The TI Life Team:
Paul Malo, Mr. Thousand Islands 1930 - 2008
The facts tell us that Paul Malo was an award winning historical preservationist, architect, professor, author and passionate Thousand Islander. What the facts don't reveal is the unrelenting energy and effort he invested over a lifetime to build a greater appreciation of this very special place.
When confronted with serious and ultimately terminal illness early in 2007, his response was to accelerate his efforts to fulfill these goals with what time remained.
Paul created over 100 articles for TI Life magazine. He shared his training, knowledge, research and photographs through the magazine, his books and in person to foster a greater appreciation for and preservation of important places like TI Park, Carlton Villa and Boldt Castle amongst many others. Paul leaves behind many legacies, but arguably one of the most important is ThousandIslandsLife.com.
It exists thanks to his dedication, leadership and inspiration.
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Mike Franklin
MikeFranklin@ThousandIslandsLife.com
Mike Franklin is a computer/Internet consultant and a unique property specialist with Sotheby's International Realty. He has more than twenty years experience as an IT professional in support of the real estate industry.
Mike's speciality is working with unique properties of historic value in upstate New York. Mike utilizes his computer and Internet skills to present and promote his properties in detail to down-state, out of state and international buyers.
Examples of his photography, that highlight important architectural attributes, can be found in many of TI Life feature articles.
Mike was a founding member of the Magazine and a good friend of Paul Malo.
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Ian Coristine
Ian@1000IslandsPhotoArt.com
Ian Coristine has been active in aerial photography for over 25 years and has written extensively for U.S. and Canadian aviation publications. His air-to-air aircraft photography graced numerous magazine covers and stories, while also serving his former career in aircraft distribution. The demands of air-to-air photography proved ideal training for a subsequent career he never planned on.
In 1992, a flight in his Challenger float plane led to a chance discovery and subsequent love affair with the 1000 Islands. Three years later he became an island owner and has spent summers here ever since. Living on an island in "the assignment" with a plane, boat and camera and the experience to use them effectively, he realized he had an opportunity, an obligation even, to share a view of the 1000 Islands that few people ever see.
Coristine's first book of photography, The 1000 Islands, was an astonishing success, selling out three large printings and becoming by far the most successful book about the place ever to appear as well as a sought after collectible today. Water, Wind and Sky was released in 2005 and his third book, The Thousand Islands, completed a trilogy of photographic books about the islands in 2006. All three are bestsellers, with over 54,000 copies sold despite not being distributed outside of the immediate region. A smaller, fourth booklet 1000 Islands was published in 2007, winning a 2007 Premier Print "Benny" Award in the graphic arts industry's largest and most prestigious worldwide printing competition.
His Thousand Islands photographs have been featured internationally, in publications including Country Discoveries, Canadian Geographic, Lakeland Boating, Cottage Life, Central New York Magazine, Volvo's LIV Magazine (International Edition), Kingston Life Magazine, Gourmet, Volvo Car España, France’s Le Figaro and Les Echos as well as in a number of books by other authors about the region.
The first one-man gallery exhibition of his work was held at the Brockville Arts Center in 2004. The Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, New York featured “Aerial Perspectives – The Photography of Ian Coristine” during the summer of 2005. The popularity of that exhibit prompted a sequel “Another Aerial Perspective” in the summer of 2006. Onondaga Community College, in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art, brought Coristine's images to Syracuse, NY in the fall of 2006 through an exhibition titled "A Floating World". St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. hosted "A Floating World - Ian Coristine's Thousand Islands" in the summer of 2007 at their Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.
DxO Labs of Paris, France, award winning publishers of revolutionary high-end camera and lens correction software, selected Coristine as one of their 12 founding "Image Masters" from professional photographers around the world. The City of Brockville, Ontario nominated him for its “Tourism Award” in recognition of the attention his work has brought the region.
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Mike Cox
MikeCox@thousandislandslife.com 
Hailing from North Western Ontario, Mike Cox spent his time working at his family tourist business in many different capacities. Mike moved to the Ottawa area where he worked as a Marine Mechanic for several years and continued in that profession after moving to Brockville with is now wife Joanne. Having a penchant for technology, he bought his first computer in 1995 and started developing web sites for Marina Operators.
Mike learned that simply building web pages was not sustainable. Businesses needed a way to manage their sites and to have their sites be more than HTML brochures. Mike specialized in offering web database integration and created Content Management Solutions which enable his customers autonomy from their web masters at affordable prices.
Mike now resides in Rural Ottawa with his wife and two daughters and services a boutique clientele from his home. The original Content Management System he developed has been replaced with a younger more nimble offering that is supported by developers all around the world. Mike is adamant that site maintenance does not need to be done by the tech savvy, and as a result, the TI Life Team has been given great tools to do the job.
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Kim Lunman
KimLunman@ThousandIslandsLife.com
Kim Lunman is an award-winning Canadian journalist who lives in her hometown of Brockville, "the City of the 1000 Islands." The former national correspondent for the Globe and Mail's Victoria and Ottawa bureaus, Lunman has also worked as a reporter for the Calgary Herald and Saint John New Brunswick Telegraph Journal.
Kim is the recipient of a National Newspaper Award for feature writing and received a National Newspaper Award citation of merit for enterprise reporting. She received a Southam Fellowship for journalists at University of Toronto's Massey College.
Kim was also was nominated for a Michener Award, the highest honor in Canada for public service journalism. Her freelance writing has appeared in the Kingston Whig-Standard, the National Post, South China Morning Post, VIA Destinations and Reader's Digest. Kim Lunman recently completed a series on the Thousand Islands featured in a magazine called Island Treasures. Her favorite island - pictured here - is Princess Island, "just for the name".
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Susan W. Smith, Editor
SusanSmith@ThousandIslandsLife.com
Susan Weston Smith, known as Susie, is the author of The First Summer People, Thousand Islands 1650-1910, Boston Mills Press (1993). Susie is a volunteer with the Thousand Islands Land Trust (known as TILT) in Clayton, NY.; currently she is serving as president. Susie is also on the board of the Arthur Child Heritage Museum in Gananoque, ON. In the past she has served on the board of Save the River in Clayton and the Thousand Islands Association in Gananoque.
Shortly before she retired from her career as a professional fundraiser, Susie worked at Queen’s University in Kingston and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Susie and her husband, Marceli Wein, spend the winter in Ottawa and move back to Sagastaweka Island (Admiralty Group) as soon as the ice goes out of the St. Lawrence River, and they leave at the beginning of November.
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