News & Opinion About Huletts Landing, N.Y.
Attention all Kindle, Nook and iPad users. I’m happy to announce that there will be an e-edition of The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George coming this summer.
I can report that while the process will take a few more weeks, an e-edition will distributed through the most prominent e-book sales channels sometime probably in the next three months.
Just in time to relax with The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George on the beach!
“Behold the Man”
by Philippe de Champaigne
Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs France
Painted in 1654
I haven’t done these in a while so they’ve piled up.
Post Star: Bolton Marina Owners Agree to Boat Wash Station Concept
Times Union: Northway Facing ‘Intolerable’ Future
NCPR: Huletts May Get New Congressman thru Redistricting
CNN/Money: International Paper in Ticonderoga one of Worlds Most Admired Companies
Times Union: Late-night Compromises Bring Some Pension Reform
Adirondack Almanack: 1932 Death Mystery in Hague
Adirondack Almanack: Hiking Mount Defiance in Ticonderoga (Click Picture to See Full View)
“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”
President James Garfield
Unknown woman standing behind (lakeside) Casino. The golf course is located past wooded area in background.
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The Whitehall Times published a review in this week’s paper, which can be found online here, of:
The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George
Experience an exciting living history event at Fort Ticonderoga highlighting Major Robert Rogers and the Battle of Snowshoes on Saturday, March 10 from 10 am – 4 pm.
At 1 pm on Saturday, visitors will experience the hectic tree to tree fighting in a recreated battle. Watch as the rangers make a brave stand against superior odds, only to retreat through the deep woods. Event tickets are $10. Free admission is offered to the Friends of Fort Ticonderoga and residents of Ticonderoga.
Visitors will be invited to tour Fort Ticonderoga as it appeared in the winter of 1758, and meet the French and Indians who overwhelmed Roger’s experienced woodsmen. See how natives and French soldiers alike survived the deep winter at this remote military post. More adventurous visitors can take a hike led by a historic interpreter through the uneasy quiet of opposed pickets of soldiers in the deep woods. In these tours visitors can see how rangers kept a vigilant watch for subtle signs that might reveal their ferocious enemy.
“The Battle on Snowshoes event recreates the savage fight between Robert Roger’s rangers, and a mixed French force of regular soldiers, milice, and allied native warriors on March 13, 1758,” said Stuart Lilie, Director of Interpretation at Fort Ticonderoga. “This event is designed to be a rich experience for both participants and visitors alike.” Re-enactors portraying French soldiers and native allies will live inside the period furnished barracks rooms of Fort Ticonderoga. They will recreate the winter garrison for Fort Carillon, as it was known until 1759. Just as in the March of 1758 these re-enactors will sortie out from the Fort to meet and overwhelm Roger’s men.
Major Robert Rogers force of both volunteers from the 27th foot, and his own rangers headed out on an extended scout from Fort Edward along Lake George, following an attack on a similar patrol from Captain Israel Putnam’s Connecticut rangers. Hiking on snowshoes due to the three feet of snow, the tracks of Roger’s force were spotted on its march up the west side of Lake George. Near the north end of Lake George, Major Rogers, advanced scouts spotted their French counterparts. Rogers and his Rangers took up positions in a ravine, setting his force in ambuscade to await whatever French patrol would come to meet him.
The French patrol that met Roger’s men proved far larger than he imagined, and in this Battle on Snowshoes, the rangers’ ambush was itself surrounded and overwhelmed. In deep woods on deep snow, the rangers were forced to retreat with heavy casualties as the French regulars, malice, and natives pressed home their attack. Despite brave stands along the way, this retreat quickly became chaotic as rangers, Roger’s included, ran for their lives from superior numbers of French.
In celebration of Presidents’ Day, which honors George Washington, the USA’s first president as well as the other presidents of the United States, I though I would link to the Smithsonian Channel’s videos on the Jefferson Bible.
At age 77 and living at Monticello in retirement following his two terms as President, Jefferson completed a project that he had long planned and long discussed with others. Jefferson compiled his own text, drawn carefully from passages extracted out of the New Testament, that he titled “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Progress of Love: The Meeting
1773
Fort Ticonderoga. Photo credit Richard Timberlake.
The Lake Placid CVB/Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (LPCVB/ROOST) has awarded Fort Ticonderoga the 2011 Tourism Marketing Award. The award was presented January 12 in Lake Placid at a gathering of tourism industry peers and elected officials.
The Tourism Marketing Award is given to a group or individual who has produced or launched an innovative tourism marketing product or initiative. Fort Ticonderoga was named the 2011 winner for its America’s Fort branding and expanded audience targeting through the creation of family activities, special events, re-enactments and the internationally acclaimed Art of War exhibit.
The award was presented by Justin Smith, Chair of the LPCVB/ROOST board of directors. “As part of its strategic marketing plan in 2011, Fort Ticonderoga launched an initiative and rebranding effort that associated the Fort with its significant history and the experience visitors will have there today,” said Smith during the presentation. “Aptly identified now as America’s Fort, the historic site has also extensively broadened its programmatic offerings to result in a premiere tourism experience.”
Beth Hill, Fort Ticonderoga’s Executive Director, said “Fort Ticonderoga is honored to receive the recognition for its newly developed America’s Fort brand and related programs.” Hill said, “The America’s Fort brand is intended to represent the site’s extraordinary story and to build increased visibility for one of North America’s most beautiful and defining historic sites.”
Fort Ticonderoga’s 2011 marketing strategic plan, led by Albany marketing firm Brawn Media, incorporated the America’s Fort brand in all of its messaging including TV and radio commercials, online advertising, news releases, and all marketing collateral.
In 2012 Fort Ticonderoga will unveil its new weapons exhibit Bullets & Blades: The Weapons of America’s Colonial Wars and Revolution, numerous new programs, and major special events. Visitors will be immersed in the Fort’s tumultuous events of 1775 through daily programs including the Fort’s new historic trades initiative which will include shoemaking and military tailoring. Visit www.fortticonderoga.org for event and program details. Fort Ticonderoga offers special programs and events throughout the year and opens for the daily visitation for the summer season on May 18, 2012.
I think I mentioned before that sometime ago my brother and I were driving one evening to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Atlanta. He was driving the car. And for some reason the drivers were very discourteous that night. They didn’t dim their lights; hardly any driver that passed by dimmed his lights. And I remember very vividly, my brother A. D. looked over and in a tone of anger said: “I know what I’m going to do. The next car that comes along here and refuses to dim the lights, I’m going to fail to dim mine and pour them on in all of their power.” And I looked at him right quick and said: “Oh no, don’t do that. There’d be too much light on this highway, and it will end up in mutual destruction for all. Somebody got to have some sense on this highway.”
Somebody must have sense enough to dim the lights, and that is the trouble, isn’t it? That as all of the civilizations of the world move up the highway of history, so many civilizations, having looked at other civilizations that refused to dim the lights, and they decided to refuse to dim theirs. And Toynbee tells that out of the twenty-two civilizations that have risen up, all but about seven have found themselves in the junkheap of destruction. It is because civilizations fail to have sense enough to dim the lights. And if somebody doesn’t have sense enough to turn on the dim and beautiful and powerful lights of love in this world, the whole of our civilization will be plunged into the abyss of destruction. And we will all end up destroyed because nobody had any sense on the highway of history. Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.
Excerpted from Loving Your Enemies –
Talk by Martin Luther King
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Montgomery, Alabama
17 November 1957
So you love looking at old photographs of Huletts Landing and Lake George, but you thought you had seen them all.
Well the #1 reason to read The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George, is that it contains a treasure trove of pictures, published together for the first time, of Huletts Landing and Lake George. Some of these pictures have their own mysterious origins that you will want read about!
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The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George.
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