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Weekender A&E

Lake Placid’s Blues at Timbuctoo concert is Sept. 17

LAKE PLACID — The eighth annual Blues at Timbuctoo concert is set for Sept. 17 from noon to 5 p.m. at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid. The concert is free and will be held rain or shine. All ages are welcome. Packing a picnic, bringing a chair or picnic blanket and ...

Five artists selected for local residency programs

SARANAC LAKE — Pendragon Theatre and BluSeed Studios announced Wednesday that five North Country artists have been selected for their new National Endowment for the Arts “Our Town” Artist Residency program in Saranac Lake. BluSeed Studios will host David Woodward, Jazen Reuss and Britt ...

Our cemetery, ‘Our Town’

SARANAC LAKE — A group of people gathered in Pine Ridge Cemetery on Thursday and watched as a woman realized she was no longer alive. Actors from the next-door Pendragon Theatre were rehearsing the third act of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” amid a cluster of graves and between ...

Plein Air Festival is next week

SARANAC LAKE — From Texas to Illinois and Maryland to Maine, 40 artists are packing up their paints and canvases and will head to the Adirondacks for a week of painting. The 15th annual Adirondack Plein Air Festival will start on Monday and culminate with the Show & Sale on Saturday, ...

‘The Forest by Your Feet’ opens at artists guild

SARANAC LAKE — The featured artist at the Adirondack Artists Guild for the month of August is photographer and guild member Burdette Parks. The title of his exhibit is “The Forest by Your Feet: Intimate Portraits from the Woods.” The show opened on Aug. 4 and will run through Aug. 29. ...