PMOEC Presents the 3rd Annual Cabin Fever

LECTURE SERIES!

All lectures are FREE and open to the public, held on Thursdays at 7pm. 
The series runs February 2nd - March 8th

Make a night of it!  Visit with friends  at the Essex Inn
for the weekly Community Happy Hour;
kicking off at 5pm each Thursday before our Lectures!
CLICK HERE for more information! 
 

Coming Up Next:

SHARP SWAN (February 23rd)

For the past twenty years Sharp Swan has been looking for the last vestiges of the Santa Clara Lumber Company in one of the most isolated areas of the Adirondacks.  Starting from the end of the nineteenth century, for more than thirty years, the Santa Clara Lumber Company logged some of the highest, roughest, and rockiest terrain in the Adirondack Mountains.  When the company dissolved in 1926 after New York State bought their land, they left hundreds of miles of roads, dozens of logging camps in various states of disrepair and lumberjack paraphernalia everywhere.  This is the story, told mostly by pictures taken by the President of the Santa Clara Company and Sharp Swan, of that business as they tried to tame the wilderness in one of the most remote areas of the Adirondacks.

Sharp Swan is the Executive Director of Pok-O-MacCready Camps in Willsboro, NY, an organization that was founded by his great-grandfather, and is President of a small carpentry company known as Cloudsplitter Carpentry.  Sharp is an avid Adirondack hiker and historian, having climbed the 46 highest mountains in New York State many times and has spent more than twenty years looking for the remnants of the Santa Clara Lumber Company.  Sharp graduated from Westminster College in 1978 with a history degree and lives in Essex with his lovely wife Lauren Murphy.

KRISTIN KIMBALL (March 1st)

Kristin Kimball and her husband Mark run Essex Farm; a full diet, year round, drafthorse powered CSA.  Her book, The Dirty Life, chronicles their farm's start-up year.

 Kristin will be talking about the effects of climate change on farms in our region, and the ways in which farmers are responding to it. 

Find out more about Kristin and her book at www.kristinkimball.com

JEFF COCHRAN (March 8th)

Jeff will share humorous and insightful poetry and stories on topics such as: farming at Fledging Crow, family life in Plattsburgh, rockclimbing on Poke-O-Moonshine, accompanied by his drawings, masks and mountain dulcimer. Jeff has been performing poetry in universities, prisons, coffee houses, churches and mountain meadows of North Country New York for 23 years.

FAMILY SNOWTUBING EVENT!*
Thursday, February 23rd
6pm - 9pm
$10 per person (or $8 per person for groups of 4 or more!)

Join us for a night of frosty fun on our lighted snow tubing hill!  After a thrilling slide down the hill, ride back up to the top on our rope-tow to do it all over again! Bring your own tube or sled....or simply borrow ours!
FUN FOR ALL AGES!
*Weather Permitting