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"Adirondack Awakening" world premiere at Fort Salem Theater Memorial Day weekend

The adventure of Adirondack Awakening begins with the discovery by Europeans Champlain and Hudson of an area already inhabited and hunted for at least a thousand years by Native American societies. As they vie for advantage over the natural resources of the region, fighting, starving, dying, or perhaps growing wealthy beyond imagination, a new national and worldwide economy emerges from the grim and beautiful Adirondack wilderness.

No aspect of this four hundred year journey (or its evolutionary roots four billion years before that) is too serious to be lampooned, skewered, and satirized by the musical pens of its author/performers, Fort Salem's Artistic Director Jay Kerr and Emmy Award-winning film writer/director Stephen Trombley. Whether lamenting the near extinction of the beaver or mocking the misery of men literally lost in the woods, whether eavesdropping on the diary of a teenage girl taking the TB cure and falling in love with a fellow patient in Saranac Lake or simply celebrating the invention of the paper bag (Adirondack timber and ingenuity), they use musical styles and the musical revue format to comment on events in history that somehow missed inclusion in mainstream history textbooks.

PERFORMANCES: MAY 23-25
Friday & Saturday at 8 PM; Saturday & Sunday at 2 PM
Tickets $10 all ages
Information: (518) 854-9200
www.fortsalem.theater.com

This event is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered locally by the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council.

Summer Sounds of Salem 2008 Schedule

All shows free. 11a.m.-1p.m. at the Farmers Market on Main Street.


June 21
RAYCHEL C UITE TRIO


June 28
FRED LANTZ TRIO

















July 5

RICH WIRSING










July 12
THE CHEATIN' HEARTS







July 19
CONNIE MOYNIHAN

July 26
RAMBLIN' JUG STOMPERS












August 2
MATT McCABE

August 9
KELLY & CINDY

August 16
NATHAN KNOWLES

















August 23
HILL HOLLOW BAND















August 30
MOE HARRINGTON & THE WHITE CHAPEL BAND


1,600 bike racers expected for the 2008 Tour of the Battenkill set for April 19th

Organizers of the 2008 Tour of the Battenkill (tourofthebattenkill.com) are proud to announce that the totalnumber of registrants for the 2008 race in Salem, NY has reached more than 1,300. Already the largest Pro/Am race on the East Coast in 2007, the race is now primed to approach 1600 racers by race day, April 19.

The Salem Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a race expo at the finish line again this year. The event will be held at the White Presbyterian Church on West Broadway in Salem. Vendors will be outside (rain or shine), in the front church yard near the start/finish
line. Contact Jessica Corey of the Salem Chamber at 518-854-7971 or expo@battenkillroubaix.com for information.

Volunteers are needed for the safe and successful operation of the event. Please contact Volunteer Coordinator Christine Hoffer at 518-677-5741 or volunteers@battenkillroubaix.com if you are interested in
taking part.