Volume 17, Issue 10, October 2022

Enjoy the lovely fall colors and stay safe. [Photo by Ian Coristine and courtesy 1000IslandsPhotoArt.com]

From the Editor, October 2022

Photographs for the end of summer. A tribute to Bea Schermerhorn and worries of low water and Florida.

Special Tribute to Sherri Leigh Smith

Sherri Leigh Smith literally spent a lifetime helping us to understand our flying friends and as importantly, to find ways to keep their habitats intact or to improve them . . .

The Barn Dance

This story is about the barn on Grindstone Island and in particular, the dance that occurred there in October of 1941, when I was ten years old.

Manley L. Rusho

The Giving Tree

. . . Although elms are still present in our forests, Dutch elm disease, which has the appropriate acronym “DED,” now kills them before they can reach maturity.

Podcast Dedicated to Shipping

"Downward Bound will bring ship enthusiasts another step closer to the mesmerizing vessels so often seen along the St. Lawrence while also highlighting what the Seaway has to offer,"

The Voracious One and Chordata, a story by Martha Grimes

Once upon an island, there was a Great Blue Heron who ruled the roost in the colony. Vorax Otiosumuno’s reputation stretched far and wide as the laziest feathered felon in the heronry.

Totem Poles and Island History

The Eaton family started the totem pole trend at the west end of Tar Island. In 1899, the New York City family bought this property, built a large summer home, and named the property Totem Lodge.

Nattanya Hewitt

"There is a River" by Heather Chitty

It only took two minutes to realize that the book needs to be introduced to the Thousand Islands community.

FIASCO was held on Wellesley Island

The regatta is known as FIASCO, which is the acronym for Famous International Annual Skiffing Competitive Occurrence.

WORLD ROWING TOUR 2022 – Come and Gone!

Thank you to all of the international rowers who came and took part in this tour, to the wonderful group of volunteers who were with the tour the whole way, and to the Thousand Islands for sharing their beauty.

Dry Stone Wallers!

I’m part of a different sort of migration — an annual influx of Dry Stone Wallers. Dry Stone Wallers are a somewhat peculiar subspecies of human, who still pile one rock upon another to build things without mortar.

The River Gal’s Galley - with tomatoes

Beefsteak, early girls, cherry, yup it’s prime picking when it comes to tomatoes from this River gal’s garden!. . . .

Nicole Hartshorn

Sudoku Puzzles #122, #123, & #124

Can you believe how quickly summer left us at the River? Good thing we have Sudoku to keep our minds sharp through the off-season . . .