Articles by 'Kim Lunman'
A proposed anchor tourism attraction for the Thousand Islands is a huge step closer to opening its doors on Brockville’s...
by: Kim Lunman
Our house is built on a rock in a river.
So begins "Of Time and an Island", a love letter to the Thousand Islands penne...
by: Kim Lunman
HILL ISLAND - Bud Andress grabs his binoculars and hops on the Jet-Ski at the dock of his St. Lawrence River home to go ...
by: Kim Lunman
It’s official. Summer has arrived in the 1000 Islands and soon so will Island Life. The new issue of Island Life M...
by: Kim Lunman
The Thousand Islands International Bridge is an iconic symbol of the 1000 Islands, connecting southeastern Ontario and n...
by: Kim Lunman
Brockville’s newest tourism attraction - The Aquatarium at Tall Ships Landing has officially opened its doors on the sho...
by: Kim Lunman
It’s time for island time again, in the 1000 Islands, as this year’s print issue of “Island Life Magaz...
by: Kim Lunman
The 1000 Islands is slowly starting to wake up after its seasonal slumber during the winter months when Canadian Geese j...
by: Kim Lunman
Tee Time on Grenadier Island The most popular mode of transportation on this island is golf cart. Residents use them to...
by: Kim Lunman
It's that time of year again: Island Time. This year's issue of Island Life Magazine,available this month,
by: Kim Lunman
The work of famous American artist Frederic Remington is on display at the Brockville Arts Centre this month. Exhibits f...
by: Kim Lunman
It was love at first sight that saved Casa Blanca, a grand Gilded Age estate on Cherry Island.
The century-old cottag...
by: Kim Lunman
What's in a name? The dictionary defines 'Kismet' as "a power that is believed to control what happens in the future."
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by: Kim Lunman
One of North America's premier developers renowned for his luxury custom design is revitalizing Gananoque's waterfront w...
by: Kim Lunman
The launch of a St. Lawrence skiff has fittingly marked the launch of the first phase of the new Thousand Islands Boat M...
by: Kim Lunman
A young German immigrant named Fred Huck discovered the Thousand Islands in the late 1800s; first in Cape Vincent and th...
by: Kim Lunman
It's that time of year again. Island Time.
It's time to celebrate summer and enjoy The River in one of the most enchant...
by: Kim Lunman
The Professor
I was writing about the Thousand Islands for just a few months when photographer Ian Coristine introduc...
by: Kim Lunman
When you talk about The River here in the Thousand Islands, no further explanation is required. Why? Because it might as...
by: Kim Lunman
Heron Cay. Kismet. Cherry. And Honey Bee. What do these Thousand Islands have in common? They will be featured in the pa...
by: Kim Lunman
The St. Lawrence River town of Clayton, New York overlooking the Thousand Islands has a claim to fame other than being a...
by: Kim Lunman
Where else could you expect to meet the Vagabond King, Lady Gilbert, Red Devil and BarrTender?
At a golf course on an i...
by: Kim Lunman
It's that time of year again: Island Time. Summer is back and so is Island Life Magazine. Here's a preview of this year'...
by: Kim Lunman
It's the towering tree that you first notice about this little island west of Brockville. It almost resembles a palm tre...
by: Kim Lunman
Anne and Charles Phillips honeymooned in the Thousand Islands in 1929. Before they left, the bride of a Methodist ...
by: Kim Lunman
The Great Lake Swimmers literally swam and dove into the St. Lawrence, spending a hot summer day here in August filming ...
by: Kim Lunman
Temagami Island
I am in Chippewa Bay 10 miles below Alexandria Bay. Seven miles wide here and blows like hell ev...
by: Kim Lunman
Author's Note: I first met Mary Hewitt in the summer of 2010 and interviewed her several times near Rockport at her ma...
by: Kim Lunman
The citizens of Round Island are gathering at the dockside post office under a sapphire blue sky on a Sunday afternoon i...
by: Kim Lunman
This doctor doesn't just make house calls. Dr. Dick Withington, known around this stretch of the River simply as 'Doc,' ...
by: Kim Lunman
A Gananoque businessman and sailor who loved to explore the St. Lawrence River
by: Kim Lunman
Carolyn Pratt spent summers as a young girl with her family on Mudlunta Island just a pebble's toss away from Kitsymenie...
by: Kim Lunman
"Garden Island grew from merely a dot in the wilderness to be the home of hundreds - it made a bit of history all its ow...
by: Kim Lunman
Six blindfolded men and women board a boat in the middle of the St. Lawrence River and are taken to a century-old castle...
by: Kim Lunman
They say every man is an island. Farhad Vladi says every man can own an island.
Vladi, as he is known in international ...
by: Kim Lunman
It was famously dubbed the Castle of Mysteries by the New York Times more than a century ago and today it still holds mo...
by: Kim Lunman
Cangarda, the century-old luxury yacht that once sailed the St. Lawrence River as Senator George T. Fulford's Mage...
by: Kim Lunman
George C. Boldt, who famously built a castle for his beloved bride on Heart Island in what would become the most tragic ...
by: Kim Lunman
Sporting a weathered Commodore's cap to Sugar Island's opening encampment ceremonies complete with traditional bugle pla...
by: Kim Lunman
It's one of the most familiar landmarks off the shores of Clayton, visible from the quaint village's waterfront patios a...
by: Kim Lunman
Pullman Island stands for everything that was grand about the Thousand Islands during its gilded era a century ago and a...
by: Kim Lunman
Some islands have names with stories that are just meant to be told. This little known Thousand Island off the shores of...
by: Kim Lunman
It's a crisp October afternoon in Rockport and the sky and River are postcard perfect blue. The sun is shining brightly ...
by: Kim Lunman
As a nautical hitchhiker, I've explored the Thousand Islands by tall ship, cruise ship, power boat, canoe skiff, Sea-Doo...
by: Kim Lunman
Marilyn Lee stepped out of the classic wooden boat Teal and onto the shores of Fairyland Island for the first time in 47...
by: Kim Lunman
A "microburst" swept through the Thousand Islands last month, uprooting trees, damaging cottages and leaving some island...
by: Kim Lunman
Baguettes, berets, French pastries, Canada's flag flying while “O’Canada” is being belted out from a singer on a main st...
by: Kim Lunman
Louis Richards wrote, "It is a chapter in the story ...
by: Kim Lunman
One of the most luxurious steam yachts of the Thousand Islands was a floating fixture on the St. Lawrence River during t...
by: Kim Lunman
March and spring may share the same month on the calendar in the Thousand Islands but they are so very often not on the ...
by: Kim Lunman
Listen to the audio version as read by Jan Eliot
Some islands tell a story. Grindstone Island tells many of them....
by: Kim Lunman
Anyone who has spent any time in the Thousand Islands becomes accustomed to its creatures... NEW: Audio by Jan Eliot
by: Kim Lunman
As snow falls over the River against a backdrop of a chalk white sky, I can't help but think of summer in the Thousand I...
by: Kim Lunman
It looks like it could be the end of an era for the last antique wooden tour boat in the Thousand Islands.
The Morrisani...
by: Kim Lunman
Storybook bridges. Broomstick Castle. An historic boathouse and an idyllic summer retreat called The Folly. This is Fair...
by: Kim Lunman
A scene from a new Hollywood pirate movie? This spectacular setting on the St. Lawrence River is the backdrop for Toronto folk band Great Lake Swimmers newest music video.
by: Kim Lunman
Jerry Huck is at the wheel of his Boston Whaler heading west out of his native Rockport on the St. Lawrence River toward...
by: Kim Lunman
One of the best ways to see a spectacular string of islands known as the Admiralty Group in the St. Lawrence River is up...
by: Kim Lunman
Great Lake Swimmers Back in River
Tony Dekker, the lead musician of the Great Lake Swimmers, rests his hand on the helm...
by: Kim Lunman
A documentary that takes viewers beneath the St. Lawrence River to a wreck at the bottom the Brockville Narrows is...
by: Kim Lunman
It started out innocently enough with a cookbook. Then came the song sheets
by: Kim Lunman
It can be said every island has its magic. But not every island has its own magician.
Honey Bee Island is the summer ho...
by: Kim Lunman
PRESCOTT: The Canadian Empress is about to set sail from the Fort Town to its next port of call - Brockville - with passengers from all over North America
by: Kim Lunman
GRENADIER ISLAND: June Hodge was born in a houseboat on the St. Lawrence River.
by: Kim Lunman
"Brockville’s Waterfront" first appeared in the Brockville Recorder and Times on August 30, 2008 and subsequently was pu...
by: Kim Lunman
There can be no disputing Clayton is the boating capital of the Thousand Islands both on land and in the water. This small U.S. town on the St. Lawrence River has been transformed ...
by: Kim Lunman
CLAYTON, NY The salad dressing that put this place on the map might have a slight geography Challenge.
by: Kim Lunman
ROCKPORT - A Toronto band is using the Thousand Islands as a backdrop for its fourth album, recording in some of...
by: Kim Lunman
DARK ISLAND N.Y.
It's hard to know what to pack when you're going to spend the night in the Royal Suite of a castle as ...
by: Kim Lunman
DARK ISLAND N.Y.: Scott Garris gets to be king for a night almost every night of the year at Singer Castle.
The 46-year...
by: Kim Lunman
"Malo's gifts were, as his students, many. But his legacy lives on in his lessons about this special place he so ...
by: Kim Lunman
Beginning on Saturday, July 5, 2008 and appearing every Saturday through Labour Day Weekend, Kim Lunman's series entitle...
by: Kim Lunman
CARLETON ISLAND
This is the second story in a series written by staff reporter, Kim Lunman, for the Brockville...
by: Kim Lunman
A memorial service will be held Saturday Oct. 11 at Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University for Paul Malo, architect, pr...
by: Kim Lunman
The Thousand Islands has lost one its most influential voices.
Paul Malo, architect, author and advocate for this magi...
by: Kim Lunman