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Travel Writing Contest Hosted by Champlain Area Trails
Image by virtualDavis via Flickr Get your pencils sharpened, your laptops powered, and your cameras ready, Champlain Area Trails (CATS) will soon launch its first Travel Writing Contest. It’s your...
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Downtown Essex Day 2012
Antique photo of Essex, New York Tomorrow, Saturday, August 4, our fair hamlet on Lake Champlain will turn out with Technicolor fanfare for the thirty third Downtown Essex Day. That’s right, between...
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Lakeside School: 10 Ways to Support
10 Ways to Support Lakeside School in Essex 1) Bring friends and dance the night away at the bi-annual Barn Dance at Black Kettle Farm. Come early for a hearty chili dinner. Spring dance is June...
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Essex Inn Welcomes New Chef and Innkeeper
Keith Castro and Lanai Monahan are the new innkeepers at the Essex Inn. To date I’ve enjoyed four delicious dinners at Room 12, the new Farm-to-Table restaurant located at the Essex Inn. That’s to say,...
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Essex Inn Takeout
I’ve made no secret of my praise for Keith Castro and Lanai Monahan, the new innkeepers at the Essex Inn. To date I’ve enjoyed four delicious dinners at Room 12, the new Farm-to-Table restaurant...
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Gastro-Tourism in Essex, New York
Homemade salmon rillette at the Essex Inn’s Table 12 (Photo: Lanai Monahan) I few years ago friends invited me to visit the Brome—Missisquoi for a sybaritic weekend of dining and wine tasting along The...
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Essex Farm: In the Black
Sunrise at Essex Farm in Essex, NY. (Credit: Kristin Kimball) Kristin Kimball shares the news from Essex Farm in Essex, NY: Mark and I were awake extra early this morning, catching up on a few things...
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Essex Farm: Owls and Bok Choy
Buckets of summer veggies at Essex Farm! (Credit: Kristin Kimball) Check out this week’s Essex Farm news from the recent update at Kristin Kimball‘s blog: “We are all rooting for the pullets to come...
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Barbara Irish Smith Shares Memories of Her Childhood in Essex
Helen Irish married John MacKenzie on August 30, 1943. This is a group photo of everyone at the wedding. This picture was taken the day my oldest sister Helen Irish married John MacKenzie on August 30,...
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Essex Farm: Consider the Egg
A fresh egg at Essex Farm (Credit: Kristin Kimball) Check out this week’s Essex Farm news from the recent update at Kristin Kimball‘s blog: “Consider the egg. All magic, it is. Forged from grass,...
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Greenhorns: The New Farmer’s Almanac (2013)
The New Farmer’s Almanac For the Year 2013 (Published by Greenhorns) “A lot has changed for American agriculture since Ben Franklin wrote his (almanac), and we wonder how much will change yet. With...
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Essex County Cheese Tour on October 12
On Sunday, October 12, 2014, Adirondack Harvest will host the first (and hopefully annual!) Essex County, NY, Cheese Tour. Three local artisanal creameries will open their doors to the public for a...
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New York State Canal Corporation Director to Speak at Lakes to Locks Passage...
Brian U. Stratton, Director of the New York State Canal Corporation The Board of Lakes to Locks Passage, Inc. invites the public to attend their Annual Meeting on Wednesday, October 8 from 10:00 AM to...
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Lakes to Locks Passage 2014 Annual Meeting: Focus on NYS Canal System
Keynote Speaker Canal Corp Director Brian Stratton Reports on the Non-Tourism Economic Impact Study (Credit: Lakes to Locks) Lakes to Locks Passage, Inc. held its 2014 Annual Meeting on Wednesday...
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Bringing An Old Farm Back To Life
Our new farm (Credit: Daniel Rivera) Hello everyone! My name is Dan and I’m super happy to be the latest contributor on the Essex on Lake Champlain Blog. Bringing an old farm back to life is not for...
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Essex Farm: Sequel in the Works
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball Here’s the recent news from Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm in Essex, New York: “I’m back to the farm and the family, at last. It...
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Happy Halloween 2014
Happy Halloween, Essex friends and neighbors. The first trick-or-treat crowd just arrived on our front stoop. “Trick or treat!” they cried in chorus. They explained patiently and politely (dare I say...
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Prize-Winning Ayrshire Paintings Restored
Henry Higginson with hunting dogs (Credit: Olive Alexander) The photo above is of Henry Higginson, but not certain if taken in Massachusetts or England. He was the original owner of “Sheldon Farm” and...
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Westport Chamber of Commerce Meeting Discusses Regional Goals
Click to view slideshow. I attended the Westport Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting on November 12th at the Westport Heritage House along with about 40 other attendees. I was there as part of the...
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Central Lake Champlain Destination Master Plan
Are you familiar with the Central Lake Champlain Destination Master Plan? At an Adirondack Destination Summit in Lake Placid last October ROOST (the Regional Office Of Sustainable Tourism) launched a...
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