December 2011 Chronogram

In her fight against breast cancer...

Kim chose to stay here.

Kim Costello Mother • Fighter • Hero

For many women, the choice is clear. Like Kim Costello, who chose to be treated by Dr. Zoe Weinstein and the caring, dedicated experts at the HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley after her breast cancer diagnosis.

Now every woman in the Hudson Valley has even more of a reason to be hopeful, with the new Fern Feldman Anolick Center for Breast Health. Located at Benedictine Hospital, the Center offers advanced, comprehensive breast health services to the region.

Come learn why 99% of women diagnosed here choose to continue their care with us.*

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news and politics

HOLIDAY gift guide

24 while you were sleeping

66 inspired gift ideas for the season

John Lennon's molar sold at auction, guns for convicted felons, and more.

25 beinhart’s body politic: tax the rich Larry Beinhart on how high taxes kept Ronald Reagan from starring in Bedtime for Bonzo II, and other horrors of government overreach.

HOME

Lindsay Pietroluongo on eco-friendly bedding from Silken Wool, an antler chandelier from Colors Home, and a sushi tray from Hudson Beach Glass.

33 the question: How best to winterize your home? By Greg Schoenfeld.

Jim Gordon reports on the growing mirth-minded Laughter Yoga movement.

92 flowers fall: she and i Bethany Saltman on how karma moves in every direction, even backwards.

58 town of newburgh: crossroads of the northeast At the intersection of interstates and an airport, Newburgh is ready for busines.

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Catherine, William, Barbara, Carl, and Jonathan Colby in The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby, which will screen at Upstate Films in Woodstock and Rhinebeck on December 10 and 11. The screenings will be followed by discussion with lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Steven Smith and Michael Ratner.

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80 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

84 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

93 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

Manhattan sleek meets New England pristine in Litchfield County.

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Community Resource Guide

34 litchfield: past in present

Wendy Kagan looks into personality typing via the Enneagram.

91 LAUGHTER YOGA: minding our business

community pages

Lindsay Pietroluongo previews family friendly events celebrating the holidays.

88 who is the true you?

A Calvert Vaux-designed home is saved by Taylor and Elizabeth Thompson.

30 the item: offbeat home gifts for the holidays

74 `tis the season

whole living guide

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arts & culture

120 parting shot Newborns of the New Life New Hope Chairt Calendar Photos by Maggie Fistik.

42 portfolio: Peter Woytuk on Broadway

Peter Woytuk's whimsicl animal sculptures adorn public spaces on Broadway between Columbus Circle and 168th Street. Photos by Gary Halby.

44 Gallery & museum GUIDe 48 music Peter Aaron profiles spends some time in church with the Shiloh Baptist Choir.

52 nightlife highlights

FOOD & DRINK 76 diner 2.0

Peter Barrett tucks into grass-fed burgers and local milkshakes at Grazin' in Hudson.

the forecast 104 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.)

Wu-Tang Clan, Donna the Buffalo, Japanther, Donna the Buffalo, and more.

53 cd reviews Jeremy Schwartz reviews Imitate the Sun by the Chris Bergson Band.

Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson reviews I Remember You by Michelle LeBlanc.

Jason Broome reviews Suddenland by Suddenland.

52 books Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes, takes flight with Nina Shengold.

54 book reviews A round-up of books suitable for giving this holiday season.

Marx Dorrity reviews The Uninnocent by Bardford Morrow.

56 Poetry

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who will tell students about the dioxin dorms?

Eric Francis Coppolino on the anniverary of the PCB incident at SUNY New Paltz. horoscopes What do the stars have in store for us this month? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.

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Poems by Steve Clark, Erin Davis, Richard Donnelly, Mitchell Flanagan, Andy Fogle, Cliff Henderson, John Hopper, M. Hotvedt, Marilyn Lazarus, Brian Loatman, Tricia Mazzocca, Barbara Threecrow Purcell, Rosalind Spar, Joanna Vogel, Catherine Wald, Treme Wilson. Edited by Phillip Levine.

PREVIEWS 99 The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company performs at Kaatsbaan on December 3.

100 Sean Altman brings his musical comedy Jewmongous to the Towne Crier Cafe.

102 Kairos: A Consort of Singers performs choral music at Holy Cross Monastery.

103 Judy Collins gets personal with Peter Aaron prior to her show at The Egg. 104 Catskill Ballet Theatre stages "The Nutcracker" at UPAC in Kingston.

105 Jean-Luc Moulène's "Opus + One" opens at Dia:Beacon.

106 Ulster Ballet Company puts on Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" at UPAC. 109 Melinda Hunt's "Hart Island Project" opens in Peekskill.

113 Don Hunstein's photos of Bob Dylan continue through February at The Moviehouse.

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fig. 38: in autumn, some leaves use color bars to get everything perfect norm magnusson | photo of a leaf painted with watercolors | 2011 Norm Magnusson studied poetry in college, but after moving to New York City he embarked on a career as a painter, starting with symbolist images of animals in the early 1990s. Post 9/11, he shifted to making political art, including site-specific historical markers that addressed such issues as illegal immigrants and child poverty. It was heavy stuff, so three years ago, in a kind of counterpoise, he began his “decorating nature” series following a trip to India in which he discovered it was more fun painting with watercolor on some large dried leaves than on the paper he’d brought with him.

Since then he’s painted dozens of leaves, along with stones, pinecones, seashells, flowers, and even bark, afterwards photographing the painted object in its natural setting (occasionally, he’ll paint the object in place, such as the dotted leaves on a burning bush, which creates many more challenges). He shows and sells the prints, which may be blown up to 60 inches tall (a scale popular with interior designers), on his website www.greennatureprints.com.

While the series encompasses thick, rubbery leaves from Key West and Cape Cod clamshells, the majority of Magnusson’s subjects are discovered and photographed in the streamside yard of his house on Mink Hollow Road in Woodstock, including the autumn leaf shown on the cover. Magnusson transforms the diminutive, curved surfaces into a variety of effects, from bright-colored patterns of stripes or polka-dots to trompe l’oeil leaves-on-top-of-leaves to Eastern arabesques to pixilated effects that play with the photographic image itself, as if the stone or leaf were the face of a whistle blower or abuse victim “pixilated out to protect the innocent,” as the artist puts it. A similar conceptual play is suggested in the painted image of the color bar, a device used by photographers in the old days of film to ensure printed proofs achieved the right hues. Magnusson photographed his delicate, ephemeral artwork in dappled light, which created a resonating pattern on the dead, crumpled leaves that surround the brilliant maple leaf like silent, fallen specters. “In autumn, some leaves will use color bars to help get everything perfect” is the caption Magnusson wrote to accompany the image on his website—as if foliage, like human societies, had its own hidden hierarchies.

—Lynn Woods Visit www.chronogram.com to watch a short film profiling Norm Magnusson by Stephen Blauweiss and Amy Loewenhaar, produced by www.artistdvd.com.

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EDITORIAL Editorial Director Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com creative Director David Perry dperry@chronogram.com Books editor Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com health & wellness editor Wendy Kagan wholeliving@chronogram.com Poetry Editor Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com music Editor Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com food & drink Editor Peter Barrett proofreader Lee Anne Albritton contributors Larry Beinhart, Jay Blotcher, Jason Broome, Eric Francis Coppolino, David Morris Cuningham, Marx Dorrity, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Jennifer Farley, Greg Fry, Jim Gordon, Maya Horowitz, Annie Intercola, Jennifer May, Erik Ofgang, Lindsay Pietroluongo, Anne Pyburn, Fionn Reilly, Bethany Saltman, Greg Schoenfeld, Jeremy Schwartz, Sparrow, Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson, Lynn Woods

PUBLISHING FOUNDERS Jason Stern & Amara Projansky publisher Jason Stern jstern@chronogram.com chairman David Dell Chronogram is a project of Luminary Publishing advertising sales advertising director Maryellen Case mcase@chronogram.com ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Eva Tenuto etenuto@chronogram.com ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Mario Torchio mtorchio@chronogram.com account executive Lara Hope lhope@chronogram.com account executive Ralph Jenkins rjenkins@chronogram.com account executive Jack Becker jbecker@chronogram.com sales assistant Stephanie Wyant swyant@chronogram.com ADMINISTRATIVE director of operations Amara Projansky aprojansky@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x105 business MANAGER Ruth Samuels rsamuels@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x107 technology director Michael LaMuniere mlamuniere@chronogram.com marketing coordinator Amanda Gresens agresens@chronogram.com PRODUCTION Production director Jaclyn Murray jmurray@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x108 pRoduction designers Kerry Tinger, Adie Russell pRoduction intern Bryan Caprari Office 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 (845) 334-8600; fax (845) 334-8610

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LETTERS The Problem Lies Not on Wall Street‌ To the Editor: Kudos to Jason Stern for his piece in the November issue [Esteemed Reader].

In it he encourages us to occupy ourselves. Indeed! Occupy Wall Street has become necessary in the social arena in order to distance ourselves from the hocus pocus of politics and finances. But the root of the problem, as Stern makes clear, is within ourselves. There we need to disentangle from the hocus pocus of constantly puffing up our self—our ego, our “me�—at the expense of the rest (the 90 percent or so) of who we truly are.

As a follower of the teachings of the Buddha, which I also pass on to others, I know this occupation of ourselves first-hand.That’s what meditation is about: an invitation to occupy ourselves and be present with all that we are. I hope Stern will not mind if I borrow his Occupy Ourselves as the title for one of my talks at the next retreat of our meditation group. —Jose Reissig, Rhinebeck Catholicism to the Rescue To the Editor: Which of the following private charities collects and distributes more aid and services annually? 1. Catholic Charities 2. American Red Cross 3. Salvation Army 4. American Cancer Society. According to Forbes, the answer is number one. The Church’s care for the ill, the needy, the unwanted goes back a long way and continues today, though now with the legalization of the destruction of life in the womb, it has had to close many of the orphanages whose door were once open to all. I think we can be sure that if that awful Supreme Court decision, a decision that has led to the destruction of 50 million new lives at this point, is reversed and the lives of the “unwanted� are again protected, the Church will be ready as usual to help.

Now, you might wonder which staff writers could possibly have missed the correct answer? Jason Stern may have. In the September issue [Esteemed Reader] he wrote: “religions make generosity an obligation, which removes its force. But religion is for those whose conscience is asleep.� However, ecent research seems to corroborate the fact that belief, especially with regard to religion, can be an internalizing force for good. Arthur C. Brooks, professor of public administration at Syracuse University, wrote in his recent book Who Really Cares: “In years of research, I have never found a measurable way in which secularists are more charitable than religious people. Secular liberals are 19 percentage points less likely to give to charity each year than religious conservatives.� He calculated that the Dakota farmer can be counted on to give more per capita each year than the San Francisco swinger. If it’s all obligation with sleeping, religion-plagued consciences at work, many people indeed are the beneficiaries. From the start, Christianity has given priority to the poor and those in need of help.

It’s a point that might have helped movie reviewer Jay Blotcher get the right answer [Woodstock Film Festival preview, 9/11]. He believes the time has passed when Catholics “delivered food and clothes to the ghettos of America,� but it hasn’t. Viewing as many movies as he does may hinder getting the facts and stats. There are still Father Damiens working among the lepers and, in spite of his view that Catholics lack compassion for homosexuals (how’s that for stereotyping about 70 million fellow Americans), worldwide about one-fourth of all AIDS sufferers are in Catholic facilities. True enough, Mother Theresa is dead, but hundreds of her nuns along with thousands from other Catholic organizations continue to work among the poorest of the poor regardless of sexual inclinations, both here and abroad. —Dick Murphy, Beacon

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Happy Holidays from Joe and the gang at American Glory We would like to take this opportunity to thank our many friends and loyal customers for their continued patronage.

Moreover, we wish you all a healthy and prosperous New Year.

Please join us Friday evening, December 23rd for the American Glory 2011 Holiday Bash, night of fun for all holiday festivities and down home blues.

To compliment the evening, we are offering a rare opportunity to see and hear one of Hudson Valley’s fastest growing blues bands, The Jonny Monster Band.

Expe Experiencing this band in a small intimate setting like ours is a guaranteed good time for all.

Joe, Tash and the gang have plenty of mistletoe, egg nog, Dicken’s cider, and they’re even bringing in the Van Gogh Vodka shot girls to mix up festive holiday drinks and crazy party shooters for everyone to try out.

It It’s rare to get a Friday night before the holiday, so let’s do it right and start the holiday weekend off with a good dose of holiday fun, good food, friends, down home blues and a whole bunch of festive libations.

So, just come on down and let the gang at American Glory get your festive juices flowing!!!

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Featuring

Local Luminary: Tom Struzzieri ESI Photography

Why did you decide to build a luxury hotel with a restaurant in Saugerties?

Without this property, we rarely have enough lodging to satisfy the clients we are bringing in now. I knew it wouldn’t disappoint our local hospitality business partners because they are maxed out to full capacity already.

We’re bringing thousands of people to the community and Ulster County struggles to serve their needs. There are some good restaurants here but they simply cannot handle the influx of visitors we bring in 12 weeks a year who are willing to spend a lot for a nice meal.

Diamond Mills is the only listed Small Luxury Hotel of the World from Westchester to Lake Placid. How did you make that happen?

When I take my family traveling, that’s the website I use. All the properties which are part of the brand meet a certain high standard. Our goal was to build a place which would meet their criteria. Once you pass the test from them, you agree to keep that standard and you get voted in and approved. The designation is recognized worldwide and says a lot about the project. We’re not counting on the international customer as a big part of the customer base, but I’m sure the SLH designation will attract some international people to Saugerties who are not horse show clients and would not otherwise come here.

How many people are you hiring to work at Diamond Mills?

In the 30s range full-time, from managers to laborers, plus as many as 35 part-time—people we can bring on for a big event. Over a hundred people came to the job fair we held [in November] and filled out applications; I think that really speaks to the state of affairs. There are a lot of people in the Hudson Valley looking for work right now.

Are you going to build additional hotels in your horse show venues in the model of Diamond Mills?

No. This is it. There was a very specific need here. I did it because I live here and I wanted to be able to service a certain clientele who are also my friends.

I’ve thrown my anchor into the river; I believe a high tide floats all boats.

Do you plan on owning and operating Diamond Mills for the foreseeable future, or will you sell the hotel to a major hospitality concern?

Anything is possible. Right now my plan is to own and operate Diamond Mills. We had some delays with the opening, but we’re on budget. I believe its success is going to roll off onto all the other local businesses.

How do you plan to attract investment to the southern part of Partition Street between the retail area and Diamond Mills?

As if paying homage to legendary showman P. T. Barnum—America’s first show-business millionaire—over three decades, entrepreneur Tom Struzzieri, president and CEO of Horse Shows in the Sun Inc. (HITS), has radically commercialized the once-staid world of hunter/jumper horse shows and made himself a wealthy man.

Today, HITS events break attendance records by offering the richest cash prize jackpots in the sport’s history. They’ve broadened the contests’ bystander appeal by adding circus-like sideshows such as horseback gymnastics and dog beauty contests. Headquartered in Saugerties, where Struzzieri and his wife Jane own a riverfront home, HITS owns and operates five first-class equestrian arenas in four states.

Struzzieri’s passion for horses and the adrenaline-charged social aspect of planning events segued naturally into a career combining both loves. He initially came to the Hudson Valley from his native Long Island because upstate real estate offered better value than downstate sites.

The Struzzieris relocated to Saugerties from Rhinebeck 13 years ago because they felt it was the best place to raise their family and from which to grow HITS. Plus, the Struzzieris wanted their children to attend Woodstock Day School.

This month, the Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern, a $12 million boutique luxury hotel with a restaurant and conference center, will open. Struzzieri is the principal investor. Featuring 30 carefully-appointed rooms designed by Gillian Viola—the Struzzieris’ personal decorator—pricey Diamond Mills will lure a few wealthy horse show clients who simply won’t stay in Saugerties currently.

December also marks the debut of the new HITS Triathlon Series, a year’s slate of monthly races to be held all over the country. Triathlon is the fastest-growing social sport in the world. In 2010, about 1.2 million people competed in some sort of race combining running, cycling, and swimming, as compared with only 30,000 riders in hunter-jumper competitions.

Struzzieri says he won’t make money on either the hotel or the triathlon venture right away, but that long-term prospects for both enterprises look solid. Known for his hands-on, can-do attitude and intense work ethic, the Vassar dropout likes to be at his desk before dawn, already having worked out.

—Jennifer Farley

That’s a really good question. We own some of those buildings now but we would like that to happen on its own. That whole beach area is underutilized. I don’t really see it as more retail. I think it’s going to become office space.

How were you able to make the hotel project financially feasible in a sluggish economy?

The Ulster County Development Corp. offers certain tax incentives and you’d be foolish not to take advantage of them. They’re available to anyone willing to go through the process. The documents for the closing of Diamond Mills, which was held in Albany with several teams of lawyers attending, stood over two feet high. The Inn will be paying full property taxes in 10 years.

What’s your personal workout regime like?

I started doing triathlons about three years ago. During the horse shows things get a bit off schedule but most of the year I’m running or on my bike about 12 hours a week, first thing in the morning. I like to get it over with. If I work out in the evening, it interferes with family time. We try to eat dinner as a family as much as possible and I also coach Little League. I go to bed early, 10pm—and I’m at my desk by 5am at least half the year.

Who are some of your personal heroes and why?

My father Peter, who passed away three years ago at 91. I was so fortunate to have him as a father; he taught me his sense of family and he was terribly driven as a worker. He’s really my only hero and much missed. Anything I do will pale in comparison.

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Top: Pucho Brown of the Latin Soul Brothers performing at The Falcon in Marlboro on October 28. Photo by Jim Rice.

Middle left: Jessica Winchell (behind bar), chef/owner of the Global Palate in West Park, Chef Richard Virgili of the Culinary Institute (with microphone), Chef Mike Bernardo of the Global Palate, and "Potato Bob" Kiley of RSK Farm (far right) at a benefit for RSK Farm on November 6 at Global Palate. RSK Farm in Prattsville was wiped out when the Schoharie Creek flooded post Irene and swept much of the farm's topsoil away. The event raised $8,000 for RSK FarmPhoto by Deirdre Smith.

Middle right: Speakers at the Occupy Poughkeepsie rally at the encampment in Hulme Park on November 12. Attendees marched down Market Street to the post office and gathered for a protest in front of Chase Bank. Photo by Bryan Caprari.

Lower left: The Hudson Valley Horrors Roller Derby League Fundraiser for the Hudson Valley SPCA at Hyde Park Roller Magic on November 20. The Horrors split into two teams and scrimmaged Cats vs. Dogs to raise money to aid animal adoptions. The Horrors are holding open tryouts in January. More info: www.horrorsrollerderby.com. Photo by Bryan Caprari.

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ooking back at 2011, two trends jump out right away: 1) Things are getting worse. 2) Things are getting better. The economy doesn’t seem to be able to rebound to pre-2008 levels. (But maybe we need to rethink capitalism anyway.) Our political leaders can’t agree on much of anything, from whether and how to increase our debt burden to how we might reduce it. (Meanwhile, out in streets, the 99 percent are inventing new approaches to decision-making.)

If you stare too long into the bright sun of the media, you’ll go blind with indifference. As it ever was, it is still people who make the change, one peppersprayed person in Zuccotti Park or UC Davis at a time. In 2011, Chronogram was full of stories about passionate people grappling with how to live: how to change the world, how to accept what we cannot change, how to be good, how to act with integrity, how to be healthy, how to be funny, how to work and how to play, and always attempting to explain the central organizing existential question: Why do we live in the Hudson Valley?

Below are some highlights from our coverage in 2011 that attempt to answer that query, albeit in roundabout ways.

Singular Vision In 2010, Jaimy Gordon’s novel of the racetrack, Lord of Misrule, was the long shot winner of the National Book Award. Gordon beat out authors with more familiar names from publishing houses like Knopf and Norton. Her publisher?

Kingston-based McPherson & Company, a one-man operation run by Bruce McPherson, a guy who publishes physically beautiful books by little-known authors that he totally believes in. McPherson is living his idiosyncratic dream, though as Books editor Nina Shengold captured in her January profile, it’s not all champagne and glitzy book launches: “There are hundreds more cartons [of books] on the back porch and stacked like cordwood under heavy weight tarps in the back yard. ‘This will dispel all illusions,’ McPherson says.”

For Pete’s Sake Of course, with Pete Seeger—profiled by Music editor Peter Aaron in February—it’s never for his sake, always someone, or something else: a cause, a movement, an idea. Seeger’s music and environmental activism are textbook examples of how change is effected in the world, one moment of integrity after another after another. (In 2011, Peter Aaron also bagged some other big-name musical game in the Hudson Valley, penning pieces on jazz elder statesman Sonny Rollins and Kate Pierson of the B-52s.

Also in February, I interviewed Helena Norbert-Hodge, whose film The Economics of Happiness explores the social and psychological costs of our globalization-driven consumer culture. When asked how she thought globalization might change course if the leaders are profiting from the perpetuation of the system, Norbert-Hodge made a remarkably prescient remark, given the Occupy Wall Street protest to come: “I don’t think we’ll be able to persuade the political leaders and CEOs.We need to talk with the 99 percent.The 99 percent have the power if they choose to exercise it.”

Where’s the Beef?

From factory farming, overfishing, and a dubious ethical distinction between animals as pets and animals as food, consuming animal flesh has become increasingly problematized (as the semiotics majors say) in recent years. Americans are becoming vegetarians in ever greater numbers. Though a relatively small

number—four percent (though probably much higher in the Hudson Valley)— vegetarian cooking techniques influence a wide swath of chefs in the region.

Karin Ursula Edmondson ate her way through many veggie dishes for our vegetarian dining guide in the March issue.

In May, food editor Peter Barrett wrote a piece we caught some flak for with vegetarians. “The Pig Dies at Noon” chronicled how one four-legged cretaure was transformed from being to nonbeing, animal to food. It’s not a pretty process, and there’s no way to glorify it, no matter how many trend pieces the New York Times writes about punk butchers. But anyone who eats meat should square himself with an animal’s destruction every time they tuck in to bacon and eggs.

Department of Unintended Consequences In my Editor’s Note in April, I mused on where my taxes went, and calculated that my lifetime share of federal taxes probably amounted to what it would cost to purchase one Tomahawk missile. In what I intended to be a transparently sarcastic aside I wrote: “While education gets only three percent of the federal budget, I have no doubt that it is probably going mostly to overpaid administrators and underworked teachers who summer by the pool as the rest of us toil ceaselessly to get this economy back on track.” As we’ve seen this year, anti-teacher and anti-union sentiment is strong in this country. I received half a dozen notes of support for my teacher bashing, people praising me for “telling it like it is,” though I don’t actually think it is that way.

Let’s Get Small We relaunched our dwellings coverage in the March issue, with house profiles, gardening tips, Q&As with experts on various domicile-related dilemmas, and interviews with craftspeople. June was the month we hit our stride, with a timely piece by Jennifer Farley on Jonathan Korn’s Kingston townhouse. Korn had traded in his 4,000-square-foot home in Margaretville for a 1,000-square-foot place in the Rondout. Korn intentionally simplified his life, from divesting himself of many unnecessary possessions to choosing to live in a walkable neighborhood.

Just a Little Patience A century ago, an incline railway brought revelers to the top of Mount Beacon, where an amusement park and dance hall once stood. All that remains today are the rusted innards of the railway's powerhouse and some overgrown concrete slabs. (The Mount Beacon Incline Railway Society is currently fundraising to restore the funicular to its former glory.) Akiko Busch wrote about a hike up that hill in her book Patience:Taking Time in an Age of Acceleration, examining the parallels between patience and distraction, or play. We were privileged to publish an excerpt in our June issue.

Birdbrain Writer Jana Martin and photographer Roy Gumpel teamed up for a piece in August on the Northern Catskills Pigeon Racing Club, a group of 15 men, mostly 50 to 70, who raise and race pigeons. They are as passionate about their birds as a horse breeder is about thoroughbreds, and spend inordinate amounts of time and money on their racers. The piece required multiple photography shoots; Roy traveled up to Watkins Glen for the start of one race, capturing what's called "the release"—when 100 birds simultaneously shoot out from a trailer in an explosion of feathers and kinetic avian energy.

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In London on November 5, one of John Lennon’s molars sold for $31,000 at auction.

A Canadian dentist, Michael Zuk, submitted the winning bid. The tooth had been in the possession of Lennon’s former housekeeper, Dorothy Jarlett, since the late `60s, when Lennon gave the tooth to Jarlett as a souvenir.

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According to Dr. Charles Gerba of the University of Arizona, a microbiologist known as “Dr. Germ,” the gas pump is the everyday object most likely to transmit germs. Gerba’s conclusion is drawn from a study done by Kimberly-Clark’s Healthy Work Place Project, a subsidiary of the manufacturer of tissues and hand sanitizer.

The research results released in late October found that 71 percent of gas pump handles and 68 percent of corner mailbox handles are “highly contaminated” with the kinds of germs most associated with a high risk of illness. The study stated that 41 percent of ATM buttons and 43 percent of escalator rails are similarly teeming with germs.

Source: USA Today Fewer Mexicans are immigrating illegally across the border into the United States as fewer jobs, harsher border control, and threats against leaving from violent Mexican gangs have made the trek to the US less and less appealing. At its peak in 2000, 1.6 million people were arrested attempting to cross the border illegally over an 11-month period. Over the 11-month period that ended in August 2011, that number dropped to 304,755. Mexico itself is feeling a change, as its interior secretary for migration matters, Rene Zenteno, noted that “our country is not experiencing the population loss due to migration that was seen nearly 50 years ago.”

Source: Los Angeles Times Under federal law, people with felony convictions forfeit their right to bear arms. Yet every year, thousands of felons across the country have those rights reinstated, often with little or no review. While previously a small number of felons were able to reclaim their gun rights, the process became commonplace in many states in the late 1980s, after Congress started allowing state laws to dictate these reinstatements—part of an overhaul of federal gun laws orchestrated by the National Rifle Association. Margaret C. Love, a pardon lawyer based in Washington, DC, who has researched gun rights restoration laws, estimated that in more than half the states felons have a reasonable chance of getting back their gun rights.

In Washington State, where convicted felon Erik Zettergen shot and killed a man after having his gun rights restored in 2005, since 1995, more than 3,300 felons and people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors have regained their gun rights in the state—430 in 2010 alone. One study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, found that denying handgun purchases to felons cut their risk of committing new gun or violent crimes by 20 to 30 percent. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that handgun purchasers with at least one prior misdemeanor—not even a felony—were more than seven times as likely as those with no criminal history to be charged with new offenses over a 15-year period. Criminologists studying recidivism have found that felons usually have to stay out of trouble for about a decade before their risk of committing a crime equals that of people with no record.

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On November 10, the Supreme Court decided to hear a challenge to President Obama’s health care law. That night, two justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, were feted at a dinner sponsored by the law firm that will argue the case before the high court. The lawyer who will stand before the court and argue that the law should be thrown out is likely to be Paul Clement, who served as US Solicitor General during the second Bush administration. Clement’s law firm, Bancroft PLLC, was one of almost two dozen firms that helped sponsor the annual dinner of the Federalist Society, a longstanding group dedicated to advocating conservative legal principles.

Scalia and Thomas have been attending Federalist Society events for years. And it’s nothing that runs afoul of ethics rules. In fact, justices are exempt from the Code of Conduct that governs the actions of lower federal judges. If they were, they arguably fell under code’s Canon 4C, which states, “A judge may attend fundraising events of law-related and other organizations although the judge may not be a speaker, a guest of honor, or featured on the program of such an event.”

“This stunning breach of ethics and indifference to the code belies claims by several justices that the court abides by the same rules that apply to all other federal judges,” said Bob Edgar, the president of Common Cause. “The justices were wining and dining at a black-tie fundraiser with attorneys who have pending cases before the court. Their appearance and assistance in fundraising for this event undercuts any claims of impartiality.”

Conservatives argue that it’s Justice Elena Kagan who has an ethical issue, not Scalia and Thomas. Kagan served as solicitor general in the Obama administration when the first legal challenges to the law were brought at the trial court level. Her critics have pushed for Kagan to recuse herself from hearing the case, saying that she was too invested in defending the law then to be impartial now. Kagan has given no indication she will do so.

Source: Los Angeles Times The largest banks are larger than they were when President Obama took office and are nearing the level of profits they were making before the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, according to government data.

Wall Street firms—independent companies and the securities-trading arms of banks—are doing even better. They earned more in the first two-and-a-half years of the Obama administration than they did during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration. Behind this turnaround, in significant measure, are government policies that helped the financial sector avert collapse and then gave financial firms huge benefits on the path to recovery. For example, the federal government invested hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in banks—low-cost money that the firms used for high-yielding investments on which they made big profits. The largest banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo, earned $34 billion in profit in the first half of the year, nearly matching what they earned in the same period in 2007 and more than in the same period of any other year. The average Wall Street salary last year grew 16.1 percent, to $361,330.

Source: New York Times A new survey from the Credit Union National Association found that, the day Bank of America announced its new $5 monthly debit card fee on September 29, credit unions have gained at least 650,000 new customers. (Bank of America has since dropped the proposal.) That’s more than the 600,000 customers who joined credit unions during the entirety of 2010. By the association’s tally, deposits into those new savings accounts totaled $4.5 billion, which is more in deposits than credit unions typically get from their entire customer base in a month. In another poll, by Harris Interactive, the disparity between customers’ loyalty to the respective financial institutions was highlighted. Nearly 90 percent of credit union customers said they were extremely or very likely to stick with their current institution, compared to only 40 percent of Bank of America customers. Other big banks didn’t fare much better: Only 46 percent of JP Morgan Chase’s customers and 54 percent of Wells Fargo/Wachovia’s customers indicated a strong intention to stay put.

Sources: Reuters, Slate —Compiled by Brian K. Mahoney

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

Tax the Rich

Low taxes on the super-rich, the top one tenth of the top one percent especially, are the cause of all our current economic woes.

When taxes on the rich are cut, as they were in the Bush administration, the same reckless sequence ensues—bubbles in the most nonproductive areas, financial instruments and real estate, with lots of get-rich-quick chicanery, a crash, bank failures, followed by a serious recession or depression.

When the Republicans forced Clinton to cut capital gains taxes, the dotcom boom turned into the dot-com bubble. When the crash came in 2001, Bush responded by cutting taxes. The result was called a “jobless recovery.”

It was considered an inexplicable mystery. It was actually a new bubble in the fiscal sector while the rest of the economy was in a recession that has never gone away.

After the crash of 2008 we kept the Bush tax cuts and added more tax cuts. We now have a boom in the fiscal sector, the banks are rolling in money, and record corporate profits. Yet the recession in the real people’s economy remains.

Money will only be redirected into productive activity by taking it from the rich—who stick it in funds and speculate in derivatives and search for the new Bernie Madoff—and putting it to work by the government.

Income inequality distorts business, economics, politics, and society itself. Money buys influence and power.

What do people with money use that power for? To protect what they have and make even more. They buy theoreticians to justify their wealth.

There are actual true believers in free market theology, people who equate Social Security and Medicare with Soviet and Fascist enslavement. But their success in leading the backward march in our political thought toward the 19th century is a steady record of such people finding wealthy individuals and corporations to fund and legitimize their nonsense.

The average cost of winning a congressional election is now over a million dollars. A senate seat averages $6.5 million. That’s just the visible, recorded costs. Simply to run, let alone to win, a candidate has to have made himself palatable to the wealthy.

The Supreme Court says money is speech and can’t be restrained. General Electric’s voice is hundreds of thousands of dollars louder than yours.

That’s not an accident. Right wing groups, funded by corporations and the rich, have spent years cultivating and backing pro-money lawyers and judicial candidates.

The more that wealth is concentrated, the less those individuals think they need the public schools, parks, trash collection, water, police, welfare agencies, and public health. Off they go to live in their separate, and often gated, communities, with exclusive services. Having done so, they now turn their attack on teachers, bus drivers, and sewer workers that serve the majority of us and then make the astonishing claim that such people are the cause of our financial woes and the best way to fix things is cut their benefits and take away their political power.

In free market theology and in free market dramaturgy, the rich are rich because they work harder and they’re smarter than anyone else. So they deserve every nickel! If you’re not rich, it’s because you’re lazy and undisciplined.

Jacqueline, John, and Forrest Mars, Jr. each have about $13 billion. They “earned” their wealth by coming down the birth canal of a woman married to a candy magnate. Edward Johnson III has $6.5 billion. Forbes Magazine considers his wealth “self-made,” because he rose through the ranks of Fidelity Investments before he took the helm from his father, Edward Johnson II. The Koch Brothers, listed at $25 billion each, got rich by being the sons of Fred Koch.

Many of the rich actually are self-made and did things to “earn” their money. Michael Milken is worth $2.1 billion.You may remember him as the “Junk Bond King,” head of Drexel Burnham. He was indicted on 98 counts of racketeering and securities fraud. He plea bargained, testified against others, and served two years. Drexel Burnham went bankrupt. He’s still rich.

Some rich people have done productive things to get rich. Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders, and later the savior, of Apple, was creative, visionary, and original. I’m writing this on a MacBook. However, like at least 70 percent of us, I owe my literacy to public schools. Without that public investment, where’s Apple’s market? My computer came by plane and then by truck, spewing fumes all the way, using publicly built and maintained airports, roads, and bridges.

Roughly speaking, the richer a person or company is, the more of the public sphere they use; the more they pollute and the more we have to clean up after them. We don’t have any metrics to measure that, let alone universal EZ Passes that can tick off those usages off and bill them as they go. The closest we can get—so far—is to look at gross incomes. But we are kinder and fairer than that, we only tax net incomes.

But wait, rich people are really, really fragile.

Tax them too highly, they’ll wilt. Or go on strike! Mills will grind to a halt, planes will fall from the sky, and wheat will wither in the fields as we fall into barbarism. That is, in essence, the plot of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Ronald Reagan complained that if he made more than a movie a year he’d get pushed into the top tax bracket, after which it wasn’t worth going to work.

Rand published Atlas Shrugged in 1957. At that point our top marginal tax rate was 91 percent. It stayed in that neighborhood until 1965. It went down to around 70 percent until 1981, when Reagan took it as low as 31 percent.

When our taxes on the rich were at their highest, growth averaged around 3.1 percent per year. Since the Reagan cuts it’s been about 1.5 percent.

Although Republicans revere Reagan second only to Jesus (if they’re Christian, ahead of Him if they’re true Libertarians), I have never heard a single one of them say, “I wish Ronnie had made more movies. If only high taxes had not disincentivized him we could have had Bedtime for Bonzo II.” In more recent times, Bill Clinton raised taxes. Everyone prospered.

Including the super-rich. Andrew Cuomo claims we shouldn’t tax the rich because it will make them flee. But he’s talking about extending a tax that’s already in place and it’s hard to argue that the ultra wealthy have only stayed because they were holding their breath waiting for Governor One-Percent to come and save them.

Tax the rich. It’s good for you, for your children, for America, and even for them.

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Eighteen Rooms of Calvert Vaux

By Jennifer Farley Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid

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or the price of a sensible car today, in 1977, Taylor and Elizabeth Thompson purchased a dilapidated three-story mansion on West Chestnut Street, embarking on a renovation journey that took two decades and continues to this day.

Newly into what’s proved to be an enduring and unusually happy second marriage for both, the Thompsons had a combined brood of six children, buckets of energy, and vision, but at the time, not a whole lot of money.Yet however modest the initial tariff, signing up to salvage the collapsing treasure entailed a daring and prolonged financial commitment.

The house, designed in 1886 by famed architect Calvert Vaux but built a few years later for a wealthy Rondout flour and feed merchant, was uninhabited for a year before the Thompsons bought it. Vandals had ripped out all the copper to sell for scrap.

Moreover, it was still in the original owner’s family. Estate executors would not sell the cherished, if run-down, family pile to just anyone, especially since the oncegrand property next door had been converted into an apartment complex by means of an aesthetically incongruous modern addition. The Prince of Wales famously likened such building proposals to “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.”

All in the Training Fate siphoned Elizabeth into a design career while resident in Turkey in the `60s, where her first husband, an army officer, was stationed. Her flare with color and form, clever use of materials, and overall ability to get things done commanded attention from the senior officers’ wives, who pressed Elizabeth for help with their own abodes.That segue must have been challenging at several levels. When pressed for details, even today the slim, elegant blonde remains discreet, but as the service euphemism goes, the end result was all “just really good training.”

Today the Thompsons dwell in a showplace steeped in rich shades of pomegranate, persimmon, and hibiscus. Since 2008, they’ve twice opened their doors for public tours, and this year, they received a Preservation Award from the Friends of Historic Kingston. But their third-floor bedrooms, computer office, and television room remain strictly off-limits to prying eyes.

From Dismay to Display When the couple bought 194 West Chestnut, Elizabeth—whose word-of-mouth design enterprise attracted an Upper East Side clientele—had profitably renovated a home

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in New Paltz, and Taylor’s refrigeration-equipment business based in Stone Ridge was beginning to take off.

Although they’d agreed to look for a larger old home to fix up, even the genial and confident Taylor—a native of Tennessee who holds three degrees from Columbia—was dismayed when he first lay eyes on the house. The windows were boarded up; the paint was peeling; and its grounds were wildly overgrown. A dated coal furnace provided winter heat, despite two functional, albeit thermally ornamental, fireplaces.

But Elizabeth had already fallen in love with the home’s incredible river views.With contagious enthusiasm, she coaxed pragmatic Taylor into looking beyond the wreckage of its ransacked and sagging condition. He quickly demurred to his wife’s judgment.

Thirty-five years later, Taylor says the only way he’s leaving their now-sumptuous—but graciously livable—spread is “in a box.”

“There’s no place like the Hudson Valley, and this house has such privacy, but it’s nicely located right in the city,” Taylor says.

The Thompsons enjoy travel, and although they could today afford a vacation home in a warmer climate, they’ve decided they don’t want or need one.

When I ask where the fresh flowers come from, Elizabeth replies, “Sam’s Club.

Taylor comes with me. We do all of that sort of thing together.”

Calvert Vaux, Kingston, and the Griffiths With its clean-lined and slightly austere exterior, the clapboard-and-shingle house is typically Vaux in the way it capitalizes on the site’s elevated, panoramic view with a rectangular floor plan and second-floor dining and entertaining areas.

A native Londoner who painted watercolors, the architecture prodigy was lured to the US by Andrew Jackson Downing, considered the “father of American landscape architecture.” Together, Vaux and Downing designed the grounds around the White House and the Smithsonian.

In 1854, Vaux married Mary McEntee of Kingston; her brother, Jervis McEntee, is a well-regarded Hudson River School landscape painter. Jervis owned a home near 194 West Chestnut that has been torn down.

Three years later, Vaux hired the young Frederick Law Olmsted to help draft what would become New York’s Central Park.

Throughout his life, Vaux had a role in the design of numerous public spaces still extant in New York and Brooklyn. Few Vaux houses survive today, notably

Top: Elizabeth Thompson seated in formal living room where she and her husband Taylor often dine in front of the fireplace. On the couch is a Turkish sheephearder’s vest the couple brought back from Turkey.

Right: The house’s primary living spaces are on the second floor, with high ceilings, oversized spaces, and magnificent views of the Hudson River.

Above: The second-floor kitchen features a Vulcan six-burner stove and an original dumbwaiter so the Taylors don’t have to carry up groceries from the ground floor.

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The original owner of 194 West Chestnut was Frank Griffiths. His daughter married the founder of a Chicago business school who was also seminal in the establishment of Rotary International.Their daughter Helen inherited the house and lived there until her death.When the Thompsons bought West Chestnut, broken furniture littered the floors and the entrance porch was collapsing. The centerpiece, an ornate Victorian Gothic staircase, was intact.

Updated Traditional A large house with high ceilings and a great deal of dark wood demands substantial expertise in furniture arrangement in order to achieve a cozy and convivial atmosphere.

Color themes and pattern scale must integrate from room to room, all subtly cued to function. This esoteric sensibility is Elizabeth’s forte. “I’m never happy with pictures of things on the Internet, I like seeing things in person,” the designer says, adding that even today, she always carries personal paint chips and fabric swatches in her (often Chanel) handbags.

Like so many people seemingly born with innate great style, Elizabeth ably mixes stripes with florals, fancy with rustic, and old with new. There is enough space between the unusual groupings to comfortably direct the flow of human traffic.

Elizabeth describes her taste as “updated traditional.”AtWest Chestnut, that translates as animal motifs juxtaposed with suede and silk, and Oriental porcelain adjacent primitive crockery. One even finds donkey bells dating from Elizabeth’s years in Turkey.

But this heavily considered finish follows years of structural improvements. The entire house was wired, plumbed, and heated like new construction. The floors were refinished; walls were patched, painted, and in some places papered, as time and money allowed. Often Elizabeth reworked leftovers from her client’s design projects. She did an apartment for Ray Walston, who starred in the television series “My Favorite Martian.”

Major additions came later, after Taylor sold his business and Elizabeth (mostly) retired. They added a “carriage house” in harmony with the original Vaux exterior, restructured the entrance into a contemporary screened terrace, and converted the basement service portal into the front door.

Home for the Holidays For Christmas dinner, Elizabeth will make roast beef withYorkshire pudding, mushroom gravy, a Waldorf salad, and potatoes au gratin. The groceries will be hoisted up to the second-floor kitchen on a dumbwaiter original to the house. There will be a lot of pie.

Over the years, Elizabeth has amassed 10 sets of plates, and she’s equally fond of holiday decorations. In addition to their children’s families, recently widened by a greatgrandchild, the holiday gathering will include Matthew Ling, a Chinese-born graduate of SUNY New Paltz whom Elizabeth and Taylor sponsored as a foreign student. He’s now married and a father, and considered part of the extended Thompson clan.

Contemplating the many parties over the years she’s put on at home, Elizabeth says that living “in this house has been such a pleasure. The spacious rooms with their high ceilings make entertaining seem meant to be. The Hudson river views are an added bonus and always make us feel thrilled to have found this wonderful property.”

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As the mercury begins to dive, we are faced with this recurring seasonal issue: what to do about that phantom Arctic draft that seems to perennially defeat the cozy winter warmth of our homes? Though the most direct response is, of course, to crank up the thermostat a few notches, that solution comes with consequences. No matter your fuel of choice—be it propane, electricity, oil, or even good-old wood—the costs are increasingly prohibitive. And, in most cases, a few extra degrees worth not only contributes to financial woes, but to environmental detriment on a much grander scale. So what to do besides reach for an extra sweater and wait for spring? Thankfully, there are an array of practical options.

That extra degree on the thermostat can be more significant than one might think, says Central Hudson’s Media Relations Director, John Maserjian. “Turning down just one degree can save up to three percent on fuel and heating costs,” Maserjian asserts. And that is just the first of many helpful suggestions that Maserjian and Central Hudson have to offer—many of which come at little or no cost to the homeowner. Foremost among them is an ongoing program presented in conjunction with NYSERDA, New York State’s Energy and Research Development Authority: State-approved contractors will conduct an onsite energy audit and assess where the gaps are in your home’s heating “envelope.” Up to $600 in rebates are available, directly through Central Hudson, for necessary home sealing work; and, if that isn’t enough to pique your interest, Central Hudson estimates an additional $400-600 in annual savings as a result. Additionally, there are a host of low cost, quick-fix possibilities that can make a palpable difference. Properly caulked window and doorframes exemplify the old adage “an ounce of prevention can be worth a pound of cure,” and installing energy-saving insulation gaskets behind light switches and electrical outlet plates will reduce heat loss along outside walls. Making sure that fireplace or woodstove flues are completely closed when not in use, and the installation of even the most basic of fireplace doors, can prevent precious warm air from escaping up the chimney. Finally, Central Hudson recommends sufficient insulation, primarily in attic spaces. New York State Energy Code suggests 10 to 12 inches of standard fiberglass insulation batts in attics for maximum efficiency. (For more information, visit Central Hudson’s dedicated site, www.savingscentral.com.)

A bit more up-front investment, particularly in insulating your home, can not only pay big dividends in the long-term; “green” contractors in the Hudson Valley offer choices that can reduce your environmental impact, as well. Among them are New Paltz’s William Wallace Construction (www.williamwallaceconstruction.com), who can furnish your home with a much more complete “envelope” with newly-developed blown-in cellulose insulation. “Not only is natural,” says Wallace, contrasting with the highly toxic spray-foam insulation that has been popularly used, “it’s actually less expensive.” Cellulose insulation is, in fact, made from 85-percent recycled paper, and a $1,500 federal tax credit is available to offset the costs of installation. Stay warm this winter!

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Litchfield County Past in Present

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Unspoiled Vistas, Charming Villages In Litchfield County, you’d expect to find tidy Colonials and village greens, welcoming wayside pubs and well-mannered citizens in towns with crisp, blue-ribbon names like Kent, Winsted, Barkhamsted, Bridgewater—and you’d be absolutely right. You’d expect to find creative folk of all sorts inhabiting an area so pretty that National Geographic Traveler ranks it among the world’s top 50 scenic places, and you’d be right again.

Nestled in Connecticut’s northwest corner about 40 minutes east of Poughkeepsie, Litchfield County is where Manhattan sleek meets New England pristine, and both sides win.

A trip to Litchfield County might be as simple as taking a drive—with 19 designated state parks and forests, finding unspoiled vistas of rolling hills and flowing waters is not difficult. But this is an area where humans have created some fairly spectacular sights and experiences as well, and odds are you will be drawn in—to a historic site, a shopping district, a gallery, a performing arts event. Largely tiny—most have populations of under 5,000—Litchfield’s towns have more than their share of charm.

Take Kent, for example. In 2010, Yankee magazine named Kent New England’s top leaf-peeping destination. For the competition, towns were judged on 14 criteria. Besides fall color, evaluators assessed scenery, vistas, water, drives, hikes, culture, farmers’ markets and farm stands, orchards, parks, covered bridges, lack of congestion, shopping, and a final combined category for food and lodging.

The leaves may have fallen, but the Kent Gingerbread Festival is in full swing this month. “Enjoy as we transform Kent 34 litchfield ChronograM 12/11

into an enchanted Gingerbread Village!” beckon promoters.

Fifty shops will display gingerbread creations in their windows and other holiday pleasures and promotions will be ongoing through December 31 in “a town where parking is free, merchants smile, and gift wrapping is always complimentary.”

Kent’s also got a vibrant arts community, ranging from New England tradition to the contemporary sensibilities of places like the Morrison Gallery, home gallery of Peter Woytuk, whose life sized bronze elephants and other assorted livestock currently grace Manhattan’s Broadway Mall. (“Peter Woytuk on Broadway” is featured in this month’s Portfolio, page 42.)

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Center, a wildlife sanctuary and nature center with 11 miles of hiking trails and raptor aviaries. Everyone’s invited to join a team for the Christmas Bird Count on December 18, or just stop by and meet the birds. North of Sharon lies Salisbury, where they like to race vintage cars and hold ski jump competitions, home of still more beautiful views, outstanding antique shops, cozy B&Bs, and historic wonders.

That is only one direction, and only three towns. And while the views, shops, B&Bs, history, and culture may be laced throughout Litchfield County like blueberries in a well-made muffin, the terrain does vary. Workaday development is largely concentrated in Torrington and New Milford, leaving the smaller towns free to retain their quaint, uncrowded charms; strict zoning and historic district requirements force even national chains to build outposts in keeping with the overall feel. Covered bridges abound—Litchfield has the highest concentration of them in New England, with an exceptional 1864 example crossing the Housatonic in West Cornwall, just to the east of Sharon.

Tourism has been a mainstay of this area ever since the Shepaug Railroad began running from Manhattan in 1872, so you’d expect a refined performance by now, and a decent inn can be found in just about every town. But in your wildest imaginings, you probably wouldn’t conjure Winvian, a resort with themed cottages including “Secret Society” and “Music” and one which houses a fully restored Sikorsky Sea King helicopter. You’d expect bookstores in a county with around two dozen private schools, but you might not expect 18 of them, half a dozen of which deal in rarities. And that’s Litchfield— consistently exceeding your expectations and everyone else’s.

Guardians of History The Northwest Hills have a history as colorful and flavorful as a farm market at harvest time. The first Europeans came here in the late 17th century, striking out on their own from the more settled Massachusetts Colony to build the magnetic small towns along the Housatonic River. From the first, brilliant and beautiful souls have been drawn there. As such people do, they have woven a dramatic tale indeed.

The first law school in America was founded in the town of Litchfield by Tapping Reeve, whose first pupil was Aaron Burr.

The school’s been closed since 1833, but the museum it has become offers a uniquely interactive program; try on appropriate garb and consider issues of the day in role plays.

The Underground Railroad ran strong through Litchfield County, and the Connecticut Freedom Trail will guide you to related historic sites around the region. Abolitionist John Brown was born in Torrington.

Iron mining was a massive force in the region’s economy, leaving traces that can still be seen. A variety of the resulting products can be seen in Kent at the museum of the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association.

Even when Litchfield County folk blow it, they blow it in grand opera style. Otherworldly example: the abandoned town of Dudleytown, near Cornwall. Begun in a not very hospitable spot to begin with and the scene of tragic crime, Dudleytown today is renowned among ghost hunters. Dan Ackroyd has called it “the scariest place in New England.” Ask any local what a truly massive pain this is. Mundane example: Architect Alfredo de Vito’s futuristic white house in Lakeville attracted such universal ire that no one dared inhabit it for years. That’s the Northwest Hills: even when they’re bad, they’re just so good at it.

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If you’re shopping for clothing or home décor, most Litchfield towns offer some worth checking out. Tiny New Preston, for example, is home to J. Seitz & Company, chosen as a textbook example of excellence in store design by the National Retail Foundation. The brainchild and life’s work of Bill and Joanna Seitz, the emporium offers a wide selection of refined treats—silk pajamas and slippers, and baubles “for her” and items of cedar, leather, and “clocks, caps, and curios” for “him” along with clothing, furniture, antiques and folk art. Also in New Preston is the Firehouse (“Fashion and Furthermore”) offering “sophisticated, easy style and great service” to those who come to peruse a selection that includes baby items, gifts and “personal treasures.”

Then there’s Nusport, located in Kent, credited by many reviewers with singlehandedly revolutionizing spa-wear with the meticulously designed, comfy gear dreamt up

by Don and Patricia Wilder Polley. At their Studio Store you’ll find the latest things, such as the “must-have Track Jacket, so beautifully made you wouldn’t want to sweat in it!” Fabrics are super-absorbent and eco-friendly, colors are cool and coordinated.

It’s not just about the latest fashion, either. The Antiques Dealers of Litchfield County guide lists over 70 dealers, scattered countywide in what the association casually mentions is “prolific territory” for fine old things. Just as most every town has its shops, most every town has historic landmarks to boast of, and there are half a dozen museums in the mix, including the Railroad Museum of New England in Thomaston. Thomaston was named for Seth Thomas of clockmaking fame, and retains a certain amount of industrial bustle along with its historic opera house—a classic New England manufacturing town, size small, spirit indomitable.

Lovely & Lively

No exploration of Litchfield County would be complete without Bethlehem, especially at this time of year.

Postal workers in Connecticut’s own Christmas Town hand-stamp and cancel scads of Christmas cards each year with their town’s special mark. Bethlehem is home to the Abbey of Regina Laudis, where visitors can marvel at an 18th-century Italian creche. The Abbey, founded by stage and screen actress Dolores Hart, is home to about 40 Benedictine women who pray the Liturgy of the Hours, round the clock, all year. The abbey is also home to The Gary-The Olivia Performing Arts Center, hosting summer theatrical productions in an open-area setting, and to an art shop where one can purchase the sisters’ pottery, candles, ironwork, artisanal edibles and other handmade goods. Don’t forget to pick up a copy of their Women In Chant CD if you like Gregorian.

Litchfield County is a place to fall in love with and revisit over and over. This time of year, the ski centers will be lively; in the summer, hot air ballooning is just one of a long, long list of outdoor possibilities, what with all those state parks and forests laced with running water.

(The largest multilevel waterfall in the state is located in Kent, and can be seen from Route 7). Festivals abound, year round. Good eats are also abundant, whether you want tradition (try the Hopkins Inn in New Preston) sushi (available at The Woodland in Lakeville) vegetarian (the Infinity Music Hall and Bistro specializes in farm-to-table yummies) or game dishes, which you will find at Adrienne in New Milford.

So the next time you feel an itch to wander a bit and need a mini-vacation’s refreshment, don’t forget there’s another world nearby, a world of sophistication, grace and unspoiled beauty. Lovely, lively Litchfield welcomes you with quiet confidence, well earned.

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Manhattan Menagerie In late October, the Kent, Connecticut-based sculptor, Peter Woytuk, known for his simplified forms of cattle, birds, goats, and sheep, opened an ambitious exhibition of bronzes at 17 locations along the Broadway mall between Columbus Circle and 168th Street. “Peter Woytuk on Broadway” features the artist’s signature whimsical creations. The exhibition, a collaboration between New York City Parks and Recreation, New York City Department of Transportation, Broadway Mall Association, and the Morrison Gallery of Kent, Connecticut, opened in late October and will be on display through March. (860) 927-4501; www.themorrisongallery.com.

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“Woven Stories.” Contemporary tapestries. December 10-January 20.

Opening Saturday, December 10, 6pm-9pm.

THE ART AND ZEN GALLERY 702 FREEDOM PLAINS ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3334.

“Retrospective Look @ Our First 5 Years.” December 1-January 30.

Opening Saturday, December 17, 4pm-7pm.

BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

“Anything Goes!” Members’ group show. Through December 9.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“The Hangover Show.” Carol Flaitz, Michael Gaydos, Carla Goldberg, Tom Holmes, Gary Jacketti, Kirsten Olson, Grey Zeien and Lisa Zukowski. December 10-January 8.

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“Migrations.” New Works by Lisa Zukowski. Through December 4.

THE BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS & ESTUARIES 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600.

“The Hudson’s Seasons & Spans.” Works by photographer Ted Spiegel. Through March 4.

CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490.

“Astrid Nordness: Contemporary Painting and Ceramic Art.” Through January 15.

“Richard Edelman: The Uninhabited Landscape.” Through January 15.

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“Hudson Valley Landscapes.” Tracy Helgeson, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Laura von Rosk, Richard Maresca, and Edward Avedisian. Through December 11.

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“Carbon.” Multimedia work of Charles Lindsay. Through January 29.

CENTERARTS GALLERY SUNY ORANGE, NEWBURGH CAMPUS, NEWBURGH 341-9386.

“Face to Face.” Assemblages by Bill Yost. Through December 9.

COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.

“Holiday Show: Small Works.” Through January 6.

DARKSIDE RECORDS AND GALLERY 782 MAIN ST., POUGHKEEPSIE 452-8010.

“Tea and Strumpets.” A vivid collection of paintings and photography inspired by Victorian ethics, haute fashion imagery, and french symbolist poetry by Kathleen Marie. Through December 18.

DARREN WINSTON 81 MAIN STREET, SHARON, CONNECTICUT (860) 364-1890.

“Seventeen Trees, Africa.” Photographs by Peter Bogardus. Through December 4.

DAVIS ORTON GALLERY 114 WARREN STREET, HUDSON www.DavisOrtonGallery.com.

“Photobook 2011.” Works by 20 photographers. Through December 18.

DIA: BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON (845) 440-0100 “Opus + One.” Jean-Luc Moulène. Through December 31, 2012.

DU BOIS CENTER 684 MAIN STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 644-9595.

“Bein’ Green: Why Every Color is Beautiful.” Original Muppets artwork. December 3-February 13.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN ST, BEACON 765-2199.

“Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me.” Through February 11.

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“A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum.” European drawings.

Through December 11.

GALLERY 135 135 WARREN STREET, HUDSON gallery 135hudson@gmail.com.

“Horses and Riders.” Paintings and drawings by Stef-Albert Bothma. Through December 20.

GALLERY AT DAVID DEW BRUNER DESIGN 610 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (914) 466-4857.

“Ceramics by Robert Pesce.” Through December 31.

GALLERY ON THE GREEN 3 MEMORIAL LANE, PAWLING 855-3900.

“Facets.” Works by John Nels Hatleberg. Through December 31.

THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700.

“American Masters.” Hale Johnson, John Traynor, Brother Thomas Bezanson. December 3-31.

Opening Saturday, December 3, 5:30pm-7:30pm.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438.

“25 Years in the Hudson Valley On Paper.” D Jack Solomon. Through December 10.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

“CIRCA 1986.” 70 artworks from more than 40 international artists who emerged with significant artworks between 1981 and 1991. Through July 31.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.

“Victoria Palermo.” Through December 4.

LYCIAN CENTER 1351 KINGS HIGHWAY, SUGAR LOAF 469-2287.

“Peer-Reviewed Photo Exhibit by Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop.” Through January 4.

Opening Saturday, December 3, 3pm-4pm.

GREEN COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS MAIN STREET, CATSKILL www.greenearts.org.

“Masters On Main Street Round 3.” Through January 30.

MILL STREET LOFT’S GALLERY 45 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

“Art Institute Senior Project Exhibit.” Through March 19.

THE MOVIEHOUSE 48 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON (860) 435-2897.

“The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” Photographs by Don Hunstein. Through February 16.

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“Delight.” Works of whimsy and watercolor, abstract and otherwise, by B. Zoe Rowan.

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“Buone Feste: Holiday Group Show.” Through December 31.

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“Ornamental Too.” Through December 23.

“Pre-Occupied: Installation by Paul McMahon.” Through December 23.

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“Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition I.” December 2-6.

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“Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II.” December 9-13.

Opening Friday, December 9, 5pm-7pm.

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“Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium.” Through December 11.

SCENIC HUDSON’S RIVER CENTER 8 LONG DOCK ROAD, BEACON 471-7477.

“American Bounty.” Paintings, pottery, jewelry, and glass. Through January 8.

SCOTT AND BOWNE FINE ART AND FURNISHINGS 27 NORTH MAIN ST. #1, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 592-0207.

“Carefully Selected Estate Finds for the Holidays: Antique to Contemporary Art, Tabletop, Serving, & Barware.” Through January 15.

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“In the Garden.” Featuring paintings from four artists who will address a garden theme.

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STOREFRONT GALLERY 93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON www.TheStorefrontGallery.com.

“Art of the Heirloom Exhibition.” December 3-31.

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“Magical: Mystical.” Connie Noelle, prismacolor: “Faiere 3” Christina Carp, acrylic: “After the Ark.” Through January 7.

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“Printmaking Works by Tom Blake and Patty Tyrol.” Through December 12.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Member’s Exhibit.” December 1-31.

Opening Saturday, December 3, 5pm-8pm.

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“Works by Women’s Studio Workshop Interns.” December 2-16.

Opening Friday, December 2, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940.

“The Holiday Show.” Through December 31.

“Shakespeare and Other Subjects.” Prints and Drawings by Milton Glaser. Through January 2.

WOODSTOCK BYRDCLIFFE GUILD 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.

“12th Annual 5 by 7 Show.” December 2-31.

Opening Friday, December 2, 5pm-7pm.

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R E F R A M E YO U R PAS T STREAMLINE YOUR PRESENT E M B R A C E YO U R F U T U R E

Music

the gospel truth The Shiloh Baptist Choir

By Peter Aaron Photograph by Fionn Reilly

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T

he November morning scene at Shiloh Baptist Church in Hudson is pretty much a picture-book example of the term “Sunday best.” The ladies sport fancy hats and bright outfits, the men and boys have on ties and their sharpest suits, and the little girls, their hair done up in braids with candy-colored beads, wear satiny skirts and dangle their shiny shoes beneath the pews. As the organ begins to fill the air with the stately hymn “Standing on the Promises,” a drummer adds some rhythm. And then a small group to the side of the pulpit, its female members draped in shimmering red robes to match the room’s regal decor, rises and begins to sing. The congregation joins in, and over the next two hours, amid the day’s prayers, announcements, and heartfelt sermonizing, there’s clapping and much more singing all around—along with many an “Amen!” The services here are always uplifting and jubilant, but on this occasion there’s added reason to celebrate.

While there are some time-tested musical groups in the Hudson Valley, not many have been performing for as long as the Shiloh Baptist Choir: Today, the choir and the church for which it’s named are celebrating their 96th anniversary.

“We don’t have a lot of written records from the early years of the church, but we do know that music has always been part of it,” says the Reverend Ronald Grant, the institution’s pastor, who shares the choir’s directorial and accompanist duties with his son Dwayne “D. J.” Grant. “At that time the congregation itself would have been the choir; back then everyone would just sing together with the minister. For generations Shiloh Baptist Church has been the hub of African American religious activity in Columbia County, and at one point or another every local family has been through here. We have about 150 active members in the congregation now, which is down from what it once was. But we do get visitors or new or returning members who say, ‘My grandparents, or my great-grandparents, used to belong to this church.’ And many of those ancestors also sang in the choir.”

Thanks to its patronage of Italian Renaissance painters, the Catholic Church has been credited with keeping visual art alive from the 13th to the 15th century.

And, similarly, thanks to their proliferation of gospel music, African American churches deserve the world’s undying gratitude for what they’ve done for modern Western music. For without gospel and the blues it sprang from, none of the popular music we’ve loved during the last 100-plus years—jazz, rock ’n’ roll, soul, funk, hip-hop—would exist. How so? Simple. All of these genres are rooted in the blues, and while the blues themselves have fallen in and out of favor with a public focused on their ever-morphing derivations, their steadfast, sanctified cousin has never lost its audience. Thus, it’s been America’s black churches—most of them small community organizations like Shiloh—that have preserved the blues form over the decades and provided the touchstone for the above descendant styles. It doesn’t take the most learned of ears to spot the similarities between the blues and gospel: the African-rooted call and response between the lead voice and accompanying instruments or singers; the use of moody “blue” notes and chords; the emotional delivery and intensely honest feeling. With its beginnings in the burdenlifting spirituals passed down from slavery days, gospel got a modern makeover in the pre-World War II years by the Reverend Thomas A. Dorsey, a former blues pianist who’d toured with the racy Ma Rainey and composed such double-entendre hits as “It’s Tight Like That.” Dorsey injected gospel music with rhythmic energy and penned the beloved standards “Peace in the Valley” and “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.” Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Little Richard, and countless other influential artists who followed have backgrounds in gospel and the church, many of them enjoying successful careers in both sacred and secular music. Today, gospel continues to inspire generations of worshippers and through its transcendental appeal is constantly being discovered by new listeners in search of something higher and deeper. (Witness the recent popularity of boxed sets like the Dust-to-Digital label’s Goodbye Babylon and Tompkins Square’s Fire in My Bones among the indie crowd.)

Grant grew up in Brooklyn, the son of North Carolina expatriates. His father became a minister when Grant was in his preteen years, by which time the younger Grant had begun learning piano. Not long after, he was playing organ for his father’s services and occasionally at a nearby storefront Pentecostal church. “It wasn’t our church, but they needed an organist,” he says. “It’s difficult to sit by when you know someone needs help.” Outside of his church duties Grant played blues and jazz, in thrall to his hero, Hammond organ great Jimmy Smith. After ending up in the Army and shipping out to Vietnam, he found himself stationed just outside Saigon during the Tet Offensive of early 1968. “That was a turning point for me,” Grant recalls.

“It was the morning after payday and I was sleeping, when a mortar shell landed nearby and knocked me right out of my bunk. While all of these explosions were going off I just laid there and prayed. I said,‘Lord, if you get me out of this I promise I will serve you.’ I got out of the Army a couple months later, but for a while there I really didn’t think I was gonna make it out [of Vietnam]. And now every time I

watch a war movie it brings me right back there. It reminds me of how good God has been to me.”

Nevertheless, it would be a few more years of inner wrestling before Grant followed through on his pact with the Lord. He studied business and resumed performing, working with soul singer Stephanie Mills and gospel icon the Reverend James Cleveland as he “tried to ignore” the calling. “I guess it was about 1976 that I finally decided to enter the ministry,” says Grant. “I enrolled at Corpus Christi University and became a minister formally in 1987.” His family, which includes his wife, Deaconess Yona Grant (a choir member), and their three sons, have been Hudson natives since the mid ’90s. A perhaps surprising sideline to the Reverend’s ministerial life is his parallel work in the field of law enforcement. Besides currently serving as Hudson’s police commissioner, Grant is on the board of the Columbia County Sheriff’s Department’s chaplaincy program, which he co-founded in 2006.

And the apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree: D. J. is himself a state police investigator. “When we’re not fighting sin, we’re fighting crime,” the elder Grant says with a laugh. “But in both situations you’re what I like to call a ‘lead servant,’ a facilitator of authority.You need to be conscious of how you serve and interact with people.You can ask them to build you a soapbox to stand on, but if you make them happy maybe they’ll put out a few extra nails in it for you.” As if his efforts with Shiloh and local police weren’t enough, in October Grant became president at large of the Empire Baptist Missionary Convention, an organization that oversees more than 400 of the state’s African American Baptist churches.

To many, black gospel music may be most synonymous with the region where it began, the American South. But the waves of migration that took place after the Civil War and during the 1930s and ’40s brought it to the Northern urban-industrial centers where large numbers of Southern-born blacks settled. In the Hudson Valley, besides Columbia County’s Hudson and Chatham, there are African American churches, with their own choirs, in cities like Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Catskill, Middletown, Peekskill, and Kingston. Previously located on Columbia Street, Shiloh Baptist Church moved into its present home, a former synagogue at 214 Warren Street, in the 1970s. Its smaller, mostly older congregation perhaps makes its services a little less unbridled than the sweaty, shout-filled summits of the Deep South.

But the music is no less deeply moving, and the atmosphere is warm and humbling.

Today’s anniversary program includes an interpretive dance segment by the colorfully costumed Shiloh Praise Dancers, and at one point during the service the choir members descend from their perch to shuffle-dance through the aisles.

This past May the choir made itself some new fans just a few blocks away, when the group, with Grant on lead vocals and keyboards, opened for the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama at Club Helsinki. “Whenever possible we try to connect the music we feature directly to the community,” says Helsinki co-owner Marc Shafler. “So, in the spirit of that, the Shiloh Baptist Choir was a natural opener. And the audience really loved them. The whole show was just such a heartening experience.”

“I always learn a lot from the Reverend’s sermons,” says choir member Celestine Chance, who shares her voice with the Hudson Valley Choral Society. “But actually I think the fellowship is what I like the most [about being in the choir].” And at Shiloh that fellowship, along with the gospel tradition, is being passed down to the next generation. In addition to its adult wing, the church has a youth choir, which performs on the third Sunday of each month and includes brothers Immanuel and Daniel Folds. “I’ve been with the choir for about five years, and I love the energy of the music,” says Immanuel, 16, who frequently accompanies the elder singers on drums. “Sometimes the tempo changes, but the meaning always stays the same.”

“Music has always been an integral part of our worship—which is open to all— because it makes a person feel good,” says Grant. “Music is rhythm, basically. And rhythm makes you move, which makes you feel good. So we try to have a lot of uptempo songs. The service is predicated on setting a tone, and on delivering God’s Word. The songs are the ‘singing Word,’ so we want people to receive that, and to feel good in the world.”

One might’ve expected that your music editor, a lover of gospel music but one from a different cultural background and, admittedly, by no means a regular churchgoer, might feel somewhat out of his element the first time he attended a service at Shiloh Baptist Church. Far from it. Instead, all he felt was loving, unquestioning friendliness from people who seemed honestly happy to meet him. And as a bonus he got to hear some truly wonderful music.

On the way out, another of the church’s officers, the Reverend Mable Grant, is all smiles and hugs. “You coming back next week?” she asks. “When are we gonna get you in the choir?”

The Shiloh Baptist Choir performs for church services on Sundays at 11am and Wednesdays at 7pm. (518) 828-6861.

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nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

Japanther December 2, 3. New York noise duo Japanther (Matt Reilly on bass and vocals and Ian Vanek on drums, vocals, and electronics) brings its conceptual art punk this month to EMPAC, a venue tailor-made for such experimental, multimedia doings. Commissioned in conjunction with the series Quote-Unquote: Experiments in Time-Based Text, this two-night residency by the band is touted as “an analog story of grand scale utilizing performance, live music, and animation [and] inspired by Walt Whitman’s ‘The Mystic Trumpeter.’” Consider our curiosity piqued. (Neil Rolnick presents “Scenes from MONO” December 1; JACK Quartet appears December 9.) 8pm. $18. Troy. (518) 276-3921; www.empac.rpi.edu.

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December 9. If you think Justin Townes Earle is skating by on the legacies of his namesakes—his dad, Steve Earle, and the late Townes Van Zandt—you obviously haven’t heard him. While his roots-country sound does hold hints of those two titans, along with the figures who influenced them, the younger singer-songwriter has clearly made his own way. And on this occasion that way finds his honey-rich tenor and alternately autumnal and rollicking songs at Club Helsinki in support of his fourth release, the stellar Harlem River Blues. Tristen opens. (Martin Sexton visits December 3 with Johnny Irion and Sarah Lee Guthrie; Duncan Sheik sings December 17.) 9pm. $22, $25. Hudson. (518) 828-4800; www.helsinkihudson.com.

Jimmy Webb December 10. One of America’s true pop songwriting legends, Jimmy Webb is the man behind such AM gold perennials as Glenn Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” the Fifth Dimension’s “Up, Up and Away,” and Richard Harris’s “MacArthur Park.” A member of the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Webb, who plays those and other hits at the Towne Crier this month, is also an underrated singer and keyboardist himself with dozens of albums to his name and earlier this year replaced Hal David as chairman of the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

(Caravan of Thieves sneaks in December 9; John Gorka returns December 18.) 8:30pm. $35, $40. Pawling. (845) 855-1300. www.townecrier.com.

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December 16. Currently readying its 10th album, Upstate roots-Americana quartet Donna the Buffalo is seemingly forever on the road. While working as a busy festival favorite in the warm season (including a slot at its own Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, held annually since 1991), the group is also a club juggernaut during the indoor months. And, this being December, it’s the latter mode that here sees DTB’s jammy stew of folk, rock, country, and Cajun warming the walls of the Bearsville Theater. (David Bromberg returns December 3; the band 3 rocks December 30.) 8pm. $25. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com.

Wu-Tang Clan December 20. What could be more holiday festive than an evening with the original WuTang Clan? Save for the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, this reunion hit at Northern Lights brings together the game-changing hip-hop collective’s founding lineup: Rza, Gza, Raekwon, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Inspecta Deck, U-God, and Mistah Killah. Along with the reconvening, this year brought the release of the outfit’s newest anthology, Legendary Weapons. Can we get a “Ho, ho, ho!” up in here? (Hatebreed brings more seasonal cheer December 1; Suffocation does the same December 16.) 7pm. $40. Clifton Park.

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cd reviews Chris Bergson Band Imitate the Sun (2011, 2 Shirts Records)

Many of those lucky enough to have been present for a legendary Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm’s home/ studio in Woodstock will immediately pick up on the evocative voice of Chris Bergson, a frequent opening act.

Imitate the Sun, the guitarist and singer’s sixth solo outing, is a hearty bouillabaisse of blues, soul, funk, and jazz influences. Bergson and his band, which includes Jay Collins (tenor and baritone sax), Bruce Katz (organ, piano), Matt Clohesy (bass), and Tony Leone (drums, percussion), clearly have chops to spare.

That being said, the most satisfying moments are the open spaces that put Bergson’s tough-buttender vocals in the lonely spotlight. For a performer born in New York and raised in Massachusetts, there is a definite Southern streak in his pipes. On the best tracks, like “Shattered Avenue” and “Laying It Down in White,” the instrumentation is spare; all the better to lose the listener in Bergson’s distinctive vocal. This template is stunning on “Shattered Avenue”; the desolate electric slide guitar gives searing resonances to lyrics like “so this is the life of luxury / overlooking KFC / Shattered Avenue don’t bother me.” However, it’s jarring when the next tune, “Hello Bertha,” sweeps away that louche, wastrel vibe with its jaunty Stax-style horns. The album suffers slightly from an overreliance on covers, which is puzzling, as Bergson’s original material seems more than capable of carrying the load on its own. The Chris Bergson Band will play on December 12 at Club Helsinki in Hudson. www.chrisbergson.com.

—Jeremy Schwartz

Michelle LeBlanc I Remember You (2010, Trebb Records)

From the swinging opener “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” by Cole Porter to the placid “I Fall in Love Too Easily” by Sammy Kahn and Jule Styne, Putnam County singer Michelle LeBlanc, in her throaty-yet-warm warble, revisits emotions that rush forward on I Remember You. Just as she’s done in her history-themed concert series (Jazz:The American Story, Women in Jazz) and commissioned stage shows (ELLA!), I Remember You relies on the reliable—standards to set a clock by that reflect an Americana not too distant in the memories of many listeners.

The singer’s playlist features 11 tunes crafted by masters of verse that are filled with love and longing—Porter (“You Do Something to Me”), Frank Loesser (“Never Will I Marry”), and Johnny Mercer and Victor Schertzinger with the title tune. Within her storytelling, LeBlanc, pianist and arranger Tom Kohl, bassist Bill Crow, reedsman Joe Stelluti, drummer David Jones, and percussionist John Arrucci put the accent on taste and comfort. LeBlanc tempers “The Masquerade Is Over” (famously taken at a high-stepping pace by saxophonist Lou Donaldson on his 1958 LP Blues Walk) with these words: “Your eyes don’t shine like they used to shine / and the thrill is gone when your lips meet mine / I’m afraid the masquerade is over.” LeBlanc looks back on I Remember You to a period when gathering close to the radio was an eventful Saturday night family activity and our faith was tethered to our country. www.michelleleblanc.com.

—Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson

Suddenland Suddenland (2011, Independent)

Do record labels like 4AD still have A&R people? If so, take note.Your destination? Kingston, NewYork.Your brilliant unearthing? Suddenland. Too far off the map? Your loss, but at least let them open up for your darling Blonde Redhead at the next gracing of our brightly lit Gotham to the south.With vocals spanning a quirky chasm from Chrissie Hynde to Bjork, and sonics and rhythms from Don Caballero to Cocteau Twins, Suddenland is Josie Baucom (piano, vocals), Kornelis Poort (guitar, bass), and producer-engineer Kevin McMahon (drums, guitar, bass).The record sucks you in, whole-soul, to the beautifully adventurous world of art rock. It’s abstract and ethereal, but not proggy or presumptuous.

There is an exploration of the journey and fearlessness of vision that embraces the listener.

Each turn is enhanced by layers of thought, as if the band is taking you on a ride while it constructs, burns down, and selectively gathers meaningful remnants from the ashes. The results range from glorious Nordic sound washes to Albini-esque stabbings of fleshy rawness. The amorphous and un hooky vocal melodies can be trying, but this is made up for by the stick-in-your-head guitar and piano riffs and the driving intent of the drums. The sound is wonderfully un-selfconscious, but completely engaged in deliberate orchestration. It’s quite a feat to pull this off amid a maelstrom of production choices and guest instrumentation. But to pull it off while infiltrating the perfection of anarchy with a devil-may-care attitude? Wünderbar. www.reverbnation.com/Suddenland.

—Jason Broome

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Paul La Farge’s Luminous Airplanes Lifts Off

By Nina Shengold Photograph by Jennifer May

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alfway between Paul La Farge’s weathered barn and colonial farmhouse in Red Hook, a small promontory tops a stone wall. It’s his habit to start every workday by standing there, gazing over a broad meadow rimmed by a stream on one side and a tall fringe of trees on the other. A morning meditation?”

“More like a morning celebration of getting out of New York,” says the acclaimed novelist and Bard professor. He and his wife Sarah Stern, co-artistic director of the Vineyard Theatre, bought the house in July. It was literally a dream come true—the couple had rented the farmhouse for two blissful summers. “We used to wish we could stay here forever,” La Farge says, beaming.

“And now we can.”

Someday they may even have time to finish unpacking. It’s been a busy fall for La Farge, whose new novel, Luminous Airplanes, debuted in October, garnering raves from the New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, and others. Usually a novelist’s work is done long before publication. But La Farge, whose previous books include The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999); Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001); and The Facts of Winter (McSweeney’s, 2005), has launched Luminous Airplanes in two different formats: a traditional print novel and a spectacularly ambitious online “immersive text,” to which he is still adding content.

The immersive text would doubtless fascinate Luminous Airplanes’ nevernamed narrator, a ‘90s-era computer programmer and erstwhile graduate student who leaves San Francisco to clean out his dead grandfather’s house in the Catskills, where he spent a series of summers while growing up. When he reconnects with neighbors Kerem and Yesim Regenzeit, a Turkish brother and sister who were—despite their families’ ongoing feud—his best friend and first crush, past and present collide in unpredictable, possibly dangerous ways.Also in the mix: twin mothers, an absentee father, the evolution of flying machines, and the Millerite cult who predicted (and dressed for) an 1844 Rapture that never occurred. When La Farge finishes uploading a decade’s worth of prodigious imaginings, the immersive text will contain many more storylines.

La Farge’s wire-rim glasses, silvering beard, and unruly dark hair suggest one of Chekhov’s eternal students. He’s a gracious host, offering a selection from “our large but idiosyncratic collection of teas” before sitting down at a kitchen table covered by a cheerful yellow ProvenÇal tablecloth to discuss his work.

He comes by the writing gene honestly: His father and stepmother are both fiction writers, his mother a psychoanalyst. Though his parents divorced when La Farge was just three, they maintained Manhattan apartments within walking distance to ease his commute. He often spent summers at his father’s country house near Windham, the locus in quo for Luminous Airplanes’ fictional Thebes, New York. (With such actual mountain hamlets as Athens and Cairo, it’s hardly a stretch).

La Farge is an old French name, and though the ancestral La Farges (including a Napoleonic soldier who moved to Haiti during Toussaint L’Ouverture’s revolution) were Catholic, the novelist’s family enrolled him in the Ethical Culture School. “I was raised nothing,” he says with a laugh. “I was raised a New Yorker; that is a religion.”

He lived in Manhattan for 17 years, then went to Yale, where he studied comparative literature, spending his junior year in Paris. “At the end of that time I had been happy enough for long enough that I thought it was possible to write fiction,” he says. One of his early stories evolved into an unfinished novel called O. “I would spend two hours every night after dinner, drinking wine and writing fiction. The thing just took off. As soon as I started it, it was like touching a power line. I thought, There’s no way I’m ever going to want to do anything else. This is what makes me happiest in the world. And that remains true.”

Nevertheless, he enrolled in an academic graduate program at Stanford, dropping out after a year to move to San Francisco. “I wanted a more intense involvement with fiction,” he says. “I didn’t want to share that energy with being in graduate school.” O, which he now concedes was “written in Pynchon’s shadow,” had swollen to 500 pages, and LaFarge was only halfway through his plot diagram. He felt stuck and frustrated.

Then he read Charles Bukowski’s short novel Pulp, and decided to spend two weeks writing something completely different. He completed the first draft of The Artist of the Missing in 15 days. “It was like the catch released from a spring,” he says. “Then I spent two years rewriting.”

The Artist of the Missing and its follow-up, Haussmann, or the Distinction, put him on the literary map. Set in Paris during the massive facelift engineered by its historical title character, Haussmann has the large-canvas sweep of a nineteenth century novel, with a distinctive postmodern conceit: La Farge bills it as a translation of a 1922 work by an obscure French poet and “tiny metaphysician” Paul Poissel.

The pseudonymous surname’s “origins are shrouded in mystery,” says La Farge, “but I do like the way it sounds.” He always refers to Poissel in the third person. “He’s a he, and I’m the scholar, the researcher who looks into his activities,” he explains. Haussmann’s afterword reproduces daguerreotypes from the Bibliotheque Nationale’s photo archives, concocting a deadpan faux biography for Poissel. La Farge even created a website for his alter ego, including “archival recordings” of him reading his work. Did La Farge provide his voice, or was an actor involved? “Also shrouded in mystery,” he says cheerfully.

Paul Poissel gets top billing on the bookjacket of The Facts of Winter, with La Farge credited as his translator. Its form is a series of prose poems, allegedly the dreams of various Parisians in the winter of 1881, plus a rambling scholarly afterword by the “translator.” La Farge, who had just moved back from San Francisco to a post-9/11 New York, found a welcome escape in the multileveled fiction.

“I feel like life is really complicated,” he asserts. “There’s so much going on in our experience, so many different layers going on all the time. Everyone who’s writing fiction seriously is trying to be honest about something, even when we’re simultaneously lying like crazy and trying to entertain the reader.”

McSweeney’s has just released a new edition of The Facts of Winter with illustrations by Walter Green; at a recent reading at Hudson’s ArtsWalk, La Farge refers to it fondly as “literary Stilton.” He adds, “You write what’s going to make your heart glad, and in my case, that happens to be 1881 prose poems by an obscure French writer, followed by a lengthy literary afterword.”

Or an evolving immersive text about a prodigal son’s return to the Catskills.

La Farge has a kid-in-a-candy-store enthusiasm for his new venture, and can’t understand why he seems to be flying solo. In a press release for Luminous Airplanes, he writes, “One of the themes in the novel is the invention of the airplane, and I keep saying to myself, OK, I’m the first one to do this—does that make me more like the Wright Brothers, or like the guy who invented the giant steam-powered bat, this monstrous thing that never got off the ground?

The truth is, I still don’t know.”

There was a brief vogue for “hypertext fiction” in the 1990s, but most of these were experimental in language as well as in form. Luminous Airplanes cross-breeds an emerging technology with a beautifully written traditional narrative. As its narrator says of the sole book he’s brought to Thebes, “Reading a novel, especially a contemporary novel, with its small stock of characters and situations, felt like being stuffed into a sleeping bag: it was warm and dark and there wasn’t a lot of room to move around.”

The immersive text unzips the sleeping bag, adding a vast pile of options.

“There’s a lot of trial and error involved,” La Farge admits. “Some of these sections have been in my computer for 10 years—I’m finally able to put them up there, so I can rearrange them.” Readers can also rearrange, reading sequentially and returning to browse various links, or entering links to side stories as they go along. It’s akin to the difference between playing an LP, with its preordained sequence of cuts, or downloading the same songs along with a huge trove of previously unreleased material, which you can play in whatever sequential, intuitive, or random order you choose.

LaFarge’s website contains a link to www.luminousairplanes.com, under the tongue-in-cheek header “Potentially Endless.” Eventually, the immersive text will include the entire 82,000-word novel, plus at least twice as much new material. “It contains the main story which runs through the book and goes on past the end of it, plus a few major side stories,” says La Farge. “When those are told, I’ll know I’m done.”

The imaginative challenge of organizing such an enormous canvas seems dizzying, but that’s just one hurdle. “You also need to have mastered some fairly tough programming language, or work with a programmer,” says Paul La Farge.

“I could not have done this myself, but I’ve been a programmer, so I know enough about the technology to know what’s hard and what’s easy. I want the interfaces to work. Even if it turns out to be a giant steam-powered bat.”

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2011 holiday ROUNDUP

Sick of watching the Yule Log on YouTube? Read! The Chronogram staff wraps up a dozen great gifts by Hudson Valley writers, artists, cooks, and photographers.

1950s Radio in Color: The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Edwards

Hudson River Towns: Highlights from the Capital District to Sleepy Hollow Country

Christopher Kennedy

photographs by Hardie Truesdale, text by Joanne Michaels

Kent State University Press, 2011, $49

SUNY Press Excelsior Editions, 2011, $29.95

As post-war pop made its big bang, radio’s Tommy Edwards was at the heart of the blast, shooting the boxes of stunning color slides unearthed by Warwick resident Kennedy for this lavish coffee-table opus. Movie stars (Rock Hudson, Tina Louise), still-wet-behindthe-ears rock ’n’ roll legends (Elvis, Chuck Berry), and equally fascinating never-weres (Bobby Colt? The Sprouts?) smile forth in glorious Ektachrome.

Truesdale and Michaels have harvested a feast of sights and observations and arranged them with artful care, delving into some of the region’s lesser-known wonders and bringing fresh perspective to familiar viewsheds.

Both are nuanced observers and expert framers and communicators; the result is a loving, honest homage to our area’s natural and civilized beauty.

Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges

Red-Robed Priestess

photographs by f-Stop Fitzgerald & Richard McCaffrey, text by Jane Woods

Elizabeth Cunningham

& Jane Mackintosh

Monkfish, 2011, $25.95

Universe Publishing, 2011, $50

Here’s a radical way to celebrate the 2012th birthday of that babe in the manger. Cunningham’s wildly popular Maeve Chronicles unspool a freewheeling feminist fantasia about an island-born, witch-raised Mary Magdalen; this fourth volume ties up the tale in “an impossible Celtic knot.” The author’s research is as broad as her imagination is uncorseted. Reading 12/4 at 3pm, Inquiring Mind, Saugerties.

Into logs? Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges is a sumptuous tour of those northern playgrounds of the rich.

Fitzgerald and McCaffrey capture their eccentric grandeur in photographs so warmly toned you can smell the Balsam. There are birch-bark walls, boathouses, antler chandeliers, and deft essays on architecture and history. Only quibble: no captions.

Such meaty photos ache for descriptions to yearn by.

The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts David McMillan, Frederic Morin, Meredith Erickson, Foreword by David Chang, photographs by Jennifer May Ten Speed Books, 2011, $40

Restaurateur David Chang describes Montreal’s Joe Beef as his “favorite restaurant in the world.” It’s not hard to understand why: Joe Beef is a fearless culinary enterprise, infusing classical French cooking with an adventurous and always tasty spirit. Recipes include a foie gras parfait and veal liver brisket. Chronogram contributor Jennifer May shot the gorgeous photos, which capture the restaurant’s rollicking atmosphere and deadly serious food.

Brilliant: White in Design Linda O’Keefe The Monacelli Press, 2011, $50

“White is immune to fads,” writes former Metropolitan Home creative director O’Keefe, who penned much of this elegant book in the Stone Ridge Library. In chapters named for white’s salient properties (Radiant, Pure, Seductive, Lucid, Harmonious, Neutral, Thoughtful, Natural) and more than 250 photos, Brilliant explores its timeless appeal, from marble temples to picket fences, feathers to snow. White Christmas, anyone?

The Byrdcliffe Cookbook: a Collection of Artful Recipes

by Residents of the Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, New York edited by Katherine Burger Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, 2011, $17.50

When artists gather, they eat. This lively gallery of shared-kitchen recipes, garnished with artwork and anecdotes, will bring back memories for those who joined that carrot soup-fueled Philip Glass conga line, and create new ones. Some recipe titles contain whole storylines (Rain Chili, Love-Sick Fish Dish), while others sound simply delicious (Fennel with Anchovies and Sambuca). Contributor bios and websites inspire further browsing.

Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson Mike Freeman SUNY Press Excelsior Editions, 2011, $24.95

Fresh from a decade’s sojourn in Alaska, a budding curmudgeon/ philosopher/social critic/historian with a gift for the language takes two weeks off from stay-at-home fatherhood to canoe the Hudson from the Adirondacks to the Palisades. Hilarious, deep, politically incorrect when wisdom and honesty demand it, Freeman transcends both sugar-frosting and despair, getting straight to the heart of many a matter.

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Rock Seen Bob Gruen, introduction by Debbie Harry Abrams, 2011, $45

Rock and roll’s Zelig-with-a-Nikon enjoys a singular status among music photographers: the trusted outsider allowed in.

Through his nice guy demeanor and calm chutzpah, Gruen got unparalleled access to a dizzying range of stars, from John Lennon to Led Zeppelin to the Clash. Rock Seen’s images span four decades, offering dazzling performance captures and touching offstage scenes.

To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays Gertrude Stein, illustrations by Giselle Potter Yale University Press, 2011, $25

Did someone put hashish in the birthday cake? Stein’s 1940 work for children, with its Cubist syntax and sometimes disturbing imagery (self-immolating cannibal rabbits?), was long considered unpublishable, even though lines like “So the lily Leslie’s little lily had its last birthday” are made to read aloud. Rosendale illustrator Potter’s creamy neoprimitive paintings play nicely with Stein’s wiggy text.

Weep, Shudder, Die: A Guide to Loving Opera Robert Levine It Books, 2011, $20

If the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice or a Bardavon HD broadcast whets your appetite for operatic passions, Levine’s breezy, user-friendly guide makes a great amuse-bouche.

Packed with trivia, lore, and dozens of libretto synopses, this slender book is informative but never starchy, a love letter from an exuberant fan who “can’t understand why people don’t sing—opera and otherwise—all the time.”

Bravo, Maestro Levine!

Vegan Holiday Kitchen Nava Atlas, photographs by Susan Voisin Sterling, 2011, $24.95

Thanksgiving without the turkey? Matzo balls without schmaltz? No problem! Meatless maven Atlas offers more than 200 recipes made for sharing on “stay home and cook” holidays. Gluten, soy, and nut free recipes are thoughtfully labeled, and even omnivorous guests will be tempted by Sweet Potato Biscuits, Red-Wine Roasted Brussels Sprouts, and Cashew Chocolate Mousse Pie. As Atlas writes, “May all be fed!”

Experience What will you experience at Mirabai?

The Uninnocent Bradford Morrow

Pegasus Books, 2011, $25

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The first truly readable and useful translation of the venerable Buddhist classic by Master Någårjuna—with extraordinary commentary that brings the Truth of the Middle Way into the 21st century

The Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Wisdom (or Verses) of the Middle Way) was written by Master Någårjuna, an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the 2nd century C.E. It is said that Mahåyåna Buddhism had arrived at its golden age at that time and that Någårjuna was considered the highest authority in Buddhist society. The Mulamadhyamakakarika is revered as the most conclusive of his several Buddhist works. Its extraordinarily precise and simple expression suggests that it was written when Master Någårjuna was mature in his Buddhist practice and research.

GUDO WAFU NISHIJIMA is a Japanese Zen Buddhist priest who began practicing zazen as a teenager. He is the author of several books on Zen Buddhism in Japanese and English. He is also a notable translator of Buddhist texts. Working with Chodo Cross, Nishijima compiled one of the three complete English versions of Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo. Nishijima was ordained as a priest by the late Master Rempo Niwa, who was head of the Soto Sect in Japan. During the 1960s Nishijima began giving regular public lectures on Buddhism and Zen meditation. He taught in English and Japanese for four decades. In 2005 he retired from lecturing and now devotes his time to writing and publishing a blog about Buddhism: www.gudoblog-e.blogspot.com/. He celebrated his 91st birthday in 2010.

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he Uninnocent, the first collection of short fiction by acclaimed novelist and Bard professor Bradford Morrow, is a latticework of strife and doom upon which glimmering buds of insight open. In “Tsunami,” a news-addicted Methodist woman, secure in her rationale for killing her swaggering, blowhard husband, describes the cycle of life with mordant clarity: “Dark before, dim during, black afterward.”

Sins of childhood, of inexperience, or of pride and vanity do not simply disappear for Morrow’s linecrossers—and justiceOhobbles its path with a cogent yet not entirely scrutable agenda. A perpetrator of incest is destroyed years afterward by his middle-aged sister; in another story, a bullying brother is drowned; in yet another, grandma’s know-it-all boyfriend plays the parenting role with two much force and is shot. Readers of this author’s seductive, symbol-layered prose are not likely, however, to spend too much time weighing the victims’ faults and scratching their heads over the moral calculus. His protagonists have a convincing quality, and we are lulled by their quasi-objective analyzing of their own circumstances.

At the same time, we come to expect an authorial ruse, and the sudden turnabouts can be quite rich. “All the Things That Are Wrong with Me,” the tale of an animal hoarder whose mountain lion escapes and attacks a child, is told in the form of an essay that has been assigned by a psychiatrist. The young narrator cannot repress his indignation: “The kid lived, but poor Kitty was destroyed for no good reason….A crackhead lawyer and some wiggy psychiatrist who steered me here so I could hang out with all you bozos, doesn’t mean that my menagerie was a crazy idea. Far from it—I think I was well on my way to creating a small piece of heaven there. That I couldn’t pull it off is just one more of the things that are wrong with me.”

The worlds Morrow delves are painfully insular and microcosmic. The young man who commits fratricide in “The Hoarder” escapes punishment and finds his small piece of heaven running a miniature golf course and collecting snow globes. In “Gardener of Heart,” an archaeologist at the funeral of his twin sister recalls his life’s most intimate moment being the time he telephoned her upon his Greco-Roman discovery of the bones of a mother cradling a baby preserved in earthquake rubble.

In the book’s final story, “Lush”—an eloquent rendering of genteel alcoholism—the sober Ivy offers this observation: “Isn’t it crazy how stupid young people are, and how inevitable is the downfall, the comeuppance, how when we’re young we know we’re smart and when we’re older we know we’re not, and how there must be an instant when the transition takes place.”

In keeping with her namesake, the dark-leafed, traversing plant that can survive for hundreds of years, Ivy, whose face was scarred in a boozeengendered auto wreck, has an elevated vantage point. Her take on the linkage of people and events has a degree of plausibility not found in the book’s other characters. Her opinion on youth serves as the story collection’s punctuating statement. Indeed, one may feel enjoined to turn back and redirect the empathy expended on the array of lost souls and lonely hearts encountered in the previous pages.

Readers of The Uninnocent, stirred to thoughts of their own transition from innocence, may feel a need to remind themselves that their own lives are larger and less static than these perfectly realized fictional ones.

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MIDDLE WAY Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our January issue is December 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first).

Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.

Dad: Where were you when you got stung by the bee?

Treme: Right next to the bee.

a deep and restless hunger a hollow you can not fill —p

—Treme Wilson (2½ years)

Against Closure

Litterbug

Potty Training

Doors close mouths close cases close chapters close

A trail of broken hearts, behind her

A little throne sits on the floor just inside the bathroom door.

It’s time for diapers to be gone.

Potty training time’s begun.

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hearts.

I will forget the side of a room for you.

Then I will remember it later when I am in that room again.

I will be standing in another part of that room.

The ceiling will connect my memories.

And you will make me think the ceiling is a wall.

Just because death wounds doesn’t mean it is bound to also heal.

The wheel may spin but there is no guarantee it will go full circle just as there is no pot of gold at the end of each last blazing rainbow— only a vague memory of color in a pair of sightless eyes.

—Catherine Wald

August, 1977 At daybreak, the air thick, heavy with mourning doves and the crescendo buzz of locusts; clammy sheets twisted out of tuck, hair sweat-plastered to skin, random strands dancing in a box-fan breeze.

—Tricia Mazzocca

—Mitchell Flanagan

—Brian Loatman

Dream Log #17.8: Wish you were here.

I don’t dream anymore.

Please send help.

—Joanna Vogel

And Along Came Inundation and the rains and deluge began and a creekside house floated and debris broke from the house and the debris clogged the drainage ditch and the creek rose up and it flowed into our house without a basement and the slippers started floating and the filed papers were ruined and we got a few things and evacuated and I went back in to get some forgotten thing and the water rose higher and my knees were soaked and the week went on and the water receded and the mud was settled and layered over everything and the neighbors and children helped and we carried everything out and we carried it back in and we scraped and we swept and we brushed and we mopped and we came back to stay in the house and we washed the mold on the walls and he replaced the ceiling tiles and we replaced the drowned stove —Marilyn Lazarus

Her pudgy legs and backside bare take her to this fancy “chair,” bedecked with plastic jewels glued on.

It plays a tune and sings a song.

Upon the wall behind her head’s a sticker chart with columns red and titles on the top in blue for “#1” and “#2.”

You can tell she is quite skilled.

The chart with stickers bright is filled.

And she, with pride, invites us in— so we can watch—our praise to win.

But then one day when I am there, All she hears come out is air.

There is no tune to greet that sound.

She stands up and she turns around.

No sticker for this will she get.

There is no column for that yet.

With anger, she points to the chart, “Why is there no place for my fart?”

—Rosalind Spar

Blank Spaces A calendar for the coming year arrives.

It has photos of ibex and honeybees, and all those empty spaces.

That half of this year’s gone saddens me, as after making love, the smoke I crave is now a phantom cigarette.

August is over and summer in its fading fullness climbs toward autumn like an aging, overweight man going up the stairs, pursuing visions he’ll no longer grasp.

Now the only moan is the stairs as he mounts them, catches his breath, sinks slowly into fall.

—John Hopper

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Gods Galore

Passing Occasions

Le Decembre en Gris

One god two gods three gods four my god your god gods galore save us help us pray some more five gods six gods seven gods more sunday monday tuesday wednesday kneel and stand or kiss the wall the order we have is just too tall peace and hunger pain and war eight gods nine gods ten gods more but what if god is just folklore?

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The forgotten squall yields to the expectation of the breast.

The winter clouds are awash in the black and silver of a photographic plate.

—M. Hotvedt

Head Home Before you strip a plum to its seed, lick your lips— and before you pitch it into the cool spring night woods, oh do it, do it again.

—Andy Fogle

idle Witness He watches, spinning planets like coins, uselessly omnipotent; while a game of hearts quickly turns into landmines.

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The demands of convention insist on a meaningless education.

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The insistence of flesh exposes the frailty of longing.

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The inevitability of war reveals the delusion of invincibility.

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The struggle for subsistence shatters the promise of romantic love.

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The failure of expectation leads to the corruption of values.

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The return to infancy longs for the comforts of the breast.

—Cliff Henderson

Two Years After My Father’s Death: Even though out words were once sharp edges Deep painful gashes And heart flesh left hanging There are some things that I would tell you now.

About the mysteries And there are secrets.

Today I discovered the hollow beyond the nearby ridge Had you once walked there?

And the edge of the green river Has called to me I come often.

There are mysterious roots and sweetly shaped stones.

I listen To the sounds along old hidden trails Had you also heard the wind mourning?

I would wait then And hope that you would look at me.

—Barbara Threecrow Purcell

I chose voluntary poverty.

Old cars. Oatmeal.

Counting before buying.

A twelve-dollar wreath is gaudy and conventional, but it’s for the Boy Scouts.

Krakauer’s wilderness is a life away, where the mountains speak in cloud and storm.

Days snowbound, sky and tea water.

All my poetry is true— how could it not be?— except in the first person.

A man who lives nearby hung a deer by the pasterns from a basketball hoop.

Proud father, his daughter stepped from the school bus, sobbing upon first sight.

I bring the wreath inside.

The kids know where it goes, hung to the door in twilight.

This film is in black and white.

Celluloid, where the proud and the wounded play.

—Steve Clark

Supermarket Dutchman Scarred chrome Blacktop warrior Wheels a-flutter, gravity drawn Wind tossed, traveling Last mailer flapping In your empty hold.

Gulls wheel Above the expanse Driven to wreck Upon the fender of my Blazer.

—J. A. Lindholm

A Strategy For Peace In The Holy Land share it —Richard Donnelly

—Erin Davis

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Town of Newburgh

Crossroads of the Northeast

by Anne Pyburn photos by David Morris Cunningham

It’s been called the Crossroads of the Northeast. And indeed, the more-or-less central nexus of the Town of Newburgh, where the New York Thruway and Interstate 84 meet with Route 300 not far from Route 17K, is a crossroads on a grand scale, modernized in recent years until it feels far more “downstate” than most of the Hudson Valley.

One of the newest features: a dedicated highway, Route 747, that speeds you simply and directly to Stewart, a tidy little international airport that’s handy and simple enough to make flying painless.

In this, as in a surprising variety of other areas, the Town of Newburgh has what you need. It’s as if, when the communities of the Valley lined up to receive their varied blessings, a good fairy with a practical turn of mind pulled this town into her embrace and whispered, “You shall be useful.”

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Surrounded by the workaday world of the Crossroads of the Northeast lies New York’s Other City. Head to Newburgh—the city—for symphony or opera. Drop by the Ann Street Gallery for high tea and contemporary art. See legendary jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli at the Ritz Theatre, part of the Tom Humphries Guitar Series. Chow down on barbecue and burgers that melt in your mouth at the Wherehouse, or on Zagat-rated Italian at Caffe Macchiato. Have a beer at Gully’s floating restaurant and watch the sun sparkle on the river.

Come to the Downing Film Center for a free showing of Joyeux Noel.

Bask in the renovated glory of the Railroad Playhouse for a performance of David Sedaris’s “Santaland Diaries.” Explore the effect of 4,000 National Historic Register buildings gathered in one small city.

Come to the Newburgh Free Library Gallery or the Karpeles Document Museum. Check out the websites of the Newburgh Preservation Association, Newburgh Restoration, and Newburgh Revealed to study up on new urbanism in action, or the City of Newburgh Arts Calendar to get an overview of what’s doin’. But whatever you do, don’t miss out completely on the Queen City of the Hudson.

And stay tuned—newly elected mayor Judy Kennedy says it’s time Newburgh got her game all the way back. “For two whole days after the election, my iPhone voicemail was literally running over and I was getting a constant stream of calls,” says Kennedy. “So many people are so excited about Newburgh’s potential right now. I’ve been spending my days in rooms full of enthusiastic people. We need to build a business district around the architecture, the location, the art. We have so much here, and so much more to come.”

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Growing

Businesses

To hold their own in the boiling cauldron of development that characterizes this area, a place needs to offer something special.

Devitt’s Nursery, for example. A humble Agway in my youth, Devitt’s is now a 25-acre horticultural center and full-service nursery selling every imaginable landscaping need. Yet Devitt’s hasn’t forgotten its humble roots. What may be the only giant talking Christmas egg on earth, Eggbert, still presides over Christmas on the Farm. Still other types of gardening needs can be met at Crossroads Hydroponics and Organics, a brand new retail store specifically for the indoor gardener.

Newburgh’s even got a place, Newburgh Power Equipment, where one can shop for gardening equipment and motorsports fun—go-karts and minibikes—at the same time.

The stable where my parents used to bring me for trail rides on humble hacks has morphed and grown up into Gardnertown Farms, an indoor/ outdoor facility featuring A-rated horse shows, lessons, camp, and polo.

New Windsor also hosts the Hudson Valley’s first official Airsoft field, where you can do paintball battle in a destroyed city for that genuine post-zombie-apocalypse thrill.

For devotees of truly indoorsy sports, Steve’s Pool Tables Plus in New Windsor offers pool, darts, and poker supplies, and all the furnishings and trimmings. And your next party for the younger set will be one they’ll remember after you’ve gotten hip to the existence of Bounce Arena Party Rentals, where you’ll find not just bounce houses but obstacle courses, waterslides, joust arenas, and a trackless train. An awe-inspiring selection of unique and educational gifts for the occasion can be found at Teachntoys.

Truly, one can visit the greater Newburgh area and bring home the good times. Need flowers? Indoor Jungle and Good Old Days are just two of your choices. Wine? MidValley Wine and Liquor is family owned and local since 1977, with a selection of 7,000 wines and 1,000 spirits.

Pet supplies? Positively Pets, United Pet Supply and the Pet Stop at the Mid-Valley Mall are all worth checking out. In Newburgh and New Windsor, it’s all about selection—within minutes, you can visit multiple superstores and eyeball a range of options.

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The area is rich in military history—a lot happened around here during the Revolutionary War, and one of the most poignant happenings is commemorated at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, a moving tribute to the recipients of the medal that is “available to all, desired by none.� At Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site in New Windsor, they’ll be reenacting Christmas 18th-century style on Friday December 16, complete with costumed guides and period music.

Newburgh’s 45 square miles wrap around the City of Newburgh to the north and west, and vary widely: There is the stately hamlet of Balmville, home of the prestigious Powelton Club, one of the 10 oldest golf courses in the United States, and of the Balmville Tree, an old-growth eastern cottonwood dating to 1699, and there are the venerable and solidly middle-class residential zones like Gardnertown and Meadow Hill. To the west and south lie long, gleaming sprawls of commercial development, offering a wide selection of national chains along with some of the pluckiest and most outstanding locally grown family businesses in the region.

Newburgh has subspecialties—certain categories of business that thrive here and may not be easy to find in other parts of the Hudson Valley. Motorsports, for example. Resources and points of interest abound, and they’re top of the line: the Motorcyclepedia Museum, with 85,000 square feet of exotic rides on display, and Orange County Choppers, for those who like their bikes with a side of family drama, are serious fun—and for those looking to do more than just observe, there’s Jim Moroney’s, a family-run motorcycle “superstore� over half a century old, and Overdose Motorsports in nearby New Windsor. If you’re seeking four wheels, Newburgh and New Windsor both offer acres upon acres of choices; Newburgh’s even got its own auto auction.

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Town Clerk Andy Zarutskie, a lifetime native, says a combination of factors make Newburgh the thriving business-and-bedroom boomtown that it is. “This is God’s country,” he says without hesitation. “You want history, we’ve got wonderful history. We’ve got terrific parks— Cronomer Hill, with that amazing view, the Mid-Hudson all laid out before you. Chadwick Lake—we just added a roller rink and basketball—families can come and picnic, rent a boat, fish, and a season pass is very affordable.

“But the best thing about the town has to be the people. The volunteer firefighters, the Rotary, the people that do the senior programs—people in this town, we’ve got each other’s back. It’s a deeply good place.”

Zarutskie then asks about my mom. I grew up in the Town of Newburgh, gazing across the valley from Cronomer Hill (now highly rated for stunt biking opportunities by the Fats in The Cats organization) and filling stringers with panfish from Chadwick Lake while my dad rowed. Andy Zarutskie, a lifelong Republican stalwart, has fond memories of my mom, a fire-breathing preservationist somewhere to the left of Jimmy Carter. Both adore my cousin, town historian Les Cornell, not easily categorized. Gadflies and established-order types lock horns here as everywhere—but at the end of the day, they are neighbors first, last, and always.

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Need a break from all this civilization? Head toward the river in New Windsor and you will find the Kowawese Unique Area at Plum Point, a 102-acre county-owned park with stunning river views and 2,000 feet of sandy riverfront to walk. Or take in a first-run movie; between the 11 screens at Showtime on Route 300 and the 12 at New Windsor’s Destinta, there’s probably something showing to suit every taste. Or consider heading into the City of Newburgh, a distinct entity and yet somehow still the region’s heart and soul—at the foot of Broadway, the Newburgh-Beacon Ferry offers 20 elegant and relaxing minutes on the river for just $3, complete with stunning views. What better way to end your sojourn than a voyage on the Crossroads of the Northeast’s original highway, after all?

Wine & Dine

If you need a bite to eat after all that playing and shopping, you’re in a veritable Mecca of dining. Rather than opt for the nearest chain— although if you fancy that, a great many are represented—you can enjoy the hospitality of an indie operation such as Cosimo’s or Il Cenacola, both of which offer excellent Tuscan fare. Yobo, offering fine Asian from Japan, Indonesia, Korea and every Chinese province, is another great choice for feast-style dining out. Citrus offers Indian and Thai food. And these are just a few standouts: wandering the highways of the region, you’ll encounter a kaleidoscope of places to shop, eat, and drink.

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ince 1981, Leo’s Italian Restaurants have been serving authentic Italian food in the Orange County area. We invite you to join us for lunch or dinner daily. We have a full menu, including pizza, hot & cold subs, pasta, seafood, veal, chicken, appetizers, salads, beer and wine. In addition to a full menu, Leo’s caters for all occasions, whether in our location or yours.

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Hummingbird Jewelers is your year round source for unique designer jewelry from around the globe. This holiday season we have worked hard to find beautiful wearable art that is impeccably made, beautifully designed and affordably priced. These three artists all come from classic training but each has evolved a style and aesthetic that is uniquely their own.

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Our customers comment that each time they visit, they find something they’ve never seen before. It’s true! We scour shows/secret sources to find cool, hip and very affordable jewelry, scarves, bags, Trollbeads, frames, toys and other things people love to give and receive. Our collection focuses on the beautiful, practical, smart.

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Fine Clocks, Handcrafts and Collectibles Hickory Dickory Dock is a wonderland of fine clocks, handcrafted children’s toys and heirloom quality seasonal decorations from the USA and abroad. For nearly 25 years, we have represented the finest American crafters, including Howard Miller, Byers’ Choice and Lynne Haney. We have travelled extensively through Germany, establishing direct import relationships with the first families of German handwerk.

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At Roudigan’s we take great pride in our steaks. All of our beef is center cut from the finest corn-fed Midwestern steers USDA “CHOICE” or better. Our steaks are aged a full 28 days to perfection, hand cut to Roudigan’s exact standards, then char-broiled to your liking.

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‘Tis the Season

A Guide to Holiday Events

By Lindsay Pietroluongo

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lassical Italian carols. Afternoon tea with the Claus family. Shimmering, lush mansions with ornate Christmas trees. Puppet shows of your treasured childhood stories. Holiday music from the Baroque period. And is that the Mouse King scurrying down the hallway?

During everyone’s favorite time of the year, the HudsonValley mixes and mingles the best parts of Christmastime from the second that Thanksgiving leftovers are gone and December kicks off. Charming towns host twilight tours and candlelit walks. Specialty stores peddle delightful handmade stocking stuffers. Kids gets a dose of the stories that parents have loved for generations, thanks to performances of “The Nutcracker” and rides on the Polar Express. Plus, there’s a new few tricks up the sleeves of event planners this year—ice carvings, gingerbread monuments, and cozy trolley rides. Whether you’re craving traditional carols, a gourmet meal, interactive tours or glittery, glistening pine trees, the Hudson Valley will keep you busy all throughout December.

Poughkeepsie Celebration of Lights On Friday, December 2, Poughkeepsie hosts its annual winter celebration with tree lightings, parade, and fireworks. The festivities kick off at 4:30 pm in front of the Salvation Army at 19 Pershing Avenue for the first tree lighting. The parade begins from Main and Garden Streets to the second tree lighting at Main and Market Streets at 6:30 pm. There are two more tree lightings, and fireworks viewable from the Walkway over the Hudson at 7:15 pm. A free concert on the Bardavon’s Wurlitzer pipe organ at 7:30 will be followed by a screening of Richard Donner’s adventure comedy The Goonies (1986) at 8 pm. Seats are $5. www.bardavon.org.

Christmas Music in Rhinebeck George Conrad and Joel Flowers will perform their first-ever holiday concert, “Cathedral to Carol: A Holiday Celebration,” on December 29 and 30. Songs will include well-known holiday carols plus classical pieces like “Pieta Signore” and “Gesu Bambino.” On December 22 and 23, guitarist David Temple will perform holiday music that spans five centuries, from the Renaissance to modern times. Shows start at 8 pm. Tickets are $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-3080; www.centerforperformingarts.org.

Holiday Events at Boscobel Santa Claus believers will flip out over Children’s Tea with Mr. and Mrs. Claus on Sunday, December 11.The Missus will read storybooks aloud while Santa listens to the Christmas wishes of your little ones. Sandwiches, sweet treats, cambric tea, and hot chocolate will be served. Starts at 2:30 pm; open to children ages 5 to 12, accompanied by an adult. Admission is $25 per person. Holiday House Tours are held every day in December, except for Tuesdays, from 10am to 3pm. Guides will take you through the 19th-century home and explain yuletide traditions of long ago. Tours are one-hour long; reservations not required. (845) 265-3638 x.115; www.boscobel.org.

Cold Spring by Candlelight Bundle up for the self-guided walking tour of historic homes and sites during the 9th annual Cold Spring by Candlelight. Too much of a chill in the air? Dip into a boutique to get toasty and pick up holiday gifts or hop on the trolley to tour the sites in comfort (rides are only 50 cents each). Caroling and holiday music, storytelling and a visit from St. Nick himself will get you in the Christmas spirit. Don’t miss the ice carving demonstrations from 1 to 4 pm. Saturday, December 3, noon to 5 pm. Proceeds from “Candlelight” will go to help fund programs and services with people with developmental disabilities in Putnam County. (845) 278-7272; www.coldspringbycandlelight.com.

Frozendale Support local art, music, and business at the sixth annual Frozendale Festival in Rosendale.

Take the kids to one of the two free showings of Mary Poppins at the Rosendale Theatre and then to the Old Man Winter puppet show at the Black Bird Puppet Theatre. Live music includes performances by Carl Welden and the Voce Ensemble, Emily Curtis, Andrea Maddox, and the Szelrosza band at the Rosendale Cafe, and blues by Karl Kelbaugh and the Big Blues Band. Don’t miss Light Up the Trestle at 6pm. Hayrides, Santa and his elves, a library book sale, handmade gifts at the craft crawl and cookie making round out this packed, festive day. Main Street, Rosendale. December 10, 11 am to 6 pm.

A Gilded Age Christmas at the Staatsburgh Historic Site The Mills Mansion gets a rich, lavish makeover for Christmastime. House tours run Thursday to Sunday, 11 am to 4 pm. Evening hours on Friday, December 16 from 6 to 8 pm. Tours run thru December 31; closed on Christmas Day. Solve the Holiday Whodunit with your kids on Sundays from 1 to 4 pm. The “History-Mystery” lets kids explore the mansion and interact with costumed actors. $8 for adults, children 12 and under get in free. Reservations aren’t required. Old Post Road, Staatsburg.

(845) 889-8851.

Hawthorne Yuletide Fair This year’s Hawthorne Yuletide Fair includes a Gingerbread Content and Auction.

But these aren’t your regular ol’ run-of-the-mill gingerbread houses. Entries are as varied as airplanes, the Empire State Building, and my personal favorite, a house of gingerbread cards. Plus, you can browse more than fifty vendors and artisans, munch on delicious snacks, watch puppet shows, and sign your kids up for children’s activities. 330 County Route 21C, Ghent. Free admission. (518) 672-5808.

Holiday Events at Locust Grove What’s better than a holiday tour of a beautiful, historic home? A four-course dinner to wind down the night. A Twilight Holiday Tour will be held on Saturday, December 3 at 5:30 pm. After strolling the grounds by candlelight, find your way to the Museum Pavilion for a historically inspired meal by Charles Fells of the Artist’s Palate. Tickets are $110; parties of eight are $800. Decorated Mansion Tours will be held Saturdays in December and the week following Christmas. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for children under 12. Kids can search the mansion for the Nutcracker Prince, the King of Mice, and the Sugar Plum Fairy on Sundays in December. Once all the clues are found, storytelling, cookies, and cider will be held in the Museum Pavilion. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for children. The “Nutcracker” event is held every hour, on the hour from noon to 4 pm.

(845) 454-4500.

Polar Express Ride the Polar Express along with Santa Claus and his elves on Saturday, December 3, from noon to 4 pm at the NewYork State Trolley Museum’s Santa Run. Hop on the Express again on Monday, December 19th from 5 to 7 pm. at the Hyde Park Station.

The evening includes a reading of the “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” crafts, and refreshments. www.tmny.org Unison Annual Arts and Crafts Fair The Unison Arts Center will be holding its 21st Annual Craft Fair on December 3 and 4 from 10 am to 5 pm. Handmade work will be shown by 50 local artisans, ranging from ceramics to clothing. Finish your Christmas shopping without breaking the bank—just about every vendor has affordable prices. Stoneware, hand-dyed jackets, furniture, and mixed-metal jewelry will all be on deck. Chat with a contemporary clockmaker, glassblower or leather artist, and pick up Christmas tree ornaments, handcrafted greeting cards and rustic wreaths. Keep it green by purchasing natural soaps and organic body products, hand-spun yarn, and heirloom seeds. Take a coffee break while shopping to nibble on everything from baked goods to Japanese food.

Admission is $3 and includes a raffle ticket. New Paltz Middle School, New Paltz.

(845) 255-1559; www.unisonarts.org Winter Solstice Laser Installation On December 22, a solstice celebration at Beacon’s Roundhouse featuring a laser installation by Linda Law at 6pm . As the Greenwoman, Law will welcome the return of the sun around a fire as a symbol of the Sun that will be lit with a traditional Native American fire starting ceremony. A number of other artists will join with the Greenwoman to offer ritual celebrations, including Norman Lowrey, Dean of Music at Drew University and his Singing Masks and Evan Pritchard, Micmac Indian, musician and writer, who will tell stories, drum and sing traditional songs. A candlelight parade to the Roundhouse will culminate with the lighting of the lasers, creating a light sculpture on the falls below.The lasers will remain lit until NewYear’s Day. Free. www.beaconarts.org.

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Food & Drink

Diner 2.0

Grazin’ in Hudson

By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

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ust as most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia, diner food relies on our enduring national appetite for affordable, comforting fare. It’s not normally a cuisine that we associate with the sort of refinement (and price tag) that often attends the farm-to-table label. And while the upper echelons of the market drive food trends that eventually become ubiquitous (sun-dried tomatoes, anyone?) it’s vitally important that local eating be inexpensive and demotic enough for all to partake. Enter Grazin’, a diner with impeccable locavore credentials.

“It’s a sound concept, and we’re really proud of it,” says the 35-year-old manager and cook Andrew “Chip” Chiappinelli. “I want you to come in and enjoy the food, but I also want you to care about the sourcing.” Almost all the ingredients come from within a dozen miles of the diner. Chiappinelli grew up in his CIA-trained Father’s Italian restaurant in Westchester. “Some of my earliest memories are of standing on a milk crate doing dishes because someone called in sick, or of layering eggplant in the parmigiana.” Despite his culinary upbringing, he says he never imagined running a restaurant until his Parents-in-law Dan and Susan Gibson persuaded him and their daughter Christine to relocate and work with them.

The Gibsons own Grazin’ Angus Acres, a grass-fed cattle farm in nearby Ghent. “They kept asking me ‘when are you going to move back up here with our daughter?’” After a decade working as a corporate IT director in Manhattan, and wanting to start a family, Chiappinelli says it finally seemed like a good idea. He went to work as the sales rep for Grazin’ Angus, running the greenmarket stands in New York City for two years before they decided 76 food & drink ChronograM 12/11

to buy the Columbia Diner on Warren Street in Hudson earlier this year. The restaurant reopened as Grazin’ in October. Built in 1946 (assembled, actually, from two halves that came up the river from New Jersey on barges), the classic structure has all the chrome and formica that one requires from such an establishment, and a large jukebox, playing a steady stream of vintage rock, greets visitors as they enter.

The endeavor got off to a rocky start; eleven days before opening, the cook quit, so Chiappinelli was interviewing new candidates with just a few days to go. During a soft opening for friends and family, which Chiappinelli describes as “a disaster,” their plumber suggested that they hire his daughter, Amanda Finkle, who now works alongside Chiappanelli in the kitchen. “She had experience cooking grass-fed beef, and we think about food the same way,” he says.

“We’re a burger joint, and she can really cook a burger.” Grass-fed beef has a narrow margin for error, and overcooks easily, so servers encourage customers to try eating meat one shade pinker than they’re used to. “We’re always a little sad when we see orders for well-done,” Chiappinelli says; “really good, clean beef has no business being gray all the way through. This beef was raised in my back yard.”

“I’m not sure it would be the same place if I hadn’t spent the two years learning about animals and humane farming,” he continues. “I became a zealot about raising animals the right way.” As a result, Grazin’ is the first restaurant in the country to be certified as Animal Welfare Approved. AWA is the most comprehensive and transparent certification available; farms must be small, independent, and family-owned, and the requirements for feed, housing, pas-

above: Grazin’ Farm to Table Direct, in Hudson. opposite: server Emily Karol, at Grazin’ in Hudson,

ture, and veterinary care are detailed and extensive. Every animal product served at Grazin’–meat, eggs, and dairy–comes from an AWA certified farm.

Chiappinelli explains that this limits the amount and number of products they can serve: “We don’t have bacon for Sunday brunch because we can’t get enough of it, so we make our own pork sausage and offer that instead.

Organic means nothing with meat; it only means the cows’ grain is organic, not that they have pasture or any quality of life. And beef is about grass, not grain. ‘Certified Humane’ isn’t much better, because it was created by big ag for big ag, and it costs the farmer a lot to get certified [as does organic]. AWA doesn’t charge for their certification.”

The burgers are pleasantly irregular in shape, as are the fries, which still have skin on them: all obvious signs of their handmade nature. The burgers are juicy, with the characteristically beefy flavor of grass-fed meat, and come plain or with several combinations of toppings: blue cheese and caramelized onions, homemade chipotle mayo with bacon and spicy relish, or country ham, cheese, and a fried egg. The fries are a little too dark and a little too soft, and could benefit from double frying, which is the best way to get crispness without overcooking. Small jelly jars of ketchup come alongside to minimize waste, and all kitchen trimmings and scraps go the pigs back on the farm. The kitchen crew makes butter and mayonnaise weekly, and Chiappinelli pickles the seasonal vegetables that come with each burger or sandwich. And yes, there are a couple of vegetarian options.

There are some challenges with such rigorous sourcing, though; Irene flooded the farm where they planned to get tomatoes and potatoes–all the

Kennebecs intended to be turned into fries were lost–so Chiappinelli had to work with a distributor instead. He laments: “It sucks, but I don’t have much of a choice.” He’s debating whether to leave tomatoes off the menu until next summer. There are imported exceptions, of course: oranges for fresh-squeezed juice at Sunday brunch, spices, and coffee, among others.

But they’re almost exclusively organic or biodynamic. Chunky, retro thicksided red coffee cups hold a seasonal, organic, fair-trade blend from Strongtree, just down the road. Beans are for sale at the diner for regulars who can’t get enough.

The limitations inspire, however, since they require improvising on short notice; Chiappinelli has used leftover challah for bread pudding at brunch, for example, and is always thinking of more things he can make in-house. He has big plans for the largely unused basement. Hawthorne Valley, the biodynamic farm and school in Ghent, bakes their buns and bread, and supplies quark, milk, and cheeses. (Other cheeses come from AWA certified farms in New York and Vermont). The occasionally erratic supply chain also demands adaptability: Chiappinelli excuses himself mid-conversation to run out to the farmers market and pick up a box of fresh mesclun because the farmer’s truck broke down.

Something Chiappinelli is particularly proud of is the soda fountain. “You can’t get a coke here,” he boasts, explaining that they buy organic cream soda, cola, and birch and root beer extracts from Illinois and then add organic sugar syrup and carbonated water on site. The sodas taste bright, complex, and detailed, much as the original formulations must have a century or more ago.

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The “Uncle Dude” hamburger at Grazin’ in Hudson: with house-made chipotle mayo, Hawthorne Valley Cheddar, GAA Bacon, jalapeno relish, fresh greens, tomato and raw onion. Milk shake made with organic house-made chocolate sauce and house-made ice cream from grass-pastured cows at Milk Thistle Organic Farm in Ghent.

Drinking them is like converting a black and white movie to high-definition color. The cola has many distinct flavor notes—citrus, cinnamon, anise, ginger, lavender, vanilla—that reveal its origin as a medicinal tonic. It’s a sweet treat for kids, and offers some thought-provoking beverage archaeology for adults. The birch beer has a classic sasparilla profile, with some wintergreen added for extra interest. And the sodas are all clear, reminding us that caramel color is just another superfluous fluid. There are two flavors of house-made ice cream: vanilla and cinnamon, which are deployed neat, in root beer floats, or to top the apple and pumpkin pies currently on offer.

As with the soda fountain, the burgers also accurately represent how American food used to taste. Before the industrialization of the food system, one would have eaten grass-fed beef on a locally baked bun because that’s how everyone in this country ate. And this gets to an important part of the locavore phenomenon: at its core, it’s fuelled not by righteous snobbery or moral rectitude but by the quality of the sensual experience. Local food tastes better. And when you pay ten or twelve dollars for your burger, you know where that money is going, and that you’re paying the full cost of the food; there aren’t any ocean dead zones or antibiotic-resistant bacteria at the other end of your food supply. Conservatives who pine loudly and often for the Good Old Days™ and the free market should eat this food.

Others in the region are working in a similar vein: the Oakhurst Diner in Millerton and Rusty’s in Red Hook are both making affordable standards with local ingredients. Chiappinelli concludes by saying “Dan wanted to open a restaurant because there was nowhere for us to eat around here, since we don’t eat factory-farmed meat.” Ultimately, though, the best thing about Grazin’ is that whether you’re a devout locavore or just want to enjoy an excellent burger, it’s friendly, accessible, and enjoyable. It’s a smile.

RESOURCES www.grazindiner.com www.grazinangusacres.com www.animalwelfareapproved.org Peter Barrett indefatigably documents what one man can cook, given the time, ingredients, and imagination, at www.acookblog.com.

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Your Neighborhood Coffeehouse A great place to be!

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TIVOLI 74 Broadway (845) 757-5055 RHINEBECK 22 Garden St (845) 876-7338

Rated “Excellent”~Zagat for 16yrs • “4.5 Stars”~Poughkeepsie Journal

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Inside & Courtyard seating.

Cafés 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four-star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.

Crafted Kup 44 Raymond Avenue #1, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-7070 www.craftedkup.com

The Bees Knees Café at Heather Ridge Farm 989 Broome Center Road, Preston Hollow, NY (518) 239-6234 www.heather-ridge-farm.com Great lunches right on the farm! Enjoy views of the Catskill Mountains from shaded picnic tables or eat inside our 1820s farmhouse. Our own grassfed meats and pastured poultry lovingly prepared with local organic produce and cheeses. Café and farm store open Saturdays and Sundays, Mem. Day through Col. Day Weekends. Menu and schedule on website.

“Soup Kitchen” Saturdays, Nov-April.

Catering Terrapin Catering 5371 Albany Post Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail of your wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, corporate event or any special occasion. On-site, we can accommodate 150 guests seated, and 250 for cocktail events. Off-site services available.

Terrapin’s custom menus always include local, fresh, and organic ingredients.

Delis Jack’s Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244

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Baba Louie’s Woodfired Sourdough Pizza 517 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 751-2155 286 Main Street, Gt. Barrington, MA (413) 528-8100 34 Depot Street, Pittsfield, MA (413) 499-2400 www.BabaLouiesPizza.com Handcrafted with fresh, all natural ingredients.

Italian brick-oven woodfired pizzas made with sourdough crust & fresh mozzarella. Choose from our creative signature pizzas or build your own! Heaping salads with fresh greens, house made soup, pasta specials, lunchtime sandwiches & ciabatta panini. Family friendly!

Delicious gluten-free and vegan options available everyday!

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Bistro Lilly 134 West Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-2810 www.bistrolilly.com

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Brewery Ommegang 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown, NY (607) 544-1800 www.ommegang.com

Bull and Buddha 319 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 337-4848 www.bullandbuddha.com Bull and Buddha restaurant fuses an urban interior with exotic design elements of the East nestled in Poughkeepsie’s revitalized downtown. Served under the watchful eye of a hand-carved two-ton Buddha, the Asian-themed menu reflects the bounty and diversity of the Hudson Valley: an inspired dining experience in a chic yet casual setting.

Upstairs is Orient, Hudson Valley’s newest and most elegant Ultra Lounge. Orient sets

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Sun & tues-Thurs 11:30am-9:30pm Fri & Sat 11:30am-10:30pm Let our family Closed Mon serve yours 985 Main St, Fishkill, NY (845) 765-1055

On Route 52, only 1/2 mile from I-84 exit 12 Next to the beverage store, directly across from Chase bank (cvs plaza)

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342 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1234 www.americanglory.com American Glory is a restaurant specializing in “legendary wood smoked regional BBQ of the United States, and classic American comfort foods.” In addition to the extensive BBQ fare, the menu includes a wide selection of grilled burgers, steaks and fish, along with an assortment of fresh salads, several vegetarian options, and numerous side dishes like collard greens, cheese grits, garlic mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, cornbread, and creamy ole country coleslaw. All menu items are prepared fresh daily and all BBQ is smoked on site using local wood.

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a new standard for destination nightlife and an experience once unavailable outside of Manhattan’s Meat Packing district.

Ca’ Mea 333 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-0005 www.camearestaurant.com

Dermot Mahoney’s Irish Pub 40 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 853-8620 www.dermotmahoneys.com

Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant 35 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7026 www.mahoneysirishpub.com

Matchbox CafĂŠ 6242 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3911

Main Street, Kent, CT (860) 927-3509 www.fifendrum.com

Gilded Otter

Sushi Village

48 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 987-8200 www.fetchbarandgrill.com

Fife ‘n Drum

Golden Buddha Thai Cuisine

6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley� by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle. Out of elements both historic and eclectic comes something surprising, fresh, and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Local. Organic. Authentic.

240 Boulevard Route 32, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4386 www.thehillsidemanor.com

Howell’s CafÊ 27 W. Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-5561 www.howellsdeli.com

Hyde Park Brewing Company 4076 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY (84) 522-98277 www.hydeparkbrewing.com

Karma Lounge 201 Main Street, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 473-4294 www.karmalounge.us

Karma Road Organic CafĂŠ

566 Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5444 www.landmarkinnwarwick.com

Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant 301 Broadway, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6478 www.machupicchurest.com

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80 Vineyard Avenue, Highland, NY Open 7 Days A Week. Lunch: 11-4. Mon - Sat: 10-10, Sun 3-10

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The River Grill 40 Front Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-9444 www.therivergrill.com

Pawling, NY (845) 855-1300 www.townecrier.com

Landmark Inn

845.294.2810

2015 Route 9, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3604 www.thegarrison.com

Kavos

194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2633 www.labellapizzabistro.com LaBella Pizza Bistro voted Best Pizza in The Hudson Valley. We serve more than just great pizza, including catering for any occasion. Our dishes feature LOCALLY GROWN organic produce! We offer a healthy WHOLE GRAIN PIZZA CRUST! Vegan Pizza is now available as well.

134 W. Main St., Goshen, NY www.bistrolilly.com

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Toad Holly Pub

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11 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255 1099 www.karmaroad.net info@karmaroad.com Winner of “Best Vegetarian Restaurant in the Hudson Valley� 2010. Friendly, casual breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, juices and award-winning smoothies for a delicious, healthy alternative to standard fare. GlutenFree aplenty! Steps from the Rail-Trail in historic downtown. Open 8am-8pm, 7 days. Find us on Facebook!

4 North Clover Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473 4976 www.kavosgyros.com kavosgyros@gmail.com

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713 Route 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-2097 www.toadhollypub.com Toad Holly Pub Offers International Cuisine with Backwoods of the World recipes that’s why Gastronomical Pleasures are us. We offer Catering in house and all of our menu is available To Go! Check out our European Style Bar, Happy Hour Daily, and Drink Specials.

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Towne Crier CafĂŠ

$19.95 Adults $9.95 Kids 8 & under FRIDAY - SUNDAY

$21.95 Adults $10.95 Kids 8 & under * Order must include combination of sushi, sashimi and roll.

26 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY • 845.471.5245 www.sushivillagepok.com • Order Online for To Go or Delivery Service

Vanderbilt House 161 Main Street, Philmont, NY (518) 672-9993 www.Vanderbilt-House.com info@vanderbilt-house.com

Vigneto CafĂŠ 80 Vineyard Avenue, Highland, NY (845) 834-2828 www.vignetocafe.com

Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com

Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393 www.mistersnacks.com steve@mistersnacks.com

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26 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-5245 www.sushivillagepoughkeepsie.com Sushi Village serves authentic, great tasting Japanese food and sushi with friendly service and great prices. Located near Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, Sushi Village offers all-youcan-eat sushi and lunch specials.

Hillside Manor

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3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier.

Chef driven and brewed locally!

985 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 765-1055

Now accepting reservations for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve!

Osaka 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 www.osakarestaurant.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 16 years. For more information and menus, go to osakarestaurant.net.

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Accommodations Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com

Diamond Mills 25 South Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-0700 www.DiamondMillsHotel.com info@DiamondMillsHotel.com

Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc.

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MacDonald, Pavlos Mayakis, John Paul Morabito, Erin M. Riley, Sarah Salin, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Betty Vera, Linda Wallace, Sherri Woodard Coffey, and Marzena Ziejka.

Pet Lovers Studio

Northshire Bookstore

Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6033 www.petloversstudio.com

Back Door Studio

Manchester Center, VT (800) 437-3700 www.northshire.com

Women’s Studio Workshop

9 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3660 sydhap@aol.com

Country Gallery 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684

Dutchess County Arts Council (845) 454-3222 www.artsmidhudson.org artsmidhudson.org

Green River Gallery

Antiques

1578 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3311

Lady Audrey’s Gallery

Eclectic Eye 16-18 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5520 theeclecticeye@gmail.com

Water Street Market (Antiques Center) 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com

Appliances Firescapes 445 Robinson Ave, Newburgh, NY (845) 863-0013 www.firescapesny.com

Architecture Irace Architecture Warwick, NY (845) 988-0198 www.IraceArchitecture.com

North River Architecture 3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com

Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 784-1146 www.annstreetgallery.org facebook.com/annstreetgallery The Ann Street Gallery is pleased to present its newest exhibition Woven Stories: Contemporary Tapestries, opening with Artist Reception on Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 6-9pm. This exhibition features hand-woven works by a group of select artists, giving visitors an opportunity to experience a unique style of contemporary art.

The exhibition runs through to January, 28, 2012.

Artists featured: Bren Ahearn, Kate Anderson, and Janet Austin. George-Ann Bowers, Barbara Burns, Betty Ferguson, Louise Halsey, Susan Iverson, Tari Kerss, Mary Kester, Susan McGehee, Margo

52 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 592-1303 http://ladyaudreysgallery.com

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Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Clove Branch Discount Muffler & Brake 1122 Route 82, Hopewell Jct., NY (845) 221-9898

Banks Ulster Savings Bank (866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com

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Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 features yearround exhibits of works by a wide variety of distinguished Hudson Valley artists as well as students from the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft, the Dutchess Arts Camps and art courses and workshops. Mill Street Loft provides innovative educational arts programming for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Millbrook & Red Hook.

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100 www.nrm.org

Art Supplies Rhinebeck Artist’s Shop Rhinebeck & New Paltz, NY www.rhinebeckart.com

White Barn Farm 815 Albany Post Road, New Paltz, NY (914) 456-6040 www.whitebarnsheepandwool.com

Artisans HnL Woodworking (860) 480-1021 www.facebook.com/HNLwoodworking HnlWoodworking@gmail.com

KF Packie Wood Sculpture (413) 281-0591 www.kfpackie.com spotteddogwf@gmail.com

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The Stylist’s Chair, Ltd. 321 Main St. , Cornwall, NY 845 534- 3117 toniminuta@yahoo.com At the Stylist’s Chair, we offer avant guard hair coloring and hair designing. Our commitment to quality and great customer service is of the upmost importance. We assess each clients facial structure and hair texture to give each individual a style and color that best suits them. We specialize in hair color, hair designing, body waves, special occation updos, all foiling techniques and waxing

Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst. com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing.

Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet.

Expert Tarot reading.

Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

Building Services & Supplies Cabinet Designers 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com

Four Seasons Insulators, IN 445 Robinson Ave, Newburgh, NY (845)863-1484 www.fourseasonsinsulatorsinc.com

H. Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com

Herrington’s Hillsdale, NY (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY (518) 828-9431 Chatham, NY (518) 392-9201 toll free (800) 453-1311 www.herringtons.com

Kitchen Cabinet Company 17 Van Kleeck Drive, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 471-6480 www.kitchencabinetco.com

N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings 19 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2005 www.northerndutchesshardwood.com sales@ndhardwoods.com

Stone Resource Inc. 3417 Route 343, Amenia, NY (860) 209-7015 http://stoneresourceinc.com

WaterFurnace (800) GEO-SAVE www.waterfurnace.com

Williams Lumber & Home Centers (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org

Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608, NY www.upstatefilms.org

Clothing & Accessories de Marchin 620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657

Style Counsel 19 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-9588 www.stylecounsel.net

Woodstock Design 9 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8776 www.shopwoodstockdesign.com

Collaborative Workspace Beahive Kingston 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.beahivekingston.com bzzz@beahivebeacon.com

Consignment Shops

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845)569-0303 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com

Berkshire Co Op Market 42 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-9697 www.berkshire.coop

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Who Is The True You? The Enneagram Knows

To Free Yourself, You Must Understand Yourself. The Enneagram Can Show You How.

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W

hen I meet Don Riso, he is unlocking the door to a red 1850s barn in Stone Ridge, revealing the light-filled interior where people from around the world have come to discover themselves through the ancient symbology known as the Enneagram. At first the teacher and author seems guarded, like the keeper of secret, cosmic knowledge. And in a way, he is. But all of that falls away when we settle into his intimate office tucked inside the barn, where he gets talking about his lifelong passion: a study of the nine basic personality types that all people, according to Riso, fall into. Self-knowledge of this kind, he says, is potentially transformational. Here in this barn—the home of the Enneagram Institute, which Riso cofounded with his work partner, Russ Hudson—students have had powerful epiphanies and breakthroughs in understanding themselves and their relationships. “Oh my God,” Riso recalls one student saying, “that just answered why my first marriage failed.” Or, “If I had known that, I wouldn’t have wasted 10 years in graduate school.”

If it sounds like New Age hocus-pocus meets “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” consider this: Books by Riso and Hudson—Personality Types, The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Understanding the Enneagram, DiscoveringYour Personality Type, and Enneagram Transformations—have sold over a million copies worldwide. Known in certain circles of psychology, self-help, and spirituality, the Enneagram [pronounced ANY-a-gram] is part mirror for the psyche, and part blueprint for personal and spiritual growth. “Ennea” means nine—and at the core of the Enneagram philosophy is a symbol resembling a nine-pointed star inscribed in a circle. The symbol dates back possibly to Pythagorean times, says Riso, and was used for hundreds of years as a way to understand the interrelatedness and universal order of all things. In the early 20th century, the Armenian spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff revived and explored its sacred geometry, while later thinkers (Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo) came to apply it to a theory that posits nine basic personality types corresponding to each of the nine points in the symbol. The Enneagram has become synonymous with this theory, which has been expanded and refined by people like Riso and Hudson, two of the foremost teachers in the field today.

Personality: A Road Map for Life Before I meet Riso at his 72-acre property and barn, I take the online RHETI (Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator) test to discover my basic personality type. At first, I’m resistant to being typed. It feels dehumanizing, like being told I’m actually one of the numbered Cylons in Battlestar Gallactica.

And the test—some 145 questions that force me to choose between blanket statements about myself (e.g., “Basically, I have been easygoing and agreeable” or “Basically, I have been hard-driving and assertive”)—is at times ex88 whole living ChronograM 12/11

asperating. When it’s complete, I’m informed that I am a Seven—The Enthusiast. Reading the full description on the Enneagram Institute website, I find that many of the characteristics describe me well (optimistic, impulsive, and overextended, with a tendency to feel scattered when I’m stressed). And when I read about the “key motivations” of Sevens, I experience the “shock of recognition” that Riso describes as subjective proof of the theory’s validity. It turns out that we Sevens are driven to maintain our freedom and happiness, and to keep ourselves excited and occupied—often as a ruse to discharge pain. I read on to find a diagram of my defense mechanisms and pitfalls, as well as a portrait of my abilities and potentials as I follow a specific trajectory toward self-realization.

This is juicy stuff, and insightful for sure—but I still wonder if something as complex as a human being can be boiled down to one particular personality archetype that dates back to the dawn of homo sapiens. Reading the descriptions of all nine types, I find connections to each one. Riso concurs that each of us contains aspects of all nine types, yet one type will be dominant for every individual. He goes on to dash any idea that the Enneagram is a one-dimensional model by accounting for hundreds of nuances within each type. For example, in addition to the dominant type, everyone also exhibits a “wing,” or subtype, that influences his personality. Riso’s model also outlines various “levels” of health within each type, with the highest level reflecting self-actualization and the lowest level indicating mental pathologies or psychosis (most of us, naturally, fall somewhere in between). With each layer of detail, the model begins to look more sophisticated. And the Enneagram symbol—with its series of arrows showing the interrelationships between each type in the directions of disintegration and growth—starts resembling a compact universe of the psyche expressing its own self-contained and strangely gratifying logic.

Riso says that he, too, initially approached these ideas with skepticism. A former Jesuit raised in New Orleans, Riso was living as a seminarian in Toronto when he first came across some early notes about the Enneagram in the early 1970s. “I thought it was hokey stuff, just another California fad, and not too interesting,” he recalls. “But I found myself going back to it. I really focused on it and I had a revelation that there was something there. The descriptions of the types were very sketchy, but they gave me the main thrust.” Leaving the Jesuits, Riso relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he used the library at Harvard to read widely in psychiatry, philosophy, and anything that would feed his knowledge of the Enneagram. He also watched interviews on “The Dick Cavett Show” and “The Tonight Show” and through observation started building up his own understanding of the types. “After about two years of this I thought I was either going to stop this stuff and go find a job, or I was going to continue. I was testing to see if this held water or not. And it did.”

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You’re Not What You Think Intrigued by the claims of the Enneagram, I start looking for types in everyone I know. My father, I decide, is a Five (The Investigator—cerebral, capable, innovative). And my old boyfriend from college is nothing if not a Four (The Individualist—creative, dramatic, temperamental). Certain women I know identify as Twos (The Helper—interpersonal, self-effacing, people-pleasing).

It’s an addictive game, and eye-opening—leading to mini epiphanies about how and why my worldview has clashed at times with that of certain friends and family members. Through this lens we seem more alien to each other than ever, since the question of “what makes you tick” differs for each type on the nine-pointed circle.Yet I see what Riso means when he says the Enneagram can be a great tool for understanding and improving relationships. He believes that all types can be compatible, as long as they’re healthy types.

Then, just as I’m starting to get comfortable as a Seven, just as I’m starting to feel less like a Cylon and more like a fleshed-out person who can own her Sevenness (I kind of like being called “fun-loving and spontaneous”), Riso reveals the flip side of the Enneagram. He tells me that the nine personalities are in fact false personalities—constructs that we present to the world.

“We think our personality is real, and from one perspective, it is,” says Riso.

“You have certain beliefs, you have certain talents, that your behavior kind of matches. Your personality has an explanatory power, but it’s not the whole picture. There’s something else behind it that is your Consciousness, which is not constrained or conditioned by your personality. Freedom lies in being able to have a gap—in being able to perceive the difference between your Pure Consciousness, which the mystics and spiritual teachers all talk about, and your personality, which is generally running the show, and which most of the time you totally identify with.” At first this comes as a shock. After all this pageantry of self-exploration, my personality in the end has nothing to do with me? Riso nods. “The Enneagram does not actually tell you who you are,” he says. “It tells you who you are not.”

The Path to Self-Liberation The Enneagram’s spiritual layer can reveal itself as transcendently pleasing and true, serving as a reminder of the deeper Self beyond personality and the connection to Spirit that lies beneath it. On a practical, everyday level, the idea of the “false personality” can be very freeing as well. Roxanne Howe-Murphy— who runs an Enneagram-based coach training school and writes books on the subject in Half Moon Bay, California—says that when she first discovered the Enneagram around 1990, it turned her life upside down in a positive way. As a student in Riso and Hudson’s Part 1 training (the Enneagram Institute’s extensive training program has attracted some 2,000 students), Howe-Murphy learned that she was a Nine (The Peacemaker—easygoing, self-effacing, complacent). “I thought, ‘They’ve read my journal!’” she says. “It was absolutely true to my experience. I had a life history of backing away from things. I was a university professor, but I can tell you that I wasn’t assertive, didn’t know how to get my voice heard. When I was introduced to the Riso-Hudson work I saw that the way I had known myself was not just me but a reflection of a certain personality style. This wasn’t the truth of me. Knowing this gave me a huge amount of choice. I didn’t have to be this way. I could see myself with compassion; I could speak up and let myself be heard and known.” These days it would be hard to recognize the old Howe-Murphy under the outspoken woman that she has become. “There is a tendency for people to use their type as an excuse,” she says. “That’s not the purpose of the Enneagram. Its purpose is to help us wake up to who we really are underneath our personality.”

Riso and Howe-Murphy agree that, ultimately, the Enneagram is asking us to be more present. “The Enneagram helps our students become aware of themselves in the moment—really see their personality in action as it’s occurring,” says Riso. “That’s the path of liberation. As soon as you start seeing yourself doing something and you know the consequences of your automatic reactions, you don’t want to do it anymore. It can be painful. You need a teacher so you don’t get lost or discouraged. If you persist, it gets easier. You see the old sources of suffering dropping away.You’re more relaxed, graceful, and flowing because you’re not resisting reality.” In the end, Riso suggests, it’s about gaining the free will to move toward your greatest potential. “You can’t help but become conditioned by your childhood, your parents, and the world around you. They made you who you are, with your genetic predispositions.

But there’s freedom from that too, and it’s through awareness.”

SOURCE Enneagram Institute www.enneagraminstitute.com

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Laughter Yoga instructor Vishwa Prakash (in yellow shirt) with a newly certified class of Laughter Yoga facilitators.

Laughter Yoga

No laughing matter

By Jim Gordon

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f told about an easy, natural way to improve mood, reduce blood pressure, boost the immune system, and drastically enhance well-being, all without needing money or special equipment, nor resorting to drugs, most people would probably laugh. And if they laughed hard enough—or just pretended to laugh—they would realize all the benefits described above.

And that is the secret of laughter yoga.

But laughter yoga is not a laughing matter. Premised on the finding that the human brain can’t differentiate between real laughter and forced laughter and thus releases the same beneficial chemicals, the practice attracts adherents who say it makes one feel better right away, elevating the mood and reducing stress.

Laughter yoga clubs, where practitioners spend about 30 minutes doing childlike exercises and laughing out loud, are now found worldwide and gaining popularity. The practice of laughter yoga was developed in 1995 by Dr. Madan Kataria, a cardiologist in India researching effects of laughter on the human body.

He found benefits appeared regardless of whether the subject faked the laughs or reacted to humor.

To capitalize on this trait, Kataria began hosting small groups of friends and colleagues for laughter sessions. Quickly realizing that jokes grew stale, or didn’t cross cultural and language divides, Kataria developed a physical regimen of group exercises involving stretching and fake laughing instead of relying on humor.

At first blush, It sounds too good to be true and seems too silly to be real. But the proof is in the laughing. “Fake it till you make it” is a slogan now heard at laughter clubs that have spread from Bangalore to London, and from Sydney to New York City. As the advice is followed, the laughter becomes too loud to hear slogans.

“Some people are sort of turned off at first because they think it is kind of silly,” says Liz Morfea, a Rhinebeck resident and certified laughter yoga leader who counted herself among the skeptics when she first went to a laughter yoga session, at a time, she said, she had little to laugh about.

“At first I thought they were all nutcases and it was totally crazy, but by the end, I just felt so much better, so I kept going back,” Morfea says. After training to be a laughter leader, she has lead about 100 laughter yoga sessions over the last three years, for libraries, corporations, inmates, and senior citizens. The setting is no barrier. “Everyone can do this. It’s so simple.You don’t need special treatment or

special clothes; you can do it and be successful right way.”

Vishwa Prakash teaches laughter yoga in NewYork City and hosts a free weekly laughter club in offices on Broadway just south of Times Square. A successful business owner with offices in Hong Kong and Mumbai, Prakash describes himself as a serious man and a healer, and he has a missionary zeal for the benefits of laughter yoga sessions he leads.

The sessions can’t be called comedy unless you have the sense of humor of a two-year-old. And that is the point, says Prakash, adults rediscovering the capacity for laughing like children. “Ho Ho, Ha Ha Ha!” says a clapping Prakash, starting the session with some two dozen New Yorkers who chant and clap along, doing a sort of laughing do-si-do among each other.

Prakash stresses eye contact as a powerful laugh stimulant, and indeed, any stiffness quickly dissolves in goofy fellowship, as the class performs exercises including shaking hands while looking into the other person’s eyes and laughing a greeting, drinking a laughter milk shake, engaging in a mock arguments, and wagging a finger in the face of fellow laughees while laughing loudly instead of shouting.

The effect is momentous. In a short time, a crowd of strangers has become a conspiracy of laughter, an effect that emerges as their brains are releasing beneficial chemicals, their lungs and hearts are circulating oxygen and blood at elevated levels. Laughter yoga, at the very least, is an effective workout for many crucial body components.

The “yoga” in laughter yoga, Prakash says, is prana, the breath exchange so crucial to health and mental well-being. Belly laughs, forced or real, are perhaps the most efficient air exchange human bodies do.

But to end the session, Prakash has participants lie face up in a circle on comforters and talks them through a session to “earth” them, he says, grounding the mind and the body.

In the quiet, spontaneous laughs erupts around the circle.

There will be an evening of LaughterYoga to benefit Family of Woodstock on Friday, December 9, at the Beahive in Kingston. $10 suggested donation with LY sessions starting at 7:30 and 9 pm. www.beahivebzzz.com/events/event/laughter-yoga-benefit; cosmosis@hvi.net.

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HILLARY HARVEY

Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

She and I

Last night I went to Azalea’s first parent-teacher conference, sat in her little chair, and heard all about her life in kindergarten. I got to see some of her work—her observation tree, her number scrawls, and some of her more vibrant drawings, including the one she drew of her beloved teacher L, who is expecting her first baby. Before coming to the conference, I asked A if there was anything she wanted me to tell L, that she might be too shy to share. “I love you,” she said. When I asked A if there was anything she was worried about that I could tell L, she said, “The baby.” I shared this with L and we kvelled in unison, in full agreement: such a sweetie.

And then this morning I woke up with itchy eyelids. For anyone with eczema or related syndromes, you will appreciate what this means and how it bodes for the morning routine. Usually following some kind of disagreeable food episode (but in this case…tofu and kale?), the itchy eyelids thing arrives in the morning, threatening a kind of pink-eye-level crustiness and irritation for a week or more. So not only does the present itching make me crazy, but I also get caught in the dread of what might be on the horizon—an indeterminate spell of reptilian-like dryness, redness, and pretty extreme discomfort, which inspires that kind of deep-itch desire, not to mention pretty serious insults to a basic dose of vanity. In other words, I am cranky and sensitive. So the three of us, T, A, and I in our tiny kitchen, making six meals in a matter of 20 minutes (three breakfasts, two lunches, and one dinner for my late-working man), was not working for me. T, a big guy, kept, in my version, body-checking me as he squeezed by, and A’s insistence on showing T her art from yesterday, which she had already showed him, instead of eating her hot cereal, which would get cold, and then need to be reheated to be eaten (!!!!!!!), sounded as shrill as an animal caught in a trap, demanding release. So…Snap! “A!” I barked, “I’ve had it! Eat your breakfast and quit whining.” And, in my mind, “T, you, too…whatever you’re doing, just stop….” for absolutely no reason!

And then…a few minutes later, in the bathroom, I told A to brush her teeth, and she stuck out her tongue. Instead of laughing, the only truly appropriate response to such shenanigans, I sent her to the couch (random), to think about what she was doing, and to come back when she was ready to apologize (ridiculous). Instead, she just sat around the corner of the bathroom, in the hallway, waiting. She came back and said, “You’re a mean man!”

We worked out the toothbrushing thing. And she sulked off to her room as I gathered up her stuff for her ride to school. Out she came in a princess dress with her Wonder Woman costume over it. Perfect timing. I actually laughed and oooed and aahed and we gave each other a big hug. And then she drew another picture for L, complete with baby in belly and dog, and her own thought bubble, thinking of the baby, a little bean with dots. She wanted to make a book for L, but alas, there was not enough time, and so she agreed to take off her 92 whole living ChronograM 12/11

costume while I folded the picture up to put in her backpack. I suggested we could do a book later, maybe after school. OK, she said, and ambled out the door, a regular kid, changed back into regular clothes.

Regular, and so...does she get jealous? Yes. Insecure? Sure. Angry? Of course.

Does she have one heck of a fish to fry with her high-strung mother?You bet. She is, as we like to say in our house, an ordinary meatball, a suffering sentient being, just like the rest of us. But thoughtful, and loving. And happy! It’s crazy.

My late teacher, Daido Roshi, in his effort to help us understand the nature of things, our interpenetration with everything in the universe and yet our unique, relative position within it, used to say this all the time: You are I are the same thing, yet I am not you, and you are not me. It is classic Daido—personal enough to hook us into exploring what the heck that could mean.

A and I are the same thing. Not only do we share the cosmic oneness of every atom in the universe, but she is of me. We share DNA. We have the same calves. And because of that intimacy sometimes I lose the other side, thinking she is me. I imagine we feel the same things, and in one way, we do, and in another we do not. There is interpendence, as the Buddha taught, and then there is projection. Two different things. In fact, A is not me. When her five-year-old feelings get hurt, it’s big of course, and confusing. And I feel them, as I have the potential to feel the feelings of any other creature, but her being my child, that connection is all the more likely. And yet, her experience of that is not the same as my own as a five-year-old, getting my feelings hurt, with no one to talk to, no recourse, and no end in sight. We live in different houses, on different planets.

For instance, A appears to be learning to read and write because it’s fun, and not just because she gets to be left alone, unbothered, listening to the Phonics headset and touching the sparkly, fuzzy raised letters on the workbooks, spacing out, identifying the sound of “h” along the way.

And yet, I put myself through such a wringer when I act out of all my own musty old bad habits of protecting myself from all those old bothers, even when those bothers, are in fact, a beautiful child! A loving husband! Imagining that she, the lovely, tender kid that she is, feels what I felt when I was her age and at the hands of me, is an intolerable loop. Taking note of all the ways A is not me is part of a colossal attempt to untie the loop and see her as she is. And I as I am. Then, now, and in the unimaginable future.

It kind of makes sense how karma, according to the Buddha, moves forward, as its very nature. Actions beget actions, and there is no way to stop the dynamic unfolding of a thing already done. But it’s really wild to consider how the Buddha said that karma moves in every direction, including backward.

This is serious business. Love fills the universe, moving everywhere, healing the past, unblocking the road toward more love up ahead. And all at once, it’s timeless, it’s everywhere.

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Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including BodyCentered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women.

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IONE‚ Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org

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IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. For appointments contact Kellie at ioneappointments@gmail.com.

CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Headaches? TMJ? Insomnia? Pain? Brain trauma? Depression? CranioSacral is a gentle approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in

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Dentistry & Orthodontics Dr. Robert Danz 5 McKinstry Place, Hudson, NY (518) 828-0115 www.drdanz.com

Dentistry & Orthodontics Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com I believe in expansion and gentle forces.

Too much pressure squeezes out essential blood supply and there is no support for tooth movement. I do not recommend extraction of permanent teeth. When teeth are extracted, the bone that holds the teeth is lost and the skin of the face sags. With aging, this is exaggerated. As a holistic practitioner, I consider the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on whole health. The amount of plaque and calculus on the teeth is correlated with that in blood vessels. Movement in orthodontics affects the balance of the cranium, the head, and the neck. To support holistic treatment, I am certified in acupuncture and a registered dietician, trained in homeopathy and cranial osteopathy. At every visit, I do cranial treatments for balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign.

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Fitness Centers Ridge Gym 3555 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-0000 www.theridgegym.com

Fitness Trainers Mountainview Studio 20 Mountain View Avenue, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-0901 www.mtnviewstudio.com mtviewstudio@gmail.com

Fitness Trainers Sage Fitness of New Paltz 40 Sunset Ridge Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 633-8243 www.sagefitness.blogspot.com sagefitness@ymail.com Anna McConnell, CPT, NSCA has been a Master Trainer for over 22 years. Her objective is to help each person reach their fitness goals by increasing self esteem and confidence with caring professional service. She offers individualized personal training programs designed to motivate and educate for weight loss and body transformations. Introducing Tracy Clark-Cherry, LMT, as our new massage therapist at Sage Fitness.

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John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, massage, and Raindrop Technique.

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Psychics Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com

Psychologists Emily L. Fucheck, Psy D Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023 Offering therapy for individuals and couples, adults and adolescents. Insight-oriented approach with focus on understanding patterns of thought and behavior that interfere with life satisfaction and growth. Licensed psychologist with doctorate in clinical psychology and five years of post-doctoral training and certification in psychoanalytic work with adults, young adults, and adolescents. Located across the street from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

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Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics.

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Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice. Janne specializes in childhood trauma, addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR and Brainspotting. Janne’s work is also informed by Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Coaching for all life transitions as well as Mindful Parenting, Mindful Eating and Spirited Midlife Women. Call for information or free 1/2 hour consultation. Newsletter sign up on website.

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Yoga on Duck Pond (845) 687-4836 www.yogaonduckpond.com A dynamic yet subtle approach to yoga based on the premise that we develop habitual patterns of movement that can effectively be changed by bringing unconscious movement into conscious awareness. Only then can we explore new combinations of ways to move. Learn how to experience yoga poses comfortably and beneficially, from the inside out, without strain or struggle. When we slow down, we can sense and feel more clearly and comfortably how we move. Experience a style of yoga that is dynamic, rejuvenating, empowering and transformational. Donna Nisha Cohen, RYT, with over 30 years experience. Classes daily. Privates available.

At Kripalu, we invite you to breathe—to intentionally pause the ongoing demands of life, bring your attention inward, and rediscover your authentic nature. Conscious engagement with the breath connects you with the intelligence and power of the life force within and around you. Whenever you are faced with a challenge—on the yoga mat, in a relationship, at work, or with your health—you can draw on a deep sense of ease, purpose, and mastery to create positive change.

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Melissa George of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, which will perform at Kaatsbaan Internation Dance Center in Tivoli on December 3.

Eyes Open, Body Aware The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company (ESDC) will be traveling a few exits down the Thruway from its resident perch at The Egg in Albany to perform at the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center for one night only on Saturday, December 3.

Settling in the Capital Region in 1991 after spending her early years training with some of the most esteemed teachers of modern dance (Ethel Winter of the Martha Graham Company, Viola Farber of the Merce Cunningham Company, and Dan Wagoner of the Paul Taylor Company, among others), Sinopoli has synthesized her diverse background into her own ebullient style, choreographing over 65 works.

Asked where she gets the inspiration for her dances, Sinopoli says, “Whether it is an arresting Wendy Williams ceramic, a photography book of stunningly carved seats from Africa, the haunting story behind the movie The Secret of the Roan Inish, the stunning performance of bassoonist Krassimir Ivanov, the cloth paintings on the studio walls of Kaatsbaan, or the brilliant imagination of architectural designer Frances Bronet, the embryonic seeds are always there—just as long as I keep my eyes open and my body aware.”

Collaborating with over 25 artists of varied disciplines (including architectural designer Frances Bronet, sculptor Jim Lewis, and composer Hilary Tann), Sinopoli’s Spill Out!, a surreal, other worldly, athletic full evening multimedia work, was voted #1 of the top 10 shows of 2006 by the Albany Gazette. Voted one of the “100 Women of Excellence” by the Albany Chamber of Commerce, Sinopoli has also received the “Educator of Excellence” award from local ABC-TV affiliate WTEN. Among the organizations having commissioned works from Sinopoli are the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra, (which included performing with the orchestra to compositions by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein), The Egg (for their Leonard Bernstein “Living Legacy Celebration,” a collaboration with jazz clarinetist/saxophonist

Don Bryon’s ensemble), and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. ESDC has performed at Avery Fisher Hall and St. Mark’s Church in Manhattan, Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the Inside/Out stage at Jacob’s Pillow, and has received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts for multiyear, general operating support, individual artist projects, and three long-term residencies at Kaatsbaan.

This year’s Kaatsbaan performance will include three works from the ESDC repertory; A Gathering in Red, Departing (with music by acoustic and electric violinist Cornelius Dufallo), the snazzy, sultry, effervescent Brink (with music by jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas), and Vooz-é-la (set to four songs by Zap Mama, who mixes soul, gospel, pygmy song, and Afro-Cuban rhythms), as well as a preview of a new work which will be premiered at The Egg in January 2012. An athletic work filled with joy, To Sing, Laugh, Play is danced to a score of excerpts from contemporary classical composer John Adams’s “John’s Book of Alleged Dances.”

A master teacher of dance technique, composition and improvisation, Sinopoli is currently on the faculties of Russell Sage and Siena colleges. Bringing dance to urban and rural schools in under-served communities through arts-In-education programs via residencies, workshops, and performances, ESDC exposes children to the creative process. By embodying the connectedness between art and everyday life, ESDC has illustrated to parents and teachers how contact with dance at a young age creates not only respect and understanding of the art form and its performers, but also plants the seeds that sprout future artists.

The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will perform on Saturday, December 3 at 7:30pm at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli. Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for students. (845) 757-5106; www.kaatsbaan.org.

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THURSDAY 1 Art Holiday Stop 'N Swap 11:30am-3pm. Bring your wrapping paper, holiday cards, seasonal decor and craft supplies to swap! This is a perfect opportunity to pass along your old holiday stuff and find new holiday favorites. School of Jellyfish, Beacon. 440-8017.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit In The Caravan of Rumi: An Introduction To Sufi Poetry & Practices Call for times. Rev. Karuna Teresa Foudriat. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Move With Me: 1-2.5 years 12:15pm-1pm. $72/$15. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Works by Women's Studio Workshop Interns 6:30pm-8:30pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.

Body / Mind / Spirit Rumi Night 7pm-9pm. Dances of Universal Peace- Community circle dance and sacred song, led by Karuna Teresa Foudriat and Dahlia Bartz Cabe with live music. $5-$10.

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, New Paltz. 255-0033.

Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Tax Practitioner Institute 8am-4:30pm. $100. SUNY New Paltz School of Business, New Paltz. 257-3245.

Film Inside Job Film Screening 7pm. The Crafted Kup, Poughkeepsie. 483-7070.

Kids Kids' Yoga 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-10. $60 series. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Music Talking Machine Call for times. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

London's National Theatre: Live in HD broadcast 2pm. Collaborators. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-0100.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Jazz Ensembles II 7pm. $3/$6/$8. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Shai Maestro Trio 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Chicago 8pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

JP Patrick & His Band 8:30pm. Blues, rock, jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word The College and the Cold War 5:15pm-6:30pm. Robert K. Brigham. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5670.

Cross-Dressing, Misrule, and Mayhem: Christmas Before Santa in Early America 7pm. Deyo Hall, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Theater Fat Ram: An Adaptation of The Second Shepherds Play 8pm. $18/$16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880.

Proximity 8pm. An original one act play by Steve Russomano. $12. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

247-4007.

Christkindlmarkt 3pm-7pm. Traditional German Christmas Market.

Unique ethnic & American giftware, handmade crafts, decorations, home baked goods, Elves' Table, Café for food & refreshments. Kingston Maennerchor & Damenchor, Kingston. 338-3763.

18th Annual City of Poughkeepsie Celebration of Lights Parade and Fireworks 4:30pm. Festivities, parade, tree lighting, fireworks, organ concert. Main Street, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Holiday Marketplace Cocktail Party 5pm-8pm. $75. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Film Goonies 8pm. Richard Donner's action/adventure comedy.

The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. $5. 473-2072.

Kids Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 10am-10:45am. 8 weeks/$145. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Music Distant Boys: Butta/Walleck 6pm. Acoustic. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005.

Maria Zemantauski 7pm. Renowned flamenco guitarist and composer. $5.

SUNY Orange, Newburgh. 341-9386.

Sugar Plums and Nutcrackers 8pm. A classical ballet and variety performance drawn from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

The Chad McLoughlin Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Workshops

Frank Vignola's Hot Club Trio 8pm. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Jim Campilongo 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The John and Jackie Gioia Experience 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Art

Kath Bloom and Last Good Toot 8pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

12th Annual 5 by 7 Show 5pm-7pm. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock.

679-2079.

The Library Is On Fire and The Big Takeover 8pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

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Bluestone 9pm. Classic rock. Nellie Kelly's, Poughkeepsie.

485-5050.

Qi Gong with Lorraine Hughes 9am-10am. $10. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Greg Douglas Band 9pm-12am. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

Reflexology Clinic 10am-4:30pm. 45 minute sessions with Lorraine Hughes, treatment uses acupressure and massage, focusing on hands and feet to relieve tension and treat imbalances in the body. $45. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Wicked Knee and Mago 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Spoken Word Fossil Fuel 7pm. Looking deeply at who we are and what we are doing. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 569-8965.

Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 4pm-6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

A Modern Mystery Performance 7pm. Lucas Handwerker presents demonstrations of the untapped power of the mind. $15$12 in advance.

Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Dance Understanding Buddhist Thought 11am-1pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

Jewmongous It’s a long way from Rockapella to “Blame the Jews.” The former is the a capella group co-founded

by Sean Altman that sang the theme song to “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” (cowritten by Altman). The latter is the Altman’s satirical ode to antiSemitism, and the centerpiece of his comedy song concert “Jewmongous,” which rolls into Pawling’s Towne Crier Café just in time for Hanukkah. Irreverent, bawdy, tuneful, and profane, Altman’s “Jewmongous” is what Adam Sandler might be capable of with an Ivy League education. The Boston Globe describes Altman as possessing “the tunefulness of the Beatles and the spot-on wit of Tom Lehrer.” (845) 855-1300; www.townecrier.com.

Events

Member's Exhibit 5pm-8pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery.

457-ARTS.

The Metrolpolitan Hot Club 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Undercover 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

Japanther 8pm. $18/$13/$6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

Open Mike Night 8pm. Featuring full bands, singer/songwriters, poets, comedians, performance art. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Winter Walk Reception 6pm-8pm. Hudson & Laight Gallery, Hudson.

(518) 828-1700.

Dance

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7pm. Weekly through Dec. 29. $90. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Events

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 8pm. Featuring CB Smith and Marc Sloan, followed by open mike. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-9453.

The Hahnbone Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Hop-N-Healthy Call for times. Classes are 30-40 minutes of non-stop movement for children 18 months-5 years. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Art of the Heirloom Exhibition 5pm-7pm. Storefront Gallery, Kingston. www.TheStorefrontGallery.com.

The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

A Christmas Carol 7:30pm. Ulster Ballet Company. $10/$15 students and seniors/$12 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Classes

Trout Quintet 8pm-11pm. Featuring Juilliard graduates Nadge Foofat and Tania Halko Susi on violin and viola, principal cellist of the Berkshire Symphony Nat Parke, Mark Evans on piano and Chris Ewen. $20/$15 students and seniors.

Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

International Performance Recital 7pm. With Dancing with the Star Hudson Valley. Fishkill Recreation, Fishkill. (914) 874-4541.

A Christmas Carol 7:30pm. Ulster Ballet Company. $10/$15 students and seniors/$12 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 7:30pm. $25/$10 children and student rush. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-2am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music spun by eclectic DJ's. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org.

Wheels of Steel DJ Dance Party 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Events 21st Annual Holiday Marketplace 10am. Handcrafted gifts and seasonal decorations including the Gallery of Wreaths. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Kingston Farmers' Winter Market 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Rethinking the Pentagon 7pm. Barbara Honegger. Friends Meeting House, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 269-0220.

Sinterklaas Festival 10am-11pm. Downtown Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck.

758-5519.

Theater

The Monastery Christmas Craft Fair 10am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.

Staged Reading of Dickens' Christmas Carol 7pm. $75. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

Unison Arts Center's 21st Annual Holiday Craft Fair 10am-5pm. New Paltz Middle School, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8.

Community Playback Theatre, Highland. 691-4118.

Tina Clark Staniscia Open House and Fundraising 10:30am-5:30pm. To benefit the American Heart Association. Surviving Sisters Boutique, Hyde Park.

229-0425.

Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Sugar Plums and Nutcrackers 8pm. A classical ballet and variety performance drawn from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Proximity 8pm. An original one act play by Steve Russomano. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Fat Ram: An Adaptation of The Second Shepherds Play 8pm. $18/$16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880.

A Surreal Cabaret 8:30pm. Featuring a series of short acts with local artists in performance. Orange County Arts Council, Sugar Loaf. 469-1856.

SATURDAY 3 Art Highwoods Studio Holiday Ceramics Sale 10am-4pm. Ceramic artist co-op. Highwoods Studio, 958 Church Rd., Saugerties. 706-3207.

Art Sale From Cherished Collections 1pm-4pm. To benefit the Methodists & Friends Build, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh.Gardnertown United Methodist Church, Newburgh. 446-2361.

Peer-Reviewed Photo Exhibit by Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop 3pm-4pm. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

American Masters 5:30pm-7:30pm. Hale Johnson, John Traynor, Brother Thomas Bezanson. Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 458-1700.

Christkindlmarkt 11am-6pm. Traditional German Christmas Market.

Unique ethnic & American giftware, handmade crafts, decorations, home baked goods, Elves' Table, Café for food & refreshments. Kingston Maennerchor & Damenchor, Kingston. 338-3763.

Holiday Market 11am-3pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Pictures with Santa 11am-2pm. Vintage Santa, refreshments, shopping.

Dubois Fort Visitors Center, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Legacy Farm CoHousing Open Meeting 11:30am-2pm. Come and see how we are planning a safe, sustainable, old fashioned community where neighbors know and care for neighbors and the environment. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. www.legacyfarmcohousing.com.

Annual Trolley Santa Run 12pm-4pm. $2. Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399.

Handmade for the Holidays Bazaar 12pm-7pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Sinterklass Celebration 2pm-2pm. David Arner, piano and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-2515.

Book Signing with Lisa Hart 3pm. Author of the children's book Children of the Seventh Fire . Barnes and Noble, Newburgh. 567-0782.

5th Grade Whale Watch Trip Fundraiser 5pm-8pm. Spaghetti dinner to benefit 5th graders at Chancellor Livingston Elementary School. $12/$8 children. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-1121.

Brewster Holiday Caroling & Lighting Festival 5pm. Southeast Museum, Brewster. director@southeastmuseum.org.

Kingston Farmers’ Winter Market

Creating a Harmony of History, Community and Farmland with the Best of the Hudson Valley.

Opening Day, December 3rd!

1st & 3rd Saturdays

10:00 am to 2:00 pm December through April Bethany Hall at the Old Dutch Church Uptown Kingston 845-853-8512 “We’re Always Growing.” www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org

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High Falls Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony 5:30pm. Followed by music at 7pm by Broad Band.

High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Staged Reading of Dickens' Christmas Carol 6pm. $75. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

Film

Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Woodstock: In Search of Utopia 3-5pm. Premier of Cambiz A. Khosravi's 30-min. fundraising video for forthcoming feature. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

EVO: Ten Questions Everyone Should Ask About Evolution 4pm-7pm. Coykendall Science Building , New Paltz.

257-3245.

Kids Saturday Children's Art Workshops 11am-1pm. Ages 5-12. $12. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Holiday Ornament Workshop 1pm-4pm. $12/$10 members. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Music Met Live in HD: Rodelinda 12:30pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

M R Poulopoulos 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Senior Recital: William Healy 4pm. Piano and composition. Music of Schubert, Ravel, and Healy. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie.

437-7294.

FAT RAM, An Adaptation of the Second Shepherds Play 8pm. $9/$14/$16/$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880.

Proximity 8pm. An original one act play by Steve Russomano. $12. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

247-4007.

Sugar Plums and Nutcrackers 8pm. A classical ballet and variety performance drawn from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Workshops Create Enchanted Mosaics Part I 6pm-9pm. Part II Dec. 5 7:30-9pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

SUNDAY 4 Art Highwoods Studio Holiday Ceramics Sale 10am-4pm. Ceramic artist co-op. Highwoods Studio,

Events

Theater

The Monastery Christmas Craft Fair 10am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.

FAT RAM, An Adaptation of the Second Shepherds Play 2pm. $9/$14/$16/$18. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

257-3880.

Unison Arts Center's 21st Annual Holiday Craft Fair 10am-5pm. New Paltz Middle School, New Paltz.

255-1559.

21st Annual Holiday Marketplace 10am-3pm. Handcrafted gifts and seasonal decorations including the Gallery of Wreaths. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Rhinebeck Winter Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

Holiday Market 11am-3pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

A Gilded Age Christmas: Holiday Whodunit 1pm-4pm. Mills Mansion, Staatsburg. 889-8851.

The Woodstock Chess Club 2pm-4pm. Woodstock Golf Course Pub & Restaurant, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Book Release Party & Kid's Concert with Lizzie West & Baba Buffalo 2pm. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Winter Wonderland 2pm. Poetry reading by C-GCC Professor Emeritus Diane Koenig. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

Sugar Plums and Nutcrackers 3pm. A classical ballet and variety performance drawn from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Puccini's La Boheme 4pm. $35/$25 seniors/$15 students. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070.

MONDAY 5 art Lunch with the Artists 12pm. Meet the artists with work in the exhibit "Red Works." La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.

Body / Mind / Spirit Healing Smile Meditation 1pm-2pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Help Yourself to Wellness 2pm-4pm. Presentation by Puja Thomson on how to empower your health and happiness. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

A Tale of Two Christmases 7pm. Ars Choralis. $22/$18 pre-paid/children half price.

Overlook Methodist Church, Woodstock. 679-6800.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Amina Figarove Sextet 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Classes

Lucas Handwerker the Mentalist 7pm. $15/$12 in advance. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Fred Smith Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

Kids Kids' Music Class 4pm-5pm. Singing, jamming and creative songmaking with Ruthy Ungar and Uncle Rock. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

Eddie Fingerhut and John Pinder 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Crossroads Brewery, Athens.

(518) 945-2337.

Bryan Gordon 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville.

647-3000.

Xanthocephalus 8pm. Parashi, Saviour Self, Matt Weston, Fossils from the Sun and Rambutan. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Forman 8pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Reality Check 8:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Bluestone 9pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie.

485-8411.

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion 9pm. With Martin Sexton. $45. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

David Bromberg 9pm. $55/$45/$30. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Blues Buddha Band 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Lick The Toad 10pm. Classic rock. Coco's Pasta and Grill, Hyde Park.

229-3200.

The Outdoors Stockport-Greenport Connector Trail Building Day 10am-2pm. Stockport Flats Conservation Area, Hudson (Columbia County) Scenic Hudson, Columbia Land Conservancy and the Stockport Trails Committee are looking for volunteers to help us establish a trail linking Scenic Hudson's Harrier Hill Park with the Greenport Conservation Area. Stockport Flats Conservatoin Area, Hudson. 473-4440 ext. 273.

Spoken Word Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring James F. Cotter. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

Readings by Djelloul, Marbrook, and George Drew 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.

Chronogram Open Word 7pm-10pm. Featuring Goat Hill Poets. Poetry, prose, performance. $5. Beahive Kingston, Kingston.

246-8565.

Theater Murder Mystery Performance Call for times. Lucas Handwerker presents demonstrations of the untapped power of the mind.

Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Auditions for Hairspray Call for times. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-5348.

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Ring 11am. By Kids On Stage. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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Kairos: A Consort of Singers An ensemble dedicated to the performance of unaccompanied choral literature from the Medieval period to the present, Kairos will offer two evenings of music this month at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park. On December 4, Kairos presents Bach’s Advent Cantata No. 36 fifth concert in Kairos’ 2011 Bach Cantata series, at 4pm. The service will also include several movements from William Byrd’s Mass for 4 Voices and a set of pieces by Italian Baroque composer Giovanni Gabrieli for solo cello, performed by cellist Susan Seligman. The group will offer its annual Lessons and Carols Service on December 18 at 3pm. The service will include readings from the Old and New Testaments, interspersed with choral motets, hymns, and carols. Dr. Edward Lundergan is the artistic director of Kairos. www.kairosconsort.org.

958 Church Rd., Saugerties. 706-3207.

Free Arts Day & Banner Project Celebration 12pm-6pm. Dance performance, banner project, kids'/teens activities. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Art Sale From Cherished Collections 1pm-4pm. To benefit the Methodists & Friends Build, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh.

Gardnertown United Methodist Church, Newburgh.

446-2361.

First Sunday Free Gallery Tour 2pm-3pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama with Baby Pilates and Prenatal Pilates 10am-11am. $15. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Hypnobabies 10am-1pm. 6 sessions. $375. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Meditation of Compassion 11am-12:30pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Dream Circle 2pm-5pm. Come and explore your life's journey through your dreams. Miriam's Well, Saugerties.

246-5805.

Classes The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 12pm-2pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

An Evening of Northern Country 8pm. Featuring Peggy Atwood, Dean Batstone, Peter Head, and Charles Lyonhart. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Mutineer Monday 8pm. Alternative music for alternative people. $3.

Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

TUESDAY 6 Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Joanne Klein Men's and Women's Vintage Fashion Show & Sale 5pm-7pm. Join us for vintage clothing, wine, tapas and fun. Wild Hive Farm Bakery, Clinton Corners. 266-5863.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Music

Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $10/members free. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Vito Petroccitto 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jazz Brunch with Bernstein Bard Trio 11:30am-2:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Green Genes 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Lisztomania! A 200th Anniversary Celebration 2pm. Presented by Close Encounters with Music. $30-$40. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Petite Messe Solenelle 3pm. The Putnam Chorale. $15/$12 students and seniors. Temple Beth Elohim, Brewster. www.putnamchorale.org.

Conservatory Orchestra 3pm. With music director Leon Botstein and Jeremy Denk, piano. Works include Stravinsky's Fireworks; Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3; Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

A Tale of Two Christmases 4pm. Ars Choralis. $22/$18 pre-paid/children half price.

Overlook Methodist Church, Woodstock. 679-6800.

A Service of Lessons and Carols 7pm. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

A Taste of Judaism 9pm-9pm. Temple Emanuel, Kingston. www.curiousaboutjudaism.org/ny4.

Mike + Ruthy 7:30pm. Roots. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501.

Dance

Spoken Word

A Christmas Carol 2pm. Ulster Ballet Company. $10/$15 students and seniors/$12 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Reading and Signing with Elizabeth Cunningham 3pm. Author of Red-Robed Priestess. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Swing Dance to DJ'd Music 6pm-9pm. Beginner's lesson 6:00-6:30. $10/$6 FT students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie.

454-2571.

Music

Escaping the Shadow of Silence 4pm. Mihai Granfeld on being the son of Holocaust survivor. Jewish Congregation of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-9817.

Events

Film Which Way Home 7:15pm. Mid-Hudson Valley Amnesty Club. The event will bring awareness about the human rights of immigrants and especially about the DREAM Act, currently under discussion in Congress. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Winter Instrumental Concert 7pm. DCC Guitar Consort directed by Helen Avakian, DCC Jazz Ensemble directed by Christopher Brelloch.

Dutchess Hall Theater, Poughkeepsie. 431-8000.

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Mike Clark Trio 7pm. With The Rondout Valley 7th & 8th Grade Jazz Ensemble, Dir. Jason Clinton The Kingston High School Jazz Ensemble, Dir. Dan Shaut. $15/$8 students. Kingston High School, Kingston. 514-2079.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Choral Concert 8pm. $3/$6/$8. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

The Residency 8pm. 3 bands of musical all stars. $3. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Workshops Make a Menorah Workshop 5:30pm-8pm. $115/$95 members. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Create Your Own Victorian Holiday Kissing Ball 5:30pm-7:30pm. $25. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County's Education Center, Kingston.

Acting For the Fun of It 6pm-9pm. Class for Actors and Non-Actors with Richard Genaro. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

music judy collins at the egg imiage provided

With Graceful Voice We here on Earth have lucky ears. Our collective tympanic membranes have been

could move out from there and do what I wanted, musically. And so on the next album

blessed with the divine voice of Judy Collins since the beginning of the late 1950s/early

[Wildflowers] I ended up having a complete orchestra.

1960s folk boom. Besides being one of the foremost singers of her generation, Collins, who will appear at the Egg in Albany this month, is one of the leading interpreters of the songs of others. Her early recordings of their compositions greatly popularized upand-comers like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell (a 1967 Grammy-winning cover of the latter’s “Both Sides Now” helped establish Mitchell as a songwriter), and in 1975 she took Broadway tunesmith Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” into the pop charts. (Not that Collins has ever eschewed her traditional roots; her 1968 a capella version of “Amazing Grace” was a surprise hit.)

Collins was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a prominent local radio singer and program host. Her family later moved to Denver, Colorado, where she sang in choirs and school musicals and learned piano. By her teens she’d discovered folk music and switched to guitar, playing local coffeehouses before getting her first big break at Chicago’s Gate of Horn in 1960. Later that year she relocated to the East Coast, where she performed at New York folk clubs before being snapped up by Elektra Records and cementing her stardom with a trilogy of hugely selling folk rock LPs, In My Life (1966), Wildflowers (1967), and Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968). Judy Collins will perform at the Egg in Albany on December 9 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $34.50.

(518) 473-1845; www.theegg.org.

—Peter Aaron Many listeners probably don’t realize you came from a classical background, having studied under conductor Dr. Antonia Brico. What made you want to play folk music?

The stories. Folk songs have such great stories, and I’ve always loved a good story.

I can remember putting on a play of “Little Red Riding Hood” with my friends when I was very little, so I was already very interested in storytelling before I came to music. Of course, Mozart and Rachmaninoff have some seriously great stories in their music, too.

But hearing songs like [English folk ballad] “The Gypsy Rover” just really got me.

You’re known for interpreting songs by artists who eventually became well known in their own right, like Leonard Cohen, an untried performer whose songs you debuted on In My Life. What was it that attracted you to his music?

Well, Leonard was pretty well known as a poet before he became a musician. But we met and he came to my place and played me three songs that I just loved: “The Stranger Song,” which I haven’t recorded yet, and the two I recorded for the album, “Suzanne” and “Dress Rehearsal Rag.” I wanted to do something different at that point and I loved that

Are there any contemporary songwriters out there you like?

Oh, sure. There’s Amy Speace, who I signed to my label [Wildflower Records]. She’s a marvelous artist. And [Hudson Valley local] Michael Veitch, who I found out about after he submitted “Veterans Day,” a really great antiwar song, to the Music 2 Life songwriting contest. Music 2 Life was founded in 1971 by Noel Paul Stookey [of Peter, Paul and Mary] and every year I’m one of the judges. I didn’t know Michael at the time but I really loved the song and I recorded it. Later on we met in Paris when I was playing there.

Besides being a songwriter yourself, you’re also the author of a novel, Shameless (2007, Pocket Books), and several memoirs, including Trust Your Heart (1988, Fawcett Press) and Sanity and Grace (2003, Penguin Books). What writers do you like? Any new books of your own in the works?

I’ve always been a big reader. Right now, I’m reading Robert K. Massie’s new book about Catherine the Great [Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman; 2011, Random House]. I love history, and his books are great. But I have a big stack of other stuff I’ve been wanting to get to next. As far as books by me go, no. Sanity and Grace is still fairly recent, and I feel like that’s enough for the moment.

Tragically, you lost your son Clark to suicide in 1992. Since then you’ve worked with suicide prevention organizations to raise awareness in that area. These being trying times for so many, can you recommend any groups that you feel could be especially helpful to people?

I really think suicide prevention starts at the local level, and that people should take advantage of the hotlines and other organizations that are available right there in their communities. The SOS [Signs of Suicide] Program and [child-loss bereavement group] the Compassionate Friends are great organizations. We’re lucky enough to have the Internet nowadays, which we didn’t really have 20 years ago when Clark died. I would tell people that’s the best place to go first, along with the self-help sections of their local library or bookstore.

Speaking of these desperate times, what’s your view of the Occupy Wall Street movement? You’ve been involved in social activism since the 1960s; how does the mood of society compare now to the way it was in the ’60s and early ’70s?

With the Occupy Wall Street protests, I think it’s high time it happened. I’m very proud that people are making their discomfort and their desires known, and letting the people

his songs were very dramatic, especially “Dress Rehearsal Rag.” He kept telling me how

at the top know that what goes around comes around. I’m actually going [to the protest

he couldn’t sing, but I told him he sounded great and that he should become a singer.

site] myself soon to show my support. [At this writing Collins was set to appear at the

With In My Life you went from straight folk to a folk rock sound, even covering the Beatles and Donovan, which alienated a lot of your traditional folk audience. Were you surprised by that kind of response?

Occupy Wall Street encampment on November 23.] There are definitely a lot of similar feelings nowadays to those we had 40 or so years ago, with people being “mad as hell” about what’s been going on.

I didn’t know what people were thinking. I didn’t really pay that much attention—although

What is it that keeps certain songs alive for you after playing them for so many years?

I do remember how [music journalist] Richard Goldstein at the Village Voice just tore

The songs that last are the ones that captured my imagination right away; a lousy song

the album apart. Really, I think very few people understood what was going on in my

never lasts. But having done this for 50 years and made almost 45 albums really helps.

personal evolution. But the album did very well and I had a great time, and I knew that I

Having a selection of so many songs to choose from keeps them all pretty fresh.

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WEDNESDAY 7 Body / Mind / Spirit Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Calm Abiding Meditation 6pm-7pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham. (518) 392-6900.

Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Buddhist teachings explain that suffering is caused by uncontrolled and painful states of mind. $10/$5 seniors and students. Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000.

Permaculture & Ecological Consciousness: Exploring our Sense of the Sacred 7:30pm. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Yoga for Mama with Baby 10pm-11am. $65/$12 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Classes Eat Smart and Live Well 1pm-2pm. Designed to help individuals, seniors and families make healthier food choices while stretching their food dollars . Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County's Education Center, Kingston. 340-3990 ext. 340.

Events Holiday Factory Sale 9am-Sunday, December 11, 6pm. Top Shelf Jewelry, Ellenville. 647-4661.

Loughran House Victorian Holiday Tea 2:45-4:45pm. Loughran House, Kingston. www.ulstercountyalive.com.

Pearl Harbor 70th Anniversary Remembrance Performance 7pm. Actors portraying Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt, a movie and live historian to answer questions. $12.

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park.

229-6432.

Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Jazz Wednesdays 7pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Spoken Word Permaculture & Ecological Consciousness: Exploring our Sense of the Sacred 7:30pm. Andrew Faust. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Kids Kids' Yoga 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-10. $60 series. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Music Jim Brickman's A Christmas Celebration Call for times. $32-$77. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Voice Recital 7pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2700.

Dharma Jazz 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Open Mike Night 8pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word The Many Meanings of Education in 19th-Century America 5:15pm-6:30pm. Dramatic reading by the students of History/Women's Studies 285. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5670.

The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Dance The Nutcracker 9:45am. New Paltz Ballet Theater. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Events

Spoken Word

Senate House Festival of Lights 5-8pm. Senate House, Kingston www.ulstercountyalive.com.

Historic Stockade Holiday Event 5-8pm. Carolers, ice carving, horse & buggy rides,more.

Stockade District, Kingston. www.ulstercountyalive.com.

1st Annual Fundraiser for the Newburgh Performing Artists Group 7pm-9pm. $50. Newburgh Actors Studio, Newburgh.

569-8593.

Laughter Yoga Benefit for Family of Woodstock 7pm. Led by Jim Gordon. $10. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 616-6764.

Kids Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 10am-10:45am. 8 weeks/$145. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Dance Understanding Buddhist Thought 11am-1pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

The Nutcracker 7:30pm. New Paltz Ballet Theater. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Holiday Contradance 8pm. Fern Bradley calling, with music by The Russett Trio. $10/$9 members/kids half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Music Guitarist Adam Levy Call for times. Open Space Gallery, Beacon. 765-0731.

Judy Collins Holiday Concert 7:30pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Dance The Nutcracker 12pm. New Paltz Ballet Theater. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Events Open Hive/Game 7:30pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Open Mike Night 8pm. Featuring full bands, singer/songwriters, poets, comedians, performance art. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

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FRIDAY 9 Art Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

Body / Mind / Spirit Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

The Language Archive 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $14-$20.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 4pm-6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Organic Fertilizers and Substrates Hands-On Workshop for Commercial Growers 8:30am-11am. Hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County's Agriculture Program. $25/$15 early registration. Hudson Valley Laboratory, Highland. 340-3990 ext. 315.

Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Downsizing can be Uplifting 7pm. Interior decorator, Anne Garces will give you tips on making your move from a large space to a smaller space a smooth transition. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Holiday Cash & The Power of Positive Thinking 7pm-9pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Photography Workshop 7pm. Led by Len Sanchez. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Hop-N-Healthy Call for times. Classes are 30-40 minutes of non-stop movement for children 18 months-5 years. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Proximity 8pm. An original one act play by Steve Russomano. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Workshops

Classes

Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition I 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

A Christmas Carol 8pm. $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

The Hangover Show 6pm-9pm. Carol Flaitz, Michael Gaydos, Carla Goldberg, Tom Holmes, Gary Jacketti, Kirsten Olson, Grey Zeien and Lisa Zukowski. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.

Art

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Staged Reading of Dickens' Christmas Carol 7pm. $75. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

Holiday Reception 5pm-8pm. Introducing new works by its resident artists.

Open Studio, Catskill. (518) 943-9531.

Dark Star Orchestra 7:30pm. Recreating the Grateful Dead experience. $31.

Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Move With Me: 1 - 2.5 years 12:15pm-1pm. $72/$15. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Theater

SATURDAY 10

Proximity 8pm. An original one act play by Steve Russomano. $12.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Reading with Will Hermes 7pm. Author of Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever.

Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Art

Music Theater Singing Ensemble 7pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

nature & the outdoors Moonrise Hike 6-7pm. Near full moon hike. Mud Creek Environmental Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386x3.

Theater

THURSDAY 8

In The Pocket 11pm. Covers. Grimaldi's, New Paltz. 255-3800.

The Nutcracker 8pm. Catskill Ballet Theater. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Catskill Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” “The Nutcracker” was not a success following its premier in St. Petersburg in 1892, but longevity has been assured for the ballet because of Tchaikovsky’s delightful score, especially the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Now a revered holiday tradition, “The Nutcracker” tells the story of a lavish Christmas party given by the Von Stahlbaum. Catskill Ballet Theatre will perform the ballet in its entirety. Formed in 1981 by Anne Hebard, the Catskill Ballet Theatre is a regional company providing cultural enrichment through the instruction and presentation of classical ballet. Catskill Ballet Theatre was the recipient of Ulster County’s 2010 Cultural Business of the Year Award. “The Nutcracker” will be performed at UPAC in Kingston on Friday, December 9 at 8pm; Saturday, December 10 at 8pm; and Sunday, December 11 at 2pm. $27/$20/$15. www.upac.org.

Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing 7pm. James and Betty Hall Theater, Poughkeepsie. www.sunydutchess.edu.

Andrea & the Armenian Rug Riders 9:30pm. Classic rock. $10/$5. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Lisa Jane Lipkin 7:30pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Hank and His Guitar 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-4717.

Jim Weider's PRoJECT PERCoLAToR 8:00 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Lovesick 8pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Floodwood 8pm. Al & Vinnie of moe. Orient Lounge, Poughkeepsie. www.radiowoodstock.com Mendelssohn Club Christmas Concert 8pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.ulstercountyalive.com.

Vassar College Jazz Ensemble 8pm. James Osborn, director. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Second Friday Jams with Jeff Entin & Bob Blum 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Vague Assurances 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Bryan Gordon 9pm. Acoustic. Eleven 11 Grille & Spirits, Fishkill.

896-0011.

Andrea & the Armenian Rug Riders 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grape Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

The Maria Hickey Band 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

Charlie Sabin Acoustic 9:30pm. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery.

457-1123.

The Nutcracker 8pm. Catskill Ballet Theater. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Holiday Swing Dance 8pm-10:30pm. Lesson 7:30pm-8pm. $10. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.

Wheels of Steel DJ Dance Party 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Events Cookie Walk 9am-12pm. Women's Fellowship of the Reformed Church of Shawangunk cookie sale. $6/pound.

Reformed Church of Shawangunk, Wallkill. 895-2952.

Cookie, Candy and Ornament Sale 10am-3pm. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.

Local Handmade & Vintage Holiday Craft Fair 10am-5pm. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.

6th Annual Frozendale Festival 11am-6pm. Live music, shows, shopping, films, raffles and sweet fun and Light Up the Trestle. Rosendale, Rosendale. Frozendale2011@gmail.com.

Frozendale Booktique 11am-3pm. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Pictures with Santa 11am-2pm. Vintage Santa, refreshments, shopping.

Dubois Fort Visitors Center, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Boutique Show and Dance Party Jam 1pm-12am. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Catskill Cabaradio 6pm-10pm. Local poets, personalities, live music, history and good old fashioned family fun. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

3rd Annual Hive Holiday/Party + Fundraiser 7pm. Silent auction fundraiser for social issues photojournalism gallery Fovea. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Silent Auction Fundraiser & Christmas Party 7pm-12am. Auction, music. Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon.

765-2199.

Film Screening of The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Call for times. Followed by discussion with activist lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Steven Smith and Michael Ratner. Upstate Films, Woodstock. 876-4546.

art jen-luc moulÈne's "opus + one" photos courtesy dia art foundation

Moulène Rouge

Jean-Luc Moulène, Stock Exchange, New York, March 23, 2010.

Jean-Luc Moulène, Measure, New York, February 3, 2010.

“A weed is but an unloved flower,” wrote American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The French artist Jean-Luc Moulène has been investigating one such plant: the Paulownia tomentosa, also known as the Empress Tree. For seven years, Moulène photographed this weed on the streets of Paris, where it grows up through sidewalks and beside buildings. His study is known as La Vigie, which means “the lookout man.” The Dia Art Foundation in Beacon will show 299 of these photos, as part of “Opus + One,” Moulène’s first solo show in the United States. The show opens December 17 and will run for a year.

Humans build cities, where they define rogue plants as “social problems.” Essentially they outlaw certain species, much as they label traditional medicines like marijuana “dangerous drugs.” Concomitant with the War on Drugs is the War on Weeds. In his photos, Moulène emphasizes the banal nature of these plants. If anything, the paulownia seem to look around with a bland and foolish benevolence.

Moulène’s work is all interconnected. Followers of his art know 39 Objets de Grève [“39 Objects from Strikes”], a collection of items produced by workers on strike in France from 1970 to 1990. Though the Empress Tree is not expressly a metaphor, it’s a story of unstoppable growth, of a “grassroots” movement rising up from beneath the institutions of Paris. A revolution, perhaps? Certainly a growing plant is an affirmation of life. Whitman wrote in Leaves of Grass: “The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.”

Moulène lives in Paris, and has an urbanite’s eye for the serendipities of street life.

He produces works in series, allowing him to study a phenomenon like a scientist. (He scrupulously notes the date of each photo.) For example, in “documents/Le Tunnel,” he photographed a particular tunnel in Paris where graffiti artists write, over the course of five years. Moulène is inventing an aesthetic journalism.

A series tends to expand to fill the universe. Beginning with the paulownia, Moulène focuses his attention on numerous aspects of Parisian life, including the fight against terrorism. (The neighborhood Moulène documents in La Vigie includes the Ministry of the Economy, so barricades have been erected to prevent attacks.) “Jean-Luc is saying, ‘Look how we are organizing fear. Look how fear is determining our landscape, in the city,’” suggests Yasmil Raymond, curator of the exhibition. “What is that object that is ever-present today in all our buildings? The barricade. What does that have to say about the way we are living?” The paulownia is not always physically visible, but its memory lurks in the background: low, genial, but nevertheless threatening. Undeterred, this plant could destroy the City of Light. Unconsciously, it aims to turn Paris into a forest.

Moulène has insisted that none of the works in this show be revealed to the press. (The images I’m discussing were purloined from the Internet.) Instead, he offers for promotional purposes three photographs he took in New York City in 2010, while preparing “Opus + One.” They show: 1) a sideways ladder, 2) a nickel next to a ruler, 3) the New York Stock Exchange. But what do they mean? Since 2) and 3) are about money, does the ladder symbolize the lack of economic mobility in America?

“Opus + One” also includes 35 sculptures by Moulène, though I don’t know which ones. His sculptural pieces tend to be cheerful, minimalist, and ironic. One of my favorites (Cinq Concentrés Concentriques) recombines five replicas of Moulène’s fingers into a three-dimensional asterisk.

“Opus + One” by Jean-Luc Moulène will be exhibited at Dia:Beacon until December 31, 2012. (845) 440-0100; www.diabeacon.org.

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Mary Poppins 12pm/3:30pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

John Landis' Animal House 9pm. $6. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids The Amazing Chair Project 10am-3pm. Workshop for 10-12 year olds. Working with recycled materials and your imagination, design and build a structurally sound chair that is unique, functional and sculptural. $100/$80 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Saturday Children's Art Workshops 11am-1pm. Ages 5-12. $12. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Music Volta Trio Call for times. The Living Room, Cold Spring.

270-8210.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Trout Fishing in Space 7pm. Collaborative live music and video performance.

Charles Lindsay, David Rothenberg, more. Kleinert/ James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Crowmatrix 7pm. Opening act: Jeremy Baum Trio. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mama with Baby Pilates and Prenatal Pilates 10am-11am. $15. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10 donation. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Comfort and Joy 3pm. Mid Hudson Women's Chorus winter concert. $7/$6 students and seniors. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 382-2499.

Organist Dr. John Weaver 3:30pm. $10. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110.

Meditation of Compassion 11am-12:30pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

Greg Westhoff's Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

College-Youth Symphony 7pm. $3/$6/$8. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Classes The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 12pm-2pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

A Taste of Judaism 9pm-9pm. Temple Emanuel, Kingston. www.curiousaboutjudaism.org/ny4.

Dance The Nutcracker 2pm. Catskill Ballet Theater. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

The Nutcracker 3pm. New Paltz Ballet Theater. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

A Night Before Christmas with Spyro Gyra 7pm. Jazz fusion holiday show. $40-$60. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Rethink Pink 7pm. Honoring compositions made between 1967 and 1994 by Pink Floyd. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.

Theater A Christmas Carol 3pm. $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Proximity 7pm. An original one act play by Steve Russomano. $12. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

247-4007.

Jason Green and the Labor of Love 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Olivia Newton-John 8pm. $59.50/$49.50/$39.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Breakaway Band 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

John Schrader Band 8:30pm. Acoustic. American Glory, Hudson.

(518) 822-1234.

Yasgur 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Paul Roach & The Young Lions 9pm. World music. The Wherehouse Restaurant, Newburgh. 561-7240.

Johnny Fedz & da Bluez Boyz 9:30pm. $10/$5. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Poets Mary Kathryn Jablonski and Roberta Gould and the annual business and planning meeting. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Larry the Cable Guy 4pm/8pm. Comedy. $59.50$44.50/$36.50. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

Readings by Saloma Furlong 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.

Theater The Mysterious Case of the Missing Ring 11am. By Kids On Stage. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Staged Reading of Dickens' Christmas Carol 6pm. $75. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

A Christmas Carol 8pm. $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

The Language Archive 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $18/$14.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Workshops Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. This workshop lays the groundwork for postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to this classical yoga practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

SUNDAY 11

Ulster Ballet Company’s “A Christmas Carol” Featuring a cast of more than 60 dancers and actors from across the Hudson Valley, “A Christmas Carol” is Ulster Ballet Company’s signature take on Dickens’s heartwarming tale of redemption. (Whether or not Sir Charles wished Tiny Tim and Ebeneezer Scrooge to be the most potent portions of his literary legacy is open to question.) Sara Miot, formerly of the New York City Ballet, choreographed and directed the show. With its spectacular lighting and special effects, colorful costumes, and stunning sets by acclaimed local painter Leslie Bender, Ulster Ballet’s production has become a holiday tradition for Hudson Valley audiences. Now in its 33rd year, the Ulster Ballet Company includes many regional artists, choreographers, stage professionals, actors, and writers. Scarlett Fiero and Quiedo Carbone are the company’s artistic directors. “A Christmas Carol” will be performed at UPAC in Kingston on Friday, December 2 at 7:30pm; Saturday, December 3 at 7:30pm; and Sunday, December 4 at 2pm. $19/$15/$12. www.upac.org.

MONDAY 12

Events Warm Up At The Washingtons 12pm. Chat with historic interpreters, enjoy seasonal music performed by the Salmagundi Consort, and snack on hot cider and cookies by an outdoor fire.

Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Berkshire Mountain Area Polyamory Network Potluck, Discussion, and Mixer 12pm-4:30pm. Holiday party. New Lebenon. tara.shaktima@gmail.com.

A Gilded Age Christmas: Holiday Whodunit 1pm-4pm. Mills Mansion, Staatsburg. 889-8851.

Body / Mind / Spirit Healing Smile Meditation 1pm-2pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Classes

The Woodstock Chess Club 2pm-4pm. Woodstock Golf Course Pub & Restaurant, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Film

Kids

Screening of The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Call for times. Followed by discussion with activist lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Steven Smith and Michael Ratner. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-4546.

Kids' Music Class 4pm-5pm. Singing, jamming and creative songmaking with Ruthy Ungar and Uncle Rock. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

Tango 2pm. Dance film Sundays. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Mountain Snow and Mistletoe 2pm. Concert of holiday songs and stories with Christopher Shaw and Bridget Ball . $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Holiday Movie Night: Polar Express 3pm-5:30pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Kids Kore's Kids Klub 9am-12pm. Group for all children ages 5-12 who wish to learn more about Eclectic Paganism. Akasha's Journey, Wassiac. www.koreskids.webs.com.

Music

Music

Mutineer Monday 8pm. Alternative music for alternative people. $3.

Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Spoken Word Medicare Orientation 5:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

TUESDAY 13

The Young Lions with Neil Alexander & Paul Roach Call for times. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.

Akie Bermiss 1am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jazz Brunch with Perry Beekman 11:30am-2:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Art

Maggie Seligman 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Holiday Celebration Gift Show 12pm-5pm. Warwick Art League. Senior Center, Warwick. warwickartleague.com.

Vickie Russell 2pm. Singer/songwriter. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051.

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Acting For the Fun of It 6pm-9pm. Class for Actors and Non-Actors with Richard Genaro. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

WEDNESDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Breastfeeding Essentials 6pm-8pm. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Calm Abiding Meditation 6pm-7pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

Candlelit Yoga Class 6:45pm-7:30pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Buddhist teachings explain that suffering is caused by uncontrolled and painful states of mind. $10/$5 seniors and students. Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000.

Classes

The Don Byron New Gospel Quartet 8pm. $20. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Lyle Lovett 8:15pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Workshops

Yoga for Mama with Baby 10pm-11am. $65/$12 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Maaze 8pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Nat Baldwin 8pm. With Sam Buck Rosen and Silent Isle. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Truant Tuesday 8pm. Singer/songwriters with an Indie/folk bent. $3.

Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Learn how to overcome painful states of mind and experience joy. $10/$5 students and seniors.

Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000.

Frank Vignola's Hot Club 8pm. Tom Humphrey Guitar Series. $25. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.

Mendelssohn Club Christmas Concert 8pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.ulstercountyalive.com.

Music

Classes CPR Training for the Community and Workplace 6pm. Covers sudden cardiac arrest, heart attack, stroke, airway obstruction and use of an automated external defibrillator. $45. Beahive, Beacon. 421-0564.

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Eat Smart and Live Well 1pm-2pm. Designed to help individuals, seniors and families make healthier food choices while stretching their food dollars . Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County's Education Center, Kingston.

340-3990 ext. 340.

Events Green Holiday 4:15pm-5:15pm. Holiday cards and crafts. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.

Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Jazz Wednesdays 7pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Jon Cobert 8pm. Singer/songwriter. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

THURSDAY 15 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit Move With Me: 1 - 2.5 years 12:15pm-1pm. $72/$15. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Women's Dream Circle 6:30pm-9:30pm. Exploring the journeys of our lives together through our dreams creates an atmosphere of trust and deep confidence. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Events Watershed Management on a Shoestring Budget Call for times. The Hudson River Watershed Alliance's annual conference . Frankilin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park. (914) 474-2759.

Stitch & Bitch 7pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Open Mike Night 8pm. Featuring full bands, singer/songwriters, poets, comedians, performance art. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Kids Kids' Yoga 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-10. $60 series. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Westchester Rock Jam & Showcase 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word Human Nature: People and the Land in Columbia County, NY 5pm-8pm. Book discussion with author Conrad Vipso.

Farmscape Ecology Program Creekhouse, Ghent.

(518) 672-7994.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 16 Body / Mind / Spirit Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6pm-8pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Film Willy Wonka 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Kids Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 10am-10:45am. 8 weeks/$145. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Music Problems-Christmas Show Call for times. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.

Studio Stu 6pm. Jazz. Vigneto Café, Highland. 834-2828.

Mary Mancini & Mario Tacca 7pm. A candlelight Christmas concert with the Victor Lionti String Quartet. Church of the Assumption, Peekskill. www.assumptionpeekskill.org.

Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O 7pm-10pm. Jazz-flavored Christmas music. $15.

Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

SATURDAY 17 Art The Gift of Art 1:30pm-5:30pm. Small art for the holiday's sale.

Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Phelonious Phunk 9pm. $5. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Donna the Buffalo 9pm. Folk rock. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

In The Pocket 9:30pm. Covers. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls.

298-1724.

The Geoff Hartwell Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Miss Tess & The Bon Bon Parade 10pm. Country, blues, jazz, folk. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164.

The Lifesize Gorgeous Cocktails 10pm. Rock. The Sunset House, Peekskill.

(914) 734-4192.

Theater Holiday Cabaret Call for times. Starring Mary Kay Messenger, Kierstin Martin, and Mark A. Gamma. Newburgh Actors Studio, Newburgh. 569-8593.

Staged Reading of Dickens' Christmas Carol 7pm. $75. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

A Christmas Carol 8pm. $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

call now!

(845) 796-8207

COCKTAIL PARTIES, HOLIDAY PARTIES, FUND RAISERS, WINE TASTINGS, BRUNCHES, WEDDINGS, POLITICAL EVENTS, SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR CHURCHES & SYNAGOGUES

Hudson Valley Community Reiki Session 11am-1pm. Town of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. www.hvcreiki.org.

Living Principles of Tantra 11am-4pm. Arabella Champaq. $45. Beacon. www.meetup.com/Tantra-in-Beacon.

Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 4pm-6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Dance Understanding Buddhist Thought 11am-1pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

Acoustic Medicine Show 7pm. Helen Avakian and Joe Tobin. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. 758-5887.

Solas An Lae School of American Irish Dance Annual Christmas Performance 8pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-2am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music spun by eclectic DJ's. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org.

Wheels of Steel DJ Dance Party 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Events Kingston Farmers' Winter Market 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

The Pine Island Farmers' Market Holiday Market 10am-3pm. W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.

Kids

Fat City 9pm. New Orleans funk, blues, Motown and rock favorites. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

SPECIAL

Qi Gong with Lorraine Hughes 9am-10am. $10. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Waverly Consort 8pm. $30/$15 students/children free. All Saints Chapel, Pawling. www.pawlingconcertseries.org.

Sonya Kitchell and Elizabeth & the Catapult 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

make your occasion

Body / Mind / Spirit

Holiday Crafts Fair 12pm-6pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Donna The Buffalo 9pm. $25. W/The Trapps. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

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Music that’s both

Works by Jessica Poser Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Reflexology Clinic 10am-4:30pm. 45 minute sessions with Lorraine Hughes, treatment uses acupressure and massage, focusing on hands and feet to relieve tension and treat imbalances in the body. $45. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

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Retrospective Look @ Our First 5 Years 4pm-7pm. The Art and Zen Gallery, Poughkeepsie.

473-3334.

Voodelic 8pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Dangling Success 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

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Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

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Music

Drawing and Painting for Kids 10am-12pm. $30/$22 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Saturday Children's Art Workshops 11am-1pm. Ages 5-12. $12. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

The Puppet People's “A Christmas Carol” 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Music Schwervon Call for times. The Living Room, Cold Spring.

270-8210.

Rupert Wates 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Met Live in HD: Faust 1pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

The Zucchini Brothers Holiday Show 2pm. $10. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Fernando Otero 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Christmas Long Ago and Far Away 7:30pm. With Bells & Motley Olden Music featuring Sondra and John Bromka. $12/$10 with RSVP. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453.

Aleah Long and En Full Circle 8pm. Singer/songwriter. $15. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Vacation 8pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Classical Holiday Concert 8pm. With Jim Bacon, Sheila Hamilton and Sarah Williams. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

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Greg Douglas Band 8pm-12am. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Lyle Lovett Trio 8pm. Singer/songwriter. $70-$100. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Bill Perry Birthday Tribute & Fundraiser for The Bill Perry Scholarship Fund 8pm. $10. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.

David Kraai & The Saddletramps 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Duncan Sheik 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Steve Wexler & the Top Shelf 9:30pm. Motown, funk, Latin, swing. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Nuts in a Blender 10pm. Rock. Elsie's Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.

The Outdoors Winter Explorations in Columbia County 1pm-3pm. Walk to explore winter ecology and land use. Farmscape Ecology Program Creekhouse, Ghent.

(518) 672-7994.

Spoken Word Reading by Ed Breslin 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.

Theater Holiday Cabaret Call for times. Starring Mary Kay Messenger, Kierstin Martin, and Mark A. Gamma. Newburgh Actors Studio, Newburgh. 569-8593.

Babes in Toyland 11am. $16.50/15.00/$12. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf.

469-2287.

Black and White Holiday 3pm. Cocoon's “Silent Movie Workshop” returns in this original play written by M. San Millan for students ages 7-12. $5. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Staged Reading of Dickens' Christmas Carol 6pm. $75. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

A Christmas Carol 8pm. $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

SUNDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit Mama with Baby Pilates and Prenatal Pilates 10am-11am. $15. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Meditation of Compassion 11am-12:30pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

From Stressed Out to Blissed Out 2pm-4pm. Therapeutic laughter, meditative silence & journaling. $20. Clear Yoga, Rhinebeck. 516-4330.

Classes The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 12pm-2pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

A Taste of Judaism 9pm-9pm. Temple Emanuel, Kingston. www.curiousaboutjudaism.org/ny4.

Dance West Coast Swing Dance 6:30pm-9pm. Beginner's lesson 6:30-7, dance to DJ'd music 7-9. $8/$6 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 255-1379.

Events Rhinebeck Winter Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

A Gilded Age Christmas: Holiday Whodunit 1pm-4pm. Mills Mansion, Staatsburg. 889-8851.

The Woodstock Chess Club 2pm-4pm. Woodstock Golf Course Pub & Restaurant, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Highlights from the Footlights: A Holiday Benefit 3pm. $50. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Kids Paperbag Players 2pm. Rousing musical theater for families.

Recommended for children ages 4 to 9. $15.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Music Robert Kopec Trio 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jazz Brunch with Elaine Rachlin 11:30am-2:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Solstice Concert at Music at the Movies 1pm. Baird Hersey & Prana. Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock. 679-4265.

Hudson Valley Philharmonic III Winter Suite 3pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

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Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm-6pm. $6/$5. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

WeMustBe 6:15pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Comfort Measures 6pm-9pm. This class will give you practical hands on tools to help during labor and birth. $65. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Theater Holiday Cabaret Call for times. Starring Mary Kay Messenger, Kierstin Martin, and Mark A. Gamma. Newburgh Actors Studio, Newburgh. 569-8593.

Highlights from the Footlights:Hurricane Irene Fundraiser 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Make a Holiday Centerpiece 1pm-4pm. Bonnie Schaedle. $25. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Yoga for Mama with Baby 10pm-11am. $65/$12 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Eat Smart and Live Well 1pm-2pm. Designed to help individuals, seniors and families make healthier food choices while stretching their food dollars . Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County's Education Center, Kingston. 340-3990 ext. 340.

Events Karmabee Hanukkah Party 5pm-8pm. Celebrate with refreshments, trivia contest, holiday shopping and menorah-lighting. Karmabee, Kingston. 443-3358.

West Coast Swing Workshop 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 255-1379.

Old Dutch Church Living Nativity 6:30pm/7pm/7:30pm. 62nd annual narration and reenactment of the Christmas story. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.ulstercountyalive.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Healing Smile Meditation 1pm-2pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Champagne & Chocolate at the Loughran House 5:30-7:30pm. Historic home decorated for the season.

Loughran House, Kingston. www.ulstercountyalive.com.

Music Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Jazz Wednesdays 7pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Holiday Eating and Goal Setting 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Kingston Hospital Diabetes Education Center, Kingston. 334-4249.

Art

Music

Winter Solstice Laser Installation 6pm. The Roundhouse, Beacon. centerfor4darts@hotmail.com.

The Dutchess County Holistic Moms Chapter Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Transformation Through Kinesiology 7pm-9pm. $20-$40. The Sanctuary, New Paltz. www.mytrueplace.com.

Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale.

(917) 232-3623.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

EVENTS Old Dutch Church Living Nativity 6:30pm/7pm/7:30pm. 62nd annual narration and reenactment of the Christmas story. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.ulstercountyalive.com.

Music Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Spoken Word The Gemesis of Our River From Ice Age to Invasion 6:30pm-8pm. Scenic Hudson's River Center, Beacon.

471-7477.

Workshops Acting For the Fun of It 6pm-9pm. Class for Actors and Non-Actors with Richard Genaro. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

WEDNESDAY 21 Body / Mind / Spirit Herbal Wisdom Medicine Circle Call for times. The Living Room, Cold Spring.

270-8210.

Calm Abiding Meditation 6pm-7pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

The Dylan Emmet Band 8pm. $8. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Bluestone Unplugged 9pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie.

485-8411.

Theater Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Swing Dance Workshops 6:30pm-8pm. Intermediate workshops: Jazz Steps 6:30-7:15; Learn the "Swingout" 7:15-8:00. $15/$20 both. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie.

454-2571.

THURSDAY 22

Body / Mind / Spirit

Celebration through the Centuries 8pm. Guitar virtuoso David Temple returns this Holiday season with music from around the globe. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops

Kids' Music Class 4pm-5pm. Singing, jamming and creative songmaking with Ruthy Ungar and Uncle Rock. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

TUESDAY 20

Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 10am-10:45am. 8 weeks/$145. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Kids

Mutineer Monday 8pm. Alternative music for alternative people. $3.

Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Kids

Kids

Workshops

EVENTS

It's a Wonderful Life 7pm. $5/$3 children. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Music

Classes

Make a Holiday Centerpiece 1pm-4pm. Create a fresh flower and foliage centerpiece. $25. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

MONDAY 19

Film

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

SATURDAY 24 Body / Mind / Spirit EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 4pm-6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Understanding Buddhist Thought 11am-1pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

Dance Wheels of Steel DJ Dance Party 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

EVENTS Community Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 7:30pm prelude with brass and organ. 8pm service.

Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.ulstercountyalive.com.

Music Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Theater

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Events Open Mike Night 8pm. Featuring full bands, singer/songwriters, poets, comedians, performance art. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Film It's a Wonderful Life 6:30pm. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

SUNDAY 25 Body / Mind / Spirit Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10 donation. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Meditation of Compassion 11am-12:30pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

MONDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit

Matt Finley, Don Miller, and Peter Tomlinson 6:30pm. Contemporary jazz with a Brazilian flair.

Savona's Trattoria, Kingston. 339-6800.

Healing Smile Meditation 1pm-2pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck.

876-5952.

Chris O'Leary Band 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Celebration through the Centuries 8pm. Guitar virtuoso David Temple returns this Holiday season with music from around the globe. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 23

New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Film Mary Poppins 3pm. $5/$3 children. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Classes

Music

Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Mutineer Monday 8pm. Alternative music for alternative people. $3.

Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Dance Swing Dance to The Saints of Swing 8pm-11:30pm. Beginner's lesson 8-8:30; dance 8:30-11:30. $15/$10 FT students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

TUESDAY 27 Body / Mind / Spirit Dutchess Doulas 10am-11am. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

ART The hart island project

Melinda Hunt, Ann Rubin, sumi ink on black-and-white negative, 2011. Ann Rubin committed suicide in Brooklyn on May 18, 1988 at age 34 and is buried on Hart Island. Her body was discovered in burial records and disinterred in 2008.

The Art of the Forgotten There are many ways to describe Melinda Hunt’s 20-year effort to draw attention to the forgotten souls of New York City’s potter’s field: a multimedia installation, a crusade, an obsession.

Since November 1991, the Peekskill-based artist’s work regarding the urban burial ground on Hart Island has taken numerous forms: a film, a book, a data registry, a photo archive, and, most recently, a speech delivered to the New York City Council demanding better documentation of people in city hospitals.

Hunt’s latest effort to memorialize nearly one million men, women, and children is an exhibition of ink-and-photography pieces. “Shades of New York: An Exhibition of The Hart Island Project” opens December 6 at Westchester Community College’s Center for Digital Arts in Peekskill.

The show’s images of human figures, rendered in black ink and splayed across black-and-white photographs of Hart Island’s desolate landscape, are unrelentingly stark. That is intentional. “This is such a dark story,” Hunt said, “and I haven’t really told the dark side of the story at all.”

The result is akin to the medical examiner outlines of corpses on city streets. For Hunt, this exhibition is yet another way to illuminate a social phenomenon that began during the Civil War and has continued through present-day: the perfunctory municipal burial of the indigent, the friendless, or simply those subsumed by Manhattan’s daily chaos.

She likens the figures to the spirits in The Divine Comedy who emerge from the ether to speak to Dante. “Each of these people somehow got stuck, and they got stuck in a place in history, and that place is Hart Island.”

For the artist, these images, which she took in 1993, are the latest effort to explore her own relationship with Hart Island, whose graves have been off-limits since 2006, when Hunt’s impressionistic film Hart Island: An American Cemetery, brought international

attention to the area. City officials, she said, simply could not keep up with the deluge of visitation requests. This inaccessibility, she feels, is “offensive”—another indignity foisted upon the departed. Regulations allow passage to the island, but not to the acres of plots. “It’s like going to the Met [Museum] and only going to the gift shop,” says Hunt.

For most of her career, Melinda Hunt was not a politically motivated artist. In 1990, the Canadian national applied for American citizenship. Being “herded around like cattle” gave her a vivid perspective on the lives of those either crushed or erased by governmental machinery. On a chance trip to Hart Island the following year, Hunt discovered a potent symbol for her own sense of dislocation. The invisibility of the deceased began to haunt Hunt.

“It was interesting to me as an artist,” she said, “but it was also interesting to me because I had become a citizen, so I felt like I had some responsibility here.”

The artist became an advocate; her database expedited the location of people lost to the ages. Many family members decided on disinterment, bringing the remains home for burial. Along the way, they shared with Hunt stories of the dead as well as photos, which she collected with an eye toward utilizing them in another artful tribute.

“Shades of New York” is that tribute, as well as catharsis for Hunt. But perhaps not closure. She currently seeks funds to make the database interactive, so people can post memories of the eternal residents of Hart Island. “Is this the end?,” Hunt said. “I hope so—but maybe not.”

“Shades of New York: An Exhibition of The Hart Island Project” will be exhibited December 6 through January 14 at the Westchester Community College’s Center for Digital Arts, Peekskill. (914) 606-7304; www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill.

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6:30pm cocktail reception, 7pm dinner $42.95pp+tax & gratuity, wine pairings included. Reservations Required, Seating is Limited. reception@therhinecliff.com- 845-876-0590. Follow us on Facebook & Twitter.

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Impact Wrestling World Tour 7:30pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-5800.

Music Truant Tuesday 8pm. Singer/songwriters with an Indie/folk bent. $3.

Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Workshops Acting For the Fun of It 6pm-9pm. Class for Actors and Non-Actors with Richard Genaro. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

WEDNESDAY 28

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Calm Abiding Meditation 6pm-7pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

Yoga for Mama with Baby 10pm-11am. $65/$12 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Tosca 2pm. Opera in cinema series. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Jazz Wednesdays 7pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Theater Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

SATURDAY 31 Art Family Clay Day, Family Play Day 10am-1pm. $3/$2. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

471-2550.

Body / Mind / Spirit Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Dance Understanding Buddhist Thought 11am-1pm. $5. Evam Institute, Chatham.

(518) 392-6900.

New Years' Eve Dance 8pm-3am. $25. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge.

657-8333.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Events

Dance New Years' Fiddle and Dance Fest Call for times. Workshops, music, dancing, singing. $495/$455. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge.

657-8333.

Events Open Mike Night 8pm. Featuring full bands, singer/songwriters, poets, comedians, performance art. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Cathedral to Carol: A Holiday Celebration and CENTER Fundraiser 8pm. Holiday concert with George Conrad and accompanist Joel Flowers. $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

4th Annual New Year's Eve Dance Party 10pm. Duchess Di & the Distractions. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Music The Alexis P. Suter Band Call for times. With special guests. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

New Year's Eve Celebration with the Dan Brother Band Call for times. $25. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.

The Catskill 45s Call for times. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock.

679-2079.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Bach at New Year's 6pm. Kenneth Cooper conducting Bach's Six Brandenburg Concerti. $37-$57. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-0100.

Joe Locke 8pm. JazzTalk at 7pm. Athens Cultural Center, Athens.

(518) 945-2136.

Lara Hope and The Champtones 8pm. With The Jonny Monster Band. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

New Year's Eve Motown 9pm. With the Soulsville Social Club. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Duchess Di & the Distractions 10pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Theater Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

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The Chris O'Leary Band 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Wheels of Steel DJ Dance Party 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

www.mistersnacks.com

Reggae Legends The Whalers 8pm. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.

Art

Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie.

473-5952.

1.877.642.5622

Cathedral to Carol: A Holiday Celebration and CENTER Fundraiser 8pm. Holiday concert with George Conrad and accompanist Joel Flowers. $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Annual New year's Yoga and Meditation Retreat Call for times. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia.

688-6897.

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Burn the Charts EP Release Party 8pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Body / Mind / Spirit

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So2nny Sings 7pm-10pm. The Best of the Rat Pack & all your Italian favorites. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Greg Douglas Band 9pm-12am. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

THURSDAY 29

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Music

Body / Mind / Spirit

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Events

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale.

(917) 232-3623.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie.

(914) 874-4541.

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Classes

Classes

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photography " freewheelin' bob dylan" Don hunstein Bob Dylan in the studio recording The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1962. Don Hunstein's photos of the singer/songwriter will be exhibited through February 16 at the Moviehouse in Millerton.

Been Caught Freewheelin' It was a cold day in New York City’s Greenwich Village when Don Hunstein took one of the most iconic photos in rock ’n’ roll history.

Hunstein, a Columbia Records staff photographer for more than three decades, was assigned in the early 1960s to shoot photos of the then-relatively unknown singersongwriter Bob Dylan. Among the photos Hunstein, who currently lives in Sharon, Connecticut, took that day was one of Dylan, shoulders hunched against the wind, with girlfriend Suze Rotolo clinging to him for warmth as they walked near the corner of Jones Street and West 4th Street. The photo became the cover of Dylan’s second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The 1963 album brought Dylan international fame and acclaim, and the photo became one of the most memorable images of the era.

The cover shot, along with about two dozen photos Hunstein took of Dylan during the musician’s early career, make up the “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” exhibit on display at The Moviehouse in Millerton through February 16. The show includes intimate images of a young Dylan relaxing at home, rehearsing for concerts, and recording his legendary album Highway 61 Revisited.

These days, DeeAnne, Hunstein’s wife of 45 years, handles press inquiries for her 83-year-old husband, who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

DeeAnne Hunstein said the photo for the Freewheelin’ album cover was taken in a spontaneous moment. “There was no art director involved. There was no one telling Don what to do,” she says. “Don just said ‘Well, walk up the street and come toward me.’ It was totally just happenstance that he got that picture. Light was failing and it was the end of the day.”

According to DeeAnne Hunstein, the weather was very cold the day of the shoot. “Dylan was wearing his suede jacket because he was too vain to put on a heavy coat,” she says.

“Suze [Rotolo] told us later it was one of those days the chill went right through you.”

She adds that the photos in the exhibit provide a portrait of Dylan early in his life.

Of the famous Freewheelin’ cover photo, she says, “It did convey that spirit of setting off in a cold, hard world but with determination.”

Don Hunstein grew up in St. Louis and became interested in photography while stationed in England with the Air Force. Inspired by a book of street photographs

by Henri Cartier Bresson, Huntstein began taking photos around Europe to send back to his family. By the time he returned to the United States in 1954, his interest in photography had blossomed into a passion. Living in New York City, he landed an apprenticeship at a commercial photography studio before going to work at Columbia Records.

In addition to Dylan, Hunstein photographed many other musical luminaries during his tenure at Columbia, including Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Simon and Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, Leonard Bernstein, Tony Bennett, and Thelonious Monk.

“Very few of the people that he ever worked with were difficult or gave him any problem,” DeeAnne Hunstein says. She added that that was partly because her husband had a friendly but professional manner and was never in awe of his subjects.

The “Freewheelin’” show was recently on display at a gallery in England. The owners of the Moviehouse, Carol and Robert Sadlon, decided to bring in the exhibit after they heard about it from the Hunsteins, who are regular patrons at the theater.

“The photos are amazing and capture the spirit of an American icon at the beginning of his career,” Carol Sadlon says.

"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," photographs by Don Huntstein of Dylan's early years at Columbia Records, will be on view through February 16 at the Moviehouse in Millerton. (518) 789-0022; www.themoviehouse.com.

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Front page of the Woodstock Times, August 18, 1994.

Who Will Tell Students About The Dioxin Dorms?

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wenty years ago this month, the Hudson Valley experienced one of its most terrifying days ever: the chain-reaction explosions of PCB transformers that contaminated the SUNY New Paltz campus on December 29, 1991.

Recently I was digging around my old document collection from that story. Among the piles of scientific studies and stacks of notebooks was the recording of a campus news conference from December 31, 1991. On that day, guys dressed like astronauts were spread out over the campus, filling waste drums in the first days of a long, expensive, and controversial cleanup.

The toxins released in the incident are the chemical equivalents of plutonium, measured in concentrations as low as parts-per-trillion. Exposure is associated with immune system damage, hormone disruption, reproductive issues, birth defects, and cancer. Ingesting even trace levels can cause lifelong health problems. Of particular concern were four dormitories: Bliss, Capen, Gage and Scudder halls.

In that news conference, Alice Chandler, then president of the college, took the podium and said that health officials and their contractors were especially concerned about “channels which may have served as conduits for smoke.”

That may have been the last honest assessment Chandler offered the community before the rationalization, posturing, and denials set in. Though I didn’t remember her statement till I heard the tape, I spent many years investigating contamination in the heating and ventilation systems, pipe chases, and the electrical systems in the four dorms. Though the state and its spokespeople would issue many denials of these specific problems, Chandler had admitted the single most serious issue right up front—then she put students back into the dorms without any investigation or cleanup of the “channels which may have served as conduits for smoke.”

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The state opened the buildings on the theory that a little poison is okay, but that theory is negated by two decades of new studies that demonstrate how little of these toxins can make a person sick. During the 20 years I’ve been covering this, I’ve heard state officials say many outrageous things. I’ve seen them ignore the wise counsel of people who have been deeply concerned for the safety of students, 30,000 of whom have lived in the four dorms since they were re-opened.

But the most harrowing thing I’ve seen is countless students and parents who ignore the warnings, and move into the building with stubborn determination that everything is okay. Graduates of SUNY New Paltz are indeed getting sick. I hear from some almost every year. The most recent involved a group of students who had lived in Scudder Hall and who later developed brain cancer. The mother of one recently wrote to me to let me know her son Lee had died. However, cause and effect are difficult to prove. State officials have long planned this as their defense.

Many state agencies were involved in the cleanup, and as a result, the cover-up. Foremost among them was the New York State Department of Health. In a 2007 Chronogram interview, Ed Horn, a toxins specialist for the department, told me: “Nobody wants to hear that there’s no way to say it’s safe.” Horn said it was “a very reasonable hypothesis” that smoke followed the pipe chases in all four dormitories, though he was opposed to testing the radiators or vents for contamination. Horn, like many state officials, reasoned that students are safe as long as they don’t go inside the vents, take apart radiators, or go behind walls where toxins are lurking.

Constantine Yapijakis, a professor of environmental engineering at Cooper Union, explained in one of my articles, “As long as there’s a passageway, contaminants will be moving. All kinds of cracks and openings will allow movements of contaminants. Smoke

is very volatile and very easy to go through small openings.”

Eric Janssen, a former congressional aide who co-wrote the 1976 federal law banning PCBs, has said: “There’s a million and one ways to get exposed. You just don’t want this stuff in the same building, particularly with students who are going to have children.”

The vents in the dorms have long been a subject of controversy. State officials denied that the buildings even had vents. One day I discovered not only that the vents existed, but also data showing that rooms that had vents had elevated levels of contamination.

Presumably, the vents moved those toxins into those rooms.

I called up Dean Palen, the head of the Ulster Country Health Department at the time, who was directly involved in the cleanup. Palen had signed letters for each of the re-opened buildings certifying that they were safe. He dismissed my concerns about toxicity in the vents, saying: “Students, people, don’t go in those vent areas.”

When asked how toxins had concentrated in the rooms that had vents, Palen replied: “It may well - I mean -- I - I - I - this-this -- I don’t -- I don’t - it - it may -- I - I don’t really know. And-and again, I don’t know how significant that is. It was cleaned up.

That’s the significant point from a health department perspective.”

Actually, it had not been cleaned up; Palen had never even tested the vents. Soon after, my reporting for Woodstock Times forced him to go back into Gage Hall and actually test the vents he had long insisted were clean. That experiment proved that every vent was contaminated. Palen finally ordered a cleanup into the vents, but only “as far as the arm could reach,” which is another way of saying no cleanup at all.

Lois Gibbs, who in the 1970s had organized the citizen effort to evacuate the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, helped me with many of my articles. Gibbs once said, “The whole thing is just outrageous—to mislead people and and to have total disregard for the health and safety of the students there. It is a direct manipulation by the state health department to achieve a goal that they have, and that goal is to open the dorm rooms.”

That goal has resulted in many people getting sick—but the state has no epidemiological data to confirm that fact. The health of the students in the buildings is not studied. Why would it be? That would give people ammunition to show that there’s a problem.

Jennifer Folster, who was in the first group of students to be moved into the dorms, died of leukemia in late 2000. When I spoke to her in 2000, she remembered that in the spring 1992 semester she was living two doors down from a sealed room marked with a biohazard warning on the door. At the end of that academic year, she was hospitalized for mononucleosis infecting her liver and spleen. She said that her roommate was also frequently sick that year as well, and later had a miscarriage. In the spring of 1999, Folster began to get ill again, and by July was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. Genetic testing determined that she had the M2 variety, which Folster was told by her doctors is caused by a genetic predisposition that can be set into motion by exposure to environmental toxins. In a Chronogram interview weeks before she died, Folster appealed to students living in the toxic dormitories to “get out and insist that they are cleaned. Ultimately it’s your choice.”

Compared to experiencing immune system collapse, hormone disease like endometriosis, or cancer, moving dorms is not so inconvenient. Yet I’ve seen very few students or parents actually express concern to the point of actually doing something.

When a student is on their way into the dorms as a healthy person, it’s easier to accept the assurances of a college spokesperson, who will tell you: “The college, along with the New York Sate Department of Health and the Ulster County Health Department, is confident that our residence halls are safe.”

The pattern is that once a student gets sick, they want other students to be warned, but when you’re recovering from brain surgery, or getting chemo and radiation treatment, you don’t usually have the time or strength to be an activist.

Not just the denial but also the ignorance of state officials has never failed to astound me. A few years ago, Dr. Peter Haughton, who was the campus physician at the time of the original incident, said that PCBs were not that harmful because they are used in cooking oil. He was mistakenly referring to the Yusho incident, where PCBs and dioxins contaminated rice bran oil in Japan in 1968. That event poisoned 1,200 people and their unborn children. Victims suffered liver damage, severely disfiguring acne, and birth defects in their children.

When the dorms first re-opened in early 1992, Karen Pennington was the director of the residence halls. She asked parents attending an informational meeting, “Are there any guarantees in life?” Twenty years later, the answer is yes. I assure you that those dorms are contaminated with PCBs and dioxins, and if someone did a health study, they would see effects. But does the health of the students matter more than the liability that the college might incur, were the truth to come out?

Environmental activist and historian Carol van Strum once reminded me, “Particularly with regard to toxic exposures, decisions [of state officials] will be made by weighing the risks to you against the benefits to them of allowing such exposure. Necessarily, the first step in such risk/benefit analysis is to conceal, minimize, or deny the risk element, because what decision-makers fear most and will do anything to avoid is having those who bear the risks assert their right to know about and to avoid that exposure.”

Every year, another 1,300 students are exposed. Who is going to tell them?

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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries

(March 20-April 19)

Many factors have been pushing you to change your mind. I don’t mean make a new decision about something, but rather understand your way of thinking and then revise key elements of your thought process. You do have a way of getting split down the middle; different points of view can have the same apparent value, when really that’s not really true. Over the next few weeks, you’re likely to have experiences that point out this fact specifically: there was something you were missing, and you’re going to get a good look at what that was. This comes with a clue. An issue you were stuck over which seemed to be on the level of your mind turns out to be about an emotional hang-up. By that I mean an attachment to the past of some kind, which was obscuring your view of the present. Once you get your emotions out of the way and can assess the situation from a mental or analytical point of view, you will suddenly see a distinction much more clearly, and understand the ways your attachments to the way things were was blocking your perception of how thins are. In short, the time has arrived for you to participate in a larger world, on adult terms, rather than a small world following the rules of a child. Look around and notice how many of your peers still live by the rules of the schoolyard, a condition you can no longer abide.

Taurus (April 19-May 20) The time has arrived to tighten up your act. I mean your whole act— there is no point practicing your singing if you don’t also work on your dancing. The issue may manifest initially as a desire to get your financial life in order. That’s a kind of ruse. What you’re waking up to is that you have two separate values systems that are in conflict with one another, and it’s time to make some choices. It could be something as simple as the conflicting belief pattern that on the one hand believes that you want more money, while simultaneously thinking that money is evil, or that people who have money are evil. Both of those beliefs cannot be together in the same room, and you may have a few of those. While you’re working that one out, there is something unusually powerful in your chart right now that describes putting your whole identity into whatever you do creatively. Your creative process is not about choosing one thing at the expense of others, but rather about an ethic or method whereby you put your whole self and all of your talent into everything that you do. Again the theme is about getting away from the sense of having a divided character, which is the sensation of any one part of your life competing with any other part of your life. You are one person, experiencing one whole existence. Experiencing this potential may seem daunting, though it’s simply a true fact.

Gemini

(May 20-June 21)

This is a special time in your life, though you do have a tendency to forget. The focus seems to be on your relationships. Yet most of what we describe as relationship issues are almost always personal material that is projected into the relationship. It’s easy, indeed, too easy, to get confused by this, and a number of factors could lead you down this path over the next few weeks. The question of why you want relationships, and the role of other people in your life, is a deeply personal one. In truth, it has nothing to do with other people; the conversation begins and ends with you, and through that conversation you set the terms what you want to share with the people around you. In fact, that’s a great way to state the question: what do you want to share with them?

Ideally, that would be your most absolutely real self, even as this changes and evolves day by day. The most significant thing you’re sorting out is what I will call the mutual fantasy issue.

Often, people have relationships not with actual others, but with a character they’ve made up who is based on someone they are with. The first step in getting out of this is presenting yourself to others as you are. The second step is doing your utmost to perceive who someone else is, then working with the basic facts that this presents. Just remember, this is not about a relationship—it’s about you.

Cancer

(June 21-July 22)

Everyone has what seems to be splits in their psyche, at least until they get a handle on that illusion. Many times, you live in a polarized world, where there are two sides of the story, two ways of looking at life and sometimes where you seem to inhabit two (or more) separate worlds simultaneously, which have little to do with one another. Underneath that sensation is an underlying emotional reality, which dates back to some experiences that shaped your perceptions in very early childhood, or while your mom was pregnant with you. These memories are veiled; they exist in one of those “worlds apart” that slips into your awareness from time to time.

Pay attention to those experiences this month, including what comes through in very early memories, stories you hear from others about your distant past, and what comes through an especially thin veil between dream consciousness and waking consciousness. Be on the lookout for memories associated with your medical history, which in the industrialized world begins with birth and early visits to pediatricians. If your family was into faith healers, notice your memories and feelings around them. Meanwhile, as you dance around these realms, you may be flooded with the sense that you have outgrown your own mind, which would be a beautiful development. Your consciousness is expanding, your perception is encompassing more and more, and the present moment will eventually swallow the past like a puff of smoke disappears into the air.

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Leo (July 22-August 23) You can finally forget what you think other people think and explore your own creative ideas and erotic desires. There’s a reason why it doesn’t matter what other people think, which is that everyone has their own version of what is too weird to talk about. You can be confident of this.

What stands on less solid ground, indeed, more of a swamp, is how comfortable others are with their own ‘weird’ side, but this isn’t your concern. Stretch into your most creative reality, going past the taboo threshold and into space that feels new and daring.

One way or the other, most creativity or passion starts in the mind; we experience most things in consciousness first, and then follow up in the “real” world. Notice if you run into the notion that “this makes a great fantasy, but I don’t have to do it in real life.” It may be true that you don’t have to experience something, but do you want to? And if you do, what’s stopping you? Chances are it will be some form of, what would mother think? That’s a great place to get, because once you’re there, you’re standing at the point of transcending someone else’s idea of who you are and directly entering the space of who you are. You’re not a child. Your consciousness is yours to guide as you wish. Often we don’t find that out until we do something about it: something daring and fun that’s supposed to be a little embarrassing.

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Virgo (August 23-September 22)

Does the past ever go away? It does, when we have a more interesting vision for our lives, but even then the past can be one of the most important teachers there is. If you find yourself caught in old emotions or beliefs when what you want more than anything is to move forward, I suggest you stop and make the process fully conscious. Perhaps instead of resisting the past you can take yourself there fully. This might be an easy time to do that, with the holidays coming up. If you have any commitments or plans involving family, turn it into a factfinding expedition rather than an expedition. Bring your camera and digital recorder. Notice the things you normally overlook. Even if you don’t have family contact during the holidays, I suggest you go exploring the places and if possible, the people of prior decades. The place to pay special attention is your father’s side of the family. In the lives of many Virgos this is an especially critical area of life to resolve, and it’s been burning up the planets lately. I would propose to you that the past does not stay the same. Our perception of it changes, there are things we don’t know, and subsequent events (and generations) influence the meaning of things that seem long since gone.

So I suggest you probe as deeply as you can, with an open mind. One message of your charts right now is that the way to the future is backwards.

Libra

(September 22-October 23)

Most of what we hold onto, or what holds back our progress, is rooted on the emotional level, but sometimes it goes deeper. You might think of that as the karmic level, where the patterns of the very distant past are held. These are the patterns that keep repeating, the ones you cannot seem to control. They might feel like wheel ruts or grooves worn into stone where water collects and flows. Freeing oneself from these kinds of patterns can feel extremely vulnerable and disorienting, which is why we don’t do it. Yet you’re reaching a point of inevitability. You’ll know you’ve arrived there when feel a sudden shift in your environment, which you may experience as the sensation of density or feeling trapped in a home situation or emotional state. That may be followed by the impulse to liberate yourself, potentially something so impetuous that you care about nothing else. You may not have time to even consider that reaction. Then there is one last step, which is coming to terms with the pattern as something within you that needs to change. The way this process looks is like an evolutionary fire. You might feel the sensation of having your identity totally consumed, something like a caterpillar feels like in its cocoon before it melts into the substance that becomes a butterfly. There is little point fearing something that is inevitable; the question is how you can facilitate your experience as you transform yourself from one who crawls to one who can fly.

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The word is precision. To be precise, that’s the word between now and July 3, 2012. Precision applies to three things mainly: desire, decisions and emotions. Your quest is to find out precisely what you want. At all times, know what your options are, and count as a good day any day where you have at least two choices in any matter. Finally you must direct your emotions with precision, at the right temperature, particularly toward friends and associates—but especially toward yourself. All of this would fall under the general heading of intentions: knowing them and using them with discretion. That said, it would be a mistake to be too much of a hard-ass, and that is a real risk.

Many of the most nourishing and profound developments in life come from a mix of discipline and creativity. While Mars, your traditional ruling planet, will soon be retrograde in Virgo, Chiron is in Pisces, a water sign similar to your own. That means indulging the part of your mind that moves in three dimensions; that engages with the world intuitively; that goes beyond the facts and details into a kind of visionary space where your mind creates something new. As Neptune enters Pisces early next year, that becomes even more meaningful. Precision is therefore the vehicle, but your ultimate destination is disciplined creativity. Keep contact with how much flexibility, gentleness and authenticity are necessary to handle actual, original ideas—and in the coming months, count on giving birth to lots of them.

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Sagittarius (November 22-December 22) Most authority is a matter of self-mastery. Just about anyone who has succeeded in the world has figured that out, and for those who have not, we understand why some have said that nothing fails like success. You may feel a diversity of impulses to be the best at what you do, to have control over your affairs and to assert your authority in your profession. This may drive you to a new level of competition as you become a taskmaster and push your influence and your reputation. I suggest you not get too carried away with this; for example, if you have the feeling (or the suspicion) that you’re losing your emotional grounding, that’s the time to change approach. You need sleep and food; 25 pounds of laundry is too much. You might have experiences where you disconnect from your sensitivity, come close to the notion that the ends justify the means. Success is worthless if you lose contact with your humanity. Ultimately, you want your drive to come from a mix of inspiration and motivation; problems are solved less by attacking them and more by thinking them through. Yet life is not a problem. It’s more often a human equation. Therefore, I suggest that while you’re taking care of details and taking care of business, you direct most of your energy inwardly, into the emotional and intuitive places within you. And remember as Jerry used to say: the storyteller’s job is to spread light and not to master.

Capricorn (December 22-January 20)

You’ve opened new territory inside yourself, but you may be wondering whether it’s enough to have the experiences you want. You may be wondering if you’ve pruned away enough of the old dross in your life for new growth to sprout. What’s important is not how far you’ve gotten but rather that you have begun a challenging process, and that you’re proceeding in earnest. While there are likely to be more challenges along the way—that is life, especially when you’re in an intense growth phase—arriving at the point of actual commencement is the most important step, and you passed that point a long time ago. You cannot be sure when your deep personal exploration is going to open up into a whole new world. That could be at any moment. One thing about your life for the foreseeable future (and I do mean for years) is that the moments of breakthrough will be sudden and unexpected, and they’re are not necessarily going to arrive when you feel the most confident. Remember that, because you might be inclined to use your insecurity as an excuse for not being ready. Therefore keep your focus on the present. Be aware of any paradoxes you encounter. They are like atoms that contain a lot of energy. One such paradox is likely to be the experience of bold determination, which then morphs into the sensation of total instability. Hint: don’t try to divide these factors, but rather, multiply them.

Aquarius (January 20-February 19)

You seem to be in a highly unusual moment of clarity. It’s as if everything you ever learned is organizing itself into a pattern where you can see and access it all. You may also be a little overwhelmed, as “it all” encompasses wide psychic territory, long spans of time and deep history. This clarity may be arriving with the sense of the big lessons of your life and how they are coming up now not for practice but for actual mastery. Most significant among appears to involve confronting the idea of sacrifice. My spiritual training is specific on this topic, and I will pass it onto you: stop and question everything the moment that concept arises. You know the particulars; I can speak in generalities. There are two definitions of sacrifice. The newer one is to give something up for the sake of another. The older one is to perform a sacred rite. Which of these two established definitions would you prefer, and which seems the more inevitable? Consider that for a moment. The next issue is, to what extent does your current situation involve dealing with consequences of your past actions, or past actions that were done to you by others? There is a psychological component here, and there’s likely to be a sexual one.

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For you, everything comes back to how you feel. When you feel good you can conquer the world, and when you feel depleted or divided, it’s hard to get anywhere. Therefore, focus on how you feel as your first priority, rather than on any specific goal. It’s not that you don’t have big stuff happening—indeed, from the look of your solar charts, you may have some of the biggest stuff ever going on. The next month is going to present you with some challenging opportunities, and while you may be tempted to think your way to success, or work your way there, I suggest you work backwards from the place of embodying the feeling of the success you want. How do you do that? The experience of fully engaging life has a sensation to it. You’ve felt it before; you can envision it now. That sensation involves how it feels to be in your body walking around on the planet. And it involves how you wield your vision. The word wield is usually associated with things like swords and light sabers; consider your vision a power tool.

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Maggie Fistik/Coco b. Sweet Photography. The newborns of the 2012 New Life, New Hope Charity Calendar.

A collaboration between Coco b. Sweet Photography and the Mother’s Club of Vassar Brothers Medical Center, the calendar for 2012 features 12 newborn models recruited from throughout the Hudson Valley, many of whom were born at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. The photo sessions with the models, all less than one-month old, were held at Coco b. Sweet’s studio in Beacon. The calendar ($10) benefits the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatrics Unit of Vassar Brothers Hospital and is available for purchase at www.newlifenewhopecalendar.com.

—Brian K. Mahoney

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