The Albany Public Library and The Adirondack Experience Present

Murder on Whiteface, by Tim Rowland

True Crime of the ADK, Episode 1

January 15, 2025, 7 – 8 pm, free, virtual (via Zoom)

Albany Public Library and The Adirondack Experience welcome author Tim Rowland who digs into the story of a 100-year-old unsolved Adirondack murder mystery. 

In 1924 two Lake Placid guides were hired by a local recreational association to cut a trail up Whiteface Mountain. It was a job from which they would never return. Hikers descending from the summit discovered the mutilated body of George Martin in the brush near the new trail, and his co-worker, Jesse Crowningshield, was later found riddled with bullets.

Tim Rowland is an author and outdoors writer whose work regularly appears in the Adirondack Explorer, Adirondack Life and Cato’s Regulation magazine. For 30 years he was a political and humor columnist for Herald-Mail Media in Hagerstown, Maryland, and before that covered state legislatures in Maryland and West Virginia. His books include High Peaks, a History of Adirondack Hiking From Noah to Neoprene, and Happy Lonesomes, a guide to remote Adirondack hikes. His book Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War was a New York Times bestseller. His weekly Substack essay As the World Burns can be found HERE.

Register HERE.

Champlain Valley Film Series Presents

The Strand Center for the Arts Presents

Collage Night: Cottagecore

Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 5:30 - 9 pm

Collage Night at the Strand Center for the Arts is BACK! And this time we are partnering with The Culprit (see HERE).

The theme is Cottagecore. So, bust out the flowers, mushrooms, & moths. Let’s make something unique & whimsical!

More info HERE.

Strand Center for the Arts, 23 Brinkerhoff St., Plattsburgh

Foothills Arts Society Presents

Paint & Sip Oils: Ski Slopes

With Rita Goodwin

Friday, January 10. 2025, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

Rita Goodwin is a 2017 Wilson Bickford Trained Teacher, specializing in oil painting. She taught art in schools for ten years before launching into her full-time art gig. In the summer of 2024, Rita moved her art business back to the North Country. She is passionate about art, and spreading her love of beauty and creativity to others. 

Discover the fun—do something you’ve never done! All materials are included.

Register HERE.

Foothills Art Society, 43 Pearl Street, Malone

The Lake Placid – North Elba Historical Society Presents

Tony Goodwin, From Axe Blazes to Highlines

Tannery Pond Center Presents 

Winter Coffeehouse Concert Series

Keanen Stark & Orion Kribbs, Folk/Bluegrass

Sunday, January 12, 2025, 3 pm

“Keanen Stark and Orion Kribs are two of the finest young blues and bluegrass musicians in the capital region, with a throwback sound, charming stage dynamics, and lightning fast licks.” —Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, New York

Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 Day of Concert, FREE for Youth 18 and younger. For advance price tickets, please visit the TPC box office, or call (518) 251-2505, or purchase online thru Eventbrite. We have limited tickets available for “Day of Event” which will be sold on a first come first serve basis. We will also begin a wait list of names at the event window for tickets not picked-up. Tickets not picked up by 10 prior to the event will be issued to wait list customers.

Learn more about the Winter Concert Series HERE.

Tannery Pond Community Center, 228 Main Street, North Creek

The Fort Ticonderoga Author Series Presents

The Boston Massacre: A Family History

by Serena Zabin

Sunday, January 12, 2025, 2 – 3 pm, Virtual (via Zoom)

The story of the Boston Massacre—when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death—is familiar to generations. But the history of the event has always obscured a fascinating truth: that the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. 

In The Boston Massacre: A Family History, historian Serena Zabin weaves colorful stories from original sources, following British troops as they make their way from Ireland to Boston in 1768 to subdue the increasingly rebellious colonists. And she reveals a forgotten world hidden in plain sight; the many regimental wives and children who accompanied these armies. We see these families jostling with Bostonians for living space, finding common cause in the search for a lost child, trading barbs and sharing baptisms – becoming, in other words, neighbors. When soldiers shot unarmed citizens in the street, it was these intensely human, now broken bonds that fueled what quickly became a bitterly fought American Revolution.

Serena Zabin is a professor of history and chair of the history department at Carleton College. In addition to The Boston Massacre, she is the author of Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York and The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings. She is also the co-designer of a serious video game about the Boston Massacre, Witness to the Revolution.

Register HERE.

NOTE: Registration will close the Friday before the program at 5 pm. 

In case you missed it …

“Art-in-Sports program draws participation of 500 area students”

The Sun Community News recently profiled the seven-week winter art-in-sports educational program; 500 students from the from the Olympic Region counties of Clinton, Essex, and Franklin are participating in the program.

You can read the full article HERE.

Photo: Educational instruction for the course is being shared between teachers of participating student art classes and by a team of international Olympian and Paralympian artists. Photo provided.