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Chronogram arts.culture.spirit.

contents 8/09

news and politics

community pages

19 while you were sleeping

69 the urban gem in the country crown

Goldman Sachs’ record profits, liver transplants, and more.

22 damage plan Lorna Tychostup interviews Jurgen Brauer about the effects of war on nature.

26 beinhart’s body politic: Then there’s republican sex Larry Beinhart is perturbed by politicians’ hanky panky.

green living

John Rodat tours Hudson and Columbia County.

whole living guide 80 men’s wellness, part 2: the essence of physical health Lorrie Klosterman continues her report on men’s health issues.

84 Flowers Fall: wading through the intoxicating waters of being bad Field notes from a Buddhist Mom’s experimental life. By Bethany Saltman.

29 earth days have found us .

Carl Frankel talks with filmmaker Robert Stone about his new eco documentary.

fiction 50 Five views of a suicide .

Richard Klin’s short story won honorable mention in our 2008 fiction contest.

education 63 learning curve Anne Roderique-Jones discovers unique continuing education opportunities at schools, pools, clubs, studios, and backyards across the region.

91 what are you wearing? .

Jen May takes a Hudson Valley fasion tour.

96 SPA & SALON SECRETS FOR THE HOME .

Kelley Granger talks with the experts about do it yourself do’s and don’ts.

business services 57 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 76 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 85 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

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contents 8/09

arts & culture 34 portfolio Lynn Woods talks with painter David Hornung.

36 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 40 music Peter Aaron reminisces about The Chrome Cranks. Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Cheval Sombre Cheval Sombre. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols. Numinous/Joseph C. Phillips Jr. Vipassana. Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson. Paul Rishell & Annie Raines A Night in Woodstock. Reviewed by Michael Ruby.

44 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles National Geographic explorer, filmmaker, and author Jon Bowermaster.

46 BOOK reviews

Poems by Bree Barton, Guy R. Beining, Lori Esmond Calderon, Brante Clemente, Ben Fractenberg, Nina JeckerByrne, Raphael Kosek, Stephanie Macaluso, Thomas Perkins, Eitan Press, A. M. Teal, Kenneth Salzmann, Jean Sears, and Charlotte Seley.

52 food & drink Peter Barrett explores the Hudson Valley cheese industry.

120 parting shot Grapefruit & Eucalyptus, an archival pigment print by David Halliday.

the forecast 102 daily calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 101 The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival presents “Much Ado About Nothing.” 103 The art of Georgia O’Keefe and Arthur Dove comes to The Clark. 107 Celloist Zuill Bailey plays the Maverick. 109 Jazz in the Valley celebrates its 10th year in Kerhonkson. 111 Concurrent shows of Hudson River-inspired art at SUNY New Paltz.

planet waves 114 DIOXIN DORMS: WHY I CAN’T GIVE UP ON NEW PALTZ Eric Francis Coppolino gets the runaround. Plus horoscopes.

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Susan Krawitz reviews a pair of memoirs: A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family by Leila Philip and Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings by Suzie Gilbert. Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. Plus this month’s Short Takes, a collection of local history.

48 Poetry

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15th Annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby Sunday | August 23 | 2009 | 1 pm Lower Broadway | Kingston NY

CALL FOR ENTRIES Over $2,000 in Cash Prizes awarded to the most creative entries in the Adult, Youth (16 and under) and Family Group Divisions. For more information or to receive the Official Entry Form, call, write or visit our website: Donskoj & Company | 93 Broadway | Kingston, NY 845-338-8473 www.ArtistSoapboxDerby.com presented by Donskoj & Company and the City of Kingston poster by Michael Lalicki

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Portrait of Homer Simpson randal roberts | acrylic on canvas | 2009 Artist Randal Roberts states his opinion of Homer Simpson unequivocally: “He’s a loving father and a good man.” Coated in paisleys, Shiva eyes, chakra petals, butterfly designs, and overripe hearts, Roberts’s nirvanic icon has sloughed off his cartoon identity and taken on a cosmic one. It is likely that, underneath the beaming symbolic emanations, this artist has inscribed sacred geometry—he is a fan of the golden ratio and always has a ruler handy. After spending his twenties working at IBM in Poughkeepsie, Roberts became an artist four years ago at age 30. While developing his talent for drawing, he drifted in a devotional direction. Buddhist philosopher Alan Watts is another eminent subject to whom Roberts has lent a mystical form by way of acrylic paint: “He speaks from the grave about you. Every sound he made was in tune with me, with what was going on in my life.” He also has done portraits of his friends; confident of the healing properties and promise for self-discovery that, as Carl Jung observed, the mandala context offers. “To get the viewer to really consider their own divinity is what’s important to me,” Roberts says. At Rhinebeck’s Omega Institute, Roberts was encouraged by the tutelage of celebrated psychedelic artist Alex Grey—his only art teacher, he says—who helped him to clarify the mission that he is now on. “The message isn’t ‘Go trip.’ It is ‘You are holy—even your fingerprints are holy.’” In line with his mentor, who has publicly discussed the transformational benefits of hallucinogens, Roberts credits the shamanic entheogen DMT as providing him his pivotal breakthrough, an event he muses on almost daily: “This force engaged me—and I couldn’t believe this was happening—and it said, ‘Look, I’m who you are looking for. Does it matter how you found me? Here are answers to some of your questions. You are part of a grid of energy. Your body now is a small reflection of an ocean of pure light.’” When asked if he might be able to describe the correlation between beauty and consciousness, Roberts answered: “Though I’m not quite there yet, it is full recognition in the moment that you are what you’re looking at. And if you recognize beauty, just be able to maintain Thich Nhat Hanh’s half smile. And find joy in that you are that beautiful.” Portfolio: www.allofthisisforyou.com —Marx Dorrity

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Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu know what fire tastes like. They’ve been eating it together for the last 15 years. Since founding the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus in 1995, Monseu (aka Ringmistress Philomena Bindlestiff) and Nelson (aka Mr. Pennygaff, Kinko the Clown, and—on occasion—Kinkette) have brought their ever-changing variety show to coffeehouses, libraries, airplane hangars, nightclubs, big tops, and stages all over the world. Bindlestiff performances draw elements from burlesque, cabaret, vaudeville, sideshows, and traditional circus acts, while adding a stylish mix of humor, strangeness, and intimacy very much their own. Nelson and Monseu may juggle and eat fire, trample shards of glass, swallow swords and neon lights, spin guns, and crack whips on target, but the Bindlestiffs are professional people charmers. For them, “making circus” goes beyond mere spectacle—it’s a participatory experience. Nelson estimates that the Bindlestiffs have taught “probably thousands” of people how to juggle since they started teaching circus arts over a decade ago. In addition to their Cavalcade of Youth program, which brings seasoned performers together as coaches and mentors to young aspiring artists, Monseu and Nelson also manage a number of camps, after-school workshops, community college courses, and hospital sessions in New York and the Hudson Valley. Their dedication reflects a passion to bring the benefits of the circus to everyone, to contribute to the continued life of their art by educating people about it, and (of course) to perfect their skills by passing them on. Fire, by the way, tastes like “burnt lips.” —Christina Kaminski

Tell me about how you met and began performing together. Stephanie: We were both working at an all-night restaurant. We met through each other’s respective exes, which was horribly ugly, but eventually, when the dust settled, we fell in love. It was late night, a snowy January morning at 3am. We were taking a break from waiting tables together. And outside, next to the garbage-filled Dumpster, behind the around-the-clock restaurant in Stuyvesant Square in New York, Keith taught me how to eat fire, and that was it. That’s how everything started. How have you found some of the artists you’ve worked with? Keith: Over the years we’ve had a couple of different open-mike things, like Lilly Lipid’s Open Stage cabaret, which Stephanie does, and then I do a thing in New York, once a month, also open stage. So we’ll see new acts there, and people will slowly enter the folds of Bindlestiff through that. We get a good handful of DVDs. Usually we don’t pull anybody from that end, and then in the past three years we’ve found about two or three acts through Craigslist. Stephanie: From overseas, actually. Two years ago, we were looking for a musician for our tour, and we got this guy, Frederik Iverson, from Denmark. He came from Europe to play keyboards, from a Craigslist ad. When we flew him over here and met him at the airport— Keith: He lived with us for a week and a half before we even heard him play anything. Stephanie: He “got” us right away. He is an excellent composer and, just as important, a great accompanist—a vital attribute for a musician working with live performance. What’s the most daring stunt or trick you’ve ever done? Stephanie: [to Keith] Passing clubs with a sword down your throat. Keith: Nyeh. Stephanie: I don’t ever want to see you do that. I can read about it, hear about it, but I never want to watch that again. He and another sword swallower were at [the First Annual Sideshow Gathering and Sword Swallowers Convention], and both swallowed 16-inch bayonets and were passing clubs between them. Your instinct as a juggler is to catch everything that’s coming at you, no matter what you have to do. I thought that was crazy.

Keith: Nah, that wasn’t too bad. Stephanie: How ’bout your upside-down straitjacket escape over Niagara Falls? Keith: [shrugs] I think Steph on the motorcycle, on the highwire, is scarier than anything I do. So much of what you do depends on where you’re able do it. What’s that like? Stephanie: There’s a real sense of illegitimacy about us. People don’t perceive us as a real circus or a legitimate company because we have a long tradition of performing in nontraditional venues. That kind of thing bothers me sometimes, but then I think of all of the amazing places that we have been able to deliver—and participate in—this experience. Keith: We’re taking circus to the audience, as opposed to forcing the audience to come to us, in many places. We get the highbrow, the hipsters, the common folks; in our family shows, we get the whole range—you’ll see an 84-year-old that remembers vaudeville and burlesque, and you’ll have a 24-year-old that thinks this is the first time this has ever been done. That’s the magic of what we do, regardless of where we take it. Do you have a favorite venue? Keith: The next one. Always. Stephanie: The Spiegeltent is definitely one of my favorite venues. The one at South Street Seaport is great, and the one at Bard is great. Before we even heard about the one coming to Bard, we had been fantasizing about a portable venue like that, because it is such a magical atmosphere. What we’ve always tried to create with Bindlestiff shows is that sense of wonder, that sense of being encapsulated in a bubble of otherness. The Spiegeltent does that by itself, and we’ve always wanted to have our own little version of that to take around. The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus will perform at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson on August 1 at 3:30 and 8:30pm and on August 2 at 3:30pm. The troupe will also offer a Juggling and Cirkus Arts Summer Workshop in Chatham on August 24, 25, and 26. www.bindlestiff.org.

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Esteemed Reader A soldier named Nobushige came to Hakuin, and asked:“Is there really a paradise and a hell?” “Who are you?” inquired Hakuin. “I am a samurai,” the warrior replied. “You, a soldier!” exclaimed Hakuin.“What kind of ruler would have you as his guard?Your face looks like that of a beggar.” Nobushige became so angry that he began to draw his sword, but Hakuin continued:“So you have a sword!Your weapon is probably much too dull to cut off my head.” As Nobushige drew his sword Hakuin remarked:“Here open the gates of hell!” At these words the samurai, perceiving the master’s discipline, sheathed his sword and bowed. “Here open the gates of paradise,” said Hakuin. —Hakuin Ekaku is an 18th-century Zen master in the Rinzai lineage

Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Through a wide hay field the small boy and I walked slowly towards a wood. Sounds of children—yelling, laughing, talking, whispering—emanated from somewhere beyond the tree line. As we passed into the forest we began to see them, gathered in small groups, or alone, making piles of stones and branches, picking and eating berries, fencing and jousting with branches.We came to a brook in which children were exploring up or downstream, splashing in the water and in the drops and pools of sunlight that shone through the gaps in the canopy. A narrow bridge of stones spanned the stream swollen from many rain showers, one of which had just passed. I held the two-year-old’s hand and balanced across the rocks toward the other shore. Midway the boy said, “Let go, Dad,” and jumped into the stream.The water was higher than the bottom of his shorts, and his yellow boots disappeared beneath the moving water. He was not upset, nor particularly impressed, as he waded through, and climbed up the far bank. I hurried to reach him as he sloshed about with boots full of water. Adults were among the children, and clearly responsible, but more distinguishable by their size than disposition. Mostly they were playing, and suggesting things to do in the woods, leading or following the children off in groups or singly to explore. A woman was cutting a log with a handsaw. Her movements were deliberate and unhurried, and in the midst of all the activity she plied her log with a steady rhythm and great attention.We stopped and watched for a few moments, and then moved on to view the camp museum, full of bones and stones, a variety animal skulls, mushrooms and strips of bark, all artfully arranged in a circle of stones, with the rhythm of her saw still resounding in the aural distance.

••• I looked forward to each morning and afternoon when I would drop off and pick up my four-year old at summer camp, as I was able, for a few moments, to leave behind my cell phone and computer, car and driving, dollar-business and bills. The atmosphere was a paradise, which was a little strange in that it was located at a place that I drive past several times a week, on my way to or from some important business. I was reminded of the magical scene in King of Hearts when the “sane” people abandon their town and the committed take up residence in the deserted town. I think this is the essence of the message from the enlightened ones—that heaven is not elsewhere, but it is for us to carve out of the here and now, simply by being fully, innocently, faithfully, present. Most of us have places in which we taste this kind of freedom, where the world is removed and we are left with ourselves and a sublime taste of freedom. When that taste is strong enough it begins to spill over into the more prosaic activities, through heightened attention to the mundane. If not, we need to go to those places more often. There is more innocence in that space than discipline, more child than Jedi master. When I asked my four-year old about a certain counselor at his summer camp, he said, “Oh him, he’s not a counselor.” “Really,” I asked, “how old do you think he is?” “Um, maybe 10?” he said. I didn’t argue, but I knew what he meant— the 25-year old counselor guided his charges with a yielding playfulness that made his direction almost invisible. He was embodying the adage which states “the means must be congruent with the desired end.” —Jason Stern 8/09 ChronograM 17

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Global banking firm Goldman Sachs reported in July the largest earnings quarter in its 140-year history: $3.44 billion. The profit comes after a $12.9 billion dollar bailout from the government last September, of which they have recently paid back $10 billion. Goldman Sach’s new top lobbyist is Michael Paese, former top staffer for Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee. Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, under which the bailouts occurred, had previously worked as a chief executive at the firm. Former Goldman lobbyist Mark Patterson is now chief of staff at the Treasury Department, and former Goldman Chairman Steve Friedman is now the chairman of the New York Federal Reserve. Sources: Washington Examiner, New York Times, Reuters About 16,000 candidates are waiting for liver transplants in the US. Earlier this year, Steve Jobs, CEO and cofounder of Apple, received a coveted liver transplant, leaving many to wonder whether celebrities receive preferential treatment regarding organ donations. Jobs—who had been diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004—received the transplant in Tennessee, where 227 people were on the waiting list for a liver, instead of his home state of California, where there were 3,479 candidates. It is possible to register on multiple waiting lists (at the site’s discretion), but the patient must first go to the hospital, be evaluated by physicians there, and be able to return to the donation facility within hours if an organ becomes available. With this system, those with economic resources can register at multiple sites throughout the country. Those awaiting transplants are ranked through a combination of factors, with the most ill going to the top of the list regardless of how long others have waited, which could potentially be years. Other celebrities who have received controversial liver transplants include musicians David Crosby and Phil Lesh, and athlete Mickey Mantle. Sources: Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network The Aral Sea, bordering Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, in 1989 (left) and 2008 (right) The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest lake, has been reduced to a tenth of its former size. In mid-July, space images from the European Space Agency showed the lake in various stages of shrinkage over the last three years. A result of the Soviet Union diverting its rivers in the 1960s, the Aral Sea now has about 15,000 acres of unusable salty and toxic-laden lake bed. Sandstorms throw this into the air, causing increased rates of lung disease and cancer in the region. While most of the sea is expected to disappear by 2020, the northern part will be preserved by a dam funded by the World Bank. Source: www.wired.com Months of volatile markets have caused many to wonder if speculative buying, instead of supply and demand, is affecting crude oil prices. Speculators create a demand by buying oil at a certain price in the expectation of rising prices. This drives the price per barrel up regardless of consumer demand. According to the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, 70 percent of the market is now speculators, with most of the trading being done by large investors, such as companies and college endowments. Regulation loopholes—such as foreign market trading—create concerns that there is no accountability for traders’ effect on the market. Proponents of legislation hope that by regulating essential commodities markets, such as oil, consumer prices will stabilize. Sources: New York Times, National Public Radio In the past, developers used housing divisions built around golf courses as a selling point. A new trend is to build developments adjacent to working, and sometimes organic, farms. Parcels of land may be only a few acres each, but access to the farm of many acres—whether for scenic value or produce—is an incentive for many homebuyers. Developers of one project in South Burlington, Vermont, are hoping to sell homes from $200,000 to $700,000 each. Communities following this model are sprouting up in suburbs across the nation. Source: New York Times

Increased attention is being paid to obesity on a global level, as the US quickly loses rank as the fattest nation in the world. According to the authors of the new book Globesity (2009, Earthscan Publications), Cyprus, Finland, Germany, and Slovakia, among others, have a proportion of overweight adults higher than that of the US. They also found that in Asia, Africa, and South America, those who are gaining weight the fastest are those just above poverty level, raising concerns about decreased starvation at the expense of poor nutrition. The World Health Organization has been concerned about global obesity for some time, projecting that by 2015 approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese. Sources: The New Yorker, World Health Organization Wal-Mart plans to implement a new labeling system within the next five years to inform consumers about the sustainability of each product that they sell. The information will provide a rating based on sustainability factors such as how much water was used in making the product, what, if any, pollutants were used, and what the product’s carbon footprint is. The company hopes to set a precedent in the retail market that will be used across the board, and is asking for cooperation from its more than 100,000 suppliers. Due to its outsized market share, Wal-Mart’s business practices are de-facto industry standards. Source: New York Times By January 1, 2010, cell phone manufacturers will introduce a one-size-fits-all charger for use in the European Union. This initiative is aimed at reducing the thousands of tons of waste generated each year by cell phone-related paraphernalia. Electronic waste has become an increasing concern as cell phones and portable music devices contain toxic chemicals such as arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, lead, nickel, and zinc. The number of cell phones being discarded—in the millions worldwide, annually— poses health and environmental hazards. Sources: CNN, www.wired.com Compiled by KellyAnne McGuire

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Art and The River: Hudson 400 at the Dorsky Museum Three exhibitions celebrating the Hudson River Valley

Family Affair Asher B. Durand, Beacon Hills on the Hudson River; Opposite Newburgh,1852

Hudson Va V lley Artists 2009: Ecotones and Transition Zones June 13–September 6, 2009

Last month, we misidentified the gentleman in the picture below, in an article about local independent bookstores (“Endangered Species,” 7/09). Contrary to what we published, he is Dick Hermans, of Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck and Millerton. Dick Hermans co-owns the business with his daughter Suzanna, whose name was misspelled. Our apologies.

The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-Century American La L ndscape Paintings from the New-Yo Y rk Historical Society Yo Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller July 11–December 13, 2009 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art State University of New York at New Paltz 845-257-3844 / www.newpaltz.edu/museum

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In the previous issue, we mistitled Béla Fleck’s film Throw Down Your Heart in a preview in our Forecast section. Our apologies.

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Sticks and Stones

n this issue, part two of Lorrie Klosterman’s report on men’s wellness (p. 80). One of the main issues Lorrie found facing men is our simple unwillingness to seek treatment. As Lorrie writes in her piece: “Men admit, and their doctors concur, that they tend to deflect awareness and action when it comes to physical problems.” This has everything to do with our social training to be men—stoic, self-sufficient, impervious to physical pain. Getting medical help can seem like asking for directions to us. We’re stubborn. We want to figure it out for ourselves, we do not want to cede control to some external authority figure. Sometimes, however, it can’t be avoided. Sometimes enlightment finds us whether we want it to or not. Like, say, if you snap one of the bones in your arm while competing in a sporting event outside Albany.You know you’ve broken your arm because you heard the crack! as your forearm struck the other guy’s shin. (The doctor will tell you it’s commonly referred to as a “nightstick fracture” because its most often sustained by people protecting themselves from overhead trauma with the exposed underside of their arm.) You grimace your way off the field, and deny the ministrations of those around you. No ice, no bandages, no ibuprofen. You’ll be fine. You’re going to gut it out. It’s not even that painful really. Just that your arm is swelling up and your wrist is tilted at a jaunty angle.You just need to get away from all these people and figure out what to do. You decide not to inconvenience anyone else. You’ll drive yourself to the hospital back in Kingston, an hour away. So you drive your standard transmission automobile—a man’s car requires stick shifting—which you pilot with

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your knee as you switch gears with your left hand, reaching across your body as your right arm lies limp on the console. Aside from a slightly drunken-seeming two-lane turning style, you don’t drive half bad for a guy with a broken arm. You listen to the radio and tell your wife that she doesn’t have to come to the emergency room. She insists. By the time you get to the hospital, you’ve had about enough of the mounting dull throbbing pain in your arm. You think of Aron Ralston, the climber whose arm was trapped under a boulder, who had to amputate his own limb to survive. No way you could do that.Your arm is really starting to hurt. Painkillers are foremost in your mind during the short wait before you’re triaged. Within minutes you’re on the X-ray table and when that’s done an angel shows up—not your wife, she’s already there—with a glass of water and a tablet of Percoset. This is the kind of help you needed. A bottle of these and you could probably drive back to Albany and finish the game.Your teammates would treat you like a conquering hero. Of course, all splinted and bandaged up as you are, you can’t put your shirt back on very easily. Or tie your shoes. Or cut up your food. Or bathe effectively.You can’t even type but with two fingers on your left hand. Six to eight weeks of relying on others, relinquishing direct control. You realize that perhaps the path of the new machismo, as the doctors Lorrie talks to in her piece suggest, is an acknowledgement that accepting assistance from others is not a denial of manliness. It is simply the fact of our interconnectedness, it’s just how we need to relate for survival. Sometimes a guy has to break his arm to find that out.

Kingston Farmer’s Market Every Saturday morning, from 9am to 2pm, through November 21, over 30 vendors sell produce, meats, cheeses, and artisanal foods on Wall Street in Uptown Kingston. www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com

Woodstock Shakespeare Festival For the 2009 season, the WSF stages free performances of "All's Well That End's Well" each weekend at the Comeau Property in Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org

Hudson Valley Green Drinks This month’s installment of the moveable sustainable networking event is at Red Devon Market, Bar & Restaurant in Bangall on August 12. www.hvgreendrinks.org

Artist's Soapbox Derby On August 23 at 1pm, thousands will be gathered on lower Broadway for the the 15th annual gravity-powered kinetic sculpture competition, which will take place in Kingston's Rondout district. www.artistsoapboxderby.com

Orange County Day at Dia:Beacon On Saturday, August 8, from 11am to 6pm, Orange County residents are invited to visit Dia:Beacon free of charge. www.diaart.org

Taste of Beacon The third annual Taste takes place on August 15 in the Piggy Bank parking lot. Proceeds to benefit the Beacon Community Center. www.beaconcommunitycenter.org 8/09 ChronograM 21

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An Interview with Jurgen Brauer about War and Nature By Lorna Tychostup War is a known evil. It kills people, destroys precious infrastructure invaluable to the quality of human life, and uproots civilian populations. Mines and undetonated ordinance lying hidden take life and limb long after a peace has been forged, as do poisonous compounds from detonated bombs, and biological and chemical weapons that infiltrate air, soil, and water supplies, and eventually the human body. Such effects are seen as atrocities and share a common political focal point— the effect of war on the human species. This is a shared foundation on which public heartstrings are pulled and anti-war or peace activists rally. Outrage is still expressed at the US government’s use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. Dubbed “land ghost,” it is estimated that 400,000 Vietnamese were either killed or maimed by the toxic defoliant, an estimated 500,000 Vietnamese children born with related birth defects, and another 200,000 people suffer its cancers. And billions were spent on health care for Agent Orange-impacted US veterans. However, this outrage has made invisible any commentary addressing the negative impacts the defoliant had on Vietnamese ecosystems. After the Persian Gulf War, anti-sanctions activists in the West railed against the unleashing of deadly depleted uranium (DU) by the US during that war, and for years claimed the deposited DU was the cause of a cancer cluster in Iraq’s south. Photos of horribly deformed Iraqi children caused an international outcry and obliterated investigation into other possible environmental or political culprits. A now emerging Iraqi view says that perhaps unchecked factory emissions, raw sewage, and other pollutants flowing down the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to Iraq’s southern marshlands—95 percent of which were purposely desiccated by a Saddam Hussein hell bent on killing the Shiite population—were responsible for the cancer cluster. Not only causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee the region, the drying of the marshlands, an area the size of Massachusetts, eradicated the marsh reeds that acted as a natural bio-filtration system. Pollutants gathered in stagnant pools that people drank from and bathed in. Marsh ecosystems were also severely affected, and pollution was suddenly being found miles out into the Persian Gulf, affecting sea life. Antiwar rhetoric aimed at vilifying the US use of DU continues to ignore this perfect storm of events that has since been defined in scientific communities as an ecocide of historic proportions. Rarely are the adverse effects of war on nonhuman life focused on.Yes, we hear about accidentally unleashed zoo lions wandering war torn city streets. 22

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Or the application of dioxin-containing herbicide defoliants on trees; not the jungle and the entirety of nonhuman life it contains—just the trees. But even more rare is news aired or outrage expressed at damage done to such things as soil or the benthic invertebrates found in water bodies. Both are crucial environmental indicators. More often that not, the more visible effects of war on the human species becomes the centerpiece of all efforts to bring lasting peace. The horrible tales of damage to humanity is met with calls to end the violence and for retribution. Those responsible for bringing on the fight are vilified. Yet it is generally accepted that peace can cause more damage to the environment than war. But how can we know this to be true, since so little effort has been directed at studying environmental damage during wartime, says Jurgen Brauer, professor of economics at the James M. Hull College of Business, Augusta State University, fellow and former vice-chair of Economists for Peace and Security, and co-editor of the Economics of Peace and Security Journal. In his soon-to-be released book, War and Nature: The Environmental Consequences ofWar in a GlobalizedWorld (AltaMira Press), Brauer addresses the harm peacetime reconstruction and socioeconomic development have on the environmental infrastructure that supports human life, and the importance of accurately measuring the environmental consequences of war and separating out the putative from real effects. In June, senior editor Lorna Tychostup interviewed Brauer in Bangkok via Skype. You are an economist. Why write a book about war and the environment? There are three reasons. One, I am an economist studying the economics of war and peace, but am also an amateur biologist, ecologist, environmentalist, a scuba instructor and underwater photographer, a motorcyclist, and a lover of the outdoors. So you can say that I have private passions that I combine with my professional work on war and peace. Second, once there is environmental damage in war, an economic evaluation of that damage is needed in order to be able to claim restitution for the damage done before a court of [international] law.Third, some years ago UNESCO asked me if I could put together an edited volume on war and peace. While outlining it with my coeditors, we agreed to include a chapter on the environmental impact of war. I volunteered, falsely believing I could just go to the library, pull things off the shelf, and sum up the

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iraqi leukemia victim Ali Hamed, 10, at home in Basra on May 25, 2001. Ali received treatment at the Basra Educational Hospital where Iraqi doctors reported a sharp rise in cancer cases. Saddam hussein’s regime maintained that depleted uranium munitions used by US-led allied forces and 11 years of UN sanctions were behind the spike. During the same time period, the regime carried out a campaign to annihilate the Shiite population in the region.

literature in a 3,000-word essay. Eleven years later I have my own book. The subject matter turned out to be far more complex than anticipated. You focus intensely on two places: the Persian Gulf and Vietnam, two US-driven war zones. Why these two places as opposed to say, the Sudan, Congo, or Afghanistan? In the chapter on civil war I do write about Rwanda and Afghanistan.The more substantive answer is that I was absolutely single-minded in tracking down scientific literature and evidence, and after spending years and years researching, I found that most of the literature concerns US wars. Other countries simply don’t fight as many wars. Also, the US military is under more democratic control—strange as that may sound—than the militaries of other countries. So whenever there is a US war and a US soldier is injured in that war, almost immediately US congressmen and other people want studies and investigations done pertaining to that war, which they mandate the Department of Defense [DoD] or someone to conduct. For example, the DoD may give the necessary financial resources to the National Academy of Sciences or some other institution to send in scientists to collect data, which often ends up in the public realm. So there is more data to examine for US wars than for non-US wars. Specific to the Persian Gulf War, you talk about how scientists’ reports suggest a fair amount of environmental disruption and damage, some long-lived. But then you suggest that the larger part of this damage is attributable to pre- and post-war peacetime commerce rather than the war itself. Simply looking at the scientific literature, whether measuring the particulates in the smoke plume from the oil fires or the effects of the oil spill in the Per

sian Gulf marine environment, the scientific evidence shows differences in the environment. However, the actual damage observed was relatively small. This is contrary to the visual impression we had viewing the televised oil fires. Just because we have a visual impression that generates a certain amount of horror in us does not mean, scientifically speaking, that actual damage was done. When the scientists went in and tried to measure the damage, they also began to measure what happened pre-, during, and post-war. Comparing this data, many observed that so-called peacetime economic development generated more damage than the war itself. Put in the perspective of time, the war was a relatively short war—it was over after a couple of months.Therefore there is a limited amount of damage it could have done. But in peacetime, you can have economic development going on years and years, wiping out the environment: installation of oil facilities, dredging more channels for oil ships to enter harbors, and the creation of tourist areas that eliminate mangroves—things of that nature. And that may be one of the reasons why the environmental movement and the anti-war movement never quite got together because what you do in peacetime to nature is indeed very harmful from the perspective of nature, and quite possibly more harmful than what can happen to nature in war. Peace activists railed against the Persian Gulf War. Media coverage, especially visual, certainly shed light on the possibility of environmental damage. But all damage was blamed on wartime activities and the US. No attention was given to what Iraq had done environmentally to itself or to the Persian Gulf. How can the peace and anti-war communities better educate themselves or better direct their activities? I am both anti-war and pro-environment, and I have kept my eye on both 8/09 ChronograM news & politics

Tom Cory, national vice-president of the Vietnam Veterans of America (in wheelchair), is introduced to a young girl suffering birth defects due to her parents’ exposure to Agent Orange at the Vietnam Friendship Village hospital near Hanoi on January 4. During the Vietnam War, the US sprayed chemical defoliants over vast areas of the country. Vietnam says around two million adults were exposed and affected, while there are around 100,000 children who suffer defects due to their parents’ exposure.

movements. Most people do just one or the other. You may be an anti-war activist and that’s where most of your activities are directed. You may be also pro-environment in your personal life but not in an activist way. And vice versa. A lot of people who are involved in pro-environment issues, mostly on the local level, may be anti-war at the same time, but not in an activist way.The two communities rarely coincide because each individual decides to be active in just one or the other area. I have no direct suggestion other than to get the point out to both communities there that there is an overlap between the two, and that as a practical matter, there needs to be some sort of joint action or consideration. How realistic is that? Both before and during this last buildup to war in Iraq, the anti-sanctions community made quite clear the argument that depleted uranium (DU) leftover from the First Gulf War was responsible for a cancer cluster in Basra that produced horrible birth defects and premature deaths. The head of an Iraqi environmental organization who grew up in the Basra region agrees there could be some DU in the area. But he cautions that we also have to look to the environment where unchecked pollution from factory emissions and raw sewage freely flowing into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was coupled with the purposeful drying of the marshes by Saddam Hussein. People bathed and drank from stagnant pools containing this toxic mix, which could very well be the true cause of the cancer cluster. This news does not sit well with the agenda of the anti-war movement that continues to use the DU issue to support their actions, which does nothing to truly help the very people they claim they want to help. So how realistic is collaborative effort between environmentalists and the anti-war community? I fully agree. That’s why I said at the beginning that people specialize and become anti-war, or pro-women and children, or whatever pro- or anti- you can be. And to some degree that makes sense because we all have limited time, energy, financial resources, and intellectual capabilities to become knowledgeable in one area or another. But there are dangers in specialization in that you focus on one end but maybe overlook important things in other issue areas. It would be good to collaborate. I am one of the few who has investigated two areas at the same time. As a scholar, all I can do is put my findings forward to the readers and hope they become inspired. 24

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A war occurs. Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced across the border into another country or countries.You state that a lot of research has looked into adverse effects—depletion of resources, increases in pollution, and so forth—that displaced populations have on the environment they move into.Yet no research gets done on the region they have left. Is such research important? Why? From a purely logical point of view, if refugees are driven out of Place A and into Place B, research done in Place B, where there may be some environmental or ecological damage done, needs to be complemented by research in Place A, where the people are coming from. If you eliminate human habitation in Place A, logically speaking, non-human life should be able to recover there. So, on a purely logical scientific basis, if people move from A to B, we should study not only what happens in B, but also what happens in A, because whatever losses there are due to the refugee influx in Place B, might be compensated for in Place A, where the refugees are coming from. I know this sounds harsh because people are highly concerned about what happens to the refugees. I acknowledge that and fully sympathize. But from an ecological point of view, if you take humans out of the equation and ask, “What happens to the remainder of nature—non-human nature?” surely you would want to know what happens in the places the refugees leave. Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever looked into these areas. Okay, this hypothetical war ends and some of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people return home. Has it been studied whether the actions they take to regain economic stability are more damaging to their home environment than the actions that occurred during the war? Not to my knowledge, no. My embarrassment as a member of the scientific community—but I suspect that there is even more embarrassment among the ecologists and environmentalists—is how little these refugees have been studied. It is really astonishing to note how little we know. We have one study out of Mozambique showing that as refugees returned to their home areas, the transportation route they took coincided with a vector of bushmeat hunting. The return movement caused a lot of wildlife destruction. But to my knowledge there are no studies that compare whether the resettlement of these areas induces additional damage on the environment. Can you explain the term “conservation by default?” That is a bit of an ironic, tongue-in-cheek phrase I use in the book. I refer to cases such as Ethiopia, when there was a war going on in the highlands. Ethiopia, as many of the other countries like Rwanda, Uganda, and the Sudan, is not particularly flush with money to begin with.The government funded environmental programs, but with the war going on, funds allocated to environmental conservation were shifted into the war. That’s conservation by default, which basically means the complete abandonment of what little conservational structure they had. No funding. No payment of game wardens. Lands may be protected on paper but not in practice.

You talk about the size of wars using the terms “big wars” and “small wars.” How does the size of a war effect the environment? We don’t know. Given the limited evidence—there is only a very small number of wars that can be studied from a scientific perspective—it appears that the so-called “big wars” such as the Persian Gulf War or the Vietnam War have had a relatively limited effect. We do not study all of the effects that these wars could have had, so there is quite possibly a big misperception here. A “big” war can appear to have only a “small” effect because we study only one or another of the potential environmental impacts. On the other hand, what we call “small” wars, such as civil wars, often are in fact very big wars, although they may not be very big in the eyes of the international media. The war in Southern Sudan went on for decades and no one in the West even noticed. The only war we noticed in the Sudan was the Darfur War. But the war in Southern Sudan was “big” on the ground yet “small” in the media. The terms big and small are perceptional. So-called “small wars” or unattended wars may in fact have very large effects, in large part because of the refugee flows they generate. And so-called “big wars” may have generated small environmental effects, perhaps merely because we don’t study all of their potential effects.

You give the example of overwhelmed relief workers dealing with people in need and discuss how non-human conservation issues go by the wayside, and how this annoys conservation groups. Is it possible, important, or even realistic to attend to conservation issues during times of war-related crisis? It’s important, definitely. But I don’t know if it is realistic. That’s up to the people who read the book, especially if they work in the relevant agencies. I make a case that human rights, humanitarian emergency assistance, economic development, refugee, and natural resource conservation groups need to have a roundtable or council collaborating and coordinating their various actions. Again, I am an outsider. I am an economist, so I have no idea whether that is realistic or not.What I see happening as an outsider is that coordination is definitely needed in order to prevent additional damage as a consequence of war as you are trying to help the people in these areas. But whether the relevant people will actually get their act together is another question. War changes the landscape and affects the environment. But yet, and this has been my personal experience working in Iraq, as people reenter a war-ravaged area, historically, there has been no solid environmental or sustainable plan in place—no blueprint for how to go about reconstruction or to restore an environmentally sound life. The Iraqi environmental organization I mentioned has actually been working to baseline conditions in Iraq since 2003, but there is no blueprint in place to address the environment in a conflict zone. How would you suggest a blueprint be created? Are there steps that should be taken? Is there an order to these steps? I make a strong statement that after the war is done, after the weapons fall silent, people go back to their home areas and no one really pays any attention to the physical environment to which they return. Post-conflict economic recovery concerns fiscal, monetary, and labor policy and the like. But nobody really talks about the environmental situation to which these people return. Emergency recovery plans exist for the western industrial countries—such as England, Japan, Germany, the US, and Canada—and if you have a hurricane come through, or a flood or a tornado wipes out a city, there are plans in place to restore the environment, both human and nonhuman. I feel we can learn from these plans and apply them to developing or emerging countries in war, and post-war. But to my knowledge nobody has tried to do that. In a way I am pointing yet another finger at yet another failing. I do a lot of finger pointing in the book, I suppose. Who might feel encouraged to take responsibility to fill the gaps I identify remains to be seen. On the positive side, I find it encouraging—especially after 1991, when nobody studied what was going on in Iraq—that after 2003 people are finally recognizing that some damage was done there as well. Not just to the political entity of Iraq, but more importantly to its people and to their lands. Independent of what political entity we live in, we still need to study what happened to the people and the land. However, I am still very sad it did not happen in 1991. Iraq was just seen as “the enemy,” never mind its people and its lands. Better late than never. I agree. On the other hand, if better late than never, then why only Iraq? Why not everywhere else? It’s a political issue. It’s done in Iraq because it concerns the US and the club ofWestern countries and interests. But if it were somewhere in Uganda, nobody would care. In Uganda we have fellow human beings and a fellow environment that are just as worthy of attention as any other place in the world. There is an injustice here, or an unequal justice, that really riles me. In the section of the book subtitled “AWay Forward” you lay out the outline of such a blueprint and state that there needs to be measurement, detection, and assessment. Soil should be looked at first, then water and, last, air. Species and their habitats should be examined. You state that rapid assessment of a region, ecological scaling, and bio-monitoring are relatively cheap ways of amassing a continuous stream of ground level data—a baseline—that would help to shed light on the effects of war should one come along, and that this assessment should occur before a war. Is that feasible? The world is large. How can one determine where a war will break out?

What I propose—Is it feasible? Does it make scientific sense?—ultimately will have to be evaluated by the readers in the field. That some sort of assessment is needed before corrections can be made or restorative action is taken obviously sounds very logical and sensible to me. But this idea will have to go through peer review in the larger community. Even now we have all kinds of satellites circling the Earth taking constant land-monitoring pictures for agricultural purposes, a constant evaluation is going on regarding weather patterns and storm patterns that is often beamed right down to the farmer sitting in his tractor in a field somewhere in Alabama. A lot of these tools, equipment, instrumentation, and techniques are already available and I don’t see why the conservation, scientific, and environmental communities cannot avail themselves of these tools to collect baseline pre-war data, which then in the case of war can be used for pre- and post-war studies. We would then know what was there before the war, assess what was done during the war, and based on the information, come up with restitution and recovery plans if damage did occur. You talk about incentives in a global world. Why do they matter? Incentives matter because they help direct attention to areas that so far are either not studied or understudied, they help to direct financial resources in particular, and human resources. I believe that part of the reason why the Persian Gulf War has been studied so well is because there was a fear that the smoke plume would rise into the jet stream and via the jet stream be distributed all over the world and affect people everywhere, including people in Canada, the US, and Western Europe. If I am sitting in the US and know I am going to be affected, then I have an incentive to lobby my congressional representatives to put forward the money to study what the effect really is. Only when people feel that they are personally affected do they work to make the resources available to study what is going on and maybe to prevent the next war. Incentives are incredibly important to ensure that the resources, both financial and in terms of scientific talent, are forthcoming. What has concerned me throughout the many years I have researched the theme of war and nature, is that all of us specialize. And specialization has its advantages because we get to focus and become more knowledgeable in one particular area. But the more we specialize, the more we also leave behind neighboring areas that may be integrally connected to our own study area.What I hope my book will do, or has the potential to do, is to reconnect people and their activity and activism; inspire them to reach out from their own area of isolation and connect to somebody else in another area of isolation, and examine how things are related to each other, so that we don’t become “activist idiots”— that is, so focused on one issue area that we overlook that there are other issue areas to which our own issue is related. People need to become a little more holistic even in their activism. And I would like to see scientists be more aware that there are plenty of study areas open and to start to fill the gaps that I identify. If they can get the funding. Well, I took 11 years of my life and dedicated them to the subject matter with zero funding. Perhaps my book will encourage graduate students working on their PhDs to dedicate themselves to study the environmental effects of war. To my knowledge there is no such specialty niche in the life sciences.There is a whole career path here that awaits enterprising young scientists. Each question I’ve asked you, you addressed through the logic of science. Yet I wonder how people will receive what you are saying. I gave a set of lectures in South Africa six years ago and made the point that we only study what affects us in the West and how fundamentally unfair and unjust that is. People were thanking me, happy that at least one person in the West recognizes and sympathizes that people in Africa and their environments are just as valuable as people in the West and their environments. Wherever there is a war, there are people and an environment. All are equally eligible of our attention. That point was received very well. But the practical fact of the matter still is that the research funding is not forthcoming and will only be forthcoming if it suits the interests of the Western governments. So there is plenty of scope left to mix scientific passion with politics and justice, for humans and for their environment. 8/09 ChronograM news & politics

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Then There’s Republican Sex

Marital fidelity is not an issue on which you select your brain surgeon. Sexual orientation shouldn’t affect your choice of automobile mechanic. A taste for cross-dressing at home has no relevance to the quality of work your plumber does. Just so, a sane person would not say that what someone does with their genitals has any bearing on how good they are at running a county, a state, or a country. Republicans, by contrast, have made genital placement (where one puts them, not where one has them) one of their signature issues. They call it “family values,” “character,” “faith,” and such, but what they’re saying is that personal sexual conduct is how a politician ought to be judged. There is an upside to their position. All the top political sexual scandals of 2009—Senator John Ensign, Governor Mark Sanford, former Congressman “Chip” Pickering, and Alan David Berlin—belong to Republicans. Very conservative, double-righteous, religion-sucking Republicans, at that. It makes us free to wallow in their misery on a rational basis: They have demanded that this be how they should be judged. Senator John Ensign of Nevada is a member of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. He has participated in mass rallies conducted by the Promise Keepers, a men-only Christian group, and during his four years as a congressman had a 100–percent voter approval record from the Christian Coalition. When he’s in Washington he lives in the C Street Center. It’s owned by The Fellowship, sometimes called “The Family.” It is an organization that envisions itself as a sort of Mafia for Christ (not their words).Their theology is that Jesus really loved the rich and powerful and disdained the meek and mild, and that there is a secret Bible within the Bible that says so.Their mission is to form a secret organization to rule the world and make themselves richer and more powerful because it’s what God wants. (I am not making this up.) To effect this mission, they rent out living space to powerful and influential people at their headquarters for just $600 a month, a pretty great rate for downtown Washington, DC. Ensign is married. He was screwing one of his staff. Fairly standard practice, as staff and interns have the virtue of convenience and adultery is necessarily a sin of opportunity. The woman, Cindy Hampton, was also married. Her husband, Doug—who also worked for Ensign—got upset or greedy or both, and demanded cash for his pain. Or he would go public. Ensign’s parents (there’s a caring Mom and Dad to this story) gave Doug $96,000, parceled out to his family members in $12,000 chunks to avoid bank-reporting issues and income tax liabilities. Senator Tom Coburn appears to been party to the negotiations. Coburn, who also lives at the C Street Center, refuses to talk about it. “I 26

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was counseling him as a physician and as an ordained deacon. That is privileged communication that I will never reveal to anybody. Not to the Ethics Committee, not to a court of law, not to anybody.” Coburn is an obstetrician (Ensign was neither pregnant nor likely to become so) and has been a Baptist deacon (layperson who assists the minister), so the claim of confidentiality, for all its righteous thunder, is a bit of a stretch. In case anyone doesn’t know, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is married, with four children. He fell in love with a woman from Buenos Aires. Also married. It was, in his own words, “a forbidden and tragic love story.” He wept about it in Argentina, he wept about it in South Carolina, and he wept in New York as well. Sanford used to be a congressman. He voted to impeach Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky affair. He called it “reprehensible,” and said, “I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone.” Sanford has not, of course, resigned as governor. Instead, he has compared his tribulations to those of King David in the Old Testament. When in Washington, Sanford resides at the C Street Center. Surrounded by prayer and comforted by the reassurances that Jesus wants him to be rich and powerful. Charles “Chip” Pickering was a congressman from Mississippi. He was slated to replace Senator Trent Lott, by appointment, when Lott resigned, but Chip turned it down and left politics. He was married with five children, he also lived at the C Street Center and is said to have met with his paramour there. He appeared briefly in Borat, at a Pentecostal meeting in which evolution was attacked. Chip’s ex-wife is currently suing his girlfriend, Elizabeth Creekmore-Byrd, for alienation of affections. Finally, there is Alan Berlin, until May of this year a staffer to Jane Orie, a state senator in Pennsylvania. He’s different than the rest. He’s a furry. He likes to dress up in animal suits. Panda is his first choice, but he also had a wolf and a cat outfit, and liked to wear and use diapers as well. He contacted a 15-year-old boy on the Internet and was making plans to visit him so they could “yiff,” the furry term for f**king, in his backyard, when the boy’s parents found the e-mails. So, there they are, hoisted by their own petards. (Ah, at last you find out what a petard is.) I say, yank on the rope and hoist them higher. Not because they want to have sex. Not because they commit adultery, because they’re hypocrites, or wear panda suits. Hang them high because they used sexual hysteria and fear to muddy and then hijack the political process, then worked, as their religion told them to (Berlin excepted), to make the rich and powerful ever more rich and powerful at the expense of those whom Jesus (supposedly) actually cared for.

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Filmmaker Robert Stone’s new documentary explores the birth of the environmental movement By Carl Frankel

ocumentary filmmaker Robert Stone has been making films since 1987, when his first effort, Radio Bikini, about the relocation of Bikini islanders for US nuclear testing was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Since then, he has built an impressive body of work that examines intriguing aspects of American history and popular culture, such as the homegrown terrorism of the 1960s (2004’s Guerilla: The Taking of Patti Hearst) and the place of conspiracy theories in our culture (2007’s Oswald’s Ghost). With Stone’s latest effort, Earth Days, the filmmaker has for the first time turned his cinematic eye to the environment. The documentary examines the origins of the environmental movement in the 1960s and ’70s, with a special focus on Earth Day 1970, a watershed event that put environmentalism on the map in earnest. The film, which premiered as the closing night film at this year’s Sundance festival, has been well received: Variety called it “quietly majestic, moving, elegiac, and deeply contemplative.” Rhinebeck’s Upstate Films will screen Earth Days on August 15, with Stone appearing in person to discuss the film. He won’t have far to travel: He’s been a Rhinecliff resident for the last five years. I caught up with Stone recently for a conversation about art, the environment, and the future of the planet. Of all the films you could have made at this point in your career, why this one? My two small children were the inspiration. With all that’s happened recently, it’s hard to remember that only a few years ago, the environment wasn’t on people’s minds very much. Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth hadn’t come out. Obama wasn’t president. But things were changing rapidly, in no small measure because the science of climate change was becoming more widely accepted. I felt compelled to make a film that dealt with the environmental crisis because where we go from here will determine the type of world my children

live in. And it seemed to me that one area that had not been explored enough was how we’d gotten to this point. A lot of young people are downbeat because they look back, see Bush’s assault on the environment, and feel as if they’re starting from the beginning, in terms of getting things going. This isn’t the case, though. The environmental movement isn’t starting from scratch, it’s making a comeback. We have a precedent to fall back on. In the 1960s and 1970s, when the environmental movement was born, real change occurred, and it took place rapidly. If this happened once, it can happen again. The environmental movement is by its nature forward-looking. It looks ahead to what we can do to create a more ecologically positive future. There’s value in looking back, though. There’s a great analogy in the space program of the 1960s, which was also very forward-looking. No one expected that the image created by the astronauts’ looking back at Earth would be the most profound and lasting impact of the program. History is our teacher. I made this film in the hope that it might lay out a roadmap for where we go from here. Would you characterize Earth Days as a hopeful film? Yes, because it shows that very rapid social, political, and cultural change can happen. People don’t remember this, but the United States was a very different place before Earth Day 1970 than it was afterward. Littering became taboo almost overnight, and that’s just one indicator. The transformation was much broader than that. An enormous amount of vitally important environmental legislation, including the National Environmental Protection Act and the Clean Air Act, was enacted during the three years immediately following Earth Day 1970. Even more remarkably, it occurred on Richard Nixon’s watch, even though he didn’t actually care about the environment! There’s a hopeful message in this. Positive change can happen if enough political pressure is brought to bear. 8/09 ChronograM green living

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There are also lessons to be learned in the mistakes the environmental movement made. Jimmy Carter presented environmentalism as a paradigm of scarcity. He wanted us to make do with less. This didn’t sit well with people. Ronald Reagan played into this resentment by arguing that we could thrive in a world without limits. Essentially, he was advocating a return to the world of the 1950s. He articulated a backlash that brought him two terms as president and brought the environmental movement to a screeching halt. Reagan was simply a much better politician than Jimmy Carter. The environmental movement made other mistakes, too. Activists at that time tended to be very confrontational. They took the view that if you were pro-business, you were anti-environment. The environmental movement has done a lot of growing up since then. It’s become less ideologically driven and more practical. Cap and trade, which puts a price on carbon emissions, is an example of this new approach. And, in fact, Obama represents the apotheosis of practical politics. Being practical can be a mixed blessing, though. Some environmentalists are bemoaning the climate change bill that recently passed the House. They say it’s too watered down. Can we get the change we need by being “practical?” Everything we can do at this point is a step forward. But there’s a countertruth as well: We do need to make very rapid social and political progress. The environmental movement was essentially marginalized for [almost] 30 years, starting in 1980. Those three decades may have lost us everything. Did you direct the film at any particular audience? I was focused more on younger people than older ones, because it’s largely their future that we’re talking about. I particularly wanted to reach the people who hadn’t experienced these times personally. In fact, one of the best screenings of the film I’ve had was to a group of 400 high school students in NewYork [City]. They loved it. But it seems to be appealing to a pretty wide range of audiences. You tell your story by having some of the leading figures in the sustainability movement—people like Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog; Dennis Hayes, the mastermind behind Earth Day 1970; and Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart—recount their experiences. Why did you opt for this approach? I decided very early on that to make a film about such a vast subject meaningful, it had to be grounded in personal narrative. I thought it would be interesting to zero in on a few movement leaders who had had transformative, “A ha!” experiences about the environment. Dennis Hayes had one while trekking through Africa. Rusty Schweickart had one in outer space. Stewart Brand had one on 100 micrograms on LSD. As a whole, the people whose stories I tell are like spokes on a wheel. They represent the various strands of the environmental movement. I was particularly struck by the documentary footage from the 1950s, some of which is so extreme as to seem like self-parody. There are lots of other juicy moments in the film too. Do you have any particular favorites? Well, Stewart Brand’s story is an entertaining and important one. On his acid trip, he was gazing out at the San Francisco skyline and got a sense of the Earth’s curve. It then occurred to him that the curve of the Earth must be more dramatic the higher one went. In his mind, he started going further and further into orbit and soon realized that the sight of the entire planet, seen at once, would help people understand the extent to which we are all in this together. This led to his creating buttons reading “Why haven’t we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?” and distributing them to people in power everywhere. Over the years, Earth Day has become corporatized and watered down. What, if anything, should we read into this? If Earth Day has grown thin over the years, it’s because the environmental movement itself has grown thin. Starting in 1980, our culture embraced the ideology that the market can solve everything and we became a fairly complacent society.That era came to an abrupt end with last year’s economic collapse. Things are transforming rapidly now, and, in fact, Earth Day 2010 is gearing up

Stewart Brand with the button that launched a movement in EARTH DAYS.

to be a sizable and important event. It’s also important to remember that Earth Day has had some significant positive impacts, such as environmental curricula being adopted by schools throughout the country. What’s next for you—another environmental documentary? After being thoroughly immersed in making a film about the environment, every other topic seems almost irrelevant. Still, I can’t totally commit to only doing environmental films going forward. I’ll be making films for the rest of my life. I’ve been starting to raise money for a film about what happened to the environmental movement between 1980 and the present. It would be about the intertwining of economics and the environment. If Earth Days is successful, I’ll get a chance to make it. Any final thoughts? I would like the film to inspire people to make Earth Day 2010 something very powerful. We’re currently in a strange reversal of the situation in 1970. Some of the political class is ahead of the popular movement. People think marching in the streets is passé, but it’s not. Look at what just happened in Iran! A million people in the streets sends a powerful message that’s still unlike any other form of political expression. The great thing about Earth Day 1970 is that it wasn’t a spectator event. In every community, people got out and worked alongside each other. They got involved and felt connected. It was genuinely empowering. I hope this film reminds people what a special day that was, and encourages them to build upon it and use that day to demand the kinds of systemic changes we desperately need to make. Thirty years ago, we took our eye off the ball and fell back into complacency. We can’t let that happen again. 8/09 ChronograM green living

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David Hornung, Remembering M., oil on muslin over panel, 18â&#x20AC;? x 14â&#x20AC;?, 2009 PORTFOLIO, page 34

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Portfolio David Hornung

David Hornung’s oil and gouache paintings bear a kinship to comics, Japanese and Chinese

beyond this reclusive setting, however. He is a dedicated teacher and talented author whose

woodcuts, Indian miniatures, and American folk art. The small-scale works are disarming in their

book, Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers (McGraw-Hill, 2004), is available in five

spare, rustic iconography, set in elemental landscapes that frame cosmological phenomena—a

languages. Earning his MFA from the University of Wisconsin in 1976, Hornung has taught

dark cloud emitting light rays, atmospheric shifts, a starburst on the horizon—like abstracted

art for more than 30 years and is currently associate professor and chair of the art and art

stage sets. Each painting has the force of epiphany, yet there is nothing overwrought in these

history department at Adelphi University, commuting from an Upper West Side apartment

deadpan representations. Rather, it’s the odd combination of different visual languages that

during the school year.

cause the shock and surprise, the depiction of impossible occurrences we can yet believe

Hornung was a reviewer for ARTnews and has published many essays on art. He has

in. The juxtaposition of the diagrammatic with the atmospheric, the literal with the abstract,

lectured all over the country on art, color, and quilts (in an earlier phase of his career, he

the cartoonlike with the naturalistic creates ambiguities in scale, space, and time that seem

constructed art quilts). Recently, he collaborated with poet Susan Sindall on a collection of

knowable, true to our mental experience. His paintings are inscrutable, yet they have a

her poems called Corona, contributing his white-on-black drawings. His paintings can be

dreamlike logic, a psychological poignancy.

seen in his one-man show at John Davis Gallery, in Hudson, which runs through August 16.

Hornung paints in a studio on a wooded hillside in Shokan, not far from the garden and

Portfolio: www.johndavisgallery.com.

house he shares with his wife, cellist Abby Newton. The sphere of his influence extends far

—Lynn Woods

david hornung on his work Psychological Sign Language

A Ticklish Enigma

Teaching Color

I’m not that interested in verisimilitude, although I love good realist painting. I’m really more interested in the conceptual aspects of pictorial construction. Also, the psychology of the way we look at things. The other thing is, there’s this religious thing. I’m really interested in icon painting, the idea that if you stylize something it tends to be more emblematic.

This sounds incredibly pretentious, but the truth is, if I were to talk about what my subject is, to sum it up I’d say it was the enigma of being. Simple as that. That’s what I’m interested in. My idea about what’s right in the picture is always measured against that standard. There has to be a level of ambiguity. There has to be a level of precariousness, of all kinds. But it also has to be directed, and matter-of-fact.

As early as 1984, when I was at Skidmore, I started teaching color. [Josef] Albers was a huge influence on me when I was young. The whole idea about the Bauhaus as an educational model always intrigued me. Students are really experimenting. They’re not there to make art, they’re there to discover. That can happen in contemporary art education in something like a color class.

One of my cardinal rules in painting is, if I’m not surprised, no one else is going to be. Some would argue you can manipulate a viewer; I guess illustrators do this a lot. I can’t do it that way. If I’m going to make a surprising image, I have to literally surprise myself. Tickling yourself is an impossibility, but it’s the standard, it’s what you’re trying to do.

I’ve taught the class to graphic designers, painters, illustrators, textile designers. I can teach anybody how to use color consciously and sensibly, but the people who get the most out of my courses are people who already are good colorists. I try to get them to a conceptual matrix, [which] empowers them to make their color choices more sophisticated. And more varied; they become less repetitive because they’re able to think about it at some little distance. That’s really the key. [For other students, it’s like] music lessons: You can’t turn someone who has no inherent musicality into a real musician, but you can teach them to play the notes, feel a sense of accomplishment, and enhance their appreciation. In that sense, it’s a very valuable thing.

The important thing is the painting disagrees with itself and yet it seems to come together as a kind of psychological whole. It’s almost like the mind craves cohesion, craves meaning and understanding, and I try to create a tension against that. I try to pull that apart or challenge it. That’s what gives the painting a kind of snap, its visual interest. First Taste of Art I was Catholic until I was six. My mother was a devout Catholic. When I was a little kid she was always dragging me to church. That was my first touch of art. The church left a deep visual impression on me. I think my interest in emblematic art all comes from that. I loved it, I was mesmerized; it’s quite a show, the Catholic Church.

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Painting without Thinking If I’m really painting a lot, I stop thinking altogether. My hands just do the work. I put 10 paintings on the wall and I look at them and adjust them to each other, and make one or two changes now and then. I’ve been painting since I was 15, and [over the years] you develop highly developed preferences.

THIS PAGE (CLOCKWISE from upper left): Not Without Flowers, oil on linen over panel, 16" x 16", 2009 Interior Monolog oil on linen over panel, 12" x 12", 2009 Aspects of Innocence (detail), oil on muslin over panel, 14" x 18", 2009 OPPOSITE (LEFT TO RIGHT): The Big Picture, oil on muslin over panel, 20" x 20", 2009 On Holy Ground, oil on linen over panel, 12" x 12", 2009

Simple Images/Complex Idiom I like things to be as spare and simple and direct as they can be, if they can still yield meaning. It’s almost like the writing of Raymond Carver. There’s something very declarative. He just lets the words construct the reality; he doesn’t milk it. [My iconography] tends to be rural in nature rather than urban. It tends to be prototypical objects, [such as] rude buildings and tools. I like dividers, like fences and walls, because they’re really useful in painting, to push the space together and direct the eye. The iconography ensures a wealth of shape vocabulary. This particular show of my work was preceded by six months, at least, of pure failure. It took me a long time to find the right kind of attitude pictorially. I’m almost there, [in deciphering] what are the variables I can work with, what is my language? Graphic Influences The visual language comes from Chinese woodcuts, comic books, primitive or self-taught painting, graphic design. I’m interested in combining tonal and graphic to a degree, but

Missionary Work on the Island the work is essentially graphic, it’s flat. [I’m a fan of] Ernest Bushmiller’s [comic strip] Nancy; I love the way he stylizes. Also Mogul miniatures: the color is such an important issue, and the space is very conceptualized and stagelike. There’s a convention, but the [forms are] also powerful abstract shapes. There’s a natural reference and also an abstract relationship. That’s exactly what I want to do. Musical Parallel Some artists work with language as a model. They’re interested in delivering information. [But] I think painting is a very poor informational delivery system. I see the painting as more akin to music than to language. The only form of language it relates to at all is poetry. Painting has a subverbal form of reasoning—it has cohesion and intelligence, demands and rigors, but at the same time it has a very direct conduit to the emotional life and psychological life of the viewer. My reason for making this is very akin to a sax player working out what phrase to play next and how to phrase it.

I love my job [at Adelphi University]. I’ve been able to hire who I’ve wanted to work with, and we’ve built a really good BFA program in visual art. We’re working mostly with kids with backgrounds not steeped in fine art. Most of them have never been to a museum, even though they come to us as art majors. It’s typical of contemporary American life. Visual art is a very marginal activity and so we have the opportunity to do really good missionary work, and make a difference in the lives of these young people. Make a Move A good painting is like a good chess move. The game of chess is so ingenuously devised that if you make a move, unless you’re a chess master, you understand only a few ramifications of the move. Then the combination of moves becomes geometrically amplified. Painting’s like that. If you’ve created a good sense of variables that are lively, and work with good shapes, and work consciously and diligently, it’s like chess: You make a move and it will have felicitous ramifications that go beyond your intent. And that’s good painting, really—where things start happening that are bigger than you are.

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galleries & museums 12 MARKET STREET ELLENVILLE 647-6604. “10x10x10 Exhibit.” Presented by ArtsWAVE. Through October 31.

ALBANY INTERNATINAL AIRPORT GALLERY ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ALBANY (518) 242-2241. “Out of This World.” Contemporary art. Through November 29.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART 415 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4346. “Inscriptions II: The Eloquent Brush.” Works by Yale Epstein. Through August 16.

Ann street gallery 104 ann street, newburgh 562-6940 ext. 119. “Insight: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing.” A group exhibition. Through August 29.

ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STreet, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Peace*Love*Music.” Group show. August 15-September 13. Opening Saturday, August 15, 6pm-10pm. “Works by Rick Pantell and Karen Whitman.” August 15-September 13. Opening Saturday, August 15, 6pm-10pm.

ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Confluence: An Exhibition of Related & Diverse Works.” August 1-29. Opening Saturday, August 1, 5pm-8pm. “Images of the Studio.” August 1-29. Opening Saturday, August 1, 5pm-8pm.

BACHELIER-CARDONSKY GALLERY NORTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 927-3129. “Group Show.” Through August 16.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Temptation.” New works by Michael Gaydos. Through August 10.

BEANRUNNER CAFE 201 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1701. “Made in Peekskill: A Tribute to Buddy Glassberg.” August 8-September 26. Opening Saturday, August 8, 3pm-5pm.

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CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490. “Pax Americana.” Paintings and collage by Conor Durand. Through August 16.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Landscapes.” Through August 30. Opening Saturday, August 1, 6pm-8pm.

CARRIE HADDAD PHOTOGRAPHS 318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-7655. “After Glow.” 4 photographers and the Hand Held Light. Through August 30.

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN LODGE 334 ROUTE 32A, PALENVILLE (518) 678-3101. “Palenville First Outdoor Sculpture Show.” August 1-October 16. Opening Saturday, August 1, 6pm-8pm.

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “Consider the Lobster and Other Essays.” Rachel Harrison collaborative works with others. Through December 20.

THE COLONY CAFE 22 ROCK CITY ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-5342. “This Amazing Life.” Paintings of Jamaica & Costa Rica by Justin Love. Through September 11.

DIA: BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100. “The Resources of Rhetoric.” Works by Antoni Tapies. Through October 19.

DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Franz Heigemeir: New Oil Paintings.” August 1-29. Opening Saturday, August 1, 5pm-8pm.

FERRIN GALLERY 437 NORTH STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 442-1622. “Teapots: Interpretations.” Group show of objects and still lifes. Through September 5.

FLOOR 1 17 EAST MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-1629. “The Art of Josh Jenkins.” Through August 1.

G.A.S. 196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592. “2nd Anniversary & Summer Invitational Exhibition.” Through August 23. “Photograph/Photographic - Arlene Becker and Robert Lipgar Photographic Images.” Through August 23.

GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Children.” William Ropp. August 7-September 7. Opening Saturday, August 8, 5pm-7pm. “Leah Macdonald, Female Fairytale.” Through August 3.

THE GALLERY AT R & F 84 TEN BROECK AVenue, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Deus ex Machina.” Recent paintings by Russell Thurston. August 1-September 19. Opening Saturday, August 1, 5pm-7pm.

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17 RIVER STREET, WARWICK www.gallerywarwick.com. “Pink and Black.” Paintings by Roslyn Fassett. Through August 1.

GARDEN GALLERY AT THE HUDSON RIVER HEALTH CARE CENTER 55 BANK STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-8508. “Tributes: Sculptures by Buddy Glassberg.” August 8-September 26. Opening Saturday, August 8, 3pm-5pm.

GAZAN GALLERY 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-4278. “Sizzling Hot Summer Show.” Group show. Through September 30.

THE GRAIL 119 DUNCAN AVENUE, CORNWALL 534-2031. “Compass.” Through August 31.

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KINGSTON 338-0331. “Kingston Sculpture Biennial.” Through October 31.

HIGH FALLS STUDIOS ROUTE 213, HIGH FALLS 389-5825. “Water Views of High Falls & Cape Cod.” Works by Vincent Connelly. Through September 30.

HISTORIC HUGUENOT STREET DU BOIS HOUSE, NEW PALTZ 255-1660. “Before Hudson: 8,000 Years of Native American History and Culture.” Through December 31.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Let it be in Sight of Thee.” Hudson River photography by Carolyn Marks Blackwood. Through August 15. “Clemens Kalischer.” Photography exhibition. August 22-September 26. Opening Saturday, August 22, 6pm-8pm.

HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. 300 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 331-5300. “Couples.” Photographic celebration of lesbian and gay relationships by Joyce Culver and Gay Block. Through August 31.

IRIS GALLERY 47 RAILROAD STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 644-9663. “Thicket.” David Ricci. Through August 30. Opening Saturday, August 1, 5:30pm-7:30pm.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “David Hornung: Paintings.” Through August 16. “Joseph Haske: Paintings.” August 20-September 13. Opening Saturday, August 22, 6pm-8pm.

KAATERSKILL FINE ARTS HUNTER VILLAGE SQUARE, HUNTER (518) 263-2060. “Landscape Painting by Joseph Keiffer.” Through August 23.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON www.kmoca.org. “Clay Bodies.” 6 local artists explore the unexpected in ceramic arts. August 1-31. Opening Saturday, August 1, 5pm-7pm.

LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “Works by Andrew Minewski.” Through August 28.

M GALLERY 350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0380. “The Illustrators.” Works from “The Golden Age of Illustration” (1880-1940). Through August 10.

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA 253 MANSION STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-2500 ext. 1208. “Celebration of the Arts.” Art exhibit created by artists from Dutchess County Department of Mental Hygiene’s Continuing Treatment Centers. Through August 28.

MOHONK ARTS 186 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS 463-1430. “Friends of the Artist: Portraits by Allen Epstein (1941-1993).” Through August 22.

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “Scenes Near Home.” Photographic exhibition of local landscapes by Robert Lipgar. Through September 5.

MORTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY 82 KELLY STREET, RHINECLIFF 876-2903. “Picturing America.” Through August 20.

MOUNT TREMPER ARTS 647 South PLANK ROAD, MOUNT TREMPER 688-9893. “The Noble Savage and the Little Tramp.” Works made through reductive acts in search of the basic, primal, or mechanical. August 6-29. Opening Saturday, August 29, 5pm-8pm. “Offset - Ten Contemporary Artists Make Posters.” Through August 2.

THE MOVIEHOUSE 48 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON (860) 435-2897. “Transformations.” 20 large scale Giclee photographs by Anton Kuskin. Through August 6.

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 GLENDALE Road, STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 298-4100. “The Fantastical Faces of Peter Rockwell: A Sculptor’s Retrospective.” Through October 25.

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THE OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE CAFE GALLERY VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. “To Whet the Appetite.” Watercolors by Marguerite Bride. Through September 2. Opening Sunday, August 2, 3pm-5pm.

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POSIE KVIAT GALLERY 437 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (917) 456-7496. “Kraft-Werk.” Anique Taylor, Lora Shelley, Astrid Nordness and Sally Rothchild. Through August 3.

RED EFT GALLERY 159 SULLIVAN STreet, WURTSBORO 888-2519. “Fire Fighters: The Art of J.E. Capriano.” Group exhibition of painting, drawing, prints, sculpture, photography, and a retrospective of the works of J.E. Capriano. August 8-September 26. Opening Saturday, August 8, 6pm-8pm. “Go Figure.” Group exhibition of painting, drawing, prints, sculpture, photography. Through August 1.

RIVERFRONT STUDIOS 96 BROAD STREET, SCHUYLERVILLE 695-5354. “Summer Show and a Tribute to the Hudson River.” Through August 22.

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TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Far Away Places.” Group show. Through August 16.

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UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Atmosphere.” August 31-September 28. Opening Friday, September 4, 5pm-7pm. “Kristopher Hedley: Prints.” Through August 30.

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WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Enchanting Visions.” Exhibit of paintings by Lisa O’Gorman-Hofsommer and Nancy Reed Jones. August 1-31. Opening Saturday, August 8, 5pm-7pm.

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WINDHAM FINE ARTS GALLERY 5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-6850. “Abstraction/Summer Distraction.” Featuring works by John Greene, Satish Joshi, Michael Kessler and Deirdre Leber, Peter Diepenbrock. August 15-September 27. Opening Saturday, August 15, 5pm-8pm.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Energy, Spirit and Vision.” Celebration of the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Festival of Music and Art. Through August 23. “In the Beginning: The First Decade of the Woodstock Artists Association.” Works by Gertrude Abramson. Through August 23.

WOODSTOCK BYRDCLIFFE GUILD 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Where Lies Henry Hudson?” Outdoor exhibition of memorials. Through October 12.

WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Banks of the Hudson.” National juried exhibition in conjunction with Ulster County Hudson River 400. August 8-September 5. Opening Saturday, August 8, 3pm-5pm.

WURTSBORO ARTS ALLIANCE 73 SULLIVAN STREET, WURTSBORO 647-5530. “Humble Nature.” First invitational juried salon exhibition. Through August 9.

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Music

Keith Marlowe

by peter aaron

Revival Meeting The Chrome Cranks

etting the band back together is one of the most tired clichés in rock ‘n’ roll. Indeed, few images are more pathetic than that of a squad of long-in-the-tooth never-say-dies stumbling back onstage one more time, vainly attempting to rekindle their post-adolescent glory waaay too many years after the fact. When he looks in the mirror, how the heck does a graying Iggy Stooge or Johnny Rotten reconcile the guy he sees with the one he can no longer be; the young gunslinger who burned with hormonal angst, hoped he’d die before he got old? It just seems wrong, the whole middle-aged “comeback” thing. And yet there was I, your mild-mannered music editor, about to contribute to this very epidemic by putting my own adult dignity on the line in front of a paying audience. Was I insane? A little background. For the better part of the 1990s, I was the singer and guitarist of the Chrome Cranks, a four-piece band that—quoting my writer bio here—blended the blues and punk with all the subtlety of a concrete road saw. During our hectic time together we released five albums, toured Europe and North America incessantly, appeared on several movie soundtracks, and even had one of our videos played on primetime MTV. Guitarist William Weber and I started the band in the late ’80s in our hometown of Cincinnati. In 1992, after trying to figure out a sound and dithering endlessly with unsuccessful lineups we finally moved to New York, where we recruited former Honeymoon Killers leader Jerry Teel as bassist. With a succession of drummers we started playing out, released a couple of singles, and before long had a pretty healthy buzz happening on the Lower East Side. After our debut album came out in 1994 ex-Sonic Youth/Pussy Galore drummer Bob Bert joined and we went into overdrive, touring like Vikings, building a considerable following, and pumping out records like rounds from an automatic. The band didn’t radically reinvent rock music or anything, but we definitely had something special. “The Chrome Cranks had an impossible-to-ignore sound: the snarl of punk, the pained howl of the blues, the immediate rush of classic garage rock,” writes former Time Out New York music editor Mike Wolf. “In their music you could hear all of these things, yet there was nothing even vaguely retro going on— onstage the group was so piercingly in the moment that it was almost unbearable. Watching them play felt freeing.” But unfortunately artistic success alone doesn’t pay the bills. And as far too many others know, playing music—especially the commercially uncompro-

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mising kind—is a tough way to make a living. Combine this with the myopic, Ahab-like vision of me circa then, plus a vanload of unhealthy passive-aggression, and you have yourself a ticking time bomb. A Metallica-style band therapist beyond our means, we finally imploded in the spring of 1998. After the breakup the rest of the guys kept playing, in other bands. I tried to put something new together but by then my rock ’n’ roll heart had given out, and the idea of spending a couple of years on the couch sounded just fine. I did what so many recovering rockers do: got married, grew a beard, moved upstate, got a divorce. Ho-hum. Somewhere in there, though, I reconnected with writing and took some refresher courses. From there I ended up getting jobs at a couple of newspapers and eventually signed on with Chronogram in 2006. By then I had become a full-on junkie for musical knowledge but yet I wanted nothing whatsoever to do with actually playing music, especially rock ’n’ roll. The very thought was a painful reminder of my crushed dreams. And anyway, I told myself, playing rock ’n’ roll was for kids. Anyone in my age bracket or above and still doing it was either tilting at windmills or punching the clock. Best, then, just to grow up and move on. Of course I was in denial. Deep down, I would’ve given absolutely anything to have the band back together. But I hadn’t spoken to most of the guys in years, and the idea just didn’t add up against the person I thought I’d become. And then something weird happened. In 2007 Atavistic Records put out Diabolical Boogie, a two-CD set of Chrome Cranks demos, videos, and rarities. The renewed interest from the release held a revelation: It seemed that although the group had never even glanced the mainstream, we’d definitely left an impression in some spots. A lot of younger bands, especially in Europe, were citing the Cranks as an influence, even performing and recording our songs. I did some interviews to promote the album and was repeatedly asked about a possible reunion. Still, I told anyone who asked it’d be the proverbial cold day in Hades before we ever got back together. And yet temperatures—and people—can change considerably over time. In the wake of the buzz from the album the four of us ended up reconnecting through the web. We’d all moved on from the ill winds of the past and now were even able to laugh about them. William was back in Ohio, but the rest of us were living in the New York area. The reunion thing came up again and I decided, what the hell, if we were ever going to do it it’d better be now, before we were too old. I wrote up an e-mail asking what the others thought about

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ABOVE: the chrome cranks at the Nuits Sonores festival in Lyon, france on may 22. opposite: cranking it at backstage studio productions in kingston on may 2 .

maybe doing a couple of shows, crossed my fingers, and hit the send button. Amazingly, everybody was into it. I couldn’t believe it. On our MySpace page we added a simple line about planning some reunion gigs for 2009. And just a few days later there was a message in my inbox from a promoter in France asking if we’d like to headline a night at the Nuits Sonores festival in Lyon that May. She was offering us what would’ve been insane money back in the day, plus plane tickets, separate five-star hotel rooms for the entire threeday festival, and free meals in the very crucible of French gastronomy. Um, okay. We booked some other shows; a warm-up in Kingston, plus one apiece in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They say this stuff is like riding a bike, but for me it’d been almost a dozen years. And though I’d done my best to take care of myself over time I was now middle-aged, after all. But I threw myself into it, relearning the songs next to the stereo and jamming with Bob and Jerry on Saturdays. It was wobbly going at first, but when William finally arrived in April it was the ’90s all over again as soon as he plugged in and we hit the first tune. Whatever it was the four of us had had as a band was absolutely still there—in full, earsplitting, diamond-hard spades. Unbelievable. Okay, then, time to go show these kid bands how it’s done. But as our return loomed I couldn’t help but ask myself: What reason did I have to once again be making such ungodly noise? Heck, I gave up being that blue black-haired, coiled spring long ago. What did I have to be angry about now? It’s all too clear when a performer is going through the motions, and I didn’t want to puncture whatever legacy we had. Was I going to feel like an idiot, screaming and jumping around again with my battered guitar? Another side of me, however, was crawling out of my skin, couldn’t wait to give the world a fresh kick in the ass. Which bring us up to the first show in Kingston on May 2. Gulp. But somehow as I got ready I found myself oddly at peace. It was like everything was happening just exactly as it was supposed to; this was where I was meant to be. I walked on stage, the set started, and it was just like opening the front door and stepping outside. Nothing felt idiotic at all. It’s weird to talk about, but as soon as the music begins something takes over and, pretentious as I’m sure it sounds, I kind of become someone else and black out.The less I remember, the better the show tends to have been, and later I don’t remember much of this one.What I do recall is that the band played like the same demons we were way

back when and had no problem getting our point across. It went by in a flash, and we left Kingston a blackened, smoking hole. When it came Gotham’s turn I guess I was a little antsier, as I only got about four hours’ sleep the night before. But, yet again, the first song started and—Bam!—that master switch went on. We became a raging rock machine and flattened the room. The next day, reviews on the web said we’re even better now than we were the first time around. The following gig in Brooklyn turned out to be the best one yet, a sold-out sweat-fest of orgasmic, communal catharsis that ended with multiple encores and an extremely messy stage. The final show, in Lyon the week after, was held at a sprawling complex normally used as a produce distribution center. I had some amp problems during soundcheck, something that would’ve severely rankled me in the old days but this time barely registered. The stage was inside an open-walled affair about the size of an aircraft hangar, and when we went on it was totally packed. The set swung like an atom bomb, and when it was done the ballistic crowd still wanted more. The promoter said we were the hit of the festival. It all felt like a dream, the best dream. Still does. So where does this leave the Chrome Cranks? I honestly can’t say. There’s been some chatter about more dates overseas, and I’d love to make another record. We’ll see. Whatever does or doesn’t happen, having been able to make music once again with three of my best friends is still more than I could’ve wished for. And it was all somehow easier, far more enjoyable than before— but not at the expense of the music; I don’t have to be perpetually pissed-off for the shows to be great. Perhaps I never did. Before all of this I wouldn’t have believed it, but it’s true: If you did it in a past life, you can doubtlessly do it again in the next. Maybe the one after that, too. They say you can’t go back, but I’m not so sure you really ever really leave. You just go around the block, and return if and when you want to. And whoever that “someone else” is, wherever he’s been, I’m glad he’s back. Or at least not so far away. I’ve also learned that even though I’m no longer an angry young man there’s still plenty to be angry about as I get older; it’s just different stuff. So yeah, I’m 44 years old and I’m still screaming.You got a problem with that? The Murder of Time, a career overview featuring rarities and remastered tracks from the Chrome Cranks’ first three albums, is out now on CD and limited double-vinyl gatefold LP on Bang! Records. www.myspace.com/chromecranks. 8/09 ChronograM music

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August 1. When their newborn son came along last year, folk duo and Mammals members Mike and Ruth Ungar Merenda, aka Mike & Ruthy, understandably needed a break from the studio. But thankfully the couple has finally reemerged with the gorgeous Waltz of the Chickadee (2009, Humble Abode Records). For this eagerly awaited Maverick date, the pair have even enlisted a few special surprise friends to help out. 8pm. $25. Woodstock. (845) 679-8217; www.maverickconcerts.org.

Eszter Balint August 7. Could there be a better match of venue and artist? As part of the annual SummerScape festival, cabaret-noir songstress Eszter Balint—who’s collaborated with John Lurie, Marc Ribot, and Michael Gira—spins her moody spell under the Gilded Age canvas of Bard College’s Spiegeltent. Those who haven’t heard her music may better know Balint from her other gig, acting; she starred in the hit indie films Stranger Than Paradise and Trees Lounge. (The cabaret continues with chamber quartet ETHEL on August 14 and Frank London’s musical A Night in the Old Marketplace on August 21.) 8:30pm. $25. Annandale-on-Hudson; www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

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August 8. To benefit its ongoing archival restoration project, Woodstock’s legendary Creative Music Studio reprises its “Different Music” festival of adventurous sounds to the always-accommodating Colony Cafe. Following a lineup of solo, duo, and trio performances featuring institution founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso, Steve Gorn, and others, Berger once again leads the massive CMS Orchestra through some intense musical exploration. World beat outfit Futu Futu closes. 7pm. $20. Woodstock. (845) 679-5616; www.creativemusicstudio.org.

Two Dark Birds August 9. In 2001, Laura Levine opened her curio-packed Mystery Spot Antiques shop, which recently relocated to bigger digs around the corner on Main Street. To celebrate the move she’s hosting Music for Front Porches, an outdoor performance series that this month welcomes DIY-Americana crew Two Dark Birds. So set a spell and dig the group’s Band/Neil Young stylings before checking out the store’s rich trove of vintage kitsch, clothing, and LPs. (Ex-Beat Rodeo main man Steve Almaas plays on August 26.) 1pm. Free. Phoenicia; (845) 688-7868. www.lauralevine.com.

The Moonlighters August 15. Led by vocalist and ukulele queen Bliss Blood, Brooklyn’s Moonlighters, who play this month’s Garrison Arts Fair, have been waxing their blend of Depression-era jazz and pop since 1998 and just released their fifth full-length CD, Enchanted (2009, WorldSound Records). Swathed in acoustic and pedal steel guitars and upright bass, the group’s dreamy female harmonies recall those of the Boswell Sisters and other red-hot mamas of yore. 1pm. Free. Garrison. www.myspace.com/moonlightersny.

Voodelic August 28. Voodelic is the Hudson Valley’s undisputed bar-band juggernaut, a hardedged, soul/funk-based party machine—capped by the fiery voice of Palenville’s Little Earl Lundy—that never fails to move the feets and seats of area dancers. For this appearance at Keegan Ales the group arrives on the heels of its long-anticipated debut CD. The sweat—and the beer—is sure to flow. 8:30pm. Free. Kingston. (845) 331-2739; www.keeganales.com ESZTER BALINT playS bARD SPIEGELTENT AUGUST 7.

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Attention shoegazers: Break out your chunkiest Doc Martens, designer Chucks, or whatever kicks you care to stare at for an hour, because Cheval Sombre has hopped aboard your favorite genre with his dreamy, druggy, self-titled debut. Essentially a one-man affair, Cornwall-on-Hudson’s Sombre has churned out 11 trippy tracks here, three of which are already out-of-print UKonly 7-inch singles that were quickly scarfed up by collectors. This recording floats on a placid sea, awash in guitar, organ, bass, keys, and effects with help from Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips (of Galaxie 500 and Luna) and producer Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3). Fans of My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Low, and Mazzy Star will appreciate shimmering tunes such as the creeping “I Get Around,” the delicately heartbreaking “I Found It Not So,” the transcendental “It’s a Shame,” and the buzzy, beautiful “Little Bit of Heaven.” Sombre’s spacey, droning vocals are the perfect parallel for his languid brand of swirling psychedelic folk. There’s even a version of the Doors’ “Hyacinth House,” which is both hazy and sublime. This reviewer can’t decide if Cheval Sombre is melancholy or euphoric or both. Decide for yourself and let this one be your aural opiate for a while. www.myspace.com/chevalsombre. —Sharon Nichols

Numinous/Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. Vipassana (2009, Innova Records)

Hmmm…how would the voluble NewYorker journalist Whitney Balliet have written about the four compositions on Vipassana? “With its air of Reich-minimalism and mystic jazz motifs, composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and his ensemble, Numinous, have created a sound escape, strewn with beautiful melodic lines as thin as phyllo dough.” Ah, something like that. Balliett never intruded upon the artists’ reveries; he just humbly and vividly interpreted them. So have the Hudson-based Phillips Jr. and Numinous (an amalgamation of like-minded spirits encircling New York) with their second release. Let us dispense with the comparisons to Steve Reich now, shall we? Like Reich, Phillips Jr. delicately layers his instrumentation (25 instruments and voices), as we hear in “Into All the Valleys Evening Journeys.” Every layer has a personality that speaks out at the appropriate moment. It has a bold opening that is then slightly punctured by vibraphones and voices. Also like Reich, Phillips Jr. can break away to a jazzier plane in “The Nothingness that is the Source of Everything.” Julie Hardy’s hypnotic reading of text by Denise Levertov and Dan Willis’s sensuous flute solo settles so peacefully into one’s chest. The opener “Of Climbing Heaven and Gazing On the Earth” percolates with pulsating rhythms and darting riffs, while “Stillness Flows Ever Changing” has a more pastoral flair to it, with a thickened melodic texture. Phillips, Jr. and Numinous flatter the work of Reich and others, comfortably engaging with classical and improvisational music. Vipassana exemplifies that one shouldn’t try to exist without the other. www.innova.com. —Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson

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A Night inWoodstock is just that—a live recording of Paul Rishell and Annie Raines ripping it up at the now defunct (again) Joyous Lake. The gig, and the subsequent album, came about by chance. Todd Kwait was looking to capture Rishell, Raines, and local boy John Sebastian on celluloid for his 2007 jug-band documentary Chasin’ Gus’s Ghost. But what started as a simple affair turned into something more, and, since the machines were running, the entire show was captured for posterity. Blues fans are all the luckier for it. Rishell has a rich, malleable voice that seems comfortable quoting Blind Boy Fuller’s delicious “Custard Pie,” echoing Tommy Johnson’s spooky “Canned Heat,” or grooving through the singer’s own “Blues on a Holiday.” He’s also a nimble guitarist who can clang a National steel body with the best of them. Raines, for her part, is a wailing harp player who can easily keep up with, well, say, Sebastian. That’s no mean feat. Unfortunately, as a vocalist she’s not as strong, which makes “Got To Fly” the album’s sole unconvincing track. Rishell and Raines are also joined here by keyboardist Bruce Katz, guitarist Chris Rival, and the rhythm section of bassist Reed Butler and drummer Billy MacGillivray. At its best moments, particularly on Jerry McCain’s “Bad Credit” and the closing double-harp workout “Orange Dude Blues,” A Night in Woodstock comes awfully close to capturing the intangible raw energy of a sweaty, small-club show. www.paulandannie.com. —Michael Ruby

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Books In His Element Jon Bowermasterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Global Search by Nina Shengold photograph by Jennifer May

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here are some writers you don’t interview in a coffee shop. Since National Geographic explorer Jon Bowermaster’s 10 books and eight documentaries recount such adventures as dogsledding both poles, making the first-ever rafting descents of wild rivers in Chile and China, and kayaking 800 miles of Vietnamese coastline, it seems only right to propose a small expedition: a photo shoot at the Saugerties lighthouse. On the morning of our proposed trek, the sky is awash with rain and crackling thunder. Bowermaster answers his phone cheerfully at 7:15am. and reschedules for afternoon.When we meet at the trailhead, he’s pulling two extra rainjackets from the back of his Landcruiser, “just in case.” Bowermaster has been to the lighthouse many times, but not overland: He usually kayaks across from the Tivoli Bays. He starts telling travel stories as soon as his feet hit the trail. Last year, he completed his decadelong Oceans 8 project, which he describes as “sea kayaking around the world, one continent at a time, studying the health of the seas and the lives of people who depend on them.” The final voyage is the subject of his latest film, Terra Antarctica, which offers sobering evidence of global warming, with shrinking glaciers and rain-soaked penguin chicks dying in unfamiliar mud. After a sneak preview to benefit the Stone Ridge Library, the documentary premiered at the Blue Ocean Film Festival in Savannah, Georgia, where it was nominated for Best in Festival and won Best Ocean Issues. Bowermaster’s other Oceans 8 films detail expeditions to the Aleutian Islands, coastal Vietnam, French Polynesia, Gabon, Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast, the Andean Altiplano, and Tasmania. The logistics were fearsome. Each expedition’s crew, including videographers and photographers, had to be expert kayakers. International shipments of gear sometimes went wildly awry: Kayaks bound for Hanoi wound up in Ho Chi Minh City (“like dropping them in Miami when you need them in Boston”) and the Antarctic-bound kayaks were held up in a container strike in Peru, arriving just hours before their polar vessel went south. The six-man crew traveled heavy as well, bringing 50 bags filled with “at least two of everything. If something breaks, you have to have backup,” notes Bowermaster; repair shops do not dot the pack ice. On some trips, the logistical nightmares were more bureaucratic in nature. The Vietnamese government met Bowermaster’s proposal with a terse “That will be quite impossible.” The journey, described in his 2008 book Descending the Dragon (National Geographic), was memorably accompanied by a karaokeloving, ocean-phobic factotum named Linh. During Oceans 8’s 10-year span, its film gear advanced from unwieldy VHS to HD digital. Add computers, portable satellite phones and beacons, Bowermaster says, and “you can be in touch from anywhere.” In November 2008, when the tourist ship Explorer hit an iceberg and sank in the Antarctic Ocean, he and his crew were the first responders. Within 90 minutes, Bowermaster had been interviewed by the NewYork Times and was doing a live feed on “Good Morning America.” He’s posted Internet dispatches, filed magazine stories, and uploaded photos from around the globe. But whatever equipment may be available, one ritual remains stubbornly low-tech: Bowermaster writes for an hour every night with a notebook and pen. “Everywhere we go, I’m resolute in sticking with that pen,” he says. Since it’s impossible to take notes while paddling, he’s learned to store up his impressions and let them unfurl in his tent at the end of the day, re-creating sounds, smells, and weather with evocative strokes. Nothing in Bowermaster’s upbringing suggested the life he now lives. He grew up in a suburb outside of Chicago; both parents were teachers. “We weren’t a traveling family,” he says. “I’ve never been on a plane with my siblings or parents.” Trained as a journalist, with a graduate degree in government and politics, his first book was a biography of five-term Iowa governor Robert D. Ray. His second changed everything. Bowermaster’s introduction to adventure travel was collaborating with polar explorer Will Steger on his 1989 book Crossing Antarctica (Laurel). As a shakedown cruise, Steger brought the young journalist on a New Year’s Eve hike in the thigh-high snow of his northern Minnesota homestead. “I guess he figured if I could keep up—which I did, barely—I’d be all right,” says Bowermaster. He joined the international team on training trips in Greenland and Canada, and accompanied them on several stretches of their historic journey by dogsled across the seventh continent.

“I started writing about expeditions, then going on them,” he explains. In the introduction to his anthology Alone Against the Sea and Other True Adventures (2004, Lyons Press), he states, “I am a writer, first and foremost. Which makes these stories, and their sharing, the most valuable part of my wanderings.” Bowermaster’s latest book, Wildebeest in a Rainstorm (2009, Menasha Ridge Press), is subtitled Profiles of Our Most Intriguing Adventurers, Conservationists, Shagbags, and Wanderers. His profiling technique is simple: Spend as much time as possible with your subject. For a Harper’s profile of Native American activist Winona LaDuke, Bowermaster slept on her couch for three days. He learned this approach from legendary rock photographer Jim Marshall. “I asked him how he got that intimacy with people who’d been photographed so often, and he said, ‘It’s about time,’” Bowermaster recalls. “We’ve moved into an era where if you get 30 minutes with someone, you’re lucky. Marshall went on the road with [rock musicians], lived with them, changed their kids’ diapers.When you have that kind of access, people get comfortable.They forget they’re being recorded.” Indeed. Bowermaster’s long profiles are sometimes so frank that friendships have suffered. “People are more unguarded when they’re being interviewed by someone they know, they feel like you’re just hanging out,” he says, adding ruefully, “Even if the piece is 95 percent positive, that other 5 percent is what they’ll remember. It’s just how it is.” Bowermaster met his partner, naturalist and photographer Fiona Stewart, on a kayaking trip to an island near Tasmania. “We were there for a big bird migration of short-tailed shearwaters, also called muttonbirds. They’re incredibly noisy and really bad fliers—they’ll use you as a way to stop,” he says. Flinders Island is populated by 800 people and 2.5 million muttonbirds. Bowermaster had contacted a local abalone diver and kayaker about using his house as a base. When the expedition arrived, the diver sent his friend Fiona to check them out. Clearly, she liked what she saw. “It’s really great to be with someone who comes with you,” says Bowermaster, citing the heavy relationship toll of the itinerant life. “Most adventurers have been married and divorced three or four times. The issue’s impossible to avoid. It comes with the territory.” He admits to spending more time on the road than at home—in his busiest year, he stayed in Stone Ridge only 77 days. His travel essentials include “a comfortable pillow and Tabasco sauce,” the latter because expedition food can be tasteless; some polar explorers subsist on a diet of seal meat and butter sticks. Bowermaster’s favorite expedition meal was smoked fish and a smuggled flask of plum brandy; the worst, “some kind of pig-knuckle thing at an end-of-the-road in Nicaragua.” Between adventures, he gives lectures and slide shows all over the country. “In places that are far from the ocean, say in the Midwest, I remind audiences that we’re all connected. I’ll ask, ‘Have you ever been for a holiday on the beach?’ A bunch of hands go up. ‘Do you ever eat fish?’ More hands go up. Even if you’re not one of the three billion people within 60 miles of the coastline, you’re involved with the ocean,” he says. “We’re a pretty rapacious species, and we’ve really damaged the ocean. Everywhere we go, we see overfishing, plastic pollution, the impact of climate change—not just rising seas, but more serious storms. We see it everywhere. Everywhere.” Bowermaster shades his eyes with one hand, squinting up at a northbound line of Canada geese. He wears two silver bracelets over a wristband tattoo, which he got after spending a month on a cargo boat in French Polynesia with a heavily tattooed local crew; the design symbolizes land, sea, and sky. He notes that some tourists get tattoos as souvenirs. “I’ve seen people sell trips to get a tattoo in Antarctica,” he says, shaking his head. “There is no tradition of tattooing in Antarctica. Nor bared skin.” Though he’s currently working on a collection of profiles of environmental and ocean activists, including Jacques Cousteau’s heirs and Obama’s energy czar Carol Browner, Bowermaster’s also mulling a radical concept for a new book: staying home. The adventurer would spend 365 days without going anywhere, making an exploration of his home base. “There are small towns around the world I know better than my own—I’ve spent more time there,” he says, gazing out at the Hudson as if he’s comparing its slate-blue waves to some of the wild seas he’s seen. “For me, this place says ‘calm.’ I’ve lived here for 21 years. I come home to recharge.” 8/09 ChronograM books

SHORT TAKES Visit local farms, revisit your local festival and meet local yokels from Dutch patroons to Borscht Belt tummlers.

Hudson River Valley Farms: The People and the Pride Behind the Produce Joanne Michaels, photographs by Rich Pomerantz, introduction by Maurice D. Hinchey Globe Pequot Press, 2009, $29.95

Hudson Valley guidebook maven Michaels offers an insider’s view of 44 richly varied farms—heirlooms, organics, and CSAs—from the Capital District to Westchester, with mouthwatering photos and a farmstand directory. Michaels will appear at Millbrook Vineyards 8/1-2, Dutchess County Fair in Rhinebeck 8/25-28 & 30, and with featured farmers at Catskill Mountain Foundation in Hunter 8/29.

A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family

Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings

Leila Philip

Suzie Gilbert

SUNY Press, 2009, $14.95

Harper Collins, 2009, $25.99

The Road to Woodstock Michael Lang with Holly George-Warren Ecco, 2009, $29.95

The Aquarian Exposition from the horse’s mouth: the boy from Bensonhurst who had the dream and made it fly. Interspersed with recollections from dozens of performers, organizers, and participants, Lang’s livewire narrative travels from Brooklyn to a Florida head shop, though Sound-Out era Woodstock, and to Max Yasgur’s farm for three days so momentous that each gets an individual chapter.

Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival edited by Weston Blelock & Julia Blelock, foreword by Bob Fass WoodstockArts, 2009, $19.95

Yes, those are local boyos Bob Dylan and John Sebastian on that bike, and the photos accompanying the transcription of 2008’s Colony Café panel discussion of That Festival reach back to the early Maverick and Byrdcliffe arts colonies. Know your roots! For information on the book and Roots of Woodstock Live Concert 8/15 at the Bearsville Theater, www.rootsofwoodstock.com.

Woodstock: The Oral History— 40th Anniversary Edition Joel Makower, foreword by Michael Lang & Joel Rosenman SUNY Press/Excelsior editions, 2009, $19.95

Twenty years after the festival, Makower roamed the country, gathering first-person accounts from the people who made it happen and made the scene. His 1989 classic gets its own 20-years-after revival with this new edition, loaded with black-and-white photos and 1969 headlines that bring it all back home.

It Happened in the Catskills Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer SUNY Press/Excelsior editions, 2009, $24.95

Grossinger’s, Kutsher’s, the Nevele...How did the Catskills become the promised land of Jewish entertainment, mambo contests, and endless buffets? Here’s the whole geshecht, as told by a “Cast of Characters” ranging from “Celebrity Jimmy” Abraham (headwaiter at the Concord) to Sol Zim (Queens cantor and Catskills crooner). The nostalgic photos are to die for.

Explorers, Fortunes & Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland edited by Martha Dickinson Shattuck New Netherland Institute / Mount Ida Press, 2009, $29.95

Forty years since Woodstock? Add a zero. Four hundred years after Henry Hudson’s Half Moon sailed upriver, a dozen eminent historians and authors, including The Island at the Center of the World’s Russell Shorto, explore the New Netherland colony that once stretched from Beverwijck (now called Albany) to Delaware Bay.

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n this pair of memoirs, two Hudson Valley women set out to save things they cherish— an ancestral home, injured birds—and find a new sense of identity. “Talavera,” writes Leila Philip, “was not just a house and not just the past.” Her family’s ownership of this gracious pillared home and farm near Claverack traces back nearly 300 years. This is a rare feat indeed, but one Philip considers as much a burden as a privilege. Sparked by the passing of her father (whose devotion to keeping the farm viable through its hardscrabble apple orchard may have hastened his death), she began to investigate the legends and realities that accompanied her family’s lengthy tenure. Poring through stacks of notebooks and farm journals—this family kept everything, including a Civil War bullet removed from a loyal slave—and exploring local historical society files produced a family picture far more dimensional than any of the ancestral portraits on Talavera’s walls. Philip’s discoveries were mundane and fascinating: The farmland shrank, increased, and shrank again, its fortunes blossomed and diminished. She uncovered a pair of radical aunts, impoverished young widows, and a still-living half sister of her father’s nobody in the family seems to have known about. But she also found that tenacious love of the land was ultimately the farm’s most valuable legacy. Talavera’s past may never have actually been as grand as its columned façade suggests, and sustaining it may be forever challenging, but this book proves it will take far more than tough financial times to part this family from this place. Philips is an extremely gifted writer who doesn’t skirt somber emotional notes. She has created a brave, eloquent, and beautifully constructed memoir of a remarkable place and the remarkable family that belongs to it. This reissued edition of the 2001 publication features a new epilogue and family photographs. Leila Philip will read at Maple Grove in Poughkeepsie on August 23 at 3pm (www.maplegroveny.org). If there’s a special heaven for animals, it has connecting doors to the one for wildlife rehabbers, those incredible people who care for injured and orphaned animals. Suzie Gilbert is one such person, and Flyaway recounts her early experiences as a licensed bird rehabilitator sacrificing money, emotion, and family time for the care of feathered charges with Flyaway Inc., her own rehabilitation organization. Gilbert embarked on this pursuit with a list of strict rules (no water birds, no raptors, no nestlings, no crows!), but quickly discovered she’d break every one. Bird rehabilitation is a bittersweet game: Success means releasing the creatures you’ve nurtured and loved, a parting nearly as final as death. It requires a tricky mental balance Gilbert found so elusive that, for a time, she closed her business. It was a bird on the “no” list that helped her back. George was a crow who stayed on as a friend when given his freedom—until autumn came. Gilbert sensed his impending departure, and “in a moment of panic, silently vowed to do anything if this one bird, of the legions I’d taken in, would give up his freedom and stay with me. But I hadn’t raised him to be a captive bird, and I couldn’t ask him to be one.” “First birds captivate you, then they enslave you,” said renowned birder Roger Tory Peterson. Ultimately, Suzie Gilbert decides to accept this bondage so that a few more birds can live free. —Susan Krawitz

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo Penguin Press, 2009, $26.95

he art world exists in a rarefied atmosphere of passion, wealth, and self-importance; aside from the odd theft, one seldom thinks of it as a world rocked by crime. Within its borders, however, exist the same temptations that come with any highstakes game. Provenance, a true-crime work that enthrals without a drop of gore, explores what happened when an upmarket con man devised a complex, ingenious plan to circumvent the art world’s defenses. Woodstock residents Salisbury and Sujo, a husband-and-wife team of topflight reporters, obviously knew a truly great story when they heard one, and they tell it well. It’s the twisted tale of a sociopath who hooked up with a talented, struggling painter and devised methods of faking the requirement that major artworks changing hands come with a provable history of the work’s ownership since its creation. Sujo, who passed away shortly after finishing this work, was the son of a gallery owner. Perhaps it’s that native’s perspective that helps the book achieve an affectionate yet unsparing portrait of the world of high-dollar collecting. Like a drunken salesman falling for the wiles of a larcenous dance hall gal, the übersophisticated world of the Tate Galleries, Christie’s, and Sotheby’s swooned into the arms of conniver John Drewe all too readily. The sincerity of some of those who dedicate their lives to the guardianship of High Culture stands out in vivid contrast. “Don’t be ridiculous,” an archivist is told when she raises questions about Drewe, the villainous fabulist at the center of Provenance. “He’s a benefactor.” It becomes evident that the millionaire collectors and dealers might have remained in blissful ignorance till Drewe died an old and wealthy man, were it not for the lesser-knowns with their messy desks and tidy minds. Like all the best true crime, Provenance is a fascinating character study: of Drewe, of his talented and ultimately not unlikeable partner in crime, John Myatt, and of his victims and opponents. They are a fascinating crowd: the scorned and ferocious common-law ex-wife who gets her revenge, the relentlessly determined art expert Mary Lisa Palmer in her sensible shoes, and the Scotland Yard detectives who piece the puzzle together. Drewe seduces his way into the archives and good graces of museums and galleries with an instinct for the weaknesses of his victims, pretending to worship at their altar whilst committing sacrilege. Myatt, a single dad and a creative underachiever, gets drawn in by need and vanity; the reader is relieved when he finally gets to come clean. Drewe, whose reality is so solipsistic that the mind boggles, reaches no such epiphany. As a boy, we learn, he gave speeches to imaginary crowds and styled himself a “hero for the future,” claiming kinship with the Earl of York. At trial, he fired his lawyer and mounted a sort of Oliver North defense that the whole scam had been in service of a complicated international undercover operation. Drewe’s impenetrable narcissism is ultimately scarier than an entire fleet of garden-variety gangsters. Provenance would make a great film, but even a great film would have a hard time equaling the layers of depth and tone provided by Salisbury and Sujo’s book. Read it for the art history, read it for the psychology, but do read it. —Anne Pyburn Craig

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our September issue is August 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.

Knock, knock.

I found a soft place

Who’s there?

between a rock place

You know who it is.

and a hard place.

—Brant Clemente (3 years) & Dad

—p

The You

To Li Po, March 19

Ruse 7. (12/1/08)

For me, the loneliest feeling is when you notice the slight change in someone’s glance after they realize the you in front of them is not the you in their mind

Outside the children scream while playing ball above the highway. A dog barks. The birds sing sweet songs to welcome spring. There are flowers in the park. A young swan washes in the lake.

at 6:55 a.m. the weatherman announced that we would be losing two minutes of daylight compared to the previous day. where will it be lost, perhaps when sorting through books, envelopes, rejection slips, or when coming across a misprint in a gray morning of so little light that the error of this day might be noted. there is nothing so bright as a winter storm when the blinds are down & your eyes are shut. maybe tonight we will meet the moon & gather more time along the way & then one could skip over a few minutes of clock time.

And then there is the other you, in your mind, who carries bags of gold through the ramshackle world, or whose hands caress piano or pen, or whose mouth sings devastating odes to the smoldering forest But then there is just you standing in front of someone who sees your scabby knees for the first time And all you want is for them to take you home and listen and nod approvingly at the story whose hero shares your name —Ben Fractenberg

Tea for Two Carved, deep from my rib you lie Smoothe, white ash bitten bone With all our blessed, sin soaked whims You, now we I, now us How our laces intertwined Intrinsic little pulls Dug deeper still into the ground We twist among the brambles —A. M. Teal

The city is no place for a man like me. The great forest looms across the river! The sun falls in patterns through its tallest limbs. It’s beauty has no comparison. I have come looking for you. No one can tell me where you are. Saddened, I lean against a light pole. —Jack Sears

Once in a While

An Editor’s Note

she allows a shadowed, neglected corner of her heart

This is your assignment, Christy: describe a distance between this newborn and

to recall, rethink, remember

these dingy, bloodied bedsheets easing one life out, one life in, when just a boy and pregnant with despair and petty crimes and grand intoxications wraps a simple bedsheet around his neck, a bedsheet not unlike the one the boy and girl have stained and bloodied in their astonished quick breaths some night not long before the jail cell. That’s old news now, like the boy’s last troubled gasp, but there’s a story still in the new breaths this baby dares to draw. —Kenneth Salzmann

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—Guy R. Beining

a love long expired (decades ago) and his red Converse high-tops, his indigo Irish knit sweater, his full beard and fake English accent, his tuna noodle casserole topped with crushed Ruffles chips, and his sturdy, all-encompassing embrace which always seemed to say, I’m here. For you. Now. —Lori Esmond Calderon

Haiku Nanu

Stars and Blood

In Israel

Trapeze artists dive Into tangled nets like fish twirling against the current

I am more of stars than meat

In Israel, people with guns Are shooting at people with bombs

And yet I smell of blood more than stars.

In Israel, everywhere is dangerous “don’t get blown up” they say

—Stefanie Macaluso

Nature Insisting Awe Sunlight through the ice-stormed Trees Seems powerful Gravity, Drawing cars In slow-motion slide To still, roadside attention. —Thomas Perkins

We live in the land of meat and yet present our faces, our curious eyes upturned, to the light of stars to adore and be adored. We love each other— we, the far light, and they, the warm smell of blood. —Nina JeckerByrne

RIP

Apostrophes

Once I broke a butterfly. She flew into my bedroom, fancied herself safe amidst dolls and books and a colony of little mice fashioned from seashells and pipe cleaners. I watched her as she frolicked, floating with wings outstretched until she fell upon my open palm, fragile as a flame. I shredded her golden wings like wet paper. My father breathed into my ear as he placed his sweaty hands on mine, guiding my fingers. “So beautiful,” he murmured, and tore.

pet peeve: the difference between plural and possessive. cattiness calls for claws & her misplaced apostrophes are nails digging in.

—Bree Barton

Pink Sweet Peas, 1927, pastel Georgia O’Keeffe Most delicate of delicate petaling, ruffled white chiffon tinged at the ends with mango-rose, a hint of spring green within, but what is the point of such thin fluttering, such pastel persuasion? Like the bride on her wedding day in her fabulous float to the altar. Later there is always someone who will step on her dress, lean too close with his beer, speak of something best left forgotten.

In Israel, Moses saw the promised land Jesus returned pardon for injury, & Mohammed tramped with Gabriel In Israel, a lot of people talk to God In Israel, God whispers back “One” In Israel, Arsim & Chassidim & Haredim Walk in the park with Datim & Chilunim “Ma Ha Matzav?” It’s everywhere, it hasn’t ended, & the eyes of man offer no resolution In Israel, there is more gas generated by falafel than many other countries In Israel, there is a little coffee shop That sells used books and people come & write While young beautiful Israeli’s sweat for Shekalim And still smile even though they are tired. In Israel, most people don’t fight Just like everywhere else.

but that’s not all—

In Israel, the army is a part of puberty.

is it so hard to spell you in a text? how would u feel? (and I would like to) remove her vowels, make her name lazy. because to me, she’s just an lol.

In Israel, Jews want to know “Why?” Just as much as everyone else.

(her favorite poetry is probably the fortunes from split cookies.) your applause of her tequila hoe-down, after telling me you’d never love someone who drinks too much: another peeve. so what, I say, at least I’ve got my ending s covered, my apostrophes sharp. after all, when I say he’s mine there’s no question of the possessive— my apostrophes are indelible. —Charlotte Seley

In Israel, a lot of people are waiting. In Israel, soul eaters are dressed like soul savers & the water in the mikvah is dirty. In Israel, apathetic hipsters don’t care about the fact that they are in Israel In Israel, hash is more available than weed In Israel, the land is still a maiden who loves you Even though she has a thousand scars Her eye is still bright & she holds out her hand. In Israel, my heart has found a place to put down roots. In Israel, wrestling with angels is a national past time. In Israel, what is forgotten is remembered. In Israel, brothers play paddle ball every week on the beach in Tel Aviv In Israel, a dream greets the dawn And is a babe, a man, and an elder all at once. In Israel, the City of Gold’s light, Is not made of pavement.

—Raphael Kosek

In Israel, Shabbos is coming And it’s time to rest. —Eitan Press

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Fiction Five Views of a Suicide Five Views of a Suicide Five Views of a Suicide Five Views of a Suicide Five Views of a Suicide One

I ran into Charlotte quite by accident one evening just after I had left work. Random meetings of acquaintances occurred on a semiregular basis, New York being a smaller, more intimate place than many realize. I was trekking uptown and we spotted each other amid the skyscrapers of Sixth Avenue, packed with midtown’s early evening pedestrian traffic, noisy cars, buses, cabs. It was, as it turned out, the last time I ever saw her. How long had it been since we’d last met up? It was scary to contemplate the speedy passage of time. A year and a half? Two? I had news to impart: After a seemingly endless stretch of indecision and dithering, I was going to be a bona fide graduate student. My nose, as the saying went, was to the grindstone—formally accepted, finances resolved, millions of little arrangements completed. She had always been a fervent adherent of the whole nose-to-the-grindstone ethos, and without really intending to, I emphasized the hard-work aspect of it all, trying—and I’m not even sure why—to garner as much approval from her as I could. I soberly sketched out my intended course of study, shared thoughts on a future career in academe. Then there was a pause. We both looked at each other. Suddenly, the sheer, imposing enormity of what I was about to undertake washed over me. My façade crumbled. “My god!” I blurted out. “It’s so adult!” And the two of us dissolved into a total fit of laughter, right there in the middle of the canyons of Sixth Avenue.

Two

On Charlotte’s last day on Earth, she essentially adhered to her routine; the familiar quotidian of Park Slope, Brooklyn. A cup of café con leche was purchased at the large Dominican eatery abutting Flatbush Avenue.Videos were returned, mail checked.With methodical, chilling foresight, she thoughtfully canceled all her appointments for the upcoming week, informing her various clients that she would be indisposed. Buddy was still at work when she returned to their apartment on Union Street. As was her habit, she placed his mail in a separate pile, right near the phone. It is difficult to ascertain exactly what goes through a person’s mind in those final moments. Charlotte left no note.There is evidence, though, of what actually transpired: She took a rope, constructed a sturdy, workable noose, and hung herself. Was she crying?

Three

His cubicle was positioned directly across from Charlotte’s. During his first few weeks working at the magazine, she’d found him—which he only discovered later—quite odd. He imbibed endless cups of coffee, seemed glued to his Walkman, and had once engaged in a loud phone conversation with his parents in Portuguese, the preferred language of familial disputes. It became quickly apparent the magazine was the text definition of “day job,” its ranks populated by musicians, painters, academic aspirants, one or two law students, a former flamenco dancer. His supervisor was prone to elaborate paper-airplane construction, the fruits of which were often found floating down the aisles, or whizzing past the fluorescent lights. An elflike female coworker—punk bassist in real life—would holler “I don’t want to be here!” once or twice upon her arrival each morning, as a sort of catharsis. One of the editors—an older, chain-smoking widow—had been a staple on various soap operas, mostly in minor roles: a nurse, a nanny, the woman on a park bench. It was still the era of the public address system, and he enjoyed visualizing the faces behind the deep Jamaican accent, the Truman Capote soundalike, the Southerner. He resolved to do as little as possible. 50

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By Richard Klin

The industrious Charlotte was a career-minded anachronism, diligently bringing in her lunch each and every day in a laudable display of frugality. She bemoaned the disdain the men at the office felt for a good suit and tie, chastised those who wanted a job and not a career, harbored the opinion that much could be gleaned about a prospective boyfriend’s character by the strength of his handshake. Once she asked him why he didn’t smile more often. A portion of his job responsibilities entailed attending industry press conferences, almost more crashingly boring than the office routine, the only high point being the abundance of free food. He took to helping himself to the fixings and then leaving. “Your trap’s down,” one of the servers muttered to him cryptically during coffee at one of these events; apparently, his fly had been open for quite some time. Soon he began skipping the press conferences altogether. With a newfound zeal, he then took it upon himself to revive the moribund company newsletter. He cannily undertook a comprehensive profile of the warehouse, necessitating several trips out to Long Island. Next was a survey of the office building’s other inhabitants.The small architectural firm was somewhat uncooperative, but the spokesman for the Croatian fraternal society was effusively friendly, offering him coffee and chatting away for the better part of an hour.The sixth floor was the headquarters of Caleb Enoch Estensen, apparently a well-regarded fabric designer, a conspicuous presence garbed in long, colorful scarves and foppish hat, who could often be glimpsed—somewhat incongruously— consuming the homey eggs, hash browns, and coffee at the Downtown Diner. On the surface, it would appear that he and Charlotte wouldn’t have all that much to do with each other.Yet, probably owing to their close proximity, some chatting ensued. To his surprise, Charlotte could be very funny. She too cocked an ear to the publicaddress announcements. To their mutual astonishment, both shared the same guilty pleasure: The New Interns (1964), starring Telly Savalas and Stefanie Powers. They began making brief coffee excursions to the Downtown Diner. A few times they went out for dinner. And a slow, gradual bond developed, evolving into a comfortable, platonic office friendship. Once, without preamble, she informed him that she had absolutely no romantic designs on him whatsoever. Nor did he have any ambitions to alter the friendship’s contours. They talked each other into running a personal ad. Both were unattached.What was there to lose? The ads ran the same week and coincidentally both had their respective dates the same Friday night. His was a hideous mismatch with an oddball woman who spoke out of the side of her mouth. He arrived back in his apartment—demoralized— at 7:30, called to leave a message with Charlotte, and discovered that she, too, was home, having had an equally miserable experience. The deepening friendship was marred only by the undercurrent of her sporadic moodiness. She could be rude to coworkers, occasionally scathing to the design department, short with interns. One morning a comment he made was met with Charlotte’s rude silence. Later that day a joke was received with annoyance. The next day his hellos were disregarded. He vowed to suspend contact and let her make the first move, which never came. For a few weeks Charlotte’s cubicle became a sort of netherworld, an unapproachable structure. It came time for the Christmas party, a ritual so overtly suburban, so redolent of, say, Dagwood Bumstead, that he couldn’t believe he was actually set to be a participant. But there he was. Over the thunderous strains of Talking Heads, Charlotte suddenly approached. “You’re a really nice man,” she said to him, voice quavering, evidencing a vulnerability he hadn’t known she’d possessed. “And I’m sorry if I offended you,” she concluded. They hugged, all forgotten. When spring made its first, tentative appearance in the city, the department, en masse, decided to go out for Friday night drinks. He usually took great pains not to see most of his colleagues after work, but this night he relented and partook of the noisy, chaotic revelry: a cavernous downtown bar, lots of hard-to-hear snippets of conversations, chair hopping.

What then transpired was, when all was said and done, somewhat inexplicable. Neither he nor Charlotte had all that much to drink. At some point the two of them drifted away from the main group and sat, just the two of them, side by side at the bar. The hours passed; confidences began to flow. He sketched out his family saga: the authoritarian, erratic father, the death of a favorite uncle. The disastrous college romance. A bout of depression. Charlotte had been teased steadily throughout school. In sixth grade a particularly unfortunate sweater, augmented with dangling, colorful little beads, earned her the lasting appellation “Milky the Cow.” She was now gripped by constant feelings of inadequacy, insignificance. Therapy had proved useless. Her parents were hellbent on her marrying, starting a family. “And I think,” she said, her voice crackling, “I’m going to cry now.” And then, matter-of-factly, she invited him to come spend the night at her Brooklyn Heights apartment; a direct offer, no hint of coquettishness, no come-hither. Their cab crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, the hour very late, passing the giant Jehovah’s Witnesses Watchtower building. Brooklyn Heights was quiet; frenetic Manhattan behind them now. His extreme exhaustion, the unexpected scenario, combined to form an air of unreality. From Charlotte’s window could be seen an enormous, illuminated clock face, casting its glow over the streets, over the borough. Their time together was methodically organized, almost pro forma, coffee made and briskly served, which—at this hour—did little to alleviate his growing fatigue. When they entered her bedroom, she whispered to him not to forget how much better she was than all the other women in the office; an incongruous, out-of-character bit of bravado. Puzzling sentiments in midst of such intimacy. He left early the next morning. Monday was a little awkward, but the friendship quickly returned to an even keel, the brief fling forgotten. Secretly—against all reason—he harbored a deep-down wish for it to happen again, which it never did. Charlotte became involved with Tim, a pleasant nonentity with a strong handshake. One night he met Tim’s sister and the two of them hit it off to an unbelievable extent, then had nothing to say to each other at lunch the next week. He left the magazine; Charlotte, too, went on to another job some months later. They kept in touch for quite a while. Eventually the phone conversations, dinners, the odd movie, gradually decreased. The magazine moved uptown, merged, then ceased operations entirely.The old office building was eventually sold, tenants dispersed.There was a huge Caleb Enoch Estensen retrospective at a leading gallery. The Downtown Diner closed, reopening as a somewhat upscale bistro. He wondered, from time to time, what had become of the Croatians.

Four

It is, of course, impossible to chronicle Charlotte’s specific last thoughts, final facial expressions, last random gestures. Rubashov, the protagonist of Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon—the author, incidentally, a real-life suicide—is advised, moments before his impending execution, to empty his bladder.Yet these sort of details are rarely mentioned. It is telling that Feigenbaum and Bouchard’s seminal research on suicide completely glosses over the gritty quotidian—such as bathroom habits—perhaps fearing the appearance of irreverence or frivolity. Clearly, the mass media have long displayed a prurient fascination with the topic. In 1923, Flora Geiss, a then famous, now forgotten ingénue of the silent screen, failed to procure the necessary drugs for her hopelessly addicted husband and promptly overdosed on sleeping tablets, an event plastered on front pages nationwide. More recently are the famous suicides of Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain. Interestingly, both have engendered a fair amount of enduring controversy: the former thought by some to have fallen victim to Kennedy machinations, the latter somehow running afoul of the devious Courtney Love. Emma Bovary serves as one of the most famous literary suicides; Hemingway the most famous writer’s suicide. Interestingly enough, the topic also weaves its way— albeit as a minor motif—through the Isaac Bashevis Singer canon. A Star Is Born and The Big Chill serve as era-spanning examples of Hollywood’s treatment of the topic. Self-termination of corporeal existence is—in the hands of mass media—bread and circuses. The sensationalism obfuscates the terrifying enormity of the amount of emotional pain preceding suicide. How many of us “just can’t take it any more”? How many feel they cannot go on? How many have suicidal fantasies, crippling depression, worst moments? Yet actually committing suicide must entail horrors infinitely worse then these aforementioned traumas. How can one comprehend feelings that are truly unendurable? Or pain so extreme, so wretched, that one really can’t continue, when “not being able to take it” is not hyperbole.What was it that Charlotte experienced? What kind of trauma is so infinitely vast that recovery is deemed impossible, that continuing to exist for another month, another week, another day, and—ultimately—another minute is not an option? Perhaps we don’t wish to know. And perhaps we can’t.

Five

You know, I think the strangest thing that’s been running through my head through all this is that I’ve been wondering...now am I an only child? It’s sort of...wacky, I guess. Right? But you grow up with a sister and then the sister’s gone...gone—I guess I mean dead, don’t I?—and now you don’t have any living siblings. So are you an only child? What’s the status now? It’s sort of like, at what age do you become an orphan? I mean, if Mom and Dad had both died when I was, like, seven, I’d be an orphan. No question. At nine, you’re an orphan; 13, still an orphan. But what about seventeen? But not...23, I guess. I mean, at some point it must get ridiculous, right? Like, I was orphaned at 60. When do you cross the line? Is there an age you hit and suddenly you’re ineligible for orphan status? I mean, am I still a sister, even with Charlotte gone—dead. I remember someone asking me how I was doing, and I said I didn’t know, I’d never lost a sister before. And I wasn’t kidding, or trying to shrug it off or anything...it was, like, my head...my emotions...didn’t have—didn’t have...the vocabulary for it. So am I dealing with it? I know you’re supposed to deal with it. That’s why I’m here, right? You go see a therapist and you deal with it. Dad used to call her “Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte.” God, it used to drive her crazy. One reason, I guess, was that it was sort of a creepy movie. And it was also like he was mocking her name, like Charlotte was this name you could sort of play around with, and like she just happened to have this funny name, Charlotte, and he had nothing to do with it. Like naming her was something that hadn’t involved him at all. So he would call her that, thrilled with his joke, laughing out loud for the hundredth time, oblivious to how uncomfortable it made her. Mom and Dad hated Les. Hated him. Nobody said anything, but it was so, so obvious. I mean, even I had to admit he and Charlotte were sort of a...curiosity. They made a strange couple. Once I called him “Les Isn’t More” to Mom and Dad. They just thought it was the funniest thing, way too funny, really. It wasn’t that great of a joke. And then right away I felt horrible, just...awful. So...guilty. Charlotte wasn’t even in the house and it wasn’t like Mom and Dad were going to run and tell her what I’d said, but...but...I felt like...I’d betrayed her. Like I’d really betrayed her. I’m not sure what to say next. After her appointment was over, she slowly walked over to the water, precise definition of only child still unresolved. The bay was slightly obscured by a thin overlay of fog, a heavy hint of rain in the air. The sky had grown ashy gray, clouds as far as the eye could see. It grew suddenly much colder and she instinctively buttoned up her coat, shivering slightly. Tourist season was unequivocally, unambiguously over. A few fishing boats chugged past. The end of the week. Nothing much would be happening back at the office; a good afternoon to amble a little, grab some lunch, slowly make her way back. Half the street, it seemed, was obstructed by the huge, looming refrigerated truck from Uncle’s Clamhouse. The driver and assorted workers were loudly going back and forth, loading up the afternoon deliveries. At some point the driver bellowed out a hello to some unseen party, then started up the truck, letting it idle. The Colonial Inn was still—incredibly—closed for renovations. How much renovating could possibly be needed? She thought wistfully of the inn’s warm, dimly lit interior, each table illuminated by a single candle, the basket of hot rolls. A mental checklist began formulating in her mind: her winter inventory; where she stored the heavy coat, mittens. What had happened to the umbrella? She began, taking her time, to walk away from the pier as the heavy odor of fries wafted over and spread to the street. A group of noisy seagulls swooped down onto the pavement. Within seconds a loud, cawing tussle broke out over a discarded chocolate doughnut. When she rounded the corner the bay disappeared from sight. A meal at the luncheonette, she decided on the spur of the moment, suddenly craving the homey fare, enjoying the fact that there was still something actually referred to as a luncheonette. It was a wonderful ritual to take a counter seat, eyeing the pastries, which looked like colored wax. Today seemed like a good day for a tuna melt, coleslaw, chips on the side, Lipton tea with a wedge of lemon. To her astonishment it was closed—for good. Gone. Out of business. Shock washed over her. She’d been steadily lunching there for a good two years. Only a week before she’d sat at the counter: grilled cheese, pickle, side of mediocre potato salad, Coke. From this vantage point, she’d been in close enough proximity to hear the owner’s entire conversation. Garbed in his usual white apron, he was chatting with what seemed to be a husband and wife. From what she could glean, it appeared that a new diner was set to open. “I’m not afraid of competition,” the owner told them. “I’m not afraid of competition,” he repeated smoothly, the epitome of understated confidence. “That’s the one thing that’s never bothered me: competition. Let him open! Why not?” The husband and wife both nodded their agreement, the wife then adding an imperceptible comment that made both men laugh. He wasn’t afraid of competition and now he was closed for good. Just like that. This story won honorable mention in our annual Short Story Contest last fall. 8/09 ChronograM fiction

Food & Drink

Curd is the Word Hudson Valley Cheese By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

t’s a hard time to be a dairy farmer. Milk prices are currently so low that the market pays less per gallon than it costs to produce. In response to this untenable situation, Senator Gillibrand recently announced that revamping the dairy-pricing system is a priority, and she hopes to have fundamental reform written into the next farm bill. In the meantime, one of the ways in which farmers have hedged against the volatility of the market—and actually earned some money for their labor—is through value-added processes, turning their milk into ice cream, yogurt, and cheese. We are fortunate that our region is blessed with some extraordinary cheese makers, and any fan of fine cheese can now be completely satisfied with the quality and variety of artisanal products to be found here. It is officially time for us to stop buying cheese from Europe. Jessica Applestone is the co-owner and cheese buyer at Fleisher’s Grass-Fed Meats in Kingston. “If you include the Berkshires, Vermont, and other parts of New York,” she says, “you can definitely say that our region is world-class.” Fleisher’s carries cheeses from our immediate vicinity as well as first-rate efforts—like Berkshire Blue and Jasper Hill Farm’s Bayley Hazen and Constant Bliss—from a little farther afield. She considers the whole Northeast to be fair game for locavores, and tries to find the best examples of different styles. And there are many to choose from; she cites 3-Corner Field (Shushan; sheep’s milk cheeses) Cobb Hill (Hartland, Vermont; Alpine and Caerphilly) Cato Corner (Colchester, Connecticut; a variety of raw cow’s milk cheese) Thistle Hill (Pomfret, Vermont; organic raw-milk Alpine) and Tonjes Dairy (Calicoon; Ricotta) as some of her favorites. In our area, Colin McGrath at Sprout Creek Farm in Poughkeepsie is doing some impressive work. Young, energetic, and with a clear passion for his job, he says his goal is “to let the milk speak for itself.” McGrath has an intuitive style of cheese making, which he describes as “70 percent feel, 30 percent science” that relies more on his senses than pH meters, and he treats his process much as an artist might, allowing accidents and improvisation to spark ideas 52

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for new ways to manipulate the variables that govern the result. In the chilly aging rooms, he acts as a conductor of microbes; through different treatments of each size wheel, he makes them hospitable to different combinations of the organisms that will govern the flavor, texture, and appearance of each type as they ripen. “I respect tradition, but I’m not bound by it,” he says, and the lack of any constraints—like the strict appellation d’origine controlée (AOC) system that governs wine and cheese in France—allows him to follow his inspiration anywhere it leads. McGrath and one assistant make 40,000 pounds of cheese a year. In his five years at the farm he has expanded the product line far beyond the original four to include a few fast-selling goat cheeses (fans know to come right to the farm to get them) and a full spectrum of raw cow’s milk cheese ranging from the milder, Havarti-like Bogart through the popular, somewhat sharper Toussaint and Ouray to the downright masterful Eden, which has duplicated the silky reek of Morbier from Eastern France. There’s also a blue, Camus—pun intended— that would, on a board next to a wedge each of Bayley Hazen, Berkshire Blue, and Old Chatham’s Shaker Blue, and accompanied by a sticky wine, make as elegant and interesting a dessert as one could hope for. Better with Age The Real Live Food Company, currently based at Ronnybrook Dairy in Ancramdale (themselves the source of excellent milk, yogurt, and ice cream) makes farmer’s cheese and queso blanco with added probiotic cultures, but the real standout is their Camembert. At two months, it’s a ringer for the original, but at four to six months it takes on a darker patina and develops some serious ammonia overtones; lovers of the pungent should look for the “Noir” and get their stank on in fine style. Co-owners Rory Chase and Peter Destler grew up right down the road, and moved back home from California a couple of years ago to help keep Chase’s family’s farm in business. They are about a month away from moving into their own facility, just down the hill from Ronnybrook,

ABOVE: Green (fresh) camembert cheese made by The Amazing Real Live Food Company OPPOSITE: Barat, a local analog for parmigiano reggiano, from Sprout Creek Farm.

and they expect to be able to quadruple their production as soon as they move. Among other things, they plan to start aging some Camembert for a year to make a hard cheese for shaving or grating. The Old Chatham Sheepherding Company also makes a Camembert, but from a blend of sheep and cow milk, and it’s safe to say that trying to choose a favorite between these two is not the worst way to pass an hour with friends at the end of a good meal. Nettle Meadow, up in the Adirondack foothills, also makes a lovely soft fromage blanc in several flavors, in addition to the sublime, better-than-Brie Kunik and its Crane Mountain, a chèvre that’s like a tangy chalk pudding and evolves in an interesting way with age. Another regional standout is Dancing Ewe Farm in Granville, where Jody and Luisa Somers make extraordinary Caciotta and Pecorino; their aged Pecorino is a fine grating cheese, and, along with Sprout Creek’s Barat, obviates the need for traditional Italian imports. Though Dancing Ewe Farm is in Washington County, there’s a local source: The couple can be found at the Rhinebeck Farmer’s Market every Sunday. Jasper Hill Farm—in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom—has recently opened a state-of-the-art affinage facility where nearby producers can bring their cheeses to age under ideal and expertly tended conditions. This allows small outfits to make more cheese, since they are not burdened with aging their inventory, and thus do more business without sacrificing quality. The makers in our area all expressed a strong desire for a similar situation here, since the quality-versus-quantity equation is a very real concern for all of them. They hope that effective reform of the law and an increase in demand will allow for more investment in this type of infrastructure, which will in turn allow more start-up artisans to enter the market. Getting Really Cheesy While many of these cheeses are meant for eating as they are, there are plenty suited for cooking as well. New York Cheddar is ubiquitous, of course, though not always artisanal. Fresh mozzarella can be found locally, and Hawthorne

Valley Farm in Ghent makes organic staples like cheddar, Alpine, and Edamer that are perfect for sandwiches or melting. Taylor Farm in Londonderry makes dense, creamy Gouda in a variety of flavors, including smoked. It is in part through cooking with our local cheeses that we will begin to refine and define exactly what our regional cuisine is; the differences in flavor between ours and theirs (as it were) will suggest new pairings akin to Membrillo (quince paste) and Manchego, or Port and Stilton, or Sauternes and Roquefort. It’s not impossible to imagine that a few years hence some of our local bounty will enter the same pantheon of culinary classics, further supporting the sustainable farming practiced by these dairies. And sustainable farming is a matter of national security, let alone the foundation of a beautiful landscape and a healthy diet. The excellence of our local and regional cheeses is not a secret; many of the efforts mentioned here have won top awards at national competitions and received glowing press. Most of them are carried by stores in New York. But there’s no corporate juggernaut spending millions to make Kunik or Ouray a household name, and people like to buy names they recognize. The challenge now is for us as consumers to disabuse ourselves permanently of the notion that exclusively local consumption of cheese is limiting in some way. We will always need to import olive oil, coffee, and many other essentials, but we can henceforth declare independence from lactation without representation and never look back. For those of us less familiar with the subject, Applestone suggests going to farmer’s markets to begin our education: “Learn what you like, and go from there. Ask [the vendors] who else they think is doing good work.” And then, when the season is over, we all need to ask our local retailers to carry our favorites (or order directly from the farms). In this economy, the consumer has more influence than ever before. Attentive allocation of our dollars will help to ensure a prosperous culinary and agricultural future for our region. Behold the power of cheese. 8/09 ChronograM food & drink

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RESOURCES Amazing Real Live Food Company Pine Plains, NY www.amazingreallive.com

Old Chatham Sheepherding Company Old Chatham, NY www.blacksheepcheese.com

Berkshire Blue Great Barrington, MA www.berkshireblue.com

Rhinebeck Farmer’s Market Rhinebeck, NY www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com

Cobb Hill Hartland, VT www.cobbhill.org

Ronnybrook Farm Dairy Ancramdale, NY www.ronnybrook.com

Cato Corner Farm Colchester, CT www.catocornerfarm.com

Sprout Creek Farm Poughkeepsie, NY www.sproutcreekfarm.org

Dancing Ewe Farm Granville, NY www.dancingewe.com

Taylor Farm Londonderry, VT www.taylorfarmvermont.com

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Hawthorne Valley Farm Ghent, NY www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org

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Jasper Hill Farm Greensboro, VT www.jasperhillfarm.com

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

Kingston Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market

Bakeries The Alternative Baker 407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 or 1 (800) 399-3589 www.lemoncakes.com 100% all butter scratch, full-service, smallbatch, made-by-hand bakery. Belgian hot chocolate, fresh vegetable soups, salads and sandwiches (Goat Cheese Special is still winning awards). Plus treats vegan and made without gluten, dairy or sugar. Wedding cakes by appointment only. Lemon Cakes shipped nationwide per Williams-Sonoma catalog. Closed Tuesday/Wednesday. Open 7 AM for the best egg sandwiches ever! Across from Cinema.

466 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6958 www.thebeaconbagel.com

CafĂŠs Bistro-to-Go 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.

Peekskill Coffee House 101 South Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 739-1287

Simple Gifts & Goodies 19 Liberty Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 568-0050 www.SimpleGiftsandGoodies.com Simple Gifts and Goodies is your source for personalized invitations and party favors. We specialize in making your wedding or other event simple and carefree by catering to your individual needs. Your source for invitations, favors, balloons, printed ribbons, ice cream, and more.

Catering Lagustaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Luscious (845) 255-8VEG www.lagustasluscious.com Lagustaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Luscious brings heartbreakingly

Terrapin Catering Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 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. Terrapinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s custom menus always include local, fresh, and organic ingredients.

Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary The Year of Community Saturdays May 23rd - November 21st 9:00 am to 2:00 pm Rain or Shine Wall Street â&#x2C6;&#x2122; Uptown Kingston 845-853-8512

Visit us online to read about our events throughout the month.

www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com sponsored

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The Beacon Bagel

delicious, sophisticated weekly meal deliveries of handmade vegetarian food that meat-andpotatoes people love too to the Hudson Valley and NYC. We are passionate about creating political foodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;locally grown organic produce, fair wages, environmentally sustainable business practicesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that tastes just as good as that served at the finest restaurants. Let us end weeknight meal boredom forever.

Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Meats and Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244

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Restaurants (p.m.) wine bar 119 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2833 www.pmwinebar.com contact@pmwinebar.com Ernest Hemingway once said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.â&#x20AC;? (p.m.) thinks Ernest was right and wants to share a wonderful selection of wines with you. We also know Ernest loved his cocktails, so now we have a fully stocked bar ready to offer you a nice range of spirits to compliment our tapas style menu. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forward to having you come and enjoy (p.m.).

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THE RIVER ROSE

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Departs Newburgh Waterfront Weddings, Receptions & Dinner Cruises Fireworks Cruise With DJ Narrated Sightseeing Tours Corporate Meetings Charters And More.

3191 Route 22, Patterson, NY (845) 876-6800 www.abruzzitrattoria.com

Annaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant Corner of Broadway and West Street Newburgh, NY (845) 562-1220

845-562-1067 www.riverrosecruises.com

Baba Louieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Woodfired Organic Sourdough Pizza

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517 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 751-2155

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The Barking Dog

Local 111

142 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-2350

111 Main Street, Philmont, NY (518)672-7801 www.local111.com

Barnabyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Route 32 North Chestnut and Academy Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2433

Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4258 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 charlottesny.com charlottesfood@aol.com

42 Charles Colman Boulevard, Pawling, NY (845) 855-9141

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215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811 Come and experience Japanese Homestyle Cooking served fresh daily at Gomen Kudasai. Our menu features homemade Gyoza dumplings, hot noodle soups, and stir-fried noodles made with either Soba or Udon. All of our food is MSG free, GMO free, vegan friendly, organic when possible, and locally produced when available.

Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub 334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com catskillmountain@hvc.rr.com Live music and authentic curry dishes each weekend make this steakhouse, located in Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first art colony, a standout. The pub boasts 13 great beers on tap. Call for specials, to make reservations, or arrange a catered affair.

Kyoto Sushi 337 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1128

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18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278

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Osaka Restaurant

Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Poughkeepsie Journal. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.

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!

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246 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-6297 www.maxsonmain.com

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cozy in winter, glorious garden dining in summer...wonderful food, delightful ambiance...a treasure!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll really get away from it all while feeling right at home at Charlotteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s...â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cozy, fire-placed restaurant with tremendous food from a varied and original menu that ranges from devilish to devine.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Some of our reviews.

3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700

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Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main

THE best place for Sushi, Teriyaki or Tempura in the Hudson Valley. Delectable specialty rolls; filet mignon, seafood, and chicken teriyaki. Japanese beers. Imported and domestic wines. Elegant atmosphere and attentive service. The finest sushi this side of Manhattan! Open every night for dinner and every day but Sunday for lunch. Takeout always available.

La Puerta Azul Route 44 (East of the Millbrook Taconic Exit), Salt Point, NY (845) 677-AZUL (2985) www.lapuertaazul.com BEST Mexican / Latino Cuisine 2008. BEST Margarita 2008. BEST Restaurant Interior 2007.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hudson Valley Magazine, **** Poughkeepsie Journal. Live Music Friday and Saturday Nights. Check our website for our menu and special events schedule.

Pawling Tavern

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

River Terrace Restaurant 2 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-5400

Sukhothai 516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375

Terrapin Red Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Sometimes, you just want a really Great Hamburger! Terrapin Red Bistro serves all sorts of comfort foods like macaroni and cheese, quesadillas, nachos, fish â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chips and hamburgers. Enjoy the build-your-own sandwich menu, or find some favorites from the restaurant in a hip, relaxed, casual bistrostyle atmosphere.

Terrapin Restaurant 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Voted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best of the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;? by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most diverse flavors meet and mingle here, in this room, at your table. From 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.

Torches on the Hudson 120 Front Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 568-0100 www.torchesonthehudson.com

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

Wasabi Japanese Restaurant 807 Warren Street, Hudson , NY (518) 822-1128

estled in the peaceful village of Stone Ridge, with Woodstock to the North, New Paltz to the South, and the Catskill Mountains and Shawangunk Ridge all around, we are only 95 miles from mid-town Manhattan. Fine Dining, Cozy Tavern, and Excellent Accommodations Available.

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New for 2009! Kayaks! Tours to Bannermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Island INVENTIVE AMERICAN COMFORT FOOD 1930s ANTIQUE BAR â&#x2C6;&#x2122; LIVE MUSIC/WEEKENDS

OUTLINES PH: 845-838-6297 WWW.MAXSONMAIN.COM BEACON, NEW YORK

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SEED to Fruit

528 Main Street, Beacon NY 12508

Wedding and Event Floral Design Garden Design & Installation Fresh Cut Flowers Nicole Mora (845) 440-3206 nicole@seedtofruit.net www.seedtofruit.net

Notions-N-Potions, Inc. 175 Main Street Beacon, NY 845-765-2410 Your one stop gift shop!

Handcrafted products created in Beacon, NY!

Saturday Tarot Card Readings! Sunday Animal Totem Readings Classes now forming!

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Hudson River Market in Beacon

Fine Arts t Handcrafts t Foods Music & More

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516 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508

845-790-5375 845-440-7731

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The Beacon Bagel 466 Main Street 845.440.6958 www.thebeaconbagel.com

The Center for Land Use Interpretation Archive

UP RIVER Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy Exhibit courtesy of The Center for Land Use Interpretation

GALLERY HOURS

Weekdays 9–5 Saturdays 11 – 5 2nd Saturdays 11 – 8 Sundays 12 – 5

199 Main Street, Beacon NY 12508 845.838.1600 info@bire.org www.bire.org

River TERRACE

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A portrait of the Hudson’s shores, Up River focuses on man-made sites rarely seen by those who travel along the river’s banks. Aerial photography brings to view the shore area’s landmarks both plain and remarkable: factories, prisons, power plants, quarries, parks, current industries and planned redevelopments—in many cases overlooked places that can only be seen from above.

Restaurant

8 2 Beekman Street Beacon, NY 12508 Phone (845) 831-5400 Fax (845) 831-5494

Aross from DIA Beacon Hours-Sun.-Thurs. 11am-10pm Friday/Saturday 11am-11pm Happy Hour Mon-Thurs. 4-7pm

845.831.4426 532 main street beacon ny, 12553

LIVE MUSIC WEEKENDS

Raindance

EVERY SUNDAY

contemporary clothing, shoes & gifts

YEAR ROUND 10AM TO 4PM riverside on the ferry dock in the train station parking lot

Born Shoes, Alternative Apparel, Wooden Ships, M. Rena, Sense

great food, live music and a spectacular riverfront setting join us on august 23rd when author joanne michaels will be on hand to sign her latest book hudson river valley farms the people and pride behind the produce

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456 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508 845 831-7080 www.raindanceny.com

FOR MORE INFO, LOG ONTO THEBEACONFARMERSMARKET.COM OR CALL 838-4338 OR 597-5028

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Mill Street Loft

Poughkeepsie & Red Hook

Drawing, Painting, Clay, Music, Photography, Animation, Sculpture Portfolio Development, & moreâ&#x20AC;Ś Register on-line or call 845.471.7477 millstreetloft.org

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A private school for all children six weeks through sixth grade. Our mission is to provide a child-centered education for all of our students with an emphasis on appropriate cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.

Windsor Academy Educational Campus 271 Quassaick Ave. New Windsor, NY 12553 1-845-562-3711 www.windsoracademy.org

EDUCATION

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CHRIS HARP of honeybeelives teaches a variety of classes on beekeeping.

Learning Curve

Continuing Education Opportunities By Anne Roderique-Jones “Small groups of aspiring adults who desire to keep their minds fresh and vigorous; who begin to learn by confronting pertinent situations; who dig down into the reservoirs of their secondary facts; who are led in the discussion by teachers who are also seekers after wisdom and not oracles:This constitutes the setting for adult education, the modern quest for life’s meaning.” —Eduard Lindeman

t was always the adults who sat at the front of the class in college and eagerly answered any question when called upon…or not called upon. They were never absent and made the best grades, you may not have thought about it as an 18-year-old freshman, but they were probably juggling a career and a family, but still managed to set the curve. As an adult, you now understand why they were there—whether it was for a career change, learning a language just for the hell of it, or to write the great American novel. There is a plethora of adult education classes available to enrich your life. You may have something that you’ve been interested to learn and put it on the back burner, or maybe life has become too mundane and a new hobby can aid in shaking up your routine. It’s likely that your evening class or weekend retreat will lead to unexpected interest, life long friendships, and newfound lifestyles. See what piques your interest. Behind the Lens Whether you’re out to hone your skills or are an amateur looking to learn the medium, The Center for Photography at Woodstock educates, informs, and inspires photographers of all ages. There is something to be said about a beautiful photo. We have them framed on our walls and tacked to the refrigerator. Photography is something that most of us do—whether it’s with our iPhones or our fancy digitals. A touching photo of a newborn baby, the memories from otherwise forgotten travels, or a distant sunset can all be captured from behind the lens. People travel from all over to take classes at the center, due to its reputation for education (not to mention, a beautiful setting for work) and focus for all levels of training from beginners to experts. Classes are typically held over two days and are capped at seven to fifteen students. www.cpw.org Sharpen Your Skills, Loosen Your Belt With food TV now a phenomenon, kitchen skills have become glamorous. The Natural Gourmet Institute (NGI) in Manhattan has been teaching since 1977,

when owner Annemarie Colbin founded the business out of her UWS apartment. She’s currently the CEO, has relocated to much larger digs in the Flatiron District, and has known alumni such as author Alex Jamieson of Super Size Me fame. NGI makes an effort to focus on health-supportive, whole-foods cuisine, with an emphasis on traditional unrefined ingredients. It offers cooking classes that range from basic prep skills to the occasional celeb-endorsed diets that are an actual way of living for many. In this kitchen, raw, macrobiotic, and gluten-free food is prepared to taste fresh and flavorful. A Friday night multi-course meal prepared by the culinary students has become popular, not only because of the savory cuisine, but because the prices and BYOB policy is hard to beat. www.naturalgourmetinstitute.com What’s all the racket? There is something nostalgic about camp that instantly conjures up thoughts of carefree days and fresh air. As adults, roasting weenies and telling ghost stories over a campfire seems all too childish—but the simple thought of a signal-less Blackberry could be almost enough of blissful getaway. Total Tennis, a camp for adults, is an actual excuse to pack up the bags and head out into nature.You won’t be chanting kumbaya around a bonfire; the main lodge is more cozy than outdoorsy, with a library and fireplace. Two-day to one-week sessions in Saugerties are geared toward all levels—whether you’re the beginner looking to learn the game or the advanced player who’d like to fine-tune your backhand, their private and group coaching techniques help towards continued improvement. And the rustic 1920s resort is a far cry from your old sleeping bag. www.totaltennis.com Just Breathe There is a growing group of niche travelers who are incredibly passionate about the sport of scuba diving. They, too, once took a class and were captivated by the activity that takes them under the water where other lifeforms thrive.These scuba 8/09 ChronograM EDUCATION 63

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enthusiasts spend most of their vacations traveling to locations all over the globe, only to go below sea level.The ocean floor remains a curiosity for most, because in order to breathe below the sea and experience this fascinating and serene life, you must become a certified diver. Dutchess Diving has made this possible, and fun, for Hudson Valley residents. Classes typically begin in a swimming pool and progress to open water. Dutchess Diving also conducts trips to the likes of Bonaire, Cayman Island, and other areas known for their spectacular underwater beauty. www.dutchessdiving.com

focused on the well-being of the colonies that he nurtures; and through teaching others he raises the awareness and caring of these amazing creatures.” Weekend workshops are taught by the pair for both beginners as well as established beekeepers. Grai says, “Classes range from 12-year-olds to former beekeepers, all of whom complete the workshop enamored with honeybees and with their sense of nature completely changed.” An introductory lecture will be offered in November and weekend workshops start in January. www.honeybeelives.org.

No Shushing Allowed There’s more to your local library than free Internet access and the classic novels you swore you’d read. Each Mid Hudson Library is a gem of incredibly interesting and unique opportunities to broaden your horizons. Rebekka Smith Aldrich, the organization’s Coordinator of Member Information, tells me about her letterboxing class at the smaller branch of Livingston. (Do you even know what letterboxing is?) Aldrich explains: “Ten letterboxes are hidden around Livingston to help teach you the history of the area, similar to a scavenger hunt, except that you’re looking for the letterbox.” She happened to find one of them near a favorite dessert spot in town. At other branches, you’ll find activities like chess games, Knit and Noshes, hiking and culinary tours, fashion and home how-tos, along with a host of other impressive offerings. www.midhudson.org/libraries

De-education in Woodstock Mirabai of Woodstock stands like any beautiful Victorian house in the area, but the inside serves as a sanctuary and spiritual home to those of Woodstock. People come from many miles to seek knowledge and experience the classes, workshops, and products that are offered in the store by owners Jeff Cuiule and Audrey Cusson, the husband-and-wife team who left corporate America for the opportunity to take over the bookstore. They’ve since hosted hundreds of workshops that range from channeling (which Cuiule tells me is in high demand) to yogi gurus, shamans, psychics, and reiki circles, to give you an idea of what you might find on the monthly calendar. Cuiule says, “It’s all about getting out of your brain and into your heart.” Mirabai is also host to many guests at Above the Books, the beautifully renovated, two-bedroom apartment with a rain shower and meditation room for those traveling to the Woodstock area. It’s directly upstairs from the shop and perfect if you’re visiting for a workshop. And if you’re a skeptic when it comes to tarot cards or channeling a long-lost loved one, or are just not in touch with your spiritual side, you could ask Cuiule about how he lived and all that he’s seen since he’s opened his eyes a bit wider. www.mirabai.com

Head of the Class Did you know that you can learn to sail at your local college? You can also take a course that will teach you to manage your finances and take control of debt—but that sounds much less sexy. SUNY Ulster and SUNY Dutchess offer an extensive amount of interesting options for their Adult Continuing Education classes. Learn French or how to write a children’s book (or how to write a children’s book in French). Whether you’re exploring new career options or just want to take up a new hobby, the classes at SUNY are an affordable and educational way to expand your knowledge beyond the books. www.sunydutchess.edu; www.sunyulster.edu Like a Bee to Honey There’s been a resurgence for the desire to learn the craft of beekeeping.Whether it’s the recent focus on eating locally—where honey bees are essential—or the interest in preserving the fragile bee population, this hobby is creating a buzz. HoneybeeLives offers in-depth workshops taught by Grai Rice, an organic bee keeper, and Chris Harp, an organic bee keeper and bee doctor, whose “goals are

Step Out of the Box Exercise is difficult enough to stay committed to and a boring exercise routine is why many of us fall off the workout wagon. Through belly dancing, you will broaden your horizons and possibly even step out of your comfort zone by taking a class that goes beyond the monotony of lunges and leg lifts.The Hudson Valley is fortunate enough to have more than one possibility in the area to learn this exotic form of Middle Eastern dance. You’ll start with a few isolated moves that give your abs a great workout and work your way up to complex combinations with finger symbols that give you less high-impact and more bragging rights. Despite the sensuality that’s associated with the dance, all ages find the class to be interesting and Sarah Bell’s studio often hosts mother-daughter classes. www.bellydancewillow.com; www.dancingwithsarah.com 8/08 ChronograM EDUCATION 65

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The Urban Gem in the Country Crown By John Rodat Photographs by Amber S. Clark

n Columbia County, you can learn to appreciate the opportunities presented by being caught behind a slow-moving tractor. For one, it allows you the chance to scribble on your dashboard pad the variety of interesting places along the rural routes wending their ways through the small villages, hamlets, and farmland: If you’re on Route 66, for example, there’s the sign for Grazin’ Angus Acres, whose grass-fed Black Angus meats seem a great idea around barbecue time; and the Hudson-Chatham winery, which seems a pretty tasty idea at nearly any time. Along Route 9, through Valatie and Kinderhook, you could easily fill your small notebook jotting down just the historical markers: The Burgoyne House (where the British general was entertained for an evening as a prisoner during the Revolutionary War), the Dutch Reformed Church (organized in 1712), the Benedict Arnold House (where the famed hero/traitor was allegedly cared for after being wounded in the Battle of Bemis Heights in 1777), and many others. They seem to sprout along this route like summer wildflowers. And if you happen to be stalled at the traffic circle there, the life-sized sculpture of eighth US president and Kinderhook native Martin Van Buren, chilling nonchalantly on a park bench, might tempt you out of your car for a photo op. But aside from the appeal for the note-taking agritourist or the history buff, there’s another reason to be thankful for the poky John Deere: Look to the right. Look to the left. It’s spectacular. The open and gently rolling land of Columbia County has a wealth of wellknown scenic points: There’s artist Frederic Edwin Church’s breathtaking Middle-Eastern-influenced mansion, Olana, overlooking the Hudson; the High Falls on the Agawamuck Creek in Philmont; the miles of trails and the picnic spots at the Greenport Conservation Area. But an A-ha! moment can arrive in the form of the blinking hazards of a

forest-green traffic obstacle. Stop virtually anywhere in Columbia County and you’ve got a lush, unspoiled rural vista before you. Which makes the artsy urbanity of the county seat all the more compelling. Urban Chic As you approach the art gallery a couple stroll past you, the woman explaining into her phone, “No, we can’t even find a place to stay. We’ve been calling around but everything’s completely booked.” At the same time, you’re passed in the other direction by a scruffy hipster in a Civil War cap and a keffiyeh. To your right, a group attend to a small motorcade of heavy-duty baby strollers, one woman dipping at the knees to soothe her front-slung infant rhythmically to the tune of Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me to the End of Love,” which plays from speakers at the outdoor theater across the street. (Later, these speakers will broadcast the audio for Chaplin’s film Modern Times, which will be screened in an open-air courtyard for free.) Inside the Carrie Haddad Gallery, the art on display—that of photographers Gary Schneider, David Lebe, Robert Flynt, and Warren Neidich—reinforces the sense that you are among the culturati. (Schneider, alone, has work on display in the Guggenheim, the Met, the Fogg, and the Art Institute of Chicago.) But at the same time, there is an openness, a kind of social porousness to this crowd that one does not associate with Manhattan.The opening is both surprisingly upscale in content and surprisingly easygoing in context. Much has been made of the city’s arts-led revival in recent years, and the evidence is ample. Though the seeds were planted back in the middle `80s by antique dealers opening shops along Hudson’s Warren Street, it has been in recent years that a kind of cultural critical mass has been obtained.Transplanted city folk and weekenders patronizing the variety of retail and dining establishments on now-thriving Warren have added an air of sophistication to the small city (most evident in the latter portion of the week). 8/09 ChronograM hudson / columbia county

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Frontier Town What is less commented upon, however, is the way in which Hudson retains its own character: This is not simply Williamsburg North or the Greenwich Village Bargain Basement. Hudson has both a distinct history of its own as an important small urban center and, as the seat of Columbia County, a relationship to a largely rural and agricultural setting that distinguishes it from that other city downriver. Though much praised for its architectural elegance (it’s been called one of the richest dictionaries of architectural history in New York State), there’s still roughness about the place, which can be seen as either unfulfilled potential, or opportunity. It’s frontier. So, it is, perhaps, not so surprising, after all, that there was a fire-eater in the Hudson offices of the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce. Stephanie Monseu is the cofounder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, an anarchic combination of traditional traveling circus, sideshow, and vaudeville variety troupe. She and her partner Keith Nelson relocated to Hudson from Brooklyn three years ago due, in part, to the gentrification of Williamsburg. Though the Bindlestiffs (slang for hobos, by the way) had enjoyed significant audience and critical success, they simply couldn’t keep up with the pace of development and escalating real estate prices. This is far from uncommon, and though frustrating—even devastating—for artists in the Big Apple, it’s been a boon for certain upstate communities. “In my peer group, people are looking for space,” says Monseu. “Everyone knows spaces are at a premium in NewYork; and everybody knows Hudson.” Lest the statement be interpreted too narrowly, President and CEO of the Chamber, Dave Colby, adds, “Hudson’s becoming a world-renowned community.” Flourishing Arts Scene It’s not an empty boast. Hudson and Columbia County are regular fixtures now in the Travel/Escapes and Lifestyle sections of the New York Times and in maga

zines such as Travel + Leisure. In 2006, Budget Travel magazine named Hudson one of the 10 “coolest” small towns in the United States. As slippery a word as it is, it suits the place.There’s something decidedly cool about Hudson, something hinted at by the pairing of Monseu—who, tattooed and draped in a scarf against the conference room’s AC, looks every bit the outer-borough artist—and Colby, whose jacket and tie are more insider than outlier. These superficial, sartorial differences aside, Monseu and Colby are, as regards the appeal of Hudson and Columbia County, on exactly the same page. “Hudson is full of smart and resourceful people managing to put out a really good product in spite of challenging times,” says Colby. “And the Chamber is pointing out how valuable these cultural businesses are as an economic force.” “Wherever the arts are flourishing, people are coming and spending money,” says Monseu. “We understand the economic value of our contribution to where we live and work.” The pair have numbers to back up this enthusiasm: A collective of 24 county arts organizations—including community and equity theaters, multimedia performance spaces, a festival orchestra, and more—branded as PerformColumbia, commissioned a study using the Americans for the Arts Economic Impact Calculator to get some hard statistics. Using information reported by 15 of the 24 member organizations, it was determined that the group’s collective expenditures in the county were $2.57 million; audience expenditures were $3.48 million. The total economic impact for 2005 was measured at $6.05 million. By 2007, this figure had grown 11 percent per year, on average, to $7.93 million. And, as the two are quick to point out, the member organizations of PerformColumbia include artists and presenters in Chatham, Ghent, Spencertown, Valatie, Copake, and locations throughout the county. Though the renaissance may be most easily viewed in a single stroll along Warren Street, it’s not just the county seat that can lay claim to culture. 8/09 ChronograM hudson / columbia county

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Landmarks Collaborative Pointing the Way Along the Hudson

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The Landmarks Collaborative serves both the visiting public and its members by unifying the wide variety of sites in Columbia and Greene Counties so that planning and resources may be coordinated to better serve tourists as well as the member organizations. Participating organizations work together frequently on publications, publicity and special events. If you visit one of our sites, remember to plan a visit at one of the other interesting landmarks which point the way along the Hudson.

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City as Eye Candy â&#x20AC;&#x153;We use Hudson as a showpiece; kind of like a trophy wife,â&#x20AC;? says Seth Powell, owner of Soundcheck Republic recording studio in East Chatham. Though wry, Powell is unstinting in his praise of Hudson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great. I love to walk outof-towners down Warren Street. Especially for the free outdoor festivals. The Winter Walk? Incredible. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like something out of Dickens. And Flag Day? Do you even remember Flag Day from when you were in school? No. It was like Secretaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. But in Hudson? I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even describe it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge.â&#x20AC;? Hudsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dynamism noted, Powell admits that, personally, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just as soon live at the â&#x20AC;&#x153;top of a private mountainâ&#x20AC;? as in a city, so the comparative quiet of his place works well for him, his family, and his clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who have included such pop music luminaries as Graham Parker, the Figgs, and Melora Krieger of Rasputina. Though Powellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;day jobâ&#x20AC;? is as a detective for the Albany Police Department, he knew that he did not want to reside full-time in that city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew I wanted the space for the studio, and I like the pace of the living here. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an easy commute to Albany and to New York, but you get this lifestyle. For me, and I think for a lot of the people attracted to the area, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best of all worlds.â&#x20AC;? So, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic produce that draws tourists and encourages transplants, clearly. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the quality of village or country living. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the, well, the produce produce. Tom Crowell, the communications and outreach manager of the Columbia Land Conservancy, an organization whose mission is â&#x20AC;&#x153;protecting the countryside, the open spaces, the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ruralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; characterâ&#x20AC;? of Columbia County, points to countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wealth of â&#x20AC;&#x153;agricultural tourismâ&#x20AC;? opportunities, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hudsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got the restaurants and a lot of the cultural stuff, but people also want the bed & breakfasts, the you-pick [orchards], and the farm stands. Towns are really starting to incorporate this stuff into their strategic plans, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here as a resource to help them be responsive to their communities.â&#x20AC;? For 22 years, the land conservancyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of the largest staffed conservancies in the state, if not the country, according to Crowellâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has worked to preserve access to the natural areas of Columbia County while honoring the traditional settlement patterns that differentiate it from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;crowded cities and suburbs that surround it.â&#x20AC;? The organization holds conservation easements on more than 20,000 acres of privately held land, manages 2,000 acres of public conservation areas, and offers environmental education to more than 3,500 children and adults each year. This educational component is indispensable, says Crowell: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really important that people, especially those new to the area, understand what it means

Your Ticket to the Arts in Columbia County bindlestiff family variety arts, inc. bindlestiff family cirkus

Dedicated to the evolution, enrichment, preservation and performance of the American popular arts- circus, sideshow, vaudeville, variety, physical comedy, and burlesque. Shows for audiences of all ages, classes and workshops. 1-877-BINDLES - 518-828-7470 | cirkus@bindlestiff.org | www.bindlestiff.org

columbia arts team

CAT is dedicated to showcasing new work by local theater, comedy, and music artists in Columbia County, and its environs. CAT also provides educational/performing opportunities for young people and adults. 272 Herrington Rd., Hillsdale, NY 12529 800-816-4802 | info@columbiaartsteam.org | www.columbiaartsteam.org

Dewitt Godfrey’s Picker Sculpture at The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center in ghent.

RESOURCES City of Hudson www.cityofhudson.org Columbia County www.columbiacountyny.com Columbia County Bounty www.columbiacountybounty.com Columbia County Chamber of Commerce www.columbiachamber-ny.com Columbia County Lodging Association www.staycolumbia.com Columbia County Tourism www.bestcountryroads.com Columbia Land Conservancy www.clctrust.org Perform Columbia www.performcolumbia.com

327 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534 518-822-1438 | info@hudsonoperahouse.org | www.hudsonoperahouse.org

operation unite, new york

Operation Unite New York is a non-profit organization that provides educational, social, cultural, performing and visual arts and recreational programs for youth and community members in Columbia County and neighboring communities. PO Box 1305, Hudson, NY 12534 518-828-3612 | www.operationuniteny.com

spencertown academy arts center

A multi-arts center housed in a restored 1847 landmark building. Presenting music and spoken word performances, art exhibitions, and free community arts programs including KidsArt, music jams, and the annual Festival of Books. 790 Route 203, PO Box 80 518-392-3693 | info@spencertownacademy.org | www.spencertownacademy.org

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to live in a farming community: There will be tractors in the road, and manure spreaders in the fields.You can’t have the field without it.” The fields nor the harvest. And as many residents and visitors already know, the yield of Columbia County agriculture is significant—and tasty. And as with the cultural producers, this means business for the county. Columbia County Bounty is an organization formed to promote and support networking connections between local agricultural producers and culinary businesses. As stated in their directory—an excellent resource and guide to the many restaurants, caterers, farm stands, and specialty products of the region— their mission is “to educate our community about the preservation of our local farms through the purchase and use of local and regional sustainable foods and products not only from Columbia County but from the entire Hudson Valley.” This educational effort is evident at the grass-roots (and grass-fed) level and also at the highest levels of New York State government. Noah Sheets is the head chef at the executive mansion in Albany, and part of his responsibilities have been in locally sourcing the food used at the mansion. On the one hand, this is in service of “greening” the process (the mansion is the first governor’s residence to receive a Gold LEED certification); on the other, it’s had direct culinary benefits as well. Sheets refers to Columbia County as an agricultural “powerhouse,” citing his own reliance on its organic farms and providers, such as Beth’s Farm Kitchen in Stuyvesant, Little Seed Gardens in Chatham, and Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent. The long hours of summer daytime mean that it’s still light when you hit the road after the gallery opening. Even so, the farming is probably done for the day. The hands may have headed into Hudson themselves for the night, to catch a band at Jason’s Upstairs Bar or to grab dinner at Red Dot, Mexican Radio, or Swoon, or regional brews at Spotty Dog Books and Ale. Traffic’s not likely to be bad. Maybe you’ll put your own hazards on just the same. Look to the right. Look to the left.

hudson opera house

A multi-arts center and New York State’s oldest surviving theatre, offering more than 800 programs annually for people of all ages, including concerts, readings, lectures, exhibitions, after-school programs, workshops and large-scale community events like Winter Walk.

Columbia County’s professional Equity theater company, producing adventurous theater productions of new and established plays and programs for children. Plays are for everyone - they illuminate the human experience and profoundly serve as a global stage for social exchange and enrichment.

41 Cross St., Hudson, NY 12534 518-828-7843 | contact@stageworkshudson.org | www.stageworkshudson.org

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TSL’s programming spotlights the powerful role of the arts in awakening individual imaginations and fostering community participation. Offering live theater, film, opera and workshops and special enrichment projects for youth. 434 Columbia St., Hudson, NY 12534 518-822-8448 | fyi@timeandspace.org | www.timeandspace.org

walking the dog theater

Walking the Dog Theater creates theater events that inspire, entertain, and build community year-round: high quality innovative productions in exciting venues, theater and clown programs for all ages and abilities. 39 Oak Hill Rd, Ghent, NY 12075 518-610-0909 | info@wtdtheater.org | www.wtdtheater.org

Perform Columbia: Over two dozen diverse, exciting, delightful, dynamic performing arts businesses bringing you theatre, dance, music, opera, film, circus, variety shows, family entertainment and much more, all year long.

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business directory Accommodations Catskill Mountain Lodge

334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com The Catskill Mountain Lodge, celebrating forty years of hospitality, is set on the banks of the historic Kaaterskill Creek in Palenville, America’s first art colony. Accommodations include fireplace rooms, cabins, cottages and a three-bedroom house.

Columbia County Lodging (800) 558-8218 www.staycolumbia.com

Inn at Stone Ridge

3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-0736 info@innatstoneridge.com

Rhinecliff Hotel

4 Grinnell Street, Rhinecliff, NY (845) 876-0590 www.therhinecliff.com

Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc. (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com

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Solar Generation

(845) 679-6997 www.solargeneration.net

Total Green, LLC (845) 774-8484

Animal Sanctuaries Catskill Animal Sanctuary

316 Old Stage Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 336-8447 www.CASanctuary.org

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary 35 Van Wagner, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org

Antiques Landmark Collectibles

103 Liberty Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-6596

Appliances Custom Overhead Doors 248 Route 295, Chatham, NY (518) 392-4443 www.customdoors.com

Architecture Arek Piotrowicz Construction (845) 532-4350 festjest@yahoo.com

Louis Fiorese A.I.A.

10 Reservoir Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8900 lfiorese@optonline.net As principal of ADG—Architecture and Design Group—he has for over twenty years provided solutions for residential, commercial, historic preservation, site plans, additions, restaurants, building codes, and other special projects. N.C.A.R.B. certified. References available upon request.

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Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org Insight: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing. Group exhibition of contemporary drawings, runs to August 29, 2009. Artists featured in exhibit: Shaun Acton, Jorge J. Aristizabal, Jill Auckenthaler, Nancy Cohen, Frances Jetter, Jason Mager, Charlotte Schulz, Lorene Taurerewa, and Takashi Usui.

Barrett Art Center 55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2550 www.barrettartcenter.org info@barrettartcenter.org

Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org Founded in 1977, CPW, an artist-centered space dedicated to photography and related media offers, year-round exhibitions, weekend workshops, multi-week lectures, access to traditional and digital photography workspaces, a monthly photographers’ salon, film/video screenings, and much more.

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

Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org

5380 Main Street, Windham, NY (518) 734-6850 www.windhamfinearts.com info@windhamfinearts.com

Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston, NY (845) 331-7780

Celebrating 30 years! Art materials, studio furnishings, custom picture framing, blueprint copies, graphic design services, large format color output, custom printing, personal stationery, legal forms, cards, maps, and novelty gifts. Three locations dedicated to enhancing your creative adventure—voted “Best in the Valley” year after year. Also located in Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251 and Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250

JW ArtWorks, LLC: Gazen Gallery 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4ART (4278) www.gazengallery.com

Mill Street Loft 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org A multi-arts center offering a range of educational programs for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Millbrook and Red Hook. Programs include the awardwinning Dutchess Arts Camps (building selfesteem through the arts for ages 4-14); Art Institute (pre-college portfolio development program); art classes and workshops and outreach programs for economically disadvantaged urban youth.

New Paltz Arts New Paltz, NY www.newpaltzarts.org

Omi International Arts Center 59 Letter S Road, Ghent, NY www.artomi.org

Rhinebeck Photography & Art Center (914) 388-7778 www.rhinebeckphotoarts.com

Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org

Esotec

(845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 24 years, we carry a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

Bicycle Sales, Rentals & Services Pawling Cycle & Sport

12 West Main Street, Pawling, NY (845) 855-9866 www.pawlingcycle.com

Bookstores

Manny’s Art Supplies

83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902

R & F Handmade Paints

84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3112 www.rfpaints.com Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery.

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

Yarn & Craft Box

24 Charles Colman Boulevard, Pawling, NY (845) 855-1632 www.yarnandcraftbox.com angora34@verizon.net

Garrison Art Center 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3960 www.garrisonartcenter.org

Beverages

Windham Fine Arts

Artisans Collaborative Concepts

(845) 528-1797 collaborativeconcept@optonline.net

Star 93.3

www.star933fm.com

WBPM Classic Hits 92.9 www.wpbm929.com

WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock P.O. Box 367, Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

Cinemas

Crafts People

262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.

DC Studios

21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200 www.dcstudiosllc.com

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Ruge’s Subaru

Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057

Banks Rhinebeck Savings Bank

2 Jefferson Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY

Upstate Films

26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org

Clothing & Accessories de Marchin

620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657

Echo Boutique

470 Main Street, Beacon, NY echoboutique@optonline.net

First Street Dancewear

Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.com First Street Dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warm-ups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.

KOSA

502 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-6620 www.kosa-co.net Kosa is a unique indie store specializing in organic, recycled, green, independent clothing

and jewelry designers. Our designers work with eco consciousness and style. We carry Stewart and Brown, Prairie Underground, Filly, Preloved, Beebop and Wally, Loveheals, Philippa Kunisch, Claudia Kussano, Individual Icons, Supermaggie, and many many more...

Layne’s Fabulous Finds

3669 Main Street (across from the Library), Stone Ridge, NY (845) 853-5556 Summer Hours - M, T, TH, F 11am-4:30pm. Designer vintage clothing, jewelry, high end handbags, shoes, unique items including artwork and house ware. Can also be found at the Woodstock Flea Market Saturday 9-5 and the High Falls Flea Market Sunday 9-4. Appointments available upon request—call to schedule.

Mrs. Max Boutique

101 Liberty Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-3351 Unique Clothing & Dancewear, Clothing, Jewelry and Bags, Dance Shoes, Accessories, Custom Costumes Made and Rentals Available, Restaurant Uniforms, Cool Stuff for Women & Dudes! New Location. Outsider magazine Headquarters: www.myspace.com/ outsiderzine.

Pegasus Comfort Footwear

27 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY, and, 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 256-0788 and (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com Offering innovative comfort footwear by all your favorite brands. Merrell, Dansko, Keen, Clarks, Converse, Uggs, and lots more. Open 7 days a week—or shop online at PegasusShoes.com.

Pique Boutique & Powerwear

RainDance

456 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-7080 www.raindanceny.com

The Present Perfect

23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939 Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.

Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School

48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural Foods Industry.

Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes

2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com

SALES 8am - 8pm Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm Saturdays

John A. Alvarez & Sons (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com

SERVICE 8am - 7pm Monday - Friday 8am - 3pm Saturdays

Events 15th Annual Artist’s Soapbox Derby

845.876.7074 rugessubaru.com 6444 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY 12572

Lower Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8473 www.ArtistSoapboxDerby.com

Albany Vegetarian Network Saratoga Springs, NY www.nyvegetarianexpo.org

Durants Tents & Events

26 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-6868 tami8888@verizon.net

1155 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0011 www.durantstents.com info@durantstents.com Durants Tents is a complete party rental company serving the Hudson Valley. Our professional staff prides themselves on quality products, dependability and service. Our extensive selection and vast inventory makes us uniquely qualified to accommodate your event needs, from office and convention to the back lawn or the ballroom.

White Rice

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital Boutique

436 Blooming Grove Turnpike (Route 94), New Windsor, NY (845) 569-0014

Star Real Clothing Corporation

531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500

Coffee & Tea Coffee System of the Hudson Valley 1 (800) 660-3175 www.coffeesystemhv.com

Hudson Coffee Traders

288 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-1300 Open 7 days a week. Espresso, Organic Coffee, Serving Breakfast and Lunch: Oatmeal, Egg Wraps, Sandwiches made on premises daily, and daily Soup Specials. We dedicate ourselves to preparing some of the most exceptional coffees with the highest quality service. You can taste our passion for the bean in each cup!

Computer Services The Mac Works

(845) 331-1111 www.themacworks.com support@themacworks.com

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43-2 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7722 Pique; (845) 729-3728 Powerwear www.ihavethepower.us Piqueboutique@yahoo.com

Consignment Shops

(413) 243-0745 www.jacobspillow.org

Locust Grove–The Samuel Morse Historic Site (845) 454-4500 www.moresehistoricsite.org

Peace Village Fair

54 O’Hara Road (at Route 23A), Haines Falls, NY (518) 589-5000 www.peacevillagecelebration.org

Poughkeepsie Farm Project (845) 380-7216 www.farmproject.org soupabowl@farmproject.or

Quail Hollow Events

P.O. Box 825, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8087 or (845) 246-3414 www.quailhollow.com

Rhinebeck Rentals

3606 Route 9G, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3040 www.rhinebeckrentals.com info@rhinebeckrentals.com

Woodstock Film Festival www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

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Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com

12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com

Androgyny

Beacon, NY (845) 597-5028 www.thebeaconfarmersmarket.com

Hawthorne Valley Farm Store

Dennis Fox Salon

327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500, ext. 1 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org

Kingston Farmers’ Market

Historic Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com

Migliorelli Farm

Corner of 199 & River Road, Rhinebeck, NY

Mother Earth’s Store House

440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself! We can also be found at 804 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY, (845) 296-1069, and 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY, (845) 246-9614.

Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com

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Allure

5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620 Located in the Historic Huguenot Street. We now have a gallery space next door.

Beacon Farmers’ Market

Organic, local, farm-fresh produce. Supplements, homeopathy, bulk coffee, beans, rice, and granolas. Fertile eggs, non HMO dairy, teas, and all-natural body & skin care! And so much more.

Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd

38 Spring Lake Road, Red hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com

Gardening & Garden Supplies Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens

389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 www.NDBGonline.com sales@ndbgonline.com A retail nursery nestled in the back woods of Rhinebeck where local growers produce an extraordinary variety of annuals, perennials, wildflowers, herbs, vegetables, and organic edibles. Servicing the horticultural needs of gardeners throughout the Hudson Valley for nearly thirty years. Open from the end of April through September.

The New York Botanical Garden at Bard College Annadale-on-Hudson, NY (800) 322-NYBG(6924)

Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

Design by Sue

128 Liberty Street, Newburgh, NY (845)561-2704 www.designbysue.com

Hinterland Design

1 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY (518) 731-2895

Hair Salons

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6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777 dennisfoxsalon@yahoo.com Dennis Fox Salon is an upscale salon, located in the heart of Rhinebeck. We offer all hair and nail services in a warm and inviting atmosphere.

Salone Bianco

2915 Route 9W, New Windsor, NY (845) 784-0179

Shear Intensity

5455 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-4074 www.shearintensityhairsalon.com

Home Furnishings & Decor Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings

54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@verizon.net Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Newly expanded store. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets, Balouchi tribal kilims, Russian sumaks, antique Caucasian carpets, silk Persian sumaks, Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.

Asia-Barong

Route 7/199 Stockbridge Road Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-5091 www.asiabarong.com

Ethan Allen

Route 32, 94 North Plank Road Newburgh, NY (845) 565-6000

Lounge & Linger High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463

Internet Services Webjogger

(845) 757-4000 www.webjogger.net Webjogger is a local company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. We have a great solution for small businesses: IT including symmetrical High Speed Internet, Offsite On-line Data Backup and Storage, Collaborative Archived E-mail, Web Hosting and Domain Registration, Server Collocation and Management, and IT support by phone or on-site, with nice discounts for bundled services. We’re big enough to have what you need and small enough to make it work for your individual needs. Many local companies swear by us, not at us! We also do high end routing and switching and Gigabit Wireless connectivity for local hospitals and radiology labs.

Italian Specialty Products La Bella Pasta

(845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our

excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Bop to Tottom

799 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100

Dreaming Goddess

9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

Earthlore/Amber Waves of Grain 2 Fairway Drive, Pawling, NY (845) 855-8899 www.earthlorestore.com

Hummingbird Jewelers

23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com

Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com

Landscaping

Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011 Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd 77 Cornell Street, Suite 303, Kingston, NY (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org info@deeplistening.org Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. fosters a unique approach to music, literature, art, and meditation, and promotes innovation among artists and audience in creating, performing, recording and educating with a global perspective. Deep Listening® is a philosophy and practice developed by Pauline Oliveros that distinguishes the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary selective nature of listening.

Music Lessons Miss Vickies 146 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-8958

Musical Instruments Adamspiano.com

Coral Acres (845) 255-6634

L. Browe Asphalt Services (516) 794-0490 www.browneasphalt.com (516) 479-1400

Lawyers & Mediators

592 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 255-5295 www.adamspiano.com adpiano@hvc.rr.com Featuring Kawai and other fine brands; new, used, rentals, storage, rebuilding; service. Inventory and prices at adamspiano.com. By appointment.

Pathways Mediation Center (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com

A unique mediation practice for couples divorcing or family strife. Josh Koplovitz, 30 years practicing Matrimonial and Family Law, Myra Schwartz, 30 years guidance counselor working with families and children. Male/female, counselor-attorney team, effectively addresses all legal and family issues. Schedule a one-hour free consultation or visit the web.

Wellspring

(845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com

Moving & Storage Arnoff Moving & Storage

1282 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-1504 or 1 (800) 633-6683 www.arnoff.com Agent for North American Van Lines. Since 1924, locally-owned and operated by the Arnoff family, providing exceptional services to families and businesses, moving the ordinary and the extraordinary. Household and business relocations, international shipments, record storage, fine art handling, rigging/industrial services, storage solutions—portable, selfstorage, household, commercial/industrial. Secure, experienced, professional.

Music A Touch of Ray

(914) 213-2395 www.myspace.com/touchofray touchofray@yahoo.com

Bumblebee Art & Music

165 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-2322 www.BumbleBeeArtandMusic.com

Networking Beacon Business Association www.beaconny.org

Beacon Community Center (845) 831-6180

Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Columbia County, NY www.columbiachamber-ny.com

Hudson Valley Green Drinks (845) 454-6410 www.hvgreendrinks.org

Peekskill Business Improvement District Peekskill, NY

Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce 23F East Market Street, P.O. Box 42 Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5904 www.rhinebeckchamber.com info@rhinebeckchamber.com Professional business membership organization comprised of approximately 400 members. Benefits include monthly networking events, newsletter subscription, referrals, group insurance, business directory listing, website listing, and link. Affordable advertising available.

Outfitters Great Blue Outfitters 3198 Route 22, Patterson, NY (845) 319-6172 www.GreatBlueOutfitters.com

Mountain Tops Beacon, NY www.mountaintopsoutfitters.com

Performing Arts Bard College Public Relations Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu

Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org

Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Route 17, exit 104, Bethel, NY 1 (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org

Hudson River Performing Arts 29 Elm Street, Suite 205, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1888 www.hudsonriverperformingarts.com Hudson River Performing Arts, located in Fishkill, NY, offers instruction in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern, Acting, Voice, Guitar and Piano. Our goal is to cultivate and nurture a love and knowledge of the performing Arts at both the pre-professional and recreational levels. Our programs are designed to provide students with a solid foundation of technique in a nurturing and affirming atmosphere.

Maverick Concerts 120 Mackervick Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8217 www.MaverickConcerts.org

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Pet Services & Supplies Dog Love, LLC 240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com

Atelier Renee Fine Framing

The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

Recreation New Paltz Karate Academy Homegrown Mini-Golf at Kelder’s Farm

5755 Route 209, Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-7157 www.HomegrownMini-Golf.com Homegrown Mini-Golf is a wonderful, quirky, living art installation great for a family outing. It’s an edible garden made of luscious vegetables, colorful fruit, and fragrant herbs, grains, and flowers. We invite you to touch, taste, and read about each one. Open 10am until twilight daily for mini-golf, weekly special events, tours and tastings. Check website for schedule. We’re at Kelder’s, a 250-year-old farm with the World’s Largest Garden Gnome!

Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries 199 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1600 www.bire.org info@bire.org

Frog Hollow Farm

The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! B&B for cats, with individual rooms and no cages. Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving 3 counties in the Hudson Valley. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets. Thank you Hudson Valley for entrusting ALL your pets and homes to us for 37 years. Bonded and insured.

Photography Fionn Reilly Photography www.fionnreilly.com

Lorna Tychostup (845) 489-8038 www.lornatychostup.com

Photosensualis 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.com Photosensualis Gallery in charming Woodstock, NY, celebrating the nude and nature in photography. Contemporary and vintage works, antique photos, rare and artist-signed photography books, jewelry, cards and gifts. Thursday thru Sunday noon - 6 pm

22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-4200 www.oakwoodfriends.org

Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600, ext. 201 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org

The Randolph School 2467 Route 9D, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org learn@randolphschool.org

New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3872 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

Tivoli Sailing Company (845) 901-2697 www.tivolisailing.com

Trinity-Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org

Westchester Community College (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu

Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393 www.mistersnacks.com steve@mistersnacks.com We package the finest and most healthy packaged snacks on the market. Includes trail mixes, nuts, dried fruits, yogurts, chocolates, candy, and even hot and spicy mixes. Also, have gift items and bulk foods available.

Bishop Dunn Memorial School

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B

Oakwood Friends School

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Schools

(845) 569-3496 www.bdms.org

16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org

SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts

22 North Front Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4523

Personal hands-on boarding and daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised play groups in 40x40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats. (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School

Eagleton School

446 Monterey Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4385 www.eagletonschool.com admissions@eagletonschool.com Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

Supermarkets Ginsberg’s Cash & Carry Store 29 Ginsberg Lane, Hudson, NY (518) 751-3218 www.ginsbergs.com

Otto’s Market

The Graduate Institute

171 Amity Road, Bethany, CT (203) 874-4252 www.learn.edu Info@learn.edu Discover exciting graduate programs in emerging fields of inquiry. Recognized as one of Connecticut’s most innovative institutions of higher education, the programs feature distinguished faculty, affordable tuition, and convenient schedules. Master of Arts degrees offered in Holistic Thinking, Oral Traditions, Experiential Health and Healing, Conscious Evolution, and Irenic (Peace) Studies.

Indian Mountain School

211 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org

215 Main Street, Germantown, NY (518) 537-7200 www.ottosmarket.com info@ottosmarket.com

Tourism Columbia Country Tourism 1 (800) 724-1846 www.bestcountryroads.com

Historic Hyde Park The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY www.HistoricHydePark.org

(877) 730-5444 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com

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Town Tinker Tube Rental 10 Bridge Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5553 www.towntinker.com

Web Design icuPublish

www.icupublish.com info@icupublish.com icuPublish, a computer consult, specializing in web-based graphic design, on-site training for both Mac and PC format. Complete site design, and development for personalized websites created with the professional, artist and/or collection in mind.

Weddings Hudson Valley Weddings

(845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWeddings.com www.HudsonValleyBaby.com www.HudsonValleyBabies.com www.HudsonValleyChildren.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, and online Wedding Guide. Hundreds of wedding-related professionals. Regional Bridal Show schedule, links, wed shop, vendor promotions, specials, and more. Call or E-mail for information about adding your weddingrelated business.

Seed to Fruit

528 Main Street, Beacon, NY (914) 382-1159 nicole.mora26@gmail.com

Woodstock Weddings

www.woodstockwedding.com nancybaysinger@gmail.com

Wine & Liquor In Good Taste

45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net Full service wine and spirit shop with knowledgeable staff. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 10am-9pm. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10am-10pm. Sunday 12pm-6pm. Wine tastings every Saturday. We deliver and consult when planning a party, wedding or any other special occasion. See our display ad in this issue for specials.

Workshops Wallkill Valley Writers

(845) 255-7090 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khamherstwriters@aol.com

Writing Services CENTER TO PAGE: moving writers from the center to the page

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Museum Village

Peter Aaron

(518) 822-1014 www.hudsoncruises.com

Martin Van Buren Natural Historic Site

1010 Route 17M, Monroe, NY (845) 782-8248 www.museumvillage.org

(650) 493-4430 ext. 268 www.itp.edu

(845) 562-1067 www.riverrosecruises.com

(845) 679-9441 www.centertopage.com Our small team works with writers nationwide— memoirists, scholars, novelists, and people seeking to develop an authentic writing practice. We mentor, edit, ghostwrite, and more. Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.

Hudson Cruises

Institute for Integrative Nutrition

The River Rose Tours and Cruises

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Picture Framing

Paaron64@hotmail.com Artist/musician bios, editing, proofreading, reasonable rates.

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Men’s wellness, Part two The essence of Physical Health A man’s willingness to see that he needs help, and to seek and accept it, is the new machismo.

by lorrie klosterman

illustration by annie internicola

friend of mine says she has to practically force her husband to accept her massages for his recurring headaches. Another friend found acupuncture quite helpful for her painful shoulder but couldn’t get her boyfriend to try it for a strained back muscle. Men admit, and their doctors concur, that they tend to deflect awareness and action when it comes to physical problems. A fear about getting bad news may be to blame, or lack of time, or plain old stubbornness, may keep them from the doctor’s office. But the societal message that he should be self-sufficient and miraculously durable is especially effective at numbing a man’s response to his own physical issues. Dr. Sam Schikowitz, a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist in New Paltz, says he’s noticed that the biggest insult for men is to feel defeated, whereas the biggest problem for women is feeling isolated. “So for men to go and get health care often feels like an admission of weakness—that they can’t handle it themselves—where for women, getting healthcare is a nonisolation behavior.” Another deterrent, says Schikowitz, is the tendency for a doctor to tell people what to do, with little room for discussion. “Historically, physicians have been so authoritarian that it feels to a man like a reprimand, like an authority figure imposing a power trip.” Fortunately, a shift is afoot to empower men to view caring for their health as a powerful action. Scott Williams is vice president for professional relations and public policy at the Men’s Health Network (MHN), a national organization founded in 1992 by healthcare professionals to help men take ownership of their health. “We hear men say, ‘I don’t want to know what’s wrong,’” he says. “But we’ve seen that a motivational and empowerment message works to get men to take responsibility for their health. We encourage men to be a role model and mentor by making annual health visits, and moving past the macho man attitude that you’ve always got to suck it up. What’s macho is taking care of yourself and being there in the long haul to take care of the family. We say that we are building healthy families one man at a time.”

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office of men’s health within the US Department of Health and Human Services as there is for women and minorities. “We found that we could not address policy and advocacy without reaching out to where men are,” Williams explains. “So we go out to employers, sports franchises, free clinics—reaching men and their families where they live, work, play, and pray.” With about 50 corporate employers and numerous other partners, MHN is making tremendous headway in improving the lives of men and those around them. The MHN website is packed with information, links, and reminders of events you might not have heard of, like Men’s Health Awareness Week in June each year, incorporating Father’s Day, and National Men’s Health Month (June). Among the MHN’s free materials available online (www.blueprintformenshealth.com), is the Blueprint for Men’s Health, a comprehensive guide to living a healthy lifestyle, and Your Head, An Owner’s Manual, covering mental health issues. Both publications enlighten men and help them know what to ask of health providers. MHN also links men with free or low-cost health clinics (www.menshealthmonth.org) and prescription assistance programs, such as Partnership for Prescription Assistance (www.pparx.org) and Together Rx (www.togetherrxaccess.com). “There is really some fantastic help that we want to make people aware of,” says Williams.

Clearing the Acceptance Hurdle Health information and advocacy won’t go far unless men notice they need it. Accepting that something about yourself is not the way you want it—whether physical, emotional, psychological, or other—is a hurdle that trips up many men. Dr. Kenneth Bock, an author and holistic physician at Rhinebeck Health Center, emphasizes the importance of acceptance as the vital first step toward greater health and happiness. “Men tend to judge their success compared to others, but they need to accept where they are from their own point of view. Acceptance is saying, ‘This is where I am in life, and this is what I really feel.’ It’s not easy. But on a deep level, that’s where healing starts. And it’s my job as a healer to figure out where somebody is, and to accept that without my own agenda, and then take them on a dance back to health—whether it starts at a waltz, or a tango, or a boogie. You’re not going to have someone who’s only ready for a waltz do a quick Latin dance.” (The last chapter in Bock’s first book, The Road to Immunity, describes this more fully.)

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Schikowitz offers this positive spin on needing help: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way I like to couch it is they are consulting an expert, or developing their own team of advisors who will help them maximize health and function.â&#x20AC;? To build this team, be selective so you get whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best for who you are. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can read about doctorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; education on their websites, and get a feel for their approach. Then ask for 15-minute interviews to find someone who you can talk to about sensitive health issues.â&#x20AC;? A good person to start with is a holistic practitioner who is willing and interested in taking the time to learn about you, and can then help you find a specialist if necessary.

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As for the health issues a man may need to accept, those having to do with testosterone, reproductive organs, and sexuality tend to get the most publicity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Traditionally, menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health has been focused on what we call â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;below the beltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;erectile dysfunction, the prostate, incontinence,â&#x20AC;? says Williams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Network is trying to bring it above the belt as well. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really focused on the leading causes of death for men, and on mental health issues.â&#x20AC;? In the US, heart disease and cancer (predominantly lung, prostate, and colorectal) are ranked as first and second causes of death among men. Together, they account for about half of male deaths annually, followed by accidents, then stroke. Smoking and being overweight put men at higher risk for heart disease and lung cancer, and for those a nutritious diet, regular exercise, and kicking the smoking habit are well established as protective. But few correlates of prostate cancer risk are established. An enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH), manifests in about half of men as they age, but BPH doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t progress to cancer predictably, though it can cause urinary blockage or incontinence. As a precaution for prostate cancer, the American Urological Association advises men to have PSA (prostate-specific antigen) measured in a blood sample at age 40 to establish their individual baseline, and to be screened regularly after age 50, because elevations in PSA can mean prostate cancer is developing. However, the preface to an online roundtable discussion in June 2009 at the New England Journal of Medicine website (www.nejm.org/perspective-roundtable/screeningfor-prostate-cancer) states: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In two large randomized trials, researchers examined the effect of annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening on the rate of death from prostate cancer and found that it was small and was offset by false positive diagnoses. Since screening may have benefits in catching cancers early but may also carry risks including that of unnecessary treatment, professional societies have split on the question of whether to recommend regular PSA screening.â&#x20AC;?

Life in the Viagra Era Thanks to Viagra, erectile dysfunction (ED) has entered popular banter, for better or worseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;better being that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting the issue in the open, worse being that it may be scaring millions of men and their partners unnecessarily. ED, or the inability to maintain a firm erection long enough for intromission, can happen occasionally to anyone, since sexual arousal depends on multiple interdependent variables such as hormones, emotions, thoughts, and the physical health of nerves, muscles, blood vessels, and the heart. Viagra, first prescribed for men with unrelenting ED, causes blood vessels in the penis to dilate for hours, so that blood accumulates and sustains an erection of unnaturally long duration. Nowadays, men with concerns that they are staying less firm less often use ED drugs to mimic youthful vigor. But older men, Bock says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;can still have a beautiful, intimate relationship and be sexually fulfilled without a four-hour erection from Viagra.â&#x20AC;? And while he acknowledges that some men, or their partners, will find those drugs useful, a man may be doing that instead of dealing with feelings heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having about his life and growing older. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a natural change physically in life, and a 55-year-old isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be able to do what a 25-year-old can do. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being realistic and optimistic, and you accept the aging process gracefully, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a negative, but a positive.â&#x20AC;? By communicating well with a partner, you can continue a vibrant, sexually satisfying relationship without drugs.

The Big T The steroid hormone testosterone drives sexual maturity and health of reproductive organs in men, including the prostate, and influences general health and behavior. Beginning in midlife, testosterone levels fall a few percent a year, though nothing like the more precipitous decline of estrogen in women during menopause. Some men may especially notice changes attributable to lowering testosterone, or have a rapid fall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Testosterone levels are typically only checked when there are red flags related to it,â&#x20AC;? says Schikowitz, â&#x20AC;&#x153;like lowered sexual function,

reduced immunity, or low energy levels.â&#x20AC;? He notes that he sees a dramatic drop in testosterone (â&#x20AC;&#x153;andropauseâ&#x20AC;?) mostly in those with AIDS. Hormone augmentation is an option for men who want to relieve symptoms, but treating the underlying causes of low testosterone, such as chronic stress, can help in most cases. Testosterone shares a metabolic pathway with adrenal steroids, so stress (which activates the adrenal) can alter testosterone levels. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to check for normal balance among adrenal and thyroid hormones as well, which dietary modifications and supplements can often correct. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes we do use hormones, says Bock, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but you have to be aware of the yin and yangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the balance of risks and benefits.â&#x20AC;? Bock has created nutritional supplements that support prostate health and hormone balance, and may recommend age-appropriate nutritional or herbal supplements and detoxification, depending on an individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case. Schikowitz, too, recommends herbs that benefit the prostate and regulate hormone metabolism, such as zinc and saw palmetto. While ginseng is popular as an androgen-enhancing supplement, Schikowitz says he prefers other related plants.

Food and Fitness For anybody, eating well and getting exercise are foundational to good health, including reproductive health and vigor. Without reciting all the details, excess pounds should be gradually shed with good nutrition, not a fad diet, combined with regular, enjoyable physical activities. Schikowitzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holistic approach includes three dietary principles.The first is good blood sugar regulation, which includes being careful of higher glycemic index and glycemic load foods, and to have protein, fat, and fiber when you are eating those foods. The second is reducing toxicity of your foods by staying away from a lot of factory-farmed animal products and heavily sprayed crops.The third principle is to increase the vitality of foods by choosing the freshest, and locally grown. As for exercise, Chad Tyrrell, owner of Ignite Fitness in New Paltz and a longtime trainer and athlete, has some surprising counsel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I meet clients for the first time, what I spend a lot of time talking about is not changing their bodies, but changing their expectations. Often they have point A, where they are now, and point B, where they want to be, but they have no understanding of the cost of getting to point Bâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the time commitment, the intensity of effort involvedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and I often have to bring them to reality.You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exercise twice a week for a couple hours and get six-pack abs and get big muscularly. If you exercise at a low level regularly, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll reap almost the maximum health benefits, but that is very different from making radical changes to your body.â&#x20AC;? Younger men tend to go for intense body-transforming workouts, says Tyrrell, but older people have different goals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the reasons I love working with an older clientele. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not so concerned with getting in shape for the beach in three months. I get a surprising number of men who say they would just like to be fit. They want to be able to function in their daily lives well and comfortably, and we can have an amazing impact on that.â&#x20AC;? The biggest challenge is getting people to live up to their exercise commitments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If it was just about teaching people what exercises to do and how often, that would be easy,â&#x20AC;? he muses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be cranking out perfect bodies left and right. But the reality is that what holds people back from moving from point A to B is getting themselves here. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the kids, and houses, and jobs, and vacationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these are the speed bumps and holes in the road on the map from A to B. So the first step is to get into the gym, or find something you enjoy that places some physical demands on your body, and do it. And the second step is working hard. Consistency and intensityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;those are the two things you need to fixate on.â&#x20AC;? And by all means, find a form of exercise, or several, that you enjoy. If you like it, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do it longer, do it harder, and do it more often. Even as a trainer, Tyrrell wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be telling you itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to keep it up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It takes rolling out of bed on days you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do it. I struggle with it myself. But the rewards are amazing and real.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;Ż

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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman

Thirsty: Wading Through the Intoxicating Waters of Being Bad Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

he writer Stefanie Wilder-Taylor has made a career of being a ribald and boozy mom. Her popular books have names like Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay and Naptime Is the New Happy Hour (2006 and 2008; both Simon Spotlight Entertainment). A couple of weeks ago, she confessed on her blog that her happy hours aren’t so cheerful. Ooops. “For some people I’m sure this is a nice thing, a tribunal thing (a drink at the end of the day with their spouse or friends),” she writes. “For others it might be a once-in-a-while treat to go out and have a couple of cocktails. For me, it’s become a nightly compulsion and I’m outing myself to you; all of you: I have a problem.” Whatever we might think of the public nature of her revelation (I should talk!), mom-blogs in general, or the goofy titles of Ms. Wilder-Taylor’s books, I for one think she is pointing to something interesting. While I certainly don’t drink nightly, very compulsively, or much at all while Azalea is up and about— despite my bravado, I am actually a pretty tame social drinker—I have noticed an increase in my attraction to alcohol over the past few years. Since Azalea was born, I crave the softening of a certain edge more than ever before. At the end of a week or even sometimes a day, all the awareness I have so diligently been honing burns a hole in my pocket and I lust to spend it all in one place. Then, when Azalea goes to bed, I want a drink, and, yes, even a smoke. Gross, I know. But I come by it so honestly! As I wrote last month’s column on “slow parenting,” I reflected on my family’s style, and I came to see even more clearly why it is that being a parent arouses a desire in me to be bad: I have oddly fond memories of being a child among “partying” adults. I remember aunts and uncles sitting in lawn chairs wearing Bermuda shorts, drinking gin and tonics on Memorial Day, Independence Day, Satur-Day,…as we ran around in our crazy plaids, racing each other with eggs on spoons, getting lost on our tricycles (okay, that was just me), and eventually smoking butts in the woods that lined the edges of public parks. Luckily my parents were not the big drinkers. In fact my dad had an actual allergy and vomited profusely from the stuff; I never saw him drink a drop, and my mom enjoys a little buzz but is a total lightweight who doesn’t like being out of control. However, surrounding my mom was her family, brimming with booze, and everyone smoked like chimneys all day, every day. Have you seen “Mad Men”? It was like that. And then night came. I can remember lying in my “snuggler” (this is what my cousins called sleeping bags) on the top floor of their Grosse Pointe cape, listening to the raging “fun” down below. Cackling laughter (my mom), saucy haranguing (Aunt Jo), shark-like attacks (Aunt Brenda), angry affection (Aunt

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Becky), and the slow build of the matriarch’s indisputable opinions regarding whatever matter was currently under “discussion” (that would be Grandma Wilda, the tiny, old, Scotch-drinking arthritic who never slurred a single word and could stay standing—figuratively, at least—even after six-foot-nine Uncle Richie, Aunt Brenda’s husband, had keeled over). Then, in the morning, some unlucky, coughing-but-still-smoking, bleary-eyed grown-up—intriguingly distant—would quietly make waffles for the gang of us. Then we would all ramble over to the TV to continue our own dramas in the light of day, and the adult could return to bed. God help us. I liked my aunts and uncles and many cousins, yet there was something scary about the drinking. But I guess since I could get away from it at the end of the weekend, it was delightful, too. And scary and delightful equals totally compelling. So here I am. Even in the midst of my sincere desire to wake up, not to mention my vow to practice the Buddhist precepts, one of which is “proceed clearly; do not cloud the mind,” I do occasionally long to numb out, and those occasions can happen frequently! And as much as I might lust for a tasty margarita or an ice-cold beer, when I get down to it, I don’t think it’s the booze, exactly, that calls me. As a friend of mine, also a Buddhist mom, recently said as we met at a beach party the morning after my big 40th birthday party, being a mom makes illicit behavior incredibly appealing. A cigarette or a shot can so clearly delineate our naughty-girl adult selves from our good-girl mommy identities. It feels good to be someone, after all, and what better way to emerge out of the fog of taking care of other people than to recklessly neglect ourselves? And in the company of other women, raising a glass to the freedom to be a little lushy? Irresistible! But freedom, of course, is not exactly the right word. Sure, as a grown-up I can exercise my inalienable right to drink, to smoke, to do whatever I darn well please, thank you very much. But does that make me free? Am I free when thoughts about my charmingly rebellious forays interrupt my workday? Will I be free when I am diagnosed with some terrible—and totally not cute or empowering—disease? People find liberation in any condition, but I sure hope it doesn’t come to that. In any case, Buddhism teaches that attachment to things— the drink, the idea, the identity—is more the problem than whatever thing we may be attached to. It’s my longing, my thirst, if you will, to be somewhere else, to embody a different reality—a fantasy life—that Buddhism aims to bring to light as the root of my suffering, not a rule about how many drinks is okay or not okay. In other words, there is nothing inherently wrong with being bad. But there’s nothing particularly good about it, either.

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Active Release Techniques Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.drness.com Active Release Techniques (ART®) is a patented treatment system that removes scar tissue from injured muscles, tendons, fascia, ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, post surgical scarring, carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica. 5-10 visits usually are needed to resolve most injuries.

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275 North Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 565-2809, fax (845) 565-2608 A nurturing center for experiencing one of the most relaxing paths to reach your individual physical and spiritual health care goals. We treat patients with a variety of complaints ranging from emotional and physical pain, to digestive and pulmonary disorders to reproductive issues, labor and delivery. “Balancing Qi, the way it should be.”

Classical & Chinese Herbs 303 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 853-7353

Earthbound Herbs and Acupuncture 504-516 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 339-5653 www.earthboundapothecary.com Creating health in partnership with nature. We offer Community Acupuncture at a sliding scale of $20-$40, you decide what you can afford. Apothecary specializes in local, organic herbs in bulk, tincture, teas, and more. Founded by Hillary Thing, MS, LAc., Professor (Pacific College of Oriental Medicine) with over 11 years clinical experience.

High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts—, Oriental Medicine— Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac. 87 East Market Street, Suite 102 Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridge.com Offering all five of the professionally practiced modalities within Oriental Medicine—Chinese Herbal Medicine, Medical Massage, Dietary Therapy and Exercise Therapy. Treatment of allergies, asthma, sinusitis, headaches, neuro-musculo-skeletal pain, women’s health, mood problems, digestive problems, fatigue, and much more. Since 1992.

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Art Therapy Deep Clay (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes, LMSW ATR-BC. Short-term counseling and in-depth psychoanalytic arts-based psychotherapy. Activates creative imagination to enhance healing and problem solving for life transitions, bereavement, trauma, and dissociative disorders. Women’s clay group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, and teens. Poughkeepsie and Gardiner locations. Sliding fee.

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Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.drness.com Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner who helps athletes and active people relieve their pain and heal their injuries. Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength.

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Counseling IONE—Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.org 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. Appointments sign up at: https://instantscheduling.com/sch.php?kn=128796.

Creative Arts Therapy Multi-Dimensional Psychotherapy—Blair Glaser, MA, LCAT, RDT Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4140 www.blairglaser.com Bridge the gap between desire and potential: Multi-Dimensional Psychotherapy for individuals and couples combines traditional counseling with creativity, intuition, spiritual philosophy, and energy work to support empowered living. SpiritPlay drama therapy is a powerful and fun-filled physical and emotional workout guaranteed to inspire laughter and relaxation. NY licensed Creative Arts Therapist.

Dentistry & Orthodontics Dr. Anthony J. Angiolillo, DDS 60 Park Lane Suite 3, Highland , NY (845) 454-3310 www.hotsmilesoftheHV.com

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Holistic Orthodontics—Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, LicAcup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 Experience Orthodontics in a magical setting using expansion and gentle forces, not extraction and heavy pressure. Member of The Cranial Academy, Dr. Rhoney Stanley considers the bones, teeth, face and smile components of the whole. Offers fixed braces, functional appliances, Invisalign. Early Treatment for young children when essential. Insurance accepted. Payment plans available.

Dr. Marlin Schwartz 223 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2902 www.schwartzqualitydental.com dr.marlinschwartz@verizon.net Quality dentistry provided with comfort and care. Cosmetic improvements, Reconstruction, Implants, Veneers, Crowns, Root Canal,Periodontics (non-surgical and surgical), Extractions, General Dentistry.

Holistic Health Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT— Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 Cassandra is a Kripalu-Certified Yoga Teacher and Certified Ayurvedic Nutritionist with a MS in Counseling Psychology. She offers integrative health counseling to individuals as well as groups, melding Ayurvedic nutritional counseling, yoga, and more traditional therapeutic techniques to guide people toward greater self-awareness, empowering them to find joy, balance, and health in their daily lives. Call for classes, appointments, and consultations.

John M. Carroll, Healer 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com jmcarrollhealer@aol.com 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.

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies 1 (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org Omega Institute’s 2009 season is open for registration. Take a workshop, enjoy some R&R, or learn a new skill with one of our professional trainings. Time at Omega is a stimulus package for the spirit. Register today.

ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH Energy Healing, Penny Price Lavin Fishkill, NY (845) 876-0239 www.onelighthealingtouch.com pricemedia@aol.com International Energy Healing and Mystery School. Ideal for those seeking personal growth and all healthcare practitioners. Learn 50 Holistic, Shamanic and Esoteric self-healing Practices and 33 techniques to heal yourself and others. Profoundly increase your health, intuition, creativity, joy and spiritual connection. NYSNA & NCBTMB CEUs. Enroll now! School meets 18 days over 6 months. Next school begins Oct. 16. Introductory Weekend Workshops Aug. 29-30, or Sept. 26-27. Call for brochure.

Hospitals Columbia Memorial Hospital 71 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY (516) 828-7601

Health Alliance (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org

Health Quest Medical Practice www.health-quest.org

Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.health-quest.org

Hypnosis Dr. Kristen Jemiolo Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 http://mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2

Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753 A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Complementary Medical Hypnotism, and hypnocoaching with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential.

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Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.

Massage Therapy Bodhi Holistic Spa 323 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2233 www.bodhispastudio.com

Conscious Body—Ellen Ronis McCallum, LMT 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Deep, sensitive and eclectic Massage therapy with over 22 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).

Heavenly Scents, Healing Sanctuary Saugerties, NY (518) 755-2214 heavenlyscents.byregion.net gypsy68@mhcable.com

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Life & Career Coaching David W. Basch, PCC, CPCC— Transition Coach (845) 626-0444 www.dwbcoaching.com dwbasch@aol.com Get your life, business, or career unstuck and moving forward. You become clear about who you are, what you really want, and then get into action. Whatever you are up to in your career, business or key areas such as money and relationships, coaching can assist you in creating a fulfilling life and achieving goals. You’ll be more focused and present. If you want to be responsible for creating extraordinary results, contact David for a free session. Change is inevitable; growth is optional.

In finding a dentist

it’s important to make the best choice. Dr. Schwartz is a knowledgeable, caring, and experienced professional. He LISTENS to your concerns and does a thorough diagnosis of any problems. Then we DISCUSS options and COMMUNICATE with you until you are satisfied with any plan of treatment or maintenance. We are a small office in a small town. But we offer a level of treatment that you would expect in a large city. Dr. Schwartz is a graduate of NYU College of Dentistry. He continues to pursue additional training at dental education centers across the nation in such subjects as periodontics, orthodontics, implantology, and surgery. Dr. Schwartz has been at this location for eleven years. You will see the same dentist every time. You will notice that the dentist spends more time with you and takes more of a personal interest in your care than just about any other health professional you’ve ever met! We provide general dentistry including FAMILY CARE, IMPLANTS, INVISALIGN, ARTISTIC COSMETIC DENTISTRY, surgical and non-surgical periodontics, extractions, root canal, and other services.

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(845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. For information, contact Joan Apter.

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NEW PALTZ, NY

MARLIN SCHWARTZ, DDS

Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change Your Outlook. Gain Control. Make Healthier Choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC

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Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach

Sky Lake Lodge 22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8556 www.skylake.shambhala.org

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Spiritual Wellness Center 372 Fullerton Avenue, Newburgh, NY deborah@beingknowingdoing.com

Zen Mountain Monastery 871 Plank Road, Mt Tremper, NY (845) 688-2228 www.mro.org registrar@mro.org Offering year-round retreats geared to all levels of experience: Introduction to Zen Meditation and Practice offered monthly; throughout the year: Zen and the Arts; Buddhist Studies; Wilderness and Social Action; Yoga, Qigong, and Body Practice; and monthly week-long meditation intensives. Beginning Instruction and service offered every Sunday at 9:00am.

Midwifery Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 www.midwifejennahouston.com womanway@aol.com

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Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.

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Listening. Touch. Quiet. The interface of structure and energy. There are optimum ways of working without of balance states in our body, utilizing the hierarchy of forces within us. I have been a manual physical therapist for over 30 years, specializing in gently unlocking the roots of structural dysfunctions and their associated patterns. Zero Balancing. Craniosacral Therapy. Muscle Energy Technique. Ontology.

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Psychologists Anton H. Hart, PhD 39 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-2477; (212) 595-3704 antonhartphd@alum.vassar.edu Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute. Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Poughkeepsie and Manhattan Offices. Specializing in intensive long- and short-term work with problems of anxiety, depression, relationships, career, illness, gay, straight, lesbian and transgender issues. Consultation by appointment.

Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023 Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-doctoral candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunities available for intensive psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction. Located across 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. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.

Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 Facebook Group: Brigid’s Well JanneDooley@gmail.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and healing practice helping people grow individually and in community. Janne Dooley specializes in healing trauma, relationship issues, recovery, co-dependency, and inner child work. Janne is trained in Gestalt, Family Systems and EMDR. Groups forming: Mindful Parenting and Psycho-spiritual Group, combining guided imagery and teachings from the book, Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach.

Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613

Julie Zweig, MA, NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 julieezweig@gmail.com

K. Melissa Waterman, LCSW-R 35 Main Street, Suite #333 Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 464-8910 therapist.psychologytoday.com/52566 Melissa@dragonfly88.net My goal is to encourage and guide you to find and live from your own place of joy. I have experience helping with depression, anxiety, trauma resolution, negative thinking, work, relationship problems, and spirituality issues. Certified EMDR practitioner. Sliding scale available. Groups offered.

Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW— Counseling & Psychotherapy (845) 679-5511, ext. 304 kentagram@gmail.com Each person’s therapy is an organic process of self-exploration and discovery, unfolding

uniquely according to our different personalities. Through conversation and reflection, this process can begin at any point. It can focus upon any life struggle or topic, from practical or relationship issues to existential or spiritual concerns. Short- or long-term; sliding scale.

Laura Coffey, MFA, LMSW Rosendale & Beacon, NY (845) 399-0319 undefinedreading@gmail.com Family Therapist specializing in Narrative Therapy. Practice includes eclectic interventions tailored to suit individual client’s needs. Healing conversations for the entire family, gerentological services for the elderly and support for caretakers. Grief counseling, motivational interviewing for substance abuse, couples work, LGBT issues, PTSD and childhood trauma, depression, anxiety and performance anxiety. Fee: $25.00 a clinical hour.

Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com I work with adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disordered behaviors, loneliness, and life transitions. I’ve helped teens and adults with substance abuse and trauma connected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. My approach is psychodynamic, linking the painful past with current and cognitive problems which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.

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Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.

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Garrison Institute Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org Retreat for Teachers: Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education, August 8-13. This teacher training offers practical skills to improve stress management and improve emotional awareness, concentration and responsiveness, both in teachers’ lives and in the classroom. Continuing Education Units are available.

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The Living Seed 521 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com Open to the community for over 5 years. Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced. Including pre- and post-natal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, sauna, and organic Yoga clothing. Route 299, across from Econo Lodge.

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Kingston: Reed Karasik

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Wearing? A Hudson Valley Fashion Tour Text and photos by Jennifer May In July, our intrepid photojournalist Jen May hit the streets of the Hudson Valley to document what we’re wearing now. It seems that not much has changed since the last time Jen went out on a similar assignment, back in 2006. We still love to look good, but practicality—and price!—is also a concern. The cities and villages of our region are made for walking, and when we go out on the town, we can’t be worried about costume changes (our token rock star, Alana Orr, excepted). Accessories and signature items—certain pieces of jewelry and footwear—need to show versatility. Vintage is often the way to go, as high-end designer fashions can be trop cher. And once again, we’re reminded that it’s not only what you wear, but how you wear it.

Rosendale: Alana Orr

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Rosendale: Location: Main Street during the Rosendale Street Festival Name: Alana Orr Occupation: Musician. My band is called the Duchess of Funk, but I am changing it to Orchid. What instruments do you play? I front the band, sing, play bass, write my own songs, and play guitar and drums. Define your sense of style: Well, I was voted funkiest dresser in high school. I guess I would say funky. Is there anyone’s style who inspires you? I do my own thing. I see things all over that inspire me. What is your signature item? I am never not wearing a necklace. Ninety-nine percent of the time I wear beaded jewelry that I make. Kingston Location: Broadway at the Strand Name: Reed Karasik Occupation: Jewelry designer. I studied fashion design in Syracuse. Define your sense of style: I’m not into wearing what is in fashion. I wear what I feel like wearing, it is an interpretation of who I am. Where did the pieces come from you are wearing today? The top is from a boutique in New Paltz, and I got the skirt in Spain. Tell me about your hair: It’s usually pretty different. I’ve had every color, but I always revert back to blue. What is your signature item? My rings. They all have special meanings. Rhinebeck Location: East Market Street Name: Alexia Evans Occupation: Associate director of the Byrdcliffe Gallery Define your sense of style: I like high-end French fashion, but I can’t afford high, high end so I do what I can to make it work. I like to do vintage ‘50s hair and makeup but I mix it up to make it a little modern. What are you wearing today? Shorts, Limited. Top, WD-NY. Shoes, Steve Madden. Where do you shop in the Hudson Valley? I shop at consignment stores, Express, and Marshalls in Kingston. Beacon Location: Main Street Name: Kayla Turner [on left, in orange] Occupation: High school student Define your sense of style: I like bright colors. I like to be daring and to stand out. I like to be different from other people. Is there anyone whose style you admire? Lil Wayne. What are you always seen wearing? My necklace (gold script, reads “Kayla”). I never take it off. My mom gave it to me. Name: Shanice Hughes [on right, in gray] Occupation: High school student Define your sense of style: I don’t like bright colors. I like to be more toned down, I wear blacks, reds, grays—but not goth. What accessory are you never without? My NV Touch phone. Hudson Location: Warren Street Name: Henry Thompson Occupation: I represent private jet charters with Halcyon Jets. We live in New Jersey. Define your sense of style: I’m a jeans with button-down shirt and blazer kind of guy; you wear it for work or play—you can go shopping or to the beaches of Miami. There’s nothing like a blazer and flip-flops. (“He is refined, classic, preppy, and laid back,” says Aimée.) What are you wearing today? A Banana Republic linen jacket, classic Levi’s, a graphic T, flip-flops, and Hugo Boss sunglasses. Tell me about these pictures on your phone: There I am at P. Diddy’s party. Me with Kelsey Grammer; also with Ben Stiller’s dad. I bet you have some wild stories: You could say that. Name: Aimée Spiers Occupation: I hate that question! Do I have to answer? I’m starting over. Define your sense of style: Versatile. He likes elegantly classic. (“Fit for a nightclub or for a polo field,” adds Henry.) You want to dress appropriately. I’ve always been a trendsetter. My mother and grandmother were both models; my mother was one of Bloomingdale’s first models. I was in a fashion show of Pol’ Atteu in Beverly Hills. He is a friend of ours. He designed for Anna Nicole Smith. I own the wedding dress she was going to wear. What are you wearing today? A perfect summer dress by Lilly Pulitzer. Shoes, Stuart Weitzman. A Coco Chanel bag. And my ring: 18 carats with a canary in the center.

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Woodstock: Location: Tinker Street at the Village Green Name: Galen Scheidenhelm Occupation: I am a bartender at a little karaoke bar in New York City. Define your sense of style: Casual, comfortable, and understated. What are you wearing today? A Calvin Klein Tshirt, Lucky jeans, and John Varvatos boots…he is a new American designer. What is your signature item? Motorcycle boots.

Name: Jenna Nanke Occupation: Hair stylist Define your sense of style: I don’t know. (“Hippie-chic,” says Galen.) What is your signature item? I always wear big, big earrings, but not today, as we came on a motorcycle from New York City…you know, the helmet. What are you wearing? Handmade Italian boots from Calypso, G Star jeans, and an Urban Outfitters jacket. What item do people always see you in? I have a big boot collection.

Woodstock: Galen Scheidenhelm and Jenna Nanke

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s the saying goes, beauty is skin deep. But the sheen of your hair or the glow of your skin is not just superficial; it’s also an indicator of overall wellness. “Radiance emanates from inner health,” says Melinda Pizzano of Bodhi Holistic Spa, Salon & Boutique in Hudson. “People don’t always notice if you look pretty, but they do notice if you’re radiant.”When money is tight and stress and anxiety are elevated, it’s even more important to take time to relax and recharge, and luckily, there are a number of at-home fixes inspired by spa and salon services that can help. Chronogram spoke to Pizzano and her industry peers to discuss some do-it-yourself treatments that you can try at home to reap the same beauty benefits as you would in expert hands. Within Your Skin As the largest organ of the body, the skin helps protect us from the sun, exposure to chemicals, temperature change, and more. A variety of factors, from contact with the elements to the natural aging process, can lead to skin issues like wrinkling, dullness, and dryness, and get us further from the luminous, soft, and blemish-free appearance that defines healthy skin. To help moisturize and achieve smoothness, Pizzano suggests an ayurvedic approach. Using a generous amount of pure sesame oil, which is rich in mono and polyunsaturated fatty acids and the antioxidant sesamin, massage the whole body from head to toe, including the face, scalp, and hair. Slip into a hot bath and relax 96 BEAUTY AND FASHION ChronograM 8/09

as the water’s warmth opens your pores and the sesame oil soaks in. “Sesame oil is grounding and nurturing,” says Pizzano. “It’s an amazing treatment to emotionally balance, and at the same time you’re getting the benefits for your skin.” If you simply don’t have time to linger in a bath, you can treat your skin to some of the same benefits with a quick post-shower spritz, says Babs Moley of River Rock Health Spa in Woodstock. While the skin is still wet, apply the oil and then pat dry with a towel. She recommends avoiding petroleum-based products and opting for wholesome yet inexpensive oils like almond, jojoba, and olive oils. During the summer months, almond oil is a particularly great option for body care. Dr. Simone Harari of Body of Truth and The Spa at Stone Ridge says that almond oil helps block the absorption of chlorine for those who apply it before swimming, thereby helping to keep skin hydrated and healthier looking. About Face When it comes to facial skin, which is often more sensitive and delicate than other areas of the body, Moley says the best-kept beauty secret is amazingly easy— regularly cleanse and exfoliate. Opt for natural skincare products that are without SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate), which provides many commercial products with their foaming action but can strip the skin of moisture. Investing in spa-grade products can be a good option, given their price-per-use, she says. Both River Rock and Body of Truth offer guests the Eminence Organics product line, which uses all organic

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herbs, flowers, and fruits of the highest quality in its goods. Moley says the Sweet Red Rose and Lemon Cleansers are the most popular among her clientele. After cleansing, follow up with light exfoliation. Moley suggests using a sea sponge or brush on the face to exfoliate, but remember that the key word is gentle. Harsh scrubbing that’s too abrasive can damage fragile areas. Other low-cost, highly effective, at-home treatments can be made with ingredients you may already have in your kitchen. For Harari, cold-pressed organic olive oil is the trick to soothingly cleanse and moisturize. “I met a woman that was over 80 and she barely had any wrinkles,” she says. “ I asked her what she had done for skincare and she told me her whole life she had never used soap, just water and olive oil to wash and moisturize her face.” To cleanse and nourish, Harari also suggests making this simple, summery recipe: Mix four to five mashed strawberries, one tablespoon of organic honey, and one tablespoon of heavy cream and apply to the face for 20 minutes. Using this mask once a week will help tighten skin and provide a host of other advantages. “The salicylic acid in the strawberries helps to remove impurities and dead cells and acts as an exfoliant,” Harari says. “The honey is a natural humectant that prevents wrinkles, nourishes the skin, and keeps it supple and moist.” For a gentle peel to treat fine lines and wrinkles and rid the face of dead skin cells, Pizzano recommends papaya. The fruit contains an enzyme called papain, which has natural exfoliating properties. Papaya can be crushed and applied to the face as a mask, or combined with other ingredients like honey or yogurt for added moisturization benefits. If you’d rather purchase a mask than concoct your own, Bodhi carries the Naturopathica line of skincare products. Pizzano recommends the Environmental Defense Mask, which contains cherry puree and other productive ingredients like pomegranate, tomato, and red wine extracts. While there are many options for at-home face care, there are some treatments that are better left to the professionals. Moley feels strongly that no home product will deliver the results of a microdermabrasion appointment, during which fine crystals are sprayed on the face, removing dead skin cells and sucking them up. She’s even wary about the typical microderm procedure, which she describes as “sandblasting,” because the product flies uncontrollably and can be ingested by the client and the practitioner during the treatment. River Rock provides a gentle microdermabrasion service that uses a fine rotating file to slough off the outer skin layers. Likewise, Pizzano recommends exercising caution when attempting any sort of peel at home. If certain products are left on too long, they can cause burning, redness, and other undesirable consequences. To make the most of a peel, she’s a proponent of scheduling one at a spa, where professionals use higher concentration products for maximum effect and where you’ll be monitored for comfort and safety at all times. Remember to maximize the potential of all spa services with the recommended follow-up care and by engaging in a regular routine of cleansing, exfoliating, and protecting skin with sunscreen. Harari recommends an organic sunscreen made with zinc oxide or a mineral powder foundation that contains an SPF. Check your local spa’s boutique for products like these or ask your practitioner to recommend their favorite. Grand Strands Keeping salon costs at bay can be difficult if you’re coloring your hair or sticking to the prescribed visit every six weeks. Gray or natural color can begin to show

through colored hair in a matter of weeks, and damage at the ends of the hair can quickly move up locks if it’s not snipped off in time. Maintaining your hair’s condition is the best way to prolong the time between salon visits. Joshua Boos of Moxie Salon & Beauty Hub in Beacon says the first thing to do to extend a color treatment is to stop shampooing on a daily basis. “People have this thing that have to wash their hair everyday,” he says. What you’re aiming for is a clean, healthy scalp that will produce healthy hair. Shampoos, especially those that contain SLS, can strip the hair of oils and natural moisture. Find a shampoo that’s SLS-free and try washing every other day. “Sulfate-free shampoos don’t lather, and a lot of people want lather and they feel they’re not getting a good cleansing [without it],” Boos says. “But actually that would prolong the color, and it is actually cleansing.” He also advises clients to switch to a natural bristle brush, which distributes oils from the scalp through the hair. To condition hair, Michael Pettine of Salone Bianco in Newburgh says a simple concoction of an avocado and half a cup of olive oil in a food processor will create a natural alternative to the bottled remedies on the shelves. Once a month, spread the mixture throughout the hair and sit under a hood dryer (if one is available) or place a plastic bag around the hair and wrap a towel over the top to keep the heat in. The fact that the treatment uses all-natural ingredients allows the hair to absorb it better, says Pettine. When it comes to coloring, Boos thinks most people can get away with a singleprocess color at home under the guidance of a stylist (he says clients in the past have had luck with Second Nature by Clairol). “Clear communication with the stylist should be key,” he says. “People need assistance. That color you’re seeing with a box nine times out of ten is not going to happen. The professional has got to be willing to help with you.” There is a range of factors that are taken into consideration with professional coloring services, like the different applications of color at the scalp, the mid shaft, and the ends of the hair. Boos advises that lemon juice, highlighting tonics, and products like Sun In be avoided, due to their damaging effects. Pettine is very cautious when it comes to the subject of do-it-yourself coloring. “We make most of our money correcting what people tried to do at home,” he says. Using a temporary mousse color on any roots that are showing or using a wash-out color that will last just a few weeks are safer bets. Haircuts are best done in-house at a salon, too. Boos says that stylists are trained to distribute the weight of hair to achieve certain shapes, and without an education in hair styling it would almost be impossible to cut your own hair with the same success. Not to mention the risk of gouging yourself—a consequence Boos says he’s suffered when he doesn’t follow his own advice. What it all boils down to is education and exploration. Technicians at the salon or spa may be more open than you think about helping you find ways to save a few dollars on your services—and they can recommend products and home remedies that will help you achieve some of the same effects of a visit, or at least help stretch the time between appointments. “We educate like no one’s business about hair and materials of the hair and what it needs,” says Boos. “With clients, I’m very much looking after the best interests for their pockets in any way.” RESOURCES Bodhi Holistic Spa, Salon & Boutique 323 Warren Street, Hudson (518) 828-2233; www.bodhistudio.com Body of Truth, The Spa at Stone Ridge 85 Kyserike Road, Stone Ridge (845) 687-SPA1; www.bodyoftruth.com Moxie Salon & Beauty Hub 544 Main St. #1, Beacon (845) 440-6653; www.nowthatsmoxie.com River Rock Health Spa 62 Ricks Road, Woodstock (845) 679-7800; www.riverrock.biz Salone Bianco 2915 Route 9W, New Windsor (845) 784-0179; www.salonebianco.com 8/09 ChronograM BEAUTY AND FASHION 97

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Merry Hours on the Hudson “Then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.” Act II, Scene I, “Much Ado About Nothing” Like Beatrice—the buoyant leading lady of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”—describing the “merry hour” of her birth, the plays of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival also come to life at night, on the rolling lawns of Boscobel in Garrison this summer. All directors strive to achieve a specific look for their production, often transposing one period for another. As part of the HVSF’s 23rd season, director John Plummer’s take on “Much Ado” turns this notion on its head, liberating it from the restrictions of a certain time in history. This open interpretation of Shakespeare allows the audience to relate to the play in a new way. “To reduce a play is to diminish it, to diminish the audience’s imaginative capability in accessing [it],” he says. “Much Ado” is a typical Shakespearean comedy, with pairs of lovers, double-dealing, and hidden identities. Nance Williamson and Jason O’Connell star as Beatrice and Benedick, a feuding couple who epitomize the battle of the sexes. Katie Hartke and Ryan Quinn play Hero and Claudio, the naive young lovers. True to the HVSF mission of distilling rather than embellishing the language, the actors emphasize gestures and physical comedy to bring the script to life, and strain the Shakespearean English through the cadences of contemporary speech. Even the Bard-phobic will find themselves laughing. “I’m not trying to translate it at all, I’m actually trying to find the true meaning

of it,” says Plummer. This approach produces an unexpected result: By stepping away from Shakespeare it is remarkably easy to get back to it. While Plummer believes it is the director’s job to honor the intentions of the playwright, he is also a strong advocate of not restricting the look of a production. The result? Ray guns and Southern accents. Instead of lutes, expect bagpipes. Renaissance strains—so unfamiliar to 21st century ears—are replaced by songs with a modern flair. At times it can be hard to place the quirky mix of costumes: aviator goggles, Venetian masks, and feather boas. But as it happens, this is the goal. “We want people to feel that it’s their time, it’s their place, it’s any time, it’s any place, it’s every time, it’s every place,” says Plummer. The tent at Boscobel has seating in the round, just like the Globe Theater, Shakespeare’s original haunt. The local version, however, is much smaller: The Globe seated approximately 3,000 while the HVSF tent seats 534. Staging in and amongst the audience maximizes the feeling of intimacy under the tent. As the sun sets over the Hudson River each night, darkness descends on the audience like a cloak, narrowing the focal point to the actors in the honeyed spotlight of the earthen stage. “Much Ado About Nothing” will be performed by the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in repertory with “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” and “Pericles” through early September at Boscobel in Garrison. (845) 265-9575; www.hvshakespeare.org. —KellyAnne McGuire 8/09 ChronograM forecast

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SATURDAY 1 AUGUST Art Card Stamping 1pm. $12. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. MidSummer Lughnacy 3pm-10:30pm. Music, dance, theater, wickerman & bonfire fundraiser. $25/$50 weekend/$10 parking/ children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540. Paintings by Kim Schneider 5pm-7pm. Millbrook Gallery and Antiques, Millbrook. 677-6699. Deus ex Machina 5pm-7pm. Recent paintings by Russell Thurston. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112. Clay Bodies 5pm-7pm. 6 local artists explore the unexpected in ceramic arts. Kingston Museum of Contemporary art. kmoca.org. Confluence: An Exhibition of Related & Diverse Works 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Thicket 5:30pm-7:30pm. David Ricci. Iris Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9663. Franz Heigemeir: New Oil Paintings 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Landscapes 6pm-8pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. Palenville First Outdoor Sculpture Show 6pm-8pm. Catskill Mountain Lodge, Palenville. (518) 678-3101.

Body / Mind / Spirit Working With Adversity Call for times. Khandro Rinpoche. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Heal Thyself Crystal Workshop 10am-5pm. Woodstock Wellness, Woodstock. 679-6700.

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Meditation and Stress Release 10:30am-11:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Poolside Yoga 11am. $90/$72/$20/$15. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600. Natural First Aid Homeopathy 2:30pm-4:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Shakespeare Summer Two-Week Intensive Call for times. Culminates in a performance of Much Ado About Nothing. Little Globe Stage, West Shokan. 657-5867. Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop Classes Call for times. The Rhinebeck Photography and Arts Center, Rhinebeck. (516) 286-5104. Photographing the Nude in Nature and the Studio 10am-4pm. $350/$300 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Dance 3 Dancers, 4 Chairs, 26 Words Call for times. Aynsley Andenbroukle Movement group. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893. Dance Fundraiser 7pm. $20. St. Rocco’s, Newburgh. 532-5615. Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal 8pm. $58. Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29. Janis Joplin: Pearl 8pm. Modern dance piece created by Paige Constable. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Events Bears and Butterflies Statues of fiberglass bears, each individually painted by local artists with scenes relevant to Henry Hudson’s life and legacy. Main Street, Cairo. (518) 622-3939. Berkshire Fringe Festival Check web site for specific event details. The Daniel Arts Center at Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA. www.berkshirefringe.org. Work/Learn Day Call for times. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. Hyde Park Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154. Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Organic Fruit & Vegetable Garden Tour 9am-3:30pm. Tour of five gardens in Ulster County. $20. Call for location. 255-9728. Millerton Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250.

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Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Show me the Door 10am-4pm. A Warwick Village Wedding bridal show. Old School Baptist Meeting House, Warwick. www.warwickvillageweddings.com. Ulster County Fair 10am-12am. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. info@ulstercountyfair.com. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. info@pearldaddy.net. Trunk Show: Native American Crafts 11am-7pm. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-6pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181. Bounty of the Hudson Wine and Food Festival 12pm-5pm. $35/$25. Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, Millbrook. (800) 662-9463. 1658 Stockade District Walking Tour 2pm. $10/$5 children. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720. Sloop Clearwater Public Sail 3pm-6pm. $50/$35 member/$15 children. Red Hook Waterfront, Red Hook. 454-7673 ext. 112. Bindlestiff Family Cirkus 3:30pm. $15. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7414. Poughkeepsie Farm Project’s Community Picnic 4pm-7pm. Vassar Farm, Pok. saf366@nyu.edu.

Film Film Festival “Politics, Theater, and Wagner” Call for times. Bard SummerScape. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

Kids Botanical Nature Hike For Kids 9am-10am. With nature drawing. Benedict Town Park, Montgomery. (845) 457-ARTS.

Music The Original New York Doo Wopp Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Young People’s Concert 1am. Elizabeth Mitchell and Family. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Rachel Lee Walsh 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Cuartetto Latinoamericano 6:30pm. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126. Dr. Peter Muir and Steve Fabrizio 7pm. Millbrook Band Shell, Millbrook. 894-7291. Tim Ouimette 7:30pm. Jazz. Jack and Luna’s, Stone Ridge. 687-9794. Stephen Kaiser Group 7:30pm. Jazz. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Premik Russell Tubbs Quartet 7:30pm-10:30pm. Jan Peek Gazebo, Peekskill. David Kraai 8pm. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300. Ladysmith Black Mambazo 8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Prana 8pm. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Hudson. (518) 828-4346. Annie Rorick and Friends 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 255-1901. The Duke & The King 8pm. Colony Café, Woodstock. www.wdst.com Upstart Blues All Stars 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277. Bret Mosley 9pm. Folk, rock. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164. Eric Erickson 9pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Moon Boot Lover 9pm. Rock. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Roomful Of Blues 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Duchess Di & the Distractions 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Bard SummerScape: Spiegeltent 10pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

The Outdoors The Catskill Mountain House and North-South Lake Call for times. Guided hike. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.

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Georgia on My Mind “I discovered Dove and picked him out before I was picked out and discovered,” Georgia O’Keeffe told an interviewer in 1962. “Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is the first show pairing Arthur Dove's and Georgia O’Keeffe’s art. O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was the most prominent American woman artist of the 20th century; Dove is still relatively unknown. But when O’Keeffe was a young painting student in 1914, the situation was reversed. Dove (1880-1946) was the first American abstract artist, beginning almost as early as Vassily Kandinsky in Germany. O’Keeffe noticed the elder artist’s work in reproduction in Arthur Jerome Eddy’s Cubists and Post-Impressionism (1914), the first survey of modern art by an American writer. The influence was immediate and fruitful. “Dove is the only American painter who is of the Earth.” O’Keeffe later observed. “Where I come from the Earth means everything.” Abstraction had a different trajectory in America than in Europe. Picasso and Braque began by splintering visual reality with Cubism. Dove and, later, O’Keeffe simplified natural forms. Despite the vast size of America, abstraction here took a miniaturist’s eye. O’Keeffe, with her talent for self-promotion, was the opposite of Dove. He lived on a houseboat named Mona for seven years, avoiding the art world, while O’Keeffe married Alfred Stieglitz, the most influential gallerist in America. Stieglitz was also a photographer, and his nude photographs of O’Keeffe in 1918 created a sensation. In the 1930s, Dove began painting with water-based paint, and drew inspiration from the “burning watercolors” O’Keeffe had painted 20 years earlier. So the Dove/O’Keeffe influence was mutual.

Art critics in the early 20th century, inspired by Freud’s new theories, saw O’Keeffe and Dove as primal male and female artists. “Dove is very directly the man in painting, precisely as Georgia O’Keeffe is the female,” wrote Paul Rosenfeld. “Neither type has been known in quite the degree of purity before.” O’Keeffe’s paintings leap out of the canvas and address the viewer. Dove’s works pull the viewer in, quietly. “While there are very clear correspondences, both thematically and visually, between Dove and O’Keeffe, if you really look at the surfaces—the way they’re painted—their touches are quite distinct,” explains Richard Rand, senior curator at the Clark. “Dove has a probing brush, a short, hatch-work style, where Georgia O’Keeffe’s touch is much more fluid, glossy, synthetic.” O’Keeffe took the Dove influence and brought it closer to visual reality—“de-abstracting” his work. She also lightened his palette. Of course, O’Keeffe had other influences as well. Two of her stunning precisionist cityscapes from the 1920s appear in the exhibit. This is the first major show of 20th-century art at the Clark Institute. The guest curator, Debra Bricker Balken, served as a visiting professor at the Clark in 2005. None of this material is taken from the Clark collection, and “Dove/O’Keeffe” will not travel. “Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence” will be exhibited at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, through September 7. (413) 458-2303; www.clarkart.edu. —Sparrow 8/09 ChronograM forecast

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Spoken Word Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring Djelloul Marbrook. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165. Those Two Guys 7pm. Comedy. $25/$20 members/$7 children. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Henry Hudson Quadlathon 11am. Run, swim, kayak, bike in teams. Call for location. Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-5pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181.

Theater

Bounty of the Hudson Wine and Food Festival 12pm-5pm. $35/$25. Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, Millbrook. (800) 662-9463.

Tina Girlstar Call for times. Powerhouse Theater. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus 3:30pm. $15. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7414.

Rent Call for times. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Film

Meyerbeer’s Opera Les Huguenots Call for times. Bard SummerScape. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu. Powerhouse Theater Reading Festival Call for times. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Oresteia Call for times. Bard SummerScape. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. Rip Van Winkle 11am. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. www.centerforperformingarts.org. Vera Laughed 2pm/8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Wizard of Oz 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. The Producers 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Car Talk 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Pericles 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Bob Dylan Tribute 7pm. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600.

Music Rebel Red Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Split the Bill 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Open Book and The Veltz Family 1pm. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Spirit of Unity Gospel Ensemble 1pm-3pm. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. Hudson Valley Choral Society: Fourth Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert 2:30pm. $25/$20 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. The Cuartetto Latinoamericano 3pm. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126. Summer Music Series 3pm. Chamber music. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.

Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. $90-$350. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Jim Dawson 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

To Whet the Appetite 3pm-5pm. Watercolors by Marguerite Bride. Old Chatham Country Store Café Gallery, Old Chatham. (518) 794-6227. MidSummer Lughnacy 3pm-10:30pm. Music, dance, theater, wickerman & bonfire fundraiser. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

Body / Mind / Spirit Heal Thyself Crystal Workshop 10am-5pm. Woodstock Wellness, Woodstock. 679-6700. Baby Belly Yoga 12pm-1:30pm. Yoga for women in any stage of pregnancy. $90 series/$15 class. The Yoga Co-op at The Garrison, Garrison. manymoonsyoga@gmail.com.

Classes Wealth of History and Fine Food in the Hudson River Valley Call for times. Elderhostel program. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3136.

Dance Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal 2pm. $58. Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29. Janis Joplin: Pearl 4pm. Modern dance piece created by Paige Constable, gala performance. $25/$20 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Events Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154. Rosendale Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467.

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Chakra Yoga Series 6pm-Monday, September 21, 7:30pm. $25 first class/$150 series. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. $25. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes L’Art Brut 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for jugglers and prop manipulators. Basilica Industria, Hudson. (518) 828-0131.

Kids IntegrARTE Call for times. Ages 6-10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Wayfinder Experience 9am-4pm. 3 weeks, ages 8-16. $395/$365 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Summer History Camp 9am-Friday, August 7, 2pm. $110/$95 members. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240.

Music

Trio Solist 4pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Workshops

Senior UCCC Student Art Exhibit 11am-4pm. 12 Market Street, Ellenville. 647-6604.

Summer Yoga on the Lawn 6pm-7:30pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638.

Melody Africa 3pm-6pm. Androgyny, New Paltz. 256-0620.

Tom Earl & his “Carnival of Friends” 7pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Art

Body / Mind / Spirit

Kids on Stage Intermediate 2 9am-1pm. Ages 7-10. $200. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Bill Vogel’s Soft Sounds 6pm-8pm. Thoman Felton Community Park, Modena. 883-6022.

SUNDAY 2 AUGUST

MONDAY 3 AUGUST

An Afternoon of Soft Summer Jazz 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7690.

The Last Five Years 8pm. Admit One Productions. $10. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Rustic Bench-Building Workshop 10am-Sunday, August 2, 5pm. $180. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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Ulster County Fair 10am-8pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. info@ulstercountyfair.com.

Billy Bragg 7:30pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Jerry Josephs & Jackmormons 8pm. Folk, traditional. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Dianne Reeves 8pm. Jazz singer. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Brett Mosley 8pm. Folk, rock. $12. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Bard SummerScape: Spiegeltent 10pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Spoken Word Poetry Reading 8pm. Featuring Oliver Olive-Eyes Grech. Wurtsboro Arts Alliance, Wurtsboro. 647-5530.

Theater Rent Call for times. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Powerhouse Theater Reading Festival Call for times. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Bard SummerScape: Les Huguenots Call for times. $25-$75. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. Oresteia Call for times. Bard SummerScape. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. Car Talk 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Vera Laughed 2pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. The Producers 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Wizard of Oz 3pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Much Ado About Nothing 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. The Last Five Years 8pm. Admit One Productions. $10. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Sammy Brown 7pm. Singer-songwriter performs every Monday night. Free. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA.

Spoken Word Reconstructing the Romantics 6:15pm-7:45pm. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Theater Bard SummerScape: Les Huguenots Call for times. $25-$75. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. Complete Shakespeare Abridged 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Workshops Found Fashion 1pm-Thursday, August 27, 4pm. Design and construct your own outfit to show off while strutting down the runway. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. Iris Litt. $60 series/$15 session. Call for location. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST Art College Rep Visit to Summer Art Intensive 4pm-7pm. Steel Plant Studios, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Combines laughter/deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 516-4330. Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Classes Figurative Clay Sculpture 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Events

Theater

Kingston Hospital Foundation 2009 Golf Classic Call for specific information. Apple Greens Golf Course, Highland. 334-2760. www.kingstonhospital.org.

Bard SummerScape: Les Huguenots Call for times. $25-$75. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.

Millay Garden Tour with Poetry and Wine Set 3pm. Offered by Edna St. Vincent Millay Society. $15. Call for location. (518) 392-3362.

Auditions for The Emperor’s New Clothes 3pm. Children’s Stage Adventures production. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Featuring fiddle music with Deb Tankard and Friends. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618.

Workshops

Kids

Introductory Zeri Workshops Call for times. $585/$900/$1350. Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie.

Kids in the Catskills Call for times. Tie-dye t-shirts, crazy chemistry, arts & crafts. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Rosendale Community Drum Circle 7pm-8:30pm. $10. The Drum Depot, Rosendale. 658-4136.

Kids Can Cook Classes 9am-Wednesday, August 19, 2pm. Grades 6-8. Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, Ghent. (518) 672-7500.

TUESDAY 4 AUGUST Art Password & Project Aware Alumnae Exhibit and Performance 5:30pm-8:30pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Fiber Arts Group 6:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Body / Mind / Spirit Spirit Readings with Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein 12pm-6pm. $40-$75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Open Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Tune Up Your Frequency 6:30pm-7:30pm. Channel by Suzy Meszoly. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Abstraction, Composition, Color 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Music Taeko 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Landing, Newburgh. www.NewburghJazzSeries.com. The Roundabout Ramblers 7pm. Folk. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Mike Seminara 8pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Upstart Blues All-Stars’ Blues Jam 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

The Outdoors Esty & Hellie Stowell Trailhead Moonlight Hike 6pm-9:30pm. Storm King Trail Head, Cornwall. 473-4440 ext. 273.

Theater Les Huguenots Call for times. Bard SummerScape. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

Film

Much Ado About Nothing 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Mad Hot Ballroom 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Car Talk 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Kids

Workshops

HIP! Drop-In for Kids Call for times. Ages 4-6. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Painting Studio 5:30pm-8pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Music African American Music: From Gospel to Funk 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640. Progressive Nation 2009 Tour 7pm. Featuring Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Pain of Salvation & Beardfish. $35-$50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

THURSDAY 6 AUGUST Art College Rep Visit to Summer Art Intensive 4pm-7pm. Steel Plant Studios, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Body / Mind / Spirit How to Contact Your Spirit Guide With Automatic Writing 7pm-9pm. With Vakerie Stiehl. $25. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Rendering in Black and White 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Drawing, Painting and Composition 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock.

Events Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for specific events and times. Kent, CT. (860) 927-1463. Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling . Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Kids HIP! Drop-In for Kids Call for times. Ages 7-11. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Story Time 10am. Ages 6-9. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.

Music Tiki Daddy 5pm-8pm. Jazz, blues. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028. String of Pearls 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Landing, Newburgh. www. NewburghJazzSeries.com. The Christine Spero Group and Larrama 6:30pm-8:30pm. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Joey Eppard 7pm. Acoustic. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Johnny Fedz & da Bluez Boyz Invitational Jam 8:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Melody Africa 8:30pm. $10. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Spoken Word Conversations in French 1pm-2pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Diaghilevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ballets Russes and the Birth of a Ballet Classic: Apollon Musagate 6:15pm-7:45pm. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. Poetry Open Mike 8pm. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

Theater Les Huguenots Call for times. Bard SummerScape. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu. Plaza Suite 7pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. Complete Shakespeare Abridged 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Car Talk 7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. West Side Story 7:30pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. The Last Five Years 8pm. Admit One Productions. $10. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

FRIDAY 7 AUGUST Art Suddenly Summer Somewhere Call for times. Monica Bill Barnes and Company. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Body / Mind / Spirit Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sacred Moonlodge 6:45pm. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081.

Dance Friday Night Swing Dance 7:30pm. Lesson at 7pm. $10/$8 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

VIG Improv Comedy Independent Living Fundraiser 7pm. Performance of Now with Lemon. $10-$25. Green Room, Newburgh. 565-1162 ext. 242.

Kids 4 Weeks of Kids & Music Call for times. 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music workshop. $99. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Story Time 11am. Ages 2-5. Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.

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Music Nina Violet Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

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The Acoustic Medicine Show 7pm-10pm. La Porcini Cucina, Tivoli. 757-1015. The Harvest Band 7pm. Hopewell Recreation Park, Hopewell Junction. 242-6104.

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Anne McCue Band 7pm. Cluett-Shantz Memorial Park, Milton. 546-0444. Benefit Concert of the Visiting Artist Program 7pm. Featuring viola students. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 338-6418.

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Rick Z 7pm. Acoustic. Frank Guidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Italy, Kingston. 340-1682. Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. Diana Mae Munch, Sharon Klein, and Marji Zintz. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

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Dave Bieler and Lisa Glick 7:30pm. Acoustic. Babycakes CafĂŠ, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Luminous Ragas 7:30pm. An evening of Indian flute music with Steve Gorn. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Warwick Chambers Players 7:30pm. $25. Warwick Grove, Warwick. (212) 688-4800.

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John Basil Organ Trio 7:30pm-10:30pm. Beanrunner CafĂŠ, Peekskill. Pablo Ziegler: Trio for Nuevo Tango 8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Laurie Siegel 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 255-1901. Luminous Ragas 8pm. An Indian flute concert with Steve Gorn. Sky Lake, Rosendale. 658-8556. Jonathan Edwards and Abbie Gardner 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

ENGLISH RIDING FOR ALL AGES Boarding and Training Summer Riding Weeks for Kids and Adults

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Eszter Balinta 8:30pm. Cabaret. $25. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7414. Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 9pm. Country. Tin Pan Alley, Red Hook. 758-4545. Bearfoot 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Track 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. XCalibur 9:30pm. Rock. Scruffy Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub, Marlboro. 236-2822.

Spoken Word Amazing Woman Authors 12pm-1:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Calling All Poets 8pm. Featuring Cheryl A. Rice and Glenn Werner. $4. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Theater Meyerbeerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opera Les Huguenots Call for times. Bard SummerScape. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu. Allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Plaza Suite 7pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. Wizard of Oz 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. West Side Story 7:30pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. The Producers 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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Car Talk 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Events

ASK Summer Festival of Short Plays 2009 8pm. $10. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for specific events and times. Kent, CT. (860) 927-1463.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. $8. Improvisations of audience stories. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

4th Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Powwow Call for times. With Spirit on the Mountain Festival. $5/$10. Gardnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ice Cream & Coffee Shoppe, Stephentown. (518) 733-9227.

Pericles 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Eco-Fabulous Community Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 4pm-8pm. Robinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Produce, New Paltz. 255-5201.

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The Last Five Years 8pm. Admit One Productions. $10. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

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Art Suddenly Summer Somewhere Call for times. Monica Bill Barnes and Company. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Consultations by Gail Petronio Internationally Renowned Psychic Over 20 years Experience Sessions In-Person or By Phone

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845.626.4895 212.714.8125

Pine Bush NY Area Chamber of Commerce Art Tour 11am-5pm. Call for location. 220-8125. Panel Discussion: Art, the Economy and Our Community 2pm-4pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 765-1629. Made in Peekskill: A Tribute to Buddy Glassberg 3pm-5pm. Beanrunner CafĂŠ, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Tributes: Sculptures by Buddy Glassberg 3pm-5pm. Garden Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-8508. Banks of the Hudson 3pm-5pm. National juried exhibition in conjunction with Ulster County Hudson River 400. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Enchanting Visions 5pm-7pm. Exhibit of paintings by Lisa Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;GormanHofsommer and Nancy Reed Jones. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery. 457-ARTS. Children 5pm-7pm. William Ropp. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

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Fire Fighters: The Art of J.E. Capriano 6pm-8pm. Group exhibition, plus a retrospective of the works of J.E. Capriano. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519. Must Paint: Sharon Broit, Betsy Friedman and Erik Schoonebeek 7pm-9pm. Roos Arts, Rosendale. info@roosarts.com.

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Woodstock Fringe Kick Off Party and Fundraiser 4pm. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock. 679-2079. The Art of Red Wine Blending and Dinner 5pm-9pm. $125. Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, Millbrook. (800) 662-9463. Henry Hudson Discovers the Algonquians/The Algonquians Discover Henry Hudson 8pm. Byrdcliffe Barn, Woodstock . 679-2079.

Film Taking Woodstock 3pm. Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock. 679-4265.

Kids Ben Robinson 3:30pm. Magician. $15. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7414.

Music Tracey Bonham Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Acoustic Music Festival 3pm-9pm. Margaretville Pavilion, Margaretville.

Music Omi Concert 5pm. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Woodstock SpiritPlay Open Groups 10:30am-2:15pm. SpiritPlay Studio, Woodstock. blairglaser.com/publications.

Wild Nights 6pm. Maria Bachmann, violin; Andrew Armstrong, piano; Wendy Sutter, cello. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Poolside Yoga 11am. $90/$72/$20/$15. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600. Joshua Kane with Borders of the Mind 8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

Classes Haiku, Brush and Sketch with Barbara Bash 9am-5pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Swing Dance 7pm-10pm. Lesson, dance and performance. $10/$6 students/children free. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939. Southern Dance Week 8pm. Cajun, square & contra dancing with Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. $10. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. Outdoor Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-2pm. Smoke-free, drug-free, alcohol-free and shoe-free dancing. $7/$3 teens and seniors/children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8319.

Events Purple Heart Day Call for times. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765. Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for specific events and times. Kent, CT. (860) 927-1463. 4th Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Powwow Call for times. With Spirit on the Mountain Festival. $5/$10. Gardnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ice Cream & Coffee Shoppe, Stephentown. (518) 733-9227.

John Street Jam 7:30pm. Acoustic. $5. John Street Jam at the Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. johnstreetjam.net. Jim Curtin 7:30pm. Jazz. Babycakes CafĂŠ, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Neil Alexander & Nail 2pm-4pm. Beanrunner CafĂŠ, Peekskill. Leny Andrade 8pm. Jazz. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Don McLean 8pm. Singer/songwriter. $80 Golden Circle/ $50/$45 members. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Elly Wininger, Dave Kearney, Mestengo! 8pm. Acoustic. Reservoir Inn, West Hurley. 331-9806. Marji Zintz and Gretchen DeWitt 8pm. Folk, traditional. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters 8pm. $25. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Ben Robinson 8:30pm. Cabaret. $25. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7414. Creation 9pm. Starr Alley, Rhinebeck. 876-2924. Reality Check Duo 9pm. Acoustic. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. John Gorka 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Helen Avakian 9pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Hyde Park Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 10am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 9pm. Country. Creekside Restaurant, Catskill. (518) 943-6522.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154.

The Blues Buddha 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Millerton Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250.

The Crossroads Band 9:30pm. Rock. Copperfieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Millbrook. 677-8188.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. info@pearldaddy.net. 2009 Healthy Hudson Valley Expo 10am-7pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Native American Pow-Wow 11am-5pm. Drumming, dancing, singing, food, vendors, ceremony and socializing. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Civil War Encampment and Activities Weekend 11am-4:30pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.

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Line, Rhythm, Chance 2pm. Guided exploration through the museum with movement-based learning. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.

Meditation and Stress Release 10:30am-11:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Kingston Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.

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Black Arts and Cultural Festival and Parade 2pm-8pm. Riverfront Park, Hudson.

Body / Mind / Spirit

SummerDance on Tour! 6pm-8pm. The Vanaver Caravan. $15. Opus 40, Saugerties. 246-3400.

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Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-6pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181.

Woodstock Reggae Fest 3pm-all night. Bearsville Theater, Bearsville. www.wdst.com

Dance

SATURDAY 8 AUGUST

The Outdoors Guided Bird Walk 9am. $3. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240. Families on the Land 10am-12pm. Exploration of the land on 65 acres not normally open to the public . $10. Bruynswick Gallery, Gardiner. 255-5693. Constitution Marsh Easy Paddle 11:30am. Meet at Cold Spring Metro North Station, Cold Spring. 457-4552. Guided Walking Tour of Byrdcliffe Arts Colony 1pm. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Spoken Word CAPS Marathon 11am. Featuring many local poets and open mike. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

MUSIC ZUILL BAILEY Lisa-Marie Mazzucco cellist zuill bailey will perform with pianist robert koenig at maverick concerts in woodstock on august 29.

String King Perhaps it’s no accident that Zuill Bailey’s name rhymes with “drool.” Or “cool.” His remarkable good looks and charming personality no doubt enhance his appeal with audiences. But it’s his technical finesse on the cello, of course, that attracts listeners in droves. Where will he play next? “Let’s see,” says Bailey, who will perform at Maverick Concerts on August 29. “I’m going to Sitka, Alaska, tomorrow, then I play the Dvoák concerto at the Nashville Symphony, then Santa Barbara in early July, then I play the Bach suites in New Mexico, then Australia, and then I think I come see you? No, no—then I go to Ravenia [Chicago] and play the complete works of Beethoven, and then to Maverick, to play the complete works of Mendelssohn.” He pauses briefly, then blasts out a Herculean laugh, suddenly realizing that he’s all over the place, both musically and geographically. “I didn’t even think about that!” he says. To drop all the names (Itzhak Perlman, for one), orchestras (Moscow), and venues (Carnegie Hall) that Bailey has performed with and at would require a ridiculous amount of ink. Suffice it to say that he is one of the busiest and most sought-after cellists on the scene today, and he is grateful that he picked up his instrument at the age of four. “I was born into a musical family,” he says. “An incredibly supportive family that gave me the opportunity to find the things that I love. To find my love.” He speaks affectionately of his beloved instrument, a 1693 Venetian Goffriller used by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest String Quartet for 30 years. “I find it very therapeutic,” Bailey says. “It’s the

one instrument you can actually wrap your arms around. I’ve always felt that it’s like a person. It’s such a warm feeling. So whenever I feel, I try to channel that through the cello. I feel very lucky to have started it so young. Because when I play, it’s the most natural thing I can think of.” Bailey has recently become entangled in a medium he never expected: television. Network appearances include a recurring role on the HBO series “Oz” and the NBC series “Homicide,” as well as on A&E, NHK TV in Japan, and several live broadcasts. “When I was asked to do these television shows that were so far away from my particular audience, I thought it was the ultimate outreach,” he says. “It’s a supergrand way of reaching an enormous audience that probably didn’t and don’t go to classical concerts. When I represented myself and the cello, I represented the music and I didn’t dumb it down.” Bailey has performed at Maverick at least five times previously. “The venue is historic,” he says. “These musical instruments resonate with everything around them, including the people, and everything there is made of wood. And it’s in the forest. There really isn’t a more beautiful sound than the sound one hears from the Maverick stage. I truly respect the series. The concertgoers there are tremendous and knowledgeable, and [Music Director] Alexander Platt is terrific. I take my hat off to him.” Zuill Bailey, performing with pianist Robert Koenig, will appear at Maverick Concerts on August 29 at 6pm. (845) 679-8217; www.maverickconcerts.org. —Sharon Nichols 8/09 ChronograM forecast

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River to River Poetry Festival 11am-11pm. Poetry marathon. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Mindfully Green:

Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival 2pm. Poets Susan Lewis and India Radfar. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. pprod@mindspring.com.

a weekend retreat with

From Founders to Farmers’ 7pm. An archaeologist’s view of 19th century homes in the Hudson Valley. $3. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Practice for the Sake of All Beings

Stephanie Kaza, Environmental activist and author of Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume

September 11-13, 2009 Zen Mountain Monastery

mount tremper, ny 845.688.2228 www.mro.org/zmm/retreats mountains and rivers order of zen buddhism

Author Jason Gehlert 7pm. Author of Europa and short story collection Demon Revolver. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. WAAM Dialogues: Filmmaker Cambiz Khosravi 8:30pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Theater Plaza Suite Call for times. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. The Emperor’s New Clothes 11am/2pm. Children’s Stage Adventures production. $7. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. Wildlife World with Bill Robinson 11am. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. www.centerforperformingarts.org. All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

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Two Dark Birds 1pm. Mystery Spot Antiques, Phoenicia. 688-7868. Garden State Saxophone Quartet 3pm-6pm. Androgyny, New Paltz. 256-0620. Cello Explorations 4pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Ben Rounds 6pm-8pm. Country western. Thoman Felton Community Park, Modena. 883-6022. The Rhonda Dent Trio 6:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

The Outdoors The Garden Conservancy: Open Days 10am-5pm. Stonecrop Gardens, Cold Spring. 265-2000.

Theater

West Side Story 3pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Car Talk 8pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Wizard of Oz 3pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Much Ado About Nothing 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Plaza Suite 3pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Workshops

Complete Shakespeare Abridged 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

SUNDAY 9 AUGUST Art Senior UCCC Student Art Exhibit 11am-4pm. 12 Market Street, Ellenville. 647-6604. Family 5pm-7pm. Photographs and paintings by Lucille Weinstat. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.

Body / Mind / Spirit Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Open Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Manifesting With Group Energy 3pm-5pm. With Jenn Kluska. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kent Sidewalk Festival Call for specific events and times. Kent, CT. (860) 927-1463.

Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154. Rosendale Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. 2009 Healthy Hudson Valley Expo 10am-5pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Civil War Encampment and Activities Weekend 11am-4:30pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-5pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181.

kids Ben Robinson 3:30pm. Magician. $15. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7414.

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The Saints of Swing 1pm-3pm. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

The Producers 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

4th Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Powwow Call for times. With Spirit on the Mountain Festival. $5/$10. Gardner’s Ice Cream & Coffee Shoppe, Stephentown. (518) 733-9227.

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Janette Marie 12pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Wizard of Oz 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Events

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Bard SummerScape: Saint Paul Call for times. $25-$55. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.

Car Talk 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Haiku, Brush, Sketch 9am-5pm. A one day workshop with Barbara Bash. Sky Lake, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Raymond Albrecht

Lisa Bianco Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

West Side Story 7:30pm. $15. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

The Producers 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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MONDAY 10 AUGUST Body / Mind / Spirit Summer Yoga on the Lawn 6pm-7:30pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638. Angelic Channeling 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Classes L’Art Brut 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Events Beacon Corn Festival 12pm-5pm. Hudson River Waterfront, Beacon. Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for jugglers and prop manipulators. Basilica Industria, Hudson. (518) 828-0131.

Kids Summer History Camp 9am-Friday, August 14, 2pm. $110/$95 members. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240.

Music Sammy Brown 7pm. Singer-songwriter performs every Monday night. Free. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA.

Spoken Word Dance is a Weapon: Martha Graham’s State Department Tours 6:15pm-7:45pm. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Workshops Rosendale Community Drum Circle 7pm-8:30pm. $10. The Drum Depot, Rosendale. 658-4136.

TUESDAY 11 AUGUST Art Fiber Arts Group 6:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

MUSIC JAZZ IN THE VALLEY image provided RON CARTER WILL PERFORM with his trio at the jazz in the valley festival in kerhonkson the weekend of august 14.

Close Enough for Jazz Thanks to the legacy of Clearwater and 1969’s original Woodstock festival—the latter of which turns 40 this month—when it comes to musical events the Hudson Valley is largely associated with folk and rock. But jazz, too, has long had its haven in the local landscape, from the big bands that swung the Catskills resorts to the boundaryshattering activities of the Creative Music Studio. And while there are indeed other worthy outdoor summer jazz festivals, at 10 years, Jazz in the Valley, which happens August 14 through 16 in Kerhonksen, is the longest-running such event in the region. And this year the rain-or-shine program boasts a to-die-for lineup of several of the music’s brightest names: keyboardist Les McCann, bassist Ron Carter, pianists Eddie Palmieri and Mulgrew Miller, vocalist Kevin Mahogany, guitarist Russell Malone, and saxophonist Javon Jackson. “The audience reaction [at last year’s festival] was incredible, very engaged, ” says Jackson, a tenor man who rose to prominence as a member of the legendary Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and has performed in connection with Behind the Beat, the festival’s educational component that brings music to local schools. “[The band wasn’t] sure what to expect and the enthusiasm was just off the charts.” In his current band Jackson works with yet another jazz legend, the great McCann, whose career stretches from his time as a hip hard bop pianist in the early 1960s to his move to organ and a run of big-selling soul-jazz LPs the ’70s. “[Performing with McCann] has been a great opportunity,” Jackson says. “He’s been very supportive of my playing and he’s a quirky eccentric, like I am—we like to take the music in many different directions.”

Carter first became widely known as one fifth of Miles Davis’s revered quintet, playing with the iconic trumpeter from 1963 to ’68. Since then, he’s worked almost constantly, it seems, leading his own groups, collaborating with other artists, and developing his reputation as one of the world’s most influential bassists. Besides being a venerated bandleader, Palmieri is one of Latin jazz’s foremost pianists, a player whose technique fuses salsa and Afro-Cuban sounds with bebop and post bop styles. Miller, another ex-Jazz Messenger, shares Palmieri’s bop influences and has performed with Betty Carter, Tony Williams, and other greats. In addition to making several well-received solo albums, the Albany-born Malone has been a sideman to Jimmy Smith, Harry Connick Jr., and, most recently, Diana Krall. With his rich, deep-timbred voice, the fittingly named Mahogany readily brings to mind the great Joe Williams. Besides leading his own big band, the singer guested on dates by the late Elvin Jones. Held on the lawn of the Hudson Valley Resort & Spa, the annual afternoon series presents its exceptional artists against the breathtaking backdrop of the Shawangunk Mountains and the Hudson River, and continues to grow in stature with each season. Past performers include Randy Weston, Roy Hargrove, Stefon Harris, Jimmy Heath, the late Oscar Brown Jr., and Ahmad Jamal, whose “Picture Perfect” was specially commissioned for the festival. Jazz in the Valley takes place August 14 through 16 at the Hudson Valley Resort & Spa in Kerhonkson. (845) 384-6350; www.transartinc.org. —Peter Aaron 8/09 ChronograM forecast

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Body / Mind / Spirit Women’s Empowerment: Shamanic Herbal Apprentices, Late Summer Group Call for times. On-going over several weeks. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock . 246-8081. Open Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Tune Up Your Frequency 6:30pm-7:30pm. Channel by Suzy Meszoly. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Staged Readings of New Plays 8pm. Berkshire Playwrights Lab. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Workshops Financial Fitness Workshop 12pm-8pm. The Bank of Greene County, Catskill. Painting Studio 5:30pm-8pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Classes Abstraction, Composition, Color 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Film Movies and Dharma 7pm-9pm. Discussion following the screening. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Song of Love 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Kids HIP! Drop-In for Kids Call for times. Ages 4-6. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Creative Writing for Teens 1pm-Friday, August 14, 4pm. Ages 13-18. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Music Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Cyndi Lauper and Rosie O’Donnell 8pm. $20-50. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Spoken Word Bridge Music CD Signing/Demonstration 7pm. With composer Joseph Bertolozzi. Barnes and Noble, Newburgh. 567-0782.

Theater Pericles 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Workshops Gelatin Printing with Jessica Galkin 1pm-3pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST Body / Mind / Spirit Sedona Method Support Group 7pm-8:30pm. Way to let go of stress and obstacles to success in all areas of your life. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 687-4836.

Classes Figurative Clay Sculpture 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Featuring Brian Madden & the Neo Trio Jazz and Blues. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618. Fire of Aloha 6pm-8pm. $20. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225.

Music Thrash and Burn Festival Call for times. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223. Bad Habits 5pm-8pm. Park Street Green, Peekskill. (914) 737-3600. Sweet Plantain 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Landing, Newburgh. www.NewburghJazzSeries.com. The Roundabout Ramblers 7pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. O.A.R 7pm. With Matt Nathanson. $20-$35. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (180) 074-5300. Drew Bordeaux 8pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Upstart Blues All-Stars’ Blues Jam 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

Theater Much Ado About Nothing 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

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THURSDAY 13 AUGUST Body / Mind / Spirit

Hudson Valley Ribfest 5pm-10pm. Food festival and BBQ food contest. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz.

Poolside Yoga 11am. $90/$72/$20/$15. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600.

Film

Events

Man in the Glass Booth by Arthur Hiller 7pm. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site Free Day Call for times. Historic Hyde Park, Hyde Park.

Kids

Hyde Park Farmers’ Market 1am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

Story Time 11am. Ages 2-5. Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.

Music Swati Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

Iyengar Yoga Retreat Call for times. $425/$383. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897.

Bard Music Festival Call for times. See Bard web site for specific events, locations and times. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

Olohe Malu: Ancestral Teachings of Aloha with Lei Call for times. $495. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225.

David Kraai with Sean Powell 6pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

Classes Rendering in Black and White 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Drawing, Painting and Composition 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Dance Earthbeat 8pm. The Vanaver Caravan. $20/$18/$15. Seelig Theatre at Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake. 434-5750 ext. 4303.

The Acoustic Medicine Show 7pm-10pm. La Porcini Cucina, Tivoli. 757-1015. Caribbean Vibes 7:30pm-10:30pm. Beanrunner Café, Peekskill.

John Schrader Band 9pm. Rock. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Danny Kalb and Paul Geremia 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Spoken Word Artist’s Conversation with Robert Lipgar 5:30pm-7:30pm. Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670.

Theater All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Music

Plaza Suite 7pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Bill Kelly Band 5pm-8pm. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Wizard of Oz 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Swingin’ Jive Patrol 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Landing, Newburgh. www.NewburghJazzSeries.com.

Disney’s High School Musical 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Showcase Evening 7:30pm. Featuring Cassandra Frake, Brett Randell, Amy Laber. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Esopus Creek Puppet Suite 8pm. Arm-of-the-Sea Theater. $10/$5 children/$25 family. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. 246-7873.

Bradford Reed and his Amazing Pencilina 8:30pm. $10. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Spoken Word

Much Ado About Nothing 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Open Mike 8pm. Spoken word and poetry. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

Passing the Torch Through the Arts Double Bill 8pm. To Kill a Mockingbird and Hear the Music-the Harry Belafonte Story. $10/students free. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Theater

Workshops

Plaza Suite 7pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Summer Painting Workshop Call for times. Elementary experiences of warmth, air, water, Earth with Fredy Buchwalder. Basilica Industria, Hudson. (518) 828-0131.

Complete Shakespeare Abridged 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Passing the Torch Through the Arts Double Bill 8pm. To Kill a Mockingbird and Hear the Music-the Harry Belafonte Story. $10/students free. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

FRIDAY 14 AUGUST Body / Mind / Spirit Food and Spirituality Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Combines laughter exercises/deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 516-4330.

Dance Friday Night Swing Dance 7:30pm. Lesson at 7pm. $10/$8 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Events Project ABLE Recognition Ceremony 2pm-5pm. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Eco-Fabulous Community Farmers’ Market 4pm-8pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. 255-5201.

Woodstock Forum: Building a Peaceful, Just and Sustainable Economy 9:30am-9:30pm. Speakers, music, poetry, performance and film. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

Corn Festival 10am-4pm. $3/children free. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.

Story Time 10am. Ages 6-9. Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789.

Kevin Mahogany 8pm. Jazz. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344.

Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling . Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

HIP! Drop-In for Kids Call for times. Ages 7-11. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.

Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. info@pearldaddy.net.

A Night In Miami 10pm-12am. $13. Le Rive Gauche, Kingston. 339-2003.

Kids

Millerton Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250.

Linda Shell Acoustic Duo 8pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

Events

After-Hours Mixer 5:30pm-7:30pm. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce. $5 non-members. Depuy Canal House, High Falls. 255-0243.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154.

SATURDAY 15 AUGUST Art 40th Fine Arts Center and Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Hudson Valley Ribfest 11am-10pm. Food festival and BBQ food contest. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-6pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181. Wine Tasting 6pm-8pm. Comparisons of unique wines and food from France and the Hudson Valley. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136. A Magical Night 7:30pm-9:30pm. Experience the preparations for the move of the American artillery from New Windsor to Virginia. Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor. 561-5498.

Music Roots of Woodstock Live Concert Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Bard Music Festival Call for times. See Bard web site for specific events, locations and times. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu. Bethel Woods Music Festival Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. www.BethelWoodsCenter.org Young People’s Concert 11am. Antares. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon 12pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. A Perfect Gift: All That is Jazz 4pm-8pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976. Eclipse: Tsontakis and Messiaen 6pm. Antares. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Dance Omi Salon 5pm-7pm. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568. Vickie Russell 7pm. Millbrook Band Shell, Millbrook. 894-7291. Swinging Set Jazz Ensemble with Christine Sotmary 7:30pm-10:30pm. Near Paramount, Peekskill. Kevin Eubanks 8pm. Jazz. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Eternal Tango Orchestra 8:30pm. $25. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7414.

Gallery Talk: Carolyn Marks Blackwood 2pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Bard SummerScape: Spiegeltent 10pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

From the Hudson to the Bathtub and Beyond 4pm-8pm. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz. 255-5482.

Joey Eppard 10pm. Acoustic. Mariner’s Harbor Restaurant, Kingston. 340-8051.

Third Saturday Art Opening Crayon-athon 4pm-8pm. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 255-1901.

The Rhodes 10pm. Rock. Cabaloosa’s, New Paltz. 255-3400.

Abstraction/Summer Distraction 5pm-8pm. Featuring works by John Greene, Satish Joshi, Michael Kessler and Deirdre Leber, Peter Diepenbrock. Windham Fine Arts, Windham. (518) 734-6850. Peace*Love*Music 6pm-10pm. Group show. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142. New Paltz 3rd Saturday Art Mixer 8pm-10pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. www.newpaltzarts.org.

Spoken Word Lions and Tigers and Rattlesnakes! Oh My! 1pm. Overlook Mountain Fire Tower, Woodstock. 679-2580. Byrdcliffe Potteries 2pm. Presented by Ellen Paul Denker. $15/$10 members. Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock. 679-2079. Sharon Gannon Book Signing 2pm-4pm. Author of Yoga & Vegetarianism. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Discussion with Artist Yale Epstein 3pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Meditation and Stress Release 10:30am-11:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Author Bob Place 3:30pm. The Vampire Tarot. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

art HUDSON VALLEY LANDSCAPES image provided Asher Brown Durand’s Adirondack Mountains, NY, (1870), part of “the hudson river to niagara falls” exhibition at the dorsky museum.

Local Boys Make Good “Splendid” is an adjective that fell from use sometime in middle of the last century. Marked as it is with a 19th-century sensibility, it aptly describes two related exhibitions now on view at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, “The Hudson River to Niagara Falls” and Greg Miller’s photographic installation “Panorama of the Hudson River.” Hudson River landscape painting is the first genuinely American art; it was certainly among the most ambitious painting being done in the United States in the 1800s. Many of the painters were natives of the region—George Inness was born in Newburgh. Asher B. Durand’s native Jefferson Village is today’s suburban Maplewood, New Jersey; his protégées Thomas H. Hotchkiss and Jervis McEntee grew up in Coxsackie and Kingston, respectively. The English-born Thomas Cole went first to New York, then left to settle permanently in Catskill. The feeling these artists had for the river and the region is conveyed through canvases depicting dramatic skies reflected in shimmering waters, surrounded by idyllic pastures. While these picturesque vistas offer us a glimpse at a seemingly unspoiled Hudson River, they were almost always enhanced by a pictorial idealism derived from the conventions of European landscape painting. Indeed, the Arcadian idyll these canvases present was already beginning to vanish as industry and trade developed throughout the century—which is, perhaps, precisely why they chose to paint it. Conventions typical of this painting include the wedge of land in the foreground on which clusters of animals, people (or both) are arranged, functioning as surrogates for the viewer, enjoying the vista spread before them (as we imagine we were). The framing edge of the picture is almost always reiterated by tall trees traversing the plane on either side. Dramatic skies provide light and color; sailboats, movement. An exceptional and somewhat less conventional work by Francis Augustus Silva from 1870, Off City Island, New York is an almost minimalist depiction of a large sailboat surrounded by smaller schooners floating in the relative stillness of New York Harbor. This shimmering canvas glows with gradations of light and color. Sails, trees, and a single

red brick building provide a kind of melodic line modulated by the tonal atmosphere, the sharpness of their edges dissolving in the distance. A charming and delicately rendered winter scene by Andrew Fisher Brunner, Cutting Ice, Rockland Lake, NY from around 1890 offers a glimpse of a once vital and now obsolete industry, the cutting of ice in winter to be stored in icehouses throughout the year. A frieze (no pun intended) of figures extracts slabs of ice from the frozen lake, the gloomy gray winter day punctuated only by a small red building and smokestack. Also unusual is Thomas Cole’s Study for “Dream of Arcadia” of 1838, a tricky little trompe l’oeil painting-of-a-painting that was itself a study for a much larger work. The oil-on-canvas study that is the subject of the picture appears tacked upon a wooden board conjured in paint. If you didn’t know better, it could make you think Cole was a postmodernist. Accompanying the exhibition of landscapes is Greg Miller’s “Panorama of the Hudson River.” Cleverly installed, two continuous strips of photographic prints mounted on a steel support suspended from the ceiling snake in tandem though the gallery. As you walk between them, each panel offers a continuous series of views of both banks of the Hudson from the southern tip of Manhattan to Albany. Reproduced below Miller’s piece is the project that inspired it, a 1910 photographic survey of the Hudson made by G. Willard Shear, versions of which were sold as souvenirs on the Hudson River Day Liners, grand steamships that offered pleasure cruises between New York and upriver ports from 1863 and 1948. Viewing the two projects together has the effect of compressing history. One marvels at how much—and often, how little—our region has appears to have changed in the intervening century. “Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-Century American Landscape Paintings from the New York Historical Society” and “Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller” are being exhibited through December 13 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. (845) 257-3844; www.newpaltz.edu/museum. —Jeff Crane 8/09 ChronograM forecast

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Music

Annie Junior 11am. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. www.centerforperformingarts.org.

Bard Music Festival Call for times. See Bard web site for specific events, locations and times. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

Wizard of Oz 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

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Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High School Musical 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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(845) 706-0229 for more information

A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence: relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more. Group sessions include expressive art activities - itâ&#x20AC;&#x203A;s not all talk!

Esopus Creek Puppet Suite 8pm. Arm-of-the-Sea Theater. $10/$5 children/$25 family. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. 246-7873. Pericles 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Workshops Historic Homeowners Series: Period Roofs and Windows 10am-12pm. $25. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

SUNDAY 16 AUGUST Art 40th Fine Arts Center and Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Senior UCCC Student Art Exhibit 11am-4pm. 12 Market Street, Ellenville. 647-6604.

(845) 569-0014 Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. All proceeds benefit St. Lukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cornwall Hospital

Jazz Pioneers 1pm-3pm. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. Armen Donelian, Marc Mommaas and David Liebman 3pm. Jazz. $5. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Michelle Barone 3pm-6pm. Blues. Androgyny, New Paltz. 256-0620. Bruce Molsky 3pm. $25/$20. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Danube Reflections 4pm. Amernet String Quartet, with James Tocco, piano. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Breakaway 6pm-8pm. Soft rock. Thoman Felton Community Park, Modena. 883-6022.

Spoken Word Lorna Tychostup: Iraq 4pm. Chronogram editor. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Theater Wizard of Oz 3pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Plaza Suite 3pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Open Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Scenes of Law and Justice 4pm. Over The Pond to Poughkeepsie Ensemble. Maple Grove Restoration, Poughkeepsie. 471-9651.

Using Qigong to Heal a Broken Heart and Other Casualties of Human Life 2pm-4pm. With Cassia Berman. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site Free Day Call for times. Historic Hyde Park, Hyde Park. www.HistoricHydePark.org.

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Gretchen Witt 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High School Musical 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Events

436 Blooming Grove Turnpike (Route 94)

Earthbound Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Saugerties Healing Arts Salon 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Gently used and new items Name brands â&#x20AC;˘ Jewelry Housewares â&#x20AC;˘ Furniture

Family Fun 1pm-4pm. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.

Plaza Suite Call for times. $15/$12 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

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Kids

Much Ado About Nothing 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

MONDAY 17 AUGUST

Flea Market Call for times. Trolley Museum, Kingston. 338-6779.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Rhinebeck Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

Summer Yoga on the Lawn 6pm-7:30pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638.

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154.

Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. $25. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Rosendale Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467.

Classes

Woodstock Forum: Building a Peaceful, Just and Sustainable Economy 10am-4pm. Speakers, music, poetry, performance and film. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Peaches â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Wine Party 11am-4pm. Prospect Hill Orchard, Marlboro. 795-2383. Rip Van Winkleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wacky Raft Race 11am. Riverfront Park, Athens. (800) 355-2287. Behind the Scenes in the Archives 11am-12am. $12/$10 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Books & Arts Fair 11am-4pm. New & used books for sale, author signings, artists and crafts. Miriamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-5pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181. Sloop Clearwater Public Sail 4pm-7pm. $50/$35 member/$15 children. Hudson River Waterfront, Beacon. 454-7673 ext. 112.

Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Art Brut 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session. Basilica Industria, Hudson. (518) 828-0131.

Kids Kids on Stage Intermediate 3 and 4 Call for times. Ages 7-10. $200. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music Sammy Brown 7pm. Singer-songwriter performs every Monday night. Free. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA.

Workshops Rosendale Community Drum Circle 7pm-8:30pm. $10. The Drum Depot, Rosendale. 658-4136.

Wickets and Wine 4pm-6pm. Deyo Hall, New Paltz. 255-1660. Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Corn festival. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618.

Film Cultural Prophecy: Aztec, Maya, Hopi, Iroquois, Tibetan 7pm. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600. Like Water for Chocolate 7pm. $6. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

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TUESDAY 18 AUGUST Art Family Art Night 4pm-7pm. Enjoy hands-on activities and live music. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Body / Mind / Spirit Open Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Tune Up Your Frequency 6:30pm-7:30pm. Channel by Suzy Meszoly. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Abstraction, Composition, Color 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Film Movies and Dharma 7pm-9pm. Discussion following the screening. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Soldiers of Peace 7pm. Screening followed by question and answer session. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. A Hard Day’s Night 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Film Flow 6:30pm. The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, Beacon. 838-1600. Screening of Flow 6:30pm. Denning’s Point, Beacon.

Kenny Loggins and Jimmy Messina 8pm. $28-$89. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Kimberly 2pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Richie Havens 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra 2pm. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070.

The Lifesize Gorgeous Cocktails 10pm. Rock. The Sunset House, Peekskill. (914) 734-4192.

Food for Thought 7pm. An evening of socially relevant cinema. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Spoken Word

Movies on the Lawn: Across the River and Manhattan 1609 8pm-10pm. $5. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Kids HIP! Drop-In for Kids Call for times. Ages 7-11. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Annie Rorick Book Release Party 8pm. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 255-1901.

Theater All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Music

Long Day’s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

Doug Marcus 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Disney’s High School Musical 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Max Greene 5pm-8pm. Roots rock and roll. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Pericles 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

The Outdoors

Matt Jordan Big Band 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Landing, Newburgh. www.NewburghJazzSeries.com.

Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Walk & Picnic at Mills-Norrie 3pm. Moderate 4-mile hike. Norrie Point, Staatsburg. 462-0142.

The Singing Tree 7pm. Performance by artist Ryder Cooley. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Theater

Spoken Word

Complete Shakespeare Abridged 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Hudson Valley Artists 2009: Gallery Talk 5:30pm-6:30pm. Selected artists from the exhibition Ecotones and Transition Zones. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Kids HIP! Drop-In for Kids Call for times. Ages 4-6. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Music Kairos: A Consort of Singers 8pm. Symphony No. 9, op. 125 in D minor (Choral). Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Workshops Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. Iris Litt. $60 series/$15 session. Call for location. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 19 AUGUST Classes Figurative Clay Sculpture 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Poetry Open Mike 8pm. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

Much Ado About Nothing 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Long Day’s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Business Luncheon 12pm-1:30pm. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce. Harvest Café Restaurant and Wine Bar, New Paltz. 255-0243. Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Featuring Bee Doctor Chris Harp. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618.

Music Neil Alexander & NAIL 6pm. Unico Park, Newburgh. 568-0198. The Roundabout Ramblers 7pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. New Moon Cleansing with Crystal Bowls 8pm-9pm. Sound Energy Therapist Philippe Garnier. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Upstart Blues All-Stars’ Blues Jam 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

Theater Pericles 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

THURSDAY 20 AUGUST Body / Mind / Spirit How to Contact Your Spirit Guide With Automatic Writing 7pm-9pm. With Vakerie Stiehl. $25. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Rendering in Black and White 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

FRIDAY 21 AUGUST Body / Mind / Spirit Four Faces of Woman Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Transforming Difficult Conversations Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Dance Friday Night Swing Dance 7:30pm. Lesson at 7pm. $10/$8 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Events Eco-Fabulous Community Farmers’ Market 4pm-8pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. 255-5201. Country “HoeDown” Party Call for times. The Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Joseph Haske: Paintings 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

The Dinetah Way Call for times. Sam Sto, Native American healer. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Meditation and Stress Release 10:30am-11:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Classes Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop Classes Call for times. The Rhinebeck Photography and Arts Center, Rhinebeck. (516) 286-5104.

Events Dutch Heritage Events Call for times. Check web site for specific events and times. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110. Hyde Park Farmers’ Market 1am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111.

The Original Wailers Reggae Legends 8pm. $25-$55. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344.

Hudson Valley Poets Festival Cave Reading 12pm-5pm. $5. Century House Historical Society, Rosendale. 658-7561. WAAM Dialogues: Gallery Talk with Tom Wolf 4pm. $5. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Theater Annie Junior 11am. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. www.centerforperformingarts.org. All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Complete Shakespeare Abridged 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

SUNDAY 23 AUGUST

Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154.

Art

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.

Senior UCCC Student Art Exhibit 11am-4pm. 12 Market Street, Ellenville. 647-6604.

Millerton Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Give Dance a Chance 12pm-9pm. Fundraiser to benefit Peace One Day. $10/$5 half day, students and seniors/children free. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston. Tea in the Garden and Tour 2:30pm-5:30pm. $15. Xeriscape Garden, Stone Ridge. 340-3990.

Music Scarlet Fever Call for times. Collective Opera Company. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893. Bard Music Festival Call for times. See Bard web site for specific events, locations and times. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu. Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra Call for times. Special guest Arlo Guthrie. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Events

Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette and Larry Grenadier 8pm. Jazz. $25-$55. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Alice Burla 11am. Alice Burla, piano prodigy. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling . Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Eric Sommer 8pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717.

Hudson River ECO Reggae & World Music Fest 12pm-8pm. Croton Point Park, Croton-on Hudson. (800) 557-4185.

Jazz Pianist Marilyn Crispell 8pm. $25. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Disney’s High School Musical 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Bill Kelly 7:30pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

Drawing, Painting and Composition 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

A Perfect Gift: All That is Jazz 8pm-10pm. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

Give Dance a Chance, a Dance for Peace 12pm-9pm. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston. www.PeaceOneDay.org.

Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-6pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181.

A Little Bit of This and A Little Bit of That 7:30pm-10:30pm. Beanrunner Café, Peekskill.

Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette and Larry Grenadier 8pm. Jazz. $25-$55. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Dance

Music

Spencer Day 7pm. Singer/songwriter. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

John Basile Vibes Trio with Dave Elson on Vibes 7:30-10:30pm. Beanrunner Café, Peekskill.

Long Day’s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. info@pearldaddy.net.

The Acoustic Medicine Show 7pm-10pm. La Porcini Cucina, Tivoli. 757-1015.

Thomas Workman, Brian Farmer, & Joakim Lartey 7:30pm-9:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Spoken Word

Bee Buzz for Kids Call for times. Pre-registration required. $10. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.

Kenny Loggins and Jimmy Messina Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Buddy, Bopper & Valens: Their Last Show 7:30pm. $37.50/$29.50. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

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Kids

Bard Music Festival Call for times. See Bard web site for specific events, locations and times. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. www.fishercenter.bard.edu.

Opera in the Park 7pm. Fundraiser for Phoenicia’s Parish Field Playground. $15/$12 in advance. Parish Park, Phoenicia.

Clemens Kalischer 6pm-8pm. Photography exhibition. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789.

Scarlet Fever Call for times. Collective Opera Company. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

6pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Art

Body / Mind / Spirit

Theater

Events

SATURDAY 22 AUGUST

A QUAD Tribute

Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Open Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Events Dutch Heritage Events Call for times. Check web site for specific events and times. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110. Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com. Rosendale Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-5pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181. 15th Annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby 1pm. Historic Rondout Waterfront, Kingston. 338-8473. Guided Walking Tour 2pm. $5/children free. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

Film 60s Revelation 7pm. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600.

Kids Kidstock 12pm-6pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 344.

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Classes

The Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Abstraction, Composition, Color 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Crawdaddy 1pm-3pm. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Events

Anniversary Tribute to Giacomo Puccini 2pm. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070. JK Vanderbilt 3pm-6pm. Androgyny, New Paltz. 256-0620. Enso String Quartet 4pm. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Marji Zintz 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette and Larry Grenadier 8pm. Jazz. $25-$55. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Spoken Word Intro Lecture on Honeybees and Organic Beekeeping 11am-1:30pm. Pre-registration required. $25. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. HoneybeeLives@yahoo.com.

Theater Long Day’s Journey Into Night 2:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. Disney’s High School Musical 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Complete Shakespeare Abridged 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Workshops Living the Simple Life: Lessons from the Peruvian Shamans 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

MONDAY 24 AUGUST Body / Mind / Spirit Summer Yoga on the Lawn 6pm-7:30pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638. Receiving Messages From Your Loved Ones in the After Life 7pm-8:30pm. With medium Adam Bernstein. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Film

Cool Hand Luke 7:30pm. Legendary Paul Newman film. $5. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Music Sammy Brown 7pm. Singer-songwriter performs every Monday night. Free. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA.

Eco-Fabulous Community Farmers’ Market 4pm-8pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. 255-5201.

Music

Drawing, Painting and Composition 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Spoken Word Kingston Chapter of PFLAG Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 331-5300.

Theater Much Ado About Nothing 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Workshops Career Planning for the 21st Century 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Dyslexia: Symptoms and Solutions 5pm-7pm. Informational presentation by experienced, certificated instructor. Call for location. 514-0194. Open Meditation 6pm-7pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Tune Up Your Frequency 6:30pm-7:30pm. Channel by Suzy Meszoly. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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Rendering in Black and White 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Events Dutchess County Fair Call for times. Check web site for specific events. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com. Addiction As Myth: Reframing My Story Call for times. $495. Shalom Mountain, Livingston Manor. 349-5815. Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. CRUMBS Night Out at The Linda 7pm. Featuring Gospel Train. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST Body / Mind / Spirit The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Combines laughter/deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 516-4330. Introduction to The Sedona Method 7pm-8:30pm. Learn a simple but highly effective way to let go of stress and obstacles to success in all areas of your life. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 687-4836.

Classes Figurative Clay Sculpture 1pm-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618.

Music The Allman Brothers Band Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. The Rodriguez Brothers 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Landing, Newburgh. www.NewburghJazzSeries.com. Music on the Lawn 7pm. Marka Young and Jim Bacon. $5. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. The Roundabout Ramblers 7pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

Theater Complete Shakespeare Abridged 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Nowhere on the Border 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Staged Readings of New Plays 8pm. Berkshire Playwrights Lab. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Workshops Create Your Own Hand Made Ornaments 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Music Erin Hobson Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. The Acoustic Medicine Show 7pm-10pm. La Porcini Cucina, Tivoli. 757-1015. Brian Dougherty Band 7:30pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Hudson Valley BachFest 7:30pm. Gail Archer, Bach organ recital. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220. Harvie S. Trio with James Weidman and Tony Jefferson 7:30pm-10:30pm. Beanrunner Café. The Honeycutters and Liana Gabel 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 255-1901. The Rhodes 9:30pm. Rock. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

Theater

Kids

Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

TUESDAY 25 AUGUST

Dutchess County Fair Call for times. Check web site for specific events. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com.

Classes

Workshops

Body / Mind / Spirit

Alice in Wonderland Call for times. Museum Village, Monroe. 782-8248.

HIP! Drop-In for Kids Call for times. Ages 4-6. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Kids

Upstart Blues All-Stars’ Blues Jam 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

How to Transform a Northeast Homestead into a Model of Sustainability A five day intensive. New Lebanon. (970) 275-1525. www.SchoolLivingArts.com.

Events

Habitats at Denning’s Point 12pm. A walk and talk of the vast and fascinating habitats of Denning’s Point. The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, Beacon. 838-1600.

Unreliable Narrator 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 255-1901.

Rosendale Community Drum Circle 7pm-8:30pm. $10. The Drum Depot, Rosendale. 658-4136.

Food For Thought: An Evening of Delicious Inspiration 6:30pm-8:30pm. $15/$25 two. Kadampa Meditation Center New York, Glen Spey. 856-9000.

How to Solve Your Daily Problems 7pm-9pm. $8. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Dutchess County Fair Call for times. Check web site for specific events. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com.

Film

Body / Mind / Spirit

Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Featuring the Blue Rays, lesson before the dance. $15/$10. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Carmen 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

L’Art Brut 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session. Basilica Industria, Hudson. (518) 828-0131.

Silent Walks on the Half-Moon 6pm. Collaborative art performance. Storm King Trail Head, Cornwall. 304-3142.

How to Contact Your Spirit Guide With Automatic Writing 7pm-9pm. With Valerie Stiehl. $25. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events

Chatham Cirkus Skills Camp Thru August 28. Ages 8 and up. $200. Morris Memorial, Chatham. (518) 828-7470.

Art

Friday Night Swing Dance 7:30pm. Lesson at 7pm. $10/$8 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

Movies and Dharma 7pm-9pm. Discussion following the screening. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

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Dutchess County Fair 10am. Check web site for specific events. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com.

THURSDAY 27 AUGUST

HIP! Drop-In for Kids Call for times. Ages 7-11. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Stephen Clair Trio 5pm-8pm. Alternative country. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028.

Complete Shakespeare Abridged 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 6pm. Country. Dutchmen’s Landing on the Hudson River, Catskill. 297-4752.

Disney’s High School Musical 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

David Kraai 6pm. Singer/songwriter. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Nowhere on the Border 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Ali Jackson 6:30pm-8:30pm. Newburgh Landing, Newburgh. www.NewburghJazzSeries.com.

Music B.B. King & Buddy Guy Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Spoken Word Conversations in French 1pm-2pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.

Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

SATURDAY 29 AUGUST Art The Noble Savage and the Little Tramp 5pm-8pm. Works made through reductive acts in search of the basic, primal, or mechanical. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Poetry Open Mike 8pm. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

Twlight Concert Series 6pm-7pm. Featuring the Loma Mar Quartet. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.

Theater

Body / Mind / Spirit

Pericles 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Celebrate the Inner World Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Long Day’s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

Peace Village Fair 12pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Nowhere on the Border 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Classes

Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

FRIDAY 28 AUGUST Art Preview 7th Annual Woodstock Fine Art Auction Call for times. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Body / Mind / Spirit Integrating Buddhism & Psychotherapy Call for times. $290/$261. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897. Peace of Mind Retreat Call for times. $60/plus accommodations. Kadampa Meditation Center New York, Glen Spey. 856-9000. Women’s Sacred Moonlodge 6:45pm. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock . 246-8081.

Dance Materiality of Impermanence Call for times. Kimberly Bartosik. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Herbal Class: Herbal Medicine Chest 10am-5pm. $75. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081.

Dance Materiality of Impermanence Call for times. Kimberly Bartosik. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.

Events 3rd Ulster Militia Regiment Encampment Call for times. Demonstrations of colonial cooking, more. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253. Dutchess County Fair Check web site for specific events. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. dutchessfair.com. Hyde Park Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111. Millerton Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.

Ann Street Market 10am-4pm. Ann Street Municipal Lot, Newburgh. 562-6940. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. info@pearldaddy.net. Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-6pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181. Bindlestiff Family Circus 3pm. Riverfront Park, Hudson.

Kids Kites Over the Hudson 2pm-4pm. Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Music Brad Paisley Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. The Honeycutters 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Guitar Workshop and Performance 3pm. Denise Jordan Finley. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Mendelssohn and Friends III 6pm. Zuill Bailey, cello; Robert Koenig, piano. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Loma Mar Quartet and John Feeney 6pm. Classical, opera. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115. The Shadow Creek Band 7pm. Millbrook Band Shell, Millbrook. 894-7291.

Body / Mind / Spirit Open Meditation 10:30am-12:30pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Peace Village Fair 12pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Classes Herbal Class: Hands-On Herbal Medicine, Autumn 10am-5pm. $75. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081.

Dance Dance Omi Showing 3pm-5pm. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Events Dutchess County Fair Call for times. Check web site for specific events. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com. Rhinebeck Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com. Rosendale Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Bell Tower Arts & Crafts Market 12pm-5pm. Bell Tower Arts and Crafts Market, Rosendale. 658-3181.

Film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 7pm. $6. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Hudson Valley BachFest 7pm. St. Matthew Passion, BachFest choir and orchestra. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220.

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2nd Annual Summer Sing and Open House 7:30pm. Putnam Chorale, Mozartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Requiem. First United Methodist Church, Brewster. 279-7265.

Manhattan Lyric Opera 2pm. Johann Straussâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Die Fledermaus. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070.

Brad Paisley 7:30pm. With Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne. $31.50-$55.50. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Mozartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Requiem 7:30pm. Putnam Chorale with live orchestra. First United Methodist Church, Brewster. 279-7265. Jonelle Mosser 8pm. $20. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. Mary Wilson of the Supremes 8pm. $25-$55. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Big Kahuna 10pm. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500. Joey Eppard 10pm. Acoustic. Daveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Spoken Word Steven Evans on Max Neuhaus 12:45pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Theater Sleeping Beauty by Tanglewood Marionettes 11am. The Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. www.centerforperformingarts.org. Allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Long Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. Much Ado About Nothing 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High School Musical 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Nowhere on the Border 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

The Parkington Sisters Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

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Kevin Larkin Angioli 3pm-6pm. Androgyny, New Paltz. 256-0620. Haydn and Friends: Vienna/Budapest I 4pm. American String Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Back To The Garden 1969 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Bar Scott 8pm. Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock. 679-4265.

Theater Nowhere on the Border 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Long Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Journey Into Night 2:30pm. The Actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High School Musical 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Pericles 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

MONDAY 31 AUGUST Peace Village Fair 1pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Summer Yoga on the Lawn 6pm-7:30pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638.

Classes Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Art Brut 9am-12pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Workshops

Music

Historic Gardening 10am-12pm. $15/$12 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Sammy Brown 7pm. Singer-songwriter performs every Monday night. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-8418.

Deck a Dance: Divination with Non-Traditional Oracle Decks 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Upstage NY Community Coffeehouse 7pm. Special post-summersongs celebration. $5. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Art Senior UCCC Student Art Exhibit 11am-4pm. 12 Market Street, Ellenville. 647-6604.

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Twelfth Night 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

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Workshops

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Rosendale Community Drum Circle 7pm-8:30pm. $10. The Drum Depot, Rosendale. 658-4136.

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Dioxin Dorms:

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Why I Can’t Give Up on New Paltz

Joe Ramos, interim dean of fine and performing arts at SUNY New Paltz, hung up on me—terminated the call, as he politely put it—just before replacing the handset. A relatively new arrival, he had never heard that Parker Theater, where his students study and perform, was contaminated with PCBs and dioxins after a transformer explosion in December 1991. This gives an idea of how quiet it’s kept on campus, how taboo a subject it is. So, I explained to him the history of the incident. I described the theater, wrapped in plastic sheeting for weeks after the explosion so that rainwater would not spread the toxins further into the environment. I described the pipes freezing and bursting in January 1992 during the early phase of the cleanup, and the hundreds of toxic waste barrels that were used to collect the contaminated water. I told him I didn’t know whether the theater’s costume collection had been thrown out after the building fogged over with dioxin- and furan-laced smoke, or whether students were still performing in clothing that could never be cleaned and only be tested by being destroyed. I explained how PCB smoke works its way into crawl spaces, above hung ceilings and into pipe chases, and how, once the contamination has seeped in everywhere, it verges on impossible to get a building clean. I assured the dean that his bosses and their bosses would give him a very different story: a blanket reassurance of safety and the usual line that I am the one who has a problem. He was angry. I was not surprised. I was nervous, and angry, and emotional, which did surprise me. After covering dioxins for nearly two decades I thought nothing could shake me, but recently the issue had become personal. Now I was friends with someone who was about to enter the theater department; a talented, fragile young woman who would be one of the vulnerable. SUNY New Paltz excels in one area, the arts. Getting into this program was an achievement for her. She deserved this, and she deserved a lot better. Given the choice, I told her, it’s better to delay school by one year than get leukemia or endometriosis. After she left, I picked up the phone. Psychology of a cover-up Having hung up on me, threatening to check my journalistic credentials without even taking my name or phone number, I rang back Dean Ramos’s secretary to pass along my contact information. While I had her attention, I explained the issue. There are not a lot of people on the New Paltz campus who will speak to me, and I’ve heard that professors are concerned about the theater, but are also afraid even to be seen with me, fearing for their jobs. I told her about the parents who on opening day, having heard about the contaminated dormitories and academic buildings, leave their sons and daughters on campus without asking questions. I told her about the people who call me to find out whether their brain cancer, diabetes, or other endocrine disease has come from their time attending the college, five or 10 years after the fact. Hearing about the issue in the first days at school, many students are afraid to tell their parents—my friend said even hers would be angry to hear about it. Angry at whom? At her? At me? I’ve rarely heard a parent get angry at a campus administration that is 100-percent responsible for the lives of its students, under an old common law principle called in loco parentis. I mentioned to the secretary how the college administration had called the police on me so many times for reporting on campus it had become a running joke between me and the cops. “Your campus needs psychologists,” I told her, “not toxicologists, to 114

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figure out why this is happening.” It is often said that a university is a microcosm of the world. If this is true, we can get a good idea why environmental issues are still a boutique news item, despite the general contamination of the ecosphere, and the fact that we all know toxic chemicals are bad for us. By general contamination, I am referring to hormonally active toxins, which range from heavy metals to plasticisers to dioxins and PCBs. Our society is awash with these substances, which act like hormones, scrambling the body’s signals, compromising the immune system and damaging the genetic code. By awash, I mean present in every breath of air and nearly every bite of food. The issue is simply too big for most mortals to grasp, and too complex for the media to report with any accuracy. If what I’ve just said is true, and if we can’t avoid the problem, then why think about it? It seems like worrying about a meteorite hitting you. To take on the story would be to go after the big one, the proverbial octopus: the scandal of industrial capitalism itself. The core issue here: Who profits from the contamination? And who is hurt by it? Polluters always make it sound as though the person taking on the poison benefits, whether through being able to live in a dorm, a new technology, or an economic advantage. In truth, corporations and institutions deceive others with a direct motive, which is profit and gain; and in the case of the college, the preservation of their own precious jobs. Those bent on getting the truth out are generally motivated by something else, like protecting the health of potential exposure victims. The gap between one mindset and the other can be the subject of a lot of psychic pain, because the two motives exist in different universes. It’s necessary for the reporter to bridge the gap between people who are poisoning others for profit, and those who have no concept that such a thing is possible: the potential exposure victims. Both sides are likely to pretend you’re insane, that you have no idea what you’re talking about. To be an investigative reporter it’s generally necessary to get accustomed to being called a nutter—no matter how much documentation you may have, and how solid or obvious your theory is. It’s easier when people put up a fight—there at least it’s possible to express some energy. Being ignored is frustrating, but it has a tendency to turn to fuel; to convert a modest drive to get the story right, to expose the truth, into an obsession. Through doing the story there exists a drive to prove oneself right, and a deeper need to understand and expose the truth. To stay healthy it’s necessary to remain in contact with that deeper motive. Media toxicity It is rare that anyone has the time or resources to do this properly. News organizations don’t generally pay for this kind of reporting, and in the US, at any rate, they are often owned by the same corporations that create the toxins. “If it bleeds, it leads” remains the silent motto of TV news. Toxin issues fit the three-day (or, more often, three-hour) news cycle only if something specific is happening, such as an obvious toxic spill that makes pictures, which can be covered briefly and dismissed as cleaned up—if we hear about it at all. In this context, there is really no way to report the contamination of the planet except in a documentary, a book, or a specialized publication. Bill Moyers has told the story, but then what exactly can you do about it? Stop eating and breathing? Everyone “understands” that the contamination of the planet is necessary to sustain our industrialized, high-tech lifestyles. We at least accept that it’s necessarily a consequence

of our way of life. It is the company-town mentality on a global scale. In a coal-mining town, everyone knows that the coal poisons the miners and puts food on the table. If the family wants to eat, it’s presumed that somebody has to work in the mine. If the truth about the toxins were known, or even investigated honestly, faculty, staff, and administrators at New Paltz fear the campus would close, hundreds of jobs would be lost in an area with a thin economy and nothing would really be gained. After all, the world itself is contaminated—what harm is a little more going to do? Jobs are more important than what seems like an abstract issue. This thought is used as a substitute for knowing or even being curious about the truth; that is, for figuring out how many people actually get sick from attending the campus, who exactly gets sick, and why. I have often said that New Paltz is everywhere. How many people were poisoned manufacturing the computer I am typing on? It contains toxins, and when it is someday burned as hazardous waste will produce many more. There is a fear of hypocrisy even in raising the issue; on some level, everyone feels at least a little bit responsible because we Westerners enjoy so many unsustainable and dangerous luxuries that are seemingly poisonous to others more often than to us. How many mobile phones have you owned? I don’t even like the things, I barely use them and I’ve probably owned 10 since I first got one in 2000. It does not help that in order to switch carriers or move countries, you often have to purchase a new phone. Then comes the BlackBerry. Then comes the iPhone. Then a mountain of phones, chargers, and hand-held devices that would stand tall next to Etna. We rely on these things to organize our lives and keep pace with the speed of technology. What exactly do you do when you find out that they are associated with brain tumors? Fission for the truth From the time Chernobyl blew in spring 1986, I knew I would be an environmental journalist. My main field was politics; I aspired to be the editorial page editor of a major newspaper, but with that incident the world changed—it was a different place. Radiation from a corner of the Ukraine was turning up around the globe; thousands of Ukrainian towns and cities were destroyed. French cheese and US milk would contain the same radiation from one nuclear reactor thousands of miles away. After covering a diversity of industries as a trade journalist (beverage, alcohol, towing, medical education), I ended up covering public higher education. As a grad student at New Paltz, I started a news service that covered the state and city universities of New York. I was busy doing this when, at 7:30am one Sunday in 1991, I was awakened by the sound of sirens going past my girlfriend’s house. When I went to work later that day there was a note on my desk: PCB transformers on the campus had exploded, contaminating several buildings. I knew enough to stay away. Within 24 hours I was in contact with Lois Gibbs, who had organized the evacuation of the Love Canal neighborhood. I had talked to Ward Stone, the state wildlife pathologist and one of the most revered anti-toxin scientists in the world. Paul and Ellen Connett, longtime municipal waste incinerator activists, were feeding me information and contacts. I didn’t know I had stepped down the rabbit hole. If you had told me I would still be writing about the campus in 2009, I would have been stunned. (One of my mentors told me he worked on an issue and didn’t get results for six months—that was discouraging enough.) My investigation took me back to 1929, when Swann Chemical began making chlorinated biphenyls, through the company’s acquisition by Monsanto in 1935, and deep into a cover-up involving General Electric and Westinghouse. My work was published everywhere from Sierra magazine to the Las Vegas Sun and the Village Voice. The New York Times followed the saga of my coverage for a while, including a federal lawsuit against the administration for banning me from campus. I won a first-place award for my coverage, and that night, when two of my older, wiser friends took me out to dinner to celebrate, I said I wanted to send it back to the State Press Association. They asked why. Because after writing hundreds of articles, I responded, the dorms and the theater were still open; students were still being contaminated. They assured me that my coverage had resulted in a much more thorough clean-up, which (though badly done) was better than nothing. They reminded me I had forced New York State to spend more than $50 million to make at least some effort to solve the problem. So I kept going, focusing on two dormitories I feared were contaminated and which, of all the buildings, had been cleaned up the least: Gage and Capen halls. In the back of my mind, though I could not focus on it, the condition of the theater always worried me. By this spring, I was ready to give up. Nobody on campus wanted to deal with the issue, particularly students. Nobody wanted to hear about the problem and nobody was willing to take responsibility for the young students who were being contaminated. Campus officials worked for the state, and if the state said it was safe, then by golly it was safe. That’s when I called Dean Joe Ramos, to make sure he knew and cared about my friend, who was about to enter one of his departments. When he hung up on me it felt like a direct invitation: to get back onto the story; do not give up; keep putting the truth out. 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(March 20-April 19)

In our society we don’t generally see the ambivalence we have around the concept of “friend.” We accept that friends might betray us, hold us down, con us out of our values and enforce the laws and expectations of our parents. The past year of your life has had, as a dominant theme, redefining the concept of friendship. Events this month invite you to look directly at the shadow side of that concept, and give it a name. Look at the says that codes of conduct are enforced; expectations are placed on people; and the harsh punishment for daring to exceed the limits that others place on themselves and try to enforce on everyone else. The thing you may fear the most, being an outcast, is at the moment your most potent ally. Before we can actually accept ourselves and be accepted, we have to confront this one. Think of the alternative: you spend your life, in ways direct, subtle or both, avoiding any possible situation where you might potentially face rejection. And rejection for what? For being who you are. The result of this would be a life of pretending to be someone else. It worked for a while, but it’s not going to work anymore.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) I don’t think we can ever question the theme of self-esteem carefully enough. First, a simple definition: Self-esteem is how we feel about ourselves that influences every other aspect of existence, what we do, how we feel, how we relate to others and how we judge our worth. Putting it mildly, this has been a theme for you lately: specifically, that you seem to have two entirely different opinions of yourself, that you try to maintain simultaneously. What tends to happen is that you alternate from one value system to the other; one judgment or evaluation to the other. Lately, the split grows worse if you aim your ambition upward; in a sense this inner division is revealed when you aspire to something better than you currently have. This does make sense; if you want something better you’re going to tend to evaluate whether you deserve it or not. I’m here to tell you that one side of the story is not inherently true. It was taught to you initially, and you continue to teach it to yourself: this, through any experience of guilt. If you experience guilt, you can be sure of one thing—you are responding to someone’s early conditioning. You are playing back an old tape that says you’re powerless; and it will help if you recognize this fact and see if you can determine who put it into you. Then, take it as a question rather than as a true statement.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) I’m sure things have gone weird more than once with Mars slowly working its way across your birth sign. Odd bouts of panic, conflict, doubt, guilt, and confusion are all potential developments. This is the necessary result of finally reaching for your will, your intention, your voice. If, every time you reach, you get psychic blowback, that’s not a very good advertisement for continuing the endeavor; I am here to offer you some encouragement. I won’t call the blowback a natural result, but it is a consequence of purging unnatural, self-defeating ideas. It is these concepts that exist at the core of your extremely restless inner dialog, which appears to be coming to a peak in these very days. You may rightly wonder how you can think in the much greater concepts that attract you if you cannot settle a simple score within yourself. This is the issue you need to put to your advantage. It’s not that you resolve this and then move onto a perfect life; it’s that you work with your conflict and your tendency, subtle or not, toward cruelty to yourself, and explore this with the full awareness of your mind and body. Asserting your will is not an option. If this has consequences, they must be dealt with directly, and in this case, directly means constructively. Here is a clue: You are much bigger than any conflict you perceive.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Part of how you measure your value is your value to your community. Perhaps you’ve never made this a conscious process; it may be lurking in a back room. It may be hiding behind other ideas about relationships, which tend to be dominated by the one-to-one special relationship; those arrangements rarely make room for a greater level of commitment or responsibility in life. Significant sharing is presumed to end with the significant other; if there is not a significant other, the search for one generally consumes any energy not required to acquire the means to cover food, rent, and getting around. The time has arrived to think bigger: to see yourself as part of something larger than you are, but as an essential part. This theme has been growing in intensity for many months. You’ve experimented with methods for going forward; now it’s time to investigate what is blocking your way. Consider your most intimate relationships carefully. Is the person you must be in those relationships a big enough person to contribute to the world around you? Is that value shared and supported as part of the culture of the relationship? And if it’s not, why not? Relationships are based on two things: shared values and trust, which in turn facilitate an honest exchange. Settle for nothing less. 116

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LEO (July 22-August 23) Maintain your focus clear through the end of your current agenda. Don’t let yourself be distracted, even if you get the feeling you have to be overly narrow in your approach. Set aside everything unnecessary, or that does not support this single goal that you know is dear to you. The piece where actual progress occurs happens after you feel and confront the resistance to the very progress you are trying to make. That resistance may feel like doubt; it may feel like you’re making the wrong sacrifice of certain other goals; you may be questioning whether you’re approaching your objective with your usual positive attitude. There is a double ending here: By practicing a kind of overfocus (that by the way is a therapy term used to describe people who take things a bit to seriously) you pass through a narrow mental opening and come out in a different place with a new goal. I suggest you be both sensitive to this transition and welcoming when it occurs. This is a fairly typical step in any creative process. The time spent on the prior activity is never wasted; the information you are gaining right now is precious; the skills you are acquiring will reincarnate with you from goal to goal. Keep your focus—whether what you’re planning seems like it will take days, months, or years.

VIRGO

(August 23-September 22)

You are entering the final push in a process that has taken you a couple of years to set into motion, and to establish the validity of in your own mind. You may need to check your method and infuse a new idea or two. In fact, by the time you’ve moved on into the future, you will have already done so: that is what constitutes moving on. As usual, the idea or seed of action can come from you, or it can come from circumstances around you. You currently are in possession of the idea. This could even be called original. The meaningful things is that it comes from inside you. I cannot overemphasize how important this is, particularly since you are surrounded by so many people who are extremely powerful in their innovations, concepts and creative talent. The value is to your self-respect, which is your key to any future collaboration. You seek stability, but that is not really the answer; what I suggest you seek is a sense of movement and innovation that is self-activating and has sufficient momentum to match the energy of what enters your awareness from outside. You’ve yet to learn that you are as brilliant as the most talented and ingenious people in your life. Events this month may not prove the point, but they will give you sufficient clues to do so yourself.

LIBRA (September 22-October 23) The privilege of exploring a creative passion is countered by the necessary risk that you will encounter shadow psychic material. This is the vital difference between creative process and a hobby. Creative process turns shadow material to fuel; art would go nowhere without pain, doubt, and deep self-reflection. The reward is that you get to process these emotions, on the spot, into beauty. This is the part not to doubt, and the part where trust is essential: Stick to the process and let yourself be free of any concerns about the potential results. From the look of your charts, you won’t be able to see those results for what they are for a while—they will slowly pour out over the next two to four seasons. The simple key to this process is embracing points of darkness rather than avoiding them. By doing this you will see what they are made of; but the most significant change that will occur is that the fixed mental patterns that are the single most significant block to your free expression of your ideas, your sexuality, and, in truth, your sense of personal identity. Exploration of the kind I’ve described above is designed to do one thing mainly, which is to teach you the kind of spontaneity without which true self-expression verges on the impossible.

SCORPIO

(October 23-November 22)

Does it have to be that in every arrangement someone comes out ahead and someone comes out behind? Yes, if you consider no other possibilities, or if you’re content to live in a world where this is the first and only rule. You see alternatives to this, but I suggest you consider the reasons why they are less than appealing. Look carefully at the deeply rooted notion of competition, and consider why you retain any vestige of it in your heart. One possible reason for it is a sense of entitlement. I recognize that in a capitalist society we are all seemingly inbred with this attribute, but it’s a good idea to take out that part and put it on the workbench. Is it really sustainable? Does it even work? Then there is the way that competing makes us feel alive, but this is a substitute for actual achievement, which tends to stand apart from all competition. Finally, there is personal insecurity, which we are taught to compensate for by figuring out how to tell ourselves we’re better than others. This does little other than reinforce the belief that we are somehow less; that we are undeserving of the most basic attributes of existence rather than “being the best.” You don’t need to be the best: You need to be you—which, fortunately, you already are.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Part of why you’ve been living in a state of potential more so than a place of accomplishment involves seeing the larger implications of your ideas, your efforts and your dedication to a healing process. The most noticeable results will come during the next year or so, but you’ve now got a chance to take a concrete step toward something you recognize. You need to think about whatever it is you’re doing as having implications further from home. It’s not a stretch to say there is clearly an international angle that opens up later this month; or it will open if you knock on that particular door. This may involve a specific person, location, or point of interaction, rather than a general idea or approach, though in any event something that opens up around the time of the Leo New Moon on the 20th. It may seem odd or overly restricted at first; your idea may seem to be reduced down to a fragment of its original form. Think of it as a formula: Reduce before you enlarge. Get a small part of the process right before you move on to reproducing it in a larger way. Keep track of your seed idea, and remind yourself again and again what it is. An idea is something at the essence of one’s motivation or effort; as you experiment, you will have different notions of what it is. They all have something in common.

CAPRICORN

(December 22-January 20)

You have returned as far back to the beginning of a process as you can; you are poised at a point of origin. Stay there for a while; look for the thought that got you started, the idea that reminded you that you could renew your entire existence, and focus on that idea. Notice your impulse to evolve and grow, notice your willingness to change and more than anything feel the passion that is swimming at the center of all of this. As you go through this, be mindful of the values that guide your life from day to day, in ordinary consciousness. Be aware of your routines, the ways you respond to yourself and to others; notice how you feel every time you handle money. Notice what you are and are not willing to invest in, particularly as it relates to yourself. You are dealing with two distinct layers of who you are. One is deep at your core. The second involves a layer where everything is or was imposed on you. Your core layer is far stronger, more informative, and more likely to get results, but you have to work with the process of learning and teaching in the mundane sense, because so much of your energy is trapped in what I will call unquestioned values. You tend to assume things must be a certain way, in denial of another property, something so much more potent and authentic. But so much more is possible.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Continue to inventory what has shaped your psyche and how it continues to do so. Many people go through existence as if how they are stands without a cause. Cause and effect are inseparable, and if you want to understand the effect, look for its origin. It will become so obvious at a certain point soon that if you’re not seeing it you really don’t want to. The issue may be connecting a particular result with a specific root source; the link will be made by your intuition and verified by your intellect. One reason you want to observe and heal this issue is that you feel so much more potential within yourself than you are able to access. You feel the grandeur of your mind, and then it seems like something intractable is in the way. It’s not intractable as long as you recognize that you don’t need to become anything different than you are; rather, you need to identify and come to terms with what is not you, and the effects that it’s having on you. The karma it would be most helpful to witness is how your own thought patterns create, reinforce, and in a sense blind you to anything besides a certain kind of negativity that is entirely, as in 100 percent, unnecessary. This same cosmic property can inform you that your creative and loving thoughts can have just as powerful results, but the results are far happier.

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Wouldn’t it be beautiful to live in a world without betrayal? You can, but you have to hack into the code of a psychological pattern that’s in a blind spot of your awareness. You don’t need to take this personally: It’s a pattern in society, though it would appear that this thing we call society has a diversity of microcosms that reduce down to groups, families, couples, and the people who interact with them, and finally the shape of an individual’s mind. If you believe the research of a therapy process called Internal Family Systems, our minds represent a model of our family of origin, which is based on a model of society; we carry around the whole thing. It may sound like a lot of responsibility, but the beauty of this condition is that we have access to the deepest levels of programming if we are willing to see the inner-outer connections, and go in and make the adjustments. You can afford to be daring now. You can take the risk of leading with love and seeing what happens when you allow yourself to feel in an expressive way. Your love is bigger than anything that it might encounter; it’s more powerful than any form of culturally engrained negativity, and can handle any potential other than love. Trusting this is your bridge to freedom.

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The scope of David Halliday’s interest is broad: The New Orleans-based photographer shoots portraits and landscapes, as well as curiously enigmatic still lifes that reference Mannerists like Parmigianino but tug in an unsettled, modernist direction. The poet and critic Alfred Corn, in the book accompanying Halliday’s recent retrospective at Carrie Haddad Photographs in Hudson, describes Halliday’s work as a continuum of self-aware conundrums. “The designation ‘still life’ implicitly suggests one of the goals of both painters and photographers dedicated to the genre: They want to imbue the inanimate objects they depict with the vibrancy of life despite the immobility of the medium,” writes Corn. “Like the great painters of still life—Zurbarán, Chardin, Cézanne, Morandi—Halliday charges his fruits, vegetables, and other objects with a poised intensity that intrigues us partly because possible meanings are just out of reach.” Halliday is represented by Carrie Haddad Photographs. Portfolio: www.davidchalliday.com. —Brian K. Mahoney

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