Lake George Historical Assoc. receives significant grants

LAKE GEORGE | The Lake George Historical Association (LGHA) received several grants in 2021 that will help fund upcoming projects for 2022. The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) awarded the LGHA $7,500 for a 2022 Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership Conservation Community Grant for its Called by the Water Room. This grant provides the LGHA with the capacity to reformat content interpreting the cultural, historical and recreational aspects of the lake, including a panel that focuses on the Clean Water Act and how Lake George pollution is regulated. Six large interpretive retractable exhibit panels will be on display in the room for 2022 summer season and will become available for schools and historical venues, including libraries, for loan as a traveling exhibition. Maja Design of Vermont is providing the design work. The Alfred Z. Solomon Foundation has awarded the LGHA $15,000 toward the enhancement of a children's interactive exhibition installation in its upgraded Called by the Water Room. The LGHA is sponsoring a Touba Family Foundation grant for $2,500 to support area musician Hui Cox to create a musical piece with a video based on the countdown clock message of urgency about the climate crisis. An opening rehearsal performance will be produced at the LGHA Museum in late spring/early summer of 2022 and at a local Glens Falls venue. Outreach will be offered to national colleges and choral directors for the opportunity to use this piece with their own singers and audiences as both a warning and an inspirational message. The Touba Family Foundation has provided funding or otherwise supported the LGHA with other projects, including the LGHA book series "Called by the Water." This series has produced three books to date: Called by the Water: When Diane Struble Swam Lake George (by Gwenne Rippon), chronicles Mrs. Struble's historic 1958 Lake George swim; Called by the Water: The Swim to End Polio (by Louise Rourke), who, inspired by Struble, swam the length of Lake George in 2018); and a coloring book, Called by the Water: Imagine What I Could Do (by Lisa Adamson, LGHA curator). Copies of the coloring book have been donated to area elementary schools with a teacher's guide addressing water quality issues of Lake George. In 2022, a fourth book, Stewards of the Water, will be published and available at LGHA's bookstore. Closed for the season, the Lake George Historical Association will reopen May 21.

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