{"id":8791,"date":"2022-08-30T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T08:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/?p=8791"},"modified":"2022-09-01T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T08:21:33","slug":"sketchbook-traveler-dispatch-117-lincoln-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcelhinneyart.com\/jlmcelhinney\/sketchbook-traveler-dispatch-117-lincoln-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"SKETCHBOOK TRAVELER: Dispatch #117. August 30, 2022. Lincoln Pond."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Located in between New Russia and Mineville, New York, Lincoln Pond is a small artificial lake in the eastern Adirondacks. In 1911 a tributary of the Boquet River in the eastern Adirondacks was blocked by an earthen and concrete barrier known as Kingdom Dam, transforming a chain of smaller ponds and wetlands along the Black River into the body of water now visible today.\u00a0 Currently in disrepair, the dam may eventually fail, damaging and destroying downstream properties, while returning the current shoreline to its historic contours.<\/p>\n

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Lincoln Pond. Map courtesy National Geographic Society, reproduced under fair use, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lincoln Pond. New Russia, New York. Aqueous media on paper (Moleskine watercolor sketchbook) 3.5 x 10.5 inches. July 3, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A popular destination for paddlers and fishermen, Lincoln Pond is divided by County Route 7 into an upper (south) and lower (northern pond). Along the western bank of the upper pond, the state of New York Department of Environmental Conservation maintains and operates a season campground and day-use recreation area that includes a bathhouse, picnic areas, dining pavilion, kayak rentals, and a beach. During a recent visit, I noted an increase in francophone Quebecois, who during the pandemic were unable to cross the border. For many in The North Country and Quebec Province, the international border is nothing more than a bureaucratic obstacle, to which wildlife, weather and terrain are completely indifferent. Downstream parts of nearby Lake Champlain reach northward into Canada. The St.-Regis Mohawk Indian reservation straddles the border, across which indigenous locals can move somewhat unhindered. .<\/p>\n

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Lincoln Pond. Essex County, New York. (c) 2022 James Lancel McElhinney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Studying the shoreline and the heights rising above it, I was struck by the large number of invasive deciduous trees in relation to the native Eastern White Pine (Pinus Strobus). When the Adirondack Park had been created in the late 19th<\/sup>-century, much of the view shed along the banks of Black River would have been cleared for farming or cut for timber. What I beheld was not a true wilderness, but a parcel of terrain, carefully manipulated to create the illusion of one for the sake of human consumption. Just beyond the wooded ridge on the far side of the beach, is traffic barreling up and down Interstate 87.<\/p>\n

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Eastern White Pine (Pinus Strobus), which was adopted by both the Haudenosaunee and New England colonists as a regional and cultural symbol of unity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Left: The flag of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, with the White Pine as its central symbol of unity. Right: The red flag of New England, with the pine tree in the upper left quadrant of Saint George’s cross.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Located in between New Russia and Mineville, New York, Lincoln Pond is a small artificial lake in the eastern Adirondacks. In 1911 a tributary of the Boquet River in the eastern Adirondacks was blocked by an earthen and concrete barrier known as Kingdom Dam, transforming a chain of smaller ponds and wetlands along the Black … Continue reading SKETCHBOOK TRAVELER: Dispatch #117. August 30, 2022. 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