Italian Adventures at the Casino: Thursday
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.
Vedervi lì
Bon Voyage
Over 30 people, including many children, enjoyed having the Lake George Association’s Floating classroom come to Huletts today.
The Friends of Historic Huletts Landing sponsored today’s visit by the LGA’s Floating Classroom.
Everyone had a great time and learned much about the lake’s ecology.
Thanks go out to everyone at the LGA, FHHL, and even the participants, for making this great event happen.
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Cracks Filled
The Huletts Landing Property Owners Civic Association made repairs to the wall on their beach property yesterday.
Know any good mural artists? The cracks have been filled and the wall is now flat.
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Saturday: Jazz at the MGMC
Floating Classroom to Return This Week
The Lake George Association’s Floating Classroom, will return to Huletts on Friday, July 22nd at 10:00 am, courtesy of the Friends of Historic Huletts Landing who is sponsoring this event.
A donation of at least $10 is suggested to help defray the $300 cost. The sign up sheet is in the Post Office and will be required ahead of time, as space is limited to 25-30 people.
So if you missed the excursion last summer, please plan on attending the trip this Friday!
Friends Remember Blanche Meehan
A large crowd came out to the Huletts Casino on Saturday night to remember long-time Huletts resident, Blanche Meehan (1924-2010).
“Blanche may have lived in Florida and New York city, but Huletts Landing was always ‘home’ for her,” said friend, Larry Nash.
The large crowd had a fun evening sharing stories of Blanche after enjoying the beautiful day.
Blanche would have wanted it exactly that way!
New Business Opens on Top of Mountain
A new business, Sugar Loaf Mountain Antiques, recently opened on top of the mountain.
I recently stopped in to a new antique business which opened off of County Route 6 on top of the mountain. I spoke to the proprietor, Kathy Huntington, who also happens to be the new Town of Dresden historian.
“I’ve always loved history and antiques, so I thought it would be a good business,” said Kathy Huntington.
There are many interesting items for sale and Kathy is around on weekends or you can call her for an appointment. “I don’t have regular hours yet, but people can stop by on the weekend, or call for an appointment.”
The display area is very well organized and there are some really unique items.
A baby carriage from the 1930’s.
A large cash register used in a department store.
So if you’re looking for antiques or just want to browse, consider stopping in and supporting Sugar Loaf Mountain Antiques.
You can call the store at: 499-2969 or you can email Kathy at:
Kathy@SugarLoafMountainAntiques.com
Calling All Artists
The Friends of Historic Huletts Landing is seeking donations of art work from local artists for an end of summer art auction. Please consider donating one of your pieces to benefit this important local institution.
It’s your chance to get some public recognition for your work. Contact Tom Keating at 499-2365 if you would like to participate. Thank you for your consideration.
Beautiful Day for a Plane Ride
Marie Portela (left) and her daughter Pat (right) pose with Neal Vandorsten (center) in front of the airplane that took them on a sightseeing tour above Lake George (and Huletts Landing) on Sunday.
You couldn’t have asked for a better day to go for a plane ride.
After winning the ticket for a plane ride at the Huletts Landing Property Owners Civic Association’s golf course fundraiser on the July 4th weekend, Sunday was the day for Marie Portela and her daughter, Pat, to go on the actual ride.
The Huletts Casino donated the fun excursion and Neal Vandorsten, a licensed pilot, met Marie and Pat at the Glens Falls airport and took the two happy participants on the ride.
“It was a perfect day and we got some great views in of Lake George,” said pilot, Neal Vandorsten.
Flying over Huletts.
A beautiful view of the Sagamore hotel.
When asked what she thought about the day, Marie Portela remarked; “It was awesome! Neal is a great pilot.”
(Photo credit: Pat Portela)
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Ridge Near Deer’s Leap Collapses
Looking directly across Lake George from Huletts, it appeared that something looked different this summer.
Then I realized something was different. Sometime since the summer of 2010, a ridge very close to Deer’s Leap collapsed and fell down the mountain.
Here is a view from the middle of Lake George with the area circled in red.
Here is a view by boat from closer in, looking up. You can see the outcropping left is a different color.
Looks like it wiped out some trees as it fell.
Rocks and boulders litter the area underneath.
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Saturday Night Concert
Long-time Lands End resident Helen Lyons is an accomplished opera singer who has recently returned from engagements in Germany.
A soprano, she will perform a program of French and German art song, operated arias and American folk songs Saturday, July 9th at 7:30 pm in the Mountain Grove Memorial Church.
Admission is $10.
She will be joined at the piano by Benjamin-Edouard Savoie for the presentation of this intimate concert.
Please come out and support this wonderful performance.
Whitehall School, Vandals & Ignorant Despoil Playground
Recently a reader of the Huletts Current stopped by the playground at the Whitehall school district and emailed me these photographs. As you can see for yourself, the playground was in poor condition due to ignorance and vandalism.
A used, dirty diaper was left rotting in the sun, with garbage littered nearby. This was in clear eyesight from the school.
A used, dirty diaper and garbage were found littering the Whitehall’s school playground.
A slide in the playground was found vandalized and our reader pointed out that the plastic is really hard – it’s meant to stand up to kids running up it, etc. The only way this would get smashed would be if someone took a very large rock, brick, etc., and really put some force into deliberately breaking it – which seems to be what happened.
A hard plastic children’s slide was found bashed in most likely by a rock or hard object.
The slide, which is hollow, was filled with water from the rain, attracting bugs and mosquitoes.
The perimeter of the school is full of security cameras. It would be interesting to know if the high tech surveillance was capable of catching the culprits of this desecration of school property. (And those cameras did not come cheap.)
I think what is most frustrating to the taxpayers of the district, is that not only do we feel we are being overtaxed, but it also seems that the administration is very cavalier in protecting the investments that the taxpayers do make. Sadly, this is a perfect illustration of how the playground is cared for by the school and thought of by some of the people using it.
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Africa Lecture Thursday at the Casino
Neal Vandorsten will speak at the Huletts Casino on Thursday evening about his travels through Africa.
Do you know the difference between Zimbabwe and Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique?
Well if not, you want to come to the Casino on Thursday evening, July 7th, to hear Neal Vandorsten talk about his travels into the heart of Africa.
Learn about Neal’s encounters with wild animals and other interesting topics as he shares about a continent that many know little about.
See his unique photographs and hear about his interesting experience.
Where and When? 7:30 pm at the Casino on Thursday, July 7th.