Pendragon, Getting Ready for Wonderland
“I’m a local,” said Marcy Gotzmer while pouring me a taste of Don Olagario’s Albarino, a white wine from Rias Biaxas, Spain distributed by Empire Merchants North.
We were standing at one of six tables featuring over 40 wines to be tasted along with several more tables featuring gourmet food as servers walked through offering additional delights to those gathered. Tom Delahant’s fingers danced over the piano keys.
Gina DuMond and Kathy Steinbrueck bustled about welcoming people and making adjustments. It was the annual spring benefit for Pendragon Theatre hosted at the Interlaken Inn by Mary Neary and Suzanne and Richard Brosseau.
“I am here because Pendragon Theatre is a great cause,” she continued. “I love Richard (the Inn’s gifted chef). Any time I can help him out, I will — especially for an important community resource like Pendragon. I try to bring wine that people haven’t had before, like this one. It’s the number-one white
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Saranac Lake vs. Lake Placid b
PHS@Saranac Lake golf
wild center
North Country School barnyard
Phil Henry at Bluseed Studios
Moose sighting
St. Regis area ponds
Stoney Creek in spring