Rosslyn Redux

Tag: Camp-of-the-Pines

  • Essex Cottage & 1946 Buick

    Essex Cottage & 1946 Buick

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    Geo Davis
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    Essex Cottage & 1946 Buick (vintage photo) Sometimes a trifle is all we need to smile inwardly and lift our spirits. A chuckle. The wink of wonder. This auction item offered no specific insight into Rosslyn’s yesteryears, nor did it illuminate in any meaningful way our fair village or its environs. But the photo, auction…

  • Camp-of-the-Pines

    Camp-of-the-Pines

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    Geo Davis
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    I turn afield this afternoon to share with you a growing collection of vintage postcards and miscellaneous artifacts featuring Camp-of-the-Pines in Willsboro, New York. To be 100% transparent from the outset, my aspiration is twofold: I want to solicit community knowledge about this [apparently] no longer extant Lake Champlain neighbor. I want to showcase our remarkably…

  • Vintage Sherwood Inn Advertisement

    Vintage Sherwood Inn Advertisement

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    Geo Davis
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    Many thanks to David Brayden for discovering and sharing a 1949 Adirondack Guide that showcased Essex, NY alongside a vintage Sherwood Inn advertisement (above), the only Essex ad included in the book. It turns out that David Brayden is not only a talented doodler. He turns out to be as skilled an Essex artifact hunter as his son, Scott Brayden (Scott…