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39 Back to school
Fione Riley’s untitled photograph from his recent trip to India.
22 while you were sleeping The first ever refugee team will compete in the Summer Olympics, bigoted AirBnB hosts, and more you may have missed.
23 beinhart’s body politic Larry Beinhart on Roger Ailes, Donald Trump, and matters of public record.
Local colleges partner with area businesses to help professionals get ahead.
home & Garden 46 home: Where the doors are always open
Abbe Arson’s Woodstock home has an air of permanent invitation.
53 garden: the fluid beauty of hydrangeas
Art of business
24 The stories behind local business. This month: Bearsville Theater, Agade-NYC,
Food and Drink
Holy Dog, 1857 Spirits, and Kaatsbaan International Dance Center.
Kids & Family 28 Pacing it
Parents are relaxing the pace for themselves and their kids by using mindfulness techniques and other tools for slow parenting.
Community pages 30 Best friends forever
A profile of two classic Ulster County towns: Woodstock and Saugerties.
56 The Originals
A profile of Westchester’s other city: Peekskill.
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78 Mechanical meals
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whole living 90 Q&A with Christiane northrup, MD An alternative perspective on aging from the noted healer and author.
Community Resource Guide 87 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 88 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 92 whole living Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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62 Gallery & museum GUIDe
98 daily Calendar
66 music: and the kids
A profile of the indie-rock band headling the 2016 block party. Nightlife Highlights include Charles Bradley, Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration, Speed of Sound Festival, WGXC Lodge, and Jazz in the Valley Festival Reviews of Dust Bowl Faeries by Dust Bowl Faeries; August Love Song by Roswell Rudd & Heather Masse; and Featherweight by Tall County.
72 BOOKS: Village People
A profile of local poet Cheryl Clarke and the Hobart Festival of Women’s Writers.
74 book reviews
Reviews of The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton, Terminal by Marshall Karp and The Humorless Ladies of Border Control by Franz Nicolay.
76 Poetry Poems by Lachlan Brooks, Peter Coco, Cerissa DiValentino, normal, p, Thomas Perkins, Jodi Powell, Quentin Rowan, Mathew Spireng, Mike Vahsen, Mike Vallo, and Alison Woods. Edited by Phillip X. Levine.
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103 The Indigenous Grandmothers return on August 25. the forecast
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Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 97 Nearly 30 artists will perform at Meltasia music festival from September 2 to 5. 101 “Sensing Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill” runs through October 10 at The Clark. 103 The Indigenous Grandmothers lead a three-day healing retreat at Menla. 104 Arm-of-the-Sea Theater’s annual Esopus Creek Puppet Suite August 19 to 21. 106 Multidisplinary artist Paul McMahon gives a presentation on August 20. 107 Kevin VanHentenryck will lead two stone carving workshops at Opus 40. 108 The Summer Hoot festival resturns to the Ashokan Center on August 26. 110 Douglass Truth portrays Death in “An Intimate Evening with Death, Herself.”
planet waves 114 How Not to Go insane
Eric Francis Coppolino on the importance of the relationship with the self.
116 horoscopes
What are the stars telling us? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.
120 parting shot
Tivoli-based photographer Pete Mauney collects tossed aside negatives and repurposes them on his blog Global Pillage.
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EDITORIAL Editorial Director Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com creative Director David Perry dperry@chronogram.com Books editor Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com health & wellness editor Wendy Kagan wholeliving@chronogram.com Poetry Editor Phillip X Levine poetry@chronogram.com music Editor Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com Kids & Family Editor Hillary Harvey kidsandfamily@chronogram.com contributing Editor Anne Pyburn Craig apcraig@chronogram.com editorial interns AJ Distelhurst, Leah Habib proofreader Barbara Ross contributors Mary Angeles Armstrong, Larry Beinhart, Stephen Blauweiss, Eric Francis Coppolino, Brian PJ Cronin, Larry Decker, Eva Deitch, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Molly Maeve Egan, Mark Gerlach, Roy Gumpel, Kandy Harris, Ron Hart, Ann Hutton, Sparrow, Seth Rogovoy, Phyllis Segura, Frank Spinelli, Michelle Sutton, Franco Vogt, Robert Burke Warren
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Untitled fionn reilly | digital photograph | 2016 Amazingly, last month marked my 10th year as music editor at Chronogram. And for nearly every month of that decade, the stunning portraits that correspond with the articles I’ve written for our Music section have been created by the madly talented eye of photographer Fionn Reilly. One of the rare exceptions, however, is that of this month’s feature on our 2016 Chronogram Block Party stars And the Kids, whose collective likeness comes from an image provided by their record label. But Fionn had good reason for not being available to shoot the band for this month’s issue: When we were on deadline, he was in India amassing a rich trove of his typically magical images—one of which here adorns our cover. Fionn is no stranger to exotic locales. His website swells with arresting shots taken in Paris, New Orleans, and the hidden corners of his native England, as well as India, which he had previously visited in 2013. “It’s bloody hot here, very challenging,” he says on the line from Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). “The camera lens constantly steams up from the humidity, and I’ve been caught in the rain a lot. But the dampness has given the buildings a beautiful patina. I’m captivated by the teeming energy here.” In addition to the so-called City of Joy, the return visit would take Fionn to the regions of Rajasthan and Delhi. “When I was a kid my parents joked that my bedroom looked like [notorious dungeon] the Black Hole of Calcutta, so that’s where the fascination with India started,” he explains. This picture, of workers and castoff fruit at Kolkata’s central agricultural distribution market, was actually shot with the lensman’s iPhone. “I came here because I wanted to document the working people,” Fionn says. “The human spirit of the men who unload the trucks at the market amazed me. They work and sleep [on site] on and off all day in the heat, but always maintain their humor.” The featured picture aside, it’s interesting to note that while being immersed in a culture renowned for its dazzling colors Fionn has elected to shoot largely in black and white. “I think black and white film often reveals more [than color], because it penetrates more deeply,” says the photographer. “Especially with an older city like this one.” As the flames of paranoia and hatred continue to be fueled by certain unnamed political opportunists, it’s clearly crucial that we in the West cultivate our understanding of our global neighbors. Unlike on his 2013 sojourn to the region, during his July journey Fionn didn’t bump into many fellow Western visitors. Does he think it’s because travelers feel unsafe? “Maybe,” he responds. “But when I’m walking through the Muslim parts of town and other areas, there’s no fear, no edge, at all. People are totally friendly. They don’t want to fight you.They just want to sell you a chicken, or whatever it is they have, just to survive.” Portfolio: Fionnreilly.com. —Peter Aaron chronogram.com
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esteemed reader The Self is everywhere, without a body, without a shape, whole, pure, wise, all knowing, far shining, self-depending, all transcending, in the eternal procession assigning to every period its proper duty. —Eesha Upanishad, translated by W. B.Yeats Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: As we stood on line at the supermarket, my son, who’s nine, looked at the front of the NewYork Times. Above the fold was a color picture of Mr.Trump standing at a podium, addressing an audience. The caption said he was delivering a prepared speech at a party convention. “He’s lying,” my son said. Surprised, I looked up from the paper to his face, curious to know from where in him the statement was arising. “How can you tell?” I asked. “I can just tell.” “But what in the picture tells you he’s lying?” “I can just tell. Plus, have you ever heard him talk? His voice is empty.” I chose the words of my response carefully. “It may be that he lies,” I said. “If you can hear it, it is so. I have never listened to him speak, so I don’t know.” The boy was quickly on to other things, but the conversation lingered in my mind as I pondered the exchange. Engaging with the theater of politics and its characters is a slippery slope. How much can we say we know about the parties, policies, and politicians? In particular, how much can we know from our own perception? For me this is the guiding principle: I can only formulate a description of an impression I have experienced, in myself, directly—no more, no less. Though I do not seek out the “news of the world” as it is portrayed on the screens and airwaves and papers of the media, contact with it is unavoidable. A scan with peripheral vision of the newspaper headlines, a glance at the social media feed, or simply overhearing conversations is enough to know what is being churned out of the media machine, and to stay up to date on “current events.” In virtually all channels the world is described within a narrow scope. News is what’s of interest to the large organizations—governments and businesses—the very ones responsible for creating the news feed. These do not describe the real lives of the billions of people and millions of communities that live together on the planet.The trivia, boons, and crimes the media describe represent only a tiny, even infinitesimal, part of the life of humanity at any moment. Where does the virtual world of the media, with its hyperfocus on crimes, violence, and meaningless ephemera leave off, and engagement with real, human life begin? And what would we have left to say if we only spoke about what we have come to know directly in the arena of experience? Perhaps not much, for a while, but I think the conversation would quickly become more interesting. It would be quite a discipline, wouldn’t it, to speak only of what one has come to know directly, without opinions, collections of data about things, positions for and against people, situations, or policies about which there is no knowledge directly gained? I had this in mind as I answered my son. There was a great temptation to engage the liberal to radical political viewpoints that characterize my habitual view. I felt a great pull to indoctrinate the boy with my opinions, to tell him that, yeah, the candidate is clearly a monster of vanity without a conscience, and yes, clearly a liar. But instead, I could only say what I knew, which is that I don’t know. As the rhetoric and imagery about “the world” in the media becomes steadily more horrific, banal, and lacking in any connection to genuine intelligence and conscience, I feel myself drawn to occupy my inner life with impressions that are closer to reality, and I see that inasmuch as we are invited to engage with mass psychosis and hysteria, we are also invited to be present with what and who is immediately here. Here and now are the tasks and relationships that make up an infinitely more real world. Here is the arena in which we can transform the future with the consciousness and kindness we bring to each exchange. Every even small deed has an impact that ripples outward; our deeds are where intelligence and warmth are broadcast out to the whole universe. Engaging wholly with the real events and people and needs in life requires that we make room for the greater reality of this direct contact. It means leaving off imbibing the excess that overflows the sewers of politics, business, and media, and instead filling ourselves with ideas and impressions that are full of substance.These are the impressions of life, here and now, in nature, and with one another. It may well be that once we disengage from the channels our view of the state and future of humanity begins to shift toward the positive. Once we stop reciting the vitriolic, negative litany of reasons the world is in a sorry, hopeless state, we might just begin to see that the state and future of humanity is bright. As the teacher J. G. Bennett proposed in one of his last talks, “We must replace all negative attitudes toward the existing world with a feeling of confidence and love towards the new world that is being born, towards the still unborn child that is the future humanity.” —Jason Stern
Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Photo by Frank Spinelli
chronogram readers will be familiar with the work of woodstock-based photographer frank spinelli, whose photo, hug deli, was featured on the cover of the december 2014 issue. spinelli recently traveled to cleveland to document the Republican national convention. the photos came in too late for this month’s edition, but we’ll be runinng a photo essay of spinelli’s rnC adventure in september.
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in Brooklyn while sitting in their patrol car. Officer Darren H. Goforth was killed getting gas. The total number of police killed by firearms has increased by 72 percent since this time last year. In 2015, US police killed over 300 black men, 25 percent of whom were unarmed. So far in 2016, police have killed at least 147 African-Americans—131 were shot to death. Philando Castile, the 123rd person murdered, was shot three times because his vehicle had a broken taillight. The night before Castile died, Alton Sterling was fatally shot after Baton Rouge police received reports of him selling CDs, armed, in Baton Rouge. According to data kept by the FBI, violence against police is still at an all time low. Source: Huffington Post, Washington Post, Guardian, PBS NewsHour, National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund
Brazilian Rep. former soccer player Romario (R) and Congressman Jean Wyllys wave during the inauguration ceremony for deputies at Brazil’s National Congress in Brasilia in 2011. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
An epidemic of anti gay and anti trans violence has (by some counts) earned Brazil the ranking of the world’s deadliest place for sexual and gender minorities. Nearly 1,600 people have died in hate-motivated attacks there since 2012, according to Grupo Gay da Bahia—meaning a gay or transgender person is killed in Brazil almost every day. Such statistics can be hard to believe from a nation that holds the world’s biggest gay pride parade, in São Paulo. “We live off this image as an open and tolerant place,” said Jandira Queiroz, the mobilization coordinator at Amnesty International Brazil. “Homophobic violence has hit crisis levels, and it’s getting worse.” The Brazilian government has introduced numerous laws and policies aimed at improving the lives of sexual minorities. In 1996, it was among the first to offer free antiretroviral drugs to people with HIV. Brazil was among the earliest countries in Latin America to allow gay couples to adopt children. In 2013, the Brazilian judiciary effectively legalized same-sex marriage. However, Jean Wyllys, Brazil’s only openly gay member of its congress, said evangelical lawmakers have prevented legislation that would punish anti gay discrimination and increase penalties for hate crimes. Source: New York Times Bigoted hosts—not hotels—are the greatest threat to Airbnb’s business. In recent months, Airbnb has banned several hosts who were racist or transphobic. When Airbnb’s hosts deny guest accommodations on account of their race or gender, can the company be held liable for those actions? The law is unclear. The Fair Housing Act excludes rentals in buildings with five or fewer rooms. Airbnb could also seek protection from the Communications Decency Act that shields Internet companies for user-generated content. It was used to defend Craigslist in a 2008 lawsuit that alleged the online classifieds company had violated the Fair Housing Act by posting rental ads with explicitly discriminatory phrases such as “no minorities.” Source: QZ In late June, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter declared transgender Americans may serve openly in the military. “Americans who want to serve and can meet our standards should be afforded the opportunity to compete to do so,” said Carter. Approximately 2,450 transgender active-duty military members no longer have to serve in secrecy: It is now illegal to discharge someone solely on account of being transgender. The Pentagon will also cover the medical costs for military personnel seeking transition surgery, estimated at 65 service members a year, according to a RAND Corporation study. Source: New York Times On July 17 three police officers were fatally shot and four were wounded after a gunfight in Baton Rouge. Five policemen died and seven were wounded during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas in July. Two police officers were shot to death
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In July a group of inmates broke out of their holding cell at a jail in Weatherford, Texas, to save a prison guard who had lost consciousness after falling. After witnessing him fall, the six inmates yelled for help, while breaking out of their cell and banging on doors. Even though the unconscious guard had a firearm and keys, the inmates remained committed to helping him. “It never crossed my mind not to help whether he’s got a gun or a badge. If he falls down, I’m gonna help him,” inmate Nick Kelton remarked. Surveillance videos show officers ushering the inmates back into their holding cell, before they administered CPR to the guard. The prison guard was thankful for the inmates’ response and will return to work. Source: Guardian (UK) The US Fish and Wildlife Service has developed a plan to save North America’s only native ferret, the black-footed ferret. The US government is set to unleash drones that fire vaccine-covered M&Ms to protect both black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs from the sylvatic plague, a flea-borne disease spread from rats that were introduced from ships arriving in California in the 1800s. While individual ferrets can be vaccinated by an injection, wildlife officials have found it difficult to protect prairie dogs over large areas. Black-footed ferrets feast upon prairie dogs, meaning that the disappearance of their codependent prey would prove disastrous for the species. The black-footed ferret was briefly thought to be extinct in 1981. The current population originates from just seven ferrets that were brought into captivity and selectively bred. Source: Guardian (UK) On July 5, a South Carolina town passed ordinance banning residents from wearing saggy pants that intentionally display their underwear. Timmonsville Town Council established the new rules after a five-to-one vote. The new legislation also prohibits individuals from being naked in public and showing pornographic material. First offenders will get a verbal warning from law enforcement, while second offenders may become included in a registry of repeat offenders. Offenders breaking the ordinance three times or more may receive a fine from $100 to $600. The ordinance was well received on the Timmonsville town Facebook page. Source: USA Today Americans waste an estimated 50 percent of the produce grown each year due to unrealistic cosmetic standards. Perfectly edible produce is left in the field to rot, fed to livestock, placed in landfills, or abandoned in a warehouse because of slight blemishes. Food waste is the number one cause of landfill and incinerators, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Tarnished crops are often abandoned in the field by farmers to reduce labor costs. “At times there is 25 percent of the crop that is just thrown away or fed to cattle,” remarked Wayde Kirschmen, whose family has been farming in California since the 1930s. The Obama administration and the United Nations have pledged to reduce avoidable food waste by 2030. Source: Guardian (UK) In 2015, 65 million people were displaced from their homelands. On August 5 the first-ever team of refugees will compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Unlike other teams, these 10 individuals will march under the Olympic rings, instead of a national flag. The team includes swimmers from Syria, judokas from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and runners from South Sudan and Ethiopia. “I would never imagine this was possible. I got back to judo without knowing. Now I’m really touched. I think about it every time, and I just can’t believe it,” remarked Yolande Bukasa Mabika, a judoka who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo and now resides in Brazil. The formation of the refugee team was created by the International Olympic Committee to address the refugee crisis and give refugee athletes a chance to compete for the gold. Source: Times of Israel Compiled by A. J. Distelhurst and Leah Habib
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oes anyone remember the Republican Party presidential debates? Though the magical powers of irrelevance make them seem to have vanished into some misty past, they actually took place quite recently. At the time, there were two things very striking about them. Especially in the early debates. The questions that were asked—and the answers that were demanded—had nothing to do with running a country. They were fitting, however, as auditions to become Fox News commentators.That being where zombie rightwing politicians—Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ollie North—go for paychecks after their actual political careers have died. The second was the eyelashes on the female hosts supplied by Fox News and Fox Business. Call me naïve, sheltered, oblivious—it’s probably true—but I had never seen the like.They had the industrial giantism of the teeth on the buckets of hydraulic excavators. How did those women keep their eyes open? How did the lashes stay on? Or peel off? I assume they did, maybe they didn’t. Who were the engineers that created those cantilevered devices? Actually, they are part and parcel of what it means to be a woman on Fox. That brings us to Gretchen Carlson. She didn’t work the debates, but she was one Fox’s leading ladies and, as much as anyone else, she embodied the collective ideal of femininity inside the group mind of Fox World. A retro vision that harkens back to Marilyn Monroe. Blonde. A former Miss America. Pretending she wasn’t nearly as smart as the two genuinely dumb guys sitting either side of her on that couch on “Fox & Friends,” and any time a complicated, three-syllable word came up, oh gosh, little her had to look it up on Google! Tight tops on those zaftig breasts. And, most of all, always in a skirt so short that she had to keep her legs crossed, and if they weren’t, her knees pressed forcefully and resolutely against each other, lest the camera look right up between them! It was, day in and day out, like the famous scene of Marilyn over the subway grating when the wind from below blew her skirts up, and oh my! Oh gee! Oh gosh! We might see what’s up there. If there is any doubt that this was about the Living Id from the ’50s, Google Gretchen, select videos, and see how many YouTube clips come up that revel in glimpses of her upper thighs. This was deliberate and designed. Female anchors were required to wear skirts. All the sets had women on couches or on stools. If a woman was behind a desk, it was made of glass, so viewers could see what was down there! The camera dedicated to peeking was fondly called “the leg cam” by the crew. That brings us to Roger Ailes. The man who created Fox News. Which is far more than “news.” It’s a transformative phenomenon. It ripped the media and politics away from its cautious, centrist, fact-checking conventional wisdom and took us to the true is false, false is true, Tea Party, fact free, Palin-SantorumTrump, all-spin zone that we’re living in today. Gretchen has now sued Roger. Although she was willing to play a bimbo on TV for a reputed $800,000 a year, she bristled at being treated like a dumb blonde in her real life. She claimed that Ailes forced her off “Fox & Friends” “after she refused his sexual advances and complained to him about persistent harassment in the newsroom.” (NewYork Times, 07/07/2016). Shortly after she filed, NewYork magazine came out with an article: “6 More Women Allege That Roger Ailes Sexually Harassed Them.” Collectively, their stories make it very clear that Ailes routinely demanded sex for jobs and promotions and threatened retribution if they turned him down. Since
Roger looks like the love-child of Alfred Hitchcock (the body and the jowls) and Dick Cheney (the pallor and the scowl), it’s hard to imagine any person—man or woman—having sex with him except out of fear or for favors. Fox’s contract with Gretchen calls for any disputes to be settled by arbitration and in complete secrecy. Kudos to Ms. Carlson. She was smart enough to sue Ailes personally. And that’s the only reason we all know about it. It also makes this story doubly important, beyond a tale of a boss firing workers who don’t “lay down with the big boys,” to quote one of Roger’s more colorful propositions. Ailes, along with Fox, is fighting desperately to push this tale back into its corporate hidey-hole, so it can be locked away in silence. Oh, the irony. Imagine what endless, unremitting, salacious, and profit-making fun Fox would have with this story if it were about the head of CNN, the NewYork Times, or Hillary Clinton’s husband. The courts may ultimately accept Roger’s argument that Gretchen’s complaint belongs in corporate arbitration. Then the cone of silence will descend on the whole affair. Here’s the question for us. Is there a public interest here? Should we have a right to know? There is a presumption—even a constitutional imperative—that trials in America, both criminal and civil—are public events, their proceedings are open to the public, and their results are a matter of public record. In civil cases, this is less and less true. Most corporate and business offenses—even if they result in multiple deaths—result in civil cases. They and their lawyers have found more and more ways to shroud themselves in secrecy. It is routine for a company to demand confidentiality when they pay for the harm they’ve done. So people bought Firestone tires for their Ford Explorers and then rolled over and died, even though there had already been lawsuits that proved it might happen, because those settlements included confidentiality agreements. Once the story came out, smart people bought Cooper tires. Since there had already been successful lawsuits against Cooper, it might have been a matter of public record that their product unraveled when the rubber met the road. But it wasn’t. Nobody had yet found a way around their confidentiality agreements. So more people died. Publically, Allstate Insurance still advertised that you’re in “Good Hands.” But privately—and secretly—back in the 1990s, they put their hands into the “Boxing Gloves” strategy. Deny and delay legitimate claims to force policy holders to accept payouts of 40 cents on the dollar. “Make litigating claims…so expensive and time-consuming that any victory by the policy holder would be purely Pyrrhic” (see “An Insurer in the Grip of Greed” by David J. Berardinelli, TRIAL magazine, July 2007). How extensive is this practice? Is it still going on? We don’t know. It’s secret. Do you have an Allstate policy? Call them up. Ask them about it. Always, when we speak of bad corporate and legal practices, we come to Donald Trump. There are multiple lawsuits against Trump University, including a RICO case. Trump flew into his famous “the judge is a Mexican” tirade when he ordered the release of material that documented—according to the plaintiffs— how Trump University went about defrauding its customers.The defense claimed that these should be protected as “trade secrets.” What do you think? Should the techniques of selling expensive, fake, and useless education be protected? As trade secrets? Or is there a public interest in knowing how frauds are committed? 8/16 ChronograM 23
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In creating the Source Adage-NYC ambient fragrance line, its designers sought to imbue every aspect of their product with neoclassical style that would transcend cliché, from the signature black glass vessel to the scents within, which incorporate notes like exotic wood, fruit, fine bourbon, and fresh tobacco. “The industry targets women and stops with lavender, jasmine, and roses,” says brand creator Christopher Draghi. “We thought a more complex fragrance would be more interesting. Both males and females are drawn to complexity and fine spices.”
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“The single most important thing we’re doing is trying to reach back and project the legacy of [legendary talent manager and entrepreneur] Albert Grossman, who created the compound,” says John Fitzgerald, one of the partners running the Bearsville Theater compound near Woodstock. “The site needed to be integrated; we built the central bluestone courtyard and fire pit to pull together the three restaurants and the theater. The zoning permits 40 hotel rooms, and we’re developing a site plan for 40 tiny houses in the woods, connected by footpaths, built to LEED Platinum standards. The property is exquisite, and we’ve spent the last couple of years restoring the level of excellence across the board, repainting, bringing a master chef to the café. Albert’s widow, Sally, lives across the stream; she’s been somewhat involved conceptually, and she’s been smiling a lot.” The key to the legacy: live music six nights a week.
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Chino of Middletown’s Holy Dog doesn’t have a lot of time to worry about his small restaurant’s Internet presence. “I put my effort into the food, but customers put stuff online for me,” he says. “They supplement my nonexistent tech skills.” And they gobble up his all-beef, preservative-free Hatfield hot dogs, Italian sausages, and kielbasa with outside-the-box toppings like glazed apples, aioli sauce, and brie and cortija cheeses. “We’ve neglected the national food for too long,” says Chino, whose former restaurant was in Williamsburg. “Everyone has the right to a good hot dog! There should be amazing hot dogs on every corner!” Not every customer realizes that Chino (real name: Jaime Palacios) is a Chilean who was born in China and raised in Mexico—or that his visual art has earned him a place in the canon of contemporary Latin American masters. Here, it’s all about the dogs. “I think you should be able to create wonderful things,” he says, “with things anyone can have access to.”
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Q&A with 1857 Spirits
Dorcas Roehrs, president of 1857 Spirits
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From a six-generation family farm in the heart of the Schoharie Valley comes a new beverage sensation: 1857 Spirits. Using potatoes grown in nine feet of rich alluvial soil and spring water from the aquifer that feeds it, young Elias Barber distills three types: a cocktail vodka, a signature sipping vodka with pear and vanilla notes, and Red, which has hints of pepper and fig. Elias has observed that his grandfather never would have seen this coming; what does his grandmother have to say about it all? Grandma Grace, Matriarch: I’m so happy to see another generation of Barbers working on the farm. Each generation has gone through some form of reinvention, but we always stay close to our roots. I am very proud to see my family grow and to always stay close. Pop would have been very proud to see another generation working the farm as well. While his summer drink of choice was always a good ol’ fashioned root beer float, he was always one to recognize hard work, dedication, and ingenuity. We think Pop would approve!
Having 1857 served at the Cornell Club and Bear’s Steakhouse...that’s rock star stuff. How has adding a distillery changed life on the farm? Grandma Grace: As for changing life on the farm, Barber’s Farm has always been a family farm first and foremost. We don’t see that changing anytime soon. Over the years the farm has evolved and grown. The distillery is another expansion of what has always been a family-first business which takes pride in the quality of what we produce. We are just happy that this latest venture is able to contribute to this legacy while bringing even more of the family to the farm. Are people surprised to find farm-to-bottle vodka at a greenmarket? Aunt Dorcas, business and marketing: We’re not the first. But we find people who have been visiting the farm or visiting Barber’s Family Farm’s stand for years at the markets, are pleasantly surprised. We had one man last fall remark, “This is the best road stand ever! I can get my V.—my vegetables and vodka!”
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Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, the Hudson Valley’s “cultural park for dance,” was founded in 1990 to afford professional dancers the space and time they couldn’t afford in Manhattan, and often sees former students return again as renowned professionals. “Alexandre Hammoudi was a promising Extreme Ballet student 10 years ago; she’s now an American Ballet Theatre soloist and returned last year to dance in the Kaatsbaan 25th Anniversary Gala,” says Gregory Cary, one of the four founding dancers of the Tivoli center. “Contemporary choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi boasts that her entire repertory was created at Kaatsbaan, including Suspended Women, which is now a permanent part of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s repertory.” And there’s plenty more where that came from. “The rate of program expansion has been overwhelming,” says Cary. In the past year, the theater hosted 18 dance companies, and 200 dance artists attended the residency program; the Extreme Ballet program enrolls 120 teens every summer, and the Kaatsbaan Academy teaches 80 students from the local community.
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PACING IT DESIGNING A FAMILY CULTURE I
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t’s painting day at the Acorn School in Accord. At the bell, teachers sing to invite the two-to-five-year-olds over to the covered deck outside. By June, the children have worked up to using all three primary colors. So each station has three jars of paint. With hands in laps, the children wait while each of them is handed a piece of damp paper and a paintbrush. In experiencing this lengthy setup, the children are learning to infuse the activity with reverence, an integral part of the nursery school. “Painting day is a very reverent activity that we do,” says Acorn’s director, Motria Shuhan. “Learning how to use a paintbrush properly, being respectful to these materials, all of these tiny lessons are gestures of reverence.” The idea stems from a desire to pause and drink in the moment. “Reverence is such good medicine for today’s world,” Shuhan says. For many of us, scheduling back-to-back activities and taking on multiple time-consuming roles is the norm. And we pass the values of busyness on to our kids: rushing them from the house into a full day of school, and then to a roster of afterschool pursuits requiring intense time commitments. “There’s a real stream out there around getting as much done in as little time as possible,” Shuhan explains. “Most parents are relieved to be in a place where someone’s saying, Don’t hurry, don’t add more, simplify, create more space, do less.” That’s a message that’s not often heard or heeded, but it’s one that experts feel is incredibly important when it comes to our kids. With 7.5 percent of children aged 6-17 on prescribed medication to treat stress, lack of focus, and depression, and a growing awareness around addiction to video games and social media, our love of distraction is now being challenged by a call to pay more attention. For over a decade, Canadian journalist Carl Honore has been pointing out the irony of our collective speed-based lifestyle. In his 2005 TED Talk, he said, “Sometimes it takes a wake-up call to alert us to the fact that we’re hurrying through our lives instead of living it. We’re living the fast life instead of the good life.” His words then, and in his 2009 book Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting, struck a nerve. Not only because of secret desires to stop and smell the roses, but also because on some level we know that this cultural norm of busyness is marking our relationships. Honore wrote, “Wherever you look these days, the message is the same: Childhood is 28 KIDS & FAMILY CHRONOGRAM 8/16
too precious to be left to children and children are too precious to be left alone. All this meddling is forging a new kind of childhood.” One that ultimately forges a new kind of parenthood, too. This is where the helicoptering and tiger parenting comes in. In succumbing to the pressure of the Joneses, we lose sight of our instincts, and begin to manage our kids instead of parenting them, as if we were personal assistants, professionalizing parenthood. Honore advocates slowing down not just in our family lives but also in our business lives, our networking, and, most recently, in his 2013 book, The Slow Fix, even in our problem-solving. He touts an international slow movement, starting with slow food, slow sex, and reaching as far as slow cities, where an emphasis is placed on public parks and bicycles. “Speed is fun; speed is sexy,” he said at TED. “Speed becomes a way of walling ourselves off from the bigger, deeper questions.” Unhurried Unfolding When the coxsackievirus crossed Otis’s blood brain barrier, he developed neurological issues. His mother, Slava Vukelic, read everything she could about how to support and heal him: Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne and Lisa M. Ross, Weston Price’s writings, books on nature deficit disorder, Waldorf education, and bioregionalism. It ultimately led her to move the family upstate to Tivoli and to shift their thinking. “By slowing down, we realized that we started choosing consciously. We’re not just letting life happen to us,” Vukelic says. Giving herself time to think about offers didn’t feel like a choice before; she felt like she needed to know an answer and immediately start performing. Now Vukelic allows their days to organically unfold, often by a nearby stream as her two sons wander and discover along its banks. In so doing, what happened was surprising. Otis is now six and healthy. And Vukelic noticed changes in herself and her parenting, too. Slowing down, she says, has a lot to do with self-trust: that you know what’s best for your family, and that you can manifest elements of your life. “When it slows down, a lot of creativity comes from all sorts of places. There are odd little synchronicities and poetic moments that you notice.” That requires a level of mindfulness. Bernadette Noll, the author of Slow Family Living, told me, “That’s probably one of the bigger pieces of it all: mind-
fully going through the motions.” The message is often that parenting is something to be endured, even while people with older children remind us to relish each day because it’s so short-lived. For Noll, connection can be found in moments of pause, scattered throughout the day. “Imagine if we put it on the calendar, and gave family time as much space as we give all those other things,” she says. As kids get older, the conversation around slowing down changes too.When her 13-year-old was holed up in her room, Noll assumed she was indulging in too much screen time. So she asked her daughter about it, and learned that she’d been digitally connecting with a friend to collaborate on hilarious videos. Rather than jumping to punish, Noll took the time to enter her daughter’s world. “The long-range plan is, for that connection we desire with our adult children, we put it into place now.” So that we can create meaningful family relationships. Slow parenting takes the pressure off our kids, and it might just make our experience of parenting deepen.
EXPERT TIPS ON SLOW PARENTING Carl Honore coined the term “slow parenting.” “Slow parents,” he says, “understand that child-rearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product development. It is not a project; it’s a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.” Which sounds amazing, right? So how do we do that? The experts featured in this story have a few tips. Build gratitude into your day. According to Motria Shuhan of the Acorn School in Accord, lighting a candle at bedtime or singing a blessing before a meal a day can be a concrete example of slowing down. “Those protected places of reverence in our day, where we stop and say thank you and go a little deeper, those moments are the seeds of moral values,” she says. Designed rituals are a reminder to every member of what the family is creating together. It shines a light on how important it is to value things. Let everyone get to their tea. It took Slava Vukelic a while to feel she had a right to her teatime. “And they know that we all have a little thing that we need, to claim our space and time,” she says. When families demand a lot of each other, people end up violating each other’s pace. Allowing each member, including the parents, to carve out time for themselves actually gives the others a sense of autonomy, and everyone feels respected.
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Scheduling spaciousness. “We live in a society where we sort of wear busyness like a crown,” says author Bernadette Noll. We brag about it. The idea of scheduling spaciousness means we might take one thing off the family calendar, leave five minutes earlier, or spend weekends chilling at home. “So we don’t walk around with that feeling of being rushed, but the feeling of breathing and enjoying and connecting.” Check in with everyone. Noll suggests asking if each family task or activity is working for everyone. That might mean a regular family meeting, or starting conversations in the car or at dinner. “There’s no dogma in slow parenting,” Noll says. “It can look completely different in every household. Maybe there’s one family where all the kids are signed up for teams and clubs and yet, in what they’re doing, they’re still able to feel connection to the process rather than going through the machinations. It can look the way that brings your family the most connection.” Keep the focus of parenting. Honore says, “We have stumbled into a unique moment in the history of childhood where we feel immense pressure to give our children the best of everything and make them the best at everything—to give them a ‘perfect’ childhood.” But what that’s done is make us hate parenting: the pressure, the lack of intuitive response, the slavishness, the feeling that we’re fucking it all up. When the focus strays from supporting our children, we can lose sight of the joy and meaning that parenting can contain. Instead, we can check in. “Is this what I want, or is this what I think I have to do?” Succumbing to the latter means the focus of our parenting is on what other people think, rather than what’s best for our families. As Honore says, “Slow parenting means allowing our children to work out who they are, rather than what we want them to be.” Find more tips for slowing down at Carlhonore.com, and in the recently released Look at Us Now: A Creative Family Journal by Bernadette Noll.
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Saugerties and Woodstock By Kandy Harris PHOTOs BY eva deitch
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f Saugerties and Woodstock were best friends in a Hollywood movie, Saugerties would be the workaholic who spends the evenings and weekends making furniture, while Woodstock would be the wood sprite, always dancing around to music only it can hear and wearing Stevie Nicks shawls. Or so it would appear on the surface. In fact, both Ulster County towns are a complex wash of history, arts, music, and culture, with old-fashioned country sensibilities rubbing elbows with hipsters and millennials as their popularity as destinations continues to grow. Saugerties was once a mill town, steeped in labor, industry, and the business opportunities that access to both the Hudson River and the Esopus Creek had to offer, owed in part to a lot of lucrative bluestone. Woodstock had its own industries like glassmaking and leather tanning, and eventually evolved into a resort/vacation town. Byrdcliffe Art Colony established itself in 1902, but artists were in Woodstock long before that, feasting sumptuously from the boundless inspiration bubbling forth from the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley that lie at Woodstock’s doorstep. In a sense, the arts had Saugerties surrounded, from Palenville in Greene County to Woodstock eight miles to the west, so it’s no shock that Saugerties boasts its own art community, which is apparent during the spring and summer, when the village sidewalks are populated with artistic interpretations of horses, chairs, or lighthouses, each piece auctioned off in the fall by the town’s chamber of commerce. 30 community pages ChronograM 8/16
During any season, however, Saugerties’s affinity for hard work and creative pursuits is painted across the community. “The Village of Saugerties is wonderful, with so many eclectic and new shops and restaurants,” explains Marjorie Block, the chairperson of tourism for the Town of Saugerties. “Many of them are owned by young people who have found Saugerties to be a great place to start a business.” While she acknowledges the connection between Saugerties and Woodstock, Block also stresses that Saugerties is its own place. “We have been considered ‘Woodstock’s little brother,’” says Block. “But I don’t think that’s a correct interpretation. Saugerties is very diverse. We have the arts, but also a strong sports presence. I believe also, because of the size of the community as well as our location, we have a strong business and manufacturing background.” While new retail ventures might be skewing young in Saugerties, the town has a healthy appreciation for the past.The Saugerties Antiques Center on Main Street, for example, with its storefront windows, offers a tantalizing peek at the good stuff inside, like funky vintage clothing, old postcards, and handmade items from local artisans. Likewise, vintage clothing store the Pink Chandelier, located on Partition Street, is part of Saugerties’s cadre of vintage and couture boutiques, which also includes Juda Leah Atelier & Boutique, Capsule Collection, and the Well. The vintage lovefest continues at Rock Star Rodeo, also on Partition Street, where the sign on the front door reads, “You Don’t Need Anything in This Store.” Oh, but you do need a pair of vintage cowboy boots
Clockwise from top: Darin Selby on his Peace Chariot in Woodstock; The Golden Notebook in Woodstock; Garden Cafe in Woodstock; Seamon Park in Saugerties; Sarah Minkoff and Sean Dunn at Saugerties Antiques.
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Clockwise from left: Juda Leah Atelier and Botique in Saugerties; Partition Street Wine Shop in Saugerties; Rock Star Rodeo in Saugerties.
(of course) and some gifts of the “wacky” variety—you just didn’t know it. The Orpheum Theater, on Main Street, is a retro attraction too, since it used to be a vaudeville theater. These days, the movie house plays first-run films and Woodstock Film Festival entries during the fall. Best of all: It’s cheaper than the theater at the Hudson Valley Mall. Saugerties expresses itself through food as well, from fine dining to standard takeout. Slices Pizza is a clear favorite among many pizza options, thanks to offerings like the authentic Grandma Sicilian, caprese, and vegan and salad pies. Across the street, on the corner of Partition and Main, Rock Da Casbah (formerly Rock Da Pasta in New Paltz) is renowned for its pasta-packed menu; vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options; and rock ’n’ roll-themed ambiance apparent in both its decor and menu (“Fleetwood Mac & Cheese”; the joke was there all along), plus frequent live music. Further down Partition, there’s ’Cue, the country cousin to Miss Lucy’s Kitchen. ’Cue is all about casual, backyard-style dining complete with half racks of ribs served on paper plates, outdoor seating at picnic tables, live music, and Miss Lucy’s Kitchen’s famous desserts served in mason jars. Out of the village, over in Malden, a Hudson River-side hamlet in the town of Saugerties, Annarella Ristorante serves up Tuscan-influenced dishes like jumbo shrimp prepared with cannellini beans, tomato, and sage. While Shakti Yoga used to be the only yoga game in town, the new Saugerties Hot Yoga begs you to break a sweat seven days a week in a 100-degree studio with hot vinyasa, Bikram-style, and community classes open to every level. There are less sweaty ways to unwind, of course. Perfect Blend Yarn and Tea on Market Street offers unwinding in both the literal and the figurative sense, since it stocks an array of yarns, needles, and knitting accessories. Bring your knitting project to the next knitalong, take a class, or drop in for some knitting help on Saturday mornings, all while sipping tea. 32 community pages ChronograM 8/16
The Catskill Mountain view that inspired an artist movement lives right in the village in a place called Seamon Park, one of the best places in town to catch both a deep breath and a glimpse as you take in the views. Down by the creek, where the 18th-century grist mill once sat, a crumbling replica that was built in the 1970s remains, harkening back to Saugerties’s mill-town roots. Seamon Park also hosts the town’s annual Mum Festival, which sees the site festooned with hundreds of chrysanthemum blooms. The Hudson Valley Garlic Festival is the granddaddy of Saugerties festivals and happens every early fall at Cantine Veterans Memorial Complex (known simply by locals as Cantine Field). For two days, food vendors offer their culinary interpretations of the delectable “stinking rose.” While HITS (Horse Shows in the Sun) equestrian center isn’t a festival, it maintains a festival atmosphere by hosting eight weeks of horse shows and competitions from May through mid-September, all open to the public and hugely popular among kids dreaming of ponies. There’s plenty more for kids too, even if they’re not digging the Little League scene at Cantine Field. The Boys and Girls Club of Saugerties is also geared toward keeping kids constructively busy with programs (including an afterschool program) throughout the year for young children and teens. Membership is $10 per year. Heading west on Route 212, away from the Village of Saugerties and toward Woodstock, is the Paul Green Rock Academy, which teaches the fine art of rocking to kids aged 8 to 18; they can choose between guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and voice lessons and participate in performances year-round. Adults can get in on the fun too, at the PGRA Adult Program, which has its own rehearsals and performances. The Paul Green Rock Academy recently acquired the former Zena Elementary School in Woodstock and has converted it into the Woodstock Music Lab, and will be expanding its programs there to focus on the studio
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Marijuana & Hemp: Past, Present, and Future
Opens September 17 at 5:00 p.m. 30 panels “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Ou t.”
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Clockwise from top left: Kristina Sarhadi at Peace Love & Cupcakes in Woodstock; Amanda Depew at The Tea Shop of Woodstock; Brett Munson at Sunflower Natural Foods Market in Woodstock.
engineering and business sides of the music field. Long timeWoodstock resident Lari Lang is the facilities manager for the music lab, and she’s familiar with the bond that the Saugerties and Woodstock communities share. “I think both villages are similar,” says Lang, referring to the boutique stores and storefronts in both villages, which she calls “quite cute and interesting.” Lang believes that Woodstock could stand to use some more of the live-music spirit the town is identified with, especially after dark. “We are the coolest small town on earth. I’d truly love to have more nightlife back here.” There is nightlife in Woodstock, but you might have to head to the hamlet of Bearsville to find it.The tiny ’burg, just outside of the village proper, is bursting with food, drink, music, and good times. The entertainment complex there includes the Bearsville Theater for live music, the Bear Café for fine creekside dining, the Little Bear Chinese restaurant, and the newest addition, the Commune Saloon, which is complete with outdoor seating around a fire pit. The nearby Cub Market fits into the Bearsville scheme and is a solid pit stop for specialty groceries, baked goods, and deli fare. Also outside of the Village of Woodstock is Maverick Concerts, which presents live classical music and jazz in a one-of-a-kind Arts and Crafts-era wooden concert shed, which was hand made in 1910 by a group of workers supervised by founding artist Hervey White. Woodstock Sessions is keen on presenting a new setting for musical performances by bringing audiences into the recording studio to watch live sessions unfold before their eyes and ears; it wouldn’t be surprising to learn that the Woodstock Music Shop, on Rock City Road, supplies many of the musicians who appear at Woodstock Sessions with the very instruments they play. Woodstock Playhouse, on Mill Hill Road, its green, hexagonal façade immediately recognizable upon entering the village, also enriches Woodstock’s musical vein with concerts, but live theater is its true bread and butter. Woodstock wouldn’t be Woodstock without a health food market, and Sunflower Natural Foods fills the bill, with organics and all-natural items. It’s 36 community pages ChronograM 8/16
important, however, to balance out all that healthiness with a little sin, as is the Woodstock way. Peace Love & Cupcakes, on Tinker Street, can help you wreck your diet with a Tie-Dye cupcake or a Pretzel Hippie Chipper Sandwich (the owner, Janice Hargrove-Kollar, was a finalist in the Pillsbury BakeOff and won the Food Network’s 2008 title of Best Cake in the Country). Yum Yum Noodle Bar, on the bustling corner of Rock City Road and Tinker Street, bridges the healthy and the decadent, with signature noodle bowls bursting with veggies followed up by desserts like Vietnamese coffee tart and passionfruit coconut pudding. Woodstock is Boutique Heaven, much like its BFF, Saugerties. Shops like Pondicherry, on the Woodstock Green, is a quintessential Woodstock experience complete with diaphanous dresses, incense, and statuettes of Ganesh. Across Tinker Street from Pondicherry is Woodstock’s renowned indie bookstore, the Golden Notebook, which has an upstairs space devoted to readings and occasional live music. Ultimately, however, Woodstock is about its artcolony roots and its thriving visual arts community, whose work is on display at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) gallery, located on Tinker Street. The art of moviemaking is celebrated every day, and during October’s Woodstock Film Festival, at Woodstock’s indie movie theater, Upstate Films (its counterpart is located in Rhinebeck). The Woodstock Comedy Festival, poised to enter its fourth year, showcases the comedic arts and awards its “New Faces of Comedy” titles every year. Woodstock sits snuggled up next to Overlook Mountain, which is lush and green in the warmer months and transformed into Narnia during the winter. Like Saugerties’s Seamon Park, Woodstock has its own spot known for artinspiring scenery, the Comeau Property, a 77-acre public space right in the middle of the village. A trail wends its way along the Sawkill Creek, providing something hard to find outside of vibrant places like Saugerties and Woodstock: a modicum of silence.
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n the late 1970s, Donna Kart was studying at Manhattan College and Mercy College. The courses she took were in a field that was up and coming at the time—computer programming, with an emphasis on accounting. But her college ambitions were put on the back burner when she got married, had kids, and moved to Dutchess County in 1984. “Life just changed,” says Kart, 54, of Wappingers Falls. She began working nights as a hostess and restaurant manager so she could take care of her children during the day. Although she enjoyed working in the restaurant industry, when Kart turned 30 she wanted “a career with better hours,” since her children were in school full-time. Building on her passion for mathematics, which plays a role in generating computer code, she went back to college part-time at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh. Kart studied math and education, and is now a teacher at Van Wyck Junior High School. She has a bachelor’s in mathematics, an education certificate, and a master’s degree in special education. She received her master’s degree at 38. “I love it,” she says about teaching. The Mid-Hudson Valley is home to more than a half-dozen colleges that offer professionals and entrepreneurs opportunities to gain skills in their current career fields or transition into new ones. Local colleges offer courses on an array of subjects that can help professionals gain skills in the 21st-century job market, including: emerging technology, such as 3-D printing at SUNY New Paltz; an aviation program at SUNY Dutchess; entrepreneurship; and a long list of other courses, workshops, and seminars. Here’s a glimpse of which area colleges offer courses for nontraditional students, as well as a sneak peek into some upcoming courses and programs. 8/16 ChronograM education 39
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3-D Printing, Green Initiatives machines like factory assembly lines), and structured query language, or SQL SUNY New Paltz has“one of the most sophisticated 3-D printing labs in the country,” (programming language used to manage data).The college recently added three says Daniel Freedman, dean of the college’s School of Science and Engineering programs to its computer science department that are set to begin in fall 2016: and director of the HudsonValley Advanced Manufacturing Center. “It’s definitely computer game design, Web application development, and mobile application not a niche technology,” Freedman says. “Three-D printing is a technology that development. Adult students make up slightly less than 20 percent of SUNY already has important applications in a number of fields such as art, engineering, Ulster’s degree-seeking student body, says Deborah Kaufman, the college’s math, all of the natural sciences, education, manufacturing, and medicine.” marketing and media services director. The college introduces students to computer-aided design with introductory and Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson offers computer software advanced art and engineering courses. Students can also minor in digital design courses in programs like JAVA, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Word, Excel, and fabrication. Two 75-minute introductory courses in 3-D printing and 3-D and QuickBooks. “These courses are very popular with employees needing to computer-aided design, or CAD, modeling are open to the public. In addition stay current with the newest applications, as well as small business owners who to 3-D printing, SUNY New Paltz hosted a forum on green architecture and handle their own administrative functions,” explains Robert Bodratti, the director engineering on July 22 called “Conquer the Code,” which provided information at the office of community services at Columbia-Greene Community College. to help architects and engineers design energy-efficient buildings.The US Green Building Council conducted the seminar “in response to new revisions to New Elevating to Great Heights York State’s Energy Conservation Construction Code.”The one-day course cost SUNY Dutchess in Poughkeepsie has plans to roll out a Federal Aviation $75, and included a course manual. Those who completed it received green- Administration-certified airframe and power-plant flight mechanics program in business certification and continuing education credits. SUNY New Paltz had 2018. The program will be an expansion of the college’s existing aviation degree 201 nonmatriculated undergraduate students in fall 2015. Eighty-three, or 41 program. Dutchess currently offers a two-year aviation science degree program in which students can earn private and commercial pilot licenses.The lab fees for the percent, were over 25. Professional certification and business skills training in clean energy, as courses cost an estimated $26,200. The college plans to partner with Dutchess well as building science and energy efficiency, are offered at SUNY Ulster in County and the company FlightLevel Aviation, which operates Dutchess County Stone Ridge. About 30 certification programs are available at SUNY Ulster in Airport, to design and build a classroom and lab for its new initiative. FlightLevel will mentor the college’s airframe and power-plant flight its continuing and professional education department, including solar panel mechanics students, and give them hiring preference, according to Glenn installation. Tanzman, the Dutchess Community College program manager for Start-Up Teeming with Tech NY. The company will also provide aviation program internship opportunities. A few other local colleges offer courses on computer-aided design software, FlightLevel has been approved in the Start-Up NY program, and will hire and other types of technology. SUNY Ulster will offer a four-day class on 3-D maintenance mechanics via the program this month. Start-Up NY allows “new computer-aided design software SolidWorks from August 15 to 18. The course, and expanding businesses the opportunity to operate tax-free for 10 years on or which runs from 8am to 4:30pm each day, is limited to 12 students. The cost near eligible university or college campuses in New York State,” according to its is $1,600. SUNY Ulster also provides technical courses in lean manufacturing website. “These efforts are vital to the county’s strategy of turning the airport (eliminating waste and creating more with less resources), electrical theory, from an underutilized asset running at a loss into a profitable asset that helps programmable logic controllers (digital computers used for controlling drive the local economy,” says Tanzman. 40 education ChronograM 8/16
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bbe Aronson calls herself a sybarite. That is, according to MerriamWebster, “a person devoted to pleasure.” So, whether it’s the pleasure of good food shared with friends, a field at sunset, or classic rock, Aronson revels in it. The heart and brains behind the PR and event business Abbe Does It, she finds pleasure in connecting people. She finds pleasure in being the nexus of an extended circle of friends who regularly gather at her home for dinner parties, pool parties, or any other occasion called for in the celebration of life. She also finds tremendous pleasure in the teenagers who have recently become a big part of her world. Her home, a mid century modern ranch in the Riverby section of Woodstock, perfectly embodies this ethos. Slate-colored with a gabled roof, it harmonizes with the surrounding five-plus acres, like lyrics over a guitar riff. Inside the open, flowing, four-bedroom, two-bath home, everything, and everyone, has a place. Renovation as Planned Event “When we found this house,” Aronson tells me, “it was a dump. That was good: We wanted a place where we could leave our imprint.” This was in 2004 and she was in transition -from magazine writer to full-time mother, from Manhattanite to Woodstocker- all the while volunteering as an event planner for causes -such as “God’s Love We Deliver” and “Planned Parenthood”- close to her heart. The bones of the Riverby house reminded her of her Manhattan loft. Its open floor plan was ideal for entertaining and would allow for wall-to-wall carpets (“a pleasure in all four seasons,” she tells me) and she loved the private master bedroom wing. She also loved the setting: Pastoral fields and two year round streams, all bordered the wooded, forever wild slopes of Mt. Tobais.
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Top: Abbe Aronson’s midcentury modern house in the Riverby section of Woodstock. “We love our house all year, but it’s especially great in the summer when we can be so indoor/outdoor,” she says. Bottom: The large, airy living room has ample seating for guests. Along with inviting friends over for dinner, Aronson also loves to host game nights. “Cards Against Humanity” has become a favorite.
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Top: Wacksman’s playroom has evolved from toy trains and Legos into music studio. “I’m sure the guitar will figure into his life’s work or life’s play in some capacity.” Bottom: “Since I do so much entertaining, most of my furniture has to do double duty.” This antique secretary doubles as a liquor cabinet and bar.
Still, the home required a complete reworking, from its top right down to its partly sunken foundation. She knocked down walls and added skylights. She refinished a yellowpainted fireplace with stone and installed a full chef’s kitchen. She even eventually installed an in-ground saline pool. By 2006 Aronson and her son were living in the home full-time. Open Door Policy Throughout the house—in the living room, Aronson’s bedroom, and her office—doorlength cutout windows give the home an air of permanent invitation. The windows are original to the house and were saved through the remodeling by patiently raising the foundation a mere inch a day, making it seem as if her doors are always flung wide open. Figuratively, at least, they are: Aronson loves to entertain and intended to create a home where friends would gather and most everyone, young and old, would feel welcome. (And maybe, also, encouraged to play slightly naughty card games together.) “I love putting people together and I’m very house proud,” Aronson says. “This is how I envisioned things when I moved here. I wanted this house to be central to our lives, and I wanted people to come here. It’s worked out well.” At its heart, the home is one giant, open living/dining/kitchen space underneath an 18-foot cathedral ceiling.The design is both aesthetically pleasing and streamlined. Pottery and glassware collections, extensive wall art (most of it from local artists), and myriad musical accoutrements add color and vibrancy, while a sense of order ensures that that vibrancy never detracts from the room’s spaciousness. Next to the fireplace, ample seating provides generous views through a glass slider. A mirror, extending from behind a couch to the room’s apex, reflects those views so they seem boundless. The slider leads to a large deck, naturally extending the main room. The deck is where Aronson, who says she’s “always on her way to relaxing,” actually relaxes. For her, that means sitting long enough to read the newspaper (the real, old-fashioned, paper paper) and taking time to enjoy the landscape she’s grown to love. “I can sit outside and look at this field all day long, but from 5:30 to 6:30 is the golden hour. I love that time of evening—it tells me so much about my life.” 48 home & garden ChronograM 8/16
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Clockwise from top right: Aronson (who at one time would use her oven for shoe storage) has grown into an accomplished chef and regularly hosts dinner parties. “I love to cook and I love to entertain.” Aronson is a devotee of Bob Dylan’s music. “It’s a rare occasion for me to see Dylan live and not cry.” Aronson’s south facing master bedroom suite is tucked away in a private corner of the house.
Back inside, the kitchen has a six-burner Wolf stove and extensive counter space. Cooking is something Aronson didn’t take up until she moved to Woodstock, but when she did, it was wholeheartedly. A large cookbook shelf forms one corner of the kitchen, and Aronson loves cooking meals for friends—sometimes up to 60 of them. “This,” she says, “is also pretty relaxing.” All Love, All Woodstock Past the cookbook shelf is Aronson’s office. Originally trained as a journalist, she held various gigs in the area until an event in 2010 propelled her onto her current path. That year, Constance McMillian, a teenager in Mississippi, sued her high school for the right to take her girlfriend to prom. McMillian won the case; she and her girlfriend were allowed to attend the prom as an openly same-sex couple. However, in protest, many other students of the school refused to attend, leaving the brave young couple alone on the dance floor. Aronson, hearing the story on the radio, was heartbroken for them, and outraged. She called a local friend and declared, “We’re having a prom for Constance in Woodstock.” The resulting event, All Love, All Woodstock, was held at the Bearsville Theater, to great success. It also gave Aronson an idea: to combine her event planning, writing, and public relations skills into a PR company catering to local and regional clients. Now creative synergy is her business. Regularly juggling 25 different projects, Mountain Jam and the Ahimsa Yoga Festival being just two examples, she helps clients take a book or product from concept all the way to launch. Most important, she gets to work with people and organizations she loves. 50 home & garden ChronograM 8/16
The Family That Plays Together One of those organizations is the Paul Green Rock Academy. Aronson began doing PR for the academy when her son, Alexander Wacksman, became a student there. Eventually, Green asked to become a partner in the academy. It was a natural fit. “We love music here,” she says. “My son loves music. We listen to music 24 hours a day and we’re very passionate about whatever we’re listening to.” The only problem: Sometimes this passion leads to music wars. Behind a wall of opaque glass blocks, Alexander has a bedroom, bath, and music room with his guitar collection and keyboard. (There’s also a room for guests.) “For the most part we have a fairly harmonious music house,” Aronson says, “unless Alexander’s playing Kanye or I’m playing Dylan.”Alexander, a polite, good-natured 17-year-old, has a different view. “I think our tastes are very different,” he says. “I’m really into metal and prog rock; she loves Dylan.” Mother and son do agree, however, on the merits of Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, punk rock, and Prince.They also both love seeing live performances. But Alexander has a point: Since moving up toWoodstock, Aronson has become a devotee of Bob Dylan. She’s collected and studied most of his work and has seen him play live on multiple occasions. In her airy master bedroom there’s another door-like window, a full bathroom and a feeling of peace. In the corner of the room, a vanity sits under one of Elliot Landy’s portraits of Dylan. “Every morning, I like to stand in front of Bob, put on my jewelry and get ready for my day,” she says. “I see what Bob’s up to.” In the portrait, taken in front of his Woodstock house, Dylan is barefoot with his guitar; he looks down serenely and seems ageless. We discuss the Landry- Dylan collaboration and how the photographer was able to capture something that was unique to Dylan’s life at the time–something a bit mysterious. “I think,” Aronson replies, “it was just happiness.”
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riana Davis and Eli Joseph-Hunter’s lives overlapped when they were students at Bard College (Eli graduated in 2000; Briana in 2003), but they came to be a couple years later, not long before they both were working at the Phantom Gardener in Rhinebeck. They share having a precocious talent for horticulture; he got his first nursery job when he was 14, and she founded a CSA operation when she was 24. In 2005, Davis moved to Cornwallville to be with Joseph-Hunter, and in 2007 they put up their first greenhouse, initially growing uncertified organic vegetables and herbs for Phantom. In 2010, they left Phantom to focus on having a family and on Greene Bee Greenhouse, which is many things at once: a source for organically grown vegetable, herb, and flower seedlings; a place where you can find a spectacularly diverse array of native and benign exotic ornamental perennials, trees, and shrubs; and the site of an extensive young arboretum that Joseph-Hunter conceived back when he bought the land in 2000. Greene Bee is also a high-end landscaping enterprise through which the couple works with clients who are also passionate plant collectors seeking unusual specimens. Greene Bee is a fixture at the Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market on Sundays— selling, among other things, more than 40 varieties of tomatoes. It is also a destination nursery in Cornwallville in Greene County, set amidst an arboretum that serves as a teaching and demonstration tool.While you are there, you may see the couple’s two children, six-year-old Celia and one-and-a-half-year-old Meiko. Davis and Joseph-Hunter follow a wide range of ecologically mindful practices.While they are not certified organic, everything they produce themselves is grown organically. They heat their greenhouse with wood, use compost instead of synthetic fertilizer, and refuse to sell plants known to be invasive. Friends keep honeybees on the land for them.
By Michelle Sutton Photos by Larry Decker This passion for land stewardship comes with their equally fervent zeal as horticulturists. “We live and breathe each plant, even when we’re completely overwhelmed and tired,” Joseph-Hunter says. “Recently we were up until 11pm, trying to figure out what this beautiful, possibly native wildflower I found in a client’s garden is,” Davis says. “We want people to become as obsessive as we are, have success, and enjoy being in the garden.” Quintessential & Specific Joseph-Hunter brings his 25-plus years of experience to horticultural presentations and workshops. On August 20, he will give a workshop called “Hell Yeah, Hydrangeas!” at Greene Bee (see website to register). He says, “Hydrangea flowers are very fluid; they go through their bloom cycle with a great transition of colors. The flowers are always attractive, and they fade with great dignity.” “People don’t realize how many great, easy-to-grow species of hydrangeas there are that do well in our climate,” he says. “Many people have one image that comes to mind when they think of hydrangeas, that of the bigleaf type (Hydrangea macrophylla) with the big blue or pink spherical flowers. They see them in photos or at the Cape, but those are actually the hardest to grow here.” That’s because the bigleaf hydrangeas are cold-hardy in the Hudson Valley from the roots down but not necessarily from the roots up—and, they bloom on last year’s wood. “A lot of winters will kill the plant down to the ground,” Joseph-Hunter says. “It rebounds and you get a nice, new mound of foliage, but you lose the flower buds.” However, the good news is that, starting in 2004, plant breeders will begin coming out with cultivars of the bigleaf hydrangeas, like Endless Summer, that bloom on new wood as well as old. “There’s a whole slew of these remontant (reblooming) types now,” Joseph-Hunter says. “However, some people are still having some trouble getting them to bloom. I suspect it’s a phosphorous defi8/16 chronogram home & Garden 53
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ciency in the soil.” He recommends amending the soil with organic sources of phosphorous, like rock phosphate or bone meal. The bigleaf plants have blue or pink flowers, depending on the acidity of your soil; they are pH litmus test plants, says Joseph-Hunter. “Acid soil leads to blue flowers, and alkaline soil leads to pink,” he explains. Besides using the right remontant cultivar of the bigleaf hydrangea, he recommends putting them in a place where they get shade for the hottest part of the day. “If it’s over 85 degrees and they’re getting full sun, they look like they’ve been steamed every afternoon,” he says. The Broader Palette Joseph-Hunter teaches about five other main species of hydrangeas that are easy to grow in our climate, ones that give extended flowering time and nice form and can be readily found in the nurseries. He says that between the early-blooming vine form of hydrangea and the myriad shrub cultivars, you can have hydrangea flowers from May to November. For best performance, they all prefer soil high in organic matter, but their sun/shade and soil moisture tolerances vary. The climbing hydrangea vine (Hydrangea anomalis var. petiolaris) is the first to bloom, with white flowers beginning in May. It’s self-clinging by way of tendrils, so you don’t have to train it. It likes part shade and is slow to get started, but once it gets going, it grows luxuriantly, as high as its supports will allow. It has deep dark green leaves and interesting peeling winter bark. “One consideration is that it can invite water into structures,” Joseph-Hunter says. “So, rather than putting it right against your house, it’s better to put it on a pergola or other structure just off the house.” Among the smooth-type hydrangeas (Hydrangea arborescens), the most commonly known cultivar in the trade is Annabelle, with a tremendously longblooming, white mophead flower that starts out green. “The Annabelle types can take sun or shade and among the driest soil,” Joseph-Hunter says. “They’re very tough and bloom on new wood, so you [or deer] can mow them down in the early spring and they will regrow and still bloom. Every spring, before new growth comes out, we cut them to six inches from the ground.” Most varieties of this type of hydrangea will mature at three to four feet tall and wide. Among the many other cultivars available are Invincible Spirit, with pink flowers, and a really unusual one, with dissected dark green leaves, called Green Dragon. The “paniculata” types of hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata) are the ones that Joseph-Hunter and Davis use the most.Their huge panicle-shaped flower heads bloom on new wood, so you can cut them back hard in the spring. On the extra-meritorious cultivar Limelight, the flowers start out lime green, then fade to white, then to pink, and then to tan. They get to be 12 feet tall on the Greene Bee property. The couple also likes Quick Fire, which blooms a solid month ahead of other paniculatas and has gorgeous apricot-orange fall foliage color and reddish stems. It is easily available in the trade along with the more compact cultivars Little Lime, Little Lamb, and Little Quick Fire. “The paniculatas can take shockingly wet soil and sun or shade, even heavy shade—they are incredibly adaptable,” Joseph-Hunter says. The sawtooth hydrangeas (Hydrangea serrata) are pH-sensitive like the bigleaf ones, and the blue or pink flowers come in mopheads or lacecaps (the latter are more flat and airy but still quite showy). “The sawtooth hydrangeas aren’t as tough as the Annabelle types and the paniculatas, but they are still successful in our area,” Joseph-Hunter says. Among them he favors Spreading Beauty and Bluebird. Lastly, we have the cold-hardy, stately oakleaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea quercifolia). The foliage is shaped like oak leaves and gets tremendous fall color, but they also have beautiful panicle-shaped white flowers that fade to pink. They can grow in sun or shade; indeed, Joseph-Hunter likes to plant some in heavy shade, to force extra-big leaves. “You won’t get as showy a flower display, but you will get a beautiful fall effect,” he says. He notes that oakleaf hydrangeas bloom on old wood and from the apex, so if you get deer or rabbit browse on the tips or winter breakage to the brittle apical stems, you will lose flowers. On the deer-proofing tip, Joseph-Hunter says, “No hydrangeas are bulletproof for deer. There’s always an example of some herd eating some plant. We recommend you protect new plantings by fencing them in or spraying them with organic odor repellent for at least the first season.” Greenebeegreenhouse.com 8/16 chronogram home & Garden 55
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tourism,” said Livia. “Great restaurants, great vibe, great sculpture park on the riverfront.” Many of those sculptures were originally created for the Peekskill Project, an irregularly scheduled event in which the entire city is transformed into an open air museum featuring new works created by local, national, and international artists. Even when the Peekskill Project isn’t exhibiting, there’s few spots in the Hudson Valley as extraordinary as the riverfront, with its train station, playground, small beach, and that aforementioned breathtaking view. Also: Tacos. The Taco Dive Bar overlooks the riverfront and knows that the only way to improve on scenery like that is to add guacamole. Peekskill today has all the accoutrements you’d expect from a thriving Hudson Valley river town: Farmer’s markets, festivals (The Hudson Valley Exposition takes place down at the riverfront on August 6th this year,) and so much local craft beer that it’s surprising it doesn’t come out of the water fountains. Some of that beer is as local as you can get: The award winning Peekskill Brewery serves an ever rotating selection of beers made right in house at its tasting room and dining room. And if you’ve sampled a few too many, a shuttle bus run by Go Peekskill zips around the city on Saturdays, hitting all the hot spots (as well as the Holiday Inn on the outskirts of the city, in case you’ve really had too many.) The historic Paramount Theater, after a few setbacks and temporary closings, is once again up and running, featuring August concerts from WAR, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Rusted Root, and comedian Dave Attell. For a more inti-
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mate setting, 12 Grapes wine bar offers live music from local and nationally touring acts to go with a nice glass of syrah and some crispy skinned chicken over mushroom risotto. For those seeking a pick-me-up instead of a windme-down, Bean Runner Cafe and the Peekskill Coffee House, both within steps of the Paramount, offer enough excellent coffee to fuel further explorations while being inviting enough to also be a perfect place to while away the hours. If you need something to read while you sip your latte, head over to the Bruised Apple for used books and records first. Be careful though; Time seems to vanish in the blink of an eye while you’re combing through their endless aisles. Suddenly it’s six hours later, you’ve amassed a stack that’s taller than you are, and they closed twenty minutes ago. Yet even as new restaurants and galleries continue to bloom downtown, the city has maintained the diversity that drew the first wave of artists and entrepreneurs to the city in the early 90’s. Take pizza, always a reliable indicator as to a city’s cultural health.You could go to Gleason’s, named after former Peekskill resident Jackie Gleason, and enjoy a pie on a house made sourdough crust, topped with things like octopus, roasted garlic creme fraiche, or sausage made in town by the Birdsall House, a gastropub owned by the same people. Wash it down with one of their inventive cocktails like Honey Badger Don’t Care (Appleton Reserve Rum, Applejack brandy, hot honey syrup, passionfruit juice, lime juice) and feel good about the fact that you’re living your best life. But you can still also hit up a bevy of corner pizza joints for a classic foldable slice of pepperoni and and a bottle of Sunkist while the Mets game plays on the TV over a poster of Marlon Brando and a gaggle of teens argue about Pokemon. There’s still a bodega on every other block for when you find yourself out of AA batteries and brown sugar. And as the majority of the Hudson Valley remains stubbornly racially homogenous, Peekskill still features a blend of cultures that’s positively Queens-esque. It’s an important point to consider, as other flourishing towns upriver are beginning to grapple with the problem of gentrification, where long time residents worry about being priced out of town and can’t find a sandwich that costs less than $10. As before, the road ahead may run through Peekskill, still welcoming all who come, still ripe with possibility, still one step ahead of everyone else.
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Playing Card Mandala, by Eleanor White, part of the exhibit “Language of Patterns” at Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh through August 20.
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COLDWELL BANKER VILLAGE GREEN REALTY 268 FAIR STREET, KINGSTON 331-5357. “Pabo Shine: Offerings.” Works inspired by flora and folklore of Puerto Rico. Through August 14. COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “Chatham Meadows.” Three dimensional artists will display works in a season-long outdoor sculpture show. Through Sept. 10. CORNELL STREET STUDIO 168 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 679-8348. “Dana McClure: Dream in Color.” Mixed media works. August 6-Sept. 30. Opening reception August 6, 5pm-8pm. CORNWALL PUBLIC LIBRARY 395 HUDSON STREET, CORNWALL 534-8282. Works by Nita Klein. Through August 31. CREEK MEETING HOUSE 2433 SALT POINT TURNPIKE, CLINTON CORNERS. “Historic Barns of Clinton: A Photography Exhibit.” August 6-28. DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STreet TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Baroque Still Life and More. Oils,” by Bob Blackmon. August 6-27. Opening reception August 6, 4pm-7pm. FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “Touch the Sky.” Multi-media exhibition related to astronomy. Through August 21. FRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON 63 MAIN STREET, KINGSTON 339-0720. The Friends of Historic Kingston Celebrates 50 Years: “Treasures Great and Small from Our Collections.” Through October 29. THE GALLERY AT R&F 84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Beyond the Day Job: Artists Who Work at R&F.” August 6-October 15. Opening reception August 6, 5pm-7pm. GALLERY 66 NY 66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “Kunstleben,” “Shakespeare,” “Crane and Woman” Through August 28. GALLERY ON MAIN 5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518)734-6850. “The Place You Call Home.” Features artists Maya Farber, Olive Farrell, Joseph Keiffer, and Michael Toole. Through Sept. 7. GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMER’S TURNPIKE, GARDINER 255-1255. “Seaweedosaurs and Sea Gulls.” Through Sept. 26. GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960. “ICON: Posters,” by Don Nice. Through September 11. Opening reception August 13, 6pm-9pm. HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Soft Targets: Ceramics and other media,” by Don Mengay. Through August 7. HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-4181. “Tidal.” Drawings and paintings of the Hudson by Patrick Madden. Through August 14. HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Word.” HVCCA’s first open call juried exhibition purposed to highlight talented regional artists who prominently feature ‘a word’ or ‘words’ in their artistic productions. Through December 17. JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. Yi Zhang: Sculpture. Also showing: Willard Boepple, Sculpture; John Dugdale, Photography; Mark Tambella, New Paintings 2015-2016. Through August 14. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 94 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 569-4997. “The Stamp Act and the Intolerable Acts.” A collection of historical documents. Through August 31. THE KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART 134 JAY STREET, KATONAH (914) 232-9555. “OnSite Katonah.” & “Victor Fu: Egg.” Through October 2 KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Moving the Water(s): Ashokan Fugues 2016.” A multi-media installation by Margaret Cogswell. Through August 14. LABSPACE 2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE Labspaceart.blogspot.com/. “Chow.”Group show about food. Through August 6. MANITOGA / THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER 584 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON 424-3812. “Ecstatic Light.” Paintings by Peter Bynum. Through November 14. MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Blue.” Group show. Through August 27. MATTEAWAN GALLERY 436 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. “Susan English: Pourous Light.” Through August 21. MILKWEED 2 & 3 ROMER’S ALLEY, SUGAR LOAF Milkweedsugarloaf.com. “A Lick and a Promise “& “Ani Katz: Folios.” August 6-September 4. Opening reception August 6, 6pm-9pm.
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A photograph by Anastasia Taylor-Lind from Maidan—Portraits from the Black Square, a series of portraits of anti-government protestors and mourners made in a makeshift photographic studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kiev, Ukraine, during February 2014. Appearing as part of the exhibit “Lightfield,” opening August 20 and running through September 25 at Hudson Opera House.
MORRISON GALLERY 25 NORTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CT (860) 927.4501. “In the Hood..”An exhibit of recent landscape paintings by Robert Lenz. Through August 14. NEUMANN FINE ART 65 COLD WATER ST., HILLSDALE (413) 246-5776. “Paintings in oil, watercolor, and acrylic, plus woodcut prints,” by Don Wynn. Through Sept. 11. NORTH RIVER GALLERY 34A MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392 7000. “Farms and Skies in the Verdant Foothills of Upstate NY,” by Robert Moylan and Clarence King. Through August 24. OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE AND CAFÉ 639 ALBANY TURNPIKE ROAD, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. Works by Photographer Sy Balsen and Painter Kenneth J. Young. Through Sept. 28. ONE MILE GALLERY 475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON 338-2035. “Life After SUNY: Purchase Alumni.” 1980’s SUNY Purchase art. August 6-27. Opening reception August 6, 6pm-9pm. ORANGE HALL GALLERY LOFT, SUNY ORANGE THE CORNER OF WAWAYANDA AND GRANDVIEW AVENUES, MIDDLETOWN 341-4891. “Colleagues: Hidden Talents 2016.” Staff and Faculty exhibit. August 29-October 1 Opening reception Sept.13, 12-2pm. RITZ THEATER LOBBY 107 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 784-1199. “Through the Eyes of the Cornerstone Newburgh’s Ole Faithful.” August 27-October 31. Opening reception August 27, 6:30pm. ROOST STUDIOS & ART GALLERY 69 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 675-1217. “Michael Stewart Present a Mini-Retrospective.” August 13-September 11 Opening reception August 27, .6pm-8pm SPACE CREATE 115 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 590-1931. “Gita and Linda: Oil and Fire.” Mother and daughter show. August 13-Sept. 29. Opening reception August 27, 6pm-9pm.
ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 40 MARKET STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-7084. “Returning Again: Jinwon Chang.” Through Sept. 3. THE RE INSTITUTE 1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON (518) 567-5359. Works by Michael Davidson, Gregory Klassen, and Joshua Rosenblatt. Through Sept. 3. THEO GANZ STUDIO 149 MAIN STREET, BEACON (917) 318-2239. “Archipelago.” Group show. Through August 7. THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-7465. “Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect.” Through October 30. THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. “Blue Sky.”Group show. Through August 21. TIME AND SPACE LIMITED 434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-8448. “Time and Space Limited Archives: 1982-1987.” Through Sept. 24. UNFRAMED ARTISTS GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482 “Our Places.” Group show. Through Sept. 24. White gallery 342 Main street, lakeville, ct (860) 425-1029 “Crossing the Line: Joe Dimaagio, JoAnne Kalish, and Dennis Wheeler.” Through Sept. 5 WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Summer Group Show” (Main Gallery); Yale Epstein(Solo Gallery); “David Morris Cunningham Active Member Wall and Small Works Show” (Founders Gallery);. “Youth Exhibition Space Community Color Wall.” Through August 28.
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Youthful Abandon And the Kids By Peter Aaron
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he realization that we’re not cut out for mainstream life hits most of us in the so-called creative community at an early age. We don’t know what’s going on inside at first, only that we have the innate, impossibleto-switch-off feeling that we’re different from the future suburb dwellers and office drones who surround us—and that we want to spend as little time in their world as humanly possible. This feeling of apartness is accompanied by the overwhelming desire to channel our eccentricities into some kind of statement—to express ourselves artistically—and to continue moving on a path that allows us to keep doing that, and only, that. For most of us, though, it takes a few post-high school years to work out what, exactly, that path will be. Not so the early-20s members of Northampton, Massachusetts, indie rockers And the Kids, whose founders, singer and guitarist Hannah Mohan and drummer and singer Rebecca Lasaponaro, met in seventh-grade band class, began playing music together, and quit school soon after. “We got paired together because none of the other kids picked us to be in their study groups–we were the last two left,” Mohan says. “And we’ve been best friends ever since.” “I always knew I wanted to play music–it felt freeing,” says Mohan, who, like Lasaponaro, enrolled at North Star, a nearby community-based, independent “unschooling” facility where teens formulate their personal curriculums. Both are Northampton natives whose parents’ musical tastes (Beatles, country, folk) were the seeds of their own. “I guess what made us want to play instruments was that we wanted to do something cool,” Lasaponaro recalls. “I just thought that everybody picks something cool they want to do and that’s what they do. I have siblings who are in the military, that’s what they wanted to do. I’m really different from them, obviously, but it’s all good between us.” 66 music ChronograM 8/16
Mohan and Lasaponaro busked and played in a succession of basement bands together as they moved on to another innovative local learning center, the Institute for the Musical Arts, where they became students and eventually instructional interns. Founded in 1978 by directors Ann Hackler and June Millington, the nonprofit IMA teaches music, performing, recording studio techniques, and music business skills to women and girls. “Besides the classes where we’d study music theory and songwriting and critique videos of our performances,” Lasaponaro explains, “we’d do concerts and have listening sessions where we’d break down recordings of songs to focus on how they were put together.” The institute provided the pair with free rehearsal space, where they practiced daily. “We were definitely lucky to have the resources we had at IMA,” says Mohan. “Hannah and Rebecca were kind of wild-child types when they first came in,” recalls Hackler. “We used to call them our ‘feral students.’ [Laughs.] They had this sort of Merry Prankster attitude. But at the same time, it was clear they were serious about music being their lifeline. They kept at it and worked incredibly hard. I’ll never forget when they played their first show at [Northampton nightclub] the Iron Horse—they actually passed out handwritten thank-you notes to everyone who came.” The band’s lineup and mission coalesced when Mohan and Lasaponaro met and recruited another IMA intern, synthesizer player and percussionist Meghan Miller, in 2012. “You could tell Meghan really helped them pull their focus together,” says Hackler. “She got them to concentrate on their business chops a little more.” Miller also introduced one of And the Kids’ signature elements, the glockenspiel, into the group. “Meghan also plays melodica and
Megan Miller, Hannah Mohan, and Rebecca Lasaponaro of And the Kids.
other instruments,” Mohan says. “She’s really given our sound a lot of what we like to call our ‘ear candy.’” With Miller on board, the outfit continued to work up their confection of angular, melodic DIY art pop within the pulsating Northampton scene, playing house shows and clubs, releasing homemade EPs, and hitting Boston, Burlington, and New York on weekends. Their music and drive soon caught the attention of locally based independent label Signature Sounds (home to Lake Street Dive, among others), which released And the Kids’ official debut, Turn to Each Other, in early 2015. Raves in Pitchfork, Stereogum, and the like would follow, but just when the group’s star was nearing the stratosphere they hit a major snag. Miller, a Canadian citizen, was legally forced back to her homeland for a five-year period. While reserving her slot until the stretch is over, Mohan and Lasaponaro (the latter also assuming glockenspiel duties) hit the road as a duo for a bit before adding a fourth member, Manhattan-raised bassist Taliana Katz, the daughter of a record industry exec and yet another IMA alum, to help fill the sonic slack. Her first performance with the band came via their June 2015 appearance on NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert.” Although the three had long been big fans of the popular show, the experience itself wasn’t as dynamic as listeners might envision. “[The NPR staff] were really nice, and the whole thing was really quick,” Katz remembers. “We came in and set up, and we were hungry, so they gave us some Kind bars—and then we just did it.” Tours with Ra Ra Riot and PWR BTTM and a slot at South by Southwest came next, and the group worked up the material for their sophomore album, Friends Share Lovers. Recorded in Montreal with Miller last January and
coproduced by the quartet and Jace Lasek of Besnard Lakes, it was released in June and has been rabidly embraced by fans, radio, and the press for its evolution of the sound the group mapped out earlier. As one might guess from its name, the disc’s songs, which are adorned with Mohan and Lasaporano’s soaring vocals, largely focus on the nature of relationships: See the breakup themes of the counter-harmony-centric “Kick Rocks”; “Cheer for Babies,” a shoegazey meditation on family life and the social scene; or the intrapersonal politics of the spiky title track. But according to Mohan, the group’s songwriter, the album’s leitmotif wasn’t that apparent at first. “A few of the songs are about other things [“I Dropped Out” is clearly autobiographical],” she says. “But once we’d made the album I realized that I hadn’t really written that many songs about relationships before.” The sans-Miller edition of And the Kids was gearing up to play the nearby Green River Festival the day after this interview, before heading north to Canada the following week to rehearse and work up new songs with Miller and begin a national tour in October. A highlight of their live shows, the group says, has been the steady stream of young women who come up to tell them how seeing And the Kids has inspired them to pick up instruments themselves and form bands. So do they have any advice for any girls out there who are interested in making a career out of playing music? “Just keeping playing,” Lasaporano says. “It’s hard in the beginning, and you might be nervous. But it’s okay to be nervous.” “Don’t stop,” says Mohan. And the Kids headline the 2016 Chronogram Block Party on August 20. Andthekids.com. 8/16 ChronograM music 67
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Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration August 6. The Grateful Dead was the focus of a perhaps incongruous homage earlier this year with Day of the Dead, a box set of Dead covers curated by the National and starring a strikingly diverse roster of artists. This event at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the site where Jerry Garcia and crew performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, curiously pairs Gov’t Mule/Allman Brothers Band guitarist Warren Haynes—a musician intimately familiar with their songs via his slot alongside the group’s remaining members in the Dead—with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic for an evening of Garcia’s music. (Counting Crows and Rob Thomas croon August 5; Smokey Robinson smolders August 20.) 7pm. $43, $53, $64.50, $84.50, $114. Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Bethelwoodscenter.org.
Speed of Sound Festival August 7. The Lumineers loom large o’er the landscape of alt-Americana-pop, even now, four years after the platinum heights of their self-titled debut and its unavoidable hit single, “Ho Hey.” Out to flaunt Cleopatra, their long-anticipated sophomore set, the Colorado clan headlines this, the second annual Speed of Sound Festival, which takes flight at the Dutchess County Airport this month. Joining them are local singer-songwriter Simone Felice, who produced Cleopatra and cowrote several of its tunes, Ryland Baxter, Swear and Shake, Nicole Atkins, and Fiction of the Future. 1pm. $45, $55, $150, $175. Wappingers Falls. Speedofsoundfest.com.
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Charles Bradley plays BSP Kingston August 12.
WGXC Lodge August 26-27. Serving Greene and Columbia counties—and beyond, via the World Wide Web—since 2011, community radio station WGXC is a bastion of true variety amid the commercially beholden programming and samey syndication dominating the upstate airwaves. Volunteer-staffed and listener-supported, WGXC relies on donations to remain aloft, which come largely through pledge drives and benefit events. Among the latter is Lodge, a summer highlight now marking its third year at Reidelbauer’s Resort. Lodge 2016 offers two nights of music featuring the Thalia Zedek Band, Chris Forsyth, Koen Holtcamp, Ultraam, Liv Carrow, Sauerkraut Seth, Spectre Folk, and others, plus DJs, site-specific installations, food and beverages, and more. August 26: $15 advance, $20 day of. August 27: $20 advance, $25 day of. Both nights: $30. Round Top. (518) 622-2598. Wavefarm.org.
Jazz in the Valley Festival August 21. Watch it, jazz fans, the lineup of this 16-yearsand-running festival just might make your heads explode. The day long celebration, which takes place outdoors in the afternoon and evening alongside the Hudson River at beautiful Waryas Park, features a cast to die for: legendary pianists Randy Weston and George Cables, drummer Jimmy Cobb, trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassists Eddie Gomez and Alex Blake, saxophonist Javon Jackson, trombonist Craig Harris, percussionist Neil Clarke, rising vocalist Charenee Wade, and singer Chico Alvarez and his Palomonte Afro-Cuban Big Band. Noon. $50 in advance, $60 day of ($20 students with ID). Poughkeepsie. (845) 384-6350. Jazzinthevalleyny.org.
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Dust Bowl Faeries Dust Bowl Faeries To just explain away the music of Hudson’s Dust Bowl Faeries as simply “dark cabaret” or “gypsy music” would be doing this talented collective and their stunning, eponymous debut a great disservice. Singer-songwriter Ryder Cooley and her band—lap steel player Karen Cole, guitarist Jen DuBois, percussionist JoAnn Stevelos, and keyboardist Sara Ayers—have created a 12-song set that lies somewhere between His Name Is Alive, the calmer moments of Tom Waits’s The Black Rider, and “Twin Peaks”era Julee Cruise. Brilliantly produced by occasional Chronogram contributor and The Tao of Dylan author Seth Rogovoy in Columbia County at Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson’s Bipolarbear Studios and renowned drummer Bobby Previte’s Three Horses in a Wood Studio, the self-titled album benefits from its strong combination of expert recording ears and Cooley’s transcendent compositions of moody riverside dream folk. The singer’s sultry coo, which is further augmented by her heightened aptitudes on accordion, six-string ukulele, and musical saw, is captivating on such freshwater shanties as “Seasick Moon,” “Owl Song,” and “Great Whitefish Bear.” This is beautiful, haunting music that transcends the theatrics accompanying it. So let this album be your soundtrack for the moments when you venture down by the water on the outskirts of town, where the only company you’ll keep is with the curious forest creatures who pass you by. Dustbowlfaeries.com. —Ron Hart
Roswell Rudd & Heather Masse August Love Song (2016, Red House Records)
Did you hear the one about the folksinger and the avantjazz trombonist who walked into a bar? Okay, maybe not a bar, but how about onto the stage of Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion”? That’s pretty much the creation story behind August Love Song. Rudd and Masse found themselves on the program together, and discovered they lived only a few miles from each other, in the Mid-Hudson Valley. A few weekly jam sessions later and they had the makings of this gorgeous duet album that features each of them in musical roles that, if not entirely unknown to them, aren’t the first things you think of when you hear the names “Roswell Rudd” and “Heather Masse.” It turns out, Masse, the folksinger and member of the award-winning trio the Wailin’ Jennys is a New England Conservatory-trained jazz vocalist. And before Rudd became the lion of downtown trombone, known for his work with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, and Archie Shepp, he was a Dixieland revivalist. Here, the two dance together old school-style, with Rudd singing through his horn like Louis Armstrong, all down and dirty and guttural, and with Masse’s bell-like alto punctuating the quartet arrangements with Miles Davis-like cool on a program of standards (Ellington, Gershwin, Gillespie) and originals, more than ably accompanied by Rolf Sturm on guitar and Mark Helias on contra bass. Redhouserecords.com. —Seth Rogovoy
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Like well-aimed medicine for the digitally addled, Tall County’s music goes straight to the marrow. The Garrison trio’s debut album, Featherweight (which follows a 2012 EP, Shine), features resonator guitar, ukulele, banjo, standup bass, fiddle, and fearlessly intimate vocals, all cut very live in rooms that breathe. Talll County wields all of the above with the gratitude of young folks reaching for instruments during a power outage and experiencing a succession of Eureka moments. Recorded simply and quickly in the Adirondacks and the Hudson Valley, it’s quietly spiritual, and subtly defiant of a world that would have you feast on despair and godlessness. Husband and wife Liz B. and Ned P. Rauch, plus bassman Colin DeHond, form the core of High County. Liz and Ned trade off on lead vocals, play the stringed instruments, and harmonize throughout. The seesawing between his gravelly baritone and her grosgrain silk alto, and the frequent blending of the two, make for some of Featherweight’s deeper pleasures. Her sublime fiddle work deserves special mention too—heartbreaking passages of lyricism atop it all. The songs cover a broad swath of terrain: the rollicking, cinematic “Postcard”; the lullaby waltz “Waiting on the Light of Day”; the hypnotic, incantatory spell “Angel,” on which DeHond transforms his bass into an earthy, underpinning voice, a sound impossible to render in any other way except through wood, wire, and flesh. It serves as both relief and reminder of a pre-electric world that exists still, patiently waiting. Tallcounty.com. —Robert BurkeWarren chronogram.com Listen to tracks by the artists reviewed in this issue.
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BOOK VILLAGE PEOPLE Cheryl Clarke Rocks Hobart’s Festival of Women Writers By Nina Shengold Photos by Franco Vogt
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he main street of Hobart, a Delaware County enclave known as the “Book Village of the Catskills,” is lined with Victorian houses. One of them is purple. Surrounded by lilies, bee balm, and rambling roses, it’s the home of award-winning poet Cheryl Clarke (By My Precise Haircut, The Word Works, 2016) and Barbara Balliet, her partner in life, bookselling, and the Hobart Festival of Women Writers. Clarke sits at her dining table, surrounded by books, art, and a vintage dollhouse she just found at a flea market. She has a rich, plummy voice, graceful hands, and a thoughtful, deliberate manner, often leavened by a world-warming smile. She’s eager to talk about her first full-length poetry collection in 23 years. By My Precise Haircut’s title comes from “In This Hostile Corridor,” a poem that grew out of Clarke’s encounter at a Jersey City KFC just after 9/11. “It was the scummiest place in the world. People were drunk; it was nasty. And this salesperson, this gay man, he really graced it. He treated everyone with respect. He looked at me and spoke as if we were in the most fabulous restaurant in the world. It was just such a haunting interaction. He knew I was a lesbian, and we smiled in recognition: “Here we are.” From the poem: Flamboyantly frail pretty still marvelous you nourish our failing geographies. Wide-ranging and unapologetically political, the book honors people both famous (Jackie Robinson, Ruth Brown, Chet Baker, Nelson Mandela) and uncelebrated. Multi-part poems mourn the slain (“A Child Die”), witness Katrina survivors (“Racing Terror”), and give voice to female slaves (“Women of Letters”). There’s also the ripe sensuality of “Next (French Film After the Euro),” “Reprise,” and “Bald Woman.” How did By My Precise Haircut come to be published by The Word Works? “I guess somebody had good taste,” Clarke says, deadpan. That “somebody” was poet and contest judge Kimiko Hahn, who selected the manuscript for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Hahn writes, “Cheryl Clarke collects histories that are all, in effect, personal. Whether the tone is wily or grieving, wise or wise-ass, the reader is drawn closer by the page.” Clarke published three collections with Firebrand Books: Experimental Love (1993), Humid Pitch (1989, and Living as a Lesbian (1986); her debut collection Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women was self-published in 1981 and rereleased a year later by Kitchen Table Press. In 2006, Carroll & Graf published the anthology The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke. Born in Washington, DC, Clarke was one of five children in a Catholic family. Both parents were civil servants and Democrats, active in social causes. Inspired by the Black Arts movement, she began writing poetry in college. “I saw the impact of poetry in changing ideas, changing people’s minds. It certainly changed mine,” she says, citing Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Lucille Clifton, and Gwendolyn Brooks as influences. “They showed me the way, enabled me to give voice to my writing ideas.” Her first published poem appeared in a New Brunswick lesbian literary journal. “I proclaimed myself a lesbian in 1973. I spent no time in the closet,” Clarke says. “I began to hang with the lesbian community in New Brunswick and New York, got involved with black feminists. I met people like Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde, and June Jordan.” For nine years, she was an editor at Conditions, a feminist literary magazine. She continued to write and publish poetry, always maintaining a day job. “I had to have clothes. And food.” Clarke spent 41 years as an administrator at Rutgers College, where Balliett was an Associate Dean and professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. They lived together in Jersey City, buying a second home in Hobart in 2005. Three years later, Balliet announced that she was “seriously considering becoming a bookseller.” Nearby Blenheim Hill Books needed new owners. Enter Balliet and Clarke. “Mainly it’s Barbara,” Clarke says with a laugh. “I price books and put them on shelves, but mostly I sit up there and do my own work.” This includes
fundraising for Hobart’s annual Festival of Women Writers, now in its fourth year (see sidebar). Clarke and Balliet were among its founders. “My sister Breena had this idea,” says Clarke, placing fingers on her temples as she channels acclaimed novelist Breena Clarke. “She’s on the board of A Room of Her Own Foundation, and she’d just come from one of their retreats in New Mexico. She said, ‘Cheryl, I see us giving a festival of women writers here, so we can have something like that on the East Coast.’” The first festival took a year to organize. They approached chambers of commerce, civic organizations, and a long and diverse list of writer friends. “Most important, the other Book Village booksellers were behind us,” says Clarke.The proprietors of Hobart’s six bookstores are a close-knit cooperative, often selling books for each other. When they gather for a group photo, I ask Mystery & More owner Don Dales who’s minding the store. “I have a cat,” he responds. The four-legged greeter at Blenheim Hill Books is Greta, a shih tzu whose toys fill two bins in the purple house. Balliet apparently presides over its remodeled kitchen, pastel palette, and burgeoning gardens; whenever you notice some gracious detail, Clarke nods and says, “Barbara.” The couple got married a few weeks ago, after 25 years together. Does it feel different? Cheryl Clarke shakes her head. “It feels just as good as it always did.” And she flashes that smile.
From left: Book villagers John Mahoney, Donald Dales, Cheryl Clarke, Laurel Whritner Lawrence, Barbara Balliet, Bill Adams, Dennis Lauchman, Kathy Dwyer, Bertha Rogers
HOBART BOOK VILLAGE Inspired by Wales’ National Book Town, Hay-on-Wye, the “Book Village of the Catskills” boasts six bookstores and a bookbinder: Adams’ Antiquarian Books (“uncommon books at reasonable prices”); Blenheim Hill Books (history, poetry, women’s studies, illustrated books, and “things we like”); Butternut Valley Books (foreign-language, maps, ephemera, fine art); Creative Corner Books (cookbooks, crafts, gardening); Liberty Rock Books (5,000 square feet of new and used books, art, vintage postcards, jazz); Mysteries & More (suspense, sci-fi, and a very important cat); Paper Moon Bookbinding (bookbinding, paper products, gifts). For more information, visit Hobartbookvillage.com
FESTIVAL OF WOMEN WRITERS The Fourth Annual Festival runs from September 9-11. Participating writers include E.J. Antonio, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Breena Clarke, Cheryl Clarke, Esther Cohen, Simona David, Alexis De Veaux, r. erica doyle, Ginnah Howard, J. P. Howard, Mary Johnson, Dahlma LlanosFigueroa, Linda Lowen, Dara Lurie, Yesenia Montilla, Kamilah Aishah Moon, Stephanie Nikolopoulos, Elisabeth Nones, Chinelo Okparanta, Bessy Reyne, Bertha Rogers, Sophfronia Scott, and Elizabeth Searle. For information on event schedule, writing workshops, and readings, visit Hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com
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SHORT TAKES Nothing beats a brand-new novel in your summer traveling bag!
THE GILDED YEARS Karin Tanabe Washington Square Press, 2016, $16
Vassar alumna Tanabe based this compelling historical novel on the true story of Anita Hemmings. Brilliant, determined, and beautiful, Hemmings was the first AfricanAmerican to graduate from Vassar in 1897, decades before the college admitted black students. Tanabe deftly captures the constant vigilance and emotional cost of “passing” as white, plunging the Roxbury janitor’s daughter ever deeper into her wealthy roommate’s charmed life and a risky romance with an upper-crust Harvard man.
CAPE MAY Holly Caster TDC Publishing, 2016, $15
Who says there are no second acts in American lives? Rockland County author Caster weaves a sensitive tale of a literate, comfortably married woman, about to turn 60, who’s astonished to find herself falling in love with a man she meets on the bus to Cape May. Pursuing her long-denied dream of opening a bed-and-breakfast in the Victorian seaside resort, Joanna finds a passion that threatens to upend her life. Will she have the courage to follow it, and at what price?
CONDOR AND HUMMINGBIRD Charlotte Zoe Walker Leaf & Tendril Books, 2016, $14.95
Here’s a different kind of second act: First published by Alice Walker’s Wild Trees Press in 1986, Condor and Hummingbird earned glowing reviews from Grace Paley and others. This 30th-anniversary edition reprises the story of Laura, an American woman who travels to her Colombian husband’s homeland in 1963, the era known as “La Violencia.” Walker’s prose has the wingspan and breathless beauty of its titular birds in a story both grounded and mystical.
REVEREND WENT WALKING William Teets Outskirts Press, 2016, $17.95
Peekskill native and Chronogram contributor Teets follows up his hard-hitting memoir Upside Down (One on the House) and poetry collection Before the Flood with an ambitious novel narrated in the street-poet voice of the nameless Old Man. With incantatory intensity, Old Man spins the story of a young man known as Reverend, battered by love but still walking the city’s mean streets, along with the much larger story of how our society fails those who live on its edges.
SCUDDER’S GORGE Geoffrey Craig Prolific Press, 2016, $16.95
Pushcart Prize nominee Craig hopscotches through generations with a family saga that starts with the bombing of Hiroshima and jumps back to 18th-century Vermont, where the clandestine romance between a rebellious farm girl and a young Abenaki ignites a different sort of explosion. How do these acts of violence interconnect, and how do they lead to a protest against the Vietnam War? Craig has big themes on his mind in this exploration of American imperialism and dark family ties.
MURDER AT THE RUMMAGE SALE Elizabeth Cunningham Imagination Fury Arts, 2016, $24
Cunningham’s first novel since the completion of her bestselling Maeve Chronicles conjures up the Kennedy era—pillbox hats, Jell-O salads, VW Beetles—in a mystery with a truly unique murder weapon. Doyenne of an annual church rummage sale, Charlotte Crowley is found smothered under a pile of coats in a plastic dry-cleaner bag. Whodunnit, and why? The good people of the Church of the Regeneration aim to find out. Appearing at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck, 8/30 at 6pm.
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The Second Life of Nick Mason Steve Hamilton
Terminal Marshall Karp
Mesa Films, 2016, $9.99
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016, $26
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ood thrillers transcend genre, bringing suspense and gore into the service of larger truths. And why not? What’s a larger truth than human misbehavior and untimely death? If you love nothing better than creatively wrought suspense, get your hands on these latest offerings from Ulster County masters Steve Hamilton and Marshall Karp, and prepare to be joyfully stunned. Hamilton debuts a fascinating new character and series with The Second Life of Nick Mason. Nick is a hardscrabble Chicago guy who took a fall on one last ill-advised outing in the underworld and was sentenced to over two decades in prison. Then the unbelievable happens: Semi-mysterious forces grease the wheels of justice and he’s released after only five, his every material need provided. But there’s a catch: The price of walking free is carrying a cell phone at all times and being at the unquestioning beck and call of the man who singled him out in prison and appointed him a samurai. The moral costs and practical difficulties are huge, and at times leave Nick wishing he’d stayed in his cell. That wish is counterbalanced by the chance, albeit fraught and slim, of a relationship with his daughter. As the phone rings and the adventure deepens, trying to stay alive and keep the people he cares about safe will take every bit of ninja skill Nick can muster. His efforts to make a life are knocked about like bowling pins by twist after twist. He’s been conscripted into a war that’s about 19 levels above his youthful criminal pay grade, and the detente between lawbreakers and law enforcers that pacifies Chicago’s underbelly is going up in flames. He’s grappling with fallout from the past, trying to figure out the narrow path to a viable future, all the while on the radar of a tough, angry cop. Nick is good company on a wild ride, and the series is off to a breakneck start. Karp’s latest is something his fans have longed for. After several books co-authored with his bestselling buddy James Patterson, he revisits his Hollywood detective team Lomax and Biggs in a self-published outing that’s destined for great success. His loyal fans enjoyed the Patterson books, especially as Karp’s voice began to shine through, but Lomax and Biggs are simply beyond compare. After a six-year hiatus, they’re back in top form. Mike Lomax is at the doctor’s, dressed for a prostate exam, when a murder-suicide explodes at the medical facility. Like the best sort of cop, he runs toward the trouble, gown flapping. It’s a high-profile murder with political ramifications and a nonsensical fact pattern, which launches Mike (now fully clad) and his partner in detecting and wisecracks, Terry Biggs, onto a voyage of discovery. Somebody has begun hiring terminally ill patients as hitmen, but who? Why? Throughout the case, Lomax deals with massive uncertainties in his own life. There are iffy results from his bloodwork and the specter of separation from the “loaner kid” he and his wife, Diana, are in love with. As the plot thickens, the layers of moral ambiguity and emotional resonance keep thickening with it—and Karp keeps us laughing even as we weep for this crazy, complicated world. Terminal is an Amazon exclusive; you can find The Second Life of Nick Mason online or in your favorite local bookstore. Both belong in your beach bag or on your nightstand, stat. —Anne Pyburn Craig
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The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar Franz Nicolay
The New Press, 2016, $26.95
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he term punk rock conjures many things: rebellion, antiauthoritarianism, unbridled rage, raw power, to name a few. In The Humorless Ladies of Border Control, Bard music teacher Franz Nicolay, recently rated number one of punk’s 10 best accordion players, adds “passport” to that list. On the face of it, this captivating travelogue/adventure tale/ memoir, Nicolay’s first book, is a chronicle of five years—2009 to 2014—in which Nicolay traverses Eastern Europe, Russia, and China, a banjo in one hand, a guitar in the other, and an accordion on his back. (Occasionally, his wife, fellow Bard professor and performing cohort Maria Sonevytsky, accompanies.) He alights in venues booked for him by members of an underground, cyber dependent Russian punk network, and performs what he calls “modern vaudeville with full-throated songs and stories shamelessly strident, stentorian, and more than a little sentimental.” But self-proclaimed “Hapsburg mongrel” Nicolay, a US-born, NYU-trained composer, and former bass player in “the world’s greatest bar band,” the Hold Steady, offers much more than mere diary entries. For starters, he brings with him some of the great travel writers of yore: Chekhov, Orwell, Rebecca West, and 19th-century aristocrat Marquis de Custine, all explorers of the same routes as Nicolay, all sharing his contagious fascination for the region. Their words, interspersed with Nicolay’s lively, often gorgeous prose, add historical context, and a kind of company-across-the-ages avid readers will appreciate. Quite by chance, Nicolay is in Ukraine when Malaysian jet MH370 is shot down, when Putin invades, and when Pussy Riot is jailed. These are some of the most edifying—and scary—passages of The Humorless Ladies of Border Control. Outside his US citizen bubble, Nicolay talks to barflies, musicians, disgruntled elder punks, and average folks, and duly records the ground-level pulse of a world power in real turmoil. His conversations with disenfranchised, disappointed common folk (“punk” and otherwise) in the thrall of authoritarian, nationalist Putin feel eerily prescient. Nicolay can fit a lot of information into his passages, and that’s cool, but his work really shines in beautiful turns of phrase that instantly transport. Of a 24-hour train ride to St. Petersburg: “Through the window coquettish beech leaves flashed their silver undersides in the breeze.…I awoke four hours from St. Petersburg in a new landscape: thick birch and conifers of military bearing punctuating patches of swamp.” In St. Petersburg: “the upwardly mobile vulgarity of the new Russia resisted the staid gravity of the imperial architecture.” Of an encounter with a Russian child on a train: “A hyperactive, malevolent tempest in a green tank top, he cackled in my face, made a grab for my phone, and raced out the door.” For one of his tours, Nicolay took only one suit, which grew so funky that he and his wife ceremoniously burned it when he returned home. On another leg, his laptop was stolen, along with all his cash and his passport. Thankfully, his memory remained intact. Although he claims to be done with the lifestyle (“You don’t travel for comfort, you travel to justify the daily discomfort”), this book will undoubtedly inspire other intrepid artists—punks and as-yet-undefined—to use their work as a means to get out in the flesh-and-blood world, get dirty, forsake comfort, and find the truth.
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our September issue is August 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
It’s just like a spank of life. You know, like the one a baby gets. —Sage Perkins (7 years)
Loving from afar How intoxicating—myopia. —p
Fazon
Bedford Square
A lot of trees were blown down by the hurricane last year and it turned out the mailman was leaving half his penny-savers in the gutter sheet.
Well I’m packing suitcases again Vacating a flat, this container of square footage Precisely the size of my optimism, Which fortunately coincides with this city, Where the very breeze is civilized— A safe haven for one whose every day has always constituted some indignation of time and place; My fated problem of falling in love with Percy Shelleys I fear may be wrapped up in the safety of the unattainable. I will walk familiar streets and my kettle in London will grow all the more synecdochical a fragment becoming for me all of London, with its funny little handle and the measurements on the side for cups of water, cups of tea, cups, And there it is, just like that: An absolutely perfect thing. Thank goodness, thank the gods or the absences, for a life measured in cups. Monday morning cups, Friday evening cups, I’ll take a cup of kindness yet— Clichés expand generously to include some truth: Here, a cup of tea with the scope of a dwindling empire, The dignity of dusk, the reluctant humility of past glory. And I, a person-island plagued by ifs, A singular nation moving through space With enough sense of empire to be at home in England; I am far too acquainted with myself, And I will do silly things like rhapsodize a kettle that, like London, couldn’t fit in my luggage or my pockets, couldn’t be clutched, but unlike the place itself, can be discussed easily. It occurs to me that heaven is just Being brought sugar and milk with your tea Separate, of course—we aren’t barbarians— and part of being a person is pouring the tea for oneself. I worry about the kettle and who is using it now, but mustn’t show that, mustn’t feel robbed of that personhood a simple and imperial attitude, things that look like sense where I have always seen only nonsense. I shall have to persevere; one must behave whole! My good humor can be alarming when it’s not wholly sincere. Funny how insincere everyday life is, Funny probably, how we cannot pack the clutched things.
I knew which one it was— with the lean face and shaggy hair under his ball cap like a neck cloth. I thought it would be a piece of forensic eloquence to pile them up in the cleft between the stone wall and the mulberry tree and show him you can’t cut corners and go uncontradicted. I put on an old pair of black-rimmed glasses and for a while anything brought me running to the window but eventually summer came with some blue scrawls the air was soft and there was a girl in a straw hat who came down the hill with a lawn chair. I told her that I had reached my acme at thirty-five, that I no longer went in for things like material domination. We listened to some records: Bob Seger and the Motor City Sound, Sopwith Camel, Grand Funk and she told me about the morning she was born, body anemic and red, regret already filing down her backbone. I didn’t want to be another one of those seaside girls, she said, the pug-nosed ones serving nachos and Devil Dogs. You know who I mean. —Quentin Rowan
Sixteen I stand before a sink filled with dishes from last night’s teenage heartbreak party daydreaming about quitting my job because poetry and survival don’t dance in the same hall. I may not change the world but I can recover one disappointment at a time, clean-slate the kitchen so those who pass through can get well, get better, pull through. The girls have discovered betrayal
—Lachlan Brooks
can be cut into perfect stars, doctored with pieces of chopped M&Ms, a plate of brownies offered to the Gods of resilience. O’ open mouth of the sink, if every third word were a prayer, if rags over the butcher block were saturated in prayer, then the quiet of this morning’s ritual is my masterpiece.
I long to run wild in the bend leading to Springfield run pass tall dark trees filled with tangerines and grapefruits leap over little gully and trenches jump muddy hill wet from over night rain dip under sharp cane leaf and out run any lizard till I reach the guava trees I shout dada and he always say ooooiiii mi dung ya so! ( I am here my child)!
—Alison Woods
—Jodi Powell
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Springfield
Our Lamppost We fell in love with each other, Hitting our heads as we hit the ground, Leaving us confused and greatly naive. Our confusion only made our love stronger, Our cigarettes more damaging, Our alcohol more destructive. We got drunk quicker, Spent our nights under fairly dim lamppost lights, Never thinking to check the watches on our wrists, The most we knew of them was that they were broken. . It didn’t concern us, Time. The clock was frozen and our bodies were immortal, We were infinite, Unaware that we were actually rather completely finite.
Mattering
“Stomp”
It sucks to have a dead kid for someone with such a great capacity to enjoy The simple things —a sprig of spearmint in fresh chilled tea —the waggle of a dog’s hello —the rainbow in a water spray Those things are there It’s true And still observed But instantly X-ed out (again and again) By the next observation The inner sonorous voice that says: What’s the point? (over and over) Your son is dead.
(For JJ)
Our parents only called us home for the holidays, For cherry wine and clementines.
—Mary Vallo
We drove our dirty cars around empty parking lots, Our limbs swaying through the air like we were dancing.
Universal Haiku
Dancing with the wind in our hair, Dancing with time in our palms, The heart of life on our minds.
Flowing existence, Gas, light, color spun galaxies, My boy’s finger print.
We became familiar with our screams, We fell in love with each other’s tongues, How we tasted like old booze, How we tasted like destruction and freedom. We fell in love under the lampposts, And when we did, We decided we would never leave, Our lamppost. —Cerissa DiValentino
The Thing Is, You See god has big eyes & he puts them in the mouths of little children & you can do what you will with a child, but one way or another what you will will come back to speak to you when you are old when your hands are arthritic when your knees buckle when your mind is growing thin, (oh yes) that tiny voice will speak & speak & speak
—Thomas Perkins
Tequila Shot (For Andrew) The bartender wants me to do a tequila shot to celebrate my retirement, but I decline, not wanting to be hung over on my first day of retirement, or worse, to be arrested on the way home for drunken driving and have to start my new life in a deep, deep hole. I decline, not once, but several times as the bartender persists, finally insisting that if I’m not going to do a tequila shot, I should write a poem called Tequila Shot. So here it is, and given I’ve never tasted tequila in my life, I’m not sure what this should taste like either. How about a hint of humor: after my favorite chef prepared a dish that included a glaze
The kid’s perched on a rock wall between the sidewalk and a church— two unsaid ends of an invisible spectrum. I picked him up under his armpits to put him there as he bashfully pretended to decline. He looks to his right face lighting up as two ants wander the flat stone shared by the six-year-old. His sneakered foot twitches before he moves to lift it. “Don’t,” I warn with love and firmness equal. “But I like to squash them,” he protests. I hold the tip down feeling his tiny toes through the rubber and tie his shoe since he’s unable— a late bloomer; a precious gem. “We respect life,” I tell him doubling the bow for safety. Our pizza’s still warm though we arrive ten minutes late to claim it. —Mike Vahsen
Sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m s wait wtf why —Amanda Henneberry
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made with tequila, I suggested he should include mockingbird on his menu, prepared with the same special glaze. I can see it on the blackboard in big, bold letters: Tequila Mockingbird. Hell, I’ll drink to that.
Buddha Say: You Must Try Mohammed Say: You Must Not Jesus Say: You Must Pay Khrishna Say: Beat The Check
—Matthew J. Spireng
—Peter Coco
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Food & Drink
Mechanical Meals
The Rise of Fresh Food Vending Machines By Phyllis Segura Photos by Roy Gumpel
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f you want it, and you want it now, there’s a place to go. Especially if it’s meat— locally sourced raw meat—that you desire. Entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the vending machine business in the Hudson Valley. It’s modern, convenient and oh, so cool. Using vending machines for fresh food delivery may not yet be a visible business trend, but they’re multiplying. Freshness, a lasting food trend, could become available around the clock. Josh Applestone, craft butcher of Applestone Meat Company and the founder of Fleisher’s Craft Butchery shops, has installed two carousel refrigerated vending machines in a room adjacent to the Applestone meat processing plant in Accord. They’re available 24/7 with Cryovac-packaged, fresh, USDAapproved meat. All the products come directly from a local farm to the processing plant and finally to the vending machine. The vending machines featured at the Horn & Hardart Automats Applestone recalls from childhood were his initial inspiration. Put in a nickel, open the glass door, reach in, and pull out an inexpensive and nourishing meal. It was all the rage. “They made a big impression on me,” Applestone says, “which I hope will translate into the experience people have with our vending machines.” One-time vegans, Josh and Jessica Applestone, have long been pioneers in the sustainable meat industry. They revived nose-to-tail butchering in retail stores that offered a purchasing alternative to factory farming by sourcing from small local farms. “When we opened, we stuck with traditional products: steak, chops, burger meat, sausages—everything you’d find in the traditional butcher shop of times like my grandfather’s,” says Applestone, “but we reinvented it. What we did didn’t exist before, except in shares of beef directly from small farms. It was sourced carefully, and still is; we brought attention to some oft-neglected cuts to promote the noise-to-tail/ no-waste philosophy—not to mention that it tasted miraculously better than any other meat out there.”Their first Fleisher’s shop, in Kingston, fostered conscious consumers who now knew where their meat was coming from. It was locally raised, grass-fed, and organic, and had no antibiotics or hormones. “There has been a real change in the industry since we started Fleisher’s,” says Applestone. “And a lot of the people who started small butcher shops across the country walked through our doors.” As there is no retail shop at Applestone’s it’s possible to offer more affordable good quality, local meats—a sustainable approach. “By not having a shop we can keep all of our manpower at the back of the house,” Applestone says. “In directing 78 FOOD & DRINK ChronograM 8/16
Josh Applestone, loaded down with meat ready to vend.
the energy of our consumer toward an automated system, we can focus the majority of our energy toward running the safest and most productive facility possible.” The facility’s multifaceted staff members are not just counter people. Applestone’s first foray into achieving the goal of increased affordability and accessibility is the installation of the two vending machines in Accord. “It’s served as a kind of prototype for what’s to come,” says Applestone. “The response has been huge, and it’s helped us shape where we’re headed with this concept.” Tammy Carlile, who lives in Kerhonkson and works in Kingston, stops by the Accord location frequently to use the vending machines. “I hadn’t been able to eat meat,” she says. “Because of some general allergies to antibiotics, I’d get migraines when I did.” Tammy has tried the hot dogs, sausages, and rib-eye steaks and doesn’t get sick anymore. She’s thrilled with the meat she can now purchase easily, any time, that comes from pasture-fed animals without antibiotics. Applestone will have a new location in Stone Ridge open by the end of the summer with three new machines that are temperature-monitored, with food safety systems in place. “There will be more convenient features,” Applestone says. “For example, you won’t have to swipe your card multiple times to make multiple purchases, like you do with the ones we have now.We’ll be introducing informative elements, like touch-screen displays with detailed product information. Expect some new kinds of products, new packaging. Also fun elements for kids and pets.” The Applestones are also interested in the community-oriented aspect of their business. They’ve started a garden and hope to create a lasting environment that their friends, families, and visitors to the region can enjoy for a long time to come. Applestone says, “Like the Automats, I want to make something that will be engrained in people’s memories forever, something that they’ll tell their kids about.” Applestone’s automated machines might be the first in the Hudson Valley, but there have been vending machines with meat in France, especially Paris, for years. For 10-20 Euros ($11-22 US) you can get vacuum-sealed sausages, steaks, beef carpaccio, Basque ham, chicken, and eggs. A butcher in the French medieval city of Mennetou-sur-Cher (pop. 906) offers in his vending machine a specialty sausage of the area called andouillette that is rarely seen outside of France. It is made from a pig’s intestinal system and has a gamey and strong scent. There is a saying about it that might be suitable to our current election cycle: “Politics is like an andouillette—it should smell a little like shit, but not too much.”
Emma McLaughlin and three-year-old Heidi at Applestone Meats in Accord.
Also in France, you can get a freshly baked baguette from several different 24hour automated machines. The partially baked bread is baked on order for 60 seconds and left another 30 seconds to cool. In places where there is no bakery it’s been a boon. So when bakeries close or go on holiday, the French can still get their daily bread. Closer to home are fresh salads from custom-designed vending kiosks sold only in Chicago from Fresh Farmer. Gabi Fitz, who lives there and has used them, says she “wishes they were in many other places, since it’s difficult to find fresh salads here.” Intrigued, Daina Lyons, also of Chicago, tried them out recently and was superpleased with the results. The salads are offered in recyclable jars with the dressing in a small cup on top. “There’s forks, napkins, and a small paper plate, and even a recycling bin on the side of the machine,” she says. She was duly impressed by the touch screen, the neatly arranged salads and the fresh, mainly organic and locally grown, produce. This system, started in 2013, was the brainchild of Luke Saunders, who just wanted to solve a problem. He traveled a lot and couldn’t find nutritious, healthy food on the go. After modifying existing vending equipment, including designing reclaimed wood frontispieces, he put his first machine in a food court. Contacted by phone, Fresh Farmer confirmed they would soon have 45 machines throughout the Chicago area in hospitals, food courts, universities, and high schools. The machines are restocked between 2am and 10am, and leftovers go to food pantries. Got a craving for caviar? Where else but in Beverly Hills, California, will you find caviar vending machines? Beverly Hills Caviar is sold in tins from the company’s “automated boutiques” in three shopping centers since 2012. Cash only. A lot of development went into their machines and some patents were filed.You might have to fly to London to get the champagne from the Moet & Chandon vending machine at Selfridge’s, though. In San Francisco, Byte Foods offers credit card-accessed workplace refrigerators that are filled with packaged, healthy foods and beverages that are mostly locally sourced. The chip system Byte machines use is unique, since you are only charged for what you remove from the fridge. The boss pays a rental fee. Since 2012, Sprinkles Cupcakes, a chain with 16 bakeries, have had “Cupcake ATMs” outside its shops. For $4, when the slide door opens, you can get the cupcake of your choice (from a touch screen) in a box. There’s one in New York, next to the Sprinkles bakery on Lexington Avenue.
For the past seven years, in Cedar Creek, Texas (15 miles east of Austin), at the family-owned Berdoll Pecan Candy & Gift Company, a machine on the porch has been offering, at $19.50 each, fresh, chilled homemade pecan pie. Owners Jennifer and Jared Wammack say they also have “honey-glazed pecans, chocolate pecans, halves, pieces, jerky, and 15 other kinds of pecans” Owens Meats, which calls itself “the Candy Store for the Carnivore” is in Cle Elum,Washington. Owens has 16 vending machines disbursing different meat products—all dried, no fresh meats—scattered around mid-Washington State. They are all refrigerated, and decked out with wireless technology and telemetry alerts that give the twin Owens brothers, Doug and Don, daily and hourly sales reports. The 15 different products, which are mostly various types of jerky and pepperoni that include a “trail mix” of pepperoni, beef jerky, turkey jerky, and cheddar cheese, get restocked weekly. Then there’s the Burrito Box, which calls itself “a fully automated Mexican restaurant in a box.” Started in a gas station in Los Angeles, there are now Burrito Boxes in Grand Central Station and elsewhere. With one vending machine per every 23 people, Japan could easily claim the title of the vending machine capital of the world. Cities there are replete with machines offering everything from bananas (trademarked by Dole, with a courtesy bin for the peels on the side of the machine) to apples, cooked rice, cans of bread, eggs, cups of noodles, natto (a traditional breakfast dish made from fermented soybeans), ice cream, soft serve ice cream, and yakisoba (fried wheat noodles). And there’s the vending machine that grows and dispenses 60 fresh lettuces a day using 40-watt fluorescent bulbs and foam growing pads. Another machine is geared to natural disaster preparation and dispenses water, for when the water supply is cut off, and evacuation information. We’ve come a long way from the earliest known coin-deposited distribution devices in 215 BC that dispensed holy water at Egyptian places of worship.The contemporary pluses of instant gratification and getting more fresh, basic, and specialty items available locally depend upon consumer demand and the balance between sustenance and desire. As farmers and other business entrepreneurs look for more ways to distribute their products, a freestanding, refrigerated vending machine might be the 21st-century equivalent of the pushcart. We can let our imaginations run wild with the novelty of local, fresh food vending machine ideas. Dinner is just a touch screen away. 8/16 ChronograM FOOD & DRINK 79
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Volunteers at Heart Street Shelter in Kingston prepare dinner
Locally Grown
Reclaiming the Food Desert Farm-Centric Hunger Assistance in the Hudson Valley By Molly Maeve
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n a recent Saturday at the Heart Street homeless shelter in Kingston, Sharon Mary “Chiz” Chisholm becomes excited as she and her volunteers unpack fresh onions, eggplant, peppers, and zucchini, and began preparing ratatouille. “We used to make all our meals with canned goods,” she says. “We don’t do that anymore.” For 10 years, Chisholm says, she made three meals a day with almost no vegetables. Then she heard about the Hunger Project. The Hudson Valley is an exceptionally bountiful region, with over 500 farms on more than 18,000 acres. Yet the region is also considered highly food-insecure, meaning in some areas there are more people going hungry than the national average. Food pantries and soup kitchens have traditionally been limited in what they can offer people. In addition, many people live in “food deserts,” which are communities, often low-income, with limited access to supermarkets. The result is a wide divide in the quantity and quality of food, based on income. Over the last several years, hundreds of people across the region have collaborated through programs like the Hunger Project to get local food to people who need it most. 8/16 ChronograM FOOD & DRINK 81
Clockwise from top left: Sharon Mary “Chiz” Chisholm, of Chiz’s Heart Street Shelter; Farm Director Leon Vehaba of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, which donates 35,000 pounds of food a year; Poughkeepsie resident Mary McNamara enjoys fresh watermelon from the Poughkeepsie Plenty Mobile Market, which brings low-cost fresh vegetables to city residents in three locations each week. Photo by Michael Gold.
Farmers have traditionally had strong connections to their communities, but donating excess crops requires lots of time and resources. Beth McClindon, the program director of volunteer services at Family of Woodstock and the director of Ulster Corps, says the movement to bridge the gap gained momentum at a 2009 conference called Hunger in the Hudson Valley where representatives from several agencies, including Ulster Corps, Family of Woodstock, and the Rondout Valley Growers Association, discovered they had a common concern: to reclaim food that would otherwise go to waste. Their collaboration turned into a coalition of workers and volunteers from farms and community gardens, gleaners (or harvesters), food processors, storage facilities, food pantries, and soup kitchens. Despite this herculean effort, the region’s food insecurity has continued to grow. As federal and state-funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) and similar resources have decreased, residents have expanded their efforts to alleviate the hunger experienced by so many of their neighbors. In 2014, the Local Economies Project awarded a three-year grant to the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley. With the help of the grant and an anonymous donor, Foundations established the Hudson Valley Farm Fresh Initiative, which has funded major components of this effort and brought them together to focus on long-term goals. In Ulster County, the Rondout Valley Growers Association collects donated food from farms, then sorts, weighs, divides, and distributes it to pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other emergency programs. Executive director Deborah DeWan, says much of the produce they glean isn’t accepted at markets because “it might look a little different, but it’s still great food.” Some of that food goes to the Food Bank Farm Stand program, 82 FOOD & DRINK ChronograM 8/16
The Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) provides low-income seniors with coupons that can be exchanged for eligible foods (fruits, vegetables, honey, and fresh-cut herbs) at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and community-supported agriculture programs. Photo by Sarah Salem.
a partnership between the Community Foundations and the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley that was initiated in 2014. Free farm stands were established in three locations: In the parking lot of People’s Place in Kingston; at Kingston’s Ulster County Community Action Center; and at the Newburgh Armory Unity Center, which is operated by Cornerstone Family Healthcare. People’s Place executive director, Christine Hein, says they used to be almost exclusively stocked with canned goods, and any produce that came in was donated because it was unmarketable. Freshly harvested fruits and vegetables are now free every Tuesday morning and feed an average of 300 families each week. Mobile markets are another successful aspect of the grant initiative. The Poughkeepsie Plenty Mobile Market parks in convenient locations within the city of Poughkeepsie between June and October and tries to fill the food gap in a city where 32,000 people share two supermarkets. Most recently, People’s Place has led the enterprise of five cold-storage food hubs in Ulster County that safely store and distribute food on its way to pantries. DeWan says it also makes distribution easier. “Instead of us driving to 50 food pantries, we e-mail the pantries what we have and they pick it up,” she explains. “This keeps the food fresh and reduces waste.”Volunteers also use the hubs to store and process food for use during winter months. For example, when they recently received a deluge of tomatoes, volunteers made tomato sauce. Reverend Darlene Kelley, Executive Director of Caring Hands Soup Kitchen in Kingston, said the farm hub is key to their improved operations. “In the past, it was hit or miss. This way, the quality is consistently better.” The Poughkeepsie Farm Project is one of the many farms that have offered to help. As a community shared agriculture (CSA) farm, the Farm Project offers subsidized shares to 35 families through its Food Share program. The
program donates produce to soup kitchens, food pantries, and shelters twice a week, and contributes to the Poughkeepsie schools’ dinner and summer feeding programs, as well as to the Poughkeepsie Farmers Market. The program’s executive director, Lee Anne Albritton, says the farm’s mission is to donate 20 percent of its yield, which was 35,000 pounds last year. It also offers educational programs through the city schools. “Especially in food deserts like Poughkeepsie, grocery stores don’t have a large variety of produce, so many people are not familiar with the vegetables we bring in,” Albritton says. However, the desire to use fresh produce is not linked to income. “They are very excited about this.” The New York-based program, Rescuing Left Over Cuisine, is also setting up shop in Poughkeepsie. Rich Schiafo, the deputy director of the program’s Hudson Valley Regional Council, says he is partnering with the organization to coordinate restaurants, cafes, butchers, and bakeries to bring good food that goes unsold, is approaching its best used by date, or is considered unmarketable to soup kitchens. Common Ground Farm in Beacon started as a CSA, but in 2013 became fully dedicated to food justice and education. It grows crops on nine acres and sends weekly donations to the emergency food programs in their immediate area. The farm also helps run Common Greens Mobile Farmers Market, which operates out of a green bus and travels to different locations throughout the summer. Stiles Najac, the food security coordinator at Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County, says between 25 and 50 farmers contribute to its gleaning program each year. Farmers are generous, she says, but need better compensation. In 2015, Congress passed a bill that enhances the tax deduction for food donations, and the state is working on a similar bill. 8/16 ChronograM FOOD & DRINK 83
“A better tax incentive would increase motivation to donate and compensate for a product they deserve compensation for,” Najac says. “That will hopefully change the amount of product donated and will encourage farmers to donate earlier in the life of the product.” The New York State Department of Agriculture, New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, and the Farmers Market Federation of New York have three programs in place that aim to connect farms to people in need. SNAP provides all farmers’ markets with the option to accept benefit cards by offering a free wireless POS system and promotional materials. This, in turn, provides a larger market for small and mid-size farms. To supplement that program, the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) and Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition programs provides a limited number of checks specifically redeemable at farmers’ markets and farm stands. In addition, beginning in 2015, some SNAP sites began providing Fresh Connect Checks to use at participating farmers’ markets. The checks provide a $2 incentive for every $5 of SNAP benefits, increasing the purchasing power of SNAP consumers by 40 percent. According to the Farmers’ Market Federation of New York, out of the nine reporting Ulster County farmers’ markets listed on its website (Nyfarmersmarket.com), five accept SNAP. Five out of eight markets in Dutchess County accept the benefits, half of a dozen markets in Orange County, and one out of two reporting markets in Putnman accepts SNAP. While some agencies say their goal is to “alleviate and eradicate” hunger in the Hudson Valley, eradication won’t happen until the deep underlying issues of economic injustice are addressed. Tracy Lerman, the communications manager for the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, says, “Food justice is connected to social, racial and economic injustice. People with less money have limited access to healthy, organic food. True food justice programs are not just about to bringing food to people, but changing structures that bring inequality in the first place.” Cristin McPeake, driector of programs at the Community Foundations of the HudsonValley says the organization tries to address needed change through collaboration. “Food brings people into a place like Family of Woodstock or People’s Place, and they can then be connected to other services,” she says. “Our collaborations will strengthen that.” The grant providing the Farm Fresh Fund ends this year, and the group is fundraising to continue these programs. For Chisholm, significant change is taking place at the shelter. One of the first dishes she made with local produce was green beans with almonds. “When dinner was served, I saw all the green beans in the trash,” she says. “I asked them why, and they said they didn’t know what they were. I continued to serve the vegetables, and they slowly started to eat them. Then they began to eat salad once a week. They have salad every day now, and they ask for their favorite vegetables. They ask for kale chips.” As she prepares the ratatouille for Saturday’s dinner, Chisholm makes sure there will be enough to deliver to people on the streets of Kingston who did not make it to the shelter. “We’d never be able to do this without the gleaning program,” she says. “When people here see volunteers bringing food off the truck, they see that it is another human being giving it to them. It brings tears to my eyes. It changes the heart of the people.” A listing of resources related to food insecurity—free farmers’ markets, where to volunteer, etc.—accompanies the online version of the article on Chronogram.com.
Top: John, a volunteer at People’s Place, works the front of the line for the Farm Stand every Tuesday. Bottom: The produce table in People’s Place Food Pantry is always full of surprises, from donations of food from grocery stores to organic greens from local farmers.
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VENISON DONATION Crop farmers aren’t the only people helping. Sportsmen’s clubs partnered with the Department of Conservation to form the Venison Donation Coalition in 1999, a state program that connects hunters, processors, and distributors to get venison to people in need. Hunters can now get deer damage permits during the off-season through the DEC’s Nuisance Permit Program that will make it easier for hunters to donate. Cornell Cooperative Extension organizes a crew of volunteers to retrieve the meat, butcher and distribute it. Processors who sign up get reimbursed for operations, packaging, and labor. One donated deer can provide 200 meals. (866) 862-3337; Venisondonation.com.
FARMERS’ MARKET INDEX Columbia Copake Hillsdale Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-1pm; through October 29 9140 State Route 22, Hillsdale (518) 851-7518 Copakehillsdalefarmersmarket.com
Millerton Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-1pm; through October 29 Millerton Methodist Church Corner of Dutchess and Main St., Millerton (917) 841-6653 Millertonfarmersmarket.com
Goshen Farmers’ Market Friday, 10am-5pm; through October 28 Village Square Between Main Street and South Church Street, Goshen (845) 294-5557 Goshennychamber.com
Hudson Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-1pm; through November 19 Between 6th and Columbia Streets, Hudson (915) 734-5461 Hudsonfarmersmarketny.com
Pawling Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-1pm; through October 1 Pawlingfarmersmarket.org
Green Onion Farmers’ Market Saturday and Sunday, 9am-2pm; through Fall 8 Graycourt Avenue, Chester Hudsonvalleygreenonion.com
Kinderhook Farmers’ Market Saturday, 8:30am-12:30pm; through October 8 Village Green, Kinderhook Between Route 9 and Albany Avenue, Kinderhook Kinderhookfarmersmarket.com Philmont Farmers’ Market Sunday, 10am-2pm; through October 16 116 Main Street, Philmont (518) 697-0038 Pbc.inc/revitalization Upstreet Market Wednesday, 4-7pm; through October 7th Street Park, Hudson Facebook.com/upstreetmarket Valatie Farmers’ Market Sunday, 9am to 1pm; through October 3211 Church Street, Valatie (231) 342-7663 Valatiefarmersmarket.com Dutchess Amenia Farmers’ Market Friday, 3pm-7pm; through October 9 Amenia Town Hall 4988 NY 22, Amenia (845) 373-4411 Ameniafarmersmarket.com Arlington Farmers’ Market Thursday, 3pm-7pm; through October 27 Vassar Alumni Lawn, 161 College Avenue, Poughkeepsie Arlingtonhasit.org Beacon Farmers’ Market Sunday, 10am-3pm; year-round Metro-North Station, Beacon Beaconfarmersmarket.org Fishkill Farmers’ Market Thursday, 9am-3pm; through October 29 Main Street, Plaza, Fishkill Vofishkill.us Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market Saturday, 10am-3pm; year round. 223 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook (914) 472-2404 Greigfarm.com/hudson-valley-farmers-market Hyde Park Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-2pm; through October 31 4390 Route 9, Hyde Park Hydeparkfarmersmarket.com Milan Farmers’ Market Friday, 3pm-7pm; through September 30 Milan Town Hall 20 Wilcox Circle, Milan (845) 876-7702 Milanfarmersmarket.com Millbrook Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-1pm; through October 29 Municipal lot across from Bank of Millbrook 3263 Franklin Avenue, Millbrook 845-234-4410 Millbrooknyfarmersmarket.com
Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market Sunday, 10am-2pm; through Thanksgiving Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot 61 East Market Street, Rhinebeck (845) 876-8000 Rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com Ulster Ellenville Farmers’ Market Sunday, 10am-2pm; through October 29 Between Center and Market St., Ellenville (845) 443-1946 Facebook.com/Ellenville-Farmers-Market Gardiner Green Market Friday, 4pm-dusk; through October 28 Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike, Gardiner (845) 255-1255 Facebook.com/Gardiner-Green-Market Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-2pm; through mid-October 1801-1805 Route 9W, Cluett Schantz Park, Milton (845) 464 2789 Hhvfarmersmarket.com
Middletown BID’S Farmers’ Market Saturday, 8am-1pm; through October 24 41 Railroad Avenue, Middletown (845) 343-8075 Middletownbid.org Pine Bush Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-2pm; through October 15 62 Main Street, Pine Bush Pinebushfarmersmarket.com Port Jervis Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-1pm; through October 29 Farmers Market Square, at the corner of Hammond and Pike Streets Facebook.com/Port-Jervis-Farmers-Market Tuxedo Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-2pm; through November 19 240 Route 17 at the Tuxedo Train Station Tuxedofarmersmarket.com Washingtonville Farmers’ Market Wednesday, 9am-3pm; through October 26 31 West Main Street, Washingtonville Facebook.com/WashingtonvilleFarmersMarket
Kingston Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-2pm; through November Wall Street, Kingston (845) 853-8512 Kingstonfarmersmarket.com
Warwick Valley Farmers’ Market Sunday, 9am-2pm; through November 20 South Street Parking Lot at Bank Street, Warwick Warwickvalleyfarmersmarket.com
New Paltz Farmers’ Market Sunday, 10am-3pm; through November 20 Next to the Village Court 25 Plattekill Avenue,New Paltz Newpaltzfarmersmarket.com
Newburgh Healthy Orange Tuesday, 10am-4pm; through October 25 Broadway between Landers and Johnston Streets, Newburgh (845) 294-5557
Rosendale Farmers’ Market Sunday, 10am-2pm; through October 30 Behind the Rosendale Theater 408 Main Street Rosendale (845) 658-8348 Rosendalefarmersmarketny.com
Greene Catskill Farmers’ Market Friday, 4pm-7pm; through October 14 344 Main Street, Catskill (518) 719-8244 Catskillcommunitycenter.org/catskill-farmers-market
Saugerties Farmers’ Market Saturday, 10am-2pm; through October 29 115 Main Street, Saugerties (845) 750-0626 Saugertiesfarmersmarket.com
Putnam Cold Spring Outdoor Farmers’ Market Saturday, 8:30am-1:30pm; through September 24 Boscobel, Garrison (845) 265-4774 Csfarmmarket.org
Woodstock Farm Festival Wednesday, 3:30pm-dusk; through October 19 6 Maple Lane, Woodstock (845) 679-5345 Woodstockfarmfestival.com Orange Town of Cornwall Farmers’ Market Wednesday, 12pm-1pm; through October 26 183 Main Street, Cornwall (845) 534-2070 Cornwallny.com/departments/farmers-market Florida Farmers’ Market Tuesday, 10am-4pm; through October Intersection of Routes 94 and 17A, Florida (845) 772-2662 Warwickinfo.net/floridafarmersmarket
Westchester John Jay Homestead Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-1pm; through October 29 400 Jay Street, Katonah (914) 232-5651 ext108 Johnjayhomestead.org Peekskill Farmers’ Market Saturday, 8am-2pm; through November 19 Bank Street, between Park and Main, Peekskill (914) 737-2780 Peekskillfarmersmarket.com Berkshire Great Barrington Farmers’ Market Saturday, 9am-1pm; through October 29 18 Church Street, Great Barrington, Mass. (413) 538-2662 Greatbarringtonfarmersmarket.org
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407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 www.lemoncakes.com Open 7am Thurs.–Mon.; Closed Tues.– Wed. Small-batch, all from scratch, handmade all-butter baked goods–this is our focus for twenty years. We also offer glutenfree and other allergy-friendly options, plus made-to-order award-winning sandwiches. All-vegan vegetable soups in season, an array of JB Peel coffees and Harney teas, artisanal drinks, plus our highly addictive Belgian Hot Chocolate, also served iced! Special-occasion cakes made to order. Seasonal desserts change through the year. Unique wedding cakes for a lifetime’s treasure. All “Worth a detour”—(NY Times). Truly “Where Taste is Everything!”
Ella’s Bellas Bakery
418 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8502 www.ellabellasbeacon.com
Butchers Jack’s Meats & Deli
79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244
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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Caffe Macchiato
99 Liberty Street, Liberty, NY (845) 565-4616 www.99libertystreet.com
Cinnamon Indian Cuisine & Bistro 5856 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7510 www.cinnamoncuisine.com
Diego’s Taqueria
38 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2816 www.diegoskingston.com
The Hop at Beacon
458 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.thehopbeacon.com
The New York Restaurant 353 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-5500 nyrestaurantcatskill.com
Osaka Restaurant
22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY, (845) 876-7338 or 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055 www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 20 years! For more information and menus, go to osakasushi.net.
The Quiet Man Public House
15 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 930-8230 thequietmanpublichouse.com
Red Hook Curry House
28 E Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2666 www.redhookcurryhouse.com
Rock Da Casbah
216 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-3929
989 Broome Center Road, Preston Hollow, NY www.heather-ridge-farm.com
Slices of Saugerties
The Hudson Creamery
Station Bar and Curio
55 Hudson Ave, Peekskill, NY thehudsoncreamery.com
Peekskill Coffee House
101 South Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 739-1287 www.peekskillcoffee.com
Restaurants Alley Cat Restaurant
294 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1300
71 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY 101 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 810-0203 www.stationbarandcurio.com
The Vault
446 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 202-7735 www.thevaultbeacon.com
Cafe Le Perche
230 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1850 www.cafeleperche.com
Tuesday-Sunday 9am-3pm | Thursday Dinner 6-9pm 99 Liberty Street, Newburgh (845) 565-4616 99libertystreet.com
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Yobo Restaurant
Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com
Wine Bars
Birdsall House
970 Main Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 930-1880 www.birdsallhousenet
All-Day Breakfast, Lunch, Brunch & Thursday Dinner
394 Main
394 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 947-4774 www.394mainst.com
Jar’d Wine Pub
OPEN DAILY 12 - 9PM CLOSED WEDNESDAYS 353 MAIN ST. CATYSKILL, NY NYRESTAURANTCATSKILL.COM 518.943.5500
Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.jardwinepub.com 8/16 ChronograM FOOD & DRINK 87
business directory Accommodations Gatehouse Gardens B & B New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8817 ww.gatehousegardens.com
Alternative Energy Hudson Solar
John T. Unger Studios Hudson, NY (231) 584-2710 www.johntunger.com
Nadine Robbins Art
www.nadinerobbinsart.com
Artists Studios
(845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
Antiques Barn Star Productions
7 Center Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0616 www.barnstar.com
Coop
107 S. Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 737-2194
Hudson Antiques Dealers Association Hudson, NY www.hudsonantiques.net hudsonantiques@gmail.com
Architecture Hudson Valley Architecture
business directory
Artists
109 Ulster Avenue, Saugerties, NY (845) 217-6811 www.hvarchitecture.com
Richard Miller, AIA
28 Dug Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4480 www.richardmillerarchitect.com
Regal Bag Studios
302 North Water Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 444-8509 www.regalbagstudios.com
Attorneys Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys 30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, , New York, NY (845) 266-4400 or (212) 213-2145 newyorktrafficlawyer.com k.friedman@msn.com
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Beverages Binnewater/Leisure Time Spring Water (845) 331-0504 www.binnewater.com
Books
Steve Morris Designs
156 Broadway, Port Ewen, NY (845) 417-1819 www.stevemorrisdesigns.com
Art Galleries & Centers Cross Contemporary Art
81 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 399-9751 www.crosscontemporaryart.com
Dorsky Museum
SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, (845) 437-5632 www.fllac.vassar.edu
Mark Gruber Gallery
New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
North River Gallery
29 Main Street, Suite 2B, Chatham, NY www.northrivergallery.com
Ryan Cronin Gallery
10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.ryancroningallery.com
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.woodstockguild.org events@woodstockguild.org
Woodstock Museum
13 Bach Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-0600 www.woodstockmuseum.com
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply
Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250, Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251
Artisans Fay Wood Studio
123 Market Street, Saugerties, NY www.faywoodstudio.com
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Monkfish Publishing
22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Bookstores Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe
31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 www.yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com warwickbookshoppe@hotmail.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603, (845) 373-8309, (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com
Berkshire Products, Inc.
884 Ashley Falls Road, Sheffield, NY www.berkshireproducts.com
Cabinet Designers
747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704
H Houst & Son
Millbrook Cabinetry & Design
Center for Metal Arts
N & S Supply
Center for the Digital Arts/Westchester Community College
2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3006 www.millbrookcabinetryanddesign.com www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
44 Jayne Street, Florida, NY (845) 651-7550 www.centerformetalarts.com/blog
Stone Ridge Electric Co., Inc.
27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill
Williams Lumber & Home Center
Columbia-Greene Community College
(845) 331-4227 www.stoneridgeelectric.com
6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Carpets & Rugs Anatolia-Tribal Rugs & Weavings
54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@gmail.com Hours: Mon. & Thurs.12-5. Fri., Sat., Sun. 12-6. Closed Tues. & Wed. Established in Woodstock 1981. Offering old, antique and contemporary handwoven carpets and kilims, from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia, in a wide range of styles, colors, prices. Hundreds to choose from, in a regularly changing inventory. Also, Turkish kilim pillows. We are happy to share our knowledge about rugs, and try and simplify the sometimes overcomplicated world of handwoven rugs.
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films
6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515, 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608 (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org
Education 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY (845) 828-4181 www.mycommunitycollege.com
Garrison Institute
14 Mary’s Way, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org
Green Meadow Waldorf School (845) 356-2514 www.gmws.org
Kildonan School
Amenia, NY (845) 373-2012 www.kildonan.org admissions@kildonan.org
Manitou School
1656 Route 9D, Cold Spring, NY www.manitouschool.org
Montessori of New Paltz
130 Dubois Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-6668 montessoriofnewpaltz.com
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School
16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org
Poughkeepsie Day School
260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org
Karina Dresses
Primrose Hill School - Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy
Pondicherry
Randolph School
12 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2926 www.pondi.biz
Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org
Willow Wood
South Kent School
Clothing & Accessories 329 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0717 www.karinadresses.com
38 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4141 willowwoodlifestyle@gmail.com
Computer Services Tech Smiths
45 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 443-4866 www.tech-smiths.com
Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes
2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com
Education
23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com
40 Bulls Bridge Road, South Kent, CT (860) 927-3539 x201 www.southkentschool.org
SUNY New Paltz New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu
Trinity - Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org
Events Chronogram Block Party
Kingston, NY www.chronogramblockparty.com
Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com
Ashokan Center
477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge, NY
Bridge St. Theatre, Catskill, NY www.catskillhighpeaksmusic.org
Herrington’s
The Birch School
Dutchess County Fairgrounds
Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com
9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern, NY (845) 645-7772 www.thebirchschool.org
Close Encounters With Music
www.dutchessfair.com
Haverstraw River Arts C/O Magda Truchan
Ingrained Building Concepts
Bloom and Berry School bloomandberryschool.com
Emeline Park, 16 Front Street, Haverstraw, NY www.haverstrawriverarts.org
John A Alvarez and Sons
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Quail Hollow Events
(845) 224-5936
3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com
2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
P.O. Box 825, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8087 or (845) 246-3414 www.quailhollow.com
Sunflower Art Festival
Gardiner, NY www.sunflowerartfestival.com
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at the Hill-Stead Museum
309 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 514-2485
Gargoyles, Ltd
35 Mountain Road, Farmington, NY www.hillstead.org
330 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (215) 629-1700 www.gargoylesltd.com
Woodstock Comedy Festival inc.
Utility Canvas
www.woodstockcomedyfestival.org
Woodstock Invitational LLC
Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY www.woodstockinvitational.com
Woodstock Sessions
woodstocksessions.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adam’s Fairacre Farms
1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-0303, 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores McEnroe Organic Farm Market 5409 Route 22, Millerton, NY (518) 789-4191 mcenroeorganicfarm.com
Sunflower Natural Food Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com
Farms 433 West Kerley Corners Road, Tivoli, NY heermance-farm.com
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates Ltd.
38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Florist Hops Petunia
73 B Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 481-5817 www.hopspetunia.com
2686 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY utilitycanvas.com
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Argentum Home
117 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-3204 www.argentumhome.com
Bop to Tottom
299 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100
Crafts People
Hudson Valley Goldsmith
71A Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5872 www.hudsonvalleygoldsmith.com
Loominus Woodstock
18 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6500 www.loominus.com
Marisa Lomonaco Custom Jewelry Beacon, NY www.marisalomonaco.com
The Modern Dream
99 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 382-9581 themoderndream.com
Shops at Jones Farm
190 Angola Road, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-4445 www.jonesfarminc.com
www.annieillustrates.com
Luminary Media
314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 334-8600 www.luminarymedia.com
Hair Salons Le Shag.
292 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0191 www.leshag.com
Locks That Rock
1552 Route 9, Wappingers Falls , NY (845) 227-4021 28 County Rt. 78, Middletown (845) 342-3989 locksthatrock.com
Lush Eco-Salon & Spa
2 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 204-8319 www.lushecosalon.com
Home Furnishings & Decor Asia Barong
Route 7/199 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-5091 www.asiabarong.com
Custom Window Treatments 88 North Street, Pittsfield, MA (413) 448-6000 CWTBerkshire.com 6/22/20166/22/2016
Dichotomy Home
Door 21, 99 South Third Street, Hudson, NY (845) 240-5834 www.chrisungaro.com
Landscaping Augustine Landscaping & Nursery 9W & Van Kleecks Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 338-4936 www.augustinenursery.com
Museums Motorcyclepedia Museum
250 Lake Street (Route 32), Newburgh, NY (845) 569-9065
Music Bearsville Theater
291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com
The Falcon
1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Poughkeepsie, NY www.midhudsonciviccenter.org
Musical Instruments
New Paltz Chamber of Commerce 257 Main Sreet, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltzchamber.org
Upstate House
Ulster County Office of Economic Development
Upstater
Stockade Guitars
41 North Front Street, Kingston, NY
Woodstock Music Shop
6 Rock City Road, Woodstock (845) 679-3224 1300 Ulster Avenue, Kingston (845) 383-1734 www.woodstockmusic.com
www.upstatehouse.com www.upstater.com
UlsterForBusiness.com
Record Stores
YMCA of Kingston
507 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org
Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217
Performing Arts
Recreation
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
Apple Greens Golf Course
Bardavon 1869 Opera House
Total Immersion Swim Studio
161 South Street, Highland, NY www.applegreens.com
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
37 Kleinekill Drive, New Paltz, NY (914) 466-5956
Town Tinker
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
10 Bridge Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5553 www.towntinker.com
Center for Performing Arts
Shoes
661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 232-2320 www.centerforperformingarts.org
Pegasus Comfort Footwear
New Paltz (845) 256-0788 and, Woodstock (845) 679-2373, NY www.PegasusShoes.com
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org
Tourism
Performance Spaces of the 21st Century
Columbia County Tourism
2980 Route 66, Chatham, NY (518) 392-6121 www.ps21chatham.org
(800) 724-1846 www.columbiacountytourism.org
Historic Huguenot Street
Shadowland Theater
Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660
157 Canal Street, Ellenville, NY (845) 647-5511 www.shadowlandtheatre.org
Toy Store
Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center
Little Pickles
1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, (845) 610-5900 www.sugarloafpac.org
7505 N Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 835-8086 ourlittlepickles.com
WAMC, The Linda
339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org
Wine, Liquor & Beer Arlington Wine & Liquor
Photography
18 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (866) SAY-WINE www.arlingtonwine.net
Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com
Benmarl Vineyards
156 Highland Avenue, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-4265 www.benmarl.com
Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing
The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and CPF, has over 25 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabricwrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Daughters Fare and Ale
7466 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 835-8365 www.daughtersfareandale.com
Denning’s Point Distillery
10 North Chestnut Street, Beacon, NY www.denningspointdistillery.com
Dylan’s Wine Cellar
50 Husdson Ave, Peekskill, NY (914) 930-8003 www.dylanwinecellar.com
Workshops
Pools & Spas
Hudson Valley Photoshop Training, Stephen Blauweiss
Aqua Jet
1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
(845) 339-7834 www.hudsonvalleyphotoshop.com
Printing Services
Barcones Music
528 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6089 www.barconesmusiconline.com
275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com
(845) 658-2302 www.hudsonvalleycurent.org
Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org
238 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (212) 625-1656 www.geoffreygood.com
Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg.
Hudson Valley Current
Dreaming Goddess
Graphic Design & Illustration Annie Internicola, Illustrator
(518) 432-5360 www.hudsonvalleybounty.com
Bard College Public Relations
Geoffrey Good Fine Jewelry
(845) 679-2010 www.halterassociatesrealty.com
Hudson Valley Bounty
262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.dreaminggoddess.com
Halter Associates Realty
Fast Signs
Writing Services
1830 South Rd Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455 455@fastsigns.com
Real Estate Grist Mill Real Estate
265 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-3200 www.gristmillrealestate.com
Peter Aaron
www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org
Organizations Wallkill Valley Writers
New Paltz, NY (845) 750-2370 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com
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CONVERSATION WITH AN AGELESS GODDESS
Women’s health diva Christiane Northrup, MD, turns everything you’ve heard about aging on its head—offering an alternative prescription for a vital new you.
by wendy kagan
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enior moments are a myth. Sex in our sunset years is better than ever. Hang around Dr. Christiane Northrup long enough, and you’re likely to pick up a brand-new, 100 percent-improved story about getting older. An internationally known authority on women’s health and NewYork Times bestselling author, Northrup once practiced as a board-certified ob-gyn telling women everything that could go wrong with their bodies. Now she turns her focus on everything that can go right. In her book Goddesses Never Age:The Secret Prescription for Radiance,Vitality, andWell-Being (Hay House, 2015), Northrup offers research, stories, and practical tips on how vital, soulful living can keep us young. One recent midsummer morning, Northrup spoke with me from her home in Maine about defying aging’s stigma, cultivating more pleasure, and other essential practices for rebirthing our best selves at any stage of life. What is the story that our culture is telling us about aging? Is it time to rewrite that story? It is so time to rewrite that story! The story we’re hearing is a disempowering story; it’s a shared cultural belief that one can step out of. Aging in this culture
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is very much based on this demographic idea that after a certain age, things are going to fall apart. By age 50 one should have her first colonoscopy and her first mammogram, depending on whose guidelines you’re reading. And when you turn 50 your ski boots have to be adjusted lower because there is this belief that your bones are going to break more easily. Let’s just dissect that for a moment: What could possibly happen overnight between age 49 and 50? As if the grim reaper is coming closer and your value as a woman is going away! A friend of mine was a psych resident at the local hospital, and they created what they called a “senior team”: If anyone 65 or older walked down the hall, someone would have to go assist them. Now, do you see how this is institutionalized decrepitude? There is nothing about the age on your driver’s license that has to say anything about your state of health. Beliefs are mediated in our minds and bodies via the cell membrane. The cell membrane is the brain of the cell. We know that the environment in which the cell finds itself is what determines how the DNA within the cell gets expressed. That’s on the microscopic level. On the macroscopic level, the beliefs that we hold actually determine our experiences
in our lives. Many of those beliefs have not been examined; they’ve been passed down to us as wisdom. So what we have to do, when it comes to getting older, is examine those beliefs critically and see, do they hold water? I like the term from Dr. Mario Martinez, who wrote The MindBody Code: How to Change the Beliefs that LimitYour Health, Longevity, and Success (Sounds True, 2014) and is the founder of the Biocognitive Science Institute. He says, “Getting older is inevitable; aging is optional.” That is one belief that I think it would be very helpful for people to adapt.
you’re 50? You need to go in this group—this is the senior dancers.” The other thing about the healthy centenarians that’s very interesting is that they are aware of righteous anger. So when they see the innocence of another being threatened—say, if someone is kicking a dog, or a waitress is being belittled at another table—they stand up and say something. Our immune system has morals. When something is happening right in front of us that is threatening someone else’s innocence and we don’t do anything, it adversely affects our immunity.What we’re talking about is soul qualities.The soul doesn’t have an age.
Can you point to any studies in which the adaptation of certain beliefs or social changes impacted health and aging in a positive way? You can look at some really fun experiments done by Ellen Langer at Harvard; back in ’94 she did a very critical one that I have quoted many times; I’ve even had people do it in my Ageless Goddess group on Facebook. She took a bunch of men aged around 75 to 80 took to an isolated place where the environment was set up so that they were living as though they were in their prime. They put pictures on the wall of them and their families in their prime. They got TV shows from the 50s, magazines from the 50s. Everything about the environment was set up to say, “This is you now.” Before they began the study they took pictures of the men and they did measurements that we expect to decline with advancing age—eyesight, hearing, pulmonary function, cardiac output, those kinds of things. Then, after about 10 days, they repeated the tests and they took pictures again. The men looked 10 years younger, their eyesight improved, their hearing improved, pulmonary function improved, blood pressure improved, cardiac output improved. All of the measures that we are certain deteriorate with advancing age actually reversed. Ellen Langer said years later that things happened she did not report. A game of touch football broke out among the men.When they left they carried their own bags; they felt very hale and hearty. But this is the problem: When they got home their families would say things like, “Oh come on, let me help you.You can’t carry your bag.” The same thing has been found with studies on the very elderly in nursing homes, people in their 90s. This was a study by William Evans; he went into nursing homes and through weight training really improved the quadriceps strength of the oldest members of the nursing home to the point where they could easily get up at night and go to the bathroom without assistance. But what happened is the staff couldn’t handle it. They saw their job as rescuing these “little old people.”
What can we do to combat our social programming about aging? Here’s the thing:You have to create a subculture of wellness. Then you can step out of the conversation altogether. By design, that’s going to mean eliminating certain relationships and activities that you have outgrown. I think one of the cool things about being over 50 is that you realize you’re not immortal; you say to yourself, if not now, when? We can’t allow our dreams to be someday. I have a friend who spent years as a computer programmer, then at 40 she went to medical school and became a practicing physician, and now she is about to “retire” from that particular line of work; she says, “Okay, now I am going to live my life.” We can reinvent ourselves. Yet there comes a time as you’re reinventing yourself when it’s going to be uncomfortable. Going into that studio for the first time to learn tango, I thought, “Oh my God, this is what the world needs—another middle-aged woman who wants to learn how to dance.” But I allowed my desire to learn to be greater than my doubts and fears. Now I’ve got a new group of friends, a new life. I’ve made my living room into a dance floor; I took out all the furniture so it’s really a space for living.
One of the cool
things about being over 50 is that you realize you’re not
immortal; you say to yourself, if not now, when?
How can we take charge of our health at any age? We need to practice the causes of health. To go back to Dr. Martinez, he did a study of about 500 centenarians from all around world, and he found that they’re all the same—all the healthy, vital centenarians practice the same causes of health. One of these is elevated cognition, which is looking for, on purpose, the good things that are happening around you. It’s easy to look at the news and bemoan the state of the world. But one of the things that I choose to notice is all the fabulous marriages that people have after the age of 50. The love coach Diana Kirschner writes in Love in 90 Days (Center Street, 2010) that people over 50 are finding love more than any other time in history. Gina Ogden’s work shows that women in their 60s and 70s are having the best sex of their lives. These are not narratives that you normally hear in the news, because the mainstream media is by and large an instrument of patriarchy; it is designed to keep us afraid and keep us turning to someone else to solve our problems for us. Then, exalted emotions. How do you get your emotions exalted? You start to look for things that make you feel really good. For me it’s an evening of tango dancing to gorgeous music; it feels amazing. I have a whole community of people who are all ages. We’re there to dance. We’re not there to say, “Oh,
Not many MDs prescribe pleasure as a path to better health, but you do. Why? The body requires regular pleasure in order to sustain itself, to balance hormones such as beta endorphin and serotonin. We need those things. If we don’t get them directly, we will get them in a way that is not sustainable: marijuana, drugs, alcohol. Pleasure needs to be a regular part of life; there’s just no way around it. For me it’s going outside, playing music, dancing, eating well. I just rented a Celtic harp; I was a harpist in medical school and all during college but I let it go. The part of me that wanted to learn the harp when I was four is back, but instead of getting into the classical grind of it, I can actually just make music. Is the goal of an Ageless Goddess to live as long as possible, or is it more about enjoying our time on Earth right here, right now? To me, longevity is another discussion that I think is kind of worthless. Who cares if you want to live to 100? I would much rather live well. Happy, healthy, dead: That’s a good motto. I exercise, I take supplements, I dance—I do all of that stuff to be in the world. But if I died tomorrow it would be okay. There’s no fear. I’m not doing any of this stuff to live longer; I’m doing it because living right now works really well. And I’m finding that many things keep improving in my body and in my life. We’re moving through time in a physical body, no question about that— we’re here for a while. I haven’t seen anyone become immortal, though there are certainly stories about it. So what you want to do is see getting older as an opportunity to increase your value and confidence. When you stand in your power as a goddess, people stand at attention. The male energy exists to serve the feminine; we have a lot more power than we think.We doubt ourselves and we lower our vibration, but we don’t need to do that. Visit Drnorthrup.com to learn more, or listen to Dr. Northrup’s online radio show “Flourish!” onWednesdays from 8 to 9am on Hayhouseradio.com. 8/16 ChronograM whole living 91
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Acupuncture Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, L.Ac.
371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.creeksideacupuncture.com Private treatment rooms, attentive oneon-one care, affordable rates, sliding scale. Accepting Blue Cross, no-fault and other insurances. Stephanie Ellis graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in pre-medical studies. She completed her acupuncture and Chinese medicine degree in 2001 as valedictorian of her class and started her acupuncture practice in Rosendale that same year. Ms. Ellis uses a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese-style acupuncture and triggerpoint acupuncture. Creekside Acupuncture is located in a building constructed of nontoxic, eco-friendly materials.
Transpersonal Acupuncture
(845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
Aromatherapy Joan Apter, Aromacologist
(845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release Raindrop, Neuro-Auricular Technique (NAT), Vitaflex for humans and Horses, dogs, birds and cats. Health consultations, natural wellness writer, spa consultant, classes, trainings and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. Consultant: Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with healing statements for surgery and holistic approaches to heal faster!
Astrology Planet Waves
Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net
Body Work Patrice Heber
275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-8350
Counseling Jennifer Axinn-Weiss, MFA, CHT Hypnosis Practitioner, Instructor, and Expressive Arts Specialist
Izlind Integrative Wellness Center & Institute of Rhinebeck, 6369 Mill Street, Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 242-7580 Izlind.com clearmindarts.com jenniferaxinnweiss.com sandplay555@frontier.com Providing support for adults, children and families in Rhinebeck since 2002. Inner exploration through Hypnosis, somatic awareness, sand play and expressive art yields greater regulation, behavioral change 92 whole living ChronograM 8/16
and well being. Providing Medical Hypnosis, beyond time Regression, and Life Between Lives © Sessions. Next NGH Certification beginning in September. Certified Hypnosis Practitioner since 1997.
Dentistry & Orthodontics Dental Office of Drs. Jeffrey & Maureen Viglielmo 56 Lucas Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1619 www.drvigs.com
Dr. Rhoney Stanley
107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 www.holisticortho.com
Tischler Dental
Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 www.tischlerdental.com
Funeral Homes Copeland Funeral Home Inc. 162 South Putt Corners Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1212 www.copelandfhnp.com
Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature
1129 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Fishkill, NY (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes54@gmail.com Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG) and ARCB Certified Reflexologist offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.
Holistic Health Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT‚ Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 www.holisticcassandra.com
embodyperiod
439 Union Street, Hudson, NY (415) 686-8722 www.embodyperiod.com
John M. Carroll
715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com
Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com
Hospitals Health Quest
45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org
MidHudson Regional Hospital
Omega Institute
Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5000 www.westchestermedicalcenter.com/mhrh
Rhinebeck, NY (800) 944-1001 www.eOmega.org
Hypnotism Seeds of Love Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 264-1388 www.seeds-love.com
Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.
Pharmacy Nekos Saugerties Pharmacy 250 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-5649 SaugertiesPharmacy.com
Pilates Ulster Pilates Pilates and Gyrotonic® Studio 32 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 658 2239 www.ulsterpilates.com Ulster Pilates offers equipment pilates, gyrotonic® and gyrokinesis® in both individual and group classes. Our Pilates program is based on the precepts of the Kane School for Core Integration and Ellie Herman Studios in New York. It is a full body works out! It emphasizes core stability and strengthening, correct biomechanics and deeply works the abdominals, diaphragm, pelvic floor and back muscles.
Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com
Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org info@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring our tenth annual CARE for Teachers retreat (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education), August 1-5; and featuring John Tarrant: The Creative Life and Meditation, September 16-18.
Peace Village Learning & Retreat Center Hunter Mountain, NY (518) 589-5000 www.peacevillageretreat.org
Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org
Thermography Breast Thermography Full Body Thermography Susan Willson, RN, CNM, CCT Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4807 www.biothermalimaging.com ACCT approved clinic, offering non-invasive Breast and Full Body thermography in a warm, personal environment, since 2003. Full Body Thermography highlights areas of chronic inflammation and organ dysfunction before they become established disease. Breast thermography shows abnormalities 8-10 years before tumors will show on a mammogram, allowing for much gentler options to rebalance the body and prevent a tumor becoming established. Susan was the first to offer Thermography in the Hudson Valley. She uses the latest medically calibrated camera and Board Certified Thermologists for interpretation.
Yoga Anahata Yoga 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY facebook.com/anahatakingston
Whole Sky Yoga High Falls, NY (845) 706-3668 www.wholeskyyoga.com Promoting compassionate awareness through 20 weekly classes, workshops, special events, and individual instruction. A non-exclusive, welcoming atmosphere to begin or deepen your yoga practice. 10 Class Pass: $100
Woodstock Yoga Center 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY www.woodstockyogacenter.com (845) 679-8700 woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com Woodstock Yoga offers a range of yoga asana steeped in Indian tradition, with a foundation rooted in the healing and transformative powers of Yoga. Owner Barbara Boris and other talented teachers offer decades of experience and a wide range of classes and styles, plus events, workshops and private sessions.
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For our full calendar of more than 100 retreats and programs in the year ahead, check our website. For inspiration and insight, visit our blog.
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4th Annual
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Rosendale Improvement Association Brass Band
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AIRSTREAM PHOTO BOOTH from Rose & Dale Photo Co.
Karma Darwin
BEACH BALL DROP presented by Herzog’s & Kingston Plaza
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Food Trucks
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4th Annual
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August 20, 4-11pm Wall Street, Kingston The Chronogram Block party transforms Wall street between North Front and John Streets into a popup festival with food trucks, a beer, wine, and cider garden, a dunk tank to benefit Walkway Over the Hudson, Chronogram cover cut outs, and live street performers from Hudson Valley Circus Arts. Don’t miss this year’s food vendors, live music and on the block activities and celebrations.
FOOD AND DRINK Choose from an array of food trucks: mouthwatering hot dogs at Pippy’s Hot Dog Truck, a soul-food style delight from PAKT, street-style tacos from Diegos, sausages from Fleisher’s, and sustainable grass-fed beef burgers from Farmer’s and Chef’s Food Truck. Enjoy a beer from Keegan Ales or Lagunitas, cider from Yankee Folley or Angry Orchard, and wine from Benmarl Winery at the Beer, Wine & Cider Garden.
ON THE BLOCK Activities line Wall Street including a DIY art tent from Catskill Art and Office Supply, a dunking booth to support Walkway Over the Hudson, street performers from Hudson Valley Circus Arts, and more. Pose in Chronogram cover cutouts or the Rose and Dale Photo Co. airstream photobooth.
BEACH BALL DROP AND LIVE INSTAGRAM FEED Join in the conversation with our thousands of attendees by following and posting pictures with #ChronogramBlockParty on social media. You might see you and your friends on the LIVE Instagram feed presented by AT&T. Be sure to stay for Big Mean Sound Machine’s set and don’t miss our annual beach ball drop, sponsored by Kingston Plaza and Herzogs.
AND THERE’S MORE! The Kingston Land Trust will provide a bike valet in front of Tonner Dolls at the corner of Wall and John Streets and don’t forget to check out the many local shops and restaurants that will be open late. The after party starts at 11pm in BSP Kingston with DJ Shaman Vybez. Be sure to hold on to your beer and wine garden or after party wristband to receive discounts on Bloody Marys and Mimosas at Redwood Bar + Restaurant’s rooftop Sunday brunch (reservations recommended!).
Go to ChronogramBlockParty.com and join the event on Facebook to stay up to date. Join us for a weekend of family-friendly fun starting Saturday, August 20 at 4pm!
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Meltasia invades the former Catskill Game Farm Labor Day Weekend. Clockwise from top left: Sheermag; Fat White Family; Kool Keith; Bird Cloud; White Mystery; Neil Hamburger.
Where the Wild Things Are You’re in the middle of a remote clearing ringed by tall trees. Dotting the grounds is a menagerie of colorfully painted, Munchkin-sized, cartoon-fairytale structures that resemble the obstacles of a 1950s-era miniature golf course. Cute. But walk a little closer and you’ll see the paint on these little buildings, in which exotic animals once slept, is peeling. The weeds are enveloping them and their walls are crumbling. The soundtrack for your jaunt is raw live music by some of the wildest acts around. No, it’s not an acid trip gone awry. This is the former Catskill Game Farm and now the site of Meltasia, a music festival that will take place on September 2, 3, and 4. To our tour guide, the festival’s appropriately named organizer Andy Animal, the greatest intoxication comes from presenting edgy live musical events. “I love the idea of creating a great vibe, it’s like a drug to me,” says Animal, who grew up locally, fronts Brooklyn garage rockers Stalkers, and remains one of the New York underground’s most beloved scenemakers. “Expect to hear a far-out mix of psychedelic, punk, 1950s-style rock ’n’ roll, foul-mouthed, female-fronted country, classic hip-hop, boogie woogie, pop, New Orleans bounce, YouTube weirdos, heavy rock,…the list goes on.” That list contains sets by nearly 30 artists, the majority of them the kind of unhinged acts rarely seen in upstate jam-band territory: e.g., Shannon and the Clams, Fat White Family, Pentagram, Dirty Fences, Murphy’s Law, the Mystery Lights, Bloodshot Bill, Natural Child, White Mystery, Kool Keith, Sheer Mag, Weird Paul Petrosky, the Tough Shits, Vockha Redu, Hector’s Pets, and the Nude Party, and many others, plus “special
secret super guests”; locals include It’s Not Night: It’s Space, Ultraam, and a 1980s hardcore tribute by Paul Green Rock Academy students. Hosting the first two nights will be surreal San Francisco comedian Neil Hamburger, and there’ll be DJs as well. “You will not be hearing any EDM,” asserts Animal. Once marketed as “America’s Greatest Zoological Playground,” the 914-acre Catskill Game Farm was founded in 1933 and closed in 2006. Although the demise saw its alligators, rhinos, monkeys, snakes, warthogs, and other creatures sold to zoos and rescue organizations and its amusement rides auctioned off, many of its original fixtures remain. “People are gonna be camping in the old animal enclosures, and some of the performances will be in the cages,” says Animal, who staged the first Meltasia festival in Georgia in 2014. “The concession stands have been cleaned up and will be used as bars and for craft vending.” “We’ve been wanting to play at Meltasia since we first found out about it,” says Mystery Lights guitarist LA Solano, whose group is based in Brooklyn. “[The festival site] looks crazy! And with Andy involved you’re always guaranteed a wild weekend.” Meltasia will take place at Catskill Game Farm in Catskill on September 2, 3, and 4. Gates open at noon on September 2. Tickets are $120 for all three days; $85 for September 3 and 4 only; and $50 for September 4 only. The event is for those 18 and older. Meltasia.com. —Peter Aaron 8/16 ChronograM forecast 97
MONDAY 1 Film Film Festival: Construct It 8:30-10pm. Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
The Nice Guys 7:15pm. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. Rosendaletheatre.org.
Kids & Family Harmonious Kids Earth Workshop $25/$20 members. 10am-12pm: 6-8 year olds; 2pm-4pm: 9-12 year olds. Kids join Environmental Educator Erika Haberkorn on a nature exploration through the trails of Byrdcliffe and Mount Guardian, then create art projects using natural materials collected from their explorations. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079.
The Spring Day Camp Week-long day camp. Programming is organized by age groups 8-10, 11-13, and 14-16. See website for specific activities. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
Literary & Books Speaking of Books 7-8:30pm. Speaking of Books: a nonfiction book group. Our August book is Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie. 471-6580.
Music Rebecca Coupe Franks Quartet Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Measure by Measure 7:30pm. The Duke of Vienna mysteriously disappears from public life and leaves his puritanical deputy, Angelo, to clean up the city’s seedy underworld. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Workshops & Classes Amateur Guitar Group 3:30-5pm. Join local musicians who will be leading this casual gathering of acoustic musicians. We will be playing and singing folk songs, and other styles, too. Bring your own acoustic instruments. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
Ancestry Research Workshop 7-9pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
Pixel to Line: A Conversation with Tatana Kellner 9am-4pm. $750 + $75 lab fee. Through Aug. 5. In this workshop we will combine digital, silkscreen, and trace monoprint processes to generate a series of redacted prints taking advantage of each media’s unique properties. By mid-week we’ll develop a rhythm of printing out digital images and creating silkscreen and trace monoprint layers in response. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133. chronogram.com These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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Printmaking & Encaustic with Roxanne Faber Savage 9am-4pm. $750/$25 lab fee. Through Aug. 5. On the first two days, Roxanne will cover a wide range of monoprint methods such as Xerox transfer, chine collé, and trace monoprint. Then we will head over to R&F Handmade Paints for an introduction to encaustic painting. We will learn many exciting ways to create new mixed-media works with print and encaustic. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
Pulp Types: Hybrid Papermaking & Printmaking with May Babcock
Reiki Share
First Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. For reiki practitioners to replenish your reserves. Share and receive Reiki energy in front of the hearth fire with a loving community of reiki practitioners. The evening begins with a centering meditation, connecting to our Reiki guides and an opportunity to share about reiki experiences. Only to those who have received at least Reiki l training. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
Kids & Family ‘Zines!
9am-4pm. $750/$40 lab fee. Through Aug. 5. In this workshop you’ll learn how to correctly beat and color pulp for pulp-typing. Next we’ll carve woodblocks, ink them, and cast wet paper pulp into the woodcut resulting in the most detailed, embossed print you’ve ever seen. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
6-7pm. What are ‘Zines? Zines are homemade magazines about any topic that interests you! This summer, we’ll be getting together and making some ‘zines of our own. We’ll provide the materials, you bring your ideas! Copies of the ‘zines will be housed at the library in a ‘zine collection after the program. For teens ages 12-18. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
Rioult Dance Workshop
History Camp
8:30am-1pm. $200/$180 members. Week-long program. Participants, age 8 to 14, learn modern dance technique and choreography from the Rioult Dance Company and perform on the PS21 stage. And they learn to cook their own healthy lunches. 8:30am-1pm. $200/$180 members. Week-long program. Participants, age 8 to 14, learn modern dance technique and choreography from the Rioult Dance Company and perform on the PS21 stage. And they learn to cook their own healthy lunches. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
TUESDAY 2 Clubs & Organizations MidHudson Fuel Buying Co-op Potluck 5:30-7:30pm. Thinking Outside the Barrel, discounted fuel prices, energy conservation and alternative energy sources. Bring a dish, table service and beverage, musical instruments welcome. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 332-4494.
Film Film Festival: Construct It: Bauhaus in America
8:30-10pm. A visually stunning documentary that explores the impact of the Bauhaus on American architecture and design from the 1930s to almost the present day. Far more subtly, the film also considers the impact of American culture & technology on the emigres & their work here. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Music Fan FIlm Series Presents Sidemen: Long Road to Glory
7:15-10pm. $7/$5 members. An intimate look at the incredible lives and legacies of piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, all Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf sidemen. This documentary captures some of the last interviews and their final live performances together. The historic live shows are accompanied by performances and personal insights from many of the blues and rock stars these legendary sidemen inspired. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Health & Wellness Essential Wellness: Healthy Living through Nature with Adam Bernstein
First Tuesday of every month, 7-8:30pm. Learn how to take charge of your health and well-being naturally by using essential oils as the foundation of a complete wellness program. Topics: colon and intestinal maintenance, your first step to total wellness, general nutrition, healthy living practices, What are essential oils? Why they’re effective? Not all “Essential” oils are the same. Learn how to use essential oils (diffusion, ingestion, topical, “reflexology technique.”) Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg., Kingston. 687-3693.
10am-2pm. $90. Learn about life in 18 th century Kingston. This special program is for children ages 8-12 and runs through August. 4. Activities include tending the vegetable garden, hearthside cooking, making delft tiles, churning butter, playing games and more. Senate House and Museum, Kingston.
Robot Club
Through August 4. Kids entering grades 1-4 will design and construct a “robot” out of cardboard boxes—a robot who will come to life, animated by a staff member! They’ll soon learn that a robot needs a lot of help to navigate the world and will be challenged to break down seemingly simple tasks into their component parts for their new friend. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
Sneaky Art
2-3pm. What is sneaky art? Sneaky art is when you make terrific decorations and hide them for people to find! We’ll be making a different project each week and hiding it in a new place! This program is for kids ages 5-10. No registration necessary. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
Music Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fis Blues and Dance Party
First Tuesday of every month, 7-10pm. Big Joe brings together some of the most highly regarded musicians on the northeast music scene. Their sound features a sophisticated blend of jazz and blues. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
The Chapel Restoration Music Series
First Tuesday of every month, 4-5:30pm. Classical music series with world-renowned musicians. Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. Chapelrestoration.org.
Outdoors & Recreation Green Chimneys’ Executive Golf Classic
9:30am-7pm. Join us, along with friends and special celebrity sports guests for a day of spectacular golf. Co-chaired by Tom Lowell and Don Ross, all proceeds will benefit Green Chimneys programs for children and animals. Sunningdale Country Club, Scarsdale. 279-2995.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Workshops & Classes Perfect Pitchers Clay Workshop with Rachel Dubicki
3-5pm. $200/$180 members. Through Aug. 30. In this class we’ll focus on the fundamental aspects of a pitcher. Students will learn how to turn a wheel-thrown cylinder into a pouring vessel. We’ll cover centering, pulling walls, spout construction, handle making, and glazing. Group demonstrations will be tailored to beginning and intermediate students. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
Hudson Valley Summer Yoga
6:30-8pm. Suggested donation $15. Join nOMad and SkyBaby for some outdoor yoga bliss at Beacon Long Dock Park. Vanessa Alfano will guide you through a vinyasa flow aside our mighty Hudson River. Bring a mat and water. Long Dock Park, Beacon. 265-4444.
WEDNESDAY 3 Art Galleries and Exhibits Leslie Yolen: Treescapes Opening reception August 7, 3pm5pm Carey Center for Global Good, Rensselaerville. (518) 797-5100.
Dance Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Inside/Out Performance: Francine E. Ott/The Walk
6:15pm. A spiritual hybrid of hip hop, house, modern, and African dance unfolding the universal story of loss, redemption and healing. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Tango at the Pavilion
6-8pm. $12/open dance $5 donation. Join Nina Jirka, of Tango New Paltz, and learn how to Tango! Come for an hourlong lesson from 6pm-7pm and stay for open dance from 7pm-8pm. Bring water and comfortable shoes for dancing. All ages welcome. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Film Film Festival: Construct It: Metropolis
8:30-11pm. 1927. In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. Director Fritz Lang. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Literary & Books Book Group: THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker
6-7pm. FREE. Join us for a discussion of The Color Purple by Alice Walker, hosted by bookseller Suzanna! All are welcome! As this is one of a series of standalone book discussions, anybody can attend one book group meeting without attending the entire series. The entire book should be read before the meeting. Oblong Books & Music, Millerton. 518-780-3797.
Music Caramoor@KMA: Ethos Percussion Group
5:30-8:30pm. $20/$15 KMA Members. The Katonah Museum of Art renews its collaboration with Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts with a three-part outdoor performance series, Caramoor@KMA, featuring a range of music from jazz to contemporary classical. Audiences of all ages will be thrilled by America’s premier percussion quartet presenting an energetic potpourri of musical genres from around the globe. Landmark works by John Cage, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are electrified by their unique style, and followed by highly intoxicating rhythms from Guinea and Calcutta. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah. (914) 232-9555.
Jason Gisser Band
7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew
8pm. Dewey Hall, Sheffield, MA. (413) 229-7907.
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
7-9pm. $11. Cast: Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh, Keyhan Kalhor Director: Morgan Neville In this stunning documentary, Academy Award winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) profiles cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, an eclectic group of musicians who tour worldwide in search of music. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
The Falcon Underground Songwriter Sessions
7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Tony DePaolo Trio
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Measure by Measure
7:30pm. The Duke of Vienna mysteriously disappears from public life and leaves his puritanical deputy, Angelo, to clean up the city’s seedy underworld. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Workshops & Classes 21st Century Damsels & Dragons
10am-noon. $5 non-members. Larry Fredman will present an introduction to these creatures, dispel some myths, and give an overview of the New York State Dragonfly and Damselfly Survey. We will then attempt to catch these beautiful insects. With speeds recorded at 30 mph catching the little critters can be very challenging; an expert will demonstrate. All Ages. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
Anna Haaland: Artist Professional Skills 5-8pm. $180/series. This summertime series of lectures is designed with the idea of managing balance and opportunity in the professional lives of visual artists. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Creativity Marathon Comes to the Hudson Valley
4pm. Through Aug. 7. Artists, creators, makers, designers, producers, developers and innovators will compete in the first ever CreativesMX Marathon, a 4-day, 3 county loop course that covers the unique and varied terrain in Orange, Ulster and Dutchess counties. Using the backdrop of the bucolic Hudson River Valley, creatives will compete on an exhaustive course of workshops, rehearsals, exhibitions, performances, and popups to reach the finish line podium and accolades from industry professionals and their fellow participants as well as prizes and opportunities. The marathon includes master classes, workshops, and performances conducted by veteran industry professionals. Four Points By Sheraton, Newburgh. Marathon.creativesmx.com/.
Insurance Help with NYSOH Navigator 1-5:30pm. NYSOH Navigator Jennifer Galarza will be available to meet with you to register or change your health insurance and help with issues around reimbursements and plans. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811.
THURSDAY 4 Clubs & Organizations Backgammon Club
4-5:45pm. Learn the game, pick up fancy moves, meet new people. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811.
Dance Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Inside/Out Performance: Kate Wallich + The YC
6:15pm. The company will perform excerpts of post-internet generation-inspired Splurge Land set to an original score by Johnny Goss and the company’s newest work, Industrial Ballet. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Film Film Festival: Construct It: Eames: The Architect & the Painter
8:30-10pm. The husband & wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America’s most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status in American culture. Narrated by James Franco, this is the first film since their deaths dedicated to their creative geniuses and their work. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
The Nice Guys
7:15pm. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. Rosendaletheatre.org.
Health & Wellness Holistic Self-Care Class: Three Sources Meditation with Ian Duncan
7-8:30pm. Three Sources Practice addresses the physical, emotional (subtle energy), and spiritual layers. We begin with Inner Dancing and Drumming to shake loose, break through and let go. We then tend to the health and openness of the spiritual gates – the joints. We are then ready to sit. We ignite the inner Fire with mantra (sound) and mudra (hand movements) and visualization, and then abide in the internal space we have created, enjoying the clarity and stillness. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 8456870880.
Three Sources Meditation with Ian Duncan
Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 8456870880.
Kids & Family Magician Jim Vagias
6:30pm. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-1212.
Seth and the Moody Melix
11am. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Wild About Birds Club
2-3pm. Fun club for young bird lovers. We’ll be learning how to identify local birds by sound and sight, learning about their ways and habits, and finding out how we can help them. Ages 5-10. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
Lectures & Talks First Thursdays in the Archives
First Thursday of every month, 12-2pm. Welcoming visitors to learn more about the library’s special collections. These tours provide an insider’s glimpse at rare menus and documents, as well as sneak peeks of newly discovered materials. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.
Music Ben Rounds
7:30pm. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston.
Bluegrass Clubhouse Band 8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
Eric Hutchinson
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
The Honey Dewdrops
7:30pm. $20. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.
James Hearne
7pm. Alternative country. Magpie Book Shop, Catskill. 303-6035.
Pianist Jonathan Biss, Artistin-Residence
7pm. $15-$40. Artist-in-Residence Jonathan Biss brings to the table an incredible group of musicians with whom he shares a personal connection, not least of whom is his mother, the gifted violinist Miriam Fried. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.
The Package
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Rock the Beatles
8pm. The Paul Green Rock Academy sends forth its Showband, comprising the finest young musicians in the Hudson Valley, to take on some of the most vocally challenging selections from the Beatles’ psychedelic era. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia. Phoeniciavoicefest.org.
Sekanjabin
7pm. Turkish/world music. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Toby Keith
7pm. $33.50-$104. Country. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Miracle on South Division Street
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops & Classes Open Studio Clothed Figure Session 5-8pm. Short to moderate length dynamic pose. Open to any WSA approved media. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
FRIDAY 5 Art Galleries and Exhibits Nancy Ghitman: Flights of Fancy
Opening reception August 6, 5pm-7pm 510 Warren St Gallery, Hudson. (518) 822-0510.
Dance Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Inside/Out Performance: Preeti Vasudevan & Thresh Performing Arts Collaborative
6:15pm. Thresh Performing Arts Collective is led by Preeti Vasudevan and explores the juxtaposition of traditional Indian dance forms and modern theories of movement and expression. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Fairs & Festivals The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Brimming with Main Stage concerts, workshops, hours of dancing, Activities for kids, a delightful Family Stage, and international food and crafts. There is something for everyone. Dodds Farm, Hillsdale. (860) 364-0366.
Film Chinatown
7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Film Festival: Construct It: My Architect
8:30-10:30pm. Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, renowned architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974. Nathaniel visits his father’s buildings and meets his father’s colleagues, students, wives, and children. What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant but undependable man whose creations still astound. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
The Game Changer
6:30-8pm. Susan Slotnick, renowned choreographer, writer, painter, and humanitarian, will present a screening of “The Game Changer”, a documentary film by Indrani Kopal which follows Slotnick in her efforts to support the rehabilitation of prisoners through modern dance. Slotnick and Abney will be available for a Q&A. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
Screening: Je ne suis pas Charlie
7-9pm. The two filmmakers explore the postHebdo climate in France to find out what happens when the state tries to regulate what political expressions are acceptable in a free society. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-2113.
Kids & Family Just for Fun: Rioult Dance Workshop Performance
1-1:30pm. Rioult dancers and workshop participants perform a program of modern dance. 1-1:30pm. Rioult dancers and workshop participants perform a program of modern dance. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Magical Card Gaming Night
5:30-7:30pm. Take a break from Pokemon Go and go back to basics! Join us for Magic, Yugioh and Pokemon card tournament. Ten and under must be accompanied by an adult. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811.
Lectures & Talks Friday Night Prologue
6pm. Kick off your evening with an informal and engaging pre-show talk on the lawn led by Michael Sexton, Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Society, on gender and performance. Followed by Macbeth at 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Hamlet: Once and For All
2-3pm. Veteran Shakespearean actor, director, and teacher Carey Harrison addresses the confusions, contradictions, and supposed ambiguities in our understanding of the most famous play ever written, explaining what Shakespeare was really up to—once and for all. Phoenicia Wesleyan Church, Phoenicia. 688-5276.
Latte Lectures: Kiss Me Kate
10-11am. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
PillowTalk: Making Dances for Stage and Screen
5pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Literary & Books 20th Annual Book Signing Day
Children’s signing: 4:30 to 5:30 pm. Children can meet ten authors. Adult Signing: 6 to 8pm. Enjoy wine and tasty hors d’oeuvres while meeting your favorite writers. Discover new titles among the offerings of our 33 featured authors and illustrators, including bestsellers and award winners. Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-5041.
Ish Martinez presents Las Villas of Plattekill and Ulster County 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Music The Bar Spies
9:30pm. Classic rock. Dogwood, Beacon. 202-7500.
Blues Happy Hour: B-Boyz
7pm. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston.
Brother Sun
8pm. $25/$20. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
Counting Crows with Rob Thomas
6:45pm. $55.50-$104.50. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
David Kraai with Fooch Fischetti
8-11pm. David Kraai doles out two sets of fine country folk music with the help of Fooch Fischetti on pedal steel and fiddle. Smokin’ Pony BBQ, Saugerties. 246-6328.
Erica Enriquez
7pm. Also featuring Shelley King featuring Cindy Cashdollar. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
John Gorka
8:30pm. Folk. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.
Jonathan Biss: All Beethoven; piano
8pm. $35, $45, $55, $59. Artist-in-Residence Jonathan Biss is serious about his Beethoven. “Beethoven’s sonatas have been a constant presence in my life for nearly as long as I have been playing the piano,” he writes. “‘Presence’ is too mild a word, though: ‘force’ comes a bit closer to conveying the space he occupies in my heart and head.” Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. 914-232-1252.
Opera, Politics, and the Italian
7:30pm. $25-$75. Performance with commentary by Leon Botstein; with Melody Moore, soprano; Russell Thomas, tenor; Paul Whelan, bass-baritone; Bard Festival Chorale & James Bagwell, choral director; The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein; and others. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.
Patty Larkin
8pm. $50. Folk. Dodds Farm, Hillsdale.
Ragtime & the Birth of Jazz
7:30pm. $25. With Chris Washburne’s Ragtime Band. Orpheum Performing Arts Center, Tannersville. (518) 263-4246.
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
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Salsa Night with Cuboricua
8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
A Spirited Journey on Land and Sea
3:30-4:30pm. Presented by Sing Out! CT, ensemble for young voices. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
War
9-11pm. $30/$40/$47.50. War was the first and most successful musical crossover phenomenon that forever fused rock, jazz, Latin, and R&B, while transcending racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic lineup; a musical melting pot and an enduring influence that has sold nearly 50 million records to date. Today, WAR is a permanent part of America’s pop cultural landscape. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
We Came As Romans
7pm. $15. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Nightlife Community Canvas: Valley Central Youth Football & Cheer
7-9:30pm. $45. Sip, paint & fundraise with Vine Van Gogh to support the Valley Central Youth Football & Cheer. Our talented local artist will lead you step-by-step through the re-creation of this beautiful piece of art that you can call your own. Maybrook Senior Center, Maybrook. 8456751217.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits 2016 Bard Music Festival Opening Night Dinner
5:30pm. Tickets include a pre-performance dinner in the Spiegeltent and a premium seat for the evening’s concert. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. Bard.edu.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth 7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Kiss Me Kate
8-10pm. 2-act play by Cole Porter. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
Miracle on South Division Street
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Muse on Fire
5-6:30pm. Focusing on the themes of love, death, fate, power, and madness, eight of New Genesis Productions’ most experienced young actors shine a fresh light on plays you think you’ve always known. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279.
Sunset Boulevard
8pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops & Classes Building the Sassafras Canoe at Riverport Wooden Boat School
6-8pm. $850/primary student/$450 helping student + $1,100 per boat kit. 9 classes. Build your own traditional canoe, the Sassafras 12. Great learning opportunity for parent/child combo. Skills conveyed include advanced epoxy, fiberglass techniques, basic marine carpentry, overview to get your boat rigged & sailing. Instructors: Michael Puryear & Jim Kricker. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071 ext. 20. chronogram.com These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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Sacred Harp: Shape Note Workshop for All
11am. Shape notes—shapes added to the note heads in the score—help you find the pitch fast. Even if you think you can’t read music, this workshop will have you singing with the choir in one brief session. Phoenicia Wesleyan Church, Phoenicia. 688-5276.
SATURDAY 6 Clubs & Organizations 13th Annual Great Newburgh to Beacon Hudson River Swim
8am-2pm. $60/$25 youths/Swimmers fundraise $100. Swim about 1 mile across the Hudson River. The event, hosted by the 501(3)(c) non-profit organization River Pool at Beacon Inc, funds maintenance and operation of the pool off the north shore of Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park, Beacon, NY. Newburgh/Beacon Waterfronts, Newburgh/Beacon. 784-1790.
Comedy Berkshire Comedy Festival
8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. BerkshireComedyFestival.com.
Dance Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
2 & 8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Inside/Out Performance: Musical Theatre Dance Program of The School at Jacob’s Pillow 6:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Fairs & Festivals Annual Midsummer Festival
10am-8pm. $25/$35 two days. Participate in workshops and performances spanning such themes as permaculture, sustainability, and plant wisdom. Story telling and local musical acts will entertain on 2 stages, culminating with a performance by It’s Not Night; It’s Space and the traditional burning of the Wicker Man. Attendees may spend the night and camp out. Wake up to yoga and wellness workshops on Sunday. Center For Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 825-4437.
Butterfly Festival
11am-3pm. Come out with the family and celebrate butterflies, bees and bugs! At the festival: butterfly tents, music, craft vendors, crafts for the kids, food, Monarch Education, visit the Verplanck Memorial Garden and more. Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center, Wappingers Falls. 831-3800.
The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Brimming with Main Stage concerts, workshops, hours of dancing, Activities for kids, a delightful Family Stage, and international food and crafts. There is something for everyone. Dodds Farm, Hillsdale. (860) 364-0366.
Film Film Festival: Construct It: Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center”
West Point Band Presents Kid’s Night: Story Time with Quintette 7
6-8pm. Bring your little ones down to Trophy Point for a hands-on musical experience as Quintette 7 brings your favorite children’s stories to life in this engaging and interactive performance. Be sure to arrive at 6pm for the instrument petting zoo, where your child can get up close and personal with the instruments of the band. West Point Military Academy, West Point. 938-2617.
Lectures & Talks The Big Melt
3-5pm. $15/$10 members. What would life be like without electricity and a refrigerator? How would we ever have a cool glass of lemonade or water in the summertime? Beat the heat and learn about 19th century ice harvesting with environmental educator, Fran Martino. Ice cream is included. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
Latte Lectures: About Othello
10-11am. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
On The Screen/On The Page: Kirsten Bates, Videographer & Roberta Gould, Poet 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
PillowTalk: The Art of Grace
4pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Puccini: The Man and the Reputation
10am-noon. Christopher H. Gibbs, moderator; Arthur Groos; and others. This panel discussion with renowned scholars will include a short question and answer period. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7003.
Write Where You Live Writing Conference
9:30am-2pm. $85. 1-day writing conference focusing on place and with keynote Nina Shengold; writing workshops with Carol Goodman, Kate Hymes, & Jana Martin, fiction and non-fiction. Includes coffee and lunch, UUCC, Kingston. 825-2656.
Literary & Books Champagne Reception, Lecture & Book Signing: Art, Crime, and SoHo Sins
6-8pm. $20/$25. With author Richard Vine. Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook. (518) 758-8130.
Music Cambridge Chamber Singers: Music in the Time of Shakespeare and Cervantes
12-1pm. Church of St. Francis De Sales, Phoenicia. 688-5617.
Cécile McLorin Salvant and The Aaron Diehl Trio 8pm. Jazz. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-5035.
Cecile McLorin Salvant and The Aaron Diehl Trio
8:30-10:15pm. The film takes us through the fourteen year life cycle of the design and construction of the Getty Center, which was at the time the largest private construction project in the world. The film captures the drama of the clash of egos which caused the Getty Trust to hire an independent consultant to broker decisions. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
8pm. $30-$90. Salvant is a vocal force of nature, having co-headlined stages with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Drawing on a wide array of influences, Salvant’s “aesthetic idiosyncrasies immediately mark her apart” (NPR) and make for intimate, powerful performances. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.
Food & Wine Distillery Live: The Shoestring Band
6:30pm. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126.
3-6pm. The Shoestring Band will be sharing their Old-Time Appalachian sound with us in our backyard stage. Hudson Valley Distillers at Spirits Grove Farm, clermont. Hudsonvalleydistillers.com.
Kids & Family Sleuthing for Animals
10am. $3-$7. Learn to read animal activity by analyzing tracks, beds, runs, nests, feathers, and so much more. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Chris Washburne’s Ragtime Band
Dead on Live
8-10pm. $25-$30. Celebrate the life and music of the Grateful Dead’s spiritual leader Jerry Garcia, presenting an evening of music that digs deep into to his incredible career. From his bluegrass roots, psychedelic 60s, to his amazing artistic development of the 70’s, both as a songwriter and musician, DOL pays tribute to his legacy, taking you on a sonic journey that faithfully recreates the touch and tone, the heart and soul of this American music icon. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
Frenchy and the Punk
4:30pm. Town Green, New Milford, CT.
Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration featuring Warren Haynes and the HVP 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
John Davidson
7 & 9pm. $25. Acoustic folk and standards. The Barn at Egremont Inn, South Egremont, MA. (413) 528-9580.
John Gorka
8pm. $25/$20. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
The Kids Night: Story Time with Quintette 7
6:30pm. Bring your little ones for a hands-on musical experience as Quintette 7 brings your favorite children’s stories to life in this engaging and interactive performance. Be sure to arrive at 6pm for the instrument petting zoo, where your child can get up close and personal with the instruments of the band. 6:30pm. Bring your little ones for a hands-on musical experience as Quintette 7 brings your favorite children’s stories to life in this engaging and interactive performance. Be sure to arrive at 6pm for the instrument petting zoo, where your child can get up close and personal with the instruments of the band. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu.
Let’s Misbehave: A Cole Porter Soiree 8-9:15pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. Come to the Cabaret! Mark Nadler performs Cole Porter as you’ve doubtless never heard him before. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006.
Mariachi Flor de Toloache
8-10pm. $16-$28. Trailblazing Latin Grammy nominees Mariachi Flor de Toloache are New York City’s first all-female mariachi band. They infuse the classic ranchero sound with bursts of hip-hop, soul, jazz, salsa, and are about as much fun as it gets. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
Mark Brown
8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Mark Nadler: Let’s Misbehave, A Cole Porter Soirée 8pm. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill.
NY School of Music Summer Rock Camp Concert noon. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OTEP
7:30pm. $15. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
The Package
7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Premik Russell Tubbs
6pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Simone Dinnerstein, Piano
6-8pm. $35-$55. A Benefit Performance for Maverick Concerts. Music by J.S. Bach, Philip Glass: from Etudes (2005), and Metamorphosis (2006), Schubert: Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960, Selections from the Op. 142 Impromptus. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Sons of Bach, Sons of Palestrina
1:30pm. $40. Pre-concert talk at 1pm. Performance: Daedalus Quartet; Cecilia Violetta López, soprano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Brian Zeger, piano; and others. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7003.
Soul City Motown Revue
8:30-11:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. (845 687-2699.
ART “Sensing Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill” at the Clark Institute
Cow skull unearthed from Galusha Farm. Photograph by Mike Agee.
The First 500 Million Years “I have learned that what we think is in large measure a function of where we think,” writes Mark C. Taylor in Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill (Columbia University Press, 2014). Taylor, a theology professor at Columbia University, is co-curator of an exhibit at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, inspired by his book. The show will run until October 10. What is Stone Hill? It’s the hillside where the Clark Institute—all 140 acres of it—is located. “Sensing Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill” consists of two rooms in the Clark’s Lunder Center. One offers a backward chronology of Stone Hill, beginning today and moving back 500 million years to a time when clashing tectonic plates formed a range of mountains more than 14,000 feet high—taller than the Rockies! Humble Stone Hill was once one of them. The second room displays 12 objects, each chosen by a person connected to the locality. Accompanying each item is a statement by its “curator.” Novelist Jim Shepard, who teaches at Williams College, selected a 19th-century rifle: “This was John Barney Wright’s gun, modified for bear hunting. Barney lived on Henderson Road. Most bears he caught in traps and clubbed to death. But around forty of the 100 that he killed were likely killed with this rifle.” Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction, chose soil monoliths extracted from four spots on Stone Hill: a hemlock forest, a deciduous forest, a hay meadow, and a cornfield. These 18-inch samples reveal the radical difference between cultivated and uncultivated soil. Dan Snow, an environmental artist, built a stone wall commemorating the hedgerow obliterated when the Lunder Center was built in 2008. The most incorporeal items are five sparrow songs (chosen by ornithologist Heather Williams). These musical snippets appear both as sonograms—vaguely resembling Kandinsky etchings—and as recordings triggered by an electric eye. Anything in an art museum becomes infected with aesthetics—even the fire
extinguishers and exit signs. The 66-foot-long surveyor’s chain, roughly a century old and selected by Patricia Leach of the Williamstown Historical Museum, struck me as a delicate art installation. A slideshow features Mark C. Taylor’s sculptures, which are installed on Stone Hill. Some are large steel works based on the signatures of Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. (The Nietzsche piece uses the “D” in “Dionysius”—the pseudonym Nietzsche employed in the last years of his life.) None of the sculptures exactly replicate the original signatures, but the loose fluidity of Victorian handwriting inhabits them, giving the metal a heroic flourish. Years ago, each village had its own story—but we are losing those stories today. As you travel on a bus, every town is a reordering of the previous town—the Dunkin’ Donuts, Lowe’s, KFC, and Staples reshuffled, like a deck of cards. Besides, you’re too busy playing Candy Crush on your phone to really notice. “Sensing Place” addresses this “dematerialization” of the world by examining the actual spot on which the show stands. After the museum closed at 5pm, I walked up the hill and immediately stumbled upon a new hiking path named after Carl Reidel, a beloved ecology professor at Williams College. A rainstorm had just passed, and drops of water were still pattering from branches above, adding percussion to the quiet songs of birds. Everything smelled like rich New England soil. I stood in the forest, contemplating the last 500 million years of Stone Hill’s evolution. “Sensing Place” had succeeded! I had escaped the museum and found the rapturous forest. “Sensing Place: Reflecting on Stone Hill” will run until October 10 at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 458-2303; Clarkart.edu —Sparrow 8/16 ChronograM forecast 101
The Symphonic and the Operatic
8pm. $25-$75. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Performance: Kelly Kaduce, soprano; Michael Wade Lee, tenor; Louis Otey, baritone; Levi Hernandez, baritone; Orion Weiss, piano; members of the Bard Festival Chorale & James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director; and others. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.
Ukulele Lesson & Jam
10:30am-12:30pm. All ages, levels. Last month, we had six brand new players, including a mother and daughter and a married couple. We have ukes to borrow so that you can hone your skills, as well as books and handouts. And if you’re a seasoned pro, come and jam. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811.
Warren Haynes
8pm. Jam band. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 454-3388.
Woodstock Concerts on the Green 2016
1-5pm. Many different artists performing in this outdoor concert series. Village Green, Woodstock. Woodstockchamber.com.
Young People’s Concert: Imani Winds 11am-1pm. $5/youth free. These wonderful concerts, long a Maverick tradition, are designed for enjoyment by school-age children. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Nightlife Community Canvas: Empty Cradle Support Group
7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for a Community Canvas event to support the Empty Cradle Support Group. All proceeds will go towards our brunch on October 23,2016. Our talented local artist will lead you step-bystep through the re-creation of this beautiful piece of art that you can call your own. VFW Kingston, Kingston. 338-2676.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits First Saturday Reception
First Saturday of every month, 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. These monthly events are part of Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.
Raise the Roof: Sock Hop
6:30-10:30pm. $150/$125 in advance. Join us at the Sock Hop for an evening of great food, a tasting tent, 45s, dancing and fun while raising funds for our new Hudson Area Library. Gioia Farm, Hudson. (518) 828-1792.
Outdoors & Recreation Guided History Tours
11am-12:30pm. West Point Foundry Preserve, Cold Spring. Scenichudson.org/ parks/westpointfoundrypreserve.
The March of Champions Drum & Bugle Competition
7pm. The annual Drum & Bugle Corps Competition, to benefit the Children’s Home of Kingston. Dietz Stadium, Kingston.
Sports Mountain Fever - ALL OR NOTHING
7:30-11:30pm. $40-$100. August 6, boxing returns to Catskill, with Mountain Fever: All or Nothing. Come see local favorites like Alvin Varmall Jr. and David Tomaso during this nine-bout card. Presented by Boss Lady Promotions and Columbia-Greene Media. Visit thedailymail.net/boxing for more details. Catskill High School, Catskill. 518-378-5885. chronogram.com These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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Theater Enoch Arden
3:30-4:30pm. Carey Harrison and Justin Kolb dramatize Alfred Lord Tennyson’s narrative poem, Enoch Arden, with Harrison providing the narrative and Kolb delivering Richard Strauss’s pianistic pyrotechnics. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Measure by Measure
7:30pm. The Duke of Vienna mysteriously disappears from public life and leaves his puritanical deputy, Angelo, to clean up the city’s seedy underworld. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Miracle on South Division Street
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Muse on Fire
2-3:30pm. Focusing on the themes of love, death, fate, power, and madness, eight of New Genesis Productions’ most experienced young actors shine a fresh light on plays you think you’ve always known. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279.
Othello
8-10:30pm. To many the greatest opera ever composed, Verdi’s Otello reaches deep into human passions, benign and not, in this tale of “one who loved not wisely but too well.” Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
Sunset Boulevard
8pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Thomas Pasatieri’s Three Shakespearean Monologues
5:30-6:30pm. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
The Comedy of Errors
5-7pm. The Woodstock Shakespeare Festival’s 21st season at Bird-OnA-Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.
Workshops & Classes Cure Your Headache Workshop with Barbara Boris
1:30-3:30pm. $40. Whether you get an occasional sinus flare-up or devastating migraines, yoga can provide tremendous relief when you’re suffering from a headache. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the different types headaches and headache principles, and then work through some sequences designed specifically for addressing different types of head pain and discomfort. You will leave with a personalized sequence that you can practice at home. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Robin Guthridge’s Think BIG: Exploring the Monumental in Oil & Acrylic
Fairs & Festivals Annual Midsummer Festival
10am-3pm. $25/$35 two days. Participate in workshops and performances spanning such themes as permaculture, sustainability, and plant wisdom. Story telling and local musical acts will entertain on two stages, culminating with a performance by It’s Not Night: It’s Space and the traditional burning of the Wicker Man. Attendees may spend the night and camp out. Wake up to yoga and wellness workshops on Sunday. Center For Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 825-4437.
The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
Brimming with Main Stage concerts, workshops, hours of dancing, Activities for kids, delightful Family Stage, and international food and crafts. There is something for everyone. Dodds Farm, Hillsdale. (860) 364-0366.
Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Grand Finale: Festive Celtic Celebration
4:30pm. Breathtaking traditional music direct from the Emerald Isle.Three very special performances of traditional Irish music—by soloists Noeleen Ni Cholla and Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhride and by the young musicians of An Crann Og—bring the Festival to a rousing, foot stomping conclusion. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
Film Film Festival: Construct It: Playtime
8:30-10:30pm. Jacques Tati’s attempt to answer this question: in the midst of an increasingly impersonal world, how do we keep our humanity? Critics consensus: A remarkable achievement, Playtime packs every scene with sight gags and characters that both celebrates and satirizes the urbanization of modern life. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Lectures & Talks Defining the Italian: The Role of Music
10am-noon. Emanuele Senici, moderator; Linda Hutcheon; Michael Hutcheon; Michael Kaye. This panel discussion with renowned scholars will include a short question and answer period. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7003.
Hamlet: Once and For All
2-3pm. Veteran Shakespearean actor, director, and teacher Carey Harrison addresses the confusions, contradictions, and supposed ambiguities in our understanding of the most famous play ever written. Phoenicia Wesleyan Church, Phoenicia. 688-5276.
Latte Lectures: Youth in Art
10-11am. Phoenicia Park, Phoenicia.
10am-3pm. Art School of Columbia County, Harlemville. (518) 672-7140.
Music
Sacred Harp: Shape Note Workshop for All
12-2pm. Barbara Dempsey plays guitar and is the lead and husband Dewitt Nelson plays bass and back up vocal. Barbara Dempsey & Company defies categorization. They perform songs that span the gamut from well thought out originals to the blues, jazz, rock, and pop standards. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
11am. Shape notes—shapes added to the note heads in the score—help you find the pitch fast. Even if you think you can’t read music, this workshop will have you singing with the choir in one brief session. Phoenicia Wesleyan Church, Phoenicia. 688-5276.
The Smart Entrepreneur Boot Camp
9:30am-noon. $250. Three Saturday series. Growing Your Business, Management for Team Building and Holding It Together. Entrepreneurial Center, Poughkeepsie. 790-5004.
SUNDAY 7 Dance Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
2pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Just Dance
First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. $10. DJ activated non-stop contagious expression. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
Barbara Dempsey & Company
Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis
10am-2pm. Blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Chamber Series Pt V: The Sounds of Brazil
11:30am. With Chris Washburne, André Mehmari & Evan Christopher. All Souls Church, Tannersville. 518-589-6953.
Cold Spring Summer Sunset Music Series
6-8pm. Join neighbors and visitors for this free community concert at the beautiful riverfront park in Cold Spring. Enjoy the river, the music and bring a picnic basket and a blanket. Village of Cold Spring, Cold Spring. 265-3200.
David Kraai & Amy Laber
4pm. 4-7pm. No cover. David Kraai & Amy Laber swing by this awesome restaurant and music venue to dole out two sets of the finest country folk music this side of anywhere! Country harmonies, sweet banjo, tasty mandolin, twangy guitars, beautiful autoharp and soulful harmonica... it doesn’t get any better! This place also has a vibe straight out of the heyday of Haight-Ashbury, so mosey on out for a great afternoon of live music and good vibes y’all... Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.
Distillery Live: The Goldbergs
2-4pm. Dynamic duo of acoustic guitars and percussion with outstanding vocals and harmony. Hudson Valley Distillers, Germantown. 835-8049.
Dominick Farinacci
7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Harlem String Quartet
3pm. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126.
Imani Winds
4-6pm. $25-$45. Jeff Scott: Startin’ Sumthin’; Frederic Rzewski: Sometimes (2015); Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Jonathan Russell: Suite from Scheherazade; John Cage: Music for Wind Instruments (1938); Maurice Ravel, arr. Mason Jones: Suite from Le Tombeau de Couperin. This concert is made possible with support from Garry & Diane Kvistad and the Woodstock Chimes Fund. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Speed of Sound Festival
1pm. Featuring Indie Americana music of the Lumineers, complete with small aircrafts offering pleasure flights overhead, arts and craft vendors, local gourmet food trucks, kids’ activities and craft beer. Dutchess County Airport, Wappingers Falls. Speedofsoundfest.com.
Pitbull
7pm. $37.50-$146.95. With Prince Royce. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
Realism and Fantasy: New Directions in Opera
4:30pm. $25-$75. Pre-concert talk at 3:30pm. Performance: Sean Panikkar, tenor; Nora Sourouzian, mezzo-soprano; Talise Trevigne, soprano; Paul Whelan, bassbaritone; Bard Festival Chorale & James Bagwell, choral director; The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein; and others. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.
The Search for a Successor: Opera after Verdi
1pm. $40. Performance with Commentary by Emanuele Senici; with Aubrey Allicock, bass-baritone; Theo Lebow, tenor; Cecilia Violetta López, soprano; Steven LaBrie, baritone; Erika Switzer, piano; and others. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7003.
Summer Season Finale
4:30pm. $20-$80. This year’s Finale continues the tradition of concluding with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and its principal conductor Pablo Heras-Casado delivering a powerful, resounding performance– this time with two monumental works by Brahms. Virtuoso violinist Gil Shaham, noted for his fearless technical virtuosity and peerless lyrical expressiveness, returns to Caramoor for this sensational closing concert. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.
Outdoors & Recreation Purple Heart Appreciation Day
2pm. Commemorate the 234rd anniversary of General Washington’s order creating the Badge of Military Merit, predecessor for the modern Purple Heart. Many chaplains, corpsmen, medics, nurses, doctors and military victims of terrorist attacks have earned this award, and we will share some of their stories of sacrifice. Among these recipients are Beatrice MacDonald, a World War I Army nurse, the first known woman to be awarded a Purple Heart and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient Chaplain Emil Kapaun. The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, New Windsor. 561-1765.
SPIRIT 13 Indigenous Grandmothers Council
International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers in Assisi, Italy. Photograph by Marisol Villanueva.
Creation to Completion When 13 women from native communities around the world came together at Menla Mountain Retreat in 2004 to commune and declare their intentions for world peace, they set in motion a wide range of actions. Empowered by a mutual resolve to affect changes for the betterment of their people—and for all humankind and the Earth as well—the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers have engaged in a full 12-year cycle of peacemaking. In their own communities across the Americas and as far away as Japan and Tibet, they’ve held annual Grandmothers Council gatherings to support one other and bring appeals for the restoration of justice to every member’s homeland. One of these revered elders said she wanted to see the Vatican rescind all papal bulls (edicts) that have adversely affected native peoples for the past five centuries. And she wanted all the sacred sites in the upper Midwestern United States to be returned to the great Sioux Nation people before the end of her life. Grandmother Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance died last March, but not before passing this charge to her eldest daughter to carry on. To fulfill her mother’s vision, Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook continues to work with many Native activists who are dedicated to the Black Hills return initiative. They are committed to putting the issue in front of President Obama before he leaves office. Shortly after Grandmother Beatrice’s death, Loretta Afraid of Bear took her mother’s place with a group of representatives and scholars in the Long March to Rome. There they met with Pope Francis and had an audience with the Holy See. “We spent the day sitting at the table with them,” she says, “and we presented a united front. We learned that they all had not read the papal bulls. Steve Newcomb [of Indian Country Today Media Network], who had done the research and could speak Latin, asked, ‘Do you realize the governments of the world are governing based on those edicts?’ And they said no.”
Loretta Afraid of Bear calls for the recognition that it is now time for both sides to be candid and speak truthfully. And for Native peoples to state: “This is how we would like to see things happen.” “Everybody talks about reconciliation, but I have a hard time with the word because it implies that we have some kind of relationship with each other, and we’ve never had that. Our audience with the Pope was on May 4. The main bull we’d like to have thrown out, the Inter caetera, was signed on May 4, 1493. I told him, ‘My people have been suffering for 523 years. I ask you to rescind the papal bulls that affect us.’ They agreed. I came away feeling hopeful, like we’ve made a difference.” She describes the nature of women’s involvement in her tribe’s sociospiritual structure. “In our creation stories, the Great Vibration in the universe had conversations with the power Woope or Wohpe—Mother Law. Another feminine spirit is the White Buffalo Calf Woman, who brought us the seven sacred rites of our people. The teachings are profoundly feminine. There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that when our Grandmothers say something, it’s Mother Law speaking.” In honor of the late Grandmother Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, the Grandmothers will reconvene once more at Menla in Phoenicia to celebrate the completion of their circle of prayer around the planet. A three-day healing retreat, "Creation to Completion," will be conducted August 25-28, when Loretta Afraid of Bear joins 11 of the original Grandmothers in a ceremony of gratitude. The public is invited to be a part of this gathering. Contact Lynn Schauwecker at lynnschau@gmail.com or visit Menla.us for registration information. And look for the 2017 publication of a book documenting the Grandmothers, with photographs and text by Marisol Villanueva. —Ann Hutton 8/16 ChronograM forecast 103
Summer Nature Walk
1-3pm. Join the Delaware Highlands Conservancy for a free guided Nature Walk at our office in Bethel, NY. Kids must remain accompanied by an adult. Delaware Highlands Conservancy NY Office, Kauneonga Lake. 583-1010.
Summer Wildflowers
10am. $3-$7. While wildflowers will be the focus, we’ll also keep our eyes out for birds, butterflies, and bees! Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth 7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Miracle on South Division Street
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops & Classes Armatures and Sculptural Papermaking with Ellen Kucera & Chris Petrone
9am-4pm. $750/$40 lab fee. Through Aug. 12. We will focus on various armaturemaking techniques and methods of covering forms with a skin-like handmade paper. We will also cover basket weaving and basic welding for metal armatures. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 645-9133.
French Immersion
9am-noon. $300. Through Aug. 12. Madame Grace Barlow will be employing the Rassais Method® that uses role play and fast-paced theatrical drilling techniques, coupled with immediate reinforcement. French will be spoken and introductory grammar reviewed. Students taking this class should have completed at least one year of French. Grades 6-8. Berkshire County Day School, Lenox, MA. (413) 637-0755.
TUESDAY 9 Business & Networking Path to Entrepreneurship Program
6-8:30pm. Please join the Women’s Enterprise Development Center for a free program designed to introduce you to small business ownership. Learn about the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur and what it takes to run your own business. Think Dutchess Alliance for Business, Poughkeepsie. 363-6432.
Film The Fits
7:15pm. $7/$5 members. A psychological portrait of 11-year-old Toni, a tomboy assimilating to a tight-knit dance team in Cincinnati’s West End. Enamored by the power and confidence of this strong community of girls, Toni eagerly absorbs routines, masters drills, and even pierces her own ears to fit in. When a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the
Muse on Fire
1-2:30pm. Focusing on the themes of love, death, fate, power, and madness, eight of New Genesis Productions’ most experienced young actors shine a fresh light on plays you think you’ve always known. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279.
5-7pm. The Woodstock Shakespeare Festival’s 21st season at Bird-On-A-Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007..
Summer Arts Intensive
Esopus Creek Puppet Suite Puppetry is an ancient art form, over 3,000 years old. Ivory and clay articulated puppets were found in tombs in ancient Egypt. In ancient Greece, Aristotle and Plato referenced puppets in writing. Ceremonial puppets were also used in pre-Columbian Native American cultures. It could be that puppets came before real life actors in theater. Today, Armof-the-Sea Theater combines both actors and puppets together. puppet combines actors in puppet masks and traditional puppets in socially conscious performances in theaters and schools around the region. Once a year, the troupe puts on its Esopus Creek Puppet Suite at Tina Chorvas Park in Saugerties, a three-night stand of puppetry in performance. This year’s show is a retrospective, revisiting previous works like “The City That Drinks the Mountain Sky” and “The Rejuvenary River Circus.” August 19-21, 8pm. Armofthesea.org.
Music
Intaglio 101
Sonic Soul Band
9am-4pm. $750/$60 lab fee. This course will serve as an introduction to the process of intaglio printmaking. Students will become confident with the set up and operation of a traditional printing press as well as the fundamentals of preparing a plate and printing. We’ll print multiple plates and explore color processes. No prior printmaking experience is required. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
8:30pm. Jazz. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
Tomchess’ Bandit Hat Quartet
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Royal Opera: WERTHER
7-10:15pm. General $21 / Contributing Members $18. Music: Jules Massenet Contuctor: Antonio Pappano Director: Benoit Jacquot The Royal Opera’s Music Director Antonio Pappano returns to conduct film, theatre and opera director Benoît Jacquot’s classic production. Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo stars as Werther, alongside Joyce Di Donato, who sings her first Charlotte (one of the great French mezzo roles) in this staging. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022. chronogram.com These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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9am-4pm. $330. Through Aug. 11. In this lithography workshop students will prepare lithographic stones, draw black-and-white images with lithographic crayons and pencils, and learn the fascinating process of etching the stones and printing editions from them. A smoothly grained limestone provides a wonderful surface to draw on and print from, yielding a wide range of tones and lush blacks. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Tea & Stones
Second Tuesday of every month, 6:307:30pm. Each month we explore a different stone from our vast collection. You’ll learn about their healing qualities, some history and folklore and ways to incorporate them into our daily life. The evening always include a meditation while holding the stone to connect to it’s essence and to listen to it’s message for you personally. Please bring your tea mug, and a camp chair if you have one - seating is limited and if you bring a chair you are guaranteed a seat! Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
YES! Teen Yoga Camp with MJ Reiss
The Comedy of Errors
8am-4pm. $125 one week/$200 two weeks. Mon.-Thurs. for ages 7-17. Includes immersion in hip hop, computer music production, creative writing, drumming, giant puppet construction and spoken word, and end with a final production and BBQ. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Lithography
6:30-8:30pm. $15/$60 series. For those who write or want to write poetry, short stories, novel, memoir, creative non-fiction, etc.— and get it published! Led by Iris Litt. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
3pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Kids & Family
$650. With Michelle Belto. Through Aug. 12. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
Woodstock Writers Workshops
Sunset Boulevard
MONDAY 8
Workshops & Classes Encaustic and Paper Sculpture
Mokuhanga Woodblock Printing with Katie Baldwin 9am-4pm. $750/$60. Through Aug. 12. This workshop will be an introduction to the nontoxic printing process mokuhanga, which uses water-based pigments (or sumi ink), a kento registration method, and hand printing with a baren. All participants will have the opportunity to carve and print their own twoblock image. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
YES! Teen Yoga Camp with MJ Reiss 12-3pm. $150. Designed specifically for teens 13-17 years old, this week-long camp is dedicated to providing teens with a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthy lifestyle. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
team, Toni’s desire for acceptance is twisted. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Lectures & Talks Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk Second Tuesday of every month, 7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Second Tuesday of every month, after community meditation practice. Meditation: 6-7pm, Talk 7pm, followed by tea, cookies, and converation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
What is Happening in Syria, the Middle East, and Why 7-9pm. Jeff Klein. This event is sponsored by Cafe Palestina. Friends Meeting House, Poughkeepsie. 454-2870.
Music Lughnasadh 7pm. $25/$2- ICCHV members. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Measure by Measure 7:30pm. The Duke of Vienna mysteriously disappears from public life and leaves his puritanical deputy, Angelo, to clean up the city’s seedy underworld. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Aug. 12, 12-3pm. $150. Designed specifically for teens 13-17 years old, this week-long camp is dedicated to providing teens with a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthy lifestyle. We do this through 30 hours of experiential learning that includes physical activity, discussions about mindful eating, breathing and relaxation techniques, and exercises focusing on teamwork and problem-solving. Led by high school teacher and Art of Living instructor MJ Reiss. Attendance each day is required. Vegetarian snacks provided. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
WEDNESDAY 10 Dance Dorrance Dance
8pm. A contemporary perspective on everrelevant themes of identity. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Inside/Out Performance: RAWdance
6:15pm. The company will present excerpts from Double Exposure, reversing the traditional creation process by using two dancers and 16 choreographers including David Rousséve, Amy Seiwert, Joe Goode, Ann Carlson, among many others. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Tango at the Pavilion
6-8pm. $12/open dance $5 donation. Join Nina Jirka, of Tango New Paltz, and learn how to Tango! Come for an hourlong lesson from 6pm-7pm and stay for open dance from 7pm-8pm. Bring water and comfortable shoes for dancing. All ages welcome. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Film The Fits
7:15pm. $7/$5 members. A psychological portrait of 11-year-old Toni, a tomboy assimilating to a tight-knit dance team in Cincinnati’s West End. Enamored by the power and confidence of this strong community of girls, Toni eagerly absorbs routines, masters drills, and even pierces her own ears to fit in. When a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, Toni’s desire for acceptance is twisted. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Health & Wellness Breaking Eggs
Menstrual-sexual education. Aletis House, Hudson. 4156868722.
Kids & Family
Workshops & Classes
Editing 101
YES! Teen Yoga Camp with MJ Reiss
5:30-7:30pm. Spark Media’s Mobile Media Lab. Learn numerous techniques of basic editing: create a timeline, add music, and make titles. At the end, students share cuts and see how editing can change a story dramatically. Ages 10-14. Town of Ulster Public Library, Kingston. 338-7881.
Teen Advisory Board Meeting Second Wednesday of every month, 4-5pm. Fre. Do you need to fulfill volunteer hours? Come to this monthly meeting to volunteer and advise the library on what teen programs, teen books, music and movies we should be looking at. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580 ext. 1003.
Aug. 12, 12-3pm. $150. Designed specifically for teens 13-17 years old, this week-long camp is dedicated to providing teens with a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthy lifestyle. We do this through 30 hours of experiential learning that includes physical activity, discussions about mindful eating, breathing and relaxation techniques, and exercises focusing on teamwork and problem-solving. Led by high school teacher and Art of Living instructor MJ Reiss. Attendance each day is required. Vegetarian snacks provided. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
THURSDAY 11
Literary & Books
Business & Networking
Book Group: LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting
6-7pm. FREE. Join us for a discussion of Light in August by William Faulkner, hosted by bookseller Matt! All are welcome! As this is one of a series of standalone book discussions, anybody can attend one book group meeting without attending the entire series. The entire book should be read before the meeting. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Music Chrissi Poland 7pm. Pop and soul. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground 7pm. Host: Doug Weiss. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Tony DePaolo Trio Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.
Comedy Juggling Funny Stories
6:30pm. Performance starring humorist Chris Fascione. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-1212.
Dance Dorrance Dance
8pm. A contemporary perspective on everrelevant themes of identity. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Inside/Out Performance: Soul Steps
6:15pm. Soul Steps embraces the rich African American tradition of stepping by using the body as a percussive instrument to explore the language of rhythm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Nightlife
Fairs & Festivals
Canvas & Cuisine at The Briarcliff Manor
7th Annual Hudson Valley Jazz Festival
5:30-9:30pm. 125. Join Vine Van Gogh for a special Canvas & Cuisine event at The Briarcliff Manor in Briarcliff Manor, NY. Our talented local artist will lead you step-by-step through the re-creation of this beautiful piece of art that you can call your own. Absolutely no artistic experience is necessary! The Briarcliff Manor, Briarcliff Manor. 914-944-1524.
Theater Berkshire Playwrights Lab’s Staged Reading Series 7:30pm. Berkshire Playwrights Lab brings artists and audiences into conversation around new plays in development and is the region’s only theater exclusively dedicated to the development of new plays. More than 30 short and 35 full-length plays have been presented since 2007. BPL plays go from the table to the stage in four days. Playwrights see their nascent works, still in development, acted by talented professional actors, allowing the writer to see where actors and directors stumble and what comes to life effortlessly. An audience talk back follows each performance. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
Globe On Screen: Measure for Measure 7-9:30pm. General $21 / Contributing Members $18. Captured LIVE from Stratford’s Globe Theater. Directed by:Dominic Dromgoole Starring: Mariah Gale as Isabella, Dominic Rowan as Duke Vincentio and Kurt Egyiawan as Angelo. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It 7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Village of Warwick, Warwick. Hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org.
Film Spaghetti Western
8pm. $15-$40. A program of crosscurrents, with music by Americans living in Italy and Italians whose music has permeated U.S. culture. From David Lang to Ennio Morricone, discover how Italian and American music have travelled together through film—dating all the way back to Puccini’s Girl from the Golden West. Spiegeltent, Annandale. (914) 393-7750.
Food & Wine Hudson Valley Magazine’s Burger and Beer Bash
6-10pm. Dutchess Stadium, Wappingers Falls. 838-0094.
Health & Wellness
Literary & Books The White Hart Speaker Series: James Howard Kunstler - THE HARROWS OF SPRING
6-8pm. FREE - RSVP Required. From renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, comes the fourth & final book in the World Made by Hand series. The Harrows of Spring is a moving and gripping novel that completes the story of the quaint upstate New York town of Union Grove, thrown into a future world that in many ways resembles the nineteenth century. The White Hart Inn, Salisbury, CT. 518-789-3797.
Music Bluegrass Clubhouse Band 8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
Christopher Dean Sullivan Ensemble 6:30-8:30pm. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. (888) 937-6762.
JFF’s Music for Children & Cheap Date Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Bingo Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Beekman Fire Department, Poughquag. 270-9133.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Measure by Measure
7:30pm. The Duke of Vienna mysteriously disappears from public life and leaves his puritanical deputy, Angelo, to clean up the city’s seedy underworld. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Workshops & Classes Business Writing Workshop
4-6pm. $125/$100 early reg. Led by Dara Lurie. Runs through Sept. 15. This class, dubbed Author Breakthrough, is a program for small business owners, artists and freelance writers who wish to create valuable content and great marketing copy. No one understands the heart and soul of your business better than you do. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811.
Thursday Tantra Class
7-9pm. $15. In this experiment of profound authenticity, we will explore what it means to live into our practice of Presence, Breath, and Gratitude. We use meditation, discussion, and experimentation to inform our gatherings. Facilitated by Arabella Champaq. Tantra Gateway, Beacon. (518) 929-8575.
YES! Teen Yoga Camp with MJ Reiss
Aug. 12, 12-3pm. $150. Designed specifically for teens 13-17 years old, this week-long camp is dedicated to providing teens with a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthy lifestyle. We do this through 30 hours of experiential learning that includes physical activity, discussions about mindful eating, breathing and relaxation techniques, and exercises focusing on teamwork and problem-solving. Led by high school teacher and Art of Living instructor MJ Reiss. Attendance each day is required. Vegetarian snacks provided. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
CFD’s Death Cafe
6:30-9pm. Celebrating our third year of bringing Death Cafes to Ulster County, Laurie Schwartz presents Understanding Compassion Fatigue: The Cost of Caring About and For Others, followed by the usual informal conversations that break the taboo around dying and death.This is not a bereavement support group but it is a safe place to talk about dying and death. Music to mingle by from Busking for Bread. Temple Emanuel, Kingston. 802-0970.
Kids & Family Heard
11am. Heard is Elizabeth Woodbury Kasius, composer/pianist, Jonathan Greene, woodwinds, Bobby Kendall, bass, Brian Melick, drums/percussion,and Zorkie Nelson on drums/percussion/vocal. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
FRIDAY 12 Dance Dorrance Dance
Fairs & Festivals 7th Annual Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Village of Warwick, Warwick. Hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org.
Health & Wellness Baby Magic Knitting, Crocheting & Meditation Circle
Second Friday of every month, 7-9pm. This circle is for conscious, spiritual women who want to conceive or who are pregnant, as well as their supportive sisters, girlfriends and mothers. Open to knitters and crocheters at all levels, even beginners. White Barn Farm, New Paltz. 259-1355.
Gentle Flow + Kirtan with Dwayne Resnick
6-7:15pm. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.
Lectures & Talks Friday Night Prologue
6pm. Kick off your evening with an informal and engaging pre-show talk on the lawn led by longtime HVSF acting company members Kurt Rhoads, Nance Williamson, and Stephen Paul Johnson on As You Like It, Macbeth and Measure by Measure. Performance to follow at 7:30pm Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
PillowTalk: Lois Greenfield: Moving Still 5pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Music The Acquaintances
Second Friday of every month, 8-11pm. The Acquaintances consisting of Jeff Entin on guitar, Bob Blum on bass, and Larry Balestra on drums. The trio play mostly original music and also do a fair share of covers including everything from jazz standards to rockabilly, music from The Band, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and much more. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.
The Dan Brother Band
7pm. Blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Dylan Doyle Band
7pm. Blues. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston.
Eli Catlin
8pm. $20/$15. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
Fictions: Borges in Tango
7:30pm. $25. With the Chris Pattishall Octet. Orpheum Performing Arts Center, Tannersville. (518) 263-4246.
Futurism, Popular Culture, and Technology
8pm. $25-$60. Performance with commentary by Anna Celenza; with The Orchestra Now, conducted by James Bagwell; Blair McMillen, piano; and others. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.
Music From High Peaks
7-9pm. $25/$15 students. Renowned faculty and international rising young artists from the Catskill High Peaks Festival fill the performance space with an exuberant display of virtuosity and talent, performing works by J. S. Bach, Grieg, Chopin, Dvorak, Gershwin and more. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 843-0778.
8pm. A contemporary perspective on everrelevant themes of identity. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Nelson
Inside/Out Performance: FJK Dance
Slide Attack
6:15pm. A unique mix of ballet and ballroom, Middle Eastern and jazz dance, New York City-based FJK brings ballroom elegance and glamour. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Rioult Dance
8-10pm. $35/$30 PS21 members/$18 students. Founded in 1994, RIOULT Dance NY is an established name in modern dance with a reputation for presenting the sensual, articulate, and musical works of Pascal Rioult. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Performing Ricky Nelson Remembered. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Theater. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth 7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Sunset Boulevard
8pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony awardwinning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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Workshops & Classes Advanced Wayfinder Community Workshop
Through Aug. 14. A role-playing adventure With Melissa Bowe, Sophia HofferPerkins, and the Wayfinder Experience Team. Intrepid adventurers learn powerful strategies for everyday life in this advanced role-playing adventure (for ages 16-24). Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
Civil Rights and the 2016 Election
7:30-9pm. A discussion between Clarence Jones, former speech writer for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. Moderated by David Goodman. The evening will also feature freedom songs performed by Michael Mark and the 2016 Hidden Heroes award ceremony, honoring five young activists who are carrying on the work of Freedom Summer. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. (201) 995-1808 ext.19.
Beacon Second Saturday
Second Saturday of every month. The BAUsters have something special this month - the celebration of 10 years of continuous monthly offerings. In honor of the event we have assembled an excellent show - a joint effort of all the represented BAU artists. Each will display one contemporary work juxtaposed against a creation of his/hers from ten years ago. And the centerpiece of the show will be a jointly produced installation. Second Saturday is a city-wide celebration of the arts held on the second Saturday of every month where galleries and shops stay open until 9pm, most of which are right along Main Street. In addition to displaying art from around the globe, the event often includes free gallery talks, live music, and wine tasting. Beaconarts.org Downtown Beacon, Beacon.
Shakespeare on the Green and Green Expo
12-4pm. Featuring Shakespeare’s “So
Harney Fest
9am-4pm. Join us for our fourth annual HarneyFest, a day of fun, factory tours, tea tastings and tips, live music, food, workshops and family activities. Don’t miss our famous tent sale with special offers on tea, treats and teaware, too. Harney and Sons, Millerton. (518) 789-2100 ext. 210.
Kids & Family Family Hootenany
Second Saturday of every month, 10-11am. $5. Beacon Music Factory (BMF), Beacon. Https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ home?studioid=41760.
Summer Art Adventure
Inside/Out Performance: Musical Theatre Dance Program of The School at Jacob’s Pillow 6:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Rioult Dance
8-10pm. $35/$30 PS21 members/$18 students. Founded in 1994, RIOULT Dance NY is an established name in modern dance with a reputation for presenting the sensual, articulate, and musical works of Pascal Rioult. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
West Point’s Benny Havens Band Presents Dancing Under the Stars
7:30-9pm. Dance the night away to all of your favorite dance hits, past and present. You’re invited up to the Trophy Point stage, converted into the perfect dance floor overlooking stunning Hudson River views. Bring your best moves and get ready to party! West Point Military Academy, West Point. 938-2617.
Fairs & Festivals 7th Annual Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Village of Warwick, Warwick. Hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org.
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Literary & Books Vernon Benjamin presents History of the Hudson River Valley: From Civil War to Modern Times
Music Catskill Mountain Jazz Night: Pee Wee Ellis & Billy Harper
12-4pm. Spark Media’s Mobile Media Lab. Write and interpret poems, then use film imagery and voiceovers to bring poetry to
8pm. $28-$48. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (800) 942-6904.
Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires
8pm. 8-10pm. $25 in advance/$33/$45 preferred. Not since James Brown has the world seen the likes of Charles Bradley, an old school revivalist who leaves every ounce of what he’s got on stage. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
Connor Kennedy
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps
4-7pm. No. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps play two sets of the finest country rock this side of 1973. Orange County Distillery at Brown Barn Farms, New Hampton. 651-2929.
Distillery Live: Music by Maggie
The Many-Splendored Genius of Paul McMahon Paul McMahon is a multidisciplinary artist and the creator of the “Welcome to Woodstock” bumper sticker series. (Examples include: “Welcome to Woodstock: Your Reality Check Bounced,” and “Welcome to Woodstock: If You Lived Here You’d Be Om Now.”) Noted local satirist Mikhail Horowitz described McMahon as “One of the advance scouts for a benevolent civilization of extraterrestrial artists that is planning to settle on Planet Earth, sometime after Donald Trump is defeated.” An eccentric singer-songwriter, McMahon performs as a rock ’n’ roll therapist, inviting audience members to share their problems and then transforming them into songs on the spot. “Disguised as a spaced-out hippie, Paul McMahon reorders American logic through visual art, bumper stickers, and song,” commented Chronogram contributor Sparrow. Paul McMahon will give a free presentation on August 20 at 5pm at the Woodstock Library. Woodstock.org.
Monument
2:15 & 8:15pm. Choreographed by Adam H. Weinert. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
Video Poems
SATURDAY 13 Dorrance Dance
World-Renowned Storyteller Gioia Timpanelli, Celebrating the Feast of Summer with Stories and Poems
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
12-3pm. $150. Designed specifically for teens 13-17 years old, this week-long camp is dedicated to providing teens with a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthy lifestyle. We do this through 30 hours of experiential learning that includes physical activity, discussions about mindful eating, breathing and relaxation techniques, and exercises focusing on teamwork and problem-solving. Led by high school teacher and Art of Living instructor MJ Reiss. Attendance each day is required. Vegetarian snacks provided. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
2 & 8pm. A contemporary perspective on ever-relevant themes of identity. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
2pm. Featuring Christi Shannon Kline and Jane Ormerod. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
12-3pm. Ages 4-16. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
YES! Teen Yoga Camp with MJ Reiss
Dance
Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading
Please You”, produced and performed by Hudson Valley Shakespeare at 2pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
life, or create Kinetic Typography to digitally animate words. Ages 13+. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. 518.828.1792.
Sunflower Art Festival
Artists, Intellectuals, and Mussolini
10am-8:30pm. With the support of the local community, family, and friends- this festival is meant to bring people together for art, nature, music and food - a celebration of community and life. Tuthilltown Spirits, Gardiner. 419-5219.
Food & Wine Tea + Lights 5-7pm. Come to our tea tasting and celebrate our beautiful Hudson-Athens Lighthouse. Buy specially labelled favorites and support this Hudson landmark. Verdigris Tea & Chocolate Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-3139.
Health & Wellness Freeing Your Shoulders & Neck Workshop: Part II with Jory Serota 1:30-3:30pm. $40. In this follow-up to Jory’s hugely popular July workshop, we will continue to explore why the shoulders and neck cause us such pain, and how we can use asanas to improve stability and relieve discomfort. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Lectures & Talks 10am-noon. Joseph Luzzi, moderator; Victoria de Grazia; Ben Earle; Benjamin Martin. This panel discussion with renowned scholars will include a short question and answer period. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7003.
PillowTalk: Dancing Data 4pm. The driving forces behind two new online databases demonstrate their efforts, with Constance Valis Hill representing the Library of Congress’s tap resource and Theresa Ruth Howard discussing the Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Practical Magic: Using Herbs & Plants Safely For Healing & Soothing with Marita Orr 2-3pm. $10 + tax. In her first seminar Marita will be getting to the “root” of the healing properties of popular roots, teaching us about their proposed medicinal properties as well as how to use them safely and wisely. Guests will receive a special tea gift to take home with them. F eatured Roots: Turmeric, Ginger, Ashwaghanda, Dandelion, Kava Kava. The Water Oracle - Mystical Teas & Provisions, Rhinebeck. 876-8327.
2-4pm. Maggie will be strumming her guitar and singing pop favorites from yesterday to today.= Hudson Valley Distillers at Spirits Grove Farm, clermont. Hudsonvalleydistillers.com/.
Eric Person Quartet
8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Fictions: Borges in Tango
6:30pm. $27. With the Chris Pattishall Octet. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126.
The Force
10pm. Classic rock. Hudson House, Cold Spring. 265-9355.
Holy Crow Jazz Band
8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Jack DeJohnette
8pm. Jazz. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Jazz at the Maverick: Julian Lage Trio 8-10pm. $25-$45. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
John Abercrombie/Rob Scheps Quartet
7-10pm. Guitar legend Abercrombie joins forces with tenor/soprano saxophonist Rob Scheps to co-lead a great jazz quartet with Eliot Zigmund and David Kingsnorth. Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. 555-1212.
John Medeski, Dave Fiuczyinski & Calvin Weston
11am-11pm. $125. Includes 2-part Master class. Applehead Recording Studio, Saugerties. 418-2370.
Karen Oberlin
7 & 9pm. $25. American songbook/cabaret. The Barn at Egremont Inn, South Egremont, MA. (413) 528-9580.
Music and Fascism in Italy
8pm. $25/$75. Pre-concert talk at 7pm with Ben Earle. Performance: Marnie Breckenridge, soprano; Bard Festival Chorale & James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, music director. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.
Reinventing the Past
1:30pm. $40. Pre-concert talk at 1pm. Performance: Rieko Aizawa, piano; Daedalus Quartet; César Delgado, tenor; Theo Lebow, tenor; Jesse Mills, violin; The Orchestra Now, conducted by Zachary Schwartzman; and others. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7003.
Rob Wallis and the Rhythm Method
9:30pm. Soul, R&B. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Seth Glier
8pm. $25/$20. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
West Point Band Presents: Cinema Magic
7:30-9pm. A performance of the most popular musical moments from the silver screen. In case of inclement weather, the performance will take place in Eisenhower Hall Ballroom. Escape to the movies and relive all of your favorite cinematic moments through the power of music. From the exciting and dramatic to lighthearted and comedic soundtracks, this program has something for everyone. West Point Military Academy, West Point. 938-2617.
SUNDAY 14
Sunset Boulevard
8pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Dance
Vanaver Caravan SummerDance on Tour!
2pm. A contemporary perspective on everrelevant themes of identity. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
5-7pm. Rail Trail Cafe, New Paltz.
Workshops & Classes Jerry Freedner’s The Art of Photography
10am-4pm. Art School of Columbia County, Harlemville. (518) 672-7140.
EcoART Seed Sculpting Lab with Adam Zaretsky
2-5pm. Get your hands--and feet--dirty! Mix, mold and create seed sculptures made of clay, manure, soil and various nitrogen fixing seeds to be used as a medium to disseminate in a public, collaborative, live-art, sculpting studio. Stroll with us as
Dorrance Dance
Chicken Dancearama with Linda Mary Montano 1-3pm. All ages are invited to join us at each “mini-endurance” and walk/dance/ bawk/eat eggs/step with love feet and improvise safely and beautifully so we can mentor peaceful-flying despite our vestigial wings. Remember, chickens were originally dinosaurs. Come costumed as a wild fowl. Re Seed Saugerties, Saugerties. Reseedsaugerties.com/chickendancerama/.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits National Museum of Dance 2016 Gala 6-10pm. The annual gala is the Museum’s largest fundraiser and is the best gala in Saratoga during the summer season. National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-2225.
Perseids & Popsicles
7:30pm. $4-$8. Learn about the history and science behind the Perseids meteor shower. Bring a blanket and we’ll provide the popsicles while you watch the show! Prepaid registration required. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Pro GRT/XCT Bike Race
8am-8:30pm. The Pro GRT/XCT at Windham Mountain Resort hosts Downhill and Cross Country Mountain Bike racing with professional and amateur athletes from around the World. The Windham Pro GRT/XCT will cover a similar course as the previous UCI Mountain Bike World Cup events. Windham Mountain Resort, Windham. (518) 310-2727.
Spirituality Meditation Intensive
9am-4pm. $125. Meditation Intensive with Gurudev Nityananda, successor of the renowned meditation master Baba Muktananda, provides a unique opportunity to receive guidance, inspiration, and encouragement for one’s own spiritual practice by spending the day in his presence. Each intensive focuses on a particular topic. All are welcome. Includes a wholesome, homemade, vegetarian lunch. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008.
Theater Auditions for Inherit the Wind
1pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org. chronogram.com These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
Music 10th Anniversary Hudson Jazz Workshop Concert
3:30pm. $10/$8 students and seniors/ students free. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-4181.
After Puccini
1:30pm. $40. Pre-concert talk at 1pm. Performance: Teresa Buchholz, mezzosoprano; Elmira Darvarova, violin; Sam Magill, cello; Blair McMillen, piano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Bard Festival Chamber Players. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7003.
Bears, Bees and a Summer Afternoon
3pm. There will be a Bear dance from Bartok, violin soloists serenading the audience with the 2nd movement of the double violin concerto by Bach, 2 aquarelles by Delius, a Corelli Concerto Grosso featuring violin and cello soloists and, to round off the afternoon, our yearly toy symphony. Anyone who can read music and is interested in joining our percussion section in the toy symphony, may sign up for a part. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.
Cold Spring Summer Sunset Music Series
6-8pm. Join neighbors and visitors for this free community concert at the beautiful riverfront park in Cold Spring. Enjoy the river, the music and bring a picnic basket and a blanket. Village of Cold Spring, Cold Spring. 265-3200.
Outdoors & Recreation Peak Summer Trail Hike
9:30am. $15. Join NYSDEC-licensed Hiking Guide, Dave Holden, for Byrdcliffe’s spring/ summer/fall series of educational and invigorating hikes on the beautiful Byrdcliffe Trail. Hikes last approximately two hours. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079.
refreshments, conversation, and giveaways for attendees. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Darius Rucker
7pm. $69.75/$38 lawn. With guests Dan and Shay and Michael Ray. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922. Stone Carving with Kevin Van Hentenryck Opus 40 is a magnificent 6.5-acre sculpture park nestled against the backdrop of Overlook Mountain. The entire sculpture, built on an abandoned quarry three stories above ground, with pathways 16 feet below ground, and quarry springs tucked throughout, was carved by one man—Harvey Fite (1903-1976)—who took advantage of a cheap, abundant resource: bluestone. Like Fite, Kevin VanHentenryck is a master sculptor who is committed to using local bluestone. VanHentenryck will hold two Stone Carving Seminars on August 13 and 14 and September 17 and 18 at Opus 40. Absolutely no experience is necessary to attend the workshop, which aims to promote a shared experienced among participants of all ages and encourage interest in carving. “A lot of people avoid carving because they feel it is too challenging, but I have had four year olds do it,” VanHentenryck remarked. Attendees will learn all aspects of the sculpting process—from concept and layout to surface finishing—picking their own bluestone to carve and take home. No experience is necessary. Participants have the option to attend for a half-day, full day, or both days. Registration fees range from $65 to $220 and advanced registration is encouraged. (518) 989-6356; Opus40.org.
we install these sculptures around town or taken home, so that nitrogen fixing flowers and plants will grow from our sculptures. Re Seed Saugerties, Saugerties. (917) 312-7161.
Road to College: Writing the Essay 10am-noon. College advisor and writer Nancy Rullo leads this two-part workshop in which you will learn to master the dreaded college essay. Find out more about the role of the essay, what colleges are looking for, how to pick a topic, the mechanics of writing, and how to find and communicate your voice. Parents may attend the first session, but students only on August 20th. Advance registration is required. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811.
Video Poems 12-4pm. After discussing poetry and the imagery it invokes, students have the opportunity to write an original poem and learn to interpret one of their own favorites. They’ll use film imagery and voiceovers to bring poetry to life. Alternatively, students can create Kinetic Typography to digitally animate their words. By the end of the class, participants will have their own animated poem! Ages 13+. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. 485-4480.
Swing Kids & Vanaver Caravan Summerdance on Tour!
3-5:15pm. $12/$10 members/$6 children. Our own Ulster County swing kids from The Vanaver Caravan SummerDance on Tour! will command the Rosendale Theatre stage with a rousing swing dance themed performance. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Fairs & Festivals 7th Annual Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Village of Warwick, Warwick. Hudsonvalleyjazzfest.org.
Film Film Event: Tap World
4:30pm. $10. Feature-length documentary starring cutting-edge tap dancers from around the globe, showing this art form’s links with cultures worldwide and featuring some familiar Pillow artists. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Literary & Books The Hudson Valley YA Society: INFINITE SUMMER
4-6pm. FREE - RSVP Requested. Featuring authors Carrie Firestone, Aimee Friedman, Tara Altebrando and Kody Keplinger The Hudson Valley YA Society is a monthly author event series at Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck, NY. The HVYAS brings the best and brightest YA authors to the Hudson Valley in a memorable and fun, party-like, “literary salon” atmosphere, with
Greg Westhoff’s Westchester Swing Band
5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Italian Choral Music since Palestrina
10am. $40. Performance with commentary by James Bagwell; with Bard Festival Chorale & James Bagwell, choral director; Alexander Bonus, organ; Bard Festival Chamber Players. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7003.
Kimberly with Bruce Hildenbrand
12-2pm. This singer-songwriter performs a variety of great originals. Kimberly’s resonant, soulful voice is perfectly accompanied by Bruce’s virtuosic guitar stylings. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Music from Salem: The Great Arch of Unimagined Bridges
4pm. Suggested $25. Franz Schubert Trio Movement in B flat, D 471 for string trio, Sergei Prokofiev Sonata for Two Violins, opus 56, Antonin Dvorak from “Cypresses” for string quartet, Alexander Glazunov String Quintet. Hubbard Hall, Cambridge. (518) 677-2495.
Music Omi Improvises in the Café
3pm. Join us and hear the newly arrived residents of Music Omi Improvise at the Café in an afternoon impromptu showcase of their varied talents. Omi is excited to host musicians and composers from all over the globe. Omi International Arts Center: Education Omi, Ghent. Omiartscenter.org/ education.
Ray Blue Organ Trio
10am-2pm. Blues and jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
The Sketchy Orkestra
7pm. Jazz and world fusion. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Southern Week
$775/$575 ages 3-25/$475 ages 5-12/ under 5 free. Appalachian, old time, zydeco, and Cajun. Week-long camp. Classes, workshops, performances and activities. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
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Trio Solisti
4-6pm. $25-$45. Classics from the very first Maverick concert. Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1 (“Ghost”); Anton Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 32; Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Walk-a-thon 9am-2pm. We are raising funds for quality recreational activities for adults with developmental disabilities in Devereux residences throughout the Hudson Valley. Dietz Stadium, Kingston.
Outdoors & Recreation Pro GRT/XCT Bike Race
8am-5pm. The Pro GRT/XCT at Windham Mountain Resort hosts Downhill and Cross Country Mountain Bike racing with professional and amateur athletes from around the World. The Windham Pro GRT/XCT will cover a similar course as the previous UCI Mountain Bike World Cup events. Windham Mountain Resort, Windham. (518) 310-2727.
Photographer Gregory Crewdson
7pm. He will discuss the making of his most recent body of work, Cathedral of the Pines, in a conversation with author Rick Moody. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Music Pete McCann Quartet
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Yiddish Art Trio
7-9pm. Vibrant tones of klezmer music as only the Yiddish Art Trio—featuring Patrick Farrell (accordion), Benjy Fox-Rosen (bass and vocals), Michael Winograd (clarinet)—can produce them. We will hear melodies of longing and of celebration, enhanced by cantorial kvetches, flying runs, heartfelt lyrics, and powerful bass lines. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 679-2218.
of varied methods to create complex layers of imagery. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
You Are Here: Contemporary Cartography with Dahlia Elsayed
9am-4pm. $750/$40 lab fee. Through Aug. 19. In this workshop, we’ll take inspiration from traditional cartography to make maps of the imprecise– memory, emotions, ideas. We will use painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage to adapt, alter, and create new maps. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
TUESDAY 16 Health & Wellness Community Holistic Healthcare Days
Third Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available and we have many new practitioners. Appointments can
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Kids & Family Math Boot Camp
9am-noon. $300. Through Aug. 19. For students entering grades 5-7. Essential math concepts will be reviewed through a variety of games, projects, and collaborative learning activities. Students will have the opportunity to improve in their own challenge areas. Berkshire County Day School, Lenox, MA. (413) 637-0755.
Summer Arts Intensive
8am-4pm. $125 one week/$200 two weeks. Mon.-Thurs. for ages 7-17. Includes immersion in hip hop, computer music production, creative writing, drumming, giant puppet construction and spoken word, and end with a final production and BBQ. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Summer Hoot This “pay-what-you-want” three-day volunteer built music festival at the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge is from Friday, August 26 through Sunday, August 28. There will be two stages and over 20 music acts including performances by Baby States, Simi Stone, Tracy Bonham. Black smith demonstrations, kids workshops and hikes to the Cathedral Gorge are just some of the afternoon activities available. An assortment of local food trucks and vendors will sell lunch, dinner, and snacks all weekend. Kids under 12 get in free. Single adult day tickets range from $30-$40. An all weekend adult pass costs a minimum $75 donation. Summer Hoot volunteers will receive a free all-weekend pass, free camping or lodging, and an official Summer Hoot t-shirt. Camping and lodging arrangements are available on Friday and Saturday night. The Ashokan Center will also vend breakfast in the dining hall on Saturday and Sunday morning. Homeofthehoot.com.
Outdoors & Recreation On Course for a Cure
9:30am. $200 pro/$150 amatuers. 39th annual YMCA/Wiltwyck Pro-Am golf tournament. There will be an awards presentation and dinner directly after golf at the Wiltwyck Golf Course. Dinner guest $75.00. Wiltwyck Golf Club, Kingston. Ymcaulster.org.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: So Please You
2pm. Bring the kids to this comical-tragical, family-friendly production. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Workshops & Classes Handmade Paper & Encaustic
7pm. $10-$30. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. chronogram.com
Intaglio on Steroids with Emily Wilson
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Dance Inside/Out Performance: Kilowatt Dance Theatre
6:15pm. Signature blend of high energy swing-era jazz dances such as Shag, Lindy Hop, and Charleston with a contemporary twist. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Music La Pizza con Funghi
9am-4pm. $750/$45 lab fee. Through Aug. 19. After creating handmade paper at WSW, we will travel to R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston. Here, students will learn basic encaustic techniques to create deeply layered collages using their handmade papers or mounting the handmade sheets on panels. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 645-9133.
Lectures & Talks A Conversation with Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines
WEDNESDAY 17
6-7pm. A free educational program by the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter on detection, risk factors, causes, stages of the disease, treatment and more. LaGrange Library, Poughkeepsie. (800) 272-3900.
Kenneth Branagh Theater Company Live: ROMEO & JULIET
MONDAY 15
2pm. Bring the kids to this comical-tragical, family-friendly production. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Health & Wellness The Basics: Memory Loss, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth
3pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: So Please You
6-8pm. $12/open dance $5 donation. Join Nina Jirka, of Tango New Paltz, and learn how to Tango! Come for an hourlong lesson from 6pm-7pm and stay for open dance from 7pm-8pm. Bring water and comfortable shoes for dancing. All ages welcome. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
7pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Sunset Boulevard
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Tango at the Pavilion
Theater Auditions for Inherit the Wind
1-3:45pm. General $21 / Contributing Member $18. Cast: Marisa Berenson, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Tom Hanson, Matthew Hawksley, Derek Jacobi, Lily James, Taylor James, Pip Jordan, Ansu Kabia, Richard Madden, Racheal Ofori, Nikki Patel, Chris Porter, Zoë Rainey, Michael Rouse, Meera Syal, Samuel Valentine And Kathryn Wilder. Branagh and his creative team present a modern passionate version of the classic tragedy. A longstanding feud between Verona’s Montague and Capulet families brings about devastating consequences for two young lovers caught in the conflict. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth
9am-4pm. $750/$60 lab fee. Through Aug. 19. This intermediate course will cover a wide range of both traditional and experimental printmaking techniques including, but not limited to, spitbite, sugar lift, softground, and tonal drawing. Find your artistic voice through the exploration of these techniques and the combination
be made on a first-come, first-served basis upon check-in, from 4-7PM. Though no money or insurance is required, RVHHC invites patients to give a donation or an hour of volunteer community service if they can. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org.
Free Community Holistic Healthcare Day
Third Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served basis upon check-in. Though no money/ insurance is required, RVHHC invites patients to give a donation or an hour of volunteer community service if they can. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org/.
Pets Life After Trauma: Helping Your Rescue Dog Bring Out Her Best Self
7-8:15pm. FREE. Many rescue dogs exhibit behaviors such as jumping, nipping, separation anxiety, resource guarding, lack of confidence and fear - all as a result of previous trauma. If you don’t deal with these behavior concerns early on in your relationship they have the potential to become serious issues for your family. Join us for a FREE presentation by certified canine behavior consultant, Maria Huntoon, to learn how to help your rescue dog bring out her best self after a beginning of abuse or neglect. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 549-0896.
7pm. $15 in advance/pay-what-you can night-of. This year’s conservatory performs Seymour Barab’s satiric 50 minute piece that pokes good fun at opera seria with a story of four characters caught in a lovers’ quarrel, full of miscues and witty humor. Sung in English with piano, this piece presents a perfect pill for anyone who needs to remember to take opera less seriously. 7-9pm. This satiric 50 minute piece pokes good fun at opera seria with a story of four characters caught in a lovers’ quarrel, full of miscues and witty humor. Sung in English with piano, this piece presents a perfect pill for anyone who needs to remember to take opera less seriously. Hubbard Hall, Cambridge. (518) 677-2495.
Petey Hop’s Roots & Blues Sessions 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Tony DePaolo Trio
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Stratford Festival: The Adventures of Pericles
7-9:45pm. General $21 / Contributing Members $18. Directed by: Scott Wentworth A storm at sea brings love into the life of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, and another snatches it away. This magical production of Shakespeare’s epic tale is a delight for the eye and ear. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
Workshops & Classes Tarot Wisdom Gathering
Third Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. $10. Join us at our monthly Tarot gathering. Each month a card will be chosen that we will delve into with open minds and hearts. We will have a discussion and journey to gather and share our inner wisdom. All levels of experience are welcome. Bring your own Tarot deck to enjoy this guided exploration to learn & connect more deeply with your deck. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
THURSDAY 18 Business & Networking Sip & Schmooze - Orange County Chamber of Commerce 5:30-8pm. Orange County Chamber and City of Middletown Business Improvement District invite you to Visit Local Small Businesses: Eat & Drink, Network. DeStefano’s Olde Erie, Middletown. 344-3743.
Dance
Workshops & Classes Inside/Out Artist: Site-Responsive Voice & Body with Elisabeth Motley
4pm. $5. Dancer and choreographer Elisabeth Motley teaches a unique siteresponse voice and body class. Open to all experience levels, ages 12+. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Library Knitters
Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
Inside/Out Performance: Elisabeth Motley/Motley Dance 6:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Fairs & Festivals Hudson Valley Food Truck Festival
Third Thursday of every month, 4:30-10pm. Local food trucks from the Hudson valley makes their most delicious dishes. There is live music, a great selection of microbrew beers & children entertainment. Bring your family, friends & anyone who might like to eat & drink. Cantine memorial field, Saugerties. 399-2222.
Music Fruity Art
11am. Come join The Arts Center and fruit up the trees in Barker Park! You’ll have hands-on fun making creative fruit sculptures, and then hanging them in the trees for all to wonder at. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Blue Museum
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Bluegrass Clubhouse Band 8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
FRIDAY 19 Dance The Chase Brock Experience
8-10pm. $35/$30 members/$18 students. Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company. A notable young cultural prodigy, choreographer Chase Brock’s background is diverse, having worked in theater, modern dance, ballet, opera, television and video games. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Inside/Out Performance: Loren, Royse & Co. in Spun
6:15pm. A blend of dance, physical comedy, and cyr wheel, Spun follows a character and his ability to overcome his struggles with the help of others. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Fairs & Festivals 32nd Annual Antique and Classic Boat Society Show and Boat Parade Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
Lectures & Talks Friday Night Prologue
Connor Kennedy & Minstrel
6pm. Kick off your evening with an informal and engaging pre-show talk on the lawn led by Kate Farrington, Artistic Director of The Pearl Theatre Company. Performance follows at 7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Daryl’s House Presents George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
The Narrow Edge
Chris Walsh
7pm. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston. 7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Ellenville Chamber Players Quartet Concert
7:30-9:30pm. The Ellenville Chamber Players will be performing a concert of tuneful and thought-provoking string quartets. The concert will include Haydn’s “Rider” quartet, Shostakovitch’s Quartet #6 and Quartet #4 “Mattinata Memories” by the Massachusetts-based composer Frederic Sharaf. Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster Counties, Inc. MISU, Ellenville. 647-5087.
7pm. A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey. Discover how the lives of humans, red knots, and horseshoe crabs, are intertwined. Deborah Cramer’s, new book is an inspiring portrait of loss and resilience, the tenacity of birds, and the courage of the many people who keep red knots flying. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.
PillowTalk: The Art of Social Justice
La Pizza con Funghi
7pm. $15 in advance/pay-what-you can night-of. This year’s conservatory performs Seymour Barab’s satiric 50 minute piece that pokes good fun at opera seria with a story of four characters caught in a lovers’ quarrel, full of miscues and witty humor. Sung in English with piano, this piece presents a perfect pill for anyone who needs to remember to take opera less seriously. 7-9pm. This satiric 50 minute piece pokes good fun at opera seria with a story of four characters caught in a lovers’ quarrel, full of miscues and witty humor. Sung in English with piano, this piece presents a perfect pill for anyone who needs to remember to take opera less seriously. Hubbard Hall, Cambridge. (518) 677-2495.
Rich Robinson & Friends
2-11pm. $179. Includes two recording sessions per day; dinner; event art; vinyl. Applehead Recording Studio, Saugerties. 418-2370.
Roomful of Teeth
8pm. Death metal singing with Nick Zammuto, and Rinde Eckert. 8-10pm. $16$28. Roomful of Teeth, the ensemble of Grammy-winning vocal titans led by Williams College faculty, Brad Wells, returns here to its summer home to create new works and hone techniques, culminating in a knock-out performance. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singer-songwriters and musicians at ASK GALLERY, 97 Broadway, Kingston 8-10:30 pm Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311.
Tenzin Chopak & Rockwood Ferry 8pm. $20/$15. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
Spirituality Shamanic Drum Circle
7-9pm. $20. Shamanic Journeying is an ancient technique used to deepen ones spiritual connections. Through rhythmic drumming, we will transcend our normal conscious state and journey to meet the many helping spirits that are always surrounding us. Join us once a month to practice & delve into a deeper understanding of Shamanic Journeying with the support & guidance of David Beck. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt
8:30pm. Jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
5pm. Peter Sellars teams up with dancer/ choreographer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray to create this week’s production FLEXN in the Ted Shawn Theatre. In this PillowTalk, they discuss their approaches to art as social and moral action. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Swing Shift Orchestra
Literary & Books
Sunset Boulevard
The John Venezia Project
6:30-8:30pm. Downing Park, Newburgh. 656-5559.
Outdoors & Recreation West Point Foundry Preserve Lantern Tours
8:30-9:30pm. On these full moon nights, see the preserve in an entirely new light. Building remains will be illuminated with lanterns, offering a dramatic glimpse of the foundry’s 24-hour operations. West Point Foundry Preserve, Cold Spring. Scenichudson.org/ parks/westpointfoundrypreserve.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Measure by Measure
7:30pm. The Duke of Vienna mysteriously disappears from public life and leaves his puritanical deputy, Angelo, to clean up the city’s seedy underworld. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
7:30-9pm. $20/$10 ages 21 and under. A fictional backstage account of Judy Garland’s final concert appearance at the Falconer Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 25, 1969. Flo Hayle directs. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. 8pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Music 10 Years, Finger Eleven
7:30pm. $22.50. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Albert Castiglia Band
7pm. Blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
AYAASO
8pm. Roots reggae. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Dorraine Scofield and JB Hunt
12:30pm. A first time event to honor and take the time to recognize the services of all veterans. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-1322.
SATURDAY 20 Comedy Dave Attell
8-10pm. $30/$35. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
Dance The Chase Brock Experience
8-10pm. $35/$30 members/$18 students. Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company. A notable young cultural prodigy, choreographer Chase Brock’s background is diverse, having worked in theater, modern dance, ballet, opera, television and video games. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Chase Brock To Talk About Dance
3:30-4:30pm. The audience will be walked through the creation of the four dances performed at PS21, including music choice, approach, how the dancers contribute, and the design process. Chatham Public Library, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Fairs & Festivals 32nd Annual Antique and Classic Boat Society Show and Boat Parade Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
Riverside Crafts Fair
10am-5pm. $8/under 18 free. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
Chronogram Block Party
4pm. Wall Street in Uptown Kingston between N. Front and John Streets. Featuring live music, beer, wine, and cider garden, food trucks, DIY art tent, dunking booth. After-party at BSP Kingston. Morning after brunch at Redwood. Free. ChronogramBlockParty.com
Film Sherlock Jr. with Live Score by the BQE Project
8-10pm. $16-$28. The outstanding BQE Project presents its original live score to the hilarious Buster Keaton classic Sherlock Jr. (1924), a typically Keaton-esque highoctane romp about a film projectionist who longs to be a detective. BQE warms up for Keaton with two classic animations, SureLocked Homes (1928), featuring Felix the Cat, and Fadeaway (1929). MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
Health & Wellness Breathwork Circle: Exploration & Self-healing Workshop, with Guarapriya Tester
6:30-9pm. $30. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.
Peace, Love & Yoga: A Celebration of Woodstock with Barbara Boris
1:30-3:30pm. $40. 47 years ago this August, “Woodstock” became synonymous with peace, love and music. Before heading out to Woodstock Volunteers Day, come to this fun “workshop,” where we’ll play music, tell stories and practice yoga with an intention of peace within our community, and within ourselves. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Kids & Family Creature Feature Weekend: The Great Animal Kingdom 12-4pm. Learn about the great Animal Kingdom. Meet an animal from the Museum’s collection during the Meet the Animal Program at 1 p.m or 2:30 p.m. For adults and families with children ages 3 and up. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Filmmaking
12:30-4:30pm. Spark Media’s Mobile Media Lab. Learn the basics of the sci-fi and fantasy genres in regards to filmmaking. Working in groups, students script, storyboard, and film their own original sci-fi/ fantasy narrative short films. Ages 12+. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
Lectures & Talks Eleanor Owen Sealand
Sealand will talk about life growing up on Bannerman Island. Eleanor grew up on Bannerman Island from 1932 to 1943. Part of the Bannerman Island Tour. Bannerman Island, Glenham. Bannermancastle.org.
PillowTalk: Battling Inequality in the Arts
4pm. Charitable foundations are leading the way in supporting arts projects that reinforce the core values of fairness, tolerance, and inclusion. This PillowTalk examines and discusses these new strategies. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Woodstock Library Forum: The ManySplendored Genius of Paul McMahon: A Presentation 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
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Music Anderson East
Rich Robinson & Friends
8pm. $28-$48. Opening: Aubrie Sellers. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (800) 942-6904.
2-11pm. $179. Includes two recording sessions per day; dinner; event art; vinyl. Applehead Recording Studio, Saugerties. 418-2370.
Buckwheat Zydeco
Show No Mercy: Slayer Tribute
8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
7:30pm. $10. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
The Bush Brothers
Smokey Robinson
9-11:30pm. A combination of traditional country, bluegrass and gospel music fused with contemporary acoustic sounds delivered with great vocals and instrumental solos. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. (845)687-2699.
Chamber Orchestra Concert
6-8pm. $25-$55. “Continuum: Late Copland, Ginastera” and J.S. Bach. Maverick Chamber Players; Alexander Platt, conductor Adam Tendler, piano ; Emmanuel Feldman, cello; Aurea Ensemble; J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048; Copland: Nonet for Strings (1962); Ginastera: Puneña No. 2 for Solo Cello, Op. 45; Copland: Piano Fantasy (1957); J.S. Bach: Piano Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
West Point Band: Songs of the Silver Screen
7:30pm. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu.
The Conigliaro Consort
8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Outdoors & Recreation Artful Hike: Church’s Letters & 19th Century Ballads
3-4:30pm. $20/$15 members. As you stroll along the roads designed by Frederic Church, contemplate his words and the words of his family and contemporaries and songs from their era. Artist and musician Brian Dewan does a dramatic reading of significant letters in Olana’s collection. This tour is between 1 hour and 1.5 hours in length and will travel no more than 1 mile. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth 7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
1-11pm. $199. Special discussion/seminar moderated by Andy Aledort. Applehead Recording Studio, Saugerties. 418-2370.
King Yellowman and the Sagittarius Band
8pm. $30/$25. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
Motown Legend Smokey Robinson
7pm. $60.50-$140. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
NY School of Music Summer Rock Camp Concert Noon. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Pine Leaf Boys
8pm. $20. Cajun music. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. chronogram.com These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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Fairs & Festivals 32nd Annual Antique and Classic Boat Society Show and Boat Parade
Lectures & Talks Guitar World
8:30pm. Classic rock. Piano Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. (909) 547-4266.
Lucy Kaplansky
5pm. $25. Students of the Musical Theater Dance program of The School at Jacob’s Pillow perform in a show of dance and live music, directed by Program Director and Broadway artist Chet Walker. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
12-4pm. Learn about the great Animal Kingdom. Meet an animal from the Museum’s collection during the Meet the Animal Program at 1 p.m or 2:30 p.m. For adults and families with children ages 3 and up. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Jimmy Lee
8pm. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.
Dance A Jazz Happening
Kids & Family Creature Feature Weekend: The Great Animal Kingdom
8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Let Us Be Heard Musical Showcase
SUNDAY 21
10am-5pm. $8/under 18 free. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
An Evening with David Crosby
7pm. $15 in advance/pay-what-you can night-of. This year’s conservatory performs Seymour Barab’s satiric 50 minute piece that pokes good fun at opera seria with a story of four characters caught in a lovers’ quarrel, full of miscues and witty humor. Sung in English with piano, this piece presents a perfect pill for anyone who needs to remember to take opera less seriously. 7-9pm. This satiric 50 minute piece pokes good fun at opera seria with a story of four characters caught in a lovers’ quarrel, full of miscues and witty humor. Sung in English with piano, this piece presents a perfect pill for anyone who needs to remember to take opera less seriously. Hubbard Hall, Cambridge. (518) 677-2495.
10am-4pm. Art School of Columbia County, Harlemville. (518) 672-7140.
Riverside Crafts Fair
4:30-5pm. David Kraai & Amy Laber dole out a set of the finest country folk music this side of anywhere. Country harmonies, sweet banjo, tasty mandolin, twangy guitars and soulful harmonica. Village Green, Woodstock. Davidandamymusic.com.
La Pizza con Funghi
Tim Ebneth’s Collage: Exploring Landscape
Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
David Kraai & Amy Laber
9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
author Sasha Loring. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.
“An Intimate Evening with Death, Herself” Douglass Truth portrays Dorothy, a meatloaf phobic old waitress in his one-woman play, “An Intimate Evening With Death, Herself.” In the 90-minute play, Dorothy meets Death in a bar. He woos her and the two become the best of pals. 49 days later, Death dies and Dorothy replaces him. A witty, Eddie Izzard-like black comedy told from the perspective of Dorothy, “An Intimate Evening With Death, Herself” will be on stage from August 11 to Sunday, August 14 at Lauren Clark Fine Art in Great Barrington, Ma. An additional performance is scheduled for August 24 at Woodland Pond in New Paltz. Deathherself.com
Woodstock Concerts on the Green 2016 1-5pm. Many different artists performing in this outdoor concert series. Village Green, Woodstock. Woodstockchamber.com.
Workshop Presentation of Scenes from Unfinished: An Opera 5-7pm. $10. Using a mix of archival materials and contemporary testimony from Bennett alumnae and the Millbrook community, Unfinished explores how Bennett is remembered, and forgotten, today. Featuring sopranos Danielle Messina and Maggie Finnegan and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Panara, conducted by Daniela Candillari and directed by Vital Opera Founding Director Kelvin Chan. A facilitated discussion will follow the performance to gather critical feedback and questions that will inform the development of the project going forward. Grace Episcopal Church, Millbrook. (929) 266-8825.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Phoenicia Library Summer Closing Party & Raffle 12-1pm. Time to identify the super-readers amongst us! We’ll have our raffle drawing to select our kid and adult winners, each receiving a $100 bookstore gift certificate. Also, a special prize for the family that read the most. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811.
Music Borromeo String Quartet
4-6pm. $25-$45. Haydn: String Quartet No. 65 in E-Flat Major, Op. 76, No. 6; Russell Platt: Mountain Interval (2016: World premiere); Commissioned by Maverick Concerts for the Centenary with the support ; of Alan & Sondra Siegel and Stephen McGrath & Janine Shelffo.; Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt
Cold Spring Summer Sunset Music Series
7:30-9pm. $20/$10 ages 21 and under. A fictional backstage account of Judy Garland’s final concert appearance at the Falconer Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 25, 1969. Flo Hayle directs. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
6-8pm. Join neighbors and visitors for this free community concert at the beautiful riverfront park in Cold Spring. Enjoy the river, the music and bring a picnic basket and a blanket. Village of Cold Spring, Cold Spring. 265-3200.
Sunset Boulevard
Jazz in the Valley
8pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops & Classes Community Clay Day
Third Saturday of every month, 1-3pm. $6. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. 454-4525.
R&F Encaustic Mini Workshop
12-4pm. $65. Mini Encaustic Workshops are designed to give artists a hands on introduction to the encaustic process. A one-hour demonstration is followed by independent work time, giving participants a chance to experiment with the paint and tools. Ideal for artists who are curious about encaustic but don’t have previous experience. Topics covered include: what is encaustic; how to get started; health and safety; and the most popular techniques and applications. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088.
Relief: A Mindful Path to Ease
9am-4pm. $95. A one day retreat with meditation teacher, psychotherapist and
$20-$60. Featuring jazz leaders and legends including pianist Randy Weston, trumpeter Randy Brecker, saxophonist Javon Jackson, trombonist Craig Harris, and drummer Jimmy Cobb will join with emerging stars such as vocalist Charenee Wade. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. Jazzinthevalleyny.org.
Rebecca Martin with Larry Grenadier 7pm. Folk and jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
The Saints of Swing
10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Ted Nugent
6pm. $35. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Concert Benefit & Silent Auction for Johanna White
6:30-9pm. Join us in helping Johanna White heal from Stage 3 Cancer. We will have live music by The Lindsey Webster Band, refreshments, and a silent auction. The silent auction will be open for bidding online starting August 7th. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 797-1393.
Outdoors & Recreation Belly Botany
10am. $3-$7. Lay down on your belly to search for life that dwells below our ankles. Discover the magic of “Belly Botany” adventures, a practice to focus on what is present in one square foot of space. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Summer Nature Walk
1-3pm. Join the Delaware Highlands Conservancy for a free guided Nature Walk at our office in Bethel, NY. You’ll learn about what you see and hear as you enjoy the outdoors on a hike on our woodland trail, led by one of our knowledgeable volunteers. Kids must remain accompanied by an adult. Delaware Highlands Conservancy NY Office, Kauneonga Lake. 583-1010.
Vanderbilt Garden Interpreter Tour
1-4pm. The volunteer interpreters will discuss the history of the gardens, with a focus on the Vanderbilt ownership and the mission of the not-for-profit Vanderbilt Garden Association to rehabilitate and maintain the plants, shrubs, trees, and statuary in the gardens as they were in the 1930’s just prior to Mr. Vanderbilt’s death. Vanderbilt Garden Association Inc., Hyde Park. 229-6432.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt
2-3:30pm. $20/$10 ages 21 and under. A fictional backstage account of Judy Garland’s final concert appearance at the Falconer Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 25, 1969. Flo Hayle directs. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
Shakespeare LIVE! From the RSC
1-3:45pm. General $21 / Contributing Members $18. A once-in-a-lifetime, starstudded event from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-UponAvon! Hosted by David Tennant and Catherine Tate, this unmissable show features performances from Benedict Cumberbatch, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Joseph Fiennes, Henry Goodman, David Suchet, John Lithgow and Rufus Wainwright, along with The Royal Ballet, English National Opera and many more. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
Sunset Boulevard
3pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops & Classes Field Study: Natural Dye & Stitch Farm Retreat with Katrina Rodabaugh and Jessica Lewis Stevens
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth 7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
NT Live: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
7-10pm. General $21 / Members $18. Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the uproarious One Man, Two Guvnors was a runaway hit both in London’s West End and on Broadway. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
Selected Shorts presents Unforgettable Journeys
7:30pm. $25-$40. The hit public radio series returns to the Mahaiwe with an evening of spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers, performed by stars of the stage and screen. Host Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle), along with the shows longtime readers Jane Curtin (Unforgettable) and Robert Sean Leonard (House) perform moving and comical stories of destinations real and imaginary, far flung, and close at hand, with journeys featuring wild adventures, comic mishaps, and unexpected encounters. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Selected Shorts Unforgettable Journeys
7:30pm. $25-$40. The evening will feature spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers, performed by stars of the stage and screen. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Workshops & Classes Path to Entrepreneurship Program
6-8pm. Please join the Women’s Enterprise Development Center for a FREE program designed to introduce you to small business ownership. Learn about the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur and what it takes to run your own business. Preregistation is required. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 363-6432.
Pronto Plate Printmaking
9am-4pm. $315. Through Aug. 24. With Susan Newbold. he use of Pronto Plates is an easy, and non-toxic lithographic method of printing. One can print images directly onto these plates with a copier or laser printer as well as draw directly on them with pens and markers. Once they are created, they can be inked and printed like a conventional prepared plate and can be used for printing editions. Additionally one can Xerox photographs on to these plates. Students are asked to bring any drawings or photographs they would like to make into plates. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
TUESDAY 23
9:30am-4:30pm. $260. Join us for a very special textile retreat on a working organic farm in the beautiful Hudson Valley. Textile artists and ecology advocates, Katrina Rodabaugh and Jessica Lewis Stevens, will guide participants through a thoughtful and intimate day of considering “slow textiles” while learning practical techniques like natural dyeing and hand-stitching. Workshop will be held at Whistle Down Farm in Claverack, NY. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. Dropforgeandtool.com/ workshops-list/.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
(re)Writing your Body Narrative
6:30-8:30pm. $15/$60 series. For those who write or want to write poetry, short stories, novel, memoir, creative non-fiction, etc.— and get it published! Led by Iris Litt. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
Aletis House, Hudson. 4156868722.
Therapeutic Tai Chi & Qigong: An Intensive Training for Health Professionals With David Saltman
Join this 5-day training to learn the application of traditional tai chi and qigong for health and healing. Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
MONDAY 22 Music Antonin Fajt Group
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: So Please You
2pm. Bring the kids to this comical-tragical, family-friendly production. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Workshops & Classes Woodstock Writers Workshops
WEDNESDAY 24 Dance Inside/Out Performance: Women Making Work
6:15pm. An opportunity to see exciting works by talented female choreographers in multiple genres based in the arts hub of New York. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Pacific Northwest Ballet 8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Souleymane Badolo 8:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Tango at the Pavilion 6-8pm. $12/open dance $5 donation. Join Nina Jirka, of Tango New Paltz, and learn how to Tango! Come for an hourlong lesson from 6pm-7pm and stay for open dance from 7pm-8pm. Bring water and comfortable shoes for dancing. All ages welcome. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Literary & Books Poetry at Poets’ Walk
THURSDAY 25 Dance Inside/Out Performance: American College Dance Association Gala Highlights
6:15pm. The American College Dance Association (ACDA) promotes the diversity and growth of university dance departments across the US Selected by esteemed judges from regional and national conferences, the evening’s work will be comprised of rising collegiate choreographers and performers from a wide range of universities. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Pacific Northwest Ballet
8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Souleymane Badolo
6-8pm. Celebrate the 20th anniversary of our flagship park in fitting fashion—by hiking its scenic trails while making occasional stops to read poetry inspired by the Hudson Valley’s natural splendor. We’ll have verses to share—or bring your own. Poets’ Walk Park, Red Hook. 473-4440.
8:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Poetry Workshop and Reading with Gail Carson Levine
Music Bluegrass Clubhouse Band
Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 758-2665.
Music Bombay Rickey 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Tony DePaolo Trio Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
West Point Band Presents 100 Years of the National Park Service 6:30-8pm. Join the band as they honor our National Parks with a concert featuring music inspired by the great outdoors. The Vanderbilt Mansion makes for a stunning backdrop for an evening of music that celebrates the beauty of our country. Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park. 938-2617.
Dresden Dolls 9pm. Indie musical duo of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione. Back room of BSP Kingston. Bspkingston.com
Theater Berkshire Playwrights Lab’s Staged Reading Series 7:30pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Measure by Measure 7:30pm. The Duke of Vienna mysteriously disappears from public life and leaves his puritanical deputy, Angelo, to clean up the city’s seedy underworld. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
An Intimate Evening with Death, Herself 7pm. Woodland Pond at New Paltz, New Paltz. 883-9800.
Workshops & Classes Encaustic Abstract: Pure & Simple $600. Through August 26. This workshop is designed to bring confidence to your abstract approach by bringing you back to the basics. Jaya highlights the fundamental techniques and core elements that make abstract work successful. She will refresh some essential tools of the design trade including: composition, focal point, and movement. Key elements in controlling the medium will come through practiced brushwork, precise fusing, and above all a controlled aesthetic. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
Kids & Family Movement Story Hour with the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company
11am. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
David Kraai
7pm. Country. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston.
Primate Fiasco: A Mazzzstock Pre-Show
7pm. Acoustic punk and folk. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Rene Carlson and Kevin McSweeney
8:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Toad the Wet Sprocket & Rusted Root 8-10pm. $45. Toad The Wet Sprocket pairs soulful, insightful lyrics with melodic rockpop. Having collaborated for two decades, Rusted Root has honed the perfect combination of musical intuition, freedom and virtuosity, which has allowed them to organically shape their music into it’s own distinct and undeniable vision. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
Toad the Wet Sprocket and Rusted Root 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Bingo Fourth Thursday of every month, 7pm. Beekman Fire Department, Poughquag. 270-9133.
Spirituality Creation to Completion Retreat
Upon completing a full cycle that began at Menla 12 years ago with the creation of the Internatinoal Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, the Council will come together to complete their circle of prayer around the planet. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897.
Gong Bath Series with David Karlberg
8-9pm. $15/suggested donation. BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: GONG BATH SERIES with David Karlberg at Boughton Place Last May, David Karlberg brought his unique form of sound therapy to Boughton Place in Highland. Due to popular response, he is offering a series of gong baths from July through September. Enjoy deep relaxation with the low tones and complex harmonics of multiple gongs. Combined with singing bowls, didgeridoo, flute and voice, listeners will experience an energetic journey through vibration and sound, enhanced by Boughton Place’s unique acoustics and special stage. Optional: bring blankets/cushions. Boughton Place, Highland. 325-0648.
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Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
FRIDAY 26 Comedy An Evening with Jim Beuer 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Dance Dance Heginbotham
8-9:30pm. $35/$30 members/$18 students. New York-based ensemble, celebrated for its vibrant athleticism, humor, and theatricality. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Inside/Out Performance: Just Sole! Street Dance Theater Company
St. Lawrence String Quartet
8-10pm. $25-$45. Haydn: String Quartet No. 3 in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3 John Adams: String Quartet No. 2 (2014); Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41, No. 3.; Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Outdoors & Recreation Live in the Landscape: Astronomy, Music and Film Nights
6pm-midnight. Join us for a free family evening at Olana; pack a cooler with snacks and drinks, bring blankets and chairs and join us on the East Lawn for live music, sunset and star-gazing, and outdoor allaudience films. Music by Bard College Conservatory, 8pm Home, 10:30pm, Art House, star-gaze with Albany Astronomical Association. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
hesitate to tell. Through Aug. 28. Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
Tips and Tricks in Watercolor Fourth Friday of every month, 10am1pm. $40. With instructor Claudia Engel. Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery, Rhinebeck. 516-4435.
SATURDAY 27 Dance Dance Heginbotham 8-9:30pm. $35/$30 members/$18 students. New York-based ensemble, celebrated for its vibrant athleticism, humor, and theatricality. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
6:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Souleymane Badolo
8:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Lectures & Talks PillowTalk: PS Dance!
Lectures & Talks PillowTalk: Multi-Faceted Collaborators
4pm. Exploring what can happen when dance is included in school curriculum, this award-winning documentary is screened and discussed by filmmaker Nel Shelby, producer Jody Gottfried Arnhold, and consultant Joan Finkelstein. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
5pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Literary & Books Friday Night Prologue
6pm. Kick off your evening with an informal and engaging pre-show talk on the lawn led by So Please You. Performance to follow at 7:30pm Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Literary & Books Laura Ludwig: Poetry and Performance 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Music The 4th Annual Summer Hoot
7pm. Blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Boz Scaggs
8-10pm. $70/$90/$105. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
JB3 Trio
8pm. Blues. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
JP Patrick & “Sessions
9:30pm. Blues, jazz, rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Lodge 2016
$30/$25 in advance. A Catskills getaway weekend of music, art, and radio, with proceeds benefiting non-commercial community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM. New for 2016, Lodge features two full nights of live music from Ultraam, Liv Carrow, Chris Forsyth, Cowboy Jim, Sauerkraut Seth, Spectre Folk, Koen Holtkamp, and more. Site-specific installations, radio workshops, and crafts from local artisans will all be on display. Riedlbauer’s Resort, Round Top. Lodge2016.brownpapertickets.com.
Matt Nakoa
8pm. $20/$15. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
Rival Sons
7:30pm. $25. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. chronogram.com These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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10-11:30am. This will not be a traditional house tour; instead storyteller Tom Lee engages with Olana’s collection to invent stories to show how museum collections can come alive. Tom Lee works in museums all over the country including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ages 5+. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105. 12-4pm. Spark Media’s Mobile Media Lab. Learn the basics of the sci-fi and fantasy genres in regards to filmmaking. Working in groups, students script, storyboard, and film their own original sci-fi/fantasy narrative short films. Ages 12+. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. 518.828.1792.
8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Bow Thayer Band at The Falcon Underground
Kids & Family Museum Storytelling: Family Tours
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Filmmaking
Pacific Northwest Ballet
$30 per day/$70 weekend. Lots of live music workshops, jamming, blacksmithing, square dancing, food, beer, crafts, hiking, camping and fun for all. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
meet the Hudson Valley! The team at Shire 935 Productions have wrangled a lineup of noted chefs from up and down the Route 22 and 23 corridors to fire up their grills in a friendly competition designed to showcase not only their grill skills but the incredible quality and range of meat and produce available from local and regional farms. Roeliff Jansen Park, Hillsdalle. Grillsdale.com/.
Smorgasburg Upstate Every Saturday at the Williamsburg waterfront 15,000 to 20,000 visitors gather to attend Smorgasburg, the crème de la crème of food markets. Earlier this year Smorgasburg developers Jonathan Butler and Eric Demby announced their latest venture: Smorgasburg Upstate at the Hutton Brickyards in Kingston. Like the Brooklyn market, Smorgasburg Upstate will run every Saturday until October. The first season will feature approximately 75 vendors offering food, vintage and handmade goods including: The Anchor, Hookline Fish Co., Seraphine Bakery, Terrapin Restaurant, The Ardent Forager, Breida with a B, Hazel and Hudson, Lovefield Vintage, and Vinyl Rescue. Smorgasburg Upstate was originally slated to open in early June, but will now kick off on August 6. Admission to the market is free. Upstate.smorgasburg.com
Spirituality Creation to Completion Retreat
Upon completing a full cycle that began at Menla 12 years ago with the creation of the Internatinoal Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, the Council with come together to complete their circle of prayer around the planet. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth 7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt
7:30-9pm. $20/$10 ages 21 and under. A fictional backstage account of Judy Garland’s final concert appearance at the Falconer Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 25, 1969. Flo Hayle directs. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
Workshops & Classes End of Summer Blues Workshops with Linda & Chester Freeman $15/$20 both. Two exciting workshops will be offered! 6:30-7:15 & 7:15-8:00. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. Hudsonvalleydance.org.
An Omega Women’s Leadership Center Program
True Storytelling With Eva Tenuto, Sari Botton, and TMI Project Overcome fear and personal blocks by telling the stories you
Everybody Dance! with Dance Heginbotham
10-11:30am. $10. A fun dance class for all ages and abilities to learn Dance Heginbotham repertory. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518 392-6121.
Inside/Out Performance: Nico Brown 6:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Pacific Northwest Ballet
2 & 8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Souleymane Badolo
2:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Film Sci-Fi/Fantasy Filmmaking
12-4pm. Create a world with out-of-thisworld elements! Working in groups, participants will have the opportunity to script, storyboard, and film their own narrative short films with special effects such as telekinesis, super speed, and teleportation! Possible project topics include ghost movies, superhero movies, or movies about magic. Ages 13+ Hudson Area Library, Hudson. 485-4480.
Food & Wine Grillsdale 2016
6:30-10:30pm. $50-$65. A new festive evening of tasting grilled foods and enjoying live music that celebrates the bounty of the land and the talented chefs of the “crossroads region,” where the Berkshires
Music The 4th Annual Summer Hoot
$30 per day/$70 weekend. Lots of live music workshops, jamming, blacksmithing, square dancing, food, beer, crafts, hiking, camping and fun for all. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
Al Di Meola
Jazz and Latin fusion. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (860) 542-5531.
Cristina Fontanelli and her Fabulous Friends
8pm. $38/$43. Classical opera and Broadway. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (800) 942-6904.
David Bromberg Quintet 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
David Kraai with Fooch Fischetti
6-9pm. David Kraai swings by this excellent craft beer gastropub’s beer garden to dole out two sets with the help of Fooch Fischetti on pedal steel and fiddle. Birdsall House, Peekskill. (914) 930-1880.
International Orange at The Falcon Underground 7pm. World, jazz and funk. Also playing: Lucky Peterson. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Joe Crookston
8-10pm. $20. From Ithaca NY, Joe Crookston is bringing his fiddle, his slide, hilarious stories, foot-stomping melodies, paintings, visual art to create a night of lush sonic landscapes, transcendent orchestral folk, and pure music magic. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
Lara St. John, Violin and Matt Herskowitz, Piano
8-10pm. $25-$45. From their album Shiksa, wild traditional gypsy tunes from the Jewish diaspora, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Caucasus, and Middle East, reimagined by today’s composers. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Lodge 2016
$30/$25 in advance. A Catskills getaway weekend of music, art, and radio, with proceeds benefiting non-commercial community radio station WGXC 90.7-FM. New for 2016, Lodge features two full nights of live music from Ultraam, Liv Carrow, Chris Forsyth, Cowboy Jim, Sauerkraut Seth, Spectre Folk, Koen Holtkamp, and more. Site-specific installations, radio workshops, and crafts from local artisans will all be on display. Riedlbauer’s Resort, Round Top. Lodge2016.brownpapertickets.com.
Matt Nakoa
8pm. $20/$15. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955.
Music Omi Concert in The Fields
5pm. Omi invites you to experience a unique concert of new global music, presented in The Fields Sculpture Park. Enjoy an afternoon of unforgettable new music collaborations amidst over 80 works of contemporary sculpture set in Omi’s stunning 120+ acre pastoral landscape. Omi International Arts Center: Education Omi, Ghent. Omiartscenter.org/education.
Rubblebucket
8pm. Psychedelic dance pop. 8-10pm. $40 preferred/$32/$25 members. With electronica flourishes slithering around organic grooves, huge horn parts, and surprising arrangements, Rubblebucket is one of the most experimental—and fun—dance bands to emerge in the last decade. Frontwoman Kalmia Traver and bandleader Alex Toth, who met at UVM and cut their teeth in the stalwart reggae group John Brown’s Body, lead the charge. The party follows. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt
7:30-9pm. $20/$10 ages 21 and under. A fictional backstage account of Judy Garland’s final concert appearance at the Falconer Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 25, 1969. Flo Hayle directs. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
Workshops & Classes Encaustic and Pigment Sticks
11am-4pm. $65. With encouragement toward a self directed approach to your day in the studio, Wayne the instructor will begin with a showcase in alternative techniques in Encaustic and Pigment Sticks. Participants then have the option of breaking away from the formal demonstrations and pursue your own interests. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
Furoshiki + Flowers! Hammered Flower Print Workshop with Liz Robb 1-3pm. $75. Learn to print on fabric using local summer blossoms. You will learn which foliage is more suited to color transfer and how to design and hammer your beautiful cotton Furoshiki and silk pocket square. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. Dropforgeandtool. com/workshops-list/.
R&F Saturday Lab with Encaustic and Pigment Sticks
11am-4pm. $65. The Saturday Lab is a hands on workshop, giving artists a taste of what’s possible using R&F’s two paint lines. Instructors will introduce you to the basics of using encaustic paint and pigment Sticks, and the possibilities for combining the two. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088.
Starship Featuring Mickey Thomas
8-10pm. $35/$45. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Delaware Highlands Conservancy’s Annual Community Picnic
12-4pm. Free. Join the Delaware Highlands Conservancy for our annual community event, Saturday August 27 from 12pm-4pm in Bethel, NY. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy free ice cream from the Dairy’O ice cream truck; a live birds of prey presentation from the Delaware Valley Raptor Center; a monarch butterfly program; a guided walk on the Conservancy’s woodland trail; a kayak raffle drawing, and outdoor games and fun for all ages. This event is free, but prior registration is requested. Please call 570-226-3164 or 845-583-1010, or email info@delawarehighlands.org by August 25th to RSVP and receive directions. Delaware Highlands Conservancy NY Office, Kauneonga Lake. 583-1010.
Outdoors & Recreation Praying Mantis
SUNDAY 28 Dance Pacific Northwest Ballet
2pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Souleymane Badolo
2:15pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Fairs & Festivals The Harvest Festival
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
Music The 4th Annual Summer Hoot
$30 per day/$70 weekend. Lots of live music workshops, jamming, blacksmithing, square dancing, food, beer, crafts, hiking, camping and fun for all. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
Alan Broadbent & Sheila Jordan
7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
10am. $3-$7. Learn all about this amazing predatory insect and its benefits to your garden. End with a search for the praying mantis, an insect famous for its camouflage, by looking in the fields and meadows. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Cold Spring Summer Sunset Music Series
Spirituality Creation to Completion Retreat
Enso String Quartet
6-8pm. Join neighbors and visitors for this free community concert at the beautiful riverfront park in Cold Spring. Enjoy the river, the music and bring a picnic basket and a blanket. Village of Cold Spring, Cold Spring. 265-3200.
Upon completing a full cycle that began at Menla 12 years ago with the creation of the Internatinoal Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, the Council with come together to complete their circle of prayer around the planet. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897.
4-6pm. $25-$45. Haydn: String Quartet No. 64 in D , Op. 76, No. 5; Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi La Nuit (1976); In celebration of the composer’s centenary; Joaquin Turina: Serenata, Op. 87 (1935); Alberto Ginastera: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20 (1948). In celebration of the composer’s centenary. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup
Gavin DeGraw, Andy Grammer, and Aaron Tveit
3-6pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Theater The Freight Project
7pm. Country. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 454-3388.
Orthogonal Hustle Industries Unlimited Presents Musical Trio
7pm. $15. Hubbard Hall, Cambridge. (518) 677-2495.
8pm. Trombonist Steve Swell, saxophonist Frode Gjerstad and drummer Chris Corsano. Beacon Yoga Center, Beacon. 347-489-8406.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It
Ubaka Hill
7:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
7pm. $20/$10 students. Hubbard Hall, Cambridge. (518) 677-2495.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Festival Finale
8pm. $50-$150. Celebrate the close of Festival 2016 with the summer’s best dance party. Festival Finale tickets include a performance by either Pacific Northwest Ballet or Souleymane Badolo, plus access to the amazing after-party with drinks, desserts, dancing, and DJ BFG spinning live. Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Outdoors & Recreation Living History: Military Reenactment Day
11am-4pm. An outdoor experience that promises muskets, memories and more. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Spirituality Akashic Records Revelaed with June Brought
Last Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Creation to Completion Retreat
Upon completing a full cycle that began at Menla 12 years ago with the creation of the Internatinoal Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, the Council with come together to complete their circle of prayer around the planet. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Measure by Measure
7:30pm. The Duke of Vienna mysteriously disappears from public life and leaves his puritanical deputy, Angelo, to clean up the city’s seedy underworld. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
The Property Known as Garland by Billy Van Zandt
2-3:30pm. $20/$10 ages 21 and under. A fictional backstage account of Judy Garland’s final concert appearance at the Falconer Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 25, 1969. Flo Hayle directs. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
Workshops & Classes Sunday Art Studios
11am-1pm. These Sunday morning programs are designed for local families, heritage and art tourists, and regular visitors who like to make art. Projects take about 30 minutes and are fun for all ages. Everyone leaves with a work of art. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext.105.
MONDAY 29 Music Billy Mintz Quartet
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: So Please You
7:30pm. Bring the kids to this comicaltragical, family-friendly production. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Workshops & Classes The Black and White Linocut: Exploring Texture, Value and Contrast 9am-4pm. $315. Through Aug. 31. This linocut workshop, for beginners to advanced students, explores the many ways drama and impact can be accomplished through effective combinations of blacks, whites and tones and the skillful use of a variety of tools. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
TUESDAY 30 Health & Wellness Pathways to Prevention: Tips for Staying Heart Healthy from Cardiologist Dr. Louis Clinton 5:30-7pm. The Olana Partnership partners with Columbia Memorial Health to encourage thinking of Olana as a place to enhance your mental and physical health. This series also links to NYS Parks priorities to encourage healthy outdoor recreation. Participants will experience a 15 minute talk in the Wagon
House Education Center, and then hike and seek advice from experts on Olana’s carriage roads. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
Music Manhattan in the Mountains Faculty Concert
8pm. Doctorow Center for the Arts, Hunter. 518 263 2000.
Workshops & Classes Herbal Magic
Last Tuesday of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Every herb has its own personal signature, its own magic, its own vibration, with healing properties for our physical, mental and spiritual benefit. Each month we’ll work with a specific herb, discussing its different properties & various uses; we’ll talk about and show you, the basic “how too’s” like smudging, creating simple mojo bags, candle magic, elixirs, and more. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
Like You Mean It: Dancing From the Depths
10:30am-12:30pm. $20/$18. What does it mean to work at the edge of your technique (whether beginner, advanced or “starting over”), going beyond the comfort zone? Here, dance students of all levels will think about mining personal story and intimate observations of the world to compose from invented and technically unlikely movement. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Mixed Media Fiber and Encaustic
$650. Through Sept. 1. Taught by Lorraine Glessner. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
WEDNESDAY 31 Dance Tango at the Pavilion
6-8pm. $12/open dance $5 donation. Join Nina Jirka, of Tango New Paltz, and learn how to Tango! Come for an hour-long lesson from 6pm-7pm and stay for open dance from 7pm-8pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Fairs & Festivals Columbia County Fair Demolition Derby Drivers can enter in four-cylinder, six-cylinder, eight-cylinder or mini-van classes. Trophies and cash prizes will be awarded in each event. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. 518-392-2121.
Literary & Books Author Samantha Hunt reads Mr. Splitfoot
6pm. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
Elizabeth Cunningham - “Murder at the Rummage Sale” 6-8pm. FREE. Before there were supermalls, before there were hordes stampeding for Black Friday bargains, there was...The Church of the Regeneration’s Annual Fall Rummage Sale! Local fan favorite Elizabeth Cunningham is the author of the popular Maeve Chronicles, and a direct descendant of nine generations of Episcopal priests. When she was not in church or school, she read fairytales and fantasy novels or wandered in the enchanted wood of an overgrown, abandoned estate next door to the rectory. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Music Tony DePaolo Trio
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Theater Globe on Screen: The Merchant of Venice
7-9:30pm. General $21 / Contributing Members $18. Captured Live from Stratford’s Globe Theater Directed by: Jonathan Munby Starring: Jonathan Pryce as Shylock, Daniel Lapaine as Bassanio, Rachel Pickup as Portia and Dominic Mafham as Antonio. Jonathan Pryce, (Game of Thrones, Wolf Hall, Pirates of the Caribbean), provides an enigmatic performance in this iconic battle between greed and love. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
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eric francis coppolino
Planet Waves
How Not to Go Insane Based on even a cursory reading of the news, or listening to anyone speak for more than five minutes, the mental health problem is now obviously at the pandemic scale. Random acts of violence, the lack of the obligation to make any sense, and a frantic feeling that seems to be soaking through society are just a few clues of its existence. That there is at least one firearm for every man, woman and child in the United States indicates the level of fear, insecurity and mania over control. The symbol of the gun is that it’s the one sure way to get someone to do something, at least in the mind of the person who has it. The political conventions have spun out nonstop gossip while the real issues—among them, what is happening to the natural environment around us, and how many people are struggling to get through the day—are largely ignored. I’ve noticed that it’s not fashionable to talk about difficulty. Complaining is one thing; that’s always popular. To actually open up about one’s personal struggle seems to violate the “it’s all good” rule. Opening up also necessitates vulnerability, and courage, and these things are in short supply at the moment. As a result, my sense from listening and observing is that many people are holding in a lot: of pain, of anger, of fear, of confusion. Many, many people struggle daily with depression, often without understanding it and having no idea what to do about it. What also I’ve noticed working as a personal astrologer for people in recent years is a struggle with purpose. Many people want to do something but don’t know what to do. Many feel called to action but don’t know what action to take. Part of that paralysis involves looking into the chaos of the planet and not seeing anywhere they can possibly make a difference, have an influence or make a living. 114 planet waves ChronograM 8/16
Yet I think that most of it involves the inner relationship, which is a dangerous thing these days. I say that because many people fear they are holding in so much that to open up even a little would be to let it all out. Therefore, the answer is to hold on and keep control. What I’m describing is not affecting all people to the same degree. Obviously there are people who are doing well: who have a dry roof, food and a gig, and who feel pretty good most days. My purpose here is to speak to those who want to be doing better, by which I mean living a little more in balance, more connected, and living closer to a tangible healing process. In recent editions, I’ve documented the influence of the internet on the chaotic state of society and the disoriented condition most people find themselves in at the moment. To sum up, the Net is inducing a disembodied state of existence. Part of what is driving the confusion and indeed the violence is a lack of connection to the body and its purpose. I’ve quoted Eric McLuhan, the son of Marshall McLuhan, a few times lately, and I’ll do it again today, because one of the problems we’re having is remembering what happened yesterday. “The body is everywhere assaulted by all of our new media, a state which has resulted in deep disorientation of intellect and destabilization of culture throughout the world. In the age of disembodied communication, the meaning and significance and experience of the body is utterly transformed and distorted.” It may not be easy to see the connections here, though it makes more sense if you know even a little about how the impact of something like the typewriter or the telephone transformed both society and how people think of themselves. This issue goes back long before the Internet, but it’s now exploded to the degree where it’s uncontainable. There is no turning back. There is only the potential to find some new form of meaning, some new relationship with the
body, in the midst of the chaos that we have created. This is possible, though it’s going to require many different learning curves, including discovering remembering how to communicate with one another about things that matter. Most New Age religion emphasizes being out of body rather than in your body and in your circumstances. It’s designed to be easy. Yoga fits this pattern in that as currently practiced most of the time, it seems to be devoid of its philosophical and spiritual content; it reaches all the way into the other side of the polarity, in its own way denying the need to integrate living and how we respond to it with our minds. In 1972, the words of Lakota prophet John Fire Lame Deer were published in the book Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions. He said: “Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They don’t use their brains, and they have forgotten the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses, or their dreams. They don’t use the knowledge the spirit has put into every one of them; they are not even aware of this, and so they stumble along blindly on the road to nowhere—a paved highway which they themselves bulldoze and make smooth so that they can get faster to the big empty hole which they’ll find at the end, waiting to swallow them up. It’s a quick comfortable superhighway, but I know where it leads to. I’ve seen it. I’ve been there in my vision, and it makes me shudder to think about it.” I think that on one level, it’s possible to “keep it positive” and not worry about this stuff, you know, all of society and where it’s headed and all of that. Actually starting the conversation involves taking a pause from the drug of our era, which is hope. The minute you look directly at the issues, it’s easy to feel hopeless. That tension between hope and hopelessness is putting people under a lot of pressure, because there is no reconciling the two states of mind. Neither is either of them especially useful as a tool; they both lead away from tangible perception or decisions. Let’s use astrology to get a few ideas about how to handle existing in this environment. Astrology gives clues to specific aspects of the background energy, so that you don’t have to take it all at once. Those aspects can then be related to one another and a more complete picture formed. You might recognize some elements of your state of mind in these descriptions.
process of self-discovery. I really do mean discovery because the self that’s being unearthed or reformulated may not exist yet. Chiron square Pholus (Pisces to Sagittarius, 2016-2019). Chiron and Pholus are the first two discovered centaur planets. Centaurs represent nonordinary states of consciousness, and they describe healing processes. There are several points of tension between Chiron and Pholus in this equation. Pholus represents the uncontained release. Chiron represents a gradual process of development or healing. The square, seen one way, represents Chiron trying to get a grip on the out-of-control reaction of Pholus. You might think of Chiron as working to slow down the flow and deliver an appropriate dose of whatever Pholus is dispensing. This can be any medicine that is used properly, or abused. What is interesting is that Pholus is conjunct the Galactic Core. The “medicine” that’s flowing through is galactic consciousness, whatever that means. My take is that the Galactic Core is the homing signal that we pine for. It’s a direct spiritual calling in the form of a feeling tone or instinct. The problem with Pholus is that it may come across as an overwhelming longing, or as nothing at all. Chiron, square the Galactic Core, is a reminder that this energy is coming from inside of us, rather than from the outside or some external thing. This, of course, is the ultimate spiritual lesson: that we each contain the healing power we need. One last thought. Chiron in Pisces is describing a kind of highly-focused erotic sensation, and a calling for sexual healing, that’s an answer to the mystical longing of Pholus in Sagittarius. This is another version of the need to integrate psychic experience (meaning mental and emotional) with physical experience. How do you do this? Slowly and gently—but steadily and dependably. You don’t need to “take it all on.” You merely need to leave your awareness open enough to have a sense of what’s going on around you.
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Uranus conjunct Eris (2016-2017, with a very wide time orb, perhaps 20112020). This is the big aspect that’s driving most of the current environmental conditions, particularly digital conditions. The most recent conjunction was in Aries in 1927-1928 at the dawn of the electronic media age. Such has now come full circle. I reckon this aspect began the day that Uranus entered Aries in 2011, and the Fukushima quake, tsunami and multiple meltdowns happened. One of the properties of digital conditions is mass amnesia. It’s a little like that scene in One Hundred Years of Solitude where everyone forgets the past and the town fortune teller has to remind everyone what has already happened, rather than predicting the future. You might say that this aspect describes the relationship between self and self, and self and society under the influence of the internet. Through the early summer of 2016 we experienced Mars, at the end of its retrograde, making a long aspect to the conjunction, provoking all kinds of identity-seeking through violence. This aspect is quite literally behind everything we are experiencing, and it reaches well into the future; it’s calling for fully conscious and mindful adaptation. It is not describing society as much as something about your state of mind as influenced by society. Uranus is about both technology and groups; the quest here is to maintain awareness of who you are in both of those contexts. Because the pressure is so intense, and the tendency of digital is to make us forget rather than to remember, this particular mindfulness is an ongoing
Saturn square Neptune, with Mars involved (August 24, 2016, with an orb of 2015-2017). This is a real mash-up, between three entirely distinct kinds of planetary energies. We see another example of the physical and the psychic acting on one another with the Saturn-Neptune square. Saturn is the planet of form and structure; Neptune is the planet that dissolves forms and structures. Saturn is about practical, tangible reality; Neptune is what you dream, imagine or hallucinate. We’ve been living with this tension all year, but it’s so subtle compared to other factors that it’s been lurking in the deep background. It’s about to emerge into the foreground as Mars makes a conjunction to Saturn and a square to Neptune on August 25. Mars, a hot, sharp object, pushes SaturnNeptune right to the front of consciousness, just as the general election season is getting up to full speed. This aspect pattern describes circumstances that call for careful handling, because it describes something that looks explosive. If there are any actual large explosions around this time, they are symbolic of the pressure we are under, and are trying to release. This is an aspect that says blow off as much steam as you can, in advance of its arrival. If you’re facing an important decision, be mindful of that, and start to create options for yourself. Most of all, if you’re in denial about something, open up that door before it’s blown open for you. Mars-Saturn-Neptune can be brilliantly progressive if you use it consciously. And that contains one of the keys about how not to go insane: Recognize your resources, and use them with awareness. chronogram.com Read Eric Francis Coppolino’s weekly Planet Waves column.
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) Much of what’s been shocking the world for the past few months involves your birth sign or your primary planet, Mars. This may be resulting in change, clarity, or some chaos. You may know that the great astrological event of our era—Uranus conjunct Eris—is happening in Aries. For its part, Mars, on a long visit to Scorpio, has been provoking some results out of the conjunction. Personally, this could be serving to get you interested in being free. By that I mean participating in your relationships on new terms, able to make ongoing choices about who in this world you’re intimate with. The notion that one must give up nearly all close contact with people for the sake of one relationship actually works for very few people. It’s altogether reasonable that anyone would choose to coexist on their own terms. If you notice one thing, maybe it will be this: The social rules that pressure people to be certain always seem to be rooted in the past, but really they are held in place by peer pressure. Couples are often more influenced by the group around them than they are by their own values and ethics. Where do you stand on this? Once you’re solid with yourself and your partner, or potential partner, it’s much easier to do what you want, no matter what the crowd is up to.
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) What the world needs is stability, though what most people don’t recognize is that they must bring this to the equation of life themselves. Consistency is something that grows from the inside out. It’s up to you to provide that in your life and, to some extent, in those of the people around you. At the same time, you’re being summoned in the direction of a change or breakthrough. That may seem like it’s about some total shakeup; it’s really about deepening your creative journey. If you’re someone who has made a life of suppressing your curiosity, your desire, and your creative impulses, this may indeed seem total. If you’ve stayed in contact with your passion, you may understand the idea of integrating the ability to maintain some consistency with the ability to experiment, stretch, and grow. In any event, you seem to be working out some significant blockage right now, and it will be worth the effort. The resistance you’re addressing is on the level of your agreement with existence. You might think of this as “getting a new religion.” Your old religion goes back a long way. You’ve already figured out some of what you cannot abide. For example, you need peers, not parents. You need the power to negotiate and enter agreements rather than having morals imposed on you. You need the clear view of a future that you can abide.
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The more you cling to your reality, the shakier it will seem. If you can hang loose, you’ll find it much easier to adapt. It might seem that your adjustments mainly involve people and their changing needs and desires. In truth this is about you. There are certain outer circumstances, such as work or partnerships, that seem to protect you from the truth that you’re growing and changing on a constant basis. It’s true that Gemini is the master of being a different person every day, though I’m referring to something deeper. For example, possibly you’re becoming aware that you need your family of choice around you, rather than your family of origin. You may have ideas about how you want to structure your home, or where you want to live. Most of all, you have ideas about what will help you feel safe and secure on the planet in a time when that’s an extremely rare commodity. You may not have the answer to that, though you may also recognize that certain factors in your environment run contrary to that goal. If you discover and acknowledge that something or someone aggravates you, you have the power to remove that influence. Don’t expect it to go away or mysteriously get better. You know it’s your job to take care of yourself. It’s your job to make your own decisions.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) You may seem to be building your fortunes at the same time you’re dealing with constant uncertainty. In fact you’re standing on more stable ground than you may recognize; what you need to do the most is to keep your priorities in order. Stick close to your core mission and your minimum needs. Understand your motives and remind yourself what they are when you forget. It’s true that you see all kinds of potentials and many possible paths to the future. You cannot tell at this point which are valid and which are not. Yet the one thing that all paths have in common is your feet. Therefore, keep the abstractions to a minimum and focus on what is tangible: that is, what produces the results that you want, and how that fits into a larger pattern. Focus on the short- and medium-range, living one day at a time. Set goals you can accomplish, and notice your feeling of even the most mild achievement when you get something done—then move on quickly to the next tangible goal or project. At this time, it’s necessary to invoke the future with care and caution. For you, the future is not what you want to do, but rather who you want to be. And you can be that person exactly where you are right now.
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LEO (July 22-August 23) You are standing at an intersection in your journey through space and time. There are a few ways to look at this: For example, you might take the more challenging route or the easier one. You might choose to be jealous or forgiving. You might choose to deceive, or to tell the truth. All of those potentials are open, and many more. Yet what I suggest you not do is let “fate” decide. You must determine the approach you want to take to life, and understand your motives for doing so. It would help if you recognize that subtle choices and shifts of energy can make far greater differences than seem obvious. In that environment it makes no more sense to leave your life to luck or destiny than it does to take your eyes off the highway for a few minutes when you’re driving 75 miles per hour. When you’re driving, minuscule decisions can have profound outcomes. Trusting to seeming fate is not appropriate, though for you right now it’s a real temptation. Why you might do that is another question, and it involves your experience of your power. Most of the time it’s far less nerve-wracking to be ineffectual and subject to the whims of others. Invoking one’s own strength and influence can seem dangerous. Fear of failure and fear of success can both loom large. But they are not equal values.
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VIRGO (August 23-Septemebr 22) You have spent well over a year stretching into a new idea of who you are, which has not been easy. This has involved learning, absorbing, and evaluating the tendencies of others, and establishing a dependable relationship to your environment. All of this leads back to one experience: existing in an unfamiliar state. This is the very definition of being “out of one’s comfort zone.” This has persisted so long, you’re finally getting accustomed to the feeling, even if you don’t have tangible confirmation of why this process has been so important. You’re likely to get a solid clue as to the meaning of what you’ve experienced, and how what amounts to a transformation will shape your future. Turn the clock back to January 2015, and tune into the feeling at that time in your life. How were you doing on themes like your sense of purpose, your sense of your potential, and your desire to live? How does this contrast with today? You may feel like you’ve got more than you can handle. You might feel pushed to exceed your current capacities. What’s really happening is that you’re flushing yourself out of a corner you’ve hung out in for way too long, and are getting a taste of what life has to offer. You can now start to make some refinements and adjustments.
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Jupiter will soon be arriving in your sign; that happens on September 9, for the first time in 12 years. Until then, you may feel like you’re stuffed with potential but are having a difficult time expressing any of it. You might be feeling a bit trapped within yourself. I suggest you hold that space as consciously as you can. Feel all that energy you have inside of you. You’re under no special obligation to sort it all out. Let the elements you contain mix and match as they please for now, and see what ideas come to you. I do suggest that you leave yourself at least one creative vent. It might be writing every day, or drawing, or taking pictures, or playing music—though it will help abundantly if it’s an active vent rather than a passive one (i.e., participating rather than observing). You’re not doing this for any special goal, or you don’t have to. Rather, it’s about staying limber and expressive, and keeping contact with your inner world. To this end, keeping a dream journal for the next two months could provide a resource that you treasure for a lifetime, because that’s the most likely way that you will get a sense of your own potential. Notice, feel, and observe the way that your sense of self comes in and out focus. Then keep noticing.
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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) You seem to be getting yourself moving dependably enough to set some new goals. By necessity, you’ve invested considerable time and energy this year into resolving the past, and addressing some emotional issues. This has added up to one necessary development: being honest with yourself. Why exactly is this such a challenge, and not just for you but for so many? The answer can be found in one emotion: guilt. I don’t mean regret for something you actually did wrong. Rather, I mean that nagging, toxic sensation of self-questioning. Among other things, guilt is an adhesive that sticks us to the past. Seen one way, this is a vastly complex issue; seen another, it’s as simple as: What would you do if you didn’t feel guilty? Have you ever questioned how one emotion, taught to all children and enforced with a real degree of violence, can so deeply mess with the relationship you have to yourself? And have you considered that’s the main purpose? By now it’s likely you’ve come to an emotional-level understanding of who you are and what you want. Your new learning goal, as I see it, is how to be that person unabashedly. If you feel resistance, notice that and keep going. It will be a combination of optimism and persistence that keeps you going through the next month—to a much better place.
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Pay close attention to your level of anxiety as the next few weeks unfold. Indeed, it would be wise of you to invest a little extra time and space into your inner life, whatever that means to you. Sagittarius, the sign right before yours, is the one that relates to your inner being. Mars will be in there, making a conjunction to your ruling planet, Saturn. This could be the formula for a struggle—or it could be the perfect setup you need to help you figure out how, exactly, you can live in peace with yourself. You might get over the idea that you need all the answers, right now. You might set aside the notion that you can control what is true and what is not (which is usually done by ignoring valid information). There is, however, something else. What you thought to be true in the past and what you know to be true today are not compatible. It would seem like you’re trying to reconcile the two, and not very successfully. One last clue: That previously true thing was true for your parents, not for you. And if you find yourself in the midst of some anxiety-producing crisis, it’s really about trying to please them, or somehow live up to some expectation in the past that has nothing to do with you and never did.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) You can afford to sidestep controversy and conflict. In fact, you would be wise to do so—and to invest your energy in more productive things. You might want to keep that skill close to the top of your personal tool kit this month. You will find that if you use your diplomatic resources, you will have much more influence over your environment. Nobody is asking you to suffer fools but rather to know how to deal with them effectively. Relate to everyone on the level of their agenda. That will help you fulfill your agenda, about which you need to be abundantly clear. That is to say: Know what you’re working for; be clear about the specific goals you have in mind; and then fit that together with all the people you need to cooperate with you. I suggest keeping that number as low as possible, and placing emphasis on those whom you actually understand, and who are responsive and engaging. Remember: You have a vision. You are working diligently to bring that vision to fruition. You know how tricky this is in a world where everything seems to change every five minutes, and where the one thing you need is stability. Succeeding under the bizarre conditions of the world right now depends on having special skills. You have them, or you’re learning. Make sure you use what you know.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) Now you must do all the things that no astrology book ever said a Pisces was good at: Exert strong leadership skills, be practical, and focus on clear objectives. It’s time for you to be a taskmaster, which means a master of tasks. And you must do all the things for which we know and love those born under your sign: Express empathy, take everyone’s needs into account, and, most of all, be artful in everything that you do. This combination of factors will help you get to a new place in life, one that you’ve been reaching toward for many seasons running. Certain factors might lead you to be impatient; work with that as a resource, like fuel that you burn slowly and carefully rather than all at once. At other times you might get pushy; turn that down to the smallest, most invisible flame that you use to prod people gently rather than aggressively. What you must always remember is that your efforts to shape “the world” or your life are really all experiments in self-becoming. You are, above all other factors, in a profound phase of character formation. It’s therefore essential that you focus on being rather than on doing. Keep your life in order and in balance. Make time for what you love, and learn to come from that place all the time.
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