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Interview with Bronwyn Averett, project’s Creative Lead

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

What’s it take to make a “Winter’s Dream?”

The Chronicle spoke with Bronwyn Averett, Creative Lead for Moment Factory of Montreal, maker of the new Winter’s Dream immersive light-and-sound attraction that opens this Friday, Dec. 8, at Fort William Henry in Lake George.

An Atlanta native now living in Montreal, she says, “I really had to discover …

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted with permission from the Summer 2023 edition of the Fort George Post, The Newsletter of the © Lake George Battlefield Park (Fort George) Alliance.

Two years after the British surrender at Yorktown and with the cessation of hostilities, a semblance of tranquility enveloped the lake valleys.

In the spring of 1782 George Washington established his headquarters in Newburgh …

The 49th annual Lake George Antique and Classic Boat Show is Friday and Saturday, Aug. 25-26.

The main show is Saturday at the Lake George Village docks. There are two Friday pre-show events, in Bolton Landing and Hague. Spectators welcome, free, at all boat displays.

Saturday’s main show, on land and water at Beach Road in Lake George Village, includes 50+ boats, vendors, antique Model T and Triumph sports cars, …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Yankee Boating — the 57-year-old family-owned Lake George marina — is building a $2.5-million storage facility across from Roaring Brook Ranch on Route 9N west of Northway Exit 21.

Owner Andrew Brodie said he’s been approved for three buildings. He’ll have indoor, outdoor, and now heated indoor storage, “which I don’t believe anyone else in the area is providing.”

He said Yankee currently can …

Greetings Chronicle –

In a response to the article “Winter Phenom…” in your recent edition.

I will assume that most of the players in this project will see the futility of attracting tourists to a “contrived attraction.”

The original light trail produced by Moment Factory was constructed in Parc de la Gorge, Coaticook, Quebec in 2014 and called Foresta Lumina. This created a “Tourism Tsunami” — the little town of …