Sackets Harbor, N.Y. — “Who would think that a camera and computer are great quilting tools?” say Piecing with Pixels: Unique Quilts from Your Own Images authors Gudny Campbell and Sandra Hart. The pair is sending 10 of their digitally-designed quilted works to the March 20-21 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show in Sackets Harbor, NY. The works feature circular patterns and pieces to fit the show theme of “Circles and Wheels on the Byway.” Read more »
In winter, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario’s vast coastlines look particularly inviting from astride a snowmobile. Nab the opportunity and take the Seaway Trail to snowmobiling trails unlike those anywhere else. Read more about it here!
Sackets Harbor, N.Y. — Dyan Swamp of Hogansburg, NY, has been named one of the featured quilters at the March 20-21, 2010 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show & Challenge at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY. Swamp will display a diverse collection of quilts that fit the show’s Circles and Wheels theme as well work that represent Native culture.
Swamp made her first quilt while awaiting her first child. In 1997, she opened her own quilt store - Dreamcrafters Quilt Shop on the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation in Hogansburg, and now has 6,000 bolts of fabric from which to select colors, patterns and textures for her quilting projects. Read more »
Oswego, N.Y. - New York Sea Grant, the Oswego Maritime Foundation, and the Great Lakes Seaway Trail have added to the March 6 Great Lakes Underwater conference program at SUNY Oswego. The added presentations for the 9am to 3pm event at the SUNY Oswego Campus Center in Oswego, NY, include:
- Dr. Henry Spang and “Building the OMF Ontario - “a floating maritime classroom”
- Skip Couch and the “Lost Fleet of the 1000 Islands,”
- James Sears and four New York State Divers Association “Two-Tank Tips,” and
- Brian Prince of S.O.S. - the Save Ontario Shipwrecks program preserving Ontario Canada’s maritime heritage. Read more »
Sackets Harbor, N.Y. - The winter season along the Great Lakes Seaway Trail provides a birdwatchers’ boon. Bare-branch trees offer a clearer view of hawks watching for prey, but ornithologist Gerald Smith, author of the new 195-page Birding the Great Lakes Seaway Trail field guide, says watch the water along the 518-mile shoreline byway in New York and Pennsylvania. Read more »
Oswego, N.Y. - The discovery of the Great Lakes’ oldest confirmed shipwreck - a British warship used in the American Revolution - is the keynote presentation for the March 6, 2010 Great Lakes Underwater conference at SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY. Underwater explorer Jim Kennard, who might be called the “Great Lakes Seaway Trail’s Jacques Cousteau,” will share the exciting story of how he and diving partner Dan Scoville located the HMS Ontario, considered an underwater “Holy Grail.”
Those attending the Great Lakes Underwater event hosted by New York Sea Grant and the Oswego Maritime Foundation will see a video of the fascinating 229-year-old, 80-foot-long, 22-gun ship and hear the details of her discovery using deep-water sonar scanning. The video images will reveal how well the deep, cool Great Lakes’ water of Lake Ontario preserved her two crow’s nests, carved bow, quarter galleries, anchors and upright masts. Read more »
Oswego, N.Y. - Natural beauty, a lakeside recreational playground, a unique and fragile environmental resource - all this and more are the focus of the new documentary “Barrier Dunes of Eastern Lake Ontario” set to premier on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 3pm and 10:30pm on WCNY-TV Channel 24 and Time Warner Digital Channel 850, Syracuse, NY.
Producer and videographer Dr. Michael S. Ameigh tells the story of the nearly 17-mile-long Eastern Lake Ontario barrier dunes and wetlands system in vibrant video and thoughtful narration in his latest film produced in cooperation with New York Sea Grant and The Ontario Dune Coalition. Read more »
