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Articles by 'Lynn E. McElfresh'

I remember the first time I saw a loon. It was in the early 1980’s, because we still had that small aluminum fishing boa...

I read about the “Mystery of Maple Island” my very first season on the island. So I’m long familiar with the legend that...

The schooner Roseway tied up to the dock at Frink’s Park in Clayton, New York, on June 25th. It was a cool, dreary, drip...

As our neighbor says, “Cottage life isn’t for sissies.” He says it with a smile though and we all know what it means.

Non-island friends are always curious about how we get things to the island. There’s only one answer…by boat.

Music has been part of island life on Grenell since Uncle Otis had a heavy square grand piano pulled across the ice back...

For me, there are only three seasons: Pre-River Season, River Season and Post-River Season. Pre-River Season s...

Flags abound in the islands. At Grenell Island’s July 2009 regatta, participants were asked to count the flags as they p...

It wasn’t used and it took up too much space. Yet, chopping it up with an ax and burning it was not an option.

Greg Lago welcomes winter. Everyday, snowy or not, Lago makes his way to his studio on James Street “The good thing abou...

By the time I first arrived on Grenell Island in 1975, my husband’s family had already been on the Point, for nearly a h...

Janet was five, when her parents bought the cottage on Grenell Island, and it's where she spent her summers. She became ...

When my husband proposed to me back in 1974, he asked if I would consider getting married on the island. At that point i...

Spring of 2007, we returned to Grenell Island to find a display of breath-taking paintings in the Grenell Island Communi...