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.

NYSCA New York State Council on the Arts www.nysca.org

Photos by Al Worthen.

September 9, 2001 photos