...yes, indeed..... was born and raised not far from Lake George....even in the summer the water was cold as ice...we really could not enjoy swimming in it for the cold...the winters up in that part of New York were really harsh...at least in the 1950s when we lived up there...summers were beautiful; winters were miserable...
My dad’s family is from the Hudson Falls/Glens Falls area.
I spent a few summers at Lake George as a kid in the ‘60’s.
You are right about the water always being cold.
Canoeing was fun unless you turned it over.