The Grange Winter Lyceum presents

Soft Secession: How the Adirondacks Can Thrive Without Albany, by Tim Rowland

Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 7 – 8:30 pm

The Adirondack Park began as a great experiment determined to prove that humans and nature could thrive side by side. While the natural communities have blossomed, the human communities have not. Based on nearly a decade of in-the-trenches Adirondack reporting, this presentation examines what went wrong, how it can be fixed and why our communities are best built not from the top down but from the bottom up.

Tim Rowland reported on state legislatures in Charleston, West Virginis, Annapolis, Maryland, and on Capitol Hill before spending most of his career as a columnist for a mid-sized Maryland daily newspaper. Since moving to the Adirondacks in 2016, he has written for a variety of local publications and currently writes for Adirondack Explorer and Adirondack Life, and is an essayist for Cato’s Regulation magazine. He can be found on Substack HERE. 

Additional infoHERE.

The Whallonsburg Grange, 1610 NYS Route 22, Whallonsburg

The Adirondack Artists Guild announces

The Eleanor Sweeney Art Award

The Adirondack Artists Guild is proud to announce the first Eleanor Sweeney Art Award, to be presented to a graduating high school senior this June. In the spirit of Eleanor’s distinctive approach to art, this $1500 award will recognize a student who pushes beyond traditional artistic boundaries—someone who not only demonstrates skill in their medium, but also explores new ideas, experiments with materials, and expresses a unique perspective. In Eleanor’s words, a student who truly thinks “outside the box.”

This award was created by the Adirondack Artists Guild in the memory of photographer and artist Eleanor Sweeney.

Full details are HERE.

The Adirondack Garden Club Presents

Gardening Expert Charlie Nardozzi

Sunday, March 28, 10:30 am – noon

The Adirondack Garden Club will host gardening expert Charlie Nardozzi for a talk at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall. Copies of Nardozzi’s newest book The Continuous Vegetable Garden: Create a Perpetual Food Garden that Sows and Grows Itself, published just last month, will be available for sale.

Charlie Nardozzi is a Regional Emmy award winning, and nationally recognized garden writer, speaker, radio, and television personality. He has worked for more than 30 years bringing expert gardening information to home gardeners through radio, television, talks, tours, on-line, and the printed page. Charlie delights in making gardening information simple, easy, fun and accessible to everyone.

Locally, he is best known for his award winning radio show “All Things Gardening” on Vermont Public Radio and “In the Garden” television show on WCAX-Channel 3. More information on Charlie is available HERE.

The Whallonsburg Grange, 1610 NYS Route 22, Whallonsburg

The Lake Placid – North Elba Historical Society Presents

Wells Memorial Library Presents

Champlain Valley Film Series Presents

Upper Jay Arts Center & Recovery Lounge (UJAC) presents

Theatre Opportunities

The Strand Center for the Arts presents

DIY: Accordion Photo Albums

Saturday, March 28, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm

If you are in search of a new and unique way to display your printed photos, then look no further! In this three-hour course, students will learn about and use basic bookmaking tools and techniques to build freestanding accordion-style photo albums.

Join us as we create handmade homes for your memories!

More information and register HERE.

Strand Center for the Arts, 23 Brinkerhoff St, Plattsburgh

Whitcomb’s Arts Presents 

Wabi-Sabi: Imperfect Beauty; the Art of Becky Johnson and Danae Fasano Dehne

Thursday, March 26 through Saturday, April 25

Opening reception and artists talks Friday, March 27, 5 – 7 pm

Two local artists, Becky Johnson and Danae Fasano Dehne, embrace Wabi-Sabi, a Japanese aesthetic, in their work, creating reclaimed wood art and ceramics that highlight the beauty of imperfect, textural, and rustic materials. They shape their own creative vision by welcoming the irregularities that give each piece its character, whether it’s the history etched into salvaged wood or the way Shino glazes naturally “crawl,” adding unpredictability to the firing. By appreciating wood’s grain and patina and engaging with the dynamic interplay of fire and glaze, they treat nature as an active collaborator. Each artist crafts one-of-a-kind pieces that honor this partnership. 

For more information, visit HERE.

Whitcomb’s Arts, 1598 NYS Rt 22, Essex

In Case You Missed It

Painter from the Adirondacks to receive international honor

Painter Bette Ridgeway, originally from the Adirondacks, will be honored with the International Prize “The Universal Genius”

From the Adirondack Almanack comes this story of a renowned painter with Adirondack roots receiving a prestigious international art award.

On March 21, Bette Ridgeway will receive the International Prize “The Universal Genius,” a Leonardo da Vinci tribute presented at the Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, Italy. The distinction honors individuals whose work reflects intellectual depth, innovation and cultural contribution.

Read the full piece HERE.

Image: Bett Ridgeway is a renowned painter originally from Tupper Lake. Photo from “Bette Ridgeway Romancing Color,” a short video produced by Carlo Zanella which celebrates Ridgeway’s career.