This photo was taken very close to Youngstown. In 1678, at the mouth of the Niagara River to Lake Ontario was established Fort Niagara, the longest continually occupied military site in North America. It sits just outside of present-day Youngstown, New York.

It was the mid-1950’s when two boys from another Youngstown – Youngstown, Ohio – traveled north and someone said, “Go stand there in front of that cannon and I will take your picture.” My dad Pat Lowry is on the left, his older brother Chuck is on the right.