Wednesday, Jan. 9

LOCAL EVENTS

Noon Book Club

POTSDAM: Potsdam Public Library’s Noon Book Club to discuss “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles; deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold; Potsdam Public Library, potsdamlibrary.org, 315-265-7230.

Art Highlights, Tea

OGDENSBURG: Frederic Remington Art Museum will kick off its annual “Art Highlights and Tea” lecture series with a presentation by Dr. Robert Thacker on some Remington works dating from the last part of the artist’s career, 2 p.m. talk entitled “Meeting The Cowboy, Seeing The Outlier,” is free and open to the public, and will be presented in the Museum’s Tiffany Room; at 3 p.m., a tea will be served in the parlors, courtesy of Ann Groome, Kathie Wade, and friends, $10 for Remington Museum members and $15 for non-members, call 315-393-2425, email desmond@fredericremington.org, or reserve seats at the tea online at fredericremington.org; “Art Highlights and Tea” series takes place from January through April on the second Wednesday of each month; lectures begin at 2 p.m. and are always free and open to the public; the tea, organized and run by volunteers, begins at 3 p.m.