Come sing for the FUN of it. Beth Lawrence (AllAboutVoice.com) will share her professional singing secrets and help you discover a new confidence in your voice. No singing experience required. Based on the book From Shower to Stage... 7 Easy Steps for Singing Like A Pro When: … [Read more...] about August Singing Circle with Beth Lawrence
Essex New York
The Kent Camp: John Bird Burnham and Kent School
Have you heard of The Kent Camp? Did you know that Kent School, a college preparatory school in Connecticut, has an historic connection (or two or three) to Essex and environs? It was news to me—welcome news—especially considering John Bird Burnham is once again at the heart of … [Read more...] about The Kent Camp: John Bird Burnham and Kent School
Essex NY News Roundup: March 15-21, 2014
Bird language, behavior topic of next natural history program (Press Republican) Lake Champlain Ferries rates increase next month (Burlington Free Press) After 2 Years: Essex County, NY Sold Horace Nye (myChamplainValley.com) Eighteen arrested in Essex County drug … [Read more...] about Essex NY News Roundup: March 15-21, 2014
Lake Champlain Frozen, Flashback to March 2005
Lake Champlain Frozen 9 Years Ago Longtime Essex summer resident John Lynch saw last week's post about Lake Champlain freezing over for the first time since March 2007, and it inspired him to pass along these photographs that he shot one sunny day almost nine years ago during … [Read more...] about Lake Champlain Frozen, Flashback to March 2005
Lake Champlain Freezing Over
I often hear Essex friends and neighbors reminiscing about the "old days" when Lake Champlain froze solid every year. Those days were well chronicled in now yellowing photographs, skaters populating the foreground and an ice shanty village dotting the frozen horizon. Ice fishing … [Read more...] about Lake Champlain Freezing Over