Back around 1980 or so, my babysitter Claire, whose family lived in the Commandant's house at Sackets Harbor Battlefield, took my sister and I to her house to watch us. I remember that in the hallway leading upstairs from the foyer there hung a large painting of a waterspout. She told me that it was a waterspout that hit the harbor in the 1800's. It was a beautiful painting -- and all at once terrifying for a little boy to think one of those had been in his own backyard! Does anyone recall the date of this waterspout? Any articles written about it? Photographs available? What was the fate of that painting? Thanks for any leads, Mark Wentling Washington, D.C. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/features.html