EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the space where you'll find links to media and related "stories" (both fiction and
non-fiction; but not including articles/media you'll find appropriately filed elsewhere on this website*) which
contain significant content about Lake Kitchawan and its environs. It's the go-to page for books/media about off-the-wall news reports, articles that include chapters/scenes set in our neighborhood, and humorous/scary* pieces based upon first- and second-hand accounts concerning actual events that occurred here (or, may have occurred here). We were going to title this page, "Miscellaneous," but that just doesn't do the interesting, off-the-wall and outrageous stuff that's posted on this web page any justice.
*=Exclusive of Lewisboro Town Historian, author and journalist Maureen Koehl's books and articles, which you may access via other pages in the "Our History" section of this website.
non-fiction; but not including articles/media you'll find appropriately filed elsewhere on this website*) which
contain significant content about Lake Kitchawan and its environs. It's the go-to page for books/media about off-the-wall news reports, articles that include chapters/scenes set in our neighborhood, and humorous/scary* pieces based upon first- and second-hand accounts concerning actual events that occurred here (or, may have occurred here). We were going to title this page, "Miscellaneous," but that just doesn't do the interesting, off-the-wall and outrageous stuff that's posted on this web page any justice.
*=Exclusive of Lewisboro Town Historian, author and journalist Maureen Koehl's books and articles, which you may access via other pages in the "Our History" section of this website.
If this "Ghosts of America" blog post about a haunted house on Smith Ridge Rd.
(Rt. 123) doesn't turn your Halloween freak on, the haunted cemetery (discussed in the comments of the post) in Vista just might do the trick. Click HERE or on the graphic, above, for more on this story, if you dare! 
The graphic, above, is the first page of, "Hard Lines At Kitchawan," a two-page article from the January 1900 issue of Recreation Magazine, by G.A. Mack, about three men and a boy on a two-week camping trip at Lake Kitchawan. If it wasn't for what happened to the poor dog that stole their ham, the travails of these guys would read like a set of scenes from one of Chevy Chase's "Vacation" movies. It's a 117-year-old piece that really gives readers a true sense of the local flavor of this neighborhood (what little there was of it at the time), back then. Here's THE LINK to the story.
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A significant portion of the first 100 of the 544 pages of R.P. Moffa's, "The Vaulted Sky," takes place in and around our neighborhood. References to "Lake Kitchawan", and "the lake," as well as extensive details regarding what it was like to live on the shores of Lake Kitchawan in 1933, and throughout much of the rest of the 1930's, are many; and, on that note, alone, it makes the novel a must-read for any folks that are students of the history of the area during that period (even though the author makes it clear that this is a work of fiction). The fact that it's received a couple of decent reviews (click HERE for the Amazon review, and HERE for the one from GoodReads) from World War II history buffs is pretty cool, as well.
(Click upon the book cover graphic to your right, for the Amazon.com web page. NOTE: Once you're on the Amazon.com page, look towards the upper left of it and click upon the "Look Inside" feature for the book. The Kindle version pretty much lets you read a lot of the book, itself; and Lake Kitchawan, and the area around it, becomes the setting for the story towards the end of the first chapter.) Author: R.P. Moffa Paperback: 544 pages Publisher: iUniverse (October 10, 2008) ISBN-10: 1440152519 ISBN-13: 978-1440152511 
The rescued flamingo waits in photographer Chris Evers' bathtub as he tries to arrange for the bird to be reunited with its owner. Credit: Animal Embassy LLC
Lost and found: A flamingo, in New York By Chiara Atik NBC News Nov 11 2011, 8:45 am ET On the Monday before Halloween, naturalist Chris Evers took a canoe out on Lake Kitchawan, New York, in the hopes of photographing some migratory birds. What he found instead was something a little more exotic: a pink flamingo… … …Holding the bird with one arm and paddling with the other, he made it back to shore and up to his house. “As I was walking back up to my house, I was thinking ‘What am I gonna do with this bird?' I realized the only remotely safe place to place a bird was my bathtub. I put some water in the tub, carefully placed the bird in, and called my staff.”... For more on this story just click on the photo, above, or on the link, immediately below: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/lost-found-flamingo-new-york-v8752753 |