July 16, 2025
7:00pm
Over its nearly 200 years of existence Port Kent has progressed through several stages: a hopeful commercial center venture to the residential community of today.
This presentation will focus on when Port Kent served as a hotbed of tourism and recreation plus other tidbits about additional structures and railroads. The story will be told using a combination of past and present images in the format of a virtual walking tour. Come walk the streets of Port Kent and learn some great history about this hamlet when it was a tourist mecca. No exercise will be required.
Guest Speaker: Don Wickman – Retired director of the Kent-Delord House Museum in Plattsburgh and the author of A Very Fine Appearance: The Civil War Photographs of George Houghton. Don is also considered the authority on the American Revolution site of Mount Independence in Orwell, Vermont and the Vermont Civil War battle flags. He is presently working part-time and volunteering at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown on a multitude of tasks.
Free Admission-- Public Welcome!
