Dear Editor:
On behalf of the other 90-year birthday folk, while wishing we could have celebrated the BIG 90 together… after all, it is a numeral to be respected for, at the least, our endurance… Continue reading
Thank You for a great ‘Big Nine-Oh’
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A Tribute to Miriam Kashiwa, our Adirondack Mother
by Loretta Lepkowski
Like Sky Woman, she pirouetted down to settle in this semi-wilderness in the land of mountains and waters to spread her seeds gathered from the tree of life and knowledge.
Mirnie began tending the young children of the community in kinder-garden fostering their growth while Hank, her husband, managed the Old Forge Hardware Store that offered everything from books to pots and pans, house paint, fishing rods and fix-it tools. Continue reading
VIEW: Mirnie Kashiwa honored at 90th Birthday Celebration
By Marianne Christy
Loretta Lepkowski reads her tribute to Mirnie. Photo by Gary Lee
It was party time at VIEW on Wednesday, March 11 as friends, family, fellow artists, and past and present arts center staff gathered to celebrate the 90th birthday of Mirnie Kashiwa.
The event took place in Gould Hall where guests visited with Mirnie and enjoyed lunch. Prior to blowing out candles on the two birthday cakes, VIEW’s Executive Director Jennifer Potter-Hayes offered her best wishes on behalf of the arts center.
Artist Roger Hyndman presented Mirnie an original etching of a mountain lion, a depiction of a lioness sculpted from a fallen century-old yellow birch tree in Mirnie’s back yard which she named Ah-Nah.
The name Ah-Nah, translated as “mother” in Algonquin, was chosen by Mirnie because of its connotations of nurturance and tenacity and how it emulates the qualities of the arts center in Old Forge.
As she said in the past, “To me, this parallels those qualities in the Arts Guild and its endeavor over the last years to make a ‘home’ for Nature’s inspiration to expressiveness and to adaptability of design in the arts and sciences.”
A final tribute was presented by artist/writer Loretta Lepkowski: an essay that provided a loving overview of Mirnie’s pioneering contributions to the arts and pre-school education in the Central Adirondacks.
Kashiwa poem coming to life at View multi-media event, Aug. 14
Miriam Kashiwa
View will present a multi-media experience based on an inspirational poem written by Miriam Davis Kashiwa on Wednesday, August 14 at 7:30 p.m.
The poem, I Am the Adiron-dacks, will come to life with performances by acclaimed Adiron-dack musicians, Dan Berggren, Dan Duggan, Peggy Lynn, and composer/musician Casey Fillaci.
The inspirational images by award-winning Adirondack photographer Carl Heilman II will form the visual core of the performance.
Kashiwa’s poem gives the Adirondacks its own voice to introduce visitors to the legendary beauty and natural mystique of the region.
Letter to Editor: Maple Ridge would make marvelous memorial spot
To the Editor:
I love Lou Ellen Foley’s thought to plant maples on Maple Ridge. It would be a swell place to memorialize the guys who Hank looked up to: FIRST Olympian John “Louie” Ehrensbeck, Coach Joe Dunn and Norm Villiere, pre-Olympian Gary Vaughn, and Olympian Terry Aldrich… and of course all those who offered generous knees to Hank when he begged for rides to the top of the mountain.
Then there were the members of the high school ski teams, the legendary fathers like John Foley and Charlie Kiefer who timed or shoveled courses, the Ski Patrol, the “Jumping Brussels,” Principal Jack Leach… etc., etc. You get the idea.
Everyone in town had a hand in all our kids’ futures. Hope we can keep it that way.
When we make that plaque, be sure to mention the influence of the town.
Thank you everybody.
Mirnie Kashiwa, Thendara