On Friday, June 4th LP Quinn Elementary in Tupper Lake celebrated its 7th annual school-wide Adirondack Day. Students in grades K-6 were engaged in a day of all things Adirondack; from making trail mix or "gorp" to writing a verse of song to flying kites, it was a busy and remarkable day for students, teachers, staff and special guests at LP Quinn.
In May 2010 the Peru Middle School came together for a day-long celebration of learning and exploration based on a local historic treasure; Benedict Arnold's last unaccounted-for gunboat, Spitfire. The celebration of local history through art, song, historic scholarship and science was initially generated by an enthusiastic group of students in Peru's 6th grade chorus and resulted in a cross-curricular collaboration between chorus teacher, Jennifer Moore, school librarian, Margaret Sheldon and art teacher, Tracey Laundry.
Photo: Rendition of Spitfire by Ernie Haas from
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s “Operation Spitfire”
On Saturday, April 24, Kathleen Thomas brought her one-woman performance, "A Trojan Woman" to Keene Central School as part of an evening of Greek Desserts and Greek Drama as a fund-raiser for the KCS Multi-Age trip to Greece-Italy in 2011. Ms. Thomas's work is a retelling of the legendary Trojan War in the voice of Paris's first love, Oenone. It all boils down to another apple leading man astray. This time it was a golden one that the handsomest man was instructed to bestow on one of 3 vying goddesses. Paris was doomed from the get go. But there's more to this plot than gods and apples. "A Trojan Woman" is a play wihin a play, transitioning between the present and the ancient past, between the Trojan War of legend and that of history. For more information contact
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