Tag Archives: Willsboro

Patch Sprint 2016

Posted on 1 June 2016 by Bill Paine

As has been our custom for many years now, Andrew and I drove up to Willsboro for the Memorial Day weekend, leaving Friday and returning Monday.  While any visit up there is worth the time and effort regardless of any … Continue reading →

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Life, the Universe and Everything

Posted on 14 August 2015 by Bill Paine

Wow.  I’ve really neglected this.  Sorry!  Time for me to update you on the past 10 months… First, the diet plan.  The very good news here is that I’ve gone from a starting point of roughly 300lbs down to 245lbs, … Continue reading →

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Flat Rock Vacation

Posted on 26 June 2014 by Bill Paine

My brother Andrew and I are upstate on Lake Champlain again, enjoying a little time off at Flat Rock Camp by kind invitation of Marian Bradley, one of our honorary aunts (childhood friend of my Aunt Molly), who is renting … Continue reading →

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Green Bay as of Mid-August

Posted on 15 September 2013 by Bill Paine

Although Andrew and I were not able to go up to the North Country over Labor Day weekend this year, Andrew and my mother went up earlier in August.  My Aunt Jan (mom’s sister) rented a house in Saranac Lake … Continue reading →

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Green Bay Renovation Progress

Posted on 15 June 2013 by Bill Paine

Andrew and I were in Willsboro over the Memorial Day weekend to volunteer for and cheer on the participants of Camp Poko’s Patch Sprint adventure race.  It was a wild and wet weekend with temperatures peaking in the low 40’s … Continue reading →

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Green Bay Renovations

Posted on 4 February 2013 by Bill Paine

As usual, I went up to Willsboro over the MLK holiday long weekend, leaving Friday 18 January and returning Monday 21 January.  This was the first time I’ve been up since we moved out of Green Bay, so going up … Continue reading →

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Another End of an Era

Posted on 21 July 2012 by Bill Paine

Elsewhere on this site I talk about my love of the family properties on Lake Champlain in Willsboro, NY.  The house we call Green Bay is part of those family holdings; originally purchased by my grandfather in the late 1940’s, … Continue reading →

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Patch Sprint 2012

Posted on 30 May 2012 by Bill Paine

Every Memorial Day weekend, Poko-MacCready Camps hosts the Patch Sprint adventure race to raise funds for the Adirondack Scholarship Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps kids who otherwise might not be able to afford the tuition to go to summer … Continue reading →

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Irene

Posted on 31 August 2011 by Bill Paine

Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene passed through New York City and headed up north through New England last weekend.  Thankfully, here in the city the impact was not nearly as bad as predicted—about the same as a bad nor’easter storm.  Andrew and … Continue reading →

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Willsboro with Aunt Molly

Posted on 8 July 2011 by Bill Paine

It’s been my Aunt Molly’s custom in recent years to go up to Willsboro in late June/early July and rent Flat Rock Camp for a week.  This year, that plan was upset when it became clear that the Camp couldn’t … Continue reading →

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