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news and politics

whole living guide

19 while you were sleeping

76 springing to life

Rigged medical studies, Dick Armey decries eco-hysteria, and more.

22 the great he-cession Reihan Salam believes the recession may be the swan song of the patriarchy.

Lorrie Klosterman profiles a new school and educational program for elders based on lifetime learning models that is debuting in Saugerties this month.

80 Flowers Fall: a dream Field notes from a Buddhist Mom’s experimental life. By Bethany Saltman.

26 beinhart’s body politic: republican sex, take two Larry Beinhart mans the barricades in “Invasion of the Sexophobes.”

locally grown 62 the plot that couldn’t fail: anatomy of a community garden .

Marianne Neifeld documents the birth of Rhinebeck’s community garden.

community pages 67 poughkeepsie: saving the best for last .

Diane Pineiro-Zucker talks with movers and shakers in the Queen City of the Hudson.

92 kent: artists’ ally Jan Larraine Cox meets the creative class in Kent, Connecticut.

88 staying warm, staying green .

Crispin Kott chats up the eco-heating experts on top tips for saving money and saving the planet this winter.

business services 58 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 67 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 81 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

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arts & culture 28 woodstock film festival preview Jay Blotcher annual sneak peek at what’s showing at the 10th annual Woodstock Film Festival, September 30 through October 4. Coverage includes a Q&A with Meira Blaustein, reviews of films to be screened at WFF, and interviews with directors Oren Moverman (The Messenger) and Peter Callahan (Against the Current).

38 portfolio Lynn Woods talks with conceptual clothing designer Mau.

40 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 44 music Peter Aaron profiles the Georgian song-and-dance troupe Dancing Crane. Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Emma Alabaster In the 3rd Generation the Daughters Are Free. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols. Red Molly Love and Other Tragedies. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren. Various Snapper Magees: Good Music and Booze. Reviewed by Jeremy Schwartz.

48 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles Pulitzer prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley.

50 BOOK reviews Jay Blotcher reviews: It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun. Marx Dorrity reviews The Confessions of Edward Day. Plus this month’s Short Takes, a round-up of history and books for seekers.

52 Poetry Poems by Laurie Byro, Jeffrey Canino, Steve Clark, Paul R. Clemente, Amanda Cowen, Alyssa Hanofe, Jane Heidgerd, John Hopper, Liz Kelso, James Korn, Benjamin Mueller, Danyul Nguyen, and Deena Rae Turner.

54 food & drink Peter Barrett explores the benefits of permaculture with garden guru Lee Reich.

112 parting shot Simon and Simeon, a photograph by Erika Larsen.

the forecast 96 daily calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 95 Alt-rock fest All Tomorrow’s Parties returns to Kutsher’s in Monticello. 97 A round-up of fall fairs and festivals around the region. 101 An exhibition of prints by Martin Puryear opens at the Kleinert-James. 103 Dan Kahn and the Painted Bird hit the Colony Cafe in Woodstock. 105 Rachel Harrison’s “Consider the Lobster” continues at CCS at Bard.

planet waves 106 Inner Goddess, Inner Gaze

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Scene from Dear Lemon Lima, directed by Suzi Yoonessi. WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW

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108 Dancing Ladies (detail) joy brown | clay | unfired work in progress According to Joy Brown, 108 Dancing Ladies is an attempt to capture the spirit of intuitive connectedness and realizing the importance of being part of a group, transcending race, age, and culture. “Remember what it feels like to squish mud between your toes?” asks Brown “Pack mud pies or dig in the warm sand at the beach? That’s this feeling I have when my hands are in wet clay: It is the source of creativity for me. The dialogue begins between me and the clay. The forms emerge. The ideas arise. I have always loved playing with clay. While growing up in Senriyama, Japan, my brother Jimmy and I would pull a red wagon up the road to an exposed cliff of clay. We would dig clay, load the wagon full, and pull it down the hill, back home. I remember making tiny vessels and one little crude box. Then we left them to dry out in the sun. Basically I’m doing the same thing now.” Joy Brown has worked with clay for over 35 years, making sculptural forms and ceramic wall murals that measure as large as 20 by 5 feet. For the past decade, Brown has also been working in bronze to make life-sized figures for display in public places. Her work grew out of her childhood experiences and apprenticeships in Japan, including one with a 13th-generation master of traditional Japanese ceramics. There Brown learned the importance of process, where thinking drops away and energy takes over. She adopted the aesthetic of “shibui,” which she describes as a complex form of beauty at once serene, simple, powerful, and sophisticated. Each summer, still rooted in the Japanese tradition, Brown fires pieces at her Kent studio, surrounded by a community of dozens of emerging and established artists who take turns tending the week-long firing in her 30-foot-long anagama tunnel kiln. “The figures have evolved over the past decades from abstract, organic forms to this human like form,” says Brown. “The clay forms are hollow, pinched and paddled, made of hearty clay from Georgia, fired with wood. The soft clay colors and dusting of ash on the unglazed pieces are an integral part of each piece. They hold a spirit of how I’d like to be, in relaxed awareness. They help me stay in contact with that part of myself that is open, quiet, clear, connected, and whole.” Brown’s sculpture has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the US, Europe, Asia, and featured in publications including the New York Times, Art News, Ceramics Monthly, and House and Garden. In 1998, she and Denis Cooper founded Still Mountain Center, cross-cultural educational arts organization in Kent, CT. Brown will be exhibiting her ceramics at the Art Within Gallery and Studio in Kent, CT, October 10 through November 15. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 10 from 3-6pm. (860) 927-4946. Portfolio: www.artwithin.net. —Jan Larraine Cox

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“Fiercely independent” is not a mere slogan for The Woodstock Film Festival (September 30 to October 4), which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. A scrappy, idealistic spirit infuses every screening, reception, discussion panel and musical performance planned for the annual five-day event. If not the industry leader that Sundance is, neither has WFF compromised its progressive values for the sake of growth. At the helm since the beginning, film festival veteran Meira Blaustein, WFF co-founder with husband Laurent Rejto, spends the year attending film festivals across the globe to build her program. (Selections are augmented by submissions of nearly 2,000 films, of which 120-140 eventually are booked.) For yet another autumn, the town of Woodstock—and the neighboring towns of Rhinebeck, Hunter and Rosendale—will play host to indie film stars and cinephiles alike in a low-budget but high-energy movie lovefest. Our festival preview coverage begins on page 30. The festival’s 2009 screening schedule is online at www.woodstockfilmfestival.com. Two months before the festival begins, Meira Blaustein took a break from the signature chaos of her work as festival director at WFF’s Mill Hill Road office in Woodstock to reflect on a milestone anniversary she never expected to see. —Jay Blotcher

A decade ago, if someone said you’d be celebrating 10 years of The Woodstock

What are your most vivid memories of the first year of the festival in 2000?

Film Festival, how would you have reacted?

I would wake up every morning and not be able to breathe, and I would immediately

I’m sure I would have said that the person is crazy. I remember so well in 2000, when

send myself off into a mode of panic. I would be hysterical [wondering]: How the heck

we first came to Woodstock, and we talked to just a few locals and struck the notion

are we going to get through the day? How are we going to make it happen? How’s the

of playing a film festival here. People thought it was the most wonderful thing on the

whole thing going to come together? But then somehow we would. We also had [two-

face of the earth. It doesn’t often happen that way. Here, because of the nature of the

time Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker] Barbara Kopple’s film My Generation as

community, because of the nature of the event and organization, because of what we

the closing night film. She was just the nicest, most gracious person.

had already in place, and because of where things were at, at that particular moment in

We also had a documentary called Freestyle about hip-hop artists. We were showing

time, everything just jelled so beautifully and so quickly. It’s not to say that immediately

it at the Bearsville Theater. The filmmaker was hand-delivering the tape to us. He left

we began with all the money in the world. That was certainly very far from the truth; we

the city but got stuck in traffic and we were waiting, waiting, waiting. The filmmaker

had no money. But what we had was the enthusiasm and true interest and true love of

brought some of the hip-hop artists and they started an impromptu performance, so

everyone involved.

the audience got a good show. It was worth it for them to stay. But it was a pretty hairy

Was there a philosophy for the festival from the beginning?

situation. Freestyle actually ended up winning Best Documentary Award.

It was really about bringing the arts and culture of the 21st century—film and new media—to a community that has supported the arts for over a hundred years. While music and theater and painting and poetry and culture have been the mainstay in

The key sense from the first year was that it was magical, because no one knew what to expect; it had never happened here before. Most of the people working on the festival had never been to a film festival before. So everybody was flying by the seat of

this artist community for so many years, film was still a new notion—and yet it is the

their pants and just doing what they were doing out of sheer love.

contemporary art form. From the very beginning, we had three specific focuses: music,

You say that the festival has evolved organically. What have been some of the changes?

political, and environmental issues.

I always hope that an angel will come and give us financial support that we so desperately

This festival has benefited from the support and attendance of independent film

have been needing all this time. This is one of my greatest hopes, because financially we

people behind and in front of the cameras who attend panels. Who is your most

have been struggling all along. And even though we have really grown so much, financially

unexpected ally?

it’s a very low-budget operation that really does everything like an independent filmmaker

[Award-winning cinematographer] Haskell Wexler is a good example. He lives in L.A.

does—very, very creatively. But we all pay the price. Financially it’s a struggle.

By geographical definition, he’s very removed from the Woodstock Film Festival, but by

I assume everyone knows that the festival is not going to get that much bigger,

philosophical definition, by the way he sees film and by the way he sees the world, he’s

because we’re in a small area. All the towns are small, the [screening] venues are small.

very close to it. He really believes in what we’re doing politically as well as artistically. He

This is not going to become a huge event. Nor should it. One of the strengths of the

became connected to the festival right from he get-go and I had never met him before.

Woodstock Film Festival is it’s intimacy. It really allows people to get to know each other

He became such a fan and such a good friend—every year we give the Haskell Wexler

and to develop relationships and to really nurture and launch careers. It’s very hard to

Award for Best Cinematography. He’s been here many times over.

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Deutsche Bank released a report on August 5 predicting that the percentage of US homeowners who owe more than their house is worth will nearly double to 48 percent in 2011. (As of March of this year, 26 percent of homeowners had “negative equity.”) Deutsche Bank ‘s gloomy assessment comes after three years of falling prices in the housing market. The drop in home prices is fueling a vicious cycle of foreclosures as it eliminates homeowner equity and gives borrowers an incentive to walk away from their mortgages. Regions suffering most from equity reversals are areas in California, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and West Virginia. Las Vegas and parts of Florida and California will see 90 percent or more of their loans underwater by 2011. In the Hudson Valley, prices of existing homes fell regionwide in July, with the exception of Columbia County, where they rose by just under two percent. Source: Reuters, Mid-Hudson News.com Between 1998 and 2005, 26 scientific papers emphasizing the benefits and de-emphasizing the risks of hormone replacement therapy for women were published in 18 medical journals. Newly unveiled court documents reveal that ghostwriters, paid by Wyeth, a pharmaceutical company that marketed hormone drugs Premarin and Prempro (with sales of $2 billion in 2001 alone), prepared the articles, which were then rubber stamped by doctors, who were cited as lead authors. Wyeth faces over 8,000 lawsuits from women who claim that the company’s hormone drugs caused them to develop illnesses. Source: New York Times A study published in the August issue of the journal Pediactrics shows that kids exposed in the womb to heavy doses of common combustion pollutants—car and truck exhaust, industrial boiler and coal-fired power plants emissions, cigarettes—showed an average 5 point loss in IQ by kindergarten age. The study followed 400 pregnant women from inner-city neighborhoods in New York City between 1998 and 2003. A five-point drop in IQ is in the range of what might triggered by exposure to high levels of lead or by fetal alcohol syndrome. “For any individual child, unless it’s your own, you might consider a five-point drop in IQ as no big deal,” notes Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a pediatric epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University. Extrapolated across the entire US population, however, a five-point downward shift in IQ would increase the number of mentally retarded children by 3.5 million. Source: Science News Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey appeared at a Republican bicameral hearing on climate change on July 30. At the hearing, the former Texas congressman decried “eco-hysteria” and wondered whether America wasn’t becoming a nation of “environmental hypochondriacs.” “If the Lord God Almighty made the heavens and the earth,” said Armey, “and he made them to his satisfaction, it is quite pretentious of we little weaklings here on earth to think that we are going to destroy God’s creation.” Source: ThinkProgress.org A Canadian high school student won first prize in Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa for an idea that will help plastic shopping bags degrade in three month’s time. (The 500 billion bags we currently landfill each year take 1,000 years to decompose.) Sixteen-year-old Daniel Burd of Waterloo, Canada, isolated microorganisms that can break down plastic in 90 days. Reproducing Burd’s experiment on a large, industrial shouldn’t be too difficult. The inputs are cheap, maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide—each microbe produces only 0.01 per cent of its own infinitesimal weight in carbon dioxide, according to Burd. Source: Waterloo Record (Canada)

A long-secret 2004 internal report by the CIA’s inspector general released on Monday documenting techniques used by the agency during interrogation of terrorism detainees was released in late August. The report’s catalog of abuses has prompted Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate cases in which the CIA strayed beyond its authorities. The report describes an instance in which the CIA fired a gun in a room adjoining a detainee in an effort to convince the prisoner that another terrorism suspect had been executed. The report raised concerns about the frequency with which certain prisoners were being waterboarded. Segments of the report indicate that two senior Al Qaeda prisoners, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, were waterboarded a total of 266 times, far more than had been envisioned in Justice Department memos that gave the CIA permission to use the method. Source: Los Angeles Times The estimated 1.5 billion expected to be added to Asia’s population by 2050 will double the continent’s demand for food, and unless a massive infusion of capital is made to the food infrastructure, starvation and social unrest on an unprecedented scale could occur, according to a report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. The report urges countries to repair and modernize irrigation systems, as better management of existing water supplies is the only real option to deal with increased demand. The UN expects the world to have an extra 2.5 billion mouths to feed within 40 years, most of them in developing countries. Precious little land still available Source: Guardian (UK) According to a Centers for Disease Control report released in late August, life expectancy hit an all-time high in the United States. The most recent data, from 2007, shows women living until 80.4 years and men living 75.3 years. (The gender gap has narrowed from a peak of 7.8 years in 1979.) Thirty other countries have higher estimated life spans; Japan leads the field with a life expectancy of 83 years for children born in 2007. The report also noted that black males had reached a life expectancy of 70 years for the first time. Source: Associated Press Compiled by Brian K. Mahoney

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ccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 80 percent of job losses in the United States since November of last year have been suffered by men. This aspect of the current recession has received little notice, writes Reihan Salam in “The Great He-Cession” (News & Politics, p. 22), but it augurs a tectonic shift in gender relations. The declining economic prospects of men across the globe, argues Salam, combined with the increasing enfranchisement of women in social, economic, and political realms, will result in nothing less than a revolution over the course of this century. The tension between alienated men—on the downswing as traditional high-paying blue-collar jobs decrease and white-collar managerial work disappears—and empowered women—is it any wonder why Hillary Clinton is so violently disliked by male-dominated conservatism?—will not result in open warfare. But Salam believes the battle for power, as patriarchal structures weaken, will be the defining conflict of the 21st century. Which seems to be a stretch, doesn’t it? What about the coming Water Wars we’ve heard so much about? Or the conflicts that will be brought on by forced migration in the face of environmental cataclysm? Or the further Balkanization of former nation-states into smaller, warring neo-tribal enclaves? Or the Clash of Civilizations, for goodness sake? Salam’s argument, however, is exaggerated for effect; it’s not the whole truth. (Making bold pronouncements which may not extend with perfect clarity from their original argument is something males are known for.) But there are many kernels of insight to be mined here. There is no denying the world is being remade as we switch from risk-seeking, get-rich-quick, aggressively macho financial strategies (bundled derivatives, anyone?) into a more communal, supportive economic stance (government bailouts). Don’t expect to see Hillary Clinton, with a frying pan in her hand, calling for a general strike, but don’t be surprised if she’s elected president in 2016 either. The whole truth is tough to come by. We are usually left to seek it out in small doses that point toward the inscrutable revelation that is never revealed. Eric Francis Coppolino, in “Inner Goddess, Inner Gaze” (Planet Waves, p. 110), approaches the gender divide from the angle of internal archetypes, and

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understanding the truth about ourselves. In his column this month, he makes the point that we contain masculine and feminine aspects within us, and how we project the tension between them outward is the result of our internal ordering. Which suggests a different kind of truth about the gender battle—that it rages within (most fiercely within macho males), and that it contains the seeds of its own detente, if we could just make peace with our inner feminine. Some things are true, and some things are completely true. Like the joy and empowerment of growing our own food. In “The Plot That Couldn’t Fail” (Locally Grown, p. 62), Marianne Neifeld explains how a small group of committed, would-be gardeners in Rhinebeck transformed a half-acre of town park into a vibrant community garden in under six months. (Also, as an online bonus feature to our Locally Grown section, we have a comprehensive guide to pick-your-own farms in the region.) Peter Barrett talks permaculture—think of it as holistic gardening—with local experts Lee Reich and Ethan Roland in “Backyard Bounty” (Food & Drink, p. 54), and finds out, along with other salient gardening advice, that it’s possible to grow kiwis in the Hudson Valley! Some truths we can no longer deny, like the fact that our fossil-fuel based society is rapidly undermining the viability of life on this planet. We still need to heat our homes, but we need to change our ways. Crispin Kott gets top tips from eco-heating experts for “Staying Warm, Staying Green” (Efficient Heating, p.89). Some truths aren’t true at all. Playwright and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley makes up stuff for a living. His vivid dialog and the meticulously detailed worlds he envisions for his characters transform fiction into metaphysical truth, from romantic fantasias like Moonstruck, to hard-hitting character studies that tackle eternal questions as in Doubt. Books editor Nina Shengold profiles the award-winning writer in “Shanley and the Deep Blue Sea” (Books, p. 44). There are many truths, and many varieties of truth peddled as the genuine article. Each part adds to the whole. But the truth can also be quite tricky. As David Foster Wallace has written: “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

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NEWS & POLITICS World, Nation, & Region

The Great He-Cession the death of Macho

Manly men have been running the world forever. But the Great Recession is changing all that, and it will alter the course of history.

By Reihan Salam

he era of male dominance is coming to an end. Seriously. For years, the world has been witnessing a quiet but monumental shift of power from men to women. Today, the Great Recession has turned what was an evolutionary shift into a revolutionary one. The consequence will be not only a mortal blow to the macho men’s club called finance capitalism that got the world into the current economic catastrophe; it will be a collective crisis for millions and millions of working men around the globe. The death throes of macho are easy to find if you know where to look. Consider, to start, the almost unbelievably disproportionate impact that the current crisis is having on men—so much so that the recession is now known to some economists and the more plugged-in corners of the blogosphere as the “he-cession.” More than 80 percent of job losses in the United States since November have fallen on men, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the numbers are broadly similar in Europe, adding up to about 7 million more out-of-work men than before the recession, just in the United States and Europe, as economic sectors traditionally dominated by men (construction and heavy manufacturing) decline further and faster than those traditionally dominated by women (public-sector employment, healthcare, and education). All told, by the end of 2009, the global recession is expected to put as many as 28 million men out of work worldwide. Things will only get worse for men as the recession adds to the pain globalization was already causing. Between 28 and 42 million more jobs in the United States are at risk for outsourcing, Princeton economist Alan Blinder estimates. Worse still, men are falling even further behind in acquiring the educational credentials necessary for success in the knowledge-based economies that will rule the post-recession world. Soon, there will be three female college graduates for every two males in the United States, and a similarly uneven outlook in the rest of the developed world. Of course, macho is a state of mind, not just a question of employment status. And as men get hit harder in the he-cession, they’re even less well equipped to deal with the profound and longterm psychic costs of job loss. According to the American Journal of Public Health, “the financial strain of unemployment” has significantly more consequences on the mental health of men than on that of women. In other words, be prepared for a lot of unhappy guys out there—with all the negative consequences that implies. The Ousting of Macho As the crisis unfolds, it will increasingly play out in the realm of power politics. Consider the electoral responses to this global catastrophe that are starting to take shape. When Iceland’s economy imploded, the country’s voters did what no coun-

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try has done before: Not only did they throw out the all-male elite who oversaw the making of the crisis, they named the world’s first openly lesbian leader as their prime minister. It was, said Halla Tomasdottir, the female head of one of Iceland’s few remaining solvent banks, a perfectly reasonable response to the “penis competition” of male-dominated investment banking. “Ninety-nine percent went to the same school, they drive the same cars, they wear the same suits and they have the same attitudes. They got us into this situation—and they had a lot of fun doing it,” Tomasdottir complained to Der Spiegel. Soon after, tiny, debt-ridden Lithuania took a similar course, electing its first woman president: an experienced economist with a black belt in karate named Dalia Grybauskaite. On the day she won, Vilnius’s leading newspaper bannered this headline: “Lithuania has decided: The country is to be saved by a woman.” Although not all countries will respond by throwing the male bums out, the backlash is real—and it is global. The great shift of power from males to females is likely to be dramatically accelerated by the economic crisis, as more people realize that the aggressive, risk-seeking behavior that has enabled men to entrench their power—the cult of macho—has now proven destructive and unsustainable in a globalized world. Indeed, it’s now fair to say that the most enduring legacy of the Great Recession will not be the death of Wall Street. It will not be the death of finance. And it will not be the death of capitalism. These ideas and institutions will live on. What will not survive is macho. And the choice men will have to make, whether to accept or fight this new fact of history, will have seismic effects for all of humanity—women as well as men. For several years now it has been an established fact that, as behavioral finance economists Brad Barber and Terrance Odean memorably demonstrated in 2001, of all the factors that might correlate with overconfident investment in financial markets—age, marital status, and the like—the most obvious culprit was having a Y (male) chromosome. And now it turns out that not only did the macho men of the heavily male-dominated global finance sector create the conditions for global economic collapse, but they were aided and abetted by their mostly male counterparts in government whose policies, whether consciously or not, acted to artificially prop up macho. One such example is the housing bubble, which has now exploded most violently in the West. That bubble actually represented an economic policy that disguised the declining prospects of blue-collar men. In the United States, the booming construction sector generated relatively high-paying jobs for the relatively less-skilled men who made up 97.5 percent of its workforce—$814 a week on average. By contrast, female-dominated jobs in healthcare support pay $510 a week, while retail jobs pay about $690 weekly. The housing bubble created nearly

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A man looks at a list of employers at the 2009 CUNY Big Apple Job Fair at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York city on March 20, 2009.

3 million more jobs in residential construction than would have existed otherwise, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Other, mostly male-dominated, industries, such as real estate, cement production, truck transport, and architecture, saw big employment gains as well. These handsome construction wages allowed men to maintain an economic edge over women. When policymakers are asked why they didn’t act to stem the housing bubble’s inflation, they invariably cite the fact that the housing sector was a powerful driver of employment. Indeed, subsidizing macho had all kinds of benefits, and to puncture the housing bubble would have been political suicide. Male Breadwinners Losing And yet, the housing bubble is just the latest in a long string of efforts to prop up macho, the most powerful of which was the New Deal, as historian Gwendolyn Mink has argued. At the height of the Great Depression in 1933, 15 million Americans were unemployed out of a workforce that was roughly 75 percent male. This undermined the male breadwinner model of the family, and there was tremendous pressure to bring it back. The New Deal did just that by focusing on job creation for men. Insulating women from the market by keeping them in the home became a mark of status for men—a goal most fully realized in the postwar nuclear family (Rosie the Riveter was a blip). In this way, according to historian Stephanie Coontz, the Great Depression and the New Deal reinforced traditional gender roles:Women were promised economic security in exchange for the state’s entrenchment of male economic power. Today, this old bargain has come undone, and no state intervention will restore it. Indeed, the US economic stimulus package no longer bears much resemblance to a New Deal-style public-works program. Despite early talk that the stimulus would stress shovel-ready infrastructure projects, high-speed rail lines, and other efforts that would bolster heavily male sectors of the economy,

far more of the money is going—directly or indirectly—to education, healthcare, and other social services. Already in the United States, women make up nearly half of biological and medical scientists and nearly three quarters of health-industry workers. No less an authority than US President Barack Obama has weighed in on the shift of power from men to women, telling the New York Times that, though construction and manufacturing jobs won’t vanish altogether, “they will constitute a smaller percentage of the overall economy.” As a result, he said, “Women are just as likely to be the primary bread earner, if not more likely, than men are today.” What this all means is that the problem of macho run amok and excessively compensated is now giving way to macho unemployed and undirected—a different but possibly just as destructive phenomenon. Long periods of unemployment are a strong predictor of heavy drinking, especially for men ages 27 to 35, a study in Social Science & Medicine found last year. And the macho losers of globalization can forget about marrying: “Among the workers who disproportionately see their jobs moving overseas or disappearing into computer chips,” says sociologist Andrew Cherlin, “we’ll see fewer young adults who think they can marry.” So the disciplining effects of marriage for young men will continue to fade. Surly, lonely, and hard-drinking men, who feel as though they have been rendered historically obsolete, and who long for lost identities of macho, are already common in ravaged post-industrial landscapes across the world, from America’s Rust Belt to the post-Soviet wreckage of Vladimir Putin’s Russia to the megalopolises of the Middle East. If this recession has any staying power, and most believe it does, the massive psychic trauma will spread like an inkblot. A New Model of Manhood How will this shift to the post-macho world unfold? That depends on the choices men make, and they only have two. 9/09 ChronograM news & politics

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Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite during an interview in Vilnius on July 13, 2009. debt-ridden Lithuania elected Grybauskaite, a black belt in karate, by a landslide in may of 2009 after a year of worsening financial conditions, rising unemployment, and violent ant-government protests.

The first is adaptation: men embracing women as equal partners and assimilating to the new cultural sensibilities, institutions, and egalitarian arrangements that entails. That’s not to say that all the men in the West will turn into metrosexuals while football ratings and beer sales plummet. But amid the death of macho, a new model of manhood may be emerging, especially among some educated men living in the affluent West. Economist Betsey Stevenson has described the decline of an older kind of marriage, in which men specialized in market labor while women cared for children, in favor of “consumption” marriage, “where both people are equally contributing to production in the marketplace, but they are matching more on shared desires on how to consume and how to live their lives.” These marriages tend to last longer, and they tend to involve a more even split when it comes to household duties. Not coincidentally, the greater adaptability of educated men in family life extends to economic life, too. Economist Eric D. Gould found in 2004 that marriage tends to make men (particularly lower-wage earners) more serious about their careers—more likely to study more, work more, and desire white-collar rather than blue-collar jobs. This adaptation of men may be the optimistic scenario, but it’s not entirely far-fetched. Then, however, there’s the other choice: resistance. Men may decide to fight the death of macho, sacrificing their own prospects in an effort to disrupt and delay a powerful historical trend. There are plenty of precedents for this. Indeed, men who have no constructive ways of venting their anger may become a source of nasty extremism; think of the KGB nostalgists in Russia or the jihadi recruits in search of lost honor, to name just a couple. And there are still plenty of men in the West who want to “stand athwart history, yelling Stop.” These guys notwithstanding, however, Western developed countries are not for the most part trying to preserve the old gender imbalances of the macho order this time around. Instead, the choice between adaptation and resistance may play out along a geopolitical divide:While North American and Western European men broadly— if not always happily—adapt to the new egalitarian order, their counterparts in the emerging giants of East and South Asia, not to mention in Russia, all places where 24

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women often still face brutal domestic oppression, may be headed for even more exaggerated gender inequality. In those societies, state power will be used not to advance the interests of women, but to keep macho on life support. Look at Russia, where just such an effort has been unfolding for the past decade. Although there are 10.4 million more Russian women than men, this hasn’t translated into political or economic power. After the Soviet collapse, the ideal of women’s equality was abandoned almost entirely, and many Russians revived the cult of the full-time homemaker (with Putin’s government even offering bonus payments for childbearing women). But Russian men, floored by the dislocations of the Soviet collapse and a decade of economic crisis, simply couldn’t adapt. “It was common for men to fall into depression and spend their days drinking and lying on the couch smoking,” Moscow writer Masha Lipman observes. Between their tremendously high rates of mortality, incarceration, and alcoholism and their low rates of education, only a small handful of Russian men were remotely able (or willing) to serve as sole breadwinners. This left Russia’s resilient women to do the work, while being forced to accept skyrocketing levels of sexual exploitation at work and massive hypocrisy at home. A higher percentage of working-age women are employed in Russia than nearly any other country, Elena Mezentseva of the Moscow Center for Gender Studies has found, but as of 2000, they were making only half the wages that Russian men earned for the same work. All the while, Putin has aided and abetted these men, turning their nostalgia for the lost macho of Soviet times into an entire ideology. The China Syndrome If this represents a nightmare scenario for how the death of macho could play out, another kind of threatening situation is unfolding in China. The country’s $596 billion economic stimulus package bears a far stronger resemblance to a New Deal-style public-works program than anything the US Democratic Party has devised. Whereas healthcare and education have attracted the bulk of US stimulus dollars, more than 90 percent of the Chinese stimulus is going to construction: of low-income homes, highways, railroads, dams, sewage-treatment

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Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir answers questions at a news conference with foreign news media in Reykjavik on April 25, 2009. when iceland’s economy imploded in 2008, voters threw out the all-male elite and elcted sigurdardottir, the world’s first openly lesbian leader.

plants, electricity grids, airports, and much else. This frenzy of spending is designed to contain the catastrophic damage caused by the loss of manufacturing jobs in China’s export sector. The Chinese Communist Party has long seen the country’s 230 million migrant workers, roughly two thirds of whom are men, as a potential source of political unrest. Tens of millions have lost manufacturing jobs already, and so far they’ve proved unwilling or unable to return to their native provinces. Just as the housing bubble in the United States was a pro-male policy, China’s economic trajectory over the past two decades is deeply tied to its effort to manage the threat posed by the country’s massive male migrant population. Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Yasheng Huang has argued that while the first decade after Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms saw tremendous economic growth and entrepreneurship in the Chinese hinterlands, the next two decades have seen a marked decline in the economic prospects of rural China coupled with a concerted effort to promote the rapid development of China’s coastal cities. State-owned enterprises and multinational corporations enjoyed generous subsidies, tax abatements, and other insider deals, and in return, they employed millions of migrants.The trade-off exacerbated China’s internal migration, as millions of men fled rural poverty in search of short-term urban employment, but after the Tiananmen Square uprising, Chinese elites welcomed it as a way to stave off urban unrest. Today, however, it’s hard to see how Chinese leaders can safely unravel this bargain. Matters are made worse by China’s skewed population—there are 119 male births for every 100 female—and the country has already seen violent protests from its increasingly alienated young men. Of course, it’s possible that China will constructively channel this surplus of macho energy in the direction of entrepreneurship, making the country a global source of radical innovation, with all the military implications that entails. More likely, if the nature of China’s stimulus is any indication, Beijing will continue trying to prop up its urban industrial economy—for if this outlet for macho crumbles, there is good reason to believe that the Communist Party will crumble with it.

Which Gender Surrenders? It might be tempting to think that the death of macho is just a cyclical correction and that the alpha males of the financial world will all be back to work soon. Tempting, but wrong. The “penis competition” made possible by limitless leverage, arcane financial instruments, and pure unadulterated capitalism will now be domesticated in lasting ways. The he-cession is creating points of agreement among people not typically thought of as kindred spirits, from behavioral economists to feminist historians. But while many blame men for the current economic mess, much of the talk thus far has focused on the recession’s effects on women. And they are real.Women had a higher global unemployment rate before the current recession, and they still do. This leads many to agree with a UN report from earlier this year: “The economic and financial crisis puts a disproportionate burden on women, who are often concentrated in vulnerable employment and tend to have lower unemployment and social security benefits, and have unequal access to and control over economic and financial resources.” This is a valid concern, and not incompatible with the fact that billions of men worldwide, not just a few discredited bankers, will increasingly lose out in the new world taking shape from the current economic wreckage. As women start to gain more of the social, economic, and political power they have long been denied, it will be nothing less than a full-scale revolution the likes of which human civilization has never experienced. This is not to say that women and men will fight each other across armed barricades. The conflict will take a subtler form, and the main battlefield will be hearts and minds. But make no mistake:The axis of global conflict in this century will not be warring ideologies, or competing geopolitics, or clashing civilizations. It won’t be race or ethnicity. It will be gender. We have no precedent for a world after the death of macho. But we can expect the transition to be wrenching, uneven, and possibly very violent. Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation. This article originally appeared in Foreign Policy. 9/09 ChronograM news & politics

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Life is Sacred. Right to Life. Culture of Life. Those all sound marvelous. Positive. Inarguable. They are all, as used today, euphemisms for being anti-abortion. Is it true? Is being against abortion really about being in favor of “life?” On a general philosophical level if someone was in favor of life, it seems reasonable that they would be against war, guns, and the death penalty, and be for healthcare for all. That is true for the Pope, an intellectually consistent fellow, but it’s not true in American politics. It’s exactly the opposite. Anti-abortionism clusters with being pro-war, for the death penalty and guns, and against national healthcare.That cluster is called the Republican Party and/or the conservative movement. America leads the modernized world in teenagers getting knocked up. And in teenagers having abortions. Among girls ages 15 to 19, the rate of pregnancy is 85 per thousand. Fifty-five have a baby. Thirty get abortions (UNICEF, 1996). In the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Germany, and Finland, the rate of pregnancy is under 20 per thousand. It’s worth noting that four of the five countries closest to the US are the Anglophone nations: New Zealand, 60 per thousand; the UK, 51; Canada and Australia at 44. That indicates something about speaking English and getting pregnant, but it’s hard to say what. More significant is that back in the 1950s the rate of teens having babies was 91 per thousand. That’s not the rate of pregnancy. It does not include miscarriages, or abortions, which were illegal at the time. It is the rate of birth. So, the sexual revolution, the dreadful decline in moral values, the advent of rock’n’roll, the eroticization of movies, television, and advertising, the availability of abortion, all put together, has not led to more kids getting pregnant. On a practical level, if someone really wanted to cut down on the number of abortions, they would be for sex education, masturbation, cunnilingus, fellatio, and same-sex fun. In particular, they would be for contraception. This is not the case. According to Christina Page, “There’s not one pro-life group in the United States that supports contraception.” (“Why the Anti-Choice Movement Is on the Verge of Civil War,” AlterNet, 7/3/09.) Conception goes like this. Sperm meets egg. If they unite, they form a zygote—a single cell with two sets of genes.The zygote travels down the fallopian tube. As it does, it forms more cells and becomes a hollow ball (called a blastocyst), but remains the same size.When it gets to the uterus it may implant in the wall of the uterus and develop further. If it does, it is called an embryo. About eight weeks later it is considered a fetus. There are two primary means of contraception. The first is to create a barrier between egg and sperm. While there are multiple ways to do that, the big one is the condom. 26

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“Pro-life” and abstinence-only literature dwells so much on the limits and potential failures of condom use that when you’re done you have to figure that the mere act of rolling one on will leave you with herpes and genital warts. Maybe even HIV. Plus you’ll get pregnant. According to Prolife.com: “One of the studies found that among teenagers, the condom failure rate regarding pregnancy was 36%! On average, that means that one out of every three teenage couples using condoms will become pregnant each year.” Don’t believe it. Don’t take it out of context. The context is that they’re loons. But pretend they’ve convinced you that there’s no point in using condoms. There are other forms of birth control. Lots of them. The pill prevents ovulation. IUDs kill sperm and also interfere with implantation by making the wall of the uterus less hospitable to the blastocyst. The morning-after pill (“plan B”) prevents implantation. With any of these methods you could still get STDs, but at least you won’t get pregnant. Hold on a minute! There is a growing body of “pro-life” literature that says life does not begin with the fetus, or even the embryo, it starts at zygote-hood. So actually, by that definition, with some of these drugs or devices you won’t be preventing pregnancy! A sperm could unite with an egg, form a zygote, and become a blastocyst. If it is prevented from attaching itself to the wall of the uterus, they call it abortion! The only form of prevention for pregnancy and STDs the movement will accept is abstinence. It does have the kind of “period, end quote!” logic that appeals to the conservative mind. As a practice, however, abstinence does not work. A study of 12,000 adolescents over six years, presented at the National STD Conference in 2004, showed that the rate of STDs among those teens who had pledged virginity was statistically identical to those who had not. If the “pro-life” movement is not about protecting and nurturing life, and it’s not about preventing unwanted pregnancies and STDs, what is it about? It’s about fear of sex. That’s why the only solution they’ll accept is to stop all that screwing! It should be called the Sexophobia Movement. “Pro-life” is a brilliant term. It is completely misleading. Probably more so for its advocates and followers than to anyone else.That’s a large part of its genius. It takes fear and dresses it in the costume of a moral superhero. But that doesn’t mean we must, or should, accept their language.We should, instead, insist on calling a spade a spade. Next time you hear someone refer to “Pro-Life,” or “Right to Life,” politely say, “Oh, you mean the sexophobes?” When you read those labels in a newspaper or hear them on radio or TV, call in and tell the reporters and broadcasters, “Please don’t participate in that misdirection. Kindly call them what they are. Sexophobes.”

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By Jay Blotcher

There is a deep furrow in the living room couch, an occupational hazard of my fourth consecutive summer of previewing films for Chronogram’s annual Wodstock Film Festival section. After clocking more than two cumulative days of movie-watching, your bleary-eyed but still-enthused reviewer shares his informed opinions on the Woodstock Film Festival 2009 line-up.

Selected Film Reviews (* indicates critic’s pick)

NARRATIVE FILMS

* The 4th of July Parade (Dir. Miranda Rhyne)

* Against the Current (Dir. Peter Callahan) See interview with director, page 36.

* Dear Lemon Lima (Dir. Suzi Yoonessi)

A haunting short film about a woman leaving her husband, their young daughter in tow, Parade doesn’t offer facile psychology in explaining the mother’s motivations or her meltdown. Shot in northern Ulster County in vivid tones by David Woolner, the film unfurls with a growing sense of dread that offsets the woodland scenery. Billie Andersson plays the aimless woman with a fractured panic, complemented by wide-eyed, eerily beautiful Kearsten Powers as the daughter. Revelatory and heartbreaking.

Harlem Aria (Dir. William Jennings)

Anton (Gabriel Casseus) wants to be an opera singer, an aspiration that draws sneers in his native Harlem. (Ha nobody ever heard of Paul Robeson?) Undaunted, he sings arias in his bedroom while surly neighbors drown him out with hip-hop. Anton ends up singing for coins in the park where he falls under the influence of Wesley, a conniving homeless man (played with outrageous and obscene humor by film producer Damon Wayans). Whacky goings-on ensue. An urban fairy tale with a big heart, this feature was completed in 1999.

* Knife Point (Dir. Carlos Mirabella-Davis)

Vanessa may have “flawless bone structure and undeniable charm,” as her preppiecute but smarmy ex-boyfriend Philip observes, but those are hardly effective weapons against the everyday indignities of prep school when you’re the new girl—and enrolled on scholarship for being half-Eskimo. Shot in Fairbanks, Alaska, Lemon Lima is a spiritual cousin to Napoleon Dynamite and Welcome to the Dollhouse in tallying the sohurtful-it’s-funny challenges of adolescence. Director-writer Yoonessi has a keen eye for the absurd in this (sometimes overly) quirky tale of underdogs, abetted by a strong ensemble cast of deadpan kids and whimsical animation segments. Ulster County resident Melissa Leo produced, and appears as a starchy religious neighbor.

The Eclipse (Dir. Conor McPherson)

As a handler at the Cobh Literary Festival in County Cork, Ireland, Michael Farr (Ciairin Hinds) must ferry around bestselling writers including the arrogant Nicholas Holden (Ulster County resident Aidan Quinn) and the beguiling gothic author Lena Morrell (Iben Hjejle). When Farr experiences spectral visitations, he turns to Morrell for guidance—and soon, for much more. Part horror story, part romantic drama, The Eclipse, directed by award-winning playwright McPherson (The Weir, Shining City) is densely packed with extraneous subplots, but strong performances and luminous cinematography will keep you intrigued.

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This NYU Film School graduation project by Mirabella-Davis suggests a combination of the neo-noir dialogue of John Dahl and the hypnotic imagery of early David Lynch. A landscaper down on his luck (Lev Gorn) meets up with an evangelical family on the road. Cinematographer Chris Dapkins has a gift for unsettling, fetishistic imagery. He and Mirabella-Davis are two looming talents to watch for.

Love and Roadkill (Dir. John David Allen)

This short film ably interweaves the class war between urban weekenders and locals with a quick lesson in metaphysics. A wry two-hander, starring Madeline Potter as the fatuous Manhattanite and Bill Camp as a local laborer. Shot in Columbia County and executive produced by arthouse legend James Ivory.

The Messenger (Dir. Oren Moverman) See interview with director, page 33.

* Ricky (Dir. Francois Ozon)

Audacious Ozon has distinguished himself internationally with fearless takes on sexuality and peerless empathy for female characters. Katie (Alexandra Lamy) joins his gallery of resilient, if errant, women. Her lusty romance with fellow factory worker Paco (Sergei Lopez) quickly settles into a stagnant domestic scene, but their new baby is anything but ordinary: Ricky has wings and Katie scrambles to keep the secret. Whether a parable on xenophobia, a fable of motherhood, or a satire on modern media, the film is alternately touching and grotesque. It may not ever gel, but Ozon flawed still outpaces most directors.

Stooge (Dir. Mickey Breitenstein)

* Convention (Dir. A.J. Schnack)

This momentous achievement joins The Maysles Brothers’ 1960 classic Primary in the canon of films that dissect and illuminate the American electoral system. Certainly not a cinema verite work, Convention is the hyper-kinetic distillation of the work of 11 filmmakers under director Schnack who ceaselessly roved the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver. The film pokes fun at the sometimes-clueless city officials who must cope with the mammoth event that drops into their backyard, the newspaper reporters on assignment and the diehard lefties intent on protesting. Sometimes cynical—the film shows martial law imposed on the city in the name of democracy—Convention ultimately betrays its own foggy-eyed joy when Obama is nominated. A stirring, fascinating look at the political process and required viewing for all school children.

Music We Are (Dir. Mirav Ozeri)

A trio of foul-mouthed buddies expresses wonder as to why infidelity still puts women’s knickers in a twist. The dialogue suggests playwrights Mamet and Labute, yet the story ends too abruptly and warrants a fleshed-out redux.

* White on Rice (Dir. Dave Boyle)

This loopy comedy has everything going for it: a nimble multicultural cast, an absurdist storyline and a sad-sack protagonist in the form of Hiroshi Watanabe as Hajime/Jimmy, a Japanese émigré who camps out with his Americanized sister in Salt Lake City to dull the pain of his own recent divorce. “My brother-in-law thinks I’m retarded,” he complains to coworkers, who are inclined to agree as Hajime fumbles every blind date that comes his way. Cowriters Joel Clark and Boyle have created a marvelous confection and Watanabe suggests Chaplin, Peter Sellers, and a bearable Adam Sandler. A winner.

DOCUMENTARIES

You have a soundboard seat as jazz avatars Jack DeJohnette, Danilo Perez, and John Patitucci mix it up at NRS Recording Studios in Catskill. While the creative process is never orally articulated to the point of demystification, you can watch the give and take of the musicians as they run through original compositions—“Tango Africa,” “Ode to MJQ,” and “Cahilo” among others—on piano, bass and drums. The mutual support and respect are undeniable.

* Racing Dreams (Dir. Marshall Curry)

* After the Storm (Dir. Hilla Medalia)

This film possess as much heart as Every Little Step, the smashing Adam Del DeoJames D. Stern doc about A Chorus Line. But After the Storm deals with higher stakes than mere show-biz aspirations; it’s about survival. A group of New York musical theatre veterans—James Lecesne, Randy Redd, and Gerry McIntyre—comes to New Orleans in 2007 to mount a production of “Once on This Island” to raise money to rebuild the St. Mark’s Youth Center. (The award-winning musical deals with a hurricane, and the producers cast school kids who are Katrina survivors.) During six weeks of rehearsals, we learn how these talented young people are rebuilding their lives. When your tears flow, they will do so deservedly.

While the film’s title is a nervy nod to the sweeping Hoop Dreams, Curry’s hubris is warranted; his portrait of three go-kart drivers—Brandon Warren, 13; Annabeth Barnes, 11; and Josh Hobson, 12—exhaustively captures the sport as well as the drama of their personal lives by following the trio over many, many months as they grow from novices to top-seed competitors. Racing Dreams emerges as an indelible portrait of Middle America, including broken families, chronic poverty, drug addiction, and the dreams concocted and pursued out of necessity as an escape. Exhilarating and sobering.

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Bearer of Bad News Oren Moverman’s The Messenger

Speaking about The Messenger, the film selected to open the tenth annual Woodstock Film Festival, screenwriter-director Oren Moverman said emphatically, “It’s really not a political film at all, and it really isn’t about the Iraq War.” Yet the film’s plot—an unsparing look at the soldiers who return and the families who must go on when they do not return—seems like it could have been ripped from the pages of an Iraq War vet’s diary. The Messenger, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, stars Ben Foster (who played outlaw Charlie Prince in 3:10 to Yuma) as Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery, a wounded and angry soldier just back from Iraq. In his remaining days of service, he is assigned the heart-wrenching work of notifying families of soldiers who have been killed in battle, and ordered to do so mechanically by a veteran superior officer, Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson). When Montgomery falls in love with a new army widow (Samantha Morton), he must confront the morality of his situation, even as he welcomes a sense of intimacy that he thought the war had deadened for good. While this is his directorial debut, Moverman has written many critically lauded works, including director Todd Haynes’s semiotic meditation on Bob Dylan, I’m Not There, and the junkie epic, Jesus’ Son, directed by Alison Maclean. Moverman had not planned on helming this project. When he and cowriter Alessandro Camon began work on The Messenger three years ago, the late Sydney Pollack expressed interest in filming it. He planned to focus on what he saw as “a forbidden love” between Montgomery and Olivia Pitterson, the war widow. But Moverman felt the greater story was between the staff sergeant and his captain, so Pollack “moved on, but remained a friend and advisor on the project,” according to Moverman. After two other directors, including Ben Affleck, suggested script revisions but then opted for other projects, Moverman was encouraged by producer Mark Gordon to take the reins. Despite his neophyte status, Foster and Harrelson signed on, as did Steve Buscemi as the father of a soldier killed in battle. For The Messenger, Moverman drew on the experiences of previous collaborations. “I’ve been lucky to work with directors I get along with and people who include me in the process. I got to experience a lot of the screenwriting process from a director’s perspective. Particularly in [I’m Not There and Jesus’ Son], I was working with the director before there was any hint of a film actually getting made. My job as a screenwriter was always to give a director options, and then, from stepping over the line to becoming a director, I knew what those options could be because I played that game as a screenwriter.” Moverman brought a unique personal perspective to The Messenger, having served four years as an infantry officer in his native Israel, patrolling territory in Lebanon and in the occupied territories of what is now Palestine during the first Intifada. Plumbing his own memories from two decades ago was unsettling, he said. “I’ve always looked on things as a screenwriter, where I maintained personal distance from the story. But here things got really close to my own experiences. I felt that even though I served in a very different military, I could really understand these guys. I could understand the feeling of coming back from a war zone and what that does to your headspace.” The action of the film unfurls like a short story: People with problems are presented one by one. Through a series of screenwriter constructions—some organic, others contrived—crises are confronted, catharses emerge, and wounds begin healing. What anchors this film are kinetic performances that jack up conventional characters. Foster starts off as a powder keg poised on detonating, infusing his character with a brooding hurt that transforms his face into that of a little boy betrayed by a father—in this case, his country. Harrelson, a veteran leftie, locates the humanism in playing a crude career military man torn between maintaining the party line and blowing the lid off of the folly he has seen. A number of secondary characters, specifically those playing parents and wives of the war dead, deliver blows to the solar plexus in brief but potent scenes. There is no mistake as to where Moverman’s sympathies lie: In The Messenger, soldiers have brash, macho veneers but the hurt and dislocation lies just beneath the surface. Everybody has been twisted, curdled, ruined in some fashion by their war experience. In one scene, Montgomery and Strong have crashed the wedding of the staff sergeant’s ex-girlfriend. The nervous groom toasts the soldiers, declaring that whether or not you support the war, you should support its soldiers. (The soldiers roll their eyes in response.) Asked to elaborate on that popular, if illogical slogan, director Moverman said, “It’s society’s responsibility to make sure these people get integrated back into society and can get some care. And not fall by the wayside in the way that happened after Vietnam.” The Messenger opens the Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday, October 1.

The Tiger Next Door (Dir. Camilla Calamandrei)

How many of us didn’t feel a twinge of schadenfreude when Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell ended up inside one of his so-called ursine pals in Herzog’s 2005 doc? Enter longhaired eccentric Dennis Hill who purports to understand tigers better than anyone else; he keeps 26 of them—as well as black bears and lemurs—in inadequate, rickety cages on the property of his Flat Rock, Indiana home. He sells some to circuses, others for Las Vegas spectacles. When the government steps in to cite him for violations, Hill must find homes for most of his animals. Hoarder or humanitarian? In this Animal Planet-produced film, a troubling portrait emerges but director Calamandrei’s evenhanded treatment does not condemn even as it asks tough questions.

* Time of Their Lives (Dir. Jocelyn Commack)

“Old age is no place for sissies,” warned actress Bette Davis, and these members of a residential home for the elderly in Northern London live her maxim daily. Writers, activists and philosophers of a certain age, these women remain cerebrally vibrant, even as their bodies fail them. With undimmed acuity and a surfeit of opinions, they hold forth on religion, love, incest and, understandably, the possibility of an afterlife. Hetty Bower, 102, an anti-war marcher since the late 20s, predicts the end of the Iraqi occupation, explaining, “If I haven’t lost hope in a hundred years, you mustn’t lose hope.” A giddy affirmation of life with more than a dose of bittersweet.

Trimpin: The Sound of Invention (Dir. Peter Esmonde)

The wild look in his eye and his tangled coiffure would more than qualify Gerhard Trimpin for mad genius, but the Seattle-based artist has spent his life creating hightech gadgets that combine music and physics—recalling the beloved cuckoo clocks of his Schwarzvald childhood. One can only watch in slack-jawed admiration as he explains his inspirations, demonstrates inventions, builds artistic installations and works on a performance piece with Kronos Quartet. A beguiling profile of a man of playful greatness.

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More of a video diary than a documentary, Without a Home records the director’s ongoing efforts to help a number of street people she encounters in her treks across Los Angeles. Those who consider homelessness a self-inflicted wound or alternately a failure of the system will find adequate evidence for both beliefs in this film: The people are either substance abusers, mentally ill or recession victims. Fleischer emerges as a bleeding heart that gets in over her head in trying to help these people, thus raising thorny ethical issues about her role as an impartial filmmaker. But her tenacity in telling these stories, most irrevocably tragic, makes Without a Home a powerful document of an unresolved American social phenomenon.

10 Years of Mavericks It would be unwise to mistake Richard Linklater (pictured left) for the aimless youths he immortalized in 1991’s Slacker, nor the genial waste products rampaging cluelessly through 1993’s Dazed and Confused. True, his often plotless early films were poised to illustrate “the youth rebellion continuum,” a weighty explanation that might have been equal parts cineaste hubris and—well, talking out of his ass. But before we knew it, the Texas-born Linklater was a prominent director in the vanguard of indie film makers, thriving in the fertile soil of Austin’s artistic community. And lo and behold, two decades later, still-boyish at 49, Linklater is an elder lion of the film community. He will be given The Woodstock Film Festival’s Maverick Award, not as a premature life achievement distinction for cult favorite Before Sunset (Oscar-nominated for best screenplay) or for the remake of Bad News Bears. The Maverick is meant to honor audacity, nerve, defiance. Linklater, 49, is gleefully guilty of all three transgressions. The cult classic Slacker was made for a mere $23,000, a rebuke to bloated Hollywood budgets. In A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life, he revived animation rotoscoping to blur the distinction between reality and fever dream. In Fast Food Nation, he giddily cross-cut between brutal fact and fiction to declare the full-on dangers of factory farming and GMO devastation, as originally mapped out in Eric Schlosser’s book. (Linklater is a vegetarian.) And Sunset Strip networking be damned, he still lives in Texas. Richard Linklater will be given the WFF’s Maverick Award on Saturday, October 3. He joins other film industry firebrands whose mission has been to make film an instrument of social change.

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In the 1968 film The Swimmer, co-directed by Frank Perry and Sydney Pollack, a Connecticut blueblood named Neddy Merrill confronts his midlife crisis by slipping into the drink. That is, he decides to swim across the county via a network of neighboring pools. In Peter Callahan’s narrative film Against the Current, a foundering financial writer named Paul Thompson opts for a more grandiose goal for similar reasons: swimming the Hudson River from Albany to New York City. While Perry and Pollack’s film depicted the surreal aspects of Neddy’s quest, the Hastings-on-Hudson-based Callahan accentuates the lyrical components of Paul’s mission—even though both films end unsettlingly. Callahan, whose first film Last Ball appeared in 2000, began Against the Current soon afterwards. (While a documentary titled Swim the River concerned the same Hudsonspanning feat—albeit to raise pollution awareness rather than as an outlet for personal grief—Callahan only learned of environmentalist Christopher Swain’s film after he’d completed his own screenplay.) Callahan insists this film is not autobiographical; while he did swim the Hudson once like his protagonist, the director’s preferred route was the brief distance between eastern and western shores. The premise of his film made it a tough sell, but Callahan—a high school drop-out who drove taxis before returning to school—had a secret weapon: Mary Tyler Moore. The iconic actress—whose sunny turn as Mary Richards has eclipsed several gritty acting roles in film and onstage—was on Callahan’s list of “dream characters” for the film and Moore “was at the top of that list.” Going for broke, the director sent a copy of his screenplay to the actress, asking her to consider the role of an wealthy eccentric who inhabits a Rhinebeck mansion. Moore said yes. Moreover, when the film failed to find financing the first time around, the actress stood by the project and was available when the funds were raised. Callahan describes her role as “a cross between her character in Flirting with Disaster and Ordinary People.” Moore’s quirky turn is not the sole gem in this film, which veers vertiginously between romantic comedy, adventure film and tragedy. The attractive trio at the center of Against the Current—Fiennes, Justin Kirk as his best friend Jeff and Elizabeth Reaser as their traveling companion Liz—exude a vitality that surmounts the occasional bump in the screenplay. Callahan gives the actors points for their lack of star ego and explains that the organic rapport the three demonstrate was deepened by working together “on a very difficult, challenging film shoot in a very short period of time.” (It was a 22-day shoot.) Most of that time, they were together on a whaler boat in the Hudson—when Fiennes was not paddling through the water in a wetsuit. Last seen in a star-making role in the overhyped, Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love, Fiennes has lost the callow youthfulness of that role. He has matured in many ways as an actor, having rejected the Hollywood system in recent years and concentrated on British stagework. An athlete, Fiennes was also equal to the task of playing a man who swims 150 miles down the Hudson River. After one day of training with the marine coordinator Adam Brown, in order to familiarize himself with New York waters, Fiennes was ready. “Sometimes the water was very rough or very intimidating or dirty and he was real game,” Callahan said. “He was not a complainer about that.” And no, Fiennes was never inoculated for the role and has retained his health. Against the Current captures the rustic beauty of many river towns along the Hudson, fading or frozen in time. Sean Kirby does a nice job as director of photography, honoring rural areas without being cloying as well as getting the best of the on-the-water scenes. While Callahan’s original script did not specify what towns the trio stops in along their trek, he credits Woodstock-based location manager Michelle Baker for selecting the best scenery to push the narrative forward. The logistics of shooting on water were “incredibly complex,” Callahan said. The Hudson River may seem a peaceful estuary, yet its traffic churns up some fearsome waves from time to time. That selfsame water traffic, however, provided some happy coincidences. Along the way, the film crew crossed paths with different marine crafts that found themselves in sail-by cameos. Callahan was grateful for their timing. “It’s not like we had the budget to [say] ‘Let’s have a barge come by now,’ or ‘Cue the tanker.’” Against the Current stirs up some moral issues in its wake regarding personal responsibility and mortality. But it never does so in a heavy-handed fashion, nor does it provide any simplistic answers. Callahan will return to his pet dilemma of midlife crises in his next film, titled Halfway Home. Three childhood friends, turning 40, return to their Hudson Valley hometown to lick their wounds over unfulfilled dreams. Check www.woodstockfilmfestival.com for Against the Current screening times.

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Portfolio Mau

Mau (Marian Schoettle) makes conceptual clothing that incorporates the vicissitudes of the natural and urban environments. A dark, flowing dress is made of fabric that’s been exposed to the elements, resulting in a pattern of distressed splotches that resembles storm clouds and sprays of stars, while her white Tyvek “ruffled flak jacket”—fit for a female commando—has fasteners and pockets fashioned from industrial surplus packaging. Defiantly resistant to fashion trends, her garments, which she likens to “site-specific art,” feature stitching or layering effects that are metaphors for geologic or topographical phenomena. They are also imminently wearable, gracefully draping the body and allowing for free, spontaneous movement. The artist, who works out of a large, skylit studio in Kingston’s Shirt Factory, has exhibited her pieces at galleries and museums in the US and Europe. She regularly shows at Julie: Artisan’s Gallery, on Madison Avenue, and her clothing is in the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Philadelphia Art Museum, and other noteworthy institutions. But Mau is not overly fond of art-world pedestals. She relishes the sociological aspects of her clothing art medium. She has participated in “psychogeography” projects in New York in which her jackets become a vehicle for recording the poignant and random social encounters in the city. A native of Philadelphia, Mau majored in sociology at Colgate University. In 1983, she and her husband moved to Europe. During stints in London, Paris, and the Netherlands, she showed her art clothing, helped organize shows of conceptual clothing, and taught art and design at

the University of Wales, the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Academy of Visual Arts and Design in Tilburg, and The Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. In 1995, she and her family returned to the US and settled in Esopus. Lately, Mau has branched out, selling her series of “postindustrial folk wear” to retailers. Made out of Tyvek, a paperlike but tough, spun-bonded olefin material used in everything from FedEx packages to house wrap, the industrial white or concrete-gray pieces are washable and waterproof, feather light, breathable, reversible, and recyclable. In 2006, she set up a booth at the New York International Gift Fair and showed some samples. Since then, she has been selling the jackets, dresses, and bags through museum gift shops and boutique design stores in the US, Europe, and Japan. Besides selling her postindustrial folk wear, Mau is working on a number of other projects. She is designing costumes constructed from scraps of Tyvek for a collaborative dance performance by Clyde Forth, a dancer based in Saugerties. The dance, part of Clyde Forth Visual Theater’s sixth season, will be performed at Merce Cunningham Studios in New York on September 11 and 12. Mau is also fascinated by African textiles and is exploring a project involving making pieces out of barkcloth. Mau will be exhibiting her clothing in the ground floor exhibition space at the Shirt Factory, 77 Cornell Street, in Kingston on Saturday, October 3, at 8pm. www.conceptualclothing.com. —Lynn Woods

MAU on her work Sewing Apprenticeship

Urban Guerilla Wear

Tyvek: A Miracle Material

As a kid, I used to make clothes. My mother taught me how to sew. She was one of these sewers who would go to a thrift shop, pick up something, and completely remake it. I also had a French teacher in high school who wore everything, from [French fashion designer] Courreges—these very modern, micro-mini things—to flour sacks to dashikis. She really influenced me. When I was about 16 or 17, I made my first group of clothes to sell to a store. They were made from dish towels from Woolworth’s, sewed together.

A lot of my work in the past has to do with the urban experience. My garments relate to deteriorating buildings, the flotsam and jetsam. I tend to have a couple of clothing models I’ve stuck with over the years, and they’re in the realm of protective clothing, like jackets. That kind of work can use elements of debris, such as netting and smashed bottled caps, things that can be appliquéd on a jacket. I’m very much interested in the whole of something; I’m not decorative. My work comes out of a more Modernist idea: the form and the structure lend the detail and the interest to the piece. Since living here in the country, I’ve taken on more iconographic clothing shapes, like circle dresses, so the garment shape in itself becomes a metaphor.

I found out the one Tyvek I was really interested in pursing had the ability to be adapted to clothing. After you wash it, it gets softer and softer, like leather. It has a little bit of give. I have jackets that I wear all the time, and when I take them off, there’s my arm at rest still in the jacket. I’m totally thrilled about that because we always think of industrial materials as hard and as a far-away-from-our-bodies-as-possible kind of thing, and then this actually gets drawn into who you are.

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A big part of my Tyvek clothing project was that it was going to be made in New York. I visited 70 factories in the Garment District with samples under my arm. Everybody looked at it and said “what the hell is this, we’re not going to work with this.” I finally found a factory through the Garment Industry Development Corporation. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the city started it 25 years ago to keep the garment industry alive in New York City. These are shops that are inspected and come up to code.

THIS PAGE (clockwise from upper left): Coat with hood, Ruffle Flac Jacket, Wrap Dress; Coat with hood; Petite Jacket with hand drawn outlines OPPOSITE: Dress cartography, rayon challais, single stitched line continuously spirals around the dress from neckline to hemline. From the storm/structure series 2000-2012. Photo by Nancy Donskoi

Big in Japan

Mapping the Urban Psyche

Discovering Barkcloth

The Japanese have a huge reverence for materials. One of my most pleasant memories in doing the gift show was having a buyer from Tokyo come into the booth. He didn’t speak any English and arrived with a couple of assistants and a translator. He immediately grabbed a few pieces and sat on the floor and just kept turning the piece around, turning it inside out. They would smile, they would give it to each other, they would roll on the floor laughing. I said to the translator, “You have to tell me what they’re saying,” and he said, “They’re just really appreciating what you’ve done.” Their reverence for detail and concept and material is also high. When I have contact with Japanese buyers, they want to investigate it.

I sent a proposal to [the nonprofit organization] Chashama, which gives you a dilapidated storefront in midtown Manhattan for two weeks, and in 2008 I got a storefront in the Garment District. I put graffiti jackets all over the walls and white jackets right next to them. I’d give these coats away to people and ask them to do things with the jacket while they were on their normal walk. My favorite one was this guy who asked everyone he passed if they had something in their pocket they could attach to his coat and could write a little story about it. People divulged the most incredibly personal things. Maybe accompanying a little bill from some grocery store was a note saying “you know this is the last time Minetta and I had lunch together. I will never ever see her again.”

I’m trying to cook up a project with this English sociologist who works part time in Capetown, where I go over there and work with some African textiles. I’m interested in this cloth made from the bark of a tree. UNESCO just declared barkcloth making in Uganda an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity [and added it to its endangered list]. The stuff I got came from the Congo, from the Mbuti pygmy people. It’s essentially a felted material; they lay the bark cloths on top of each other and beat them together. In the process of beating, it sometimes gets too thin and tears. Then they come in with a piece of sinew and do a whipstitch mending job. Every Westerner who’s coming out of any kind of art context looks at the stitching and loves the repair. I was thinking it could be interesting to make a set of garments and wear them over a period of time, and then I will mend them.

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

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140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 ext. 119. “Designing Women: Group Textile Exhibition.” September 12-October 24. Opening Saturday, September 12, 6pm-9pm.

ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STreet, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Peace*Love*Music.” Group show. Through September 13. “Works by Rick Pantell and Karen Whitman.” Through September 13. “Wired.” Group show and Dutch artist Marit Dik. September 19-October 11. Opening Saturday, September 19, 6pm-10pm.

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ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Eva van Rijn: Badlands and Red Rocks.” September 5-26. “Hudson River Meets History.” September 5-26. Both shows opening Saturday, September 5, 5pm-8pm.

BARRETT CLAY WORKS 485 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “Sculptural Portraits of People and Others.” Works by Madeline Segall Marx. September 19-October 10. Opening Saturday, September 19, 4pm-6pm.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Beneath the Surface.” New works by Lisa Zukowsk. Through September 6.

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BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO 54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244. “Abstract Rhythms.” Abstract oil paintings by Stanley Blum. September 12-26. Opening Saturday, September 12, 6pm-9pm.

CABANE STUDIOS 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490. “3 Artists 3 Visions.” Photographs by David Morris Cunningham, oil paintings by Nancy Howell and pastel on paper by Faye Storms. Through September 30. Opening Saturday, September 5, 6pm-9pm.

CARRIE HADDAD PHOTOGRAPHS 318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-7655. “Melinda McDaniel.” September 3-October 11. Opening Saturday, September 5, 6pm-8pm.

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3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100. “The Resources of Rhetoric.” Works by Antoni Tapies. Through October 19. “You see I am here after all.” Through September 7, 2010. “Drawing Series…” Through November 2010. “24 Colors—for Blinky.” Imi Knoebel. Ongoing.

DONSKOJ AND COMPANY 93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-8473. “All of These Lines Across My Face, Tell You the Story of Who I Am.” Janus van den Eijnden. September 5-26. Opening Saturday, September 5, 5pm-8pm.

DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Sharon Vairamides: Watercolor, Botanicals.” September 5-26. Opening Saturday, September 5, 5pm-9pm.

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FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. “Hudson Landscapes and New Portraits.” Oils by Jessica Miller. September 4-27. Opening Sunday, September 13, 2pm-5pm.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN STreet, BEACON 765-2199. “American Youth.” Group exhibition of photographers of redux pictures. Through November 9.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New York Historical Society.” Through November 1.

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GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Children.” William Ropp. Through September 7. “Photographs from the Human Bodies, Landscapes and Waterdance Series.” Ernestine Ruben. September 11-October 19. Opening Saturday, September 12, 5pm-7pm.

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THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Watercolors by Peter Hussey.” September 5-30. Opening Saturday, September 5, 5pm-7pm.

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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.

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HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Double Dutch.” Featuring Alon Levin. September 12-July 26. Opening Sunday, September 13, 4pm-6pm.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Joseph Haske: Paintings.” Through September 13. “Fran Shalom: New Paintings.” September 17-October 11. Opening Saturday, September 19, 6pm-8pm.

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER AVENue, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Martin Puryear: A Survey of Prints.” September 12-October 18. Opening Saturday, September 12, 5pm-7pm.

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640 ROUTE 52, KENT 225-3856. “Collaborative Fall Art Show.” September 26-October 4. Opening Saturday, September 26, 1pm-5pm.

MAXWELL FINE ARTS 1204 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-8622. “Tributaries.” Ten artists approach the theme of water. September 11-November 30. Opening Friday, September 11, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “Scenes near Home.” Photographic exhibition of local landscapes by Robert Lipgar. Through September 5. “Recent Works by Jim Stevenson and Bill Ayton.” September 5-October 30. Opening Saturday, September 5, 5pm-7pm.

MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Henry Hudson Quadricentennial Group Show.” September 25. Opening Friday, September 11, 6pm-8pm.

NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090. “What Are We Doing Here?” Works by Jason Middlebrook and Zohar Lazar. Through October 3.

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 GLENDALE Road, STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 298-4100. “Berkshire Vistas: The Art of Laurie Cormier.” Through September 30. “The Fantastical Faces of Peter Rockwell: A Sculptor’s Retrospective.” Through October 25.

ORANGE HALL GALLERY ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “Enduring Stones.” Images in hand-coated platinum/palladium by Sandra C. Davis. Through September 25. “Mythical Gardens.” Images in Gum Bichromate. Through September 25. “Stereoscopic 3-D: Photography with the Depth of Normal Vision.” Through September 25.

PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS 1008 BROWN STREET, PEEKSKILL (877) 840-0457. “Undertow: Thinking Water.” Photographic images of water by six artists. Through October 24. Opening Saturday, October 24, 2pm-4pm.

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PARK ROW GALLERY 2 PARK ROW, CHATHAM (518) 392-4800. “World Views.” Sculptural work by Laura Cannamela and Lisa Breznak. Through September 26.

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1351 KINGS HIGHWAY, SUGAR LOAF 469-2287. “Orange County Roots Photographic Exhibition.” Through September 30. Opening Saturday, September 12, 2pm-4pm.

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POSIE KVIAT GALLERY 437 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 653-5407. Featuring works of Ric Dragon and Jeff Leonard. Through September 14. “Cross Coupling Annette Cords.” September 19-October 19. Opening Saturday, September 19, 6pm-8pm.

POUGHKEESPIE LIBRARY 105 MARKET STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE www.poklib.org. “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.” September 20-November 1. Opening Sunday, September 20, 5pm.

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. Through September 26.

ROOS ARTS 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE info@roosarts.com. “Must Paint: Sharon Broit, Betsy Friedman and Erik Schoonebeek.” Through September 12.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858. “Hudson River Artists 2009: Ecotones and Transition Zones.” Through September 6. “Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings from the New York Historical Society.” Through December 13. “Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller.” Through December 13. “Riverbank: Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker.” September 19-November 29. Opening Saturday, September 19, 4pm-6pm. 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Personalities Plus.” Interpretations of unique people, animals, celebrities and nature in all mediums. Through September 20.

UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “2nd Annual Mini Works.” September 4-27. “Atmosphere.” Through September 28. Both shows opening Friday, September 4, 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. Through September 27.

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. Through September 5.

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Music

by peter aaron

members of mgzaruli/dancing crane: Nodar Obolashvili, Vakhtang Megrelishvili, Temuri Ivaneishvili, ilya ambroside, Tengiz Shautidze, Pikria Barbakadze, Zaza Revazishvili, Nato Goderdzishvili, Grigor Amiranashvili, Givi Khosroshvili

Table of Song Mgzavruli and Dancing Crane

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rive 30 minutes off the Thruway through Orange County’s lush, rolling farmlands to Warwick and find yourself at a rustic, white clapboard farmhouse. Around back there’s some mismatched vinyl sheeting strung up between a couple of tree limbs as a makeshift canopy. Underneath there’s a table, about 12 feet long and filled end to end with one palate-tempting Georgian delicacy after another—plates of hearty kebab, juicy slices of badrijani nigvzit (seasoned eggplant), aromatic ajaphsandali (a spicy vegetable dish), and on and on. It’s a spread that makes the inside shot of Beggar’s Banquet look like a Happy Meal. Seated tightly all around this bountiful feast are 30 or so Georgian immigrants of all generations, from small children to seniors, rowdily conversing and toasting each other and all manner of occasions in their native tongue. “Welcome to our Georgian table,” says the host,Victor Sirelson, whose wife Lia has prepared the sumptuous offerings for the gathering, which is known as a supra. “You must try the wine, it’s a tradition for new guests.” More toasts and infectious bonhomie ensue. But the revelry, however, is about to get kicked up several notches. Native folkloric garb is donned—for the men, the lengthy, bandolier-festooned chokha coat; for the women, an arkhalig jacket and traditional velvet tavsakravi headscarf. Instruments are produced: garmoni (accordion), salamuri (recorder), panduri (three-stringed lute), duduk (double-reed, woodwind pipe), and doli (drum). Music begins, dancers rise from their chairs and take to the lawn, and four of the men form a chorus, three of their voices holding sustained bani (bass) notes while that of the fourth soars and dives above the low drones like a lonely dove. Like some kind of multi-piped human church organ, they let loose a couple more festive dance and “table songs” and finish for the moment with “Shemodzakhili,” a heartbreaking romantic lament from the Kakheti region (a translated lyric: “I don’t have wings to fly to you / Give me your shovel, I have to dig my grave”). Even for a visitor who doesn’t speak the language, the mood is both warm and very deeply moving. One feels honored and privileged just to be present. The musical ensemble is named Mgzvaruli (“mig-zeh-vroolee”), which means “traveling” (a reference to its members’ diasporic status), and it’s a core component of Dancing Crane, the traditional Georgian music and dance troupe Sirelson co-founded in 1997. “To us Victor is like a father,” says Genadi Mskhiladze, a male dancer who is also tonight’s appointed tamada, or toastmaster, the central figure of the ancient tradition of the supra. “It was Victor and Lexo who brought us all together.” Lexo is the nickname of the late Alexandre Goderdzishvili, who served as Dancing Crane’s vital first connection to professional Georgian performers living in the US, and helped to put Mgzvaruli together. (Lexo’s son Evan is the band’s musical director; his daughter Natalia sings and plays panduri.) Like the majority of the organization’s 40 or so members, Mskhiladze immigrated to New York area in the early ’90s when he was unable to find even menial work in his homeland, a region still recovering from nearly 300 years of Russian rule and currently dealing with the aftereffects of last year’s South Ossetian war. (Though all of Dancing Crane’s members know at least one person back home who was displaced in some way by the fighting, miraculously none of them lost any relatives in the conflict.) “I married a Georgian and ended up also falling in love with Georgian culture,” says Sirelson, who has worked in finance and for a time with Lia ran a Georgian restaurant in Warwick. “The roots of this music go back almost 3,000 years. After Christianity came to Georgia in the fourth century the vocal styles of the indigenous music were adopted by the church for its liturgical songs— so in a way religion helped the music to survive, really. But while it sometimes has religious overtones, at the same time, beyond that, it always captures the spiritual essence of the Georgian people without being religious per se.” Along with the notoriously culture-conquering Christian church, Georgian music and dance has had another unexpected preservationist: Josef Stalin. A native Georgian, the infamous dictator and purge-monger so loved the folk styles of his birthplace that they were allowed to flourish not only under his reign, but for the remainder of the Cold War, decades after his death. In fact

several Dancing Crane members were in state-sponsored touring companies; choreographer Vladimer “Dotto” Goderidze even performed aboard nuclear submarines and for frontline troops in Afghanistan. Like that of many other cultures, the musical performances tend to largely be by males, but—and troupe members of both sexes insist—Georgian music is male predominated, as opposed to being male-dominated. “Women have always had strong, equal roles in the culture. At one time Georgia even had a female king,” Sirelson says, referring to King Tamar, who ruled the country from 1184 to 1213. As with its spoken language Georgia’s folk music itself has several dialects, which are normally grouped by the names of their individual provinces: Racha, Kartli, Kakheti, Achara, Shilda, Guria, and so on. The styles can differ radically from region to region in terms of harmonic structure, intonation, and ornamentation, but the one aspect common to all is polyphony, a characteristic most readily evident in the music’s colorful, drone-buttressed, multi-voiced choral pieces. Themes can range from wedding songs and the afore-mentioned table songs to instrumental dances and liturgical chants, as well as songs of work and the harvest, romance, nostalgia, travel, and war; some lyrics are adapted from folk tales or epic poems. Dancing Crane’s members come from all parts of Georgia, and the richly varied content of their repertoire offers a fascinating, ever-shifting tour of the nation’s traditions. Outside of a live performance by Mgzavruli (or, if you’re lucky enough to be invited, a supra), the best way to get a taste of the ensemble’s magnificently moving music is through its recently released debut CD, There is Such a Country; It is Called Georgia (2009, Dancing Crane, Inc.). “[Georgian music] is very uniquely haunting in the way it uses certain modes and scales,” says Warwick jazz pianist Richard Kimball, who has been a fan of the group for several years. “I guess I’m a romanticist, and so what really draws me to the music is the faraway sound it has. It just really gets right to the heart of the culture, which is very warm and gracious. It definitely ‘takes you there,’ as they say.” Since the company’s inception several admirers who were born and raised in its members’ adopted home have actually ended up joining Dancing Crane, a family always delighted to share its traditions closely with others. “When I first saw [the troupe] perform I was just so struck by the beauty of the dancing and the music,” says Julie Hammet-Cone, who has been a dancer with the group since 1998. “They’re such beautiful people, and I feel so fortunate to be around them. It’s like a gift that’s enriched my life.” And in addition to spreading this gift to their American-bred contemporaries, Dancing Crane’s members are eagerly working to pass it on to future generations. Among other endeavors, the organization runs the Pesvebi Children’s Dance Ensemble and has plans to start a school for young performers. “So much of why I am doing this is for my children,” says Natalia Goderdzishvili, a mother of two. “I think it’s very important for them not to lose the traditions, always to keep their roots.” Wherever Lexo is right now, he must be very happy and proud. There is Such a Country; It is Called Georgia is out now on the Dancing Crane label. www.dancingcrane.org.

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nightlife highlights Handpicked by Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

Wall Street Jazz Festival September 5. Now in its sixth year, Uptown Kingston’s Wall Street Jazz Festival has become a firm favorite among those who live for sounds hot and swinging. Organized by musician Peggy Stern and producer John Bilotti, the decidedly female artist-dominated program this year includes duos led by Veronica Nunes and Donna Antonow, the Francesca Tanksley and “Sweet” Sue Terry trios, Stern’s Latin-tinged Estrella Samba y Salsa, and special guest Claire Daly. In the case of rain, the event will be held inside Backstage Studio Productions. 5pm. Free. Kingston. (845) 246-4106; www.wallstreetjazzfestival.com.

The Feelies September 12. The granddaddies of Hoboken, New Jersey’s famously fertile post-punk scene, the Feelies have left their mark on legions of subsequent outfits, R.E.M. chief among them. Full of jittery, twitchy tempos and alternately scratchy and jangly guitars, Crazy Rhythms, the band’s 1980 debut on Stiff Records, is rightly hailed as an alt-rock touchstone. Recently reunited for the second time, the group is doing a rare run of dates that reprise Crazy Rhythms in its entirety, and the Bearsville Theater is among the lucky stops. Not to be missed. (Stoney Clove Lane and Toshi Reagon play on September 5; Phish’s Mike Gordon appears on September 11.) 8pm. $25. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com.

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Drum Boogie Festival September 19. Designed to raise awareness for the Woodstock Chimes Fund, the inaugural outdoor Drum Boogie Festival, which takes place in the Kingston Rondout’s Cornell Park, looks to be a royal bash—in more ways than one. Celebrating the diverse styles of world percussion, the event promises some of the foremost drummers and percussionists from the spheres of jazz, rock, Native American, Balinese gamelan, Trinidadian steel pan, and more. Topping the bill are the Jack DeJohnette Trio (featuring keyboardist David Sancious), Jerry Marotta (with bassist Tony Levin), and New York ensemble NEXUS. Noon. Free. Kingston. (845) 594-6518; www.drumboogiefestival.com.

Margaret Cho September 26. Button-pushing comedienne Margaret Cho has been performing since she was 16, bringing her uniquely raunchy, socially relevant, and politically charged fare to best-selling books and CDs and sold-out tours; her fifth concert film, Beautiful, recently aired on cable and she’s also starring in the new dramatic series “Drop Dead Diva.” Cho’s latest stage show, which hits the Egg this month, is described as “a work in progress and a healthy mix of new stand-up and live music.” This uncommonly intimate appearance offers a sneak preview of her forthcoming comedy music album, tentatively titled Guitarded (brilliant!), which features guest performances by Patty Griffin, Jon Brion, Grant Lee Phillips, and others. (Son Volt visits on September 18; Railroad Earth steams in on September 19.) 8pm. $24. Albany. (518) 473-1845; www.theegg.org Sebastian Mlynarski

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cd reviews Emma Alabaster

In the 3rd Generation the Daughters Are Free

(2009, Proliferate Music)

It’s clear that Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan have worked their way into Emma Alabaster’s DNA, as she exudes a similar vibe of melancholy and nostalgia. But Alabaster’s far-out twist on emotive jazz/blues vocals is sweetened with one compelling element that was not theirs: She simultaneously plucks out her wistful mood on upright bass. Nonetheless, the heady fare she presents on her seven-track debut CD isn’t just for jazz fans. Alabaster summons thought-provoking spoken word on generational history and race into her compositions, with family members even providing source materials. The opener, “In the 3rd Generation,” introduces Alabaster’s lone bass before she slides in on elastic vocals, pondering her mother-daughter bond; drummer Jim Bertini, sax player Alex Carter, and guitarist Jonathan Nocera later take over with experimental, idiosyncratic improv. “What You Called ‘This Longing’” finds Alabaster speaking poetic angst over an upbeat, anomalous musical throng, eventually restoring to songstress mode. “Here’s the Way It Goes” is a curious piece, a runaway-train instrumental with a mysteriously compelling conversational background track. Laptop artist Ian Turner and Rachel Sanders also contribute vocals. This musical memory collage is for the fearless poet, the judicious savant, or, simply, the inquisitive listener who is ready for the next unorthodox musical journey. www.emmaalabaster.com. —Sharon Nichols

Red Molly Love and Other Tragedies

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Since its inception, Stony Point-based trio Red Molly has wowed audiences with rich three-part harmonies that are amply exemplified on the group’s all-covers, live-in-aroom 2006 debut Never Been To Vegas (Independent). The follow-up, Love and Other Tragedies, finds multi-instrumentalists Laurie MacAllister, Abbie Gardner, and Carolann Solebello upping the ante by enlisting producer Ben Wisch (Marc Cohn, Patty Larkin) and adding their acclaimed originals to an already-potent mix of Americana chops and showfolk gumption. The result? Love and Other Tragedies has just the right amount of spit and polish to move these highway women from the Motel 6 to the Radisson, while still retaining their coffeehouse charm. In the original song department, it appears they’ve been holding out on us: Gardner’s aching “The Mind of a Soldier” (a winner of the 2008 John Lennon Songwriting Contest), Solebello’s celebratory “Summertime,” and MacAllister’s bluesy “Beaumont Truck Stop” easily hold their own alongside Gillian Welch’s rollicking “Wichita” and timeless chestnuts “Wayfaring Stranger” and “Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning.” Themes of loneliness and of returning to family are all over this collection, but as much as these women love the two-lane blacktop that leads them homeward, they clearly live to get back out on the circuit and tear it up. A stunning a cappella rendition of the Susan Werner hymn “May I Suggest” closes the album with the line “May I suggest these are the best days of your life?” For Red Molly, it sure looks that way. www.redmolly.com. —Robert Burke Warren

Various Artists Snapper Magee’s: Good Music and Booze (2009, Altercation Records)

Kingston punk rock clubhouse Snapper Magee’s is the sort of place where pretension is checked at the door. Memo to the dedicated follower of fashion: Don’t bother ordering a mojito at this North Front Street haunt. As anyone who has ever bopped ’til they dropped at a sweaty gig at Snapper’s can attest, the musical acts that pass through the door share a similar no-frills aesthetic that is faithfully documented on this compilation released on Altercation Records, the label co-owned by Snapper’s impresario Travis Meyers. This generous 26-track helping of adrenalized blasts of punk with major country, blues, and early rock ’n’ roll overtones is a serious dose of pop energy that should make any neophyte curious about checking out Kingston’s thriving scene. Homegrown Hudson Valley products like Punk Blues Review, Plastic Jesus, and the Designer Drugs howl like banshees alongside out-of-town guests like New Jersey’s Electric Frankenstein and Virginia’s Tim Barry. Much like the bar where this music has been road tested, there aren’t many dull moments here. Ex-Avail frontman Barry’s “Dog Bumped” may be the only acoustic track, but this honky tonk-inflected murder ballad is also the most propulsive cut of the bunch. This old-fashioned story-song is also an oddly affecting paean to family values. Another standout is PBR’s joyride through Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs’ “Little Red Riding Hood,” which opens with a breathy, lascivious vocal intro by Jamie Bahr before the rhythm section kicks in like a hot rod with no brakes. www.altercationrecords.com. —Jeremy Schwartz

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Shanley and the Deep Blue Sea “Doubt” writer John Patrick Shanley on stage, screen, and survival by Nina Shengold photograph by Jennifer May

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our Broadway play wins a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony, and a Drama Desk Award. You write and direct a film adaptation, which is nominated for five Academy Awards and as many Golden Globes. What do you do for an encore? If you’re “Doubt” author John Patrick Shanley, you do what you’ve always done: Write something utterly different. The playwright, screenwriter, and director is presenting a staged reading of his latest play, “Pirate,” as part of New York Stage and Film’s 25th season at Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater. Emerging from a six-hour rehearsal, he blinks in the sunlight and speaks in a gravelly rasp with the unmistakable cadence of his native Bronx. “It got nice out. Let’s walk.” Shanley strolls across campus at an easy lope. His manner is quietly confident, verging on cockiness; this is far from his first interview. He can be gracious, even courtly, but there’s also a sense of some inner lava on permanent simmer. The youngest of five, he grew up in East Tremont, a working-class neighborhood full of Italian and Irish immigrants. His father was a meat-packer, his mother a telephone operator.The home was tumultuous, and Shanley was often in neighborhood fistfights. He started school at St. Anthony’s, a Catholic grammar school that served as his model for “Doubt.” When Shanley was 11, he started writing “kinda sorta Edgar Allan Poe poetry, gangster 1920s machine-gun kind of stuff.” By 13, he’d written a four-line poem about the Holocaust that caught his teachers’ attention. “People took notice of me,” he says. “They thought I had something.” That wasn’t the only reason people took notice: The rebellious teenager spent virtually every afternoon in detention at Cardinal Spellman High School. The poet and the pugilist came together when he worked on the stage crew of “an amazing production” of “Cyrano de Bergerac.” “I loved the depiction of the poet as the toughest guy in the room–and a freak,” Shanley says with a wild, braying laugh. “And that a poet can be in the theater. And I liked colored lights.” Midway through high school, Shanley was expelled. He spent the next two years at a Catholic-run private school in Harrisville, New Hampshire, which he describes as “500 acres on top of a mountain...snowy, windswept—that’s all it is, is winter.” There were 55 students, all boys. “It was very intense, very different from the Bronx,” Shanley says. Here, too, teachers encouraged his talent for writing. He enrolled in NewYork University, but, characteristically restless, dropped out after a semester to join the Marines. After a two-year tour of duty, he returned to NYU and took “every writing class they had. The last one I took was a playwriting class. As soon as I started writing dialogue, I knew that was what I did.” The final project was writing a one-act play. Shanley wrote a full-length instead; it was produced three weeks later. Inflamed by his newfound passion, he churned out play after play, with OffBroadway premieres nearly every year at such theaters as the Vineyard, Theater of the Open Eye, and Ensemble Studio Theater. “I earned on the average $75 to $100 a year as a playwright for 10 years,” he says without irony. He supported his playwriting habit with a series of blue-collar jobs: unloading trucks, painting houses, and working as a moving man, elevator operator, bartender, locksmith, and glazier. At 34, he went to work in the licensing department of Dramatists Play Service. “I’ve never had another job to this day,” he pronounces with deep satisfaction. Write or Starve Shanley’s next production was “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,” an explosive twohander about a volatile guy from the Bronx and the equally bruised, angry woman he meets in a bar. A joint production of Circle Repertory Company and Circle in the Square, it starred John Turturro and June Stein. Shanley, who seems to remember the details of every paycheck, earned $5,000. That and a $17,000 NEA grant allowed him to patch together a living for over a year while he explored a new genre, having made a commitment to quit taking day jobs. “It was write or starve. I thought, ‘I better learn to write screenplays if I want to make a living,’” he says. He read lots of screenplays and wrote two on spec. “And they made them,” he marvels, still sounding awed. Five Corners was optioned by the first person who read it, director Tony Bill, with ex-Beatle George Harrison as his executive producer; it starred Jodie Foster and Tim Robbins. “People kept telling me, ‘It doesn’t happen this way,’ but it did,” Shanley says. Meanwhile, he finished a second screenplay, The Bride and the Beast, instructing his agent to send it to director Lawrence Kasdan, who liked Shanley’s plays. She also sent it to Norman Jewison. “Both of them wanted it,” Shanley recalls. “Norman responded

first, and a week later, Larry Kasdan called him and asked him to step aside so he could direct it. So I knew then that there was no way Norman was going to let that screenplay go.” Jewison shot the film and released it under a new title: Moonstruck. Shortly after it opened, Shanley opened his mailbox at the tenement where he was living and took out a royalty check. It was for $85,000. “I just knew that my life had changed,” he says. “I was 36 years old, I’d been living below the poverty line for my entire life. Suddenly I could buy anything they had in the store.” The wild ride continued with six Academy Award nominations, including wins for Cher, Olympia Dukakis, and Shanley, whose acceptance speech included the much-quoted line, “I want to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life, and everybody I ever punched or kissed.” (There may be long lines in both columns:The former Bronx brawler, twice married and divorced, has dated a string of celebrities including actress Kim Cattrall and model Paula Devicq.) Shanley’s Hollywood track record veered from commercial fiascos The January Man and JoeVersus theVolcano to the much-lauded Doubt. He’s never been tempted to move to Los Angeles. “I could have just kept on earning a lot of money,” he says, but “I was very concerned with being able to write in a way that was real for the rest of my life. This is what I do.” As a playwright, Shanley refuses to play it safe. Along with his Pulitzer/Tony/ Drama Desk triple crown, he’s garnered some brutal reviews. In his “Butcher of Broadway” critic incarnation, New York Times columnist Frank Rich sharpened his cleaver on Shanley so often it started to seem like a personal grudge. Shanley always came back punching, and once sent an unsolicited letter to a younger playwright whose debut had been panned by Rich, assuring her it was a backhanded compliment, “like being blacklisted by Nixon.” Deeply Different “Pirate” is the 13th script he’s tried out at the Powerhouse, his artistic home since NewYork Stage & Film’s inaugural season, which included his “Savage in Limbo.” It’s a challenging work, a complex political allegory sharing a bed with a surreal comedy, full of music-hall accents and a central image of blinding which may allude to Shanley’s ongoing fight with glaucoma. The playwright’s bold choices and unmistakable dialogue thrill some audience members and seem to infuriate others. Midway through the reading, a man in the first row walks out, crossing the black-box stage so close to the actors that Fisher Stevens stops in mid-sentence and waits for him to reach the exit.When Stevens shrugs and continues the scene, the audience claps. “This play is deeply, wildly different from my last, which was deeply, wildly different than the one before that,” Shanley says. “You don’t dream the same thing every night. Why would you write the same thing every day?” Besides, he adds, “I’m not the same. I am what I was, plus what I am.You have to find a way to get to the next step on the road.” Shanley’s writing process usually starts with “a title, an image, or a room that I think has power. With ‘Doubt,’ all I had was the title. I didn’t know the subject matter, didn’t know it was about nuns.” What interested him was the state of uncertainty, something he feels is alarmingly absent from modern debate. The idea developed through images of black and white: the nuns’ habits, the first black child in an all-white school. Color is extremely important to Shanley; he often describes a set in meticulous detail before he begins writing lines. “I really design it,” he says. “I try to keep people out of the room for as long as possible, then they walk in and the play starts.” He was equally specific about decorating his Manhattan apartment, choosing colors so vivid they rated a spread in the NewYork Times “Home” section, and his cottage upstate. After staying with friends and at local B&Bs for many years, Shanley purchased a tract of land on a fishing creek in Ulster County. He didn’t build on that site, but planted some tulips he hoped would come up every spring; the local wildlife thought otherwise. Twelve years ago, he bought a cabin on a mountaintop near the Rondout Reservoir. His teenage sons Nick and Frank, adopted during his marriage to actress Jayne Haynes, grew up with the country house. “They love it,” says Shanley, who also enjoys using it as a writing retreat. “I’d go up there for seven days alone. It was utter isolation—very, very remote.The house isn’t on a dirt road, it’s off a dirt road.” “I like the Hudson Valley. I always think of Washington Irving, and the Hudson River School of painting, that sort of stately magnetism the place has.” John Patrick Shanley gazes at his interviewer, amused and a little impatient. “You done with me yet? There’s a barbecue.” 9/09 ChronograM books

SHORT TAKES What is your quest? If you seek local roots, generational history, spiritual clarity, or a really ripe stinker, read on.

Rhinecliff: A Hudson River History Cynthia Owen Philip Black Dome, 2009, $24.95

The stubbornly independent riverfront sister of “upstreet” Rhinebeck gets her due in Philip’s vivid, lushly illustrated chronicle. The early Dutch settlement was transformed by transportation: the Salisbury Turnpike, Robert Fulton’s steamboat, the Hudson River Railroad, and the Rhinecliff-Kingston Bridge. Kingston Barnes & Noble celebrates Black Dome Press’s Focus on New York Award 9/17 at 6:30; Philip will read 10/16 at 7pm.

Blithewood: A History of Place Bessina Harrar Bluebird Press, 2009, $20

September 15-16 marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s anchorage at the future site of Bard College’s Blithewood estate. Bard graduate and master gardener Harrar delineates the history of this enchanting place with a feel for its meditative riches; here, she writes, “the heart and mind can open and the past, present, and future are all one.” To order: blithewoodbook@yahoo.com.

Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents Mikal Gilmore Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2009, $16.00

Burned out on Woodstock Festival nostalgia? Awardwinning memoirist and Rolling Stone writer Gilmore deepens the discussion with this collection of incisively written essays about such cultural icons as Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, and a pantheon of musical legends including Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia, Bob Marley, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan.

Rachel Pollack’s Tarot Wisdom: Spiritual Teachings & Their Deeper Meanings Rachel Pollack Llewellyn Worldwide, 2009, $21.95

Tarot Grandmaster and longtime Omega instructor Pollack has studied, practiced, and written about Tarot for nearly three decades since publishing her classic Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Accessible enough for newcomers and nuanced enough for experienced cartomancers, Tarot Wisdom explores the cards’ archetypal images as portrayed in seven different decks.

Pause Now: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution Lyla Yastion Hamilton Books, 2009, $47.95

New Paltz author Yastion, an anthropologist and reiki master with shamanic training, offers a searching and practical approach to spiritual awakening through sensory attentiveness. Finding the spiritual element in such daily routines as movement, work, play, speech, thought, and relationship burnishes the simple and essential art of being present.

The Worst Book I Ever Read The Unbearables Unbearables Books/Autonomedia, 2009, $16.95

More than 70 writers, including iconoclastic Hudson Valley literati Sparrow, Luc Sante, Diane Spodarek, Mike Golden, and Carl Watson gleefully skewer a herd of sacred cattle, from Joyce Carol Oates to the Book of Genesis. Even James Joyce gets drubbed—in triplicate—and there’s an essay entitled “Fuck You, David Sedaris.” Who could resist? 50

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It’s Beginning To Hurt James Lasdun

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, $23

riter James Lasdun picks at scabs. That is, the scabs resulting from the psychic wounds of the vibrantly damaged folk who people his writing. In his new volume of short stories, It’s Beginning to Hurt, however, the Woodstock-based scribe’s technique is so surgical, so humane, that any accusations of sadism are brushed aside. Instead, the reader luxuriates in the revelations of these common lives. The sixteen stories in this collection include the British award-winner “An Anxious Man,” an unsettling tale of parenthood and fear, a common confluence in an era of recurring amber alerts. In each tale, Lasdun—most often the omniscient narrator—fearlessly dissects our modern malaises, whether they stem from unsteady family relations, hapless career goals, or the quest for purpose in a fragmented world. The author troops us knowingly through emotional land mines. In “The Natural Order,” mousy Abel is consumed by his ailing marriage, even as a trip to Greece offers tantalizing opportunities for stepping beyond its confines. Martin Sefton, a teacher of classical guitar whose own musical career falters in “The Half Sister,” resists the manipulative, well-heeled parents of his young student. Roland, still mourning his mother’s death in “Cleanness,” travels to attend his father’s wedding to a younger bride. Lasdun sets down his characters in vivid landscapes: Manhattan’s West Village, the English countryside (a country estate near Mayborough, a pig farm outside of Suffolk), a rural slice of the Mid-Hudson Valley, and several small villages and seaside locales in Greece. The wide array of locales is not mere contrivance: Lasdun describes each one so aptly that the sense of place resonates fluently. This same assiduous research allows Lasdun to bestow upon his characters densely detailed lives. “A Bourgeois Story” offers historic timelines and rhetoric from a Communist’s political crusades; “Oh, Death” explains which equipment a mountain dweller will use to clear fallen trees and transform them to kindling; and “Cranley Meadows” illuminates matters of astronomy and reproductive therapy. These tutorials are never grafted awkwardly onto the story, but appear seamlessly, lending a nonfiction feel to the proceedings. Lasdun’s crafting of extensive inner lives is matched by his effusive creation of external landscapes. A profusion of trees, plants and flowers appear in most stories, each identified in lavish botanical detail. Nor does Lasdun stint on style. As a man swims, he feels “ropes of cooler water slipping around his ankles.” Later that night, the lake is “dimpled here and there by rising fish.” A father looks in on his sleeping child, “her hands either side of her head like two little starfish.” Lasdun is equally penetrating as a sociologist. In “The Incalculable Life Gesture” his description of the moral vacuity of modern New York City (the London expatriate’s previous home before settling in Woodstock) is damning, but no less accurate for its harshness. A minor quibble: the author’s writing voice maintains the same high tone throughout, whether as narrator or when inhabiting a single character. Unfortunately, Lasdun’s erudite (and occasionally starchy) wordplay proves incongruous for some characters and imparts a troubling sameness to their thoughts and observations. But forge ahead to the title story. It’s a common tale—the death of romance after years of marriage—but Lasdun captures its tragedy so succinctly in a mere three pages that you’ll find yourself fighting for breath. After absorbing this emotional wallop, you will forgive him anything. —Jay Blotcher

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The Confessions of Edward Day Valerie Martin

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009, $25.00

hen aspiring actor Edward Day, the narrator of acclaimed Millbrook author Valerie Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest novel The Confessions of Edward Day, is carried off by a riptide at a Jersey beach, he hits upon a profundity which lies at the heart of his calling: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had run out of thought; only terror and sadness inhabited me, only emotions. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we come down to after all.â&#x20AC;? It is an affirmation, of sorts, of Stanislavskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dictumâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that for the actor, to know and to feel are one and the same. It is 1974 and Edward Day and his peers are being educated by Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, and other famed authorities on acting technique. The novel touches on the polemics around the various approaches just enough to illuminate the cultural logic of the bohemia in which the characters circulate. The name of the game, though, is getting an Actors Equity card and earning a wage. As Day explains it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When an actor has a part, he has a life, and a full oneâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a rule that holds for â&#x20AC;&#x153;ethnicâ&#x20AC;? Method actors and British Shakespearians alike. In Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smartly-tailored conception, oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s destiny is pinned to oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parts. Day finds his best mentor in an established actress with whom he is paired in a summer stock production of Tennessee Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; twisted May-December tale, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sweet Bird of Youth.â&#x20AC;? She pulls a Tarot card and advises him to not lose his atypical coldness, warning him that Meisner will try to rid him of this special trait. Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coldness is stage-specific, a matter of his physical presence, and so not made all too evident in his self-rendering. The reader accepts this observation on faith, and then cannot help notice this actorly chill seeping into Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authorial identity and eliding his attachment from what he recounts. With this crafty stroke, Martin draws attention to the divide between literary realism and performance; her arena is psychological and her precise metaphors are what the reader cherishes: â&#x20AC;&#x153;She studied me for a momentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the way adults look at a child who has revealed in some transparent and inappropriate way that he is in pain.â&#x20AC;? Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s narrative includes suicide, impotence, uncertain paternity, and a menacing antagonist. Actual occurrences run in loose parallel to Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stage life; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamlet,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Birthday Party,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uncle Vanyaâ&#x20AC;? all figure in. Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nemesis, another actor named Guy Margate, has a knack for off-stage conflict and an aggressive fixation on Day. They first meet when Day is drowning and Margate happens to be there to rescue him. They love the same woman, and his rival reasons that Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debt of life should require him to step aside. Such a crude idea of repayment for a good deed might raise the question of how such a brutish thinker could even be an actor at all. From Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critical vantage, Margate is not one: â&#x20AC;&#x153;He created a character from the outside looking in, he constructed a persona.â&#x20AC;? The reader, however, may be taken in by this enigmatic and manipulative persona and wonder for a time which of the two actors has more talent. To inhabit a character is an ideal of acting and calls for a science of emotions. This novel charts the correlation of interiority and craftâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it harnesses the energy of an era when the repertory classics still ruled and questions of what makes feelings real still loomed. For Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young actors, identity itself is a peril: They hurl themselves into unmeasured depths and struggle with who they are. Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book makes one wonder how anyone can succeed at the tightrope walk of a Brando or Streep, and how anyone could not be tempted.

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POETRY

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

What happened to the bad dream?

If I called you from New York on Tuesday,

The mystery hid it.

12:15am EST and left you a message on your machine in California on Monday, 9:15pm PST,

—Safira Laughlin (3 years)

how come I haven’t heard from you in 6 years? —p

Envy of Poets

Stone

After Robert Hass In one legend, Odysseus filled a bottle with song, wrote poems on snippets of paper, then took the sun-drenched glass and sealed the top with cork. Unopened molten-music rose and settled to the bottom. When he tossed this vessel of disclosure, words he had withheld from his wife, he soothed himself, lashed as he was to the mast, with the lullabies of birdsong, gulls and terns echoing against the wind-swept cliffs. It was a myth that sirens couldn’t speak. Jealous sailors wavered back and forth on muteness, a woman unable to give voice for months at a time on a journey might be thought a blessing by some. And so, Odysseus was relieved of his burden of words, replaced as it was with longing, a hunger for a glimpse of his faithful wife and her sacred chanting as she turned sweet-cod to make it hum-sizzle on a skillet’s black tongue. Sirens lounging on the rocks, plaiting each others hair, snatched his bottle bobbing in the waves to unleash all those pent-up words he had pushed down to the bottom. Then seeing him in his cobwebbed trance, greeted him with his own words back “You are my precious pearl, my doe-skin scalloped purse.” Thus they repeated until distracted by the steady silver-bells of rain, they swam to a cave to take cover lest they waste their music on a storm and not an envious traveler who couldn’t be tempted into madness, into poetry. —Laurie Byro

DIA:Beacon i returned to the “scene” yesterday: “just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” Merce Cunningham, inert in a wheelchair, and troupe were there too—videotaping, dance as incomprehensible as its surroundings. the sign on the velvet rope read (and I paraphrase): ...should you be caught in the gaze of the camera, thereby seeing (and being seen), sign your release... i emphatically disagreed with indelible thoughts; not likely, even the gorilla girls, noticed. —James Korn

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Stepping onto stone quarried from blue hills, the Catskills the oldest of all and, as the oldest thing we own (which is silly, when we belong to it) belong to a bluestone step, unhoned step and to the quick: ten barefoot millennia in one second knit by dragonfly, shot by root, kindled with the fire of music that rocks. One chunky step is all it takes to see, to smell, to feel even the molehills standing tall. —Jane Heidgerd

Geography The ocean, south of the Tropic of Capricorn, is nearly everywhere. No wonder the fictions, such as Poe’s, spoke of habitable lands at the highest latitudes. Aborigines, in huts, greeted the fleets, in their home-woven trousers, and showed them hospitality, their best shindig, knowing the explorers raged for 90 degrees south, where a mermaid would flap her fin and the dramatic expanse of our conquest would meet the dark wind of a far place. —Steve Clark

Friday Night Suggestions Touch my feet with your knees. Jog in place over my calves. Drum on my forehead, alternating knuckles and wrists, rum-a-tum-a-tum. Lace your fingers into my hair. Hit my elbow with your elbow. Lie sideways on the checkered linoleum with me, teal-white-teal-white. Let the backside of your toe-knuckles lick the backside of my ear. Your shoulder blades cut into my palms. Your thighs wash over my hips. My ribcage fits into yours. My spine is your spine. We’re going to get chow-mein down at the Orange Blossom. Lace your fingers with the noodles and think about my hair. Let Szechuan drum on your tongue with mighty chopsticks and Imperial Chicken. I am Shanghai cuisine. Whisper the pinyin to your belly button: tangcu xiaopai, sweet-sour-sweet. I am inside you. I claw through lusty lipids and into your upper intestines and I say, Konichiwa! Good day! You choke on me as I climb back up your throat, but you like it. I scratch at your uvula, but you won’t let me out. You like me in there, though I’m bitter and rub myself on the carpet of your tongue. —Danyul Nguyen

Dad’s Vinyl

12:10 a.m. 7/3/2009

You left your dad’s old records In the backseat of your car Because you hate your dad.

Dad, it dangled you over the black lake and shook you so you dreamed of guns and Mother.

The sun warped them into Bowls, and

Made you look it in the face, the whole brood forced to watch you squirm or choose not to.

You invited me over For soup. —Jeffrey Canino

Let It Be I have a heart full of love, but they don’t care they merely judge. It doesn’t matter for whom you feel. As long as you both know it’s real. Straight or curved, Gay or not, We’re after all A Melting Pot. It’s not about fighting or a defensive stance. It’s what’s in your heart Not what’s in your pants. —Amanda Cowen

This Year’s Tomatoes I planted some seeds in April. My father mixed the potting soil for me He explained about the chemical processes, And the moisture, And I saw that dirt is not just dirt. He brushed his earth-covered hands On that morning’s church trousers So I wouldn’t dirty my nails, And made silly sounds like “plip!” When we dropped the seeds Into their little recessed beds. To each he bade a dramatic goodnight And gently tucked them in to germinate. I planted more alone at home, But it didn’t make much of a poem. —Liz Kelso

The light in your eyes flickered back and forth fear. hope. fear. I’d never seen you afraid before. What a fugue is cancer. —Deena Rae Turner

25.9 Two gas pumps, in the shadow of a winged-stallion, stood side by side like American Gothic. My furlough completed, duty-bound for battalion, I wondered aloud and questioned the logic of fractional pricing at dust-bowl gas stations, nine-tenths of a cent unlike that of a mile, the price they are paid in these situations for having foresight and marketing guile. Traveling in uniform, 1968, the country at war within and without I could catch any ride and cross any state. Never since, have I had that kind of clout. In the Kansas high-plains they get twenty-five nine, when you’re running on fumes, at the end of the line.

She is x and y and numbers She is teeth and clavicle and bones, the grit in fingernails He is the fatty tissue, the arteries, the holy atheist in her heart they are tearing, stretching, moving, being, their breathing is aligned. She speaks in funny. Whispers. This town ain’t big enough for all of us, so let’s settle down. And sing home sweet hallmark and print obscurities on our walls. She lures him in like bait and shouts: We’ll catch ideas instead of fireflies and dress to fit our moods. Not the weather, a holiday for every time we smile. She’s about to pass out but not before! Your hope is like your mind, you’ll keep losing it. We’re down for the count But, There’s always yesterday. There’s always this. —Alyssa Hanofee

—Paul R. Clemente

To Mr. ___ for Accommodating His Customers with an Extra Parking Lot Children still play where dandelions once sprouted like freckles; where bruised knees now bloom with scabs. —Benjamin Mueller

Pilgrimage Martinis at the Ritz, where thin girl Audrey Hepburn trysted Cooper in the afternoon. Then dinner at some bistro that’s survived the march of change and small talk, a patron who remembers us with nods, or not. At last, round midnight, I’ll walk you halfway over the Pont Neuf, down steps where, seen only by chance lovers on the quai, some passing tug, I will consign your ashes to the Seine’s complicit hug. —John Hopper

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Food & Drink

Backyard Bounty

Permaculture is Taking Root By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

s we enter the end of summer’s bounty here in the Hudson Valley, luxuriating in local berries, stone fruits, and tomatoes, it’s a good time to start thinking about where much of our fruit comes from for the rest of the year. We’re accustomed to having access to so many varieties of fruit in stores that we may balk at the prospect of eating only locally, fearing that it will mean nothing but applesauce all winter long. But once we learn the full range, quality, and beauty of the fruit that can thrive in our area, we see that there’s no sacrifice at all—quite the opposite, in fact, as anyone who has forked over big bucks for a few pints of berries can understand. And it’s important to separate fruit production from agriculture in our minds. For an aesthetically minded homeowner, many of the fruiting trees and shrubs are as beautiful as any of the ubiquitous inedible ornamental plants around most of our houses. By using more edibles in our landscaping, we can make a major change in our fruit consumption patterns and have more beautiful yards to boot, with little of the work associated with gardening. Simply put, we can have our pretty flowers and eat them too. Any serious tomato fan will agree that there’s no point in eating them fresh any time other than high summer—they’re simply not the same thing. Canning them whole or in sauces is the solution for the long, dark, tomatoless nine months of the year, and we’re okay with that; it’s just the nature of tomatoes, and pleasure is what eating them is all about. Other than apples and pears, not much else grown here can be stored for very long without also being canned or frozen. So we dutifully capture sunshine in jars by making jams, jellies, and chutneys, and by freezing bags of berries for eating and baking all winter long. It’s what our ancestors did out of necessity, and we must accept that a real effort to eat locally in our region is going to require applying the Tomato Rule to all our fruit; preservation at the peak of ripeness for subsequent use in cooking is the future as well as the past. The simplest way to make this reality a blessing—a source of flavorful delight, rather than a limiting burden—is to increase the variety of fruit that we grow. 54

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Equatorial Hudson Valley Lee Reich is a writer, teacher, and consultant who lives in New Paltz. He has multiple graduate degrees in horticulture and soil science, and tends a remarkable “farmden” (“more than a garden, less than a farm,” from his website) on a modest plot south of Rosendale. His most recent book, Landscaping with Fruit (Storey Publishing, 2009), describes about 40 of his favorite fruit-bearing plants from an edible, aesthetic, and maintenance point of view. His focus is on maximizing variety, flavor, and beauty while minimizing the labor required to tend it all. While his property is home to a huge variety of edible species, he is realistic about the amount of time an average homeowner can devote to growing food: “It has to fit in with your life, or it doesn’t work,” he says, and tries to steer people toward the easiest and tastiest options to begin with. These include his favorite, blueberries, which need little upkeep and fruit prolifically in addition to providing beautiful fall foliage and winter stems. All they really require is netting to keep the birds off as the fruit ripens. He’s also a big fan of lingonberries, lowbush blueberries, and strawberries as ground cover, and planting hedges of Nanking cherries (a pretty, shrubby variety) and seaberries, which are extremely easy to grow, have lovely silvery leaves, and produce copious orange berries that taste similar to orange juice spiked with tropical punch. Another excellent choice is the pawpaw, which grows to a handsome tree with shiny dark green leaves and produces fruit that looks like mangoes and tastes a lot like vanilla pudding. They’re the only member of a family of tropical fruit trees (including cherimoya and soursop) that can grow in our climate, and produce the biggest indigenous edible fruit in North America. If we add hardy kiwis, which grow on vigorous vines that look lovely on a trellis or arbor, and the passionflower vine, which has gorgeous flowers and produces perhaps the greatest of all tropical fruit—the passionfruit—we can see that growing our own doesn’t mean giving up on the lavish flavors of the Equator. It’s easy to grow nuts, too, especially hazelnuts and chestnuts, and Reich likes his Buart nut tree, a cross between a butternut and a Japanese walnut.

ABOVE (left to right): Blueberries are native to the East Coast and up to 25 year old plants thrive in Lee Reich’s garden; Lee Reich in front of a mature persimmon tree. The persimmon is highly recommended by Reich as part of an edible landscape. They yield 40 to 400 pounds of fruit, have few pests, and need little or no pruning. OPPOSITE: lee reich’s no-till vegetable garden. Garden beds have one to two inches of mulch and compost added per year and are never dug or compacted.

There’s No Tilling It may be counterintuitive, but these choices are actually much more logical than, say, apples. Reich stresses that it’s virtually impossible to grow apples organically around here; the pests are simply too many. Other traditional trees, like plum and peach, are a bit better, but still require diligent pest control. Pears—Western and Asian—do very well, and Reich is an even bigger fan of the American persimmon; easy to grow, attractive, prolific, and tasting like “dried apricots dipped in honey and spice,” is another favorites Currants, which should be much more popular, are another excellent choice for producing copious fruit in limited space. They come in a dazzling variety of colors, and can grow in partial shade, making them ideal for planting under larger trees. Reich’s secret to low-maintenance gardening of all kinds is a no-till approach to the soil. It’s a literally top-down approach that he explains in his 2001 book Weedless Gardening (Workman Publishing Company). The main premise is simple: Nature fertilizes the soil from above, without tilling, and plants don’t require any further interventions on our part. All we have to do is prepare the ground—layer newspaper to kill grass or weeds, add a couple of inches of compost, plant, and then mulch. He proudly points to the beds in his garden, saying “for 25 years all these have gotten is an inch or two of compost every year, and they’ve never been walked on.” (Walking would crush the delicate crystalline matrix that exists in healthy soil.) The soil is black and crumbly, and the vegetables are prospering. He estimates that he spends about five minutes a week weeding, and the garden is roughly 2,000 square feet. Besides being harder work, tilling also activates weed seeds by exposing them to air and light. Tilled soil uses 60 percent more water than untilled and burns organic matter faster, requiring more applications of fertilizer. “Tilling the soil is a major source of CO2 entering the atmosphere,” Reich explains. “If you really want to dig, go mark off a piece of ground somewhere and go dig in it when you feel the need.” No-till farming is a signature tenet of permaculture, which is enjoying a

RESOURCES Lee Reich www.leereich.blogspot.com Ethan Roland www.appleseedpermaculture.com Green Phoenix Permaculture www.green-phoenix.org Catskill Native Nursery www.catskillnativenursery.com Ethan Roland’s Top 5 DIY Permaculture Books 1. Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway (2009, Chelsea Green) 2. Edible Forest Gardens, Volumes I and II by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier (2005, Chelsea Green) 3. Food Not Lawns by Heather Coburn Flores (2006, Chelsea Green) 4. Landscaping with Fruit by Lee Reich (2009, Storey Publishing) 5. Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies by Owen Dell (2009, For Dummies Press) Ethan Rolands’s Top 5 Regional Permaculture Nurseries 1. Catskill Native Nursery, Kerhonkson 2. MiCosta Nurseries, Columbia County 3. St. Lawrence Nurseries, Potsdam 4. Tripplebrook Farm, Southampton, Massachusetts 5. Oikos Tree Crops, Michigan

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big increase in popularity in the Hudson Valley. Developed in Australia in the 1970s, it’s a holistic approach to agriculture that seeks to emulate nature by planting polycultures that grow to become largely self-sufficient. Instead of an orchard of one type of tree, permaculture plants a variety of trees, each with various useful understory plants; a fruit or nut tree might have goji berries, currants, daylilies (which are edible), and medicinal or culinary herbs planted underneath so that over time the result is a thriving “forest garden” that produces a wide range of food. Vegetable gardens are incorporated into the layout, following the contour of the land, and different zones around the dwelling are planted differently depending on their intended use. Not-So-Strange Fruit Ethan Roland teaches and practices permaculture at the Epworth Center in High Falls. His goal is “to establish local food security and deliciousness in a time of dramatic change.” He talks about each separate polyculture planting as a metaphor for the movement as a whole; as they grow and spread outward, he will mow less and less space between them until they connect to form a complete fabric. Diane Greenberg is co-owner of the Catskill Native Nursery in Kerhonkson. She agrees that people should grow more fruit even if they don’t plan on eating it: “Why would you not want a hedge that flowers, then fruits? It’s so much more interesting to look at, and if you don’t eat it, the birds can.” Instead of using invasive plants from big-box stores for our foundation plantings, she encourages people to come and explore the many beautiful and edible alternatives. These and other experts provide advice, classes, and assistance in making some positive changes to the flora around our homes and doing it in a way that works for us. We don’t all need to become self-sufficient overnight. But if we make choices that gently move us in that direction, relying less on imports, spending more time (and less money) connecting with our food—and enjoying luscious fruit along the way—we can spend less, eat better, and have enviable yards. What’s not to like?

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Cafés 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.

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(845) 255-8VEG www.lagustasluscious.com Lagusta’s Luscious brings heartbreakingly 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 food—locally grown organic produce, fair wages, environmentally sustainable business practices—that tastes just as good as that served at the finest restaurants. Let us end weeknight meal boredom forever.

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Baba Louie’s Woodfired Organic Sourdough Pizza 517 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 751-2155

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

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Kyoto Sushi 337 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1128 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 & 2009. 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.

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

49 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0162 Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi and Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls, and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted.

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

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Anatomy of a Community Garden

t is six o’clock on a Tuesday evening, the summer sun still strong. Raphael Notin, chair of Rhinebeck’s first community garden, is standing dead center of 28 garden plots. For all the enthusiasm and verve he has exhibited in the past 90 days to get this garden off—or, rather, in—the ground, he looks as if he has just been punched in the stomach. “Well, it’s a good start,” he says. He has just had a peek at what may be “late blight,” a highly contagious form of fungus. And it was on his tomato plant. His wife, Kim, co-leader of the garden, is quietly pruning, tending the Cherokee Purple tomatoes in their garden, before bringing Raphael over for another reason to fret: A huge caterpillar, the kind that some cultures eat for dinner, is attached to one of the tomato vines. They stare at it. A neighboring gardener says, “Here, let me get it off for you—I have gloves,” and he peels the creature off before throwing it into the adjoining field. And that is pretty much what this garden is about. Every stakeholder in this small community garden knows a lot about caring, and lending a helping hand. People know who is who, which plots they tend, and what their communal job functions are. And this comes in handy, especially in getting advice from fellow gardener Chris Quimby, who volunteers with the Cornell Cooperative Extension. He tells the Notins that what they thought was the devastating “late blight” on their tomato plant appears to be classic “black spot.” (Although later in the summer, the garden’s tomatoes did succumb to late blight.) And if you stand long enough on any given day or evening in this peaceful enclave, listening to the sounds—children playing in the recreational park’s pool across the parking lot, the chirping of crickets in the surrounding field, a shovel digging the earth—you will eventually be greeted with a smile from

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one of the gardeners and an offer of a green bean, a radish, a cherry tomato. The air seems to encourage good will. Transformation “If you could have seen this place a month and a half ago,” says Alexi Stokas, who is helping his daughter, Ariana, tend her garden, “you wouldn’t believe it.” The land, a little over half an acre located in the Thomas Thompson-Sally Mazzarella Park near Starr Library, had been farmed as a corn field for 50 years until receiving approval in March for a community garden, part of the town’s master plan. Flanked by tall native plants on three sides, the spectacle is stunning. The garden plots, each 15 by 20 feet, are as varied as the gardeners themselves. A hanging, woven planter with squash on each of three tiers stands in the corner of the Notin’s garden, peppers, melons, and mesculun grow in neat rows, and a wooden bench sits in the back. A plastic marker reading “Plant a row for the hungry” emerges from the soil amongst the tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini in the portion of the gardens that Chris Quimby oversees to provide food for the Red Hook Food Pantry. Chiropractor Denice MunierMartin’s garden is resplendent with beans, corn, and basil as wells flowers, bursting with peonies and the dahlias and zinnias she entered for judging in the Dutchess County Fair. Children from the town’s day camp have hand-painted rocks around the perimeter of their flower and vegetable gardens. And then there are the gardens of Patricia Hammar and Lori Doty, the envy of all. With trellises, a white picket fence, and a little umbrella attached to a beach chair on Hammar’s plot, there is nary a weed to be found. And the kale! And the peppers! “Patricia told me that she’s on her second planting,” says Alexi Stokas. “I don’t want to hear that,” he smiles. He walks away with two radishes and two beans from his daughter’s garden. 9/09 ChronograM LOCALLY GROWN

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Adversity and Diversity This summer was a difficult growing season. The late blight, similar to the one that caused the Irish potato famine, destroyed tomato plants in nearly every state in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. June and July brought record rainfall. Despite this, or perhaps in defiance of it, this little piece of land is thriving through hard work and optimism. As for the rain, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to water for two months,â&#x20AC;? says gardener Evan Quimby. And that was a good thing. Garden treasurer Larry Miller, a freelance educator and librarian, notes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we had the garden where it was originally going to be planted [down a hill], it wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been rice paddies.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fail,â&#x20AC;? Alexi Stokas says of the community garden. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every gardener helps each other.â&#x20AC;? He says something in Spanish to a Latino woman who is retrieving water from the 275-gallon water tank in the gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back corner, and she smiles with a Spanish reply. One of the most resounding comments on this community garden reflects the noted diversity of the gardeners themselves. In a town where over 90 percent of the population is white, one quarter of the Rhinebeck Community Gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members are Latinoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a result of outreach of gardeners Judy Schneyer, whose son was born in Guatemala, and Evan Quimby, a retired Spanish teacher, who translates along with Ariana. Longtime Rhinebeckians mix with those newer to the area; families mingle with older couples and friends, children interact with adults. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met so many people that I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know,â&#x20AC;? says Hammar, a Rhinebeck resident for 35 years and a recently retired occupational therapist. She is one of the gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most ardent contributors, keeping all records as garden secretary/historian. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;t think I would have met them otherwise,â&#x20AC;? she says, noting the span of three generations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just such a find for me, starting a new point in my life.â&#x20AC;? She recalls connecting with Latina women in the garden plot near hers through nonverbal communication. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand them. I was just welcoming them, and everybody was happy. I gave them some of my plants. We were gesturing. There was a language barrier,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but not a friendship barrier.â&#x20AC;? Â Seed and Speed Town board approval for the community garden came on March 23, and Notin was appointed chair on April 13. Planting season was already upon them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was an urgency to get plots divided and put plants in,â&#x20AC;? says Notin, a native of France and stewardship manager of Winnakee Land Trust. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was created so quickly, it almost started backwards. That sense of rushing into itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was exciting, it had momentum.â&#x20AC;? Knowing nothing about community gardening, but fostering a deep concern for the land and community, Notin says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first thing I did was to Google â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Community Gardens.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I came up with the American Association for Community Gardens, a great site, that outlined guidelines and a gardenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contract.â&#x20AC;? Without benefit of a local home-delivered paper to announce the news (the Gazette Advertiser had folded just months before), seven people showed up at the first Rhinebeck Community Garden on April 28, most hearing about it through flyers around town. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember that first meeting,â&#x20AC;? says Miller. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raphael had us brainstorming a list that Kim was writing on the board. The list kept getting longer and longer. I finally said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Enough already, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just do it,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and Kim wrote on top, in big letters, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Just Do It!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Ten days later, the garden plots were in place. By July, all the plots were assigned at $25 each; seven were given to low-income families. Roots Community gardens rely on donations and volunteerism, and Rhinebeckians have been major contributors with a generous heart and practical help on many levels. Once the site of the garden was determined with town officials, Raphael Notin sought the advice of Bernie Scholldorf, the man who had farmed that land and who still farms in the southerly field. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was key in getting this started,â&#x20AC;? says Notin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I talked to him, and expected to pay him to plow.â&#x20AC;? Instead, Scholldorf immediately showed up and expertly plowed the garden property at no charge. The fencing material for the garden perimeter was partially funded by Rhinebeckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Conservation Advisory Council member Lisa Camp, who was eager to get this started. The posts were cut by garden volunteers from locust trees donated by Wilderstein historic site in Rhinebeck (mutually beneficial, according to Meg Crawford, the landscaper at Wilderstein, as locust trees are an invasive species). 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Advice was offered by local gardeners on implementing a community garden, stores gave discounts or donated goods, the town supplied the initial water tank and wood chips, truckloads of compost were given by a farm and by community members, and the gardeners themselves built the garden, donating supplies and funding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great about the project,â&#x20AC;? says Notin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the critical moment, everyone has something to give.â&#x20AC;? The gardeners worked together, contributing to and caring for the three communal plots that Chris Quimby established for the Grow a Row initiative, linking healthy food distribution to needy families. Maintaining the gardenersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; green philosophy, Quimby personally purchased the huge recycled water tank, which was once used to transport molasses to a horse farm. By May, a handcrafted sign by artist and gardener Cynthia Linden Carlaw, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rhinebeck Community Garden,â&#x20AC;? was welcoming gardeners and visitors (â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a Good Thyme,â&#x20AC;? written on its reverse). Sunflowers and a potpourri of tall flowers were planted by the gardeners at its base. Kim Notin recalls making the wood-chipped garden path. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were working side-by-side, all women,â&#x20AC;? she recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raphael was working in the garden, glancing over every now and then, and I gave him a lookâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even think of telling us how to do this.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Â Perennial Those involved in the garden envision continued growth and success: a possible expansion to the north or east, perhaps building raised beds to ease access for older gardeners, a gazebo/pergola and benches in the central plaza for shade, a full water line, upgraded fencing, and a shed that will probably be built by garden volunteers. As education leader at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Kim Notin is hoping to use the garden as a teaching tool as well. What lies beneath the vibrancy of this garden can be felt by the gardeners who have come together in working and growing. At a monthly potluck dinner in the adjoining park, garden members laugh and share stories while sitting at a table laden with tamales, hummus, strawberry bread, and of course, plenty of homegrown salad.Â A few nights later, Peter Morfea is tending his plot after work with his four-year-old son, Rocco. As the sun sets and Morfea prepares to leave, Rocco begins carrying on about staying longer at the garden. It becomes clear what Rocco wants to do: sit on his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lap, in the beach chair in Patricia Hammarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garden plot, and watch the stars come out. And they do. For information on starting a community garden, visit www.chronogram.com.

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enaissance. Transformation. Revival. Renewal. Change. Again and again, these are the words chosen by proponents of Poughkeepsie— the Queen City of the Hudson. Tales of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s limousine making stops at the old Luckey Platt Department Store (now restored as retail space, artists’ lofts, and apartments) for sundries and Caffe Aurora (still there) for pastries, and of early 20th century New Yorkers making weekend pilgrimages up the Hudson, make this river city unique, as does its present-day reincarnation as a 21st-century destination paying homage to its past glory. “You take a look at the Hudson River Valley, as far south as Rockland County, as far north as Columbia County, as far west as the mountains, and as far east as Pawling. We’re in the center; the center of the universe,” says Charles S. North, president and CEO of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce.

“Poughkeepsie is rich in history and rich in culture.” The city’s first-term Republican mayor, John C. Tkazyik (pronounced tiezik), agrees with North. “It’s at a great place to be. Poughkeepsie is at a point where it’s taking off,” he says. But it took a while to get here. From Boomtown to Ghost Town Settled by the Dutch in 1659 and incorporated as a city in 1854, Poughkeepsie is in Dutchess County, on the eastern shore of the Hudson River about 75 miles north of NewYork, and has a population of about 30,000, according to the 2000 Census. The city covers about 5.7 square miles, and is surrounded by a town bearing the same name, which is of Iroquois origin. U-puku-ipi-sing, means “the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place.” After the American Revolution, Poughkeepsie was briefly the second capitol 9/09 ChronograM poughkeepsie

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of New York. In 1788, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and George Clinton, among others, met at the courthouse on Market Street, in what is still the city’s downtown, to debate and ratify the US Constitution. Poughkeepsie was an industrial hub, as represented by its city seal, which contains a beehive. It was a center for whale rendering, and during the 1800s shipping, hat factories, paper mills, and breweries flourished. (Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, owned and operated a brewery in the city.) It is also home to the longest continually operational theater in the state, the 1869 Bardavon Opera House. A recent book, Main Street to Mainframes (2009, State University of NewYork Press), written by Vassar College professors Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen, chronicles Poughkeepsie’s development “from an agricultural market town, to a small city with a diversified economy centered on Main Street, to an urban region dependent on the success of [IBM].” It examines the city’s revitalization efforts following an exodus of business in the 1970s, with the emergence of mega-malls in the town of Poughkeepsie, urban renewal, and conversion of the city’s Main Street into a pedestrian mall.This left downtown all but a ghost town populated largely by drug dealers and gang members. The little town that couldn’t Although it is clearly on the upswing, there is no denying that Poughkeepsie, the last stop on MetroNorth’s westernmost route out of New York City, has been plagued with big city problems. Drug traffic, gun violence, and poverty are among Poughkeepsie’s woes. Charlie North won’t deny it. “Safety’s an issue, a big issue,” he says. “Being the last train stop brings in not only people that are great, but [also] people that are not so great, to transact [illegal] business here,” North says. “There’s no question that Poughkeepsie is a drug stop—we all know that—so we need to find a way to change that. We’re trying to bring in people to move into neighborhoods to push the criminals out.” But it’s not just new residents Poughkeepsie wants and needs, it’s developers, urban pioneers, and tourists. Tom Aposporos, the city’s Democratic mayor in the 1980s and now a Floridian, was brought back last year by Tkazyik for a short stint as acting development director. He was charged with overseeing the final restoration of the Luckey Platt Building and also the conversion of a former piano factory into condominiums opposite the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum. Aposporos, who was born in 1952 and raised in an 1860s Colonial on Academy Street in one of Poughkeepsie’s historic districts, concurs that the city has long held a reputation as the little town that couldn’t. Like so many other small former industrial cities, Poughkeepsie had its heyday in the 1950s. It was plagued by urban sprawl and the development of shopping centers along Route 9 in the town, along with “a ridiculous governmental response to what was happening—well-intentioned, but poor.” Urban renewal, he says, resulted in the destruction of neighborhoods, instead of “simply saving the splendor of Poughkeepsie.” “But [in the 1980s] people came to appreciate this community that so attracted my parents and grandparents and realized the value of not ripping down [the city’s architectural gems]. We began moving toward an era of preservation. It was not too little, too late—but it was late.” Aposporos took office in 1980, when the economy was strong. Some remaining Carter-era urban development money allowed him to spearhead construction of the Windham Hotel (now the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel), the Barney Office Building, Jefferson Plaza, and the historic restoration of the Maplewood Apartments. At the time, he says, considerable renovation of old homes was also underway. Then, the credit crunch of the mid 1980s stalled things for Poughkeepsie and the rest of the country. According to the NewYork Times, “Dutchess [County] was probably the county hardest hit by IBM’s downsizing. In 1985, the company employed 31,042 people at its plants in Poughkeepsie, East Fishkill, and Kingston. By 1995, that number plummeted to 10,100.” The city’s Main Mall was successfully reopened to traffic in 2001 under the leadership of then-mayor Colette Lafuente, who has become an almost mythical hero to some present-day leaders who point to that move as the beginning of Poughkeepsie’s rebirth. “Poughkeepsie has been dealt a hard hand at times, but it’s also been dealt an incredibly strong hand of people who have been giants in its history,” Aposporos says.

caffe aurora has been a staple of poughkeepsie’s mount carmel neighborhood, referred to as the city’s “little italy,” since 1941.

Brave pioneers For success, Aposporos says, a city needs its urban pioneers and Poughkeepsie has plenty of those. Among them is Chris Silva, executive director of the Bardavon 1869 Opera House. Silva has seen a transformation in the past 15 years. “The opera house has become everybody’s house. It goes back to 1869 when it was the city gathering place,” he says. The Bardavon was built the same year the cornerstone was laid for another city treasure, the Poughkeepsie-Highland railroad bridge. The bridge, which burned in 1974, ending almost a century of continuous use, stood idle until a combination of private and state funding enabled yet another Poughkeepsie resurrection. On the weekend of October 3, the bridge will reopen. Not for rail traffic, but as the Walkway Over the Hudson, a 1.25-mile “trailway,” for bicycle and pedestrian traffic high above the river. The walkway project was accomplished by a group of committed residents who began to envision a new use for the bridge as early as 1992. One of those visionaries is Joe Bonura, a member of the board of directors for the project. Bonura and his family, which owns the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, also built and owns Shadows on the Hudson and The Grandview (a $42 million riverfront restaurant and catering hall project). The Bonuras are planning more development along the Hudson in the near future. The Walkway Over the Hudson will connect two rail trails—one in Poughkeepsie, the other in the town of Lloyd. Its vision is to provide visitors with an array of scenic and cultural destinations that will promote recreational and business activity along shorelines and downtowns on both sides of the Hudson. Representatives from state and local government, Scenic Hudson, a rail trail nonprofit and local residents is behind a related project—called the Walkway Loop Trail. In 2008, Scenic Hudson, which is based in Poughkeepsie, suggested the idea of the loop trail to Tkazyik and other city officials, who enthusiastically signed on. A group of interested parties began meeting monthly and included city and town of Lloyd officials; representatives of the NewYork State Office of Parks, Recreation 9/09 ChronograM poughkeepsie

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and Historic Preservation; the New York State Bridge Authority; Walkway Over the Hudson; the Hudson Rail Trail Association; Scenic Hudson; and community leaders such as former Poughkeepsie mayor Nancy Cozean; Joe Bonura; and composer Joseph Bertolozzi, who wrote the symphonic piece Bridge Music, which he created with sounds made from “playing” the Mid-Hudson Bridge with mallets. (Bertolozzi was profiled in the March 2009 issue of Chronogram.) And there are smaller, but no less significant, pioneers who have made an impact on the city. Jack White, a Segway dealer, brought his business to a storefront adjacent to the newly renovated Poughkeepsie Train Station and has established Segway PT Tours, offering tours of the riverfront and the historic downtown. Cozean, who has always had a strong interest in the city’s history, offers walking tours of Poughkeepsie churches, and Frank Palaia, owner of the G.A.S. Gallery, takes visitors on a walking tour of some of the city’s numerous wall murals. And then there’s Lou Strippoli. He may not be a pioneer, but he’s the son of one. In 1941, four days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his father, Paolo Strippoli, opened Caffe Aurora on Main Street in downtown Poughkeepsie. Since then the family has moved the business to 145 Mill Street, in what has been called the city’s Little Italy. Even today, it’s not uncommon to hear customers gossiping in Italian like they did back when Eleanor Roosevelt’s limousine pulled up to the curb for a box of petit fours to take home to Hyde Park. In 1980, Lou, one of the three Strippoli children, took over the business after his mother Filomena’s death and his father’s retirement. Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, Strippoli sees the city as a living, breathing and ever-changing entity. “You know what? Cities metamorphosize, cities change,” he says, expressing confidence in Poughkeepsie’s ability to change with the times. Looking ahead Asked what a visitor to Poughkeepsie should take a look at, North doesn’t skip a beat. “Walk down Main Street towards to riverfront. Take a look at Dooley Square,” he says, also mentioning a formerly deserted warehouse that is now a mixed-use, eco-friendly retail hub adjacent to the train station. “Take a look at the waterfront itself; the Children’s Museum. Look across the street at the old piano factory that’s now condominiums. Take a look up at the walkway. Listen to Bridge Music at the listening stations at Waryas Park. Take a walk to Kaal Rock [a rock outcrop jutting into the Hudson near the Mid Hudson Bridge at the base of Main Street]. Take a walk down to the Grandview. Walk up to the boathouse and then go on to the Marist property.Take a walk up Main Street. Go up to Catherine Street. Go up to the 400 block [of Main Street]. Take a look at the old architecture.” North obviously loves what the city is and has a clear vision of what it can become. “There will come a time when the city of Poughkeepsie will have its Main Street hustling and bustling,” he says. “There’s the greatness of Poughkeepsie that people fail to recognize. The fact of the matter is that Vassar College is located in Poughkeepsie. Marist College is located in Poughkeepsie. Dutchess Community College is located in Poughkeepsie. And right up the road is the Culinary Institute of America. It’s all about Poughkeepsie. I know that people say, well, the Culinary Institute is located in Hyde Park. But let me tell you something, the train stops in Poughkeepsie. So when they want to take a train to Dutchess County, guess what? They saved the best for last, and the last stop is Poughkeepsie.” RESOURCES Bridge Music www.josephbertolozzi.com Caffe Aurora www.caffeaurora.com City of Poughkeepsie www.cityofpoughkeepsie.com G.A.S. Gallery www.galleryandstudio.org The Grandview www.grandviewevents.com Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum www.mhcm.org Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel www.pokgrand.com Hudson River Quadricentennial www.exploreny400.com Scenic Hudson www.scenichudson.org Segway of the Hudson Valley www.segwayofthehudsonvalley.com Shadows on the Hudson www.shadowsonthehudson.com Walkway Over the Hudson www.walkway.org

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Jessica Wickham, Woodworker 578 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 797-9247 www.jessicawickham.com

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Woman’s Studio Workshop www.wsworkshop.org

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply

Auto Sales & Services

Rhinebeck Photography & Art Center

Ruge’s Subaru

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

(914) 388-7778 www.rhinebeckphotoarts.com

Sixty One Main Gallery

Banks

61 Main Street, Andes, NY www.andesnewyork.com

Rhinebeck Savings Bank

2 Jefferson Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY

Art Instruction

Sawyer Savings

Spencertown Academy Arts Center

87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-7000 www.sawyersavings.com

790 Route 203, Spencertown, NY

Devine Surveying

P.O. Box 393, Salt Point, NY (845) 266-3296 DSLS50256@cs.com

Cinemas

The {New New} Etsy Streetteam

www.markertek.com

New Paltz, NY www.newpaltzarts.org

Building Services & Supplies

Upstate Films

6415 Montgomery St. Route 9 Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org

Clothing & Accessories Dream in Plastic

177 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.dreaminplastic.com

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...

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Mrs. Max Boutique

Durants Tents & Events

101 Liberty Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-3351

1155 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0011 www.durantstents.com info@durantstents.com

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.

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

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.

Dutchess County Fairgrounds

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

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

Consignment Shops 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

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

Events Albany Vegetarian NetworkVegetarian Expo Saratoga Springs, NY www.nyvegetarianexpo.org

Celebration of the Arts Historic Hugenot Street, New Paltz, NY www.CelebrationoftheArts.net

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www.dutchessfair.com

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

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair P.O. Box 838, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1989

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

Woodstock Film Festival www.woodstockfilmfestival.com

World Peace Santuary (845) 877-6093 www.worldpeace.org info@worldpeace.org

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Cornwall Community Co-op 208 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-0626 www.CornwallCoop.com

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

Beacon Natural Market 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288

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

Kingston Farmers’ Market Historic Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com

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.

Pennings Farm Market 161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com

Pine Hill Farm 3298 Route 94, Chester, NY (845) 325-1115

Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com

Rondout Valley Growers www.rondoutvalleygrowers.org

Scheuermann Farms & Greenhouse

73 Little York Road, Warwick, NY (845) 258-4221 warwickinfo.net/scheuermann

The Shops at Jones Farm 190 Angola Road, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-4445 www.jonesfarminc.com

Sunflower Natural Foods Market

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

Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

Hair Salons Androgyny

5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620 Located in the Historic Huguenot Street. We now have a gallery space next door. AcOUStIC SuNDaYS 4-7

Dennis Fox Salon

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.

Woodstock Haircutz

80 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7171

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.

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 Email, 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

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 Coral Acres (845) 255-6634

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

Lawyers & Mediators Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com

Music Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011

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.

DMU Music Store 86 Broadway, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-6797 www.dmumusic.com info@dmumusic.com

Networking Beacon Business Association www.beaconny.org

Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce www.dcrcoc.org

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

Peekskill Business Improvement District Peekskill, NY

Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce

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

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

Powerhouse Theater Vassar Campus, , (845) 437-5599 http://powerhouse.vassar.edu

WAMC—Linda 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 ext. 4 www.thelinda.org

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Dog Love, LLC

240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com 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.

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B

(845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com 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.

2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org www.ecostudies.org/events.html

Frog Hollow Farm Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

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

Institute for Integrative Nutrition (877) 730-5444 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (650) 493-4430 ext. 268 www.itp.edu

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School

Photography

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

Fionn Reilly Photography www.fionnreilly.com

Poughkeepsie Day School

Lorna Tychostup

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

(845) 489-8038 www.lornatychostup.com

Photosensualis

15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.com

SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3872 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

Picture Framing

Trinity-Pawling School

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.

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

Shoes 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

Recreation

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.

Homegrown Mini-Golf at Kelder’s Farm

Snacks

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, 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 10 am to 6 pm 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!

New Paltz Karate Academy

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.

Sunrooms Four Seasons Sunrooms

22 North Front Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4523 (845) 338-3810 ext. 116 www.ymcaulster.org

199 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1600 www.bire.org info@bire.org

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.

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 Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated.

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

Peter Aaron

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

icuPublish

Museum Village

Hudson River Heritage

Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries

Web Design

(845) 876-2474 www.WhatsDutch.org

Tourism

Schools

35 Main Street, Suite 322, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-SEGWAY (7349) www.segwayofthehuspmvalley.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.

Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com

YMCA of Southeast Ulster

Segway of the Hudson Valley

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23F East Market Street, P.O. Box 42, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5904 www.rhinebeckchamber.com info@rhinebeckchamber.com

Pet Services & Supplies

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

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Springing to Life A Social and Educational Program Debuts in Saugerties What if you’d enjoyed years of sumptuous meals and then suddenly had to settle for oatmeal? It can be like that for many retirees: after a rich working life, bingo just isn’t going to satisfy. Lifespring, a new adult learning community in Saugerties, is fixing that with stimulation for the mind and community for the soul.

by lorrie klosterman

illustration by annie internicola

n intriguing concept appeared in the 1970s: Create group trips and activities for the older set like those that younger people enjoyed through international hostelling. In 1974, Elderhostel was founded by David Bianco to provide “intellectual stimulation, personal growth, fellowship, exploration, self-discovery, and a lot of fun.” Today, as the organization is poised to change its name (neither “elder” nor “hostel” convey its flavor), millions of people are taking part in Elderhostel adventures. Among them are Lifetime Learning Institutes, or LLIs, which are locally organized on campuses across the nation. In the Hudson Valley, LLIs can be found at Bard College in Annandaleon-Hudson, Marist College in Poughkeepsie, Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, SUNY’s New Paltz campus, and Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh. They are tremendously popular: Bard had to close to new members when its capacity maxed out at well over 200 people; SUNY New Paltz’s program had 175 people signed up at its opening. But in Saugerties, where there is no college and no LLI, a new program is taking the lifetime learning model a step further. Lifespring: Saugerties Adult Learning Community aims to nourish intellect and curiosity while building a community-based social network. Lifespring is the cocreative effort of volunteers under the guiding vision of dynamic duo Susan Puretz and Arzi McKeown. Puretz is the program’s spearhead and president, McKeown its curriculum chair and consultant. The women met when Puretz asked McKeown to help out and bring her many years of experience at Bard’s LLI with her. The women agree their collaboration has been magically synergistic, and for months they and a core group of dedicated volunteers worked on the program, which takes flight later this month as classes begin on September 22 at Saugerties United Methodist Church on Washington Avenue and Post Street, near the Saugerties library.

Hatching an Idea The original inspiration for Lifespring arose as Puretz and her friend Barbara Kaisik were out walking, musing about Bard College’s popular learning program and wishing they could bring it “across the bridge” to Saugerties. But there was no college campus to host it. No matter: After putting their ideas together, they approached the town board with the concept of having it sponsored by the town. “They said they would love to!” Puretz recounts. “Arzi and Susan have incredible energy,” says Saugerties board member Lee76

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Anne Thornton, who is a teacher and acts as liaison between Lifespring and the town, sitting in on the meetings and helping with ideas. “They are very talented, organized, directed women, and with Barbara, they really took the ball with this and ran with it. There was a tremendous enthusiasm—about 25 people, with ideas flying. I’ve never seen a more diverse group of individuals, all wanting to do something to keep active. Local people have volunteered to get all this done.” Winning town sponsorship meant tangible support that includes such things as a meeting room for planners, free webpage hosting and web design by the town’s webmaster, a cable access program where Arzi and Susan introduced the idea to the public, equipment loans for the classes, and about $500 start-up funds for copying and printing informational cards, brochures, and the like (for which community vendors have given discounted prices as well). “We have the same enthusiasm running programs for the kids,” says Thornton of Saugerties, “and we spend a lot of money in this community on what we think is important. Now we’re saying let’s do something for the adults of our community.”

Calling All Hungry Brains Like the campus-based LLIs, Lifespring offers noncompetitive learning (no more exams!) on a diversity of topics worked out by the self-selected curriculum committee. McKeown has seen how hungry adults are to learn and grow. “Many people never had an opportunity to further their education for a variety of reasons—raising kids, their job, not having the finances,” she says. “Now they’re really desiring the knowledge and stimulation of learning, and they’ll have this opportunity at a very low cost.” Lifespring membership is $60 for any courses and social activities in a year (additional trips or events might have a small additional fee). Members can also take leadership positions by organizing or teaching courses, serving on committees, or organizing events. “We are still curious and interested in new things,” says McKeown. “We want to keep our senses active and seek out new ideas and alternative perspectives from our changing, dynamic, information-rich society. Modern neuroscience shows that the adult brain retains the ability to change its structure and function in response to training and experience. The hippocampus section of the brain can expand when the mind and body are put to use with mental, relational, and physical activity.” So Lifespring’s curriculum committee came up with four intriguing topics

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for its inaugural semester.The classes meet once a weekâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two running concurrently in the morning, and two in the afternoonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for a duration of six weeks. Members select one from the morning session, and one from the afternoon, or just one per day if they prefer. Friends or spouses may wish to attend the same classes together, or choose different ones that meet at the same time.Those who stay for both morning and afternoon sessions can share home-prepared lunches on site or patronize a nearby eatery together, supporting local businesses in the process. The four courses this semester, in brief here (see Lifespringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s webpage for details), are: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The US in World Politics: Democracy or Empireâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;or Both?â&#x20AC;? by college history professor Richard Phillips. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taking Charge of Your Health: Mind and Bodyâ&#x20AC;? with six guest speakers covering such topics as stress reduction, brain health, sex after 60, and medication management. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The American Songbookâ&#x20AC;? by Bob Cohen, a wonderful storyteller and cantor at Temple Emmanuel in Kingston, whose musical tour will trace the underpinnings of American popular music. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hudson Valley History Samplerâ&#x20AC;? with six guest speakers highlighting key phases of our regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history and its future. Upon hearing about these courses, some folks have said they wish they were retired so they could attend. As an example of why theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the six-week lineup for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hudson Valley History Samplerâ&#x20AC;?: author Frances Dunwell on the Hudson Riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural and economic significance; local historian and researcher Michael Sullivan Smith on the role of the Dutch in NewYork; history teacher Matt Ostoyich on the masterminding of the US Constitution and the critical role of New York State, including Kingston and Poughkeepsie (where the ratifying convention was held); Tammis Kane Groft, deputy director of the Albany Institute of History and Art, on the Hudson River School of painters; David Keehn, director of the Stone House Museum, on the discoveries made using the steamboat and the transportation route afforded by the Hudson River; and Jay Burgess, communications director of Scenic Hudson, on the Hudson River Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental milestones, as well as its future.

Community in the Making Besides the intellectual enrichment, Lifespringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foundational concept includes creating a social web. McKeownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision is that members spend the class day together and share in other activities and outings they conjure up. The network also gives elders a place to shine, letting others know of important personal strides and accomplishments. In many towns, especially rural ones, the chance to do so can be hard to come by. In Lifespringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planning phase, a new community has already evolved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing is a microcosm of what we hope will happen in the programâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;people picking up creativity and energy from each other as they make connections,â&#x20AC;? says McKeown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are a community. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we hope to create in the overall group.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are saying they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the opportunity to get out and mingle,â&#x20AC;? says Puretz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be unique for this type of program. For more satisfaction in life, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to balance social activities that continue for a reasonable amount of timeÂ with activities that are single events. So, participants will have the chance to develop new strengths, use older talents, and discover new parts of themselves, not just by being in classes, but through the social interactions and the ongoing community.â&#x20AC;? Matt and Sandy Ostoyich are among the devoted planners who showed up at the early meetings, were invited to be part of the core planning group, and have organized one of the courses as well (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hudson Valley History Samplerâ&#x20AC;?). Both have backgrounds in education (she as a high school librarian, he as a history teacher at Onteora High School and Ulster County Community College). The Ostoyiches are veteran adult learners. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten into the habit of going to educational summer school, so to speak,â&#x20AC;? Sandy explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;notably Cornell Adult University, and taking classes as part of our vacations. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very enthusiastic about spending time that way. I find that what has made our retirement fruitful so far is being involved with others, and with projects that have a goal.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found that whenever weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve attended classes,â&#x20AC;? says Matt, â&#x20AC;&#x153;they are interesting for the mind, but community also does take place. At Cornell, we developed a friendship with a couple from Long Island, and now we get together with them two or three times a year.â&#x20AC;? In their work with Lifespring, they have

a chance to use their networking skills—“both electronic and personal,” Sandy notes with pleasure. “It’s a free-will undertaking, so those who are involved are doing it because they are really interested. We’ve met some really wonderful people already.” Sandy has seen a gender disparity after retirement that classes can help mitigate. “I find that men are not as likely as women to go have lunch together or go to the movies, so they tend to be more isolated,” she says. “So when they retire and the work by which they define themselves is suddenly gone, unless they have a hobby or they are in community organizations, they don’t go out much and stagnate at home. So we’re hoping Lifespring will give people a chance to feel like part of the web of the community.”

Socializing and Health Brain games to stave off memory loss and keep wits honed are hugely popular nowadays. But social interactions in their own right can be mentally and medically advantageous. For instance, a year ago, Ertel and colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health finished analyzing data of nearly 17,000 people over age 50 with regard to social integration (time spent with a spouse, family members, neighbors, or in volunteer activities), and found that memory decline over six years was worst among the least integrated—twice as bad as memory loss among the most social people. The study’s authors concluded that social integration delays memory loss among elderly Americans. Similarly, R. S. Wilson and colleagues at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago tracked for four years a group of 800 people at senior citizens facilities and in 2007 reported that those who described themselves as the most lonely had the highest rate of cognitive decline, with a significantly poorer and more rapid loss of mental abilities proportionate with their age. Physical health also benefits from social activities, even if they’re not sportsoriented. A study that followed about 900 older people for five years, whose findings were published earlier this year by A. S. Buchman and colleagues, also at Rush University Medical Center, discovered that people who were more socially active did significantly better on tests of muscle strength and motor skills. The study’s authors concluded that less frequent participation in social activities is associated with a more rapid rate of motor function decline in old age. Just the impetus to get up and out of the house is physically helpful. Social activities can also help ward off psychological depression, including the types that are unique to elders. “When people age, so many things go on that separate them from others,” says McKeown. The aging process is also a grieving process, she notes. “If your family and friends are dying, you get in trouble hanging around home with just your own thoughts. So it’s really important that people have the opportunity to engage with others. I would say that for most people [in a learning program] it’s the community that’s the most important.”

Blueprint for a Learning Community Here are some key ingredients that got Lifespring underway and which can be replicated in just about any town: • A couple of enthused people to get the ball rolling, who can enticingly explain the idea and enlist others. • A core team of helpers who meet regularly to flush out the plan and handle tasks like publicity, curriculum planning, and site searching. • A willingness to cocreate with others and consider anybody’s ideas, balanced with a discipline to hold to the original vision. • The courage to boldly go where you have not gone before—like to the town board with your idea or to printers asking for a price break (where you may find very willing helpers). • A little start-up money or donated materials and services to support initial stages. • A desire to improve options for adults in the community (including yourself!). • Publicity in the community, a lot of which is free in the form of word-ofmouth enthusiasm. Creating a continued learning program like Lifespring takes some devoted people and lots of volunteer hours. But the nourishment goes both ways.

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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman

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

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

he other night I had a terrible dream: I was driving down South Plank Road, the road that leads to Zen Mountain Monastery. My dear friend Lisa (who I met at the monastery over 10 years ago) was sitting in the passenger seat talking about practice. I looked in the back seat and Michelle was there, a friend who likes to walk to the monastery, but who we often pick up on Sundays as we drive in for service. And next to Michelle was my daughter Azalea’s car seat. Empty. Then memory crashed in: Azalea and I had last been in a public bathroom and I was helping her pull up her pants. Somehow I had gotten in the car without her. She was gone. I had left her there.Terror and nausea ripped into me, as I tried to turn the car around in the narrow road, demanding of it what felt like a 250-point turn. I could not believe the insanity of having to maneuver this giant machine around in order to find my daughter. It felt impossible. Head to toe, I heaved in agony, imagining my baby alone, wailing, afraid, abandoned, forsaken. How long had it been? Had she wandered into a hallway by herself? Had someone taken her? Hurt her? Would I ever see her again? Was she…still alive? The despair was so total, and so primitive that it was incoherent. I woke up sobbing. I was relieved of course, to realize it was a dream, and to hear Azzie through the monitor as she rolled over, but I was punctured nonetheless. From the Buddhist perspective, what we call reality is not so different from a dream. In the Diamond Sutra, one of the earliest recorded books in the world as well as a central Buddhist teaching on impermanence, the Buddha ends with this verse: Thus shall you think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. Many people I know have come to Zen practice having been rocked by mortality, realizing with a shock, even for a moment, the truth of impermanence. I entered the gate of Zen with almost the opposite problem: How can I breathe life into my perpetual heartache and looping mind? And then, several years into my practice, I brushed up against death for real when my father died and, at the same time, I was dealing with a life-threatening situation of my own. Even so, my defenses were so strong I was able to float back up into a web of deluded certainty, mistaking the dream for a stable reality. And then Azalea was born.

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It would be nice if I could say that since that day, three-and-a-half years ago, I have awakened to the truth of the “fleeting world,” that somehow the most profound experience I am likely to encounter—giving birth to a human being (God did I really do that?!)—gave me some lasting insight into the cycle of birth and death. I wish I could report that I have since been more consistently heeding the implicit advice of the Buddha’s poem: Let go. In some ways, as I have chronicled in this column over the months, learning to parent has been, for me, learning to live in accord with impermanence, coming to terms with the twists and turns, the bumps and the bruises, the “flash of lightning in a summer cloud.” But when I imagine the possibility of losing Azalea’s life, that anxiety seems to override all the subtle awareness of emptiness I can muster. I know that people, moms in particular, survive losing their children, but I honestly don’t know how, and that terrifies me. It seems impossible—wrong!—to imagine that I could treat my bond to Azalea as just another “bubble in a stream.” That’s really taking things a bit far. In fact, my initial interpretation of that dream was that perhaps my dharma life is a distraction for me, and if I throw myself in with too much abandon, look at what could happen. And yet there is the story of Gotami, a woman who approached the Buddha holding her dead child in her arms, seeking help with her unbridled grief. The Buddha said he could help, but that she needed to find a home that had never experienced death. In searching for the place where life was not fleeting, she awoke to the true nature of things, and to her own Buddha-nature. As I look at my own dream, I see it more and more as an invitation to practice. Instead of viewing my “attachment” to Azalea as an impediment, or as something to protect, I feel like the dream was a hint about what I am capable of—an open-heartedness that motherhood has allowed me to taste for the first time in my life. Buddhism is a tradition that has primarily been practiced by single men and childless women. As in most religions, while women have been kept on the periphery, their magical powers are often front and center. In Zen we hear the relationship between a mother and child used as a metaphor for nonduality, or the “womb of suchness” as the fundamental seeds of enlightenment inherent in all of us, and a “grandmotherly heart” is held up as the kind of compassion a teacher should have for a student. In my so-called dream, I thought I was going the right way—toward practice—when I realized something was missing, and it was something big, something vital, something I cannot live without. I don’t think it’s Azalea. And I don’t think it’s not Azalea. And I don’t think I need to turn the car around at all.

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Integrated Kabbalistic Healing Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introduc11:17:05 AM tory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.

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David Basch, PCC (845) 626-0444 david@dwbcoaching.com dwbasch@aol.com If you find yourself stuck in your career, business or personal situation, I can help you get un-stuck. As a professional certified coach with many years of experience, I work with my clients to help them produce extraordinary results. Clients gain clarity and improved insight into what they want. They very quickly develop a strategy, a plan of action and the tools to achieve their goals. Contact me for a no charge sample session now.

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Joan Apter (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, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and non-toxic cleaning products. For information, contact Joan Apter.

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Zen Mountain Monastery 871 Plank Road, Mount 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.

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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.

Physical Therapy Roy Capellaro, PT 120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 518-1070 www.roycapellaro.com 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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Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus sessions available.

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

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.

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.

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

Jamie O’Neil, LCSW-R 30 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7600 35 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (at train station) (845)483-7600 http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/47545 Regain a sense of meaning, connections, and personal control in your life. Offering a variety of approaches, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy and EMDR. Treating anxiety, trauma, depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, relationship issues, advanced recovery, ACOA, eating disorders. Individuals and couples; specializing in work with college students.

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Janne Dooley, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Facebook Group: Brigid’s Well Janne@Brigidswell.com Free monthly newsletter. Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice helping people grow individually and in community. Janne specializes in healing trauma, relationship issues, recovery, codependency, inner child work and EMDR. Janne also coaches parents and people in life transitions. Groups forming: Mindful Parenting and Psychospiritual group, combining guided imagery and teachings from “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

Are You In An Abusive Relationship? Love shouldn’t hurt. Do you feel belittled, confused, hurt or worse, fearful? Are you worried it’s all your fault? Do you think about leaving? Do you wish you could make things better? Maybe you can. Or maybe you need the strength to say goodbye. Let’s explore what you want so you can get the love you need.

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,

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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.

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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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Ryan Flowers and Krisha Showalter are NY State Licensed Massage Therapists with additional Certification in Structural Integration and Visceral Osteopathic Manipulation. We specialize in chronic pain conditions, structural/postural alignment and function. We are committed to providing soft tissue manipulation that is communicative and receptive to the individual. Free Consultations.

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Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Lenox, MA 1 (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org

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ven in the best of times, it’s always prudent to reduce energy costs in the home. But with the economy stagnating and winter just around the corner, homeowners throughout the region are looking for ways to tighten up their houses as they tighten their belts. With an emphasis on leaning green, how can homeowners save a bit of money while being kind to Mother Nature? We spoke to the experts for some tips. The energy audit While there are a number of options available to homeowners, sometimes revealing those options is trickier than one might think. And that’s where a home energy auditor can help. Peggy Atwood is Assistant Coordinator with Courtney Strong, Inc., a Kingston-based energy savings consultant firm linked to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). She recommends a home energy audit as a means of ensuring the structure in question is given the attention it needs to function to its greatest capacity. “An audit looks at the entire structure as a living, breathing, holistic system,” Atwood says. “You look at how it all interacts together, and the audit will give you a blueprint of that.” Atwood says an audit can reveal issues not generally traceable by someone without the experience to find them. “A lot of people look at the wall and the roof of their home and don’t see any openings, when in fact there are a lot of openings they aren’t aware of,” she says. “You can’t really see those until you have an audit done.”

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A home energy auditor will thoroughly check out the home, generally only leaving behind a small hole drilled in the wall to determine the validity of its insulation. According to Atwood, insulation blown into the walls around 20 years ago might have settled up to 40 percent, rendering it far less effective as time passes. Home energy audits can reveal a host of problems with simple and inexpensive fixes, Atwood says. And not doing a thorough job of assessing the situation is potentially far more costly in the long term than facing the problems head on. Atwood estimates the average cost of a complete home energy audit is around $400, which might sound like a lot, but can often be recouped within the first year by enacting the recommended changes. And given what those audits reveal, that might not be as hard to believe as one might imagine. “The total accumulated energy losses that are usually discovered in about 90 percent of the homes is equivalent to having a six-foot hole in the wall,” Atwood says. Simple options Lucy Johnson, a professor of anthropology and the chair of the Vassar College Committee on Sustainability, says there are simple, small weather-proofing actions a homeowner can take, whether they decide to have a home energy audit or not. “If you have an old house particularly, or any house where you might have air coming in through windows, clear plastic material with Velcro strips works well,” she says. The installation (a do-it-yourself job if you wish) includes passing the hot air from an ordinary household hairdryer over the material, which stretches it out and renders it almost invisible. 9/09 ChronograM efficient heating 89

Johnson also suggests simple options like caulking around door frames and window frames, and swapping out old-fashioned lightbulbs for energy savers, unless the light is infrequently used. “If you have a light in the closet and you only turn it on when you go in for a coat, it’s probably not worth changing it,” she says. Other easy things one can do without enacting wholesale changes are turning off any power strips associated with electronics and turning off the computer when they are not in use. “They chew energy when they’re on,” Johnson says. Keeping indoor air temperature at realistic levels is easy and will save money, too. “Obviously if you find your house is warm enough in the winter that you need to open windows, you need to turn down the temperature,” says Johnson. “Don’t lose the energy that you’ve already paid for.” Melissa Everett, Executive Director with Sustainable Hudson Valley, agrees. “Keep temperature no higher than you need it,” she says. “Changing your behavior doesn’t cost anything.” Bundling up is also an effective means of saving energy. “Sweaters are actually very fashionable,” Everett says. “I don’t believe in turning up our noses at managing our energy demand.” In addition to changing behavior, Everett suggests letting technology help by use of a timer on the thermostat. “Timers are great for anyone who is tech savvy enough to use the darn thing,” she says. “If you go out to work at the same time every day, you can set it up to turn down at 9 in the morning and turn back up at 4:45.” Don’t break the seal New Paltz-based architect Rick Alfandre is a big supporter of air-sealing as a means to keep warmed air inside the home where it belongs. A member of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association and the American Solar Energy Society, Alfandre takes the idea of green energy seriously, and that often begins with sealing any air leaks. Whole-house fans and attic steps are often sources of heat loss, and both can be sealed airtight for winter through the use of insulated covers. Another potential culprit is a bathroom vent fan, which can easily be remedied with an insulated duct installed beneath attic insulation. If the home has an attached garage, the door that goes to it from inside the house should be airtight and insulated. And while it represents a larger project for homeowners, Alfandre recommends looking at the boiler or furnace in the home, especially those that may have been around for a while. “It’s not uncommon to see old and antiquated boilers and furnaces, and there may be a reason to consider upgrading to a new piece of equipment. We’re tending to push people to sealed combustion, either propane or natural gas.” An effective system, Alfandre contends, will work with outside air rather than drawing it from within the house. “We really want to take the combustion air from the outside and feed it directly to the boiler or burner without taking it from the conditioned space,” he says. Euro-burn Alyce Wittus is the vice president of Wittus Fire By Design in Pound Ridge, a company dedicated to utilizing classic European stove technology in a modern way. For some homeowners, Wittus recommends a wood or gas insert that fits into an existing fireplace and has a glass door on the front. This can be more effective, she says, than a standard fireplace. “That’s always a good way to stay warm. The newer products are a lot more energy efficient and most of them are CPA certified. They’re clean burning.” Freestanding woodburning stoves are also an option. They are more green than gas stoves, Wittus says, and if you are building an addition, they are often less expensive and more eco-friendly than electrical baseboard heating. For homeowners using woodburning stoves, Wittus says sometimes being patient and understanding firewood is the best way of ensuring maximum efficiency. “You should only use hard wood, and it should be dry.We recommend two years of drying.You can tell by picking it up. If it’s still heavy, it’s still damp.” Also recommended are pellet stoves, which use ground-up wood that Wittus says “looks like rabbit turd. It’s a newer kind of concept that’s very good for people who don’t have access to wood very easily. The stoves are efficient, but they usually require some kind of electricity, so if you have a power failure, it’s not so good.” 90 efficient heating ChronograM 9/09

Wittus says now is a good time to consider installing a heating system that uses biomass products like wood, pellet, and ethanol products, because a federal tax credit of 30 percent and up to $1,500 is available through 2010. “You can spend up to $5,000 and you’re really only spending $3,500,” she says. The retrofit option Another option for homeowners is radiant floor heating. John Abularrage, president of Advanced Radiant Design in Stone Ridge, says the concept works because it’s so different from forced air options. With forced air, he explains, “the method of delivering the heat creates a cooling effect,” just as one of the best ways to cool yourself on a hot summer day is with moving air. “Radiant heating works the opposite. It primarily heats the objects in the room, and the air secondarily.” One of the appeals of radiant heating, which circulates heated water through a network of tubes in the floor, is that it can be utilized with very little energy, keeping water temperatures at 100 degrees or less. “It works synergistically very well,” Abularrage says. While radiant flooring systems are most commonly associated with new construction, they can be installed in existing homes. For example, a raised ranch with an unfinished basement can have radiant tubing installed directly beneath the main floor. And in rooms without permanent fixed flooring, carpeting can be rolled up and half-inch radiant tubing installed below. Harnessing the sun One of the home energy trends most often associated with environmental consciousness is installing a solar-powered electricity-generating system. New Paltz-based CPA John DeNicolo and his wife Nancy installed solar panels on the roof of their 1,700 square-foot home late last year, and since February they haven’t paid more for electricity than the standard charge for being hooked up to the electric company’s grid. “We’re actually generating positive energy over the last six months,” DeNicolo says. “It actually does work.” DeNicolo feels there is no greater way of combining saving money on energy with being kind to the environment. “It seemed like a decent investment, and it also had a political or ecological element to it,” he says. “My wife and I wanted to do something in a positive way to conserve energy.” DeNicolo says the initial installation price tag of around $42,000 was offset by grant money through NYSERDA and federal tax credits, so they only spent around $12,000 out of pocket. “All of that incentive is what it takes to make [installation] cost effective,” he says. “I’m very pleased. They’re talking about a 25-year guarantee, but they expect the system to last 50 years with some degradation. If I’m around in 25 years, it’s been a really heroic journey.” And for those fearful of having to get up on a ladder to clean the panels, DeNicolo says not to worry because you don’t need to. “One time a bird took a crap on one of my solar panels, so I was kind of curious and thought it was a political statement or a sabotage,” he says. But when he asked about cleaning it, “they told me to leave the system alone. The rain comes and washes it away. It cleanses itself.” Most importantly, DeNicolo says, the system works even when the weather is frigid. “In the middle of winter with no snow on the roof I’m generating positive energy,” he says. “From the day the switch was flipped, it’s been amazing.” Whether you’re looking to make huge changes to your home or just do a few simple things here and there, saving money on energy during the winter doesn’t have to come at the expense of the environment. And as long as you’re open to trying new ideas and spending a bit of money up front, the benefits down the line are at your doorstep. Just don’t let in a draft when you answer the call. RESOURCES Advanced Radiant Design: www.radiant-design.com Alfandre Architecture: www.alfrande.com New York State Energy Research and Development Authority: www.nyserda.org Sustainable Hudson Valley: www.sustainhv.org Wittus Fire By Design: www.wittus.com

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Artists’ Ally Kent, Connecticut By Jan Larraine Cox Photograph by Amber S. Clark

hen New England poet Robert Frost wrote that “good fences make good neighbors” he probably had not yet visited Kent, Connecticut. Originally a farming community incorporated in 1739, Kent has grown from 1,500 to 3,000 in population, yet it’s still small enough that every neighbor’s input can echo throughout the town, which has expanded over the past 25 years into a profitable rural arts center. Driving south from Cornwall on Route 7, a former Indian trail, one passes breathtaking Kent Falls, reputedly the highest falls in New England at 250 feet. Several miles later one approaches the town and Kent Green on the left, a lovely country shopping center of 25 businesses in a park setting that includes independent grocer Davis IGA, which has recently marked its 35th anniversary, a noteworthy achievement in the independent business environment in town. Alternately, driving east from Dogtail Corners through a covered bridge across the Housatonic River, one approaches Beatty Automotive, near the intersection of Kent and Bulls Bridge roads. Here, proprietor Lorin Beatty has old local photos displayed in the waiting room, along with a very worn copy of One Small Town in World War II, which was published in 2006 by the Kent Historical Society and includes photos and stories of Kent boys going off to war. When one drives around the unpaved roads that maintain the rural nature outside the city center, it’s intriguing to chat with the locals who have lived in Kent since the farming days, or since they decided, like many New York notables have, to make their weekend home a permanent one. Nancy Hawley Wilsea, 93, has lived full time in the southern Kent Hollow area ever since she bought her cousins out in 1945, and expanded their circa-1731 family vacation farmhouse property into a dairy farm of 50 cows and 200 chickens. Brock-Hall Dairy distributed the milk in amber bottles throughout the region during the 1950s, and Wisea also delighted in turning the cooled milk into butter and cheese, “way ahead of Martha Stewart,” she says. From their Fairfield County residence, Wilsea’s family sent the kids to the

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Kent farm during school vacations while her father worked as a doctor in the Bridgeport area. “We were little but we were put to work if we wanted to stay on the farm,” she says. “It was good for me. I learned how to milk cows, cut ice in the lake, and put sawdust around it to keep our food cold. It was fascinating. Once you’re exposed to farming, all of a sudden you always want to farm, from that day on. Everybody takes time to help their neighbors, the old-fashioned way.” Farmland as Open Space The Kent Land Trust grew out of a living room meeting in 1989 and is dedicated to maintaining the rural character and quality of life in Kent by preserving open space. The group is committed to protecting 20 acres of the town determined to be essential to the maintenance of Kent’s rural nature, as well as land and water resources, plant life and unique scenic, natural, and historic sites. The president of the Kent Land Trust, Tony Zunino, explains that the group secured an 80-20 Department of Transporation beautification grant from the Federal Government to buffer five properties on the town’s southern edge, the goal being to bring farming back to Kent. This resulted in the trust opening a demonstration farm, stabilized barns, and an office on a 12-acre field 2.5 miles south of the town. Megan Haney leases this land from the trust and has been living there while developing the Marble Valley Farm for the past three years. It’s a small-scale organic vegetable and herb farm on three acres of workable land that borders the Housatonic River. Haney markets the produce through a farm stand and a 40-share CSA that involves 60 households. The farm stand is open Saturdays and Sundays June through October from 10am to 2pm. Eventful Kent August witnessed the annual Kent Sidewalk Festival, sponsored by the Kent Chamber of Commerce, which supports the community by drawing crowds to partake of reduced prices at the town’s independent retail stores. This past

RESOURCES Kent Chamber of Commerce www.kentct.com Kent Land Trust www.kentlandtrust.org Kent Film Festival www.kentfilmfestival.org Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery www.bacheliercardonsky.com Ober Gallery www.obergallery.com Morrison Gallery www.themorrisongallery.com Eckert Fine Art Gallery www.eckertfineart.com Heron American Craft www.heronamericancraft.com

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March, the fourth annual Kent Film Festival accomplished yet another successful event, screening world-class films at several locations in town and reporting 200 percent attendance growth since 2006. The Litchfield Jazz Festival was held from July 31 through August 2 at Kent School and included dozens of artists, such as Bill Henderson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Poncho Sanchez, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The mainstay of the local cultural juggernaut since 1923 has been the Kent Art Association, producing fine arts exhibitions and fundraisers to provide arts education opportunities. In 1984 Jacques Kaplan broke onto the scene and provided guiding impetus for the growth and development of the village as a center for the arts. Feeling disenchanted with the commercialism of New York art in the 1970s, he gravitated to Kent, where he serendipitously discovered both an 1800s country farmhouse and the red caboose where he created the Paris-NewYork-Kent Gallery. Until his passing at 83 last July, Kaplan welcomed and encouraged talented, unknown artists. He showed them alongside the NewYork masters at his gallery, leading them to launch their art based on its intrinsic value above its monetary value. He staged legendary openings and weekly parties. As his widow, Violaine Bachelier, states, Kaplan was able to â&#x20AC;&#x153;recognize the authentic voice of an artist, the truth which brings one to the present moment, where life resides.â&#x20AC;? The Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery was established in 1988 and continues Kaplanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tradition of tracking down and giving life to obscure artists. Bachelier, who comes from a background in psychology and the Paris antique business, and her gallery partner, Darby Cardonsky, continue to focus on regional artists they feel deserve wider recognition while simultaneously showing works of such established artists as David Konigsberg and Kathy Ruttenberg. Rob Ober of Ober Gallery, who shares Kaplanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great passion and excitement for the arts, was inspired in 2006 to open his own gallery, which features a large collection of modern Russian and German art, after having experienced life in Moscow during the 1980s while his father was an American diplomat and extensive collector of Russian icons. Ober also teaches history at Kent School and presents three lectures a year by art historians at the gallery. Very recently joining the group of strong artistic destinations are the Morrison and Eckert galleries. Bill Morrison calls his 7,000-square-foot gallery on Old Barn Road â&#x20AC;&#x153;a dream space,â&#x20AC;? where he effectively combines country charm and urban edge. In a spacious environment filled with natural light, Morrison includes both established and emerging artists, in the now-established Kent tradition. Jane Eckert moved Eckert Fine Art Gallery from Olde Naples, Florida, to Kent, where she now rounds out the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art offerings in specializing in 19th- and early 20th-century American and European art. Ellen Corsell has drawn folks to her Heron American Craft for more than two decades by celebrating a dynamic mix of handmade ceramics, blown glass, jewelry, and wood and metal work created by artisans from all over the country. With the goal of expanding the neighborhood worldwide, ceramic artist and sculptor Joy Brown, along with her mentor, Denis Cooper, founded Still Mountain Center in 1998 on a wooded mountaintop. This nonprofit organization promotes artistic exchange between America and Asia, where Brown was raised as the daughter of medical missionaries to Japan. Each July a group of more than 25 artists gathers at Still Mountain for the Anagama Kiln Firing, a community â&#x20AC;&#x153;harvestâ&#x20AC;? event in which each artist takes turns at tending the intense, 24/7 firing of their work in Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-meter long, Japanese-style wood kiln. Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primitive, earthtone figures are included in displays at her studio, which is open by appointment. And so the farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; indelible imprint of support and neighborliness echoes today through Kent, and is now amplified to include the ever-expanding arts community. â&#x20AC;Ż

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Preview of the 7th Annual Woodstock Fine Art Auction Call for times. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Body / Mind / Spirit Chakra Yoga Series 6pm-7:30pm. Thru 9/21. $25 first class/$150 series. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Celebrate the Inner World Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Spirit Readings with Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Peace Village Fair 1pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events Bears and Butterflies Statues of fiberglass bears. Main Street, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

Film Moulin Rouge 8pm. Baz Luhrman’s ode to fin de siecle Paris. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.

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Harvesting a Lifetime Living History Project 12pm-3pm. Interview and record the treasured memories. Temple Emanuel, Kingston. 338-8131. Baseball’s Darkest Hour 7pm-8pm. The 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

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

Workshops Adaptation & Collaboration in Video with Bernadine Mellis Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.

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Studio 208 Open Level Belly Dance Class 6pm-7pm. $60 series/$15 class. Studio 208, Cornwall.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Music by Deb Tankard and Friends. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618.

Music Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

Theater Nowhere on the Border 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

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

Theater Pericles 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. Long Day’s Journey into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. Eltinge by David Colbert 8pm. First Looks series. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.

Workshops Watercolor with Steve Blumenthal 9:30am-3:30pm. $60. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Hive Maintenance: Fall/Winter Prep 11am-2:30pm. $40. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.

FRIDAY 4 Open Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244. 2nd Annual Mini Works/Atmosphere 5pm-7pm. Unison Gallery, Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Peace Village Fair 1pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Beginning Meditation: Making Your Life More Workable 6:30pm-7:45pm. Kingston Library, Kingston. 658-8556. Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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The Circle: Songwriters in The Round 7pm. $4. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

Body / Mind / Spirit Peace Village Fair 1pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. How to Solve Your Daily Problems 7pm-9pm. $8. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

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

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Erica Gedney 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Body / Mind / Spirit Peace Village Fair 1pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Full Moon Cleansing with Crystal Sounds 6:30pm-7:30pm. Join noted Sound Energy Therapist Philippe. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Beginning Acrylic Painting with Nancy Reed Jones 6:15pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Beginner/Intermediate Belly Dance 7pm/8pm. $60 series/$15 class. Brid’s Closet, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 458-8726. Impressionism in Oil or Pastel with Dennis Fanton 10pm-12pm. $100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Events Eco-Fabulous Community Farmers’ Market 4pm-8pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. 255-5201. Fourth Annual Festival of Books 6pm-9pm. Authors, poets and speakers, plus provocative discussions on timely literary topics. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Catskill Mountain Eco-Heritage Festival 7pm. $5/$10. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Music Evening of Music, Humor & Wisdom 5pm. Gus Mancini, Studio Stu, Patrick Carlin, Doug Gunther. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. Jen Clapp 6:30pm. With Kelleigh McKenzie and Big Joe Fitz. Glasco Minipark, Saugerties. jenclapp@optonline.net. Brian Dougherty Band 7:30pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. Jeff Entin, Brad Scribner, and Sean Rowe. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142. Last Generation 8pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Ray Spiegel and Aashish Khan 8pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884. Laurie MacAllister (of Red Molly) 8pm. Rare solo appearance. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Tom Goss 8pm. Acoustic. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300. Salute to the Great Ladies of Swing 8pm. w/Terry Blaine & Mark Shane.$18/$16. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Jesse Janes 8pm. Acoustic. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Bereznak Brothers Band 9pm. $15/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Score 9pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Outdoors Labor Day Family Camp Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Spoken Word Reading and Singing with Anna Jane Grossman 7pm. Author of Obsolete. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

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Turn Once More to Sunday's Clown As Chronogram’s June issue spelled out with glorious, two-page fanfare, the summer’s many concert festivals add up to a rich and endlessly diverse bounty for local music lovers and those from beyond the region. As it gears up for its second run in the open-air season’s finishing slot at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, All Tomorrow’s Parties New York (September 11 to 13) is a relative newcomer to the outdoor music field. But with its less commercial, vehemently indie stance and taste-making, artist-curated roster the upstart ATP is, arguably, the hippest music festival this side of Europe. Launched first in England in 2000 by promoter Barry Hogan as an alternative to the prevailing more profit-oriented festivals, ATP has as its central concept that each year a different artist or band will help set the tone by stocking the bill with some favorite fellow performers. (2008’s event was programmed by the reunited My Bloody Valentine; previous curators include Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening, the Shins, Portishead, Mudhoney, Modest Mouse, the Mars Volta, actor/ filmmaker/musician Vincent Gallo, and others.) Handpicking this year’s installment are certified alt-rock gods the Flaming Lips, who will play the final night and have tapped to appear such likewise stellar names as Sufjan Stevens, Animal Collective, Iron & Wine, Panda Bear, Melvins, Akron/Family, Shellac, Black Dice, the reactivated Jesus Lizard, Boss Hog, and others for a roster that stretches to more than 30 acts. “ATP is phenomenal on many levels,” says vocalist Cristina Martinez, who leads

punk-blues unit Boss Hog, a quintet that also includes her husband, Blues Explosion main man Jon Spencer. “The concept of having a band curate each festival is sheer brilliance, provided you like that band of course, which I generally have.” Another of ATP’s brand components is its Don’t Look Back segments, which see selected artists playing one of their classic and influential albums in its entirety. This installment’s schedule presents the Feelies performing Crazy Rhythms, the Dirty Three performing Ocean Songs, the Boredoms performing Boadrum, the Drones performing Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By, and groundbreaking duo Suicide executing its self-titled 1977 debut. Further diversions include live sets by cutting-edge DJs, an on-site nightclub, several bars, and food and merchandise vendors. And with a comedy stage curated by notoriously provocative funnyman David Cross it’s safe to say the Borscht Belt-era Kutsher’s won’t have heard as many off-color yuks since the days of Shecky Greene. For an additional fee, festival-goers can also take advantage of the 400-room resort’s Jet Age accommodations, which also include a golf course, a health and fitness club, and an outdoor pool. And how’s this for a clincher: According to legend the site was also the inspiration for the setting of the 1987 Patrick Swayze blockbuster Dirty Dancing. All Tomorrow’s Parties New York will take place at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello on September 11, 12, and 13. (800) 431-1273; www.atpfestival.com. —Peter Aaron 9/09 ChronograM forecast

Theater All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Long Day’s Journey into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. Cave Dogs: Archeology of a Storm 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. Nowhere on the Border 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. Much Ado About Nothing 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Workshops Figure in the Landscape with Shawn Dell Joyce 9:30am-12pm. $30. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

SATURDAY 5 Art 6th Annual Riders Mills Art Show 10am-4pm. Juried show features works of 38 artists. Riders Mills Historical Association, Chatham. (518) 794-7146. Annual Art Studio Views Tour 11am-5pm. 23 local artists open their studios to the public. Call for location. www.artsnortherndutchess.org/asv. Farm Project 2009 2pm-6pm. Collaborative Concepts, Garrison. 528-1797. Bridges and the Span of Time 2pm-9pm. Group exhibit of bridges in the Hudson Valley. G.A.S., Poughkeepsie. 486-4592. Kingston Sculpture Biennial Catalog Presentation 4pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Watercolors by Peter Hussey 5pm-7pm. Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700. Recent Works by Jim Stevenson and Bill Ayton 5pm-7pm. Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670. Eva van Rijn: Badlands and Red Rocks 5pm-8pm. Ask Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Kingston: A Real and Imagined History 5pm-7pm. Photos, objects, maps and stories. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. Benni Spirig, Tom DePetris, and Ric Dragon 5pm-8pm. Jazz. Posie Kviat Gallery, Hudson. (518) 653-5407. All of These Lines Across My Face 5pm-8pm. Janus van den Eijnden. Donskoj and Company, Kingston. 338-8473. Sharon Vairamides: Watercolor, Botanicals 5pm-9pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Melinda McDaniel 6pm-8pm. Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson. (518) 828-7655. 3 Artists 3 Visions 6pm-9pm. Photographs by David Morris Cunningham, oil paintings by Nancy Howell and pastel on paper by Faye Storms. Cabane Studios, Phoenicia. 688-5490.

Body / Mind / Spirit Peace Village Fair 12pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

Classes Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop Classes Call for times. The Rhinebeck Photography and Arts Center, Rhinebeck. (516) 286-5104. Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Luminist Seas with Mike Jaroszko 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Dance Time Lapse Dance in Summer Harvest 8pm. Tom Price Dance and Jody Sperling. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470. 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 Hyde Park Farmers’ Market 1am-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. Millerton Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250. Saugerties Farmers’ Market Farm Animal Day 9am-2pm. Cahill Elementary School, Saugerties. 246-9371. Fourth Annual Festival of Books 9am-5pm. Authors, poets and speakers, plus provocative discussions on timely literary topics. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Woodstock New Paltz Craft Fair 10am-6pm. Demos, art, crafts, children’s activities, live music. $7/$6 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 246-3414.

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The Furniture of Locust Lawn 10am-12pm. $20/$18 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. The Churches of Huguenot Street 10am-12pm. $12/$10 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Corn and Peach Extravaganza 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Catskill Mountain Eco-Heritage Festival 11am-5pm. $5/$10. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. Sugar Loaf Farmers’ Market 11am-3pm. Romer’s Alley, Chester. www.localharvest.org

Kids The Great All-American Audience Participation Magic Show 11am. $6-$9. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music Tom Pacheco Call for times. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Same Blood Folk 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. 6th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival 5pm-10:30pm. Featuring music by several different bands. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. peggity@hvc.rr.com. Haydn on the Edge: Frederic Chiu and Friends 6pm. Maverick Chamber Players. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Battle of the Bands 7pm. $5. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Ali Ryerson 7:30pm. $10. Jack and Luna’s, Stone Ridge. 687-9794. Jesse Levine Memorial Concert 7:30pm. Leaf Peepers Concert Series. $20. Hillsdale Grange, Hillsdale. (518) 325-3805. Abba the Tour 8pm. $25-$65. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Barbara Dempsey & Company 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Mighty Girl 8pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Sugar Shack Burlesque 8pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394. Scott Blum 8pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Orleans 8pm. $29. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles 9pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Outdoors Kaaterskill Falls and the Catskill Mountain House Call for times. Guided hike, moderate. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Ice Caves 9:30am-4:30pm. Strenuous 10-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. New Paltz Greenworks Environmental Fun and Awareness 1pm-3pm. Hike, scavenger hunt, learn about reducing, reusing, and recycling. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring Jean LeBlanc. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165. Out of the Box, Bob Berky, Master Clown 5pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. September Comedians 7pm. Featuring Bobby Tisdale and Craig Baldo and a DJ. $10. Serv Ce Station, Glenford. Poetry Reading 7pm. Featuring Will Nixon, Myra Klockenbrink, and Nicole Cooley. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Theater Where The Sky Begins by Mark Farnen 2pm. First Looks series. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. Long Day’s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. Nowhere on the Border 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Cave Dogs: Archeology of a Storm 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. Pericles 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

SUNDAY 6 Art Annual Art Studio Views Tour 11am-5pm. 23 local artists open their studios to the public. Call for location.

ArtsWave Paint Out 11am-3pm. Artists from the Wallkill River School to set up sidewalk easels and paint the Shawangunk scenic views. Downtown Ellenville, Ellenville. rogers.linda@ gmail.com. 7th Annual Woodstock Fine Art Auction 1pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Body / Mind / Spirit Farewell Satsang for Mahamanadaleshwar Swami Nityananda 10am-12pm. Chanting, bhajans, spitritual discourse. 51 Muktananda Marg, Walden. 7778-10008. Psychic Readings 11am-4pm. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Peace Village Fair 12pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Women’s Full Moon Circle 7pm-8:30pm. $10. The Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

Classes Reiki I Class 1pm-5pm. $125. The Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

Events Woodstock New Paltz Craft Fair 10am-6pm. Demos, art, crafts, children’s activities, live music. $7/$6 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 246-3414. Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154. Rosendale Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Corn and Peach Extravaganza 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Vendors, artist demos, corn & hay mazes, more. Bethel Woods, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Fourth Annual Festival of Books 12pm-5pm. Authors, poets and speakers. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

Kids Family Fun 1pm-4pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

Music Barbara McKay Call for times. Folk. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Chris Wilhelm 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafè, Red Hook. 758-6500. Red Peralta 1pm. Americana. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. A Hapsburg Farewell 4pm. Daedalus Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. Odd City 5pm. Ken Lovelett, Gus Mancini and Studio Stu. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. Kent Tritle 5pm. Organ concert. $50. Historical Stone Church, Cragsmoor. 647-4716. The “The Band” Band 7:30pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Orleans 8pm. $29. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

The Outdoors Five Rivers In Five Days: Fly Fishing The Catskills’ Charmed Circle Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Schunemunk Mountain 10am-4:30pm. Strenuous 10-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Overlook Mountain’s Meadows and Their Future 9:30am. Overlook Mountain Fire Tower, Woodstock. 679-2580.

Theater “Going to Vietnam” by Victoria Sullivan & “Swimming With Esther” by Mindy Pfeffer 2pm. First Looks series. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. Nowhere on the Border 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Long Day’s Journey Into Night 2pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. The Glen, The Mill and The Trysting Thorn 3pm. Scottish tunes, poems and stories around the theme of Homecoming. $25/$20 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. All’s Well That Ends Well 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007. The Complete Shakespeare Abridged 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $29-$46. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

MONDAY 7 Body / Mind / Spirit Summer Yoga on the Lawn 6pm-7:30pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638. Guided Visual Meditation 6pm-7pm. $12. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.

Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. Singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Meditation: Discover the Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

Classes Woodstock New Paltz Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Demos, art, crafts, children’s activities, live music. $7/$6 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 246-3414. Corn and Peach Extravaganza 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825.

events National Eat-In Picnic & Pizza Making Party 11:30am-2pm. Spons. by Slow Food HV. Marbletown Elementary School, Stone Ridge. 687-8938.

Music Sammy Brown 7pm. Singer-songwriter performs every Monday night. Free. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

TUESDAY 8 Body / Mind / Spirit Shamanic Herbal Apprentices, Autumn Group Call for times. Lasting at least 6 weeks. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Film Eight Men Out 7pm-9pm. John Sayles baseball weepie. Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

Music Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Workshops The Art of Memoir Writing Call for times. Workshop with Abigail Thomas. $25. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

WEDNESDAY 9 Body / Mind / Spirit Chakra Yoga with Bakti Prem 6pm-7:30pm. $25. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.

Classes Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Studio 208 Open Level Belly Dance Class 6pm-7pm. $60 series/$15 class. Studio 208, Cornwall. Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. An Introduction to Alexander Technique 7pm-8pm. Help prevent conditions associated with stress and poor posture. $20/$100 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. The Diamond-Dart Meridian Sequence 8pm-9pm. $20/$100 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm. Featuring a reading of Living in Old Woodstock.. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7509. African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Green Drinks 6:30pm-9pm. Networking for environmental fields, sustainably minded and eco-curious. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 454-6410.

Music Dancing on Air 8pm. $12. W/Jay Ungar & Molly Mason. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Shaupeneak Ridge 9:30am-1:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Cooling Mother Earth: New York’s Footprint in Nature, Then & Now 7pm. With Dr. Robert Spiegelman. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

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Fair Enough: Fall Festivals in the Hudson Valley By no means does the revelry end when summer turns to fall in the Hudson Valley. Every year, the colorful autumn brings a rich itinerary of fairs and festivals that simultaneously reward the minds and palates of locals and visitors with stimulating culture and tempting upstate delicacies. In light of this, Chronogram presents a cornucopia overflowing with the area’s most recommended seasonal happenings.

acquires more willing participants; this year upward of 75 artists are set to once again turn this quaint village into a confluence of colorful creations. Adding to the draw is music, vendors, and the Children’s Quilt, which lets young artists chalk up their own square of pavement. (Rain date: September 27). Tivoli. (845) 757-2021; www.tivoliny.org.

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Hudson Valley Garlic Festival September 26–27. Garlic ice cream? Believe it! That treat, along with many other musttry delicacies, plus entertainment, crafts, lectures, children’s activities, and more, will be at Cantine Field for the sampling at this dependable perennial. If you’ve never been, 2009 is your year to experience that which, at last count, attracted a whopping 53,000 garlic lovers. Saugerties. (845) 246-3090; www.hvgf.org.

Festival of Books September 4–6, 12–13. Spencertown Academy’s fourth annual Festival of Books promises thousands of books for sale plus timely talk and readings by noted authors, poets, and other speakers. Among those appearing this year are Victor Navasky, former editor and publisher of The Nation, writer Mary Gaitskill, and the perfectly named best-selling author Francine Prose. Spencertown. (518) 392-3693; www.spencertownacademy.org. Hooley on the Hudson September 6. Every year this popular cavalcade of Celtic music and culture turns the historic Rondout district of Kingston into a tartan-kilted, pennywhistling, wildly jigging outdoor bash. Along with marching pipe and drum bands, there’s a storytelling tent, dancers, and indigenous Irish food and crafts. The two live music stages host traditional acts from around the area and abroad. Kingston. (845) 338-6622; www.ulsteraoh.com. Woodstock-New Paltz Arts & Crafts Fair September 5–7. This eagerly awaited Labor Day weekend bazaar at the Ulster County Fairgrounds promises more than 300 craftspeople and artists, continuous craft demonstrations, furniture and architectural crafts, specialty foods, healthcare products, and a wide sampling of entertainment. The children’s tent makes it a natural for out-andabout families. New Paltz. (845) 245-3414; www.quailhollow.com. Bethel Woods Harvest Festival September 6–October 11. Held on the site of the original 1969 Woodstock music festival, this annual festival occurs on Sundays from August 30 through Columbus Day weekend, rain or shine, with a different theme each week; on top of a farmers market, pony rides, arts and crafts, music, food, and other attractions, 2009’s roster includes the Alpaca Festival (September 6), Earth Day in Autumn (September 20), and Chili Day (October 4). Bethel Woods. (866) 781-2922; www.bethelwoodscenter.org. Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest September 12–13. Our area is well known as one of America’s oldest wine-growing regions: a marvel celebrated annually by this taste-making—in every sense—weekend at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds. With hundreds of local wines, and others from the Finger Lakes to Long Island and beyond, as well as over a hundred related vendors, the event has been known to pull in over 20,000 visitors. Rhinebeck. (845) 658-7181; www.hudsonvalleywinefest.com. Tivoli Street Painting Festival September 26. With each season this whimsical celebration of impermanent outdoor art

African American Culture and Heritage Festival October 3–4. Throughout the Hudson Valley’s history, African Americans have played crucial roles in its social and cultural development. This event at the historic Senate House offers opportunities to learn about the contributions of African Americans over the centuries, in our region and beyond, through performances, demonstrations, food, and hands-on activities. Kingston. (845) 338-2786; www.ulstertourism.info/calendar/october2009.html. Heart of the Hudson Valley Bounty Festival October 3. This happening at Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park emphasizes the importance of upstate agriculture. Held in one of the area’s most fertile regions, the festival features agri-culinary competitions by local farms and restaurants, a homemade goods contest and pageant, a farming-oriented scavenger hunt, and a farmers market. Milton. (845) 464-2789; www.hvbountyfestival.com. Hunter Mountain Oktoberfest October 3–4, 10–11. Another longtime regional favorite, this modern celebration of the harvest presents authentic German and German-American entertainment in the beauty of the northern Catskills. Highlights include a farmers market, plenty of vendors, free crafts and pumpkin painting for the kids, and much more. Lederhosen not required. Hunter. (800) 486-8376 ext. 2200; www.huntermtn.com. New York State Sheep & Wool Festival October 17–18. Established in 1972, this gala at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, is one of the nation’s largest get-togethers for knitters, crocheters, and other fiber artists, as well as for breeders of natural fiber-producing livestock. In addition to vendors and crafts, the festival features sheepdog trials, a leaping llama contest, and more. Pick up that stylish scarf or sweater for the coming winter. Rhinebeck. www.sheepandwool.com. International Pickle Festival November 22. Celebrating its first dozen years, this hit pick at the Rosendale Community Center lives up to its name, attracting interest from India and Japan. The briny brouhaha boasts endless varieties of pickles as well as ethnic music and dance. A coloring contest and pickle balloons will delight the kids. Rosendale. (845) 658-9649; www.picklefest.com. 9/09 ChronograM forecast

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Nowhere on the Border 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. 3Staged Readings of New Plays 8pm. Berkshire Playwrights Lab. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Fellini’s Casanova by Federico Fellini 7pm. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Immersion 8:30pm-10:30pm. Multi-channel, site-specific video installation by Gene Panczenko. Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill. (914) 737-8622.

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Oil for Beginners Workshop with Gene Bove 10am-2:30pm. $40. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

THURSDAY 10 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745. Extra Curricular 7pm-9pm. Recent work on canvas. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181 ext 5513.

Body / Mind / Spirit Manifesting with Group Energy 6:30pm-8pm. Learn the tools to bring into your life what you truly desire. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. How to Solve Your Daily Problems 7pm-9pm. $8. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Classes Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

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

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Haden: Acoustic show 9pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803.

Spoken Word Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival 2pm. Poet and story-teller Gioia Timpanelli and poet Aracelis Girmay. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345. I’m Right, You’re Right, He’s Right Too 7:30pm. Multiple Perspectives in Jewish Humor and Folklore, a lecture by Steve Zeitlin. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067. Open Mike 8pm. Spoken word and poetry. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

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Theater Nowhere on the Border 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Long Day’s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

Workshops Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Art Dazzling Fall Colors 4pm-8pm. Works by Hudson Valley Artists. Gazen Gallery, Rhinebeck. 876-4278. Henry Hudson Quadricentennial Group Show 6pm-8pm. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113. Tributaries 6:30pm-8:30pm. Ten artists approach the theme of water. Maxwell Fine Art, Peekskill. (914) 737-8622. Works by Sylvia Epstein 7pm-12am. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Body / Mind / Spirit Mindfully Green Call for times. Practice for the sake of all beings. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt Tremper. 688-2228. Women’s Sacred Moonlodge 7pm. Sing, dance, pass the talking stick and honor women’s wisdom. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081.

Classes Beginner/Intermediate Belly Dance 7pm/8pm. $60 series/$15 class. Brid’s Closet, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 458-8726. Impressionism in Oil or Pastel with Dennis Fanton 10pm-12pm. $100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Dance Cajun Dance with Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew 8pm-11pm. Lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.

Events Eco-Fabulous Community Farmers’ Market 4pm-8pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. 255-5201.

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Mike Gordon Call for times. Of Phish fame. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Mystic Ritual 6pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Todd Boyle 6pm. Acoustic. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. Jazz Vocalist Michelle LeBlanc 8pm. Lake Carmel Art Center, Kent. 225-3856. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 8pm. $42/$37. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Joshua Radin 8pm. $17. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Linda Shell Acoustic Duo 8pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Peace Troubadour, Cecilia St. King 8pm-11pm. $10. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Chimps in Tuxedos 9pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Christine Lavin 9pm. With Buskin and Batteau. $30/$25. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Four Guys in Disguise 10:30pm. Noah’s Ark, Poughkeepsie. 486-9295.

The Outdoors A Girl Scout Equestrian Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Spoken Word Stops on the Grand Tour of America: Places and Faces in Drawn by New York 5:30pm. Exhibition lecture and reception. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

Theater Long Day’s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. I Do! I Do! 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.

SATURDAY 12 Art Orange County Roots Photographic Exhibition 2pm-4pm. Pavilion Theater at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Kingston: A Real and Imagined History 5pm-7pm. Photos, objects, maps and stories. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. Martin Puryear: A Survey of Prints 5pm-7pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Photographs from the Human Bodies, Landscapes and Waterdance Series 5pm-7pm. Ernestine Ruben. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027. Abstract Rhythms 6pm-9pm. Abstract oil paintings by Stanley Blum. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244. Masters & Monsters 6pm-9pm. Featuring works by 8 new artists. Gallery 506, Beacon. Designing Women: Group Textile Exhibition 6pm-9pm. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 119.

Body / Mind / Spirit Herbal Class: Chronic Problems 10am-5pm. Asthma, allergies, joint pain, candida, indigestion, headaches, backaches, PMS, menstrual pain. $75. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. Woodstock SpiritPlay Open Groups 10:30am-2:15pm. Spiritplay Studio, Woodstock.

Classes Functional Pottery Workshop with Judy Sigunick 9am-Sunday, September 13, 12pm. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Es-Specially Music Program 10am-11am. Geared for children and adults with special needs. $12/$96 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Luminist Seas with Mike Jaroszko 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Footfalls, a Quiet Journey with Bern Richards 1pm-5pm. $96. The Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

Dance Family Barn Dance 7pm-9pm. With the Mountain Laurel band. $8/$5 children/$20 family. Columbia Land Conservancy, Chatham. (518) 392-5252 ext. 214.

Beacon Dance Social/Party 8pm-11:30pm. Lesson at 7pm. $15. St. Rocco’s, Newburgh. 532-5615. Contradance 8pm. Susan Petrick calling, with music by The OpporTunists. $10/$9 members/children 1.2 price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Events Summer Sunset & Fireworks Cruise Call for times. $100. Cold Spring Boat Club, Cold Spring. (845) 278-. Soup-a-Bowl 2009: The 2nd Annual Poughkeepsie Celebration of Food & Art Call for times. Call for location. 677-7600 ext. 321. 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. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Fourth Annual Festival of Books 9am-5pm. Authors, poets and speakers, plus provocative discussions on timely literary topics. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. The Last Argument of Kings: Revolutionary Guns 10am-5pm. New York State Heritage Weekend. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765. Dutch Legacy Weekend 10am-4pm. Exhibits of paintings, artifacts and documents of the Dutch Heritage of the Hudson Valley. Van Wyck Homestead Museum, Fishkill. 896-5326. Dutch Heritage Celebration 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Sugar Loaf Farmers’ Market 11am-3pm. Romer’s Alley, Chester. www.localharvest.org First Annual Beacon Block Party 12pm-4pm. To benefit New Community Fund for Beacon. $5. Piggy Bank Restaurant, Beacon. 838-0028. Skate Contest 1pm. Sponsored by TSX RockMusic Skateshop, 2 division, 3 contests. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. 657-9363. Family Sleepover at the Longhouse 3pm. Ages 6-11 with parents. $50/$40 members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Kids Music Fun for Kids Call for times. Ages 3-6. $12/$48 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Sing Out! Reach Out! II 1pm-3pm. Ages 5-13. Prerequisite Level I. $15/$150 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Music Virgo Bash and Open Mike Call for times. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Randy Stern 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Metropolitan Hot Club 3pm. Jazz. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976. Stolen Heart 5pm. Millbrook Band Shell, Millbrook. 894-7291. Big Band Concert and Sunset Picnic 6pm-8pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638. John Street Jam 7pm. John Street Jam at the Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. www.johnstreetjam.net. Betty & the Baby Boomers 8pm. $14-$21. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Lisa Glick 8pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. The Trapps 8pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Bridges to Quadrophenia 9pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Dan Kahn & The Painted Bird 9pm. Nouveau klezmer. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Professor “Louie” & The Crowmatix 9pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Kurt Henry Band 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Crossroads Band 9:30pm. Copperfield’s, Millbrook. 677-8188. The Rhodes 10pm. Rock. Cabaloosa’s, New Paltz. 255-3400.

The Outdoors Manitoga Landscape Call for times. Moderate hike. $5. Call for location. 691-7442. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Taconic Ridge Trail 9am-4pm. Strenuous 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Undercliff/Overcliff 10am-1pm. Easy 5-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Wiltwyck Quilters Guild Meeting 9:30am. Town of Ulster Town Hall, Lake Katrine. 382-2765. Book Signing with Eve Brown-Waite 2pm-4pm. Author of First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria. Merritt Books, Red Hook. 758-2665. Eva van Rijn Art Lecture 3pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Sunset Reading 4:30pm-7pm. Walk in spirit with Washington Irving. Poets’ Walk, Red Hook. 473-4400 ext. 273. Christine Lavin 6pm. Comedy. $25/$20 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Peter Kenny on the Met’s American Wing “Renewed” 7pm. $10/$8 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Robert Klein 8pm. $50. Comedian. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

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Theater The Seafarer Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Off Leash 2pm. Improvisation by Walking the Dog Theater. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 828-1030. Long Day’s Journey Into Night 7:30pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. Nowhere on the Border 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. I Do! I Do! 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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SUNDAY 13 Art Hudson Landscapes and New Portraits 2pm-5pm. Oils by Jessica Miller. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894. Jim Adair & Katherine Gray: Paintings 4pm-6pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Double Dutch 4pm-6pm. Featuring Alon Levin. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

Body / Mind / Spirit Hands-On Herbal Medicine, Get Ready for Winter 10am-5pm. Colds, flus, sore throats, coughs, fevers, sinus problems, bronchitis, and pneumonia. $75. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. Discover Your Sub-Personality 4:30pm-5:30pm. With Jenn Kluska. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Meditation Sunday 6pm-8pm. $10. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.

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Classes Reiki Teacher Class 10am-5pm. The Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

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Events Dutchess County Day Call for times. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638. Annual Journal Dinner Call for times. Honoring Sisterhood and Hebrew Aid Society/Ezrath Isreal Alumni. Congregation Ezrath Israel, Ellenville. 647-5600. Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154. Rosendale Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Dutch Heritage Celebration 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Dutch Legacy Weekend 10am-4pm. Exhibits of paintings, artifacts and documents of the Dutch Heritage of the Hudson Valley. Van Wyck Homestead Museum, Fishkill. 896-5326. Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Vendors, artist demos, corn & hay mazes, more. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Fourth Annual Festival of Books 12pm-5pm. Authors, poets and speakers, plus provocative discussions on timely literary topics. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. The Last Argument of Kings: Revolutionary Guns 1pm-5pm. New York State Heritage Weekend. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.

Film Some Like it Hot 7pm. $6. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Music The Detroit Rebellion Call for times. Blues. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Lydia Adams Davis 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

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Jazz Brunch 2pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. MoJazz with Miami Mo Morgen 2pm. Jazz. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Neil Alexander & Nail 2pm. Jazz. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640. Vassar Music Faculty Concert 3pm. Music of Schumann and Debussy. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. The Shepherd’s Singers 3:30pm. A Christian ministry gospel group. United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-6858. Music on the Street: Anima Baroque 4pm-6pm. $15/$12 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Kevin Kane Band 9pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Outdoors Cold Spring Kayak and Canoe Trip 9:15am. 7 miles. Foundry Dock Park, Cold Spring. 928-1730. The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program 10am-4pm. Self-guided tour of two private gardens. $5. Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. (888) 842-2442. Cary Institute Forest Ecology Walk 10am. Interpretive walk on Wappinger Creek Trail. Meet at Gifford House, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Spoken Word Hudson River Valley Farms 1pm-3pm. Publication party with author John Novi. $42.50. Depuy Canal House, High Falls. 687-7700. A Day in a One-Room Schoolhouse 2pm. Town of Hyde Park Historical Society. Little Red Schoolhouse, Hyde Park. 229-9029 ext. 0993. Ahoy! Architects at the Helm 2pm-5pm. Open forum with participating architects moderated by Frances Halsband and Peter Wheelwright. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465. Sunset Reading Series: Valerie Martin 4pm. Valerie Martin reads from The Confessions of Edward Day. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. 265-4555.

Theater Nowhere on the Border 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Long Day’s Journey Into Night 2pm. The Actors’ Ensemble. $18/$15. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360. I Do! I Do! 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

TUESDAY 15 Art Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Gentle Yoga 6pm-7pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Classes An Introduction to Diamond Method for Music 10am-11:30am. $25 class/$200 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Freelance Writing for Magazines 1pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

MONDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi 5pm-Monday, December 14, 6:45pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Summer Yoga on the Lawn 6pm-7:30pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Meditation: Discover the Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218. A Meeting with Gangaji 7:30pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Guitar for Beginners, Ages 15 - Adult 5:30pm-6:30pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Intro to Bookbinding & Book Restoration 5:30pm-8:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Psychic Development & Reiki 1 Certification 6pm-8pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Basic Sewing with Knits 7pm-9pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

Music Autumn Outdoor Concert 2:30pm-6:30pm. Matt Turk and Fred Gillen, with others. Little Globe Stage, West Shokan. 657-5867. Sammy Brown 7pm. Singer-songwriter performs every Monday night. Free. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 382-2499. Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. Greg Westhoff & The Westchester Swing Band 8pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

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THURSDAY 17 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.

Body / Mind / Spirit Comparative Astrology: Bridging East & Wes Call for times. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897. How to Solve Your Daily Problems 7pm-9pm. $8. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Hudson Valley Celiac Support Group 7pm-8:30pm. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.

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Tugboat Pegasus and the Waterfront Museum 10am-5pm. Tug boat rides, exhibitions and performances. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 828-1030.

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Events

Blind Spot 7pm. $8. Hitler’s secretary. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Spiritual Movie Night 7pm. $5. The Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. Slide show—An Inconvenient Truth—Updated 7:30pm. Presentation by Dr. Steven Leibo. $3. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Blues Dance Party 7pm. Big Joe Fitz. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Workshops Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Tugboat Pegasus and the Waterfront Museum 10am-5pm. Tug boat rides, exhibitions and performances. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 828-1030. Sizzling Salsa Weekend 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Film Food for Thought 7pm. Black Gold with guest speaker Dean Cycon. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Madera Vox 7:30pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

The Outdoors Ranger Hike 10am-1pm. Strenuous 5-mile hike. Fishkill Ridge, Fishkill. 473-4400 ext. 273.

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Silent Retreat with Gangaji Call for times. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison-onHudson. www.gangaji.org. Chakra Yoga with Bakti Prem 6pm-7:30pm. $25. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Women’s New Moon Circle 7pm-9pm. $10. The Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

Double Dutch Artist Panel Discussion 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100. Open Mike 8pm. Spoken word and poetry. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

Classes Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Studio 208 Open Level Belly Dance Class 6pm-7pm. $60 series/$15 class. Studio 208, Cornwall. Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. An Introduction to Alexander Technique 7pm-8pm. Help prevent conditions associated with stress and poor posture. $20/$100 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. The Diamond-Dart Meridian Sequence 8pm-9pm. $20/$100 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Events Tugboat Pegasus and the Waterfront Museum 10am-5pm. Tug boat rides, exhibitions and performances. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 828-1030. Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Ken Greene teaches seed saving, music with Deb Tankard and Friends. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618. African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Music Open Rehearsals for 2009 Holiday Concert 7:30pm-9:30pm. Rhinebeck Choral Club. Ferncliff Nursing Home, Rhinebeck. 876-2011. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

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Monday Night with the Stars 7:30pm. Night sky observation with Henrike Holdrege. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (51) 672-0116.

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Minnewaska Land and Beacon Hill 9:30am-1:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker 7:30pm. The artists discuss their work. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2331.

Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Introduction to Permaculture Design 6pm-9pm. $125. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Workshops Hive Maintenance: Fall/Winter Prep 11am-2:30pm. $40. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113. Clear You’re Clutter, Lighten Up Your Life 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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Workshops Hive Maintenance: Fall/Winter Prep 2pm-5:30pm. $40. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit New Moon Cleansing with Crystal Sounds 6:30pm-7:30pm. Join noted Sound Energy Therapist Philippe. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Recreational Music Making Classes Call for times. Group beginning piano classes for adults and sr. citizens. The Peterson Studio, Highland. 691-9313. Impressionism in Oil or Pastel with Dennis Fanton 10pm-12pm. $100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Events Girl Scout Wellness Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Tugboat Pegasus and the Waterfront Museum 10am-5pm. Tug boat rides, exhibitions and performances. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 828-1030. Sizzling Salsa Weekend 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Eco-Fabulous Community Farmers’ Market 4pm-8pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. 255-5201. Night at Our Museum: The Past Comes to Life 7pm. $8/$20 families. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Music Jann Klose 4pm. Acoustic. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300. John Muller 6pm. Acoustic. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Jim Curtin 7:30pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Anthony Nisi 8pm. Acoustic. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Breakfast in Fur 8pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Vassar Music Faculty Concert 8pm. Christine R. Howlett, soprano, with guest ensemble, the Chatham-Wood Duo. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. The Black Crowes 8pm. $45/$42 members. Roots rock. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Son Volt 8pm. $20. Americana. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. 7 Bridges 9pm. Eagles tribute. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Crossroads Band 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Jim Dawson with Carla Springer 9pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Vito and 4 Guys in Disguise 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. The Lifesize Gorgeous Cocktails 10pm. Rock. The Sunset House, Peekskill. (914) 734-4192.

Theater I Do! I Do! 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

SATURDAY 19 Art Cinema Ballyhoo 11am-4pm. Showcase of movie posters and promotional materials from classic motion pictures. ArtsWave, Ellenville. chelsearialtostudios.com. The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure 4pm-6pm. Works by Greg Miller. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. Sculptural Portraits of People and Others 4pm-6pm. Works by Madeline Segall Marx. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. New Paltz Third Saturday 4-8pm Art mixer at 8pm at Historic Huguenot St. Locations around New Paltz. www.newpaltzarts.org. Photography by Tim Davis 4pm-10pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Fran Shalom: New Paintings 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Wired 6pm-9pm. Group show and Dutch artist Marit Dik. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Body / Mind / Spirit Organic Movement: An Introduction to the Fedenkrai Method 2pm-4pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop Classes Call for times. The Rhinebeck Photography and Arts Center, Rhinebeck. (516) 286-5104. Floral Still Life Workshop with William Noonan 9:30am-Sunday, September 20, 4:30pm. $130/$70. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Es-Specially Music Program 10am-11am. Geared for children and adults with special needs. $12/$96 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Raising Chickens 101 12pm-3pm. $49. Little Egg Farm, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Luminist Seas with Mike Jaroszko 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Events A Call to Peace Call for times. Prayers for gratitude and peace. World Peace Sanctuary, Wassaic. 877-6093 ext. 205. Hyde Park Farmers’ Market 1am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154. Millerton Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250. Gem and Mineral Show 9am-5pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. Brennerg98@aol.com. Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Revolutionary War Weekend 10am-4pm. Re-enactors’ encampment, exhibits of Artifacts from the Fishkill Supply Depot, 1776-1783. Van Wyck Homestead Museum, Fishkill. 896-5326. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. Historic Hardware 10am. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. 13th Annual Craft Fair & Apple Festival 10am-4pm. Proceeds go to our Residents’ Holiday Gift Fund. Golden Hill Health Care Center, Kingston. 340-3818.

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Marin Puryear, Untitled, print, 1999.

The Anti-Ironist Martin Puryear’s sculptures, which were exhibited in a major retrospective at MoMA in 2007, represent a striking departure from the overly ironic, content-driven, late mannerist oeuvre one has come to expect from an art-world luminary. There is a return to minimalist form: large, tactile, abstract sculptures made of wood, wire mesh, tar, rawhide, and other natural vernacular materials. Their craftlike assemblage and elemental shapes contain vestiges of preindustrial cultural artifacts, such as baskets, huts, tools, and boats, yet they also have biomorphic elements, implying metamorphosis. The hollow interiors of the closed vessels are trapped inner spaces resonating with a kind of consciousness, a latent alertness. The tension between formal and implied opposites—containment and sieve-like penetrability, tensed movement and sagging weight, obtuseness and grace—suggests there is more than meets the eye. As it happens, Puryear works and resides in Ulster County. Thanks to this geographic connection, an exhibition of his prints will be shown at the Kleinert/James Art Center, in Woodstock, from September 12 to October 18. Given Puryear’s stature as one of the most celebrated artists in America—he has a closetful of awards, including one from the MacArthur Foundation—the show is a coup for the local venue. Included in the exhibition are seven woodcuts inspired by the 1923 novel Cane, written by Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer (the prints are the originals of a special artist’s edition published in 2000). But most of the 22 works consist of large-scale etchings related to Puryear’s sculptures. These employ a primal visual vocabulary: stark contrasts of black and ivory, a line that is by turns elegant, terse, and organic, a single object depicted against a ground. With the simplest of means, Puryear sets into motion a multiplicity of allusions that creates slippages in meaning. In Untitled (LA MOCA portfolio) (1999), a black ovoid shape resembling both a head with two earrings and an upsidedown jug is balanced on a delicate ruled line. The ivory-colored ground is smudged with fingerprints, splattered with a dusting of ink and incised with hatched lines. These expressive marks imbue the bare page with a

history and animate the image, as if exclamations were emanating from the otherwise mute, mysterious head. A similar shape, turned upside down, pierced with three holes, and drawn as a spidery white armature on a black ground, is depicted in Untitled (2002). It’s both a vector field and a leaky pot. The form is dematerialized, a representation spun out of the barest of materials, yet resolutely handmade, asymmetrical, ample. High tech and low tech fuse: the lightning-quick, networked infrastructure of the information age and the obdurate, material resistance of daily life with its repetitious tasks. Jug (2001) is cartoonlike, a bulging sea creature in a mottled ground that resembles fluid seen under a microscope. It is uncomfortably large, a soft, feminine form pulling against its small, bulls-eyes handles and emphatic spout, a container that’s too contained. Untitled II (2002) is a pirouetting line, describing a vessel whose handle curls up like the arabesque head of a cubist guitar. Two carefully placed ellipses add dimension to the form, but they are ambiguous, suggesting rolling motion rather than solid object. Puryear’s uneasy, beautifully made art points to an unusual, eclectic education, a well-traveled sensibility. Born in Washington, DC, he lived in Sierra Leone for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer, studied printmaking and wood carving in Sweden, and obtained an MFA from Yale, in 1971. Besides his free-standing and wall-mounted sculptures, he has created large-scale, site-specific works in stone, bronze, or steel in California, Japan, China, and Washington, DC. The works at the Kleinert/James were previously shown in an exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. “Martin Puryear: A Survey of Prints,” will be exhibited September 12 through October 18 at the Kleinert/James Arts Gallery, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 12, from 5-7pm. (845) 679-2079; www.woodstockguild.org. —Lynn Woods 9/09 ChronograM forecast

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Sugar Loaf Farmers’ Market 11am-3pm. Roomer’s Alley, Chester. www.localharvest.org

Kids Music Fun for Kids Call for times. Ages 3-6. $12/$48 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Third Saturday Family Day 1pm-3pm. Ages 5-12. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Music Bell X1 9pm. Irish contemporary rock. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. OrCA Blues Band 1pm-7pm. Concert to raise awareness about oral cancer. Freedom Park, LaGrange. (914) 456-6385. Janette Marie 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Marki Zintz and Breakneck Annie 7pm. Folk. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. Baroque Concert 7:30pm. Leaf Peepers Concert Series. $20. St. James Catholic Church, Chatham. (518) 325-3805. Railroad Earth 8pm. $26/$24 in advance. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Blues Guitarist Debbie Davies 9pm. $27.50/$22.50. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 8551300. Simple Tin 9pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Scott Blum 9pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 4858411. Four Guys in Disguise 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277. Pitchfork Militia 9:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Gertrude’s Nose 9:30am-4:30pm. Strenuous 10-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Horse & Carriage Day 12pm-4pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638. The Clothing of Locust Lawn 1pm-3pm. $20/$18 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Auction Fundraiser to Benefit the Milton on Hudson Train Station 2pm-6pm. Music, local food & wines, and art, antiques & services on which to bid. $25/$20 in advance. Train Station, Milton. 795-2220. 1890s Magic Lantern Show 3pm. Cinema before film. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Music Deuces Child 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. The Barefoot Boys. $12/$10 seniors/children free. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-7802. Music Alive! Concert with Joan Tower Call for time. Barber, Bartok, Villalobos. Fisher Center, Bard College. 758-7900. Unplugged Open Acoustic Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Theater I Do! I Do! 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SUNDAY 20 Art Greene County: Wall of History Call for times. Greene County artists transform one of the buildings. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820. Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation 5pm-12am. Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie. www.poklib.org.

Body / Mind / Spirit A Multi-Faith Celebration of Peace 2pm-5pm. Benefit for Educational Partners for Children in Conflict. $20. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. linda.martine@gmail.com. Saugerties Healing Arts Salon 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Classes Tarot Playdate with Cait Johnson 1pm-3pm. $25. The Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

Events Benefit to Sage Center Call for times. Megalithic or mysterious stone structure of the Hudson Valley, slide show and lecture by Enrique Noguera. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154. The Sixth Annual Bike for Cancer Care 8am. To benefit the Rosemary D. Gruner Memorial Cancer Fund. Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. 334-3017. Rosendale Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Gem and Mineral Show 9am-3pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. Brennerg98@aol.com. The 2nd Annual Holistic Healing Spiritual Faire 10am-6pm. To benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. Hilton Garden Inn, Newburgh. 220-7737. Revolutionary War Weekend 10am-4pm. Re-enactors’ encampment, exhibits of Artifacts from the Fishkill Supply Depot, 1776-1783. Van Wyck Homestead Museum, Fishkill. 896-5326. Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Vendors, artist demos, corn & hay mazes, more. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Hudson Valley Parents Fall Fest ‘09 11am-4pm. An off-line gathering to support St. John Bosco Child & Family Services. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-9347.

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Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Sarah Borges 9pm. Folk. $15. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Unique wine and food sampling. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. Fall for Art Arts Extravaganza and Fundraiser 6pm-9pm. Art sale and cocktail reception. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 338-8131. CRUMBS Night Out at The Linda 7pm. Networking event. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Spoken Word Kingston Chapter of PFLAG Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 331-5300.

Workshops Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208. Setting Future Goals without Sacrificing 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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The 1779 Sullivan-Clinton Expedition Against the Iroquois 1pm-5pm. Multi-media presentation. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.

Chakra Yoga with Bakti Prem 6pm-7:30pm. $25. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Sugars and Flours 6pm-8pm. Learn how to eliminate/reduce sugars and flours from your diet to relieve health conditions. $69. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Theater

Classes

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus 2pm. $8/$6 students and seniors. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181 ext. 5513. I Do! I Do! 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Studio 208 Open Level Belly Dance Class 6pm-7pm. $60 series/$15 class. Studio 208, Cornwall. Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. An Introduction to Alexander Technique 7pm-8pm. Help prevent conditions associated with stress and poor posture. $20/$100 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. The Diamond-Dart Meridian Sequence 8pm-9pm. $20/$100 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Chodikee Lake Canoe/Kayak 10am-3pm. Chodikee Lake, Highland. 687-7679.

Spoken Word

Spoken Word Reading and Signing with Kat Michaels 2pm. Author of Willow’s Bend. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Music

MONDAY 21 Body / Mind / Spirit Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. Singing, drumming, guided meditation, storytelling and forms of energy. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Meditation: Discover the Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

Classes Guitar for Beginners, Ages 15 - Adult 5:30pm-6:30pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Intro to Bookbinding & Book Restoration 5:30pm-8:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Psychic Development & Reiki 1 Certification 6pm-8pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 3392025. Basic Sewing with Knits 7pm-9pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 3392025.

Music Sammy Brown 7pm. Singer-songwriter performs every Monday night. Free. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 382-2499. Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Music by Uncle Rock and Greta Garbage Puppet show. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618. African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Music Open Rehearsals for 2009 Holiday Concert 7:30pm-9:30pm. Rhinebeck Choral Club. Ferncliff Nursing Home, Rhinebeck. 876-2011. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Cedar Drive and Beyond 9:30am-1:30pm. Meet at Spring Farm Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spoken Word Job Search Marketing Presentation Call for times. Lecture workshops by David Dirks. SUNY Ulster, Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

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THURSDAY 24

Art

Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745. River 5pm-8pm. Mural by Long Reach Artists, with talk and book signing. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Gentle Yoga 6pm-7pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 3392025. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes An Introduction to Diamond Method for Music 10am-11:30am. $25 class/$200 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Freelance Writing for Magazines 1pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 3392025. Business Italian: Practices & Etiquette 6pm-8:30pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

Events Day Peckinpaugh 10am-5pm. Tour a working canal motorship. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 828-1030.

Body / Mind / Spirit Embody the Spirit of Woman: Women’s Retreat Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897. How to Solve Your Daily Problems 7pm-9pm. $8. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Classes Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Dance Parsons Dance with East Village Opera Company: Remember Me 7:30pm. $28/$24 seniors/$14 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Gallery Abstract Drawings by Claire Fox Avalon Seafood Gallery, North Adams, Massachusetts. (413) 664-8718.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Sip and Sail Cruise on the Teal 6pm. Featuring country music. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Steve Turre Sextet 8pm. Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Country Night and Mechanical Bull 9pm. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Spoken Word Community Roundtable on Habitat for Artists 7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. Open Mike 8pm. Spoken word and poetry. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068.

Workshops Watercolor with Steve Blumenthal 9:30am-3:30pm. $60. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Reiki & the Magic of Awakening 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FRIDAY 25 Art Beacon Open Studios Kickoff Party and Group Show 7pm-10pm. Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon. 838-2995.

Body / Mind / Spirit A Time to Grieve, A Time to Grow with Malidoma Soma Call for times. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Stress: A Buddhist Perspective Call for times. $290/$261. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897.

Dance Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Featuring Gerard Carelli Quartet, lesson before the dance. $15/$10. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Events The Doug Maloney Memorial Golf Tournament 1am-1am. Gateway Foundation 17th annual Fall Classic. $95/$360 foursome. Rondout Country Club Ltd, Accord. 331-1261 ext. 224. Eco-Fabulous Community Farmers’ Market 4pm-8pm. Robin’s Produce, New Paltz. 255-5201.

Film Pillow Talk 7pm. $5. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. For The Next 7 Generations 8:30pm-10pm. Introduction and Q&A by director Carole Hart. $10/$8 students and seniors. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

Music Sentimental Sax by Mike Stabile 6pm. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Brian Dougherty Band 7:30pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Graham Parker 8pm. $25. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Chandler Travis Philharmonic 8pm. $17. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Mary Gauthier 8pm. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Young Evolver 8pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Steve Lin 8pm. Classical guitar. $13-$20. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Crossroads Band 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Peter Calo with Dusty 9pm. $25/$20. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Manhattan Transfer 9pm. $69/$45/$35. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

MUSIC daniel kahn and the painted bird image provided daniel kahn and the painted bird perform at the colony cafe in woodstock on september 12.

Jerzy Boys Yiddish punk cabaret. Gothic American folk. Alienation klezmer. Danse macabre. Of all the music genres to choose from, why did Berlin-based Daniel Kahn opt to cook up this strange stew? “As a genre, it’s not a very crowded one,” he says. “It’s really more of a descriptive combination of categories. Alienation comes from Brecht’s theatrical concept of the verfremdungseffekt, or “alienation effect,” by which the audience’s comfort level with a certain subject is challenged. It’s a means of provocation and question-asking. We try to apply it to issues around Klezmer music, Jewish identity, and politics. Oy, I know.” Kahn’s background is in folk and theatre music, having played piano and accordion in his youth. He fell in love with klezmer while living in New Orleans and became involved in programs such as Klez Kanada, Yiddish Summer Weimar, Workmen’s Circle, the Krakow Jewish Festival, and while traveling in Russia and Israel. He fell in love with and moved to Berlin several years ago, describing the city as an accordion itself (“it keeps unfolding the more you pull on it”). He formed his current ensemble, The Painted Bird, to create unconventional tunes that are satirical, razor-sharp, and rebellious. They have been dubbed “the Yiddish Pogues” with Kahn as a “Jewish Bob Dylan.” The current international lineup consists of Kahn (vocals, accordion, piano, ukulele), Michael Tuttle (bass), Hampus Melin (drums), Michael Winograd (clarinet), and special guests from Russia to Philly. The band takes its name from a 1960s novel by Polish author Jerzy Kosinski, a

grotesque nightmare of human depravity and terror during World War II in Eastern Europe told through the eyes of a child. “The painted bird is a bird which is taken from a flock, painted many colors, then released to the flock,” Kahn explains. “The other birds peck it out of the sky for being different. We thought it sounded like a pretty name.” Pretty name, not so pretty themes. Kahn is bent on writing about uncomfortable topics, outrageous happenings, the politically incorrect, and the tragically witty. “I find myself feeling uncomfortable about something, and the only way I have of addressing it is to do something expressive with it,” he says. “But I’m not sure my topics are all that radical. I see many of the problems I want to address as traditional. They go back. But I guess that is in itself radical. The word means ‘of the roots,’ related to the word radish. Maybe I sing about radish topics.” In the accordion-based “Rosen Auf Den Weg Gestreut,” he urges us in German and English: “If you feel inside your guts / the Nazi dagger’s blade / embrace the fascists that you have made.” “Parasites” seems like a love ballad at first, but it quickly turns into an upbeat, verbose tune with numerous descriptions of slimy larva doing their thing. On tour to promote the group’s sophomore album, Partisans & Parasites (2009, Oriente Musik) Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird will perform on September 12 at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock. (845)679-5342; www.myspace.com/thepaintedbird. —Sharon Nichols 9/09 ChronograM forecast

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Four Guys in Disguise 10:30pm. Noah’s Ark, Poughkeepsie. 486-9295.

Spoken Word Claudia Thomas 4pm. Orthopedic surgeon on her memoir God Spare Life. Vassar College Bookstore, Poughkeepsie. 437-5871. Community Reading 5pm. Ledig House Writers Residency program. Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568. Cary Institute Evening of Science & Art 7pm. Dr. David Strayer and artist Rebecca Allen. Cary Institute, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Theater I Do! I Do! 8pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Turbulent Voyage 8pm. Original play about Henry Hudson by playwright Paul Cooper. $12/$10 members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

SATURDAY 26 Art 9th Annual Tivoli Street Painting Festival 9am-5pm. Music, water and farm produce. Tivoli. Beacon Open Studios 10am-5pm. Visit more than 30 artists at work throughout Beacon. www.beaconopenstudios. blogspot.com. Art Hyde Park 1pm-4pm. Meet the artists of Hyde Park in their gardens. Call for location. 229-9029. Collaborative Fall Art Show 1pm-5pm. Lake Carmel Arts Center, Kent. 225-3856. Sculpture-to-Wear 2pm-5pm. One-day showing of work by DutchAmerican artist Manette van Hamel. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Gallery Talk: Carolyn Marks Blackwood 2pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. The Luminous Landscape Invitational 5pm. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Hudson . (518) 828-4346. Silent Walks on the Half-Moon 6pm. Collaborative art performance. Storm King Trail Head, Cornwall. 304-3142.

Body / Mind / Spirit Healthy Menopause Lunch Seminar 1am-2:30pm. Lunch, handouts, recipes, seminar and 1-1 session. $297/$247 in advance. Beahive, Beacon. (917) 449-6356. Cleansing Your Body of Toxins 9am-12pm. $42. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. How to Discover and Live Your Purpose 11:15am-1:30pm. $20/$25. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Spirit and Money: Prospering by Doing what You Love 2:30pm-5:30pm. $20/$25. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Breathe, Chant, Play 3pm-5pm. Deeper into practice with Pranayama, chanting & meditation. $20. Madhuri Therapeutics, New Paltz. 797-4124.

Kids Music Fun for Kids Call for times. Ages 3-6. $12/$48 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Kids’ Day 10am-3pm. Prospect Hill Orchard, Marlboro. 795-2383. Keith Munslow’s One-of-a-Kind Show 10:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Sing Out! Reach Out! 2pm-3pm. Ages 5-13. $12/$96 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Music Hudson River Quadracentennial; Songs Along the Hudson 1pm-7pm. Rbt. Post Park, Kingston. 331-2662. Hotfoot Powder 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Just Us 6pm. Rock. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Lisa Dudley 7pm. Americana, with Enrico Scull and Ed Kenney. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. Musical Bridge Concert 7pm. Choral music celebrating the Quadricentennial. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Beatlemania Again 8pm. $20. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. The Sugarbees 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Humble Boy Club 8pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Lisa Glick 8pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Bob Malone and Jay Ottaway 8pm. Jazz and blues. $14-$22. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Bo Burnham 8:30pm. $26/$22.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Creation 9pm. Dance music. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Rick Estrin and the Night Cats 9pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Outdoors

Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Es-Specially Music Program 10am-11am. Geared for children and adults with special needs. $12/$96 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Luminist Seas with Mike Jaroszko 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Farm Land Cycling Tour 9am-1pm. Bike tour of various farms in Dutchess and Columbia Counties. Poets’ Walk, Red Hook. 473-4440 ext. 273. Greenport Trail Run 9am. $20. Greenport Park, Greenport. (518) 392-5252 ext. 214 . Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Millbrook Mountain 9:30am-4pm. Strenuous 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Tenth Annual Hudson River Valley Ramble: Northwest Ramble to Rock Rift and Clove Chapel 10am-2pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Events

Spoken Word

Classes

Dutchess County Historical Society Silver Ribbon House Tour Call for times. Area near Hudson River north of Main Street. Call for location. 471-1630. 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. Millerton Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250. Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Hudson Valley Garlic Festival 10am-6pm. $7/$3. Cantine Field, Saugerties. www.hvgf.org. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. Country Jamboree 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. 7th Annual Cauliflower Festival 10am-4pm. Entertainment, food, demos, arts and crafts, kids’ activities. Margaretville Village Park, Margaretville. 586-3300.

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Ann Street Market 10am-4pm. Ann Street Municipal Lot, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109. Church Benefit 10am-5pm. Assembled artists painting on the church grounds with finished art auctioned and Julliard School music graduates concert. $25. Historical Stone Church, Cragsmoor. rogers.linda@gmail.com. 2009 Hudson Valley Home Expo 10am-7pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Sugar Loaf Farmers’ Market 11am-3pm. Romer’s Alley, Chester. www.localharvest.org. 10th Annual Arlington Street Fair 12pm-6pm. Live entertainment, children’s activities, vendors, chili cook-off. Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie. 437-7690. Art Auction & Silent Auction 2pm. Phillies Bridge Farm, Gardiner. 255-0680.

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Stories In Stone: A Walk through the Old Huguenot Burying Ground 10am-12pm. Hear the stories of people buried there and the burial rituals of times past. $10/$8 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Reading and Signing with Susannah Appelbaum 2pm. Author of The Poisons of Caux. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Michael Joyce 4pm. Author of Liam’s Going. Vassar College Bookstore, Poughkeepsie. 437-5871. Lisa Lampanelli 8pm. Comedy. $36.75. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Margaret Cho 8pm. Comedy and music. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Workshops

Music

Pet-painting Workshop with Carrie Jacobson 10am-4pm. $60. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Hive Maintenance: Fall/Winter Prep 11am-2:30pm. $40. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113. Death & Dying: It Doesn’t Stop Here 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Sensing Light with Sydney Cash 9pm-12:30pm. $50/$45 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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

SUNDAY 27

Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 382-2499. Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. David Kraai 10:30pm. Singer/songwriter. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

TUESDAY 29

Art Beacon Open Studios 10am-5pm. Visit more than 30 artists at work throughout Beacon. www.beaconopenstudios.blogspot.com. Opening of The Clinton Avenue Project 1pm-3pm. Documentary including portraits and autobiographical statements of the many clients of local soup kitchen. United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-6858.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Gentle Yoga 6pm-7pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

Meditation Sunday 6pm-8pm. $10. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.

High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events

Classes

Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 227-1154. Annual Pfalz Point Trail Challenge Ten Mile Fundraising Run 8am. $35/$25 members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Rosendale Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Hudson Valley Garlic Festival 10am-5pm. $7/$3. Cantine Field, Saugerties. www.hvgf.org. Country Jamboree26 10am-5pm. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. 2009 Hudson Valley Home Expo 10am-5pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Vendors, artist demos, corn & hay mazes, pony rides, more. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Hidden Huguenot Street 1pm-3pm. Walking tour featuring some of the notso-obvious remnants. $12/$10 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

An Introduction to Diamond Method for Music 10am-11:30am. $25 class/$200 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Kids Kids’ Day 10am-3pm. Prospect Hill Orchard, Marlboro. 795-2383.

Music Andi Rae Healey Call for times. Funk pop. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Doug Marcus 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Jazz Brunch 2pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter 8pm. With Scott Petito and Helen Avakian . Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock. 679-4265. Robin Trower 8pm. Guitar. $40/$30. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

The Outdoors Fishkill Ridge Moderate Hike 9am. Call for location. 896-9332. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Humpty Dumpty Path 9:30am-3:30pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Easy Paddle of the North Tivoli Bay/Hudson River 9:30am. Call for location. 691-7442. I Do! I Do! 3pm. $22/$20 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Classical Guitar Master Class with Steve Lin 1pm-4pm. $45/$40 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MONDAY 28 Body / Mind / Spirit Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Receive Messages From Your Loved Ones in the After Life 7pm-8:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Freelance Writing for Magazines 1pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Workshops Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. Mental Health America , Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

WEDNESDAY 30 Body / Mind / Spirit Chakra Yoga with Bakti Prem 6pm-7:30pm. $25. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Sugars and Flours 6pm-8pm. Learn how to eliminate/reduce sugars and flours from your diet to relieve health conditions. $69. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

Classes Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Studio 208 Open Level Belly Dance Class 6pm-7pm. $60 series/$15 class. Studio 208, Cornwall. Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. An Introduction to Alexander Technique 7pm-8pm. Help prevent conditions associated with stress and poor posture. $20/$100 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. An Introduction to Diamond Method for Music 7:30pm-9pm. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.

Events Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Music by Deb Tankard and Friends. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618. African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Film Woodstock Film Festival Check for times and locations. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.

Music Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Peters Kill 9:30am-1:30pm. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-7059.

Theater Play by Play 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

art rachel harrison Chris Kendall Installation view of works in Rachel Harrison's "Consider the Lobster," on view through December 20 at the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College.

Claws and Affect Upon visiting Rachel Harrison’s current exhibition “Consider the Lobster and Other Essays” at the Hessel Museum at Bard College, those familiar with the funky, polychromed-steel sculptures by German artist Franz West installed outside the entrance will notice something different about them. Harrison has adorned the two polyp-shaped protuberances on one of West’s biomorphic sculptures with wigs, thereby appropriating the work of another artist (a familiar strategy of Harrison’s) and anthropomorphizing the shapes so that we read them as heads. Look up and see what’s flying at the top of the flagpole—she has replaced Old Glory with a new and improved American flag; a stylized eagle patriotic enough for Stephen Colbert. For Harrison, the world of objects—including objects made by other artists—represents an infinite resource of materials to be transformed through context and juxtaposition into her art. Don’t bother trying to figure out what Harrison’s work means. You may notice yourself attempting to do this. But like any good trip, the journey is the destination. Being aware of your own desire to make meaning out of chaos and apparent randomness is the meaning of her work, or, at least, one of them. Her 1997 installation Snake in the Grass is a case in point. It’s a mixed-media installation that includes photographs, wall panels belayed from the ceiling and anchored to the floor via ropes, green plastic bags filled with who-knows-what, brightly painted, cut-out abstract shapes, found objects, and a snake skin. (Harrison’s work is almost impossible to describe because there’s so much visual information.) If you spend enough time deciphering the signs and are familiar with some of the images, you may deduce that the piece has something to do with the Kennedy assassination (I had the benefit of a well-informed member of the staff to clue me in). But that’s as far as you go—the work isn’t about that; there is no commentary.

Harrison uses the event as a touchstone, an anchor—subject matter for her is simply one more readymade to be appropriated. One of the things that keeps the potential for total visual chaos and inconsistency at bay are her sculptural “surrogates.” These are objects that she makes using extruded foam insulation board that she cuts up and builds into abstract mounds, sometimes monolithic, which are then slathered with textured paste and painted with her signature lurid, iridescent acrylic color, which evokes the painting of such modernist masters as Jules Olitski and Helen Frankenthaler. These works refer to the history of sculpture as “statue” but remain, like all of her work, contingent upon their relationship to other objects and to the gallery context, none of which is ever simply given. Her work is like a postmodern car that runs on modernist fuel. Ultimately, Harrison’s work succeeds because it works visually. She is an installation artist, which in her case means that the work incorporates the conventions of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, video, and performance. She’s a masterful colorist with a canny sense of scale and proportion. I asked her about a 2007 piece entitled Foot Stays in the Picture, which she referred to as “the Donald Judd piece,” evoking as it does the repeated boxes of the high priest of minimalism. I wondered if the video of feet running in the New York City Marathon, which is visible through cutout shapes in the pedestal-like boxes subtly plied with color, was shot with the creation of this particular piece in mind. “I never know what I’m doing,” replied Harrison. Let’s hope it stays that way. “Consider the Lobster and Other Essays,” will be exhibited at the Hessel Museum at Bard College through December 20. (845) 758-7598; www.bard.edu/ccs. —Jeff Crane 9/09 ChronograM forecast

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

Inner Goddess, Inner Gaze

n August, I was invited to present a seminar at the American Psychological Association (APA) conference based on my photography called “The Inner Goddess and the Inner Gaze.” My presentation, given in Toronto on August 7, explored the phenomenon of the inner feminine, or anima, and its relationship to both men and women in our journey of growth and healing through the use of mirrors and photography. Since I am not a psychologist, my presentation was co-sponsored by one: Dr. Christine Farber, a longtime Planet Waves reader, who was my astrology student from the Omega Institute. My photography project, called Book of Blue, is an indirect outgrowth of my work as an astrologer, though expressed in photographs and intimate essays. As an astrologer, I have written and worked primarily with and for women, and in the process have explored my perceptions of women, studied the paths of their lives and done my best to understand their choices and values. I have always been conscious that part of why I am doing this work is to heal my relationship with my mother and with all women; and part of it is to be of service to women in response to a lifelong calling. Book of Blue is about the use of visual imagery to heal the self-image of women, in the eyes of both men and women. We all agree that we are overwhelmed with idealized, reconstructed images of young women, and these cause disturbances in our ability to perceive women for who they are. More often than not, the personhood of women is robbed by false images and ideas about womanhood. One of our biggest psychological challenges as a society involves men who cannot embrace their inner feminine and women who cannot embrace their inner masculine. The result is a lot of projection; we tend to see the ‘opposite’ sex as something that exists exclusively outside of us— despite many feelings and experiences calling us in. You might say that I am a woman-identified man. Given the choice of who is more ‘my kind’ of person, as in who I feel more like, I certainly feel like I have far more in common with most women than with most men. Yet in much the same way that relationships among women are fragmented by mistrust and competition, I noticed something similar in my own relationships that I set about working to resolve. The healing process largely facilitated by my work on Book of Blue has involved repairing a sense of alienation and isolation that has gradually given way to an atmosphere of communication and contact. The [usually] fun part is I also get to be a man, and experience and witness the intensity and subtlety of female beauty, that is, intellectual, emotional and physical beauty, from the viewpoint of being male. Along the way, my inner feminine gets to make friends with other women and learn how to be female; and my inner man gets to polarize into his masculinity and explore our contrasts and how they feel. Along the way, I am working out a relationship with myself. Conscious of holding this space as mental preparation, I am able to create a space for my photographic subjects to see and feel themselves; to be a witness to their own selfaware femininity and humanity. Women spend a lot of time in mirrors, but I wonder how much of it is really about witnessing themselves. In my studio, that is precisely what they are invited to do: as a means of seeing their own beauty, integrating their sense of identity, processing guilt and body issues, and making peace with their judgments about themselves.

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In Search of Venus In astrology we work with inner archetypes all the time; they are the lead characters in the astrological drama. For example, everyone has Mars and Venus working in their chart; we all possess the same inner masculine and feminine aspects. Where these things are placed, and how we relate to them, are important factors that help shape our personality and affect how we adapt to life in our skins and in society. We know there is plenty of gender tension around us, and we feel it in our relationships; there are also gender relationships within us, which shape our consciousness, perceptions and experiences. Usually we project that tension outward, rejecting the opposite gender internally and seeing her as a phenomenon in the outer world; without remembering anything about her origins in consciousness. In terms of the inner feminine, I am talking primarily about Venus, though she takes a number of other forms: for example the Moon (who often represents a child or the child self as well); certain of the more potent asteroids (Psyche, Juno or Vesta, for example); and an important new discovery, Eris (the castaway woman). Yet even when we do astrology, to what extent do we experience and explore these things as having actual life rather than symbolic existence? Were I to write an astrology book, it might be called something like Astrology in Real Life, revealing how we can use the chart as a map to a quest rather than as a purely mental construction. My inner woman is described in my chart as Venus in Taurus in the 11th house, conjunct the asteroid Photographica. Since this is in Astroese, I will translate to English. My inner woman is flirtatious and friendly on the outside, but she’s a traditionalist on the inside. Relationships are important to her, as are sex and sensuality. The thing they must all have in common is values. She seeks pleasure but it must have substance to it. She’s a public person who is depended on for her stability and integrity. And she likes to be photographed, and to create photographs. She’s someone I’m getting to know, and much of my work with Book of Blue— doing more than 150 photo sessions of women looking in mirrors, across Europe and North America—has been a process of getting to know her. In using my camera, I explore, create and relate, and using my studio I create the space for others to do the same thing. The photographs then become a point of meditation for the subject, who can use them to explore her mental and emotional states, and make peace with her way of seeing herself. Autogynephilia and Gender Dysphoria The idea of a man loving himself as a woman has been described as a form of pathology in the psychological literature, part of a trend of categorizing an increasing number of erotic feelings as forms of mental illnesses, commonly known as gender dysphorias. After a long struggle to have homosexuality removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), there is now a movement to bring in many other similar feelings and experiences. The clinical term for a man loving himself as a woman is autogynephilia. It was coined in 1989 by the Canadian psychologist Ray Blanchard to refer to “a man’s paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman.” It has been used as a means of explaining the feelings underlying being

a transvestite, among other things. The term paraphilic basically means a kind of fetish that you need in order to get off. However, I don’t think it’s a paraphilia. Blanchard himself has said that “an autogynephile does not necessarily become sexually aroused every time he pictures himself as female or engages in feminine behavior, any more than a heterosexual man automatically gets an erection whenever he sees an attractive woman. Thus, the concept of autogynephilia...refers to a potential for sexual excitation” Yet everyone has this potential, obviously. And it would seem like something we would want to encourage. So like much of psychology he is describing something that everyone feels at some time in pathological terms. Astrology is much more compassionate here; any astrologer will tell you that we all have Venus and Mars and identify with both to varying degrees. It would help if more psychologists studied astrology. Gaze of the Inner Goddess The idea of a Book of Blue portrait session is that the model focuses on herself, while I hold space and document the experience. The model may be dressed or nude; nudity tends to enhance the feeling of vulnerability, yet in reality is simply more basically human. Excellent images have come from sessions with the model dressed but I have not analyzed what feels different about them. I’ve also learned that nude modeling is something that many women contemplate and consider; in reality, a great many explore the territory. Sometimes it’s about money and sometimes it’s about fun and liberation. Sometimes it’s for the pleasure of being seen. I am aware that my presence influences the images, but it also makes them possible. My maleness is a specific factor; much of what women must contend with is the feeling of being looked at by other men, and now I’m there looking at them up close. We are exploring the space and the feeling of being seen. This is a fine line to walk. I will work at different emotional temperatures and proximity depending on my relationship to the subject of the photo. In all, I believe that my presence “takes over” the aspect of the woman who is concerned about being seen, and allows me to do that part. The inner spectator is going to be in her mind anyway. Hakomi Therapy discovered that these inner roles could be occupied by someone external, thus liberating the person from having to do it themselves. I see my part as replacing the critical witness with a loving witness. This presents the opportunity to be seen by someone who is open, accepting and moreover not afraid of their self-judgments, which as I have learned, from much experience, can be quite painful. I am willing to go as far with my photo subjects as they want, and have journeyed in this process through a diversity of states from grief to erotic self-exploration to dissociative experiences and many levels of what might be called “ordinary consciousness.” More than a decade of experience as an astrologer, holding space for emotional and spiritual process, helps support this space and the process that unfolds here. One potential result is that a woman will encounter her inner goddess, that is, her essential inner woman, through the experience of making the images, and seeing them afterwards. Is it Art, or is it Therapy? We are standing here at the threshold where art functions as a healing modality. When art is working this is often the case, though this particular process makes it more personal than usual. I never set out to create a therapeutic model—only to make images and learn something about myself and the people involved. What I quickly learned was that the model was working out something in her relationship to herself; I was working out something in relationship to her; and I was meeting my inner feminine in many different forms. I discovered that I was working right in the space where her self-image is created. So in a sense the resulting photographs are documents of a new self-image in the process of being developed, discovered or witnessed. It is fascinating to see, in models I have worked with over a long period of time, the ways in which facial features, the expression in her eyes and her presence with herself evolve over time. They are also documents of me exploring my own self-image as a woman; and a long process of aligning with the experience of women being in harmony with themselves. In my view this is correcting the experience of generations of women before me being conditioned to be in conflict with themselves; to disapprove of themselves; to be someone other than who they are. My sense is that whatever else is happening, I am getting photographs of the real woman, not a projected vision of her. This would be the process of someone discovering her inner goddess. To do that, of course, I have had to know and love my own inner goddess; she in truth is the one who stands guard over the photo sessions and the resulting images, holding space for the process to unfold, and gradually teaching me to see women for who they are and not who I would have them be. I trust that my photo subjects are learning to do the same thing for themselves. Eric Francis Coppolino writes daily at PlanetWaves.net.

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Aries

(March 20-April 19)

You must be strategic in both personal and business plans. Understand your short-range goal, such as where you want to be by the end of the year, and set your agenda accordingly. Do so in the context of your long-range goal, which in the current speed of the world would take you through about December 2011. This may seem like a lot of planning for an Aries. Accept this fact. The influences that are conditioning your life for the foreseeable future are calling upon you to rise to a new level of awareness, competence and deftness that may indeed be unfamiliar to you. Developments are in the offing that you cannot see or imagine, which you are in the position of having to be prepared for. In addition to maintaining a conscious plan or agenda, subject to revision, that preparation might include three basic steps. One, stay caught up on your work. Two, maintain healthy working relationships. Three, strive for efficiency. You need your energy to use wisely, not to waste. Remember that energy comes in the form of ideas, of money, and of many resources that are not exactly money but which may be far more valuable. Your most important resource is your wellbeing. Coming in a close second are the people in your life. Treat them well.

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(April 19-May 20)

I don’t blame most people for not pursuing their creative talents as a way to make a living. Yes, our parents usually tried to talk us out of them. It’s also true that developing talent takes a lot of work, and there are absolutely no guaranteed rewards. The rewards for getting an MBA or passing the bar are not guaranteed either, but at least there are people waiting with jobs for those skillsets. Creativity is a total gamble, and taking that risk is associated with plenty of justifiable fear. The only thing is, sometimes one’s sense of necessity far exceeds that fear. The Taurus mind may be the most obsessive of the entire zodiac, and you’ve certainly been ruminating on this issue for a long time, particularly the past month, which caps off nearly two years of simply knowing you must do something better; something more worthwhile with your time and with your talent. I am pretty sure you even know exactly what that thing is and how rewarding it will be. I am not here to tell you that you will get there; but I am here to tell you that you can get there if you work with a conscious plan, if you strive to understand the nature of your own resistance (which is mostly fear) and most of all, if you want to.

Gemini

(May 20-June 21)

Some people take their family and its issues for granted. Some people work these issues out in therapy for years, and get nowhere. Others set their intentions, trust themselves and blaze through the past and all its people and themes, and go on not only to lives of achievement but also lives of emotional contentment. I don’t think that one of these has to come at the expense of the other. I would propose a viewpoint where the two support one another mutually. After the equinox as the new season opens up, you’re going to feel a much more palpable sense of calling. There is something in these charts about doing what you need to do, and being willing to do the personal work to get you there. You seem to have started this work, but now you know there is really a much longer agenda than you were originally planning for. This month seems to be wrought with all kinds of loops and minor emotional torments; and one or two truly significant ones. Do the work you need to do. Get the help you need, from people who understand these kinds of issues. This will involve understanding why you might refuse to seek assistance, be it practical or directed at inner healing, and not letting that be an excuse.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Reckon with how powerful ideas are; with how much work they save; and with how good they are. You may not think so, at least not right now. You may not be the best judge. You seem to be working out a complex equation, for which there is no easy solution. It may involve a business, your profession, or something in your community. The issue actually surfaced a year or two ago, but you didn’t necessarily give it a name, or set a goal associated with resolving it. I can assure you that your mind has been working to develop not just solutions but something original through most of this time. That effort is now coming to fruition, though it seems to be preceded by a moment of uncertainty. There are true gems of thought amidst any mental turbulence, overwork or doubt that you may be feeling. You can therefore afford to relax, on several accounts. Trust that you’re making progress; trust that the answers will come to you as you need them. Be particularly sensitive to ideas that seem too subtle to be effective, or so strategically clever that you can’t believe they would work. There are some very good ideas that are in the ‘tried and true’ category. The touch of genius may come as applying an old idea in an original way. It often does.

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Leo

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(July 22-August 23)

Your particular genius with money involves caring about the value of things: and by things, I mean everything, from effort to love to actual cash; from a concept to your value on serving others. You are—or have the potential—to be good with money because you are someone who puts thought into your life and who recognizes that everything and everyone has value. Therefore you survive in tough times, you thrive in good times and you have the potential to do quite nicely all the time. Remember that, and tell yourself a few times a day. We’re all participants in a culture that is sick with greed; you take part as a matter of necessity and in truth as a revolutionary. Events this month and into next month give you a series of opportunities to outsmart some pretty big players in some complex games. They may be the bank, they may be your boss, they may be the stilted values of your parents, or your actual parents. More to the point, you have the ability to put whatever you encounter to work for you, though you have to be clever about it. The invention of a lever makes a simple metaphor. It’s hard to roll a boulder; it’s easy to put a lever underneath it and have that do most of the work.

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(August 23-September 22)

For a while, no decision may feel like the right decision, and no set of facts may seem to fit the scenario you are in. I suggest you stop looking for any ultimate explanations or solution sets and accept that currently everything is a variable. True, there are X-factors all over the place most of the time, but the current aspects include Mercury retrograding in and out of your birth sign, which will accentuate the effect. The more room you make for things to change not just around you but within you, the more you will be able to profit from those developments. This being said, an observation or conclusion you reached in late August will provide a reference point for what you know to be true, or at least what you are assuming to be true. By a reference point I mean a basic set of facts on which you based a series of derivative ideas or assumptions. I suggest going back to what you were thinking and doing during that timeframe (around August 15 through 18) and considering the various people and situations that you were involved with. There is a phase of history that you want to avoid repeating; recognizing that, knowing and understanding the recent past and what motivated you then will be your first and best ally.

Libra

(September 22-October 23)

You often struggle with being influenced by others when you make up your mind, but you’re currently involved in a decision-making process that is pretty much airtight. Those around you might feel a certain distance or alienation as you work through some deep material. I suggest you not chalk it up to Libran indecision if you can’t resolve the matter quickly; this one deserves true contemplation. You’re attempting to get clear on something that may go back decades and is indeed part of your family’s legacy. It’s truly strange when we discover that something that occurred years before our own birth actually affects the way we see and think about ourselves generations later. I would propose that nearly all of our self-concept is the product of a past so distant that we don’t even know when it dates to, much less with whom it originates. Part of the reason why we don’t attempt to work these things out involves the feeling that the past is intractable; that we cannot do anything about it. What you are discovering is that the most meaningful thing you can change is your interpretation of what it means to you, and therefore revise how it is shaping your idea of who you are today. The distant past is always an influence; whether it runs our lives is another story.

Scorpio

(October 23-November 22)

If you shift your awareness regarding a professional question into long-term mode, you’ll have the ability to take advantage of events later in the year and early next year. If you keep your nose to the grindstone and don’t look up, this will not be as easy. I am suggesting specifically that you think ahead and stack the deck in your own favor. Moreover, consider that you recognize that in any situation involving your reputation or the focusing of personal power, there is almost always a setup involved. Very little “just happens.” Yes, providence can intervene, and we do seem to be in a moment when pushing pushes us backwards. Clearly, this is a risk. You need to use your mind, and you need to think in more than one dimension. I’m suggesting something gentle, which is maintaining awareness of the diversity of factors necessary in attaining success. Closer to the point is having a clear enough definition of success that you know it when you see it. The angle you are working for is quite specific in nature; not the success of a new car, but rather of knowing that you have your role to play in the cosmic drama, and that you are playing it well.

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Progress has been slow in coming this year, while many other factors seem to be moving out of your control. Certain activities that have gone well on one level may have produced less than satisfactory results. I suggest you keep your faith. You are now in what I would call the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;finishing phaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of a long process of self-reinvention. You are a person of the world, so your self-reinventions need to be something other than purely introspective or oriented on growth; there has been plenty of that, anyway. What you want are results. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a phase now requiring your undivided attention if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to collect the gains on so much effort. This will call on you to focus on your single most important objective; that, in turn, will call on you to figure out what that objective is. This may seem strangeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;putting the goal at the end of what may indeed have been a two-year process. Think of it this way. What youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve mainly created for yourself are viable options. This month you will get to test them out one at a time, and by the time Mercury stations direct on the 29th, make a choice that will not feel like a sacrifice. More accurately, it will feel like a discovery.

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(December 22-January 20)

Most breakthroughs are mental or emotional. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually involve things in the physical world, and when they do, the change is in the mind. Some of these changes come over many long evolutions; others come with what seems like a quantum jump to another dimension. You are carrying plenty of tension right now; so is the world. There will be times this month you feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at a snapping point, like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re carrying the weight of the world or like a decision you need to make has much greater consequences than anyone knows. It is true that so much that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working toward has the opportunity to come to fruition in the coming weeks, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an odd-feeling kind of progress, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to be preceded by a measure of real discomfort. The key will be to persist, but to persist gently. At times you will need to know when to apply less pressure to the situation or to count a reversal as a kind of progress because of the opportunities it reveals. The breakthroughs over the next few weeks will arrive mainly in the form of what you learn from challenging circumstances but at what turn out to be opportune times. (January 20-February 19)

Once again, the two planets that are involved with your sign are approaching to an exact opposition. This would be the Saturn-Uranus opposition, which was exact for the first time on Election Day 2008. Most interpretations you read will describe this as a clash of energies; to me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about a synthesis. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my take. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re an innovative person, and you constantly run into resistance from people who want life to be like it was yesterday. Of course, were you not so focused on progress you would not encounter this, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not your karma. The problem is that it rarely comes down to a real conversation about what was, what is, and what can be. Now the sky comes into focus where just such a conversation can happen. It may not be easy and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to need to keep your head. Plan for nothing to be resolved for a while, but also prepare for all the necessary facts and viewpoints to come out. You will learn a lot, and discover more than once how people whose views differ from yours can make your own position stronger.

Pisces

(February 19-March 20)

Aspects that have been unfolding for nearly a year involving your sign and your opposite sign, Virgo, are particularly personal, and that may mean that the stress has been manifesting as an emotional condition. You have been a rolling stone; you want progress and you want it now. If you want progress, I suggest you be content, at least, with change. One implies the other; improvement implies movement. Through this process youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve encountered one person after the next who seems intractable. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that they desire stability as much as they seem to be making a case for being stuck. You are mainly what they are using to help themselves get unstuck: and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned to watch where your energy goes and why, because part of being stuck is that you get to skim off of the energy of everyone else while taking exceedingly few chances. I suggest you think of this as a dialog rather than as a power struggle. Certain individuals in your life who have been obsessed with the past are about to figure out that this is serving nobody. You, in turn, will figure out that it really does pay to give the people you love the benefit of the doubt.

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Parting Shot

Simon and Simeon, Erika Larsen, Redux/Fovea At Fovea Exhibitions through November 9, “American Youth,” a show of photographs by members of Redux Pictures, chronicling the lives of 18- to 24-year olds across the country. The image above, by Erika Larsen, is of a young gay couple, Simon, 22, and Simeon, 23 who met at the Bronx Zoo a year ago and now live together in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. A companion book to the exhibition has been published by Contralto. Fovea Exhibitions, 143 Main Street, Beacon. (845) 765-2199; www.foveaexhibitions.org.

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The Resources of Rhetoric Through October 19, 2009

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