Lakeside School at Black Kettle Farm offers birth –2nd grade education based on the Waldorf philosophy on a working farm in Essex, NY. Fall Newsletter: Jumping In By Stites McDaniels On Saturday mornings I go to my daughter’s swim lesson. She needs my wife’s help in the … [Read more...] about Lakeside School: Jumping In
Stites McDaniel
Lake Champlain Steamboats Revisited
Mysteries want to unravel slowly, unpredictably as Sara J. Henry reminded her audience at the Belden Library last night. And so it is with the steamboat sighting I reported recently. On Saturday, July 28, I was enjoying lunch with family and friends on the sun soaked outer deck … [Read more...] about Lake Champlain Steamboats Revisited
Steven Kellogg’s Halloween Story
Jack-o-lanterns popping up on porches and spooky scarecrows hitchhiking Lakeshore Road herald Halloween's fast approach. If you're scrambling to complete your costume or debating whether to reward trick-or-treaters with Scat Bars or Adirondack Mountain Creams, I'd like to … [Read more...] about Steven Kellogg’s Halloween Story
Harvest Halloween Festival
In the eyes of so many people, we are defined by the employment that we hold and for the past 4 years, most of the community has seen me as the Director at Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center. I proudly wore this title and did my best to compliment the center's academic … [Read more...] about Harvest Halloween Festival
Summer Days at Pok-O-MacCready
"5 weeks is a long time, and it has been that long since I last checked in from the front lines of Pok-O-MacCready. Those 5 weeks have been chock full. Teaching at Pok-O-MacCready Nine schools came to Pok-O for day and multi-day trips in the short 15 days of June that we are … [Read more...] about Summer Days at Pok-O-MacCready