For Immediate Release: February 18, 2005
Contact:
Andy J. Flynn | Public Relations | Adirondack Park Agency
contact@apa.ny.gov | (518) 327-3000
PAUL SMITHS, NY – Naturalists from the Adirondack Park Agency Visitor Interpretive Center (VIC) at Paul Smiths will be traveling to libraries in Essex and southern Franklin counties this winter and spring to present a puppet show program called the “Butterfly Theater Library Series.” Dates for Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake have already been set.
Naturalist Sue Grimm and VIC Environmental Educator 3 Mike Brennan will present “The Mystery of Marty Monarch” to children during the Butterfly Theater Library Series. The puppet show, written by Ann Melious, shows the life cycle of the monarch butterfly.
The Butterfly Theater program will be held at the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library in Tupper Lake at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 25 and at the Saranac Lake Free Library at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 28. The puppet show is free, and preregistration is not required.
Grimm, a multi-talented professional musician from Saranac Lake, is the naturalist for the Paul Smiths VIC’s Native Species Butterfly House. Open from mid-June to Labor Day, visitors to the Butterfly House can see moths and butterflies in all stages of development. Brennan, the site manager and chief naturalist at the Paul Smiths VIC, is an amateur musician and lives in Lake Placid. The Butterfly Theater Library Series is funded, in part, by a New York State Council on the Arts decentralization grant from the Developing Community Arts Program, administered locally through the Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks.
The puppet shows are also sponsored by the Adirondack Park Agency and the Adirondack Park Institute, the non-profit friends group that supports curricula, environmental education programs, special events and publications at the Paul Smiths and Newcomb VICs.
The New York State Adirondack Park Agency operates two VICs, in Paul Smiths and Newcomb, which are open year-round from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Christmas and Thanksgiving. They offer a wide array of educational programs, miles of interpretive trails and visitor information services. Admission is free.
The Paul Smiths VIC is located 12 miles north of Saranac Lake on Route 30. For more information about the VICs, log on to the centers’ Web site at www.northnet.org/adirondackvic.