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SANTANONI READY TO SHOW OFF Over 20 years, the once-doomed great camp » Santanoni Cont. on pg. 11 has been restored

Event series slated for Aug. 24-25 By Christopher South STA FF W RITER

NORTH CREEK | Many local families here have deep roots in the logging trade, and the Tannery Pond Center (TPC) has plans to celebrate the industry’s culture and the Hudson River’s role in it. TPC is sponsoring “Local. Logging. Live! Along the Hudson,” next weekend. The two-day celebration aims to highlight the local logging industry’s past and present with family-friendly activities at Tannery Pond and the Riverfront Park in North Creek. » Local.Logging. Live Cont. on pg. 5

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electric light — but it stands to reason that the frivolity was in honor of the glowing miracle on the lake. On Aug. 26, 136 years later, the community is recreating the event with the 2nd annual Blue Mountain Lake Flotilla. The idea for the celebration was actually f loated, so to speak, some 25 years ago by Oestreicher’s mom Ann, but at the time there was no interest. But when the idea was repitched to the Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts a couple of years ago, it was met with enthusiasm. Although it might not have appeared so to the assembled crowd, Oestreicher said the first flotilla was organized chaos. “I kept telling (my mom) she’s the reason we’re in this mess,” he joked.

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Participants in the 2nd annual Blue Mountain Lake Flotilla are encouraged to wear period dress, with prizes going to the best costumes. Photo provided

BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE | In the summer of 1882, guests of the exquisite, six-story Prospect House hotel in Blue Mountain Lake could do something no one else in the world could, not in New York City, Paris or London: They could walk into their guest room and flip the switch on an incandescent electric light. Thomas Edison had personally overseen installation of the lights, the project, along with wiring the White House, of which

he was most proud. One August evening, not long after the hotel had officially opened to the public, a most incredible spectacle appeared on the lake. A steamboat pulled a flotilla of rowboats filled with joyous people waving Chinese lanterns, listening to orchestras and greeting people on shore. Cannon thundered, bands played, people cheered, and all around the lake bonfires sparkled in the night. The crown jewel, of course, was the Prospect House, aglow with Edison’s wondrous invention. It was, as one young boy recently opined, “the Titanic on land.” David Oestreicher, owner of Prospect House Cottages where the hotel once stood, said no record of the time specifically says that the flotilla was a celebration of the


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