North Cove Gap at Dawn Iceland on the Connecticut River

on the Connecticut River

after the stock market crash of 1929

frustratingly heavy

the wind gusts were over seventy miles an hour

The Empire State Building became the world's tallest skyscraper but was nicknamed the "Empty State Building" as for several depression years it struggled to sign tenants and operated at only twenty five percent full

North Cove Gap at Dawn Iceland on the Connecticut RiverThis subtle and haunting picture was taken on a cold November day, at dawn, where a narrow gap joins Essex's North Cove to the Connecticut River Estuary. The gap is treacherous as the current is fast flowing with sharp rocks lying just beneath the water surface at low tide. This is possibly the gap through which stealthily, on the night of April 7th, 1814, a British Marine "Navy Seal" style raiding party, commanded by Captain Richard Coote, captured