Timothy Englert: Knickerbocker Ice Festival at Rockland Lake History

Valley Cottage Library artist of the month for January is multidisciplinary artist and producer Timothy Englert, whose fascination with ice began when he decided to make a log bench for the ruins of the Knickerbocker Ice Houses, thus creating the Knickerbocker Bench, found along trails throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond.  

He co-founded the Knickerbocker Ice Festival at Rockland Lake with the late Valley Cottage resident and ice sculptor Robert Patalano, in whose memory the festival will return on the weekend of January 22nd-24th, with teams of ice sculptors creating huge sculptures along the banks of the lake.  He will discuss the genesis of the ice industry at Rockland Lake, and of the global impact that it had for close to 50 years. He will also discuss the mission of The Kinship of Ice, a charity that he and Mr. Patalano created last year to preserve, interpret, and celebrate the unique ice history of Rockland Lake.

Registration is required.

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