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It was the summer of 1941. It was a beautiful day around mid-afternoon. Ten-year-old Don Duso was coming back from his friend Alex Dreyfoos’ cabin across the lake to the marina his family owned. He was in his little one and a half horse power motor boat coming down a narrow strip of Lower Saranac Lake into Lonesome Bay. He was watching 62-year-old Albert Einstein sail in his sail boat as he did often in the lake. Read More |
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Edward H. Litchfield lay on his belly, sketching away. An open sketchbook sat on the ground in front of him, an 11-year-old boy’s visual diary of his family’s trip to Germany. A half-finished rendering of a castle covered the page in front of him. The rest of the book contained similar images, memories of the wonderful things he had seen — animals and armor but most of all castles, beautiful medieval citadels like nothing he had ever seen at home in America. Someday, the boy thought to himself, I won’t have to draw castles. I’m going to have one of my very own. I’m going to be king. Read More |
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Copyright © 2001-2008 All Points North. All Rights Reserved. Opening slideshow music written and performed by Ivan Wohner. |
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