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Celebrate Community, Diversity & Storytelling at the Adirondack Family Book Festival
Come out to the John Brown Farm for the second annual Adirondack Family Book Festival! On Saturday, August 19th, from 9:30am-4pm, join in the fun at the John Brown Farm in Lake Placid. Held outdoors and under tents, the Adirondack Family Book Festival is free and open to all. Discover the sprawling John Brown Farm…
Wildlife Biologist’s “Adventures with Stoney” Educates Kids about Raptors
Mark Manske, a wildlife biologist from Dickinson Center, New York, has released the 5th book in his “Adventures with Stoney” series. Mark, also a former High School biology teacher, visits schools to educate kids about raptors’ importance in the ecosystem. He brings along Morley, a Great Eurasian Eagle Owl, as his companion. Mark and Morley…
Author Kate Messner’s Time-traveling Dog Makes Waves
Plattsburgh author Kate Messner says she will change a novel based on early reader feedback of her drafts, if she thinks it will improve a book. This certainly happened after a New Orleans man told the children’s book writer that he wanted much more help from her fictional time-traveling dog in the rescue efforts from…
What makes a being “human?”
Author Bethany Morrow discusses issues of humanity with producer Paul Larson, as they talk about her book MEM, a work of speculative fiction. It is set in the art deco world of Montreal in the 1920s, but a different version of the ’20s, where memories sometimes get housed in specially created living beings, when those…
Author Dennis Webster examines the Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher
SPOTLIGHT on Dennis Webster, author of “Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher”, and editor of the Adirondack Mysteries series. Webster discusses how a crime from a hundred years ago still haunts an Adirondack county. This interview is produced by Paul Larson, and presented as a “Spotlight” segment on Mountain Lake PBS programs. “Spotlight” is made…
Tragedy and Mysteries in the Mountains
Mohawk Valley author Dennis Webster invites you to fall into a good book this autumn. His Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher relates the true story of how a young student lured his instructor to her death, a crime that still haunts an Adirondack village more than a hundred years later. Paul Larson interviews Webster…