N EWS & EVENTS. P r e s i d e n t s Letter

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1 The Friends of Historic Hulett s Landing is a community group dedicated to preserving the history of our local area through collections and programs. This newsletter is our way of keeping our members and interested folks aware of our activities. We hope you enjoy it and want to join us in the planned activities. We each have a deep and enduring commitment to the Lake and its History and welcome your interest, donations, and ideas. P r e s i d e n t s Letter Welcome to our 15 th summer of activities! Here are some of our recent initiatives Oral Histories. Marian Knight has continued to lead this effort and conducted several important interviews in 2012, with 10 more in The results are available for review in the Huletts Library & Gallery now and will be online later this year. We are hiring people to transcribe interviews. Contact Marian ( ) to get involved with this most important project. We received a third grant from the Rockefeller Foundation which we will use to continue funding of this project, primarily for transcription and printing. Digital Collection. Digitizing Huletts History. We continue adding to our graphic collection with images of vintage Huletts photographs and postcards. Examples are on display at the HL&G. If you have material that could be of interest, or know someone who does, we would like to borrow them to scan (or just receive 300 to 600 dpi scans) and also to get as much information about each as we can. Call me at Library. Louise Davidson led the effort to organize and cull the book collection over the past few months. We encourage the community, including summer renters, to use the building, library, and museum at normal hours or at other hours by arrangement. While we have more or less filled available shelves, book donations (and now DVDs) will allow continued upgrading of the collection. An effort to inform summer renters of the library and its policies will be enhanced in The book drop is available for off hours returns. Gallery. This Summer will see two art shows and the now traditional art auction run by Suzanne Straton which is also an important funding source. We also have notecards and artwork for sale and we would like to expand the collection of images that we can use. We encourage members to make favorite vintage images available. Call me at Potable Water. We will try to get the last of the potable water line run soon. Newsletter. We will continue both a printed and an version of the newsletter. Be sure to keep your address up to date or send changes to lucindafh@yahoo.com. If anyone you know is interested, please have them send their E-address to Lucinda as well. We are largely dependent on membership to fund the programs. We do need help and encourage you to

2 page 2 join at whatever level you can, coerce your neighbors, and then participate in the events. Please join in the activities and support FHHL by becoming a member. We look forward to a great season. Jim James A. McMaster President S p e a k e r s July 13, Saturday - 7:30 pm, MGM Church Dr. David Starbuck is a professor of archeology at Plymouth State University and the author of The Archaeology of Forts and Battlefields. He will speak on The Archaeology of Fort William Henry: Digging Up an American Legend and talk about the historical digs there. August 10, Saturday - 7:30 pm, MGM Church Jerry Ferris has remained the last man to officially swim all of Lake George since Despite having conquered the English Channel (where 90% of people fail) he says that swimming Lake George was the hardest of all his swims. Come here him talk about his exploits as a long distance swimmer and the challenge of swimming Lake George. G a l l e r y Art Shows Debbie Shannon Watercolors. Opening reception, June 29, 5-7 pm Shannon works in watercolor, acrylic, oil, collage, photo transfers and is now studying print making. For fifteen years she was an owner of Gallery VIII in Plano, Texas. Don Parenta Photographs Opening reception, July 20, 5-7 pm Long-time lake enthusiast Don Parenta will exhibit 30 beautiful prints of Lake George and its wildlife. All prints and mattes are archival/museum grade.

3 page 3 Don Parenta Photographs. Opening reception, July 20, 5-7 pm Debbie Shannon Watercolors. Opening reception, June 29, 5-7 pm

4 page 4 S c h e d u l e June 29 - July 19 Debbie Shannon - Water colors. Opening reception, June 29, 5-7 pm July 6, Saturday FHHL Annual and Trustees Meetings, 9:00 and 9:30 respectively, HL&G July 13, Saturday 7:30 pm, MGM Church. Dr David Starbuck will speak on The Archaeology of Fort William Henry: Digging Up an American Legend. He will speak about the historical digs at Fort William Henry which he has overseen. July 20 - August 10 Don Parenta, Photographer. Opening reception, July 20, 5-7 pm July 26, Friday Children s Program am Pember Museum. Bernie will be back for the 4th year with Adirondack animal furs, slideshows, and a craft. Black bears, porcupines, snowshoe hares, bobcats featured ($5/child). Aug 5, Monday Children s Program, 10-11am Hyde Museum. June Leary will present on the Hyde s summer exhibition Modern Nature: Georgia O Keeffe and Lake George and we will make some of our own modern Nature artwork with pastel and paint ($5/child). Aug 9, Friday Children s Program 10am noon. Ft. Ticonderoga Program...more details to follow. August 10, Saturday - 7:30 pm MGM Church. Come hear long-distance swimmer Jerry Ferris talk about amazing adventures here and abroad, including swimming the entire length of Lake George, a record unbeaten since August Art Auction works on display.

5 page 5 S c h e d u l e (Continued) August 17, Saturday 5:00-7:00pm HL&G, Annual Art Auction & Reception August 30, Friday Trustees Meeting, 9:00am, HL&G L i b r a r y This year the library is open June 25 - September 5. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 10:00-12:00pm. Volunteers needed, especially for Saturdays. Sign up sheet at Post Office and HL&G. G r e a t FHHL Gift Items Huletts Landing Note Cards Available at FHHL Events and the HL&G as well as the Marina, the Casino, Sugarloaf Antiques, and the Blackburn Gallery in Glens Falls. These make a nice way to acknowledge your Hamlet or make a nice gift for friends. $12.50 Large Format Reproductions Blackburn Galleries has printed larger images of several of the postcard images, which are available for sale at the Gallery. Framed Prints Special requests for custom frames, image size, etc. will be handled through the Blackburn Gallery in Glens Falls. FHHL Website: Calling all webmasters! We have this great website to build on and need volunteers to keep making it better. If you are a student needing a volunteer summer project we will send a letter to your school outlining your contributions to the FHHL. Please volunteer to load the images and stories we are collecting onto the site and contribute ideas on how the website can grow. Contact Anne Adler

6 page 7 Friends of Historic Hulett s Landing TRUSTEES Class of 2015 Lucinda Bhavsar Con Darcy Ann Goldsmith George Kapusinski Art Levy Fred Sistarenik Class of 2014 Arnie Galbraith Millie Gorman Marian Knight Barbara Willford Class of 2013 Tom Keating Floyd Milbank Suzanne Straton Lucy White OFFICERS Elected June 2011 for 2-year terms Huletts Landing Dock [From the FHHL Collection] President Jim McMaster Vice President Anne Adler Secretary Marian Knight Treasurer Tom Keating COMMITTEES Programs George Kapusinski Children s Programs Lucinda Bhavsar Newsletter Lucy White Membership Barbara Wilford Website Anne Adler Huletts Lake George. [Gift of the Donaldson family]

7 page 6 Huletts Porch. [From the FHHL Collection] Become a Member Today! Click on historichuletts.org and choose About. The costs are very small to become a member but provide great program benefits all through the summer season. Junior/senior (singles under 19 or over 80) $10 Individual (singles over 19, under 80) $20 Family $30 Friend (those who can do more) $50 Historian (those who can do more) $100