M@ Around The World

Although traveling around the world, seeing new faces and places, and learning about history is exciting, I believe it's important to alway return to "the nest". Where I grew up, there is also a lot of American, and family, history. One perfect example is my family's house set on the majestic, Great Sacandaga Lake . The "lake" is actually a reservoir. This part of the Adirondack region of Upstate NY was flooded after the construction of a damn in Conklingville, NY in 1924. The damn was completed in 1930. The reservoir feeds into the Hudson River and is managed by the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District . Interestingly enough, the money used to maintain the damn, reservoir, and surrounding land (which is owned by New York State) mostly comes from the electrical companies that run hydro-electric turbines at the damn. The damn was completed, and the land inside of the reservoir was flooded in 1930. Many families from the surrounding towns an...