02/23/2025
To all our friends...
Shake the winter Blues at the Sullivan County Museum, 265 Main Street, Hurleyville, New York
All events are free - donations are welcome! 845 434-8044 frederickcookpolar.org
February 23rd, 2pm Sacred Stones of the Indigenous Cultures of the Catskills
Author Glenn Kreisberg has spent years studying Native American stone structures. His research has led him to believe that scattered throughout the Catskill Mountains and Northeast America are large numbers of standing lithic structures that have mostly been ignored by conventional archaeologists. Often dismissed as colonial-era stone walls and field clearing piles, these formations are increasingly emerging as part of a Native American tradition of ritual building practices that reflect a sophisticated worldview and sociocultural belief system. By acknowledging these sacred sites and preserving them, we can learn from these early inhabitants, Kreisberg says. Ryan Mitro, Ryan Mitro, founder of the 501c3 nonprofit organization Sacred Circle of Stones and Carol Smith, Cook Society Director, will also present brief talks.
March 2nd, 2pm Live Music with New Tin Roof featuring Anne and Mike Baglione playing old time music.
Little Sparrow will host the event.
March 13th, 1pm (Thursday afternoon)
A very special talk and musical collaboration with world record holding mountain climber, Vern Tejas.
Vern Tejas will talk about his extraordinary mountaineering career. Vern currently holds the world record for the amount of time taken to summit all seven summits consecutively. He is the first person to solo summit several of the world's tallest peaks.And in 2002, Sports Illustrated named Tejas as one of the top fifty Alaskan athletes of the twentieth century.
When asked about his passion for climbing Vern’s response was fascinating.. “I like being active in the physical world and doing something that is challenging and something that also might cross new barriers or new horizons, but it is metaphorical when you look into it deeply; it's really yourself that you are exploring, you really are discovering your own limits and finding your own uncharted waters. It plays back and forth between the real world and your internal world and for me it's been a trip of discovery”.
Vern also happens to play a travel size Martin guitar, made at the nearby Nazareth, Pennsylvania Martin Guitar Factory. He has taken this superb instrument all around the world, and played it on the summit of many of North America’s tallest mountains. After his lecture Vern will join Little Sparrow and friends for a light hearted musical collaboration!
