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Winter Ice

1/19/2019

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At the north end of Chodikee Lake in Highland, NY there’s the remains of an old mill. Hidden amongst the gray sky and bare trees are the remains of somebody’s enterprise. People may have lived here, they certainly worked here. Dreams. Now there’s nothing left but a stone foundation and questions about it’s past.
At the north end of Chodikee Lake in Highland, NY there’s the remains of an old mill. Hidden at the base of a hill, amongst the gray sky and bare trees are the remains of somebody’s enterprise. People may have lived here, they certainly worked here. Dreams. Today, there’s nothing left but a stone foundation and questions about who and when.

I tried to find out more about the mill and the industry that must have fed it and discovered a 2013 article in Hudson Valley 1 by Mike Townsend  (https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2013/08/17/chodikee-lake-area-has-storied-colorful-history/ ). The article describes the history of the Chodikee Lake area and some of the characters who lived around it since it passed from the Esopus Indians to the Huguenots in 1610 along with 39,000 other acres.

An interesting read.
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On this cold and damp winter day the creek was running full tilt making ice sculptures out of water spray. I have stood on those rocks in the dry of summer but now they were covered with rushing water, ice making shapes only nature could form.
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