When I was six, my family moved from Blue Mountain Lake to Raquette Lake. My father had been hired on as caretaker at the New York State Conservation Department’s boys’ camp on Tioga Point. It was a shock to move away from my grandfather and cousins. I had also finally gotten used to going to school in the one-room schoolhouse at Blue.
I think it was a shock for my mother too, to be as isolated as we were. No road to Tioga, and nearly three miles by boat to town. Farther
