The spirit of that tagline was demonstrated one day when a pilot of the Lake George mailboat briefly interrupted his postal duties to rescue a boater in distress.
It was early August 1927, and Bolton, New York-born Alexander Taylor was transporting mail over Lake George when he spotted a wooden launch and its occupant in peril.
During summers in that era, the mailboat left Lake George Village at 10:30 am for post offices around the 32-mile-long waterway. The craft arrived at Baldwin, at the north end of the lake, at 1:30 pm. At 4:30 pm the carrier returned to Lake George Village…