Almanzo Wilder Homestead is looking for a new logo

BURKE – If you have an artistic side and want to use your skills to help create a new logo for the historic Almanzo Wilder Homestead in Burke, now is your chance.

The Almanzo & Laura Ingalls Wilder Association (ALIWA) Board of Directors invites all individuals from local communities to help develop and share their creative ideas for a new logo for the Wilder Homestead.

Almanzo James Wilder was born in Burke in 1857 on the family farm, but left as a young man to travel west, where he met and married Laura Ingalls.

Laura became the well-known author of the Little House books, including ‘Farmer Boy’ which depicts the life of her husband (Almanzo Wilder) growing up on his family’s farm on Stacy Road in Burke.

Over the years, many volunteers have done a wonderful job bringing Almanzo Wilder’s farmhouse back to life, with the original house, rebuilt barns and outbuildings and a replica of a one-room schoolhouse. Every year, thousands of people from all over the world come to visit Almanzo Wilder’s childhood home.

The ALIWA board has used a number of artistic designs over the years on materials and merchandise, but none have endured to be a unique identifying logo for the farm. With this in mind, the Board decided to move forward to develop a unique new logo that could be used as a marketing “brand” now and in the future for all things created and distributed from the Homestead. .

If you would like to share a creative design that depicts the uniqueness of this historic site in a format that could be professionally developed into a logo, then the ALIWA Board invites you to come forward.

To participate, send your drawing in graphic format (jpg, pdf, png) to [email protected] All designs must include the words “Almanzo Wilder Homestead”. A $100 prize will be awarded to the person who submits the shortlisted design with Wilder Homestead merchandise awarded to the top five designs.

Entries will be accepted from now until April 15, 2022.

The winning design will become the property of ALIWA for distribution and commercialization rights only.

If this sounds like an exciting opportunity for you to develop a logo for a world-famous destination, then ALIWA definitely wants to see your ideas.

Questions can be directed to [email protected] or by calling Dale Chapin @ 518-353-1445.

Pendragon Launches 2022 Young Playwrights Festival

SARANAC LAKE – Calling all public, private and home student playwrights.

The Pendragon Theater is now inviting your submissions for this year’s edition of the Pendragon Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival. Entrants are encouraged to overcome the winter doldrums by letting their imaginations run wild and writing a one-act play that requires no more than four actors and is no longer than twenty pages (or 20 minutes).

There are two age groups for playwrights: grades six through eight and grades nine through twelfth.

The subject belongs to the playwright. Original themes, adaptations of folk tales and myths, family stories (remember when Grandpa won that award?) are excellent material for a playwright’s imagination.

Students can work individually or as co-authors.

Plays can be written as part of classroom study or written independently.

Pendragon staff members are available to guide and mentor students through the playwriting process.

Submissions will be read and critiqued by Pendragon associates and other theater professionals.

Submissions are due no later than May 1, 2022.

The winning play in each category will be produced and presented by the Pendragon Theater on June 11, 2022.

The finalists in each category will also be featured in staged readings that evening.

The winning playwrights in each category will receive a cash prize of $200.

Students and teachers should go to www.pendragontheatre.org for full competition details.