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"Saranac Lake's Carnival"

January, 1911-Saranac Lake's mid-winter carnival is in every way one of the most successful in the history of the village. The Adirondack resort has been beautifully decorated for the carnival, the colors red, white and blue being displayed in many pretty designs. The main streets are trimmed with evergreen trees ten feet apart and frozen in banks of snow. With the streets profusely and beautifully decorated and extra electric lights the village presents a very gay and brilliant appearance at night.

The great ice palace, which is the center of attraction, was completed Monday. The palace is 50 feet high and is built of blocks of ice eighteen inches thick and five feet long. Decorated with red, white and blue electric lights it presents a beautiful
appearance at night.

 

The amusements that have been offered to the large number of visitors during the carnival are national skating champion races, storming of the ice palace each night, hockey, children's carnival and other forms of winter sports.

Ticonderoga Sentinel  

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Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown. We welcome your comments and memories about any of our posts. If you can identify people in photographs, we would love to hear from you! 

 

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