This beaded wire bird is the work of Bernard Domingo a folk artist living in Westchester County in the lower Hudson Valley of New York State. It was purchased in 2013 from the New York Folklore Gallery in Schenectady, and added to our permanent Folk Art Collection. It is also one of the featured pieces this summer in our evolving display, Folk Arts All Around Us, distributed around Crandall Public Library. Mr. Domingo was born in Zimbabwe, a member of the Shona people. He beg

"The view presented... is one of the finest on Lake George" proclaims an 1853 issue of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion found in the permanent Serials Collection of The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library. The above illustration was published on Saturday, December 3, 1853, along with the following write-up: "Lake George. The view presented on page 368 is one of the finest on Lake George, and gives a fair illustration of that beautiful sheet of water with its