Tag: Scott Brayden
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Camp-of-the-Pines
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…
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W. D. Ross Artifact Discovered by Scott Brayden
That black-and-white photograph was a personal possession of, W. D. Ross, the man who owned and built Rosslyn almost exactly two centuries ago. And it was somewhat miraculously excavated from our yard by a remarkable man who good fortune brought into our path almost a decade ago. Remember Scott Brayden? It’s no exaggeration to claim Scott…
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Favored by Fortune: Sherwood Inn Flashback
Rosslyn has been reinvigorated (even reinvented) many times over its two century history on Essex, New York’s Merchant Row. But beyond all others, the mother lode of artifacts and memories of this fascinating property derive from its years as the Sherwood Inn. This morning I’d like to share with you an article that was published…
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Vintage Sherwood Inn Advertisement
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…