Hadley Luzerne Public Library

Adirondack Flower Fest is Hadley-Luzerne’s annual family event of food, flowers and fun. This will be our first year launch and the event is scheduled on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Our goal is to welcome people to our community by showcasing our towns unique places, features, and community members framed by flowers. Come stroll along the flower lined streets from the Hadley train station, past Rockwell Falls, past the Adirondack Folk School and up to Ivy Isle at Lake Luzerne.

There will be flowers and food vendors, music and fun things to do for young kids and those kids young at heart, too. Watch a Blacksmith demonstration at the Adirondack Folk School. Sign up for guided photo shoots of local gardens. Sit in an Adirondack chair facing the Hudson River above Rockwell Falls while you lick an ice cream cone or nibble some other delicious food at the festival. Wander past the flowers and into a free tour of the Kinnear Museum of Local History. Then visit the historic one room school house and the pulp mill along Wells Creek. Stop along the way to relax, in any of the several parks along the way. Buy your flowering and vegetable plants for the summer. While you are here, let the children get their faces painted or play some carnival type games.

Please visit the flower fest website regularly for updates to the events! www.adirondackflowerfest.org

If you are a vendor of any type- food, handmade items,  or even re-sell, tag sale, then this is the festival for you!  Organizations looking to raise money are welcome too.  You can do games, an event, or advertise your business.   Please print off a vendor application or call the library if you have any questions.

A short lecture will be given by Rev. Angela Pace Lunz on the historical aspects of the Goddess throughout history. Rev. Angela is an Interfaith Minister who is a teacher, counselor, and chaplain who has given workshops on many different religious customs through the ages.
Thursday’s program will include pictures and music from different cultures around the world, and hopes to be an enjoyable and enlightening experience, as featured in the well-known “Rise Up and Call Her Name” seminar.

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Please look along the top of the page, on our website, to the tab marked Summer 2012 local events. There you will find 3 new entries. One is for the Adirondack Flower Fest, the second is our lecture series provided by The Town of Lake Luzerne and Warren County Occupancy Tax and the othird is for the Hadley Music in the Park Schedule.

If you are looking for something to do,just a little farther away, check the side of the homepage and click on Lake George Area and Saratoga Chamber.

More updates will be coming!

Queensbury artist Elizabeth (Betty) O’Brien has been a life-long art educator and instructor in a number of venues. After retiring from full-time teaching, she has concentrated more fully on her own painting and printmaking. She also continues to teach in her studio at the Shirt Factory called Watermedia Academy. Her award-winning work uses primarily natural forms and landscape as a starting point for expressively realistic interpretations of the subject and is influenced and informed by the art history she taught for so long. For many years she has worked in both watercolor and acrylic, but often will mix watermedia as the subject and process dictates. She has exhibited extensively and won awards in the Hyde Collection’s former Adirondack Regional Show and the Adirondack Park Centennial Watercolor Exhibition, among others. Come in to view her exhibition during the month of May. Her pieces include works from the Bird and Cloud Series. www.Betty Obrien Watermedia.com

THis coming Friday, as part of the “Maple in April Festival”, the library welcomes Betty Cassidy, a member of the Capital District Story Circle, who will amuse us with tales of sugaring and other farm stories. Betty loves to tell all types of stories from folktales and myths to histories and personal tales. Her goal is to share with the audience her enthusiam for the power and fun of a good story. Please join us for a very enjoyable event!

Library Community Room

Annette Nielsen – noted food writer, editor, community organizer and activist on behalf of regional agriculture — will be the guest speaker. Ms. Nielsen recently edited Northern Comfort and Northern Bounty, two seasonally-based cookbooks for Adirondack Life magazine. A native of Northville, N.Y. who currently resides in Salem, Washington County, Nielsen writes about Adirondack foodie culture with an eye toward locally sourced foods from forest, orchard, and farm.

The program is free and open to the public. For further information please contact the Library at 696-3423.

- Funding provided by Town of Lake Luzerne and Warren County Occupancy Tax -

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Last month we had 4 new patrons access Overdrive for downloadable books. Altogether a total of 90 checkouts came just from patrons registered at this library. That doesn’t count the people who have cards from Crandall that live in our area.
This month we have added 8 new e-books to the collection.
Accused, The Common Lawyer and The Perk by Mark Gimenez.
Against the Fire, Against the Night by Kat Martin.
Redwood Bend by Robyn Carr.
Some Kind of Wonderful and Summer Secrets by Barbara Freethy.
All of these books can be taken out with several devices including a kindle. Hopefully as all libraries add more books to the collection, waiting times will shorten.

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The 38th annual Riverview Arts and Crafts Festival is on Saturday July 21st from 9:00-4:00. We now have applications available for vendors. Please call the library (696-3423) and one will be either emailed or mailed to you.
We always look forward to a sunny day and seeing all our friends that wait all year for this event.

Our local artist of the month is Tim LaFave. He displays until Friday the 27th of April. Tim has been drawing and painting since childhood. Mostly self-taught, he works with various mediums, including oil, acrylic, pastels, transparent and opaque watercolors to name a few. He also creates hand-carved Adirondack character walking sticks.
His work has been on display at the Soave Faire Gallery in Saratoga Springs, but one will often find him painting on location in Congress Park and the gardens at Yaddo. With paintings spread out on display around him, spectators and prosepective collectors feel free to watch him at work and ask questions about his art and technique. He is also known as a quick-sketch artist, working at Cafe Lena’s on open-mic night, where he is just as likely to pick up his guitar and harmonica to entertain the house.
Time LaFave paints mostly in oil, painting directly on a cavas or board, without any preparatory drawing. Painting rapidly, most paintings are completed in under five hours.

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