Articles by 'Rex Ennis'
The objective of this article is not a comprehensive history of catamarans. It is in fact an attempt to provide the hist...
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The 12th Armored Division was activated on 15 September 1942.[5] Organization and initial training was at Camp Campbell,...
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The article may be redundant to those who have read my biography of Charles G. Emery, but a review can be constructive. ...
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We don’t often think of the Thousand Islands as a militarized area, yet in the past, the Islands have been the sce...
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This article is the direct result of a document given to me by my wife’s cousin and my dear friend; MaryLou Rusho....
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Charles G. Emery, of Calumet Island, deliberately opened a can of worms in around 1895; he was determined to own all of ...
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The Luckenback Family were prominent River people, yet they did not have a cottage, as far as this author has been able ...
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Editor’s Note. Rexford Ennis published “Toujours Jeune, Always Young,” in 2012 and the...
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Grindstone explorers, who study a topographical map of Grindstone Island, will note a Bench Mark out near Grindstone&rsq...
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Motorboats to sailing yachts - 100 plus years of CYC!
Today’s Clayton Yacht Club recently celebrated its 75th A...
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On 9 July, 2014 Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the opening of the 1000 Islands Harbor Hotel in Clayton, NY, with the fo...
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Over twenty years ago Janet, my wife, was working in her store, the Karmelcorn Shop in Watertown. It was an old building...
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Editor’s Note: For those of us fascinated by genealogy, this story is perfect. Rex Ennis weaves his magic by...
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On October 20th 2013 Jan and I entered the St. Lawrence River from the Atlantic Ocean through the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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This summer Meki Tate, a descendant of Cato Leonard visited the Thousand Island Museum in Clayton, NY. Her v...
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Grayce Lulu Bickford was Charles G. Emery’s girl Friday at the New Frontenac Hotel on Round Island. Born 19 December 187...
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In August 1958, my family of five, mom, dad, brother, sister, and myself sailed aboard the Cunard’s famous RMS Queen Elizabeth liner to Southampton, England.
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Chapman Shoal is located between Round Island and Pine (AKA: Beckwith) Island in the St. Lawrence River downriver from C...
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One hundred years ago, 14 April 1912 the RMS Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, 1,514 perished. Consi...
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The summer of 1904 proved to be the debut in quantity of the gasoline launch in the Thousand Islands. The Syracuse Post ...
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In the Gilded Age, as now, American’s love sports; hotels, clubs, and communities had teams. The Thousand Islands region...
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The first Christian denomination on Grindstone was known as Christian Order founded by elder Jason McKee of Stone Mills ...
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The history of the Thousand Islands is littered with the tales of fishing and the big one that got away. Samuel Sondheim...
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Julius Mendel Breitenbach or as he was known in 1928 “Santa Claus of the Thousand Islands,” was born in December 1890....
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Tuesday 3 May 1898 the First National Bank of Carthage did not open its doors for business. Why had the directors posted...
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Betsey Fitch of Rutland, NY was given Lot 16. Lots 19 and 20 were sold to William Wells of Augusta, Upper Canada for a total of $1,340.00.
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In 1867 the Marquess of Queensbury brought structure to the sport of prize fighting. These rules instituted the three mi...
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When the St. Lawrence River freezes over, one mode of transportation is by “ice boat” or “air boat”, as they are called ...
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The capitalists, the builders of our country, made the Thousand Islands their playground in what we call today the “Gold...
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In August of 1897, at a meeting of the New York State Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission in Albany a discussion was h...
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Are the remains of Geronimo in the Thousand Islands? The legendary Apache Chief died
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Rexford M. Ennis is the author of several dissertations on Thousand Islands history; often presented to an appreciative ...
by: Rex Ennis