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Arts

Songs at Mirror Lake 2023 lineup announced

LAKE PLACID — The Songs at Mirror Lake concert series lineup for this summer was announced on Monday. Songs at Mirror Lake concerts are held at 7 p.m. on seven Tuesdays throughout the summer at Mid’s Park on Main Street, Lake Placid. These weekly performances, running from June 27 ...

Artist residency for 12 coming to Saranac Lake

SARANAC LAKE — A dozen artists, including six from the North Country, will have the chance to live and create free public art in this community, with their work funded by $150,000 from Pendragon Theatre, BluSeed Studios and the National Endowment for the Arts. The artists — in visual and ...

Pendragon unveils summer lineup

SARANAC LAKE — Pendragon Theatre has been busy. After a recent trip to Washington to appeal for more federal funds for local theaters, the over-40-year-old company officially released its Summer Festival lineup, which includes one American classic, one cult classic, one new play, one fairy ...

Crane quintet to give free recital Friday evening in Lake Placid

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Sinfonietta Education Committee this week announced a residency of the Frackenpohl Honors Brass Quintet, on Friday, March 31. The quintet will be in the Lake Placid Schools during the day and will offer a public recital followed by a meet-and-greet reception ...

Maple heritage on display at Heaven Hill Farm

LAKE PLACID — Since the old Lake Placid Convention Center was demolished in 2009, and a new conference center was constructed in its place, opening in the spring of 2011, I’ve wondered about the whereabouts of a historic painting. This was no ordinary painting. It was a large mural, ...

It’s sugar season, now and always in Conwell’s 1952 painting

(Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the April 4, 1997 issue of the Lake Placid News. It was written by current LPN Editor Andy Flynn when he was the News staff writer.) LAKE PLACID — Every year, thousands of people walk by Averil Conwell’s 1952 painting entitled ...