At the beginning of December we hosted our first Holiday Open House at The TAUNY Center since 2019. Hundreds of people came through the doors to look at gingerbread houses, make gingerbread houses, listen to live music, dance, try out different musical instruments, enjoy baking demonstrations in our kitchen and purchase high-quality art from the Folkstore. And, of course, we all enjoyed the hundreds of cookies baked by our wonderful volunteers and staff. It was a meaningful, heart-warming, family-friendly experience shared by people of different ages and backgrounds.

This is the essence of TAUNY: bringing people together from across the North Country and beyond through the living traditions of our special region. We are honored to do that both at The TAUNY Center in downtown Canton and in other special venues around the North Country.

We thank you for your past support of TAUNY’s work and ask that as 2022 comes to an end you make a year-end gift to TAUNY to keep the magic going. Donations from individuals and businesses make up 30% of TAUNY’s annual budget. Donations have allowed so many special moments to take place at TAUNY this past year. People coming together at exhibit openings to connect around a subject they care about, preschoolers learning to waltz, home cooks preparing their favorite recipes to share with

others, artists meeting to talk about exciting collaborative projects, and documentation of special people and places in the North Country.

In 2023, plans include:

• A dramatic new exhibit in our main gallery fabricated by metalworker James Gonzalez

• Kitchen Stories: an oral history project centered around shared meals

• A collaboration with 1000 Islands Land Trust about sheep and fiber production

• Presenting music and art in collaboration with SLC Arts at the Canton Farmers’ Market

• North Country Crossroads: presenting global traditions brought to the North Country

• And lots of receptions, workshops, and live music!

TAUNY is a community project, made possible by the contributions of many. Thank you

for being part of this. Best wishes for a healthy, happy New Year.