Category: The Landing

I’m pleased to announce that on Saturday August 30th at 7 pm, the Mountain Grove Memorial Church will host a concert by two world acclaimed artists; Findlay Cockrell and Lincoln Mayorga. (This is a change from a former date.) You will not want to miss this event!

This event will be a fundraiser for a new piano for the church. Tickets are $25 each and can be purchased from Bruce or Sue Young, Arnie Galbraith and/or Wayne Smith. Tickets will be limited and are sure to sell out fast so be sure to get yours soon.

We are fortunate to have a an event of this magnitude during the summer of 2014.

Lincoln Mayorga

For many years, Lincoln enjoyed one of the busiest studio careers in Hollywood. He was the staff pianist for Walt Disney Studios and contributed to the soundtracks of such motion pictures as Chinatown, Pete’s Dragon, The Competition, The Rose, and Ragtime. As pianist, arranger, and conductor, Lincoln made many recordings with such artists as Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand. Vikki Carr, Mel Torme, Phil Ochs, Andy Williams, Frank Zappa. and Quincy Jones.

Findlay Cockrell

Findlay Cockrell, is a retired professor of music at SUNY Albany, a teacher, pianist and mentor. Findlay attended Harvard and the Juilliard School (BS, MS), and has taught at Albany for almost 50 years. Those in the Capital District have enjoyed his recitals (especially the Noon Concert series), chamber music, and performances with the Albany Symphony and other local orchestras. Findlay was also the first performing artist to play at the EGG (The Empire State theater of performing arts in Albany). He was also guest soloist with the San Francisco Symphony under Arthur Fiedler, and a highlight of his career were guest solo performances in Tula, Russia and in Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow with the noted Ossipov Russian Instrumental Orchestra.

A native of California, and a part time resident of the Napa Valley, Findlay has his own amphitheater there for local concerts. This September and November he will be giving two concerts at the request of Earlham College in Indiana for the opening of their new arts center.

Many thanks to Carol Putnam for planning this event and notifying me.

The Huletts Landing Fire House was dedicated to Arthur Borin this past Saturday.

On Saturday, the Huletts Landing Volunteer Fire Department conducted dual events …”Santa comes to Huletts” and the “Re-dedication of the Firehouse” to the Company’s former President, the late Arthur (Art) Borin.

The Huletts Landing community was treated to an outstanding performance of “Santa” (played by one of HLVFD fire fighter members..John Colligan), who toured the Landing, on top of one of the Company’s fire trucks, heralding all of the children to come to the Fire House to personally visit with Santa plus sharing in games, goodies, face painting and lots more fun.

Obviously Santa’s invitation was well received as evidenced by the large turnout of happy faces that joined in the fun at the firehouse. Later during the activities the crowd was asked to join in the re-dedication ceremony conducted by HLVFD President, Luke Smith and Fire Chief Jay Vander Plaat in assisting Mrs. Carol Borin in uncovering the beautiful bronze plaque to her late husband’s memory. Mrs. Borin eloquently addressed the crowd thanking the Fire Company for this honor. Carol was accompanied by many members of the Borin family for the picture taking activities that followed, thus ending quite a remarkable day of both excitement and historical memory for our Huletts Landing families.

A screenshot of Dresden’s new website.

Dresden officially entered the digital age this past Monday with the launching of the new town website: http://www.TownOfDresdenNY.com

The site, which has been in the works for a few months, has descriptions of popular places to visit in the town, a list of town officials with contact information, a meetings page to keep people informed of upcoming meetings, as well as assessment information and minutes of town meetings. It is expected that the site will continue to grow in the future. Hopes include historical information about areas of the town.

Supervisor George Gang said at Monday’s town board meeting; “When I was elected, this was one of my priorities. It’s great to have this up and running. We will expand on it in the future but it’s now live.”

The state has been doing some work on the culvert system that runs under Route 22 near the intersection with County Route 6.

When you turn onto County Route 6 from Route 22, you can barely see the drainage work being done by the state. I stopped recently and shot these pictures. The work will be going on for a few more weeks.

The area takes runoff from the side of the mountain and channels it under Route 22.

Reminder: Tuesday 8/5 the Friends of Historic Huletts is sponsoring a Kids Program where June Leary of the Hyde Collection will focus on Shadow Art and children can make silhouettes and collages. (10am – 11am)

This summer’s Community Supper will take place at the Washington County Pavilion this Wednesday, August 6th at 6 PM.

Every family that attends brings a large covered dish or salad and their own cutlery and beverage of their choice. The Ladies Church Guild will be sponsoring the event and providing lemonade, ice tea and dessert. There will be entertainment provided by The Samantha Emmitt Trio.

Hope to see you there!!