Reverend Fred Shaw at the pulpit of the United Church of Christ. 2012. Elizabethtown, NY. Photo taken by Alvin Reiner. Shaw moved to the Adirondacks to be the reverend at the UCC in 1989. Listen to his story in the audio clip.
Violinist Ivan Zenaty teaching a student at the Meadowmount School of Music. Zenaty is a professional artist who has performed in international ensembles and worked with performers including Yo-Yo Ma. Circa 2010s. Meadowmount School of Music in the Town of Lewis, and not far from Elizabethtown. Courtesy of Mary McGowan.
David Belding, on the ladder, hammers in a post held straight by Dani Baker, right. They are hammering in the stakes to create lines for planting. Baker & Belding started Cross Island Farms, a certified organic farm, in 2006. They grow over 150 varieties of vegetables, maintain an edible ‘forest garden’, and keep chickens, ducks, […]
John Peach, executive director for environmental group Save the River, next to some of the plastic he helped clean from the St. Lawrence River. The group cleaned up a 15-square-foot patch of plastic flotsam as part of their “Replace Single Use Plastics” program. Circa 2018. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of John Peach. Listen to John […]
John Peach, the executive director of environmental group Save the River, on a LightHawk flight over the St. Lawrence River. LightHawk is a group that does environmental flights over the river for different non-profit groups. June 2019. Photo taken by Doyle Dean. Courtesy of John Peach. Listen to John Peach on the importance of conservation […]
Barbara Brown announcing (giving tour information) during an Uncle Sam Boat Tour on the St. Lawrence River. Late 1970s. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of Barbara Brown. You can listen to Barbara Brown remembering her time as an announcer in the audio clip.
George W. Brown, far left, with the first high school hockey team he ever coached at Alexandria Bay High School. Brown was one of the founders of the Northern Hockey League for high schools and a beloved coach. The 1947-’48 season. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of Barbara Brown. Barbara says the whole Brown family’s life […]
A large wall of muskrat pelts trapped by Roy Johnson. Johnson was known as the “preacher-trapper” because he worked as both. Circa 1979. Philadelphia, NY. Courtesy of Dave Johnson. Listen to Dave Johnson on his father’s trapping in the audio clip.
Robert Service working on the Thousand Islands Bridge. He and another worker, Donny Sanford, went up and took off the old aviation lights to install LED lights, lowering the old lights down on a pulley. 1988. Near the Thousand Islands, NY. Courtesy of Robert Service. Service graduated from Alexandria Central School in 1969, and went […]
Margaret Houghton standing next to a line of sturgeon caught in the St. Lawrence River. Circa 1940. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of Linda Dingman. Margaret and Cecil Houghton were married in the 1920s, and spent their lives living on the St. Lawrence River. Their granddaughter, Linda Dingman, says her grandfather was a true “river rat”. […]
