This Must Be The Place (Series)
“This Must Be the Place” is a multi-media story series exploring off-the-beaten-path people and places across the North Country.
The word “remote” gets tossed around a lot in the North Country, but the Tug Hill region truly fits the bill. Lots of land, not a lot of roads, fewer than 50 people per square mile and most of them concentrated in the villages. Long, rolling stretches of fields and forest. Driving around the first night, I felt like I was on the open ocean.
“This Must Be the Place” is a multi-media story series exploring off-the-beaten-path people and places across the North Country:
Goodbye, Hometown
It's travel time for a lot of people this week. But one family from the North Country recently made a bigger journey than most—all the way to sunny California, and they did the whole trip by train. The family had a one way ticket, taking them out to a new life on the west coast.
It's travel time for a lot of people this week. But one family from the North Country recently made a bigger journey than most—all the way to sunny California, and they did the whole trip by train. The family had a one way ticket, taking them out to a new life on the west coast.
The Howl of the Eastern Timber Wolf
Every August for the past 50 years, people from all around the world have made the journey to Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario to hear the howl of the Eastern Timber Wolf, once a ubiquitous sound in the wild.
Every August for the past 50 years, people from all around the world have made the journey to Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario to hear the howl of the Eastern Timber Wolf, once a ubiquitous sound in the wild.
Rare American Chestnut Stands Tall In Northern New York
American chestnuts once made up a quarter of all the forest between Maine and Georgia. Animals depended on the tree for its fruit and humans used the wood. But at the beginning of the last century, a blight wiped out almost all of the chestnut trees. A few survive, including one specimen in upstate New York. The family that planted that tree 27 years ago enjoys its blooms each year at this time.
American chestnuts once made up a quarter of all the forest between Maine and Georgia. Animals depended on the tree for its fruit and humans used the wood. But at the beginning of the last century, a blight wiped out almost all of the chestnut trees. A few survive, including one specimen in upstate New York.
Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night
On some Saturday nights, when no one's watching, one young man comes up to the top floor of the St. Lawrence University student center and plays the piano.
On some Saturday nights, when no one's watching, one young man comes up to the top floor of the St. Lawrence University student center and plays the piano.
Earthlings Watch the Venus Transit
Yesterday evening Venus made its last journey across the face of the sun, as seen from Earth, until the year 2117. People of all ages covered the southeast corner of the St. Lawrence University practice fields to get their look at earth’s closest neighboring planet, peering through one of the big telescopes or a pair of safe solar glasses.
Photo by Melissa Burchard
Yesterday evening Venus made its last journey across the face of the sun, as seen from Earth, until the year 2117. People of all ages covered the southeast corner of the St. Lawrence University practice fields to get their look at earth’s closest neighboring planet, peering through one of the big telescopes or a pair of safe solar glasses.
Planting Vegetables by the Moon
Weaver and gardener Isis Melhado lives outside Canton along the Little River, and times her planting by the phases of the Moon.
Weaver and gardener Isis Melhado lives outside Canton along the Little River, and times her planting by the phases of the Moon.