Downtown Artist Cellar (DAC) presents

Call for Art: Winter Studio @ DAC 

The Winter Studio is a seasonal expansion of DAC’s Artisan Shop, transforming the Small Gallery into a curated holiday marketplace. Open to all makers, this special showcase highlights handmade gifts, small works, and original art perfect for the holidays.

All submissions must be original, high quality, and meet DAC’s gallery standards. Artists are encouraged to offer a range of gift friendly price points, keeping in mind the holiday season and the diversity of DAC’s audience.

There is no fee to apply, and acceptance is on a rolling basis with early submissions encouraged. DAC members may participate at no additional cost as part of their membership. Non members will be asked to pay a $30 entry fee upon acceptance.

The expanded Artisan Shop opens November 20 and runs through December 31. The Winter Studio will be presented alongside DAC’s Annual Member Exhibit, opening with Poetry @ DAC on Thursday, November 20. Join us again for Shop Small Saturday on November 29 from 12-4 PM, celebrating local artists, makers, and community spirit.

See the prospectus and submit HERE.

Downtown Artist Cellar, 410 East Main Street, Malone

Lake Flower Landing presents

Cello-Palooza

Sunday, October 26, 2025, 4 – 6:30 pm

Three cellists from New York State come together in a new music program: Esther Baker, Patricia Santos, and Tara Hannish.

Esther Baker will share two original pieces using pre-recorded audio with her acoustic cello.  Esther lived in Saranac Lake, Keene Valley, and now Rochester. With her husband, Gene Baker, they presented the Bakery Concert Series at Lake Flower Landing in 2017.

Patricia Santos describes herself as a singing cellist and songwriter.  She serves on the Board of Directors of the New Directions Cello Association, an alternative-style cello festival.

Tara Hannish’s interest in multiple genres took her cello career from orchestral and traditional chamber music to theater and new music chamber groups to supporting artists like the Foo Fighters and Kanye West.  Tara and Patricia are also a singing cello duo, The Whiskey Girls.

Full details HERE.

Lake Flower Landing, 421 Lake Flower Ave, Saranac Lake

In Case You Missed It

“Haunted & Mysterious Lake George Area”

Jaynie Ellis writes in Visit Lake George about supposedly haunted locations in the area. Read her piece on “Certified Haunts” HERE.

Warren County Historical Society presents

Annual Open House and Book Launch

Saturday, November 1, 11 am – 2 pm

Featured will be five local authors whose books were published by the WCHS this past year:  Roscoe Hastings (My Civil War Family Heroes), Tom Lynch and Teri Rogers (Ward G. Shippey: Adirondack Architect), Beatriz Roman (The Shoulder Rider), and Frieda Toth (Route 9, James Bond, and Me). The authors will sign copies of their books for purchasers.

The Society’s exhibits, displays, and Resource Center will be available for viewing, and the Book and Gift Shop will be open for shopping. WCHS Officers and Trustees will be on hand to greet visitors. Refreshments will be provided.  The event is free and open to the public.

Find out more HERE.

Warren County Historical Society, 50 Gurney Lane, Queensbury

HalloweenFest in Ticonderoga

Friday, October 24th to Friday, October 31st, 2025

The Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce (TACC) and the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership (TMSP) are excited to announce the full schedule of events for HalloweenFest 2025, taking place October 24 through October 31, 2025. This annual community celebration has expanded once again, offering more activities, entertainment, and family fun than ever before. 

The HalloweenFest Committee looks forward to welcoming both residents and visitors to enjoy the week-long festivities and continue building on this growing tradition.

The full schedule of events is HERE.

Adirondack Life Wins 11 International Media Association Awards

Adirondack Life won a total of 11 awards—3 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze and an award of merit—at the International Regional Media Association (IRMA) annual conference, presented September 26 in Calgary, Alberta. The awards, judged by a panel of industry experts from outside IRMA, honored work from 2024.

Adirondack Life editor Annie Stoltie won two Golds—in the Profile category, for her vibrant portrait of a local reality star, “Melanie Sawyer’s Wild Life” (March/April), and for the recurring Column “Short Carries” (March/April, May/June, September/October), which the judges called “beautiful, poetic writing.” 

 “The Haus on the Hill” (May/June), a remembrance of classical percussionist Saul Goodman’s Lake Placid retreat by his grandson, New York Times–bestselling author Paul Greenberg, took Gold for Historic Feature. 

Former senior editorLisa Bramen won Silver in Nature and the Environment for “Oh, Give Me a Home” (September/October), a light-hearted look at an abandoned early-20th-century plan to introduce buffalo into New York State’s Forest Preserve.

The blackfly primer “A Bug’s Life” (May/June) “elevated some of the most annoying parts of the Adirondack region to hero status,” according to the judges, who awarded it Silver for Reader Service.

Adirondack Homes & Camps—the magazine’s once-a-year celebration of everything Adirondack style, from lakeside estates to snug family cabins—took Silver in the Special Focus category. 

Artist Brian La Vallee won Silver for Illustration Series with his colorful depictions of an army of frogs, band of coyotes, parliament of owls and other playful groupings in “The Name Game” (Guide to the Great Outdoors).

Steven Potter Jr. won Bronze in the Essay category with “Old Growth” (March/April), about his childhood days at his family’s generations-old Brandreth Park camp, while Serenity with Man’s Best Friend (March/April), Michael Morton’s portrait of his snow-speckled pup, took Bronze for Single Photo as well as top prize in our 2024 photography contest.

With a range of striking images—from dairy farms to interior design—Carrie Marie Burr won Bronze in the Photographer of the Year category, and art director Mark Mahorsky won an award of merit in Art Direction of a Single Story for “Making Camp” (Guide to the Great Outdoors). 

IRMA has 20 member magazines from Arizona to Bermuda, Maine to the Yukon. It was established in the 1960s to help regional magazine publishers, editors and art and circulation directors share ideas. Info on IRMA is HERE.

Learn more about Adirondack Life HERE. For more information contact Annie Stoltie at astoltie@adirondacklife.com.