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September 14, 2019
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Celebrating an Adirondack Harvest
Back to School
Rethink Poverty: a simulation
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Essex County Public Health, Well-Fed Collaborative stage poverty scenario
Adirondack Harvest Festival with markets, farm talks, Young Farmers’ Circle sets up at Essex Co. Fairgrounds
By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | Being homeless wasn’t fun. On top of routine challenges like finding transportation, food, work and figuring out how to fi nd somewhere to live, there was an overbearing feeling that I didn’t belong -- exempted from much of the lively chatter in everyday life. I attended the Rethink Poverty Workshop put together by Essex County’s Public Health Department through the Well-Fed Collaboration and Bridges Out of Poverty, an outreach organization based in Vermont. They staged the day-long workshop in the Boquet Valley Central School auditorium here. The Poverty Simulation required every participant -- some 40 people in all --to draw a random name, a random part in the role-play activity. And with that name came a scenario. A series of life challenges was presented with or without a partner or children, to involve medical conditions, bills to pay (including lights, heat, food and loans), a work schedule with customary rules, including an ever-present transportation concern.
Draft horses are featured at the 2019 Adirondack Harvest Festival, set for Sept. 21, 2019 at Essex County Fairgrounds. Photos/Adirondack Harvest, ROOST
By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
WESTPORT |In its fourth year, Adirondack Harvest Festival returns to Essex County Fairgrounds with an entire realm set up for children. See HARVEST FEST » pg. 3
Bradyn, entering 8th; Abby, entering 12th; Ryleigh and Ethan, entering 3rd grades at the new Boquet Valley Central School.
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Photo by Annie Mullen
Elizabethtown Library marks 135th year Founded in 1884, mission remains to enrich community By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
ELIZABETHTOWN| In September 1884, the Circulating Library in Elizabethtown received formal charter from the state.
Funds for the first plain wood-framed building heated with a brick fireplace were raised by two “fairs” netting a sum of $720.29. Plus donations, the Elizabethtown Library Association paid $751.57 total to build its existing edifice 135 years ago. Twelve residents from the village had begun to plan the lending library two years prior and gathered 280 books from their own shelves to start the collection.
Members of the Elizabethtown Library Association, Mary Lou Morgan, center, and Gerry Bradley, left, consider their organization’s long history with Director Angela Heroux, at left.
FIND OUT MORE Internet service at the Elizabethtown Library is available to use for free from six computer stations plus a central Mac. Scanning and fax services are available, along with photocopying.
Photo by Kim Dedam
The Elizabethtown Circulating Library welcomes a Knitting Group on Wednesday evenings at 5 p.m. and hosts Stor y Time for families with babies and toddlers on Wednesday at 10 a.m. The library is working to host a Historic Halloween Tour this year. Elizabethtown Circulating Library is on River Street, across from the Hand House. Phone: 518-873-2670 or fax: 518-873-2670 for assistance. Hours are: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ■
The library in Elizabethtown was built in 1884 at a cost of $751.57.
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And the first semi-annual meeting of Library Association trustees was held Sept. 27, a Saturday, in 1884. Two years later, the group purchased the library’s parcel of land beside “The Branch”
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of the Boquet River. They paid Byron Pond $25 for the property. They painted the building’s clapboards for $14.19 and put up a fence with boards that cost $27.21. Exquisite details of each step taken through those early years are recorded in
neat, handwritten script that flows evenly through pages of ornate ledger books. Operational costs, payments, patron donations, funds raised and numbers of books lent are chronicled in a changing script of librarians’ hands, paying tribute to many among the earliest Adirondack pioneer families. Centennial celebration documents from 1984 record that from 1884 until 1889, “Mrs. George Bullard read 222 books, Mrs. Ferris read 179, Nilla Hand read 174 and Mr. A.F. Woodruff read 150.” The first librarian was Miss Elizabeth V. Hale, assisted by second and third librarians Miss F. Coddington and Miss May Woodruff. Electric lights were added in 1906; the electric bill for the entire year was $5.50. An addition was built to accommodate the growing collection of books in 1909.
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