{"id":8734,"date":"2022-08-06T08:16:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T08:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2022-09-05T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T09:42:12","slug":"sketchbook-traveler-dispatch-116-ausable-point-on-lake-champlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/sketchbook-traveler-dispatch-116-ausable-point-on-lake-champlain\/","title":{"rendered":"SKETCHBOOK TRAVELER: DISPATCH # 116: Ausable Point on Lake Champlain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.needlewatcher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-POINT-Mansfiled-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1002\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Mount Mansfield from the north beach at Ausable Point<\/em>. Journal Painting. Aqueous media on paper. 3.5 x 10.5 inches. 2022<\/p>\n<p>Believed by some to be the illegitimate son of \u201cLe Vert Galante\u201d King Henri IV, the peripatetic Samuel de Champlain explored the Atlantic coast of North America, before ascending the Saint Lawrence to establish the dominion of New France. At the base of a rocky promontory, Champlain established his base of operations at \u201cKeh-beck\u201d, meaning \u201cnarrows\u201d in the local Abenaki dialect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.needlewatcher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Champlain_Original_High.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1631\" height=\"1004\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it has become fashionable today to regard the practice of assigning place-names as exertions of personal vanity and colonial oppression, it had a far more practical raison d\u2019etre, as a necessary means of identifying specific features of terrain. The coast of Maine and its rivers today mostly bear indigenous names, such as Androscoggin; \u201ccliff-shelters river\u201d, Damariscotta \u201cmany alewives\u201d, Kennebec; \u201cbay\u201d, Kennebunk \u201clong cut bank\u201d, Penobscot \u201cwhite-rocks people\u201d, Ogunquit; \u201cbeautiful seaside\u201d, Schoodic; \u201cpoint of land\u201d, and Wiscasset; \u201chidden harbor\u201d. Sailing down east, explorers would have learned these traditional place-names from interacting with the natives. In many instances, when indigenous place-names were unknown, the cartographer would provide one of his own, in his native language. Having charted much of the Atlantic seaboard from Nantucket to Gaspee, Champlain bowed to ignorance and necessity by labeling some locations <em>en le Fran\u00e7ais<\/em>, such as Ile au Haut; \u201clofty island\u201d, or Ile Mont-Desert; \u201cisland of deserted mountains\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-point-clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1774\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-point-clouds.jpg 1774w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-point-clouds-292x104.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-point-clouds-1024x366.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-point-clouds-768x274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-point-clouds-1536x549.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1774px) 100vw, 1774px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Lake Champlain from Ausable Point<\/em>. Journal Painting. Aqueous media on paper. 3.5 x 10.5 inches. 2022<\/p>\n<p>In 1609, Champlain ascended the Richelieu River to an inland sea known to his Abenaki allies as Pe-ton-bowk; \u201cthe waters between\u201d; as it was recognized as the natural boundary between them and their Mohawk foes to the west. As de\u2013facto ruler of New France, and a key player in the booming fur trade, Champlain had by 1609 evolved from the youthful explorer into a determined imperialist. Unabashed about assigning his name to the body of water upon which he ascended, Champlain and his Abenaki, Huron and Mi\u2019qmak allies sought to drive the Kanien\u02bckeh\u00e1\ua789ka \u201cMohawk\u201d out of the eastern Adirondack region. The goal was to gain control of key carrying-places; short overland links to Lake George and the Hudson Valley beyond. Paddling south, past clusters of islands, the flotilla of war-canoes entered a broad expanse of water. Mountains rose up from the western shore. A long ridge of low peaks stood off to the east, back from the water\u2019s edge. Jutting out from the right bank was the wooded sandy delta of a river known to his companions as N\u00e1gwiadz\u00f3ak; \u201cunderground stream\u2019, to which Champlain gave the name Au Sable; \u201cin the sand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-Point-small-beach.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-Point-small-beach.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-Point-small-beach-292x219.jpeg 292w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-Point-small-beach-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-Point-small-beach-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausable-Point-small-beach-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The expedition was a success. On July 30, 1609, during the tense opening moments of an encounter with Mohawk warriors, Champlain stepped forward with an arquebus, loaded with buckshot. When the white smoke had cleared from its thundering discharge, two chiefs lay dead, with a third gravely wounded. Fighting alongside their British allies a century and a half later, Mohawks helped to expel the French from the Champlain Valley forever.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-4-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-4-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-4-292x219.jpeg 292w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-4-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-4-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-4-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><br \/>\nLooking downriver above Anderson Falls, Keeseville, New York. In August of 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louis Agassiz, James Russell Lowell, Judge Hoar, and other members of Boston&#8217;s elite Saturday Club passed through Keeseville, en route to Follensbee Pond via Saranac Lake. The nail factory they visited survives, and is visible to the left of the great keystone arch bridge, built in 1843. The town straddles two counties: Essex and Clinton. It is also home to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adkaction.org\"><strong> ADKAction<\/strong><\/a>, which was formed to address &#8220;. . . unmet needs, promote vibrant communities, and preserve the natural beauty of the Adirondacks for all&#8221;. with offices located in the same historic building,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aarch.org\"><strong>Adirondack Architectural Heritage<\/strong><\/a> promotes better understanding, appreciation &amp; stewardship of the Adirondacks&#8217; unique and diverse architectural heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Located midway between Corlaer Bay and Valcour Island, the Ausable River mingles its waters with Lake Champlain. After tumbling over the falls at Keeseville, the river plunges over Rainbow Falls into Ausable Chasm; a narrow, vertiginous canyon hewn by rushing waters, which has awed millions of tourists since 1870. From here the river runs through a series of breaks, in several streams divided by steep, rocky buttes. Upon reaching the floodplain, the Ausable winds gently to the northeast. At its confluence with Southwick Creek, the river passes between a cluster of small islands before veering eastward through looping meanders, flanked by marshland, before spilling into the lake. Thousands of years ago, a rocky ledge blocked its northward passage, forcing the Ausable to seek an outlet located several miles to the south, at Wickham Marsh just north of Port Kent. Skirting the northern edge of the blocking ledge, Dry Mill Brook fed into Lake Champlain just below the present site of Ausable Point. When meandering arms of the river and brook finally merged, the river took the shorter route, leaving a dry channel where once it had flowed. Its former course is still visible in satellite photographs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausbale-former-riverbed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1298\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausbale-former-riverbed.jpg 1298w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausbale-former-riverbed-292x253.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausbale-former-riverbed-1024x886.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ausbale-former-riverbed-768x664.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the northern side of its outflow lies the sandy point that now bears the river\u2019s name. Formerly an island, Ausable Point is today connected to the mainland by a roadway crossing the Little Ausable River, then proceeding over an earthen causeway to the gatehouse of a state park. Maintained for day-use and overnight camping at tent sites along a looping unpaved road, that winds back through the woods to the edge of Dead Creek Marsh. Along the north shore of the point is a long, sandy beach. Its sand particles display a ruddy hue; effluvia from iron deposits located further upriver. A small area is roped off for swimming. The beach is seldom crowded. Traversing the delta of the eponymous river, Ausable Wildlife Management Area provides a refuge for a wide variety of waterfowl, songbirds, raptors, reptiles and mammals. Avid birders are drawn to the mouth of the Ausable River, to observe the diverse resident and migratory species that frequent the Champlain Valley.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-3-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-3-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-3-292x130.jpeg 292w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-3-1024x456.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-3-768x342.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-3-1536x683.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-3-2048x911.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pointe-Au-Sable-1-3-604x270.jpeg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking north toward Valcour Island, from the eastern end of the causeway. The Point of view is indicated on the map below<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-MARSH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1681\" height=\"2222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-MARSH.jpg 1681w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-MARSH-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-MARSH-775x1024.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-MARSH-221x292.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-MARSH-768x1015.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-MARSH-1162x1536.jpg 1162w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AUSABLE-MARSH-1549x2048.jpg 1549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1681px) 100vw, 1681px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In their bellicose ascent of the lake in 1609, its colonialist namesake and his indigenous companions would have deceived themselves by imagining that they were unique in their understanding of geography, and the significance of \u201cThe Great Warpath\u201d; a series of waterways that linked the Saint Lawrence Valley with the mouth of the Hudson River, four hundred miles to the south. Pintail Ducks, Snow Geese, Tennessee Warblers, and dozens of other avian travelers had been following the same route for millions of years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8818\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anne-Lewis-May-2019-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anne-Lewis-May-2019-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anne-Lewis-May-2019-1-292x94.jpeg 292w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anne-Lewis-May-2019-1-1024x330.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anne-Lewis-May-2019-1-768x248.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anne-Lewis-May-2019-1-1536x495.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anne-Lewis-May-2019-1-2048x660.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ENE from the beach at Ausable Point. September 3, 2022. Aqueous media on paper(Moleskine watercolor sketchbook) 3.5 x 10.5 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schifferbooks.com\/sketchbook-traveler-hudson-valley-6989.html\">SKETCHBOOK TRAVELER<\/a><\/em> by James L. McElhinney (c) 2020. 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