In light of the COVID-19 National Emergency, the Huletts Casino will be closed through at least June 15th. It will not be open for the Memorial Day weekend.
Hopefully, we will be through this storm soon.
Now for Some History: 1963
Children dancing in the Casino around 1963.
Peter Ballantyne forwarded this photo of him dancing in the Casino around 1963.
A Contemporary Take on a Classic Song
Saturday Quote
I Watched a Blackbird
By Thomas Hardy
I watched a blackbird on a budding sycamore
One Easter Day, when sap was stirring twigs to the core;
I saw his tongue, and crocus-coloured bill
Parting and closing as he turned his trill;
Then he flew down, seized on a stem of hay,
And upped to where his building scheme was under way,
As if so sure a nest was never shaped on spray.
Saturday Quote
“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”
Ogden Nash
Happy Valentines Day
Elvis and Ann-Margret singing the “The Lady Loves Me” from Viva Las Vegas.
Huletts and Prohibition
One hundred years ago, on January 17, 1920, prohibition went into effect nationally. It would not be until national prohibition ended in 1933 that it would be legal to have some alcoholic drinks in New York state.
This 13 year period is a tough period to report on as it pertains to drinking and alcoholic consumption in Huletts. While I have heard many stories, I have no idea whether they are true or false.
During the 1910’s, the temperance movement was growing in Washington County and nationally. The Adirondack Almanack published a story in 2019 and a headline from that era, where federal prohibition agents seized a 100-gallon still across the lake in West Hague.
It certainly must have been an intriguing time and some of the stories regarding prohibition and Huletts may have a factual basis. I will be attempting to learn more about this time period and am open to anything people might know about this time.
Happy New Year
I wanted to wish you and yours the best new year ever. That includes the very best today and every day to follow, and appreciate the fact that you are here.
To celebrate with a little fun – here are the 1st place winners from December’s OPEN Swing Dance Championships. Wishing all good things to everyone for 2020. May yours be joyful!
Bits of Everything
The Fund for Lake George posts an update regarding the Jefferson Project here.
IFLScience.com investigates the UFO seen near Huletts.
William Shatner recently visited the bridge of the Star Trek Enterprise in Ticonderoga, NY. The Times of Ti has the story.
Looking Down from Above
I always like posting aerial pictures of Huletts. I received a nice one yesterday on Christmas day. So here it is. (Click image for slightly larger version.)
CeCe Winans – “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”
“Covfefe” Wins Breeder’s Cup Event
“Covfefe” wins the Breeder’s Cup event at Santa Anita today. Named after President Donald Trump’s famous mistweet, the filly has now won six of her first eight races.
If you have no idea what I am talking about – this article from the Guardian explains the background.
Friday Fun: Listen – Orion Kribs & Keanen Stark Radio Performance
Two friends in music play songs and talk about the old time music. They should come to the Huletts Casino. Oh wait, one them already does.
Briton Riviere, Sympathy, ca. 1878
Everyone needs a friend.
“Riviere achieved immense popularity with the Victorian public for his anecdotal and often humourous pictures of animals. ‘Sympathy’, showing a little girl sent in disgrace to sit on the stairs while being comforted by her dog, was among the most popular of all. The first version was shown at the Royal Academy in 1878, but the picture exhibited here is a study Riviere made for a second version.
Always a supreme technician in his pictures, Riviere also painted historical subjects and portraits, but it was always his animal scenes to which the public most warmly responded.”
Gallery label, August 2004