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McCauley Mountain and a beautiful fall Sunday was the setting
for a day of traditional storytelling and Adirondack crafts.
The event featured stories and ballads (story songs) the artists
learned from their families and community members. The program
was designed to validate local and regional tradition bearers
while giving the audience direct experience of the vital variety
of living Adirondack oral tradition.
Participating craftpersons demonstrated their art and offered
their crafts, books and tapes for sale.
This program was made possible in part by a grant to the Old
Forge Library from the New York State Council on the Arts, a
state agency. Sign language interpretation was funded, in part,
by grants from the Central New York Community Art's Council's
Decentralization Program and the Theater Development Fund's TAP
Plus Program.
Photos by Al Worthen.
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