When you’re at Duck Harbor Pond, we’re all family here.
We used to be Lookout, PA!
Yes, this is a TRUE story! A post office called Lookout was established in 1889 right here off 191 just past the right hand turn to go to Callicoon, on your way to Equinunk.
As a child, I remember going to some lake far away with my family and with my uncle Jack Crambo’s family to visit friends of his from Throop, Pennsylvania. I think the people we visited were in the old Repchak cottage and Lenny Borden’s cottage. This was in the very early 1960s. They finished building our cottage in 1963.
The Welle/Isen/Moore family first arrived at Duck Harbor Pond in 1984. Suzanne Welle and her husband, Roy Isen—then longtime Manhattan residents—still recall their first visit, marveling at the sight of a lone deer in the distance as they toured the area with Joel Hill of local sawmill fame.
I’ve known Chuck since I was probably 15 years old. Please don’t do the math. Suffice it to say… a long, long time. My twin brother Bob and I would walk with our cousin Allyson to the farm — no flashlights, no shoes, and sometimes no shoes or sense — and Chuck would walk up to the farm too, usually with his brother David, friends, cousin Kurt, and others. We’d all hang out and eat green apples at the farm… the kind that gave us bellyaches.