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. We shared the image above with the caption cropped off and asked viewers what they could recognize in this photo. Do you recognize any … [Read more...] about Vintage Postcard: Four Brothers Islands
Four Brothers Islands
Vintage Postcard: Camp of the Pines
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. What can you tell us about the scene on this old postcard? Where is it? Have you been there? When do you think it dates to? Here is … [Read more...] about Vintage Postcard: Camp of the Pines
The Battle of the Bouquet River
The Battle of the Bouquet River Willsboro, New York MAY 13, 1814 PA! PA! THE BRITCHES IS COMIN! THE BRITCHES IS COMIN! These are the words yelled by young Elihu Higby to his father Levi as he ran in the door of the Higby’s Willsboro distillery on that day in 1814, to … [Read more...] about The Battle of the Bouquet River