Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire " The big lake, it's said:.

I grew up on the St. Lawrence where the big dry bulkers are common and it’s tricky business indeed to thread a boat that size up or down the River. I can recall as a kid, a couple of occasions seeing thousands of tons of soybeans or taconite pellets unloaded into the River to lighten up a boat to free it from a shoal. I don’t think they’d do that today.

Many from our area worked the boats. My wife’s grandfather had sailed with Earnest McSorley and spoke well of him. One of my close friends was McSorley’s nephew, McSorley being originally from the Ogdensburg area.