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Adirondack storyteller Bill Smith will return to the Old Forge Library at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 8.
Smith shares with audiences the humorous tales he learned from his father who was a logger, hunter and trapper, and songs and poems taught to him by his mother.
“Bill Smith’s Tales from the Featherbed,” published in 1994, is a collection of many of those stories. Many know Smith as a skilled basket maker, a craft he learned as a boy from the St. Regis Mohawk Indians who used to camp in the woods near the family farm in Colton, St. Lawrence County. His books, CDs, walking sticks, baskets and other handmade articles will be available for sale following his performance.
The program is free and open to the public. An American Sign Language interpreter will be available. For more information, call the library at (315) 369-6008.