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27 The Drink: The Hudson Standard The Evergreen is a bright cocktail with perky citrus notes and woodsy aromatics.
HOME & GARDEN 28 Family Thread Seamstress, designer, and slow fashionista Katrina Rodabaugh restores an 1820s farmhouse in Germantown.
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68 blues with a feelin’ by Peter Aaron Born into a musical family, local legend Slam Allen is a link to the deep history of the blues.
53 Vow Wow A roundup of our 15 Hudson Valley wedding venues with onsite accommodations.
HOROSCOPES 90 From the Universal to the Personal Astrologer Lorelai Kude scans the skies and plots our horoscopes for December.
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74 Poetry Poems by Mary Angeles Armstrong, Jerrice J. Baptiste, John Blandly, Thomas Bonville, Sydna Altschuler Byrne, Laurie Byro, Sara Cerabino, Eleanor Condelles, Thom Cooney Crawford, Bob Grawi, Yana Kane, George Payne, Christopher Porpora, Tori Phillips, Zachary Sumpter, and Leo Vanderpot. Edited by Philip X Levine.
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THE GUIDE 79 18th-century titans Turner and Constable costar in an exhibit at Clark Art Institute. 81 Bard’s Sound the Trumpet series returns with “Jazz and the Birth of Hip-Hop.” 82 A round-up of Black History Month events. 83 The first solo exhibit of outsider artist Inez Walker’s paintings debuts at Vassar. 85 A gallery guide for February. 89 Six live music shows to pencil in, from Dropkick Murphies to the Winter Hoot.
96 Parting Shot Pops Peterson talks about his Reinventing Rockwell paintings at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center on February 3.
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“They seemed almost to be living entities. Even standing idle with their steam up, they were never silent—they panted, grunted, and hissed.” —Joseph Richards on the workings of freight trains.
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ainter Joseph Richards (1921-2007) never lost his childish fascination with cranes, trains, and big machines. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Richards grew up watching the workings of freight trains in local switchyards. “They seemed almost to be living entities,” Richards once recounted. “Even standing idle with their steam up, they were never silent—they panted, grunted, and hissed.” These cornerstone memories served as an early inspiration for the paintings Richards would go on to create. Throughout his artistic career, Richards painted from photographs, capturing in vivid detail the intricacies of train engines, cupolas, and sundry shipyard machinery like cranes and cargo booms. “Inspired by themes of industrialization and the modernization of the American landscape pioneered by the Precisionists of the 1920s, Richards explored his personal fascination with industry, architecture, and technology via photorealism,” says Linden Scheff, director at the Carrie Haddad Gallery, where Richards’s work is on display this month. Often taking as his subject just one small aspect of a very large object, Richards developed a vocabulary of visual synecdoche, concisely conveying larger realities of the changing American landscape. “[Richards’s] tight and precise painting style with an emphasis on imagery...requires an advanced technical ability and virtuosity to simulate, such as reflections on metal surfaces, and strict geometry,” says Scheff. In Richards’ painting Boatyard Lift, you can see his photographic attention to detail and breathtaking use of color. His choice of paint for the sky is a true robin’s egg blue, which shows up in many of his paintings. “The clarity [of this color] has the ability to change your mood,” Scheff says. “Each painting carries with it a monumental presence and demonstrates a quiet sense of tension.” Richards’s work will be on display at the Carrie Haddad Gallery through February 24, along with the picturesque landscape paintings of Bill Sullivan, in the exhibit “Great Estates.” —Gina Pepitone
alt covers Gerosa and Boatyard Lift, two of the other works in the Joesph Richards exhibit at Carrie Haddad Gallery considered for the February cover.
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When we no longer ask, “What is life on this Earth for?” in terms of what use it is to man, a very great shock will come. We will then have to look at the Earth in terms of the cosmic purpose that it serves, and many new avenues of understanding will be open to us. We shall ask, “What kind of instrument is this solar system?” and “What part does life on the Earth play in the working of the solar system?”; and we shall be forced to reevaluate our place in it and ask, “What kind of instrument is man?” and “What purposes can man be used for?” Then we shall begin to learn anew many of the old lessons which have been forgotten. —John Bennett, Deeper Man Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: When my kids were little, people asked them the stock question, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” I did my best to prepare them for the onslaught of gratuitous pigeonholing. “Remember,” I lectured, “there is a difference between what you are and the work you do. If anyone asks you what you’re going to be, first of all tell them ‘I’m going to be myself.’” My kids thought that was cool, until they tried it a few times. Then they decided it was weird. Despite the trite answer, there is a real question. Namely, what is the difference between being and doing, and what, fundamentally, are human beings for? A famous quote by Lao Tzu is normally translated as “the way to do is to be.” I don’t think this is a correct translation. Likely it should be “a prerequisite for truly doing and not simply reacting to external stimulation is to have a ground of presence in being.” It’s not as quotable but it is more precise. Being is a measure of the capacity for presence in one’s instrument or organism. It is inhabiting the media of the inner life such that one’s vessel does not fracture into aggression, submission, or withdrawal from experience. With being, one’s contents of thoughts, emotions, and sensations are not spilled and dispersed as reactions with every large and small jostle and shock. Sophie Ouspensky was asked about it and said, “being is what you can bear.” Doing is something completely other. To really do means to be in contact with and provide agency for the force of intent prior to any content of thoughts, emotions, or sensations. Real doing is in reaction to nothing. To do is to create, to cause or give birth to something truly new, a manifestation that has never been, and perhaps not even conceived. To do in this sense requires that there be no ego claiming the work or its results. The Bhagavad Gita describes doing in this full sense as a high path to self-completion: “Therefore, without being attached to the results of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one attains the Supreme.” This is called Karma Yoga. Fully inhabited human beings fulfill a purpose in a larger system. As Rodney Collin suggests in his Theory of Celestial Influence, human beings are like the sex cells in the body of the biosphere, with the possibility of spawning new life as souls in a subtler world. While soulmakers are rare exceptions among people, the extraordinary quality of emanations arising from human beings in a more or less collected state makes an important contribution to the cosmic harmony. There is a fabulous diversity in the unity of whole systems like the biosphere, and every part makes a necessary contribution to the whole. Every part is precious. We may grok that there is nothing extraneous or inessential in the designs of nature, even if we do not perceive or understand the purpose. Every species of plant and animal is necessary for the wellbeing of the whole. Even human beings who have developed some degree of being have an indispensable role in the ecosystem of reciprocal maintenance. All life is one, and everything that lives is holy. —Jason Stern 10 CHRONOGRAM 2/19
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RECENTLY, I CELEBRATED A MOMENTOUS BIRTHDAY. By recently, I
mean early November. By celebrated, I mean it was technically a celebration (“the action of marking one’s pleasure at an important event or occasion by engaging in enjoyable, typically social, activity.”), though those in attendance may have felt otherwise at times. And by momentous, to be clear: it wasn’t one of those decade ending/beginning birthday years with a zero on the end. Nor was it the kind of meaningladen birthday when you hope someone will throw you a big party, and then you get anxious about it and arrange it yourself and invite everyone you know and my goodness, most of them show up and it’s overwhelming, like you’re getting married to yourself and you regret it all later—but mostly the expense and the megalomania that drove you to want to be feted by hundreds of people. No, this birthday wasn’t momentous in that way—this birthday had an 8 on the end of it. My recent birthday was momentous in the sense that I learned valuable lessons about what not to do on my birthday. While these lessons are somewhat specific to me, a 48-year-old, gender-conforming white male, I hope their wisdom is general enough that non-binary Mongolian schoolchildren and polymorphous perverse Uruguayan gauchos (Chronogram is big in the pampas) can find some guidance/benefit/consolation in my words. So, here’s a list of dos and don’ts (mostly don’ts if I’m being honest with myself, though perhaps there’s been altogether too much of that already). Do have a party. After reading what’s to come, you might think better of hosting or attending any kind of birthday gathering. There are a lot pitfalls when it comes to birthdays. But remain calm, be brave, follow my advice, and you might just make it through in one piece. Do listen to your wife. I know I’ve given this advice out before, on multiple occasions, but it bears repeating. She grapples with the thorny reality that you often choose to ignore. When she asks you, “What do you want to do for your birthday?” and you say, “I’d like to have brunch at an expensive, out-of-the-way restaurant that’s miles and miles from anywhere,” listen carefully to her when she suggests that perhaps it would be easier on your friends and family if you just had a few people over to the house instead. Stubborn and spoiled rotten person that you are, you will think you are “compromising” by proposing a lunch at your favorite French restaurant instead. When your wife ever-so-gently makes the comment that not everyone likes French food, or the formality of a white tablecloth restaurant, and again advocates for a low-key get-together at home, do not exclaim, “Well it’s my goddamn party! If I can’t eat at Le Canard maybe we shouldn’t do anything at all!” and then descend into the type of petulant silence that drives your wife around the bend.
Don’t drink Champagne before lunch. This may seem obvious, but imbibing bubbles before you’ve had a substantial meal is not a wise choice, as it will set you on a path to early-onset inebriation, which will have other cascading effects despite the fact that it’s seems perfectly reasonable to drink Champagne at any hour in a French restaurant.
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Don’t give a speech. You’ll be sorely tempted. The notes you’ve prepared will insistently whisper from your pocket, “Read me!” The Champagne and the subsequent Cotes de Rhone will ally with your notes and argue that the time is ripe for you to regale those assembled with witty bon mots. But if you’re honest with yourself, you’ll acknowledge that no one wants to hear you give a speech as much as you do. Don’t mention Schopenhauer. This notoriously pessimistic 19th-century German philosopher really has no place at a birthday party, despite your recent obsession with some of his ideas as they relate to your midlife crisis. Whatever you do, don’t start explaining his theory of the futility of desire. Schopenhauer’s basic argument is a double-bind: either you have goals in life, in which case you haven’t achieved them yet and you’re suffering, or you achieve your goals and then you’re hollowed out on the far shore of desire, wondering what all the fuss was about to begin with. Don’t try to explain the difference between telic (goal-oriented) behavior and atelic (non-goal oriented) behavior and how you’re pursuing more atelic activities, like yoga and mindfulness meditation, which will theoretically result in less suffering in your life. Don’t give out books as presents. In certain cultures, it’s common practice for people to give presents on their birthday. Hobbits, for instance, have this lovely custom. It’s a wonderful sentiment, but unless you’re giving people stuff they really want—Bitcoin is a suitable gift for almost any occasion— skip it. You may already have bought a dozen copies of the book you’ve been reading to ease you through your midlife crisis—Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya—but you don’t have to follow through on your grand scheme. Just leave the books ungifted. Being given a book is like being given a homework assignment—it creates an expectation that the book will be read. Are you planning on a quiz as well? Relax, have fun. And remember: It’s your birthday. Just try and have a good time.
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he tagline for “Hi-Phi Nation,” Barry Lam’s pop-philosophy podcast, is “a show about philosophy that turns stories into ideas.” Lam, a philosophy professor at Vassar College, seeks to extract big ideas, unquestioned assumptions, and unexamined conflicts from human-interest stories. Recent topics have included midlife crises, cover songs in popular music, and reconciling religious and empirical beliefs. Think of it as the podcast Ira Glass would produce if he were a philosophy professor. The third season of “Hi-Phi Nation” launched on January 31. Hiphination.org How does a philosophy professor come to start a podcast? I noticed that there was a burgeoning of academic-adjacent radio documentaries— shows that integrated journalism and storytelling with economics reporting or brain science reporting or social science reporting or psychology. I got this idea that it would be great if there was a show that connected storytelling about people’s lives or history or the law or science or pop culture to the kind of questions that philosophers like to think and talk about. One of the goals of “Hi-Phi Nation” is to make philosophy accessible to everybody. Why should everyone have access to philosophy?
People are looking to the social sciences for answers to various problems. Economics is often used in this way. What I think economists have done really well, and Freakonomics has played a big role in this, was to present the kind of things that were happening academically in economics in a way that applied to and made people have a reaction like, “Oh I think I understand the world a little bit better.” But there are many other ways to frame problems. Philosophy is one of them. Economists enjoy great media cachet. I don’t see philosophers being revered in the same way as go-to problem framers.
Philosophy has the reputation of being a little old-fashioned or weirdly inaccessible. We haven’t done a good job in philosophy of putting ourselves as one of the branches of people who have been thinking about these kinds of things and have a stake in it and can
offer a way of approaching these problems that an ordinary person concerned with social issues and what’s happening with the world can access. The public has to feel that philosophers are offering an insight versus just arguing endlessly amongst themselves about things that nobody else cares about. For your podcast to succeed, you can’t just sit there and talk about philosophy. You have to tell a story as well.
Yes, that’s exactly it, that’s the thing that my show does differently from other philosophy shows. If you go into podcasts and you do a search, you’re going to get one-on-one discussion shows where hosts go, “Let’s talk about this issue, free will.” Here’s an argument that we have, let’s discuss it. That’s going to appeal to the people who came into it, interested in that question and want to think about that. For me, I need to find the story. In the case of free will, I connected it to the problem of addiction and the US justice system. How are addicts treated? Are they treated as though their acts were an act of will, something that they have control over? And so, are they punished for relapsing? Or are they treated as though this is a symptom of a disease—like people aren’t punished for having diabetes. Even if the
diabetes leads them to acts of desperation. There’s even a court case about diabetes. That’s the kind of thing I’m doing. So then, how do you choose which topics to tackle on the podcasts? There’s a lot of different ways. One of the most common ways is that I come across a philosophical issue or philosopher who wants their revenue idea that they’re working on. I interview them and think about what the right story is that will raise a particular problem like that— that’ll be important and relevant for the listener. I start with the philosophy and look for the right story.
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Distrusting Not Trusting the Government To the Editor: In his December column, Jason Stern wrote: “I had a rare conversation about politics with a friend. He argued we need to support the right candidates and engage in the political to make a societal change. I opined that the system is broken and unfixable...I don’t trust government. Never did…There is a deep and justified cynicism about the whole structure of the US’s ‘democracy’ and ‘representative form of government.’ These ideas, with which children are indoctrinated in schools, have proven to be farcical and empty descriptions, so opposite to reality as to make George Orwell’s 1984 read as a realistic description of the present rather than a frightening but fantastical dystopian future.” What doesn’t he trust? Roads? Bridges? Uniform weights and measures? Does he not use money? Is Luminary Publishing not incorporated by the State of New York? The question is not whether we should trust government—we have no choice—but how we can make it more trustworthy? Our system may be broken, but to declare it unfixable is to counsel despair. Despair is easy, but not useful. To equate George Orwell’s 1984 to our world today is ignorance. Orwell was fully aware of the evils of crony capitalism and government bureaucracy, but he nevertheless recognized the virtues of free speech and elections. 1984 was precisely a warning against those who would equate British democracy with totalitarianism. He despised such thoughtless assertions. Our world today is certainly in some ways worse than Orwell’s, but in many ways it is better. His was a world soaked in the blood of more than 100 million recent victims of war and revolution. In that world, a Winston Churchill could openly declare that he’d be damned if he would negotiate with “a halfnaked Indian Fakir,” i.e., Mahatma Gandhi. If we are experiencing a return of that kind of language, it is because of 48 percent of eligible voters who failed to vote. George Orwell might not have died of tuberculosis at age 46 in 1950 if the British Clean Air Act of 1956 had been passed a decade or two earlier. This is a species of the good to which governmental powers can be applied, but which Jason debunks. He would seem to take clean air for granted, without acknowledging the political struggle of which it is the result. If the arc of history bends toward justice, as Martin Luther King declared, it is not in a straight line. History has swung from one disaster to the next, even as we have developed ideas and institutions most of us cherish. Including the fundamental idea that “all men
are created equal.” Except that today we would say all humans. This idea was born during what modern historians call the axial age around 2,500 years ago, by such thinkers as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Socrates, Zoroaster, and the Buddha. Since then many others, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Henry and Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, have labored to extend this idea and give it reality. Prior to the axial age, conquers boasted of slaughter in terms that held commoners as of no value but as battle fodder. Since then the idea of equality has kept eating away at the privilege of the few, creating the ideas of constitutional government, trial by jury, the abolition of torture and of slavery. Within the last 100 years, we have extended the idea of human rights to include the right of women, the poor, and minorities to vote, of workers to organize, of the eight-hour day, time and a half for overtime, and now even health care and a living wage. All these ideas were won at the cost of much struggle and blood, and are still highly contested. They are chiefly secured today by 535 members of Congress, nine Supreme Court justices, and the president of the United States. Nevertheless, Jason dismisses representative government by observing that elections and court decisions are commonly bought by the rich. This is obviously so, nevertheless the rich and powerful do not always win, as the above litany of expanding rights—and even the election of Donald Trump—prove. Trump was opposed by virtually every mainstream power broker, and precisely for this reason, masses of angry and fearful white men and women in a right-wing populist uprising voted for him in protest. Had more of us made better use of the powers allowed us by the Constitution, Bernie Sanders might now be president instead of Donald Trump. The idea that we should not trust government or elections is straight out of the playbooks of Karl Rove and Ronald Reagan. Trump was elected by 26 percent of eligible voters because 48 percent of eligible voters, thinking, like Jason, didn’t bother to vote. Jason suggests that the only way we can affect history is by “balancing oneself.” By which he means, I assume, meditation and mindfulness, among other things. These are very good. But when balancing oneself becomes a substitute for political struggle, it turns into asphalt on the highway of good intentions by which the road to hell is paved. TW, via email
Need vs. Greed To the Editor: Thank you for republishing economist Karl Widerquist’s 1999 article The Money-Making Ethic, which discusses the value of work, in its broadest definition (toll, effort, production), rather than as a means to make money. Inherent in this discussion is his concept of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the option for people to work or not. In your editorial, you stated that “we all work because we need money, not because we love work” and invited your readers to write if they disagree. Your statement spun me back to my childhood when I lived on a farm in the tough times of the ’40s. We kids were expected to work and never received a dime of money. I chopped wood; gathered, cleaned, candled, and packed eggs in a crate; fed the animals mash and hay; shoveled manure from the barn; plucked and dressed chickens; carried slop to the pigs, and churned butter. For the most part, I loved the chores. My older sister Mary Lou hated them, especially when Dad made her stay home from school. She and I, however, did share a love of learning. Eventually she ran away and refused to come home. She told a judge that her father was breaking the law by making her work and miss school. The judge believed her, granted her request to live on her own, and found a family to fund her education. I am now in my 81st year and still love work and learning. What I would like to know is how will the UBI be funded? Doesn’t someone need to work (make money), to pay for this scheme? Widerquist provides answers in a 2017 article. His simple estimates are based on the net cost of a UBI set at about the official poverty line: $12,000 per adult and $6,000 per child with a 50-percent “marginal tax rate.” Key findings include the following. The net or real cost of this UBI scheme is $539 billion per year: about one-sixth its often-mentioned but not-very-meaningful gross cost of about $3.415 trillion. The net cost is less than 25 percent of the cost of current US entitlement spending, less than 15 percent of overall federal spending, and about 2.95 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The average net beneficiary is a family of about two people making about $27,000 per year. The family’s net benefit from the UBI would be nearly $9,000 raising their income to almost $36,000. (For further details, see The Cost of Basic Income: Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations, Basic Income Studies.) The majority of wealth in America—and around the globe—is in the hands of one percent of its households. Ghandi said, “The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” Sounds like it’s time for the UBI or some other form of viable sharing. Fay Loomis, Kerhonkson
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A Florida brewery has a solution to plastic six-pack rings that can tangle the wings of sea birds, choke seals, and warp the shells of growing sea turtles. Saltwater Brewery, a microbrewery in Delray Beach have developed biodegradable six-pack rings with start-up E6PR. After years of research and development, the rings—made of wheat and barley that can either biodegrade or serve as a snack for wildlife— are now popping up in south Florida stores. Plastic pollution is a big issue for the Gulf of Mexico. According to recent research by Louisiana State University, the Gulf has one of the one world’s highest concentrations of marine plastic. Source: Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
The World Health Organization identified “vaccine hesitancy”—“the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines”—as one of its top 10 health concerns facing the world in 2019. Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways of avoiding disease—it currently prevents 2 to 3 million deaths a year, and a further 1.5 million could be avoided if global coverage of vaccinations improved, according to WHO. Measles, for example, has seen a 30 percent increase in cases globally. New York State recorded 170 measles cases between September and early January, mostly in the close-knit Orthodox Jewish communities across the state where children go mostly unvaccinated. Sources: World Health Organization; NBC News
In mid-January, Digital First Media, a corporate front for Alden Capital, a hedge fund known for gutting newsrooms, announced it would be making a hostile bid for Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and 100 other newspapers. The unsolicited offer, worth over $1.3 billion, would create the largest newspaper company in the United States. Not just an abstract example of further consolidation in a struggling industry, these companies operate two of the MidHudson Valley’s daily newspapers, the Poughkeepsie Journal (Gannett) and the Kingston Daily Freeman (Digital First Media). Critics have described Alden Capital as a destroyer of newspapers that is prone to savage layoffs and as “one of the most ruthless of the corporate strip-miners seemingly intent on destroying local journalism.” Sources: New York Times, Washington Post
26 = 3.8B FALLWELLS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS
“Why have Americans been able to do more to help people in need around the world than any other country in history? It’s because of free enterprise, freedom, ingenuity, entrepreneurism, and wealth. A poor person never gave anyone a job. A poor person never gave anybody charity, not of any real volume.”
—Jerry Fallwell, Jr., president of Liberty University
This map, courtesy of Opencyclemap.org, shows the density of cycleways in the Netherlands. Twenty-seven percent of all trips in the Netherlands are bicycle trips. In the US it’s just over one percent of all trips.
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The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population. In its annual report on the disparity between the world’s wealthiest and poorest people, Oxfam said 2018 had been a year in which the rich had grown richer and the poor poorer: the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population. The wealth of more than 2,200 billionaires across the globe had increased by $900 billion in 2018. The 12-percent increase in the wealth of the very richest contrasted with a fall of 11 percent in the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population. The world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, saw his fortune increase to $112 billion. Just 1 percent of his fortune is equivalent to the whole health budget for Ethiopia, a country of 105 million people. Source: Guardian (UK)
body politic by Larry Beinhart
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would so love to not write about Donald Trump this month. He’s rude, crude, and lewd, noxious, obnoxious, and tedious. He’s crowded the real news out of journalism and—this I take personally—virtually destroyed multiple forms of fiction, the political novel, spy thrillers, and satire. Here’s the question for us all: Is Donald Trump a Russian agent? Is he consciously and actively pursuing a Putin agenda because he loves Russia or hates America? Or is he under Russian control? Blackmailed, in debt, or otherwise susceptible? Or is it possible that he is fulfilling Russia’s greatest desires— to the detriment of our nation—without being cognizant of it? Russia today is significantly smaller than at its peak under the czars or when it was the Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin said, “the collapse of the Soviet Union was the major geopolitical disaster of the century.” Also that he would reverse it if he could. There is little doubt that he means it. He has taken territory from independent nations that were once part of both the royal and Communist empires—Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova. They are not part of NATO. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which were once part of the Soviet Union are now part of NATO. Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria were part of the Warsaw Pact. That meant they were so far within the Soviet sphere, that the Russians could invade at will if they stepped out of line. All those countries are protected by a wall. It’s not a physical one (which could well be why Trump has no love for it). The wall is NATO, a treaty whose strength comes from Article 5, which is simply the motto of the Three Musketeers, “All for one and one for all!” writ large. Very large, 29 members, and nuclear. The US, the UK, and France, are nuclear powers. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Turkey are nuclear weapons-sharing nations, meaning they don’t produce them, but they have them, with their own means to deploy them, though they can’t really do so without the agreement of the US, which supplies them. It is not merely a protection against direct invasion, it’s a restraint against Russian bullying and influence. Estonia is a country of just 1.3 million people. A quarter of Estonians are ethnically Russian. One of the reasons the Russians
A Humbled Poodle used to justify the invasion of Crimea was the protection of the Russian minority. It is easy to see how vulnerable Estonia would be to pressure—backed by the threat of force— if the NATO wall—including eight nations with nuclear weapons—was not an absolute protection. Trump has tweeted, “NATO is as bad as NAFTA. It’s much too costly for the US,” and cast doubt on whether America would live up to Article 5. That’s like D’Artagnan mumbling that he won’t draw his sword in defense of Athos, Porthos, or Aramis when the Cardinal’s Guards assault them or the Huguenots are firing on them. (For those not familiar with the tale, when the Musketeers were at home in Paris, they were a gang of street thugs under the protection of the king and fought with another gang allied to the cardinal. When they went to war, it was for Catholic France against Protestant rebels. Which is why the Huguenots went into exile and ended up in New Paltz.) We’ve recently learned that Trump was actually speaking about leaving NATO and it was only his aides that restrained him. As NATO is the hard wall, the European Union is the economic, political, and social bulwark against Russia and against autocracies—the living, breathing example of why life is better in a world following and upholding the American ideals of democracy, the rule of law, the free press, human rights, peaceful and civil relations between nations. Trump has supported Brexit, Marine Le Pen, and other movements to break up the EU. He also favors leaders like Viktor Orban of Hungary, who, like Putin, retain the electoral facade of democracy while suppressing those things that make it worthy and valuable in order to create authoritarian regimes. This preference and this support is not limited to Europe. Trump adores and supports authoritarians wherever he finds them—China, the Philippines, Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Some might ask if that matters. After all, the US has often supported dictators, especially if they’re on the Right. The excuse, in the past, was that anything was better than Communist totalitarianism, because that would be forever, and right-wing oppression would fade into democracy. But with Communism gone, it is no longer making an alliance with what’s bad against what’s worse, it is saying authoritarianism is to be preferred. Trump’s pulled US forces out of Syria.
Or said he was doing so. It could be a good thing, since Syria is a quagmire. But the manner and the timing of it is such that the beneficiaries are Putin and Assad. Assad is one of the world’s most oppressive dictators, running a regime sustained by secret police, political prisons, torture, and murder. Now, Trump has brought the American government to its knees. Ostensibly over the Wall That Mexico Won’t Pay For. As a drama being played on the world stage, it is a propaganda piece exposing democracy as utterly dysfunctional. Also, xenophobic, cruel, and quite prepared to abandon the rule of law. The Moscow Project, an initiative of the Center for American Progress dedicated to analyzing the facts behind Trump’s collusion with Russia, lists 101 contacts between the Trumpians and the Russians. Whenever
Trump adores and supports authoritarians wherever he finds them— China, the Philippines, Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Trump or his associates are asked about them they lie. Automatically. Adamantly. Every time. Trump has had five meetings—that we know of—with Putin. Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to hide what was said in them. Even personally destroying the translator’s notes. What we do know is that when they appeared together in Helsinki, Trump conducted himself like a justhumbled poodle who’d just been disciplined by his master and then told the world he had more belief in Putin’s word than in his own intelligence services. Trump has done more for Putin than a president owned by the Russians in a fictional spy thriller. He has done more to defile democracy than any character in a political novel. He is, of course, beyond satire. Those are only his literary crimes. 2/19 CHRONOGRAM 19
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Off the Deep End Dive Bars of the Hudson Valley by Marie Doyon & Chronogram staff
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here’s a time and a place for fine wine, historically accurate cocktails made with intellectual rigor, and limited-run craft beer. And then there’s a time for stiff drinks, cheap beer, a loud jukebox, possibly a pool table or a dart board to boot. Dive bars are hard to define— as Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography, “I know it when I see it”—but there’s a special feeling these joints evoke that transcends “I’ve got friends in low places” clichés and conjures an anything-can-happen magic. Anything. As the Hold Steady, the patron saint band of dive bars so eloquently put it in “Spinners”: “there might be a fight, there might be a miracle.” Our quest to find the region’s dive-iest dives, we need a Virgil to our Dante, someone to lead us on a perilous journey into the underworld and bring us out again on the other side. We knew just the person: Chronogram’s office manager, Molly Sterrs. A seasoned bartender for joints both upscale and lowbrow, Molly has sipped and supped in her fair share of disreputable Hudson Valley watering holes. (Hell, she even served a tour in the Navy—by her own admission, Molly has drunk sake in a “bar” that was located in the walk-in closet of a basement apartment outside Tokyo and downed whiskey laced with spider venom in Perth.) Call it professional curiosity, but Molly is always on the lookout for a good dive bar. So, if you feel like getting a little grungy and drinking till the sun comes up, or starting when the sun comes up, here is a list of the Molly’s favorite local dive bars, in no particular order.
Snapper Magee’s
Before Stockade Tavern was named one of America’s best bars by Esquire, there was Snapper’s, Uptown Kingston’s signature dive bar. “Snappers is the best place to avoid anyone, or party with everyone, depending on your mood,” says Molly, who admits this is her local stomping ground. With games both new and old (darts, pinball, Buck Hunter) and a CD jukebox, it’s easy to see how people drink away the hours here. 59 North Front Street, Kingston
Palais Royale
First, a disclaimer: The Palais Royale is neither palatial nor royale—more like a VFW Hall opened up in your uncle Herb’s man cave. “Palais Royale is open until 4am and full of industry folks who will buy you drinks with their tips if they had a good night,” advises Molly. This place has pretty much everything you want in a dive bar (darts, darkness, domestic beer), but with the added bonus of some craft beer options, for when you want to class it up. Famous for their steaming hot empanadas, this is a place you come for late-night munchies. Stake out a spot at the bar, order a can of Miller Lite, and drop some quarters in the jukebox. 164 Jefferson Street, Albany
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Captain Kidd’s Inn
A pirate dive bar! Arrrr, time to screw in the old wooden leg and hobble down to this creekside establishment for a couple of pints at the oldest bar in Catskill. For lovers of the kitsch and the nautical, Captain Kidd’s is a dream come true, with super friendly service to boot. In summer, the outdoor tiki bar is the only place to be. They stock neither bitters nor Campari. Deal with it. 251 West Main Street, Catskill
The Bradley
According to Corey Aldrich, who bartends at The Bradley on Monday nights, what makes this 100-year-old special is the diverse crowd. “You can really get a good cross section of society there from an income perspective, from a race perspective and from a class perspective,” says Aldrich. “We get neighborhood folk dropping by, a group of jazz musicians that haunt the space, the poet and artist crowd, and the random outof-towner who finds their way to our doors when others have closed.” The interior is a time capsule straight from the 1970s, the last time the decor was updated, and there are multiple lines of Genesee on tap, in addition to Miller High Life and Utica Club. 28 Fourth Street, Troy
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The Half Moon
“There’s no place I’d rather boogie down until I can’t stand anymore than Half Moon,” Molly says. Chill, cheap, and unpretentious, Half Moon is the last of its kind in Hudson. On any given night, there might be an unbelievable 8-piece band from Niger, an industrial goth DJ, or a honky tonk two-stepin’ class. This is a neighborhood haunt, where people know you by your name. There’s a pool table too, and a large enclosed patio for summer drinkin’. 48 South Front Street, Hudson
Joe’s Irish Pub
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“This is basically a cleaner version of Snapper’s,” Molly says. A classic (American) Irish pub, Joe’s subsists on a faithful group of rowdy regulars. First-timers may feel on the outside of this tight-knit community. Come Sunday, football is on every screen. And while this may not be the best place to order a fancy cocktail, it’s a great spot to throw back a Coors Lite and scream at a screen for a few hours. 455 Main Street, Beacon
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The Golden Rail Ale House claims to be the first craft beer bar in the Hudson Valley. What we do know for sure, thanks to Molly is that, “this bar was featured in Super Troopers and has more beers on tap than one person could ever drink—plus regulars get personalized mugs” (#goals). Set in a historic building, the ale house serves up a mean basket of wings and some bang-up empanadas. Head there on Wednesdays to croon your heart out during karaoke night. 29 Old North Plank Road, Newburgh
Tavern 23
Just a couple blocks from the Poughkeepsie train station and the waterfront, Tavern 23 is a classic neighborhood bar with “decent food to soak up the booze,” Molly says. It perfectly straddles the high-brow-low-brow line with tin ceilings, craft beer, pub grub, and an aquarium behind the bar. This is the type of place where everyone knows your name. 23 Verrazano Boulevard, Poughkeepsie
Hopewell Inn
The Hopewell Inn is the oldest pub in Hopewell Junction, but that doesn’t mean it takes itself too seriously. This may be the only inland bar in New York State where you can find a full outdoor “beachyard,” replete with sand, sunchairs, grass umbrellas, and Coronas. “The beachy theme makes no sense, but it works,” says Molly. The draft beer is cheap, the live music is decent, and the atmosphere is fun and friendly. 488 Route 376, Hopewell Junction
Snug Harbor
Home to generations of slumming SUNY New Paltz students looking to learn life’s hard lessons, Snug’s can be loud (live music weekends), overcrowded (does the fire marshal even know this place exists?). The staff is rude. The bathrooms are gross, though “they do have the best bathroom graffiti in the Tri-State area,” says Molly. The tap lines for the draft beer probably have not been cleaned since Jason West was mayor—bottled beer is recommended. We once saw a bartender so drunk there, he fell over behind the bar. This was the day bartender. Our kind of place. 38 Main Street, New Paltz
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Farmers & Chefs The Little Italy section of Poughkeepsie’s culinary renaissance continues with the opening of John Lekic’s Farmers & Chefs last July in the former digs of Andy’s Place, a 40-year-old institution known for its chili and its patio with a killer view of the river. The food at F&C will be familiar to fans of Lekic’s previous restaurant, Le Express. There’s a lobster spaghetti dish ($30); steak au poivre ($30); and a cheese and charcuterie platter ($28). The menu also indicates a willingness to travel further afield, with a Moroccan chicken tagine with preserved lemons ($26) and Baja-style fish tacos ($13). There’s also a $14 lunch buffet, served in the banquet room, which facilitates a timely meal for those on the go. Recent entrees included beef bourguignon, roasted chicken in Thai curry sauce, and carrot stew made from Poughkeepsie Farm Project carrots.
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Prospect at Scribner Hollow Start with the sourdough bread and cultured butter
($5). Yes, it’s five bucks for bread and butter, but the execution of this time-honored combination tells you a lot about Chef Alex Napolitano’s food: unpretentious, well-sourced, and spot-on. Another good example of Napolitano’s straight-ahead, rustic New American is the steelhead trout, served with marble potatoes, house-made sauerkraut, and whole grain mustard ($34); the dish has a wonderful textural contrast between the crispy trout skin and the pliant sauerkraut. Other standout-outs include the heritage pork chop served with smoked apple butter, crispy Brussels sprouts ($38); polenta with smoked maitake mushrooms, farm egg, and horseradish ($25); and diver scallop crudo with marble potato chips, creme fraiche, and caviar ($18). The restaurant, housed within the sleekly renovated 38-room lodge, is warm and cozy, with expansive views of the surrounding peaks.
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Fogwood & Fig, Port Jervis Last May, Diana Bezanski, founder of the viral food blog Fogwood & Fig, opened a vegan cafe of the same name in Port
Jervis. For decades, vegetarian cooking was tofu-centric, but in the seven years she has been on the scene, Bezanski has watched the world of animal-free cuisine evolve (and done her part to spur it along). Making innovative use of nuts, spices, and legumes, the cafe serves up hearty plant-based comfort food that ranges from Korean BBQ to garlic and sage pasta served with buttery trumpet mushrooms. With a careful attention to flavor and texture that even omnivores can appreciate, Fogwood & Fig is a long-awaited beacon on the hill for the vegan foodies in the region.
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the drink The Evergreen Ingredients 1.5 oz. Vodka 3/4 oz. Hudson Standard Three Pines Shrub 1/2 oz. lemon juice 4-5 drops Hudson Standard Spruce Shoot Bitters Splash of seltzer Rosemary sprig
Directions: Combine vodka, Three Pines Shrub, Spruce Shoot Bitters, and lemon juice in an ice-filled shaker. Shake well and pour into an ice-filled rocks glass. Top with seltzer and stir with rosemary sprig.
“The Evergreen is a bright The Hudson Standard cocktail with perky citrus Made with a blend of fruit, spices, vinegar, and sweetener, shrubs notes and deep, woodsy are tart syrups that have been part of the classic American cocktail since Colonial times. Before globalization made fruit aromatics,” Worthman says. lexicon available year round, these drinking vinegars were a common Three Pines Shrub, which method of preserving the flavors of summer. “Due to a mix of factors—refrigeration, Prohibition, and Coca forms the base of this drink, Cola—shrubs fell out of vogue in the 20th century,” says Emily is brewed with Balsam Fir, Woerthman, resident mixologist for The Hudson Standard, Red Spruce, and White Pine an artisanal shrubs and bitters producer based out of Hudson. foraged high in the Catskills. “Thanks to the craft cocktail revolution combined with the Slow These coniferous clippings Food movement, they have come back into fashion.” The Hudson Standard works with produce from area farmers, are infused in organic apple herbs from the kitchen garden, and foraged wild ingredients to cider vinegar and combined create products that reflect the flavor, bounty, and seasonality of the with local honey to create Hudson Valley in mixers that are classically inspired and regionally the earthy, zesty shrub. relevant. Take the Spruce Shoot Bitters, their northeastern spin on
a bartender’s classic: citrus bitters. “Since there is no citrus in the area, we thought it would be a great idea to harvest young spruce tips, when they are highest in Vitamin C,” Woerthman says. With a classic line of five shrubs and four bitters, and a host of rotating seasonal flavors, The Hudson Standard has something for everyone. The complex balance of sweet and tart also pairs well with club soda for a sophisticated mocktail. —Marie Doyon 2/19 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 27
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KATRINA RODABAUGH’S GERMANTOWN HOMESTEAD By Mary Angeles Armstrong Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
ike her mother before her, and her grandmother before that, Katrina Rodabaugh has been threading a needle with some kind of fiber her entire life. “My mom is an avid crafter in textiles,” Rodabaugh explains. “She would move from crochet to crewel embroidery work, then on to needlepoint, then knitting and sewing. My grandmother was a quilter and my great-grandmother was a maker and a quilter as well. I inherited that lineage in a way, thank goodness.”
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The family’s 1820s farmhouse, surrounded by ancient silver maples, is one of the oldest homes in the area. The original primitive Colonial architecture includes many decorative details added over the years. Although only an acre in size, the homestead is surrounded by orchards and fields, making it feel expansive. “I love these trees,” says Rodabaugh. “They are some of the oldest around.”
Katrina Rodabaugh and David Szlasa in the former carriage house which they converted to a studio. Szlasa built the table tops out of abandoned wood he found in the garage rafters. Rodenbaugh utilizes the space to teach workshops, most recently in mending and traditional sewing techniques.
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Hailing from a small town near the Finger Lakes, where the seam of that maternal line stretches back multiple generations, Rodabaugh has created an art practice, and a life, by following the family thread. However, Rodabaugh has applied her handiwork talents to a very 21st-century problem: The effects of compulsive, trenddriven fast fashion on the environment, the economy, and on our very selves. “I see the slow fashion movement as an opportunity to mend our relationship to fashion on a micro and a macro level,” Rodabaugh explains in her new book Mending Matters (Abrams). “We start by slowing down our consumption, evaluating our needs, selecting quality fibers…learning techniques to care for our clothing, and considering how to extend a garment’s usefulness. While we’re mending our personal relationship to fashion we can also consider our role in mending the larger fashion industry.” One part well-crafted how-to book on repairing denim, another part manifesto on “mindfulness,” the book is interspersed with essays contemplating how traditional handcrafting can help us not only avoid environmental degradation but also reweave the fabric of our daily lives. The 200-year-old farmhouse she shares with her husband, David Szlasa, and their two young sons is a working manifestation of her philosophy. Homespun, hand-worked, and surrounded by fields and orchards, the well utilized one-acre homestead serves as farm, classroom, gleaning ground, and play space. Originally built in 1820 in what Rodabaugh describes as the “Colonial stark” vernacular, former owners added decorative touches over the ensuing years, evolving the home into an eclectic but harmonious 2,000 square feet. Since moving in three years ago, the couple has improved on the place further—mending some, reclaiming abandoned wood planks to make new parts, and filling the home with pieces handmade by Rodabaugh, beloved family heirlooms, as well as carefully selected second-hand finds.
Top: The home’s back dining room was part of an addition made in the 1920s. Rodabaugh keeps her extensive collection of Pyrex crockery in a corner hutch. “My brother used to have a side business in antiques and I always loved Pyrex. Every holiday or birthday he would get me a new piece,” she says. Bottom: The couple added a wood stove to the front sitting room. The space is decorated with furniture pieces they’ve collected over the years, as well as pillows and throws handcrafted from natural fibers and hand dyed. 2/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 31
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Rodabaugh’s upstairs studio desk. Her passion for mending grew from both her love of sewing and her background in art and poetry. “When I wrote poetry, I thought a lot about line length and how my work looked on the page. Now, I think about repair like design,” she explains. “With mending, I like to use contrast and color.”
Katrina, By Design Although her journey has been a zig-zag, Rodabaugh always seemed to find her way back to family tradition. “I made quilts with my mom as a girl,” she explains. “When I was a senior in high school, I had this moment with my guidance counselor when I dropped calculus to take a sewing class. He was livid with me. ‘When are you ever going to use sewing?’ he asked.” Her mother stepped in to help—teaching her to straighten a hem and follow a pattern. Rodabaugh went on to college in Ithaca, where she majored in environmental studies but made extra money by designing her own dresses and selling them in a boutique downtown. After college, she moved to Brooklyn, where she met Szlasa, an artist who specializes in performance design. Together, the two moved to the West Coast, where Rodabaugh attended Mills College in Oakland, studying poetry and book arts. It was there that her professor pointed out the common thread that ran throughout her work. “He pointed out how I’d made quilts as a child and dresses in college,” she
remembers. “He really encouraged me to look back at my work in fiber arts and bring that into the book arts department. That’s when I really fell in love with the book arts.” She started letterpress printing on fabric and creating books out of the soft materials. Eventually, she went on to create large-scale fabric installations with collaborators. Her 2013 Make, Thrift, Mend project began as a personal “art as action” piece with her publicly vowing to abstain from acquiring new clothing for a year. A convergence of events—including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Place garment factory in Bangladesh, killing over 1,100 people— spurred the project toward bigger goals and a wider audience. It also sparked her love of mending, a skill she decided to teach to others. The workshops she offered had an overwhelmingly positive response. “I was floored,” she remembers. “The workshops were sold out; people really wanted to know how to mend their clothes.” The project grew into a book as well as a full-fledged career. It also inspired Rodabaugh and her family’s return to the Hudson Valley, where they would have more space.
An example of an over-the-knee patch explained in the “How-To” section of Rodabaugh’s book, Mending Matters. “The value of fiber itself has gotten lost. It’s amazing, all the forms of creative reuse that were ingrained into what people did. If you were weaving a cloth yourself, then cutting it into a dress, those castoffs would be so important, because you wove them.”
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Sweet, Slow, and Sustainable The front section of the white farmhouse Rodabaugh and Szlasa bought in 2015 is part of the home’s original 1820s construction. Wrapped by a covered step-up porch, the frosted glass front door leads to attached sitting and living rooms. Here, the home’s original built-in bookshelves overflow with books on crafting techniques and Rodabaugh’s poetry collection underneath colorful tin ceilings installed sometime in the late 19th century. The couple added a wood-burning stove at one end of the space and the couch and chairs are decorated with an heirloom quilt and naturally dyed fabric pieces collected by Rodabaugh. At the back of the home, the kitchen and dining room were part of a 1920s addition. “When we moved in, every room was sponge-painted in different bright colors,” explains Rodabaugh. The couple repainted the downstairs walls white, but realized the tin ceilings would have to be handpainted—a chore too timeconsuming, even for someone who revels in mending clothes by hand—so they decided to leave the ceilings painted. “The result is we have these quirky, colorful tin ceilings against the white walls.” Upstairs, the couple renovated the three bedrooms and full bathroom, adding their own disntictive touch. Szlasa took wood beams found in the rafters of the garage and made headboards for the couple and both of their children. Rodabaugh hand-dyed recycled linen and cotton to create colorful homemade curtains, as well as stitched quilts for all the beds. “We ripped out every floor except the hallway, which we painted,” Rodabaugh explains. The furniture is a mix of antiques found at flea markets on the West Coast and, more recently, throughout the Hudson Valley. The third bedroom was rehabilitated into an indoor studio and guest room. “The floor
was shag carpeting,” remembers Rodabaugh, “underneath that, there was wood-grade linoleum, under that floral linoleum, then a layer of oil cloth and then, under that, wood floors with just the edges stained.” By pulling out the layers of history the couple “gained an inch” of space in the room, but lost a bit of character. “There was a little hole in the floor, with the lid of a tin can tacked over it,” she says. “I wish we could have saved it.” Instead they sanded all the floors down and then finished them with a natural oil product to bring out the grain of the wood. The couple updated the bathroom with a simple vanity and shelving Szlasa made from the same stash of reclaimed wood. Outside, they’ve maximized every bit of garden space, as well as the home’s original carriage house and garage. Szlasa converted the garage into a woodshed, and an adjacent room has become Rodabaugh’s dye studio. Although she teaches all over the country, Rodabaugh wanted a space to hold workshops in her home. After renovating the carriage house in the spring and adding a wood stove, she now has the capacity to lead classes onsite. Alongside an herb and vegetable garden, Rodabaugh has planted Hopi Black Dye sunflowers, yarrow, calendula, coreospis, and lavender—all for naturally dying fabrics. The family has six chickens, and this past spring they added a beehive. It’s all part of the next stage of her project, a place where she hopes to continue teaching mending and natural dying techniques. The homestead all grew from the same seed: her fashion-cum-personalart project. The advice she gives to readers? Just start. “Recognize that you have everything you need to simply begin your slow fashion journey right now, use what you already have, and simply do what feels possible today.” Top: The couple elected to keep the home’s tin ceilings their original colors, providing contrast to the white walls. Middle: Their older son’s bedroom features his parents’ handiwork. Szlasa made the headboard from reclaimed wood and Rodabaugh stitched the quilt as well as the hanging mobile. Bottom: The recently renovated carriage house. It’s the perfect example of the couple’s talent and tendency for creative reuse. Rodabaugh begins her book with a quote from Arthur Ashe: “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
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Stephenson’s wife Radha Tabak, a personal chef specializing in natural food and vegetarian cuisine, was the inspiration for the home’s centrally located kitchen. “Radha had always wanted to have an easeful kitchen where she’d be able to create her wonderful meals while having conversations with our friends in the living and dining rooms,” he explains. The expansive, open space features Corian countertops and stained walnut cabinetry, double ovens, as well as an “incognito” refrigerator and Miele dishwasher. The kitchen’s piece de resistance, however, is a fixed-glass panel that begins at counter height and serves as a backsplash. The living and dining room are separated by a see-through gas fireplace. Stephenson envisioned the fireplace as a way to divide the spaces while keeping the spirit of openness. To “calm down” the stark nature of the modern interior, Stephenson drew from his extensive experience with exotic wood, adding wood trim throughout the home as well as polished concrete floors. “I felt that being in the country, woods such as walnut, clear cedar, and rift-sawn oak would be appropriate,” he says. A floating staircase—Radha’s idea—was constructed of rift-sawn oak, which has a grain that remains stable over the poured concrete radiant heat floors. The smaller second story, which overhangs half of the first floor, is clad in horizontal planks of ipe, a tropical hardwood chosen for its hardiness. The upstairs master bedroom and bath are also trimmed with rift-sawn oak and feature rectangular Marvin windows. Throughout upstairs and down, Stephenson kept the home’s minimalist theme by installing recessed LED “lighting coves.” Along with two additional guest bedrooms downstairs, and another full and half bath, the home has a gym, office, sauna, and meditation room. It’s ample space to keep the former city couple comfortably ensconced for days at a time. The design feature that most thrills Stephenson is the way the home’s interior practically melts into the surrounding landscape. “I always felt happiest when walking our two dogs in Riverside and Central Park,” Stephenson explains. “Now we essentially wake up in a park. How could I not be immensely grateful?” Since moving his base of operations upstate, Stephenson looks forward to designing and building more Hudson Valley homes that seep seamlessly into their surroundings, blending the evolving vernacular of the region with its rustic roots and modern technology. “Getting to be part of this community has been amazing,” Stephenson says. “And having the opportunity to build and design up here is the cherry on top.” Elementinteriors.com A see-through fireplace serves as a divider between the dining and living areas.
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THE WOMEN BEHIND CATSKILL FARMS Meet Amanda Krupunich and Breanna Rodriguez: Sullivan County natives, Fashion Institute of Technology grads, millennials, best friends, and the engine that drives Catskill Farms, a design/ build firm that’s been building new homes for weekenders across the region for nearly 2 decades. Two young women running a $12 million-a-year business in the male-dominated construction industry? That’s the kind of contrarian logic that’s defined Catskill Farms since Chuck Petersheim founded the company in 2001 after 9/11. Since then, the company has built 160 homes, and has eight to twelve houses in construction at any given time, and another dozen in the planning phase. “Every day we’re in the trenches, fixing problems, overseeing a dozen job sites,” says Petersheim. “I love what I do, but I searched for years to find the right employees. You go through a lot of people if you demand excellence.” As any employer knows, it’s challenging to find and retain good employees. Especially in a tight labor market. Especially Upstate. Especially in Sullivan County. En-Gendering Confidence Six years ago, he got an email from a 19-year-old interior design student at FIT who saw an article on Catskill Farms winning Country Living House of the Year honors. Amanda Krupunich was looking for a summer job. “I said ‘Okay, c’mon over, but you’re probably not gonna cut it—nobody does,’” says Petersheim. “Within a week, I was trying to convince her not to go back to college—she had that much potential. Her dad had to have a talk with me and ask me to stop trying to get his daughter to drop out of school. I settled for summers and school breaks until she finished school and came on full-time.” Six years later, Krupunich now pretty much manages all of Catskill Farm’s projects: multiple jobs sites, demanding clients, and dozens of vendors, subcontractors, and employees—mostly men many years older than her. Asked how she navigates the rugged blue-collar, offcolor humor of a construction site, Krupunich offers an all-business approach. “There have definitely been moments when a guy will make a mistake and just be completely inappropriate in some way,” she says. “You really can’t overreact. This is my team. They aren’t perfect. I’m not perfect. We all improve together, and not just within the confines of actual job duties. We address what needs addressing, expect the lesson to be learned, and move on. It’s a deal we have— they help me learn more about the business and I don’t hold their boorishness against them.”
“WE HAVE A COMFORT LEVEL WITH COUNTING ON IMPROBABLE OUTCOMES.” Top: Breanna Rodriguez, Amanda Krupunich, and Chuck Petersheim. Right: A modern Ranch home in Kerhonkson built by Catskill Farms.
Millennial Myths In June of last year, Breanna Rodriguez joined Catskill Farms as a marketing coordinator, but soon found herself handling the books after the previous bookkeeper left—at a time when the company was the busiest it had ever been. “I like problem solving,” says Rodriguez, “being able to dig into the books and see an issue, unwind it and figure it out.” For Petersheim, Krupunich and Rodriguez—who weren’t hired to run the company, just to fill some small role—dispel the myth that millennials are not self-motivated, self-initiated, and can’t take responsibility. “Here you have two young women who grabbed the bull by the horns and very quickly showed both their competence and their willingness to embrace a challenge in a small company that was thirsty for it,” says Petersheim.
Here Be Dragons “People think we have this big company since we build so many homes, but it’s just the three of us in the office,” says Petersheim. “And the idea that two young women, with pretty light resumes, are running this busy company, is absurd, on its face. At the same time, it’s working really well for our clients,” says Petersheim. “I found two people who like to be challenged, are inspired by what they do, love the learning curve, and breathe fire. It’s fun to watch them succeed. The odds were definitely not in their favor. But that’s true for the entire Catskill Farms concept—we have a comfort level with counting on improbable outcomes.” 2/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 37
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IT’S TIME TO BREAK YOUR PHONE ADDICTION LET’S UNTETHER TO FEEL BETTER. By Wendy Kagan
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ocial media has been kind to Marlee Grace, an artist, dancer, author, and e-zine maker. It has given her a livelihood, connected her to new friends and collaborators, and even led her to true love. But for this free-spirited millennial, the digital world is both a blessing and a curse. When you share your work and life with 77.3K followers on Instagram, it’s hard to know where your work ends and your life begins—or where your smartphone ends and your body begins. The process of documenting, posting, scrolling, and clicking can become an endless loop—a sinkhole that feels more real than virtual. “Technology gave me my whole career,” she says. “But it’s also made me want to die. It’s very addictive.” Grace is familiar with the signs of compulsion; she got sober from alcohol and drug addiction in 2011. Though it seems to pale in comparison with substance abuse, phone addiction can be serious, too. “Both kinds of addiction are really physical,” she says. “When I’m on an Instagram binge, it’s hitting the dopamine in my brain. Not only are these shiny phones addictive—and so is the internet, because it’s endless—but the apps [for platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, and Tinder] are designed to be like slot machines. They’re designed for us to never put them down.” Grace notices that during a particularly bad spell with digital overload, her relationships suffer, and eating well and exercising go out the window. To counter that downward spiral she’s had to make changes, taking steps to clarify the distinctions between work and life, virtual and real, phone and body. These are 21st-century problems, so to help others she’s put it all into a book: How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care (HarperCollins, 2018). Conceived to be “part workbook, part advice manual, part
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love letter,” it’s about feeling whole again and not so disconnected. Included in that aim is a healthier relationship with what is perhaps your most intimate companion. Your everpresent appendage. Your phone. Bottomless Scrolls and Dopamine Loops Digital addiction doesn’t just affect Instagram pros. Regular folks get addicted, too. The average person scrolls through 300 feet of digital content per day, according to Andrew Keller, global creative director of Facebook. That’s about the equivalent of a football field’s length, or the height of the Statue of Liberty. A big chunk of that is social media: People spend an average of 1 hour and 16 minutes on social platforms daily. Technology brings a wealth of advantages from flexible work to global connectivity, but it has a dark side. Screen addiction is ubiquitous—the unspoken epidemic of our time. The same physiological mechanisms come into play with any form of addiction—so just like with substance abuse, screen time can lead to an increase in dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with the pleasure and reward centers of the brain. “Dopamine is the want,” explains Tricia Kostin, clinical director at Summit Behavioral Health Florham Park, an outpatient facility in New Jersey with services to treat substance abuse and addiction. “You want people to like your post. You want to see what’s trending and what people are talking about on social media. People can get into a dopamine loop, going from want to pleasure and reward in an endless cycle.” This effect is anything but random: Whether your dopamine loop comes from Facebook or Fortnite, the programmers planned it this way. “People get so addicted to social media because it’s on a variable reward schedule,” explains Kostin. “Programmers use algorithms to let you get to the next level of a video game,
or they’ll give you a certain amount of likes in an hour. You might get likes on social media, but they won’t let you see them all at once. So you get depressed, thinking, ‘No one is liking my post!’ Then all of a sudden, you get a whole bunch of likes because social media waited— and then flooded you with them.” Surfing the web creates a similar cycle, as we hop from one flashy website to the next. “Our brains are triggered by colors; they want to see something pretty again. The colors, lights, and graphics keep a dopamine loop going.” So many of us rely on our screens for everything—our work lives, bookkeeping, activity planning, even dating. How, then, do we know if we are addicted or just normal? “I once heard someone say in an AA meeting, ‘If you think you have a problem with alcohol, then you probably do,’” says Grace. “It’s the same with screens. There are also physical cues; my spine will send me messages when I’m using my phone too much. It’s addiction when it affects your quality of life.” Freedom from Digital Dependency The alcoholic can go cold turkey from drinking, but in our tech-fueled culture, flushing your phone or computer down the toilet is not an option. So what can we do to break digital addiction? “We recommend that people use a cognitive behavioral model,” says Kostin, referring to the widely applied therapy that aims to help people change their behaviors and develop coping strategies to solve problems. “Rather than an extinguishment or abstinence model, this is a harm-reduction model. It’s very goal-oriented and gives you a schedule or a program that you can stick to.” To begin, limit your recreational screen time to only a certain number of minutes per day, setting a timer to keep yourself in check. Turn off the notifications that might lure you back online. Kostin also recommends darkening your screen
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brightness or using the night-shift setting on your phone, even in the daytime. Then you won’t be as susceptible to the bright colors and graphics that vie for your attention. Using a similar approach, Grace has created a few rules to live by. She has experimented with setting strict digital hours (no Internet or phone between 10 pm and 10 am), and she has deleted all social media apps from her phone (“Let Facebook be the one social media thing you just do on your damn computer,” she advises). She also recommends choosing a specific time of day, say 1 p.m., to give yourself the luxury of scrolling the social-media feed on your computer for a limited time—say, 20 minutes. Sleeping with your phone in a different room is essential: “If it’s next to my bed I will look at it for an hour in the morning, minimum,” says Grace. You can also try a phone box, which appeals to creative types and lovers of beauty. Start with a box that fits your phone, whether it’s a simple cardboard or wooden box, and make it beautiful by painting or collaging it. Create a practice of putting your phone in the box (turned off or silent) and leaving it there for a while. The point is to be without your phone for a stretch of time just beyond your comfort zone— say, two to three hours. Grace explains that the box is meant to be a temple—not so much for your phone as for your spirit. “It’s not about punishing yourself. It’s not, ‘I’m so addicted that I need to have a phone box.’ It’s more like, ‘I love myself so much that I am doing this.’” Putting away your phone is a way of showing up more, both for yourself and for the people in your life. In Praise of Social Media Diets Social media presents a paradox: On the surface, it connects us and helps us share our lives, yet in large doses it can lead to a sense of disconnection and even isolation. In a 2018 study out of the University of Pennsylvania, “No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression,” college students who restricted their time on social media to 30 minutes a day showed significant reductions in loneliness and depression compared to a control group. Prior to the study, the students spent on average twice as long on social media, with some spending up to 2.5 hours a day on the platforms. But those who followed the social media diet of 30 minutes a day (10 minutes per platform on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat) scored lower on the UCLA Loneliness Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory after three weeks. The study’s lead author, UPenn psychologist Melissa G. Hunt, can’t say for sure why limiting social media helps counter loneliness and depression, but she has some hypotheses. “We know that using social media leads to social comparison,” she says. “You compare your life to the glossy, curated highlights reel you see in other people’s pages, and it makes you feel worse about your own life. When you spend less time on social media, you spend more time engaging in activities that enhance self-worth, like getting your work done, and that foster authentic, intimate relationships, like having dinner with a friend.” Hunt also cautions against social media’s superficial emphasis on sharing “good” things and glossing over the negatives. “It gives the illusion of connection without real emotional vulnerability or support.” On the flip side, social media can offer an invaluable entrée to likeminded communities. “Being queer, it’s really important to me to be able to connect to my queer community via social media,” says Grace, who also meets fellow artists online. “But we don’t have to let the app own our relationships.” In other words, we can communicate directly instead of messaging through the app. We can create opportunities to meet in person. Grace just started a new gig running an artists’ residence in a historic mansion in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, and she’ll have the chance to meet many artists that she originally connected with via Instagram. “Let’s use the app to get people off the app,” she says. Such an action sounds deliciously disruptive to the Cyber Powers That Be. We don’t have to forswear our devices or live in a cave without social media. But we can achieve more freedom by being selfaware. Along the way, it’s essential to have self-compassion. “If you’re someone who’s struggling with this, know that you’re not a bad person,” says Grace. “These apps are meant to be addictive. The programmers aren’t saying, ‘Oh, whoops! We made such a popular thing that everybody loves!’ They designed it to be this way. So forgive yourself while you’re healing.”
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n 2015, Roy Budnik bought a derelict building on Poughkeepsie’s Main Street, next to another building he owns. A month after buying it, Budnik was out front on a warm fall day, painting the façade. He remembers a group of high school students walking by and taking notice that someone was working, in some small way, to do something positive in their community. “Do something for us!” one of the teens shouted. “I used that as my mantra,” says Budnik, who’s been working to restore and reopen the historic Trolley Barn ever since. “We designed it with a lot of glass in front so kids walking by could see what’s going on and feel invited to come in.” Since the announcement last March of $1 million in Restore New York Communities funding for the 11,000-square-foot space, Budnik has been very busy, building out the latest arm of the Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, a community arts and culture nonprofit firmly rooted in the Middle Main heart of downtown. The Center, which Budnik founded in 2010, will run the Trolley Barn as one of four event spaces. Art Centro, located right next door at 485 Main, is a pottery studio with classes, studios, gallery space, and events. Glebe House, at 635 Main, is city-owned and being developed as a history center. Nearby, the PUF
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(Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory) Studios offer printmaking facilities and classes. At 489 Main Street, the Trolley Barn is poised to take center stage as a huge multi-arts facility. “Phase I is complete,” Budnik says. “The whole building is going to be the centerpiece of a dedicated arts campus.” Phase I included the build out of the front 3,000 square feet with bathrooms, offices, and gallery/event space, restoration of the facade, and installation of utilities. Phase II will include finishing out an apartment for use by artists and renovation of the 9,000-square-foot main trolley room and 2,000-square-foot annex. The final phase will be renovation of the basement/lower level to include a small black-box theater and additional gallery space. The arts community is at the center of the current wave or revitalization that’s taking place in the Queen City. “I’ve been here 30 years,” says Budnik. “We’re seeing a big influx of artists moving from New York City and Beacon, where they’re being priced out.” (Underwear Factory Studio Manager Anita Fina Kierwa fondly refers to the newcomers as “Poughkipsters.”) Half a dozen art galleries have opened in the last year, most recently Cryptic Gallery at 357 Main Street, which focuses on street art, street and skate culture, as well as hosting performances
Above: View from the penthouse at 40 Cannon Street. Opposite top: Anita Fina Kiewra, studio manager, and Emilie Houssart, studio assistant at PUF Print Studios at the Underwear Factory. Opposite bottom: Angelo, Anthony, and Jimmy of Siegrist Construction working at the Mid-Hudson Heritage Center on Main Street.
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and selling street art supplies. The arts community have also banded together for First Fridays, a once-monthly city-wide celebration of the arts. “The last 18 months have been very positive—a perfect storm of collaboration among politicians, nonprofits, and developers—but it’s the artists who’ve really spurred this along,” says Harvey Flad. “They’ve produced the kind of energy necessary to create a belief system that the city can revitalize itself.” Flad would know, he’s lived in Poughkeepsie for 40 years and wrote a book on the city, Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie (SUNY Press, 2010). “Places like the Trolley Barn and the Underwear Factory are important to really draw people to spend some time in Poughkeepsie,” says Flad. “These are places where community can meet and do activities—that’s what makes a city work.” John Lekic, a restaurateur who is bullish on the city’s prospects, echoes Flad’s sentiment. “Restaurants are needed not because we need food and drink but because we need gathering spaces,” says Lekic, who opened Farmers & Chefs in the Little Italy section of Poughkeepsie last summer. The neighborhood has seen a culinary
renaissance in recent years with the opening of eateries like Essie’s, Nic L Inn Bistro and Wine Bar, and Casablanca, adding to local institutions like Caffe Aurora and La Deliziosa Bakery. Money Pouring In What also makes a dormant city spring to life is construction, and Poughkeepsie has a lot of projects underway, nearly $2 billion worth. There’s the $500-million Vassar Brothers Medical Center expansion, which is well underway. Also on the health front, the Marist Health Quest School of Medicine will launch in 2022. The planned medical school will feature a state-of-theart, 100,000-square-foot facility adjacent to the Vassar Brothers Medical Center campus, expected to cost $70 to $80 million; special purpose facilities at Marist College; and a faculty of about 100. The class matriculating in 2022 is expected to number 60, with capacity doubling to 120 by 2028; by that time, between students, residents, and faculty, the school is expected to add about 1,000 people to the region’s population. (Studies show that 20 to 25 percent of new doctors set up shop and practice in the region where they train—a boon to the region.) 2/19 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 43
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Around the corner from the Bardavon Opera House, a cornerstone of the city’s cultural landscape that’s celebrating its 150th anniversary this month—is 40 Cannon, an adaptive reuse project that speaks to confluence of artistic and entrepreneurial energy currently in Poughkeepsie. Built in 1915, the Kings Court Hotel was a Poughkeepsie icon: a home-away-from-home for the artists and prima donnas playing the Bardavon and a stopping point for wealthy folk on business trips up from the city. Converted to rambling apartments in 1970 and gutted by fire in 2011, many thought the fine old brick structure was ready to give up the ghost. Enter Jim and Gina Sullivan of the James J. Sullivan Corporation, who’d been renovating Poughkeepsie spaces since 2010. They bought 40 Cannon Street in 2013, and the mixed-use development began admitting tenants in 2018. The renovation of the historic building maintains original exposed brick, wood floors, a sweeping marble staircase, and many other period details, lending majesty to a modern setting. The building’s 47 studio and one-bedroom apartments were rented almost instantly; only one of two lavish trilevel penthouses remains open. Residents are
a mix: about half locals looking to relocate, half newcomers from all over, drawn to 40 Cannon by its amenities: gated parking, laundry rooms on each floor, communal outdoor spaces, grand lobby, gym, sauna, library, views, bike storage, yoga space, onsite management, and a community feel. Downstairs, the Sullivans curated a careful selection of businesses to nurture the cultural and practical needs of the local community. Gallery 40 hosts exhibitions of local artwork (“The Sublime and The Beautiful” is currently on view) and this spring, the 1915 Wine Cellar, an upscale global wine bar, will open up shop in the basement. King’s Court Brewery, a microbrewery and taproom, has been serving on the ground floor for several months. (Owners Cortlandt Toczyloski and Caroline Bergelin live upstairs.) King’s Court is a generalist brewery. “Our whole mantra is, we don’t do just one kind of beer,” says Bergelin. “We have something new every Thursday. And we have a honey ale for people who don’t like beer at all.” Other residential projects in the city include Poughkeepsie Landing, a publicprivate partnership between Poughkeepsie machers the Bonura family and the city to redevelop a former industrial site on the 2/19 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 45
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waterfront north of the train station. The site will include 50 luxury apartments, 30,000 square feet of retail, and a publicly accessible riverfront promenade. Currently in the midst of construction, Queen City Lofts is a LEED-certified complex that will host 70 apartments, all of which will be rented below market rate on the corner of Main and South Bridge Streets, 50 of which were set aside for artists. A lottery in January allotted the apartments. The Holy Grail The flip side of revitalization—and the focal point of anxiety for communities throughout the region—is gentrification. While all the city residents we interviewed for this piece expressed optimism in the direction Poughkeepsie was headed, there was an undercurrent of concern about not falling into the too-much-too-quick trap that’s bedeviled other Hudson Valley towns. “There’s a quickening pace to projects, initiatives, and change. And as much as we want to see positive change, we’re hyper aware of securing inclusive and equitable outcomes from that change,” says Elizabeth Celaya, Hudson River Housing’s director of organization and community development. “The holy grail of revitalization is to do so without gentrification—and no one has gotten it
right yet. It’s real, and it’s not something we can deal with down the road. When change happens, it happens in a blink of an eye. We need to put policy and regulations in place that will safeguard our community.” One idea to combat gentrification put forward by Poughkeepsie Common Councilmember Sarah Brannen (among others), is to create a land bank, as has been done with success in Newburgh and Albany. (Land banks are non-profits organizations authorized by the state to acquire title to vacant and abandoned properties in and transfer ownership in an equitable manner). “We’re behind the curve on this,” says Brannen. “There are more 500 vacant properties in the city—we could focus on rehabbing historic properties.” Governor Cuomo recently signed a bill expanding the number of land banks allowed in the state from 25 to 35. Given its vacant buildings, homeless population, and housing crunch, Poughkeepsie would seem to be a shoo-in for the state program. “What keeps me going,” says Flad, who’s been involved in the city’s community affairs since the 1970s, “is knowing that there are people who haven’t given up and look forward to plotting the future of the city. Poughkeepsie is a small city with all the urban problems you’d expect, but at heart it’s really a small town with all the small-town virtues.” 2/19 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 47
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with the young. Many programs have some form of scholarship available, and will send your kid home with a deepened sense of just what they love and who they are—not to mention some brand-new friends. Art Effect, the Poughkeepsie-based synthesis of Spark Media and the Mill Street Loft, offers weeklong programs for kids aged 4-12 at various locations around Dutchess County and, for the first time this year, in Ulster. “They explore different forms of artmaking, theatre and dance. It’s really about exploring yourself, who you are, and what you like, while having a lot of fun,” says Executive Director Nicole Fenichel-Hewitt. Art Effect also offers more specialized programs for older kids. Feelthearteffect.org Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, with a wildlife education center and outdoor discovery center in Cornwall, offers different themes each week for ages 4-12; such as Remarkable Reptiles, Marvelous
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Livingston Street Early Childhood Community in Kingston offers full and half day programs for ages 3 to 5 with an emphasis on social competence, emotional well-being, early literacy and communication skills. Lovingly guided campers explore the community as thoroughly as, in other places, they explore the woods. “You’ll find us outdoors most of the day, walking around the neighborhood several times a week, and participating in a community project, like the Kingston Artist Soapbox Derby,” says Executive Director Cheryl Demuth. Livingstonstreet.org Camp Hillcroft, located in LaGrangeville, is a classic day camp experience for pre-K through 9th grade, packed with arts, athletics, water and outdoor fun, run by a family that’s been enhancing children’s summers since 1950. “It’s good old fashioned fun and getting dirty, with yoga and cooking and high ropes added,” says co-owner Sally Buttinger. “We have 35 program areas, and we typically have 150 out of 180 kids come back the next year for more.” Camphillcroft.com High Meadow School in Stone Ridge partners with organizations offering circus arts, Wayfinder, Ninja Camp (parkour and 50 SUMMER CAMPS CHRONOGRAM 2/19
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archery), Jam Camp, STEM camp, and more. Wee ones 5-7 get a taste of the theme; older kids dive deep with teens helping them; there’s an Inchworm Program for ages 3-5.“We offer enriching stuff that can be hard to find,” says camp director Rochelle Victor, “where kids push themselves without getting overly competitive.” Onthemeadow.org Horses For A Change at Frog Hollow Farm in Esopus celebrates all of the magic that happens when humans and horses connect in a supportive, non-competitive atmosphere. Week-long programs for kids of all ages offer therapeutic riding, basics, dressage and lots of barn fun and horse care. “We emphasize empathy and understanding of our non-verbal but very communicative companions,” says co-owner Nancy Rosen. Horsesforachange.org At Black Rock Forest Consortium’s Summer Science Camp in the Hudson Highlands of Cornwall, kids 11-15 spend a week investigating a 3,838 acre “living laboratory” in the company of career scientists and PhD candidates. “Students get to explore the outdoors in greater depth, and spend much if not all of their days outside
exploring the forest through the eyes of a true scientist,” says Camp Manager Kate Terlizzi. Blackrockforest.org Hudson Hills Montessori in Beacon offers an eight-week day camp experience for ages 2.5-6; campers explore weekly themes through arts and crafts, nature investigations and hands on activities in the company of Montessori-trained instructors, with a lot of outdoor time. “Camp’s a time to build friendships, laugh and grow.; Hudson Hills incorporates the Montessori principles of respect, independence and joyful exploration,” says Primary Director Carolyn Sheeran. Hudsonhillsmontessori.org The whole family can camp together at the Ashokan Center beside the reservoir of the same name, where Family Camp in August incorporates storytelling, puppetry, nature, crafts and pure play “No one can come to Family Camp without a kid, and people bring interested older kids to our adult learning vacation programs,” says Jay Ungar. Ashokan Center director and the founder of the Music and Dance programs. “And this year we’re adding a kids’ track with a music and dance focus, but more outdoor games and nature hikes.” Ashokan.org/camps
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hile the Hudson Valley has long been the playground for wealthy New Yorkers, it is now also the wedding ground. With options ranging from epic old dairy barns to 19thcentury industrial warehouses, there is no shortage of ideal venues for every vision and style. But as couples hunt for that perfect place to make all their Pinterest dreams come true, guest lodging can sometimes fall by the wayside. Given that family and friends are probably travelling from all over to join you for your big day, choosing a venue that has ample accommodations onsite or nearby is a thoughtful consideration. Plus, the more the merrier! We’ve rounded up 15 wedding venues in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills that have onsite accommodations. The smallest can sleep just the bridal party and close family and the largest the whole wedding of over 100 guests.
Gather Greene, Coxsackie Gather Greene, a new event site and glamping destination in Coxsackie, blends accessibility, comfort, and access to nature. With 100 acres of woods just 20 minutes from Hudson and 17 Scandinavian-style tiny house cottages for two, the grounds offer a private and relaxing environment for your big day. The permanent, open-air pavilion has capacity for 250 guests, with 28-foot-tall, arched ceilings and sweeping vistas. It also has a full catering kitchen, six single-use bathrooms, two dressing rooms/meeting suites, and a large upstairs lounge.
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Lumberyard From industry to avant-garde arts hub to wedding venue, Lumberyard in Catskill is truly a synecdoche for the changing economy and cultural climate of Greene County. Couple can choose from either the industrial-chic Theater/Ballroom, which can accommodate up to 390 guests, or the smaller, rustic Creekside studio, which can hold 150 guests, or do a full-property buyout for exclusive use. With 13 recently renovated guest rooms, the venue can sleep up to 25 guests onsite. Diamond Mills, Saugerties Once the site of a hydro-powered mill, this luxury boutique hotel in Saugerties overlooks the gushing Esopus Creek. Diamond Mills only books one wedding per weekend, so no one will rush you in or out the door. Rehearsal dinners often take place in the tavern library on Friday night, with a bridal brunch the following morning to kick off festivities. Up to 450 guests can attend a wedding here, with a ceremony overlooking the falls and a reception in the wellappointed ballroom. With 30 rooms, this inn can sleep a hefty chunk of your guest list.
Audrey’s Farmhouse, Wallkill After taking over Audrey’s Farmhouse in 2015, Sally and Doug Posey bought the lot across the street, a former flower nursery, which they have transformed into The Greenhouses—a 14-room hotel, junglechic wedding venue, and restaurant. With accommodations in the hotel, the farmhouse, and the adjacent cottage, the property can sleep 42 people. And Audrey’s is petfriendly, in case you want your Rottweiler to be your ringbearer. Full Moon Resort, Big Indian Situated right in the middle of the Catskill Forest Preserve, Full Moon Resort offers a tranquil, natural setting for your wedding with over 100 acres of mountainside forests, meadows, streams, and ponds. Get married creekside beneath the sky, in a field under a tent, or in the rustic wedding barn. A yearround setting for educational, recreational, and artistic workshops, Full Moon offers a handful of venues for every phase of your wedding from welcome cocktails to the late night bonfire hang. There is also a wide range of accommodations from glamping to countryinn-style guest rooms to luxury cottages. 2/19 CHRONOGRAM WEDDINGS 55
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Glen Falls House, Round Top Perched on 50 acres, the Glen Falls House offers miles of wooded hiking trails, open fields, swimming holes, and two waterfalls. The property has lodging for 110 guests split over three buildings plus camping. Given the bucolic grounds and the abundance of lodging, this resort is a prime wedding destination for larger parties of 150 to 300 people. With two onsite catering and group event packages, this is the perfect spot for a summer camp-style wedding. Buttermilk Falls, Milton Sitting on the banks of the Hudson River, Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa is an idyllic venue encompassing 75 acres of cascading lawns, woodlands, and winding streams. A hotel and working farm with a spa and restaurant, this venue combines historic elegance, modern luxury, country charm, and sophisticated amenities (plus peacocks and donkeys!). With 18 suites, the inn accommodates up to 50 guests. The onsite restaurant, Henry’s at the Farm, will handle wedding catering and the world-class eco-friendly spa is perfect for relaxing before the big day.
Poughkeepsie Grand, Poughkeepsie Want to have an upstate wedding but with an urban flair? The Poughkeepsie Grand hotel recently unveiled its rooftop ceremony garden, which offers panoramic views of the Catskills, the Hudson River, the surrounding cityscape, and the farms beyond. There are also two ballrooms to choose from if you’d rather say “I do” indoors. With over 200 rooms, there is definitely space for the whole guest list. Wedding blocks start with a 10-room guarantee, and all bookings include a wedding suite for the couple. Just a few blocks from the Metro North Station, out of towners can get to your wedding without renting a car. Huzzah! Ashokan Center, Olivebridge Nestled in the lush foothills of the Catskill Mountains, the Ashokan Center has offered immersive music and dance camps and naturebased educational programming for a decade. Dotted with pastures, forests, and meadows and bisected by the Esopus Creek, the 385acre property has numerous romantic outdoor sites for a plein-air wedding. And with onsite lodging for 150 guests, the 385-acre property also makes a perfect destination wedding venue, with all your guests in one place. 2/19 CHRONOGRAM WEDDINGS 57
Vanderbilt Lakeside, Philmont The recently renovated Vanderbilt Lakeside Bar Room & Guesthouse wraps upscale Victorian vibes and a laidback lake-house attitude into one cozy location. The historic Philmont establishment boasts eight, cozy light-filled guest rooms—each with private en suite bathroom. In the backyard, an emerald expanse of lawn stretches to the shores of the 20-acre Summit Lake, where 500 feet of water frontage would make a perfect backdrop for a summer wedding ceremony. The backyard also boasts an outdoor bar, firepits, and chimineas. The Vanderbilt can accommodate a wedding party of up to 80 guests. Work with their CIA-trained chef to customize a food and drink package, or bring in an outside caterer. Southwood Estate, Germantown Originally the estate one of Robert Livingston’s grandchildren, Southwood has the serene elegance and regal bearing you would expect of a Founding Father’s manor. Eight-six acres of rolling meadows, perennial gardens, and lush forests run alongside the Hudson River, offering views of the Catskills and spectacular sunsets. Southwood hosts a limited number of high-end (and highbudget) weddings a year and can accommodate up to 150 guests. For wedding parties that wish to stay onsite, the central mansion sleeps up to 12, the cottage sleeps an additional five to seven, and historic gate house sleeps six. Southwood requires a two-night minimum. The Inn at Shaker Mill Falls This 20-room inn, retreat center, and event venue in Canaan operates out of a 19th-century stone building originally built as a gristmill. With acres of edible landscaping, organic vegetable gardens, lawns, streams, and forest, this is a peaceful wedding site for parties of up to 70. Weddings are usually held in a tent near the pond, but smaller events can also be held in the sunroom. For additional lodging, there is another inn right across the street. The staff can work with the couple to create a custom, seasonal menu, and they also have two interfaith ministers available.
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Troutbeck Troutbeck is a historic Tudor-style mansion-turned-inn on 45 manicured acres in eastern Dutchess County. Laced with gardens, secret pathways, stone bridges over the Durham Creek, and quaint outbuildings, the lush estate offers endless romantic photo opportunities for your big day. The inn also has a farm-to-table restaurant run by decorated chef Marcel Agnez, an outdoor pool, and a ballroom event space. Lodging is split between the main manor house and several detached buildings, with accommodations for up to 72 guests. The Rhinecliff Originally built in 1854, The Rhinecliff came of age as a resting place and watering hole for railroad and ferry passengers. Today, as a nine-room boutique hotel, the historic building maintains its sterling hospitality reputation with a pub and brasserie and river views from every room. Exchange vows on the expansive bluestone patio as the sun sets behind the Catskills, before heading into the banquet hall for the reception. Walking distance from the Amtrak station, The Rhinecliff allows wedding guests coming from afar to arrive without renting a car. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center Kaatsbaan sits on 153 acres of hay fields and woodlands, offering views of Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains. The expansive bucolic setting offers welcome peace of mind for the world-class dancers and choreographers that pilgrimage to Kaatsbaan every year for residencies—and for the brides and grooms that choose this spot to get married. Capable of hosting wedding parties of up to 130 people inside the Music Barn or upward of 200 outdoors, Kaatsbaan is a great option for larger groups. The inn has 16 motel-style rooms, accommodating 32 guests or more with children.
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rowing up in Saint Petersburg, photographer Nadia Sablin spent lonely, bored summers in the rural Russian village of Alekhovshchina, visiting her father’s family. “In this stillness and time alone, I invented rich magical worlds,” Sablin recalls. “Every small event became magnified, insignificant details seemed symbolic, life was permeated with longing for home. I learned to read there—and to imagine.” It’s no wonder that the locus of such bittersweet memories has become a powerful lens for self-discovery and a recurring focus for Sablin, who immigrated to Ohio at age 12. As an adult, Sablin, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Slate, and the Guardian, has spent 10 summers returning to Alekhovshchina to photograph her elderly aunts, the scenery, and the villagers. In 2015, Duke University Press published Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila. “The aunties stood out even in my childhood, as unmarried, as wholly devoted to their immediate family and unchanging in their habits,” Sablin says. The images from this project are snapshots of the women engaged in anachronistic rural chores—lugging water, ironing brightly patterned fabric, sawing lumber, scything long grass, picking berries. Blending narrative, stylistic, and documentary influences, she manages to create poignant, lyrical expositions on the beauty, silence, and struggle of this remote place. Sablin’s photographs have been displayed in solo and group exhibitions across the country, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Southeast Museum of Photography, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Currently an assistant professor of photography at SUNY New Paltz, Sablin was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 to continue her work in Alekhovshchina. During a year-long sabbatical, she will have the opportunity to capture the passage of the seasons and therefore represent a fuller sense of the rhythm of the village. “There are realities that have been unavailable to me, as my job leaves me tied to the academic calendar,” Sablin says. “After 10 years, I have finally been accepted into the community, invited to events and parties, allowed to photograph in intimate spaces. People know me and care about my project. It gives me a whole new level of access, which I didn’t have before.” —Marie Doyon
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From the Aunties project, Alekhovshchina, Russia, 2008-2014
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Apart from it being your family’s ancestral village, what fascinates you about Alekhovshchina? What fascinates me about Alekhovshchina is its unremarkable nature. It could be any village in Russia—there is no tourist attraction, no especially heroic past, no landmark feature to make it stand out. And in this way, I feel it’s a representation of the whole country. I can look at this place closely to understand how rural Russia functions: what motivates people, how they survive difficulties, what their spiritual life is like, how they treat one another, what they think of themselves and of the outside world. Has your understanding of the place evolved over the summers that you visited as an adult? I have now spent a decade coming back to the village, and from a memory of magic childhood adventures, it has become much more complicated, darker, lovelier.
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The simpler, unplugged way of life embodied by your aunties and captured by your photographs has all but disappeared in most of the world. Do you think the young people in Alekhovshchina will carry on their ways? The aunties stood out even in my childhood, as unmarried, as wholly devoted to their immediate family and unchanging in their habits. I once asked aunty Alevtina why she always wore her hair in a braided bun and wouldn’t she like a perm instead (it was the ’80s). Her reply was that everything is balanced in the world and if she cut off her braid, someone else would have to grow out theirs. By struggling with difficult lives (and although it’s visually beautiful, physical labour is never not a struggle), they were taking on their share of universal pain and possibly sparing others. It’s a very admirable way of seeing oneself as a part of the world, inextricable from its fabric—a very different paradigm than the individualism with which I was raised.
Above: Village Day, Alekhovshchina, Russia, 2017 Opposite: Village Night, Alekhovshchina, Russia, 2017 Mazda, Alekhovshchina, Russia, 2018
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Above: From the Aunties project, Alekhovshchina, Russia, 2008-2014 Opposite: Andriusha at Ten, Alekhovshchina, Russia, 2016
What do you see as the risk or tradeoff of this way of life dying out? We tend to mythologize the country as many more of us move into cities, but it is an incredibly difficult way of life. It’s also unsustainable in our changing, growing world. We have to find new ways to feed the ballooning city populations in order to survive. As a result, we’re losing whole cultures: languages, communities, traditions, songs, stories. We are losing darkness and silence with our power tools, industrialized farming practices, and our constant connection to the digital realm. As a photographer, you walk around looking at things and people all day long. What types of things draw your eye? There are so many things that draw me: light glinting on reflective surfaces,
seemingly incompatible objects coexisting in the same space, beauty, awkwardness, laughter, dark figures on snow, loving touches between people, men with tools, floral patterns, stray animals, roads leading into forests, repeated gestures, fires, sharp edges, magic. The list is infinite. How would you describe your approach to composition and framing? Henri Cartier Bresson said, “To take photographs means to recognize— simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis.” I have worked my whole career on making this my approach.
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Above: Tamara and her Mother, Alekhovshchina, Russia, 2018 Opposite: Alyosha at Twenty One, Alekhovshchina, Russia, 2018
You have referred to your photos as a “lyrical interpretation” rather than pure documentary—what does that mean to you artistically and technically? It frees me from some tough journalistic rules, and in this way allows me to be more honest about what I see as a flawed, complex individual without any claim to objectivity. My project is as much a reflection of my internal world as external. I think this is true about all works of art, but it’s often believed that photography can better reflect reality than other media. I’m not certain that’s true. In technical terms, this means staging, styling, and Photoshop are not off-limits. Many of your photos are staged portraits. What draws you to this sort of portraiture over “in the moment” shots? I make both staged and unstaged photographs, and often the viewer will not guess which is which. I like to experiment, to try different approaches, to collaborate, to direct, or to observe. It keeps me fluid and interested in what I do. The worst thing for me, as an artist, would be to succumb to a formula; it would be so dreadfully boring.
When do you consider a photograph a success? A successful photograph for me is one that makes the viewers feel something and learn something, one that they will remember. How does your practice affect your teaching? Working on long-term documentary projects allows me to keep current, and keep alive the excitement I have for photography. When I teach, I have a well of experiences in the field from which I draw practical advice, examples of successful and unsuccessful approaches, and stories that get students excited about starting their own projects and pushing past their own comfort zones. When I am photographing, I often think about my classes, and I plan my future trips while school is in session. These two sides of my life depend on each other and keep me always looking forward. I’m especially delighted to begin working with graduate students in our new MFA track in photography and related media when I return in the fall. 2/19 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 67
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BLUES WITH A FEELIN’ SLAM ALLEN By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly
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he sacred and the profane. The darkness and the light. The grit and the grace. In the blues, as in humanity, all of these dichotomies somehow exist, inescapably, side by side, in multiple shades. Diametrically opposed and eternally battling it out for dominance, but at the same time balancing each other’s presence in the souls and hearts of all human beings and, sonically and metaphorically, in the notes and tension of the music itself. The blues are life, and life is the blues. “I can sing the saddest song and make people feel good while I’m doing it,” says Slam Allen. “I’m about positive love energy, and I manifest that energy when I’m playing music. It comes from a higher power. Like when I’m in church, I know what I feel: an 68 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 2/19
energy up above. But with the music it’s a spiritual thing, not a religious thing.” With the given name of Harrison Allen, Jr., the singer, 52, was, literally, born into the blues. “My dad was on stage the night I was born,” he says. His namesake father’s family originates from Alabama and settled in Monticello, where he grew up in a musical household: Harrison Allen, Sr., a singer, guitarist, and bassist, led the Allen Brothers Band, a working blues/soul/R&B group that also featured his brother, guitarist Cecil Allen (Slam’s uncle). The story behind Harrison, Jr.’s nickname is nebulous. “People have called me Slam since I was a kid, it was just what they called me,” he says. “But later on—I’m not sure if it’s okay to say this in your magazine—I used to say it
stood for ‘Smooth Like a Motherfucker.’” A mischievous grin flashes across his cherubic face as he lets out a laugh. Although the junior Allen had been studying classical string bass, at 13 he found himself deputized as the Allen Brothers’ drummer and touring the Chitlin’ Circuit, which led to some eye-opening experiences. “We would play a lot of the old juke joints that aren’t there anymore now, and because I was so young I didn’t understand a lot of what was going on around me,” he recalls. “Even though I was underage, the club owners thought I was older because of how I played. Once, we were playing this place in Mobile. I think it was called the Pink Panther. During the last song, a guy wearing a long coat walked in. We started to get up
and go off the stage and this guy came up and said, ‘Play some more songs.’ My dad told him we were all done and we didn’t have any more songs. The guy looked straight at my dad and opened up his coat…and he had a gun under there that was bigger than me. He said it again, ‘Play some more songs.’ So my dad looked over at me and my uncle and counted us off, ‘One, two, three!’ and right away we started up playing again. [Laughs.] It got pretty crazy on the road back then sometimes. But I wanted to be like my dad, and I always loved playing music and entertaining people.” It was his admiration for his father, along with his burgeoning love of playing and performing, that led the aspiring Allen to learn guitar from the elder musician.
Another early inspiration was jazz guitar great George Benson, whose silken sound would shape his own: a funky, soulful “uptown” style that also draws from gospel music; deep icons like Otis Redding, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Ray Charles; and more modern influences. “[Benson] was just so smooth,” says Allen. “I loved the way he ran his lines, and how he blended jazz and the blues together.” By his early 30s, the guitarist was fronting his own band, which has cut a clutch of albums imbued with his brand of defiantly optimistic blues: 1998’s debut, Things Sho Done Changed, 2009’s Soul Working Man, 2010’s This World, and the most recent, 2015’s Feel These Blues. One of the most receptive and supportive local venues the whole way has been the roots music-loving Rosendale Cafe, which hosted some of the first performances of the Slam Allen Band. “Slam is one of the very best blues guitar men working today,” says the cafe’s owner, Mark Morganstern. “His musical product is so real, deep, and grooving that you could miss it if you weren’t paying close attention. And you might not pay attention because you’re so taken into his open-hearted world. He throws a blanket of love over everyone in the room as he spreads his joyous sound.” In addition to the influences cited above, that sound was informed directly by one of the true gods of Chicago blues: the late James Cotton. “A friend of mine who’d moved to Chicago and was playing drums in bands out there tried to get me to come out there too, and I said no because I was happy playing around here,” says Allen. “After 9/11 happened, though, I felt like I needed a change, so I went. At first it seemed like it was dead. I didn’t really know anyone else in town, and I started thinking, ‘Man, what am I gonna do?’ But after a little while, I started meeting more and more people and they welcomed me with open arms.” He did gigs with locals like Cadillac Dave & His Chicago Red Hots and bassist Charles Mack, and in late 2001 the latter connected him with harmonica king Cotton—best known for years as a sideman to the legendary Muddy Waters—who hired him as a guitar player and lead singer. “Getting in his band was a beautiful thing,” Allen says. “I just felt so incredibly fortunate, to be playing with him and to be linked to Muddy Waters and all of that history.” The youthful guitarist quickly rose in the ranks of Cotton’s combo, becoming its music director, playing on records like 2010’s Grammy-nominated Giant, and touring the world with the group. Around the time of the release of Giant (for which Allen sang and wrote two songs), however, Allen decided he needed to step back out on his own. “After almost 10 years, James and I weren’t always seeing eye to eye and it was getting to be the same old thing, so I left and came back here. But playing with him changed
my life, and it was such an honor for me that I got to do it. I learned so much from him, and I still feel really blessed about that.”
"I am branded as a bluesman— but I see myself first and foremost as an entertainer." —Slam Allen Upon his upstate return, Allen landed in Liberty, just 15 minutes from his Monticello birthplace. It’s there that the multipleaward-winning artist currently bases himself, working the regional circuit with gigs every week and appearing abroad as an international blues ambassador at festivals and clubs across Europe and South America. One plum engagement during his nearly fourdecade career was a five-year stint as the leader of the house band on the cruise ship Norwegian Epic. Not bad for a kid from the Catskills who, against all odds in these days of Auto-Tuned monotony and Spotify-asentertainment, keeps right on playing the blues. Of course, his bottomlessly gregarious personality and warm sense of humor has served him well and continues to win over audiences wherever he sings. “I’m branded as a bluesman, and, yeah, I am one of the last links to the history of the blues—which is where soul and rock ’n’ roll and R&B and hip-hop and everything else came from,” Allen muses. “But I see myself first and foremost as an entertainer. Growing up, I loved a lot of the comedians and entertainment personalities who were around then—Redd Foxx, Flip Wilson, the Rat Pack. So I also try to bring that into what I do on stage. And it seems to work pretty good. I remember one of the times when I was playing on that cruise ship. After the set, this guy came up to me and said, ‘Wow, I always thought I hated the blues. But, man, I like you.” Slam Allen will perform at Harmony Music in Woodstock on February 9; the City Vineyard at Pier 26 in New York on February 16; and at Windham Mountain Resort on February 17. Slamallen.com. 2/19 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 69
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books Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior Theophrastus (with essay by James Romm and illustrations by Andre Carrilho) Callaway, $24.95, 2018 James Romm, a Classics professor at Bard College, introduces modern readers to the incisive satire of Theophrastus, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. Characters is a joyous festival of faultfinding: a collection of 30 closely observed personality portraits, from The Talker (“The Talker is the sort who plumps himself down next to someone he doesn’t know and starts praising his own wife”) to The Coward (“The Coward is the sort who, when he’s at sea, declares that the headlands are pirate ships”) to The Distrustful Man (“The Distrustful Man is the sort who, when he’s sent his slave to do some shopping, send another along to how find out how much the first one’s spent”). At a time when civility and reasoned discourse seem harder than ever to find, these portraits seem as fresh as they must have been 2,400 years ago.
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Since opening Body Be Well Pilates in Red Hook over a decade ago, Streifeneder has expanded her original studio space three times, opened a second studio, and bought the two buildings the studios are in. The fitness entrepreneur now shares her business tips in this workbook for those seeking to transform their business, from moving studio merch (keep displays fresh) to to-don’ts (don’t do stuff you hate), to self-care for hard-working entrepreneurs (don’t forget to exercise!).
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HOMESICK: FINDING OUR WAY BACK TO A HEALTHY PLANET Lyla Yastion
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Climate change, caused by humans, has emerged as the number one peril facing the planet and all its inhabitants— not just humans. Yastion, a New Paltz resident and author of Pause Now: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution, suggests that climate change can be remedied if human beings remember their ancestral bond with the planetary home that sustains them. Only if humans experience a reawakening of love and respect for the web of life will they think sustainably and act sustainably.
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Jesse Albright has been in a self-destructive limbo since her 10-year-old daughter, Sophie, disappeared from a shopping mall. Trapped in her grief and guilt, Jesse sleepwalks through her workdays at a bookstore and spends her off hours searching the mall for the face of her missing child. While Jesse yearns for closure, Sophie’s best friend, Star Silverman, who may be the key to her daughter’s disappearance, starts working at the bookstore.
At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across the country. This tale pits two titans against each other—union organizer Eugene Debs and rail tycoon George Pullman— against a backdrop of urban squalor, riots, and a nation on the edge of coming apart at the seams. Hudson Valley historian Kelly brings one of the most riveting labor/capital showdowns to vivid life.
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Out-of-his-depth math professor Sam Teagarden tries to decode a mystery file that lands in his in-box while a team of hitmen chase him from the Catskills to New York City and down the East Coast in this political thriller that pays homage to classics of the genre. High-tech surveillance, predatory drones, government gone wild, and an everyman hero converge in a plot that also includes a trip to the upcoming Woodstock Festival 50th anniversary concert.
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The Nude Party relocated from North Carolina to the Hudson Valley two years ago, and instantly became a must-see live act in a region already bursting with talent. Memorable shows ensued, including exhilarating sets at BSP, Colony, and the Meltasia festival, quickly winning local converts to their cool synthesis of 1960s and ’70s inspiration. In the intervening time, the band honed its songwriting and sound through extensive gigging. The result is a major payoff in 2018’s self-titled full-length debut, which was recorded in Woodstock at Dreamland Recording Studios. Friends since high school and college, the sextet is very much a collective, sharing songwriting credit on all 11 album tracks. The record gives the sense of an almost-familial relationship among band members; one reason is the exact-but-loose interplay between the drums (Connor Mikita), guitars (Patton Magee, Shaun Couture), organ (Don Merrill), and percussion (Austin Brose). The songs touch on psychedelia, garage punk, and bluesy boogie, all delivered with a wry sense of humor. Exhibit A is “Feels Alright”: With its insistent rhythm and smiling-in-spite-of-disaster lyric, it comes over like a happy meeting of the Velvet Underground and the Rolling Stones jamming in the basement of Big Pink. Lead vocalist Magee’s delivery is confident and deadpan on the chorus of “Oh, it don’t look good, but it feels alright.” “Astral Man” has the band lurching into psychedelic territory with guest Jon “Catfish” DeLorme’s echo-laden pedal steel guitar bestowing a spectral touch. This moody number slowly builds to an intense rave up before returning to deep space. Newwestrecords.com. —Jeremy Schwartz
Bear Grass Left (Five Kill)
Scott Petito Rainbow Gravity (Planet Arts)
Mark Donato At the Literal Crack of Dawn (SubFamily)
The chill of the Pacific Northwest has a different flavor than the brrr of Troy. Singer Katie Hammon fuses the two tastes in the cool, trip-hop tinged songs of Left, the latest effort from her dreamy, but flint-edged combo Bear Grass. From the first note, you’re pulled into a different world, not quite “Twin Peaks,” but maybe not too far from it. Hammon and Thomas D. Krebs’s guitars push—chiming here, palm-muted there, but not in a metal way—against brisk blue washes of synth. The sound is haunting but inviting, suggesting other juxtapositions, too—tough, tender; bold, quiet; brave, damaged. And Hammon’s lyrics (“forest behind my eyes,” from “Red Berries”) are just as strong as her melodies— shards of beauty, shimmering like ice crystals in the air. Hope Sandoval would seem a touchstone if she wasn’t a generation older; Bjork, too, but only if she had fronted Mazzy Star instead. Fivekillrecords.com. —Michael Eck
Bassist Scott Petito humbly credits this effort to an all-star ensemble of renowned individual musicians— including keyboardists David Sancious and Rachel Z, drummer Omar Hakim, guitarist David Spinozza, and vibraphonist Mike Mainieri—and, indeed, Rainbow Gravity is a group effort, and a startling one considering how most of the band members are leaders in their own right. But all except one of the 10 tracks are composed by Petito, who also produced and engineered the recording in Catskill. It immediately puts one in mind of the “jazz-rock” of the early 1970s, a genre that connected the dots between Miles Davis and Steely Dan— no surprise, given the presence here of Davis bandmate Jack DeJohnette and Dan pianist Warren Bernhardt. To call it “fusion” is to diminish the deep roots the music and players have planted in bop, funk, and Latin music. But it sure does rock, too. Planetarts.org. —Seth Rogovoy
There is a sense of letting go in the breadth of genre and lyric on Mark Donato’s ambitious new 15-song album. The same smart, driving, and compact alt-rock can be found on his previous forays, but the acoustic exploration here betrays an artist’s introspection and surrenders to its melody and acceptance of its content. The result is hard to peg, but ranges in voice from Vic Chessnut-ty balladeering to quirky, Elvis Costello-like dynamic pop. The impressive supporting cast of like-minded of Hudson Valley souls serve the songs and know when to pluck and when to bow. John Burdick’s guitar alternates between whisper, scream, and everything in between in a seasoned embrace of articulation and flavor. Mark Lerner (bass) and Eric Parker (drums) combine to create a true rhythm, while Elizabeth Steen and Dean Jones (keyboards) sprinkle in the gaps. Jason Sarubbi’s crisp production complements the off-beat sentimentality and its occasional descent into tongue-and-cheek deconstruction. Markdonato.com. —Jason Broome
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poetry
EDITED BY Phillip X Levine
I’m 10 years old and I want answers. Is there a Santa or not?
There is only you and me There are no others
—Zachary Sumpter (10 years)
—p
Swimming Backwards
This Poem Isn’t About Olives
I dive in and it’s already last week April snow’s left the pool empty, just
i think about the things in my life i’ve left behind. pace around my kitchen, holding my breath. will myself to open the dusty cabinet doors and maybe make myself something to eat. the jars of pickles, soups, olives i’ve never touched. i don’t like olives, i think to myself, why did i buy these? pimento was my favorite word as a child, “the seed of the olive,” i said once, while my mother laughed. she ripped the pimentos out of the olives for me, the only part i liked, let me consume them, it felt destructive. i can’t get the damn lid off the olives. i look out of the window at the gray sky mindlessly turning the top to the olives, until, to my surprise, they open. i pinch an olive between my fingers, rip the pimento out, taste childhood again, and take a bite of the fleshy skin. i still hate olives, as i think about the things in my life i’ve let in, you, olive(s).
my two arms reaching, arcing, melting into water like the snow into ground, by lap three, it’s three Augusts ago and I’ve spent almost all of it gliding across that free pool on Maui, looking up through my goggles: Plumerias streak falling the great steady arms of a Banyan and Louie the lifeguard sleeping in the roots of the tree, I turn into fourteen again and I’m doing the backstroke with Wendy it’s the thick, green Pacific and summer’s above us, out to the pontoon and back through the warm pool of my Mother, wriggly skeleton, flesh and the gene that sent my Grandfather sailing for that great belt of horizon, then his ancestor’s ancestor—the first to bind sticks together, daring, to finally, lose sight of land. And I can keep swimming, backwards I’m crawling across sand ground fresh from volcanoes, into something more like soup than ocean, leg’s become one sleek muscle, no more need to surface for breathing I dream the clear dreams of amebas, then single cells, and then, once again, I’m one with the sea. —Mary Angeles Armstrong
The Tests My dear friend of nearly forty years tells me on the phone about being part of an interview team, to find the best candidate to run for an important political office in her voting district. She likes one woman in particular, a person who has the fire in her belly, has the smarts, enough experience to compete and win. “Oh, by the way,” Marcy says, “I have brain cancer. They are going to drill a hole in my skull, insert a stent, use it as a delivery port. I start chemo next week.” Then she tells me how her car didn’t start the week before, turned out to be a bad battery, a surprise, since the car was just two years old. “I guess you never know about cars,” Marcy tells me, “when something might go wrong.” I agree, mumbling a one-word answer, other words choking in my throat. Finally, I am able to say: “How did you find out?” “Oh,” she says, “the mechanic at the garage told me. He ran some tests.” —Thomas Bonville
—Tori Phillips Rhinebeck
Simple. Naive. Like that raised ranch we lived in, owned, but never took possession of, too little to grasp hold on, not enough of interest to decorate yourself into, but game, you know, full of protection, lumpy comfort, good for dogs and cats, people over seventy out of place in anything near to contemporary, who gave in to nature alone, didn’t have to look for more, who said, yes, we stop here and the world goes round and round without our pushing it, we spin, not like tops, but like warm wool, yarned for the future. —Leo Vanderpot Scent of dried sage burning, breeze blown wind chimes;
a remembrance of friends now gone.
for Tom N
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How to walk on water Take a day in January mix in a bit of upstate New York and shake well. Men who stare at holes in ice tell you all you need to know— they’re biting— they’re not biting. Those who wish they were retired and had a place in Miami know you never meet any nice girls on a windy lake in winter, even if you can walk on water. —John Blandly
A Different Order of Gravity The air is alive. Pushed back into the near future, it is pressure, a faint hazy patch of light penetrating the dust. It lifts chunks of spine. It is alive like a bison’s shoulder hump. Everything is alive. Sitting in the church’s graveyard, a priest nods at the tombstones. Everything is alive in a vast, burnt-out place. The Earth is alive. It is a rotting floor of a gym. Stripped away for salvage, it is the shadow of Chernobyl, a radioactive wonderland, a blue white glow of virtual vodka frantically beeping like a blade of rusting earth, the galactic center of interstellar dust. Meandering rivers long like neural spines. The color of chaparral and pine so crisp green. Roughly chopped, fresh as watercress and lemon rind. Just circular velocity in crystalline spheres. The whole fabric. The vicissitudes of life. Our daily study in the constellations shared over the embers of tradition. Vital breaking, moving like a primeval wheel. —George Payne
As Though My Heart Would Burst How long ago was it I felt this first— Sometimes I feel as though my heart would burst —Christopher Porpora
Poetoum We loved with a love that was more than love. —Edgar Allan Poe This is my last chance to set it straight. I shall not lie forevermore. Mendacity seems to be my fate, as before I shall summon my tell-tale heart. I shall not lie forevermore. A scribe earns his living by telling lies. I shall summon my tell-tale heart as before. Her loving came as no surprise. A scribe earns his living by telling lies. We were happiest by the sea. Her loving came as no surprise. I was beguiled by a trusting child. We were happiest by the sea. Her beauty was her darkness, I never told. I was beguiled by a trusting child. I was innocent and yet she made me old. Her beauty was her darkness, I never told. Mendacity seems to be my fate. I was innocent and yet she made me old. This is my last chance to set it straight. —Laurie Byro
I like to look at you when you’re driving, not to make sure you’re paying attention but to see the way the wind blows your hair back, like the way it probably looked when you’d hum into the fan when you were seven, hoping to make your voice sound different, to see the way the night sky adds stars to kind eyes, to see your hands beat to a rhythm you’d play on the drumset your parents probably bought you for Christmas, I turn away only to listen to you sing along to songs on the radio, turning down the music to make sure your voice doesn’t stay wrapped underneath the song, like the only gift I have ever wanted to open. —Sara Cerabino Basket
There is a poem that stalks and evades me. I do not know its words, can’t remember Whether I read it a long time ago, Or it is me who is trying to write it. I am not sure what it is about. I think a wolf might live in it somewhere; I saw her tracks in the grainy snow. I nearly glimpsed her face in the shadows Peering at me from behind the birches. I hear the burbling of running water Crisscrossing the silence, The sudden clatter Of a woodpecker’s exuberant drum roll. I smell wet bark. The sap must be rising. Decay and growth are fermenting together. It’s early spring in a faraway forest. Do not torment me like this, I beg you! I am worn out by the chase and the longing For that spring in that watchful forest, For that moment when words surrender. —Yana Kane Flutter Off the rushing Tides Your mind is such A flutter, fluttering, Come back Come back To the pure water And go, upstream.
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Whatever You Do Don’t Stop
Ella sings of losing a little yellow basket. I bet she wanted a Creole daughter who would cross the river barefoot to search for her basket. I would’ve woven a basket and shown I can scat and swing with her. My mother the chanteuse wouldn’t have left me behind on the creole island. We’d sit by the river holding hands the basket full of sugarcane, passionfruit, ripened mangoes would be between us. —Jerrice J. Baptiste City Life II I was listening to the bells, And looking at the naked baby, While pulling along my hand truck, When you came by with your roller skates. Sorry, —Bob Grawi
Grammar Lesson: To, Two, Too Stay with her because she wants you to because she’s only two because you too may be afraid someday when she is in another room and seems so far away. —Sydna Altschuler Byrne
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Cabin Fever Cabaret Bindlestiff Family Cirkus cofounder Keith Nelson balances glasses. The neoVaudevillian troupe takes up residency at Helsinki Hudson in their hometown. Photo by Maike Schulz.
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February 27 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 February 2: Imbolc Riverfire at Basilica Hudson February 5: Inez Nathaniel Walker at Lehman Loeb Art Center February 13: "The Arsonists" at Denizen Theater February 23: Bindestiff Family Cirkus at Helsinki Hudson February 24: Community Free Day at Dia: Beacon
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Above: Yarmouth Jetty, John Constable, c. 1822–23. oil on canvas, 12 3/4 x 20 1/8 in.
Looking Through the Landscape
Opposite, from top: Brunnen, from the Lake of Lucerne, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1845. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 11 7/16 x 18 3/4 in.; Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840, oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 48 1/8 in.
Through March 10. Clark.edu
John Constable (1776-1837) and Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the two giants of British landscape painting, could not stand each other, but their work gets along remarkably well in the exhibition “Turner and Constable: The Inhabited Landscape” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 2007, the Clark added a significant bequest of British art from Sir Edwin and Lady Manton to its own substantial collection, making it one of the most important centers of British art in this country. Most of the work in the show—almost 50 paintings, drawings, and prints—is drawn from the Manton Collection. The centerpiece of the show is a truly sublime late Turner, Rockets and Blue Light Close to Hand to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water, depicting a steamboat offshore in a storm. The paint is lathered on with a palette knife as well as brushes, rags, and an occasional thumb smear. A vortex of sea spray and smoky mist, with a strange, blue center ablaze with whitegold light and an inexplicable X, this painting helps us understand why Turner has influenced painters ever since, from the Impressionists and the Hudson River School to the Abstract Expressionists. After viewing the Turners, it was tough to
"TURNER AND CONSTABLE" AT THE CLARK ART INSTITUTE
imagine how the Constables were going hold up in such wild and brilliant company. But in their polite and reserved way, they do. As I looked around that first room, one of Constable’s radiant cloud studies caught my eye (Cloud Study, c. 1821–22). Executed outdoors, this little oil painting looked so fresh, I half expected it to give off the sharp scent of turpentine as I approached. Constable did over 100 studies of skies. He was a pioneer of painting landscapes outdoors. Both his paintings and his plein air practice influenced the French Barbizon painters, including Corot, as well as the Impressionists. Alexa Goodin’s intelligent curation, and her subtitle for the show—“the inhabited landscape”— point to Turner’s and Constable’s abiding interest in how humans shape, interact with, and animate the landscape, although it is the landscape itself that remains their primary subject. Turner was born in 1775, Constable in 1776. Turner was from a lower middle-class family and was something of a child prodigy, a relatively uncommon phenomenon in the visual arts. He enrolled in the Royal Academy at 14 and became its youngest graduate. He travelled widely thereafter, painting in Italy, Germany, and France. According to his friend, the art critic John Ruskin,
who knew the artist in his later life, Turner grew more eccentric and irascible as he aged. Constable’s family background was more prosperous. The son of a corn merchant, Constable went on to marry his childhood sweetheart, with whom he had seven children. Constable’s favorite subjects were close to home, and he did much of his best work in Suffolk. Despite suffering from a lack of recognition in England, he never left, even though he became something of a sensation in France, receiving a gold medal from the French Salon in 1824. Viewing this work by Turner and Constable will change how you see things and the way you see them. The Clark is surrounded by farmland, woods, and mountains. Whichever direction you take upon leaving the museum, you will find yourself noticing things: a copse of trees, perhaps, or the precise shapes of cattle eating hay from an outdoor manger. You may notice details and colors, and the landscape will look different and more beautiful to you than it did before. “Turner and Constable: The Inhabited Landscape” will be exhibited at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, through March 10. Clarkart.edu. —Sarah Jackson
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Clarion Call KEYON HARROLD AT BARD COLLEGE
Although New York-based, Missouri-raised trumpeter Keyon Harrold began making his presence known in the jazz world as a member of Charles Tolliver’s big band in the late ’00s, it was his crossover work with rapper Common and his instrumental and on-screen performances in the 2015 Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead that brought him to a wider audience. This month, as part of Bard College’s Sound the Trumpet series, Harrold will lead “Jazz and the Birth of Hip-Hop,” a program that includes music from his 2017 album, The Mugician. Ahead of the event, Harrold answered the questions below via e-mail. “Sound the Trumpet: Jazz and the Birth of Hip-Hop” featuring Keyon Harrold will be presented at Bard College’s Fisher Center on February 9 at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $25. Fishercenter.bard.edu. —Peter Aaron The program you’re presenting at Bard College “paints a picture of today’s hip-hop within the history of jazz.” Can you tell us a little about the content of the performance and about how it will demonstrate the connection between the genres? The content of this performance will show the correlation of jazz as an important element to hip-hop. I look at the influence of jazz as it related to hip-hop, like a parent to a child. Once the child comes of age, it can, in turn, influence the parent. I feel that is happening with the music. The program will include instances of how jazz songs were used to help create a new genre. Music from Ahmad Jamal, Bob James, Miles Davis, and many others help lay the backdrop of hip-hop, which is now the most popular genre of music around the world. Elements of jazz, broken down into music parts called “samples” or “chops,” were used to create entirely new songs. There will be instances of my original music that will show the evolution of hip-hop and how it serves in the way I compose.
As a jazz musician, what is it that you enjoy most about collaborating with hip-hop artists and working within that medium? Your own connections with hop-hop seem to come to the fore with your move to New York to attend the New School when you were 18. I enjoy collaborating with hip-hop artists because the music is still alive and still being formed. I like being a part of what’s to come and pushing musical boundaries while keeping the integrity of a jazz purist and the discipline of a musician who has studied in a conservatory. Ultimately, I like to be relevant as an artist; I want to influence and create new listeners to keep my love of jazz alive. You’ve cited Miles Davis’s second great quintet—sometimes called the 1965-’68 quintet; with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams—as one of your main influences. What is it about that band in particular that has captivated you, and what did it feel like to perform the trumpet parts for Don Cheadle’s portrayal of Davis in Miles Ahead? The Miles Davis Quintet with Wayne, Herbie, Tony, and Ron were the epitome of vision, musically. They were original and prolific, had style, and were all pioneering figures in how music is heard today. Listening to those records from ’60s is inspiring every time. I was honored to play a part in Miles Ahead. It was the ability to pay homage to Miles, who is one of the most critical musicians in history, who just happens to [also] be a trumpeter. I felt it was a rite of passage for me. I was humbled with the opportunity to record and stand next to Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. A kind of dream situation that led to a Grammy Award for the soundtrack, which was amazing to be a part of (shout out to Robert Glasper and Don Cheadle).
Having been raised in Ferguson, Missouri, as the grandson of a local police officer, what do you remember thinking and feeling in the aftermath of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown and the protests and riots that followed? Two years on from those events, what are your thoughts and feelings now about the issues that they raised? I remember being heartbroken about the events that transpired. It was a tragedy in my beloved stumping grounds that partially divided and highlighted our nation in regard to race, politics, humanity, and law enforcement. The issues that were raised from it are not new. Racism, systemic bias, oppression, and privilege have all influenced our current political climate. I feel that [some in] our country fail to appreciate the importance and impact of people who do not look like them. They fail to recognize that until black lives matter, all lives do not matter. And that goes for any other minority group; sexual orientation, religion, and freedom of choice. What is clear is that we need to do more to appreciate each other as humans. Love and acceptance over hate and bias. What are the chief roles of music and musicians in troubled times like the present? The seminal role of artists is to convey the times good or bad. To express love and to despise hate and indifference. We have the power to influence hearts and change perspectives with sound as the weapon. So I will continue to write songs that bridge the gaps instead of building more walls to separate us.
“Sound the Trumpet: Jazz and the Birth of Hip-Hop” comes to Bard College February 9.
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Four Hundred Years of Perseverance BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Music
Ensemble Mik Nawooj Innovative hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj (EMN) is led by classically trained composer/pianist JooWan Kim, with MCs Do D.A.T. and Sandman, plus vocals, winds, strings, funky drums, and piano. Described as rigorous, nuanced, and accessible, EMN injects classical composition techniques into hip-hop favorites and original music. A new hybrid form of concert music, these acoustic arrangements are a muchneeded breath of fresh air in a staid scene. The 10-piece ensemble will play at the Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn on February 9 at 8pm as part of Vassar College’s annual Modfest. Vassar.edu
Art
Dia:Freebie
The 2018 Black History Month kick-off event at the Lace Mill in Kingston.
Dia, which put Beacon back on the map in the early aughts and blazed the trail for an art renaissance in the Hudson Valley, is home to an impressive collection of work by modern titans ranging from Louise Bourgeois to Richard Serra to Dan Flavin. While admission is normally $15, on the last Sunday of each month Dia:Beacon hosts Community Free Day for Hudson Valley residents. (Beacon residents also receive free admission to Dia:Beacon every weekend.) On February 24, take advantage of the gratis entry to wander through the colossal, rusted steel sculptures of Richard Serra and ponder the mind-bending string works of Fred Sandback. Too often we neglect to be tourists in our own backyards, but Dia: Beacon is a world-class museum that merits a visit (or three). Diaart.org
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The Mythical Mother
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first African arrival on British North American shores. According to a letter from Jamestown colonist John Rolfe, in August 1619, “twenty-odd Negroes” arrived in Virginia as indentured servants. Their thoughts on the matter are lost to posterity. Unlike slavery, indentured servitude was neither permanent nor inheritable; by midcentury, several families owned farms and even indentured servants of their own. Many black Americans served in the Revolutionary War, yet slavery—by then almost invariably race-based—was embedded in the Constitution nonetheless. It seems rather understated that the theme of Black History Month 2019 is “400 Years of Perseverance.” African American history runs as deep as European history does in the Hudson Valley; although you probably weren’t taught about Albany’s “hanging tree” in school. Attempts at winning freedom and atrocities in response to those attempts characterized the 18th century. The 19th century, though, would bring the story of Isabella. When she left New York to become a renowned leader, she became Sojourner Truth; she was still going by Isabella when she became one of the first black women to win a court decision against a white man, at the Ulster County Courthouse in Kingston. Despite the dominant culture’s ongoing oppression, our world would be unrecognizable without the profound, generous contributions of African Americans. Kingston is throwing an epic celebration, spearheaded by the A. J. Williams-Myers African American Roots Library. On February 2, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County hosts 82 THE GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 2/19
dance, poetry, singing, activities, vendors, special appearances, and more from 4-9pm; meanwhile, First Saturday art exhibits will be highlighting Black History Month all over the city. There are over 30 happenings: O+ “Brown Mural Tours” on the 3 and 17, mixers, health events, a Sojourner Truth Life Walk from Port Ewen to the county courthouse on February 9, and tons of performance and artwork. “I just reached out to see who’d want to do something, and the response was incredible,” says organizer Frank Waters. “Last year was the first year I organized it, and we had 28 events; this year, we’re well over 30. People are excited. I’m loving it.” The Hudson Area Library will celebrate a month-long tribute to famed children’s book author and illustrator Ashley Bryan, born in 1923, who stared down segregation and ultimately retired to Maine as professor emeritus of Dartmouth College, having published 50 books. The Newburgh Free Library will have a month of art exhibits and programs, including a screening of the film Dear White People (2014) on February 14, which the Netflix series is based on. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness screens on February 21. SUNY Ulster is presenting a free month-long music festival, and SUNY Dutchess a month of lectures, readings, and films. So come on out and join the party, listen, talk. In an era when four years can seem awfully long, there’s surely a lesson for anyone in 400 years of perseverance. Blackhistorymonthkingston.org —Anne Pyburn Craig
When it comes to Hudson Valley venues, few are as adventurous with their programming as Basilica Hudson. On February 2, the towering former foundry will stage Imbolc Riverfire. Based on the traditional Gaelic celebration marking the beginning of spring, this happening is billed as “an Elysian festival of fire and light.” Basilica’s take on the proto-Irish equinox festivity will feature a blend of music, movement, sculpture, and performance to bring to life the metamorphosis of Demeter, Greek goddess of fertility and the harvest, as she dons different guises to search for her daughter, Persephone, who has been abducted by Hades. The production promises fascinating-sounding large-scale moving sculptures, puppetry, and a speech and movement chorus that incorporates poetry and dance into the installation. February 2, 4–6.30pm. $10-25. Basilicahudson.org
Film
No Choice The harrowing novel and hit series A Handmaid’s Tale brings into stark relief the gruesome bottom of a slippery slope that begins with a male-led state forcing women to carry unwanted children. While the modern reality of women’s healthcare is a far cry from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, the continual and incremental suppression of women’s reproductive rights is the first step on a scary path toward that future. On February 9, Upstate Films in Rhinebeck will screen a selection of shorts from Bill Moyer’s series No Choice followed by a moderated panel discussion with Ruth-Ellen Blodgett, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley; Robin Marty, author of Handbook for a PostRoe America; and Shannon Wong, Chapter Director of the NYCLU Lower Hudson Valley Chapter. Admission is by donation. Proceeds go to Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley. Upstatefilms.org
Drawn to Freedom
Circus
INEZ NATHANIEL WALKER AT VASSAR COLLEGE
Bindlestiff Winter Residency Rooted in New York’s Downtown club and performance art scene, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is a ragtag group of performers renowned for their risqué programming. Since moving to Hudson in 2006, each winter the troupe presents a colorful changing roster of visiting acts over four shows at their hometown venue, Club Helsinki. The motley cast ranges from gender-bending jugglers to goofy clown bands, to aerial acrobats, sideshow freaks, sword swallowers, and living cartoons. Each show is different, but they all promise a strange and satisfying mix of circus antics, comedy, and musical entertainment. Cabin Fever Cabaret returns to Club Helsinki on February 23 and March 16, with a familyfriendly matinee on March 17 at 3pm. $12-$45. Helsinkihudson.com
Theater
Fired Up Inspired by Electra, the fabled and vengeful princess of Greek myth, “The Arsonists,” is a Gothic tale about a family on the run from the law. In this lyrical new play by Jacqueline Goldfinger, which has its regional premier at Denizen Theatre (through February 24), a musical father and daughter literally set fire to their lives and take off in pursuit of fresh start. This new work, which the Philadelphia magazine calls “realistic and gritty, but also beautifully poetic,” is a poignant exploration of grief, transience, redemption, and the enduring bond between parent and child. $5-$24. Denizentheatre.com
Inez Nathaniel Walker (American, 1907-1990) Three Figures, 1976 Colored pen and pencil on paper Bequest of Pat O’Brien Parsons, class of 1951.
Literature
A Cold Winter’s Night While they are known nationally for their roles on the silver screen, actors Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are better known locally as the proprietors of the beloved Rhinebeck confectionary Samuel’s Sweet Shop. Joined by friends, this husband-and-wife team will take the stage for a night of dramatic ghost story readings at UPAC in Kingston on February 9 at 5pm. This spooky night of storytelling and ghoulish fun is a fundraiser for Astor Services for Children & Families, a nonprofit that provides children’s mental health and welfare services and early childhood development programs for kids. $41-$506. Bardavon.org.
Fundraiser
Brave the Shave St. Baldrick’s Foundation began at a bar when three friends dared each other to shave their heads at a St. Patrick’s Day party to raise money for kids with cancer. Since then, the organization has grown into the world’s largest private funder of childhood cancer research. On March 3, from 11am to 4pm, volunteers from the Ulster/Greene chapter will host Brave the Shave, a fundraiser at Saugerties High School featuring a raffle, bake sale, face-painting, dance performances, and chair massages. Teams of children, police offices, firefighters, and community members, who have shaved their heads in solidarity, will compete to raise money to support St. Baldrick’s efforts to fill the funding gap for childhood cancer research. Facebook.com/bravetheshavesaugerties
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Most artists discover their vocation in childhood. Inez Nathaniel Walker discovered hers in prison. She was serving a four-year sentence for manslaughter at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester, when she began doodling on the backs of mimeographed newsletters. An art instructor admired her work and sent it to Pat Parsons, a gallerist in Manhattan. Parsons was impressed, offering Walker encouragement and art supplies. The prisoner was 64 years old, with no previous art training. “Freehand: Drawings of Inez Nathaniel Walker” is at the Loeb Art Center of Vassar College until April 14. Born outside Sumter, South Carolina in 1907, Walker was part of the Great Migration to the North, fleeing the drudgery of farm labor. She settled in upstate New York and worked at numerous jobs: as a seamstress, in a pickle factory, as a cook. In 1971, she killed her abusive boyfriend with an axe. Though Walker served less than two years in prison, that time was transformative. She continued making art the rest of her life, until her death at the Willard Psychiatric Center in Ovid, New York, in 1990. Walker never used live models, though her work was largely portraiture. She drew images of personalities, not of faces. The heads of her subjects are enlarged, the hands small, though sometimes they are holding significant items like money, a drink, or a revolver. As with the Mona Lisa, there is a sensation that the portrait subjects are staring back at us.
In 1973, the art collector Michael D. Hall interviewed Walker, asking if she had ever considered painting. “No, I don’t want to try painting because I think it would just smear,” the artist replied. The precision of the pencil satisfied her. “Walker’s graphic sensibility is completely unique,” says Mary-Kay Lombino, curator of the show. “The way she draws every swirl of hair and every adornment to clothing and every eyelash; she developed her line on her own.” Walker began her art career during the era of the Afro, which proudly proclaimed “Black Is Beautiful” while also suggesting a mystic aura around the human head. Walker was a master at depicting globe-like hair, even in her only known self-portrait, from 1973 (though the few photos we have of Walker show her hair straight). Most of the drawings have no titles, but there are exceptions. One piece was labeled Richard Nixon and changed to Bob Hope. (Apparently Walker drew portraits of people she saw on TV.) Many of her subjects smile benevolently, but not all. The eyes of Man with a Goatee are tinged with orange, giving him a fearsome gleam. Though Walker’s drawings have appeared in numerous exhibits of “outsider” artists and belong to at least 15 museum collections, this is her first solo show. “Freehand: Drawings of Inez Nathaniel Walker” is at the Loeb Art Center of Vassar College until April 14. (845) 437-5632; Fllac.vassar.edu —Sparrow 2/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 83
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Linda Montano, I’m Dying–My Last Performance, 2015, video, color, sound. Video still copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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exhibits Christopher Wool at Art Omi Installed at the Fields Sculpture Park at Art Omi in January, Christopher Wool’s Untitled is a large-scale bronze and copper plated steel sculpture with a quicksilver personality. From one angle, the sculpture—made from ranching wire found on his property in Texas—looks like a tangled nest of telephone cable; from another, a free-form take on a motorcycle in motion. Untitled adds to the profusion of wondrous outdoor sculpture at this year-round art attraction in Ghent. Through December 31.
Untitled, Christopher Wool, bronze and copper plated steel, 121.5" x 296" x 60". © Christopher Wool; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo by Bryan Zimmerman.
Andrea McFarland at Mark Gruber The New Paltz gallerist Mark Gruber has championed Hudson Valley landscape artists for over 40 years, nurturing the careers of Jane Bloodgood Abrams, Christie Scheele, and Eric Angeloch among others. This month, Andrea McFarland’s “The New Paltz Years,” chronicling her last decade documenting the rugged ecosystem of the Shawangunks. Mainly self-taught, McFralnd brings a photographer’s eye to her pastel drawings that capture light and shadow in nature with hyper-acuity. February 2-March 16. Maryna Bilak at Hudson Hall Through charcoal drawings, fresco, sculpture, and painting, Maryna Bilak documents what it means to be a caretaker for someone with Alzheimer’s and delves into the varied roles each person involved plays, including the patient. The exhibition is curated by Emily O’Leary. For the opening reception, on February 2 (5-7pm), pianist and composer Michael S. Jaynes will perform Curvature of the Mind, a piece inspired by his experience caring for his own mother, an Alzheimer’s sufferer. February 2-March 17.
Angela Dufresne at the Dorsky Museum If Lucian Freud hadn’t been so preoccupied with exposing some flaw in his subjects, he might have painted like Angela Dufrsene (though some of her portraits also take on monstrous qualities). “Just My Type” is a study in the topology of the face, as it transforms and morphs, never standing still long enough to zero in on a fixed “type.” Dufresne’s portraits up-end notions of what portraiture is while also strictly adhering to the form. February 9-July 14. “In Place of Now” at the Opalka Gallery Featuring works by Wayne Hodge, Darian Longmire, Stacey Robinson, Alisa SikelianosCarter, Willie Cole, Renee Cox, Shani Crowe, Krista Franklin, and Farbrice Monteiro, “In Place of Now” examines politically subversive acts of picturing “otherness,” reinventing the past, and reclaiming the future. Co-curators Judie Gilmore and Rone Shavers have focused on artwork that offers new speculations regarding contemporary black identity and explores issues of blackness, which again seems to be in contention. February 12-April 14.
“Home Sweet Home” at Ann Street Gallery Angela Alba, Daniel Bara, Mary Carson, Eileen Eder, Greg Climer, Phyllis Gorsen, Leslie Graff, Heidi Hankaniemi, Adrianne Lobel, Timo Rissanen, Abbey Rosko, Polly Shindler, Betts Vando and Melissa Zexter explore domesticity and various perspectives on the domestication of the contemporary home in this group multimedia exhibition in Newburgh. The show is curated by the perceptive and innovative gallerist Virginia Walsh. Through March 23 Amanda Lechner at Standard Space Profoundly strange and wonderful ideas offered by quantum physics, alchemy, and science fiction inform Amanda Lechner’s egg tempera paintings and ink drawings. Her largely improvisational drawing practice provides a counterbalance to the historical and material-driven qualities of her egg-tempera paintings. Lechner’s paintings reflect a simultaneous impulse to react and reflect, mixing the factual and observed with the invented and personal. February 1-March 3.
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exhibits
EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY
348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION "Brighid Graves Art Exhibit." Scrap wood art. Through February 28.
EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE ART CENTER 82 N. BROADWAY, NYACK
"Angela Fraleigh: Shadows Searching for Light." Inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and his relationship with his wife, Josephine (Jo) Nivison Hopper. Through February 17.
EMERGE GALLERY & ART SPACE 228 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES
"Exit 20: An Exhibition of Work By Saugerties Artists." Over 20 artists living and working in Saugerties are participating in this exhibition that includes work of various mediums and styles. Through February 25.
FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE "Freehand: Drawings by Inez Nathaniel Walker." February 1-April 14.
GALLERY 40
40 CANNON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE "The Sublime and the Beautiful." Photographs by Mark Cohen and Judy Winter. Through February 22.
GALLERY FIFTY5
James Van Der Zee at WCMA This exhibition highlights Williams College Museum of Art’s recently acquired portfolio of 18 photographs by James Van Der Zee (1886-1983). Born and raised in Lenox, Massachusetts, Van Der Zee established a thriving photography studio in Harlem and served as the foremost chronicler of black life in New York City during the early 20th century. The exhibition examines various moments of Van Der Zee’s expansive and experimental practice in the genres of fine art, commercial, editorial, and documentary photography. Through June 2.
Couple Harlem, James Van Der Zee, gelatin silver-toned print, 1932.
55 GREENKILL AVE, KINGSTON "Psychedelic Country: The Art of Brian Zickafoose." February 2-28.
GARRISON ART CENTER
23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON "Sewan: Paintings and Works on Paper by Tad Wiley." Through February 24.
HOLLAND TUNNEL ART
46 CHAMBERS STREET, NEWBURGH "Jacques Roch: Esperanza." Through February 17.
HUDSON AREA LIBRARY
51 NORTH 5TH STREET, HUDSON "History of Oakdale." Historic photographs, maps, plans memorabilia and text on the history of Oakdale Lake, February 7-28.
HUDSON HALL
327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON "Maryna Bilak: Care." February 2-March 17. Opening reception February 2, 5pm-7pm.
HUDSON VALLEY MOCA
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL
510 WARREN ST GALLERY
BAU GALLERY
"Farther Reaches, Musings on a Wildlife Portfolio." Works by John Lipkowitz. February 1-24. Opening reception February 2, 3pm-6pm.
"Zachary Skinner: Troubled Waters." Photographs and paintings. February 9 to March 3.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
BERKSHIRE MUSEUM
"Homebody: Paintings by Rachel Rickert." February 2-24. Opening reception February 2, 6pm-8pm.
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Machines in Motion." Explore 40 full-size models of Leonardo’s inventions. Through May 5.
KAATERSKILL FINE ARTS
510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 737 ALBANY-SHAKER ROAD, ALBANY
"Landmark. Featuring 10 contemporary visual artists and 7 writers responding to our relationship with the natural world." Through February 25.
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY
22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK "The "Expressive Line: Paintings & Works on Paper." February 2-March 10.
ANN STREET GALLERY
104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH "Home Sweet Home: A Group Exhibition." Through March 23.
ARTS MID HUDSON
696 DUTCHESS TURNPIKE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-3222.
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON
39 SOUTH STREET, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY 43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK
"Inner Visions: New Watercolors by Betsy Jacaruso and the Cross RIver Artists." Through March 31.
BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
"The Haiku Box Project." Visitors to the Byrdcliffe Art Colony will be able to explore the grounds in search of artist-made haiku boxes installed along the wooded mountainside. Leave an anonymous haiku, thought, prayer, or secret inside the box. Through June 30.
"Death Is Irrelevant." Through August 2.
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
7970 MAIN STREET, HUNTER "Populated Areas: Brian Dewan." Through February 16.
KEEGAN ALES
20 ST. JAMES STREET, KINGSTON "The Collector: Works by Marie DiPerri." February 2-28.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
"Andrea McFarland: The New Paltz Years." Pastel drawings. February 2-March 16.
MASS MOCA
1040 MASS MOCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA "Tom Slaughter: Icon Alphabet." Through March 31.
"Emancipation of the Mind." An exhibit commemorating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1950’s and 1960’s. Through February 24.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
MID-HUDSON VALLEY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
"Great Estates: The Paintings of Joseph E. Richards and Bill Sullivan." Through February 24.
"Dustpan Thoughts." Through March 31.
BARD COLLEGE AT SIMON’S ROCK
DUCK POND GALLERY
3 FRIENDLY LANE, MILLBROOK
"She Said, He Said." A ceramics-based exhibition by Boston artist Kathy King and New York artist Matt Nolen, curated by Ben Krupka. Through March 8.
"Sun Vibrations." Acrylics by Prudence Haze. February 1-22.
MORTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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MILLBROOK FREE LIBRARY
"Works by Phillipe Treuille." Through February 24.
82 KELLY STREET, RHINECLIFF
"Suzanne Neusner: Quilted Landscapes." Through February 16.
exhibits
THE MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY @ SUNY ULSTER
491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE
"Hammer Dance: New Works by Chris Victor." February 8-March 29. Opening reception February 08, 5pm-7pm.
OPALKA GALLERY
140 NEW SCOTLAND AVENUE ALBANY "In Place of Now. Co-curated by Judie Gilmore, and scholar Rone Shavers, "In Place of Now" showcases both emerging and established artists whose work engages in the politically subversive acts of picturing “otherness,” reinventing the past, and reclaiming the future. February 12-April 14.
PALMER GALLERY
VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVE., POUGHKEEPSIE "The Flip Side 2: Creative Practices by the Vassar College Community." Through March 6.
PLACE
23 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON "Johanna Lindsay Photography." Through March 12.
RHINEBECK ANTIQUE EMPORIUM
5229 ALBANY POST ROAD (RT 9), STAATSBURG Emporium Sculpture Park. This new sculpture park exhibit curated by Franc Palaia includes 14 sculptures by 11 regional artists. Through May 31.
ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS
27 SOUTH GREENBUSH ROAD, WEST NYACK "Spirit of Being." Robyn Ellenbogen, Colette Fu, Paula Kovarik, Garam Lee, and Mark Weiss connect us to another realm of our being and to our higher selves. February 18-March 24.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ
"Linda Montano: The Art/Life Hospital." Through April 14. "Angela Dufresne: Just My Type." February 9-July 14. "Mohonk Mountain House at 150." February 9-July 14. "A Recent Gift from the Photography Collection of Marcus Pfeiffer." February 9-July 14.
STANDARD SPACE
147 MAIN STREET, SHARON, CONNECTICUT "Amanda Lechner: Future Present Tense." Egg tempera paintings and ink drawings envision and enact moments of experimentation and discovery. February 1-March 3. Opening reception February 2, 5:30pm-8pm.
THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 1946 CAMPUS DRIVE, HYDE PARK
"Appetites for Change: Foodways in Post-War America." Studentcurated exhibit explores how technology, post-war economics, and politics influenced cooking and eating habits, in Post-war America (1945–1970). Through July 31.
TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY
60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI "New Year | New Works + Works in Progress." How artists work behind the scenes. Through February 10.
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CONNECTICUT Lee Arnold: Metaphors. Through February 24. Artists’ Reception February 8, 7pm.
WIRED GALLERY
11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS "To Know the Light." A group show featuring the work of 15 local artists. Curated by Mary Jane Nusbaum. Through April 1.
WOODSTOCK ART EXCHANGE 1398 ROUTE 28, WOODSTOCK
"Little Creatures." New exhibit by local artists Rob Wade and Margie Greve. Through March 10.
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART
Light Bulb, Larry Kagan, light and steel wire, 2013. Photograph by Gary Gold.
Larry Kagan at Albany Institute of History & Art “Shape and Shadow” is a retrospective that features 50 sensual works from Troy sculptor and RPI professor Larry Kagan’s 40-year output. Three distinctive phases of Kagan’s career: the 1970s cast acrylic sculptures that reflect and refract light; the found steel works from the 1980s and 90s that play with texture, pattern, and shape; and his more recent shadow pieces that rely on strategically positioned steel rods to sculpt light. Through June 9.
2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK
"Scholarship." Featuring works by high school and college student recipients of scholarships provided by the Thomas Family Foundation. February 9-March 2. Opening reception February 9, 3pm-5pm.
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Car Seat Headrest performs at Mass MoCA on February 15.
WINTER HOOT
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GANG OF FOUR
February 1-3. Held at the beatific Ashokan Center, the Winter Hoot is among the Hudson Valley’s most cherished folk ’n’ family-style roots music events. Curated by Mammals mainstays Mike Merenda and Ruth Ungar Merenda (AKA Mike & Ruthy), the three-day intergenerational jubilee “brings together folks of all ages to celebrate the timeless joys of nature, music, dance, food, and creativity.” This year’s performers include the Mammals, Lula Wiles, the Restless Age, the Stash Band, Ashokan Center founders Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, Mister Chris, and Ratboy Jr. See website for schedule and ticket prices. Food and lodging available. Olivebridge. (845) 657-8333; Hoot.love.
February 15-17. In only its second year, this precision-programmed gathering at historic Hudson Hall is already pulling in some major names. The 2019 installment is being headlined by NEA Jazz Master saxophonist David Leibman—best known for his stint with the legendary Miles Davis—who will perform with vocalist Jay Clayton, bass player Jay Anderson, and pianist and series coordinator Armen Donelian. Also appearing are Afro-Cuban icon Bobby Sanabria and his Quarteto Ache; master pianists Kirk Nurock, Lynne Arriale, and Sullivan Fortner; and trumpeter Amir Elsaffar’s Middle Eastern jazz-inspired Two Rivers Ensemble. See website for schedule and ticket prices. Hudson. (518) 822-1438; Hudsonhall.org.
February 24. Easily one of the late-1970s UK postpunk scene’s most influential acts, Gang of Four crushed together deep funk rhythms, avant-skronk guitar, and barbed, wry lyrics that took sharp aim at consumer society. The Four-some’s dissonant, bass-bumping sound is readily apparent in that of disciples like Fugazi, Franz Ferdinand, the Minutemen, Rage Against the Machine, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Although the original lineup reunited in 2004 after several years apart (later members include local bassists Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey), since 2012 the group, which plays Colony this month, has been led by its sole original member, genius guitarist Andy Gill. (Gary Lucas gets out February 22; Chris Difford drops by March 8.) 7pm. $25-$35. Woodstock. (845) 679-7625; Colonywoodstock.com.
DROPKICK MURPHYS February 17. Exactly one month ahead of the holiday for which the outing is named, Boston’s Celtic punk kings the Dropkick Murphys kick off their 2019 St. Patrick’s Day Tour at the MidHudson Civic Center. Established in 1996, the rowdy Beantown bunch is beloved in their home city for their shouty 2004 version of the Boston Red Sox anthem “Tessie” and around the world for their 2005 double-platinum adaptation of the Woody Guthrie song “Shipping Up to Boston” (the latter was featured in the Oscar-winning film The Departed). With Booze and Glory, Lenny Lashley’s Gang of One, and Amigo the Devil. 7pm. $35, $65. Poughkeepsie. (845) 454-5800; Midhudsonciviccenter.org.
CAR SEAT HEADREST February 15. Seattle indie rockers Car Seat Headrest take their name from leader Will Toledo’s habit of recording his vocals in the backseat of his car while the band made its early DIY releases. Since then and across the arc of their 11 albums, the outfit has amassed a mammoth online cult following as well as reams of praise from publications like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Paste, and The New Yorker. Here, CSH hits Mass MoCA in support of their latest fulllength for Matador Records, Twin Fantasy (Face to Face), a reworking of their 2011 fan fave Twin Fantasy. With Naked Giants. (Kavita Shah sings February 9; Kaki King kills it February 23.) 8pm. $25-$50. North Adams, Massachusetts. (413) 662-2111; Massmoca.org.
NOAM PIKELNY AND STUART DUNCAN February 13. For exceptional folk roots music by two of the modern masters of the genre, this night at the Towne Crier is just the ticket. Grammy-nominated banjoist Noam Pikelny (Leftover Salmon) is a founding member of the popular Punch Brothers and the winner of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Fiddle virtuoso Stuart Duncan (Robert Plant and Allison Krauss, Yo-Yo Ma, Diana Krall) is a four-time Grammy winner and the multiple winner of other awards. (Driftwood floats by February 2; Greg Brown returns February 9.) 7:30pm. $27.50. Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Townecrier.com.
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Sometimes, it feels like everybody wants to live in the Age of Aquarius, but nobody wants to do the hard work to get there. Inclusion and acceptance begin at home: Those who reject the broken, fragmented parts of Self are least likely to accept the marginalized and vulnerable in others. High-minded idealism and the attempted Utopianization of society are superseded by deep compassion and empathy after Valentine’s Day. Keeping imperfect and broken humanity at arm’s length while paying lip service and writing checks to good causes is a distancing technique designed to avoid dirtying your hands in the messy muck which is real life. The Full Super-Moon in Virgo on February 19th gifts us with discernment and the power of wise discrimination: the ability to choose that which is useful, good, or valuable, and put aside that which no longer serves. The second half of February turns the spotlight from exterior to interior. The angels of our better selves lift their lamps and hold our hands as we navigate the corridors of our identities. This field trip to these hidden recesses is really a rescue mission: extracting the gold of self-awareness from the dross of the unconscious and instinctual. You may not know exactly what you’re looking for, but trust that you’ll recognize it when you see it. It looks exactly like actual authenticity.
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Your red-hot vitality streak continues through midFebruary, when your passionate push for primacy focuses on finances and your material world. Intense emotions peak February 8–10, possibly flipping the spotlight of your romantic intentions on a completely unexpected object of affection by Valentine’s Day. Excess restless energy begs for a vigorous expression—and no, head-butting others during online arguments does not count as “exercise.” Surprises headed your way this month may include new/old friends and lovers, offers of exotic or unusual workrelated gigs, and the revival of a meaningful creative outlet you may have prematurely dismissed as merely a “hobby.”
TAURUS (April 19–May 20)
Action-hero Mars enters romantic, sensual Taurus on Valentine’s Day, just in time for you to initiate that grand gesture you’ve been contemplating—and not only in the arena of love, but in your professional life as well. Ask for his/her hand or ask for a promotion or a raise: chances are the answer will be “yes” on all counts. Others see you now as stable, reliable, and a solid bet. This does not mean boring, but it does mean your presence can act as a quick, fast-acting antidote to environments where an all-pervading sense of chaos reigns. Know your worth!
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This month you experience existential angst in the form of being faced with too many options of where best to invest your prodigious curiosity and mental energy. More than any other sign, Gemini resents having a mere 24-hour day. Calm the cacophony of competing choices by focusing on what opens your heart rather than what merely stimulates your inquisitive intelligence. Insight and discernment accompany the Full Supermoon in Virgo on February 19. If you’ve harbored a secret fear of dilettantism, embark on an in-depth research project or learning opportunity now and reap the rewards of selfconfidence and respect that accompany expertise.
CANCER (June 21–July 22)
You’ve played parent to the emotional orphans in your orbit for so long that it shouldn’t surprise you to feel taken for granted— and yet it still does. Are Takers who can’t at least say “thank you” to the Givers worth the investment? Your altruism isn’t motivated by accolades, but neither is it nurtured by ingratitude. Try saying “no” and see how fantastic it feels! Protect your sensitive Inner Child from negative naysayers February 15–16. Freedom from undeserved guilt liberates you to focus on those who deserve your attention: starting with yourself. Redistribution of emotional wealth begins at home!
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February is the month you’re most likely to rebel against routine, even it it’s a routine you yourself invented and implemented. Feeling a little claustrophobic and hemmed-in by chains of your own making, you’re tempted to bust through the status-quo via a dramatic, shocking, jaw-dropping revelation. Think twice before burning bridges; you may not want to initiate the nuclear option just yet. Consider negotiations rather than a scorched-earth policy February 17–18. It’s possible to get what you want (a change of pace and some gosh-darned head space) without having to raze the proverbial farm and sow every acre with salt.
VIRGO (August 23–September 23)
Super Full Moon in Virgo February 19 enhances your analytic superpowers regarding love, intimacy, and partnership. In one pocket you’ve been collecting the list of relationship must-haves, in the other pocket the must-nots. Now’s the time to dump the pros and cons out on the table, catalogue and weigh them one against another, and come up with a final score. Emotional procrastination has already drained too much of your time and energy. If “great,” “pretty, pretty good,” and “good enough” outweighs “meh” and “not-so-great,” time to break up with your own chronic ambivalence and put your whole heart into intimacy.
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Your normally diplomatic and demure self is feeling unusually feisty and assertive this month, and much too impatient to stage long, drawn-out enticement scenarios. Liberate yourself from senseless shame by directly confronting your own desires, even if they’re not “nice.” The emotional balance you crave is within reach February 21–22 if you’re able to accept loving and being loved “warts and all.” Idealistic Librans are often recovering perfectionists. This is your time to learn how to own your human needs as healthy and legitimate, and your gloriously imperfect and perfectly human self as worthy to have those needs met.
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If words were money, you’d be rolling in a pile of cash right now. So much to say and so little time! You’re just as noisy inside as you are outside during February, the volume on your internal dialogue is set at 11 and while discretion may be the better part of valor, you just have so much A) eternal truth, B) exclusive information, C) breaking news, or D) all of the above to keep to yourself. Despite the nonstop data download your brain is receiving right now, remember to keep your friends close and your secrets closer February 25–27.
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Your love-language normally tends toward receiving gifts and praise, but you’re about to start speaking in tongues as you find yourself filled with the spirit of a truly honest adoration. You literally won’t understand you own heart’s inchoate babblings as they overflow with the kind of devotion you haven’t experienced since earliest childhood, perhaps reminiscent of the pure affection and wholehearted loyalty you felt for a beloved pet or a cherished sibling. Now is not the time to analyze! Resist withdrawal from intimacy February 1–2 and the 28th. Give yourself whole-heartedly even though it’s scary, and miracles of connectivity will happen.
AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19)
The Aquarian New Moon on February 4 inspires your legendary humanitarian instincts, prompting you to consider an even wider circle of your fellow Earthlings as “family.” Bringing home strays has always been your thing; now your expanded search for the misunderstood, unappreciated and neglected includes types far outside your already broad-spectrum social set. This net-casting upon the sea of humanity mirrors your own inner struggle to balance need for community with your Aquarian Prime Directive: the cultivation of your own unique individuality. Welcoming “different” others helps you to integrate the disparate yet fascinating components of your own internal diversity.
PISCES (February 19–March 20)
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Aba’s Falafel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Gunk Haus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Osaka Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Adams Fairacre Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Harney & Sons Fine Teas . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Pamela’s on the Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Adelphi University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Hawthorne Valley Association . . . . . . . . . 16
Peekskill Coffee House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Amadeus Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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Aqua Jet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
High Meadow School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Phoenicia Diner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The Art Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 51
Poughkeepsie Day School . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Ashokan Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Holistic Natural Medicine: Integrative Healing Arts . . . . . . . . . . 39
Atlantic Custom Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Hollenbeck Pest Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Primrose Hill School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Horses For A Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Red Hook Curry House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Bardavon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Hotchkiss School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Regal Bag Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Hudson Highlands Nature Museum . . . . . . . 48
Rhinebeck Kitchen & Bath . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Bistro To Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Hudson Hills Montessori School . . . . . . . . 48
The River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Black Rock Forest Consortium . . . . . . . . . 48
Hudson River Housing . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 46
Rock Da Casbah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Bodhi Spa, Yoga, & Salon . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Hudson Trailer Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Rocket Number Nine Records . . . . . . . . . 72
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Hudson Valley 5 Rhythms . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Roost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Hudson Valley Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . 16, 54
Rosendale Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Cabinet Designers, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Hummingbird Jewelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art . . . . . . . . . 84
Cafe Mio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Jack’s Meats & Deli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Schatzi’s New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Camp Hillcroft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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Schatzi’s Poughkeepsie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Jagerberg Beer Hall and Tavern . . . . . . . . 23
Schneider’s Jewelers, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Catskill Art & Office Supply . . . . . . . . . . . 70
John A. Alvarez and Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Stamell String Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Catskill Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
John Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Stewart House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Catskill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
JTR Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Storm King School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chateau Hathorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center . . . . .
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Kary Broffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
SUNY New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Katie Bull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Tiki Temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Conscious Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Kingston Ceramics Studio . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Time and Space Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Crisp Architects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Kingston Consignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Transcend Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Darkside Records & Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Kol Hai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Transpersonal Acupuncture . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Daryls House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
La Deliziosa Italian Pastry Shoppe . . . . . . . 44
Tuthilltown Spirits, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Dental Office of Drs. Jeffrey & Maureen Viglielmo . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Lambs Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Ulster County Office of Economic Development . . . . . . . . . 2
Door 15 at the Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Dr. Ari Rosen, D.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Livingston Street Early Childhood Community . . . . . . . . . . 48
Upstate Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Dreaming Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Liza Phillips Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Vassar College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Element Interiors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts . . 54
Villa Vosilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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Lush Eco-Salon & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
WAMC, The Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Exit Nineteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Maggie’s Krooked Cafe & Juice Bar . . . . . . 23
Warren Kitchen & Cutlery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Facets of Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Manitou School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Warwick Valley Olive Oil Company . . . . . . . 91
Falcon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Mark Gruber Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
WDST, Radio Woodstock . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Feast at Round Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Megabrain Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Wildfire Grill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Fionn Reilly Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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Frost Valley YMCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Mod66 Salon & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Win Morrison Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 35
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Poughkeepsie Library Friends’ Bookstore . . . 46
Unison Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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Woodstock Artists Association & Museum . . . 84
Glenn’s Wood Sheds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Mother Earth’s Storehouse . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Woodstock Bookfest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
The Graham & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Nagele, Knowles & Associates . . . . . . . . . 78
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Green Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
North Plank Road Tavern . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
YMCA of Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Green Light Drones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Organization Ink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Yoga on Duck Pond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
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Maurice “Pops” Peterson is an artist, performer, and writer whose photos and prints have been featured in solo exhibitions at Sohn Fine Arts and Lauren Clark Fine Art, as well as group exhibitions in the Berkshires and New York City. (He is also owner, with his husband Mark Johnson, of Seven Salon Spa in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.) He is best known for his work on the theme of Civil Rights and freedom, which has received extensive media coverage. In 2015, he debuted his Reinventing Rockwell series, which reimagines the art of Norman Rockwell to reflect the realities and diversity of contemporary America. On February 3, Peterson will talk about his Reinventing Rockwell paintings at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center as part of its Conversations with Neighbors series. Admission is $20 general admission, $15 for members, and $10 students. Spencertownacademy.org.
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Our heart is with yours. Here. Westchester Medical Center Health Network, home to the Heart & Vascular Institute, is the largest multi-specialty cardiovascular practice in the Hudson Valley. Now, you have local access to exceptional care for a full spectrum of heartrelated conditions at MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie and HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston. Plus, a seamless connection to advanced cardiovascular services at WMCHealth’s flagship Westchester Medical Center.
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For questions or appointments, please call MidHudson Regional Hospital at 845-483-5720, HealthAlliance Hospital at 845-210-5600, or visit WMCHealth.org/Heart.
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Westchester Medical Center Health Network includes: WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER I MARIA FARERI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL I BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER MIDHUDSON REGIONAL HOSPITAL I GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL I BON SECOURS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ST. ANTHONY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL I HEALTHALLIANCE HOSPITAL: BROADWAY CAMPUS HEALTHALLIANCE HOSPITAL: MARY’S AVENUE CAMPUS I MARGARETVILLE HOSPITAL
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“TAKE ME TO VASSAR.” Introducing the Movement Disorders Program. Led by Dr. Michael Rezak, a renowned neurologist specializing in movement disorders, it’s the only program in the Mid-Hudson Valley and northwestern Connecticut to offer Deep Brain Stimulation to control the tremors associated with Parkinson’s and related diseases. Don’t leave it to chance. Make it a choice. Find out more at TakeMeToVassar.org