Tag: 100 years

Lake Placid Student Artists Join International Paris Competition

Photo of an artwork by Olympian Roald Bradstock featuring many rings of different colors all floating in space in differing orientations and in different sizes on an off-white background. Also a small faint image of the welcome to Lake Placid sign in the background as well as some vague depictions of the region's Olympic venues.

Students from Lake Placid Central School art classes are among the more than 300 elementary, middle, and high school artists participating in a five-country international art-in-sport contest hosted by the Al Oerter Foundation (AOF) with the support of the New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (Olympic Authority). The art event, themed “Move History Forward,”… Read more »

A Special Winter Olympic Games Centennial Celebration 

A composite of two photographs with the left side being a black and white photo of male hockey players in Chamonix outside at the first Winter Olympics and the right side a color photo of female hockey players in a modern arena.

“Fête” – with its hat-like accent over the “e” – is a French word that evokes joy and good cheer. That’s because a fête is a party, a celebration, or a festival. Used as both a noun and verb, the French regularly fête people, places, and events of all kinds.   And now, this January into… Read more »