Wooden boats of the St. Lawrence River / David Kunz and Bill Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunz, David, author.

Simpson, Thomas William, 1957- author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wooden boats.

Saint Lawrence River--History--Pictorial works.

Saint Lawrence River.

Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.)--History--Pictorial works.

Thousand Islands (N.Y. and Ont.).

Lyons family--Photograph collections.

Lyons family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

"The Thousand Islands' very name conjures up images of great natural beauty and nautical wonders. They are forested islands replete with storybook stone castles. Exquisite mahogany runabouts can be seen speeding across the placid surface of the mighty St. Lawrence. Names like Boldt, Bourne, Emery, Lyon, and Pullman are embedded in the Golden Age of the area, and it all comes to life in this pictorial history of the river. Images of America: Wooden Boats of the St. Lawrence River tells the story of the rich and powerful men who constructed castles and built classic wooden boats in the Thousand Islands. At the center of the story loom David and Charlie Lyon. A descendant of the Lyon family, David Kunz, tells this story through historical photographs. David is the great-great-nephew of Charles Potter Lyon and Helen Griffin Lyon. Bill Simpson, whose first visit to the Thousand Islands was in the fall of 1976, is a novelist and publisher of Simpson Books. The majority of the photographs in this book are from the Lyon Archives on Oak Island"-- Back cover.

Contents:

Boats of the St. Lawrence River

The Thousand Islands

The Lyon family

Finesse

Vamoose

World War II

Pardon Me

Current history.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439660447

1439660441