Long Lake Library

The Friends of the Long Lake Library (FLLL) are sponsoring a new fundraiser!

We will be installing a walkway on the Library’s grounds that will include custom engraved bricks that you can buy to honor or memorialize someone or an event. Each brick will have up to 3 lines, and 20 spaces each in Book Antiqua  font. The first phase of this walkway plan will include 150 customized bricks. We are hoping to construct the path in the fall of 2008.

To participate, please click on the link below and print and fill in the information.

 bricks1.pdf

Don’t forget to renew your membership!

Your library needs your support.

 Categories of Membership
Individual - $10.00
Family - $25.00
Business/Supporting - $100.00
Best Friend - $250.00 & up

Please make checks payable to :

“FLLL” and mail to:
PO Box 181
Long Lake, NY 12487-0181

Summer Reading is hosted by Sharon Waagner.
This years theme is “Catch the reading bug”
July 3rd thru August 7th, Mondays and Thursdays from 10:00am till 11:00am.

Click on the background and the frog will catch flies!! Fun Fun!!

The Chocolate Fest was a great success!
This year’s event attracted over 100 men, women, and children to the Town Hall to partake in the endless array of homemade chocolate goodies, listen to great music, visit with friends and neighbors and most importantly, show their support for the Long Lake Library.There were many highlights.

Here are a few -·        

Honoring and presenting prizes to the poster contest winners Beth Conkey, Maddie Miller and Joao Santos and participants, Braydyn McCottery, Hayley McCottery, Garrett Austin, Henry Sandiford, Chandler Seaman, Andrew Arsenault, Jessica Pitcher and Nicholas Norton.·        

Great live music, including the Long Lake Jazz Band, the acoustical talent of Steve Signell, and the popular tunes from Eric Peter.·        

Lots and lots of chocolate desserts streaming in throughout the evening.  Many folks just kept an eye on the goodies table to make sure they got a taste of the latest chocolate arrivals.·        Make your own sundaes, courtesy of Stewarts, with our sundae hosts, Mike and Nancy Hosley.

The 50/50 raffle which raised an unexpected sum for the winner and added to the night’s fund raising for the Library.·        

 Silent auction items to bid on that showcased our neighbors’ creative talents and generosity (homemade quilt, hand knitted hat and gloves, candelabra, and Valentine’s Day gift basket).·          Kids laughing and playing together - Watching a group of younger children learning how to play duck duck goose.
A successful Chocolate Fest means that we all had a great time and at the same time, we were able to show our support of the Long Lake Library. 

 The Friends of the Long Lake Library thank everyone for making this another great community event. 

Long Lake has a lot to be proud of.

Joao Santos

Beth Conkey

Maddie Miller

Come and eat lots and lots of chocolate with us!

The Friends of the Long Lake Library are hosting the 3rd annual Chocolate Fest
Saturday January 26th from 6:30pm till’ 9:00 pm
There will be Live Music, 50/50 Raffle, and a Silent Auction.

Price is $5 per person or $15 per family, children under 5 are free

Music Makers Finale!
Free Holiday Concert at the Charles R. Wood Theater
December 10th, Monday Evening, 7 pm

One night only! At the Charles R. Wood Theater in downtown Glens Falls!  Hosted by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library and the Southern Adirondack Library System!

Everyone is invited to the final concert from L’Ensemble in their rollicking, on-the-road series, The Music Makers: A Fusion of Classical, Folk and Jazz. The night is Monday, December 10, 2007, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. All seats are free to this holiday concert,
and available first come, first served. Doors open at 6:00 pm.Ten musicians will share the stage for what promises to be an innovative and vibrant concert, what one comes to expect from L’Ensemble:

• Ida Faiella (voice)
• Barry Finclair (violin)
• Ruth Ungar Merenda (voice, violin)
• Brett Parnell (guitar)
• Geremy Schulick (guitar)
• George Wilson (violin)
• Dale Stuckenbruck (violin, musical saw)
• Heawon Kim (piano)
• Bill Hayes (glass armonica, percussion)
• Bruce Williamson (saxophone, clarinet, piano)

Audiences in Glens Falls, Easton and Long Lake called the earlier concerts in the series:

 “Real musical treasures, each with spectacular risks taken
  and memorable combinations.”

 “Wonderful shows. Loved them all. Bring on more!”

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Music Makers: A Fusion of Classical, Folk & Jazz, is a free concert series by L’Ensemble, produced by the Southern Adirondack Library System and the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, and supported by grants to Crandall Public Library from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and by the NYS Council on the Arts–Folk Arts Program, a govt agency.

Long Lake Library is pleased to announce to the community, local teachers from nearby schools and home school parents,  that the Ellison Die Machine, which is offered as a free service to the public, recently acquired a large donation of dies consisting of letters and shapes,  thanks to Mary Hall and the Teacher’s Center in

Malone, New York. Please feel free to stop by to check out the dies and Ellison Machine, currently housed in the new reference room. Individuals wishing to use this innovative yet, simple machine must bring their own colored paper, tagboard, fabric or other specialty papers. A video, catalog and idea book are also available for further ideas in creativity.

You may know Jerry Jenkins as a botanist, and may perhaps have run into him in a swamp.  But on Tuesday, October 2, Jerry will play tunes from New England, Canada, Ireland and Scotland on penny whistle and metal recorder during a free percussion concert by L’Ensemble at 7 pm in the Long Lake Town Hall.

Three other musicians will join Jenkins in an improvisational concert featuring more instruments than can fit comfortably on the stage, including a glass armonica, marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel, all types of drums, saxophone, clarinet, flute and keyboard.  The three players are

• Bill Hayes, who for 20 years has been the percussion for Liza Minelli’s band.  Bill has recorded a dozen Original Cast Broadway albums and movie soundtracks ranging from Pocahontas to The Producers.  Bill recently recorded an episode of MTV Unpluged with the group Korn.

• Joe Cardello, a West African and Brazilian drummer.  Joe performs on Broadway in the Lion King, Hairspray and Tarzan.  He has toured with superstars Ziggy Marley and Diana Ross.

• Bruce Williamson, a composer who plays saxophone, clarinet, flute and keyboard with a limitless passion for playing any kind of music:  “inside” jazz, “outside” jazz, blues, soul, funk, Brazilian or classical.

For more information and directions to the program sites, go to musicmakers.sals.edu or call Long Lake Library 518-624-3825.

The concert is hosted by the Long Lake Library and supported by grants to Crandall Public Library from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and by the New York State Council on the Arts-Folk Arts Program

I hear America singing….Musicians & Makers

To celebrate the music of our time, the Long Lake Library presents an interactive concert showcasing classical, jazz and country music in the Long Lake Town Hall at 7 pm on Sunday, August 26.

The concert will combine 4 violinists who play classical, jazz and  country  music.  They will also play mandolin and musical saw and will combine in music including all the players.  An extra feature of this program will be the participation of a violin maker whose latest instrument will be played by each of the four fiddlers.

The concert is free and open to the public.