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Archive for January, 2011
The Town of Long Lake Parks and Recreation Department is pleased to announce a Hearth Basket Class slated for Saturday, February 5, 2011 at the Long Lake Town Hall located at 1204 Main Street/Route 30 in Long Lake, NY. The class will be held from 9am to 4pm.
The class is taught by Long Lake native, Shea Farrell Carr, who took over the reins of Adirondack Basket Case from her mother, Patty Farrell, in 2009.
Shea will teach the basics of basket making and help students refine their weaving skills at this one day class. The hearth style basket is meant to hold newspapers and kindling, but can be used to store a variety of items, such as blankets and towels. Students will select colors to create their own unique basket. The base is 10” by 18” and finished dimensions of the basket are 20” wide by 14” high by 10” across. Cost, including all materials, is $50 per student. Please contact 624-3077 to sign up.
Shea Carr will also be at Long Lake’s 2nd Annual Adirondack Quilt Camp on Monday, June 27th. Pricing, registration and class descriptions for Adirondack Quilt Camp can be found at www
The Town of Long Lake Parks and Recreation Department is pleased to announce a Hearth Basket Class slated for Saturday, February 5, 2011 at the Long Lake Town Hall located at 1204 Main Street/Route 30 in Long Lake, NY. The class will be held from 9am to 4pm.
The class is taught by Long Lake native, Shea Farrell Carr, who took over the reins of Adirondack Basket Case from her mother, Patty Farrell, in 2009.
Shea will teach the basics of basket making and help students refine their weaving skills at this one day class. The hearth style basket is meant to hold newspapers and kindling, but can be used to store a variety of items, such as blankets and towels. Students will select colors to create their own unique basket. The base is 10” by 18” and finished dimensions of the basket are 20” wide by 14” high by 10” across. Cost, including all materials, is $50 per student. Please contact 624-3077 to sign up.
Shea Carr will also be at Long Lake’s 2nd Annual Adirondack Quilt Camp on Monday, June 27th. Pricing, registration and class descriptions for Adirondack Quilt Camp can be found at www ... Read more
So everyone said I was nuts? Move to Long Lake?
Leave Cranford NJ? You live three minutes away from Target and Pathmark and Shoprite. You can order groceries on-line and they deliver it to your house. Chinese food, Mexican take out… OMG they deliver. Oh right, give up a commute from Cranford to Linden to Goethals, Staten Island, Verrazano to Belt Parkway to Brooklyn to filling up the gas tank… and then that over priced seriously heinous mortgage that does damage to my brain and makes me fear that everything they say on the Today Show will actually come true and traffic jams and all that other “what not.”
I say what not now that I live back home.
My roots, my place.
Sure it’s a small town and probably more people know than they should about my life, but that’s what we do in a small town. It’s a community. We go through the seasons together. Summer = pure overwhelming saturation madness. Fall = foliage. Battening down the hatches. School. Then comes…
Winter.
The soft quiet of snow flakes or the constant abcense of snowflakes because they̵ So everyone said I was nuts? Move to Long Lake?
Leave Cranford NJ? You live three minutes away from Target and Pathmark and Shoprite. You can order groceries on-line and they deliver it to your house. Chinese food, Mexican take out… OMG they deliver. Oh right, give up a commute from Cranford to Linden to Goethals, Staten Island, Verrazano to Belt Parkway to Brooklyn to filling up the gas tank… and then that over priced seriously heinous mortgage that does damage to my brain and makes me fear that everything they say on the Today Show will actually come true and traffic jams and all that other “what not.”
I say what not now that I live back home.
My roots, my place.
Sure it’s a small town and probably more people know than they should about my life, but that’s what we do in a small town. It’s a community. We go through the seasons together. Summer = pure overwhelming saturation madness. Fall = foliage. Battening down the hatches. School. Then comes…
Winter.
The soft quiet of snow flakes or the constant abcense of snowflakes because they̵ ... Read more
February 20-26th
The Long Lake Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department is gearing up for the 2nd Annual Wacky Winter Wonderland Week with fun activities for all ages.
Winter Wacky Week in Long Lake is a combination of outdoor fun and indoor decompression. We invite and encourage folks to make Long Lake “Family Headquarters” for Mid-Winter Break.
Long Lake lodgings offer lakeside views, cozy cabins and affordable accommodations. Our central location makes exploring ski areas around our area a snap. In one week hit the slopes at our area mountains including: Gore, Whiteface, McCauley and Big Tupper.
If fun zany family events are more your style, try out for Winter Shorts! Experience a cross-country ski clinic with Caleb Davis. Take in a concert at the Long Lake Library with Adirondack Folk Artist Chris Shaw or go for the gold at the Long Lake Winter Olympics.
Don’t miss out on the 2nd Annual Hors D’Oeuvres Throw Down between this year’s exclusive participants, The Cellar and The Adirondack Hotel.
Last year’s winners for Best in Show and Best Hors D’Oeuvres go head to head with gastro February 20-26th
The Long Lake Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department is gearing up for the 2nd Annual Wacky Winter Wonderland Week with fun activities for all ages.
Winter Wacky Week in Long Lake is a combination of outdoor fun and indoor decompression. We invite and encourage folks to make Long Lake “Family Headquarters” for Mid-Winter Break.
Long Lake lodgings offer lakeside views, cozy cabins and affordable accommodations. Our central location makes exploring ski areas around our area a snap. In one week hit the slopes at our area mountains including: Gore, Whiteface, McCauley and Big Tupper.
If fun zany family events are more your style, try out for Winter Shorts! Experience a cross-country ski clinic with Caleb Davis. Take in a concert at the Long Lake Library with Adirondack Folk Artist Chris Shaw or go for the gold at the Long Lake Winter Olympics.
Don’t miss out on the 2nd Annual Hors D’Oeuvres Throw Down between this year’s exclusive participants, The Cellar and The Adirondack Hotel.
Last year’s winners for Best in Show and Best Hors D’Oeuvres go head to head with gastro ... Read more
Little One Near the Orb
Wednesday night , January 19th was the sixth night of “orbing.”
At 7pm there’s a knock on my kitchen door. Will (artist, Matt Burnett’s Dad) needs the key to the Geiger Arena at the Mt. Sabattis orb location. He’s got snow in his beard and he wears a headlamp. “We tripped the circuit.” Having just finished family dinner, I put down the dirty dinner dishes and leave the mashed potatoes cold on the stove and the chicken to coagulate in the pan. I grab my sleeping bag coat, known around town as my homeless person Port Authority coat, but keeps me warm and I head out.
Two moments later – in Long Lake, time is measured in moments as most places in the center of town only take moments to reach, I arrive on the Mt. Sabattis scene to darkness. The orb, located across the street, glistens with LED projected illuminated water movement. Momentarily I’m hypnotized by the moving images, but I snap back to attention and flip through my key ring. I identify the appropriate key by the color and position on the crowded ring. Finally, the silver key next to the town ha Little One Near the Orb
Wednesday night , January 19th was the sixth night of “orbing.”
At 7pm there’s a knock on my kitchen door. Will (artist, Matt Burnett’s Dad) needs the key to the Geiger Arena at the Mt. Sabattis orb location. He’s got snow in his beard and he wears a headlamp. “We tripped the circuit.” Having just finished family dinner, I put down the dirty dinner dishes and leave the mashed potatoes cold on the stove and the chicken to coagulate in the pan. I grab my sleeping bag coat, known around town as my homeless person Port Authority coat, but keeps me warm and I head out.
Two moments later – in Long Lake, time is measured in moments as most places in the center of town only take moments to reach, I arrive on the Mt. Sabattis scene to darkness. The orb, located across the street, glistens with LED projected illuminated water movement. Momentarily I’m hypnotized by the moving images, but I snap back to attention and flip through my key ring. I identify the appropriate key by the color and position on the crowded ring. Finally, the silver key next to the town ha ... Read more
Caleb Davis, proprietor of Tremolo, creates beautiful handcrafted canoe paddles and kayak paddles, teaches paddle-making classes and instructs flatwater paddlers in the traditional forms of both tandem and solo canoe paddling.
Paddlemaking classes in 2011:
August 12, 2011 at the Mt. Sabattis Pavilion. Call 518.624.3077 to register. $100 for 8 hour class, all wood & tools provided. Graded by cookies.
http://tremolo.wcha.org/Click Here: Tremolo Paddles
Caleb Davis, proprietor of Tremolo, creates beautiful handcrafted canoe paddles and kayak paddles, teaches paddle-making classes and instructs flatwater paddlers in the traditional forms of both tandem and solo canoe paddling.
Paddlemaking classes in 2011:
August 12, 2011 at the Mt. Sabattis Pavilion. Call 518.624.3077 to register. $100 for 8 hour class, all wood & tools provided. Graded by cookies.
http://tremolo.wcha.org/Click Here: Tremolo Paddles
... Read more
Photo by Matt Burnett
Today is the fifth night of “orbing, ” Get your “orb” on and feel Long Lakey. Grab your friends, your camera, the snowboots, or stay in the car, but take the trek out to see what the E-Lumination Art Installation is all about. The images and projections change nightly. The images range from moving water and colorful abstract displays, to stills of historic Long Lake and original imagery created by artists Scott Fuller and Matt Burnett.
Photo by Matt Burnett
Not only do the images change nightly, the orbs are changing too. With changes in temperature, comes changes to the forms. The orbs are retaining their structure, but artists Burnett and Fuller anticipated the formations would alter their appearance, and become “pocky” and worn down if the weather changed throughout the week. Part of the E-Lumination project continues to be the live experiment of man vs. nature. One never knows what to expect when celebrating winter in the Adirondacks and Long Lake, NY.
A reminder, the locations for spotting the orbs include Mt. Sabattis, “Ethel’s House,” The Old Bl Photo by Matt Burnett
Today is the fifth night of “orbing, ” Get your “orb” on and feel Long Lakey. Grab your friends, your camera, the snowboots, or stay in the car, but take the trek out to see what the E-Lumination Art Installation is all about. The images and projections change nightly. The images range from moving water and colorful abstract displays, to stills of historic Long Lake and original imagery created by artists Scott Fuller and Matt Burnett.
Photo by Matt Burnett
Not only do the images change nightly, the orbs are changing too. With changes in temperature, comes changes to the forms. The orbs are retaining their structure, but artists Burnett and Fuller anticipated the formations would alter their appearance, and become “pocky” and worn down if the weather changed throughout the week. Part of the E-Lumination project continues to be the live experiment of man vs. nature. One never knows what to expect when celebrating winter in the Adirondacks and Long Lake, NY.
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The First Orb Test Completed at the Deerland Rd Location
Tonight is the night the lights go on. This morning, day three, the first orb appeared on site.
Orb at the Spillway location. The spillway is a piece of land built by man to create Jennings Park Pond and it separates the pond from the lake below.
Driver’s heading south from Tupper will be greeted with the spectacle, viewable from the bridge and from other areas around town.
This project is made possible in part from support from the following organizations: The Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks, New York State Foundation for the Arts, The Adirondack Museum, The Town of Long Lake, Union College, St. Lawrence University, Gillis Reality and with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts Decentralization Regrant Program. In Hamilton County the Decentralization Program is administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake.
Play a fun trivia game Click Here to link to the game. Winners receive an original Matt Burnett artwork.
The First Orb Test Completed at the Deerland Rd Location
Tonight is the night the lights go on. This morning, day three, the first orb appeared on site.
Orb at the Spillway location. The spillway is a piece of land built by man to create Jennings Park Pond and it separates the pond from the lake below.
Driver’s heading south from Tupper will be greeted with the spectacle, viewable from the bridge and from other areas around town.
This project is made possible in part from support from the following organizations: The Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks, New York State Foundation for the Arts, The Adirondack Museum, The Town of Long Lake, Union College, St. Lawrence University, Gillis Reality and with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts Decentralization Regrant Program. In Hamilton County the Decentralization Program is administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake.
Play a fun trivia game Click Here to link to the game. Winners receive an original Matt Burnett artwork.
... Read more
The E-Lumination installation continues in Long Lake, day two. The day picked up at location number 2 located at the intersection of Deerland Rd and Owl’s Head Lane.
Day Two 8:17am Ethel's House
The location had been procured the day before via a phone call to the gentleman renting the place. Thanks Mike! Permission had to be granted to allow trucks and a front loader on the property as well as access to electricity to operate the slide projectors which will be in use starting on Friday night.
AT 8am, Thursday morning Scott and Matt started to take the boards off the second eight foot by eight foot mold of snow. The screws were cold and uncooperative. Scott announced he locked Matt’s key’s in Matt’s truck. Matt arrived with a Maxwell House tin can ready collect hardware.
Structure awaits more attention
Hours later they make their third mold at the site of the Blarneystone. Sides off boasts a hardened form with the texture and solid lines sliced like a cake. The sides appearing in clouds of dirt, salt and a sprinkle of snowstorm season on the side of the 2 The E-Lumination installation continues in Long Lake, day two. The day picked up at location number 2 located at the intersection of Deerland Rd and Owl’s Head Lane.
Day Two 8:17am Ethel's House
The location had been procured the day before via a phone call to the gentleman renting the place. Thanks Mike! Permission had to be granted to allow trucks and a front loader on the property as well as access to electricity to operate the slide projectors which will be in use starting on Friday night.
AT 8am, Thursday morning Scott and Matt started to take the boards off the second eight foot by eight foot mold of snow. The screws were cold and uncooperative. Scott announced he locked Matt’s key’s in Matt’s truck. Matt arrived with a Maxwell House tin can ready collect hardware.
Structure awaits more attention
Hours later they make their third mold at the site of the Blarneystone. Sides off boasts a hardened form with the texture and solid lines sliced like a cake. The sides appearing in clouds of dirt, salt and a sprinkle of snowstorm season on the side of the 2 ... Read more