William Morris Memorial Fountain, designed by William G. Distin, was built in 1950 at William Morris Park. Adirondack Daily Enterprise, December 2, 1949The Bottle Cap Carnival was held once a year, at the William Morris Playground from 1954 through at least 1976. It was called the Bottle Cap Carnival because to play a carnival game it would cost the Child a soda bottle cap. There were several different booths set up and the child would always win a prize.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 27, 1959
BOTTLE CAP CONTEST
Calling all children! Tomorrow Is Bottle Cap Carnival at the William Morris Playground. It starts at 1 p.m. So get all the bottle caps you can and come and join the fun.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 30, 1962
BOTTLE CAPS
This Friday afternoon, the annual Bottle Cap Carnival will be held of the William Morris Playground. There will be plenty of booths and prizes for all. On Saturday, the playground will close for the season at noon.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 22, 1968
CAP CARNIVAL AT PLAYPARK
The popular Bottle Cap carnival at The Morris Park playground will be held tomorrow Morning beginning at 9 a. m. For the price of a bottlecap the children will be allowed on the rides and in booths of chance. The event last well through the day.
Music , milk and cookies will highlight the noon hour according to George Bedore, park superintendent. He said that this was the fourteenth year of the bottle cap carnival and it always draws one of the largest crowds of youngster to the expanding playground area.
The Village of Saranac Lake is paying the tab on the necessary extras to hold the carnival. Saranac Lake's boys and girls have been scouring the village for bottle caps for days in advance to be ready for the event which is one of the final fun fiestas of the summer.
Both the Morris and Baldwin Parks schedule hotdog roasts and dress-up days usually topped off with the crowning of the annual king and queen.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 23, 1972
BOTTLE CAP CARNIVAL
SARANAC LAKE — The annual Bottle Cap Day will be held at William Morris Park at 1 p.m. Thursday. Bottle caps will be legal tender for all games. All children are invited. The event has been planned by the playground supervisor, Peg McKillip.
Plattsburgh Press-Republican, September 21, 2015
"Lookback: Week of Sept. 21 to Sept. 28," compiled by Staff Writer Ben Rowe,
features a photograph from the Press-Republican Archives with this caption:
Children scamper into William Morris Park on Bloomingdale Avenue in Saranac Lake after it was formally re-opened by Parents for Improved Play-Parks. Once dilapidated and little-used, the park underwent nearly two years of renovations. It now features new play equipment, a refurbished gazebo and a basketball court. (1990)
