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CONTENTS 12/17

VIEW FROM THE TOP

HOME & GARDEN

24 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

42 LIVABLE HISTORY

Food photo overload, New Delhi smog, trickle-down tax reform, and other juicy tidbits.

27 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC: BETTER DEALS

one at a time, beginning with her own house, once dubbed “Miss Macy’s Cottage.”

Larry Beinhart examines Rand Paul’s assault in light of the battle over regulations.

ART OF BUSINESS 28 ART OF BUSINESS This month: Geoffrey Good Fine Jewelry, Fieldstone Artistry, Mohonk Mountain

FOOD & DRINK 66 THY KRAUT KINGDOM COME Hawthorne Valley takes $1.56 million in loans to fund their fermentation empire.

House, Gary Enck’s Car Store, and the Center for Advanced Dentistry.

HOLIDAYS 30 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

74 WAVE OF THE FUTURE

season.

Wendy Kagan interviews Zen Buddhist teacher Koshin Paley Ellison on the life-changing art of paying attention.

A round-up of the region’s New Year’s Eve festivities from contradancing to comedy, ball drops to blues shows.

COMMUNITY PAGES 38 CATSKILLS BRIGADOON

WHOLE LIVING

Shop local and find the perfect present for everyone on your list this holiday

33 NEW YEAR’S EVE IN THE HUDSON VALLEY

Jane Smith, of Spacesmith design firm, is helping restore Hudson’s historic homes

Off the beaten path, the lesser-known towns of Margaretville, Andes, Hobart, Roxbury, Delhi, and Stamford in Delaware County offer pristine panoramas and plenty to do.

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COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE 71 TASTINGS

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

72 BUSINESS DIRECTORY 76 WHOLE LIVING

A compendium of advertiser services.

Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.

Our roving community engagement series touched down in Poughkeepsie on November 17.

Richard Smith

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CONTENTS 12/17

ARTS & CULTURE

THE FORECAST

54 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE

80 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.)

58 MUSIC: MATT POND PA

PREVIEWS

Peter Aaron talks with Matt Pond about his recent relocation to Kingston, back-to-

79 Spoon’s latest album Hot Thoughts adds whole new layers of sonic exploration.

the-land themes in his music, and the PA in Matt Pond PA.

81 Chantelle Norton’s whimsical exhibit “Dog Days” features painted paw portraits.

Nightlife Highlights include Rene Bailey, Jackie Greene, and The Mavericks.

83 “Photography Now 2017” captures a year of contemporary photography.

Album reviews of Baby It’s Cold Outside by Chris Pasin and Friends;

85 Terri Mateer offers life coaching lessons learned from basketball in her new show.

11 by DMV Band; and Street of Mirrors by Venture Lift.

86 Three regional productions of “The Nutcracker” bring the holiday classic to life.

87 bluecashew hosts its first event at the new Kingston shop: a knife demonstration.

62 HOLIDAY BOOKS GIFT GUIDE 2017

With input from local bookstore owners, Leah Habib rounds up a list this year’s good reads just in time for holiday gift shopping.

64 POETRY Poems by Roger Aplon, Elizabeth Atkins, Kemp Battle, Jennifer Lewis Bennett, Brant Clemente, Holly Day, Mitch Ditkoff, Stacy Fine, Tom Fleming, William J. Joel, Carina Kohn, Autumn Laurie, Scout Mercer, p, Giles Selig,

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88 Hedda Lettuce has her way with the holidays in two hilarious Hudson Valley shows.

89 The Garrison Insitute hosts Meredith Monk for a dynamic workshop and concert.

PLANET WAVES 90

MONTHLY ASTROLOGY FORECAST

Several planets change signs in unison signaling a global shift in priorities.

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HOROSCOPES

What’s in our stars? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.

Jake Sheff, Lauren Sirna, and JR Solonche.

96 PARTING SHOT

Edited by Phillip X. Levine.

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Fionn Reilly’s new book of photos, Kolkata Calcutta, chronicles his time in India.

Turmeric kraut, carroway kraut, ginger carrot kraut from Hawthorne Valley’s expanded fermented foods operation im Hudson.

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EDITORIAL

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MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com EDITOR-AT-LARGE Hillary Harvey hharvey@chronogram.com CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Anne Pyburn Craig apcraig@chronogram.com HOME EDITOR Mary Angeles Armstrong home@chronogram.com CONTRIBUTORS Mary Angeles Armstrong, Larry Beinhart, Mike Campbell, Eric Francis Coppolino, Mike Eck, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Roy Gumpel, Leah Habib, Karen Pearson, Sharon Nichols, Fionn Reilly, Richard Smith, Sparrow

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ON THE COVER

Brown Bomber scout | spray paint, latex house paint, wood stain, 1-shot sign paint, marker, pencil, polyurethane and metal letter-stamped text on found wooden slab with plasterlath frame salvaged from a burnt house in athens, ny | 30” x 24” | 2015 Sometimes folk artists are born of wild country seclusion lacking connection to high art institutions. Others grow from financial or cultural inaccessibility. It’s an unusual folk artist who emerges from an urban, blue collar environment, but Scout (aka Brian Buono) is just that rare creature.

Scout’s creative foundation was laid in the worlds of punk rock and graffiti art.

That’s where he began to view art as something universal, to be made with any tools available. When Scout discovered the work of Howard Finster, an outsider artist from Georgia who gained renown in the 1980s with his album covers for R.E.M. and Talking Heads, it solidified his sense that art wasn’t just made by art school grads.

At a screen printing shop in Chatham, Scout learned the spray paint stencil method that he still uses today. Working in construction, Scout was drawn to utilitarian materials like latex and oil house paint, wood stain, sign paint, and marker that can survive outdoor installation. He continues to forego traditional fine art materials.

The painting on this month’s cover is a portrait of the boxer Joe Louis, created in stencil, then spray painted in a reductionist style on reclaimed wood.The frame is made from plaster lathe scavenged from a burned house in Athens. In exploring derelict urban buildings, Scout acquires found objects to use as canvases. Mindful of the lost art of hand-painted signs, he’s drawn to old signage and pieces of metal and wood. “Those pieces themselves have tremendous history,” says Scout. “Hanging up in old steel mills or rail yards, thousands of people may have seen them going to work, or looked to them for instruction.”

Louis looks expressively at the viewer, boxing gloves lifted at the ready, the year of his heavyweight championship win floating before him. As with the backgrounds he discovers, Scout says, “The image finds me.” He starts with a photo in the public domain that conveys a sense of timelessness, and then reinterprets it in paint. At times, there’s a particular person whose experience Scout seeks to amplify. “There’s a social context to the work that I create that’s important to me,” Scout explains.

For Scout, Louis is a compelling figure, having navigated a tenuous place in American history: at once famous and revered but also of a time when someone could be nicknamed the Brown Bomber. A soft gold line encircles Louis’s head and shoulders in the portrait, almost like a halo.

Because it stems from a stencil, the portrait is infinitely reproducible and posterlike. In areas of Harlem where Louis spent time, Scout spray painted Louis’s portrait on the plywood that boarded up the windows and doors of condemned buildings—both an offering to passersby and a testament to Louis.

Scout’s graphic, layered paintings are visual stories which give lost things renewed relevance. Juxtaposing a street sensibility with a folk art aesthetic, Scout explores the space between pop and antiquity. Portfolio: Scoutpines.com —Hillary Harvey 18 CHRONOGRAM 12/17

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In this direction, the 5th-century BCE sophist Protagoras said: “a human being is the measure of all things.” This statement is usually taken as an absolute expression of the truism “everything is relative” but I don’t think that’s what Protagoras meant. I think he meant what he said more in the sense of the Old Testament assertion that a human being is made in the image of the totality and is a microcosm, a complete and intelligent world in the model of the universe. If this is, in fact, what Protagoras meant, the formulation refers not to relativity but to something absolute and immutable called “the truth,” a wholeness that is not separate from any human being.

This is to say that a human organism fully inhabited with presence, and not only the physical sensing part, but also the mental and feeling “bodies” incorporated in the inner life of a human person, and particularly with a simultaneous and balanced presence in all these parts, gives rise to an objective and non-hallucinatory mode of knowing. The knowing that accompanies full presence in oneself is itself a measure of truthiness. This is not a case of deducing conclusions from sets of facts, but rather a mode of discerning, and all at once, the degree of truth represented in the source of an impression. We, ourselves, are the means of knowing what everything is in itself.

In particular, we know what things are by their sound. We knock on objects to determine their material and solidity. Something is experienced as true not because of its factual accuracy but through resonance. We say that something “rings true,” which is to say the sound resounds in our being, arouses a sympathetic vibrational signature, and awakens a present or latent truth within. The suggestion here is that there is no truth “out there”; rather all truth is embodied, like a Library of Alexandria, within the being of each person. Truth is experienced not as something new but as recognition, the only caveat is that the whole being must be present and aware to be a reliable measure of truth.

“Counterfeit gold exists because there is such a thing as real gold,” said the 13thcentury Sufi mystic and poet Jellaludin Rumi of Balkh in what is now Afghanistan.

Misrepresentation occurs because there is something real to misrepresent. In this sense, the truth-seeker is behooved to tread in the direction of the real gold, 一漀眀 愀琀 漀甀爀 渀攀眀 氀漀挀愀琀椀漀渀Ⰰ 㔀㘀 一漀爀琀栀 䘀爀漀渀琀 匀琀⸀ without being distracted by the counterfeit. ⠀㠀㐀㔀⤀ ㌀㌀㤀ⴀ㐀㤀㤀㘀 So much of what I know is a collection of data accrued osmotically from parents and the assumptions ingrained in the society I came up in, and as an outgrowth of the indoctrination of “education.” This collection of data may even serve to increase suggestibility in the manner of something that distracts from genuine inquiry. I am prevented from an experience of mystery about anything, the experience of which contains the inspiration to discovery, to come to know, even if the object in question is unknowable.

I am plagued by an underlying assumption that I know, because I know the names of things and how each thing is theoretically connected. Without vigorous effort, I am almost never faced with a mystery about anything. And yet the mystery is the doorway to truth, and knowing is a closed door.

What would it be to know, and know directly, what anything is?

What would it be to discern what is necessary and essential to know, and what is does not require the payment of any attention?

What would it be to recognize what is true?

According to Protagoras, the answers to these questions are born of a presence that is both penetrating and sustained, that admits no thought.

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note The Women Are Smarter

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nfrequently, readers call me. It happens, but normally they just e-mail me.

(Which is fine—I cherish your e-mails, I honestly do—except it adds to the sorry state of that catastrophically unkempt container known as my Inbox. Personified, my Inbox is a dorm room inhabited by two college-age males decorated indiscriminately with pizza boxes, suit jackets, and broken glass that’s been underfoot for a distressingly long amount of time. My Inbox is Harry Dean Stanton after a cross-country bus trip spent drinking Old Crow on the long seat near the bathroom. It’s messy in there. (One last sub-digression: Just this morning, someone asked me what I did for a living, and instead of telling him I’m an editor, or I’m the head of a powerful brand that’s a regional tentacle in the global liberal media cabal, I said: “I send e-mails. I read them, I write them, I ignore them, they haunt me.” E-mail is a form of oppression people. Wake up!))

Nevertheless.

The last call I received from a reader was in May, from a woman who lived in Cold Spring. Her name escapes me, but as I recall it had a marvelous ethnic solidity to it, like Astrid Calcavecchio. As the woman was of a certain age—her quavering timbre and formal diction gave her away—allow me to refer her as Mrs. Calcavecchio.

Mrs. Calcavecchio wanted me to know that she was a longtime reader and how much she loved the magazine. She especially enjoyed our wonderful covers and our arts coverage. Then Mrs. Calcavecchio pivoted. She asked if I was aware of a piece on Cold Spring that had run in the May issue. I assured Mrs. Calcavecchio that, as editor, I am aware of all the content in the magazine and that, despite rumors that all I do is drink champagne and eat bonbons, I personally edit its content. “So, you knowingly allowed Roger Ailes to be libeled in your pages?” Mrs. Calcavecchio asked.

(Some context: The piece in question was a profile of Cold Spring and the surrounding communities that ran in our Community Pages section, written

by Brian PJ Cronin. The alleged libel referred to by Mrs. Calcavecchio is the parenthetical matter in the following sentence: “Then one day in 2008, Roger Ailes, then chief of Fox News (now a disgraced sexual predator), moved to town and bought the local newspaper, the Putnam County News and Recorder.” For the record: “now a disgraced sexual predator” was my addition to Brian’s prose.)

I asked Mrs. Calcavecchio if she knew about the cascade of allegations from women, who reported unwanted groping and demands for sex by Ailes, that led to his ouster at Fox News in 2016. “These are only allegations,” she responded. “You report them as if they are true. Roger Ailes has never been convicted of anything. That’s libel.”

As libel is defined as a false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation, I suggested to Mrs. Calcavecchio that it would be impossible to libel Ailes, who had no part of his reputation left undamaged. Further, I pointed out that, like in the case of Bill Cosby, the sheer number of women who came forward alleging sexual misconduct or assault was enough to convince me. Mrs. Calcavecchio and I then debated the finer points of defamation for a few moments before she got to the point she wanted to make all along. “Chronogram is such a nice arts magazine,” Mrs. Calcavecchio said. “I don’t know why you need to write nasty things in it. You should stick to arts coverage.” She ended by telling me that Chronogram had just lost a reader.

This conversation came back to me in light of the ongoing revelations of sexual harassment, misconduct, assault, and predation women suffer at the hands of powerful men abusing their power. Every day, another man, or two, or 20, are exposed for their trangressions. It’s as if the harshest critiques of second-wave feminism were not only true but the default mode of male behavior. As Susan Brownmiller wrote in her 1975 manifesto Against Our Will: Men,Women, and Rape: “Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe.”

How do we argue against that, given all we know about Bill O’Reilly and Louis CK and Donald Trump and Kevin Spacey and Mark Halperin and Charlie Rose and countless others? As Robin Abcarian wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “Will the last powerful man in America who has not been accused of sexual harassment please turn off the lights?”

The working title of this column was “Men Are Gross,” a phrase I’ve repeated ad nauseam since the Weinstein story broke. Dudes not only sexually assault women (and other men), we also beat up our domestic partners and shoot dozens of people from hotel windows and kill whole congregations of churchgoers. And it seems like the more scrutiny we come under, the worse we fare.

And yet, as the feminist I live with pointed out to me, saying that men are gross is a copout. It lets us off the hook for our behavior via our biology. It also implies that men can’t change, and it’s impossible to shift the culture of toxic work environments into ones that are empowering to all. Which I refuse to believe is true. So, thanks for that insight, Lee Anne. And guys: By no means are all of us to blame for the misdeeds of the lords of misrule who continue to tumble from high perches. But those of us who do enjoy power should very conscious of how we wield it. And get the hell out of the way and let some ladies through.

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Chronogram Conversations We Left the Barn Door Open

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On November 17, the Environmental Cooperative at the Vassar Barns hosted our latest Chronogram Conversations event. More than 120 people came to talk about “The Future of Poughkeepsie” and enjoy food and drink from our event sponsors. On hand at the Barn were Hudson Valley Brewery, pouring a number of fall selections; Earth, Wind & Fuego Cafe, a relative newcomer to the Poughkeepsie dining scene (the gluten-free establishment is located in the Underwear Factory); Angry Orchard, who brought a pair of ciders from their Walden-based location; and Poughkeepsie’s own BC Kitchen, which shared some appetizer samples from its popular menu.

Scenic Hudson’s Jay Burgess and Peter Bernard shared their efforts surrounding their Fall Kill Creek watershed restoration and revitalization effort. Riverkeeper joined the festivities and Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison as well.

Editorial Director Brian K. Mahoney moderated a panel of community leaders, including Sarah Salem (development associate at Dutchess Outreach and newly elected Ward 2 City Council Member), Paul Calogerakis (founding Chair of the Poughkeepsie Alliance and Chair of the Poughkeepsie IDA), Mario Johnson (director of admissions at RidleyLowell Business & Technical Institute and formerly of Nubian Directions), Steve Rosenberg (senior vice president at Scenic Hudson) and Nicole Fenichel-Hewitt (executive director of Spark Media Project and Mill Street Loft). The panel sat on custom tractor stools made for Chronogram by our talented sponsor, Amy Lewis-Sweetman of Agrisculpture.

Chronogram Conversations is a Luminary Media vehicle for providing an experiential platform that our partnersponsors can use to interface with real humans within their communities. By offering physical space to showcase their wares or services—and providing the patrons and consumers Chronogram has connected with for 25 years— we’ve added a valuable asset to the Hudson Valley cities, towns, and villages that we cover. Through Chronogram, we are then able to amplify the messaging of these partners, sharing their spirit exponentially across our various media channels (print, digital, social media, events, and video).

For more photos or to see a video of the event visit Chronogram.com/Conversations.

1. The Environmental Cooperative at the Vassar Barns.

2. Paul Calogerakis, founding chair of the Poughkeepsie Alliance and chair of the Poughkeepsie IDA. 3. Sarah Salem, development associate at Dutchess Outreach and Ward 2 City Council member.

4. Nicole Fenichel-Hewitt, executive director of Spark Media Project and Mill Street Loft.

5. Steve Rosenberg, senior vice president at Scenic Hudson.

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6. Mario Johnson, director of admission at Ridley-Lowell Business & Technical Institute.

7. Brian K. Mahoney, editorial director of Chronogram.

8. Jen Rubbo, manager of the Enivronmental Cooperative at the Vassar Barns, with Tom Pacio, coordinator for the Creative Arts Across Disciplines (CAAD) program at Vassar College.

9. Harvey K. Flad, emeritus professor at Vassar College and co-author of Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie.

10. Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison and Luminary Media's Brian Berusch.

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A recent study published in the journal Plos One states that flying insect populations have plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years. The research is based on the work of dozens of amateur entomologists across Germany who began using strictly standardized ways of collecting insects in 1989. “Insects make up about twothirds of all life on Earth [but] there has been some kind of horrific decline,” said Professor Dave Goulson of Sussex University, and part of the team behind the new study. “We appear to be making vast tracts of land inhospitable to most forms of life, and are currently on course for ecological Armageddon. If we lose the insects then everything is going to collapse.” The cause of the huge decline is unclear, although the destruction of wild areas and widespread use of pesticides are the most likely factors.

Climate change may also play a role. The scientists were able to rule out weather and changes to landscape in the reserves as causes, but data on pesticide levels has not been collected.

Source: Guardian (UK) New Delhi, India, a city of 22 million, is once again choking on extremely high levels of air pollution. In parts of the city, air quality index (AQI) readings have hit 999—the equivalent of smoking 45 cigarettes a day. But 999 is the maximum reading on air monitors, which means actual levels are likely higher. “I feel breathless even inside my car. I can’t keep the windows of my house open,” New Delhi businessman Nishank Dadu said. “Delhi has become a gas chamber and nobody seems to be doing anything to improve the situation.” The dense smog is being blamed for car crashes, including a recent 24-car highway pileup just outside the city. Globally, chronic exposure to air pollution causes roughly 7 million people to die prematurely each year.

Source: Quartz

According to a new study by Cambridge University researchers published in the journal Open Science, eight Welsh Mountain sheep were trained to identify the faces of actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Emma Watson, former President Barack Obama, and BBC newsreader Fiona Bruce. The sheep chose photos of familiar faces over unfamiliar ones significantly more often than not, demonstrating face recognition abilities akin to primates. The ruminants were shown different photos on two computer screens; the sheep made their choice by breaking an infrared beam with their noses to release the treat.

Source: BBC On October 29, Juli Briskman was photographed giving the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade during a weekend bike ride in Virginia. The Monday after the photo was taken, Briskman told her employer, government contractor Akima, that she was the cyclist pictured. She was fired the next day, Akima claiming that Briskman was in violation of the company’s social media policy because she had used the photo on her Facebook and Twitter feeds. When Hudson, Massachusetts resident Rob Mello heard about Briskman’s dismissal, he started a GoFundMe campaign for her. As of November 15, the campaign raised over $100,000 from over 4,000 donors.

Source CNBC For the third time, the CIA released a trove of files that were stashed on Osama Bin Laden’s computer—including home videos and animated films alongside horrifying footage of executions. The dump of 470,000 files by the US intelligence service in early November reveal a bizarre mix of lighthearted movies like Antz, wildlife documentaries, as well as the film Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? CIA Director Mike Pompeo claimed the release was “in the interest of transparency and to enhance public understanding of al Qaeda.”

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Be careful, food Instagrammers, an anti-photography trend may be gaining traction: The Waterside Inn, a British restaurant that’s continuously held three Michelin stars since 1985, decided to ban photography inside the dining room in early November. Michel Roux, who co-founded the restaurant in 1972, told the Daily Mail that they’ve outlawed the practice on a sign that lays down the rules. “I’m really getting so upset about people taking pictures,” Roux said. The 76-year-old chef said he can’t comprehend why diners do this: “What are they doing? A picture on a phone cannot possibly capture the flavors.” French chefs launched a campaign in 2014 to ban phototaking, on grounds that it was a threat to France’s storied gastronomic traditions.

Top New York restaurants have also tried barring photography outright. Momofuku Ko’s David Chang once justified the rule thusly: “It’s just food. Eat it.”

Source: Daily Mail (UK) On November 16, with 227 Republican votes, the House of Representatives passed the most sweeping tax overhaul in 30 years, taking a significant leap forward as lawmakers seek to enact $1.5 trillion in tax cuts for businesses and individuals. The Senate will consider the bill after Thanksgiving, though it’s unclear whether it has the support to pass the chamber. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), one of the main proponents of the plan, is a strong believer in supply-side economics, or trickle-down economics, the theory that what’s good for big business and the moneyed elite is inevitably good for the economy and everyone else. Businesses that are allowed to keep more money will spend more money, thus creating more jobs. A previous term for supply-side economics was the “horse and sparrow theory,” coined for the idea that if you feed a horse enough oats, some oats will pass through the horse and provide food for the sparrows. It has never worked to date.

Source: ABC News, New Maine Times Roll Call has declared Rep. John Faso (R-NY), who represents a good portion of the Mid-Hudson Valley, the third-most vulnerable House incumbent in the runup to the 2018 midterm elections. Though Faso beat Democratic candidate Zephyr Teachout by 8 points in 2016 and Trump carried the district by 7 points, Democrats see an opportunity in the anti-Trump movement. Also, Teachout and the Democratic candidate vying for the seat before her, Sean Eldridge, both moved into the district to run for Congress. This cycle, Democrats are poised to field a candidate with local roots to challenge Faso, who voted for the GOP health care plan. Iraq War veteran Pat Ryan and lawyer Antonio Delgado have emerged as the top candidates in a crowded field, both outraising Faso in the third fundraising quarter of 2017.

Source: Roll Call

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OHHHH SH*T!

n Friday, November 3, Senator Rand Paul was assaulted. On his own lawn. While riding his power mower. By his neighbor. Who broke six of Paul’s ribs.

Rand can be variously described as a libertarian, a rigid ideologue, a wingnut conservative. Be thankful for that. If he were a regular neoconservative Republican, the destruction of Obamacare would have been accomplished by now. Rand stood against it. On principle. It was a “compromise,” it was Obamacare Lite, anathema, an abomination. It was insufficiently destructive, and therefore not principled.

For a moment, rumors swirled that the lawn tractor tackle had to have been political.

The attacking neighbor was a Democrat! If you read the comments after the story on those websites where it’s permitted, they are frothy from foam-at-the-mouthers, certain it must be political, because liberals are violent thugs set upon destroying such fine principled politicians like Senator Paul.

Oddly, neither the senator nor the assaulter has spoken about the incident, its circumstances, or the motive. That resulted in some salacious speculation. After all, what sort of motives do people refuse to speak about?

The lawyer for the assailant finally made some sort of public statement. He said it was “not political.” There goes that. The lawyer then said it was over something that most people would consider “trivial.” That seems to rule out adultery, a gay lovers’ quarrel, revenge over the killing of a pet, and a blackmail scheme gone awry.

Paul and his neighbor live in a gated development, protected from the rabble. There’s something a bit weird about that. As a libertarian, the senator has declared, “I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.”Yet he chose to live in Rivergreen, a McMansion development that came with a list of rules and restrictions that’s 21 pages long. There he was, amidst the perfectly groomed lawns, surrounded solely by people of his own class and background, all living in super-sized suburban white-people houses, and still there was dissension.

The local newspaper, the Louisville Courier Journal, is the only source I’ve seen that provided some real insight. “While there’s no official word on what caused the fight, Skaggs [the developer] suggested it might have stemmed from Paul allegedly blowing lawn trimmings into his neighbor’s yard.”

Lawn rage!

This circles back to politics. Not your ordinary Democrat v. Republican, liberal v. conservative stuff, though that’s volatile enough.

As noted, Rand Paul is a self-described “libertarian.” He was born into it the way fans of the Green Bay Packers, or the Yankees, or Chicago Bulls are. His father is Ron Paul.

Ron was a four-term libertarian congressman from Texas. He quit to run for Senate, but lost. In his farewell address to Congress, he said, “Special in-

terests have replaced the concern that the Founders had for general welfare.

It’s difficult for one who loves true liberty and utterly detests the power of the state to come to Washington for a period of time and not leave a true cynic.”

You really have to respect a guy who says that and, while he’s still in office, goes to work for Citizens for a Sound Economy, funded by the Koch Brothers and Big Tobacco. He went back to Congress from 1997-2013 and had three failed presidential bids.

Ron is still around. You may have seen him on infomercials selling gold.

He’s not just some cheesy TV conman, he truly believes in gold. He went into politics when Richard Nixon took the US off the gold standard. As, long ago, there were folks who thought money was the root of all evil, Ron is certain that the Federal Reserve and fiat currency are the roots of all evil.

You might expect anyone named Rand, with a libertarian father, would have been named for Ayn Rand, but that’s not the case. It was Randal. He went by Randy. Apparently, his wife said, ‘Please, how about Rand?’

Rand is dead set against regulations.

Apparently, and rather surprisingly, given that he chose to live in a totally conformist, regulated place, that carries over into how he lives his personal life. Again, from an article in the Louisville Courier Journal following the assault: “Skaggs also said that Paul ‘was probably the hardest person to encourage to follow the [home owner’s association regulations] of anyone out here because he has a strong belief in property rights,’ said Skaggs, who is the former chairman of the Warren County Republican Party.”

That’s what makes this twisted little incident interesting. And revealing. It goes to the heart of the battle over regulations. Most Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians are dead set against them, hate them, whine about them, and want to remove them. Yet most of them come down to a rule nearly as simple as the Golden Rule: “Thou shalt not dump your shit on your neighbor’s lawn.”

That shit might be as innocuous as dead leaves or the trimmed tops of blades of grass. It might be dumping chickenshit in the rivers that flow into the next state, a practice that Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, has fought to defend.

It might be toxic waste from coal-fired power plants that comes down as acid rain and kills your trees. Or perfluorooctanoic acid, linked to cancer and child development issues, currently found in many New York and New Jersey water systems (most notably in Newburgh and Hoosick Falls) according to the Environmental Working Group.

When you hear a politician or a corporate spokesperson complain about the cost of regulation, they’re complaining about the cost to them, of dealing with their own shit. What they want is the savings that come from dumping it on your lawn, in your water, in your stomach, and your lungs, and making you pay for clean-up and the consequences. Ohhh shit!

This circles back to politics. Not your ordinary Democrat v.

Republican, liberal v. conservative stuff, though that’s volatile enough.

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GEOFFREY GOOD FINE JEWELRY

When master jeweler Geoffrey Good moved to Hudson four years ago, he expected to set up a typical retail operation for his upscale jewelry.

Good makes pieces “purely for [his] own satisfaction],” but what evolved unexpectedly was a booming custom design business. He has tapped into the “large number of people that are really fascinated in the process of how jewelry is made and are willing to pay well for fine work.” With an illustrious track record that includes making jewelry for the famous royal houses of the world and studying under famous designers from Cartier and Harry Winston, Good is certainly up to the task. “People come to me because they know about my background,” he says. “Or they wander in and see the torch burning [literally]. They see my workbench feet away from where the jewelry is sold.” This authenticity hooks people’s curiosity. “What excites me is doing something no one else has done or using materials people aren’t always working with. I love when people come into the shop and say ‘What is that?’,” Good says. “My forte is taking an idea and turning it inside out.” Good is currently working on a wholesale line for Japan and Canada, which he plans to launch in 2018.

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B. R. Delaney comes from a lineage of casual carpenters— less fine woodworkers and more handy, around-the-house builders and fixers. Still, facility with wood came at an early age. Delaney had a shop at age eight where he would build and tinker with the little equipment and materials he had.

As he got older, his aesthetic was refined by the influences of great craftspeople like Nakashima, Maloof, and Wharton Esherick. Two years ago, he took the plunge from hobbyist woodworker to professional maker, founding Fieldstone Artistry with his wife Amy. Delaney uses locally harvested timber like ash, walnut, and sycamore that he gets from loggers, friends, and friends of friends. Out of his studio in Wurtsboro, he builds custom credenzas, tables, chairs, mirrors, and, most recently, light fixtures for commission.

In November, his hanging wood pendant light won a Best in Show award from the Fine Furnishings Show in Rhode Island. His work plays with the juxtaposition of straight lines and curves, creating singular pieces that showcase the wood’s natural features. Exaltations of form and function, Delaney’s practical, beautiful works reflect his goal of creating “more than just a piece, but an experience as a whole.”

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Art of Business

The small businesses of the Hudson Valley are the engine of our local living economy.

These enterprises are of a different type than national and global business brands. They are owned and run by our friends, neighbors, and fellow participants in the community.

Rather than being siphoned off to Wall Street, the money these businesses take in is immediately circulated back into the local economy, a natural reinvestment in the commons. This Art of Business section in Chronogram is to introduce the founders and creators, and tell the inspiring and instructive backstories of these local businesses.

MOHONK MOUNTAIN HOUSE

For nearly 150 years, the majestic profile of the Mohonk Mountain House has been an iconic landmark of the Shawangunk Ridge.

Weathering changing cultural climates, innovations in transportation, and the tidal cycles of tourism, this mountaintop retreat has held strong as the gold standard of luxury in the Hudson Valley, stewarded by five generations of the Smiley family. Under executive chef Jim Palmeri (pictured right), the kitchen staff has recently been expanded and the menu elevated, emphasizing Hudson Valley food and beverage producers. As the New York Times wrote, “Whether they featured local items or not, Mohonk’s menus are a captivating chronicle of American cooking.” In September, the Mohonk Mountain House owners were named “Legendary Family Historic Hoteliers of the Year” by the Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide. Reserved for multi-generational, family-owned hotels, this honor lauds the preservation efforts and custodianship of devoted caretakers. “We are more motivated than ever to continue spearheading our unique vision of recreation and renewal at this beautiful and historic landmark,” says Albert K. Smiley, president of Mohonk Mountain House. Mohonk.com

CENTER FOR ADVANCED DENTISTRY

GARY ENCK’S CAR STORE

Gary Enck was in his 20s and working as a toolmaker when he learned that his late father had felt he should be selling cars. He had always loved automobiles and he thought, “If [his dad] said it, it must be so.” Within six weeks he had a job at the local Chevrolet dealer, and inside six months he was the top salesperson. In the decades since, Enck has owned multiple used car dealerships and GM and Chevy franchises, and was once the largest Corvette dealer in upstate New York. His current used car dealership in Oneonta prides itself on quality second-hand vehicles, with a focus on specialty and sports cars. “I sell wants, not needs,” says the longtime Corvette lover. “I have a lot of fun with it. It’s nice to see people get something that is a dream of theirs.” Enck isn’t a snob about what he sells. His number-one commitment is matching people with what they want. “If it has a motor and wheels, I’ll probably sell it,” Enck says. “But it has to be in great condition.

I don’t sell anything that’s marginal.” Garyenckscarstore.com

For over 30 years, Dr. Bruce Kurek and the Center for Advanced Dentistry have been fixtures of Highland, with a strong reputation for painless, patient-centered care. In September, Dr. Kurek retired, handing over the practice to Dr. Sandro Evangelista, an old student of his from NYU. The dentists are very much aligned in their holistic approach to dental work, preferring to treat the whole person, not just one aspect of a problem. The staff has remained the same through the handover, contributing to the familiar feel in the office. Cheryl Evangelista, who came onboard along with her husband as a dental hygienist and scheduling coordinator, says, “Thanks to everyone’s assistance, the transition has been seamless.

Everybody has been very, very welcoming.” Dr. Evangelista will continue to offer standard dentistry services as well as top-of-the line cosmetic work, including dental implants, periodontics, reconstruction, and, in the future, facial rejuvenation. The Center for Advanced Dentistry offers more than just routine dental work, Cheryl says: “We help people feel confident in meeting new people, shaking that hand, showing a smile, and making the encounter memorable.” Thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com

FOR MORE PROFILES OF INSPIRING LOCAL BUSINESSES VISIT CHRONOGRAM.COM/ARTOFBUSINESS 12/17 CHRONOGRAM ART OF BUSINESS 29

Holiday Gift Guide

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Choose from our carefully curated selection of jewelry made in house and from many other artists from around the world. With the range of styles we carry you are sure to find the perfect gift for that special someone this year. We also specialize in custom designs and repairs done in our open studio where you can see us at work.

Thoughtfully curated vintage clothing, shoes, and accessories.

Everyday basics to high-end designer pieces. Find the perfect pair of jeans, your favorite winter coat, or a knockout holiday dress. Guys, we’ve got you covered too. Think: flannels, denim, and Irish wool. Also a beautiful selection of giftable goods including handmade jewelry and natural apothecary. Can’t choose? We’ve got gift certificates too!

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A unique stress-free B&B built for cats, offering views, in individual, multi-level, large sunny rooms. In business for over 4 decades, we have cats visiting from states away to stay in our facility. Here, pets receive individual medical, emotional and dietary attention. Months-long visits are common and felines leave healthy and happy. In-home care is offered for pets not willing to travel or leave the comforts of their own home.

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Le Shag

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292C Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0191 leshag.com Le Shag is a hub of happy hair artists with an amazing clientele that hopefully return to the community reinvigorated, excited, and laughing. We know how important self-image is. We want to motivate our clients with confidence and courage, while making them feel like the best version of themselves. Now offering waxing, facial treatments, and lash extensions.

Warm Up This Winter at The Spa at Mohonk Mountain House

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Experience ultimate relaxation by booking a nature inspired treatment at our award-winning Spa. Featuring a unique selection of signature treatments, luxurious massages, and rejuvenating facials, there are plenty of ways to pamper yourself at Mohonk.

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Try our ALL NEW Ginger Rejuvenator. This ultra-moisturizing treatment that smooths away tension, hydrates the skin, and warms the spirit with the beneficial properties of ginger root, lemongrass, cinnamon, and peppermint. This full-sensory spa experience focuses on your back, hands, and feet to ease muscle strain and ground the mind.

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50 North Front St. Uptown Kingston NY (845) 331-8217 Featuring a constantly updated large inventory of used and new vinyl including rare and Painting by Sean Sullivan obscure records.

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A Curtain Call for 2017 NEW YEAR’S EVE IN THE HUDSON VALLEY

By Marie Doyon

With the violence and volatility of the past few months, many may be eager to lay 2017 to rest. Out with the old, in with the new, as the adage goes. It’s time to bootstrap your way into the new year.

Luckily, whether you’re a deadhead or a blues junkie, comedy lover or Americana aficionado, there is something for you to do this New Year’s Eve. BSP: Rubblebucket and Marco Benevento Rubblebucket is as raucous and playful as their name would suggest, fusing Afro-funk, art-pop, and electronica in a sort of mischievous new wave rock that is highly danceable. Timeout New York has claimed that this “whimsically named group promises to bring the heyday of soul into our hipster times.” They are joined in the back room theatre at BSP Kingston by prolific, high-profile pianist Marco Benevento. 8pm. Bspkingston.com.

Colony: New Year’s Eve Ball With its catwalk balustrade, the recently renovated Colony in Woodstock is always a great place to see a show. Their New Year’s Eve Ball will be a brass-tastic event featuring ska band Los Thujones and local afro-funk/reggae maestros The Big Takeover. Brunch will be served promptly at midnight along with a free champagne toast. 8pm. $30-$40. Colonywoodstock.com.

Daryl’s House: Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams are a kismet combo with a scorching track record. The Americana all-stars have played with Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Phil Lesh, Little Feat, and Hot Tuna, but their creative chemistry is at its strongest in their duo. They play New Year’s Eve at Daryl’s House with special guest Tony Trischka at 9pm. $50-75. Darylshouseclub.com.

The Falcon: Deadgrass Deadheads, don’t despair! There is something for you too this New Year’s Eve. The five-piece acoustic outfit Deadgrass will shepherd the crowd on a journey through the discography of Jerry Garcia from his earliest Jug Band days through to The Grateful Dead. The ensemble features Grammy winner C Lanzbom, Clarence Ferrari, Russ Gottlieb, David Richards, and Matt Turk. 8pm.

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Bearsville Theater: Dead & Dread New Year’s Eve Roots, rock, reggae—you’ll get ’em all before the year is out if you head to Bearsville Theatre. The Dead & Dread-themed evening features renowned cover band Gratefully Yours, Ras T Asheber, DJ Justin Case, and Bianca Boom.

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8pm. $30-$100. Bearsvilletheater.com.

Ashokan Center: New Year’s Eve Music & Dance Camp If you’re feeling the need to shake off the heebie jeebies of 2017, Ashokan Center is the place to head. They are hosting a weekend-long music and dance camp that will feature lessons, jam sessions, and all kinds of dancing. On New Year’s Eve, a 6pm buffet dinner will be followed by a rocking party with four bands, two dance halls, and a caller, featuring Swing, Cajun, and Waltzing, Square, and Contra dancing, followed by late-night Zydeco. New Year’s Eve Dinner and Dance: $15-$60; Music & Dance Camp: $275-$485. Ashokan.org.

Paramount Peekskill: Shadows of the ‘60s Move and groove to Motown jams all night with this Paramount Peekskill show, Shadows of the ’60s, the ultimate tribute to the legendary stars of Motown.

Complete with exquisite period costumes, choreography, and charismatic performers, this show will transport you to another era as you listen to live renditions of timeless hits by The Four Tops, Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, and other greats.10pm. $40-$80. Paramounthudsonvalley.com.

Towne Crier Cafe: Slam Allen Band & Willa Vincitore Slam Allen opens a gateway to another era with his original compositions, which blend blues, soul, and R&B, with a sprinkle of rock ‘n’ roll. With a rich, full voice and nimble fingers on the guitar, Slam Allen and his band are sure to serve up high energy show. They are joined by local singer/songwriter Willa Vincitore, who is also known for her genre-bending, eclectic tracks, with their blues, soul, rock, funk, and pop influences. $45–$100. Townecrier.com.

Palace Theatre: The Marcus King Band & Twiddle When NewYear’s Eve falls on a Sunday, the only logical thing to do is have two days of partying, right? This year the Palace Theatre in Albany is selling weekend passes to their back-to-back New Year’s celebrations. The Marcus King Band plays their self-described “soul-influenced psychedelic southern rock” on Saturday, December 30, and on Sunday, December 31, Vermont-based improvisational rock band Twiddle tears it up. $42–75. Palacealbany.org.

Honor’s Haven: Russian New Year’s If you’re over the ball drop, it’s time to head to Honor’s Haven Resort & Spa to experience NewYear’s the traditional Russian way.This four-day celebration kicks off on December 30 with live music, dinner, champagne, noisemakers, and, we can only assume, vodka. What unfolds over the long weekend is anybody’s guess. December 30, 8am, to January 2, 2018, 5pm. Honorshaven.com.

Bear Mountain: Ice Skating There’s nothing like good old-fashioned wintertime fun. Glide into the New Year at Bear Mountain’s outdoor ice rink. On New Year’s Eve and January 1, skating sessions are every two hours starting at 10am. Admission is $5 for everyone older than four. Skate rentals are an additional $5.

Illuminate Goshen Thanks to Illuminate Goshen, the village is decked in lights for the holiday and will host its third annual NewYear’s event. Festivities kick off at 7pm with face painting, balloon animals, a magic show, giveaways, live music, and tasty treats.

There will be a teenybopper countdown at 9pm and a big kids’ ball drop at midnight. Facebook.com/IlluminateGoshen.

Village of Saugerties Ball Drop With restaurants on the main strip offering food and drink specials and live entertainment you can ease into the evening’s festivities. Streetside, DJ Riley Cornelison will be spinning the soundtrack for the night, along with a guest performance by the high school choir. Boy scouts will serve up hot coffee, cocoa, and doughnuts. Just before midnight, folks will break out their party hats and noisemakers for the big ball drop.

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ountains enchant. Gazing at them makes one wonder what the view up there is like, and what might be on the other side. In the Delaware County Catskills, the answers are clear: The view up there is gorgeous, and on the other side of any given peak, you’ll find wonders to explore.

Burr Hubbell’s family has been in the Catskills for eight generations now, six on the Hubbell Family Farm in Margaretville. He’s seen the family business transition from dairy to building supply sales and equipment rental, and is now the proud owner of 26 Highland cattle and some Berkshire pigs, “trying to find a role in the farm to table movement,” he says. Hubbell, who’s lived in Washington, DC, and the Finger Lakes, says he’s never at a loss for fun, culture, or a great meal. “I like going out to all the restaurants, so many great places,” he says. “I’m active in local theater and a founding member of the Catskills Community Chorale. The local theaters up here get packed with a mix: locals, weekenders, transplants. The Roxbury Arts Group does great events. I’m on the board of the Hanford Mills Museum; we’re planning for our 50th anniversary in five years. There’s a ton of history up here: the AntiRent War; our heritage tourist railroad, the Ulster and Delaware, in Arkville; there’s also a Civil War deserters’ cave. There are so many cool things on and off the beaten path if you know where to look.”

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Torkil Stavdal Opposite (above): The Roxbury Motel features over 20 theme rooms; (below): Kabinett & Kammer is a contemporary curiosity shop in Andes.

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The Anti-Rent War was a tenants’ revolt that started in 1839, when a reasonable land baron died and his heirs began making what the tenants considered unreasonable demands. Catskills farmers and tradesfolk, disguised as what they called “Calico Indians,” rebelled after getting no relief in the courts.

The insurrection smoldered until 1845, when leaders were brought to trial; one, Smith Boughton, was sentenced to life and pardoned a year later when a sympathetic governor was elected. The state constitution of 1846 included tenants’ rights measures and did away with feudal “tenures” and leases over 12 years long, and the “patroon” system of land ownership was dead shortly afterward.

The Catskills breed world-changers in their peaceful hills.

Artisanal Exceptionalism The first town you’ll encounter when headed northwest, Delaware County’s Middletown, contains Margaretville—home of a lot of exceptional shopping.

There’s the Cheese Barrel & Gourmet Shop, where they make killer gift baskets. Home Goods of Margaretville offers all kinds of topflight practical accessories, and the Longyear Gallery is a collective featuring both upstate and downstate artists. More deliciousness can be found at Catskill Candies and Confections. And don’t miss the Maple Shade Farm Market or the Catskill Artisans Guild.

Catskills flair means innovation. Margaretville is home base for Cosmik Ice Cream, organic for your health and freeze-dried. In nearby Fleischmanns, you’ll find Cheezehound, headquarters for organic, artisanal vegan cheese that’s marketed from Kingston to Brooklyn and beyond.

Cheese has been a Catskills mainstay for many a year. When the economy made milk and butter production impractical for small family farms, some thought Catskills dairy was doomed. Instead, it’s been reinvented, with small

herds of cows and goats providing the raw materials for a host of artisanal makers such as Betty Acres, Bovina Valley, and Dirty Girl. Cheese is far from the only foodie art masterfully practiced up here. Small bakeries and cafes are sprinkled through the region like chocolate bits, offering fresh food made with local ingredients. Some of it is downright unexpected: Kimchee Harvest is a flagship product of East Branch Farms in Roxbury, where the maker is promoting Probiotics for Peace.

Roxbury, up Route 30 from Margaretville, is a wonder in itself. Its ski resort, Plattekill Mountain, is something of a best-kept secret for those who enjoy exciting and uncrowded slopes served with old-fashioned hospitality.

Its arts organization, the Roxbury Arts Group, offers exhibits and events and everything from Dungeons and Dragons Night to yoga. “We have such a wonderful array of folks up here,” says Robin Factor, who owns Roxbury General with her husband Doug McLaurine. “Typical reaction of someone coming up from Woodstock: ‘This is amazing, it’s like Brigadoon!’ It’s such a chill town.

If you want to just do nothing, no one bothers you, if you want to do stuff, there’s so much more than you’d expect. We get a lot of international visitors staying at the Roxbury Motel, a destination in itself. A lot of artists, because the landscape is so special. And we’re seeing a lot of younger couples buying their second homes first—they can’t afford to buy in the city, but they can come up here and not need a wheelbarrow full of money.” Factor and McLaurine vacationed here for seven years before realizing they could make a living providing a venue for everything from Catskills-made foods and crafts to bike rentals and book signings.

There’s a demographic shift, says Factor, from past generations who came here to relish the hunting and fishing (both of which are still well loved and amply supplied with gear and guides by local businesses) to younger folks who prefer hiking, biking, the arts, and a good meal out.

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Photo: Hanford Mills Museum The SUNY Cobleskill Woodsmen's Club at the Hanford Mills Museum's Lumberjack Festival.

Staying on Route 28 out of Margaretville brings you to the little gem of Andes. The Andes Hotel has had decades of success, offering 10 casual ranchstyle rooms, a cozy pub, and fresh local fare prepared by its owner, a Culinary Institute of America grad. Visitors don’t have to leave the boundaries of Andes to shop for art, vintage clothing, or antiques. (Kabinett & Kammer’s contemporary curiosities are recommended.)

Cutting edge art and fine antiques can be discovered around every turn— well, most every turn, some turns simply lead to craggy emerald valleys and glorious vistas, or surprising venues like the West Kortright Center, which produces concerts and hosts art shows in a repurposed countryside church.

Peg Ellsworth, executive director of the 40-year-old MARK rural development project based in Arkville, believes even greater things are to come. “We have a healthy and varied wedding industry that has become an economic engine—couples come to get married and then move here,” she says. “The creative environment, the pristine outdoors, the resurgence of boutique farms—both the natives and the people drawn here are hardy and smart.”

Dynamic Delaware County Delaware County lies within the New York City watershed, which has given rise to land-use restrictions that locals have at times found burdensome. Those same restrictions, however, have resulted in enormous swaths of pristine, unspoiled scenery. And the city’s Department of Environmental Protection keeps thousands of acres of land and water open for low-impact public use; you can get a free permit online that grants access to hiking, hunting, and fishing spots all through the region. Delaware County has several dozen such locations.

Just like the natural beauty, the creativity’s sprinkled everywhere up here.

At Atelier Aubergine in Andes, you’ll find stunning stained glass. Tandem Antiques, also of Hudson, has just opened a new shop in Stamford offering everything from genuine primitives to modern art.

Up Route 28, past Andes, is the college town of Delhi. The 1797 Gideon Frisbee House, home of the Delaware County Historical Association, has a blacksmith shop, schoolhouse, 19th-century gun shop, and turnpike tollhouse, along with two rooms of exhibits. Stop in at Good Cheap Food, a 40 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 12/17

buying club turned co-op store, or Catskills Regional Harvest to stock up on local goodies at exceptional prices. The loose leaf blends at Tay Tea are born here, in a shop that’s a tea lover’s paradise.The Mid-Century Modern-inspired stoneware table lamps at Stone and Sawyer are handmade onsite, made from locally sourced materials.

Keep on Truckin’ Farther out along Route 10 is Stamford. A tiny village within it, Hobart, is headquarters for what may be the vehicle of the future. “When I left my old job, I thought about what I really wanted to do, and remembered how I was always drawing cars in elementary school,” says Bollinger Motors founder Robert Bollinger, who spent 15 years helping to run and market personal care products for John Masters Organics in New York City. “So I thought, crazy as it sounds, let’s get some smart guys together and make something.

What would we do if we were to completely reinvent the truck?” The resulting prototype, a fully electric SUV with a fascinating and versatile body design, should be on the market in around 18 months. And when the Bollinger B-1 does hit the market, drivers will be able to recharge for free at charging stations in Margaretville, Hobart, and Delhi.

Bollinger has no regrets. He’s in love with his Harpersfield farmstead, the river valley views from his shop, and the neighborhood. “There’s a great British pub, the Bull & Garland. And the bookstores are great.”

Bookstores in a tiny village in the hills?Yes. Six of them. Hobart reinvented itself as a book village a few years ago, and the offerings and specialties draw visitors from everywhere. The newest shop, Creative Corner, offers books on all things DIY. “A lot of fun happens here!” says co-owner Kathy Duyer.

“There’s a powerful sense of community.” All six bookstores are open weekends and holiday Mondays in winter; in summertime, it’s seven days a week.

This is a mere nibble of the adventures and goodies you’ll find in Delaware County’s towns and villages; go exploring for yourself and see how the mountain-folk fare amid their spectacular backdrop. “Certain times, the fog, the light, it’s just mystical,” says Bollinger. “It’s like living in a fairy tale brought to life.”

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Jane Smith lounges with Jax in her restored carriage house, which dates from the 1850s. The red brick building was the upstate headquarters for her architectural firm, Spacesmith, until last month when she opened an office in downtown Hudson.

Contemporary, contextual, and historic: the intersection of these architectural modes is the cornerstone of Smith’s design.

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Smith restored the facade of the Greek Revival cottage with an eye for historic detail. What couldn’t be salvaged from the original design was carefully recreated.

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ven though she’s mastered much grander designs, it was the simple, symmetrical beauty of a cottage by the river that captured architect Jane Smith’s heart. The founder of New York City design firm Spacesmith, Smith has a wide body of work that includes everything from office buildings to embassy compounds to apartments and condominium complexes.

The overriding creative objective throughout these projects, large and small, is to create architecture “that stands out but can remain relevant over the long term,” she explains.

Along with her wife, Jules Anderson, Smith has created a home that matches this aesthetic, but with a hip and historic small-town vibe. Once dubbed “Miss Macy’s Cottage” by Hudsonians, the cottage’s sense of having a rich, 150-year history is expertly preserved. Smith has also managed to make it a simple, elegant, and light-filled space inviting enough to sit within for long periods while wondering about all that might have transpired there over the past two centuries.

Architectural Resonance A native of Wyoming, Smith graduated from Arizona State University and then moved to NewYork City to begin her career as an architect. Her first forays into the Hudson Valley were weekend trips upstate to visit friends. She loved the

region and thought it would be an ideal canvas on which to create a home for herself, so she bought property in Chatham with ideas of building afresh. The Hudson cottage was originally meant to be just a short-term residence. Within walking distance to everything, including the Amtrak line, it was to be the perfect base of operations, allowing her to design and build her dream house on weekends while she continued to work full-time in Manhattan during the week.

When Smith began renovating the Greek Revival cottage, she thought it was going to be a simple fix up. “Then I started digging and I realized I really loved the house,” she remembers. Sitting on a 2,500-square-foot lot, reaching from one charming side street to another, the home dates from the 1850s and includes a small, sunny yard and the original brick carriage house. It is one part of the larger fabric of historic 19th-century cottages and elaborate Victorians that make up the surrounding neighborhood. Dating from Hudson’s former heyday as a whaling capital—when ships would drag their catches up the river to the deepwater port nearby—Smith estimates the home was originally built for local workers in the whaling industry. (The nearby Victorians were intended for ship captains.) Even though the home’s footprint was only 1,500 square feet, its symmetrical proportions made it feel ample. Smith knew that with a deft touch she could preserve its character while creating a cozy, comfortable living space for the modern day.

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Stepping through History Smith’s priority was preserving the home’s historic streetfront while making the interior easy on the eye and livable for the long term. The home’s facade features many classic details of Greek Revival cottages, and Smith tried to rehabilitate whatever she could from the original design. She restored the original covered front porch, square columns, and deep checkerboard painted cornice, as well as the pitched roof, with its ornate corbels.

What she couldn’t salvage she recreated, true to the Greek Revival vernacular. The traditional window moldings had to be completely replaced and the original six-paned windows were traded for larger four-paned versions.

Smith also added a window to the front door. She then painted the original clapboard siding dark grey, to give the exterior dimension and add depth to the design. The facade was completed with ivy trellises and an iron gate at the entrance to the side alley.

After removing the interior walls, Smith added a steel beam across the ceiling to support the chimney shaft. The metal and wood entrance table in the foyer is the creation of Smith’s wife, furniture designer Jules Anderson. Anderson specializes in utilizing natural materials in a contemporary fashion, and often recycles wood from local antique shops. Modernizing while still remaining true to a home’s (or a piece’s) historical roots is central to both their practices.

Contemporary, Contextual Design The renovation of the home’s interior spaces and backside was an entirely different story. Here, Smith had a free hand to update the design but kept an eye on the home’s original context. Her first priority was to lighten everything up. The original front door opened into a long hallway with doors leading to the parlor and dining rooms, and ending at the home’s back kitchen. Smith removed the interior walls to create one large, open living, dining, and kitchen area, and then added a two-sided fireplace at the center. Along the opposite wall the home’s original spindle staircase leads from the entranceway upstairs.

By tearing out the back wall and gutting the entire kitchen, Smith created a modern space infused with light. She installed a horseshoe of grey granite counters and stainless steel appliances as well as two rows of south-facing awning windows. Adjacent to the kitchen, a covered back porch was enclosed with glass and fully insulated—it now serves as a three-season sun porch and dining room.

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With the historic facade preserved, Smith was free to remake the back of the home, maximizing both light and views. The space flows graciously from historic front to contemporary rear, and easily between indoor and outdoor spaces.

The living room is decorated with a mix of contemporary and antique pieces. “We really tried to keep it anchored in Hudson; the furniture is historic but true to the home’s character,” says Smith.

A thermal glass door between the kitchen and porch allows the space to double as a mudroom in winter. A deck between the porch and carriage house extends the living space further, serving as an outdoor room in the summer.

The home’s second story was added to by subtraction. By removing sections of the ceiling-floor divide over the front staircase, Smith was able to draw light, and the eye, upward. By raising the second-floor ceiling to the pitch of the roof, Smith created loftiness in the front bedroom, landing, and backroom den. A second bedroom was reconfigured by changing the windows from east to south and Smith added a large central master bath. By “borrowing” salvageable floorboards from downstairs, Smith was able to preserve the entirety of the home’s original dark-stained, wide-plank wood flooring throughout the second story.

Above the kitchen, the original bathroom was torn out. In its place, Smith created a bright, airy den. A wall of awning windows floods the room with light and offers views of the back garden and carriage house. An original back staircase, updated with modern metal and wire railings, allows the space to flow easily back downstairs into the kitchen.

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Smith added awning windows in the back of the house overlooking the garden, deck, and carriage house. The windows give a feeling of open space to both floors. “Even in a rainstorm we can keep the windows open and feel the outside,” Smith says.

While Smith didn’t add actual space to the home’s second floor, she was able to add spaciousness. Smith is inspired, in part, by Japanese architecture where a simple, contextual aesthetic predominates design. “The negative space is almost more important than what you fill a room with,” she explains. The bed was designed by her brother, Dave Smith, of Ingrain Furniture in Seattle.

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Slow Growth The home is decorated with locally collected antiques, as well as furniture handcrafted by Anderson. A New Zealand native, Anderson was one of the original contractors hired to remodel the cottage. (In fact, it’s how the two met.) Anderson’s furniture line, Slowed Studios, embodies a similar creative principal as Smith’s—that is taking pieces of historical significance and updating them in a contemporary fashion. Largely self-taught, she began as an apprentice carpenter in Connecticut and then took an intensive woodworking course at the New England School of Architecture in 2006. Since then, she’s handcrafted everything from dining tables to benches, beds, and chairs, all of it a singular combination of restored antique woods, metal casing, and “Kiwi ingenuity,” she explains.

At the back of the property, the original brick carriage house, covered in a century of ivy, opens onto both the backyard and the lane behind. Used over the past 150 years alternately for carriages, animals, and as a workshop (the home’s previous resident made gilded frames in the space), the building was insulated and refurbished by Smith and Anderson. On the second floor, they added floor-to-ceiling bookshelves along one brick wall and lit up the space by installing contemporary pendant lights.

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The dining room leads to the kitchen and backyard area. During the remodel, Smith expanded a small downstairs bathroom, adding an adjacent laundry and pantry space under the front staircase.

Smith added an insulated glass door between the kitchen and the threeseason porch as well as a skylight, allowing the home’s ambiance of interconnected indoor-outdoor spaces to remain during colder weather.

Originally envisioned as a work space, Smith first utilized the studio on her weekends upstate. However, as her love for the area grew, so did the space’s usefulness. A few years ago, Smith progressed from weekender to commuter status, utilizing the carriage house as office space for part of the work week.

She also joined the Hudson historical restoration committee and designed or consulted on multiple local projects, helping her neighbors appreciate the modest cottages for their architectural significance and restore them into livable history, as Smith and Anderson have done.

A staircase and pop-out hatch from the carriage house ceiling lead to an open-air deck, where the two often sit and contemplate the surrounding rooftops. Over the past 12 years, they’ve watched Hudson’s revitalization, something Smith believes is at least partly due to the town’s preserved architecture.

In the past month, the studio below has returned to its status as a full-time creative space: Smith has opened a branch of her Spacesmith firm in downtown Hudson and will be walking to work there full time. She’s excited about the change and looks forward to playing a larger role in the town’s continued revival. “I really feel that we’re stewards of these properties,” she explains.

“They’ve got so much history beyond the short amount of time that we’ve lived in them.”

For her own part, Smith is happy that she was waylaid by Miss Macy’s cottage. “People have come by over the years who grew up in this house and everybody has happy memories of it—I think it’s a happy house. It was really a good choice.”

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galleries & museums In Between, a pastel on paper work by Diane Christi, one of the pieces included in “Lines Let Loose,” a group show curated by Meredith Rosier featuring works by 40 artists. At Wired Gallery in High Falls December 2-April 1.

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“Survey Lens: Small Works by Peggy Reeves.” December 1-31.

Opening reception December 2, 5-8pm.

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“Chasing the Tale.” Artists engaged in a pictorial storytelling cross personal mythology with collected narratives from historical, folk and popular culture. Through February 26.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY 22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578.

“Luminous Landscape.” 20th annual exhibition featuring 20 artists. Through January 28.

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“Silent Sentinels.” Group Show. Through January 20, 2018.

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Works by Landscape Painter Gary Fifer. Through December 3.

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“Picture Industry.” This curated exhibit of over 80 artists reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images from the 19th century to the present. Through December 15.

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

“Members Holiday Show.” Small works. Through December 22.

BEACON ARTIST UNION 506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177.

“Past Imperfect.” A show by Julie Jacobs and Melissa Schlobhom. Through December 3.

BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS 200 HURD RD, BETHEL (866) 781-2922.

“Love For Sale: The Commercialization of the Counterculture.” Through December 31.

BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.

“18th Annual 5-by-7 Show.” Mini masterpieces, all priced at $100. December 2-January 7.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.

“Hudson Valley Landscapes.” A showcase of Hudson Valley Landscapes by gallery artists such as Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Leigh Palmer, Harry Orlyk and several others. Through December 31.

CLERMONT STATE HISTORIC SITE 1 CLERMONT AVENUE, GERMANTOWN (518) 537-4240.

“Katharine Livingston Timpson: The Woman Who Gave Up Clermont.” This panel exhibit explores the life of Clermont’s Gilded-Age daughter and her complex relationship with her home and family.

Through December 17.

CLINTON STREET STUDIO 4 SOUTH CLINTON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE (917) 333-3333.

“Burgeonings.” A group art show of 13 local contemporary artists curated by John Breiner.

Opening reception December 1, 6-9pm.

COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 4400 ROUTE 23, HUDSON (518) 828-1481.

“The Earth from Above” Recent wax and oil paintings by Joy Wolf are direct representations of aerial photographs of landscapes that have been altered by human intervention. Through March 30.

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“Cooking Up a Nation: [Im]migration and American Foodways.” Through December 13.

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“Michelle Stuart.” Michelle Stuart’s four-part rubbing Sayreville Strata Quartet (1976). Through April 30.

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“Pot Pourri.” Arts and crafts holiday show. December 1-30.

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“Petit: A Group Exhibition of Smaller Sized Art.” Over 50 artists are participating in this exhibition that spans various styles and mediums. Through December 4.

GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMER’S TURNPIKE, GARDINER 255-1255.

“A Hudson Valley Journal.” An exhibit of paintings by artist Natalie Wargin. Based on journal sketches, the paintings depict the woodlands, farms, birds, and animals. Through December 30.

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“PHOTOcentric.” International juried exhibition. December 9-January 7.

Opening reception December 9, 5-7pm.

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“Overglazed.” A solo exhibition of new works by Paola Bari that leverage all different techniques and materials. Through January 13.

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“Living in Style: Selections from the George Way Collection of Dutch Fine and Decorative Art.” This exhibit celebrates the enduring impact of Dutch culture and design in the Hudson Valley. Through December 17.

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“The Annual Holiday Fine Arts and Craft Small Gift Show.” A highly curated selection of artists and makers combine to offer a holiday shopping experience!. You can enjoy beautiful unique ceramics, exotic glass artwork, delicate small paintings, locally handmade chocolates, beautiful jewelry, delicate handmade soaps, beautiful images of the Hudson Valley, and many more artisan creations.

December 5-23.

Reception December 16, 3-5pm.

HUDSON AREA LIBRARY 51 NORTH 5TH STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1792.

“Columbia County Photography Club Exhibition.” The theme of this exhibit is winter and the holidays.

All photos will be for sale and the library will receive a percentage of each sale. Through January 2.

Opening reception December 5, 6-8pm.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068.

“Kite.” A group show of handmade interpretations of kites. Through January 8.

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

“Illumination of the Sacred Forms: Divine Light Mission and Sanctuary.” An installation of illuminated paintings by Peter Bynum, with a multi-media component of video projections.

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“The Force of Fragility.” Internationally acclaimed master painter, Anamario Hernandez, has created unique representational works that are both classical and modern. Through December 3.

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“Pamela Blum: Like and Unlike.” Through December 3.

JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250.

“Sparky Campanella.” Campanella’s urban landscape photography is offers an evocative take on the ever-shifting complementarity of civilization and nature. Through December 2.

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Cicada, cast glass and insect wings, by Jessi Moore. “Color of Distance,” an exhibit of Moore’s work, runs through December 31 at Woodstock Arts Exchange.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241 “41st Holiday Salon Show.” Group show. Through January 28.

MATTEAWAN GALLERY 436 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901.

“After Some Time.” Paintings and mixed media drawings by Thomas Huber. Through December 17.

THE MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY @ SUNY ULSTER 491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE 687-5113.

“Rita MacDonald.” SUNY Ulster Visiting Artist. Rita MacDonald explores two related bodies of work. In one, she works with images of decorative patterns found in architecture to make large-scale wall drawings that are temporary and site-specific. In the other, she uses images of decorative patterns found in clothing to make small-scale, often highly detailed, graphite drawings on paper. Through December 13.

NEUMANN FINE ART 65 COLD WATER STREET, HILLSDALE (413) 246-5776.

“Paintings of Jeffrey L. Neumann.” Through December 30.

ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS 27 SOUTH GREENBUSH ROAD, WEST NYACK 358-0877.

“Jacques Jarrige: Kinetic Sculptures.” Outdoor sculpture exhibit. Through June 30.

ROOST STUDIOS & ART GALLERY 69 MAIN STREET, 2ND FLOOR, NEW PALTZ 255-5532.

“Community Art Exhibition.” Through December 23.

ROSENDALE CAFE 434 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE 658-9048.

“The Reservoir, Rivers, and Ponds of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.” New oil paintings by Lynn Margileth. December 1-31.

Opening reception December 3, 2-4pm.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM “BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibitions.” Artwork by students. December 1-12.

SEPTEMBER 449 WARREN STREET #3, HUDSON. “Gone Here: Sheila Gallagher.” Through December 23.

STONE RIDGE LIBRARY 3700 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-7023.

“Works by Christopher Seubert.” Selection of drawings, watercolors, oils and prints, illustrating local landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. Through December 21.

THE CHATHAM BOOKSTORE 27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3005.

“Soul of Our Soil Photographs.” Hudson photographer Georgia Landman displays her photographs inspired by farms in Columbia County. Through January 21.

THE WASSAIC PROJECT 37 FURNACE BANK ROAD, WASSAIC (347) 815-0783.

“Ley Lines 2017.” Former Wassaic Project artists-in-residence Kat Clear, Sabrina Barrios, and Colin Radcliffe come together to take over the ground floor of Maxon Mills for this special fall exhibition.

Through December 31.

THEO GANZ STUDIO 149 MAIN STREET, BEACON (917) 318-2239.

“Dog Days: Recent Work by Artist Chantelle Norton.” Consists of 16 new oil paintings as well as drawings and prints. Through December 31.

TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 757-2667.

“Holiday Show.” The show features work from members and guest artists in the area, offering everything from fine art to traditional crafts to whimsical fancies and creative, one-of-a-kind pieces at a variety of prices. Through December 17.

TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663.

“Transitions: New Paintings by Michael Davidson.” Through December 10.

UNCANNY GALLERY 17 JOHN STREET, KINGSTON 8452044380.

“Unique Art Doll Exhibit.” Eclectic and unique selection of art dolls and figurative sculpture. Unique, whimsical, sublime, disquieting. Through December 30.

UNION ARTS CENTER 2 UNION STREET, SPARKILL 359-0258.

“Sacred Environments: Susan Shanti Gibian.” Photographic documentation of earth-based, sitespecific installations plus an onsite outdoor courtyard installation. Through December 31.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Handmade for the Holidays.” One-of-a-kind handmade things by local artisans using some local ingredients. An exhibit of fine crafts at gift prices. December 1-30.

WIRED GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613.

“Lines Let Loose.” A group show curated by Meredith Rosier featuring works by 40 artists who let their lines loose. December 2-April 1.

Opening reception December 2, 5-7pm.

WOODSTOCK ART EXCHANGE 1398 ROUTE 28, WOODSTOCK (914) 806-3573.

“Color of Distance.” Exhibit by acclaimed glass artist Jessi Moore. Through December 31.

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

“Correspondences: Between Human and Other Natural Forms.” Photos by Marcia Slatkin. Through December 3.

WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388.

“Off the Walls: Artwork from Our Patrons’ Collections.” Curated by Paula Nelson and John Kleinhans, this exhibit offers a rare opportunity to view work by Bellows, Carlson, Fiene, Linden, Sargent, Rosen, Ault, Kuniyoshi, and many others. Through December 16.

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Music

A Man for All Seasons Matt Pond PA

By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly

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or a while when I was a kid I wanted to be a forest ranger,” says Matt Pond.

“But my older brother mocked me so much about it that I gave up on the idea.

When I was in high school I loved being able to take a break and go hide out in the forest. I still do. But for me, it’s not as much about being a nature lover as it is about being an escape artist.”

Somewhat surprising, to hear from a singer-songwriter whose back-to-theland themes and aesthetic would seem to paint him as the modern-day Henry David Thoreau. It’s complicated, Pond’s relationship with the flora, the fauna, and the changing of the seasons. For Pond (real name), the nature references that weave their way through his 10 albums and assorted EPs (song titles: “Green Grass,” “A Part of the Woods,” “The Trees and the Wild”) aren’t simply a bundle of naturalist love letters—although, sure, there are some of those in there, too—to be taken at surface value. Beneath the bark live layers to, well, ponder. “I try not to read a lot of reviews of my records; it always feels weird to me,” says Pond. “But there was one I saw recently that mentioned ‘Street Squirrels’ [from this year’s Still Summer].

The writer was putting it down, saying that I shouldn’t be writing songs about squirrels. To me, at least, that song [lyric: ‘Street squirrels don’t think twice / Between the lines and tires of death’] is clearly about people, not squirrels. When I read that part of the review I was, like, ‘Man, do you know what a metaphor is?’”

Pond grew up in Northwestern New Hampshire as the son of a therapist/ homemaker single mother; his father was a humanitarian who helped place Cambodian war orphans with American families, one of which was Pond’s. “We had several of them living with us at different times,” he recalls. “I learned to swear and sing songs in Cambodian.” Before he started writing and signing his own songs, he tried his hand at learning piano, trumpet, and French horn, giving them all up by the time he was 12. “I wasn’t one of those people who grew up loving music in a musical family,” he admits, although he does have fond memories of his father mock-conducting to classical records. “It wasn’t until later, when I was around people who were more supportive of the idea of me playing music, that it started to feel right. This was in the ’80s, so I kind of came in on the cusp of punk and new wave, but I was also listening to Neil Young and the Beatles and a lot of country rock. I read about Joni Mitchell and the way she used different tunings, and that got me more interested in playing guitar. I’d steal some beers and go practice in our basement, which always seemed to be flooded.”

Pond’s lifelong affinity for literature has also shaped the rustic-symbolist tack of his tunes. “I loved Walker Percy, Annie Dillard,” he says. “I just read [Milan Kundera’s] The Unbearable Lightness of Being for, like, the 20th time. It’s fun being nostalgic about certain writers or movies when they bring you back to a certain period of your life.” Pond attended Bard College, focusing not on literature but on history and general studies. “At the time, I wanted to be like one of those professors out of Salinger [The Catcher in the Rye]—you know, smoke a pipe and just be an academic.”

Pond’s professorial aspirations were fleeting, though. In 1998, after three years at Bard, he threw together “a few grab bags of clothes and a guitar” and relocated to Philadelphia. “There really was no city quite like Philly back then,” recalls the singer, who was lured there by native friends, a thriving arts scene, and comparatively cheap rent. “It was definitely a rough place to live, very dangerous, but there was a lot going on [artistically].” With some friends he started a short-lived band called Mel’s Rockpile (a reference to a recurring “SCTV” skit), which he describes as a “dumb, self-protective cocoon. But playing in that band helped me get where I am because it made me want to write music that meant something, instead of what I was doing with them.”

Serious about having a vehicle for the reflective, lyrically illustrative, folk-based songs he’d been writing, Pond assembled the first lineup of the changeable backing band he dubbed Matt Pond PA, the “PA” a nod to the project’s Pennsylvania birthplace. From inception, a crucial component of the project’s sound has been its use of strings, mainly cello but also occasionally violin, which have seen the act described as chamber pop. “I’ve always loved ELO and a lot of classical music,” he explains. “I wanted to find a way to have strings but not make them incidental. Even though I can’t write music or charts, just humming the parts to the players and having them try to approximate that has worked pretty well.”

Matt Pond PA debuted with 1998’s Deer Apartments, which snagged the top prize in a contest of unsigned bands sponsored by online music outlet CDNOW. The outfit began working the road and followed with 2000’s Measure and 2001’s EP I ThoughtYouWere Sleeping, before signing to Illinois indie Polyvinyl Record Company for 2002’s The Green Fury and The Nature of Maps. A gig writing background music for the Oxygen Network helped Pond cover the costs of touring a five- or six-piece band, but with critics connecting strongly to the group’s autumnal sound and his poetically personal wordplay it was becoming clear that a leap to a bigger, er, pond

was in order.

In 2003, the tunesmith relocated to Brooklyn, put together a new lineup, and recorded the following year’s Emblems for new label Altitude. Crystallizing the strengths of the previous efforts, Emblems became Pond’s breakthrough, its addictive melodies and wistful words set in grand, sweeping production. Support slots for Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Keane were followed by the 2005 EP Winter Songs, whose opener, the charming “Snow Day,” made it into a Starbucks commercial, and the same year’s Several Arrows Later, which is regarded by many fans as Pond’s peak. Upping the epic factor of Emblems, the latter disc distantly recalls the Baroque touches of ’60s acts like Love and the Beach Boys and such ’90s indie paragons as la Pavement and American Music Club. The double meanings in its “Brooklyn Stars” and the seasonal/romantic allegories in “So Much Trouble” (“I don’t wanna think about it / how the fall is coming down / The light is leaving and it’s hard to breathe / buried in a pile of leaves”) are pure Pond. So was 2003-2005 Pond’s purple patch?

“I guess so, but I didn’t see it at the time,” he says. “I was doing well, selling records, and playing a lot. But I wasn’t paying attention in that way then—I was too busy touring [as a headliner and with Liz Phair and Guster] and writing more songs in hotel bathrooms.”

Some of those songs ended up on another EP, 2007’s If You Want Blood, and the same year’s edgier full-length Last Light, which was recorded at Bearsville Studios.

His taste for woodsy environs reawakened by the Last Light sessions, Pond went full Basement Tapes with newly added guitarist and producer Chris Hansen for 2010’s The Dark Leaves, recording the intimate opus in a Bearsville cabin. Sold on the solitude and central touring location of the area, he left the big city for the Hudson Valley that year, renting an apartment in Hudson, which at that point recalled Brooklyn before the boom. “A big part of why I like it here so much is because it’s like a more temperate version of where I grew up,” muses Pond. The year 2013 brought a deal with BMG for The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand and, for that album only, the dropping of the “PA” from behind the singer’s name. “The label asked for that,” he admits. “I guess they thought it would be less confusing for people. I was okay with trying it. But if they’d tried to get me to change my songs or wear different clothes or something like that I wouldn’t have done it.”

Generally more uplifting and pop rock-leaning than its predecessors, The Lives Inside… brought continued acclaim, but its sales still didn’t make Pond’s name a household one. By 2015, the songwriter had reinstated his familiar suffix and was back among the indies for the Doghouse label’s The State of Gold. He’d also put down firm local roots, buying a house in Kingston’s historic Uptown district. “I’m really happy to be in Kingston,” he says. “I definitely feel like I got a place here at just the right time.” For 2016’s Winter Lives, Pond launched his own label, 131 Records, whose releases have been financed via the crowd-funding website Patreon. “The great thing about Patreon, as opposed to Kickstarter or PledgeMusic, is that the campaign doesn’t stop when you’ve reached your goal,” Pond says. “That extra money can go toward other expenses.With labels dropping off, this is the way music will be funded from now on.”

Patreon worked well once again for the making of Still Summer, which appeared in August (naturally). Tracked mainly at Pond’s Kingston home studio, the 14-song album brings, among other motifs, still more allegorical wildlife- and season-referencing compositions (“Rabbit,” “Legends Before [and After] the Fall,” the title track), and even a tellingly named ambient recording simply called “The Backyard.” Several guest performers were present for the taping, including vocalists Laura Burhenn of the Mynabirds and local Laura Stevenson.

“Matt has a knack for writing a really good hook that works in any type of song,” says Stevenson, who currently lives in Rosendale with her husband, bassist and Chronogram contributor Mike Campbell, and sings on Pond’s bespoke “The Ballad of Laura and Mike.” “Of course, for us it was so, so sweet that he wrote that song,” Stevenson says. “Another great thing I love about Matt’s style is the simplicity. He knows he doesn’t have to gild the lily by trying to see how many different parts he can fit into a song.”

Following last month’s release of the EP More Winter Lives, Pond made the dramatic decision to stop recording under his own name altogether as he looks toward starting a new project. “I called the band Matt Pond PA because I wanted to have veto power over the music, but I always found it strange being in a band that was named after me,” he says. “Now I want to do something that’s more collaborative and not have to be the leader all the time. I’ll always write songs, though. I’m happiest when I’m writing music.”

“I wasn’t one of those people who grew up loving music in a musical family.”

Matt Pond PA will perform at BSP Kingston on December 16. JK Vanderbilt and Wild Pink will open. BSPKingston.com. Still Summer is out on 131 Records. Mattpondpa.com.

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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

Mohammed Reza Mortazavi plays at EMPAC in Troy on December 8.

JACKIE GREENE December 1. Every time he performs at the Bearsville Theater, as he’ll do on this date, it’s a spiritual homecoming for Americana artist Jackie Greene. Strongly inspired by legendary locals the Band (see his rousing version of “Look Out Cleveland” on the 2009 Band tribute album Endless Highway), the singer-songwriter has a deep solo career and has worked with fellow roots-minded rockers the Black Crowes (as the group’s final guitarist, from 2013 to 2015); Gov’t Mule; the Weir, Robinson, Greene trio (with Bob Weir and Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson); Phil Lesh and Friends; and Trigger Hippy (also featuring Joan Osbourne and members of the Black Crowes and Widespread Panic). (The Murali Coryell Band and special guests “Rock the Future” December 2.) 8pm. $25-$45. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com.

THE MAVERICKS December 6, 7. The Grammy-winning kings of Latin-tinged country rock, the Mavericks, ride in to make this tasty two-night stand at Tarrytown Music Hall. Formed in Florida circa 1989 by singer and guitarist Raul Malo and bassist Robert Reynolds, the group hit highly in the 1990s and has maintained an unshakable following since reuniting for the second time in 2011. In 2016, they launched their own label, which has thus far released the fan-delighting All Night Live, Volume 1 (recorded during the 2015 tour for the acclaimed Mono) and this year’s Brand New Day, a fine set that brings Malo’s Roy Orbison influences front and center. (Cherish the Ladies grace December 2; “Sixties Spectacular” sports the Lovin’ Spoonful, the Vogues, and more December 8.) 8pm. $48-$88. Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390; Tarrytownmusichall.org.

MOHAMMED REZA MORTAZAVI December 8. Iran-born Mohammed Reza is a breathtaking hand percussionist of blinding speed and feather-light sensitivity. A master of the tombak (the ancient, goblet-shaped Iranian hand drum) and the daf (Middle Eastern frame drum), he headlines this evening at EMPAC’s Concert Hall with a bankably divine solo performance. Not yet 40, Mortazavi, who now lives in Berlin, has dramatically advanced the possibilities of traditional Iranian drumming,

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developing dozens of new striking and fingering techniques—which hasn’t always sat well with his unwavering elders. “Watching the unbelievably virtuosic soloist,” says France’s Arte magazine, “one could get the impression he does not have two, but at least six hands.”

7:30pm. $18. Troy. (518) 276-3921; Empac.rpi.edu.

“HORTON’S HOLIDAY HAYRIDE”: REVEREND HORTON HEAT/JUNIOR BROWN/THE BLASTERS/BIG SANDY December 8. Right here at Colony is the roots-rockabilly roundup to end ’em all. Topping the tree is Texas titan the Reverend Horton Heat, who singlehandedly rekindled the rockabilly flame in the ’90s, starting with the anthemic single “Psychobilly Freakout.” Arizona’s Junior Brown blends rockabilly with honky-tonk country, hard rock, surf, mariachi, and other styles and is a double threat, with his bottomless baritone voice and mind-blowing technique on his hybrid Guit-Steel instrument. And from California come 1980s rockabilly/punk/R&B pioneers the Blasters and Western swing king Big Sandy, who leaves behind his Fly-Rite Boys to play solo. (Darlene Love falls “In Love for the Holidays” December 5; Rhett Miller rollicks December 17.) 7pm. $50. Woodstock. (845) 679-7625; Colonywoodstock.com.

RENE BAILEY ALBUM RELEASE PARTY December 29. It was joyous and humbling to feature storied Hudson Valley blues and jazz vocalist Rene Bailey in last September’s Chronogram Music pages. According to producer Eli Winograd, Good Old Songs, Bailey’s long-awaited gospel album is nearly complete and will be celebrated with this special night at the Falcon, where Miss Bailey regularly holds forth with Dixieland stalwarts the Saints of Swing. Members of that band are featured on Good Old Songs, along with a cast of other local greats that includes veteran violinist Larry Packer and bluesman Slam Allen. “Almost everyone who plays on the record will be there,” says Winograd. “It’s gonna be insane!” (David Amram celebrates his 87th birthday December 3; Sexmob gets steamy December 10.) 8pm. Donation requested. Marlboro. (845) 236-7970; Liveatthefalcon.com.

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Songwriter/guitarist Duke McVinnie likens his “audio danger junkie” trip unto a tipping train that nearly derails as it bolts around the bend.

And it is the fellow seasoned musicians in his DMV Band that help quicken his pulse and ratify the thrill of the challenge: Hudson Valley greats Jane Scarpantoni (cello), Matthew Cullen (electric guitar), Manuel Quintana (drums), and Colin Almquist (bass). Titled for McVinnie’s 11th release, this recording once again shows off his idiosyncratic Tom Waits/Leonard Cohen-esque vocal blend and his propensity for creating music that’s authentic in its own right. From the catchy backwoods funk of “Joselito” to the melancholy, cello-driven “Jackalope” and the disturbing, dissonant desperate-turned-hopeful soundscape of the lengthy “11:11 P.M.,” McVinnie’s penchant for providing a rare, ever-changing listening experience is steadfast.

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—Sharon Nichols

VENTURE LIFT STREET OF MIRRORS (2017, INDEPENDENT)

Street of Mirrors, the fourth album by Venture Lift, the neopsych recording project of Woodstock’s Stanton Warren, is a highly dynamic and diverse set of material. It starts strong, with the track “Turn On,” leaning heavily on the vibe of punk-goes-electronica pioneered by Suicide and New Order. From there, the tunes open up and slow down, getting more ethereal and spacey as the record progresses.

On the instrumental track “Girl with Green Eyes,” there are even some Eastern musical nods here, with sparsely played box percussion and open-tuned electric guitar drones that a Shankar-influenced George Harrison may have found fancy for. The spoken-word/instrumental track “Bessie Echo Blues” (voice by Karen Schoemer) reads like paranoid inner thoughts ripped straight from the headlines of anxiety-induced contemporary news media. A musical dirge trudges on behind the poetic lines, mirroring the delicate, labored movements required to simply get through the day with your mental capacities intact in these troubled times. Layered, phasered-out acoustics and sweet-voiced synths accentuate the languid, Syd Barret-esque vocals of the closing track, “War Won’t Fix It,” a sort of anti-call to arms, simple in its messaging but major in its meaning.

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HOLIDAY BOOKS GIFT GUIDE 2017 With the holidays coming up, there are no greater gifts than books. Here are our some of our suggestions for the bakers, musician fans, and history buffs in your family, plus some picks from local bookstore owners. Support your local independent bookstore this gift-giving season! —Leah Habib.

OLD MACDONALD HAD A...ZOO? IZA TRAPANI CHARLESBRIDGE, $16.99, 2017

Ulster Park-based author and illustrator Iza Trapani’s latest children’s book provides a classic twist on the Old MacDonald Had a Farm nursery rhyme. With the addition of kangaroos and elephants, MacDonald is clearly in for a treat, as he loads up his zoo characters. The colorful illustrations and expressive animals will be enjoyed by both parents and children.

A SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE: NEW YORK STATE IN THE FIRST WORD WAR AARON NOBLE, KEITH SWAHEY, AND VICKI WEISS EXCELSIOR EDITIONS, $29.95, 2017

To commemorate the 100th year anniversary of World War I, this historical coffee book features beautiful color and black and white photographs. Posters, artifacts and other forms of visual media are displayed in this catalog which showcases New York’s involvement in World War I. Produced to accompany the New York State Museum exhibit of the same name, on Saturday, December 9, the authors will be signing copies of the book at the museum in Albany after a tour from 1 to 3pm.

WHAT I FOUND IN A THOUSAND TOWNS: A TRAVELING MUSICIAN’S GUIDE TO REBUILDING AMERICA’S COMMUNITIES— ONE COFFEE SHOP, DOG RUN, & OPEN MIKE NIGHT AT A TIME DAR WILLIAMS BASIC BOOKS, $27, 2017

YOGA: THE SECRET OF LIFE FRANCESCO MASTALIA POWERHOUSE BOOKS, 2017, $60

highlights the spiritual and physical journey of yoga through the personal experiences of 108 masters. Stunning portraits by Rhinebeck photographer Francesco Mastalia are accompanied by enlightening teachings aimed at constructing a happy, fulfilled life. The world-renowned yogis and yoginis featured in the book include Radhanath Swami, Gurmukh Kaur Khasla, Sri Dharma Mittra, Krishna Das, Rodney Yee, Seane Corn, Shiva Rea and Woodstock-based Jivamukti founders Sharon Gannon and David Life. The photographs are taken on glass plates using the wet collodion process, a photographic technique dating back to the 1850s. With the use of a large format wooden camera and antique brass lens, glass plates are hand coated to produce one-of-a-kind ambrotype images. When light and chemistry collide, we enter a mysterious world where art and science meet and the alchemy reveals itself.

Recommended by Audrey Cusson, Mirabai

FEED THE RESISTANCE: RECIPES + IDEAS FOR GETTING INVOLVED JULIA TURSHEN CHRONICLE BOOKS LLC, $14.95, 2017

This handbook packs powerful recipes for political activist.

Filled with easy dishes, creative meals for large groups of people and tasty baked good suggestions sandwiched between food-themed essays, this is a perfect mini cookbook gift for the political minded in-law. On Saturday, December 9, Julia Turshen will be signing books at Keegan Ales in Kingston from 4 to 6pm.

Cold-Spring based pop-folk singer-songwriter Dar Williams has traveled extensively throughout America.

In her latest book, Williams profiles several cities and towns and the historical, natural, cultural or social aspects that make them flourish. Featuring a chapter on Beacon entitled “Beacon, New York: The Power of Created Space” in which she examines the revitalization of one of the Hudson Valley’s hippest towns.

RECKLESS DAUGHTER: A PORTRAIT OF JONI MITCHELL DAVID YAFFE SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS/FSG, 2017, $28

Joni Mitchell may have missed the historic Woodstock festival due to an appearance on “The Dick Cavett Show,” but her iconic song “Woodstock” remains an integral part of the concert’s legacy for a town, a generation, and a state of mind. “The deprivation of not being able to go provided me with an intense angle on Woodstock,” is just one of the many surprising insights in Syracuse professor David Yaffe’s moving biography. Yaffe will join nine musicians on December 1 at Colony Woodstock for a Mitchell tribute concert and he’ll be in conversation with journalist Holly George-Warren on December 2 at the Golden Notebook.

Recommended by James Conrad, Golden Notebook

THE QUARRY FOX: AND OTHER CRITTERS OF THE WILD CATSKILLS LESLIE T. SHARPE

BAKING WITH SUCCESS GALL SOKOL LIFERICH, $40.99, 2017

Chef Gail Sokol explains the daunting task of baking.

In this cookbook readers will find simple concise, easy to follow recipes accompanied by photographs of tasty delectables. Lessons on how to make cakes, cookies, breads and more can be enjoyed in this enlarged handbook. In addition, Sokol provides sections on necessary baking ingredients, tools, and how to measure properly in the art of baking.

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OVERLOOK PRESS, 2017, $25.95

Naturalist Leslie T. Sharpe brings us a beautiful meditation on the fauna of the Catskills. The first in-depth writing on area wildlife to date, Sharpe’s book is narrative nonfiction with much contemplation on life in the Catskills mixed in with her fascinating stories of abundant animals. This book is the perfect gift for local environmentalists and anyone who has a deep appreciation for the outdoors and longs to know more about our fellow critters.

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POETRY

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

Full submission guidelines: Chronogram.com/submissions.

We all live in the word jungle.

—Brant Clemente (4 years)

I like the trees best now With their hands where I can see them —p

THE HOLLOW SPOTS ARE RESONANT

WALKING SHORTS

My uncle taught me the workaholic phrases a handyman possesses like his skills.

i I thought he was dead.

Yet here he is, bloodless.

Bloodless.

(It’d be years before I learned a firm mattress is duller than a choir of exploding heads.)

You’ve got to knock or tap and put your ear to the surface to identify whatever might connect a picture to the wall or separate the laughter from the crying in the other room.

(It’d be years before I learned nine-tenths of the law is fluctuant like a bathtub full of tomato juice.)

In the right hands, the abilities to rap and listen take back the oak and rock from the wrong hands. (But doing that too much will make you blind.) An old bone cold-bound produces dead sounds; it doesn’t blanch or make a workman blush like the shame of a job poorly done.

—Jake Sheff

AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD he waits with torso naked for the passersby to see & touch if they dare this man yoked with a gnarled hump & twisted frame who comes day by day to offer himself as the least of us to remind the strong of the lost, the violent of the humble, the proud of the weak & though the air is brittle & the ground is wet he comes with cup in hand & alone as are we all who wait for our bus that will arrive soon & with it the inescapable & most perfect fact we are bound to a future we know not

ii The androgynous hydrant.

A blue phallus.

With three blue breasts. iii I saw the lake.

But I didn’t look at it.

It’s always the same. iv I heard a hawk.

All I saw was a whistle.

And a gray cloud. v It wasn’t intended.

I wanted a stone.

I found a leaf. vi The house.

How big on the outside.

On the inside, how small.

—JR Solonche

THE CAT ACTIVIST Eleanor R. pooh-poohs her pedigree, and though slightly arthritic, keeps busy doing good unto others, promotes votes for field mice, sponsors teas for needy felines, believes all cats are created equal and favors fair-trade tuna for breakfast.

—Elizabeth Atkins

& will only taste once.

ON GIVING CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE

—Roger Aplon

Who we are Is always better Than the other two.

she never seemed graceless the way she would tap her fingers on her hips in expectation and confidence. she wore power skintight, more comfortable then it would ever be at the hands of any man. all the praise she got among whispers and free drinks were well-earned.

—Giles Selig

—Autumn Laurie

WHO WE ARE Who we are Is not the same As what we are And what we do.

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THE SLIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT MODERN ART MUSEUM SECURITY GUARD He stands there, barely, a kind of slow moving piece of performance art, just a bit off-stage, not comprehending the apparently fabulous shapes recently described in the New York Times, though he is, indeed, dressed for the part.

His hands, lightly clenched behind his back, hold no brushes, no paint, no cloth.

His eyes, unsure of much here in this large white room glance off into somebody else’s distance while the rest of him, curious for the moment, wonders if the tuna fish sandwich his wife packed for lunch will be enough today.

Now he is leaning up against the wall, now is he not, now he is not leaning up against the wall, now he is.

—Mitch Ditkoff

POLICE BEE I had just sat down on the porch to peacefully enjoy my morning brew when I was greeted by a bee. (a big bee) The bee investigated me, (police bee) collecting data for a report.

And I sat still.

He buzzed the blues ’round the crown of my head.

He buzzed a beat to the left of my neck.

He buzz-whispered a sting warning into my right ear.

Now that tickled me and I laughed.

Spell broken.

Bee gone.

—Jennifer Lewis Bennett

JACK AND JILL I don’t think you noticed my head hitting the towel rack as you slammed your lips onto mine.

I thought of the headache I’d have later, as you continued to kiss my mouth.

But remembering the Advil in my bag, I sighed with relief, which you mistook as pleasure and pulled me closer.

—Lauren Sirna

NEW TEETH

ODE TO POETS WHO MAKE SENSE

Living on grains knee-hi grass and good karma To work in a garden I do but Somehow I still walk past your smile in the hallway Passing eyes and a smile that live in my mind w/o knowing One day our sons will inherit those same dark chocolate saucers w/sweet as milk faces and grow up to out-height all the grown-ups so quickly Ho! Go back to the times of good karma & knee-hi grass. We are in a poem and I am free.

Be 30 in 1996: no offspring, no marriage, no house of your own. The future is untold.

My chakras are all open. A fistful of popcorn & two dogs yet gone are the stars in my eyes.

Hey, do you remember: Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes?

Smiling President Reagan illustrated by Sue Coe? I can’t forget that and remember so much. Why would you insist I’m a poet?

Yo, I’m just taking a break (from NYC and you) waiting.

It’s sunset at Hersey’s place up in Millbrook and Kalahari is still alive.

I’m in charge of four dogs all of them related + an old vineyard, a huge property. John’s away.

Without you my Darling—there’s no pressure, no gravity and no desire. I’m in heaven.

Check- given the gift of living and to sense all of Earth’s perfections What’s wrong with me? Each day I see the end. That’s my affliction.

I smell tho’ the air I know will have no odor.

The taste is salt because that’s how tears are My sons are with me because that and new teeth are all I really want anymore Let’s say all the dogs are gone and those with power cannot see that heaven is Earth after all Now my breasts fold into me—I’m heartbroken.

The natural order please? Yes the children were/are the whole point!

Until thy see Earth and Heaven are one then & only in the end will true intimacy be restored.

—Stacy Fine

AFTERNOON The first drink is always made with sparkling water from the refrigerator chilled perfectly with an ice cube. I usually put it in a nice glass, too make a ceremony out of pouring the whiskey and absinthe over the cube hold it up to the light before taking the first delicate sip.

The second drink is usually made with tap water, the fancy glass carefully angled so that it doesn’t crack against metal faucet or break on one of the dirty dishes piled in the sink. The measurements for alcohol are much less precise—it’s more dependent on how much time I have left to drink before the kids come home from school or the husband comes home from work.

—Holly Day

SONNET OF WORRIES Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

—Proverb Will the train arrive on time or will there be an accident, far up the line; and all the other trains that follow still have no place else to go? And will the wine taste full and deep, instead of going bad, like vinegar? And will the day pass by without a glitch, without a hitch, no sad or hurtful moments to recall, no why or wherefore hanging in the air without an answer close at hand? And will we hear our crying child in sleep when nightmares shout within her dreams, or will her youthful fears grow larger than her soul can fend away, to darkly color all her other days?

—William J. Joel

A JOURNEY I will a Journey make, The hurried journey of mankind.

I will, for goodness’ sake, Return to her and goodness find.

I will the darkness break, And break my heart at break of broken day.

The pile of sodden leaves I rake, Is only half the price of winter that I pay.

And say I to the rafters, shake!

And also to the earth below, For I have hurried love to make, I hurry love to make my lover know.

—Tom Fleming

You paint murals with your words for community center walls, preaching unity of racereligiongendersexequality and its damningly beautiful because we might never get there but we totally get what you’re saying, bro. And how do you paint those tiny little elephants on tiny little canvases to stand on those tiny little easels without them looking like hippos or horses or like you smudged a bug with your thumb?

Consider this my invocation. I’m not looking for the Muse of God or your aunt’s great secret which she swears is at the bottom of a bottle that tastes like literary Nam, just to chew the same grass as you or maybe steal your poem when you aren’t looking.

—Carina Kohn

DYING UPRIGHT When the moon is severed And the world falls away Until the falling feels like flying, What is there left to do?

Or put another way, What do we do with our hands While our wings do all the work?

When we wade out to sea Looking to test our god-given gills, And the swells carry us out beyond breathing altogether, Who do we thank?

Or put another way, How do we receive the gift of air Without filling our lungs with water?

The dead do not ask questions, They do not negotiate with the living.

So too, the dying ready themselves For the loss of memory and desire.

Or put another way, How do we die upright Full of the sorrow that is joy?

—Kemp Battle

MY MOTHER ON HER WEDDING DAY morning sickness precedes mascara applied with shaking hand a sister’s love expressed in lipstick and blush gentle brush strokes smoothing flyaways beneath a careful veil of backhanded compliments and whispers nearly inaudible —it won’t last—how could it— the buttons pinch soft skin the diploma newly hung on papered flowers childhood clashing against accidental adulthood a shotgun spray bouquet of roses and baby’s breath sweetens the room —Scout Mercer 12/17 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 65

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THY KRAUT KINGDOM COME HAWTHORNE VALLEY EXPANDS FERMENTATION OPERATION

By Marie Doyon Photos by Roy Gumpel

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Opposite: Whitethorne CEO Andreas Schneider elbow-deep in Ruby kraut.

Above: Irene Holsapple labeling bottles in Whitethorne’s new $1.5 million facility in Hudson.

T

hese days, to call forth an image of America’s heartland is to summon the sight of a swath of corn stretching into the horizon. But it wasn’t always like that—it was once a patchwork of diversified family farms. In 1971, Earl Butz was appointed secretary of agriculture by President Nixon. Known for his hornrimmed glasses and surly misdemeanor, the Midwestern conservative heralded a change in the American food landscape. His fierce “get big or get out” campaign nocked the arrow of industrial agriculture that pierced the nation’s farmland.

Throughout his tenure, “King Corn” steadily struck down of New Deal initiatives that supported good land stewardship and protected farmers’ wages, instead advocating for growers to plant commodity crops “from fence row to fence row,” creating a fierce price competition that favored large, commercial operations.

As the rip tide of Big Ag began sucking under small and medium-sized farms, a group of Waldorf educators in the Northeast banded together to raise funds for a farm that they could cultivate biodynamically and use as a place-based learning center for children. “Hawthorne Valley has always been about connection—an enterprise of reconnecting people to soil, to their community, and to their own sense of purpose and higher calling in world,” says Executive Director Martin Ping.

In July 1972, the founders purchased a farm nestled in the small Columbia County hamlet of Harlemville and set out to prove the viability of small and midsized farming, while creating an oasis where children, who were growing up in an increasingly materialistic and mechanized culture, could mend their frayed connection to nature. More than four decades later, the organization has all but taken over Harlemville, expanding to include 900 acres and most of the buildings along Main Street.

More Than the Sum of Its Parts Hawthorne Valley embodies the principles of biodynamic agriculture in which the farm is viewed as an organism made up of interdependent “organs” that contribute to the overall health and resilience of the whole. In Hawthorne Valley’s case, these organs include a K to 12 Waldorf school; visiting student programs; Biodynamic veggie and dairy farm operations; an organic product line; a full-line grocery store; social, ecological, and cultural research initiatives; and teacher training programs.

The project pushes back on Butz’s theory that small farms were doomed to fail.

Ping is cautious to overstate the organization’s triumphs, however. “This all remains a work in progress, and the long-term success of small and mid-size farms remains fragile as they try to operate in an financial system that favors the large,” he says.

“To the extent that Hawthorne Valley has been modestly successful, as a work in progress, I would say that it is largely attributable to the holistic approach we take in integrating our work across a diverse spectrum of initiatives and enterprises.”

He points to their direct marketing efforts (their CSA, farmers’ markets, and retail farm store) and their diversified on-farm value-adding programs (the bakery, creamery, and fermentation operations) as the keys to remaining financially viable.

It helps, too, that the public is finally catching up with Hawthorne Valley’s longheld food values. Organic is the fastest growing sector of the food industry, with consistent double-digit growth every year over the past decade. In 2016 alone, US shoppers spent $47 billion on organic products, accounting for more than five percent of total food sales. Andreas Schneider, Hawthorne Valley alumnus and the Director of Farm Production Enterprises, says, “We are absolutely seeing this revolution in how people think about what they eat. It is really a statement about wellness and wanting foods that are good for your body, that give you a stronger connection to land where food is produced.”

Have Your Kraut and Eat it Too Since 1999, Hawthorne Valley has operated a “kraut cellar” on campus out of a 1,500-square-foot basement space. Their product line includes rotating flavors of kraut (caraway and jalapeño, to name two), kimchi, curtido, kvass, and hot sauce. National excitement has bubbled up around raw, probiotic foods as public awareness about the detrimental health impacts of processed products has increased. Amidst this growing trend, Hawthorne Valley ferments became an indemand fixture in the region’s natural food stores and co-ops, but their facility was unsuited to meet the growing market.

“The kraut business was sitting under the nonprofit Hawthorne Valley. They recognized at the right moment that it was stifling their growth,” says Kate Danaher, the senior director of Social Enterprise Lending and Integrated Capital at RSF Social Finance. RSF is a financial intermediary that works with investment 12/17 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 67

Pete McPartland (red hat) and Brendan Laholak (orange hat) operate the new line filler.

and philanthropic capital to offer direct, transparent financial services to social enterprises. The company has a long relationship with Hawthorne Valley—it was once housed on the campus and has loaned the organization money multiple times.

To address their kraut conundrum, Hawthorne Valley created a for-profit subsidiary, Whitethorne LLC, which afforded them the opportunity to raise different types of capital. In 2016, Whitethorne took $1.56 million in loans from RSF to build out the lacto-fermentation operation.

Since its founding, Hawthorne Valley has had to raise money to offset its operating costs. Danaher explains that by building out the kraut business as a for-profit, they are creating a “long-term buffer,” a funding arm that will fiscally support the nonprofit’s mission. “I’m really excited about it,” Danaher says. “It’s very unique what they’re doing.You don’t see it a lot.”

Digging into the Artistry Of the total funds loaned, $900,000 was allocated to the purchase of a 22,000-square foot production facility in Hudson, next to the Harney & Sons tea plant.The remaining $600,000 was split between facility upgrades and equipment.

The single biggest change to the fermentation operation is the introduction of a line filler—a specialized machine for packing jars of product. Up until now, all the jars of sauerkraut were handpacked. “Automating packaging is going to free up bandwidth to focus more attention on crafting and fermenting and allow us to keep improving the quality,” says Schneider, who oversees the new facility. “Live fermentation is an art more than a science.The new space is really set up to let our fermentation pros dig into the artistry of it.”

After six months of renovations that included adding a walk-in cooler the size of their former facility, the big move began in October with the goal of completing the transition by Thanksgiving.The team currently consists of eight people. “We all chip in,” Schneider says. “The sales folks are helping with production right now.This is definitely a jump up for us and a little bit of a scrappy start-up team right now.”

The Future is Fermented The timing is right. A report published earlier this year by BIS research concluded that the global fermented foods and ingredients market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.98 percent over the next six years, reaching $888 billion by 2023.

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While Hawthorne Valley does intend to ramp up its production and increase its distribution to span the East Coast, they are not trying to put anyone out of business. “We want to grow in a way that is mindful of our brothers and sisters in the fermentation world,” Ping says. To this end, their facility will offer co-packing services for other local fermentation operations, including some by former students and staff of Hawthorne Valley, like Sauerkraut Seth’s and Poor Devil Pepper Co. They are also discussing forming a fermenter’s guild to share research and best practices and to educate the public about lacto-fermented foods.

“This food is alive. It’s alive with energy. It hasn’t been processed to death, cooked, or pasteurized. Any of that initial goodness you pull out of plant, is enhanced with lacto-fermentation,” Schneider says fervently. Microorganisms in these cultures continually break down the food, increasing the nutrient bioavailability. One of history’s happy accidents, fermented food gave people the capacity to store food for longer, becoming a staple in diets around the world.

On a scientific level, this preservation is possible because lacto-fermentation encourages the growth of lactobacillus. The lactic acid produced by this “friendly bacteria” drops the pH low enough to preserve the food and prevent the proliferation of harmful pathogens, which eliminates the need for aggressive federal regulating that products like dairy face.

Additionally research has shown that probiotic foods and drinks can play an important role in overall health by providing enzymes to aid digestion, by making nutrient assimilation easier, and by supplying and nourishing a diverse and positive community of intestinal bacteria. “Everyone has a unique microbiome, a unique digestive system, and is going to respond differently to raw and fermented foods,” Schneider says. “But there is no doubt that there are benefits to eating a diet that includes high quality fermented foods that come direct from farms.”

Ultimately the mission of Hawthorne Valley, with its twin aims of regenerating land and reconnecting people, has endured, even as the organization has aged and metamorphosed. “What the new space represents is exciting—the fact we can hopefully start reaching a lot more people and developing their connection to the food, and the farmers that grow it, is a really wonderful extension of Hawthorne Valley,” Schneider says. And by being the majority shareholder of Whitethorne, Hawthorne Valley can ensure that mission and values remain intact even as the organization grows its reach long into the future.

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1 West Strand Kingston, NY 845.331.4700 Redstartcoffee.com Hours 8am-6pm every day

tastings directory 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, Jonathan Sheridan, and Dan Sherman.

Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.

Redstart Coffee 1 West Strand, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4700 www.redstartcoffee.com

Catering Lobster Lagoon Catering 259 South Pearl Street, Albany, NY (518) 536-4500 ansong12@gmail.com Lobster Lagoon Catering provides full service catering for large and small gatherings, from 10-500 guests. For all your events (weddings, corporate events, summer barbecue, graduation, or other party.

Mary’s Cookin Again (607) 326-4191 www.maryscookin.com

Restaurants A&P Bar and Restaurant 83 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY www.aandpbar.com

Café Mio

Hudson Hil’s 129-131 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-9471 www.hudsonhils.com

J&J’s Gourmet Café and Catering 1 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-9030 www.jandjgourmet.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 22 years! For more information and menus, go to osakasushi.net.

Red Hook Curry House 28 E Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2666 www.redhookcurryhouse.com

Stonehedge Restaurant 1694 Route 9W, West Park, NY (845) 384-6555 www.stonehedgerestaurant.com

310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 www.elephantwinebar.com

Gomen Kudasai Noodle Shop 232 Main Street, Rite Aid Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811 www.gknoodles.com

NEW HOURS: Wed: 5-9:30ish (10% off industry night) Thurs: 5-9:30ish (20% of wine bottles) Fri & Sat: 5-10pm Sunday Brunch: 11:30-2pm Closed Mon & Tues

310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 www.elephantwinebar.com

Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7992 Kingston, NY (845) 338-1400 www.yumyumnoodlebar.com

Stone Ridge, Accord, NY www.applestonemeat.com

Elephant

We’re changing things up a bit!!!

Yum Yum Noodle Bar

Colony Woodstock

130 NY-22, Pawling, NY (845) 289-0185 www.darylshouseclub.com Daryl’s House Restaurant & Music Club serves up top-notch food along with amazing music Wednesday - Sunday. The weekends feature Free Music Brunch! Full calendar of shows, tickets + menus can be found on the website.

FOOD & WINE

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

Applestone Meat Co.

Daryl’s House Club

elephant

Yobo Restaurant

2356 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4949 www.miogardiner.com 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7625 www.colonywoodstock.com

The premier Sushi restaurant in the Hudson Valley for over 22 years. Only the freshest sushi with an innovative flair.

Specialty Food Shops

Hookline Fish Company 906 Route 28, West Hurley, NY (917) 771-6648 www.hooklinefish.com

Breakfast • Lunch Fresh, local ingredients served in a relaxed atmosphere Open six days week - Closed Tuesdays

12-131 Main St, Cold Spring, NY • 845-265-9471 • www.hudsonhils.com

Harney & Sons Fine Teas 13 Main Street, Millerton, NY www.harney.com

Quattros Game Farm and Store Route 44, Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-2018

Orchard, Farm Market, Café & Bakery

Fruit, Food & Fun!

Water Oracle 41 E. Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8327 www.thewateroracle.com

Vineyard Milea Estate Vineyard Hollow Road, Staatsburg, NY www.mileaestatevineyard.com (845) 264-0403 info@mileaestatevineyard.com

Open 7 Days a Week. Serving Lunch.

1421 Rt 9H, Ghent, NY 518-828-5048 loveapplefarm.com 12/17 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 71

business directory Accommodations Blue Barn BnB

62 Old Route 82, Millbrook, NY (845) 750-2669 www.bluebarnbnb.com

Diamond Mills

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

Mohonk Mountain House

1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY (800) 772-6646 www.mohonk.com

Antiques Outdated

314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0030 outdatedcafe@gmail.com

Architects Bialecki Architects

www.bialeckiarchitects.com info@bialeckiarchitects.com

Art & Music

business directory

The Falcon

1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com info@liveatthefalcon.com Live world class music, art gallery, dining, libations, vibrations. The Falcon Underground, New York Taproom + Beer Garden, the Avalon Archives Museum of Rock & Roll. Perched over the magnificent Marlboro Falls. No tickets! No cover! Donations encouraged!

Support living artists! Dinner & Brunch reservations available.

Guns Don’t Save People...

Poets Do: Dueling with words to stop gun violence

71 Main Street, PO Box 284, Stamford, NY (845) 625-9190 A Facebook Group poetsout@gmail.com Using poetry to tell others about the legacy of gun violence. One can only imagine that if folks came to understand what happens after that shot is taken, how the horror only begins with the echo of that gun blast...then they... because they are logical and loving... would release their grip on that gun handle. Read: U R Not Your Gun at on Facebook

Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House

327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1438 www.hudsonhall.org hello@hudsonhall.org Hudson Hall offers a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, literature, youth and adult workshops, as well as community events such as Winter Walk. Housing New York State’s oldest surviving theater, Hudson Hall underwent a full restoration and reopened to the public in 2017 for the first time in over 55 years. Hudson Hall reflects Hudson’s rich history in a modern facility that welcomes visitors from our community, across the nation, and around the globe.

Art Galleries & Centers Dorsky Museum

SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu

The Gallery at Rhinebeck

47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY www.galleryrhinebeck.org

Mark Gruber Gallery

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

The Rodney Shop

362 Main Street, Catskill, NY (917) 334-8022 therodneyshop.com shop@therodneyshop.com A unique creative store and gallery featuring

the artwork and products of artist Rodney Alan Greenblat. Rodney’s whimsical, brightly colored paintings, prints and constructions are offered, as well as a selection of t-shirts, toys, gifts and housewares. Open Friday and Saturday 11am to 6pm and Sunday 11am to 4pm. Closed December 1, 2, and 3.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.woodstockguild.org events@woodstockguild.org

Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply

Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250 Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251

Artisans Fieldstone Artistry

Wurtsboro, NY (717) 368-3067 www.fieldstonearts.com contact@fieldstonearts.com Fieldstone Artistry is a hand-crafted furniture studio located in upstate New York. We specialize in contemporary furniture pieces exhibiting function, quality and beauty. With a focus on locally harvested materials and solid wood construction. We combine the use of traditional techniques with unique modern designs.

Artists Jean-Marie Martin jeanmariemartin.com

Artists Studios Regal Bag Studios

302 North Water Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 444-8509 www.regalbagstudios.com

Attorneys Jacobowitz & Gubits (845) 778-2121 www.jacobowitz.com

Auto Sales

Oblong Books

26 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3797 www.oblongbooks.com

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

Building Services & Supplies Amanda’s Fireplace

1871 Route 9H, Hudson, NY (518) 828-9337 www.amandasfireplace.com

First Fuel & Propane

(518) 828-8700 www.firstfuelandpropane.com

Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704

John A Alvarez and Sons 3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com

Beauty Supply Columbia Wig and Beauty Supply

56 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996 www.columbiacostumes.com columbiacostumes@gmail.com Columbia provides a wide array of beauty products, from high end wigs to headscarves, hair dye to hair styling products, every day makeup to special effect makeup. Not to mention, costume rentals, costume wigs, and theatrical accessories. Columbia now offers a variety of gift basket sets for the Holidays.

Beverages Binnewater/Leisure Time Spring Water (845) 331-0504 www.binnewater.com

Book Publishers Epigraph Publishing Service

22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.epigraphps.com paul@monkfishpublishing.com Epigraph Publishing Service is a home for books where authors can find solutions to their many publishing needs including design, editing, printing, and distribution. Epigraph is a DBA of Monkfish Book Publishing Company, an award-winning traditional small press founded in 2002, specializing in books that combine literary and spiritual merits.

Books Green Toad Bookstore

198 Main Street, Oneonta, NY www.greentoadbookstore.com

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71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 750-5279 www.computerhutsales.com computerhutsales@gmail.com Computer Hut offers a large inventory of refurbished computers, phones and tablets.

We repair Mac and PC computers, iPhones, and iPads. We also buy used electronics and offer electronic recycling free of charge with secure data wipe available.

Computing Solutions

(845) 687-9458 alan-silverman-computers.com alan.silverman.computers@gmail.com Are computers impossible? At your wit’s end?

Alan Silverman – Computer Concierge, I’m here when you need me. Helping people on three continents stay sane with computers since 1986. Home users and small businesses. I help buy the best built PCs, then set them up for you.

Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes

N & S Supply

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

Vetere Surveying

Bard MAT

www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com (845) 336-0043 www.veteresurveying.com

Williams Lumber & Home Center 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 Thurs.-Mon., 12-5; 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, kilim pillows, $45-55. We are happy to share our knowledge about rugs, and try and simplify the sometimes overcomplicated world of handwoven rugs.

Begnal Motors

552 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (888) 439-9985 www.ltbegnalmotor.com

Computer Services Computer Hut

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

Upstate Films

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

Clothing & Accessories

Education Bard College (845) 758-7151 www.bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org

Next Step College Counseling

Hyde Park, NY (845) 242-8336 www.nextstepcollegecounseling.com smoore@nextstepcollegecounseling.com

Primrose Hill School - Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com

SUNY New Paltz New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu

Environmental and Land Conservation Scenic Hudson

Hudson Valley, NY (845) 473-4440 www.scenichudson.org info@scenichudson.org We help valley citizens and communities preserve land and farms and create parks where people experience the outdoors and Hudson River. With new possibilities but also the impacts of climate change, we focus on maximizing the benefits all can enjoy from beautiful natural places and vibrant cities and town centers.

Events

Capsule Collection

105 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 331-2195

8 Day Week

Hamilton & Adams

Workshop Winter Market – Wickham Solid Wood Studio

32 John Street, Kingston, NY www.hamiltonandadams.com

www.chronogram.com/8dw

17 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4537 www.nextboutique.com

578 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 797-9247 www.workshopwintermarket.com Saturday December 9 and Sunday December 10. Curated holiday sale featuring the work of 20 artisans. Museum-store quality handcrafted small goods in wool, glass, clay, paper, linen, silk, wood, metal and beeswax. Takes place at Wickham Solid Wood Studio, a loftlike woodworking workshop on the banks of Fishkill Creek. Vendors display their wares on industrial woodworking machines and natural edge slabs of local hardwoods. Beacon Pantry will provide an onsite holiday cafe serving munchies and hot drinks to holiday shoppers.

OAK 42

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores

Kasuri

1 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 291-9922 www.kasuri.com

Lovefield Vintage

37 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 514-2720 www.lovefieldvintage.com

Next Boutique

34 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-0042 www.oak42.com

Willow Wood

38 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4141 willowwoodlifestyle@gmail.com

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

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

jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. Open Fri., Sat., Sun.,Mon. 10:30am - 6:00pm.

Mother Earth’s Store House

Dreaming Goddess

1955 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069, 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614, 300 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 www.motherearthstorehouse.com

Farms Love Apple Farm

1421 State Route 9H, Ghent, NY (518) 828-5048 www.loveapplefarm.com Love Apple Farm has been a part of the local farm scene for over 40 years offering an expansive farm market, Cafe with authentic Mexican lunch specials, onsite bakery with pies and donuts made from scratch. Petting zoo, Upick apples, event space, and more.

Open 7 seven days.

Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates Ltd.

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

Graphic Design & Illustration 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 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

exit nineteen

309 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 514-2485

Interior Design & Home Furnishings Cabinet Designers

747 State Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com Here at Cabinet Designers, we’re not your typical kitchen and bath company. We’re a design firm with great passion and attention to detail. Our kitchen and bath designs speak for themselves because we take pride in what we do. We don’t hesitate to think outside the box and create custom designs to fit your specific Kitchen & Bathroom needs. We work with high quality finishes and reliable materials from the most reputable vendors.

We leverage the latest techniques and styles from around the world because we research our field constantly. We’re a kitchen and bath design firm like no other. We never settle for less, and neither should you.

Marigold Home Inc.

667 State Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0800 www.marigold-home.com

Whimsy Home

136 Forest Glen Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 300-1908 www.whimsy-home.com

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Crafts People

262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including:

Geoffrey Good Fine Jewelry

238 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (212) 625-1656 www.geoffreygood.com Unusually fine jewelry fusing rebellious creativity with unbridled artistry and unparalleled craftsmanship. From custom engagement rings and wedding bands to one-of-a-kind couture pieces, the forgotten art of smallscale jewelry fabrication is reinvented at Geoffrey Good.

Green Cottage

1204 Route 213, High Falls, NY (845) 687-4810 www.thegreencottage.com

Hudson Valley Goldsmith

71A Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5872 www.hudsonvalleygoldsmith.com

Hummingbird Jewelers

23 A East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 hummingbirdjewelers.com info@hummingbirdjewelers.com Premier showcase for fine designer jewelry since 1978. Specializing in on premises custom goldsmithing, repairs, restoration and repurposing of your family heirlooms.

Gemologists-Appraisers. Watchmakers.

Best selection of unique wedding bands and engagement rings in the valley. Open Mon. 10:30-5:30,Tues. closed, Wed.-Sat. 10:30-5:30.

LC Studios

11 Wheeler Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 544-4896, (845) 275-3994 LCStudios.co LCStudiosJewelry@gmail.com Collage artist Lisa Cullen brings her creative talents to jewelry design, using her signature medium, paper. Completely handcrafted in her Warwick, NY studio, Cullen’s designs are contemporary, light as a feather and provide all day comfort. Eye catching colors are luminescent and shine from every angle.

Versatile pieces coordinate with any outfit and can take you from work to weekend and from day to evening.

Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 895-2051 www.warrenkitchentools.com

Lawyers & Mediators Karen A. Friedman Esq.

30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY www.newyorktrafficlawyer.com (212) 213-2145 k.friedman@msn.com Handling a variety of traffic-related and criminally-related traffic matters, including traffic and trucking violations, misdemeanors and appeals.

Music BSP Kingston

323 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.bspkingston.com

Musical Instruments Stamell Stringed Instruments

18 Kellogg Avenue, Amhesrt, MA (413) 256 0936 www.stamellstring.com info@stamellstring.com Stamell Stringed Instruments is a shop devoted to the violin family of instruments and bows. Here we provide unique services for the players and owners of stringed instruments.

As specialists in violin, viola, cello, and bass, we can assist our customers with appraisal information, insurance valuations, repair and restoration, rentals, sales, and helpful advice.

We also sell all of the best cases and accessories currently on the market.

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 fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

(845) 452-3077 www.communityfoundationsHV.org

Hudson River Housing

313 Mill Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5176 www.hudsonriverhousing.org

Pools & Spas

Hudson Valley Current

Aqua Jet

(845) 658-2302 www.hudsonvalleycurent.org

1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com

Ulster County Office of Economic Development

Real Estate

UlsterForBusiness.com

Wallkill Valley Writers

Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg.

New Paltz, NY (845) 750-2370 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com

275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com

YMCA of Kingston

507 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org

Lofts on Main

Peekskill, NY (845) 306-7705 www.loftsonmainny.com

Performing Arts

Upstate House

Bardavon 1869 Opera House

35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org The Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (the Bardavon) is a nonprofit arts presenter that owns and operates a historic theater of the same name in Poughkeepsie, and the region’s premiere orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. It offers affordable, world-class music, education programs, dance, theater, Met Live in HD broadcasts, and classic films for the diverse audiences of the Hudson Valley.

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

www.upstatehouse.com

Upstater

www.upstater.com

Willow Realty

120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-7666 www.friendlycircle.weebly.com LWillow@Aol.com

Record Stores Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217

Recreation

Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org

Plattekill Mountain

Center for Performing Arts

Roxbury, NY (607) 326-3500 www.plattekill.com

Kaatsbaan International Dance Center

Pegasus Comfort Footwear

661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 232-2320 www.centerforperformingarts.org

Shoes

www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org

The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio

339 Central Avenue, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.

Ulster Performing Arts Center

601 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 339-6088 www.upac.org The Broadway Theatre - Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC ) is a 1927 former vaudeville theatre that is on the National Historic Register. It seats 1500 and is the largest historic presenting house between New York City and Albany.

Pet Services & Supplies Pussyfoot Lodge

New Paltz (845) 256-0788 and Woodstock (845) 679-2373 www.pegasusshoes.com

Tourism Andes Chamber of Commerce (607) 433-8898 www.andesnewyork.com

Historic Huguenot Street

Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660

Putnam County Visitor’s Bureau www.visitputnam.org

Veterinarian All Creatures Veterinary Hospital

14 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1890 www.newpaltzvet.com Veterinary services including discounted wellness packages for puppies, kittens, adults and seniors. Boarding, daycare & physical rehabilitation services.

Hopewell Animal Hospital

2611 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 221-PETS (7387) www.hopewellanimalhospital.com

Wedding Services

Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-0330

Cent’anni

Photography

www.centannicinema.com

Fionn Reilly Photography

Wine, Liquor, Beer & Cider

Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com

Angry Orchard

Walden, NY www.angryorchard.com

Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing

Hetta

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

(845) 216-4801 www.hettaglogg.com

Writing Services Peter Aaron

www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org

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Lush Eco-Salon & Spa

44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.dreaminggoddess.com

Organizations Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley

whole living guide

APPRECIATE YOUR LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH KOSHIN PALEY ELLISON ON THE LIFE-CHANGING ART OF PAYING ATTENTION by wendy k agan

H

ow do we create a society where we actually care for each other? That is the question that motivates Zen Buddhist teacher Koshin Paley Ellison. As the editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016), and the cofounder with his husband, Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell, of the NewYork Zen Center for Contemplative Care in New York City, Paley Ellison is on a mission to offer a Zen approach to the way we care for the people in our lives, whether they’re our patients or our grandparents.

At the Garrison Institute on January 11–14, Paley Ellison is teaming up with Chodo Campbell and Sensei Dorothy Dai En Friedman to offer the retreat “Winter Sesshin: Appreciate Your Life,” based on the teachings of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, one of the first Zen masters to bring Zen to the West. I recently connected with Paley Ellison to explore his take on the teachings, the art of caregiving, and how the act of paying attention can be a path to recognizing our lives as treasure.

What does it mean to “appreciate your life”?

Koshin Paley Ellison: It’s essentially to learn how to not take anything for granted—each moment, each breath, each person around us. It’s easy in some ways to forget that the people who are around us are the people in our life.

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Every day, we’re impacting people that we live with and care about. When we walk down the street or sit in a cafe, we’re impacting people. The Buddha said that our actions are our true belongings, and how we function in the world is at the heart of what we can do in this world. Which is exciting, because we can really be there.

One of the reasons why meditation practice is so helpful is that we actually experience what we’re experiencing while we’re experiencing it. For some reason, that’s unusual. If we want to practice being alive, which is also unusual, it is to really understand how to wake up. And to wake up is not just for us, but for the service of being with everybody.

That makes a lot of sense coming from you, since you work with people who are dying and those who care for them.

I work with dying people every day, but only some of the people know that they’re dying. Most of the people I work with don’t know that they’re dying. When it comes to the people who know they are dying, many of them have regrets. They regret things around relationships and fear. Like how much they’ve allowed their lives to be run by fear and a kind of insecurity or tightness around the different things we all struggle with. But the amazing and encouraging thing about working with people who know that they’re dying is that they know that this is it.

I was with my friend the amazing poet Marie Howe when her brother John that neither of us care whether people become Buddhists or not. Yet we was dying, and he said, “Marie, this is it.” And she said, “What do you mean?” need some discipline, some way to practice, whether that’s qi gong or yoga He said, “What you’ve been waiting for.” He gestured around as if to say, or whatever it is. I have a friend who does it through gardening. It’s about “Right where we are is what we have.” It’s amazing to me how often we are finding a way to connect to other people and having a discipline that helps not participating in what is actually happening. We’re waiting for something us realize that in many ways we’re completely dependent on, or as we say, interdependent with all things. Albert Einstein said our life is about widening else to happen or for someone to do something.

At our center [the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care], we out the circles of compassion. The work that we need to do is to expand out. encourage people to actually walk down 23rd Street while they’re walking So many of us are deeply empathetic beings, meaning that we can feel other down 23rd Street. And so there’s this community of people who are actually people’s feelings. Even just walking down the street, we can sense if someone here, while most of us are people in a dream. There’s a wonderful Zen is angry or sad, and it affects us.

One of the reasons why we created our teaching that says most people see a peony as if it were in a dream. But really the teaching is that “There’s a wonderful Zen teaching center was to learn how to widen the circle of compassion. We do it through a community Zen it’s always right here. With all this waiting and that says most people see a peony practice and through direct care at the bedside. In busyness we’re missing what’s actually happening. the last 10 years, we’ve offered care and support I think that being lost in these dreams is a habit as if it were in a dream. But reover 100,000 people. We train physicians, family that we can learn to change. ally the teaching is that it’s always to members, caregivers. We also have education right here. With all this waiting programs, including a certificate program and a How do we wake up from the dreams?

For me, three ingredients are essential to cultivate and busyness we’re missing what’s master’s program, because I think we all need to learn how to care for people. an awake mind: You can be aware of how you’re actually happening. Being lost in functioning in your thoughts, words, and actions.

Then you can learn how to be receptive to what these dreams is a habit that we can How can we get better at caring for each other? each moment is bringing. These things are easy learn to change.”

To actually really listen to someone and really to say. But one of the things I’ve found is that —Koshin Paley Ellison participate with them is what’s healing. It’s community is essential. For example, having a something we all know, because we know when teacher is really helpful for me. To have someone someone is paying attention to us. You can feel it. Think about the people you can check in with and participate with makes all the difference.

One of the things I’ve been talking about a lot these days is isolation, which in your life who make you feel cared for and listened to. They’re really is becoming a health pandemic in our culture. It has early death indicators, there. In some ways, it’s kind of ordinary. We all know how to do it, but higher than smoking. We’re acculturated to not really allow others in; we feel we forget.

These ideas, and in fact the whole creation of the center, were shyer and more autonomous. Yet we think we’re connecting to people—for example, on social media. Social media is good, but it depends on how it’s inspired by my grandmother. I was her primary caregiver at the end of used. People who use social media a lot tend to have higher rates of depression her life, and she felt that people didn’t know how to pay attention to each other. She made this really interesting distinction between being a and isolation.

So how do we learn how to extend out beyond what’s comfortable? well-meaning person and knowing how to pay attention. I think this is a Learning how to connect to other people is profoundly important but not really beautiful distinction, because they are very different things. What easy. Be willing to try new things, be willing to feel a little uncomfortable. she saw is that many family members and clinicians were well-meaning The poet Hafiz says, “Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to people but didn’t know how to really attend to her. And it wasn’t a see you living in better conditions.”You can’t know the unknown through the judgment, but a sense of, “Wow, we could really do this differently. And known. We can’t do something new by using our old way of being. One of the how do we do it differently?”

When my grandmother was in hospice, I moved in with her. And it was her things I love about living is that we have the opportunity to do something new idea for me and [Sensei Robert] Chodo [Campbell] to open a center and start all the time. The invitation is always present. We can participate fully with training people in Zen and caregiving. She was the one who thought we should others and know that everything matters. really pay attention to people. She felt like that was actually the healing agent.

So, appreciating your life is actually realizing that it’s not about you.

Exactly, and that’s part of the freedom. It’s not about me—what a relief! Maybe So here I was thinking you were going to talk about nirvana and I’m experiencing sadness or awkwardness, but humans have experienced recognizing our lives as treasure, which Taizan Maezumi talked those things throughout time, and I’m just having my experience of it. We about in his teachings. get a chance to look at what we do with that, and learn to do something new. Well, if you think about it, it’s actually all about that. One of the definitions And what do we mean when we say, “your life”? Often, we think it’s what of nirvana is “the place where the wind does not move.” It’s about finding the we can touch and taste and smell. But who made your clothes? Who grew place in yourself, and in the world, that is unmoving. In other words, you can your food? There are all these people whose names we will never know whose just stay in the discomfort, or stay in the relationship when it feels awkward. lives touch ours. We can recognize the mystery of all these beings and people, You can have the courage to stay and not run away.

It’s also nirvana from the point of view that paying attention is the healing animals and plants, that allow us to live our lives. If you really take that view, agent.

You can feel who is distracted and who’s really with you. You can feel how can you not be more joyful?

At a Zen retreat we all do things at the same time. We sit together at the who’s touching that place that we call nirvana. Offering that kind of attention same time, walk together, eat together, chant together, keep silence together. is a blessing. For anyone who’s going through a struggle or having any kind of But we’re doing it that way so we can see our habits of how we take ourselves difficulty, what could be better than that? out of relationship. And yet we can practice bringing ourselves back into Paley Ellison will co-lead the retreat “Winter Sesshin: Appreciate Your Life” at The relationship.

Garrison Institute on January 11–14. Held mainly in silence, with dharma talks, meditation practice, walking meditation, and one-on-one meetings with the teachers, Is meditation or Buddhist practice necessary to achieve this?

I was just talking to a dear friend who’s also a Buddhist teacher, and we found the retreat is open to all. Garrisoninstitute.org.

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Spoon performs at the Chance in Poughkeepsie on December 1.

Fork in the Road It would seem that after topping the indie charts and placing multiple albums in the Billboard 200, a band can take one of two artistic directions as they move forward: stick with the tried-and-true or try something a little different. But for Hot Thoughts, the ninth album by Spoon, the Texas alt-pop hitmakers took a third path, a middle one that retains the quartet’s familiar approach while adding whole new layers of sonic exploration. On December 1, the group will unfurl those layers live when they make a rare small-venue Hudson Valley appearance at the Chance.

“It’s a pretty keyboard-heavy record—rock ’n’ roll but without guitars,” says frontman Britt Daniel, who traditionally plays the latter instrument in Spoon, via phone from Spain, where the group played a pair of shows last month. “It’s very textured and soundscape-y.

But it evolved organically; we didn’t go into the studio planning to make an album that sounds the way this one does. I guess it started when we were working on an acoustic ballad and it was feeling like we just couldn’t get it out of that ‘acoustic’ world. It needed something different.”

Something different was no doubt what Spoon had in mind when they enlisted producer Dave Fridmann for their last album, 2014’s They Want My Soul, for which he recorded half the tracks and mixed in full. Dubbed “the Phil Spector of the Alt-Rock Era”

by MOJO magazine, the Buffalo native is famed for his expansive, experimental work with the Flaming Lips, MGMT, Mercury Rev, and others. Pleased with the producer’s panoramic palette, Daniel and his bandmates decided to retain his services for the making of Hot Thoughts, which pulses and percolates with atmospheric touches on standouts like “WhisperI’lllistentohearit” and the title tune. Nevertheless, smatterings from the Spoon

of yore flavor the disc as well: The funky “Do I Have to Talk You into It” recalls their ubiquitous signature 2005 smash “I Turn My Camera On.” “Dave’s a brilliant producer, and it was great to have him even more involved with this record than he was with the last one,” raves Daniel. “When you’re a band in the studio, he’s a good dad to have.”

Spoon was forged in the music hub of Austin by Daniel and drummer Jim Eno in 1994, debuting with a locally released EP that year before signing to indie dynamo Matador Records for 1996’s Telephono. The band’s brand of choppy, Pixies-stick postpunk won them adoring accolades in the music press and fervent fans in the rock underground.

After another EP, 1997’s Soft Effects, the group had a fleeting fling with majorlabeldom with 1998’s Series of Sneaks. Freed from Warner Bros./Elektra, they landed on Merge Records, where they found their feet for a five-album run that featured Girls Can Tell (2001), regarded by many as the band’s pinnacle, and the breakthroughs Gimme Fiction (2005) and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007). Hot Thoughts has Spoon heading full circle back to Matador, which released the album last March.

“It was definitely a trip, to be sitting down again to work out a deal with the same people we signed with almost 20 years ago,” muses Daniel. “But when we left Matador it was on good terms, and we’ve always stayed friends with the people there. And before we even talked to them, we did the same thing we always have: Make the record we like on our own first and just see what happens from there.”

Spoon will perform at the Chance in Poughkeepsie on December 1 at 7pm. White Reaper will open. Tickets are $30. (845) 471-1966; Thechancetheater.com.

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FRIDAY 1 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Nonprofits TALK 8:30-10am. Nonprofits TALK is a monthly facilitated conversation on selected nonprofit topics with the nonprofit community. Hosted by the Hudson Valley Sustainable Leadership Organization (HV SLO). The Pivot Ground Cafe & Work Space, Kingston. 481-0459.

DANCE Ballroom Dance with Pete Redmond & Crazy Feet 8-11:30pm. $15. After the lesson: the band provides a mix of dance-able ballroom, swing and Latin standards. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, LaGrangeville. 204-9833.

A Christmas Carol 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Christkindlmarkt: A German Christmas Market 3-6pm. Woodworkers, vendors’ specialties, gift ware, crafts, Elves’ table, home-baked treats, German and American food and refreshments. Kingston Maennerchor and Damenchor, Kingston. 338-3763.

Amity Arts Holiday Pottery Sale 6-9pm. Amity arts, Florida. 651-1170.

Peekskill Art Alliance Holiday Boutique 5-9pm. Studio 4, Peekskill. (914) 523-2941.

FILM Ephraim Asili: Inheritance 7pm. Ephraim Asili is in residence at EMPAC with a group of performers to develop the script for his feature-length film Inheritance. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Empac.rpi.edu.

The Princess Bride 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

What Would Jesus Buy 7pm. $5. The film focuses on the issues of the commercialization of Christmas, Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 471-6580.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Blood Drive 10:30am-5pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.

Hemp Oil 101 Class 7-8:30pm. Learn how to incorporate Hemp Oil into your life. Hemp oil can be used to increase immunity, counteract aging skin and improve cardiovascular health.

Breakthrough M2, Montgomery. 713-4320.

KIDS & FAMILY A Charlie Brown Christmas 8pm. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

MUSIC 6th Annual All-Stars: Christmas For Veterans 7:30-9:30pm. $35/$50/$100. Vanilla Fudge celebrating their 50th Anniversary tour, Gene Cornish of The Rascals, legendary rock drummer Carmine Appice, Kristen Capolino, Vaneese Thomas, Bill Edwards, MaryAnn Renza, Scott Staton & Tom Dudley, Duchess Di & Dave Keys, and incredible band including Paul Opalach, Pete Levin, Angel Rissoff, Rob Wallis, Wayne Warneke, Corrin Huddleston, Kathy Policastro, Andy Foster, and the Holiday Horns. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.

Anthony from Reality Check 8pm. Acoustic. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

British Folk-Rock Legend Richard Thompson 8pm. $45. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

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Cuboricua 8pm. Salsa and Latin dance. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Harry Rios Trio 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Honors Recital 3pm. The concert will feature facultyselected solo and chamber performances by students in its applied lesson program chosen based on outstanding performances at the convocation series.

SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

John Tesh Grand Piano Christmas 8pm. $65/$100 VIP. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Modern Bluegrass with Sara Watkins 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Orlando Marin Orchestra 8pm. Latin. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Vassar College Jazz Ensembles 8pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.

NIGHTLIFE Holiday Girls Night Out & Fundraising Event 4-7pm. There will be holiday cheer, hors d’oeuvres, product and gift card specials, a raffle, salon and spa services all to kick off your holiday season. Marlene Weber Day Spa, Poughkeepsie. 454-5852.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Astor’s Annual Holiday Festival Fundraiser 6pm. $65. Astor’s Board of Directors invite you to celebrate the season at our Annual Holiday Festival Fundraiser. Please join us as we kick off our 65th Anniversary with Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres.

Astor Services for Children & Families, Rhinebeck. 8711116.

Holiday Potluck Supper and Gift Auction 6:30pm. Join us on the First Friday in December for a festive potluck supper and whimsical auction of “Secret Santa” wrapped gifts. Creek Meeting House, Clinton Corners.

Snowflake Festival 6-8pm. Music performances, tree lighting, fire jugglers, and Victorian carolers in Uptown Kingston. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION 24th Annual Celebration of Lights Parade and Fireworks 6pm. The parade will kick off at 6pm on Main Street and Garden Street with the tree lighting occurring on Main, near Market St. The Parade will proceed to Dongan Square Park for the second tree lighting and the count down to the anticipated Fireworks display. Downtown Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie.

THEATER Annual Panto at the Ghent Playhouse 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

800-838-3006.

It's a Wonderful Life 8pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Fridge Plays 7:30-9pm. $20/$10 students. Two cutting-edge one-acts, two playwrights, two directors, four actors, one fridge. A harrowing, intense, sexy, raw, fierce evening of grab-you-by-the-throat theater. For audiences 18 and over only. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 8pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Little Mermaid – Beyond the Sea 8pm. $22/$17 members/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

SATURDAY 2 DANCE A Christmas Carol 4pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.

Nutcracker, Short and Sweet 2 & 6pm. $12-$16. Hudson Valley Dance Theater. Cornwall High School, New Windsor. 534-8009.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Christkindlmarkt: A German Christmas Market 11am-4pm. Woodworkers, vendors’ specialties, gift ware, crafts, Elves’ table, home-baked treats, German and American food and refreshments.

Kingston Maennerchor and Damenchor, Kingston. 338-3763.

Amity Arts Holiday Pottery Sale 10am-4pm. Amity arts, Florida. 651-1170.

Peekskill Art Alliance Holiday Boutique 11am-8pm. Studio 4, Peekskill.

(914) 523-2941.

Clinton Historical Society Annual Craft Fair 10am-4pm. Creek Meeting House, Clinton Corners. 266-5203.

Entertaining in the Country with Joan Osofsky & Abby Adams 1-2pm. Join us as we visit with authors Joan Osofsky and Abby Adams who share their new book: Entertaining in the Country|Love Where You Eat: Festive Table Settings, Favorite Recipes, and Design Inspiration.

Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

MUSIC “Rock the Future” with Murali Coryell Band and Special Guests 7:30-10:30pm. $25/$30 at the door.

Benefit Performance for “Adopt-A-Future” educational program for refugee kids. Doors open at 6pm for presentation about AdoptA-Future and a Silent Auction. In addition to performing his own original music, Murali has covered the songs of Sam Cooke, Al Green, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Charles Mingus and Marvin Gaye. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps CD Release Party 8:30-11:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

An Evening with Chris Botti 8-10pm. $60/$80. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.

Fair Trade & Handmade Bazaar 11am-5pm. Cosponsored by the Dutchess County Interfaith Council, and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie. Hellenic Community Center, Poughkeepsie. 452-5990.

An Evening with David Rawlings 8pm. $36. Songwriter and guitarist. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

Handmade Holiday: Craft as Gift Show 10am-4pm. Holiday gift shoppers and art lovers “go local” at this high quality sale. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

Jane Lynch: A Swingin’ Little Christmas!

8pm. $75. Broadway and Emmy Award winning actress. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Self Made: A Makers Collective Holiday Bash Marketplace 11am-7pm. Self Made’s Holiday Bash will feature artisanal and handcrafted goods, music and food. This is a juried event. American Legion, Beacon.

Selfmademakers.com.

Unison’s 27th Craft, Art and Design Fair 10am-5pm. $4/$3 Unison members/free for children. Unison brings some of the finest artisans together for this holiday show held at SUNY New Paltz in the Student Unison Building (Glass Atrium). Clay, fiber, jewelry, furniture, clocks, leather, baskets, paintings, photographs, cards, and books will be exhibited. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FILM 2017 Flicks Series: Home Alone 4pm. $8/$6 members/$5 kids. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Black Ballerina 6-9pm. Black Ballerina tells the story of several black women from different generations who fell in love with ballet.

Refreshments will be served and a moderated discussion will follow. Old Chatham Quaker Meeting, Old Chatham.

(518) 766-2992.

KIDS & FAMILY A Charlie Brown Christmas 2 & 5pm. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Sudbury Winter Gift Sale 10am-4pm. Showcases talented local artisans from the Hudson Valley and beyond. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.

LECTURES & TALKS EMPAC Building Tour 2pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Vern Tejas Slide Show Rock & Snow, New Paltz. 255-1311.

LITERARY & BOOKS Mad Monk Improper Parables: A Reading by the Author Larry Littany Litt 5-6pm. A reading by the author of stories full of wit, wisdom, humor, laughter and practical advice from his life as the Mad Monk, Korean Chan/Zen Buddist, artist, humanist, hedonist, trickster and moralist. Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.

Hurley Mountain Highway 8pm. Pop, soft rock. Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor. 534-4227.

Jazz in Gtown Zaccai Curtis Latin Jazz Quintet 7-8:30pm. $25. Clermont Vineyards & Winery, Clermont. (518) 537-5668.

The Judith Tulloch Band 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Lonnie Holley 8pm. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.

Marji Zintz 5pm. Acoustic. Bear Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5555.

Mars Williams presents An Ayler Xmas: The Music of Albert Ayler & Songs of Christmas 8pm. $20. Atlas Studios, Newburgh. 391-8855.

Martin Sexton 9pm. Folk, soul, jazz blend. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Monthly Orchard Dinner featuring Chef Shawn of Amuzae 7-10pm. $85. Join us for a Seasonal Cider Pairing Dinner at the Angry Orchard Innovation Cider House. Angry Orchard Ciderie, Walden. Theangryorchard. tumblr.com/.

The Music Cottage Holiday Showcase noon. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Peter Karp Band 8pm. $15. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Rob Scheps/Tony Garnier Quartet 7pm. Blues. Denning’s Point Distillery, Beacon. Denningspointdistillery.com/.

The Tall Pines 8pm. Swam folk rock. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Tom Freund & Friends 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Tony Garnier/Rob Scheps Quartet with Pete McCann, Tony Jefferson 7-10pm. Denning’s Point Distillery, Beacon.

Denningspointdistillery.com/.

Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.

ART CHANTELLE NORTON

Best in Show, a painting by Chantelle Norton, exhibited through January 28 at the Theo Ganz Studio in Beacon.

The Paws That Refreshes “I do have this mixed feeling; a little bit of a fear of dogs, while loving them at the same time,” reveals Chantelle Norton. Her oil paintings of dog paws now appear at the Theo Ganz Studio in Beacon in a show titled “Dog Days.” As far as I can tell, these are the only close-up paintings of dog paws in art history.

All the paws belong to the same dog: Lulu, a Boston terrier whom Norton adopted in 2013. This was, in fact, the first dog Norton owned, the one who taught her the visual language of canines. Lulu died a year and a half ago—after Norton had begun these paintings. Each of the images leads the eye beyond the frame, to an absent creature we never see. In this sense, they are pictures of loss.

“Dog Days” also conveys the disturbing moment when you awaken from a deep sleep, look across the bed, and can’t decide if you’re seeing your dog’s hand or your husband’s paw. Paw with Dancers, depicting a white paw against a textile pattern of women dancers, offers an important clue to this work. The gestures of resting dogs resemble still photographs of choreography—with the same drama and elegance.

Of the 14 paintings, about half show front paws, half back paws. The titles are often playful: Dog Day Afternoon, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Hair of the Dog, La Pause.

A similar whimsy influences their composition. The dog feet are seen against various backdrops, some of which border on the absurd. The Chase shows an idle dog paw resting on a sheet with a pattern that might have originated in a Boy Scout manual: two cartoon hunters pursuing their quarry on horseback. At one time, dogs raced through the forest, helping our forebears hunt wild animals. Now they laze in beds. Or fall asleep and dream of “the chase.”

Also, one notices how clean dogs’ feet are! None of the linen is soiled. Dogs are,

nowadays, often cleaner than people.

Two central pieces may be seen as a pair: Night Paws and Dawn Paws. (In fact, they hang side by side.) Night Paws is a solemn closeup of two white dog mitts against a black background, set in an elaborate, ornamented wooden frame subtly emphasizing the painting’s affinities with Rembrandt. Dawn Paws shows the same canine appendages on a white sheet with ribbon-like stripes. “Somebody last night at the show’s opening was talking about Dawn Paws, how everybody who has a dog knows that gesture: paws touching each other in a prayer-like way,” recalls Norton. “Every dog does it.”

“Dog Days” also contains drawings of 56 dog breeds, taken from images of friends’ pets, dogwalking strangers in the street, and dog breeding websites. (There’s even a full portrait of Lulu.) The back wall of the gallery is covered with wallpaper Norton designed based on a legend of Artemis, Greek goddess of the hunt. Actaeon was a hunter who spied on Artemis bathing naked in her secret grotto. The goddess, enraged, transformed the interloper into a stag. Failing to recognize him, Actaeon’s hounds hunted him down and killed him. Dogs can be our servants and also our murderers, Norton’s wallpaper reminds us. The design—which has a title, The Pack II—includes images of Hudson Valley scenery taken from a 19th-century art journal given to Norton by her father.

The wallpaper is 13 feet long, and took five hours to install. “It acts like a magnet, when people come into the gallery—they just go right to that back wall,” observes Eleni Smolen, director of the Theo Ganz Studio.

“Dog Days” will remain at the Theo Ganz Studio in Beacon until January 28.

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A West Point Holiday 1:30pm. Featuring the West Point Band. Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point. 938-4159.

Chiaroscuro of the Soul 7:30-9:30. Charlotte Malin, Bob Logan, and Abraham Brody. Ellen Lynch Photography, Chatham. (208) 390-9088.

NIGHTLIFE Murali Coryell Band and Special Guests 6-11pm. $25 / $30 at the door. Concert to benefit Adopt-A-Future, an educational program for refugee kids. Come out and “:Rock the Future” for these kids. Doors open at 6 for a Silent Auction, presentation, cash bar, and the music starts at 7:30.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Kingston Clay Day First Saturday of every month, 2-4pm. $25. Kingston Ceramics Studio, Kingston. 331-2078.

Repair Cafe: Cornwall 12-4pm. Cornwall Public Library wants to help reduce waste, connect people, and highlight the skills and talents in our community. Cornwall Public Library, Cornwall. 534-8282.

LITERARY & BOOKS

Repair Cafe: Kingston 11am-3pm. Bike-Friendly Kingston partners with Repair Cafe to offer free bicycle tuneups and repairs in Midtown, mid-winter Kingston. Clinton Avenue United Methodist, Kingston. Repaircafehv.org.

MUSIC

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.

Bosobel Candlelit Holiday Tour 4pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION 21st Annual Winter Walk 5-8pm. Hudson’s largest, liveliest and most colorful event of the year. For one magical evening, Hudson’s unique creative community and independent retailers lining the mile-long historic main street transform our city into a winter wonderland full of music, performance, food, holiday shopping, and family fun. Hudson Hall, Hudson. 5188221438.

Sinterklaas! An Old Dutch Tradition in the Hudson Valley 9am-9pm. A day-long, colorful, nondenominational celebration for people of all ages that features children’s Crowns & Branches workshops, dance, theatre and music all over the village of Rhinebeck.

Don’t miss the Dancing Bear, the Pocket Lady, and Mother Holly. The spectacular Children’s Starlight Parade steps off at 6:00 pm, featuring two-story tall, animated puppets carried by hundreds of volunteers, closes the day at twilight.

Children’s Starlight Parade at 6pm, Family Hoedown at 7pm, Adult Dance Party at 9pm. Village of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck.

Sinterklaashudsonvalley.com.

THEATER Annual Panto at the Ghent Playhouse 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

800-838-3006.

The Fridge Plays 7:30-9pm. $20/$10 students. Two cutting-edge one-acts, two playwrights, two directors, four actors, one fridge. A harrowing, intense, sexy, raw, fierce evening of grab-you-by-the-throat theater. For audiences 18 and over only. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.

Into the Light 2, 3 & 4pm. Arm of the Sea Theater. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-3533.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 8pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Little Mermaid – Beyond the Sea 8pm. $22/$17 members/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

It's a Wonderful Life 8pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

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Dharma Sunday School First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. A unique Buddhist oriented class for children ages 5 and up and their families. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.

SUNDAY 3 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Holiday Shopping for Good 3-5pm. Come for Holiday Shopping and support Artists for Soup. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

DANCE A Christmas Carol 2pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.

Kimberly Bartosik 2:30pm. UpStream® Showcase. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2 or 10.

The Nutcracker 2-4:30pm. $14-$17. Presented by The Hudson Valley Dance Center of Warwick.

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 728-5488.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Fair Trade & Handmade Bazaar 11am-3pm. Cosponsored by the Dutchess County Interfaith Council, and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie. Hellenic Community Center, Poughkeepsie. 452-5990.

Peekskill Art Alliance Holiday Boutique 11am-5pm. Studio 4, Peekskill.

(914) 523-2941.

Handmade Holiday: Craft as Gift Show 10am-4pm. Holiday gift shoppers and art lovers “go local” at this high quality sale that features jewelry, handmade apparel, quilts, children’s toys, cutting boards, baskets, ceramics, tin sconces, paper crafts, birdhouses, soaps and lotions, holiday ornaments and evergreen swags, and an array of delectable edibles made by dozens of Columbia, Ulster, and Berkshire area artisans. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

Unison’s 27th Craft, Art and Design Fair 10am-5pm. $4/$3 Unison members/free for children. Unison brings some of the finest artisans together for this holiday show held at SUNY New Paltz in the Student Unison Building (Glass Atrium). Clay, fiber, jewelry, furniture, clocks, leather, baskets, paintings, photographs, cards, and books will be exhibited. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.

FILM 2017 Flicks Series: Home Alone 2 4pm. $8/$6 members/$5 kids. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel.

(866) 781-2922.

Charlie Chaplin in “The Gold Rush” 2-4pm. $10/$6 children 12 and under. . Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Just Dance First Sunday of every month, 2:30-4:30pm. $10 suggested. Come and sweat it out with us on the 1st Sunday of every month.

We have a DJ providing the beats and vibrations to set us on a journey of self expression. Not guided, just an open dance party for all ages. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.

KIDS & FAMILY A Charlie Brown Christmas 2pm. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Funk-Poet Everton Sylvester 7pm. Part of the monthly “Rogovoy Salon” music, literary, and art series curated and hosted by cultural journalist Seth Rogovoy.

Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

The Americana Music Sessions 8pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis 11am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Show featuring Preservation Hall Legacy Horns 7-9pm. $43/$53/$70. Gospel. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill.

(914) 739-0039.

David Amram’s 87th Birthday Celebration 8pm. Legendary American original. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Gary Lucas Acoustic Set 8pm. $10. Quinn’s, Beacon.

Quinnsbeacon.com.

Home for the Holidays 2-3:30pm. $8/$6 seniors & students.

The Berkshire Hillsmen, a longstanding barbershop quartet, will perform its Home for the Holidays Barbershop Music Show.

TColumbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181.

Max Weinberg’s Jukebox 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

The Metropolitan Hot Club 12-3pm. MHC is a gypsy jazz group that plays hot swing of the 30s and 40s. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Mid Hudson Women’s Chorus Seasonal Conert 2017 2pm. $10/$8 students and seniors. ‘Tis the Season’ with special guests the Woodstock Brass Quintet. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.

A Service of Lessons and Carols 7pm. Featuring the Vassar College Choir, Madrigal Singers, and Women’s Chorus, and Cappella Festiva Chamber and Treble Choir. Christine Howlett, Drew Minter, and Matt Zydel, conductors. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Simon Boyar School Jazz Ensemble 4pm. Jazz. 4pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

A West Point Holiday 1:30pm. Featuring the West Point Band. Eisenhower Hall Theater, West Point. 938-4159.

The Zucchini Brothers 3pm. Family rock band performs original holiday songs and other kids’ favorites. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Dutch Christmas Open House 1-4pm. Featuring student musicians, hot mulled cider, homemade cookies and fresh-baked bread from the “beehive” oven.

Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. 758-5887.

Bosobel Candlelit Holiday Tour 4pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.

SPIRITUALITY Women’s Full Moon Gathering 7-9pm. $10. Our Circle is a gathering of women, coming together to draw upon the powerful, rich energies of the full moon. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

The Little Mermaid – Beyond the Sea 2pm. $22/$17 members/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

It's a Wonderful Life 3pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Comic Abstraction 9am-4pm. $131. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

“Easy! Fun! Raw! Foods 3-4pm. $15. Workshop and lecture with with Johanna Sophia. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

Mindful Movement Class (monthly) First Sunday of every month, 12-1pm. $15. Learn to use the principles of the Alexander Technique. MaMa, Stone Ridge.

917-373-6151.

Teen Yoga Series 4:30-6pm. $20 class/$75 5 weeks. Stone Wave Yoga, Gardiner, 419-5219.

MONDAY 4 KIDS & FAMILY Holiday Book Fair: Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County 9am-3pm. Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County, Lake Katrine. 336-7235.

LECTURES & TALKS Clayton Childress: Under the Cover 6-8pm. Clayton Childress (Vassar ‘02), assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, will discuss his new book, Under the Cover. Rockefeller Hall Room 200 at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

MUSIC String Ensemble Concert 7:30pm. The College String Ensemble performs its spring concert under the direction of Anastasia Solberg. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

TUESDAY 5 FILM Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story 7:15pm. $8/$6 members. Documentary about the world’s most beautiful woman. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Reiki Practitioner Healing Share First Tuesday of every month, 6:307:30pm. Gathering of Reiki practitioners to replenish your reserves. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

KIDS & FAMILY Holiday Book Fair: Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County 9am-3pm. Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County, Lake Katrine. 336-7235.

LECTURES & TALKS Medicare Counseling 1-5:15pm. The counseling with Andrew Domenech is by appointment only. Call the Office for Aging to make an appointment.

Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 340-3456.

MUSIC Blues and Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz and the LoFis 7-10pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Darlene Love 8pm. Colony, Woodstock.

Colonywoodstock.com.

WEDNESDAY 6

THEATER Annual Panto at the Ghent Playhouse 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

800-838-3006.

A Christmas Carol 4pm. Theatre on the Road. Hudson’s Ribs & Fish, Fishkill. Hudsonsribsandfish.com.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 2pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

FILM Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story 7:15pm. $8/$6 members. Documentary about the world’s most beautiful woman The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

KIDS & FAMILY Holiday Book Fair: Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County 9am-3pm. Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County, Lake Katrine. 336-7235.

ART "PHOTOGRAPHY NOW 2017"

Sarah Anthony, Deven In The Snow, archival inkjet print, 13 x 19 inches, 2016.

New Developments Exhibiting through January 14 at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, “Photography Now 2017,” the organization’s annual survey of contemporary photography. This year’s exhibition is juried by William Ewing, former director of exhibitions at the International Center of Photography. Eighteen photographers were chosen to represent the evolving state of the medium: Ayumi Tanaka, Ceaphas Stubbs, Laurie Peek, Zora J. Muff, Jeanette May, Alejandro Loueiro Lorenzo, Tamar Granovsky, Orestes Gonzalez, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Tianqiutao Chen, Christopher Paul Brown, Adam Bernard, Emily Berl, John Barnard, Sandra Bacchi, Ben Arnon, Sarah Anthony, and Lara Anderson. Sarah Anthony won the 2017 Purchase Award, chosen by CPW Executive Director Hannah Frieser.

(845) 679-9957; Cpw.org.

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MUSIC

MUSIC

KIDS & FAMILY

China Crisis 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

The Alternate Routes 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Community Band/Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. Members of the SUNY Ulster Community Band under the direction of Victor Izzo, Jr. join members of the SUNY Ulster Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Chris Earley in this invigorating annual concert. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

Andy Stack’s American Soup 8pm. American classics. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Holiday Book Fair: Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County 9am-3pm. Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County, Lake Katrine. 336-7235.

David Kraai 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Falcon Underground Songwriter Sessions 8pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jim Brickman, A Joyous Christmas 7:30pm. $25/$34/$42. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.

Melissa Ethridge: Merry Christmas Baby 8pm. $125. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Roland Vazquez Quintet 8pm. Latin funk jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Anatomy at HATCH 5-7:30pm. 10 weeks $250. Study the skeletal structure, its movement, and mechanics, morphology of the muscles, and proportions (including Fibonacci ratio) and geometry.

Taught by professional artist Alex Canelos.

One Epic Place, New Paltz. 489-5822.

The Art of Holiday Greens: Boxwood Tree Making 2-4 & 6-8pm. $35/$30 members. Mary Hughes, Olana’s Master Gardener, will teach the art of creating seasonal boxwood trees for tabletop decoration in these handson workshops. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872.

Insurance Help with NYSOH Navigator First Wednesday of every month, 1-5:30pm. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia.

(800) 453-4666.

Painting with Oil at HATCH 5:30-8pm. $310/8-week course. This 8-week course taught by local professional artist Jill Ziccardi. One Epic Place, New Paltz. 489-5822.

THURSDAY 7 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Women in Business Luncheon 11:30am-2pm. $65. Hudson Valley Magazine hosts it’s 3rd annual Women in Business Luncheon Villa Borghese, Wappingers Falls. 463-0542.

DANCE The Nutcracker 9:45am & noon. Presented by the New Paltz Ballet Theatre. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Detoxification, Rejuvenation & WellBeing with Pat Yorks RN: Free Holistic Self-care Class 7-8:30pm. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhc.org.

KIDS & FAMILY Holiday Book Fair: Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County 9am-5pm. Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County, Lake Katrine. 336-7235.

LECTURES & TALKS Seminar on the Latest Facelift Options 5-7pm. Facial Plastic Surgeons Dr. Manoj T. Abraham and Dr. Michael Bassiri. Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, PLLC, Poughkeepsie. NYfaceMD.com.

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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Choral Concert and Guitar Ensemble Concert 7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

Make it, Take it!

7-8:30pm. Learn how to make essential oil infused gifts, like body scrubs, and bath soaks. Popp’s Trophies will also be doing personalized ornaments, gift tags and more with their laser engraver. Breakthrough M2, Montgomery. 713-4320.

Dennis DeYoung: The Music of STYX 8-10pm. $45/$65/$75/$95. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill.

(914) 739-0039.

LECTURES

An Evening with Keller Williams 7:30pm. $29.50. Singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

LITERARY & BOOKS

First Thursday Singer Songwriter Series 6-9pm. Hosts Maureen and Don Black welcome Judy Kass, Ditto, and Seth Davis to the Cafe stage. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Joy Askew 8pm. $15. The Barn at Egremont Inn, South Egremont, MA. (413) 528-9580.

PnB Rock Live In Concert 8pm. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 219-2900.

The Sidetracked Blues Bash Reunion 8pm. HV Blues Players’ Reunion. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Tim Currie’s Motown Review Band 7:30pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Open House 10am-7pm. What the heck is floatation therapy? . Zephyr Float, Kingston. 853-2400.

SPIRITUALITY Cultivating Joy, Gratitude & Acceptance 7-8:30pm. $10. How we can use Buddhist meditation and positive thinking to transform every moment. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 856-9000.

THEATER Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 8pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Advanced Encaustic 9am-5pm. $550. Through Dec 9. Instructor: Lisa Pressman. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.

FRIDAY 8 DANCE Bard College Senior Dance Concert 7:30pm. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7900.

Nutcracker Ballet 7:30-10:30pm. $30/$25 students and seniors. Catskill Ballet Theatre presents its 35th annual performance of the Nutcracker Ballet featuring guest artists from major companies including the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 473-2072.

The Nutcracker 12pm. Presented by the New Paltz Ballet Theatre. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Zydeco Dance with Li’l Anne and Hot Cayenne 7-11pm. $15/$10 with FT student ID. 7pm free beginners’ lesson, 8pm dance, beginners welcome. No partner necessary.

Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. White Eagle Hall, Kingston.

(914) 388-7048.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Make It Take It 7-8:30pm. Make oil infused bath salts, scrubs and more gifts to pamper your loved ones. Pop’s Trophies will also be doing personalized gift tags, ornaments, and more with their laser engraver. Breakthrough M2, Montgomery. 713-4320.

Getting Along with Our Bear Neighbors 7pm. Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant on black bears.

Cary Institute, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Princess Olga Reading/Signing 7-8:30pm. Author Douglas C. Smyth will read passages from his novel, Princess Olga: Uncovering My Headstrong Mother’s Venezuelan Connection, Clinton Community Library, Rhinebeck. Facebook.com.

Decora! Poet!

8pm. Hip hop, spoken word, nu-music. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

MUSIC Accordion, Samplestra, and Video: New Music by Gene Pritsker, Conrad Kehn and Yuji Takahashi 7-9pm. $7 members$9/. Accordionist Rocco Anthony Jerry will perform works for accordion, electronics, samplestra and video by Gene Pritsker, Conrad Kehn and Yuji Takahashi. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Blind Crow 8pm. A progressive string quartet.

Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Reverend Horton Heat 8pm. Colony, Woodstock.

Colonywoodstock.com.

Blood, Sweat, and Tears 8-10pm. $40/$55/$65. Fused rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements and jazz improvisation into a hybrid known as “jazz rock”. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.

Everett Bradley’s Holidelic 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Faculty Recital: Frank Cassara, percussion 8pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.

Guide to Ballroom Thieves 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Jonny Rosch & Friends 8pm. Allstar jazz, soul, blues mashup. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Linda Elder Holiday Show 8pm. $57. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi 7:30pm. Iranian Tombak player EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy.

Empac.rpi.edu.

Sam Green & Kronos Quartet 8pm. Work-in-progress; film with live music. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.

NIGHTLIFE Poetry Open Mike Second Friday of every month, 8-10pm.

Come read (3 min. or 3 poems) or be part of a great audience. Sign up at 7:30 pm. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall on Hudson. 534-4717.

THEATER Annual Panto at the Ghent Playhouse 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

800-838-3006.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 8pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Little Mermaid – Beyond the Sea 8pm. $22/$17 members/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

It's a Wonderful Life 8pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Photography at HATCH 6-8:30pm. 8 weeks $400. Learn how to use your digital camera, with internationally known photographer John Rizzo. One Epic Place, New Paltz. 489-5822.

SATURDAY 9 COMEDY Holiday Ha-Has Comedy Night 6:30-10:30pm. $75/$140 couple. Benefit for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County.

Temple Hill Tavern, New Windsor. 563-9044.

Trevor Noah 7pm. $39.50-$80. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

DANCE Bard College Senior Dance Concert 2 & 7:30pm. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Nutcracker Ballet 7:30-10:30pm. $30/$25 students and seniors. Catskill Ballet Theatre presents its 35th annual performance of the Nutcracker Ballet featuring guest artists from major companies including the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 473-2072.

The Nutcracker 2 & 7:30pm. Presented by the New Paltz Ballet Theatre. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS 3rd Annual Holiday Craft Fair 10am-5pm. With De Facto Community Center Project. New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-3631.

Beacon Second Saturday Second Saturday of every month. 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. Beaconarts.org Downtown Beacon, Beacon.

St. Nicholas Bazaar 8pm. Fine handmade crafts and holiday cookies. Grace Church, Millbrook.

Gracemillbrook.org.

Frozendale Festival 10am-6pm. A community generated festival where participating shops showcase the best of local food, art, music and crafts.

Rosendale Library begins the day at 10 am and offers their wonderful Holiday Booktique and a reading of holiday stories for children.

Rosendale Theatre features a free 11:00 am matinee: The Wizard of Oz. The Redwing Blackbird Theatre presents a puppet show ‘The Animals in Winter’. The holiday gift sale is held in RosenSpace with lots of vendors.

The Big Cheese hosts the Mac N Cheese Bake-Off at 5 pm. Rosendale, Rosendale.

Facebook.com/frozendalerosendale.

Work:shop Winter Market 10am-6pm 20 artisanas and a cafe.

Wickham Solid Wood Studio, Beacon.

Workshopwintermarket.com.

Holiday Holistic Fair 10am-6pm. An event to soothe the body, mind, spirit and offer holiday gift giving opportunities. Services offered are multiple bodywork modalities, intuitive readings and channeling. Products available are crystals, minerals, handcrafted jewelry, essential oils, gem elixirs & other natural products. Holiday Inn Express & Suites Kingston-Ulster Hotel, Lake Katrine. 768-8300.

HVArt Market: Holiday Shopping Weekend 10am-4pm. Over 30 artists, artisans, smallbatch makers and merchants to the Old VFW Hall, in the charming village of Cold Spring for one day only. While there, shop with us and be sure you check out the many unique and charming shops, visit the galleries and top it all off by dining and drinking at the many cafe’s, bars, and restaurants. Old VFW Hall, Cold Spring. 288-3370.

THEATER "A KIND SHOT"

Barry Hollywood

Terri Mateer stars in "A Kind Shot," her one-woman show at Mountainview Studio in Woodstock.

Make Your Free Throws When women took to social media to share their stories of sexual harassment and abuse amidst the national conversation around revelations about Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men, Terri Mateer wasn’t surprised; actually, she found it all fantastic. “It’s beyond time,” the performer, producer, and writer says. “To hear guys sincerely respond, and to read apologies and reflections, I think that’s great. I hope it’s not all forgotten.”

In this national context, Mateer’s one-woman show, “A Kind Shot,” which will be presented later this month at Mountain View Studios in Woodstock, couldn’t be more timely. The 75-minute show, which began production and preview in 2014, is a roller coaster—with an uncertain course that’s at once funny and heartbreaking. In it, Mateer traces her story as the first female basketball scholarship recipient from Brattleboro Union High School in Vermont to playing professional basketball in France (before the advent of the WNBA) to her life as a performer in New York. She shares her history with sexual harassment and abuse in simply factual terms. “I’ve gone through the mourning and the mining and the pain,” Mateer explains. “So, people can really experience it rather than listening to someone complain.”

After playing professional basketball in France, Mateer played street ball in New York City. On Manhattan’s gritty playground courts, people would stop to watch the anomaly of an ultra-feminine player among the guys. “I used to play in these spandex dresses and leggings,” she laughs. “It was just a hoot. I became a quasi-famous street ball player.”

That helped bring her into the performance world, and she began working a precursor to “A Kind Shot” with a coach from the Barrow Group, a performing arts organization dedicated to transformational storytelling.

After 9/11, Mateer and her husband left New York City to live full time at their former weekend home in Ashokan. Developing local businesses in construction and architectural design, Mateer connected with the local theater community on the side. She worked with Eve Ensler to produce “The Vagina Monologues” locally, raising money for Family of Woodstock. Earlier this year, when women marched on Washington the day after President Trump’s inauguration, Mateer co-organized a sister march in Woodstock which drew 1,500 people. “I’m all for pulling women together. Any way that we can give each other opportunities, encouragement, and guidance, I’m all about that,” Mateer says.

Using basketball as a metaphor to drive the personal narrative in “A Kind Shot,” Mateer says that’s how she also drives her life: keep going, have heart, play defense, and make your free throws. Mateer feels it’s a choice to give up or keep going. “I just need to take a second to figure out what’s still burning in me, and use that as momentum.” She says if people are coming from the heart and kindness, things will work out in time. Playing defense, she explains, is about telling people to back off. Taking the free throws, or the opportunities life offers, is often hard for women, Mateer says. “Women, they’ll pass the ball. You got to take your shots, especially when they’re free.”

After each performance of “A Kind Shot,” Mateer stays to answer questions, and it often sparks deep conversation. Mateer hopes the ultimate takeaway of “A Kind Shot” is to inspire people to look out for each other.

“A Kind Shot” will be presented at the Mountain View Studios in Woodstock on December 16, at 3pm and 7pm. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Akindshot.com.

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FOOD & WINE Annual Cookie Walk 9am-2pm. Wonderful array of cookies, $6 per pound. Reformed Church of Shawangunk, Wallkill. 895-2952.

KIDS & FAMILY Cirque-tacular’s “Snowkus Pocus” 4 & 7pm. $25/$20 children. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Into the Light 3pm. A holiday spectacular featuring The Vanaver Caravan dancers, musicians and Arm-of- the-Sea Theater Giant Puppets.

Ellenville Public High School, Ellenville.

Vanavercaravan.org.

LECTURES & TALKS How to Make a More Tasteful Transgenic Human: A Discussion with Adam Zaretsky 5-6pm. Adam Zaretsky, a former researcher at the MIT Department of Biology, teaches video, performance, contemporary theory and will discuss whether genetically babies can be designed with superior aesthetics; Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.

David Kraai with Josh Roy Brown 8-11pm. David Kraai doles out two sets of fine country folk music with the help of Josh Roy Brown on lap steel. The New York Resturant, Catskill. (518) 943-5500.

Deadgrass 8pm. Playing Jerry Garcia. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jessica Lynn’s Country Christmas Spectacular 8-10pm. $25/$30. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.

Joe Henry Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock. 679-2744.

Robbie Dupree & Friends 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Hudson Holiday House Tour 2-5pm. $25/$20 in advance. Entrance to 5 homes– all historic, and all with walking distance of Warren Street. A benefit for the Hudson Children’s Book Festival.

Sponsored by The Hudson Lodging Association. The Barlow Hotel, Hudson.

(888) 279-0365.

19th Century Holiday Cards 10am-noon. Instead of buying your holiday cards, add a personal touch and make your own set! Olana State Historic Site, Hudson.

(518) 828-1872.

Bosobel Candlelit Holiday Tour 4pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.

Miracle on Main Street 5pm. Phoenicia comes together for a community holiday event with tree lighting, music, pics with Santa, and more. Main Street, Phoenicia.

Justin Valentine and Nikita Boris in a 2016 production of "The Nutcracker" at the Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center

Bard College Senior Dance Concert 4pm. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7900.

Hip-Hop into the Holidays 2-6pm. Featuring performances by Giabella Rose Taylor, the Studio of Mt. Kisco, the Steffi Nossen School of Dance, and the Peekskill/Masters School Dance Troupe under Malika Hunt, these dancers offer a powerful interpretation of the current exhibition. At 2 and 5 pm, there will be docent-led tours of the entire exhibition, Between I & Thou. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill.

(914) 788-0100.

LITERARY & BOOKS

5th Annual Christmastime Benefit Concert 7-9:30pm. $15/$5 children 12 & under.

The New Paltz Musicales proudly presents the 5th Annual Christmastime Concert, benefiting Family of Woodstock Inc., featuring the incredible singing of Betty and the Baby Boomers, Rachel Loshak, Tobias Anderson & William Norman, and the Mountain Laurel Youth Choir. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051.

Aztec Two-Step 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Baby It’s Cold Outside 7pm. $20/$15 in advance. Trumpeter Chris Pasin is joined by Armen Donelian on piano, Ira Coleman on bass, Jeff Siegel on drums and vocalist Patricia Dalton Fennell for a spirited evening of holiday jazz favorites to launch their new album. Hudson Hall, Hudson. 5188221438.

Brubeck Brothers Quartet 8pm. $25. 8pm. $25. Jazz. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

David Bromberg and Jerry Douglas 8pm. Part of the American Roots & Branches concert series. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1061.

Garland Jeffreys 8m. Singer/songwriter. The Linda, Albany.

(518) 465-5233x158.

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It's a Wonderful Life 8pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

DANCE

Jim Handlin: The Voynich Manuscript Deciphered, Part II 5-6:30pm. $8. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

MUSIC

Large-Scale Contemporary Drawing in Abstraction 9am-4pm. $237. Two-day workshop. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

SUNDAY 10

In Conversation: Neil Gaiman and Daniel Handler 8pm. $25/free for Bard faculty, staff and students. Handler and Gaiman will discuss adaptation, collaboration, and the role of the writer as giver of advice. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.

Book Signing: Annie Leibovitz “Portraits 2005-2016” 6-8:30pm. $89.95. In this new collection from Annie Leibovitz, one of the most influential photographers of our time, iconic portraits sit side by side never-beforepublished photographs. Annie Leibovitz will sign copies of her new book. Please note this is a book signing only, there will be no presentation. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

The Art of Wax: Beeswax Candle Making 2-4pm. $20/$15 members/$40 family. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872.

Nutcracker Ballet 2-4pm. $30/$25 students and seniors.

Catskill Ballet Theatre presents its 35th annual performance of the Nutcracker Ballet featuring guest artists from major companies including the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 473-2072.

“The Nutcracker” The time is nigh for the annual foray into the Land of Sweets and a visit with the Sugar Plum Fairy. This year, the Christmas party at the Stahlbaum house, the epic battle of mice and men, and other magical moments of “The Nutcracker” will play out in three locations in the Hudson Valley. On December 7, New Paltz Ballet Theatre begins a four-day stand at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, featuring regional artists and visiting dancers from the New York City Ballet. Across, the river, the Catskill Mountain Foundation brings together professional and aspiring dancers for three days of performances at the Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center on December 8–10. On the same dates, Catskill Ballet Theatre will perform the famous ballet with guest artists from Dance Theatre of Harlem at UPAC in Kingston. Bardavon.org; Catskillmtn.org.

Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse 7:30pm. $6/$5 Folk Guild members.

Featuring Spook Handy. Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, New Windsor. Uucrt.org.

Senior Recital: Nicholas Ruggeri, conductor 1:30pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.

Soul City Motown Revue 8:30-11:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Souvenir de Florence: An Italian Holiday Celebration 6pm. $50/$27 balcony/$15 student.

Featuring The Amernet String Quartet.

Mahawie Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

Toby Walker in Concert 7:30pm. $15. 7:30-9pm. $15. A virtuoso performer of roots music, Walker has been hailed as a specialist of fingerstyle guitar, blending the blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, old-time jazz and rock. Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack. 358-0877.

Vassar College Majors: A Program of Accompanied and Unaccompanied Choral Works 1:30-3:30pm. Vassar College Majors will present a program of works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Gesualdo, Fauré, Thompson, and others. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Athens Victorian Stroll 2017 12pm. Bells will be ringing, choirs will be singing and horses, two by two, will be clipclopping up Second Street. There will be free activities for the entire family! Start your day at noon in the Athens Cultural Center to hear the Athens Community Chorus singing, enjoy cookies and punch while you shop handmade crafts. Then pick up a map of the village-wide festivities and enjoy fun for the entire family. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136.

The Nutcracker 3pm. Presented by the New Paltz Ballet Theatre. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Swing Dance to The Bernstein Bard Quartet 6-9pm. $12/$8 FT students. Beginners’ swing lesson 6:00 pm-6:30. Dance from 6:30 to 9:00. No partner necessary. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Holiday Holistic Fair 10am-6pm. An event to soothe the body, mind, spirit and offer holiday gift giving opportunities. Services offered are multiple bodywork modalities, intuitive readings and channeling. Products available are crystals, minerals, handcrafted jewelry, essential oils, gem elixirs & other natural products. Holiday Inn Express & Suites Kingston-Ulster Hotel, Lake Katrine. 768-8300.

2nd Annual Hudson Valley Gingerbread Competition Free admission. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. Mohonk.com.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 8pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Winter Fair & Outdoor Marketplace 11am-4pm. Crafts, food, song, dance, artisan wares, gift shop. Make beautiful gifts from simple and natural materials, such as Translucent Window Stars, Wreath Decorating, Pomanders and more! Savor the outdoor barbecue while enjoying live music. Puppetry, children’s games, and more. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, New Paltz. 255-0033 ext. 101.

The Little Mermaid – Beyond the Sea 8pm. $22/$17 members/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Work:shop Winter Market 11am-5pm 20 artisanas and a cafe.

Wickham Solid Wood Studio, Beacon.

Workshopwintermarket.com.

Sundance Theatre Lab 8pm. Work-in-progress: theater. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.

FILM

THEATER Annual Panto at the Ghent Playhouse 2-4pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

800-838-3006.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Clara’s Dream: A Jazz Nutcracker 2pm. $12/$10 members/$6 kids under 12. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

KIDS & FAMILY Winter Fair & Outdoor Marketplace 11am-4pm. Crafts, food, song, dance, artisan wares, Waldorf gift shop, indoor and outdoor activities. Make beautiful gifts from simple and natural materials, such as Translucent Window Stars, Wreath Decorating, Pomanders and more! Savor the outdoor barbecue while enjoying live music. Puppetry, children’s games, and more. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, New Paltz. 255-0033.

LECTURES & TALKS Christmas Traditions 2pm. $10/$5 children. Presentation by Trish Chambers Productions featuring origins of modern customs blended with ancient rituals, significance of symbols, inspirations for cherished stories and songs, celebrations in different countries.

Refreshments. Benefits Cragsmoor Historical Society. Cragsmoor Stone Church, Cragsmoor. Cragsmoor.info.

LITERARY & BOOKS

It's a Wonderful Life 3pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

MONDAY 11 MUSIC Studio II Open Mike for Music and Vocals 6pm. $5. Acoustic. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

TUESDAY 12 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. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

John Esposito with Peter Toigo 6-9pm. Blue Plate, Chatham.

(518) 392-7711.

Key of Q Presents: Winter Songs & Sing-Alongs 7:30-9pm. $10. The Hudson Valley’s LGBTQ and Allied A Cappella Chorus.

The Falcon, Marlboro. Facebook.com/ events/538928473113381/.

Rock the Town Orchestra Christmas Spectacular 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Tuba Christmas 7:30pm. Join this seasonal favorite as a participant or audience member. Tuba and euphonium players of all ages perform traditional Christmas music from around the world. Participants register at 5:00, rehearse at 6:00, and perform the free concert beginning at 7:30. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

Get Lit Beacon 5-7pm. Get Lit Beacon is an informal gathering on the second Sunday of every month. Published and aspiring writers alike can share their work or just hang out, have a drink, and socialize with a lit-friendly crowd. The monthly event is open to adult writers of all levels. Oak Vino Wine Bar, Beacon. 765-2400.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS

Knife Demonstration at bluecashew Kitchen Homestead Fourteen years of experimentation and refinement, across two locations and an online retail store, have coalesced in the new bluecashew location at 37 North Front Street, Kingston. With tiling and exposed brick, the freshly renovated open-floor-plan showroom has the cozy comfort of a family kitchen, with a curated selection of artisanal and top-ofthe line chopping boards, kitchen utensils, bar equipment, candles, and table linens. The newly rebranded bluecashew Kitchen Homestead (bKH) is reborn as a concept shop that will place programming on par with products. The swanky new on-site kitchen will host workshops and demonstrations around food preparation and preservation, embracing the surging local agriculture movement. The first event will take place on December 17, 2–4pm, with master craftsperson Rolando Negoita of RolaKnives, who handmakes knives in Accord using local wood. Bluecashewkitchen.com Tea & Stones: A Monthly Gathering of Stone Minds 6:30-7:30pm. Each month we’ll explore a different stone from our vast collection. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

LITERARY & BOOKS David Tanis: Market Cooking: Recipes and Revelations, Ingredient by Ingredient 6-7pm. The White Hart Inn, Salisbury, CT. (518) 789-3797.

MUSIC

Bosobel Candlelit Holiday Tour 4pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.

Bodystorm Women’s Council 6:30-8:30pm. Guided by Dr. Roxanne Partridge, Jungian depth psychologist and relational sexuality practition Aletis House, Hudson. (415) 686-8722.

Clara’s Dream: A Jazz Nutcracker 2pm. $12/$10 members/$6 children. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 2pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Little Mermaid – Beyond the Sea 2pm. $22/$17 members/$10 students with ID. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Make Your Own Gift Wrap 6-8pm. $25. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson.

(518) 545-4028.

Chris Pureka with The Harmaleighs 8pm. Indie Americana. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jennifer Nettles 8pm. $39.75-$79.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Annual Panto at the Ghent Playhouse 2-4pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

800-838-3006.

Life Drawing Sessions Every other Thursday, 6-9pm. $20. The Enchanted Cafe, Red Hook. 835-8435.

MUSIC

Warm Up at the Washingtons’ 12-4pm. Historic interpreters in each seasonally decorated room. Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

THEATER

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Sound Healing & Tibetan Singing Bowls Third Friday of every month, 7:30-8:30pm. $25. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.

David Kraai 2-4pm. Country folk music at this holiday fundraiser for the Giving Tree Animal Rescue Foundation. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.

Victor Wooten Trio 7:30pm. $36. Victor will be joined on stage by drummer Dennis Chambers and saxophonist Bob Franceschini for a spirited evening of jazz, funk and improvisational music. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

Into the Woods 2017 7-9pm. $21/$26. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim storybook musical.

Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Dave Keyes Band 11am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Tony Garnier/Rob Scheps Quartet with Pete McCann, Tony Jefferson 8-11pm. Just off a two month tour with Bob Dylan, bassist Tony Garnier makes his Quinn’s debut with Rob Scheps, Tony Jefferson & Pete McCann. Quinn’s, Beacon.

Quinnsbeacon.com.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 8pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Ballroom By Request Lesson & Practice Time Third Friday of every month, 8-11pm. $15 for both lessons/$10 one lesson. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, LaGrangeville. 204-9833.

Christmas with The Celts 8pm. $47.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Sexmob’s ‘Cultural Capital’ 8pm. Deconstructed pop jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

THEATER

DANCE

An Evening with Jerry Douglas 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

The Newburgh Symphonic Chorale: Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols 4pm. Accompanied by Harp and St. Nicholas, a cantata featuring tenor Brother Josép Martinez-Cubero, St. George’s Church, Newburgh. 231-3592.

Cultivating Joy, Gratitude & Acceptance 7-8:30pm. $10. How we can use Buddhist meditation and positive thinking to transform every moment. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 856-9000.

FRIDAY 15

MUSIC

Greg Westhoff’s Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

SPIRITUALITY

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

WEDNESDAY 13 HEALTH & WELLNESS Breast Cancer Support Group Second Wednesday of every month, 2-3:30pm. Peer led support group by Breast Cancer Options, The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 339-4673.

MUSIC Jazz Sessions 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

THEATER A Christmas Carol 6pm. Theatre on the Road. Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck. 876-7077.

THURSDAY 14 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm.

Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.

MUSIC Latin Jazz Express: The Music of Tito Puente 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Open Mike at the Gallery Second Thursday of every month, 7-9:30pm. $5 donation. From the newcomer to the experienced club musician, everyone loves our welcoming and enthusiastic gathering. Musicians, spoken word artists, others, all welcome. Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. (914) 456-6700.

Open Mike Night with Jeff Entin 7-9:30pm. Jeff Entin welcomes musicians from all around the Hudson Valley to Open Mike night. Bring your instrument and talent to the stage or enjoy a tasty dinner listening to the music. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Sawyer Fredericks 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

David Kraai with Chris Macchia 10pm-1am. David Kraai swings by to dole out two sets of fine country folk music with the help of Chris Macchia slapping that upright country bass. 10pm. Birdsall House, Peekskill. (914) 930-1880.

Eileen Ivers’ A Joyful Christmas 8pm. $50-$72 reserved. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Los Lobos 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

A Tuna Christmas 7:30m. Confetti Stage. The Linda, Albany.

(518) 465-5233x158.

Mountain Snow Orchestra with special guests The McKrells 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

Seasonal Concert with Caroline Doctorow 6pm. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.

Singer-Songwriter Showcase Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Fifth Annual Christmas@ TheFalcon Benefit 8pm. Neo-soul R&B review for Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

SPIRITUALITY Shamanic Journey Circle with David Beck 7-9pm. $20. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

THEATER Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 8pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

It's a Wonderful Life 8pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Into the Woods 2017 7-9pm. $21/$26. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim storybook musical.

Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

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SATURDAY 16 DANCE Freestyle Frolic All-Ages Ecstatic Dance Party 6:30-10:30pm. $2-$15. Frolic dances are alcohol free, smoke free, and drug free which keeps the focus on dancing. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-6090.

Harambee Dance Company Performance 3:30pm. $15/$10 in advance/children free.

Hudson Hall, Hudson. 5188221438.

Holiday Swing Dance 7:30-10:30pm. $15. With Lindy Hop Performance. Includes basic lesson 7:308pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. No partner or dance experience necessary to attend. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 331-4121.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Holiday Craft Fair 11am-4pm. Highlighting Hudson Valley artists, crafters and local food products. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

Songs to Celebrate the Centennial of Women’s Suffage in New York State with the HERstorians 5-6pm. An evening of song with folk singers and social activists Pat Lamanna, Lyndia Adams Davis and Sharleen Leahey. Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.

Talking Fire Reggae Night 8:30-11:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Happy Traum & Friends Solstice Concert 8pm. John Sebastian, Amy Helm, more. Woodstock Playouse.

Woodstockplayhouse.org.

Winter Songfest 8pm. $25-$65. A holiday tradition of seasonal selections copresented by the Bard Conservatory and Bard Music Program, featuring the Bard Symphonic Chorus with musicians from the Conservatory Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

James Bagwell, conductor. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.

A Christmas Carol 6:30pm. Kick off the Christmas holiday with song, laughter and nostalgia as actors and carolers bring scene from A Christmas Carol to life. Interact with Scrooge, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas. 6:30pm. Theatre on the Road. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Cécile McLorin Salvant 3pm. $25-$65. Holiday jazz event with with Sullivan Fortner on piano. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 8pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

The Fabulous Hackers 2-4pm. A group of golf buddies get together and play favorites ranging from folk to classic rock to country intersperse with a growing list of original songs. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Into the Woods 2017 7-9pm. $21/$26. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim storybook musical.

Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES One-Day Jewelry Workshop 10am-6pm. $165. Make your own one-ofa-kind bronze pendant necklace. Bushel, Delhi. (607) 865-7454.

Holiday Market at the Cider Garden 11am-5pm. A variety of regionally sourced holiday products including pasture-raised meats and hand-made cheeses, wine, fresh produce, all natural skin care products, gourmet sweet treats, holiday gifts and local art from a hand-picked selection of community based businesses. Angry Orchard Ciderie, Walden. Theangryorchard. tumblr.com/.

Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Melissa Ethridge: Merry Christmas Baby 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble 8pm. $25. A talk and performance. Monk will share connections between her artistic and Buddhist practices, highlighting the potential of performance as spiritual transformation. The program includes selections from Monk’s current work-inprogress, Cellular Songs, Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.

Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and Guitarist Billy Stein 7-9pm. Hudson Valley Vinyl, Beacon. 765-1411.

Improv Trio Concert 4pm. Jazz. Lace Mill, Kingston. 331-2140.

Ryan Clark 8:30pm. Covers. Piano Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. (909) 547-4266.

Slam Allen’s Holiday Soul-a-bration 8pm. Blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

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Times Square 11am. Classic a capella doo wop. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol 2pm. An all-new holiday play, based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.

Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

It's a Wonderful Life 3pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

WWII Radio Christmas Phoenicia Playhouse, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

Elizabeth and the Catapult Album Release 8pm. $15. The Barn at Egremont Inn, South Egremont, MA. (413) 528-9580.

A Tuna Christmas 7:30m. Confetti Stage. The Linda, Albany.

(518) 465-5233x158.

Rockapella 8pm. $47. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

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HVP: Handel’s Messiah 2pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

The Many Moods of Christmas with the Orchestra Pro Musica 3pm. This year’s program features Ola Gjeilo’s stunning “Dreamweaver” and Robert Shaw’s exhilarating collection, The Many Moods of Christmas Suite III. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy.

(518) 273-8945.

Tyler Hilton and Kate Voegele 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Kasten Tour with Sanford Levy 4pm. $20. Kasten from the HHS permanent collection. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. Huguenotstreet.org.

Frank Vignola Trio 8pm. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Eliot Zigmund Quartet 8pm. Modern jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

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Hedda Lettuce’s Holiday Show The (drag) queen of green glam, Hedda Lettuce is unmistakable. Her satirical wit and electric mane of kelly green locks have graced the sets of MTV, Comedy Central, “Sex and the City,” and “Project Runway.” Eschewing the traditional drag artform of lipsync, Hedda Lettuce sings in her own twangy voice, often composing original numbers. This year, the New York City legend brings her collection of parodied holiday classics (“Here Comes Tranny Claus”) to the Hudson Valley for back-to-back nights of raucous humor and storytelling. If you’re looking for a break from the usual circuit of mall Santas and light shows, join in on the queer holiday cheer at Rosendale Theatre on December 16, 9:30pm, or at Club Helsinki on December 17, 7pm. Rosendaletheatre.org; Helsinkihudson.com.

SUNDAY 17

NIGHTLIFE Lettuce Rejoice: Hedda’s Holiday Show Comes to Rosendale 9:30-11pm. $25. The Queen of green is bringing her book of parodied holiday classics along for the ride, so get ready for a raucous night of gay holiday cheer as this drag legend brings brings her one-of-kind humor and storytelling to the Rosendale Theater for one night only. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. Facebook.com/ events/898079237010380/?ref=br_rs.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION “It’s the Most Dangerous Time of the Year” Wassailing 5-8pm. Assist the Ellison family to not only deal with the local rowdies but over 300 Continental artillerymen in search of liquid refreshment in this first-person presentation set during the winter of 1780-81 at Knox’s Headquarters. The program is outside on the grounds and inside the beautifully decorated 1754 stone Ellison house. Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor.

THEATER It's a Wonderful Life 8pm. Play based on the beloved Capra film. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

COMEDY Sinbad 7-9pm. $35/$46/$60. Comedy veteran Comdeian. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Really Free Mart 10am-8pm. Lot’s of amazing donated goods, available for free. Drop off items, and/or find a new treasure. Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville. Facebook.com.

Mount Gulian Festive Candlight Tours 4-7pm. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

FOOD & WINE Sunday Brunch at the Cider Garden 1-4pm. $50. Chef Shawn Hubbell of Amuzae will be providing a locally sourced, three course seasonal brunch menu featuring cider-infused dishes and a cocktail pairing for each. Includes a complimentary tasting after brunch. Angry Orchard Ciderie, Walden. Theangryorchard.tumblr.com/.

Pot Luck Dinner Third Monday of every month, 6:15-7:30pm.

Cantine’s Island Cohousing, a familyfriendly community welcomes visitors to a pot luck dinner on the 3rd Monday of every month. Cantine’s Island Cohousing, Saugerties. 246-3271.

TUESDAY 19 WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Unwind with Melia Marzollo 7:15-8:30pm. $20. Unwind is a myofascial release class. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Mount Gulian Festive Candlight Tours 1-4pm. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

WEDNESDAY 20 FAIRS & FESTIVALS Mount Gulian Festive Candlight Tours 4-7pm. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

LECTURES & TALKS Tarot Wisdom Gathering Third Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. $10. Bring your own Tarot deck to enjoy this guided exploration to learn & connect more deeply with your deck. 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. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

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Key of Q Presents: Winter Songs & Sing-Alongs 7-8:30pm. Suggested donation: $10. Key of Q, the Hudson Valley’s LGBTQ and Allied A Cappella Chorus Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston.

Facebook.com.

Annual Messiah Sing 4pm. $15/$10 in advance/students under 18 free. Hudson Hall, Hudson. 5188221438.

The Oak Ridge Boys Christmas Tour 8pm. $85. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Petey Hop’s Roots & Blues Sessions 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Holidelic 3pm. Holiday-funk spectacular. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Jeremy Baum’s “Charlie Brown Christmas” 8pm. Tribute to. Vince Guaraldi The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

#HandcraftNight Third Wednesday of every month, 5-8pm. $5. The return of our monthly community series, when we all need it most. Drop in with any portable handcraft project you would like to work on, and enjoy some good crafty company, snacks and beverages. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson.

Dropforgeandtool.com/events/2017/2/15/ handcraftnight.

A Christmas Carol 3pm/8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

MUSIC

Investigating Huatou Intensive Retreat Led by Abbot Guo Yuan. Through Jan. 1. Dharma Drum Retreat Center, Pine Bush. 744-8114.

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SUNDAY 24

bigBang 8pm. Large ensemble jazz. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Trio Mio 7-9:30pm. THigh Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

THEATER A Christmas Carol 1pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Charlie Hunter & Friends 8pm. Jazz rock fusion. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Three Wise Kings Follow A Star 6-8pm. $35/$60 premium/$10 under 18. Festive concert with villancicos and polyphonic Renaissance compositions from the Iberian and Latin American countries.

Saint James Place, Great Barrington, MA. (860) 435-4866.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Open House at Knox’s Headquarters 10am-4pm. Tour the elegant 1754 historic house decorated for the season in 18th century fashion. Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor.

NIGHTLIFE Trivia Night with Paul Tully and Eric Stamberg 7-9:30pm. Teams test their knowledge in this fun game. First place and second place prizes awarded. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

SATURDAY 30 MUSIC Alexis P. Suter Band’s “Hat Trick” 8pm. Gospel blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Fred Smith Jazz Ensemble 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Jesse Frohman

David Kraai 7-9pm. $10. David Kraai performs as part of The Heart of the Matter Songwriters Series. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Children’s Holiday Tea 12-2pm. $22/$17 children. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

Winter Break for Kids: Get Ready for the New Year 9:30am-3pm. $20 child and adult/$10 child and adult members/$5 additional child or adult. Crafts include constructing countdown clocks, funny hats, and noise makers. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.

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KIDS & FAMILY

Ras T Asheber Posse 8pm. Reggae rock dance. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Three Wise Kings Follow A Star 6-8pm. $35/$60 premium/$10 under 18. Festive concert with villancicos and polyphonic Renaissance compositions from the Iberian and Latin American countries.

Saint James Place, Great Barrington, MA. (860) 435-4866.

Library Knitters Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library.

Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

FRIDAY 22 DANCE Swing Dance to Blue Gardenia 8-11:30pm. $15/$10 FT students. Beginners’ lesson 8:00-8:30pm, dance to Blue Gardenia 8:30-11:30pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 471-1120.

Willie Nile 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

SUNDAY 31

FILM Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life 7pm. Mahawie Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

MUSIC Deadgrass 8pm. Playing Jerry Garcia. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

MUSIC David Kraai 7:30-9:30pm. Fine country folk music.

Zephyr, Pine Hill. 254-8024.

New Year’s Eve Dance + Dinner 6pm. $15-$75. Ring in the New Year with fabulous live music and dancing. ash bar featuring local beers and wines. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Ian Felice 8pm. Solo. Colony, Woodstock.

Colonywoodstock.com.

The Dylan Doyle Band 8:30-11:30pm. A unique musical interpretation that lies somewhere within the Delta of rock, blues, and funk. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Holidelic 9pm. Holiday-funk spectacular. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

T.J. Santiago 7pm. Acoustic. Wildfire Grill, Montgomery. 457-3770.

Vito Petroccitto & Little Rock 8pm. Swamp rock. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Meredith Monk at the Garrison Institute Meredith Monk makes artwork that is as layered and multifaceted as her titles of composer, singer, director/choreographer, and creator of new opera, music theater works, films, and installation suggest. Combining elements of dance, performance art, and visual representation into what are ultimately presented as sonic landscapes, her work defies description, though it’s been described as ethereal, fearless, and innovative. For Monk, the voice is the original human instrument and an eloquent language of the heart. After teaching a sold-out workshop on meditation, environmental inspiration, and applications for the voice at the Garrison Institute on December 16, Monk will present a public concert and talk at 8pm. Tickets are $25. Garrisoninstitute.org.

MONDAY 25 MERRY CHRISTMAS!

TUESDAY 26

THEATER A Christmas Carol 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 23 KIDS & FAMILY The Colonial Nutcracker 3-5pm. $26. Dance Theater in Westchester e members enjoy this timeless classic.

Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.

MUSIC Bunkhouse Boys 8pm. $10. Cajun/Creole roots music.

Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

David Kraai 1-4pm. Angry Orchard, Walden.

(888) 845-3311.

Ed Palermo Big Band Christmas Spectacular 8pm. Rock orchestra. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

KIDS & FAMILY Winter Break Fun: Winter Wonders 9:30am-3pm. $20 child and adult/$10 child and adult members/$5 additional adult or child. Kids will make candles, pomander balls, and winter globe ornaments.

Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Open House at Knox’s Headquarters 10am-4pm. Tour the elegant 1754 historic house decorated for the season in 18th century fashion. Knox’s Headquarters, New Windsor.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Life Drawing Sessions Every other Thursday, 6-9pm. The Enchanted Cafe, Red Hook. 835-8435.

WEDNESDAY 27 MUSIC Poet Gold’s Poelodies 8pm. Spoken word hip hop. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Soul Purpose 9pm. Motown and R&B. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (866) 910-7739.

THURSDAY 28 FILM Home Alone 4pm. Mahawie Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

FRIDAY 29 MUSIC Alva Nelson Trio 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Miss Rene Bailey “The Old Songs” CD Release 8pm. Gospel. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Popa Chubby 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Ed Palermo Big Band 8pm. Rock orchestra. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Dead & Dread NYE 9pm. Gratefully Yours, Ras T Asheber, more. Bearsvilletheater.com.

NYE Ball with the Big Takeover 8pm. Colony, Woodstock.

Colonywoodstock.com.

New Year’s Eve Party with Breakaway featuring Robin Baker 9pm-midnight. Ring in 2018 at the Cafe with this local favorite. This band is rocking and has everybody dancing the whole night.

High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

NYE Brunch: Saints of Swing 11am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Shadows of the 60’s 7pm-midnight. $40/$50/$60/$80. Tribute to the tremendous legacy of Motown Super Groups, Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.

NIGHTLIFE New Year’s Eve with The Bedtime Kissers 9:30pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Rock in the New Year with Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams 9pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Rubblebucket & Marco Benevento 9pm. BSP Kingston. Bspkingston.com.

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Planet Waves Lucinda Abra, Grace Within Dance

BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

Small Wheel Turns by the Fire and Rod, Big Wheel Turns by the Grace of God Every time that wheel goes ‘round / bound to cover just a little more ground —“The Wheel,” Grateful Dead

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ast month at this time, I introduced the idea that late 2017 through 2018 brings a new era astrologically. While things are constantly changing in the sky (no two days are alike, and one day to the next can be distinctly different), what happens over the next year or so happens only rarely. This is when a series of slow-moving planets change signs around the same time.

The last time something similar to this happened was 2010 into 2012, when Chiron, Uranus, and Neptune changed signs in fairly close sequence. We were also experiencing a meeting of Uranus and Pluto in a 90-degree aspect. Think back on those years. They include the BP oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico (which started the day Chiron entered Pisces), and the multiple meltdowns and nuclear plant explosions at Fukushima (which happened the day Uranus entered Aries).

These were two irrevocable incidents that changed the world, damaged the environment, and set the tone for the era that was to come. In those years, we also experienced Arab Spring, the Wisconsin labor protests (please let’s never forget these), the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

These were eventful years. We are on notice that things do indeed change and they do indeed fall apart. We see the limits of protest as a mode of social expression; in particular, the way that Arab Spring descended into tyranny and war.

Note that UFOs did not land on the White House lawn. The world did not end. Humanity did not ascend to the fifth dimension; most of humanity, however, did transform into the astral world of the internet, and we’re now sharing an out-of-body experience through our touch-screen phones.

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In the Background: Uranus Conjunct Eris In the background of all current astrology is a world-class conjunction: Uranus conjunct Eris. This is an approximately once-per-century event; it last occurred in 1927 and 1928. Uranus conjunct Eris is on the magnitude of events in 1891 (Neptune conjunct Pluto), 1927-28 (Uranus conjunct Eris), 1965-1966 (Uranus conjunct Pluto), and 1993 (Uranus conjunct Neptune). Note that the same names keep coming up.

These are the slowest-moving planets recognized by mainstream astrology.

(Eris, discovered in 2005, is still not getting the attention she deserves, which,if you know mythology at all, is not a good idea. It also demonstrates how astrologers tend to do their work looking into the rearview mirror of tradition.)

There have been many significant aspect patterns since 1891, though this series of conjunctions is in a class by itself. And we have one operating in the background right now. I say background because these aspects tend to color the environment in a way that’s difficult to perceive. The background always is; we tend to notice the features dancing around on the stage, in the spotlight, or on TV. I have covered many times in this space the relationship of Uranus conjunct Eris to electric media and, in the current era, the overwhelming digital environment. That would be more meaningful to those who have some clue as to our plight: the way that drowning in digital has restructured our minds and our society.

Again quoting Eric McLuhan, son of 20th-century media philosopher Marshall McLuhan, “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.”

The body includes all levels of identity on the physical plane. Meditate on the words, “deep disorientation of intellect and destabilization of culture throughout the world.” Remember them when you’re seeing all this chaos unfold on TV, whatever that chaos might be. When you look at the world and think, This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever! say them softly to yourself.

our own publicists and believe our own press releases. Our machines consume our time and mental bandwidth and teach us to be robots like they are.

Chiron in Aries, in my view, will bring a reckoning on these matters. Much like other transits are calling attention to people in public life, Chiron in Aries represents a reckoning on the level of personal accountability to self.

This is no small matter. It will represent whatever aspect of your existence you have neglected. Chiron functions as a holographic influence; its role is to Saturn Ingressing Capricorn on December 19 Saturn was last in Capricorn from February 1988 through February 1991, promote wholeness, balance and integration—this, in our era of fragmentation its own momentous time in history, associated with the 1993 conjunction of and radical imbalance.

Chiron’s placement on the Aries Point also points to some radically raised Uranus and Neptune. It was a formative time for the world in which we are awareness of the ways in which the public realm of things you read about on now living, including a similar phase of deconstruction and collapse prior to news websites makes itself known in our personal lives. The current political the “new world order” taking hold (borrowing a phrase from then president, climate is all about personal attack. It’s about government prying into the George Bush the elder).

Saturn will be joining Pluto in Capricorn, which began back in 2008 and very most private aspects of our lives: abortion; and if that were not enough, trying to restrict birth control; curtailing ends in early 2024. This, too, is one of those access to medical insurance and medical care; vast, sweeping background transits that sets the We are in a seemingly mandatory “immunizations”; and a government color and tone of the era in which it happens. For that facilitates psychotics with machine example, soon after Pluto (a kind of unstoppable endless personal-is-political policy guns opening fire on church congregations and force) entered Capricorn (the sign of society’s music festivals. hurricane, though we’re structures), we had the banking collapse and I have to say, the extent to which the the beginning of the so-called Great Recession.

American public is a chump is truly impressive. reacting in ways more When you have Saturn and Pluto in the same At this rate, we will be quartering soldiers sign it means you’re close to a Saturn-Pluto in our homes, even though the Constitution appropriate for a walk in the conjunction, which is another way of saying Big expressly forbids this. Chiron in Aries will Astrology. Saturn conjunct Pluto (which happark on a summer day. push the truths of these issues onto us until we pens once every 35 years) is the peak of Pluto in wake up, whether we slept through the point of Capricorn; in other words, expect another wave no return or not.

Chiron’s action is gentle, at first. Then the calls to awaken of changes you never imagined possible. become increasingly more shocking.

There will be, at first, an opportunity to start some cleanup and reconstruction of the damage done (or demolition begun) in the Pluto-in-Capricorn era.

Uranus in Taurus: The Body Electric and the Quest for Values This will feel good. It would also seem to suggest a new set of limits and a On May 15, moments after the New Moon in that sign, Uranus enters Taurus. deepening of our mini-era of accountability.

Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. It’s not in Taurus very often, and for While we’re busy holding powerful people accountable for what we hear just seven years, at that. For reference, Uranus was last in Taurus from 1934they do in the news, we need to honor one of the main purviews of Capri1941. Prior to that it was in Taurus from 1850-1858. corn, the family. I am aware that the sign Cancer is usually associated with the Uranus is one of the original revolutionaries of the zodiac. Its motto is household and the family, though really, it’s the Cancer-Capricorn axis. We “Expect the unexpected,” which is fairly well impossible. You can say it, but have some work to do here. you cannot really do it. Still it’s worth saying, as it makes a fantastic generic Notably, the first degree of Capricorn (where Saturn will soon be) is con- prediction for astrologers seeking a book deal. See! The unexpected happened! nected to the Aries Point. That is the first degree of the zodiac, which is an I told you! The thing is, due to the Taurus association with wealth, value and, energetic hotspot. The 90-degree contact between Aries and Capricorn plugs to some degree, currency, there are likely to be some financial shocks (activity them into the same energy circuit, called cardinal points (also associated with in Capricorn will facilitate that). the seasons changing).

Taurus is one of those profoundly important signs relating to personal In practice, it’s an intersection where the individual realm meets the col- identity. It’s almost as vital as Aries, only the identity factors are less conceptual lective (or said another way, where we discover that the personal is political). and more tangibly physical. That is, identity in the style of Taurus is related It may seem like we are flooded with Aries Point experiences at the moment; to the body, to one’s home, and to one’s values and priorities. that’s true. It’s getting difficult to see much else. We are in a seemingly endless This transit may represent a reawakening of physical consciousness: that is, personal-is-political hurricane, though we’re reacting in ways more appropriate bringing awareness back to the body, even if that happens as a result of being for a walk in the park on a summer day. struck by lightning.

Chiron in Aries: The Quest for Identity Pulled into Focus Speaking of the Aries Point, Chiron is about to spend nearly a year dancing around on that degree, as it transitions from Pisces to Aries.

Chiron was last in Aries from mid-1968 through early 1976. Chiron arrives in Aries on April 17, 2018, and will begin its transition into Taurus in 2026. This transit in itself marks an era of history as well as an entire sub-generation of births.

Aries is the primary sign of identity. Wherever you have it in your chart is where (among other key places) you’re likely to seek your sense of self.

There’s been little other than chaos unfolding in this sign recently. Within a very short time, intellectual and cultural chaos has reached a new order of magnitude.

Chiron’s primary role is raising awareness and providing the means for healing. Raising awareness will consist of many clues about the extent to which obsessive, uncreative use of the internet has ravaged our sense of self and our ability to relate to one another in whole ways.

We play out the identity drama many ways: Chief among them is politicized sexual identity, and hyperbolically polarized political identity. We have become

The Big Wheel Turns When so many outer planets change signs around the same time, society changes. The emphasis of our lives changes. History takes major turns, if only we would notice them. Well, it will be difficult not to notice, and perhaps more difficult to care. But that’s what our lives are about now: the quest and the struggle to care, to really care.

These will also be some of the most exciting, interesting and creative years of our lives. If you want to sleep through them, it will be like pressing the snooze button with the hottest rave or rock concert going on in the next room, to which you have tickets. You will be happy you wake up, and will wonder what you were thinking if you don’t.

As the Grateful Dead taught us, the wheel is turning and you can’t slow down. You can’t let go, and you can’t hold on. You can’t go back and you can’t stand still. If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will.

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ARIES (March 20-April 19) Saturn enters your house of professional advancement this month, which is the thing you need if you want to succeed at something meaningful. This is in the top tier of transits that can advance your cause, or that of the world. Saturn, which tends to describe worldly affairs, enters Capricorn, the solar 10th house of Aries, typically associated with fame, notoriety, and success. Yet this never happens by itself. One must do the 10th-house work of developing a solid reputation, especially where Capricorn is concerned.

You will need more traditional means than the website, app and Instagram feed. It will be essential to understand the difference between a solid achievement and a little flash of success. You’ve likely done plenty the past 10 years that qualifies, though in any event now is the time to get moving.

The emphasis must indeed be on building: relationships, organization, work habits, and—most significantly—purpose. Saturn says work with time, including the past. You’re likely to have abandoned many past accomplishments, perhaps deeming them unrelated to what you currently want.

However, you must work with all your skills, particularly now. There’s one last ingredient that will come up, one way or another: the whole issue of authority. You must be your own self-regulated individual, and also know your place in every pecking order. From there, you can move around.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) Your need to understand and fully embody your relationships is at a peak. I can see this from planets gathering in your opposite sign Scorpio, which is one place to gather such information (for Taurus). You’re in a position to benefit from your encounters with others; there would seem to be plenty of mutual desire in your environment; there may be more than one relationship or suitor that has your attention.

And the presence of Vesta, an unusual, meaningful asteroid, is saying: nothing is quite normal, as if events and your relationship plane exist on different levels of reality. The question of service is essential: how you and partners serve one another, and more significantly, how you serve something larger. Your relationships are not romances. They are experiences that call for grounding in purpose, which means going beyond fulfillment, fun times and self-improvement. Those are a basic foundation, on the level of rest and good food. You are beginning to rise above your foundations when your encounters with others are devoted to a greater purpose. That might mean working to provide a resource, a place of refuge, or a reservoir of wisdom and meaning—whether for your immediate community of friends or the wider world. Wisdom and meaning are the kinds of things people tend to run from. You take your life more seriously than that.

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It’s time to slow down and be more meticulous. I suggest you do that right at the point where things fall apart or seem to go out of control, which may be an ongoing situation. That’s the thing. Life is pushing nearly everyone beyond their limits, and there are few examples of what I would call personal restraint.

It’s too easy to delete anything we don’t want to deal with; until, of course, it starts to add up as karma. It’s easy to bob and weave around personal accountability, until you realize that you’re lonely, and make the connection. It’s really easy to avoid actually being vulnerable, and that always comes at a cost. So—it’s time to slow down the movie. It’s time to think about everything in terms of the results that it’s likely to yield, and to be ready to work with (or deal with) those results. This primarily involves two areas of your life: anywhere sex enters, and anywhere money enters. Both call for an internal audit, and for the creation of an ongoing paper trail so that you can look back, in the near future, and assess your progress. You will benefit from such concepts as a long-term approach, the making of incremental progress, and daily devotion. Where do you start? Pick the easiest thing, or the most difficult, and tackle that first.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) It’s been strange having Pluto in your relationship house for nearly 10 years. In the astrological technique I use to write this column, one’s opposite sign is the first place to look for information about relationships, and you have Capricorn looking right back at you. That leads to a somewhat formal and structured approach to relating; you’re probably one of the people who think society is severely lacking something for the absence of courtship rituals. Pluto has run roughshod through Capricorn, dismantling your old concepts, presenting people in your life who might seem remote, or intense, or who cannot handle their own power. Saturn’s presence in your relationship angle, beginning just before the solstice and lasting a bit under three years, will cool things off for you. You will have an ongoing opportunity to clear out old karma, make repairs and evaluate your real desires and needs. You might decide that current partners, or your way of relating to them, are not up to what you really need. At a certain point, you will have to stop compromising. Start with establishing a level of communication that you need, and do everything in your power to hold your own standard. This will begin a process of coming to terms with this thing we call “the other,” which is on one level an extension of yourself, and on another, a guest you invite to dinner.

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LEO (July 22-August 23) The whole concept of work is largely misunderstood, and it would be fair to say that upcoming transits will bring you to a deep level of understanding. Work is variously presented as a necessary evil; as a burden; as the conversion of time and labor into money (yours, or someone else’s); as duty; and as mere activity (that, particularly lately; working is keeping busy no matter how unproductive). Work is rarely presented, or experienced, as something meaningful and relevant. It’s rarely presented as something satisfying, and which makes a contribution.

Powerful forces have been operating in your life, helping you dismantle your old ideas of work (meaning what was given to you by various ancestors and other authority figures). Now you get to start putting something together that you can live with, grow with, and develop into something beautiful. There’s just one cost: to have meaningful work, you must give yourself to it. There’s an element of submission to the task that must be completed, and to the larger purpose involved.

This is about true commitment, which moves you from within. You must want it more than a good time, or being liked, or being social. Most of all, it’s essential that you be following a calling of some kind. That might be about your own mission, or joining with someone in their mission: positive results require both approaches.

VIRGO (August 23-September 23) One way to understand your sign is the metaphor of a child carrying the groceries. Virgos tend to be given too much responsibility too young; or maybe there’s something about you that takes life seriously and has from a very young age, and knows that you HOME TO INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SINCE 1972 must do your bit. The advantage of this is that you will tend to HOME TO INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SINCE 1972 grow younger, particularly in your desire to have fun. You might spend your lifetime claiming elements of your childhood, and bringing them to your daily experience of life. What children understand better than adults is the idea of serious fun. Usually adults have to learn this, through developing their talents. Music, painting, drawing, building things, writing—these are all serious fun, and they all require an investment. Playing guitar scales is not fun, at first. Writing is tedious and requires meticulous attention to detail.

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After nearly three years, Saturn is going to leave your sign this month. But not before it finishes its one contact to the Galactic Core in 30 years. We have with this image, or metaphor, one of the most tangible factors in all of astrology (Saturn, which builds, structures, and regulates our perception of time) making contact with one of the most intangible (the Galactic Core, a spiritual homing signal). This is describing you bringing something into existence, based on what might feel like inspiration so subtle you cannot feel it. Alternately, you may feel cut off from your usual sense of inspiration and adventure: this depends on whether you consider Saturn a friend. You are a driven and inspired person. Your vision for life far exceeds what expectations others might offer you. You knew more than your guidance counselor and probably a lot more than your parents. Saturn in one’s sign is always about fundamentally coming to terms with who you are. For you, that means the past few years have been about fully claiming your vision, your values and your right to be the person you are: the one who sees the world as different from how it currently is. Saturn will move on to Capricorn, lifting some pressure from you, and having given you something that nothing else can. Remember what you have learned, and who you are becoming.

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It is, however, the planet that rules your sign. You must cultivate a conscious and hopefully positive relationship with all that it represents. And while people do tend to have issues with authority (often a Saturn factor), you are at least aware that this is something you must address consciously. On December 19, Saturn will enter your sign for the first time since the late 1980s. This begins an actual era of your life: a formative time; a time of transition, and of drawing out some of your deepest and most beautiful qualities.

Get ready for that: what you contain, what is latent, what is lurking in potential, and what you simply must evolve into: you will be hearing from all of these things. There will be a peeling back and unearthing. Your life may at times feel like an archaeological dig. At other times, you will feel like a potter in the studio, sculpting yourself as the wheel spins. While you’re using one hand to hold that pot stable from the outside (discipline, structure, restraint, timing), notice that your other hand is on the inside pushing yourself wider. That inner hand represents your passion, your desire, your thirst for life, and your craving for experience. May your hands work together.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Astrology has a place where all the missing socks can be found, and the Bic lighters and guitar picks; the missing people and misplaced ideas and lost dreams. This is the same place where we tend to carry our fears, and the baggage of our ancestors and of society itself. It’s also where our deepest potential can be found: your actual desire for who you want to be. It’s called the 12th house (by far the most mysterious and complex of the lot). Saturn, the planet that in traditional astrology rules your sign, is about to dive in. This will take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of your psyche. You’ll be invited to make friends with all of who you are, and to reclaim what you’ve disowned or denied. Many would find this to be daunting, even frightening. You are made of stronger stuff than that, though to the degree that you face your fears, you will also encounter your most deeply held wants and needs. Embark on this journey with an open heart and a sense of adventure. You’re being invited to do what so few people attempt, much less succeed at: to let go of your preconceptions and get to know yourself in an entirely new way. Do this willingly and you’ll discover the keys to freedom.

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Do not be deceived by the hostility, turmoil, and confusion of the world. It’s nothing new, and nothing special. There’s a place for you, and your journey is leading you there. Saturn’s entry into Capricorn later this month begins a major new phase of your professional and creative life, wherein you will have many opportunities to make contact with the wider world. First, though, let’s consider these last moments of Saturn’s journey across your 10th house of reputation and success, which for you is Sagittarius. In these three years, you’ve been in overdrive building your vision. You’ve done more than lay a solid foundation.

You have discovered and demonstrated that you can go from feeling to idea to concept to actually developing something tangible. This is the essential skill here on the cosmic physical plane: in effect, manifestation; but really, transubstantiation. As you embark on the adventures ahead, remember that your mission is spiritual. You are teaching what is possible, in the face of the world’s impossible situation. You will be demonstrating how to weave yourself into society, in a time of alienation. You are committed to doing something useful, when so much is so pointless. You’re doing something real in a time of illusions. Have confidence that the structures of the world will part and make room for you. They are not as solid as they may seem.

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