All Points North - Navigating the North Country

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Imagine yourself walking through hundreds of people. They can't speak to you, but each person has a symbol, message, or object in their hands that they feel defines them. Read More

Surrounded by a flurry of mountains at the south end of Lake George sits an important piece of early American history. Perched atop a hillside overlooking the lake lies Fort William Henry, whose gaze watched and guarded fleets of ships marching down the lake in the mid 1700s, and in particular during the French and Indian War. Read More

It’s been more than forty years since she graduated from St. John’s Academy, but Jann Shambel can still recall one of her favorite school memories. Every morning, the students in all the grades would gather in the downstairs hall. They would stand together around a piano, and sing a religious hymn and a patriotic song. Afterwards they would recite the pledge of allegiance and then proceed to their morning classes. Read More

You might be surprised to know that the oldest intact warship in all of North America, the Land Tortoise, lies at the bottom of Lake George. A relic of the French and Indian War, the Land Tortoise was constructed in 1758 as a part of a fleet of gun batteries. It would be over 200 years until the lost ship was rediscovered. Read More