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. Last time we shared the image above. When do you think it dates to? Do you recognize the location? What about the boat floating … [Read more...] about Vintage Postcard: Whallons Bay and Split Rock Mountain
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Whallons Bay Cleanup Day
Essex Initiatives needs your help. Whallons Bay needs your help. This frequently used access to Lake Champlain has become unsitely and unsafe. Paddlers, kayakers, SUPers and general lake enthusiasts must navigate a gauntlet of problems just to get to the water. We want to make … [Read more...] about Whallons Bay Cleanup Day
Old Stump Bridge Painting by Sid Couchey
Every Monday we share an image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. Do you recognize the site in this painting? How about the artist? Do you spy their signature? Here's what the community already had to … [Read more...] about Old Stump Bridge Painting by Sid Couchey
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
Snow Geese By Whallons Bay
I shot the video above Friday morning just as the beautiful snowfall we received that day was beginning. These three snow geese have been hanging around the same area of Whallons Bay all week — they probably still are. Have you seen them? When I first saw the geese I was … [Read more...] about Snow Geese By Whallons Bay