History, Natural History & the Arts
The 6th Attorney General of New York State, Ambrose Spencer was born on December 13, 1765, in Salisbury, Connecticut. He attended Yale and graduated from Harvard University in 1783 at just 17 years old.
He studied law with John Canfield (ca.1740-1786) in Sharon, Connecticut and also with John Bay in Claverack, Columbia County, NY, and then with Ezekiel Gilbert in nearby Hudson. [Read more…] about Ambrose Spencer: Libel, Blasphemy & Reform
Our Adirondack bookshelf here in North Bolton got a bit deeper after a serendipitous stop at an out-the-way, used bookstore recently. When Sally Brillon, owner-operator of 1786 Wilson Homestead Books and Antiques near Salem, NY, learned where we lived, she pulled a box of books from behind her desk.
It included early editions of Seneca Ray Stoddard’s guidebooks, Russell Carson’s Peaks and People of the Adirondacks, collections of W.H.H. Murray’s Adirondack writings and Woodcraft by George Washington Sears, aka Nessmuck, among others. [Read more…] about Rare Indeed: A Bookstore on the Back Roads of Washington County
On Saturday, December 14, 2024, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Officers (ECOs) charged three Vermont residents for their alleged roles in a shooting incident in Washington County in November 2024.
Vermont Game Wardens and State Police investigated and determined that on November 30, the trio drove through the town of Salem, in Washington County, NY, in search of a whitetail deer to shoot illegally from the road. [Read more…] about Poacher Shoots Self in Criminal Comedy of Errors
Fact or fiction, tales of agriculture oddities make great newspaper copy. “Old stories of mammoth squashes and cucumbers should now be dug about and heavily mulched, in readiness for transplanting in the newspapers in the fall,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel quipped on April 11, 1879. [Read more…] about 19th Century Tales of Agricultural Oddities
Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) has announced the recipients of our Adirondack Rural Revitalization Program (ARRP) grants. A total of $680,734 will fund 11 projects in eight of New York’s Adirondack/North Country counties. [Read more…] about Adirondack Architectural Heritage Rural Revitalization Grants Announced
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