Every Monday we share an image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. John Strangfeld shared a few pages of an old photo album with us hoping to better identify the house in several of the photos. Can you help? … [Read more...] about Vintage Photo Album: Crater Club & Lake Scenes
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Dr. John Stafford & The Birth of Barbara Irish
On May 11, 1936, four sisters got off the school bus that afternoon to the sound of a baby's cries. Each of them had been born in the hospital, but the final child of the family was born at home, at Hillcrest Farms at Whallons Bay in Essex, NY. That child, Barbara, was born … [Read more...] about Dr. John Stafford & The Birth of Barbara Irish
Vintage Artifact: Sherwood Inn Advertisement
Every Monday we share an image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. Last week we shared the vintage Sherwood Inn advertisement above. Here's what the community had to say about it: Tilly Close: I worked there … [Read more...] about Vintage Artifact: Sherwood Inn Advertisement
Grange Lecture on Tracking Landscape Change Through Historic Maps
On Tuesday, October 11 at 7:30pm, the Whallonsburg Grange Hall will present "Mapping the Landscape: Understanding Changes to the Land Through Cartographic Evidence," with historian and preservationist Todd Goff. This is the third lecture in the fall Lyceum series entitled "Living … [Read more...] about Grange Lecture on Tracking Landscape Change Through Historic Maps
Vintage Photo: Residence of B.C. Townsend
Every Monday we share an image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. Thank you to Robert Strickhart for sharing the photo above with us! Do you recognize this building in Essex, NY? When do you think the photo was … [Read more...] about Vintage Photo: Residence of B.C. Townsend