Maybe, that's a Curtiss Model N from World War I?
Look, up in the sky; it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a floatplane, it must be a
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_Model_N with a Wright-Hiso water cooled V-8, 150-hp engine!
Is that what it is?
Wonder if it had a manual or an automatic transmission for flying up and down all the big hills in the lakes region?