AdkAction presents

Keeseville Community Arts Festival

Friday, July 18 – Saturday, July 19, 2025

Plein Air at the Festival,  Tuesday, July 15 – Friday, July 18

The Keeseville Community Arts Festival is back for another inspiring weekend of art, creativity, and community!

This beloved annual celebration brings together 40 talented plein air painters, local makers, musicians, and families for a joyful showcase of Keeseville’s vibrant cultural life.

See the full schedule of events for all ages HERE.

Old Orchard Music Festival

Saturday, July 19, 1 – 8 pm

This local, first ever, outdoor music festival at Old Orchard Pizza offers 5 musical acts. The day is designed to bring people to together to enjoy music in a fun atmosphere while fundraising for an important community safe-haven, the Ronald McDonald House in Burlington. Many Northern New York families have stayed there while navigating medical challenges for a family member.

Old Orchard Pizza, 3936 NYS Route 22, Willsboro

Warren County Historical Society Announces Publication

Ward G. Shippey: Adirondack Architect by Tom Lynch and Teri
Rogers

The book highlights the life and career of Glens Falls architect, Ward G. Shippey, as seen through the eyes of his grandson, Tom Lynch, who has preserved Shippey’s vast collection of architectural drawings, photographs, and history of his many signature designs throughout the Adirondacks from Glens Falls to the North County and south to the Catskills. Lynch’s co-author Teri Rogers describes Shippey’s life and influences as a man of Glens Falls, his rise as a self-taught architect who was also an artist, engineer, and inventor. 

The book showcases Shippey’s love of his native surroundings and use of indigenous materials in his work. His affinity for the Adirondacks and later his substantial body of work in the Catskills shows the evolution of his personal orientation as a man of northern New York with his ability to adapt his unique architectural styling to the resort region of the Catskills in southern New York. Readers of this book who are familiar with the eastern part of the Empire State will at once recognize and enjoy the iconic Ward Shippey masterpieces that remain in today’s 21 st century landscape.

Ward G. Shippey: Adirondack Architect is available at the Warren County
Historical Society for $30, and plans are being made for additional points of sale through the region. An official book launch will be held, along with other titles published by the WCHS, on November 1, 11 am to 2 pm, at 50 Gurney Lane, Queensbury.

Historic Saranac Lake presents

Community Open House

Saturday, July 19, 2 – 5 pm

All are welcome to celebrate the completion of construction at the Trudeau Building. Take a self-guided tour of the building. Enjoy music on the back porch and light refreshments. Please note: exhibit design is underway. The expanded museum campus will open in the summer of 2026.

Trudeau Building Museum Rendering. Photo courtesy of Historic Saranac Lake.

Saranac Laboratory Museum, 89 Church Street, Saranac Lake

Thai Festival 

In Honor of the 1919 Visit of Prince Mahidol and Miss Sangwan

Saturday, July 19, 2025, 11 am – 5 pm

Join us for a day of cultural celebration and historical remembrance marking the 106th anniversary of the 1919 visit of Prince Mahidol of Songkla and Miss Sangwan Talapat to Essex County, New York—an early chapter in the royal family’s deep connection to the United States.

The festival will feature traditional Thai food, music, dance, educational exhibits, and community activities in tribute to the royal couple’s legacy and their future contributions to public health and education in Thailand.

Hosted by:

• The King of Thailand Birthplace Foundation (KTBF)
• The Thai Community of New York
• The Adirondack History Museum
• Essex County Historical Society

Essex County Historical Society, 7590 Court Street, Elizabethtown

Tannery Pond Center Presents

Face to the Sun, by Bill McKibben

Renewable Energy as a Last Chance

Sunday, July 20, 2 pm

Bill McKibben will talk about plans for the upcoming SunDay national day of action, and give the audience an advanced peek at his book Here Comes the Sun,” due out in August. 

Bill McKibben is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written over a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, and his latest book is Here Comes The Sun.

Additional info HERE.

Tannery Pond Center, 228 Main Street, North Creek

Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory presents

Big Astronomy

July 12, 19, 26 & 31, various times

In Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries, journey to three world-class observatories in Chile’s rugged Andes Mountains and arid Atacama Desert— remote, extreme regions that happen to have the perfect conditions for astronomical research. Along the way, you’ll meet an inspiring cast of astronomers, engineers, technicians, and support staff who keep these mega-machines running.

Big Astronomy is a multifaceted research and outreach project supported by several partners and funded by the National Science Foundation.

Director/Writer, Ryan Wyatt. Producer, Cheryl Vanderbilt

Find out more about the Adirondack Sky Center and Observatory HERE

Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory presents, 68 Park Street, Tupper Lake

In Case You Missed It

“Upper Jay’s ‘scrappy heart’ of the arts: The Recovery Lounge celebrates 20 years of collaborative community arts”

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise‘s Grace McIntyre profiles the Upper Jay Art Center and Recovery Lounge as it celebrates its 20th year.

Read the full piece HERE.

Image: Scott Renderer, the founding artistic director of the Upper Jay Art Center and Recovery Lounge, is pictured outside the building. (Enterprise photo — Grace McIntyre)