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
John Bird Burnham
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
Vintage Postcard: Crater Club
Each Monday we share an old Essex photo on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. The postcard above features one of the buildings at the Crater Club, as the title "The Crater Club, Essex, NY" tells us. Do you know the … [Read more...] about Vintage Postcard: Crater Club
Old Brick Schoolhouse
The "Old Brick Schoolhouse" on Elm Street (1830) stands on the probable site of the first school in Essex, erected in 1787. Expanded to the north in 1837, this one-story building served as the village schoolhouse until superseded by the large frame schoolhouse of 1867 (still … [Read more...] about Old Brick Schoolhouse
Adirondack Mountain Creams: Essex Tradition Reborn
More than a century ago John Bird Burnham and Henrietta Dubois Burnham transformed a homemade maple sugar confection into a national delicacy. [Henrietta] invented this maple candy that the feature of it was it was never sugary, it was always creamy... (Koert Burnham in a 1975 … [Read more...] about Adirondack Mountain Creams: Essex Tradition Reborn