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Re: [OM] A trip to the Adirondacks

Subject: Re: [OM] A trip to the Adirondacks
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:03:26 +0100
That’s an impressive looking place, Chuck.  But I don’t want to read about a 
battle if we lost :-)

Chris

> On 30 Aug 16, at 01:51, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
> We recently returned after a 10-day trip to the Adirondacks to see our good 
> friends in Queensbury, NY (this family).
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=13461 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=13461>>.
> Right next door to Glens Falls, NY, the headwaters of the Hudson River and 
> made famous by James Fenimore Cooper in "The Last of the Mohicans". Glens 
> Falls is the waterfall under which Natty Bumpo and crew hid from the indians.
> 
> While there we went to the Sagamore Hotel on Lake George
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20693 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20693>>
> 
> Not to stay at the hotel but to take a several hour cruise on the lake on one 
> the Saratoga's tour boats.  We stayed dry despite the threatening weather. 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20697 
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20697>>
> 
> I have many more pictures from the trip and may add a few more from time to 
> time.  I will post one picture that you won't understand unless you first 
> read up on the Battle of Valcour Island 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Island 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valcour_Island>> There you'll learn 
> (if you didn't already know) that Benedict Arnold was a hero before becoming 
> a traitor.  Lake Champlain is key to the Battle of Valcour Island and Lake 
> Champlain parallels part of Lake George.  Enjoy your New York 
> state/Revolutionary War history lesson.

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