The Huletts Current

Today, we’re going to interview Leann Ingalls who is managing and running the Casino this year. Leann has many connections to Huletts and has been working all winter on improving the Casino for this summer. Leann, first could you tell the readers of the Huletts Current a little bit about yourself? “Well most people know [...]

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How do Whitehall, Lake Champlain, and the U.S. Naval Academy all come together in a post? Well, Whitehall is the birthplace of the U.S. Navy and I recently visited the U.S. Naval Academy. In their new visitor’s center they have an exhibit dedicated to Alan Shepard Jr., the first American in Space, and a 1945 [...]

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Washington County Gets Serious About Saving Money This is good to see. Washington County sees that they have to cut back. Read the Wash Blog. The Adirondack Museum Opens on May 22 The Adirondack Almanack tells you all you need to know about the museum’s great new exhibits and 2009 schedule. Saratoga’s 2009 Schedule While [...]

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“When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” – Pablo Picasso

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Click on the image to see a larger view. This is a picture of people waiting for the steamer to arrive in Bolton Landing in 1902. It’s always fascinating to see pictures of people getting off and on the steamships because they traveled in such different clothes than people travel in today. This picture caught [...]

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“In my eager surprise I was trying to behold God’s deathless, sapphire gemmed city of burnished gold.” H.H.Hyder, “The Double Golden Chains with Blazing Diamonds Strung” (1889)

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The year of 1816 is commonly known as the year without a summer. I found this interesting article from the Warrensburg News from August 31, 1905. It tells about how our area was severely affected by the extreme weather. Year Without A Summer Ice Formed in July and Corn Was Frozen in August 1816. Eighty-nine [...]

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The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Take Two Ever heard that Japanese knotweed or garlic mustard threaten the Adirondacks? Well they do. Read the Adirondack Alamanacks’ article on how the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) was one of 26 projects across New York State to receive the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s highest honor: the [...]

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The NCAA basketball tournament is over for this year but I finally got a chance to sit down with my friend Mike Lonergan and talk about what life is like for the Vermont basketball coach. As we head into our “summer season”, his year is winding down and we finally had a chance to get [...]

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Today we conclude our questions with the second candidate running for the two seats on the Board of Education up for election on May 19th. The Huletts Current submitted the following questions to each candidate running for the school board. I explained to each candidate that I would run their answers as the they submitted [...]

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While this article from the Post Star is almost completely about the public beach in Jackson having its hours cut this summer, the article touches upon the schedule for the Washington County Beach in Huletts at the end. “The Huletts beach will be open 84 days from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Its season also [...]

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This year there are two vacancies on the Board of Education and only two candidates running for these two seats. The Huletts Current submitted the following questions to each candidate running for the school board. I explained to each candidate that I would run their answers as the they submitted them on the Huletts Current. [...]

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The Whitehall School District will have an election Tuesday, May 19th between 12:00 noon and 9:00 p.m. in the large group instruction room in the high-school on Buckley Road: 1.) To adopt next years budget. 2.) To elect two (2) members of the school board. 3.) To vote on three (3) propositions: a.) The purchase [...]

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I came across an interesting book entitled; Turn-of-the-Century Scrapbook of Jonathan Streeter Gates Bolton, NY August 2, 1847 – December 11, 1921. It is a compilation of newspaper clippings from that period. One short article dealt with Huletts Landing and it is fascinating. It is simply dated August 1911. It does not say what newspaper [...]

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