Maury Thompson recently shared with me a link to a short newspaper article about the photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard. On the same page I noticed a letter from a reader, which decried the lack of coverage for French Mountain, at that time a hamlet in the Town of Queensbury. Now the site of the Factory…
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Our last blog covered the remarkable story of 19th century stone builder and preacher, Reverend George Brown. But what about the many stone walls around the area whose builders remain anonymous and whose histories are unknown? Is it possible to learn anything about those walls, or from them? The answer is “yes”. Though we may…
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Many, many years ago I bought a book called Sermons in Stone – The Stone Walls of New England and New York, by Susan Allport. In this Covid-19 world of quarantine, isolation, and a work-from-home mandate, I went looking through my bookcase for inspiration and pulled it from the shelf. While it seems that my…
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