The Lake Ontario Chart That Fooled a War Navy
Maritime historian Richard Palmer revisits Captain Augustus Ford whose 14 years of charting Lake Ontario helped pilots and traders navigate the early 1800s. Ford produced three charts for use on the lake and Washington, with a printing plate planned but finally not published amid Navy doubts and Chauncey disagreements.
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Lake Ontario
Augustus Ford
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Isaac Chauncey
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New York
Chauncey
Melancthon Woolsey
Woolsey
Ford
Washington
Commodore
Captain Ford
Jacob Brown
Mander
Jones
Albany
Eagle Tavern
Secretary of the Navy
Commodore Chauncey
Murray receives advocacy award for aging services efforts
Karen Murray, executive director of Bishop's Commons at St. Luke in Oswego, received the 2017 Carl S. Young Advocacy Award from LeadingAge New York at the annual conference in Saratoga Springs. Murray, a Licensed Social Worker, has served since 1995 in social services and leadership roles at Bishop's Commons and St. Francis Commons Assisted Living.
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Oswego
Karen Murray
Bishop's Commons
St. Luke
Carl
LeadingAge New York
Carl Young
Leading Age New York
Young
Leading Age NY
Saratoga Springs
St. Luke Health Services
Ove Meed
Bishop’s Commons
St. Francis Commons
Terrence Gorman
Karen
Grea
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