Life with a Camera and a Motorcycle
Gloucester, MA (pronounced locally as “GLAW-stuh”) is a quintessential New England fishing town on Massachusetts’ North Shore. Site of the film and book “The Perfect Storm” as well as several others, it has beaches and harbors and fisheries and whale…
This summer has been super rainy, just all-the-time rain. So much rain that much of Vermont’s valleys have been flooding, including our capitol city. We made the national news for a minute, maybe you heard about it. There were a…
Just across the lake in Upstate New York, an area rich with history, is the rebuilt Fort Ticonderoga. Built by the French in the mid 1700’s it was a significant fortress situated at the narrows of Lake Champlain, playing a…
We rode over to Plattsburgh, NY last summer, and while there we stopped in to the Corner Stone Bookstore, probably my favorite place to buy books. Opened in 1975, this second-hand bookstore has been a community staple in this tiny…
With the world all Covidy in the summer of 2020 I was furloughed from work for nearly 3 months, downtown Burlington was a ghost town with every business shuttered for the foreseeable future. So it was a good summer to…
Just over the bridge from Addison, VT lie the remains of two 18th Century forts: Fort Saint-Frédéric built by the French in 1731 and Fort Crown Point built by the British in 1759. During colonial times and the American Revolutionary…
Across the lake, in neighboring Plattsburgh, NY, a couple of Michiganders named Eula and Garth Otis opened a hot dog stand. The year was 1927, and nearly 100 years later, the “Michigan” remains a regional favorite in and around Plattsburgh.…
