidote. Much like their meeting in Alabama, the couple’s introduction to the Spa City happened because of academia.

Banks was invited by Skidmore professor Robert Boyers to teach a creative writing workshop at the New York State Summer Writer’s Institute and it became an annual gig. “We got to know Saratoga in a continuing way,” recalled Banks. “Neither of us particularly liked Princeton as a home base because it was a town dominated by the university.” Twichell added that the confluence of Skidmore, Yaddo, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and horse racing made living there an enticing

prospect. Twichell and Banks split the year between Saratoga Springs and Keene, adhering to their writing schedules all the while. Between the two settings, they’ve found the perfect balance between stimulation and isolation.

Twichell is an award-winning poet and longtime student of Zen Buddhism and her most recent collection, “Things as It Is,” was published in 2018. “The title comes from a saying by a Zen master who points to the interconnectedness of all things,” she explained. Banks’ critically acclaimed novels (Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter) became Oscar-nominated films. When in Saratoga, they settle into an easy rhythm of writing discipline interspersed with household chores, cooking, and enjoying the town. “We love Sperry’s and Osteria Danny,” said Banks, who describes himself as the archetypical morning writer, toiling away at a short story or novel until early afternoon.

“I’m from New England and feel guilty if chores aren’t done,” said Twichell with a laugh. “So I spend afternoons writing.” “We say ‘hi’ at lunch and then meet at 6 for cocktails, the news, and dinner,” added Banks.

When the pandemic hit, they discovered, as most people did, the plusses and minuses that went with quarantine living. Get-togethers with children and grandchildren were sorely missed, and visits to favorite restaurants curtailed, but the stay-at-home mandates also meant heightened productivity. “By temperament and profession, we’re pretty solitary,” said Twichell. “So the past year hasn’t been difficult for us like it has for others.”

Banks said he’s had the most prolific year of his career, turning in his latest novel, “Foregone,” at the end of 2019, and then diving into a new (and longer) one, which he finished in a record nine months. “It usually

takes me three years to finish a book, but being locked down and needing to structure my life really helped,” he said.

“I’m jealous of him as a novel-writer,” said Twichell. “I have to wait for poems to come, but Russell is always in the middle of a story. Banks said that commitment to the process, plus heeding the advice of Ernest Hemingway are useful tools. “Hemingway said, ‘don’t stop until you know what you’re going to do next,’” said Banks. “I’m always leaving something for the next day.”

He’s currently in the middle of a series of novellas, which will probably be published as an anthology. And soon, there will be promotional work for “Foregone,” a novel that revisits the flight of 60,000 American men who deserted the military and fled to Quebec during the Vietnam war. The nowelderly protagonist recounts the story of his youth and assimilation into Canada. “It’s an unknown chapter in our history and one of the central themes is migration,” said Banks.

“Only about ten percent of them returned to the United States after they were pardoned

by President Carter.”

He smiled modestly at the suggestion that “Foregone” could have the makings of another transition to the big screen. As with his past novels, Banks doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable themes such as addiction, ethics, tragedy, and family ruptures.

“Literature is for bringing things out in the open, not the opposite,” observed Twichell, as Banks smiled and shrugged. “Tolstoy said ‘all happy families are alike.’ Who wants to write about that?”

Visit: https://www.chasetwichell.com/ and https:// barclayagency.com/speakers/russell-banks/ for more information on Chase Twichell and Russell Banks.

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By Shaundra Bartlett

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Nestled in the Lord Howe Valley of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate N.Y., overlooking God’s country as far as the eye could see, sat a structure equally special and nearly as historic as the eponymous fort that shared the town of Ticonderoga. For over 90 years, The Ticonderoga Country Club sat majestically on the hill along Route 9N, having begun as a mere farmhouse before being transformed into the seasonal gathering spot for the local population and guests.

All of it was gone in a matter of hours. On the night of May 28, 2018, a kitchen fire engulfed and consumed the entire clubhouse. As the Adirondack skies were illuminated by flames, 14 fire departments were needed to subdue the blaze. When the sun rose the following morning, all that remained was a foundation, ashes, and an ironically sickeningly clear view of the golf course and mountains from where the club once stood. Of course, tangible property was lost, but more importantly, something one cannot easily describe, a wound so deep and devastating that it cut right to the heart of the community. In its wake was left one looming and unavoidable question- how to move forward?

The club had just endured four years of renovation plans to the golf course and 2018 was supposed to be the year the work was finished. In 2014, the public club had found itself in a broken state. The course was suffering from neglect, the club did not control its restaurant operations, there was little to no budget, and the club was losing money. Annual fund drives that raised $20,000 merely provided band-aids that could never address the fact that four greens were adjacent to a brook that frequently breached its banks, the drainage was poor to nonexistent, the irrigation was basic at best; the bones of the entire operation were slowly breaking.

You can never measure the resolve of a community until its collective back is against the

“The goal is to be able to provide whatever level of elegance the members and guests would like...”

wall. Although hardly a desirable event, the fire forced everyone’s’ hand and ushered in a change of such magnitude that new meaning was given to “a Phoenix rising from the ashes.” A renewed sense of hope and community have followed. In the current state of worldwide affairs, this could not have occurred at a more welcome time. The Ticonderoga GC is back on the map with a $10 million+ golf course and clubhouse on the verge of reopening its doors.

“My husband stumbled upon a problem a bit by accident when he attended the TGC annual fund-raising tournament in 2014. For some reason, he felt this was something he could not ignore,” said Jayne Brauner, who once the clubhouse was framed in, jumped into the interior design with Sally Rypkema, owner of the design firm Juniper Shop in Hague. “Having lived through nearly four years of a course renovation and being so

close to the finish, there was no walking away when the fire occurred.” The two have been in the “design trenches” for the past several months working to restore the club to the shining crown jewel we see today.

“Everyone, from the workers designing the course, to the people maintaining the course, to the Board have collectively been working for the last 2,555 days for what we hope will be a great result.”

The restored property will feature a large event lawn, beautifully landscaped patios that provide a view of nearly the entire course settled in the valley, different dining areas that can be separated or combined as needed, upstairs and downstairs bar areas, and a welcoming atmosphere. “The rebuild was intended to avoid the pretentiousness seen in so many other clubs. That’s just not what Ticonderoga is about,” asserted Mrs. Brauner. “The goal is to be able to provide

whatever level of elegance the members and guests would like, whether it’s a post-golf pub atmosphere on some days or a more formal, special event (wedding) on others.”

Patrons will no doubt feel as if they have stepped into another world entirely upon entering the doors of the new clubhouse.

The main restaurant, Seymours’, aptly named after the designer of the original course in 1925, boasts an atmosphere of calm and splendor with large floor to ceiling windows providing unrivaled views. Vaulted tongue and groove pine ceilings provide a feeling of spaciousness with the warm, rich tones of wood inviting everyone to pull up a chair or bar stool and stay a while.

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level of first-class ambiance. Rattan chairs and accessories on the screened porches are perfectly imperfect. The two focused on neutral colors to allow for the change in accessories depending on the season. They searched for recovered materials. “It’s a warm and beautiful building with lots of details that invite you to relax,” Jayne explained. “Sally was very focused on that aspect from the start and has stayed focused on that. She loves to create and she has a great eye for the details that perfectly finish off a space.”

Downstairs, club members will also find the “Tap Room” a pub located on the ground floor. The “Tap Room” allows easy access for golfers just finishing a round and provides the ability to sit inside at the bar, as well as outside with either a covered or uncovered patio overlooking the 9th hole. For the golfers and patrons alike, the atmosphere below will be easy and laid back as you unwind from golf or enjoy a night out with friends. “The outdoor patio has a sitting wall that will be splashed with light in the evenings to invite larger groups to sit around and lie about their scores and shot making.” To really appreciate the quality of the hardscape, one has to take in the view from the course looking back at the clubhouse.

As mentioned previously, the clubhouse also has a private dining room and screened porches; there is something for every type of seating arrangement desired. However, as lovely and well planned as are the interiors of Seymours and the Tap Room, a restaurant is only as good as its menu, management, and waitstaff. The Clubhouse operators, Spruce Hospitality, are known for their success at the Queensbury Hotel.

The group has brought in Chef Derrick

Leinonen, formerly of the Lake Placid Lodge.

Leinonen will be at the helm of the shiny new kitchen, sharing his craft with restaurant diners. “Chef Derrick loves to spoil his guests with farm to table food (lots of it) and it’s served beautifully”, says Jayne enthusiastically.

“Ingredients are sourced from local farms.

Signature cocktails will be passed with “small bites”. In other words, Ticonderoga and the surrounding areas are in for a treat.

The two different menus have also been crafted to their venues. The “Tap Room” menu includes a wide selection of freshly prepared salads and sandwiches along with 8 different draft beers from area breweries. Highlights include Cajun garlic shrimp, French Dip, baked Mac and 5 cheese, and tagliatelle Bolognese.

As for Seymour’s, guests can expect to see menu standouts such as green pea ravioli, Shrimp scampi primavera, and some of the highest quality butcher cuts including filet mignon and honey balsamic lamb chops.

It would be remiss to not mention the wedding and special event appeal of the new clubhouse. TGC is already accepting bookings. Against the impressive and sprawling backdrop of the course and mountains, Spruce is prepared to cater to and deliver on newlywed nuptial visions.

Options include a charming lawn reception under the newly appointed Wedding Marquee. “Think long tables, vintage wooden chairs, and fresh flower arrangements accenting what is already naturally here.” If the desire is not to have an outdoor event, the clubhouse can join the private dining with the main dining and screened porches to accommodate various sized events. “You will love the reception room with its natural wooden beams, expansive windows, and

rustic but elegant feel.”

For all the excitement over the new clubhouse and restaurant, there is just as much buzz over the actual golf course.

There have been many renovations to date and the improvements will continue going forward, with a new short game practice facility slated to be constructed starting later this summer. The new, fully-equipped pro shop is ready to go as are George Mackey, Head pro, and newcomer Jason Hughes, assistant pro.

With a commitment to focusing on guest service, improved and expanded golf operations, and the addition of Seymour’s and the Tap Room, the 2021 summer season is looking as bright and sparkling as a new set of clubs on Father’s Day. “We are fully equipped to provide a second-tonone experience for all golfers, wedding parties, families, and tournament outings”, says Mackey. The expansion of our staff to include Jason allows us to offer more complete service to our members and guests on a daily basis”.

Like its predecessor, the new TGC may very well usher in a new era and assist in the development and expansion of Ticonderoga.

Change is often hard and always includes obstacles, to which those deeply involved in the project can surely attest. But when looking at the new building, seated in the same position as the original club, it cannot be overstated how things have come full circle. Steaming ahead toward the future, with local support and enthusiasm beneath its wings, the town welcomes and embraces its newest, returning member, grateful for the optimism it brings. Welcome back to the spectacular club on the hill.

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The silver bullet at Fort Ticonderoga is not really a bullet at all. It is an elliptical-shaped, hollow silver capsule disguised as a silver bullet to be used by a spy.

The capsule has two parts that fit together, and the inside is big enough for a person to place a tiny, handwritten message on a piece of paper, which would be smuggled through enemy territory to another military commander, communicating essential intelligence information.

That’s exactly what happened in 1777.

The British objective seemed simple enough on paper: control the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor, and then crush the American rebellion. In practice, however, things went terribly wrong for the British forces and led to an American victory at Saratoga. That victory convinced the French that an alliance with the United States was worthwhile.

Gen. John Burgoyne planned on traveling southward from Canada down Lake Champlain and the Hudson River to Albany. Col. Barry St. Leger planned on traveling eastward from Lake Ontario through the Mohawk River Valley to Albany. Sir Henry Howe planned on traveling northward from New York City up the Hudson River to Albany. Once in Albany, Howe would take control of the unified British forces.

Change of plans. Howe decided to take most of his New York City troops and attack the American capital of Philadelphia, leaving Sir Henry Clinton in charge of a much smaller army to link up with Burgoyne.

Burgoyne left Canada on June 17, 1777 with about 9,000 troops, including British regulars, German Hessians, Canadians and Indians. After four days of maneuvering, his army captured Fort Ticonderoga on July 6 without a shot being fired.

St. Leger never made it to Albany; he retreated to Canada soon after the Aug. 6 Battle of Oriskany. That left Clinton as Burgoyne’s only hope for victory.

On Sept. 13, Burgoyne crossed the Hudson River to the west bank at Saratoga (now Schuylerville) and began moving southward. The Americans, under the command of Gen. Horatio Gates, had about 9,000 forces waiting nearby. On Sept. 19, the Battle of Saratoga began with a small victory for the British, who decided to stay and wait for Clinton’s reinforcements. Clinton was eager to help, but he had his own problems in the Hudson Highlands, just south of West Point.

Tells the story of espionage

Clinton needed to capture Fort Montgomery and nearby Fort Clinton before sailing north. On Oct. 6, his 2,100 troops of regulars, loyalists and Hessians attacked less than 700 American soldiers led by brigadier generals Gov. George Clinton and James Clinton. The battle was just enough to delay the British, yet Sir Henry Clinton still had his eye on the north, sending a soldier to Burgoyne with an urgent message of hope: “Fort Montgomery, October 8, 1777. Nous y voici [here we are], and nothing between us and Gates. I sincerely hope this little success of ours may facilitate your operations. In answer to your letter of the 28th of September, by C. C. [Captain Campbell], I shall only say, I cannot presume to order, or even advise, for reasons obvious. I heartily wish you success. Faithfully yours, H. Clinton.”

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This message was written on a small piece of tissue paper and placed in the silver bullet now on display at Fort Ticonderoga. The bullet never reached Burgoyne, who began a second attack at Saratoga on Oct. 7. By the time Clinton had written his dispatch, Burgoyne had lost about 1,000 men and had begun retreating northward.

Meanwhile, Sir Henry Clinton’s army believed they had wiped out the opposing American troops. Unfortunately for the British, there was something between Fort Montgomery and Gates—Gov. George Clinton and his small army of continental soldiers, who were planning to move northward to defend Kingston. When Sir Henry Clinton sent his messenger on horseback, Gov. George Clinton was headquartered about 4 miles west of New Windsor (just south of Newburgh). The man with the silver bullet reached a ragtag camp on Oct. 10, believing it was part of the British contingent. Likewise, the American soldiers thought the horseman was one of their own.

“I am a friend and wish to see [British] General Clinton,” the horseman said.

So he was taken to see the general, and when the messenger saw Gov. George Clinton in his headquarters, he realized his mistake and blurted “I am lost!” before swallowing the silver bullet to hide the evidence of his mission. The Americans were immediately suspicious and arrested the man. They summoned a nearby doctor, who gave the prisoner a tartar emetic to make him throw up the silver bullet, which he did. Then he swallowed it again.

“He now refused a second emetic, when Governor Clinton threatened to hang him on a tree and search for the bullet with the surgeon’s knife,” wrote Benson J. Lossing in his January 1874 silver bullet article in the American Historical Record, which was reprinted in the May 1937 issue of The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum.

The second emetic was administered, and the prisoner threw up the silver bullet again. After inspecting the capsule and reading Sir Henry

Clinton’s message, the Americans knew they had a spy.

“On his almost immediate march to Kingston Governor Clinton took the spy with him,” Lossing wrote. “At Hurley, a few miles from Kingston, he was tried and condemned to death; and whilst Kingston was blazing from the touch of the British torch, the The “Silver Bullet” on display at Fort Ticonderoga.

Baronet’s messenger was hanged upon an apple tree near the old church in the perishing town.”

All was lost for Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga. While he waited in vain for Sir Henry Clinton’s troops, the American army swelled to almost 20,000 and surrounded what was left of the British army, about 6,000 soldiers. Burgoyne surrendered to Gates on Oct. 17, 1777.

Fort Ticonderoga displays the silver bullet in a glass-enclosed case on the wall in its museum. The capsule is about 5/8 inch from top to bottom. The extremely fragile piece of paper with the message from Sir Henry Clinton is stored in the museum’s archives. It is too delicate to handle, according to Fort Ticonderoga Curator of Collections Christopher Fox. The silver bullet and its enclosed message were owned for a while by Gen. James Tallmadge, who was one of the executors of Gov. George Clinton’s estate. The object then passed to Clinton’s son, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton. In 1858, Lossing found the artifact in the possession of DeWitt Clinton’s son, Charles.

“Can any reader of the Record tell where that bullet with the dispatch now is?” Lossing wrote in 1874.

By 1937, Henry O. Tallmadge had donated the silver bullet to the Fort Ticonderoga Museum.

FORT TICONDEROGA HISTORY

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On May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys crossed Lake Champlain from Vermont, surprised the sleeping garrison and overwhelmed them, making Fort Ticonderoga America’s first victory of the Revolutionary War.

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Facilities consist of the restored 18th century Fort and a museum with more than 30,000 objects. In addition, there is the Log House Restaurant and Museum Store. The Thompson-Pell Research Center houses the administrative offices and the research library with more than 13,000 rare books and manuscripts. Below the Fort on Lake Champlain is The Pavilion. Next to The Pavilion and open to the public are The King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga, the 18th-century garrison garden, a children’s garden, and the Native American garden.

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Conservation Schroon Lake Beach (Photo by Lisa Vallo).

By Tim Rowland

AT THE HEIGHT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, New York was obsessed with water. Even with the ascension of steam, waterwheels still powered many mills. By the early 1880s, hydro plants were starting to generate this new thing called electricity. The Erie Canal needed a near bottomless supply, and the economic boom created by the canal in New York City greatly expanded the population, which greatly expanded the need for drinking water.

Certainly there were people who would become known as environmentalists who supported protection of the great northern forests, but it was businessmen who pushed for creation of the Forest Preserve after learning that, without it, the great sponge of the Adirondacks would cease to provide a dependable water source needed to keep the canal flowing.

The need for more power and more potable water for cities led to a building spree of dams. In 1903 the Hudson River Water Power Company completed a dam on the Hudson at Spier Falls, which provided power for Glens Falls, Albany, Troy and Schenectady, and at the time was the fourth largest dam in the world. Such was its success that the developers began nosing around for a potential location for another, even bigger impoundment that would control flooding and serve the water needs of New York City.

And their eyes fell on a pair of bookend hills through which flowed the Schroon River. Dam up that cleft and the water would back up for miles, making one big impoundment out of Schroon, Brant and Paradox lakes.

“It would have been quite the lake,” said Mark Granger, who is a descendant in spirit if not in blood to a group of Schroon Lake partisans who may not have called themselves environmentalists, but knew for a fact they did not want their favorite hotel submerged beneath 10 feet of water.

Eurasian Watermilfoil, a common aquatic invasive plant found in New York State (Schroon Lake Association).

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SCHROON LAKE’S PROTECTORS This summer marks the 110th anniversary of the Schroon Lake Association, which today protects the lake in ways its founders would never have dreamed of, fighting not dams, but threats presented by invasive species, road salt, sediment and Harmful Algal Blooms.

With such a rich history of preservation, perhaps it is no surprise that “Schroon Lake the hamlet”’s identity is tied so tightly to “Schroon Lake the lake.”

It maintains a broad and proud constituency among people who have grown up there, those who vacation there and those who have just passed through. “It’s amazing how many people have spent time at Schroon Lake,” Granger said.

And, in an age when there is much that divides, Schroon Lake unites people of all persuasions and backgrounds, even groups that are historically at odds. In Schroon, it’s the mission of everyone to protect the lake and its watershed.

Eurasian Watermilfoil (left) next to natvie Bladderwort (right) (Schroon Lake Association).

College students working summer jobs at the Schroon Lake inspection and boat washing stations have discovered invasives on craft destined for local launches — and have been justifiably proud of giving service to the community they love.

Citizen scientists know virtually every inch of the lake bottom, having mapped it with sonar and ferreted out vegetation including milfoil which, left to its own devices, could cause tremendous damage to the lake’s ecology.

And the lake’s champions have developed broad support from other lake associations and town governments, generating funds and performing a lot of hard work. “We’ve spent days and days working on the lake,” Granger said. “But of course there are a lot of things that are a lot worse than that.”

The big reservoir envisioned for Schroon wound up in Sacandaga. Instead, Schroon was on the cusp of a growing conservation movement that by 1911 was emerging, but still a work in progress. Lawmakers who thought they had protected the wilderness by establishing the Forest Preserve in 1885 found that they needed to write the language into the state Constitution, after loggers were able to get around the initial law — often with the cooperation of the State Forest Commission.

Then in the first decade of the 1900s, great wildfires swept the Adirondacks, fed by exceptionally dry summers and mountains of slash left by the loggers. It was the unusual heat of those summers that drove so many people to Schroon Lake to begin with, and in the summer of 1908, as some of the worst fires raged in the park’s interior, The New York Times mentioned Schroon Lake as “The rendezvous for the comfort seekers, hundreds of New Yorkers having arrived at various hotels” and participating in the latest fad, a pre-breakfast dip in the chilly waters.

Thus, the future of Schroon Lake was written by the environment, if not necessarily an environmental movement.

Schroon Lake Association Vice President Glen Repko said the organization’s founders were more focused on protecting their vacation retreats than with what today would be known as environmentalism, but that they

were similar in the sense that they felt the natural beauty was worth protecting.

“The founding fathers didn’t put their heads in the sand,” he said. “There has been an active organization ever since to keep an eye on things.”

Granger said the same tenacity that saved the lake back then is being employed today in the fight against invasives. And, as then, it has taken a broad constituency of like-minded individuals across a broad social and political spectrum.

“We have a great board made up of people who care about the watershed, and we’ve had tremendous cooperation with elected and appointed officials,” he said. “We knew the only way to win this fight was to pool our resources.”

Most notably, perhaps, politicians and scientists have been on the same page.

“People from all over the Adirondacks sat down and had meetings just about every month; we saw how serious the situation was with invasives,” Granger said. And, as happened in 1911, the lake’s defenders were able to portray the situation in economic terms. Spending $100,000 on prevention beat spending $4 million on remediation.

Schroon Lake has a watershed larger than Lake George, Repko said, and the organization, along with the East Shore Association and the Paradox Lake Association, works to keep it all pristine so that waters from the lake will be safe to drink.

There was a day when, like most towns, sewage from Schroon ran directly into the lake, untreated. The association was central

to getting that changed. Today, the list of dangers is more subtle, but broader. They include pesticides, fertilizers, failing septic systems, road salt and invasive species. The boat launch is staffed with stewards who eyeball incoming boats and send them to a nearby boat washing station if there are signs of unwanted hitchhikers. The program has worked, and Schroon remains one of the most invasive-free of the Adirondack Park’s big lakes. Even troublesome milfoil is in retreat, and annual harvests of the aquatic plant — which can quickly grow to the point of choking out natural species — has been cut by more than half.

Repko said protection of the lake makes sense both environmentally and economically.

Property along a lake choked by algal blooms, for example, becomes less desirable and less valuable. That’s been born out in the number of people from a number of states across the country who have taken notice of the lake’s call, and moved to Schroon for summers or for the year around.

Going forward, climate change will continue to be one of the association’s main challenges, Repko said. Fertilizer and warming waters feed algal blooms, and sediment from floods decrease water depth, hurting the lake’s ability to clean itself. “We have a hundred-year storm about once a year now,” he said.

But the Schroon Lake Association will be there to meet the challenge. “It’s always been something worth taking care of,” Granger said. “It’s taken a lot of vigilance, but I think we’ve done a pretty good job.”

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By Tim Rowland When he had reached that point in life where retirement is a consideration, Jerry Jenkins, by his own reckoning, had written everything he wanted to write and said everything he wanted to say. What was left to do? Nothing much, except a stunning, multi-media field guide to the plants, sedges, grasses, mosses, shrubs and trees that make up the great northern hardwood forest of which the Adirondacks is a part.

Aided by a “dream team” of some of the best known names in Adirondack conservation, Jenkins’ guides are a meticulous and artful take on dog-eared field guides — many of them produced half a century ago — that have ridden untold miles in the packs of nature lovers, both amateur and professional.

And as crowds of hikers threaten to damage the ecology of the Adirondack High Peaks, this new set of modern educational tools just might help inspire a new style of hiking, one aided not by binoculars, but by loupes that open up a beautiful new world that goes unseen by adventurers intent on bagging a mountaintop.

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Jerry Jenkins (Photo provided).

The Northern Forest Atlas field guides are unique in that they enhance the natural beauty of the plant, rather than diminish it. Whereas field guides have historically relied on clinical sketches or flat photos, Jenkins and his team have built specialized equipment to ascribe infinite detail to some of Mother Nature’s finest creations.

It hasn’t been easy. A camera lens with a wide depth of field puts everything in focus, but captures only two dimensions. A macro lens captures fine detail, but blurs all but a fraction of the subject.

Jenkins’ solution has been to use a homemade jig to hold both specimen and camera, then shoot photo after photo, moving the macro lens a millimeter at a time.

These photos, dozens or even hundreds of them, are then stitched together to produce an image of vivid clarity and depth. “You will be very surprised at the detail you can see,”Jenkins said. “Only a tiny amount of each photo is in focus; the computer picks out the best bits and makes an image of it.”

The result, much of which is available for free download at northernforestatlas.org, makes plant identification easier, not just for botanists who are having difficulty telling their mougeotii from their lapponicum, but for civilian nature lovers wanting to know the difference between a red oak and a chestnut oak.

The hyper-realism depicts even the thatch among fronds of moss and the tiniest of insect nibbles on a maple leaf. And in electronic format, these details can be magnified at will. “Put these into your iPad and life will never be the same,” Jenkins said.

Traditional field guides have struggled to present their material in user friendly ways, and Jenkins acknowledged there is difficulty in finding formats that allow for efficient identification, and balancing imagery with text. The atlas uses a series of keys and icons that allow the user to speedily navigate to the right species, and helps identify species not just through, say, leaves, but also buds, flowers and seeds.

The atlases also separate themselves from those of old by putting plants into environmental context and explaining why they exist where they do. Even the shape of a boulder can determine the flora that attaches itself to its sides.

Jenkins said the traditional view of nature envisions the landscape as a cabinet and plants as teacups dutifully stacked within.

The reality is more complex and more interesting. Plants do an intricate dance with soils and water flows that make them more of an active participant in their environments.

“I see the landscape not as preconfigured … but as a plant engineering project and a plant legacy,” he said.

This legacy also encourages comments and discussions, making it a “living document” where newbies can ask questions and those with advanced degrees can debate theory.

For Kathy Woughter, philanthropy and outreach coordinator for the Adirondack Land Trust, it rekindled a love of botany and ultimately led her to refocus on how she saw the woodlands.

“I’ve always been an avid hiker, but this changed the way I hike,” she said. “I was somebody in search of views, and I didn’t get as much pleasure from flat hikes, or hikes by a stream.”

Woughter had studied biology in college, but felt she didn’t have the next-level skills needed to make a career of it. She went into education at Alfred University in western New York instead, but the call of the Adirondacks led to a job with the land trust, where she was surrounded with botany experts whose enthusiasm was contagious.

They handed her a loupe, and said “this will change your world.” Together with the atlas, it has.

“Acquiring knowledge is a lot easier because of the guides,” Woughter said.

“Of course I caught the bug — I had seen the views, now I wanted to see what was at my feet.”

Because the guides come in multiple formats, including electronic, it’s no longer necessary to carry heavy guides.

Powerful search functions are far more helpful than field guides of old, which relied on photos or sketches alone. For example, the search for a moss can be narrowed by choosing whether it was found on a tree trunk, boulder, rotting stump and such.

Trees can be searched depending on elevation, or the type of ground they’re growing in. And, on a tablet, the high resolution photos can be blown up to provide identifying detail. In its website preface, the site notes that “The Digital Atlases are both useful and beautiful. Students and naturalists can use them for identification, review, and to meet plants they haven’t seen. Anyone who loves plants will enjoy the imagery, and to see thousands of details that have never been photographed clearly before.”

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“We had maybe three tv stations, no coaches, and our parents let us roam the neighborhood for pickup games in any of the three sports.

We made our own rules and chose our own teams.”

By Tom Ducatte

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Unlike today, life for kids growing up in the 1960’s in northeastern New York, while not always easy, seemed far less complex. For many of us, at least until graduation, there was an outside world of Vietnam, the draft, war protests, civil rights, and the women’s movement that didn’t play a major role in our lives yet. Al Rowlson, a Vietnam Veteran and early 1960’s Plattsburgh High School graduate (HOF 2017), put it this way, “We had maybe three tv stations, no coaches, and our parents let us roam the neighborhood for pickup games in any of the three sports. We made our own rules and chose our own teams.” Of course, there were no cell phones or internet. Our parents set forth boundaries we didn’t dare cross. Many North Country kids who liked basketball probably have their own stories like my older brother Jim and I. In the dead of winter we would venture out into the cold close to a frigid Lake Champlain to our garage on Bridge Street and play one on one and HORSE shooting games. We didn’t mind playing in the cold but needed to have a small heater courtside to keep the ball from going flat and to keep the games going. We were busy with the business at hand, school and playing sports. For many of us, that business in the winter was basketball.

The three North Country basketball leagues in the 1960’s got some help with transporting their athletes and fans with the completion of the controversial (environmentalists) Adirondack Northway in 1967. Traveling to and from games for the Clinton County Interscholastic League of the north, Champlain Valley League in the center, and the Mountain Valley League to the south now for the most part would be more efficient.

Controversy also reared its head with schools merging to save money and make educational programs more beneficial to students. Some schools decided their present schools facilities needed updating. It seemed the emergence of the Northway hastened these changes. Caught in the middle of these educational transitions were the classic little “Hoosiers” gyms that provided communities so much game night fun for so many years. The 1960’s into the 1970’s saw the end, (some still there but not for games) of quaint little gyms like Dannemora, Champlain, Rouses Point, Mooers, Ellenburg, Westport, PHS, Ausable Forks, Keeseville, Willsboro, Westport, Elizabethtown, Mineville, Moriah and Port Henry and more. Each of those gyms had its own personality, a smorgasbord of nooks and crannies with its own distinguishing smells. Don Huntley recalled playing at the Moriah gym in 1960 with the scorekeeper chalk in hand changing the scores on the chalkboard in the balcony section in one of the corners, very Wrigley Field like. (Do we really need fancy scoreboards?) As a PHS freshman in the 1967-68 year at a Port Henry game I was able to see our Head Coach Ray Holmes get spit on from the balcony section by one wise guy. Coach calmly removed his coat and continued with the task at hand. After PHS lost a one point game 66-65, the fans serenaded us off with a few objects being thrown at the bus as we left the old classic gym the last time. (The Viking fans treated everyone equally, win or lose) There was no 3 point line back then, if there would have been, it would be close to midcourt with those small gyms. There was no 35 second shot clock. Crafty coaches then could run the clock for a better shot or just take time off the clock against a superior foe. Yes, the old gyms were not the safest of places. Often fans in the first row had their legs inbounds on the floor. The limited space from the backboard to the wall for players driving to the basket was dangerous. Action on the small courts was fast and intense for players and fans. Those places were so special with fans packed shoulder to shoulder screaming ricocheting off the floor and walls that made one’s ear drum quiver. If someone had the wherewithal to photograph or videotape those places back then

how valuable would they be today for local sports buffs?

St. John’s Academy after completing an undefeated football season, kicked off the 1959-60 basketball season stopping a powerful Coach George Kimball’s PHS team’s 26 game winning streak. The Johnnie’s won that season’s Catholic League title, City (Sorenson Trophy) as well as the Class A Championship when they beat MAI 60-58. Tony Buffa, who would go on to become a Brother at MAI, led the Mounties with 23 points in a losing cause. Rivalries between MAI, OLVA, PHS and St. John’s were intense but for the most part clean. Maybe something to be said for the referees, administrators and fans. SJA had a wonderful team with Tom McFadden, Bobby ball 1959-60 St. John’s Academy basket team. Photo provided.

Lamare, Mark Slattery and Tom Loughan. A graduate of the 1959 season Mike Mannix would play alongside many of these great players. Mannix would go on to become an important part of North Country sports known for his radio calls for WIRY sports over the coming years.

Mike Mannix, 1959 St. John’s Academy. Photo provided.

SJA followed up their previous year in the 1960-61 season with another very good team dominating local basketball winning the City, Catholic and League Championships.

Loughan, the slick ball handling guard, along with the Irish’s young Pat Gregory, an aggressive rebounder in the paint, had another strong season. Pat might as well have put a sign up that said enter at your own risk when you got near “his” basket. After graduation Loughan would walk out behind St. John’s, climb over the chain link fence, and roll his basketball down the hill to Plattsburgh State’s Memorial Gym and showcase his talents to the locals for four more years. Also entering that school that year was another local star Steve White of Cadyville and Saranac Central.

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The Purple Tide of St. Joseph’s of Malone in the 1961-62 season claimed the Catholic League title beating St. John’s 59-51. St. Joe’s ended the season at 20-0. Dave Durham led the Tide in scoring that year. Bob Lamare, a class act, who played without vision in one eye, had a great season, directing St. John’s as a playmaker and leading them to a 16-5 record.

In the Class A 1961-62 sectional playoffs PHS defeated a very good Beekmantown team.

The Eagles were led by Jack Glasgow, one of the all-time greats at that school. PHS high scorers were James Defayette and Francis Wilkins with 21 and 19 points. Beekmantown climbed the ladder to respectability very quickly since they began their program in 1958 under Coach Elton Jodin. Joe Proctor, a great 3 sport athlete, transferred in from OLVA after his freshman year and helped make Beekmantown a tough opponent during the early 1960’s.

The Port Henry Porters defeated Keeseville the same year to capture the southern division of the CVL. Mineville, Port Henry and Moriah (then the Sherman Collegiate Institute) all merged in 1962 but stayed a time longer at their respective schools until 1968 when the new Moriah school opened.

The three towns were a microcosm of America’s melting pot. Many of the Viking players were children of the hard working immigrants of the iron ore mines. As their parents coming into a new culture had to adapt to change, the students at the new Moriah school had to adjust too. The stress in the three communities became apparent in the head coach hirings and new school board.

The board selected 3 people from each community. Each town had one head coach selected to lead their sports. Steve “Whitey” Kazlo from Mineville would head the basketball team. Joe Gilbo from Port Henry would lead the football team and Sam Trepasso from the Sherman Collegiate Institute would coach the baseball club. Port Henry gym would be the home gym. There may have been some division in each town but all of us players remember Moriah’s teams back then knew you were in for a battle when you faced the Vikings in any sport. The merger the first year paid immediate dividends with the 1962-63 basketball quintet now the Moriah team capturing the Southern Division of the CVL with a 15-1 final record and beat MAI that year’s Catholic, City and CVL north champs by a score of 63-48 (Top) The mines and in the Class A championship.

Moriah schools were a blend of cultures (Frank Ron Dumas, a wonderful all Mussaw). (Middle) Ron around player, led MAI with Dumas MAI defends Terry Polhemus OLVA 20 points.

(Plattsburgh PressPort Henry’s Tom Gebo’s Republican). (Right) Carl King accepting rugged rebounding style trophy from OLVA along with Mineville’s Bobby Coach John Flynn (Plattsburgh PressMitchell, a future Vermont Republican). football running back star, led the Viking charge that season along with Ralph Paden and John Lahtinen, would later become a judge 54 Nort NorthCountry Country Living i ing Magazine g ine Vol. Vol.10 10No. No.1 2

in our local community. Gebo (honorable mention SUNY 2 years) would go on to team up alongside Cardinal great Tom Chapin and play for the successful Coach Joe Jastrab (204-119) and have his name called for the next two years on the Plattsburgh hardwoods by the great announcer Larry Arcarese.

The NBA’s logo for basketball is Jerry West, the memorable player from West Virginia and Los Angeles Lakers all time great. If the city of Plattsburgh in the 1960’s had its own logo fittingly it might go to one of the finest all time great athletes in local sports history who stood atop Fox Hill. Carl King, from Our Lady of Victory Academy, was the complete all around athlete. Joe Staves, an OLVA basketball and baseball standout from the 1960’s, called King the best three sport athlete he ever saw in the area. A quarterback for the Foxes, on November 10, 1962, King threw 4 touchdown passes in a big upset over St. John’s Academy 26-25 to capture the CVL Division 2 championship, finishing the season with a 7-1 record and putting a damper on St. John’s title hopes in the other division. The two Flynn brothers, Head Coach John and Assistant Don “Shorty” were at the helm for OLVA that year. The unspoken 11th commandment for the maroon and gold Foxes back then playing for those two legendary coaches was thought shalt not forget or fail to execute thy assignment on game day. In baseball, King was an outstanding shortstop but it was in basketball where he really stood out along with teammates Richie Daul (Dannemora transfer) and Terry Polhemus. The Foxes went on a 3 week run in January of 1963.

On January 12, they upset PHS 51-49. The following week they dumped an undefeated MAI team 53-43 at the little Bailey Avenue gym. On the last weekend of the month King went off on Beekmantown scoring 42 points to set an all time city scoring record up to that point and OLVA pounded the Eagles. The Fox Hill legend was a special kind of athlete and great person everyone should have seen play.

OLVA 1962-63.

Photo provided.

In 1964 the Mounties captured the Catholic League championship with a 5650 victory over St. Joseph’s of Malone. St.

Joe’s had defeated MAI 3 times earlier in the year. MAI was led by George MacKinney with 21 points and he also had a great defensive performance against Mike Moutz the St. Joseph’s star.

Plattsburgh High School in the 1963-64 season finished a strong season with a 21-3 record, but lost a close Class A championship game to Peru 58-56. The Indians were led by 3 sport standout and captain Terry Ladd with 16 points. One year later PHS with pretty much the same squad in place could set claim to being one of the all time great teams in North Country basketball history. Probably the 1964-65 team’s best trait was its chemistry and closeness. With a strong bench they could go to their reinforcements during that season when the injury bug did eventually hit.

Many nights in the off season players would go over to Dr. Ira Rowlson’s outdoor lit court on the corner of Oak and Bailey Avenue and play pickup games. Jeff Burns, a lynchpin on that team, said Dr. Rowlson, a Tufts College graduate and college football player they called “Buzzy” and his wife Jane “never complained with the ball bouncing into all hours of the night.” Burns went on to say, “We rarely ran a set offense at PHS. Harry Yelle would set screens at the head of the key and Burns would run the baseline setting screens himself for the guards. The Hornets loved the fast break system Coach Kimball installed. To his advantage Kimball took his home schedule that year from the little gym located on Broad Street to Plattsburgh State’s larger facility to take advantage of their running game.”

PHS finished the year 23-1 losing only to a tough MAI team 68-54 who were led by Rich Wells’ 22 points. Anyone coming into Wells’ zone by the basket needed a hard hat.

MAI gave many teams problems with names like Steve Beebie (a future Plattsburgh State player), Mike Dandrow (a future University of Akron football player), Jerry Seon and Jerry Fiordalisi. A few weeks later Stu Key hit 2 free throws to save a 61-60 victory over the physical Mountie team. PHS that year in their Christmas tournament stopped Lowville, New York’s 23 game winning streak and beat Vermont’s eventual state big school semifinalist the Burlington Seahorses 56-45.

The 5 starters on that team went on to play college basketball. Jeff Burns, (a New York Yankee draftee) played 2 years of basketball at Rollins College in Florida, and was a starting catcher for the Tars baseball team. Harry Yelle went on to start at Brockport State. Stu Key was on the first five at Cortland State. Chris Rowlson was on the first quintet at Buffalo State and could brag he played against the great backcourt combo of Dave Bing and

Jim Boeheim. Mike Giambruno also played at Albany State. George Kimball would step down as coach right after defeating Peru in the Class A championship 63-59 in the 196566 season. The Kimballmen as Jim O’Neill called them were led by Geary “Stick” LaRocque, Bruce Stevens and Tom Herlihy. Kimball resigned his job in April of 1966 to take on another position at Averill Park High School in the Albany area inheriting a supervisory position and a team that finished 0-18 the previous year. It was reported that the PHS Board of Education wanted to do away with the successful Christmas Tournament and cut total games to be played to 14 without consulting the coach. Kimball spent 9 years at PHS winning 6 Section 7 titles and 6 CVL titles.

St. John’s Academy in the 1964-65 season defeated St. Mary’s of Ogdensburg 79-65 to win the Catholic League Championship. Mike O’Connor, Harry Canning, Dennis Trudell, Willie Watson, sophomore Tom Herlihy, Pete Hayden and Brian Poissant made up a strong team for Coach Barry Branon.

St. Joseph’s of Malone finished the 1964-65 season winning the regular season of the Eastern Division of the North Country Catholic League.

Led by the 6’4” Mike Moutz, the sharp shooting left hander and league leading rebounder.

Moutz, as a two years old toddler, had an accident at his father’s grocery store and lost much of his arm below the elbow.

Mike adapted over the years and was a great example for physically challenged kids. On the basketball team he would use the area just below his elbow limb to guide the ball while shooting, and for sure, developed a sensitivity in his left hand for shooting and tipping the ball on offensive rebounds. Occasionally opponents would get banged with his shorter arm. Yes, Mike knew how to take advantage of his disadvantage. Fiery Bill McNeill of OLVA, in a game at St. Joe’s, got tired of that short arm banging him one game and the two got into it and had to be separated resulting in a technical for McNeill. When rebounding Moutz adjusted by curling the ball into his wrist.

Wayne Lashway, then the MAI coach, said he probably was the best player he had seen in his time coaching in the area. One game in the 1963-64 campaign, Mike put on a show scoring 34 points and snaring 22 rebounds in

(Top) 1964-65 PHS after beating Peru for Section 7 championship (Photo provided) (Middle) PHS’s George Kimball at pep rally before Section 7 game vs Peru (Plattsburgh Press-Republican). (Left) SJA’s Dennis Trudell scores basket over PHS Harry Yelle 1964-65 (Photo Provided).

a win over MAI. Moutz shot golf in the 80’s.

St. John’s was consistently good throughout those years because of Barry Branon and his assistant coach Fuzzy Fesette who arrived in 1959 fresh out of the Marines.

Fesette, a prison guard at Dannemora working the 11pm to 7am shift, would come home, shower, and head over to the school to volunteer his time on Saturday mornings during the season. Future Irish players would roll the wooden bins where the balls were stored from under the stage and spend the day honing their skills to keep a successful and proud program rolling on. Fuzzy coached in a game against PHS’s Ray Holmes that Mike Mannix called the best he ever saw in the area at the PHS gym. SJA beat PHS 7674 in an overtime win in February of 1971.

PHS and SJA shared the CVAC title that year.

The three Carpenter brothers John, Larry and Mickey made large contributions at St. John’s in football, basketball and baseball programs during the second half of the decade.

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You couldn’t talk about PHS basketball in that decade without bringing up the name of Tom Herlihy. After his sophomore year Herlihy transferred in from SJA. Herlihy was a deadly outside shooter with a soft touch around the rim. In a basketball game vs St. John’s on March 17, 1967 the Hornets at home were trailing the Johnnie’s at the half 34-23. PHS went on a 25-2 run in the 3rd quarter winning 73-57. Herlihy finished with 40 points. All in a night’s work for “Tommy the Gunslinger.” He seemed to be at his best and more motivated when he faced his old pals from lower Broad Street. Two months later the gifted Herlihy would hit a home run over the left field wall in a baseball win over the green and white at Bailey Avenue.

Peru dominated North Country basketball in 1966 through the 1969 season thanks to Bill Finney and younger brother Bob. Simply put, if most of us were taking a class in Basketball 101, the Finney’s were in a graduate class of Basketball 501. Both about 6’5” tall, gifted and dedicated to the game, these two brothers took North Country basketball to another level. Bill in the 1966-67 season averaged 27 points per game and 17 rebounds. Mike Rock and Charlie Rhodes chipped in to solidify a terrific team. Competition for the Indians came from MAI and Saranac that year. MAI had a formidable team with Jeff Wells and Gregg Ducatte, who matched up well with the older Bill Finney, but lost to the Indians 61-58, in the second matchup of the year.

Head Coach Harry Brown directed the Indian team to a 2 year record of 38 wins and 2 losses. Sports writer Jim O’Neill described in the local paper on February 16, 1968, a controversial moment for Brown and the Saranac Chiefs. When Peru visited Saranac earlier in the year Coach Brown kicked and broke part of a bleacher at the new Saranac gym. Afterward, he apologized and offered to pay for it. In the next game at Peru, Saranac fans were heckling Brown still over the incident. A Saranac player said something to

“By gosh, they played basketball

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Brown during the game and Brown grabbed the player by the shirt. The player’s father went after Brown and a brawl was under way to eventually be brought under control by school police. Neither school took blame for the incident. Saranac that year put together a formidable lineup with Roger Long, Jim Sears, Bob Murphy, Roger Dubray and Chris Cringle.

The best years for Morris Towne’s Chiefs were yet to come in the early 1970’s with Saranac teams that would surely be mentioned with the all time great North Country teams.

Darlene Long, Roger’s wife, recently revealed one of Coach Towne’s winning secrets.

“Coach wouldn’t let his players sit with their girlfriends before a game. He didn’t want them distracted.” She went on to praise the Saranac Coach for his steady hand and calm demeanor. Peru’s Brown resigned after his second year and took a position as an assistant basketball coach at Quinnipiac College. Bill Finney went on to play ball at Syracuse and later had a successful career coaching women at Marymount College in Virginia. Bob followed his brother to Syracuse and eventually made his way back home to play for Plattsburgh State earning SUNYAC all first team his senior year. The 1968-69 season saw a young Ithaca College graduate, John Nyenhouse, take over the helm at Peru and continue their winning ways guiding them to a 19-1 record capturing a league title and a Section 7 championship. Bob Finney and Matt Galarneau, a smooth point guard and future Potsdam State player led the way.

Peru over that 3 year period steamrolled to a 57-3 won loss record.

The Go To Your Momma MAI Mounties under Coach Dick Perry rattled off three straight Catholic League Championships in 1966-67-68, ooh ahh. In 1965-66 John Burdo and Jerry Seon tallied 17 and 15 points, along with a talented Terry Meron’s 8 points led MAI past St. Mary’s of Ogdensburg for the first of three titles. In 1967 the blue and gold defeated St. John’s 55-45. Jayvee coaches

and for that matter freshmen and elementary school coaches usually don’t receive the recognition they deserve. In this case over those years MAI was very fortunate in having Nubby O’Connell, a great player in his own right and an outstanding coach for their JV club over the years. The Mounties winning tradition from an undefeated football team carried into 1968 with many of the same names from the previous season defeating St. John’s Academy again with a 88-78 victory for the Catholic League title. Gregg Ducatte and Jeff Wells combined for 49 points. This team was solid with jumping jack and future Plattsburgh State player Gary Favro, four sport standout Randy Senecal, Mark Fortin and Tim O’Connell rounded out the Mounties.

In the 1968-69 season St. Mary’s of Ogdensburg defeated St. John’s for the Catholic League championship 82-69.

The purple and white were led by Tom Lightfoot’s 26 points. Larry Carpenter, Rob Watson and John Hart were the leading scorers for the Irish.

In the 1969-70 season Ray Holmes’ talented Hornets caught fire at the end of the year and went on to win the Class A championship as PHS (14-7) defeated Ellenburg 75-59. Jim Fritz’s Bobcats were just coming off a huge 73-72 semifinal upset of Moriah. The 17-1 league champs Vikings lost 73-72 when Charlie Shatraw had a last second steal and scored the game winner.

(One of Moriah’s best teams with Slattery, MacLean, Goralczyk, Lahtinen, and Beebie).

All five starters for PHS scored in double figures including Mike Francis, Steve Wood, Dale McNally and Mike Yelle. Ellenburg on their roster sported names like Chatraw, Steve Chilton, and Jim Shutts. Coach Holmes, a Chateaugay native, cared for his players and his players’ reciprocated, always playing hard for him. The Hornet leader stepped down in 1976 fittingly at the top of his coaching career with his son Jeff, Joe Cardany, Leo Ryan and Jeff Moskowitz by his side. PHS dominated

(Left) Mike Moutz jumping center for St. Joseph’s of Malone (Malone Observer). (Below) Coach Fesette looks on as Coach Branon addresses 1965-66 St. John’s team. (RIght) PHS’s Tom Herlihy goes for a layup against St. John’s Pete Hayden in mid 60’s game (Photos provided).

Section 7 and CVAC that year. It should be noted that leader and captain Kevin Daugherty from the year before helped set the table for the black and orange’s big year.

In the Mountain Valley and CCIL leagues the little engine that could, the Westport Eagles, chugged their way through the mountains and valleys of that conference and when it was over had a two year winning streak of 38 games into 1960. That run ended with a 62-43 loss in a Class B semifinal game against Crown Point in March of 1960. Those teams in that streak were led by Don Huntley, Rick Frisbie and Doug Anson. Bringing up the loss of 61 years ago to Crown Point recently Huntley simply said, “Don’t remind me.” Most of us who played many sports have a memory or two of a game we’d just as soon forget.

Huntley went on to coach the successful Elizabethtown soccer and basketball programs in the late 1960’s and early 70’s.

In the 1961-62 season, the Mountain Valley champs the Schroon Lake Wildcats, 15-1, defeated the CCIL titleholder the Lyon Mountain Miners 51-47 for the Class B title.

Roger Dubray led the Miners with 24 points.

In 1962-63 Ellenburg, the CCIL champs ran out to a 19-0 record only to lose to Bolton Central for the Class B championship 68-47.

Bolton was led by Ken Pratt’s 19 points. The Bobcats’ two top scorers were Allen LaFave and Larry LaBarge both with 19 points.

Willsboro in 1963-64 was both the Mountain Valley and Class B champs in defeating Dannemora 69-62, led by Len Costin’s 32 points.

Champlain, playing out of the CCIL league in the 1964-65 season, won the championship with three very good players in 6’2” John Niles and teammates 5’8 Gary Molleur and 6’4” Randy Couture. That team won all 19 games until stepping up in size into the Class A playoffs losing to Peru 65-54. The Indians played without a young Bill Finney on this night. John Rock, Scooter Giroux and John Ingram solidified a very athletic CVL team.

Don Huntley’s Schroon Lake claimed the Class B title during the 1964-65 season beating Dannemora 62-37. Jim Jenks paced Schroon Lake with 22 points.

Dannemora in the mid to late 1960’s took no prisoners unlike their neighbors just up the hill in a run of four consecutive CCIL titles and a 1966 Class B championship. The school was but a few steps from the famous manhole cover from where the 2015 famous Escape at Dannemora took place. Very few visiting teams escaped victorious at the little gym on Barker Street back then. During that dynasty Coach Dick Cole’s Black Knights stepped onto the court with players like John and Jim Recore (twins), Tom Welch, Jack Kiroy, Pip Lafountain and Butch Wing. Hal Recore, a member of those teams and older brother of the twins, said the team would make the short trek to the Clinton County Correctional facility and practice to get used to playing on a larger court. Tom Welch almost spilled the beans about a game when the twins circumvented the rules with their identical looks but in the end he wouldn’t break the Black Knight Code of Silence. In the 1960’s Dannemora, a high academic school and Saranac were in merger discussions which created for some families difficult decisions about their children’s education. The school lost numerous athletes to primarily Plattsburgh private schools.

Names like Canning, O’Connor, King, Couture, Daul and more left that school for various reasons including a chance to play football, a sport such a small school like Dannemora couldn’t provide. Those four years supplied Black Knight fans with memories for life.

Westport’s Coach Grover Moore’s club won back to back Class B titles in 1967 and again in 1968. The 1967 team defeated Dannemora 58-41, and the 1968 team defeated Wells 48-41 led by Bruce Anson’s 19 points.

Coach “Jungle Jim” Lacey in the 196869 season put his young Panthers on his back and swung from victory to victory

(Far Left) PHS Coach Ray Holmes 1967-68 season. (Middle) DHS 1966 CCIL champs, L-R, Coach Cole, Bryon Wing, Tom Welch, Jack Kiroy, John Recore, and Jim Recore (Plattsburgh Press-Republican). (Left) Dannemora’s Jim Recore guarded by Westport’s Gary Anson 1966 Class B title game. DHS won 65-60. (Plattsburgh Press-Republican).

ending in a great season for the proud little border town. Mooers defeated Dannemora in a sectional Class B semifinal 70-66 then went on to defeat Schroon Lake 71-56 for its first title in 25 years using an effective press for the big comeback win. Ron Rabideau’s 19 rebounds and 22 points led the way with Jack Gonyo chipping in 24 points.

Of course, when all their high school careers ended, players from that decade went their own ways. Some volunteered for Vietnam to fight that war and some did not. While most returned home, some were not the fortunate sons. Many found jobs and many were off to college. All left to hopefully use the lessons that basketball and other sports provided.

The Catholic League folded in the late 1960’s, which set the stage for Plattsburgh’s three private school’s to close years later. Gone were MAI, OLVA and St. John’s. Not only great rivalries gone by the wayside but schools that produced great contributors back into our society. More change occurred as the sports headlines would now be shared with other sports like hockey and the girls sports and young women who were now finding their footing in athletics through the help of Title IX. It’s worth mentioning here the example of Title IX’s impact as evident with Plattsburgh’s own Gail Ricketson, who went on to earn a gold medal in the women’s eight rowing in the Montreal Olympics in 1976.

Surely those early years that Al Rowlson described created a solid foundation for sports, academics, interaction with others, making good decisions, and later life. That said, somewhere basketball’s inventor James Naismith’s might be looking down saying, “I’ve seen some great players in the 1960’s from all around the country but my favorite are those boys from that cold snowy area up in New York State, I think they call it the North Country. By gosh, they played basketball the way it was meant to be played and coached.”

Many thanks again to Randy Senecal for local sports information.

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what used to be

By Talia Perrea

(Above) The inside of a B-47 wheel well. (Right) The B-47 and FB-111 in the Clyde Lewis Air Park. Photos by Talia Perrea.

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“Have you ever got a chance to smell an airplane?

You’ve got to do this, you got to smell an airplane,” this was one of the first things retired Lt. Col. Frank Baehre said to me.

After a short walk to the wheel well of the B-47 located in the Clyde Lewis Air Park on the old base in Plattsburgh, Baehre encouraged me to take a whiff. The lingering smell of hydraulic fluid, oil, rubber, and other various lubricants filled the air.

“What amazes me is that it still smells like jet,” Baehre said.

The B-47 on display hasn’t flown since 1958, and yet it still smells like it just landed at the base after a long flight.

Now the B-47 just serves as a reminder of when the Plattsburgh Air Force base used to be fully functional.

Clyde Lewis led the push to get the Air The Plattsburgh Air Force base originally opened in 1955, Force base in Plattsburgh. but the push for the base was made after World War II. Clyde Lewis, a bomber pilot in World War II campaigned for the base at Plattsburgh.

There was public outcry in response to the campaign for the Air Force base. In 1946 the barracks on the “old base” were turned into Champlain College. If the Air Force were to come back to Plattsburgh, the college would’ve been forced to leave which resulted in protest against the Air Force returning.

In 1953 The Department of Defense reclaimed the barracks for national defense, resulting in the closure of Champlain College.

“During the great air force build-up in the early 1950s, Plattsburgh was designated one of the locations for a strategic air command bomber base. I believe the base proper construction

(Below) Picture showing an FB-111A taxiing out to fly. In the background is the base water tower. The darker brown stripe on the tower with lighter tan on the top and bottom reminded many people of a ‘burger. Some of the folks in the 528th Bomb Squadron came up with the idea of climbing up on the tower and painting lettuce, cheese, and a sliced tomato, but never carried it out. Photo provided.

Although the Air Force base didn’t arrive in Plattsburgh until 1955, Plattsburgh served as a location for military bases long before that.

During the Spanish-American War, the base was a major army post, this was also when most of the brick buildings on the “old base” were built.

The base has also seen its fair share of navy ships over the years due to its closeness to Canada.

JOINING THE AIR FORCE Since it was built, the Plattsburgh base has played an important role in people’s lives. It’s been an employer, a community, and even a haunted attraction. The point being, the base has always been there and when it reopened in 1955 as an Air Force base, it cemented that feeling in the community.

The base was as much a part of Plattsburgh, as Plattsburgh was the base. Baehre was stationed in Plattsburgh twice during his 23 years in the Air Force, which is how Baehre came to know and love the North Country.

Baehre first got involved with the Air Force while he was attending SUNY Buffalo, “At SUNY Buffalo you had your choice. You could either take Freshman Phys Ed or Air Force ROTC. I don’t look like anybody who would do Phys Ed if they didn’t have to, so I joined the Air Force ROTC.” Baehre scored very high on his pilot aptitude test, and he credits that to being a model airplane fanatic. With his high score on the aptitude test, Baehre gained the attention of the Air Force.

“So by scoring very high, and this was again during the peak of the Vietnam war, this was the early fall of 1966, by scoring high when the air force needed to send people to Southeast Asia they said, ‘Why yes Cadet Baehre, come right in. We’ve got a good deal for you.’ The way it turned out was my last two years at SUNY Buffalo were paid by an Air Force ROTC scholarship. When I graduated from college in May 1970, I came right on active duty that summer, and went to Air Force pilot training as my first assignment,” Baehre recalled.

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started around 1952 to 1953 and by 1955 the runway was open and aircrafts started to arrive shortly afterwards. Now it’s Plattsburgh International airport,” Baehre recalled.

Baehre’s final flight took place in a FB-111. He was an instructor at the time and was giving a training flight to someone else who was going to be an instructor.

“The last time I flew, my final flight in an FB-111 was in that jet,” Baehre said motioning to the FB-111 that is on display in the Clyde Lewis Air Park.

Both Baehre and his wife are originally from Buffalo, when Baehre retired from the Air Force in 1993, he asked his wife where she wanted to retire, she wanted to go home to Plattsburgh.

“My family, both my wife and I, are originally from Buffalo, but after being stationed here twice there’s something about the North Country, once it gets under your fingernails, you can’t get it (Top) A picture of Frank Baehre and out,” Baehre said. his son Frank taken immediately Due to his relocation back to after his “fini flight” or last flight in an FB-111 at Plattsburgh during the Plattsburgh after retirement, Baehre summer of 1990. It was a tradition to “wet down” the crew member was in Plattsburgh when the base, as after that final flight, so I look Baehre described, put the final lock on drenched. (Above) Generic shot of an FB-111 crew getting into the the gate in 1995. airplane to fly a training mission.

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involved in a museum is that when you’re doing this stuff, you’ve got your own stuff to put in the museum,” Baehre stated.

The museum is typically open seasonally from May to October, Wednesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. but has been closed since the end of the 2019 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

PAFBM plans to reopen on August 1 to resume its normal operational hours.

to see the base closed. Not only was it a major employer for the civilians who worked here on base, but it had also been part of the base community. A large portion of people assigned to Plattsburgh did live on the base, but an also large portion lived in the Plattsburgh area. We were the friends and neighbors of people in the community. In the course of just a few years, you could probably measure it in a few months, everybody was gone,” said Baehre.

The base closing was the end of an era.

When the Air Force left, they took a lot of people with them, but the memories of the base still lived on. The Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum, referred to as PAFBM, serves as a reminder of what the base used to be.

INSIDE THE MUSEUM The museum welcomes members of the community to come to the museum to learn about their history.

“Cause the Air Force was an intricate part of life here in Plattsburgh from the time it opened to the time it closed. So we’re inviting members of the public to see their history,” Baehre said on why people should visit the museum.

Besides just being an intricate part of the area’s history, the PAFBM contains artifacts from eras such as the Cold War. An Atlas missile launch control console was donated to PAFBM by Diversified Upstate Enterprises LLC. This console came from a former Atlas missile Silo in Lewis, New York, and has been programmed to play the Atlas missile launch light sequence.

The console also represents the Plattsburgh Air Force base being part of the 556th Strategic Missile Squadron, which is now an inactive Air Force unit.

The Vermont Air National Guard also recently donated a never-before used B-52 pilots ejection seat. This is the first artifact

REMEMBERING THE BASE PAFBM first opened in 2014 with the help of Baehre, Tyler Beck, Dave Deno, and Denis Treacy who donated their time and efforts to making the museum a reality. The museum is housed in what used to be the Army Quartermasters Office back when the Army inhabited the base. You can still see the markings on the walls from where the brands were kept, for branding the Army’s mules.

“In our museum, we’ve got the spots on the wall, that we did not cover up, that shows where these branding irons were hung by number,” said Baehre.

PAFBM is run by volunteers, with all of them being in the Air Force at one point or another, and almost all of them having had jobs at the Plattsburgh Air Force base.

“One of the cool things about being

that the museum has from the B-52 era.

PAFBM has much more than just historic artifacts, they have actual items from the Plattsburgh Air Force base, such as their cardboard simulator.

The cardboard simulator is almost identical to the cockpit of a FB-111A and was used to help pilots in training to become familiar with where all the switches, knobs, and controls were.

While nothing in the simulator works, it allowed pilots to learn where to put their hands and feet as they practiced normal and emergency situations.

Today the cardboard simulator acts as a great way for people to “experience” sitting in an FB-111. For those willing to dress up the museum has flight suits and helmets visitors can put on, providing for a perfect photo opportunity whilst in the cardboard simulator.

The museum is a hidden gem in Plattsburgh. Tucked away at 31 Washington Road, the marvels of this iconic era at the base are hidden inside a brick building. All it takes is a step through the door to unlock indepth and personalized storytelling of what the Plattsburgh Air Force base used to be.

Since every volunteer at the museum is a veteran, each tour given is unique to them.

One thing is for certain though, you’ll leave the museum with more knowledge than you came with.

“That’s all I’m going to run you through today, you’ve been sipping through the firehose of knowledge,” Baehre said before we parted ways.

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1. A display of the Atlas missiles at the Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum. 2. A sign in the Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum. 3. The Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum was first opened in 2014. 4.

Where they used to hang the branding irons when the Army was on the base. 5. An Atlas Missile launch control console was donated to the museum.

6. An artifact in the Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum. 7. The flag in the Clyde Lewis Air Park was dedicated to those who served at the Plattsburgh Air Force Base. 8. The cardboard simulator that they used to use on the base to train new pilots.

Photos by Talia Perrea.

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By Lou Varricchio For local fossil enthusiasts, Vermont offers a fascinating selection of outdoor “in situ” field sites and indoor museums for examining the remains of prehistoric creatures up close.

While personal collecting of fossils is forbidden on most federal and state land, private landowners will sometimes grant permission to fossil collectors on their land; all you have to do is ask.

Admittedly, the educational hobby of fossil hunting is not what it used to be. Thanks to unscrupulous fossil poachers who spoiled it for the rest of us, many treasured collecting sites are now closed. But with a sharp eye, and knowing the right formations where fossils can be found, you can still “bag” your specimens in the Green Mountain State.

Today, fossil hunting with a camera is being encouraged more like an option than collecting and hoarding Earth’s limited supply of prehistoric treasures. Below, we’ll present a few locales where you can find fossils for yourself, but again, always with the permission of the landowner.

While most of Vermont’s rocky terrain is metamorphic and bereft of fossil material, the Lake Champlain Valley is where most of the sedimentary rocks (with fossils) appear at the surface.

Regarding the state’s Ice Age fossils, several important discoveries of the Pleistocene Period have been made in Vermont. From bones of a wooly mammoth found in Mount Holly to a bone of a prehistoric cave bear found in a talus cave on Mt. Horrid in Brandon 64 Nort NorthCountry Country iLiving ing Magazine g ine Vol. Vol.1010No. No.1 2

Gap, eagle-eye collectors might well find other skeletal remains of Ice Age beasts that roamed here 10,000 years ago. Abandoned gravel pits, talus caves, and stream beds are good places to search.

Unfortunately, rocks of the Mesozoic era are not exposed in Vermont. They were stripped away by glaciers during the last Ice Age. However, just across the state line in Massachusetts, along the Connecticut River, you can find dinosaur trackways laid down in mud (now shale) along ancient rift valley lakes. Check the internet for directions to visit these public fossil sites.

FYI: This is a reminder to collectors that landowner permission is required if you are collecting on private property. Please be respectful so that sites will continue to be accessible. Most sites on state and federal land are no longer open to collectors.

A Vermont wooly mammoth fossil, discovered in a railroad right-of-way at Mount Holly near Rutland, is still helping paleoresearchers understand what life was like in the Ice Age. The fossil was unearthed during railroad construction in 1848. Today, a historical marker stands near the discovery spot on Route 103, three meters beneath the ground surface, the prehistoric elephant was found.

According to Dartmouth College researchers in March, radiocarbon dating of a rib fragment from the Vermont fossil shows that the beast walked the icy steppes of prehistoric Vermont in 12,800 B.C. That year, the researchers suggest, maybe around the same time, too, that the first humans arrived in the Green Mountain State.

“It has long been thought that megafauna and humans in New England did not overlap in time and space and that it was probably ultimately environmental change that led to the extinction of these animals in the region but our research provides some of the first evidence that they may have actually co-existed,” said Nathaniel R. Kitchel, a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology at Dartmouth.

The Mount Holly mammoth, Vermont’s state terrestrial fossil, was discovered in the summer of 1848 in the Green Mountains during the construction of the Burlington and Rutland Railroad.

The Mount Holly, Vermont, mammoth was found during the 1800’s near this historical railroad marker along Route 103. Researchers plan to return to the site this summer to locate more fossilized remains (Photo by Lou Varricchio).

“One molar, two tusks, and an unknown number of bones were excavated from a hilltop bog near Mount Holly,” according to a March 4 Dartmouth news release. “Over time, the specimens became scattered across several repositories, as they transferred from one collection to the next. A rib fragment from the Mount Holly mammoth became part of the (Dartmouth) Hood Museum of Art’s collection and some of the other skeletal materials are now housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and the Mount Holly Historical Museum.”

Kitchel said he came across the old Vermont mammoth rib fragment in Dartmouth’s offsite storage facility.

The researcher unpacked a big bone that was colored brown, probably stained while buried in an Ice Age bog.

Kitchel reported that he had a hunch the bone he found was from a mammoth. “...The tag... read, ‘Rib of fossil elephant.

Mt. Holly R.R. cut. Presented by Wm. A.

Bacon Esq., Ludlow Vt.,’” he said. “This was rather serendipitous.”

Kitchel, along with Jeremy DeSilva, an associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, made a 3D scan of the bone.

The sample was then sent out for radiocarbon dating and radioisotopic analysis, the men noted.

Radiocarbon dating determines just how long an organism has been dead based on its concentration of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope that decays in a known period of time.

“The Mount Holly mammoth was one of the last known occurring mammoths in the Northeast,” says DeSilva. “While our findings show that there was a temporal overlap between mammoths and humans, this doesn’t necessarily mean that people saw these animals or had anything to do with their death but it raises the possibility now that maybe they did.”

Both men cautioned that there’s scant evidence that prehistoric humans hunted

MEET CHARLOTTE WHALE A cornerstone of the University of Vermont’s Perkins Museum of Geology in Burlington is the famous Charlotte the Whale fossil.

The nearly complete skeleton of a small arctic beluga whale (scientific name Delphinapterus leucas) was discovered by local resident John G. Thorp near the town of Charlotte in 1849.

And just like Mount Holly’s mammoth, of the approximate same age more or less, the whale’s remains were unearthed during the building of the railroad. Luckily for science, the astute Mr. Thorp convinced the railroad foreman to stop work in the area to allow for collection of the whale bones.

Meanwhile, Thorp contacted naturalist Zadock Thompson of the University of Vermont to study the bones.

“In 1826, naturalist Zadock Thompson helped to establish the College of Natural History, dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge by collecting specimens for a zoological, geological, and ethnological cabinet,” accroding to the Perkins staff.

“Though the college ceased to formally exist in the late 1800s, his legacy lives on as researchers continue to work with the collections he founded (including the Charlotte whale bones) using both traditional and molecular methods.”

Fondly named “Charlotte”, the official state fossil was found in blue clay nearly 10 feet below the surface during construction.

It is reported by the Perkins Museum that railroad workers were clearly puzzled at the time of its discovery. How did a whale get beached over 150 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean?

“The skeleton dates back to around 12,500 years ago when an arm of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Champlain Sea covered parts of Vermont and New York,” according to the Perkins staff.

“The tremendous weight of one mile thick glaciers during the ice age had depressed the land in this area of Vermont. As the glaciers retreated at the end of the ice age, this area was left below sea

or scavenged mammoths in Vermont or elsewhere in New England.

Kitchel and DeSilva suggested that more of the iconic Vermont mammoth’s remains may still be hidden at the Mt. Holly site awaiting discovery. The pair will likely be exploring the original 19th-century fossil locality this summer.

You can also check out a museum-quality replica of the mammoth’s tusk and molar in the Mount Holly Community Museum located in the village of Belmont 12 miles southeast of Rutland. Call 802-259-2460 for directions and for museum hours during the pandemic; details are uncertain at the time of the writing.

The extinct Mount Holly mammoth’s closest living relative is the modern Asian elephant.

FYI: In 1993, the Vermont state legislature designated “Charlotte Whale” as the Vermont state fossil (see below). But in 2014 the designation was amended to add the “Mount Holly Mammoth”, too.

The former is the official state marine fossil, the latter the official state terrestrial fossil.

The prehistoric remains of a beluga whale found in a railroad cut in Charlotte, VT resemble those of modern Belugas (Leon Mitchell/public domain).

level and the Atlantic ocean flooded in for approximately 2,500 years.”

According to UVM, the bones of the whale, still in their original orientation, continued to be buried in layers of fine sediment along with the shells of clams and mussels and fragments of plants that inhabited the same waters.

According to Vermont Public Radio, “Thompson died in 1856.

Sometime after, Vermont state geologist Albert David Hager bought the skeleton from Thompson’s widow, to reconstruct and present it in Vermont’s state natural history collection in 1861. He found the specimen to be in bad shape, and, while preparing it “created something that would look interesting to the public”. There have been attempts to reconstruct it to make it anatomically correct, but Perkins Museum of Geology curator Jeff L. Howe wrote that it was ‘more important as a historical specimen than as an anatomical specimen’; therefore, it has remained in the form in which Hager assembled it. The skeleton survived a flood of the museum in 1927.”

A UVM Perkins display placard reads, “Following the retreat of the glaciers, glacial rebound lifted Vermont slowly, raising the whale site above the level of the sea. The marine waters drained back into the retreating ocean and the basin filled with fresh water from the neighboring rivers. Plants and trees colonized the land, while caribou and elk roamed in great herds...”

FYI: You can visit the exact location of the 1849 whale find. Not too far west of the center of Charlotte village, you’ll see a metal state historical marker standing on the site. To see Charlotte’s skeleton, a visit to the UVM Perkins Museum on the university’s Burlington campus will satisfy your prehistoric curiosity. Call 802-656-3131 for directions and hours during the pandemic; details are uncertain at the time of the writing.

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GOODSELL RIDGE FOSSIL PRESERVE A magnificent natural, outdoor fossil site known as the Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve is Vermont’s best place to see ancient sea life still in situ where it died approximately 450 to 480 million years ago.

Located on Isle La Motte in Lake Champlain, this one-of-a-kind paleontological preserve offers year-round free access to the scientifically important Chazy Fossil Reef.

The ancient tropical reef, possibly the oldest coral reef ever found, is a United States National Natural Landmark and spans three Lake Champlain islands in Vermont.

“Strata from successive periods of time may be viewed across the landscape due to the tilted orientation of the sedimentary rock layers. The presence of fossils from a continuous-time series allows for the observation of faunal succession,” according to geologist Dr. Charlotte Mehrtens, the world’s expert on the reef. “On Isle La Motte, the oldest fossils occur at the southern end of the island, with progressively newer layers visible toward the island’s north end.”

Dr. Mehrtens reports that among the reef’s specimens are stromatoporoids (sponges), gastropods (snails), cephalopods (mollusks such as squid), echinoderms (sea urchins), brachiopods (bivalve mollusks), coral, bryozoa (colonial reef-building animals), and stromatolites (blue-green algae colonies).

Wear sturdy shoes and spray for ticks when you visit the Chazy Reef at Goodsell Ridge during the summer months. Ample parking is on-site and you can follow a selfguided tour of the fossils and then if you wish, ramble through former farm fields on a network of walking trails on the 85-acre site.

Vermont’s famous Mount Holly mammoth fossils are still being studied (Public domain).

Volunteers sometimes are on hand to answer questions at the visitor’s center. To locate the parking area, enter 69 Pine St, Isle La Motte, into a GPS device or online mapping application. A good old-fashioned paper map will also show you the route to Isle La Motte but here are directions if you just can’t wait.

From the south take Exit 17 off of I-89 and get on US Route 2 W toward the Champlain Islands. After crossing the bridge between North Hero and Alburgh, look for Route 129 on your left. Follow Route 129 to Isle La Motte.

This road then becomes Main Road. Follow this south until you see Quarry Road and the Historical Society on your left. Take Quarry Road for a quarter of a mile. You will see a large brown and white sign for Goodsell Ridge Preserve on your left. Pull into the driveway and park on the grass or along the driveway.

From the north take US Route 2 E. Turn right onto Route 129. Follow Route 129 to Isle La Motte. The road then becomes Main Road. Follow this south until you see Quarry Road and the Historical Society on your left.

Take Quarry Road for a quarter of a mile.

You will see a large brown and white sign for Goodsell Ridge Preserve on your left. Pull into the driveway and park on the grass or along the driveway.

Remember, that while fossil collecting is prohibited here photographing fossils is just as fun and strongly encouraged.

FYI: When the Chazy Fossil Reef was alive, it was located in the tropics near Earth’s equator. Due to continental drift over millions of years, today’s Lake Champlain region drifted to the northwest to its current (chilly and humid) latitude.

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The world’s oldest coral reef outcrops in Vermont and New York along Lake Champlain. Pictured: A giant fossilized stromatolite colony at the Lake Champlain Land Trust’s Goodsell Ridge Fossil Preserve, Isle La Motte (Edward E. Meyer/public domain)..

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Button Bay on Lake Champlain takes its name from unusual clay “button” concretions found in the area. The clumps reminded colonial-era residents of the molds used to make the metal buttons on military uniforms of the day.

According to the late Vermont geologist Harry W. Dodge, “The rocks which underlie Button Bay State Park can be seen along the small creek which is located just south of the Park. It is suggested that the visitor walk southward (to the right if approaching the road from the lakefront) along the main park road until the first culvert beneath the road is reached.

Looking down the creekbed toward the lake, one can readily see the older rocks.

Fossils are found in these tilted rocks which tilt or dip toward the northeast and ‘strike’ northwestward. Fossils date the rocks underlying Button Bay park, too.”

The most abundant fossil is a trilobite, but even this ancient arthropod is not easily found in these ancient limestones and lime shales, according to Dodge’s report on the park. Dodge spent time studying the geology of Button Bay and wrote the definitive state booklet, now in the public domain online, about the park’s rocks in 1962.

The fossils at the park date to the Ordovician Period and are found in rocks or sediments at the site. Among the abundant fossils found are trilobites, shells, and bryozoa.

“The rocks of the Stony Point formation (the rocks which underlie most of the park) tell of warm marine waters, a past sea, bordered by relatively low land areas. The fossils contained in the Stony Point formation attest to the presence of relatively shallow marine waters,” according to Dodge’s account.

Dodge noted that the fossils contained in the Stony Point attest to the presence of relatively shallow marine waters. And the fact that the park’s Ordovician rocks are tilted and broken by faults proves that major earth movements took place locally many moons ago.

Please call 802-475-2377 for directions and hours during the pandemic; details are uncertain at the time of the writing. The park is located at 5 Button Bay State Park Rd. in Ferrisburgh.

FYI: The trilobite Triarthrus found at Button Bay is an average size trilobite (up to about 5 centimeters or 2.0 inches) and its moderately convex body is about twice as long as wide, excluding spines.

HUNTING FOR FOSSILS By respecting the wishes of landowners, there are still localities where amateur fossil collectors can search for ancient treasures.

In the Lake Champlain Valley of Vermont, invertebrate marine fossils abound.

Search for fossils (Ordovician-age trilobites, brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids) along Route 125, west from U.S. Route 7, near Bridport towards the new Lake Champlain Bridge (aka Crown Point Bridge) to New York.

A good place to search is by parking near the bridge and examine rocks along the Vermont side along the lake. Fossils are fairly abundant here and elsewhere along the lakeshore north and south of the bridge.

Hunt for trilobites (a crablike critter), bryozoans, and lingula (a brachiopod) on the way to Grand Isle. Follow the road to Grand Isle Ferry but don’t turn off when you reach Ferry Road. Continue on until you reach the next road. Turn right. With some patience, the fossil black carbonized remains of trilobites and shells are found in rocks exposed on both sides of the road cut.

To hunt for more bryozoans, brachiopods, and trilobite fossils, follow Route 2 west through South Hero. After the road turns right past the post office, turn left onto Sunset View Road. A quarry is on the left. Ask permission to collect at the last farm on the left.

Another fossil location is north of Button Bay at the northern end of Lake Champlain: Park at the fishing access at South Alburg, Vermont, located off Route 2, then walk along the shore north of the access. Many fossils (trilobites and brachiopods) can be found in the local limestone and shale. Thanks to the Champlain Overthrust fault, older fossilbearing rocks are situated above newer ones.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: You can also check out Vermont’s varying collections of fossils, too, an excellent activity on a rainy summer’s day.

MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE, NORWICH If you love dinosaurs, this summer is perfect for Vermont visitors. The Montshire Museum of Science is hosting “The Summer of Dinosaurs” with an amazing opportunity to

explore the lives of dinosaurs, big and small.

Kids (and adults) can enjoy hands-on exhibits about dinosaur eggs and babies, dramatic dinosaur fossil specimens, and a series of events and programs for all ages.

AMAZING ALLOSAURUSES See the Amazing Allosauruses, featuring a life-sized adult (23 feet long!) and a juvenile Allosaurus, in Montshire’s main atrium gallery.

These carnivorous theropod dinosaurs lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the late Jurassic period. During this time, they were the largest predators, placing them at the top of the dinosaur food chain!

TINY TITANS: DINOSAUR EGGS AND BABIES On the second floor, visitors can catch a rare and exciting glimpse at the lives of dinosaurs through their eggs, nests, and embryos in Tiny Titans: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. This remarkable exhibition offers an astounding array of authentic dinosaur eggs and nests collected from all over the globe—including those of each of the major plant and meat-eating dinosaur groups.

The Monshire Museums is located at 1 Montshire Rd. in Norwich. Call 802-6492200 for directions and hours during the pandemic; attendance details are uncertain at the time of the writing but the dinosaur exhibits will be open.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT PERKINS MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY, BURLINGTON The Perkins Geology Museum is where you’ll find the skeleton of Charlotte the Whale on display along with an awesome slab of Triassic age dinosaur footprints from New England’s Connecticut Valley. There are other fossils, too, along with Vermont rocks and minerals.

George Henry Perkins (1898-1933) served for 35 years as the eighth Vermont state geologist. He subsequently became the dean of UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences. His great legacy lives on at the small but top-notch geo facility. Today’s UVM Perkins Museum of Geology was established in 1962 in the Perkins Building (a former engineering building)and houses the Vermont State Collection, the oldest state geologic collection in the country.

The museum is dedicated to presenting geologic concepts and processes to students, scholars, and the public in a manner that both informs and entertains, so groups and individuals of all ages are welcome. Admission is free. Call 802-656-3131 for directions and hours during the pandemic; attendance details are uncertain at the time of the writing.

The early dinosaur Coelophysis roamed New England during the Triassic period. This specimen is on display at the Monshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont (Lou Varricchio).

A fossil Ordovician-age trilobite identical to those found at Button Bay State Park in Vermont (Dwergenpaartje/ public domain).

Students collecting fossils along an Ordovician limestone outcrop. Vermont has several excellent localities for Orodivician-era marine fossils (Mark A. Wilson/public domain).

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Some house-keeping items BEFORE YOU START:

• If you or your passengers are prone to motion sickness, it’s a good idea to take an over-the-counter medication before setting off on this trek.

By Lou Varricchio

Get into the gap: Green Mountain vista (From the nek).

A vermont ROAD TRIP TO REMEMBER Climbing New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington via the popular auto road is more than just a major tourist attraction; it’s a technical challenge that has frustrated tourists over the years.

Even in summer, Mt. Washington’s crazy weather patterns can be frustrating when flash snow squalls, ice fog, and high wind can close the road to would-be auto mountaineers. Plus the price to climb the mountain isn’t cheap.

But there are other mountains, closer to home and without climbing fees, that will inspire even the timidest of summer motorists.

Time to leave the freaky summer weather of New Hampshire’s famous high peak behind in your quest for Roadside America.

Here is our suggested day-long mountain route in Vermont that is easily accessible to all licensed drivers. The route offers paved roads with magnificent vistas and scenic stops. We suggest this summer road trip in a convertible or with the hardtop’s sunroof/moonroof open to fully experience the thrill of a Green Mountain traverse.

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THREE VERMONT MOUNTAIN GAPS IN A DAY: Three of Vermont’s beautiful mountain gaps are easily traveled by car or truck. Appalachian Gap, Middlebury Gap, and Brandon Gap break the heavily forested Green Mountain range with winding, paved roads that make driving fun again, the way motoring was meant to be. Consider bringing along a picnic lunch on your auto trek. You can select one of the three gaps for a break. There you can enjoy your meal or snack in cool air and mountain top silence.

Lincoln Gap, located a few miles north of Appalachian Gap, is a fun drive, too, but since it is not accessible on a paved road, it falls outside the purview of this article. Also, we don’t recommend climbing Lincoln Gap unless you have a four-wheeldrive or all-wheel-drive vehicle that likes to get dirty.

Smugglers Notch is perhaps the state’s most popular drive on the slope of Mt. Mansfield, the state’s highest peak. But we’ll cover that route in a future article. For now, why not try the three gaps route?

• Pharmacy products with the formulation meclizine work best for vestibular (inner ear) problems that are the cause of motion sickness. Since there are many twists and turns on this route, your backseat passengers may come to thank you for the suggestion. Please make sure your personal physician ok’s the use of any medication before taking it.

• Make sure your automobile tires are inflated properly and according to the owner’s manual recommendation.

• Bring a mobile (cell) phone along just in case (use only when stopped). If you are a AAA member, bring along your membership card in case of road trouble.

• Take along drinking water and an open bag of snacks (and never try opening a bag of

Start your auto trip climb of the three gaps first with 2,369-feet-high Appalachian Gap, or App Gap as some locals like to call it, beginning in the town of Bristol. Follow Route 116, approximately three miles north of town, to the intersection of Route 17, then turn right onto Route 17.

Route 17 is a paved, two-lane highway and climbs the Green Mountains from the west side. You will be traveling eastward in a long winding climb to the summit of the gap and then descend, past the Mad River Glen, on the east side of the Greens’ Stark Mountain.

Continue on Route 17. You’ll drive through South Starksboro and the hamlet of Jerusalem with its general store that’s worth a stop for coffee or other refreshments. You’ll also see a road sign for Marijke’s Gardens, a beautiful cold-hardy flower and plant nursery that’s worth a visit if you like gardening. Route 17 continues to climb steadily for several miles until it turns right and begins its winding ascent of Baby Stark Mountain to the gap summit within the Green Mountain National Forest.

County. The gore’s population was counted Route 100 in Irasville (named after Ethan at 30 at the 2010 census up from 12 in 2000. Allen’s brother Ira Allen). There, turn right “In Vermont, gores and grants are and continue south along the Scenic Route unincorporated portions of a county that are 100 Byway to the village of Hancock.

Before you reach Hancock, you will not part of any town and have limited selfgovernment (if any, as many are uninhabited),” drive through Warren and then south through according to American Factfinder. “The gore beautiful Granville Gulf back in Addison was chartered by the Vermont General County. You will stay on Route 100. In case you Assembly on Nov. 4, 1780. It is named for Maj. didn’t know, the term “gulf” is a New England Elias Buel, a local settler from Connecticut... colloquialism meaning gorge or canyon.

Buel was charged retroactive taxes on the According to the Vermont Department of mountaintop grant, a debt that only resolved Forests, Parks, and Recreation, “Granville Gulf by the sale of all of his lands. He left Vermont Reservation protects 1,171 acres on either to settle in New York.” side of a six-mile section of Vermont Route While parked at the gap, take a look below 100 in Granville. The area is managed by the guard rail. In the hollow below is a small the department and traverses the Granville alpine pond surrounded by spruce and balsam Notch. The land extends about seven fur trees. It is home to lodge-building beavers miles along the streams, from the border of Addison County with Washington and serves as a watering hole for moose of County south to about a mile all sizes. Depending upon luck, you north of the town of Granville. may spot a mama moose and It includes the 80-foot Moss calf drinking at the pond.

Between gaps in Glen Falls, which is visited Several communications Hancock, Vermont by a short walk off Route towers are visible on the (Doug Kerr).

100. The Moss Glen Falls ledges at the gap. These Natural Area is a 5-acre are used for various state-designated Natural wireless comm needs such Area. A 20-acre oldas mobile telephones and growth stand of red spruce weather radio broadcasts. and hemlock has been The Long Trail, a 272-mile designated as the Granville hiking trail running the length Gulf Spruce-Hemlock Stand, a State of Vermont, crosses App Gap. You may see long-distance hikers with heavy Natural Area.”

A few miles south after leaving Granville backpacks cross Route 17 on their way Gulf you will enter the town of Hancock in north or south.

Don’t expect views to the east although a narrow and shady mountain vale. Turn as you make your descent to Mad River Glen, right onto Route 125 and begin the climb to Middlebury Gap. you’ll see what was hidden from above.

APPALACHIAN GAP Within two miles you will reach the summit of Appalachian Gap with its beautiful view to the west with the Adirondack high peaks on the near horizon. There’s a parking area at the summit with a protective guard rail to hold back any cars that haven’t been braked. Over the years, youthful visitors to App Gap have stuck their favorite travel, eco-messaging, and beer stickers all along the guard rail making for an unusual, spontaneous work of clutter art. If you don’t happen to like this type of graffiti, well then you’d need hundreds of gallons of “Goo Gone” to remove the stickers. Rest assured time and the elements will work just as well.

App Gap summit is in the unincorporated “town” of Buel’s Gore. Buel’s Gore is a “gore” (an irregular parcel of land) in Chittenden

GRANVILLE GULF & MOSS GLEN FALLS Now continue on Route 17 as it descends the ridge of Molly Stark and Baby Stark mountains in a series of switchbacks.

You’ll pass the Mad River Ski resort on the right. Continue on Route 17 several more miles until you reach the intersection of

chips while on a twisting mountain road).

• Carry a good paper Vermont road map. Free maps, provided by the state tourism office, are available in many diners and convenience stores. Never use a phone to navigate while driving.

A car GPS system is helpful but always be cautious.

TEXAS FALLS & PLEIAD LAKE At 3.1 miles from the Route 100/125 intersection you are back on the Green Mountain National Forest land. This also the turn-off for the scenic Texas Falls Recreation Area that is worth a quick stop.

Turn right onto Forest Road 39 and travel a short distance to the parking lot.

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(Below) Green Mountain overlook along the Scenic Route 100 Byway (Jessamyn).

Close up of stickerplastered guard rail at Appalachian Gap (Lou Varricchio).

According to the Forest Service, “Texas Falls began to form at the close of the ice age some 12,000 years ago when ice melting from the glacier began to cut through the glacial till and bedrock. During the thousands of years that followed, high volumes of water enlarged weak points in the bedrock. These points were further enlarged and smoothed by the swirling of rocks and debris to form the potholes that are now visible at this site. The footbridge crosses what remains of a large glacial pothole. Geologically the area is part of the Green Mountain Anticlinorium, a major structural arch that was formed during the closing of the Iapetus Ocean some 460 million years ago and runs the length of Vermont.

Texas Falls is located on the Hancock Branch, which drains east into the White River and eventually into the Connecticut River.”

Return to Route 125 and continue west several miles until you reach the summit of Middlebury Gap. At the gap summit, you’ll see a parking area on the left. Just like at App Gap, the Long Trail crosses here, and day hikers or through-hikers park here. Pull off for a short trek to beautiful Ice-Age Pleiad Lake nestled within Middlebury College’s popular Middlebury Snow Bowl ski area.

At 2,000 feet above sea level, take Pleiad Lake Trail for a short, one-mile out-and-back trail to enjoy the little lake (which is actually more like a pond). The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, and birding and is best used from April until October. The trail is dog-friendly, but please keep your pal on a leash and bring a bag to clean up.

Return to your car and begin your descent to East Middlebury on Route 125 passing Middlebury College’s famous Breadloaf campus on the right. The campus has been home to many famous authors and poets including Robert Frost and Julia Alvarez.

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(Below) The site of former CCC Camp Rochester, along the West Branch River on Route 73 (Lou Varricchio).

Forest Dale Ironworks ruins (Magicpiano).

(Above) Moss Glen Falls (Tony Hisgett).

brings you alongside the rapid Middlebury River as you descend a narrow, rocky gorge to the base of the mountain. On the right, as the road emerges at East Middlebury is the Chipman Inn, the setting of CBS-TV’s “Newhart” sitcom in the 1980s.

Continue two miles until the intersection of Routes 125 and U.S. Route 7. Turn left (south) onto Route 7 and travel south to downtown Brandon.

In downtown Brandon, turn on to Route 73 East at the public library. Route 173 will travel through Forest Dale, past the site of the historic Forest Dale Iron Works on the left, and begin the climb to our final mountain passage, Brandon Gap. The Forest Dale Iron Blast Furnace was built in 1824 to replace an earlier furnace that was established in 1810 by John Smith to process iron ore that came from nearby ore beds, as well as from Leicester Hollow.

If you are interested in Vermont history, you can park and explore the few remaining ruins of the furnace. According to Vermont’s Agency of Commerce and Community Development, “The initial clearing of the site, abandoned since the mid-19th century, was undertaken in 1989 by the state. The effort included an archaeological study, which identified the stone foundations of worker housing and shops. In 1995, the stone structure of the furnace was repaired and stabilized, with a roof added to the top to protect it from the elements.”

MT. HORRID AND CLIFFS Just a few miles above the Forest Dale furnace site is the summit of Brandon Gap. Towering above the gap to the north are the rugged cliffs of Mt. Horrid. Once again, the Long Trail crosses this gap, just like we saw at App Gap and Middlebury Gap. There’s ample parking to view the cliffs and a small wetland below. It’s home to beavers, moose, deer, and bears. You can monitor wildlife with binoculars from the parking area

The rock that makes up the exposed face of Mt. Horrid was formed millions of years ago. Freezing and thawing cycles have broken off large fragments of the cliff.

These massive blocks form a talus slope at the base of the cliff. In 2004, several socalled talus caves were discovered for the first time, including a few fossilized bones of an Ice Age cave bear. The caves are offlimits to hikers and casual explorers.

You can take a steep, short hike up the cliff on the Long Trail to a beautiful overlook.

However, be aware that the overlook is closed from March 15 to Aug. 1 due to nesting falcons on the rocks.

As you descend Brandon Gap via Route 73, you’ll leave the cliff of Mt. Horrid behind you. Within a few miles, you will pass through the quaint settlement of Robinson (only a few houses) and reach the beautiful and narrow valley of the West Branch of the White River. Stop at the abandoned site of 1930s Camp Rochester on your left, just before Routes 73 and 100 intersect. From this site, you can see mountains of three Vermont counties, Windsor, Rutland, and Addison. The unusual rounded peak you’ll see to the left at the CCC stop is Little Pico, which stands at over 2,100 feet above sea level in Addison County.

Men of the Civilian Conservation Corps built the riverside camp during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The men helped build many of Vermont’s mountain roads as well as undertake forest conservation practices still used. The campsite has several interesting placards for you to read about local human and natural history. You’ll also see dozens of giant, dessicated tree trunks, all that remains of the devastation of Tropical Storm Irene in this valley in 2011.

When you reach Route 100 a few miles ahead, you are at the end of your three-gap journey. How you choose your way home is up to you.

Happy trails To you.

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the summer? What do I feed them? What if I suddenly stop feeding them?

Then I did some reading: Some people support feeding wild birds in the summer, while others do not. But the best part about feeding wild birds is watching them!

According to my light reading, birds are fine in the summer without you. If you still want to feed them, I came across some safety tips. Allaboutbirds.org says to:

By Mikaela Foster When I set out to write this article, I was very excited about my idea to share instructions on how to recycle beverage cartons (milk/juice) into bird feeders.

But then I started thinking: I’ve never done this. Do birds really need my help in

• Keep your seed dry because the hot, humid weather of summer can potentially cause mold. Mold can be bad for birds.

• Move the feeders occasionally to different spots in the yard so the bird waste doesn’t build up underneath.

• If you’re going to buy suet, keep them in cool, dry places.

• Clean your feeders every two weeks to keep them healthy and attractive to the birds. Since this is made out of recycled materials, you can throw away your bird feeder and build a new one.

• Be aware of bears in your area. Black

bears like birdseed. Another good reason to only do a two-week recycled summer bird feeder.

I encourage you to do your own research.

Another website, feederwatch.org, says this: • You could just plant flowers that birds are attracted to eating.

• If you provide food for the birds, also provide water in a low dish, like a pie pan, that you refresh everyday. Put a few rocks in there for the birds to sit on while drinking.

Having one that drips is even better.

• It would be kind to break up reflections on windows that birds think are a pathway through your house. I had no idea that “millions” of birds die every year from crashing into windows.

• And cats. Cats eat birds… who knew? My dog is more interested in squirrels.

So… after all that, if you stayed with me and you want to do a fun, little project with the kiddos, even if it’s a commitment free, one-time project you take down after two weeks, then here we go!

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(or brown packing paper)

(various colors)

(try black-oil sunflower)

INSTRUCTIONS Thoroughly rinse your carton with just water, let it dry as best you can.

With your black marker or pen, draw window shapes on all four sides of your carton, with the bottom of the window placed at 1 inch from the bottom of the carton. (I made my windows 4 inches high, but it’s up to you!)

For two of the opposite “windows” cut them completely out starting the cut with a utility knife if need be.

For the other two, put a line down the middle from top to bottom, and cut them out like doors, leaving enough of the “hinge” attached to be able to fold them open (for air flow, not necessarily for a bird to get in this way… but maybe tiny ones will want to.)

utility knife

LONG TWIGS

(optional)

(4 - 5”-6” long)

Use the craft paper; glue it on in order to completely cover your bird feeder with it.

Use your markers to decorate it! (or just leave it brown) Puncture holes under your windows and doors, and put a twig in each one, for a place for the birds to sit. (about 1 inch should be on the inside of the carton) Puncture a hole in the top of the carton, to string a piece of string through it and the spout, putting the top back on so the roof is closed. Tie a knot so the string is in a loop, this will be your hanging loop.

Ensure your feeder is completely dry, and fill it with seed up to the bottom of the windows. If you know it will rain, consider bringing the feeder inside since we’ve used paper, and the seed should stay dry.

Enjoy your birds!

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Clare + Carl’s Texas Red Hots stand serves a local favorite michigan hot dog, car hop style with the tray clipped to the vehicle window.

THE MICHIGAN HOTDOGSTANDS OF SUMMER

By Kim Dedam

“ IT’S NOT A CHILI DOG OR A CONEY DOG OR A ‘GARBAGE PLATE’ OR A SLOPPY JOE.”

IT’S A MICHIGAN. Like a rare species, the “michigan hot dog” has a very particular habitat.

And it’s not in the State of Michigan.

The unique flavor and its many moods are unique to Plattsburgh with adaptations running up and down the western edge of Lake Champlain, occasionally found at stands in Quebec or on the northern border corridor of New York.

The prospect of endless access to summertime “michigans” gives beach, boating, picnic and fishing expeditions a flavor all their own in this part of the Northeast.

A HUNDRED YEARS The michigan hot dog was derived from a meat sauce made by Eula Otis in Plattsburgh about 100 years ago. It was a recipe for hot dog topping that she brought from her former home in Michigan.

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Eula and husband Garth Otis opened the first “Michigan Hot Dog Shoppe” on Lake Shore Road (Route 9) in the Town of Plattsburgh in 1925.

Writers, food roadies and epicurean historians have dug through every twist and turn of local lore to place the day the flavor burst from a simmering pot onto a hot dog.

There is general agreement: In 1927, Garth and Eula Otis made Page 3 of the Plattsburgh Daily Republican when they moved their michigan hot dog “specialty shop” into the first floor of the Plattsburgh Theatre Building, also called the Weed Building, which held a high profile in the city center.

According to the daily news, the couple had operated their roadside stand on Lake Shore Road for two seasons: which means the michigan sauce arrived in 1925.

Photos by Kim Dedam

The savory, sometimes barely sweet meat sauce starts to simmer in big pots at hot dog stands when the last banks of winter snow slink away.

Even with ice sometimes bobbing on Lake Champlain, lines form fast at iconic roadside stops as cars pull in for the first “michigan” hot dog of the season.

Most customers agree: the long winter wait was worth that first bite.

It holds a warm, spicy promise of summer: a ground meat condiment made with secret spices served on a steamed hot dog in a fresh bun. Most people order them with onions buried and wavy line of yellow mustard on top. It’s not a chili dog or a Coney dog or a “garbage plate” or a sloppy joe.

amidst the Great Depression.

In July 1932, the Otis’s stand was held up by an armed robber at 1:42 in the morning, just after Eula turned out the lights. A police deputy’s son pulled into the parking lot and his headlights interrupted the thief who stole $6 at gunpoint.

Eula’s contribution to local lore was confirmed in 1980 by County Cooperative Extension Agent Jo-Anne Rascoe, who spoke with Eula’s niece. Eula had subsequently left Plattsburgh, moved to Brooklyn, but returned to visit and noticed the proliferation of michigan stands. Her niece, Mrs. John Peoples, assured the county agent that Eula did realize what she had started back in the 1920s.

NITZI’S

The tray at Clare + Carl’s Texas Red Hots with salt shaker and ketchup.

The move downtown put the hot dog sauce under the bright lights of busy city business.

But it was short lived there.

The Plattsburgh Theatre Building was damaged by fire on St. Patrick’s Day in 1928, and Eula returned her michigan stand to the Lake Shore Road lot they rented from the Warn family.

The popularity of Eula’s recipe, however, grew apace.

Only linked to the state of that name by migration, “michigan” is a nickname for what she originally introduced as a “Michigan Style Hot Dog.” Some have called it a variation of the “Coney” dog, but recipes are kept secret, and subtle variations of flavor have emerged in 100 years.

But what is true is that Eula came here by way of Michigan. The newspapers monitored her travel, it seems. Among brevities in the Plattsburgh Daily Republican on May 3, 1931: “Mrs. Garth Otis, who has been spending the winter in Flint, Mich., returned yesterday to Plattsburgh.”

It’s not clear why she spent that winter back in Michigan.

But she lived here for a time with husband Garth who was from here, one of three sons of Ella M. Otis, of Plattsburgh, according to Ella’s obituary published in 1947.

There were some rough spots for businesses

The michigan’s tale added volume two, though, when Irving “Jack” Rabinowitz, also known as Jack “Nitzi” Rabin, took on Eula’s charge at the Hot Dog Shoppe in 1935. He worked as a car hop for her, starting at age 15 and was there the night the robber held up the stand.

Eula taught him how to make the sauce. And for 38 years he carried on that tradition at the same stand on Lake Shore Road.

A local businessman, athlete and civic leader, Nitzi shared his story with the Press-Republican in 1984.

He explained that it was Eula who first served hot dog sauce in the “Michigan style.”

Nitzi recalled that Eula ran her business “like a tea house,” kind of “as a sideline.”

But he saw promise in the michigan’s popularity, and gave Eula’s stand his own nickname, “Nitzi’s.” The spot became a landmark in Plattsburgh.

McSweeney’s roadside drive-in diner on Lake Shore Road is located on the same site today.

In 1936, Jack “Nitzi” Rabin convinced his associate, the local owner of Bouyea’s Baking Company, to create a special bun for the michigan. It was sweeter and thicker (more cream) and sliced in the middle, not end-to-end, made like a tub to fit a hot dog smothered in meat sauce.

The michigan bun was standard companion to the local dog for almost 70 years.

Nitzi’s michigan stand earned its first round of competition when Jack Rabin went to war. He served with

the U.S. Marines during World War II. And when he went, in 1942, Clare and Carl Warn opened their Clare & Carl’s “Texas Red Hot” hot dog stand and diner just across the road from Nitzi’s.

Their sauce-covered hot dogs, referred to as “Texas” red hots, offered its own flavorful take on the michigan recipe.

Clare and Carl’s red hot summer hot dog stand has been leaning gently into the same spot serving michigans on Route 9 for 79 seasons this year.

Recipes for michigan sauce continued to spin off of the one Nitzi inherited from Eula.

Others have unique origins.

In 1951, restaurateurs Peter Larios and Gus Niforos opened Gus’ Red Hots at Cumberland Head on the north end of Plattsburgh.

Larios told the newspapers that his recipe came from his great uncle Gus Chafouleas, who created their sauce in the 1910s.

Gus’s was purchased this spring by Rob Steele, who saw the 70-year-old place as more than just a restaurant and didn’t want to see it torn down.

McSweeney’s “McS sauce” evolved in the early 1990s as the Farrells opened first at the fairgrounds and then three diners around Plattsburgh. They rebuilt one hot dog stand at the original site of Nitzi’s, which had been damaged by fire in 1990.

The small “Nitiz’s” sign still sits on top of McSweeney’s roof at Lake Shore Road.

And the Farrells still warn on their

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menu that their McS meat sauce may spill from the bun “due to the bun crisis of 2002,” when Bouyea-Fassetts Bakery was sold and the special michigan hot dog rolls were cut from the product line.

Gene’s michigan with onions and mustard.

GENE’S MICHIGAN STAND Another michigan sauce legend made its stand near the Lake Champlain shore some 50 miles south of Plattsburgh.

Gene’s in Port Henry was founded

by Eugene Williams around 1950. The business was named that year in local papers among contributors to Port Henry’s Labor Day Celebration.

It’s had three local owners.

Current owner, Marina Wojewodzic, reset the business back in time with her late husband, well-respected businessman Walt Wojewodzic, after he bought the stand around 14 years ago from Emil Karkoski.

In an interview in May, Marina explained that Gene’s first hot dog stand was somewhat south of its current Tobey’s and South Main St. location.

“Eugene ‘Gene’ Williams grew up in Port Henry and started the stand from a small building, the size of a fishing shanty. It was down here near where Walt’s Propane was,” she said.

Gene invented his own michigan sauce recipe and it’s been kept secret to this day.

But when Walt purchased the business from Emil, he also went further and purchased the name “Gene’s” and the proprietary michigan sauce recipe from Gene’s wife, Alice Williams.

“Walt knew Alice growing up, and when he was a kid, he remembered how he put his quarter on the counter to get michigans,” Marina said fondly.

“It was part of Walt’s childhood. He spoke to Alice about buying the recipe made back in the ‘50s. It’s as close as it can

be to their original.”

That recipe is what makes Gene’s a regional landmark, a bona fide destination.

“We can’t tell you the recipe,” Marina said with a hint of a smile in her voice.

“But we cook it with love.”

Like most michigan stands, Gene’s usually opens their counter in April.

“We get bombarded,” Gene’s manager, Danielle said. “Right now it has been crazy.

We have lines and lines of cars. We have people that come from everywhere, from Vermont, from Florida, from Connecticut, just for michigans.”

She said people who don’t know what a michigan is will ask about the sauce.

And inevitably, they’ll try the signature hot dog topping, with onions, buried, and mustard.

Gene’s brought on specialty New England hot dog buns, each cut on the side to hold the sauce.

“We cut thousands of them, thousands,” Danielle said.

“I remember when I was a child, it was the same thing. Nothing’s changed,” she said.

“The older generation of families remember us, it reminds them of when they were children. And it follows, generation after generation.”

Gene’s has a full summer roadside menu, with burgers and fries, onion rings, fried cheese, among dozens of items, and ice cream cones, shakes and sundae treats.

“We have a full menu, but most of the time it’s michigans that people want,” Danielle said.

Gene’s michigan hot dog with a Lake Champlain view.

MICHIGAN TRAIL Michigan sauce flavors return with summer winds up and down Lake Champlain.

Each stand and diner commands legions of fans that quarrel playfully at times over whether it’s chili or cumin that makes the sauce. Some profess their love of a sweet versus savory bite.

No matter indivudual taste preference, the fact remains: People travel hundreds of miles to this corner of the northeast for their favorite michigan.

It might have a name from halfway across America, but the legend was born and thrives here.

SOME OF THE AREA’S MICHIGAN AND/OR RED HOT HOT DOG SPOTS: • Gene’s Michigan Stand, 4201 Route 9, Port Henry • McSweeney’s Red Hots, 4704 Route 9, Plattsburgh • Clare & Carl’s Texas Red Hots, 4729 Route 9, Plattsburgh • Ethel’s Dew Drop Inn, 3901 Route 22, Willsboro • Gus’ Red Hots, 3 Cumberland Head Rd., Plattsburgh • Michigans Plus, 313 Cornelia St., Plattsburgh

The counter at Gene’s in Port Henry as the staff gets ready for a busy day.

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By Mikaela Foster We’ve lived in our house for almost 5 years and every year I have learned something new about what’s growing in our yard. This year, I was thrilled to find out some flowers we thought were just pretty weeds are called Wild Violets, and you can eat them!

I recently learned this from a new friend who is interested in foraging. I thank her for enlightening me about these delightful flowers! She showed me how easy Wild Violets are to identify. You can start finding them in early spring. With their distinctive dark green heart-shaped leaves, and 5-petal flowers, I have started seeing them all over my yard. I learned that the flowers can be anywhere from deep purple, to violet, to white and even yellow. The leaves vary a little bit in color as well. While they can survive in sunny spots and are a lighter green there, they prefer the shade and the deeper they are in the shade, the deeper the shade of green.

In addition to what my friend taught me, I also did some light research. Along with being edible, Wild Violets have medicinal properties and they contain beneficial nutrients as well.

You can make salves and such, but I won’t dive into that here. I will say it excited me when I learned they contain Vitamin C. I found three recipes to share with you that use just the flowers. The steps start off similarly, so I couldn’t share just one: Violet Tea, Violet Lemonade, and Violet Jelly. I’m thinking we will go back for the leaves soon, to add to our salads or to try them in a pesto.

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that might seem obvious to you all, but hey, maybe someone reading this didn’t think of one of these and would appreciate a gentle heads up. (I know I would.)

• Be 100% sure you know you’re picking a Violet before you eat it, and with children especially, I believe it’s important to teach them to ask an adult if they can eat it, before they even touch it. There are other purple flowers out there, ie: in my yard, and during our lessons about eating wild plants and even plants from the garden, I have stressed to our young children to always ask me first, just to be safe. (Along with the unknown purple flower, I’m also thinking of Rhubarb right now. It’s in the garden, but the leaves are poisonous.)

• Please be aware of where you are picking Violets. Play it safe and stick to yards and places you know well, and places you are absolutely sure they are chemical and pesticidefree.

• Don’t go on a Violet eating craze just because of this article. I don’t know what could happen, if anything, but I know you can overdose on vitamins… so… with anything that has medicinal properties, and if you are interested in Wild Violets for this purpose, I suggest doing your own research and learning more from the experts. And now to the recipes!

As soon as I had a chance, I grabbed a jar and my kids, and I taught them how to pick the Wild Violets, gently plucking just the flowers and dropping them into the jar.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Violet Lemonade: INGREDIENTS • • • • •

2 cups wild purple violets 1 cup water 1 cup lemon juice 2⁄3 cup honey 5 cups water

VIOLET TEA:

Simply place a tablespoon or two of fresh, clean Wild Violet flowers in your tea cup. Pour boiling water over them and allow to steep for 10 minutes. The tea will have a bluish color, but the more flowers you use, it deepens to purple. Strain out the flowers, add honey, stir and enjoy!

Add 2 cups of purple violets to a glass bowl.

Bring 1 cup of water to boiling in a small saucepan and pour over violets.

Let steep for 12-24 hours.

Strain out violets with a mesh sieve placed over a glass bowl with a spout. Press to release all of the juice from the violets.

Add the violet tea to a 2-quart (transparent) pitcher.

Gather the kids to watch and then slowly add the lemon juice to the pitcher. Watch as the lemon juice turns the tea to a beautiful pink.

Add 1 cup of water and the honey to the saucepan. Heat gently to dissolve the honey. Pour honey water into the pitcher.

Add remaining water to the pitcher. Cool in fridge, then maybe you’ll want to head outside to enjoy.

Violet Jelly:

A refrigerator jelly recipe. (note: I cut this recipe in half because I was dealing with short flower-picking attention spans. And I used lowsugar pectin… I messed up on the sugar though and added the regular Pectin amount, so it turned out way too sweet-but still delicious.)

(If you want to can this jelly to be shelf stable, you can do a quick search online for water bath canning instructions. It’s similar to all jellies, with a 10-minute water bath processing time.)

INGREDIENTS: • 2 cups Wild Violet Flowers • 1 Box (1.75 oz) Powdered • 4 Cups Water Pectin (Such as Sure-Jell) • 1⁄4 Cup Lemon Juice • 4 Cups Sugar

INSTRUCTIONS: Bring 4 cups of water to a boil and pour it over 2 cups of loosely packed violet flowers.

Allow the mixture to steep for 15 to 20 minutes to make a violet tea.

Add 1/4 cup lemon juice and strain the flowers from the tea. You should have roughly 4 cups of pink liquid at this point (as the flowers will be slightly wet and keep some of the liquid, even if squeezed out).

Pour the violet tea and lemon mixture into a saucepan and stir in the powdered pectin. Bring this mixture to a boil and boil hard for 1 minute.

Add the sugar (don’t add it before this point or the jelly won’t gel). Stir to fully incorporate and bring the mixture back to a hard boil for 1 minute.

Ladle into prepared jelly jars.

Taste your Wild Violet Jelly warm, on a buttered piece of toast.

(Then let the rest cool before putting it in the refrigerator. Try to eat it up within a few weeks.)

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Large Small Onion, Mushroom, Peppers and Cheese .............................................$11.25 ................................. $10.25

HOT SUBS

BURGER PLATES

Large Small Meatball with Cheese .......................................... $10.85 ................................... $9.85 Sausage with Cheese .......................................... $10.85 ................................... $9.85 Eggplant with Cheese.......................................... $10.85 ................................... $9.85 Chicken Parmesan ............................................... $10.85 ................................... $9.85 Meatball and Sausage with Cheese .......................................................... $10.85 ................................... $9.85

Fish & Chips ....................................................................................................... $11.50 Clams with Fries ............................................................................................... $13.20 Shrimp with Fries ............................................................................................. $13.50 Seafood Combo with Fries Cod, Shrimp and Clams ....................................................................................$14.95 Fishburger ........................................................................................................... $8.95

SIDE ORDERS

Combo Appetizer Chicken Fingers, Mozzarella Sticks, Broccoli, Zucchini Sticks, Onion Rings, Hot Poppers, Fried Pickles, Mushrooms and Mac & Cheese Bites ..........................................................................................$13.95 Fried Broccoli w/Cheddar & Bacon Bits (10) .......................................................$9.25 Mac & Cheese Bites ..............................................................................................$8.50 Fried Mushrooms (15) ..........................................................................................$8.50 Fried Jalapeno Pickle Spears ...............................................................................$8.95 Poppers w/Cheddar (8) .........................................................................................$8.95 French Fries ...........................................................................................................$4.25 French Fries with Chili Cheddar ...........................................................................$6.95 French Fries with Cheese and Gravy ...................................................................$6.75 Sweet Potato Fries with Melba Sauce .................................................................$5.50 Onion Rings...........................................................................................................$5.35 Mozzarella Sticks (6) .............................................................................................$6.95 Chicken Fingers (5) ...............................................................................................$9.95 Zucchini Sticks....................................................................................................... $7.95 Garlic Knots (6) .....................................................................................................$4.95 Cinnamon Knots (6) ..............................................................................................$5.25 Garlic Bread with Cheese .....................................................................................$4.95 Cup of Chili ............................................................................................................$4.75 Cup of Chili with Cheese ......................................................................................$5.75 Fried Clam Strips ..................................................................................................$9.50 Wings (6) Bone-In or Boneless ............................................................................$8.50 Wings (12) Bone-In or Boneless ........................................................................$12.95 Hot, Medium, Mild, BBQ, Honey BBQ, Tangy BBQ, “Kickin” Bourbon, Bourbon, Teriyaki, Garlic Parmesan, Sweet Red Chili, Mango Habenero, Honey Hot Extra Dressing 50¢ • All wings come w/House Bleu Cheese or Ranch & Veggies

SALADS

Garden or Caesar ................................................................ Small $4.95 • Large $6.50 Greek......................................................................................................................$9.50 Chef ........................................................................................................................$9.95 Antipasto ...............................................................................................................$9.95 Grilled Chicken Caesar .......................................................................................$10.50 Buffalo Chicken Salad, Crispy or Grilled ...........................................................$10.50 Taco Salad - Chicken or Chili..............................................................................$10.50 Extra Meat Roll for Chef or Antipasto Salad $2.75 • Extra Chicken on Salad $2.75 Dressing choices: House Italian • House Bleu Cheese • House Caesar • Ranch • Thousand Island • French • Balsamic Vinaigrette • Honey Mustard Extra Dressing 50¢

KIDS MENU 12 & under

2 Chicken Fingers & Fries ..................................................................................... $7.50 Spaghetti & Meatball ............................................................................................ $7.50 Hot Dog & Fries.....................................................................................................$6.25 ASK US ABOUT OUR DESSERTS! • BEER & WINE • FRESH DOUGH MADE DAILY THANK YOU, AND PLEASE COME AGAIN. PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

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ARTISAN CRAFTED ALES AND LAGERS BY THE BARREL Slickfin Brewing Company LLC is a Marine Corps Veteran owned and operated one barrel microbrewery.

We brew small by the barrel so all of our Artisanal Crafts are made with the highest quality ingredients and care. We strive to have ten beers on tap at all times. You can enjoy our taproom or get a 32oz Crowler can to go. We have prepackaged items and bottled non-alcoholic beverages for your convenience, but we

do not have a kitchen, so feel free to bring your own food or get it delivered. We have partnered with Amy Stumvoll (owner of Stumpy’s Pizzeria) and have a taproom menu on hand! We are open year round, but due to our small batch brewing we are only open three days a week; so be sure to save those days for us!

Our passion is to create craft beverages that bring together family, friends and community.

Cheers! Kris & Heather March

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Pizza Wings Specials 222 river st.

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B UR GER S

Roasted Brussels Sprouts ........................$8

Grilled to order Black Angus Beef Patty Served on a Kaiser Roll with Lettuce & Tomato

Fried Mozzarella ..................................... $7

Choice of Cheese Swiss, Cheddar, Blue Cheese, or American

Tossed with Lemon Vinaigrette, Blue Cheese and Bacon Breaded Mozzarella with House Marinara Sauce

Add Bacon - $2.00 Choice of House Made Chips or Cole Slaw, and Pickle Substitute Fries or Tater Tots - $1.50

Chicken Wings ..................................... $12 One Pound of Jumbo Fried Wings with Choice of Sauce.

With Blue Cheese or Ranch and Celery Hot, Mild, Sesame Ginger, Garlic Parmesan, Honey Mustard or BBQ

Nachos .................................................. $7 Fresh Tortilla Chips topped with Queso, Jalapenos, Tomatoes, Onion, Sour Cream and Salsa Add Grilled Chicken or Pulled Pork - $5.00

Loaded Fries ..........................................$8 Topped with Queso, Pulled Pork, Jalapenos Served with Sour Cream

Chicken Fingers .....................................$8 Hand Breaded Chicken Fingers. Choice of Dipping Sauce

Quesadillas ............................................ $7 Grilled Flour Tortilla with Cheese, Sour cream and Salsa.

Add Chicken or Pulled Pork - $5.00

Soup of the Day

Cup $4.00 • Bowl $6.00

SAL AD S With Choice of House Made Dressings - Balsamic, 1000 Island, Blue Cheese, Lemon Vinaigrette, Ranch, Roasted Shallot Vinaigrette

Classic Chef Salad ................................ $10 Turkey, Ham, Swiss, Cheddar, Egg, Cucumber, Tomato, Radish and Pickled Red Onion

Buffalo Chicken Salad .......................... $10 Buffalo Chicken (Grilled or Fried), Cucumber, Tomato, Crumbled Blue Cheese

Cobb Salad .......................................... $10

Mix Greens, Tomato, Pickled Red Onion, Cucumber, Bacon, Hard Boiled Egg, Cheddar, Chicken Salad on Side

Green Salad ...........................................$5 Seasonal Local Vegetables and Mixed Greens

SA NDWIC HES

4oz Burger $5 • 8oz Burger $10

All served with a choice of House Made Chips or Cole Slaw and Pickle.

Substitute Fries or Tater Tots - $1.50

All Served with Side Salad and Rolls

French Dip ........................................... $13

Fresh Shaved Prime Rib on Hoagie Roll with Caramelized Onion, Swiss Cheese and Served with Au Jus

Southern Fried Chicken Sandwich ..........$9 Marinated and Hand Breaded Chicken Breast on Kaiser Roll with Lettuce, Tomato and Choice of Cheese

Pulled Pork Grinder ................................$8

Slow Roasted Pork on Kaiser Roll with Queso, Pickled Red Onion and Jalapeno

Classic Double Layer Club ......................$9 Choice of Turkey or Ham, Mayo, Lettuce, and Tomato on Toasted Country White Bread or Multigrain

Grilled Cheese ........................................$5

Cheddar and American on Grilled Country White Bread or Multigrain. Add Ham - $3 • Add Bacon - $2

Michigan ................................................$4

Hofmann Hot Dog with Our Michigan Sauce and Chopped Raw Onion - Ala Carte

Michigan Platter ..................................... $7 2 Michigans with Chips and Pickle

The Club House Deli Sandwich ...............$8 House Roasted Deli Meats on Kaiser roll, Hoagie Roll, Flour Wrap, White or Wheat Bread. Choice of Lettuce, Tomato, Onion and Cheese.

Turkey, Ham, Roast Beef, Chicken Salad or BLT Consuming raw or undercooked meats, poultry, seafood, shellfish or eggs may increase your risk of foodborne illness. Especially if you have certain medical conditions.

Childrens Menu Available

ENTR EES

BBQ Pulled Pork ................................... $12 BBQ Slow Roasted Pork with Fries or Tater Tots and Cole Slaw

Chicken Fingers .................................... $14

Hand Breaded Chicken Tenders with Fries or Tater Tots and Cole Slaw

Fried Shrimp ......................................... $18

Hand Breaded Jumbo Shrimp with Fries or Tater Tots and Cole Slaw

BBQ Baby Back Rios....................... $14/$20 1/2 or Full Rack of Slow Cooked Ribs with Fries or Tater Tots and Cole Slaw

Chicken Parmesan ................................ $16 Chicken Cutlets Topped with Our Marinara, Mozzarella Cheese and Served over Linguine

Alfredo ................................................. $14

Linguine Tossed in Classic Alfredo Made with Cream and Parmesan Cheese Add Chicken - $5 • Add Grilled Shrimp - $8

SIDES

All Sides $3 Fries • Tater Tots • Cole Slaw Veg of the Day • Queso and Chips

DESSERTS

All Desserts $6.50 Flourless Chocolate Cake Lemon Cream Cake with Blueberry Compote Vanilla Bean Creme Brulee Strawberry Shortcake

For full menu and specials visit our website at www.ncgolfclub.org Open 7 days a week 11am-9pm

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Fish & Chips Basket ....................$13.95 Shrimp Basket ............................$13.95 Fried Scallop Basket ...................$13.95 Clam Basket ...............................$13.95 Chicken Tender Basket ...............$12.95 Baby Back Rib Basket (full rack) ....$16.95 Whole Belly Clam Basket ...... Market Price

Port & Starboard

French Fries..................................$4.25 Sweet Potato Fries ........................$5.00 Pretzel Bites .................................$7.25 Side Winders ................................$5.00 Onion Rings ..................................$5.25 Brew City Pickles ..........................$6.95 Coleslaw .......................................$3.95 Potato Salad .................................$3.95 Pasta Salad...................................$3.95 Toss Salad ....................................$3.95 Mac & Cheese Bites ......................$6.95 Mac & Cheese ..............................$4.95 with Crab ...............................$8.95 with Lobster ..........................$9.95 Lobster Bisque..............................$6.95 Clam Chowder ..............................$6.95

From the Sea

Lobster Roll ................................$16.95 Ocean Crab Roll ..........................$13.95 Clam Strips Small....... $8.50 Large ......$13.95 Seafood Platter ...........................$22.95

Shrimp, Clams, Calamari Rings & Scallops

Mussels ......................................$13.95 Steamers ......................... Market Price Whole Belly Clams ........... Market Price Live Lobsters ................... Market Price King Crab Legs ................ Market Price Snow Crab Legs .............. Market Price Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail .................$9.95 Coconut Shrimp ..........................$10.95 Kickin’ Shrimp Soft Tacos .............$9.95 Crabby Patty .................................$7.95 Haddock Tail Burger ......................$8.95 Calamari Rings .............................$7.95

For Land Lubbers

Hot Dog ........................................$3.25 Michigan ......................................$3.95 Angus Hamburger .........................$4.50 Deluxe (lettuce, tomato & onion) ...$5.25 Angus Cheeseburger.....................$4.95 Deluxe (lettuce, tomato & onion) ...$5.75 Michigan Angus Burger .................$5.75 Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwich ..$8.25 Chicken Wrap (Buffalo, Caesar or Ranch) ......$8.25 Chicken Tenders ...........................$7.50 Chicken Wings (10) $10.95 (15) $14.95 Plain, Medium, Hot, BBQ, Teriyaki, Bourbon Molasses, Garlic Parmesan, Thai Sweet Chili, or Mango Habanero

Boneless Wings ............................11.95 Mozzarella Sticks ..........................$7.50

THIRSTY THURSDAYS! 70¢ WINGS and $12 BUCKET OF BUDLIGHT

Dine-In or Take-Out

Wet Your Whistle

Bottled Water ................................$1.50 Soft Drinks....................................$2.00 Gatorade.......................................$3.50 Frozen Soft Drinks ........................$4.50 Coffee/Tea (Hot or Cold) .....................$2.95

Yo-Ho-Ho! Alcohol Beverages

Beer .............................................$3.50 Premium ................................$4.00 On Tap ....................................$7.00 Wine .............................................$7.00 Frozen Drinks ...............................$8.95 Margarita or Strawberry Daiquiri

Walk the Plank

Ice Cream Novelties ......... $1.50 - $3.00 Pie by the Slice .............................$3.00 Deep Fried Cheesecake ................$3.50

FISH FRY-DAY

9oz. Haddock $12.95

LOBSTER ROLL SATURDAY $15 Each or 2 for $28

Hours: 4:30pm-8pm Wed.-Fri. • 12pm-8pm Sat. & Sun. 2922 NYS Rte. 9N, Crown Point, NY 12928

(518) 597-3455 • crabshack@mapleridgepark.com

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OUR CUSTOMERS SAY IT BEST...

“They say that good help is hard to find...But it’s obvious you don’t have a problem.”

“The best fresh, hand cut steaks cooked to order, nobody beats The Log Jam.”

“A busy restaurant that not only takes reservations but actually HONORS them... I’m Impressed!”

Prime Rib • Fresh Chicken & Pork • Live Lobster • Char-broiled Steaks & Lamb • Fresh Fish Salad Bar with all Lunch and Dinner Entrees Lunch & Dinner Daily • Major Credit Cards Accepted

Reservations: 518-798-1155 Routes 9 & 149 • I-87 Exit 20 • Lake George, New York www.logjamrestaurant.com

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ESTABLISHED 1966

Best Wings in Town • Live Music Craft Beer • Outdoor Patio

WITH FOOD PURCHASE (beer, liquor, or wine of equal value) 1 offer per person NCL MAGAZINE INE

Come visit our newly renovated outdoor covered patio and new bandshell!

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Hours

Mon.-Fri.: 5am-5:30pm Sat.: 5am- 2pm • Sun. 7am-2pm

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Breakfast All Day • Perch Daily, 7 oz. $12.99

(518) 310-3047

In House • Doordash • Curbside • Pick Up 364 Tom Miller Road ~ Plattsburgh, NY

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10 McGillis Avenue Lake George, NY

518.685.3118

LAKE GEORGE LOCALS FAVORITE NEW RESTAURANT - CHEF OWNED AND OPERATED OPEN DAILY AT NOON - FARM TO TABLE - DAILY SPECIALS - HUGE CRAFT BEER SELECTION INDOOR & OUTDOOR SEATING - PARKING - FIND US ON FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM

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Create your own agenda from 18 women’s wellness workshops, fitness classes, and demos.

Admission also includes a welcome reception with entertainment, fashion show, and luncheon at the Sagamore Resort.

Shopping an dining specials town wide, group rates at The Sagamore and discounts at the salon and spa.

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