Heritage Park Story-walk
Falls Island in Heritage Park,
Canton, NY
October 10-25
TAUNY’s Annual Sugar & Spice Gingerbread Contest “2020”
TAUNY’s Annual Sugar & Spice Gingerbread Contest “2020”
TAUNY’s annual Sugar & Spice Gingerbread Contest theme this year is “2020.” For this year’s Sugar & Spice Gingerbread Contest theme, TAUNY invites you to express something about 2020 in gingerbread. Home-school and office setups, sanitizer and supply shortages, hospitals and helpers, the special places you’ve been missing and the special places you’ve found over these unusual months. Did you spend more time at home, at camp, out paddling or hiking or exploring? Did you work on big home or garden projects? Did you get a quarantine puppy? If you could go anywhere in the world right now with no travel restrictions, where would you dream of going? TAUNY encourages interested participants to get creative and interpret the theme how you wish, using gingerbread to create a scene, a place, an item, or anything else that comes to mind that represents something especially meaningful or interesting to you about this year.
Submissions can be dropped off at The TAUNY Center during business hours Friday, November 27th through Tuesday, December 1st. As always, the Sugar & Spice Gingerbread Contest and Display entries must be made of gingerbread baked from scratch and be entirely edible. Maximum base size is 20″ x 20”. Please bring in your submission on a sturdy base of some kind. A registration form (available online at tauny.org and in The North Country Folkstore) will include space for a brief description of the gingerbread house and/or a statement from the artist. Entries will be accepted and prizes awarded in four categories: adult (ages 18+), youth (12-17 with no adult help), children (under 12 with minimal adult help), and family/youth/community group. Entries created by groups are encouraged. Interested participants who wish to display their work but not enter the competition are also welcome.
The Sugar & Spice Gingerbread Display will open to the public and winners will be announced on Saturday, December 5. Visitors can see the gingerbread creations at The TAUNY Center and submit a vote for the People’s Choice Award through December 22.
Since 2002, contestants from throughout the region have competed annually in various age categories as well as for the People’s Choice Award, which is announced at the end of December. Past themes have included “on the farm,” myths and fairy tales, “where the music happens,” camps and cottages, local landmarks, children’s literature, and gingerbread around the world. The 2020 Sugar & Spice Gingerbread Contest and Display are supported by underwriting from Stewart’s Shops.
Gingerbread Contest 2020
“St. Lawrence County Barn Quilt” Exhibit Small Group Tours
Heritage Park Story-walk: Falls Island in Heritage Park
Heritage Park Story-walk
Falls Island in Heritage Park, Canton, NY
October 10-25
Enjoy the fresh air and fall colors in Heritage Park while learning more about the quilt traditions that inspired the art form on display in our current exhibit, “St. Lawrence County Barn Quilts.” This story-walk presentation of The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston and Tomie dePaola, created and shared by the Massena Public Library, gives you the chance to walk from page to page of the book, set up along a trail. (The book is especially geared towards Pre-K, but can be enjoyed by all!) Families are encouraged to visit the story-walk, take a selfie with one of the book pages, and come show it to us at the TAUNY North Country Folkstore–the first three to show us their selfies will receive a complimentary treat!
Special thanks to our partners: these events are presented in partnership with the Massena Public Library, also a partner in the 2019 Barn Quilt Tourism Project, and with additional support from the Canton Free Library and Grasse River Heritage.
Pandemic
“Get the Folk Through It” Pandemic Documentation Project
We want to hear about your experiences and creative responses over the past months and going forward, with the pandemic changing many of our daily ways, while also reinforcing our sense of what’s most familiar and important to us. Fill out a survey here to give us an idea of your experience, and stay tuned for more subject-specific surveys. You can also check out the project description here for more about what we’re looking for and how to share it with us, and you can email us at programs@tauny.org any time with questions about the project, stories, further materials, or anything else you’d like to share that the survey doesn’t cover.
Heritage Park Story-walk: Falls Island in Heritage Park
Pandemic
We’ll get through it!
Sweet Beginnings: Maple Sugaring in the North Country
As more than one North Country resident has said, maple sugar time marks the sweet beginning of the agricultural season. For early farmers in this region, the annual crop provided a supply of sweetener for household use, as well as a source of income.