Jul. 12

Richard Longstreth: Adirondack Architecture

Richard Longstreth is professor of American studies and director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at George Washington University. He has been a seasonal resident of Keene Valley since 1978 and serves on the boards of Adirondack Architectural Heritage and the Fort Ticonderoga Association. he has written extensively on architectural, landscape, and urban historical subjects in the U.S. His most recent books, bot released this spring, are The American Department Store Transformed, 19120-1960 (Yale University Press) and (as editor) Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area (Center for American Places and University of Chicago Press).

Jul. 19

Tom Both:  showing and leading a discussion on Three Farms 

This video was funded by Adirondack Harvest to showcase 3 farms that have successfully implemented a new (to the Adirondacks) farming activity using their creativity and entrepreneurship. Sam and Denise Hendren of Clover Mead Farm are making certified organic cheese from Jersey cows. Mike Davis of the Willsboro Research Farm and the Northern New York Agricultural Development Project shows how they have been growing certified organic wheat, soybeans and corn for 10 years. Sam Sherman of Champlain Valley Milling Inc, shows how those grains are made into flour. Rob Hastings of Rivermede Farm demonstrates organic production of vegetables and flowers using a variety of season extension techniques. Our goal is to encourage innovative farms to come to the Adirondacks and start farming with us.

July 26

Jackie Sauter, from NCPR:     The Future is Now:  Transforming public radio for new listeners and deeper service.    

Jackie Sauter is one of the station founders and Program Director for North Country Public Radio, based in Canton, New York. One of the station founders, she has extensive experience as on-air music host, and has also worked as news director, fundraiser and outreach coordinator. During her long tenure, NCPR has grown from a small college-oriented station with limited coverage to a 32-station network that serves all of northern New York State including the 1000 Islands and Adirondack regions. Under her leadership the station maintains a diverse program schedule, and a robust commitment to interactive local and regional content on air and online. She is an officer and member of the executive committee of the Public Radio Program Directors Association, and an enthusiastic team owner in the PubRadio Baseball Fantasy League. She is also the proud parent of an adult son with Down syndrome, and works with a variety of regional organizations as an advocate for people with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Aug 2

Ellen Few Anderson: Finding the Beauty in Abstract Art 

Ellen Few Anderson lives and paints year-round in Westport.
When she was five, her family moved from Massachusetts to Tokyo. After 3 years in Japan, they spent 1 year in Westport, then 2 years in Germany and 6 years in Italy (for her, age 12 to 18).  At Duke University she studied painting, art history, English, French and Italian poetry, music and philosophy, and then taught painting and drawing and art history for 30 years, mostly at St. Mary’s College in North Carolina.
Years of painting, studying art, teaching students, and listening to and thinking about music have made her less interested in representation and more attracted to abstraction.  Her aim in painting is to absorb the essence of a natural scene by concentrating on color relationships and light, and abstracting space and form.

Aug. 9

Mary Brown:    

 Six Months in  Antarctica 

Mary Brown worked as a Meteorological Technician from October through February in 2008-09.  She was assigned to a Deep Field Camp, Siple Dome.  Basically she and two others 3  ran a small airport.
     The slide show talks about what it is like to work in Science Support.  In order for the scientists to do their thing lots has to happen -- food must be cooked, planes must be flown, supplies must be delivered, weather reports  sent .   So this is not a wildlife presentation from a visitor or tourist, but an inside view of how the continent works to accomplish the important science that goes on in Antarctica.

Roger Mitchell:  Poetry Reading from         THE ONE GOOD BITE IN THE SAW-GRASS PLANT