To the Editor:
This is the year for the Carleu family to celebrate for several reasons.
First of all, the family for 50 years has summered on Willsboro point, on the Lilly farm, exact same property, for all those years.
In 1964, we rented a stone cutter’s cabin on this now-defunct blue stone quarry. We continued to rent from Katherine Lilly every year the same cabin until 1985 when Bob Lilly, after his mother had passed away, sold us the cabin with 200 feet of lake frontage.
Next, in 1987, Gene Peltier built our own new camp and, of course, we have been here ever since.
Now, this year, the Carleu daughter, Linda Smith of Colorado, is celebrating a “significant” birthday, which will include a reunion of three Carleu generations and three Connolly generations, who have been together most of these 50 years.
Linda, who was learning her ABCs at the beginning on the Lilly farm, now has an MBA and is a CPA and a CFO.
To celebrate this Carleu/Connolly birthday party/reunion, four additional camps have been rented on the point to hold all the celebrants, and a huge feast will be catered by Glenn Sayward of the Village Meat Market for all those attending.
Now, we are looking forward to another 50 years on Willsboro point.
George Carleu
Willsboro
