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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 ]

Five Ways To Keep Your Resolutions
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life It's the new year, and of course, you've made resolutions. Do you want to exercise more? Cook healthy meals? Write a book? Have you resolved that this is the year you'd accomplish this? Nearly all of us have already broken our resolves. Why? Because we do what we want to do. Wait, our resolves are our desire, or so we think. Not if you're not doing… ...[ full story ]

Carol McClain