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A Dig at a 1900's Country School Site [F-11-22]

This 1970’s archeological project was one undertaken at Girl Scout summer camp in Blake Woods, a site leased to the Thousand Islands Girl Scout Council. Articles found there raised curiosity in the campers. Contact was made with Steven Marqusee (Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, SUNY Potsdam), and he authorized a dig, using SUNY students as site directors. The dig took place over the course of seven summers, during two-week sessions of scout camp; interest in the project remained high. Emma Remington, Parishville Historian, provided a safe exhibit place for the “treasures” found at the site. Some of these items will be displayed in class.

Evelyn Riehl is a lifetime resident of Colton, and a graduate of the Crane School of Music. For years she has enjoyed working with young people. She is also interested in local history. Her curiosity about Raquette River history and folklore, particularly concerning the early river drivers, supplied the impetus for her to write a musical on the subject; it was called “Sunday Rock,” and was produced locally in Colton in 1982. Mary Jane Watson is active in the Raquette River Blueway Corridor project. This fall she is teaching a related SOAR course on “Racquette River History.”