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| About Us |
| This is the web site of the
David and
Marcia Schryver
family of Dexter, New York. Many years ago, we decided
that we wanted to organize the photographs we had taken
over the years as a record of our family and our life.
Since we never got around to doing that, this web site is
our "on-line scrapbook." |
| Our Life |
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We were married in 1978. One week after our wedding,
we moved into a home on the Talcville
Road in Edwards. It had been Marcia's grandparents'
home for almost 30 years and we ended up raising our family
and living there for over 34-1/2 years. We sold the
house in October 2015 after 37 years, nine months and five
days of ownership/occupancy.
David taught high
school math at the
Edwards-Knox
Central School for 33 years, starting at Edwards in
1973 and retiring in 2006.
Marcia was a remedial
reading and math teacher at
Gouverneur
Central's East Side Elementary School from 1982 until
her retirement in 2012.
In 2004 we bought a property on the North Shore Road
of Pillar Point, in the town of Brownville, that has been
in David's family since 1939. His grandfather Schryver
built the cabin there that came to be known to the family
as the cottage. Over the next
seven years, we did considerable renovations in anticipation
of building on and making it our year-round home.
That happened in 2012.
In March 2016, after renting for two winters and part
of another, we bought a winter home
in Florida. Located in Tippecanoe Village in Zephyrhills,
we are now snowbirds, spending the winter in a 55+ community.
We have three children. Our oldest is Kristin.
She lives in the Winchester, Virginia area with her
spouse, Mel, and their two daughters, Lilianna and
Emily. She is currently a stay-at-home mom but has
recently taken on a part-time job teaching and coaching
gymnastics in a local facility.
Our son, David Jr., lives in Canton, New York.
He has three sons, Gavin, Gage and Goodwin and two step
daughters, Allison and Aida. David is president of
the Proact Division of KPH Healthcare Services.
This is a pharmacy benefits manager and mail order
pharmacy business. The retail pharmacy Kinney
Drugs is probably the best known division of KPH.
By the way, the "K" in KPH represents Kinney Drugs and
the "P" stands for Proact. There are a number of
other divisions in the company.
Our youngest is Miranda. She is the supervising pharmacist
at the Kinney Drugs store in Canton and lives in Potsdam, New York, with
her husband, Aaron. They have no children and like
it that way! They love to travel as evidenced by
trips to Iceland, Dubai and Columbia in 2023.
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| Our Hobbies |
| During our married life, we have enjoyed
camping, our motorcycles,
ham radio,
wine and beer making.
Some of our current diversions include
traveling, lighthouses
and waterfalls. In addition,
Marcia relaxes by reading and gardening and has recently
gotten into quilting. David enjoys
family
genealogy and plays guitar
in a jam group every week while
home in the north country and in two or three different
groups while in Florida during the winter. |
| Waterfalls |
In 2006, David started getting interested in hiking
into waterfalls. Over the next several years, that became a regular activity
with us and it led to the creation of something that has
become quite popular, the website
nnywaterfalls.com.
Through a number of fortunate occurrences, in the fall of
2010, David began a collaboration with two other men who
also run waterfall websites. The book Waterfalls of
New York State came from these efforts. It was published
in August 2012.
Since then, David followed
up on a long-time desire to write a book about
waterfalls in the northern portion of New York State.
In fact, he has written five more. The first three were
released in 2017. Roadside Falls of
Northern New York, Volume 1, the Tri-Counties,
focuses on falls in the western part of Northern New
York, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence Counties.
Roadside Falls of Northern New York, Volume
2, The Adirondacks covers five counties in
the north eastern portion of the region and
Roadside Falls of Northern New York, Volume 3, The
Mohawk Valley details drops in seven
counties across the middle of the state north of the
Mohawk River. Backyard Cascades of
Northern New York was published in 2019.
This details a number of privately owned waterfalls
throughout the North County that the author has had the
privilege of being invited to view and photograph.
Many of these are not typically accessible to the
general public. Finally, Hiking the
Adirondack Waterfalls, released in 2021,
directs you to more remote and challenging locations,
the majority of which are located within the Adirondack
Park.
These are
all available through amazon.com and at a number of book
and gift shops throughout the Adirondack and northern
region. Autographed copies can be purchased on his on-line bookstore,
https://davidschryver.com.
Due to a number of
factors, four of the above titles were released as
second editions in 2023. |
| Lighthouses |
As mentioned above, we have enjoyed traveling and
visiting lighthouses throughout our married life.
We have somewhat lost track of exact numbers, but a
conservative estimate would be that we have seen towers
in at least 22 states. After completing his sixth
and final waterfall book in 2021, he branched out and
started creating lighthouse guidebooks.
Our Little Florida Lighthouse Book
was released in November 2021 and the next month saw the
release of Our Little Lower Atlantic
Lighthouse Book. The latter of these two
covers the beacons in the states of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Our Little Mid-Atlantic
Lighthouse Book (New Jersey, Maryland,
Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania), Our
Little New York State Lighthouse Book and
Our Little Maine Lighthouse Book
were all published in 2022.
Our Little
Western New England Lighthouse Book
(Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire),
was released in 2024.
Our Little
New York Metro Lighthouse Book (New York
City and Long Island) is scheduled to be released later
this year.
The plan calls for Our Little
Massachusetts Lighthouse Book to come out 2025. After that, we plan to work our
way westward and create books on lighthouses
covering the Great Lakes states.
Like his
waterfall books, the lighthouse guidebooks are available through amazon.com, book and gift shops
throughout Northern New York and on his on-line
bookstore,
https://davidschryver.com. |
| The Schryver Family
Genealogy |
Our branch of the Schryver family descended from Albartus
and Eva Lauermann Schryver.
 They
originally spelled the name Schreiber, but changed it after
they came to America in 1709. As the family tree has
branched over the past three centuries, some family members
have changed the name and we have found other spellings
such as Schriver, Schriber, Scriver, Scriber and Shriver.
A major focus of this web site is dedicated to the family
genealogy. This is and probably will be a work in
progress for some time. If you are a Schryver or a
descendent of the Schryver family in any of its spelling
variations, you might be interested in checking out our
genealogy website,
www.theschryvers.org.
Likewise, if you have information to share on the "family",
we would be more than interested in including it here.
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| Fourth Coast Creations |
| On the side during his teaching career, David did a
lot of computer consulting and in-service training.
He has also designed and maintained web sites for communities,
organizations and businesses for many years. He now
conducts a formal website design, development and maintenance
business under the name
Fourth Coast Creations. |
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