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September 21, 2019
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Town of Lewis OK’s move to rename peak ‘Mount Inez’
Dedication of Lewis Veterans Park set
We all realized the need to recognize veterans from our town.” —Jean Dickerson Lewis Town Historian
Comment period welcomes input, historic accounts of name
Planning, fundraising, research, construction mark efforts to honor veterans
By Kim Dedam
By Kim Dedam
STAFF WRITER
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LEWIS |The Town Council here unanimously approved a resolution to formally request that Mount Discovery be renamed Mount Inez. The move would revisit a local proclamation made here in 1916 by then property owner John Milholland to designate the peak “Mount Inez” in honor of his late daughter Inez Milholland Boissevain. “The town passed a resolution in 1916,” Lewis Supervisor Jim Monty said at the meeting last week as councilors took up discussion. “So we’re correcting a 103-year mistake.” Historic records under review by Lewis resident Nancy “Duffy” Campbell show that John Milholland owned a section of the mountain as part of his Meadowmount farm estate. Campbell presented numerous historic accounts of Milholland’s intent to rename the peak Mount Inez, including a reference in the U.S. Board on Geographic Names that indicates Mount Discovery “has a variant name, Mount Inez.” “But no one had applied for a formal name change,” Campbell said in a presentation to the Town Council. Campbell, Adirondack historian John Sasso and Lewis Town Historian Jean White Dickerson have been researching the origin of the name “Mount Discovery.” It appears to be lost in time. Dickerson noted several possibilities caught in legend and lore. So far, the earliest documented mention is found in Horatio Gates Spafford’s Gazetteer of the State of New York, published in 1813. On page 75 in the Essex County overview, Spafford cites a “Topographical and Statistical Table, Census, &c of 1810,” naming one prominent feature in Lewis: Mount Discovery. Sasso has uncovered origins of names for peaks and other landmarks in the Adirondack Park and recently completed a paper “Historical Profile: Mount Discovery.” “There are a variety of published claims as to the name origin, but they are inconsistent and most of the sources are not cited,” Sasso said. “In ‘Whispering Mountains: A History of Lewis, New York,’ (2005) by Barbara Matthews and Marilyn Cross, the authors claim that Mount Discovery received its name because it served as a point to watch for the British fleet during the Revolutionary War.” See INEZ » pg. 2
The Lewis Veterans Park will be formally dedicated on Oct. 5, at 1 p.m., celebrating a six-year project that honors all who served from the Town of Lewis. Photos/Lewis Veterans Park Committee
LEWIS | Official dedication of the Lewis Veterans Park is set for Saturday, Oct. 5. The public celebration marks completion of a project that began in September 2013. David Blades, a Vietnam veteran, commander of American Legion Lewis Post No. 1319 and previous town supervisor, was part of the Park Organizing Committee that got together at the Town Hall on Sept. 23, 2013. “We’ve been working at this for almost six complete years,” he told the Sun in a recent interview. “I think a lot of people felt we were going too slow, but we did all the fundraising ourselves and we did some of the work in the park, though much of it was contracted out. Once we finished one section of the park monument, we had to fundraise more,” Blades said of the process. See VETS PARK » pg. 2
Willsboro students plant terraponics farm School-to-table food part of science learning By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
WILLSBORO | Grade Four at Willsboro Central School made history last week, planting the first seeds in the first Adirondack tray “fields” of an indoor vegetable garden to provide food for the cafeteria all winter. Willsboro joins 100 schools around the country, from Hawaii to the Midwest and throughout New England, to add 24:45 SuperGrow systems to their science program. Based in Norfolk, New York, 24:45 invented its own school-to-table project. The company was founded by organic farmer Andy Maslin. And Maslin, who also owns an organic farm, came with the equipment, bags of dirt, trays, lights, watering cans and seeds, to help the students learn what to do. “Okay, children, let’s put soil in the trays.” It was all hands on after that. A flurry of fingers blurred over mounds of dirt. This wasn’t a sand box, it was serious business. Bigger kids helped fill the trays to be set in
tiered grow-carts fitted with lights. “You’re making history,” Maslin congratulated the class. School Superintendent Justin Gardner helped press the soil into trays with a metal seed guide, showing kids where to plant. “Put one or two seeds into each hole,” Maslin said. “We can check afterward, and I will know how well you count.” Grade Four teacher Tara Valachovic encouraged the group as the kids took the activity to task. “Willsboro’s school is going to grow its own food,” Maslin chimed. When he asked if they help in gardens or on farms at home, nearly all of the children raised their hands It is a familiar chore here, yes, but 24:45 Organics uses two, three or four-tiered carts instead of fields. The indoor, year-round garden is designed to produce organic greens of all kinds, herbs, tomatoes and cucumbers, minus the rototiller, rocks, weeds, frost and bugs. “Sometimes the raccoons eat our food,” one small fourth grader observed. “Yes, they do,” Maslin understood the dilemma. Within 10 minutes, Ms. Valachovic’s class had seeds in the dirt. They planted spring
24:45 Organics founder and farmer Andy Maslin, left , discusses some of the uses for herb plants and greens with Willsboro Central School Superintendent Justin Gardner. Photo by Kim Dedam
greens, which go in one of the four-tiered SuperGrow stainless steel carts. See INDOOR GARDEN » pg. 5
The face of Frontier Town
Muhammad “Mo” Ahmad stands out front of the familiar A-frame building that was, and may be in the future, a welcome center for Frontier Town.
Owner of iconic A-frame wants it to be Exit 29 welcome center
Photo by Tim Rowland
By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
NORTH HUDSON | A decade ago, Muhammad “Mo” Ahmad was a businessman splitting his time between New York City and northern New Jersey when a friend told him about a business opportunity, a Sunoco station, in a place called Schroon Lake. After the hubbub of the city, the Adirondacks
was a refreshing break, and when another Sunoco station — this one even deeper in the woods — came on the market in 2014, Ahmad bought that too. At the exit for Newcomb and North Hudson, it might just have been about the loneliest Sunoco in the east, and after dark the yellow glow of its elevated sign provided a shining beacon of hope for Northway travelers whose gas gauges did pointeth to “E”. No one else was sure the purchase made sense, and those who had tried to make a go of the gas station before had failed. It was in the middle of the North Hudson woods, and its only visible company from the Interstate was a sorry looking assemblage of structures across the street, including an oversized A-frame. See FRONTIER TOWN » pg. 8
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