Places

Salvaging and Repurposing Part IV

As touched upon in last month’s article, the desire to create a connection between the barn dwelling and the outside surrounding elements . . .

Kim (Bo) Stone Kalil

A Week at the Frontenac Hotel

Have you ever wondered what visitors to the Gilded Age hotels did to pass the time, while staying in the Thousand Islands? Let’s look at a bulletin from the Frontenac Hotel on Round Island, for the week ending August 30, 1902.

Sharon Bourquin

Open Water Swimming at the River

To be safe for open water swimmers, waters must be clean of dangerous pollutants/algae . . . Water temperatures cannot be much over 80°F, currents must be mild and waves must be small. . .

Windmill Point Lighthouse

Windmill Point Lighthouse is one of only three that remain standing today, a testament to its strength – weathered but enduring. It was here that “The Battle of the Windmill" took place in 1838.

Mary Alice Snetsinger

The Steam Roller: Grindstone Island circa early 1940’s

The abandoned steam roller sat beneath the oak tree by our farm gate, a once proud machine. A metal roof covered the entire frame . . . The front roller was a massive, solid, round steel drum. Light rust now covered the roller with its bottom now slowly settling into the ground.

Manley L. Rusho

Salvaging and Repurposing Part III

. . . My builder fashioned the actual charging station out of wood scraps left over from the dining room ceiling, . . . this little shelf has six phone-charging cables fed through the wall and into the mechanical room behind.

Kim (Bo) Stone Kalil

Salvaging and Repurposing Part II

In converting this horse stable into our home, I wanted to leave the rail, trolley, and grapple intact as testimony to the original function of the stable, but I also wanted to give it a new purpose.

Kim (Bo) Stone Kalil

Arts Center’s Dream Becomes Reality

The Thousand Islands Arts Center ~ Home of the Handweaving Museum (TIAC) is excited to announce its groundbreaking for its new museum and arts center this month!

Leslie W. Rowland

Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence - a prime-video

Over the past two years they gathered some of the real River Rats who know all about our Thousand Islands wooden boats, and they started to interview them in front of a camera. This summer the results are available for all of us to enjoy.

Patriot Chronicles: Battle by the Pen-William Lyon Mackenzie’s Letter to the People of St. Lawrence County, Part 1

Instead of using the sword, William Lyon Mackenzie took up the pen and supported the Patriot cause as the editor of "Mackenzie’s Gazette".

Patriot Chronicles: Battle by the Pen: William Lyon Mackenzie’s Letter to the People of St. Lawrence County, Part 2

Part 2 completes the presentation of a "Letter to the People of St. Lawrence County" written in "Mackenzie's Gazette", plus endnotes and references.

Feather in Flight Captures History in TIP

Andrew Kane, Thousand Islands photographer, sent one of his amazing Feather in Flight photographs to TI Life - Soon after I was completely engrossed into TIP and its summer plans.

The Grindstone Island Cheese Factory, (Circa 1940-1954)

The Cheese Factory was open late April until about the end of October each year. Every morning when the factory was open, on the road there was a parade of horses and wagons, mostly a wagon with a single horse.

Manley L. Rusho