Essex, New York Guide and Community Blog
Essex Ice Cream Cafe is growing this year and next. We are looking for someone to help run the cafe this summer with an eye toward expansion in 2014. We will also be developing a line of products for larger distribution. Essex Farm Store As well we need help developing the Farm Store retail concept [...]
Saturday, February 23 At 7:30 pm Tickets: $10 / under 18, $5 The Whallonsburg Grange is hosting a concert featuring the folk and bluegrass group PossumHaw! About PossumHaw PossumHaw is a dynamic, original, authentic bluegrass and folk quintet from Burlington, and features the 2011 VT Vocalist of the Year, Colby Crehan (Bluegrass Gospel Project). Formed [...]
Friday, February 15, at 7:00 pm At Whallonsburg Grange Hall Bread and Puppet Theater presents The Circus of the Possibilitarians Enjoy this one night only show, and celebrate this theater company’s 50th anniversary at the Whallonsburg Grange. Puppets, music, and spectacle will fill the stage and the hall on this special night. The Circus of the Possibilitarians is a satirical horse [...]
More than a century ago John Bird Burnham and Henrietta Dubois Burnham transformed a homemade maple sugar confection into a national delicacy. [Henrietta] invented this maple candy that the feature of it was it was never sugary, it was always creamy… (Koert Burnham in a 1975 interview about Adirondack Mountain Creams) For a couple of [...]
Attention farmers, local artisans, and members of the Essex community! On Wednesday, December 12th, there will be a ‘Farm Store’ meeting in Essex. This is an opportunity for local farmers and artisans to discuss the idea of a common market, along with goals and concerns. The premise of this venture is to offer producers and the community [...]
Another one of the stories entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest is E. C. Hughes‘ Visiting Coon Mountain: A Walking, Hiking and Boating Adventure! If you haven’t yet, you should go vote in the contest. Voting ends today! Hughes and a friend decide to travel to Essex, NY, to hike Coon Mountain. Taking the ferry [...]
Celebrate The MAGIC of Christmas in Essex on Saturday, December 1st, 2012! We’ve just received a sneak peek at the 2012 schedule The Magic of Christmas in Essex, and we want to pass it along to help you plan even though some details may change as event coordinator Erin Hall finalizes the day’s exciting events. [...]
Congratulations to Elaine Miller for improving the aroma and flavor of Essex in winter! A seasoned cook and baker, Miller most recently plied her culinary genius at The Deers Head Inn Restaurant in Elizabethtown. Earlier this fall Wayne Gryk voiced a hope shared by many Essex residents that the Essex Ice Cream Cafe would remain [...]
Saturday, October 13 at 7:30 Pastures of Plenty: Music of and Inspired by Woody Guthrie 100th Birthday Celebration featuring Betty and the Baby Boomers with Jay Fiegl Tickets: $10 advance/$12 door/ students $5 “Because I seen the pretty and I seen the ugly and it was because I knew the pretty part that I wanted [...]
This summer the Essex Ice Cream Cafe successfully launched a redesigned retail space and expanded their inventory to include coffee, sandwiches, wraps, fresh bakery goods and hip Essex accessories. Essex residents and visitors took advantage of the central location and casual atmosphere to congregate from morning through evening, and even during the post-Labor Day lull, [...]
