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Saturday, July 13, 2013
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This Week ‘Caveman’ at LPCA
LAKE PLACID Ñ On Friday, July 12 and Saturday, July 13, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts presents Ò Defending the Caveman,Ó for two nights only. Tickets are $22 and available by calling 523-2512, online at LakePlacidArts.org, or in person at the LPCA Box Office Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
Horse shows conclude
Wolves topic on historical society
W I L M I N G TO N Ñ T h e Wilmington Historical Society will present a program, Ò Wolves, Dogs and Coy Wolves: An Evolutionary History,Ó with Steve Hall as the speaker, to be held on Friday, July 12, at 7 p.m. at the Wilmington Community Center. Hall runs the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge & Rehabilitation Center on Springfield Road in Wilmington with his wife, Wendy. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided by the Country Bear Bakery in Wilmington. For further information, contact the Wilmington Historical Society at 420-8370.
Hydrofracting talk at ADK
LAKE PLACID Ñ The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) is presenting a special program, Ò Environmental and Health Risks of Hydrofracking.Ó Join David Kowalski as he describes what hydrofracking is and the risks that are involved with it on Saturday, July 13 at 8 p.m. at ADKÕ s High Peaks Information Center. This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, call 523-3441 or adk.org.
Judy Shea was the grand marshal for the Lake Placid Fourth of July parade. Photo by Keith Lobdell
Photographer, poet offer ‘Pull Over’ By Katherine Clark katherine@denpubs.com
PLATTSBURGH Ñ Two long-time friends and local artists have joined together for an exhibit at the Plattsburgh City Library which merges images of photography with the written word. The show titled Ò Pull OverÓ is a collaborative show merging photography by Barry Lobdell and poetry by Dr. Michael Tucker. The exhibit features photographs and poems framed together. An exhibit opening and artists reception will be held on July 18 in the Hale-Walter Gallery at the Plattsburgh City Library, 19 Oak Street. The Gallery is one of seven off-sight galleries for the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts.
This is the first public showing of Tucker Õ s poetry. Lobdell said he requested the library to house their project for its symbolic nature as a bastion of freedom. Ò It is a real assortment of several themes,Ó Lobdell said. Ò They are all black and white photos chosen to work with MichaelÕ s poetry.Ó Lobdell said there is an Ò air of mysteryÓ in the vast assortment of images from landscapes, portrait-like photos of people and more. Ò There is energy between the photography and the poem that just really works,Ó Lobdell said. Ò There is a variety and everyone will find something of interest at the exhibit.Ó
Tucker said the pieces are about explaining the human experience by capturing very subtle moments. Ò WeÕ re not trying to be obscure, weÕ re trying to clarify,Ó Tucker said. The words and images have been assembled from hundreds of possible combinations, with the objective of finding the synergy inherent in each combination to form a compatible and meaningful statement. On their own, each poem and photograph expresses an idea or set of ideas which the artist interpreted in his own way. Exhibited together, the pieces suggest additional ideas which are generated by their convergence.
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LAKE PLACID Ñ A win by Irish Olympic veteran Kevin Babington on Mark Q in the $100,000 Woodlea Farms Grand Prix highlighted the 36th annual I Love New York Horse Show, Presented by Sea Shore Stables, LLC. Other feature winners included Victoria Colvin on Inclusive in the $15,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby Presented by Eastern Hay & Purina Animal Nutrition and by Megan MacPherson in the Kathy Scholl Equitation Classic. Babington was one of 12 entries from the starting field of 32 to reach the tiebreaking jump-off by riding without penalty over the 16-jump, first-round course designed by Richard Jeffery at the North Elba Showgrounds. He was the second to return for the seven-jump tiebreaker and he set the mark to beat with a clean ride in 36.871 seconds. None of the remaining 10 entries could beat his score with the closest being U.S. Olympic veteran Margie Engle of Wellington, FL, who has been a Grand Prix winner in Lake Placid a record seven times. She rode Royce to a clean ride in 37.387 seconds to place second. Her finish, following a second place finish in the first week’s $75,000 Equine Insurance Services/Great American Grand Prix of Lake Placid, earned her the Richard and Diana Perpetual Challenge Trophy for Excellence for the best combined finish in Lake Placid’s two Grand Prix. Third place went to Angela Covert of St. Lazare, Quebec who finished in 38.149 seconds on Utan. Ò My horse jumped great in the first round but he slipped early in the jump-off and I knew I had to speed up if we were going to have a chance,Ó said Babington. Ò WeÕ ve had a great two weeks here and I thought that we might be able to win one. Given that this was the first time the horse show has offered $100,000, I guess we picked a good one to win!Ó CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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