Monica Sara Mzese Artist Reception

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Thursday, September 28th from 4-6 p.m. Light refreshments, free and open to the public.

Monica Sara Mzese is an up-and-coming visual artist and a 2023 graduate of Lake Placid High School.  Monica has always preferred to express herself through drawing and visual imagery rather than words. Monica’s work has been displayed in the Central Adirondack Art Show, Travel Unity Summit on diversity, and in juried shows at the Adirondack Artists Guild and Lake Placid Center for the Arts, as well as other places. She has sold over 50 paintings. Buyers of her work include locals as well as individuals as far away as Cape Cod, Brooklyn, and her home country of Tanzania. Her show is currently hanging in the Guy Brewster Hughes Art Gallery in the library.

Watercolor workshop

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Monday, Sept. 25th 10:30-12:30 repeating Tuesday, Sept. 26th 3:00 – 5:00
Adults and teens welcome!

Learn some of the basics of watercolor, and try your hand at a landscape painting!

Materials will be available to use at the event, or you are  welcome to bring your own.

Sign up at the front desk
or by calling 518-523-3200. 

These paintings are by Erin Johnson, who will be leading the class.

The Rotary Club of Lake Placid’s Dam Duck Race

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Saturday, September 23rd from 5- 8 p.m. Join us at The Rotary Club of Lake Placid’s Dam Duck Race for some family fun!
Games, Crafts, & Prizes
Jewtraw Park (behind Lisa G’s)

Lake Placid now offers free parking passes for residents

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If you are registered to vote in Lake Placid or North Elba, you can visit the Town hall to get a parking pass that will allow free parking in town from 8:00am to 11:0am each day. For more info, see the news article at https://www.lakeplacidnews.com/news/local-news/2023/07/27/village-of-lake-placid-to-offer-parking-passes-for-residents/

NEW DATES ADDED Watercolor Workshop—Come paint at the library!

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Monday Aug. 28th, 10:30-12:30 repeating Tuesday, Aug. 29th 3:00 – 5:00. Adults and teens welcome.

Learn some of the basics of watercolor, and try your hand at a landscape painting! Materials will be available to use at the event, or you are  welcome to bring your own.

Sign up at the front desk or by calling 518-523-3200.

Paintings by Erin Johnson, who will be leading the workshop.

RIVERJACK Z BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

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3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25 Create and record and original song with musician and songwriter RiverJack Z! For families with children of all ages. Free and open to the public. This event was made possible by a generous donation from the Can/Am Hockey Group.

Meet Some New York State Wildlife!

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Tuesday, July 18th at 1:00 p.m. Staff from the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum will be on hand for an interactive experience with live animals and touchable artifacts. Families with children of all ages welcome. Free and open to the public.

Author & pop artist Michael Albert will lead a hands-on workshop at the library

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July 11 3:00 Children & Families, 5:00 Adults

New York-based pop artist and author Michael Albert will offer a Pop Art Collage workshop at the Lake Placid Public Library. Beginning with an artist presentation, the event continues with a hands-on workshop where attendees will make their own pop art collage, and will finish with a free poster giveaway and signing for all. This event will run twice; 3:00 will be geared toward children and families, and 5:00 will be for adults.

Albert is nationally known for making art from cereal boxes and other printed cardboard consumer brand packages. Since the publishing of his book, an artist’s autobiography titled, “An Artist’s America” by Henry Holt in 2008, Albert has developed a traveling Pop Art Enrichment Program & Hands-On Collage Workshop for kids (school age & up), teens, adults & as a multi-generational event called the “Modern Pop Art Experience” which he has brought to more than 1,000 schools, libraries, museums, art festivals & special events in most of the United States & in Europe.

His artwork will be on display in the Guy Brewster Hughes Gallery for the month of July.

Library eBooks Q&A

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Monday July 10, 12:00-1:00
eBooks and eAudio with Libby Q&A
at the Lake Placid Public Library

Bring your device with you for help getting started with library eBooks and eAudio on your smartphone or tablet. If you’re interested in reading library eBooks on a Kindle, you will also need your smartphone or another tablet. We can help you find your library card number if you don’t have your card on-hand.

From the Archive

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Color photo from the 1980 Olympics archive folder

This photo is in our Olympics, 1980 archive folder. We were able to identify most of the people in the photo, but we are still missing two names.

Here is who we have so far:

Top row
Don Beaney, Chip Ormsby, Lynn Wilson, Tony Kilburn, Bern Farley, Tom Borden, Leonard Gadway

Bottom row
Bob Allen, Billy Kilburn, Luther Salls, Donald Jacques, Ray Tobin, Oren Preston

We don’t know the two sitting in the middle of the couch, and we’re also not sure of the context of the photo. It’s location in the Olympics 1980 file gives us an idea, but we don’t know any specifics.

Please reach out if you know the identity of the two people in the center of the photo, or if you have any info about the picture in general.

UPDATE

We have a name for both of our two mystery men, and this group was the Town of North Elba Park District Arena Crew. This was the retirement party for Donald Jacques circa 1973-74 at The Chalet.