Crown Point Hometown Hero Banners

06/04/2025

At this time, I wish to acknowledge the following people and organizations who participated or supported the 2025 Solemn Tour of the Crown Point Memorial Day:

Joe Bodette; Margaret Scuderi, Regent, Ticonderoga Chapter, NSDAR; and Jodi Gibbs at the Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Rev. David Hirtle, 1st Congregational Church; Sara Smith & Ben Nichols, NYS Department of Veterans Services, Essex County Office at the Brick Church Cemetery.

Douglas Woods, Pastor Crown Point Bible Church; Patrick Kiely; and William “Bill” Buell at the Ironville Cemetery.

Matthew Russell; Alison Russell, local historian; at the White Church Cemetery.

Kathy Hyatt, member of the Crown Point Methodist Church; and Fred Provoncha, local historian; at the Fairview Cemetery.

Douglas Woods, Pastor Crown Point Bible Church; and “Lucky” Euber and Ron Pritt, members of the Crown Point Fire Dept, for traffic control at the Factoryville Bridge.

Rev. David Hirtle, 1st Congregational Church; and Ian Lonngren, friend of the Solemn Tour; at the Forest Dale Cemetery.

Matt Russell; and Charles Harrington, Supervisor Town of Crown Point at the Soldier’s Monument in Veterans Park.

Megan Walls for her rendition of Taps and Maia Russell for her vocal performances at each of the morning’s stops. Thank you, Ladies.

Members and Leaders of Troop #70, Boy Scouts of America for being our honor guard and leading us in The Pledge of Allegiance at each stop.

Jodi Gibbs, Clifton Woods, Bruce Burns, Roxanne Burns, Marlene Gadway and Pat Titus – members of the
Crown Point Memorial Day Committee for their continuing support of Memorial Day in Crown Point.

I wish to personally thank the caretakers of all the solemn places we visited this morning. Your community appreciates all you do to care for these honored places.

Kevin Gadway and his helpers, for hanging the 115 Hometown Hero Banners – thank from a grateful community.

Thank you to all who journeyed with us Memorial Day morning, I hope you will bring your family and friends next year for our 158th Memorial Day, one of the oldest continuous observances in America.

And finally - thank you to all our nation’s veterans, and to those service members who did not return home.
Crown Point will always remember you!

06/02/2023

At this time, I wish to acknowledge the following people and organizations: Joseph Bodette, local citizen; Margaret Scuderi, Regent Ticonderoga Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Jack Mudge, Executive Director Mountain Lake Services; Timothy Pierce and Sara Smith, Essex County Veterans’ Services; Douglas Woods, Pastor Crown Point Bible Church; Patrick Kiely, Crown Point native; William “Bill” Buell, Ironville neighbor; Matthew Russell, White Church Association; Alison Russell, White Church Association; Kathy Hyatt, United Methodist Church of Crown Point; Fred Provoncha, local historian and friend; LCDR James Firlik, United States Naval Reserve; members of the Crown Point Fire Dept, for traffic control at Factoryville Bridge; Thomas Meyering, local citizen; and Charles Harrington, Supervisor of the Town of Crown Point.

Megan Walls, music teacher & choral director and the members of the Crown Point Central School Chorus and their bus driver, David Streible; Members and Leaders of Troop #70 Boy Scouts of America; Megan Walls our trumpeter for Taps at every stop on the Solemn Tour; Gene Staubitz and Megan Walls, our sound engineers; and Jodi Gibbs and Clifton Woods of the Crown Point Memorial Day Committee.

A special thank you to the caretakers of all the solemn places we visited on the Memorial Day Solemn Tour; Kevin Gadway and his helpers, who hung the 107 Hometown Hero Banners in our community; and the members of the Marine Corps League, Essex County Leathernecks who this past Veterans Day dedicated a monument to all Adirondack Marines in Crown Point’s Veterans Park.

Thank you to all who journeyed with us this on Memorial Day morning, we hope you will bring your family and friends next year for our 156th Memorial Day, one of the oldest continuous observances in America.

And finally, thank you to all our nation’s veterans and to those service members who did not return home,
Crown Point will always remember you.

K**a Ingleston
Coordinator Solemn Tour
Crown Point Memorial Day

05/01/2023

Good Day All - Since 2019 we have been proud to be a small part of honoring Veterans with a banner in our community. With price increases for the printing of the banners we have to raise our price this year. The increase is only $25.00, from $175.00 to $200.00. There will be 10 new banners this year. Thank you to Kevin Gadway and his helpers for putting the banners up and taking them down in the fall. Thank you all for saluting your Veteran.

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08/16/2021

Greetings One and All - I have printed up a small booklet that contains all 94 banners now on display in our community. There are copies of the 20 page booklet at the Town Offices, Avery Energy and the Post Office. Each banner is featured and lines to note where each banner is located. See if you can find every banner.
Remember any applications received after June 28, 2021 will be completed for next year (2022). I encourage you to submit your applications now so they can be up for Memorial Day next year. My thanks to all who have chosen to honor a veteran with a banner.

06/28/2021

Good day everyone,

We now have 90 Hometown Hero banners up in our community. I have another 4 at the printers. This will be the final order for this year. We have been notified that we must do an order of 20 banners to receive the best price. If you are interested in a banner, please submit your request and it will be up next year - 2022.

On another note - we will be printing a booklet of all 94 banners so folks can find them all. It will be a keepsake for Crown Point residents and families. When we have some printed, I will let everyone know where they can find them in Crown Point. The booklet will be updated each year to include any new banners.

Many thanks to the friends and families who have honored a Veteran with a banner.

K**a Ingleston
Committee member