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
Archives for October 2016
Grange Lecture on Crown Point Landscape and Archaeology
On Tuesday, October 25 at 7:30pm, the Whallonsburg Grange Hall will present "Landscape Preservation and Archaeology of Crown Point: An Overview and Recent Discoveries," with archaeologist Michael Roets. This is the fifth lecture in the fall Lyceum series entitled "Living on This … [Read more...] about Grange Lecture on Crown Point Landscape and Archaeology
Vermont Bartender of the Year, Nick Roy, Makes Debut at the Essex Inn Tavern
Join us this Friday and Saturday, October 21 & 22, night when two-time Vermont Bartender of the Year, Nick Roy, makes his début as guest mixologist at the Essex Inn Tavern. After completing his mixology certification in California, Nick moved back to the East Coast and put … [Read more...] about Vermont Bartender of the Year, Nick Roy, Makes Debut at the Essex Inn Tavern
Mary Ellen Ellithorpe is Fort Ticonderoga’s Volunteer of the Year
Fort Ticonderoga recently announced that Mary Ellen Ellithorpe (Em) of Putnam, NY, has received the 2016 Fort Ticonderoga Volunteer of the Year award in recognition of her dedicated service to Fort Ticonderoga. Em gave tirelessly of her time and energy this past summer … [Read more...] about Mary Ellen Ellithorpe is Fort Ticonderoga’s Volunteer of the Year
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