Every week we share a different image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. Last week we share the image above with this note: Check out this vintage postcard! Do you recognize any landmarks or buildings? Where … [Read more...] about Vintage Postcard: Hotel Ausable Chasm & Rainbow Falls
Archives for March 2018
Whither Tracks in the Snow?
Anxiously awaiting more snow, in this taunting winter of 2018, I recently skied the only place I could, across the big wetland at Hemlock Rock Wildlife Sanctuary, then Microspiked up Adirondack Land Trust’s part of Coon Mountain. I was on protected land throughout this ramble in … [Read more...] about Whither Tracks in the Snow?
CFES Brilliant Pathways to Young Women: ‘Find Your Voice’ (THE SUN)
Young female students from throughout the North Country came together at CFES Brilliant Pathways headquarters in Essex to discuss how to engage and empower young women. Students from Westport, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Saranac, Beekmantown, Plattsburgh High and as far south as … [Read more...] about CFES Brilliant Pathways to Young Women: ‘Find Your Voice’ (THE SUN)
New Library Program: Meet Your Neighbors
The Belden Noble Memorial Library is planning a new series to begin in May. It's called Meet Your Neighbors and will highlight some of truly amazing things that your friends and neighbors have been doing. Here's the idea: The program will be series of opportunities to meet and … [Read more...] about New Library Program: Meet Your Neighbors
Finding Original Forest
New York’s great Adirondack Park is the East’s biggest stronghold for original forest. However we define and name it — primeval, primary, ancient, old growth, and first growth being other overlapping or synonymous descriptors — natural, uncut forest is easier to find in the … [Read more...] about Finding Original Forest