Tannery Pond Center presents our 2024 Community Day: 2nd Annual Outdoor Show
Saturday, September 21 | 11 AM - 5 PM | FREE
Gather with hunters, fishermen, trappers and people of the Adirondacks. Explore vendor booths including taxidermy, fly fishing, rafting, outdoor guides, gun safety, and kids' activities. Bring your whole camp, your family, your friends and celebrate the culture and camaraderie with live music, craft beer, food trucks, and a chili cook off! We also will have a raffle where you can win great prizes.
Check out our News Release HERE for this event!
Event Parking
Event Parking is as follows:
All handicap and library customer parking will be in the library parking lot.
All vendor, guest speaker and volunteer parking will be in the gravel lot behind town hall.
All event guest should park at the Johnsburg Central School or available street parking.
We ask for your cooperation in these parking restrictions so that we can have a great event.
There is NO parking on Main Street between North Creek Bridge and intersection of Main Street/28N in front of Tannery Pond Center. There is NO parking along the corner lot on 28N as this is where the food vendors will be parking.
Event Information
Event Flyer: Check out our event flyer HERE - feel free to post this at your business or share with others! Check out the chili cookoff flyer HERE.
Vendor Packet: Click HERE to see our Vendor Packet or if you would like to receive a vendor packet , please email: director@tannerypondcenter.org. To complete the vendor application online, please click HERE. Please complete the vendor form but your participation will be subject to availability. Checks should be made out to Tannery Pond Center. Confirmation will be sent.
Speaker Information: Click HERE to see our Speaker Packet or if you would like to receive a speaker information packet, please email: director@tannerypndcenter.org. To complete the speaker application online, please click HERE.
Volunteers Needed: We are looking for volunteers to work this event. We have many options, time slots, etc. If you would like to volunteer, you can sign-up HERE.
Chili Cookoff Details
All home and professional chefs are welcomed to submit an entry. Drop off your chili any time prior to tasting. Tasting will be from 1-3:30 PM with the announcement of winners at 4:15 PM. Cost to taste is $10/person for unlimited tasting and 3 tickets for voting. Click HERE for our Chili Cookoff Flyer.
Our Chili cookoff is sponsored by Braley and Noxon Hardware and we have the following three great prizes:
PRIZES!!!
First Place - Weber Gas Travel Grill
Second Place - Hamilton Beach Slow Cooke
Third Place - Igloo 40 Qt Cooler
Vendors
Beer Truck: Adirondack Pub & Brewery
Food Trucks: Big Bear BBQ, Kiki’s Mexican, Messy Jeff’s
Confirmed Vendors include: Adirondack 46ers, Adirondack All Seasons Outfitters, Adirondack Canoe Company, Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation, Adirondack Experience - The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, Adirondack Highland Designs (blue calcite decor & jewelry), Adirondack Mountain Outfitters, Adirondack Serendipity, Bala’s Custom Woodworks, Hornbeck Boats, Jackman Hardware and Sporting Goods, Midnight Twelve Boutique, Naturally Wild Taxidermy, New York State Police, NYS DEC Police, OMR - ADKs (Tie-dye, Garnet Jewelry, Sourdough Bread), Peakquest (Hiking Scratch Off Cards), Pop's Sugar Shack, Southern Adirondack Audubon Society, St. Hubertus Outdoor Enterprises (Outdoor Photography), Sue's Books & More, Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District, Wild Foods & Wilderness, Whitetail Properties Real Estate
Taxidermy Exhibit
Samantha LaFond
Naturally Wild Taxidermy was established in Alaska. After many successful years, we relocated to our home state of New York. We are now located in the heart of the Adirondacks! We continue to serve all states, however proper documentation will be required to be shown prior to receiving work. Be sure to adhere to your state laws regarding fish and game.
There's a story behind every trophy. No two stories are the same. You remember the weather, the smells, how your heart pounded when that animal stepped into range, the long haul back to civilization. When you tell your friends and family the tale of your fishing or hunting adventure you spare no detail; we won't either...allow Naturally Wild Taxidermy to preserve that memory for a lifetime.
Raffle
We will have a raffle all day. We are working on securing all our raffle prizes. Our big raffle item is a deer or bear shoulder mount (value $1200) donated by Naturally Wild Taxidermy. Additionally, we have a certificate to The Gun Shop, Basil & Wicks Certificates, and smaller items available as well: 2 kids’ art baskets, Adirondack Harvest basket, Navajo Rug, Moose picture, and more. Tickets are $5 each or 5 tickets for $20. Tickets can be purchased at any time during regular business hours leading up to the event or during the event. You do not have to be present to win. Announced at 4:15 PM.
Guest Speakers
11:30 AM - Melanie Sawyer - Ways I survived in the Arctic Forest 43 Days
12:45 PM - Todd Waldron - An Introduction to DIY Western Hunting - How to Get Started
2:00 PM - Lou Berchielli - Black Bears in the Adirondacks
3:15 PM - Connor Williams - “Greetings from the Great Camps: Great Camp Sagamore and The History of the Adirondack Vacation”
Melanie Sawyer
Melanie Sawyer is a past participant of the History Channels best watched survival show ALONE where 10 contestants are dropped separately in the brutal conditions of the Arctic and survive as long as they can using their skills and only 10 items completely alone filming the entire process as they go, in Melanies case that was 43 days, she placed 4th.
Based here in the Adirondacks, Melanie teaches her Historical foraging knowledge and traditional survival skills to schools, lodges and groups all over America.
Todd Waldron
Todd Waldron is a 6th generation Adirondacker with longstanding family ties to the North Creek community. He is the Northeast Forest Conservation Director at Ruffed Grouse Society & American Woodcock Society, and the founder and host of the East to West Hunting podcast, whose mission is to help and encourage people to get outdoors. Todd is a hunter, angler, adjunct professor, conservationist and forester, and holds a Master's Degree in Natural Resources from Virginia Tech's Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability. In his spare time, He enjoys deer and bird hunting, trout fishing, traveling, and exploring America's public lands - east and west of the Mississippi River.
Lou Berchielli
Lou Berchielli is a life-long long resident of New York State. He served in the Army as a medic and received an honorable discharge. Lou received a BS Degree in Wildlife Management from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry.
Lou worked with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation for 37 years, 30 of those years involved working with Black Bear. He served as the NYS black bear Socialist and helped coordinate the research and management of black bears across the entire New York State. He has had countless encounters with bears across New York as well as crawled into many bear dens to capture adult bears, yearlings and cubs for research. He captured bears with catch poles, nets, foot snares, box traps, culvert traps, hounds and chemical immobilization agents delivered via syringe pole or dart gun. He personally investigated most types of black bear related problems from bird feeders, garbage cans, home entries, human injuries and one incident of a human fatality. He continues in retirement to be involved with black bears and give presentations to the public to address bear-human conflicts.
Connor Williams
Connor Williams is the Staff Historian at Great Camp Sagamore. He has formally trained at institutions throughout the Northeast, including a B.A. in History from Middlebury College, an M.A. in Globalization Studies from Dartmouth College, and a soon-forthcoming Ph.D in History and African American Studies from Yale University. As a public historian, he is pleased to have had many years of teaching and public history experience, including service to the United States Congress. As a New Yorker born in Saratoga County and now a year-round resident of the Adirondack Park, he continues to enjoy establishing his Adirondack bona fides, including approaching the achievement of 46er status and searching out every swimming hole and waterfall that the Blue Line holds.