“Winter is with us; raw, cold, mild, all the time, snow all around us, lake frozen with a big crack in the ice right through the middle from Rogers Rock to Bolton Landing. It broke open with a big boom heard all around us; Whitehall, Fair Haven, even Glens Falls. About every day a storm, rain, freezing and everything, or more snow. We just try to get by till spring.”
Excerpted from a letter written to Pat Brotman
from Huletts resident, Irene Phillips.
February 4, 1973
(40 years ago.)