“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
Socrates
Saturday Quote
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain
FHHL Lecture Series Start: Tuesday July 6th
Please join the Friends of Historic Huletts Landing for the start of their lecture series on Tuesday, July 6th, at 7 pm in the Mountain Grove Memorial Church.
Dr. Brett Palfreyman, Associate Professor of History at Wagner College, will speak on “Life in the Slums: The Lower East Side in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Saturday Quote
“Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth, in which banquets last for ever, and roads lead everywhere, where all things are under the exuberant leadership of faith, hope, and charity.”
G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
Memorial Day: 2021
Today we honor and give thanks for all Americans who died while serving and protecting America. We celebrate the lives and sacrifice of our fallen.
I hope we remember to thank God today that we have such patriots who gave up their lives because they believed that America is our home, our land, the heart of who and what we are as not only a nation among others, but a key part of our very identity.
“May God support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest and peace at the last.”
Saturday Quote
“I have fought the good fight to the end;
I have run the race to the finish;
I have kept the faith.”
St. Paul, near the end of his life, tells his friend Timothy.
Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth 1967
Now for Some History: 1921
Excerpted from the Fort Edward Advertiser – November 10, 1921
“Reports from the physical ability tests held in May in the public schools of the state show that several Washington county schools won standing among the leading schools of the state. Certificates for the winning schools are soon to be mailed from the state educational department at Albany.
Of the Washington county contestants, the girls of district number 1 in Dresden stood the highest, both seniors and juniors having 100 percent.”
Saturday Quote
“I was a young boy in the school house when the cry came, Injuns! I jumped to my rifle and threw down my spelling book, and thar it lies.”
Kit Carson, American frontiersman, on why he was illiterate.
Saturday Quote
“We must have courage in the times we live in.
Great souls are needed, souls having the interests of God at heart.”
St. Julie Billiart, Foundress, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (1751 – 1816)
Saturday Quote
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there’s a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”
The Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Now for Some History: 1963
Children dancing in the Casino around 1963.
Peter Ballantyne forwarded this photo of him dancing in the Casino around 1963.
Happy Easter
“The Angel is Opening Christ’s Tomb” by Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp, c. 1640. On display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.
There is an old Irish folk story that puts forward that on Easter morning the rising Sun literally dances in the sky with joy at the risen Christ.
I wish everyone peace and joy this Easter and throughout the year!
Good Friday 2020
Crucifix on the side of the exterior of the Chapel on the Paulist Father’s Harbor Islands opposite the south end of Huletts Landing.
Today we observe Good Friday, the day of the death of Jesus. Many Christian Churches have different ways of observation, to prepare us for the coming resurrection of the Lord on Easter Sunday.
“Row out into the deep. When the storms come, try to remember that He who calms the storm is always in the boat with you.”