Round Lake Fire Department

Past & Present

In our engaging lecture series, we delve into topics of culture, history, health, and art.

From humble beginnings with wagons and a small firehouse to modern fire trucks and a new station. Fred Sievers will present how the Fire Department has served the community since 1886.

A Unique Vietnam Story

In our engaging lecture series, we delve into topics of culture, history, health, and art.

Kat Fitzpatrick, daughter of a CIA operative, will present her experience in Vietnam with historic images. It is a story of love with a happy ending, despite the difficulties they endured.

Kat Fitzpatrick

"A Saving Grace: A Unique Vietnam Story" 

Come to the August 21, 2024 presentation and slideshow at the Round Lake Auditorium to hear Kat Fitzpatrick, daughter of a CIA operative, speak about her unique Vietnam story. 

She will share why her family was invited into a critical war zone in 1974, insight into the super-secret propaganda radio station her father coordinated, and personally documented (by her mother) glimpses into the slow, but steady decline of America’s footing in that beleaguered country.

Ultimately, it is a story of love and one with a happy ending, though the details are hair-raising, harrowing, and, at times, heartbreaking on both a personal and universal level.

“The slideshow will include historical images as well as those from Fitzpatrick’s 2015 "Retracing Her Father's Footsteps" in South Vietnam. By blending the old and the new, the familial with the global, Fitzpatrick hopes to re-ignite the examination of war, loyalty, and responsibility through the subject of the Vietnam War, which documentary maker Ken Burns called: "a tragedy of epic proportions."

Kat Fitzpatrick, M.F.A., is a freelance writer and educator, and the author of the narrative nonfiction book, For the Love of Vietnam: a war, a family, a CIA official, and the best evacuation story never heard and the pedagogical chapbook, The Fight to Write: What the Vietnam War Taught Me about Truth & Writing.

Lecture Series | Botanicals

In our engaging lecture series, we delve into topics of culture, history, health, and art.

Join Beth Record, clinical herbalist, and Sean Rowe, singer- songwriter/passionate forager, as they share how plants can strengthen our health and connect us with nature.

Sean Rowe | Forager

"Appreciating wild nature through the doorway of eating it!" 

Join singer-songwriter and passionate forager / wild food enthusiast, Sean Rowe for a presentation on life of a modern, wild food gatherer. We’ll discuss the value foraging can have on overall human health and conservation of the other inhabitants we share the planet with. Some topics include: wild plant nutrition, poisonous plants and mushrooms, and sustainability. 

Beth Record | Earth School for Better Living

Clinical Herbalist, Massage Therapist, Brennan Healing Science practitioner 

Come meet two giants in the world of herbal medicine, how to grow them and why you’ll want to! Understand the power of adaptogens and a few delicious ways to include them in your life, as well as new ways to think about flavor and how plants move within us.

Beth has been in private practice for thirty four years. She attended the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics in Albuquerque, NM graduating in 1990 and went on to study energy medicine graduating from the four year program at The Barbara Brennan School of Healing in 1998, continuing her education by attending The Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in Boulder, CO.graduating the three year advanced clinical herbalism program in 2001. This fulfilled her heart’s longing and dream of becoming a practicing herbalist. She resides in Cambridge NY.

Passions include research, wildcrafting, formulating remedies, gardening, teaching and exploring life and its various realities while celebrating the union of nature and spirit.