Mountain Lake PBS partners with local organizations to bring lectures on topics like the economy, job seeking and history into your homes with the new Lecture Series.


Lecture 1: Overview of health issues facing the North Country's children and the ADK 2015 Concept (April 2011)
Part 1 of a 3 part series by Heidi Moore, MD, David Beguin, MD, and Jeri Reid, Nutritionist. Learn how to help your child stay active, eat well and live in balance. Happy healthy children are everyone's goal and in today's world, parents can use all the help they can get. Local pediatricians Drs. Heidi Moore and David Beguin and Jerie Reid offer this three-part series focused on ADK 2015, a vision for our children's health

Overview of health issues facing the North Country's children and the ADK 2015 Concept 

 

 

Lecture 2: A detailed discussion of the ADK 2015 Vision and how it can impact your child's health. (May 2011)

A detailed discussion of the ADK 2015 Vision and how it can impact your child's health

Lecture 3: A practical approach to bringing the ADK 2015 Vision to your home and life. (May 2011)

A Vision for Our Kids: A Parents' Primer to ADK 2015



Lecture 1: Education as an Economic Engine (February 2011)
Presented by Dr. Nancy Zimpher, Chancellor of the State University of New York

2011 CCC-TDC Lecture Series: Education as an Economic Engine 

 

 

Lecture 2: Seven Characteristics of a Community with a Competitive Advantage (April 2011)
Presented by: Panel discussion

Seven Characteristics of Communities with a Competitive Edge

 

 

Upcoming lectures in this series:

  • What is Innovation?  Cutting Edges, Ways Communities are Trying to Keep Resources Local (September 2011)
  • Site Assessment, Selection and Development/Marketing (November 2011)

 


 

Lecture 1: Immigration, Class Conflict, and RobberBarons: America in the Gilded Age (February 2011)
Presented by Andy Buchanan, a lecturer at the University of Vermont.  He teaches courses in American and world history, and U.S. military history. A graduate of Oxford University, Andy is also a board member of Historic Essex.

 

Lecture 2: The First World War and the "Roaring Twenties" (March 2011) 
Presented by Andy Buchanan, a lecturer at the University of Vermont.  He teaches courses in American and world history, and U.S. military history. A graduate of Oxford University, Andy is also a board member of Historic Essex.

 The First World War and the "Roaring Twenties" 

 


 

 


Lecture 1: Travel and Meeting Etiquette (February 2011)
Presented by John Parmalee, Lecturer in Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Workplace Skills: "Travel and Meeting Etiquette" seminar 

 

Lecture 2:  Telephone, E-mail and Social Media Etiquette (March 2011)
Presented by Dr. Nancy Church, Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at SUNY Plattsburgh. 

Phone, E-Mail and Social Media Etiquette

 

Lecture 3:  Interview and Office Etiquette (March 2011)
Presented by Renee Dall, recruiter from Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont.

Interview and Office Etiquette