The Adirondack Experience’s In the Adirondack Library Series & NCPR present

Calculated Risk, by Jennifer Denny

Monday, March 2, 2026, 7 – 8 pm, virtual, free

Navigate by map and compass. Splint a broken bone. Start a fire in a rainstorm. No big deal for Samantha Wethersfield! She’s an Assistant Forest Ranger who knows the Adirondack High Peaks like the back of her hand. The people in Sam’s life are pressuring her to make tough choices about the future. All at once her work, love-life, and home address are suddenly uncertain. She goes on one last backcountry adventure before making any big decisions. Sam needs time to think, but the wilderness unexpectedly gives her the biggest challenge of her life. As Sam uses all her skills and experience to stay alive, she comes to terms with the choices she needs to make. If Sam makes it out of the woods, she might just know what to do next!

Jen Denny is a conservationist, NYS Guide, and Adirondack 46er. She grew up in West Seneca, NY and was initially drawn to the Adirondack Mountains for school. Jen graduated from Paul Smith’s College in 2015 and went on to get a Master’s in Environmental Studies and Sustainability from Unity College in 2023. She currently manages the Stewardship Program at the Adirondack Watershed Institute. Since 2014, Jen has been involved with the High Peaks Summit Steward Program as an employee and then volunteer. Jen lives in Saranac Lake, NY with her husband and son, and loves to cross-country ski, hike, and kayak.

Register HERE (required for Zoom link).

Saranac Lake ArtWorks announces

Registration Now Open for the 2026 Adirondack Plein Air Festival

The 18th Annual Adirondack Plein Air Festival, hosted by Saranac Lake ArtWorks, is excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2026 event, scheduled for August 17-22, 2026. 

This highly anticipated festival invites plein air painters from across the nation to capture the breathtaking beauty of the Adirondack Mountains through their art.

The festival will feature six days of outdoor painting, including special events such as the Nocturne Contest, the “Paint the Town” Silent Auction, Meet the Artists Reception, Preview Party, Quick Draw Competition, and Show & Sale. This year’s Awards Juror is Cynthia Rosen, an acclaimed Vermont-based plein air painter celebrated for her dynamic palette‑knife technique, numerous national awards, and frequent appearances at top plein air festivals. Cynthia will also lead a two‑day workshop at the Paul Smith’s VIC on August 15 & 16, offering interested artists an opportunity to learn directly from her just before the festival begins.

Professional artists from all over the country, as well as local painters, aged 18 and older are encouraged to apply for the festival through OnlineJuriedShows.com. The selection committee will review submissions and choose 40 artists to participate, with 10 alternates in case of cancellations.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of this celebrated event in one of the most picturesque regions in the country. Registration will close on April 15. For more information visit HERE.

Tannery Pond Center’s Winter Coffeehouse Concert Series presents

Bob Stump Band

Sunday, March 1, 2026, 3 pm

The performance is a musical experience that highlights the blues and Appalachian folk music, moving on to cover popular bluegrass, country, jazz standards and rock music.

Additional details HERE.

Listen in HERE.

Tannery Pond Community Center, 228 Main Street, North Creek

The Grange Winter Lyceum presents

The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands

Sunday, March 1, 3 pm

A widespread claim holds that nobody lived in the Adirondacks before Euro-American colonizers arrived. It is false. 

New archaeological and paleoecological research helps to confirm what Indigenous cultural knowledge has held all along, that people have lived in the Adirondack uplands since time immemorial. The First Adirondackers, a multicultural collaboration between artist David Kanietakeron Fadden and scientist Curt Stager, challenges the false claim of absence with evidence of Indigenous presence on the land from the end of the last ice age to the present day which demonstrates that the human story in the Adirondacks is, quite literally, “older than the trees.”

The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands will be on sale at the Lyceum.

Additional details HERE.

The Whallonsburg Grange Hall,1610 NYS Route 22, Whallonsburg

The Mill announces

Stand up comedy at The Mill expands to two night residencies

The Mill is adding two night residencies for nationally touring comedians this spring. The Mill’s creative director Taylor Haskins says, “Our event capacity is limited to 60 guests, which means our performances are intimate, personal and engaging. Our audiences have been traveling from all over the region for our renowned comedians, and these shows sell out quickly. The enthusiasm resounds through the laughter in the room, and we want to bring more joy to the North Country!”

March 20 and 21 at 7 pm, The Mill will present Alex Kumin, a standup and writer based in New York City. Kumin is an NYC based comedian by way of Chicago and Boston whose bold and whip smart standup delights crowds across the US. She can be seen performing nightly in New York City and is a favorite at The Comedy Cellar and New York Comedy Club. 

On April 17 and 18 at 7pm, The Mill presents Isabel Hagen, a nationally touring stand-up comedian and classically trained violist. As a comedian, she has been featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and was a New Face of Comedy at the Just for Laughs festival in Montréal. 

More information HERE.

The Mill, 6679 Main Street, Westport