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Tagged: Chateaugay

Malone & Chateaugay: The War of 1812, Part 2
Posted on Monday, May 19th, 2014 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Chateaugay, DeSalaberry, Fort Covington New York, Franklin County, Malone, War of 1812
Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York, USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Everyone in the Malone and Chateaugay area has used the Old Military Turnpike. Did you know it got its start in the War of 1812 ? After the capture of General Tilden in the French Mills ( Fort Covington area–seen to the left), the next “significant” battle took place in Chateaugay. …[ read more ]
The Wolf Head Scandal
Posted on Thursday, October 27th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | Tagged: Bangor, Chateaugay, Malone, political satire, wolf scandal
Image via Wikipedia Everyone loves a good scandal, so how do we create one? We are all familiar with Dutch Shultz, but gangsters like him are either in short supply or unwanted in our communities–unless we stuff them in the prisons that decorate our outskirts of our lovely villages. In 1815 we discovered a …[ read more ]

Your Past Can Be Forgiven: Rahab
@carol_mcclain Is your past unforgiveable? Definitely not. Consider Rahab, one of the ancestors of Jesus, mentioned in Matthew 1:5. She was a prostitute. No one chooses this lifestyle. In ancient Israel, women found few avenues of employment. If unmarried or widowed, they very often had to turn to prostitution in order to survive. Who wants to have non-stop sex with strangers? According to the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women: [caption id="attachment_2044" align="alignleft" width="200"] No one's fallen so low that God can't redeem.[/caption] "Rahab, who begins as triply marginalized—Canaanite, woman, and prostitute—moves to the center as bearer of a divine message… ...[ full story ]

Carol McClain