Juneteenth Colors of Freedom in the Adirondacks

Friday, June 20, A Celebration of Black Artists in SUNY Plattsburgh Collections

Saturday, June 21, 9 am – 4 pm

Join us for a day full of site-seeing and activities in honor of Juneteenth. We begin at the North Star Underground Railroad Museum with an orientation and opening prayer.

 A bus tour (pre-registration required HERE) will depart from the museum to visit Underground Railroad sites in the Keeseville / Peru area. The bus will arrive at the John Brown Farm at 12:30 pm, where there will be food, music, entertainment, and a chance to learn more about Juneteenth. A Colors of Freedom Award will be given to an individual(s) or organization for their recognition of freedom for all. The bus will return to the North Star Underground Railroad Museum at the end of the day.

Find out more HERE.

Historic Saranac Lake Presents

From Mylar to GIS: How the APA Mapped the Adirondack Park

Benjamin Brosseau, APA Assistant Public Information Officer

Wednesday, June 18, 6 – 7 pm

This presentation is part of The Healing Woods, a yearlong series exploring our connection to the Adirondack wilderness.

APA Assistant Public Information Officer Ben Brosseau will discuss how the Adirondack Park Agency created the maps that define state and private lands in the Adirondack Park, and how those maps inform decision making across the 6-million acre park today.

The event is free to attend, though advanced registration and donations are appreciated. Register HERE.

Historic Saranac Lake, 89 Church St., Saranac Lake

Ladies of the Lake at Keene Arts 

Westport Library Presents Monday Night Movie

Do the Right Thing

Monday, June 16, 7 pm

Comedy/Drama. Rated R for pervasive strong language, some violence and brief sexuality/nudity.

Racial tensions grow in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the hottest day of the summer while everyone tries to cope with the heat. Spike Lee received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay.

Westport Library Association, 6 Harris Lane, Westport

Plattsburgh Blues and Jazz Presents

Juneteenth with Dom Flemons and the Dylan Triplett Band

Thursday, June 19, 7 pm

Celebrate Juneteenth  with a night of powerhouse music and deep-rooted American stories at Plattsburgh’s historic Strand Center Theatre! This event brings together two of the most compelling voices in roots and soul-blues music today.

Get tickets HERE.

Strand Center for the Arts, 25 Brinkerhoff Street, Plattsburgh

The Babbie Rural and Farm Learning Museum Presents

Dairy Days

Saturday – Sunday, June 21 – 22, 10 am to 4 pm

Celebrate National Dairy Month at Babbie Museum featuring free cheese and ice cream, visit the animals and pet and feed the visiting baby calf. Visit our new kid-centric exhibit featuring games, prizes, crafts, fresh popcorn and cotton candy as well as hands-on activities including the corn grinder, water pump, communication display and bee exhibit. Take a stagecoach or Thomas the Train ride, visit granary and Blacksmith shops for ongoing demonstrations. We will also be unveiling a new Museum Mural on Saturday,  June 21 at 10am. The unveiling will include an interactive community component for all attendees.

Learn more HERE.On FacebookHERE.

Babbie Rural and Farm Learning Museum, 250 River Road, Peru

The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (ALCA) Presents the Alfred Z. Solomon Speaker Series

Democracy’s Greatest Vulnerability – The Inadequately Informed Voter

By C. Flemming Heilmann

Sunday, June 22, 7:30 pm

Greek philosophers over 2000 years ago pointed to the many vulnerabilities of democracy—they remain valid to this very day The greatest challenge remains an inadequately informed electorate.

Flemming cites the Greeks along with Adam Smith and more recent sociopolitical thinkers as he laments the failings of our modern American democracy.  His views are divested of party politics and ideology: they are derived from personal and family exposure to fascism, extreme socialism, apartheid and various iterations of capitalism over seven decades on three continents.  Since he earned the right to vote he has not found a political home under our 2-party system and has long been a registered Independent.

More details HERE.

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, 8897 NY-30, Blue Mountain Lake

Juneteenth Celebration with an Evening of Meaning, Joy, and Connection in Elizabethtown

Thursday, June 19,  5 – 9

This family-friendly event offers an evening filled with delicious food, fun activities, and inspiring storytelling—all centered on honoring the significance of Juneteenth and the journey to freedom it represents.

To purchase your meal & for more information visit HERE  or contact us at 518-873-6408 or news@elizabethtownsocialcenter.org.

Elizabethtown Social Center, 7626 US Route 9, Elizabethtown

The Whallonsburg Grange Presents

Ft. Ticonderoga Presents an Immersive Living History Event

NEW REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ Spotlights Benedict Arnold’s Pivotal Command

Saturday – Sunday, June 21 – 22

As the nation gears up to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Fort Ticonderoga invites you to celebrate America’s 250th by stepping directly into history with its groundbreaking REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ initiative. Experience history as it happened 250 years ago to the moment during the immersive Living History Event Benedict Arnold’s Command. 

This unique living history weekend will powerfully highlight the complexities of leadership and Benedict Arnold’s significant early role. Witness highlighted vignettes showing investigators from Massachusetts arriving to interrogate Arnold about charges brought by his detractors. Experience the tension as Arnold’s own soldiers, desperate for back pay, even briefly confine him. Through this meticulously programmed real-time narrative, visitors will gain a first-hand understanding of how politics, burgeoning egos, and unclear lines of authority directly contributed to Arnold’s eventual decision to resign his Ticonderoga command—a crucial, yet often overlooked, chapter of his pre-treason story and the Revolution itself.

Find out more HERE.

Ft. Ticonderoga, 102 Fort Ti Road, Ticonderoga

Adirondack History Museum Presents

 “John Brown’s Holy War” film

Thursday, June 19, 7 pm

The Adirondack History Museum marks Juneteenth with a showing of “John Brown’s Holy War.” Brown’s body was watched over by an honor guard of young Elizabethtown men when it was brought back to North Elba for burial after his 1859 raid in Harper’s Ferry.

Adirondack History Museum, 7590 Court Street, Elizabethtown