Frequently we share a different historic image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. Do you recognize this Essex street? Which is it? How has it changed compared with today? Recognize any buildings? The caption … [Read more...] about Vintage Postcard: Drive Along Shore in Essex
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Vintage Postcard: North Road Leaving Essex
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 shared the image above minus the caption and asked what viewers recognized and if they could name the location or date of the … [Read more...] about Vintage Postcard: North Road Leaving Essex
Drive with Caution: Timber Rattlesnake Crossing Lakeshore Road
This morning we return to the topic of Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) with Essex, NY's favorite wildway scout. John Davis, wildlife advocate, writer, naturalist, conservationist and athletic adventurer, has an uncanny knack for spotting wild … [Read more...] about Drive with Caution: Timber Rattlesnake Crossing Lakeshore Road
Serpentine Splendors: Snakes of Split Rock Wildway
Here on the equable Adirondack Coast, we are blessed with more snake species than colder parts of the Northeast. By northern forest standards we are fairly rich in amphibians, especially salamanders; but like most cool areas, we have only modest numbers of reptile species. The … [Read more...] about Serpentine Splendors: Snakes of Split Rock Wildway
Roadkill: American Mink
The tragedy that most painfully defines America is roadkill. Nearly all of us participate almost every day in the wanton killing of other creatures — and too often our own kind, sometimes even our sons and daughters — so that we can race to work, buy things we don’t need, and … [Read more...] about Roadkill: American Mink