Weekend of October 9-11

The Opera is coming back to St. Lawrence County

The Met’s award-winning series of live performance transmissions to movie theaters continues to captivate audiences around the world. The fourth season of The Met: Live in HD will feature nine of the most popular operas ever composed and include five new productions in startling high definition and digital surround sound. Robotic cameras, strategically placed around and behind the stage, capture the beauty and power of live performance from striking angles, and heighten attention to both performance and production. Intermission features bring the back-stage world to life with short documentaries, tours, and intimate behind-the-scenes interviews of cast and crew. English subtitles allow the stories to come to life. Experience the depth and raw energy of world-class opera while getting an unprecedented look at the creation of great art.

$18 Adult, $15 Senior, $12 Student; $9 Youth (18 and under)
General Admission

Bonus! Buy the entire season, get one free (no refunds or exchanges please).

Immediate seating for advance ticket holders. Doors open half hour before show time.

This weekend, Saturday October 10 at 1pm - Tosca's Puccini!

Check the website for their schedule.

 If you are going to this next event, you probably already know this because you can read my mind, but here is the quirky event of the weekend:

 

The metaphysical group "Metaphysically Speaking" will meet from 1 to 4:30 PM on Saturday October 10, 2009 at the Massena Library on Glenn Street.  The featured speaker will be highly respected psychic Freda Gladle.  She will be answering questions and giving messages from spirit. This event if free and open to the public. For further information call (315) 769-6235.

Colton’s Zion Episcopal Church’s third annual Fall into Fall Coffee House Series will be launched on Friday, October 9^th with the appearance of the musical duo of high school students Brian Nichols and Keith Galluchi and the comedy of 6^th grader Chase Simmons. The Brian Nichols-Keith Galluci Duo won first place in the St. Lawrence Talent Search program held last May at Lisbon Central School and Chase Simmons was the second place winner. The evening is a combination of music and comedy and should appeal to all ages.

Admission is free as are refreshments. Monetary donations for the Zion’s Food Pantry will be accepted. The program begins at 7 pm in the church undercroft. Zion Episcopal Church is on Main Street in Colton.

Come Fly a Kite – Lewis County

 The New York Kite Enthusiast (NYKE) club invites you and your family to come fly with us during the two-day Maple Ridge Kite Festival at 7421 East Road in Lowville on Saturday, October 10^th from 10am-4pm and Sunday October 11^th from 12:30-4pm.

Join us for the biggest event ever featuring many custom made kites including a 90 foot Pink Octopus!   Learn more about kiting from Thom Shanken, internationally known kite historian, and Jeremy Johannesen, President of NYKE, as well as their many friends, including the Regional Director of the American Kitefliers Association.  Admission and all activities are free, open to anyone who enjoys flying or watching kites. 

 

Saturday will feature many family oriented activities including air show demonstrations, Rokaku Boot Camp, Barnaby the kite flying dog, and a free children’s kite making workshop.  New this year is a candy drop using mini-parachutes, made especially for this event by Mr. Shanken.

 

Then on Sunday afternoon from 12:30-4pm help fly as many kites as possible for the celebration of One Sky One World Day, an international event where folks around the globe join together each year to fly kites in a demonstration of global unity and peace.  There will be more fun for the whole family, including another candy drop for the kids.

Delicious food will be available all weekend, including a Community Pig Roast on Sunday. Join us, rain or shine, on October 10^th and 11^th to harness the wind for a weekend of old fashioned fun at Maple Ridge Center.  For more information please call Beaver Camp 376-2640 or visit www.NYKE.org.

 Thursday

 Harrisville

Harvest Roast Beef Dinner With mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing,   cabbage salad, glazed carrots, roll, Beverage and homemade pie!

Sponsored by the Daughters of Isabella and the Knights of Columbus      At the  St. Francis Solanus Catholic Church Corner of Church & Maple St, Harris On October 8th, 2009 Serving  from 5 – 6:30 pm. (Take-outs available at 4:30) Adults:  $8.00, ages 12-5 $4.50, under 5 free.

If you should need any further information please feel free to contact Connie or Ed Brown at 315-543-7439.  Again thank you.

Saturday

Craft Fair & Flea Market sponsored by Adirondack Grange will be held on Saturday, October 10^th from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm at the Grange Hall, Route 3, Harrisville.  Refreshments & lunch available.

 Jefferson County

 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

 My Three Favorite Places in Jefferson County are: Thompson Park, The Flower Memorial Library and Wellesley Island State Park

 

Wellesley Island State Park in Autumn Trumps them All!

 Go over the bridge and check out this weekend for the 31^st Annual Autumn festival at:

Minna Anthony Common Nature Center

44927 Cross Island Road

Fineview New York

Friends of the Nature Center are happy to announce a wonderful  entertainment program especially designed with families in mind at the 31^st Annual Autumn Festival, Saturday, October 10^th from 10 am to 4 pm.

  Tom Sieling, widely acclaimed singer and songwriter from Newfield, New York, will perform a very participatory family program called “Howl at the Moon with a Wild Thing Tune” at Minna Anthony

Nature, Wellesley Island State Park

 10:30 -11:15 am and1:00-1:45 pm on Saturday, October 10th.

 This show consists of humorous songs about our natural world and more that are guaranteed to engage everyone. Tom accompanies himself on guitar, banjo, harmonica, and a drum machine, and all songs include parts for the whole family. Nicole Carner, library director of Pember Library in Granville, NY, says “Tom is a wonderfully engaging performer... sure to raise even the most reticent out of their seat! We ‘howled at the moon, sang a wild thing tune’, and wanted more!”  For more information, please call 315-482-2479

 And check this out, this is going on the same day and cleverly works its way around the “Howl at the Moon with a Wild Thing Tune” above.

Saxophonist/keyboardist Monk Rowe will bring his energetic trio “The Roots of Rock & Roll” to the Nature Center’s 31^st Autumn Festival.

The “Roots of Rock & Roll” prides itself on authentic renditions of infectious tunes from the 1940’s through the 1960’s, highlighting blues and jazz tunes that provided the momentum for the birth of rock & roll. Concert goers will hear hummable tunes from artists including Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles and many others.

 Monk Rowe will be joined by Tom McGrath on drums and guitarist/vocalist John Hutson. The “Roots of Rock & Roll” will perform two 45-minute sets at 12:15 PM and 1:45 PM.

 On the web, interested readers may learn more about the “Roots of Rock & Roll” by visiting www.MonkRowe.com.

 In the Cape:

October 10 ~ Roast Beef dinner, 4 pm, Fire Hall on Broadway, The Cape Vincent Fire Department will serve a Roast Beef dinner at the Fire Hall on Broadway St. starting at 4:00 pm until gone. 

 Sackets Harbor

Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center Announces Fall Hours

Sackets Harbor, NY – The Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY, has announced its fall hours. The three-story, nine room interpretive center at Ray and West Main Streets on the Sackets Harbor village waterfront will be open 10 am to 5 pm through the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 7 and then Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through October 11 and for the Columbus Day holiday on Monday, October 12.

The historic limestone structure was built in 1817 as the Union Hotel where a young Ulysses S. Grant played checkers as a young U.S. Army Lieutenant. An animatronic “Grant” now introduces Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center visitors to the cultural destinations of the byway that is one of America’s Byways and a National Recreation Trail.

The Center includes nine rooms of exhibits that inspire tourism along the 518-mile freshwater shoreline byway along the Saint Lawrence Seaway, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania.

The Center is operated by the not-for-profit Seaway Trail, Inc. and the Seaway Trail Foundation that recently produced travel guides to the best birdwatching spots and the French and Indian War sites along byways in NY and PA. The books are for sale in the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center Gift Shop. Admission to the Gift Shop is free; admission to the Discovery Center is $4 with discounts for military with ID, seniors, students, children and Seaway Trail members. Groups are welcome by appointment anytime. Learn more at www.seawaytrail.com or call 315-646-1000.

The Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center is located in the historic former Union Hotel built in 1817-1818. The building is owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

 OUTSIDE THE THREE COUNTIES:

 The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Inc. Presents the Continuation of Old Forge Plein Air Paint Out 2009.

 Art Event and Auction

McCauley Mountain, Sunday October 11 Silent Auction begins at 12pm

Live Auction begins at 5pm

Celebrated regional plein air artists have been selected to capture the spectacular fall foliage of the Adirondack landscape and waterfront.

 Artists will be painting beside the lakes and rivers, on the mountains, and throughout the streets of our communities.  There will be a silent auction for those created on the second weekend (Oct. 10 and 11).

 THURSDAY NIGHT IN SYRACUSE

 At LeMoyne College

Chamber Orchestra – Crouching Tiger and More!

 7:30 pm W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts

 Join the LeMoyne College Chamber Orchestra, percussionist David Cossin and cellist Felix Fan for a  concert Including Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto and music from The Hours and more!