Category: Brant Lake

Two Tails of a Three-Legged Dog: Tail 1

Puppies raced around the ring at North Shore Animal Shelter. Adorable black labs, eight weeks old, a Chihuahua puppy almost too small to see, a St. Bernard tripping over its paws—all of them searching for a home. Then, an All American Mixed Breed entered the play area, moving cautiously on three paws since…

Images from Brant Lake: The Tannery

This is a story in stone. In the middle of the 19th century Irish immigrants, fleeing the potato famine, sailed on so-called coffin ships and landed in America. Some migrated to the area around Brant Lake and worked in the local tannery curing hides sent from western New York by train to Riverside…