The Huletts Current

Fort Ticonderoga. Photo credit Richard Timberlake. The Lake Placid CVB/Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (LPCVB/ROOST) has awarded Fort Ticonderoga the 2011 Tourism Marketing Award. The award was presented January 12 in Lake Placid at a gathering of tourism industry peers and elected officials. The Tourism Marketing Award is given to a group or individual who [...]

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I think I mentioned before that sometime ago my brother and I were driving one evening to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Atlanta. He was driving the car. And for some reason the drivers were very discourteous that night. They didn’t dim their lights; hardly any driver that passed by dimmed his lights. And I remember very [...]

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So you love looking at old photographs of Huletts Landing and Lake George, but you thought you had seen them all. Well the #1 reason to read The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George, is that it contains a treasure trove of pictures, published together for the first time, of Huletts Landing and Lake George. [...]

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Don’t we all grow by learning new things? Isn’t learning imaginatively enriching? Well, if you want to learn something new about something old, while capturing your imagination in new ways, you’ll definitely want to read the The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George. The book includes almost two years of research, so I can confidently [...]

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There’s an old saying that says in effect; “the people make the place.” Well a hundred years ago is a long time though, and history sometimes forgets the people “that made the place.” One of things I enjoyed while writing, The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George was researching the many interesting characters that the [...]

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Do you like a good story? How about a good mystery? Well you’ll read a really great story and find a mystery in a mystery in the book; The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George. A mystery in a mystery? You’re probably asking; “What’s he talking about?” Well, I can’t give it away, you’ll have [...]

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Did you know that the Hulett Hotel Fire of 1915 was one of the largest fires ever on the shores of Lake George? In chapter five of The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George you’ll learn what happened on that day in 1915 when the fire occurred. You’ll see the only known photographs of the [...]

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I’m happy to unveil the cover of my new book: The Hulett Hotel Fire on Lake George. On a clear November day in 1915, the Hulett Hotel on Lake George caught fire and burned to the ground. Quickly rebuilt, the “new” Hulett became a popular tourist destination. However, after the rebuilding, a mysterious figure claimed [...]

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Over the past year and a half, my writing on this site has been off a bit because I have been working on a very special project. I am now happy to announce ….. drum roll………. that my second book is officially complete and headed to the presses!!! So on Monday, January 9, 2012 I [...]

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Fort Ticonderoga volunteer BR Delaney portrays a North East Woodland Native at a recent Fort Ticonderoga event. Stuart Lilie, Director of Interpretation at Fort Ticonderoga, will talk about Native Americans and the Patriot Cause as part of the “Fort Fever Series” at Fort Ticonderoga this winter. Photo credit George Jones. Fort Ticonderoga introduces a new [...]

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Courtesy of Ray Rose A rare postcard of Dresden station circa 1930. Caption above reads: Lake Champlain at Dresden, N.Y. From the Hudson Champlain Trail Caption below reads: Between Whitehall and Ticonderoga, N.Y. What appears here should not to be confused with the Clemons train station. The drawing above is from a postcard of Dresden [...]

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From: A Man for All Seasons Cromwell: Now, Sir Thomas, you stand on your silence. Sir Thomas More: I do. Cromwell: But, gentlemen of the jury, there are many kinds of silence. Consider first the silence of a man who is dead. Let us suppose we go into the room where he is laid out, [...]

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NY Times: Adirondacks Warming? The NY Times follows Jerry Jenkins, an ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. Hard frosts that a generation ago came in mid-September now arrive in October. Lake Champlain, a huge freshwater body that divides New York and Vermont, once froze over completely every winter, but now remains open in the middle [...]

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A painting of Marie Antoinette with her son, Louis-Charles, on her lap. (circa 1787) At the time of the French Revolution, the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was known as Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France. He was abducted on August 10, 1792, when only eight years old, as the French revolution waged on. When [...]

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