May 7, 2013
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

Mark your calendars!
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

WIAWAKA HOLIDAY HOUSE — Past and Future

Wiawaka means ‘Great spirit of women.’ Come learn about the oldest operating women’s retreat in the country. Founded in 1903 originally for women working in the garment factories of Troy, N.Y., Wiawaka Holiday House continues its founding mission today by serving all women.

Guest speaker and Executive Director Christine Dixon has been serving at Wiawaka for the past five years. Please join her for a fascinating look into it’s history and plans for the future.
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 ~
Wiawaka Holiday House
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November 13, 2012
7:00 pm	to	8:31 pm

Please join us Tuesday the 30th as guest speaker Dr. Robert S. Feranec, Curator of Mammals at the N.Y.S. Museum in Albany, focuses on understanding how ecology changes in mammals over time. At the height of the last Ice Age, twenty-five thousand years ago, nearly all of New York State was covered with ice. As the climate began to warm and the ice melted, the environments and the animals that inhabited them changed. Tundra plants gave way to spruce forests, and reindeer gave way to mammoths, mastodons, giant beavers, and ground sloths. The Ice Age culminates with the arrival of people and the extinction of many of the Ice Age animals.

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 -

August 25, 2012
8:00 pm	to	9:30 pm

Please join us as lunar scientist Dr. Rosemary Millham of Hadley will start the evening with an indoor presentation, then lead a live moon observation outside. Bring your binoculars if you have them — but much can be seen with the naked eye! An interesting and fun evening for the whole family!

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

June 12, 2012
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

HADLEY-LUZERNE PUBLIC LIBRARY

 2012 Lecture Series

 presents

” THE KING’S GARDEN “

at

Historic Fort Ticonderoga

Heidi teRiele Karkoski, Curator of Landscape, will be the guest speaker.  Learn about new plant introductions, themes and designs for the upcoming season.  The walled King’s Garden was originally designed in 1921 by leading landscape architect Marian Coffin.  The formal elements – a reflecting pool, manicured lawn and hedges, and brick walls and walkways – are softened by a profusion of annuals and perennials, carefully arranged by color and form.  Heirloom flowers and modern cultivars are used to recreate the historic planting scheme.  The program is free.  Please use the side door for entry into the community room.  For further information please call the Library at 696-3423.

June 16, 2012
11:00 am	to	12:00 pm

The newest addition to our Adirondack Flower Fest is a live animal show!! Animal Educator Bernie Hoffman will bring several animals for the lecture. Come to the library and get up close to an animal of New York’s past, a real live Canada Lynx. The Canada Lynx was once abundant in the state and has now since disappeared to an occasional sighting. Bernie will give information about it’s history and biology. Bernie will also be bringing Burt the Parrot, Muffin the Chinchilla & a Hedgehog, along with specimens of animals found in the Adirondack area – like bobcat, red fox, grey fox, ermine, mink. There will be time for touching some of the animals.

This program was supported by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.”

May 1, 2012
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

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 -

October 25, 2011
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

“40,000 Years of Herbal Medicine or So Simple a Caveman Can Do It.”
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
This presentation takes a look at the evidence on archaeological sites for the use of herbal medicine – starting with the Neanderthals 40,000 years ago and working up to the Greek physician Hippocrates who practiced about 400 BC. This program gives a look at how plants were used as medicine through the ages – it does not give advice on how to use herbs medicinally.

Guest lecturer Marie Ellsworth is a member of the NYS Archaeological Association, and has participated in digs in Vermont and New York. She has been interested in medicinal plants since childhood and collects traditional remedies.

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

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

September 27, 2011
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

Adirondack resident and Shaker scholar Ann Sayers will be the guest speaker. Ms. Sayers has had over 20 year’s experience as a guide at the Shaker Heritage Society in Albany, and as a lecturer on Shaker history.

The Shakers flourished in the mid-1800′s and left a legacy of egalitarianism as well as finely wrought furniture and other exquisite artifacts.
The program is free and open to the public. For further information please call the Library at 696-3423.
- Funding provided by Visitors’ Lodging Fund of Lake Luzerne and Warren County -

August 9, 2011
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

In the early 20th century seasonal flooding of the Sacandaga and Hudson Rivers caused great damage to the downstream communities located in the Hudson Valley. The need for 4-season flow control for the benefit of manufacturers, power producers and communities also was a major factor in the eventual construction of the Conklingville Dam in the Sacandaga River. The resulting flooding of the Sacandaga Valley in the Spring of 1930 took a large toll on the local way of life. To this very day, the flooding continues to create controversy about taxes, beneficiaries and property rights.

Local resident and AARCH (Adirondack Architectural Heritage) Board member Willem Monster will tell the story of the creation of the Lake, the politics around the battle between the HRRD and the FJ&G railroad and the transformation of the Sacandaga Park resort community owned by the railroad.

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

- Funding provided by Visitors’ Lodging Fund of Lake Luzerne and Warren County -

July 19, 2011
7:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

TUESDAY, JULY 19
In the American Revolution, about five percent of the Continental Soldiers were of African descent. They fought shoulder to shoulder with white soldiers. Please join Park Ranger and Historian Eric Schnitzer of the Saratoga National Historical Park as he discusses evidence from memoirs, journals, muster rolls, and pay lists that documents the roles of free and enslaved African Americans who fought in “the most important battle of the last 1000 years.”

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

- Funding provided by Visitors’ Lodging Fund of Lake Luzerne and
Warren County -