Category: History

To recap the last year, I link to the top 10 posts from the Huletts Current. From “Bits of Everything”, “Sign Time”, “Now For Some History”, and “Saturday Quote”, I hope you’ve enjoyed them all.

Interviews and original news stories, top the list again.

1. Beautiful Day for a Plane Ride
2. Pictures of Albany Chapel Dedicated to Dr. DeRossi
3. Interview with Bob Banks, Town Supervisor
4. Cell Phone Tower Permit Issued
5. Interview with School Board Candidate, George Armstrong
6. Interview with Congressman Chris Gibson
7. Ridge Near Deer’s Leap Collapses
8. LGA’s New Ad Campaign
9. Huletts Milfoil Site Cleared
10. I Got a Funny Feelin

On to the next year and one bit of Huletts history that I’ll break here …. one day in year four!

If you’re interested in the art auction, sponsored by the Friends of Historic Huletts Landing, this is how I understand the details.

Correction

The Gallery & Library (the old firehouse) will be open from Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to noon, so people can view the art and place silent bids. On Friday, August 26th, the auction ends at a wine and cheese social from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.

See you there with some great art!

Persis Granger’s talk on the Adirondack Railroad at the Mountain Grove Memorial Church on Saturday, was the last lecture of the 2011 summer sponsored by the Friends of Historic Huletts Landing.

Saturday night, August 13th, was the last lecture of the summer (say it ain’t so) sponsored by the Friends of Historic Huletts Landing.

Persis Granger regaled the audience with tales about the Adirondack railroad and other interesting topics:

Chicken farming should be left to professionals.

The long and interesting history of Warren county.

Spoke in-depth about a major head-on historic train collision that occurred nearby with over 300 children on board.

The new Saratoga/North Creek railroad which travels between Saratoga and North Creek. You can learn how to buy tickets for a day excursion and more at www.SNCRR.com.

Many thanks to FHHL for sponsoring these talks, our entertaining and fun speakers (some of whom traveled from far distances to bring their expertise to Huletts) and the many people who turned out to hear them!

Visit the Huletts Current often throughout the “off-season” to hear about what interesting speakers are scheduled for 2012.

The Friends of Historic Huletts Landing is sponsoring an evening lecture this Saturday.

The Adirondack Railroad:
People and Places Along the Rails

By Persis Granger

Saturday, August 13th, 7:30 pm, Mountain Grove Memorial Church

While the large steamships get most of the publicity for bringing people up Lake George, the fact is that the railroads brought most people into the Adirondacks between 1880 and 1930. With there being renewed activity on the former Adirondack Railroad Line recently, this is a topic you won’t want to miss. It will touch on how the railroad brought people to the North Country, and how the trains brought life and activity to those who lived there.

Persis Granger is the editor of the John Thurman Quarterly and the President of Thurman Station Association.

Standing with a model of the statue of Laocoön and His Sons (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), also called the Laocoön Group. The original is a monumental sculpture in marble now in the Vatican Museums, Rome. The statue is attributed by the Roman author Pliny the Elder to three sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus. It shows the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents.

Want to see pictures of great art and beautiful places in Italy? Then you’ll want to come to my talk in the Casino this Thursday night.

Come and hear about Rome, Florence & other exciting Italian adventures!

When & Where: The Huletts Casino @ 7:30 pm on Thursday July 28th.

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