I drove the 310 miles between Newport, Rhode Island and Burlington, Vermont in two legs, with a brief nap at home in between. Heavy rain and a relentless, brilliant lightning display will be what I’ll remember about the first leg, and the mist covered Green Mountains of Vermont surely will be the thing I remember…
During the French and Indian War the pristine Lake George saw some horrific battles for control of the lake. The British and French continued attempts to push each other out of the region with force. The Battle of Lake George in 1755, the siege on Fort William Henry in 1757, the Battle on Snowshoes in…
When you stand along the shore of Lake George and look to the northeast on a quiet April day as I did recently, you’re struck by how beautiful the lake is. Lake George still looks pristine, surrounded by conservation land and state parks. The Adirondacks rise up in the distance. Lake George, like the finger…
What’s Up is Down While it makes sense that to go up a river or a lake that is fed by a stream or river, intuitively when you live in the Northeast you think of going up the river as going north or west. That’s because the majority of rivers that flow to the sea…
There’s an almost unbroken stretch of navigable water from New York City up the Hudson to Lake George to Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence Seaway, which in turn leads back to the Atlantic Ocean or deep into the interior of North America to the Great Lakes. The “almost” part is a couple of stretches…