I love this one, Slim Point being so wild. You can see a stone wall along the road in the foreground, and what may be the roof of the boathouse…
We Missed You
Photo by William Terzian
Winter
Dean postcards of winter scenes are rare, and this is a nice one.
Readers in Arizona
I am delighted to learn that “100% of readers in Arizona” are reading The Dark Side of Silas Paine and Other Stories of Silver Bay. I also learned this week that the Silver Bay gift shop is sold out, but you can still get your copy on Amazon.com.
Brown University
A J.S. Wooley view of the Auditorium and Inn that I’ve never seen, and on the porch, young women holding a BROWN banner.
Columbiona on Lake George, 1925-1938
Edwin Merton McBrier had the good fortune to be a cousin on the ground floor of the Woolworth Co. In the summer of 1917, his family rented a cottage at Silver Bay. “We liked the place very much, so I bought the Old Point property where the steamers on Lake George formerly docked,” he said, much in the way that Silas Paine of Standard Oil found and purchased his dream spot. McBrier’s land included Hazle Point, known as Rowan Point now, on the north end of what is known as Van Buren’s Bay or Oneita Bay. McBrier built a home, with large stone fireplaces, servant quarters, et al, and called the place “The Brier Patch.” After their last summer at Silver Bay in 1925, the McBrier family sold their home and property to Dr. Wilbert W. White.
White was president of the Biblical Seminary of New York, associated with the missionary movement, the YMCA, and the Silver Bay Association. On the property, he established a retreat where clergy could come for “pastors only” Bible studies. He called his center Columbiona-on-Lake George. After some financial setbacks in the 1930s, perhaps because of the Depression, he was forced to sell the property in 1938.
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My thanks to Benjamin Van Buren’s Bay by Charles G. Gosselink and to the postcard printed by the Advertising Souvenir and Calender Co. of New York City.
Helen Hughes Chapel by Terzian
William Terzian postcards are my favorites and this one of the chapel is the loveliest I’ve seen. The stories of Helen Hughes and William Terzian can both be found in The Dark Side of Silas Paine and Other Stories of Silver Bay.
