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Gallery listings plus highlights from regional exhibitions, including “Shake Up the Room” at September Gallery in Hudson and Alison Eriksen’s “Works in Wire” at Historical Society of Woodstock.

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DEPARTMENTS 6 On the Cover: Annika Tucksmith The Chatham native talks about how the tricks of time influence her work.

8 Esteemed Reader Jason Stern on how the pen is mightier than the sword.

9 Editor’s Note Brian K. Mahoney struggles to embrace the aging process.

HIGH SOCIETY 12 Changes on High In late March, New York legalized marijuana. We explain the top takeaways from the legislation, from social equity provisions to (yes!) home delivery. This coverage kicks off a new cannabis-focused vertical, High Society. Scan the QR code at the end of the article to subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

FOOD & DRINK 14 State of Craft Beverage Feast & Floret, a farm-to-table Italian-inspired fine-dining restaurant, takes over the former Fish & Game location in Hudson.

19 Hudson Valley Craft Beverage Tour An illustrated guide to where local libations are created.

HOME 22 Home Is Where the Art Is Anat Shiftan and Jamie Bennett tour their 1960s Cape Cod down to its studs to create an ideal live/work residence for two working artists.

HEALTH & WELLNESS 33 Finding Hope for Long COVID A year out from COVID-19’s first wave, the world is having a lightbulb moment: Long COVID is real and fast becoming a health crisis of its own.

EDUCATION 38 Swept Downstream High school student Sophie Frank’s first-person account of a remote year.

COMMUNITY PAGES 42 Post-Boom Town: Beacon Beacon kicked off an era of gentrification. Now it’s trying to lead the region out of it.

ARTS 54 Music Album reviews of Lisbon Solo by Fred Longberg-Holm; Room to Land by Mike Hotter; and the artists’ compilation Save the Mountain. Plus listening recommendations from Gwen Laster in Sound Check.

55 Books Jane Kinney Denning reviews Eva and Eve by Julie Metz. . Plus short reviews of Maya Van Der Meer’s Kuan Yin, Aileen Weintraub’s We Got Game, Larry Beinhart’s Zombie Pharm, Katrina Rodabaugh’s Make Thrift Mend, and Tracey Medeiros’s The Art of Cooking with Cannabis.

57 Poetry Poems by Jerrice J. Baptiste, Thomas Belton, Elena Botts, Hannah Brooks, Steve Clark, Esther Cohen, Milton P. Erlich, Thomas Festa, John Grey, William J. Joel, Siobhan McBride, Guna Moran, Samantha Spoto, and Diane Webster. Edited by Philip X Levine.

HOROSCOPES 68 Seismic Shifts and Winds of Change Lorelai Kude looks at the stars for May and finds that something’s got to give between the conservative need for stability and the radical desire for freedom.

PARTING SHOT 72 “I/We Still Count (Voices From Nursing Homes)” Margery Schab’s photographs of residents at long-term care facilities.

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Clockwise from top left: Phantom Limb; Secret Song; The Afternoon

Annika Tucksmith, Phantom Limb (detail) For centuries artists have flocked to the Hudson River Valley, attracted by its awe-inspiring views and serene landscapes. Annika Tucksmith, a painter who was raised in Chatham, studied art at Connecticut College, and then found herself drawn back home for the same reasons that inspired her artistic predecessors. “The landscape here has its own character,” Tucksmith says. “As an artist, it’s wonderful to be working and living in this area. If I feel blocked with a painting, I can go for a walk and within a mile or two I’ve got inspiration for another one.” Tucksmith’s work represents the youthful rites of passage of a rural childhood. “My paintings aim to capture the experience of coming of age in the Hudson Valley and express the inextricable relationship between the land and the kids who grow up in it,” she says. There is an element of risk in Tucksmith’s images, which often feature children playing at twilight. “When you look at how kids play and explore, there’s this kind of duel between danger and delight. Look at fire—it’s warm, inviting,

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it’s mesmerizing. But it’s also chaotic and totally capable of real danger. I like examining that line,” she says. “When it’s nighttime, are we drawn to the comfort of the light in the darkness, or the thrill of what could be out there.” Her work has a narrative quality with a slightly surrealistic edge that balances the familiar and the unknown. Some scenes get stranger as evening turns to night—“a time when realism seems to bend a bit anyway,” she says. The viewer sees the flickering eyes of roadside deer caught in headlights, telephone poles dissolving into darkness, youth gathered in seemingly ritualistic circles. A portrait of a freckle-faced boy is rendered almost supernatural by what is presumably a large bonfire burning in the background. Tucksmith purposefully leaves in elements of mystery to arresting effect. She also draws inspiration from magical realist authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Haruki Murakami. “I love how they play with the idea of time thinning, slowing down, and going in circles,” she says. “Growing up in Chatham,

where many of the last names in the village are the same last names as 200 years ago, it feels like time likes to play tricks.” Painting provides Tucksmith with a way to express the ineffable, giving her work a wide appeal. “I put into painting what I don’t know how to put into words. Images of youth resonate with people. They remember being outside, being around a fire, being outdoors, going exploring,” she says. Like the Hudson Valley’s most famous and iconic storyteller, Washington Irving, who captured similar uncanny qualities of the area in “Rip Van Winkle,” Tucksmith perpetuates a regional heritage. “I think there’s an interesting sort of undercurrent of the Hudson Valley that people understand and can recognize. That’s my hope. I love being part of the tradition of artists here,” she says. Portfolio: Annikatucksmith.com —Michael Cobb

EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney brian.mahoney@chronogram.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR David C. Perry david.perry@chronogram.com DIGITAL EDITOR Marie Doyon marie.doyon@chronogram.com ARTS EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Wendy Kagan health@chronogram.com HOME EDITOR Mary Angeles Armstrong home@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip X Levine poetry@chronogram.com CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Anne Pyburn Craig apcraig@chronogram.com CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Phillip Pantuso phillip.pantuso@chronogram.com

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Once, in the early days of Chronogram, a group of schoolchildren made a tour of our office to learn about the work of publishing a magazine. The editor described how he works with writers, the art director talked about assigning illustrations and photography, and a sales person told the children about canvassing local business owners to place advertising. When it was my turn to address the cohort of fidgeting preadolescents, I had nothing in mind to tell them about the role of publisher. I followed the advice of one of my teachers who had told me, “If you don’t have anything to say open your mouth and see what comes out.” “Did you ever hear the expression ‘The pen is mightier than the sword?’” I asked them. None of them had heard it. I told them the statement has appeared in myriad formulations through recorded time including by Euripedes as “the tongue is mightier than the blade,” and Shakespeare, who wrote with august wit in “Hamlet”: “many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills.” I could see I was beginning to lose the interest of the group of students, and invited them to consider their own experience. What occurs to you, I asked them, before you do something: writing in a notebook, brushing your teeth, petting your dog, anything. They looked at me blankly, and finally one child, a girl, smaller than the rest, with shiny brown curls and big eyes spoke suddenly, as though receiving a jolt of electricity. “A thought!” she said. Right, I responded, pausing to let it sink in. Thoughts are the cause of everything you see, everything you do, every act, and everything created or built by human beings. Everything begins with a thought or an image. Everything human beings manifest begins with an idea. By this time, I could see that I had the attention of most of the students. Their minds were working this over, and the realization of the magnitude of the power of ideas was dawning in them. I was struck by the correlative action of this particular idea—the idea of ideas—as a demonstration of the power of ideas overall. In particular, the impact on the psyches of the children as the idea landed and took root in their minds. The realization was instantaneous and carried with it a packet of energy that lit their young faces. I saw I could go a step further. “Can you see ideas?” I asked them. They all agreed they could not. So, I continued: Ideas are invisible and yet they are the cause of everything we do, and everything everyone does. In this way, the invisible is the cause of the visible, apparent world. Which is more real, I asked them, the invisible world of ideas or their visible results? At this point, we were all confused. I myself didn’t know what I was talking about, as I had just opened my mouth to see what would come out, but then I found that what I was saying made sense. All together, we realized that contrary to appearances, the invisible world of ideas has greater substance and power, in a word, more reality than the outer world of objects, behaviors, and appearances. Here’s the kicker, I found myself saying, everything you think of as yourself, your name, thoughts, tastes and preferences, your awareness— your whole inner life and the idea of who you are—is invisible to everyone else, and so is everyone else’s inner life invisible to you. From the ordinary standpoint, none of that even exists. You don’t exist. But of course you know you do exist, so the ordinary view needs revision. By then it was apparent I was losing my audience, so I cut to the conclusion. “So you see, this is what is meant by the saying ‘the pen is mightier than the sword,’ and this is what publishing is all about.”

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by Brian K. Mahoney

Racing Stripes

ile this under: Normal signs of aging that seem shocking when they happen to you. Hustling out the door the other morning—running behind, always running behind—I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. The kind of fleeting peripheral glance (really no more than a flash of light)—it enters the cornea, passes through the pupil, hits the lens, then on through the vitreous humor to the retina before the optic nerve carries the signal to the brain’s visual cortex to turn signal into vision— that’s easily ignored. But not this flash of light. This flash of light clearly showed wide stripes of gray hair streaming out from under my baseball cap. The contrast of the gray (closer to white than gray if I’m honest) with the jet black cap made it all the more striking—silvery swooshes like twin Sontag racing stripes above my ears. I turned to face myself in the mirror. It was all true. No optic nerve malfunction, no strokeinduced occipital lobe damage to blame. Just a 50-year-old1 man going gray. Nothing special to see here. Horrifying intimations of mortality aside, I was also genuinely surprised that I hadn’t noticed. Had I just gone gray overnight after seeing a ghost in my sleep or some other nocturnal trauma? Turns out no, as various friends and colleagues later attested—I have been graying faster than I thought. And one “friend” even volunteered that my bald spot was, well, not as small as it seemed and that applications of sunscreen to the top of my head were recommended for when I might be outside. Trying to position the baseball cap in such a way that it didn’t look like the black-and-white tiled floor of a Parisian bistro was hopeless, so I took it off and stepped into the morning, the dogs patiently waiting on the porch for their dawn walk at the park. When we got to the park, I let the dogs off leash to investigate olfactory mysteries and raced to catch up with the rest of our dog-walking group. Right as I did, I felt an intense itch at the small of my back. Going to scratch it, I felt a tick. A tick quite firmly attached to my skin. Without a thought, I ripped it out and looked at the tiny creature caught between my thumb

1. It’s not all bad being 50. I was able to jump the vaccine line to get my doses before all the young whippersnappers, and I started receiving the AARP Bulletin, which contains informative articles like “Olive Oil: Your Pantry’s Secret to Longer Life,” “How Do Robocalls Work?” and “How to Fight Age Discrimination in the Workplace.” A recent favorite: “11 Ways to Look Better in Sunglasses,” which contained this bracing nugget of humility: “No one’s face at 50 is really a square, heart or round shape; in fact, our faces become more asymmetrical with age. Hairlines

and index finger as it wriggled its mouth2 at me. I could see its mouth moving, fast and angrily, like a prisoner yelling final slurs as he’s led to the guillotine. “Ewwww,” I said and dropped the tick and hopped around from leg to leg for a minute in revulsion and anxiety. Despite the fact that I’ve picked more ticks than I’ve dared to count off myself3 and our dogs over the years ago—Shazam had a rough bout of Anaplasmosis a few years—I’ve never really gotten used to them. They represent a connection to nature’s untameable biological weaponry that’s existentially frightening—like COVID. And I’ve known a handful of people who’ve suffered long bouts of debilitating Lyme disease, which is as difficult to diagnose as it is to treat. Then I remembered that you’re supposed to keep the tick and bring it to the doctor with you. So I squatted down and started looking for a bug an-eighth-of-an-inch long on the pockmarked road surface. Wendy, one of our dog-walking group, came over and asked me if I was hurt, hunched over as I was, one hand furiously scratching the tiny hole in my back to scrape the Lyme disease out, the other steadying me against the ground while I scanned the ground— fruitlessly—for the tick. “I just pulled a tick out of my back and I dropped it and I’m trying to find it,” I said. “Ewwww,” Wendy said, and walked away. I got home and told Lee Anne about the tick. She told me to take off my shirt so she could have a look. “Ewwww,” she said. She poked and prodded and probed and took a few photos of the raw, red hole in my back and sent them to me so I could see for myself 4. I saw for myself. “Ewwww,” I said. It would get stranger, however. At Lee Anne’s urging, I went to set up an appointment with my doctor. I googled his name, got the number, called the office, and had a thoroughly disconcerting encounter, recapped below, with the receptionist. It should be noted that I had only seen this doctor once, on December 26, 2019, when I went in for a new patient physical. A lovely guy, the doc looked at my blood test results and told me that I should lose weight and drink less— standard medical advice. I shook his hand and

said I’d see him in a year, thinner and radiant with sobriety. But I never scheduled another physical—we were in the midst of a pandemic a year later. So here I was, almost 18 months out from my sole visit with this doctor, looking to get checked out. The Disconcerting Encounter Me: Hello! Brian Mahoney here. I’m a patient of Dr. M and I’d like to make an appointment. Receptionist: What seems to be the trouble? Me: I just pulled an embedded tick out of my precious back-flesh and I have mounting anxiety about the various tick-borne illnesses that are possibly brewing inside me. Receptionist: Gotcha. What’s your date of birth? Me: [Redacted] Receptionist: Hmmm. We don’t seem to have you in our system. Me: Well, I was only there once. Perhaps it was lost somehow. Receptionist: What’s your date of birth again? Me: [Redacted] Receptionist: Hang on one moment. I’m going to put you on hold. [Time passes. I wonder what I’ll cook for dinner.] Receptionist: Hi, Brian? We have no record of you being a patient of Dr. M. Me: That can’t be. I saw him at his Kingston office the day after Christmas in 2019. He fatshamed me. I remember that part quite clearly. Receptionist: Dr. M’s never had a Kingston office. Me: Are you sure? Receptionist: Very sure, sir. Me: [Hangs up.] This conversation leaves me with two options: Either Dr. M’s office is gaslighting me or I just need to embrace my early senility. After some frantic searching, it turns out that I am in fact not a patient of Dr. M. My doc is Dr. E., who does indeed practice in Kingston and did see me 18 months ago. My confusion around the name stemmed from an attempt (denied) to become a patient of Dr. M and having to fall back to Dr E. Early senility, gray hair to boot, is now definitely an option.

recede, ears and noses continue to grow, lips sometimes flatten or thin and jawlines can look droopy. The right sunglasses shape should give your face back some definition, lift your features, and create a more balanced look while diverting attention away from whatever you’d like to ignore.”

looks like a hand with three hooked fingers. The hooks dig in and wriggle into the skin. Then these ‘hands’ bend in unison to perform approximately half-a-dozen breaststrokes that pull skin out of the way so the tick can push in a long stubby mouth part called the hypostome.” Hypostome = blood straw.

2. “Ticks have a lovely, evolved mouth,” biologist Kerry Padgett complimented the parasitic arachnids in a 2018 piece on NPR. In fact, a tick’s lovely mouth is so evolved, it’s covered in hooks. NPR science correspondent Gabriela Quiros explains: “A tick digs in using two sets of hooks. Each set

3. The first person to disgorge a tick from me was my father. I was probably 10 or 11 at the time. After returning home from a Boy Scout camping trip, I felt a creepy-crawly on me and went running to dear old Dad, who found three ticks embedded in my lower abdomen. My father, who would go on to

a distinguished career as a public health official, was not yet established in that field. It would be field surgery nonetheless. He told me he was going to remove the ticks, but that he needed me to go fetch the tweezers— and Mom’s cigarettes. Suffice to say he got the ticks out. I don’t know if holding a lit cigarette up to a child’s tender skin was endorsed by the AMA in the early `80s. 4. Word to the wise: Delete all the photos on your phone of bites, scratches, cuts, bruises, and skin irruptions before someone else finds them while scanning the hundreds of cute dog photos you’re making them look at. 5/21 CHRONOGRAM 11

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New York State Legalizes Marijuana By Phillip Pantuso

n Wednesday, March 31, New York officially became the 15th state to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults. It’s been a long time coming. The bill that Governor Andrew Cuomo signed that day—the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, or MRTA—was originally introduced by Senator Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) in 2013, and had been reintroduced every session since by Krueger and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes (D-Buffalo), picking up cosponsors and popular support every year. It seemed like legalization might get over the hump in 2019, but complex demands from different reformist factions, a lack of commitment to community reinvestment by Cuomo, and vocal opposition by police unions and out-of-state groups ultimately doomed the effort. Meanwhile, a legalization wave swept the country; in the last three months alone, New Jersey, Virginia, and New Mexico have also legalized weed. New Jersey’s effort, in particular, was a likely catalyst for Albany: After seeing Massachusetts rake in pot revenue for the past two-and-a-half years, New York must have felt a twitch after another neighboring state created a recreational market. The budget shortfalls caused by the pandemic were another motivating factor. Tax collection from New York’s cannabis program is projected to reach $350 million annually, with the potential to create up to 60,000 jobs across the state. There are two levels of taxation: Retail products are subject to a 9-percent state tax and a 4-percent local tax, which will be split between counties (1 percent) 12 CHRONOGRAM 5/21

and municipalities (3 percent). Wholesale cannabis transactions between growers and distributors, on the other hand, are taxed based on the amount of THC. This “potency tax,” which was pushed by Cuomo, is the first of its kind for cannabis in the US, and is similar to how the state taxes alcohol. Finally, for reasons too numerous to get into here, Governor Cuomo had less leverage this year than at any point in his governorship. Lawmakers have expressed surprise at how willing to compromise the famously inflexible Cuomo was in order to get the bill over the finish line. Worth the Wait The wait seems to have been worth it, at least as far as crafting a fair, inclusive, well-rounded law is concerned. New York’s legislation is being held up as a model in several areas. Most coverage has highlighted its restorative justice provisions. The MRTA expunges past convictions for behavior that is now legal; bars police from citing the smell of cannabis to justify vehicle searches; and directs tax revenues to a community reinvestment fund, drug treatment, and public education programs. The law also will give licensing incentives to social equity applicants, though the exact mechanics have yet to be determined. “The MRTA is an outright victory for the communities hit hardest by the failed war on drugs,” Melissa Moore, the New York State Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, said in a statement. “By placing community reinvestment, social equity, and justice front and center, this law is the new gold standard for reform efforts nationwide.”

The law was also a win for New York’s meager medical marijuana industry, which had lobbied aggressively for looser restrictions. Effective immediately, doctors now have more discretion to prescribe cannabis to patients—including flower products—and patients can receive up to a 60-day supply, double the previous limit. What’s more, medical marijuana companies can enter the recreational market more quickly, and will be permitted to be vertically integrated from seed to sale—which was a requirement for the original medical marijuana bill, but is largely barred for recreational companies under the MRTA for being too high a barrier to entry. The carveout will give medical companies that enter the recreational market a competitive advantage. Reporting to a Higher Power Many of the actual regulatory and licensing details for the recreational market will be hammered out by a newly created state Office of Cannabis Management and a five-member Cannabis Control Board. (The OCM will also take over responsibility for medical industry oversight from the Department of Health.) But a few aspects of the MRTA went into effect immediately: Adults 21 or older can now possess up to three ounces of cannabis flower or up to 24 grams of concentrated forms of cannabis, such as oil. New Yorkers are allowed to publicly consume marijuana anyplace where smoking tobacco is allowed, a first in the US—though localities are allowed to impose restrictions of their own, and smoking weed remains banned in schools, workplaces, and vehicles. Home cultivation of marijuana will be

permitted, but remains illegal until 18 months after the first sale of recreational cannabis at a dispensary, which is probably about a year away. Circle August 2023 in your calendar for growing your own weed at home. You can grow up to 12 plants per household (six if you’re an individual), indoors or outdoors. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a DC-based nonprofit organization that has advocated for marijuana reform since 1970, gave the MRTA an A−. (Compare that to the C− that NORML gave Governor Cuomo’s competing proposal, the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act.) And that was before last-minute changes to make the bill friendlier for farmers—which is good news for the agricultural regions of upstate New York.

cap on how much cannabis they can grow, but they will also be allowed to cultivate and sell their products on site, similar to how the state’s farm brewery and farm winery licenses work. They also provide an entry for farmers who can’t afford the full license to participate in the green rush. “That’s something you can set up, say, as a farmer who is doing tomatoes, you have an extra greenhouse, and you want to take a shot at cannabis,” says Jason Minard, in-house counsel for Hempire State Growers. “It’s going to create a more level playing field. The state is gonna see a lot of micro-business applications.” Sustainability is also incentivized by a provision that directs the Cannabis Control Board to prioritize environmentally friendly practices when granting licenses. That may

Why This Law Is Good for Small Farmers Two provisions negotiated into the MRTA should prove particularly beneficial to small farmers. The first permits hemp flower to be sold in retail stores, which was not included in earlier iterations of the legislation. Flower is the easiest entry point into the market for small farmers, many of whom don’t have processing systems, and many hemp farmers were growing hemp with the expectation that flower would be part of a legal recreational market. State Senator Michelle Hinchey (D-Saugerties), the chair of the agriculture committee, pushed hard for the hemp flower provision, and she credits Senator Krueger and the conference with being receptive to changes in the language. “I’m a freshman senator, and I was still able to come in and be at the table with these points that we recognize needed to be changed, both as it pertains to the language around small farmers and the agriculture community, and recognizing that this provision was not in it,” Hinchey says. “They wanted to make the best bill possible.” Another late tweak concerned the categorization of farmers who would be eligible for special licenses. The Cannabis Control Board will establish a social equity plan with a goal of issuing 50 percent of licenses to social equity applicants, including those harmed by the war on drugs, low-income folks, minority- and women-owned businesses, disabled veterans, and “distressed farmers.” There is a very specific definition of “distressed farmer,” but basically it is a category of farmer who has suffered from low commodity prices, loss of land, and/or operating losses, and works a small farm as defined by the Department of Agriculture. The category is broader than what was previously included in the bill, and it “opens the door for more people to become [cannabis] farmers in not only in the Hudson Valley, but throughout the state, because the definition has expanded to include members of groups that have been historically underrepresented in farm ownership,” says Donna Burns, president of the board of the NY Small Farm Alliance of Cannabis Growers. Hinchey says the first round of language “would have been actually detrimental to our small farmers.” The MRTA also encourages small-scale production with the inclusion of a microbusiness license. These licensees will have a lower

“To the extent we’re starting a new industry based around plants, cannabis could be the model for how all crops should be grown.” —Donna Burns, NY Small Farm Alliance of Cannabis Growers functionally benefit small farmers who already use sustainable practices, compared to Big Cannabis corporations whose goal is simply to produce as much product as possible. It also aligns with the state’s overarching climate goals. “That’s new, and it reflects the understanding that cannabis cannot only be grown without adverse impacts on the environment, but that growing it outdoors, under the sun, sequesters carbon and actually helps reverse climate change,” Burns says. “To the extent we’re starting a new industry based around plants, cannabis could be the model for how all crops should be grown.” The actual mechanics of how New York’s recreational marijuana industry will operate will be determined in the coming months by the OCM and Cannabis Control Board. The law really just sets out guidelines and a framework. “We have a 130-page small-print bill and it’s just the beginning,” says Minard. “The devil really is in the details.” But it’s clear that the state’s priorities as expressed in the MRTA are in the right place, and there’s optimism on all fronts that New York’s cannabis industry could help the environment, redress historical injustices, boost the economy, regenerate upstate communities, and provide public health and scientific research opportunities. Time to tune in.

Top Legalization Takeaways The MRTA creates separate licenses for cannabis farmers, distributors, processors, product makers, delivery, dispensaries, and retail. Only medical marijuana companies and microbusinesses can be vertically integrated from seed to sale. The bill creates a state Office of Cannabis Management, overseen by a five-member Cannabis Control Board. Three members will be chosen by Governor Cuomo, and one each by the state Assembly and Senate. Anyone over age 21 can now smoke, ingest, or otherwise consume cannabis anywhere tobacco is permitted, and will be able to purchase products from licensed retailers. You can also grow up to six plants at home 18 months after recreational sales begin. According to experts, the first dispensaries are likely to open in New York State in 2022. Once dispensaries are up and running, cannabis businesses can make home deliveries from retail locations. Forty percent of revenue is set aside for a new fund for social and economic equity programs. Another 40 percent goes toward state education, and the remaining 20 percent goes toward drug education programs. Half of all licenses will be given to social equity applicants: those harmed by the war on drugs, low-income folks, minority- and women-owned businesses, disabled veterans, and distressed farmers. All prior convictions for marijuanarelated activity that is now legal will be expunged. Delivery will be allowed in municipalities that allow it.

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DESTINATION DRINKING Craft Beverage Producers Turn to Hospitality By Jennifer Brizzi

Coppersea Distilling’s wide-open outdoor farm space in New Paltz is a pandemic-perfect craft beverage hangout. Photo by Meghan Spiro

bundant in natural resources, once a vital thoroughfare of trade and travel, the Hudson Valley has long been a tourism destination, though the nature of its draw has evolved over time. In the 19th and early 20th century, it was a pastoral refuge for the wealthy and powerful, who built their estates along the river. In the early 1900s, creatives flocked to arts colonies to be kissed by the muse of nature. The Borscht Belt resorts fostered a culture of luxurious summer recreation and a safe haven from anti-Semitism. In the second half of the 20th century, the rocky crags, thick forests, and winding waterways sang out to hikers, bikers, and rock climbers, who travelled from all along the East Coast to summit the peaks, swing from the ledges, and swim in the lakes. Now the amenities of the region’s cities and towns have shifted again, as a new era of economic and cultural revitalization sweeps the area like a matchbox caught fire, enticing visitors who might never take a hike or bike a rail trail. COVID has accelerated the urban exodus that started slowly decades ago. And in the past 10 years, the rise of the New York State’s craft beverage industry has become an entirely new reason to visit the Hudson Valley. Thanks in large part to Cuomo’s industry-friendly policies and economic incentives, the state is now one of the largest craft beverage producers in the country. In the US, New York ranks first for the number of hard cider producers, second in 14 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 5/21

craft distillers, third in breweries, and fourth in wineries, for a combined annual economic impact of over $15 billion. (Editor’s Note: Chronogram’s coverage area—roughly north of Westchester to south of Albany—contains over 150 craft beverage producers alone. Our Hudson Valley Craft Beverage Tour map on page 20 is your comprehensive guide to all the local producers.) Stand-Alone Outings The craft beverage industry’s high profile is not lost on the producers, who are capitalizing on the wave of interest and tourism dollars to transform their production facilities into cultural hotspots. A trip to the local brewery or distillery has become a stand-alone weekend outing. If you want evidence of craft-brewery-ascultural-destination, look no further than Arrowood Farms in Accord. On every nice day from April through November the lawn is a maze of picnic blankets and strollers, leashed dogs, teetering toddlers, and canoodling couples. In the past three years Arrowood’s operation— and following—has steadily grown. In 2019, they inaugurated their outdoor stage with a summer concert series that brought big names like Guster, the Midnight Ramble Band, and Real Estate, and debuted their plein-air pavilion with an outdoor bar, bathrooms, and covered seating. Then, over the 2019-2020 winter, the brewery closed to the public for renovations and

expansion, including remodeling the kitchen and taproom and building out a new brewery and distillery that would allow them to increase their brewing capacity by 400 percent and launch their distilling operation. Despite the unknowns of the pandemic spring, the brewery reopened last year for outdoor service on Memorial Day weekend—its vast lawns and outdoor bar already perfectly adapted to COVID regulations. July 1 marked the opening of the Apiary—the onsite restaurant, serving up an elevated take on classic bar food. And in October, the distillery released its first small-batch, unrefined New York State spirits for sale on-farm. They launched with vodka and gin, distilled onsite with local ingredients and no added enzymes, followed a few months later by a single-barrel bourbon. Even on chillier days, people can be seen in repose on the many hammocks, playing a round of cornhole in the hopyard. Kids honk at the geese in the pond. With food, fresh air, beer, and, now, spirits, Arrowood has something for everyone. It is both a trendy destination for weekenders and a fixture in the regular rotation of locals. The brewery is a weekend plan. Across the street at Westwind Orchard, the vibe is much the same, though cider is the central focus. Trendy young families sprawl across the lawn, surrounded by a complex of black-painted farm buildings that includes a gift shop and market, restaurant, and brewing facility. Here,

you can order wood-fired pizza and authentic Italian fare alongside your small-batch, unfiltered, bottle-conditioned cider. Come fall, pick-yourown apples and raspberries. Changing Demographics “I’ve noticed more young couples with children, more affluent people, more educated consumers who know what they are looking for as far as wine goes,” says Barry Milea, of the changing clientele at his winery Milea Estate Vineyard in Staatsburg. On 98 pastoral acres in Dutchess County, Milea, his production manager Ed Evans, and winemaker Bruce Tripp are ostensibly growing grapes and making wine. But perhaps just as important as their bottled output, the team is also self-consciously crafting a destination. Even in early spring, without lush verdant shades of summer or the vibrant fall foliage, the vista from the tasting room is dramatic. The main building perches atop a tall hill; a horsehead weather vane and stone retaining wall beckon you upward. Once indoors, huge banks of windows on every wall leave you feeling airborne. The panoramic views of the vineyard and the sunsets over the Catskills are at least as good a vista as many hikes will give you. The thoughtfully built structure feels organic, as if it had been renovated from an old farmhouse or barn rather than built from the ground up. “The super-rich used to try to blend in,” Milea says of his pre-COVID customer base. “Now they want everyone to know,” he chuckles. There is a certain see-and-be-seen vibe at Milea, which you can also detect at breweries and wineries throughout the region, though the aesthetic of each establishment draws a slightly different crowd. Classy live jazz and low-key staff make the Staatsburg tasting room civilized but not snooty. Milea is clear that he does not want Long Islandstyle busloads of tourists toting lawn chairs and beach blankets. He takes tasters by reservation only, a practice that has been necessary during COVID times but that he plans to continue. Founded in 2015, Milea is one of the newer kids on the block but has already snatched up plenty of accolades. These include recent golds at the New York Wine Classic for the up-andcoming Bläu Frankisch, a layered red beauty of which Milea is justifiably proud; the Cabernet Franc, which is cherry in hue and taste with a graphite finish that would pair well with a good steak; and for the buttery Proprietor’s Reserve Chardonnay, barrel-aged in French oak. (Milea also makes a tasty Chard aged in stainless steel that earned a Bronze).“The terroir here is closer to France than California or Long Island is,” Milea claims. Cider Sleepover Heading west into Sullivan County, the brand new Seminary Hill Orchard & Cidery will be opening their Callicoon tasting room in late spring or early summer. The cidery is currently sourcing fruit from area growers as they wait for the trees they planted in 2014 to bear fruit. In the orchard: 58 heirloom American, English, and French cider apple varieties as well as pear trees under holistic orchard management practices.

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Built with reclaimed larch wood from the discarded underwater pilings of the Tappan Zee Bridge, the 4,000-square-foot Seminary Hill tasting space will be a design destination as well as a craft beverage outpost. With a cathedral ceiling and walls of windows that frame peaceful views of the orchard and the Delaware River Valley beyond, the tasting room typifies the architecture of experience that is becoming the hallmark of craft beverage producers. The facility is a certified Passive House, a rigorous construction standard that incorporates the most energy-efficient set of performance-based building technologies currently available. “Our tasting room will carry the full selection of our ciders,” says Stuart Madany, director of cider, events, and marketing. “Except for the occasional micro-batch that will only be available to our subscription members.” Seminary Hill will also take the destination concept one step further with onsite

accommodations. The Mountain House, a timber-frame home built with lumber from the property, sleeps up to 10 people. Two restored historic buildings on the property make up the eight-unit boarding house, while a few miles away the Meadow House will offer a third option for overnight guests. New Faces in the New Normal It’s no secret that droves of urbanites relocated to the Hudson Valley in the pandemic. The new residents are already proving to be an economic boon to the region’s craft producers. “We have seen an exciting influx of new Hudson Valley residents,” says Breanna Nussbickel, marketing and events manager for Coppersea Distillery. The New Paltz farm-based operation is working to perfect the state’s signature Empire Rye style, using New York-grown grain, malted locally and distilled to perfection over direct fire. “Our large outdoor farm space makes for a 5/21 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 15

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perfect safe outing during uncertain COVID times, and we’ve welcomed the many new faces,” adds Nussbickel. “Our tasting room hours and set up had to be adjusted due to the pandemic, but once the weather was nice enough we were able to open our new expanded outdoor space to the public and introduce our now-famous Whisky Slushies.” The Newburgh Brewing Company co-owner Paul Halayko identifies two factors behind the new faces he is seeing in the taproom: the COVID flight from New York City and artists being priced out of other parts of the Hudson Valley. Yet taproom sales are still not back to where they were pre-COVID, when Newburgh Brewing’s enormous industrial tasting room drew dozens of people for trivia, live music, and friendly conversation. Opening hours remain limited. “Fortunately, stores really want to support local breweries selling local,” he says, “and that helps.” Asked what he sees happening in the days to come, Halayko says, “My pessimistic side says that social distancing will continue through the rest of 2021, that tables will have to stay six feet apart, that the economic impact will linger on. Some restaurants and breweries have closed. There will be more that will close. But my optimistic side says that the Hudson Valley is densely populated. There are lots of beer drinkers. People want to support local products.”

Another Newburgh business, Spirits Lab, opened its tasting room in early March 2020, barely bringing their small-batch craft spirits to market before COVID hit. Owners Lynn Hason, Phoenix KellyRappa, and Matthew Frohman quickly had to pivot. “We decided to take the cocktails we had developed for the tasting room and bottle them for sale,” Hason says. In a stroke of pandemic good luck, the shift was a life-saver. “Since people were unable to go out to eat or have drinks, these bottled cocktails ended up becoming wildly popular. Today, they continue to be a large part of our business and we’ve now made the bottled versions a permanent part of our core collection.” While they initially started with four different bottled cocktails, Spirits Lab has added on special releases and seasonal offerings, like a Mint Julep for the Kentucky Derby and a Rosé Lemonade for the spring/summer season. And now that the tasting room is back open, the bottled cocktails have become all the more reason for people to visit the Spirits Lab. “We have a lot of regulars and support from the community,” says Hason, who points to Instagram as a useful tool for building the brand’s fanbase beyond the immediate area. “We love that people find about us through social media and make a trip out of it,” she says. “We’ve noticed a definite increase in visitors from New York City—we have multiple visitors from there every weekend. Many of them mention that they have either just purchased real estate in the area or are looking to.”

“We’ve noticed a definite increase in visitors from New York City. Many of them mention that they have either just purchased real estate in the area or are looking to.” —Lynn Hason, Spirits Lab

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When There is No Taproom The phenomenon of the craft producer as a destination is the logical progression of several different trends. On a pragmatic, dollars-and-cents level, agritourism is a necessary facet of the monetization model for many smalland medium-sized farms—as is value-adding. A farm-based craft beverage producer with an on-site taproom and a bottle shop rolls that all into one. And on a cultural level, in the slipstream of the farm-to-table movement, the craft beverage industry has a fresh focus on provenance and elevated the cult of the producer. Brands—whether beer, cider, whisky, or wine—are no longer abstract labels on bottles. They are teams of individuals, whose quirky faces you see on social media, making a distinctive product bubbling with the terroir of a particular place. A visit to the source becomes a pilgrimage for fans of the brand both near and far. So, in that source-centric climate, what happens when you don’t have a destination? Kimberly Kae and her husband Matt DiFrancesco have managed to build up a loyal following around their Esopus-based brand Metal House Cider without the benefit of an onsite watering hole. “There wasn’t a decision not to have a tasting room,” Kae says somewhat ruefully. “If we could open one we would, but we’re maxed out on space. We’ve been looking for a while. I don’t want to leave Esopus, but we’re working on it.” While a tasting room would enable Metal House to welcome customers on-site and increase direct sales, it would also require a significant production pivot, and consequently a stylistic shift. Their current specialty, méthode-Champenoise cider, is bottle-aged on the lees for a minimum of nine months and then hand-disgorged. “If we had a tasting room, it wouldn’t make sense to go through all those bottles,” Kae explains. “If your market is coming to you, you’re going to do more stuff on tap.” That’s an ideological bridge the couple will cross when they find a space for their taproom. In the meantime, thanks to the influx of new residents in the area and the wine shops that have sprung up to support them, Metal House is doing solid business. And the occasional intrepid fan will call or email to see if they can swing by the farm, despite the address not appearing online. “Even though we don’t have a tasting room, we do have some people purchase bottles directly,” Kae says. “I do one-off tastings and visits, as time allows. It makes it really special for us to meet people directly who are willing to take that extra step of calling or emailing.” Reflecting on the rising interest in drinking at the source, Kae questions, “Is that focus on provenance newfound, or is it resurrected?” She goes on to say, “Once upon a time, it was like that—we knew where our eggs came from, where our fruit came from. Then it became so comfortable to buy a can of beans. Convenience outstripped provenance until the quality was so compromised that we came back around to where we started.”

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35. Mill House Brewing 125 North Hamilton Street, Poughkeepsie 36. Newburgh Brewing Company 88 South Colden Street, Newburgh 37. Obscure Oscillation Brewing 19 Lown Court, Poughkeepsie 38. Old Factory Brewing Company 628 Main Street, Cairo 39. 39 Old Klaverack Brewery 150 Thielman Road, Hudson (518) 965-1437 Oldklaverackbrewery.com Experience one of the most peaceful settings in Columbia County at Old Klaverack Brewery. Go for a pint and a wood-ﬁred pizza or just a relaxing time outdoors. 40. Plan Bee Farm Brewery 115 Underhill Road, Poughkeepsie 41. RB Brew 317 Springtown Road, New Paltz 42. Rip Van Winkle Brewing 4545 Route 32, Catskill 43. Roaring 20s Brewery And Tap House 565 US Route 20, New Lebanon 44. 44 Roe Jan Brewing Co 32 Anthony Street, Hillsdale (518) 303-8080 Roejanbrewing.com Roe Jan serves craft beer brewed in-house in a creative, upscale brewpub located in a beautifully renovated mercantile building. 45. Roscoe Beer Company 145 Rockland Road, Roscoe 46. Rough Cut Brewing Co 5945 Route 44-55, Kerhonkson 47. Rushing Duck Brewing 2 Greycourt Avenue, Chester 48. Shepherds Eye Brewing 9 Industrial Drive, Florida 49. Shrewd Fox Brewery 552 Route 55, Eldred 50. Sloop Brewing Co 755 East Drive, Hopewell Junction 51. Suarez Family Brewery 2278 Route 9, Livingston 52. Subversive Malting & Brewing 96 West Bridge Street, Catskill 53. The Brewery At Orange County Hops 771 Route 52, Walden 54. The Brewery At The CIA 1995 Campus Drive, Hyde Park 55. The Peekskill Brewery 47-53 South Water Street, Peekskill 56. Tin Barn Brewing 62 Kings Highway Bypass, Chester 57. Upward Brewing 171 Main Street, Livingston Manor 58. Weed Orchards Brewing 43 Mount Zion Road, Marlboro 59. West Kill Brewing 2173 Spruceton Road, West Kill 60. Woodstock Brewing 5581 Route 28, Phoenicia 61. Yard Owl Craft Brewery 19 Osprey Lane, Gardiner 62. Zeus Brewing 178 Main Street, Poughkeepsie

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3. Annandale Cidery 8 Davis Way, Annandale-On-Hudson 4. Bad Seed Cider 43 Bailey’s Gap Road, Highland 5. Breezy Hill Orchard 828 Centre Road, Staatsburg 6. Fishkill Farms 9 Fishkill Farm Road, Hopewell Junction 7. Forthright Cyder And Mead 4052 NY-52, Youngsville 8. Graft Cider 218 Ann Street, Newburgh 9. Greenpoint Cidery 4161 Route 9, Hudson 10. Kettleborough Cider House 277 State Route 208, New Paltz 11. Kings Highway Cider 127 Cooper Road, Millerton 12. Left Bank Ciders 150 Water Street, Catskill 13. Little Apple Cidery 192 Orchard Lane, Hillsdale 14. 14 Metal House Cider Esopus Metalhousecider.com Metal House Cider makes champagne-method ciders aged long on the lees and disgorged by hand, using wild and sustainably grown Esopus fruit. Free local delivery. 15. Orchard Hill Cider Mill 29 Soons Circle, New Hampton 16. Pennings Farm Cidery 4 Warwick Turnpike, Warwick 17. Rose Hill Farm 14 Rose Hill Farm, Red Hook 18. 18 Seminary Hill Orchard And Cidery 43 Wagner Lane, Callicoon (845) 707-5510 Seminaryhill.co Located in the foothills of the Catskills and overlooking the winding Delaware River, Seminary Hill crafts distinctive ciders that reﬂect the agricultural heritage of the area. 19. Stickett Inn Cider 3380 Route 97, Barryville 20. Sundog Cider 343B State Route 295, Chatham 21. The Cidery 2251 State Route 209, Wurtsboro 22. The Green House Cidery 2309 New York 203, Chatham 23. Westwind Orchard 215 Lower Whitﬁeld Road, Accord 24. Yankee Folly Cidery 69 Yankee Folly Road, New Paltz

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Isolation One factor is the isolation. Having people who crack jokes in class or teachers to chat with has been a part of school I took for granted. But no one unmutes on Zoom for something as transient as humor, and bumping into people for a quick, casual conversation does not happen. A whole community of friends, mentors, and acquaintances is now impossible to access. Sitting in my room and in silence for huge swaths of the day is isolating. Another part of the isolation is my realization that many of my friends are “school only”—people I really like, but don’t hang out with or talk to about anything other than school, meaning that my social circle has shrunk considerably. I know I’m not alone in feeling this new isolation, and I can’t help but be worried about the long-term effects it will have on my entire generation. Another factor is the volume of technical difficulties. On a typical day, my WiFi goes out a half-dozen times. My school computer seems unable to handle much of what I need it to do, resulting in periodic, frantic troubleshooting. My teachers and classmates face an avalanche of similar difficulties: broken mics, bad WiFi, audio or video glitches. On top of technical issues there are also the realities of people’s home lives. Multiple times I’ve seen a teacher call on a student and the student reply via the chat function: “My house is too noisy to unmute,” or “My WiFi is really bad I didn’t hear what you said.” The pandemic has exposed the fact that not everyone has the supportive, quiet, and capable home situation required for virtual learning, but we haven’t done enough to address the issue or help people. Instead, we awkwardly see it in action and try to move on. Some Changes for the Worse I felt a little frustrated when virtual schooling first began, but I tried to stay positive because I was afraid that if I didn’t, I would slip into, well, the mood I’m in now. I said that since things were so altered I would “give back-to-school a new meaning,” and allow my perspective to change based on what came at me. My perspective has changed, and some of those changes have been for the worse. I know no adult wants to hear that, and I know that no one wants more pessimism at this point in time. So it would be a mistake not to mention some of the unexpected perks of being at home. It’s nice to have a leisurely lunch break during which I can do whatever I want. It’s nice to set parts of my own schedule (although this can be a doubleedged sword, because finding motivation during unstructured time is so hard). I like that I’ve gotten more comfortable emailing teachers. I like that some teachers turn the lack of cameras or engagement during class into the jokes I’ve been missing from my fellow students; it’s nice to see some positivity and humor coming out of the situation. It’s also nice to see my family periodically throughout the day; I’ll be going to college next fall and won’t have that ability anymore. I like the little things: time to read, the way the sun comes through my window during a time when I usually wouldn’t be home, the chance to take a break between classes and reflect, instead of racing through the halls. Here is my “at this point” conclusion: We’re all struggling and we’re all trying, but it feels like we’ve pulled back some from working together. Some people say that this is life getting back to normal, but to me it’s more like an indefinite limbo stage. If this is what the new normal is going to be, I want to incorporate some of what we learned back when things weren’t normal at all. This year has made me feel pessimistic, as much as I don’t want to. In order to combat that, I want to share my experience and give people who might not know what things have been like for teenagers a peek behind the curtain. As the early pandemic showed, unity is possible, neighborly goodwill still exists. The image of everyone rallying to help students who are struggling, or joining the fight to solve many of the issues this pandemic has exacerbated, is a comforting one, and hopefully a possible one. Sophie Frank is a junior at Onteora High School in Boiceville. She is an aspiring journalist, an activist, and an amateur baker.

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Beacon kicked off an era of gentrification in the Hudson Valley. Now it’s trying to lead the region out of it. By Brian P. J. Cronin Photos by David McIntyre

he city of Beacon didn’t quite know what to do when the first food truck arrived on its rapidly changing streets five years ago. The city was wary about granting permits in worries that it would lead to food trucks parked up and down Main Street. So the two young CIA grads who ran the Beacon Bite bought a vacant lot on Main Street and parked their truck on it. They planted a community garden on the lot and painted murals, including a smiling alien above the slogan KEEP BEACON WEIRD, a riff on the infamous slogan KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD. The Beacon Bite’s co-owner Dalton Edwards was from Austin. But, as Edwards explained to me back then, overdevelopment and gentrification had turned his welcoming and tolerant hometown into what he now called “Diet Los Angeles.” And he was worried that the same thing was happening in Beacon. “People ask me ‘How weird do you want Beacon to be?’” Edwards said. “And I say ‘I don’t know, how many condos are you going to build around me? Because the more condos you build, the weirder I’m going to get.” 42 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 5/21

The truck, the murals, the garden, the Tribe Called Quest tracks booming from a tiny speaker, the coconut-and-chili-scented cloud that hung in the air: All of them were a flag planted in Beacon’s fertile soil, vowing that the city would not become a homogenized playground for the square and wealthy. Just two weeks later, the truck was gone. The only thing left on the lot was a FOR SALE sign. Today, there’s a sign on the lot announcing a public hearing to be held by the city’s Planning Board. Someone wants to build apartments there. Holding On To What’s Golden The story of Beacon’s revitalization is a lot more complicated than the Dia-as-savior narrative that still gets bandied about. To be sure, the 2003 opening of the large-scale art museum in a former Nabisco factory on the waterfront did have a seismic, transformative effect. But the Dia Art Foundation was drawn to Beacon by the arts community that had already been building up there for several years. And after Dia:Beacon opened, even though tourists were suddenly arriving from all over the world, getting them up

the hill from the Dia and into the city itself was another matter. Many simply took the MetroNorth train in, went to the museum, and headed back south. The adventurous souls that did make it up the hill found a Main Street with many empty storefronts and hardly any place to spend the night, only a single B&B. It took an enormous amount of work from politicians, artists, business owners, local developers, community groups, and more to re-populate Main Street with restaurants, galleries, hotels, concert venues, and retailers to make Beacon more than a cavernous museum. Just as important as what they created is what they didn’t: A proposal by the MTA to build a “Transit Oriented Development” center by the train station was soundly rejected by the city when locals said it would have essentially created a “Parasite Beacon” next to Dia with its own housing, restaurants, and chain stores, leaving the city itself to wither. All of those actions and decisions, large and small, public and private, added up to create a thriving city that is now being devoured by its own success.

The bar at Melzingah Tap House.

The first and most visible sign of radical change was probably the four-story building— one story higher than any other building on Main Street—that went up a few years ago, filled with units that were going for much, much more than comparable apartments in Beacon. Then two more four-story buildings went up down the street, which at least made the first four-story building seem a little less out of place. (As they say in jazz: When you hit a wrong note, the best thing to do is hit it again.) When Beacon’s first million-dollar condo sale took place a few years ago, it was a curiosity. Now it’s hard to find a two-bedroom condo in any of the city’s new developments listed for less than that. And the prices on much of Beacon’s remaining housing stock are following suit. But gentrification is a lot like climate change. Once you notice it, it’s already gone too far and it’s about to get exponentially worse. “Everything is a heck of a lot more expensive,” says Justice McCray, who grew up in Beacon. “It’s a lot whiter here. I’m seeing more and more of my friends and the people I care about being pushed out and priced out.” “When people talk about development and gentrification and unaffordable housing, they say it has to stop,” says Terry Nelson, the founder of the Beacon Independent Film Festival and City Council member. “I tell them: It’s already happened. It’s past tense. It’s about what we do now.”

High Stakes At a candidates’ forum in 2019, as the aforementioned four-story building was being built, Beaconites came with torches and pitchforks (metaphorically speaking) to demand answers as to how this could have happened. Then-and-current City Council member George Mansfield, co-owner of the beloved local tavern Dogwood, explained that altering development laws was like steering a cruise ship: You can spin the wheel as fast as you like, but it takes a long time for the ship to actually turn. Beacon’s woes were the result of a series of “it-seemedlike-a-good-idea-at-the-time” moves to entice developers to come to the city when many Main Street storefronts were empty. Now the city was putting on the brakes so that the ship could sail to calmer waters, but the results wouldn’t be seen for a while. If at all, actually. You can’t see a building that was never built. “I think we were at the point where we were starting to see some projects that were not a good fit,” says City Council member Amber Grant who, like Nelson, decided to get involved in politics after being disheartened by the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. “They were either too big or weren’t the right type for our community. We’ve taken a very specific approach to zoning in a detailed way to make things fit a little better and we’re starting to see that come online.”

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City Council candidate Justice McCray behind Binnacle Books with the community fridge that they help found.

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Stephanie Rodrigues, manager of the Snooki Shop, in front of the selfie background neon sign. Nicole Polizzi, aka Snooki, of “Jersey Shore” fame, grew up nearby in Marlboro. The Snooki Shop opened on Main Street last fall.

In the past few years, the city has passed new laws to protect viewsheds. Certain areas of Beacon have been rezoned multiple times. Developers who want to build a fourth floor must now provide a public good in exchange— such as providing ample public green space. After a new 50-unit building down by the train station drew a public outcry because its design didn’t fit the rest of Beacon (“This looks to me like a painted rectangle,” went one public comment before the Planning Board), the city granted its review boards increased power to legislate architectural aesthetics. And in 2019, the West End Lofts project was finished: 72 units of affordable housing built on city land. But there’s a lot that’s out of the city’s hands. The definition of “affordable housing” with regard to units that the city can demand developers set aside as part of a total project is determined by Dutchess County, Nelson explains. “A lot of it has to do with what their metrics are in terms of what ‘affordable’ is,” he says, explaining that it’s based on percentages of the county’s median income. “We have to redefine it. And I don’t know if the county has the will to do that right now.” Nelson is also working on enacting the state’s Emergency Tenant Protection Act in Beacon to bring some measure of rent control to the city, but the arcane parameters of the law mean that only about 40 buildings in Beacon would be protected.

The ship is turning, but the tsunami of New York City COVID expats willing to pay city prices for Beacon real estate is also coming. It’s hard and hypocritical to blame them, especially since so many of the people who moved to Beacon in the last 20 years came from the five boroughs (including yours truly, back in 2007). And many of the things that drew us here are still here. There’s the city’s namesake mountain, towering over downtown like a benevolent deity, resplendent with hiking trails and waterfalls. There’s the golden Hudson River, getting cleaner every year. There’s the series of parks down by the river overseen by Scenic Hudson and constantly being improved with new amenities and new paths. And there’s Main Street, still the place where dreamers with good ideas and an ample amount of elbow grease can make it work. Even in a pandemic. Heating Up The Happy Valley Arcade Bar opened at 296 Main Street in early August with the intention of bringing the best of the ’80s and early ’90s back to Beacon: NBA Jam and Ms. Pac-Man, a Salt-n-Pepa-themed vending machine with the words “Push It Real Good” painted on the dispensary flap, and enough Day-Glo graphics on the walls to make you feel as if you’re inside your favorite Trapper Keeper. But for the past

“Gentrification is pushing marginalized people out of communities in the guise of making things better. And there are ways to make things better for everyone, including the people that are here now.” —City Council candidate Justice McCray

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Happy Valley Arcade Bar features vintage pinball machines and arcade games.

few months, the vibe has been less Fast Times at Ridgemont High and more River’s Edge. Shortly after opening, the couple who own the bar were told by the state that the arcade games would have to be unplugged because of the pandemic. And so the Happy Valley Arcade Bar had to operate without its arcade. And consequently, without its happy. “It was a bummer,” says Alyssa Follansbee, who moved with her husband, Johnny Coughlin, to Beacon in 2018. “Everyone who walked in would ask us, ‘Are the games broken?’ Having to explain, ‘No, they’re shut off, and you have to buy a food item’ just killed the positive energy.” Still, a bar is a bar. And a bar blessed with an ample outdoor courtyard, not to mention a kid-friendly menu, still had much to offer the pandemic-weary families of Beacon who wanted someplace cheery to sit outside so that the kids could eat pizza and tater tots while the parents enjoyed cocktails like The Bloody Mario, Sex on the Koopa Troopa Beach, and The Gin Blossom. Then, at the end of March, Happy Valley got a 1-UP. The state told them they could plug the games back in. “It’s been so nice to hear the games on and hear people groan and cheer,” says Coughlin. “It’s like something from the Before Times. It’s starting to come back.” Down the street at another new business, Tom Labelle is also thinking past the pandemic.

Labelle is the owner and head chef at One More Bite, a Korean-fusion restaurant that opened in February. A veteran of both the restaurant industry and Beacon (he moved here 26 years ago), owning his own eatery in town had been a lifelong dream. The theme of his dream restaurant changed every few years, but then the Korean restaurant Seoul Kitchen came to Beacon. Labelle had grown up eating and loving his Korean mother’s food, and sitting in Seoul Kitchen, talking about Korean food with owner Heewon Marshall, helped Labelle feel at home. After Seoul Kitchen relocated across the river to Newburgh, Labelle realized his time had come. And that it was time to finally make it happen. He discussed the idea and recipes with his mother, who at this point was now living in Beacon with him and his family. “She was so excited,” Labelle recalls. Then COVID came to Beacon, sweeping through the Labelle household last April. His entire family was stricken. Labelle, his wife, and his three sons recovered. His mother did not. Labelle went ahead with the idea for the restaurant. “I wanted to fill that void,” he says. So far the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Which, paradoxically, is a problem. “Not that I wish I would get more negative feedback, but criticism is always good to hear,” Labelle says.

“When people talk about development and gentrification and unaffordable housing, they say it has to stop. I tell them: It’s already happened. It’s past tense. It’s about what we do now.” —Beacon City Council Member Terry Nelson

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Mother and daughter Barbara Joan Sims and Brenda Joyce Sims at BJ’s Restaurant.

Beans Cat Cafe opened on Main Street in November. Patrons can buy a coffee, a pastry, and, if they wish, spend time hanging out with the 10-or-so adoptable cats that live at the shop. By the end of March, owner Jessica CruzStrika had found homes for 116 cats.

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One More Bite and Happy Valley have not done as well as they would like, considering the circumstances of the pandemic. But Beacon has come out and been as supportive as possible of its businesses, both new and old. In November, Beans Cat Cafe opened on Main Street. Patrons can buy a coffee, a pastry, and, if they wish, spend time hanging out with the 10-or-so adoptable cats that live at the shop. The cats don’t stay long. When the cafe opened, owner Jessica Cruz-Strika told me that her goal was to adopt out 300 cats in her first year of business. So far she’s on pace, having found homes for 116 cats by the end of March. We Are Family The pandemic has taught Beacon many lessons. One is that its businesses are resilient as heck. Story Screen, the city’s independent movie theater, opened up a drive-in on the outskirts of town last summer. It was such a hit that even though their brick-and-mortar location has been allowed to reopen their al fresco experiment will return this summer. Bars mixed cocktails to go. Coffee shops and breweries delivered. Artists in Beacon designed t-shirts to support their favorite businesses. “This community really cares about each other and shows up when they need to,” says Grant from the City Council. “And the efforts of the Beacon community have been outstanding in terms of taking care of each other, supporting our businesses, and making sure we come out of this.”

At the forefront of the community response has been Beacon Mutual Aid, which formed on the first day of the pandemic and has handed out free groceries to more than 450 families once a week over the past year. Working with other local groups such as Fareground and Common Ground Farm, they’ve kept the city’s Tiny Food Pantries (and, behind Binnacle Books, its Community Fridge) stocked. They’ve set up free wifi in Memorial Park, with more locations to come. They’ve baked, cooked, made vaccine appointments, and driven people to those appointments. They’ve provided free afterschool programs. The pandemic may be coming to a close in the months to come, but Beacon Mutual Aid is just getting started. “We’re so happy that so many people are ready to help their neighbors,” says Dara Silverman, one of the group’s founders, about the steady stream of willing volunteers and donors. “But the need is way bigger. Gentrification continues to spiral in the Hudson Valley. There are so many people, particularly people of color, immigrants, and seniors, who are really getting crunched.” This is the final lesson of the pandemic. From the outside, Beacon has appeared to be thriving. But for every tower that goes up, the people of Beacon get pushed down a little bit more. There have certainly been positive changes thanks to attention the city has been getting. Increased tax revenue has helped fund a newly robust recreation department and reopened the municipal pool. A free hop-on-hop-off bus can

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Gallery director Karlyn Benson and owner Iliya Fridman in the windows of Fridman Gallery, which opens its second location in Beacon on May 1 with “Land Escape,” featuring the work of Athena LaTocha, Nanette Carter, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji.

Beacon’s twodecades-long transformation has been a model of how to redevelop a city. But there isn’t currently a model of what a city can do after gentrification takes hold to stop the rising tide of inequality and make sure that everyone can feel safe and welcome.

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be seen making loops throughout the town for those Beaconites without cars (or who would prefer not to use them.) And it’s helped fund a series of continuing environmental initiatives, such as a field of solar panels that have cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent and helped Beacon recently attain a silver certification as a Climate Smart Community, one of only seven in the state. Beacon’s two-decades-long transformation has been a model of how to redevelop a city. But there isn’t currently a model of what a city can do after gentrification takes hold to stop the rising tide of inequality and make sure that everyone can feel safe and welcome. But an emerging group of new leaders is ready to try. This fall, four of the six Beaconites who sit on the all-Democrat City Council will not be seeking re-election, including both Nelson and Grant. The new Democrat candidates who have been announced aren’t a lock to win. But as of press time, the Beacon Republicans haven’t announced competing candidates and also appear to have abandoned their website. It will take big changes to guide Beacon into a post-gentrification era. And big change is on the ballot. We See You Justice McCray attended the first Beacon 4 Black Lives rally on June 1 of last year. It was the first time they had left the house in months.

Not just because of the pandemic. Because of Breonna Taylor. Because of George Floyd. “I would be at home and think ‘it’s ok to go for a jog’ and then see the stories of Ahmaud Arbery,” they say. “It became so clear that being Black was an unsafe thing.” But at that first rally, attended by a large and diverse group of Beaconites, McCray felt safe. “That was the first time I felt like my Black life mattered,” they say. After the rally, McCray asked if they could help out with Beacon 4 Black Lives in the future, in a “behind the scenes” capacity. They were surprised to soon find themselves in front. “I didn’t think that my voice in this movement made a difference,” they say. “But it became clear that it did.” McCray may have been surprised, but many Beaconites weren’t. For years, McCray’s irrepressible smile had been a fixture about town, volunteering at the library to help senior citizens use the computers and always being one of those Beaconites who shows up when the community needs help. Seeing them standing in front of the Mayor’s house, fists in the air, and screaming through a bullhorn for their right to exist was a clear sign to many that things in Beacon—and the country—needed to change. Long after many of the protests around the Hudson Valley this summer had faded away, Beaconites kept marching throughout the fall (one of the protests was even called “Yes, We’re Still Protesting.”)

Bookseller Laura Bellizzi in the stacks at Binnacle Books.

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City council candidate Paloma Wake at the Beacon Recreation Center

This is the final lesson of the pandemic: From the outside, Beacon has appeared to be thriving. But for every tower that goes up, the people of Beacon get pushed down a little bit more.

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When word got out that most of the City Council wouldn’t be seeking re-election, McCray realized that since they were already calling into the city council meetings every week and working as a bridge between the community and the Council, they could run for office and be a direct connection. Paloma Wake, another City Council candidate, hasn’t been in Beacon as long as McCray (she moved here in 2017), but like McCray, she quickly became a fixture in the community. She ran the Beacon Farmers’ Market, became vice chair of the city’s Human Relations Committee, and has been volunteering with Beacon 4 Black Lives and Beacon Mutual Aid throughout the pandemic. The year has been eye-opening for her. “It’s been made clear that so many of our social safety nets are not strong enough to really hold people in crisis,” Wake says. “But it’s also been made clear that people in Beacon have a huge capacity to be creative and resilient and support one another. I’m seeing that in terms of the city’s response to social justice issues. We saw hundreds of people marching almost all year, which speaks to the level of care and concern about the pain of others. That’s an important thing to lift up.” When she found out about the upcoming openings on the city council, she quickly volunteered to run.

Both McCray and Wake talk about Beacon’s out-of-control development scene. But they’re also looking to the bigger picture, and how gentrification is just one symptom of bigger societal issues of injustice and inequality. Is it a coincidence that in the early phases of Beacon’s redevelopment boom the city’s two community centers closed down, eliminating two of the only places where Beaconites of all backgrounds and all ages could gather yearround without having to spend money? Where they could have meetings, play basketball, paint together, and build community? “It has to do with making sure people’s basic needs are being met,” says Wake. “And that we as citizens have a sense of safety so that we’re not just surviving, but thriving together.” No one knows what a truly equitable postgentrification city looks like. But Beacon may still be united enough, driven enough, and, yes, weird enough to find out. “I have a lot of love and care for this community,” says McCray. “It’s my home. Gentrification is pushing marginalized people out of communities in the guise of making things better. And there are ways to make things better for everyone, including the people that are here now.” I ask McCray what they would say to the waves of newcomers. They don’t hesitate. “I’d say ‘Welcome to Beacon.’”

Long Dock Park on the Hudson River at sunset.

During the pandemic, artist Joe Darmetko put a face mask filled with flowers on The Duke mural.

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music Fred Lonberg-Holm Lisbon Solo (Notice Recordings) Facebook.com/NoticeRecordings/

Since decamping from Chicago to Kingston a few years ago, cellist/composer/improviser Fred Lonberg-Holm has made an immeasurable contribution to the Hudson Valley’s burgeoning experimental music community. With a discography now entering its fourth decade and scarcely encompassing his remarkably diverse background—one that includes studies with Anthony Braxton and Morton Feldman; performances with such improbably dissimilar artists as Wilco, Anthony Coleman, the Styrenes, and local colossus Joe McPhee; and a distinguished oeuvre of compositions performed by the cream of classical New Music instrumentalists— he also created, alongside bassist Michael Bisio, the monthly “The Moment” series at the Beverly Lounge, arguably the region’s finest and most risk-taking avant-garde music series. For this new cassette/download release on Kington’s Notice Recordings, Lonberg-Holm manifests not just his virtuoso musicianship across many untraditional (and some markedly traditional) expressions, but an improvisational concept as rigorous as it is daring. Within the first 60 seconds of the untitled opening track, Lonberg-Holm demonstrates his mastery of extended techniques, including dramatic arco and col legno textures, tapped ostinati, and stark pizzicato melodies. He is credited on the second and other tracks with “unprepared piano,” and I suspect the piano was as unprepared for these startling keyboard excursions receiving comparably metamorphic treatments as I was. These piano pieces highlight the uncontrived, elemental rhythmic dynamism driving his playing, as well as a fearless, Feldman-esque use of sudden, extended silences as imposing structural elements. By no means easy listening, Lisbon Solo is a feast of boundarypushing sonic adventure and a spellbinding showcase for this one-of-a-kind musician. —James Keepnews

sound check Gwen Laster Each month here we visit with a member of the community to find out what albums they’ve been digging.

Mike Hotter Room to Land

Various Artists Save the Mountain

There is, indeed, room to land on singer-songwriter Mike Hotter’s so-titled, decade-long effort. Beginning with a lyrically and musically expansive Califone-esque quality, the journey continues into more rootsy territory, keeping pace with pensive jags and emotional bends. It plays and reads like a journal written in different places and mental spaces, on random bits of paper stained with tears, raindrops, dried blood, and coffee. Too dramatic? Then wash the dishes and go for a drive, just don’t expect clear skies. Hotter conveys how while we all want the happy things, the truth walks at its own pace, available to those accepting of shades of grey. Sad and hopeful: “Sun rose and the hollows of our hands were open wide.” Fans of Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) and Mark Lanegan will enjoy. A Yo La Tengo cover and an instrumental add to the range. Some songs are stripped bare, but most are aided and abetted by Hotter’s fellow Capital District tinkers and tomcats.

In 1981, when Minnewaska Preserve was jeopardized by commercial development and lawsuits, the golden hearts of Hudson Valley music banded together in protest, their urgent cries ringing through the mountains in song. Kurt Henry, Michael Klein, and Hali Hammer hosted a folk collaboration at Woodstock’s legendary Joyous Lake with dozens of participants, followed by a vinyl recording, Save the Mountain. And save it they did: The majestic oaks, rocky summits, and pristine waters have since remained uncorrupted for their grandchildren. A digital rerelease of the recording recently emerged and a live 40th-anniversary concert was planned for this year, but pandemic circumstances moved the celebration to Radio Woodstock WDST. The official digitally rereleased original album can be found in its entirety on YouTube. Classic guitar folk, powerhouse piano blues, a touch of sitar, dozens of soaring choral voices, and an eloquent spoken word piece are among the findings on this 11-song treasure that may leave listeners teary-eyed and grateful to those who cared enough to make significant noise. —Haviland S Nichols

(Independent) Senorsimpatico.bandcamp.com

Daily doses of Our Native Daughters tracks, particularly “Polly Ann’s Song” and “Firewater.” Svend Asmussen’s rendition of Abel Baer’s “June Night” sounds so smooth, warm and tasty to my ears these days. Ani DiFranco’s “Do or Die” keeps me steady in a groove. Love the colors/textures of Reza Vali’s “Ashoob (Calligraphy No. 14)” for string quartet. For nostalgia and strings lines that bounce and talk, Brooke Benton and Dinah Washington’s “Baby You Got What It Takes.” —Violinist Gwen Laster performed at President Obama’s Inaugural Neighborhood Ball and has worked with Aretha Franklin, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Tyler the Creator, Gladys Knight, Andrea Bocelli, and others. She is a member of New Muse 4tet, whose album Blue Lotus is out now on her Muffymarie label. Gwenlaster.com

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(Independent) Facebook.com/SaveMinnewaskaAlbum

—Jason Broome

books Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion Maya Van Der Meer BALA KIDS, $17.95, 2021

Woodstock resident Maya van der Meer writes in her children’s book a spin on the ancient Chinese tale of a Buddhist sisterhood and journey to self-discovery. Princess Miao Shan––a lover of meditating with the forest creatures––is set to marry and remain in the palace by her father. She is freed from her unwanted fate by her younger sister, Ling, who helps her escape. The two embark on a journey of compassion and love––and through the trials and tribulations of their adventure, Miao Shan comes to realize her true calling as Kuan Yin––the goddess of compassion.

We Got Game! 35 Female Athletes Who Changed the World Aileen Weintraub RUNNING PRESS KIDS, $17.99, 2021

Stone Ridge resident Aileen Weintraub’s anthology tells the inspiring stories of 35 women in sports across the globe. Some of these women include American gymnasts Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas, American surfer Bethany Hamilton, American snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, British wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft, and American jockey Diane Crump. This nonfiction collection of women athlete stories encourages and motivates kids to get out there and play their hardest––no matter what is thrown their way. Weintraub’s best-selling book–– Never Too Young! 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference–—won a Parent’s Choice Award in 2018.

Zombie Pharm Larry Beinhart INDEPENDENT, $8.98, 2021

Former Chronogram columnist Larry Beinhart writes a hilarious education horror story about fixing up the “problem kids” with pharmaceuticals––until the solution goes horribly wrong. At the school––Schools of Tomorrow™––the teachers, students, and staff are all medicated to make everyone Optimized™ and better than “normal.” Only one person stands in the way of total disaster and mass murder—Eddie, the slacker, weed-dealing school bus driver. Beinhart is also the author of Wag the Dog and the winner of the Edgar Award.

Make Thrift Mend Katrina Rodabaugh ABRAMS, $24.99, 2021

Germantown resident and slow-fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh is following her best-selling book Mending Matters with her new book on how to mend, patch, dye, and alter clothing for a more sustainable wardrobe. She walks the reader through how to repair jeans, fix up a favorite sweater, or dye some old clothes a new color to create a more environmentally friendly approach to fashion. Rodabaugh has been threading a needle her whole life, learning from her mother and her grandmother. Incorporated in her book are stories and essays encouraging readers to make a commitment to ending overconsumption and to participate in slow-fashion. “The most sustainable clothes are the ones already in your closet,” Rodabaugh writes.

The Art of Cooking with Cannabis Tracey Medeiros SKYHORSE, $19.99, 2021

In Tracey Mederio’s cookbook, there are 125 recipes featuring CBD, hemp, and THC from organic farmers, chefs, artisans, and food producers around the country. Incorporated into the book are resources for safe consumption, and profiles on the book’s contributors who share the hardships and successes that have led them to experiment with the health and wellness benefits of cannabis. Some featured contributors from the Hudson Valley include Ben Banks-Dobson, Melany Dobson, and Freya Dobson of Hudson Hemp (Raw Hemp Leaf Pesto); and Josephine Proul of Local 111 in Philmont (lamb stock). The recipes are organized into categories––CBD, hemp, and THC––and explain tolerance levels and sidebar tips and guidance to make your cannabis-cooking experience enjoyable. —Diana Testa

Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother’s Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind Julie Metz ATRIA BOOKS, 2021, $24.99

While going through a bureau drawer of her recently departed mother, Eve, Hudson resident Julie Metz (Perfection) finds a small keepsake book “bound in coffee-colored linen” and stamped with the word “Poesie” in faded gold ink. Inside are messages of love and farewell from childhood friends and relatives all addressed to Eva, as her nine-year-old mother was then known. The notes span from November 28, 1938 to March 24, 1940, the day before Eva and her parents left Vienna for the United States, barely escaping Nazi-occupied Austria. During the two-year span the album covers, Eva’s family will lose all of their rights and “struggle against a mighty bureaucracy” for their very survival. An experience Eve had shared very little about with anyone, including her family. The Poesiealbum “remained a vault of secrets” for Metz’s mother’s past and kept her wondering about what, as a young girl, Eva had experienced and how it had impacted her life. This propelled her to research and write about “the Eva she had never known” and the Eve who was her mother. The realization by Metz that her mother’s childhood in Vienna was at the core of her family’s history set Metz off on a 15-year journey of research and writing to capture the essence of those two terrifying years and to help her better understand who her mother, with whom she had a very difficult relationship, was. By using historical documents, fictional conversations, imagined events, glimpses into her own relationship with her own daughter, and plenty of political commentary on the state of this country, Metz reminds us how easily history can repeat itself and how important it is to remember. The vivid accounts of her visits to Vienna, to see the apartment and factory owned by her maternal grandparents, Anna and Julius, sheds light on how Eva and her parents were able to avoid the extermination camps that was the tragic fate of so many others. The factory that Julius owned produced an intricate fan made out of 50 folded and glued paper sheets and was called a pulverkapsle into which powdered medicine would be poured into each of its 50 openings. Even though his factory had been taken from him, “The machine was so complicated that the Nazis had kept Julius alive to run it.” The pulverkapsle was also believed to have been important for the distribution of the methamphetamine that was touted as a miracle product and the perfect Nazi drug. Energizing and confidence boosting, methamphetamine played into the Third Reich’s obsession with physical and mental superiority and was used widely. The pulverkapsle, with its complicated yet efficient design, was the perfect vehicle for its distribution. Metz’s journey to Trieste, from where the ship Saturnia sailed to take Eva and her parents to New York, is an emotional experience brought to life by the detailed description of the city and the imagining of what it might have been like in 1940. Metz shares the entries from the captain’s log of the Saturnia during the 15-day journey her mother and grandparents made to New York. The mundane entries—weather, passenger numbers, mail on board—provide a good springboard for the narrative Metz interweaves bringing the perilous journey to life. As struggling immigrants in America, the family faces many challenges but manages to flourish in New York. Eve and her husband both have extremely successful careers as designers and art directors in publishing at Simon & Schuster. As a working mother in the 1950s, Eve is a bit of an anomaly but she is remembered by many of her coworkers fondly (also as hard and tough) and with admiration for her outstanding work and creativity as a designer. One gets the sense that Metz wishes she had asked her mother more about her life and that she had been more understanding of how her mother’s childhood trauma had impacted her and the whole family’s history. Eve’s story is also a reminder not to take people for granted or to underestimate the impact of each individual’s history in the creation of who they fundamentally are. —Jane Kinney Denning 5/21 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 55

poetry

EDITED BY Phillip X Levine

Whale

Three Stanzas

There’s a whale in my backyard I’ve tried to water it But it’s not easy to reach all the places it needs To stay hydrated And alive It sings a deep sad song Sometimes so long and low And I worry I’m the only one who hears it

Lotus

It’s too big to lose Its presence unnerving It’s too big to forget Or minimize Or plant a garden around and transform it Into something else “There’s a whale in my backyard” I tell my friends “What should I do?” It belongs in the ocean It belongs somewhere that cradles it Keeps it safe And let’s it feel free And weightless Where it can hide Or rise When it needs “Did I trap it somehow?” I ask them Did I siren it here And strand it With promises I wasn’t capable of keeping? There’s a whale in my backyard And I do all I can To keep it —Siobhan McBride Pond Pieces Pond never sees own reflection. Trees, shrubs, grass, clouds, sky and sun hoard pond’s surface like outsiders pushing to see the other side through a peephole. Wind, as a friend, shivers blurs, and rain pockmarks the gazing into choppy jigsaw puzzle pieces flung out of frustration of the picture not coming together. Pond yearns for moonless nights where sight is blind, and grass tickles, startles insects into a tease, where pond admires itself in touch all around. —Diane Webster

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Submerged neck-deep Yet I smile The smile you call a lotus Consciousness Consciousness too is addiction Addiction too is pain Staying conscious all the time What utter pain Only an addict knows Gladness and Sadness Sadness is my breath Gladness is my smile Smiles do have types Breath is beyond types —Guna Moran (Original Assamese poem titled “Tinita Stavak”) Tr. Nirendra Nath Thakuria Sonnet Looking for Utopia What would it take to craft a government that met the needs of everyone? A feat to challenge gods, who might decide to send the ablest members of their kin to meet, assess the vagaries of politics with us until we’d crafted something real, not conjured like a slick magician’s trick, with language so compelling we would feel the majesty of what we’d built, a place where being just and true was more than words, where no one felt left out because of race or creed, where all our voices would be heard. A nation none have known except in sleep, where visions oft reflect the hopes we keep. —William J. Joel At Eighty-Seven He’d still strap on his old Gibson guitar, pluck at the strings with wrinkled fingers, sing in a deep cackle; the words he strained to remember. God and the devil, good women and bad, barrooms and churches, poverty and penance— the same old same old and always in G. —John Grey

Waking Outside the body, all things are encumbrances — Charles Wright I hear a grinding sound Mechanical, irregular. The sound of something breaking. I dreamt I’d discarded an old anatomy poster. It got caught up in the shafts and pulleys of a conveyor belt. The wheels jammed. Electric arcs stabbed the air, sparked and coalesced. Paper. Metal. The fire consumed it all. J. sends more explicit emails these days. Describes the fatigue, the experimental treatments. He is also preparing his will. He reports he is happy —maybe content is the better word— with his lawyer. He is content. At the last: He Does Not Covet. We’re down to the last of the suet and birdseed. Perfect timing for this changing season. We can leave the birds (to God or) to their own devices Now. It is a good time to replace thick sweaters with lighter ones. Adjust the clock and replace the hours with lighter ones. Discuss lighter topics. Eat lighter meals. Outside the body, all things are encumbrances. Except for the body, all things have weight. —Hannah Brooks We Only Hear the Silence On the first day of winter, we take our puffer coats and boots packed with plastic bags from the grocer down to the creek. It is frozen over, surrounded by a soft snow that fell simply while we slept. As the other kids graze their gloved hands across the glittering white, I think about last spring — how this creek, rippled with water then, called a boy not much younger than me to it, drowned him in its shallow mouth. I think, maybe he is still here, pounding the underside of ice with his small fist, asking this new season for a second chance. —Samantha Spoto

I Will Take a Walk Today

Allowing Myself to Be Bored

Central Park

I will take a walk today. It will be a difficult walk. The day ends at a loss about how to describe the day.

I experience a moment of boredom, and wonder what to do next? Doing nothing— nothing doing— Is there a shortcut to happiness— Do I have to reinvent the wheel? Do I always have to be climbing up a mountain or creating something new in order to not feel guilty or that I might be wasting time? Then I remember— I’m still breathing effortlessly— If that keeps me alive, what else could be more important? I breathe in slowly and experience a moment of genuine happiness. I can do nothing. I have everything.

two companion photographs in black and white, we took turns standing in profile before the bright blossoming magnolia tree in Central Park, with the reflecting pool fuzzy and out of focus down the hill both bearded and my hair longish yours shorter just coming out of chemo but the twinkle was there, a sparkle from the unknowable working its way free.

Ecological succession at Stewart State Forest: Woodlands of maple, oak, elm, shagbark hickory, hophornbeam. Fields of indian hemp, dogwood, buckthorn, bitter dock. Black seeded plantain, cinquefoil, multiflora rose, bird vetch, field pennycress, bull thistle, greater celandine. Autumn olive bush in full springtime bloom, common comfrey, brome, germander speedwell, wingstem, sensitive fern. The poet was succinct and to the point: “taking/the field by force.” Everywhere is troubled. There’s protest upon this land. Raw protest. —Steve Clark

Sorrows of Willows Rain drums somber songs. Willows listen getting ready to weep. Roots soak up flood for late night tears. Wispy green appears, branches hang low, Inconsolable. —Jerrice J. Baptiste

—Milton P. Ehrlich One Steve Class writing prompt Steve (last week was Bill) turned out of the 12 women in the class 5 had been married or almost married to Steves. (None had been married or almost married to Bill.) Another Steve (2) Started asking everyone for Steve stories. Emma said she once worked with a Steve who wore ill-fitting pants and beige Wallabee shoes. He was a prick. The whole story.

we’d just come from the alice in wonderland statue, mad hatter in tableaux with the rabbit and prim child in the victorian apron; you laughing as I made you sit in her lap, but that picture didn’t come out, no, only the one of the two of us staring into the distance, as if we could see the future, like peering down a rabbit hole where mathematical algorithms, relativism-space-time-coordinates could fix us forever still, in that eternity of our own space, explain the lost moments spent on the couch letting poisons drip into your blood, like swarming statues broken from their pedestals at the metropolitan museum, slowly dissolving like Ozymandias in the desert; all the ancients crumbling into whirlwinds of dust, as alice and alice, and the rabbit and alice, and the statue and alice, stumble before me into that blackened hole of a photograph, and I hear your laughter again, as you throw stones at the tiny ships sailing on the reflecting pool, tsunamis swamping the delicate wooden boats, controlled by strings from ancient mariners who patrol the shoreline like gods from Olympus; until driven to holy madness they pursue us, bloody invective strengthening their limbs, till we splash across the pool and up the slope to stand breathless beneath that tree, flowers falling like pink rain into our upended mouths, not sensing from the photo that our feet are soaked, and a Cheshire cat is grinning somewhere. —Thomas Belton

Snowbound, Evening Light We have been here all along, so it will occur to us on the other side when we reach out our fingertips like leaves for the last light, laughing, we have never been. —Thomas Festa

A Stranger’s Steves (3)

Full submission guidelines: Chronogram.com/submissions

Woman I met yesterday on a park bench her name is Susan I asked do you know any Steve stories for my collection? Can you believe I actually married three of them she said.

I Want to Elope

—Esther Cohen

—Elena Botts

I’ve been asking around, don’t worry. I only ever kissed a girl. I can’t listen to music. It will be evidence of my being here today. I don’t want to marry, I want to run away. I want a series of days and to say hello and hello. I’ve been thinking about good morning, I’ve been thinking about good night. I miss presence.

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mixed media

Julian Rozzell Jr. in Ephraim Asili's film The Inheritance.

This month, as the weather warms, we make note of several area arts venues that are cautiously reopening under New York State guidelines, congratulate an award-winning upstate filmmaker, and observe the passing of a musical maverick. —Peter Aaron

Skyspace Opens at Mass MoCA Described by the artist as “a specifically proportioned chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky…[that] can be autonomous structures or integrated into existing architecture,” James Turrell’s environmental Skyspace sculptures place the viewer—often groups of viewers, due to the creations’ sheer size—literally in the middle of his works. The latest and largest of Turrell’s Skyspaces, a repurposed concrete water tank measuring 40 feet in diameter and 40 feet high, will be on view at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, starting on May 29. Its ceiling will open during dusk and dawn to expose the sky while interior lighting creates the illusion of the sky being around the viewer; during the day, the dome will be closed to create a controlled sensory environment. The work joins “Into the Light,” a long-term retrospective of Turrell’s work at the museum—the only such collection in North America. Massmoca.org.

Hudson Filmmaker Wins Parisian Prize & Guggenheim Fellowship Chronogram congratulations go out to Hudson resident and filmmaker Ephraim Asili, whose experimental film The Inheritance has won Grand Prize in Paris, France’s prestigious Cinéma du reél festival. Asili, a Bard College faculty member and DJ (his “In the Cut” airs monthly on WGXC), produced the feature-length debut through a commission from EMPAC in Troy, where it was shot over several months in one of the experimental media center’s black-box studios. The Inheritance, which has also been named by the British Film Institute as one of the 50 best films of 2020, merges the histories of the Black Arts Movement, the MOVE Organization, and Asili’s time in a Black Marxist collective in his native Philadelphia. The movie, which screened at Lincoln Center last month, is available for viewing via Grasshopper Film’s website. At press time, it was announced the Asili was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship. Grasshopperfilm.com.

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Bard SummerScape and Music Festival to Return Bard College’s celebrated SummerScape festival will be back this July and August. The seven-week summit of opera, concerts, dance, cabaret, and film culminates with the Bard Music Festival, which centers around a selected composer: 2021’s featured figure is the influential French composer, conductor, and teacher Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979). Associated arts events that will take place at the Annandale-on-Hudson campus’s Fisher Center and seasonal Spiegeltent, as the program offers lectures and presentations on Boulanger’s life and the world that surrounded her. Highlights include the world premiere of I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a new commission from Bard’s Fisher Center Choreographerin-Residence Pam Tanowitz and Bernstein Award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery; and the first fully staged North American production of King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), the only opera by Boulanger’s compatriot and near-contemporary Ernest Chausson. Events will be staged for limited in-person audiences both indoors and out while adhering to stringent safety protocols. Check the website for full schedule. Fishercenter.bard.edu.

Basilica Hudson's 2021 Season After hosting a March limited-audience, pop-up appearance by legendary cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond and a virtual version of its alwaysanticipated Drone festival in April, the cutting-edge arts center Basilica Hudson recently unveiled its 2021 season, which includes plans for an expansion of its online programming. While the fireworks-festooned (Freak) Flag Day and post-Pride Day dance parties that the site traditionally hosts in June remain on hold, the facility plans to celebrate LGBTQ culture via online events, while arts-and-ecology programming is being devised for July. In August, the venue is once again partnering with the Hudson Eye festival to celebrate the local creative community, and September will see the return of the iconic SoundScape music and art festival, which this year will be held at nearby PS21 in Chatham. Ongoing are Basilica’s Non-Fiction Screening Series of films at the Greenville DriveIn; Hudson As Muse artist-in-residence series; and Basilica Conversation Series Podcast. See the website for event dates and details as they become available. Basilicahudson.org.

PS21 Announces Summer Season With its state-of-the-art, open-air pavilion theater and

Malcolm Cecil, inside TONTO, the world's largest analog synthesizer, at his home in Saugerties in 2007. Photo by Fionn Reilly

100 acres of trails and grounds, PS21 in Chatham is especially well equipped to adapt to safe and socially distanced programming. The performing arts center has revealed the schedule of its 2021 summer season, which commences on Memorial Day weekend with the first installment of its summer Modern Opera Fest. The opening program, which runs May 29-30, features two performances by the Heartbeat Opera company of “The Extinctionist,” a commission developed in residency at PS21 that addresses the question of having a child in a world threatened by global warming. For a rundown of PS21 2021 summer events, visit Ps21chatham.org.

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Malcolm Cecil (1937-2021) Not many people knew that the world’s largest analog synthesizer—TONTO, the very one that gave Stevie Wonder’s 1970s hits “Higher Ground,” “Superstition,” and “Living for the City” their futuristic funk sound— was once hidden away in a barn-cum-studio in Malden-on-Hudson. But the Saugerties hamlet was where its creator, Malcolm Cecil, who died last month after a long illness, resided, and, for decades, where the 300-square-foot, sci-fi-set-looking instrument resided as well. An acronym for The Original New Timbral Orchestra, TONTO was constructed at the end of the 1960s by Cecil and his fellow musicianproducer Bob Margouleff and used by their Tonto’s Expanding Head Band duo, as well as on Wonder’s 1971-1974 albums Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale and recordings by others. Born in London, England, Cecil began his musical career as a bassist, working with the BBC Radio Orchestra; UK blues pioneers Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner; and in the house band at jazz club Ronnie Scott’s, where he performed with visiting American jazz

artists. The interest in electronics he’d cultivated during his stint as an RAF radar operator led to his making recordings of rising acts like the Animals and the Who. In 1968 he immigrated to America, where he took a job in New York at Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios and began developing TONTO before going on to work with the likes of the Isley Brothers, Steven Stills, Billy Preston, the Jackson Five, Little Feat, Bobby Womack, T. Rex, Jeff Beck, the Doobie Brothers, Weather Report, and Gil-Scot Heron and make soundtracks. He and his surviving wife, artist Poli Cecil, began living full time in Malden in 2002, and Malcolm became an adjunct teacher at Columbia Green Community College. Although he sold TONTO to the National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta, in 2013, Cecil had by then returned with gusto to his first instrument and, not long before last year’s COVID closures, was still frequently performing on bass at local jazz nights. “Throughout my career, I’ve always tried to balance the technical stuff with the musical stuff,” he told your arts editor when profiled for the August 2013 issue of Chronogram. After a life well balanced, the influential and genial Cecil passed away on March 28. 5/21 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 59

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Terry Fugate-Wilcox in front of Fulcrum Gallery (480 Broome Street, Manhattan) on March 17, 1995, before an Actual Art event in which firecrackers were placed in a container and set off to splatter paint onto a canvas, part of a series of work by the artist that employed small explosions.

Lighting the Fuse

“Hudson’s like an unlit firecracker, and we’re going to light the fuse,” vows artist Tery Fugate-Wilcox. He’s wearing an iridescent lime green shirt, purple pants, and yellow shoes, all designed by the brand International Male. Around his neck is a pair of hot pink underpants, which double as a COVID mask. He looks like an `80s Las Vegas lounge singer with a Master’s degree in metaphysics. We’re sitting in his new gallery, Shakespeare’s Fulcrum, which opened in Hudson in April. Tery Fugate-Wilcox is the prophet of Actual Art, a movement in which artists attempt to remove themselves from the art-making process. Dan Dempster has an underwater studio in the Bahamas where he uses seawater to corrode his sculptures. Maria Ceppi grows actual grass (of numerous colors) on her canvases. (“You have to water the paintings,” Fugate-Wilcox explains.) As for the prophet himself, his new project is building a one-acre slab on the San Andreas Fault: The next earthquake will create the art. (To promote the plan, he’s giving out stickers with the slogan: “It’s Your Fault.”) Actualism is a real philosophy, articulated by the Italian theoretician Giovanni Gentile. “It’s kind of a Western version of Zen Buddhism,” Fugate-Wilcox remarks—which may explain his conversational style. “Who invented Actual Art?” I ask. “Probably the

Levi’s outfits,” the artist remembers. “He walked in with his cape and cane and six naked ladies in feathers and furs—it was like the room went from black-and-white to color. I went home and burned all my Levis, and started over. Fashion can change you.” His wife and constant companion, Valerie Monroe Shakespeare—who was directly descended from Shakespeare’s brother—often wore dresses with transparent panels, which rendered her effectively topless. (Marie Claire magazine recently included a photo of Shakespeare among the 30 most scandalous Met Gala dresses of all time.) She cooked weekly dinners at their gallery, which drew politicians, artists, and such celebrities as Robert De Niro and John F. Kennedy Jr. Fugate-Wilcox developed Parkinson’s disease in 2005, which he attributes to the toxicity of September 11. (He lived a couple blocks from the World Trade Center.) His wife contracted cancer, and eventually died of an untreatable infection in 2011. Why is he in Hudson? “I was brought up here by a collector who saw I wasn’t behaving properly when my wife died,” Fugate-Wilcox recalls. He finds the Hudson Valley rejuvenating. On May 22, “The New Divine Feminine” exhibition will open at Shakespeare’s Fulcrum, 612 Warren Street, in Hudson. —Sparrow

Cherokee,” he replies, deadpan. “Didn’t they invent everything?” (He himself is half-Sioux.) “Do you live alone?” I ask him. “For eight hours a day,” he answers. Fugate-Wilcox shows me a painting divided in half horizontally. The top half is a “fake Jackson Pollock,” as he puts it. When you set the painting out in the rain, the top half liquefies and drips onto the bottom half. “The painting paints a painting,” explains the artist. The work is from the show “Shmorgisborg,” a salon-style showcase of previously unseen works of Actual Art on display through May 20. Fugate-Wilcox has had a long and varied career. He helped create electronic music for the group Silver Apples in the 1960s. He designed the interior of the Tunnel nightclub in Tribeca in 1986. An earlier incarnation of this gallery opened in the basement under the SoHo Guggenheim Museum in 1993. Perhaps he is best known for creating a nonexistent gallery with a fake address on 57th Street (the “Jean Freeman Gallery”), whose hoax-shows were written up in the New York Times. Art in America called this prank “the conceptual artwork that ended conceptual art.” Quoth Fugate-Wilcox: “Art is too important to be taken seriously.” A meeting with Salvador Dali was formative. “We had a party to greet him; we were all wearing our `80s

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Patti Smith performs at Kaatsbaan on May 22. Photo by Jesse Ditmar

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When your arts editor and Stella Arbrera, the artistic director of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, last spoke, it was for Chronogram’s May 2020 issue. At that point, the closures to arts venues and businesses brought about by the onset of COVID-19 were a fresh concept, and an uncertain Abrera was, like so many of her counterparts at similar organizations, grappling with her facility’s sudden pivot to virtual programming while “trying to prepare the future and not knowing what that means.” Thankfully, with the advent of the vaccine and the measured easement of safety restrictions, there is a much clearer path forward now, even if we’re not quite out of the woods yet. This month, though, the renowned Kaatsbaan center is taking its programming into the woods—and the fields—literally, with the staging of the inaugural Kaatsbaan Spring Festival, which will take place May 20-23 and May 27-30 outdoors on Kaatsbaan’s verdant 153-acre Tivoli grounds. “It’s been a long year for everybody, but for us, in some ways, it actually flew by,” says Abrera about the steady flow of web-based programming, combined with the behind-the-scenes festival organizing, that has kept her and her coworkers busy since last spring. “The Kaatsbaan team, led by [executive director] Sonja Kostich and me, really came together to be able to provide opportunities online for artists to continue working during the pandemic, and with helping to plan and put together everything for the spring festival.” Dance has been the central element of Kaatsbaan’s operation since its 1990 founding by choreographers

Martine van Hammel and Kevin McKenzie as the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, and the spring festival’s related offerings do not disappoint when it comes to the medium of movement. Set to perform for the festival on the campus’s two recently erected outdoor stages are dancers from the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the New York City Ballet, Dorrance Dance, and Abrera’s former outfit, the American Ballet Theatre. But, reflective of Kaatsbaan’s widening of its programming to include other disciplines, the maiden festival will also feature newly installed works by sculptors Emil Alzamora, Stuart Farmery, Tristan Fitch, Jared Handelsman, Kenichi Hiratsuka, Portia Munson, E. M. Power, Gregory Steel, Kurt Steger, Christina Tenaglia, and Millicent Young. Also on the menu is a culinary component curated by Esquire’s food and drinks editor, Jeff Gordiner, who will moderate roundtables of local authors and experts on foraging and the Hudson Valley food scene. “The culinary element was a natural inclusion when we were putting the festival together,” says Kostich. “Food is such a big part of life in the region, which is being called ‘the new Napa Valley.’” Music also figures into the festival, which will premiere American Lyric, a new site-specific, commissioned work by musicians Hunter Noack (founder of the acclaimed “In a Landscape” outdoor classical series) and James Edmund Greeley with dancers Garen Scribner, Coral Dolphin, Bobbi Jene

Smith, Or Schraiber, ShanDien LaRance, and Taylor Stanley and film by Jeremy Jacob. But for many the icing on Kaatsbaan’s cake for the festival will be the May 22 appearance by Patti Smith with her longtime sideman Tony Shanahan. The evening, which is being curated by another sometime Smith band mate, guitarist Oliver Ray, will combine poetry with music. “We’re so very grateful it’s happening,” says Kostich about the rare, intimate performance by the punk and literary icon. “The show is being planned as a celebration of Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday.” In addition, acclaimed indie rock band Yo La Tengo will perform on May 29 and folk/psych guitarist Steve Gunn will play on May 30. Of course, COVID-19 precautions will be part of the landscape for the festival, whose rollout has been informed by Kaatsbaan’s success with its 2020 summer festival. Tickets are $22.50 to $150, with a 10-percent discount for students, seniors, veterans, and essential workers. Tickets are limited, as the venue will operate at less than three percent of its regular capacity to promote safety; state event safety guidelines will be followed, all seating is outdoors, and each ticket holder will be assigned a four-foot-by-six-foot seating area. Parking is limited, so carpooling is strongly recommended; preshow emails will include the option to purchase a reserved parking spot. In partnership with Stockade Works, digital tickets for select virtual performances will also be made available on May 1. —Peter Aaron 5/21 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 63

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Fourfit, Eric Forstmann

“ERIC FORSTMANN, 21” AT ECKERT FINE ART Contemporary realist painter Eric Forstmann is showcasing his incredible still lifes of Oxford shirts, various jars and glasses––like the magnificently detailed and colorful painting called Shelf-Employed––and the serene Berkshire landscape for the 21st time at Eckert Fine Art in North Adams, Massachusetts. “I’m an eyeball realist,” says Forstmann. “I look at things and try to do as much justice to the subject as I possibly can by choosing ordinary objects.” In Forstmann’s strikingly realistic paintings, the celebrated artist commands the viewer to look at the world through his eyes. May 29–June 30. Janeeckertfineart.com

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11 JANE STREET, SAUGERTIES “PORNWEAVINGSEXHIBITION.” Norm Magnusson. May 22-June 27.

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT “After the Mobile: Tim Prentice.” Through October 4.

ANN STREET GALLERY

104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH “Answer Tell Pray Answer Look Tell Answer Answer Tell.” Elena Ailes, CFGNY, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Laurel Schwulst, and Kevin Zhu. Through June 20.

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BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN

Mid-Hudson, and Cornell Creative Arts Center. May 1-July 31.

“Flights of Fancy: The Botanical and Bejeweled Universe of Mindy Lam.” The magical jewelery of Minday Lam. May 1-June 6.

D'ARCY SIMPSON ART WORKS

5 WEST STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA

BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK

“The Power of 10.” Curated by Jane Hart, exhibiting artists include Francie Bishop Good, Richmond Burton, Amanda Church, Elisabeth Condon, Lydia Dona, Stephen Lack, Michael Rodriguez, Alexander Ross, David Shaw, and Jennifer Wynne Reeves. May 8-June 20.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

409 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

“UNGUNS: Will Squibb.” Sculptures of transformed weapons. Through December 31.

DIA:BEACON

3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON Works by Lee Ufan, Sam Gilliam, Barry Le Va, Richard Serra, Mario Merz, and others on long-term view.

ECKERT FINE ART GALLERY

1315 MOCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA “Eric Forstmann—21.” Iconic still life paintings. May 29-June 30.

EMERGE GALLERY & ART SPACE

“Jacinta Kroner.” Collages and ethereal paintings. May 3-31.

“Visions: Real & Imagined.” Featuring Mark Beard, David Konigsberg, Frank Faulkner, David Dew Bruner, and photography by David Seiler. Through June 6.

ART OMI

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LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE

71 EAST MARKET STREET #5, RHINEBECK

1405 COUNTY ROUTE 22, GHENT “Kianja Strobert: When Is Brunch?” Sculptures, paintings, and objects at Art Omi’s Newmark Gallery. Through May 16.

ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER 24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS

“18th Annual Members Exhibition.” Rotating window installations curated by Diane Michener and Lucy Michener. Through June 20.

BARRETT HOUSE ART CENTER

55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “Fun House.” Group show of surreal, fantastic, and bizarre art curated by Silvia Cubiñá. May 8-June 20.

225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA "A Change in the Light: Cliche-Verre in 19thCentury France." Through May 16. “Erin Shirreff: Remainders.” Photographs, prints, and video that examine Shirreff’s fascination with the mythmaking behind art history. Through January 2, 2022. “Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed.” Sculpture. May 8-October 31.

CORNELL CREATIVE BUSINESS & ARTS CENTER 129 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON

“IDEA: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity in America.” A collaborative social justice art exhibit presented by with New Horizons Resources, Arc

228 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES

“Cut Pieces.” Group show of collage art. May 8-June 27.

124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE

"Women Picturing Women: From Personal Spaces to Public Ventures." Through June 13.

FRIDMAN GALLERY

475 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Land Escape”. Nanette Carter, Athena LaTocha and Wura-Natasha Ogunji. The opening on May 1 will culminate at 8pm with an outdoor audio-visual performance by Victoria Keddie, using NASA’s live feed of space debris orbiting above Beacon. May 1-June 27.

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GARRISON ART CENTER

PAMELA SALISBURY GALLERY

“Guardians of the Land.” Solo exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Deborah Lecce. May 22-June 20. “Saints and Samarai.” Panel paintings by Holly Sumner. May 22-June 20.

“Graham Nickson: Passages.” New watercolors and oil paintings. Through May 9. “The Carriage House: A Site-Spefici Installation.” Judy Pfaff. May 15-June 20. “Barbara Takenaga: Recent Paintings.” May 15-June 20. “Elisa Jensen: Closer to Home.” May 15-June 20.

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GREEN KILL

229 GREEN KILL AVENUE, KINGSTON “Christine Hughes, Jerry Orter, Scott Michael Ackerman.” Drawing, painting, sculpture. May 1-29.

HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART/CCS BARD 33 GARDEN RD, ANNANDALE-ONHUDSON

“2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects." Through May 30.

HILO CATSKILL

365 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL “Gali Greenspan: Vectors and Waves in Owego.” Through May 31.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK

20 COMEAU DRIVE, WOODSTOCK “Works in Wire by Alison Eriksen.” A retrospective tribute to the sculptor Alison Eriksen (19642019), whose roots and influences run deep in Woodstock. May 8-30.

Three Figures, Weaving, Alison Eriksen

“WORKS IN WIRE” AT HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK The intricate figurative sculptures of Alison Eriksen (1964-2019) are made from metal wire and wood—materials normally used to make musical instruments. “To me as an artist and musician, the elements of line, rhythm, and movement are primary interests whether in visual or auditory form,” Eriksen said. “Metal and wood conduct sound and respond to touch. Wire conveys movement and rhythm by its very essence.” Through May 30. Historicalsocietyofwoodstock.org Beauty Shots (detail), Norm Magnusson

“PORNWEAVINGSEXHIBITION” AT 11 JANE STREET Using the paper weaving process—an art technique taught to schoolchildren— Magnusson’s crosshatched assemblages are made from strips of pornographic magazines in an obsessive and repetitive process that conveys many people’s relationship to porn. Taken out of their original context and reassembled, the images stil, point away from sex and toward the commodification of desire. May 22–June 27 in Saugerties. 11janestreet.com

HOLLAND TUNNEL ART

46 CHAMBERS STREET, NEWBURGH "Subjective Logic." Sarah Walker, Mark Gibian and Joel Carreiro. Through May 23.

HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER 477 MAIN STREET, BEACON

“Contempo East to Perform.” Group exhibition of Asian American artists curated by Hoodie Crescent. May 8-30.

HUDSON RIVER MUSEUM

511 WARBURTON AVENUE, YONKERS “Librado Romero: From the River to the Desert.” Paintings and sketchbooks. Through June 27.

HUDSON VALLEY MOCA

1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL “How We Live, Part II.” Through January 31, 2022.

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART 134 JAY STREET, KATONAH

“Beatrice Scaccia: My Hope Chest.” Through June 27.

PINKWATER GALLERY

56 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON "Pinkwater Gallery à la Maison." Ongoing.

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317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “Form and Color: Judy Thomas.” May 2-30.

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1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON “Re-Read.” Photographs by Lothar Osterburg. May 1-June 26.

ROXBURY ARTS CENTER

5025 VEGA MOUNTAIN ROAD, ROXBURY “Ukrainian Railroad Ladies”. Sasha Maslov’s photos of Ukrainian rural and suburban landscapes. Through May 8.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ. EDU/MUSEUM. “Dirt: Inside Landscapes.” Through July 11. “Kathy Goodell: Infra-Loop, Selections 1994—2020.” Through July 11. “Lewis Hine, Child Labor Investigator.” Through July 11.

SEPTEMBER

449 WARREN STREET #3, HUDSON "Shake Up The Room." Works by Reginald Madison, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Mosie Romney, Razan Al Sarraf, Brittany Tucker. Curated by Michael Mosby. Through May 23.

SHAKESPEARE’S FULCRUM

612 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “The New Divine Feminine.” Group show. Juried by Terry Fugate-Wilcox. May 1-31.

STONELEAF RETREAT

838 ASHOKAN ROAD, KINGSTON “Ebony Reprinted.” Monoprints by Dana Robinson. RSVP only. May 29-30.

STORM KING ART CENTER

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“Crisis.” Site-specific installationby Rashid Johnson. Plus ongoing installation collection. Through November 8.

“occuring or situated between stars.” Group show. Exploration of the intra- and interpersonal. May 15-June 27.

THE TROLLEY BARN

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LIGHTFORMS

743 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON “Moving Forms/Dynamic Balance.” Work by Richard Erdman, Michael Howard, Henry Klimovicz, Jason Middlebrook, Martina Angela Müller, George Quasha, Patrick Stolfo, and Thorn Zay. Through June 21.

LONGYEAR GALLERY

785 MAIN STREET, MARGARETVILLE “Deborah Ruggerio & Gary Mayer.” Dual solo painting shows, plus members’ group show. May 14-June 7.

MAGAZZINO ITALIAN ART

2700 ROUTE 9, COLD SPRING “Nivola: Sandscapes.” A selection of 50 works of sandcast sculpting by Costantino Nivola (1911-1988). May 8-January 10.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY

17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ “45 Years: A Group Show.” Work by James Coe, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Linda Puiatti, Robert Trondsen, Staats Fasoldt, Marlene Wiedenbaum, Hardie Truesdale, Jack Neubauer, and others. Through May 15.

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4033 ROUTE 28A, WEST SHOKAN “Between Wind and Water.” Work by 17 visual artists, writers, and photographers who traveled together to Orkney, Scotland. May 22-July 10.

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489 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “Reel Exposure Teen Photography Festival.” Through May 13 “Up Close and Personal." Group show. May 28-July 1.

WASSAIC PROJECT

37 FURNACE BANK ROAD, WASSAIC “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now.” Group show in and around the Maxon Mills with a particular emphasis on immersive, sitespecific installations. May 22-September 18.

WINDHAM FINE ARTS

5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM "American Romanticist Master Artist: Barry DeBaun." Oil paintings. Through June 30.

WOMENSWORK.ART

4 SOUTH CLINTON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “Folk Is Art.” Group show of contemporary folk art. May 7-30.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION & MUSEUM

28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK “Celebrating the Centennial: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Woodstock Artists Association, Part 2.” Curated by Tom Wolf. Through September 12. “Re-Reading Disaster: Artist’s Books by Maureen Cummins.” Through May 23. “Small Works.” Juried by Karen Quinn. Through May 23. “The Vision of Care.” Juried by Robert Shane. Through May 23.

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“SHAKE UP THE ROOM” AT SEPTEMBER GALLERY This group exhibition in Hudson is curated by Michael Mosby, featuring works from Reginald Madison, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Razan Al Sarraf, Marcus Leslie Singleton, and Brittany Tucker. The show’s title is a command to disrupt the status quo, to reject complacency, and to script new futures—an apt prompt as we emerge from COVID into a new normal. Of special note are Tucker’s self-portraits, which examine disparities in white/Black representation through caricature of the white body, a direct inversion of the minstrel show that focuses attention on Tucker’s Black body. Septembergallery.com

Bison Comes Like a Storm (detail) ,Sahana Ramakrishnan

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Horoscopes By Lorelai Kude

SEISMIC SHIFTS AND WINDS OF CHANGE With Sun in Taurus with Uranus during most of May there’s a lot of potential for seismic shifting, beginning with Mercury and the Sun in Taurus square to Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius May 3 at the Last Quarter Moon in Aquarius. With Venus and Uranus in Taurus as well, tension between the conservative need for stability and the radical need for freedom reaches a point where something’s got to give. The question is: who gives, and how much? Mars in Cancer sextiles Uranus and the New Moon in Taurus May 11, squaring Wounded Healer Chiron in Aries. Courageously take the initiative to share vulnerability and dare to move beyond hurt feelings to discover a new inner strength. Jupiter enters Pisces May 13 where he’ll be through the end of July, enhancing our ability to forgive ourselves and each other. Transcendence is powerful possible May 17 at the Sun’s trine to Pluto. The drama, both personal and collective, really happens around the Full Super Blood Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius May 26. This eclipse hides the light of independence for a moment and lets us glimpse how dark a future without freedom might really be. Making peace with the past on a political level can’t happen until people make peace with themselves on a personal level. With Sagittarius’ ruler Jupiter square in Pisces, transcending the past means confronting that which we’ve repressed and denied. The winds of change can release us from spiritual doldrums, but only if we’re willing to be honest with ourselves and each other. Venus square Neptune May 27: can you handle the truth? Mercury in his home sign of Gemini makes a destabilizing conjunction to Venus before stationing retrograde May 29. Stay nimble and prepare for aftershocks; seismic shifts don’t come without tectonic adjustments.

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ARIES (March 20–April 19) Mars in Cancer all month puts your emotions in the driver’s seat. You’re in a hurry but not via the straight path; switchbacks as you ascend the mountain build security. May 11 is a potentially explosive day: Mars in Cancer square Wounded Healer Chiron in Aries and sextile unpredictable Uranus in Taurus, with New Moon in Taurus, placing all the planetary drama in the realm of your values, valuables and what you call “mine.” Unexamined vulnerabilities and raw hurt feelings may produce radical decisions not necessarily best for your long-term benefit. Cultivate calm in the midst of the storm.

TAURUS (April 19–May 20) The New Taurus Moon May 11 is less than placid, as assertive Mars in emotional Cancer squares Wounded Healer Chiron in fiery Aries, and sextiles shocking Uranus in Taurus, making this lunation in your home sign one of supercharged emotions. You may feel like goring the source of abruptly delivered information with your bull horns, but don’t kill the messenger before ensuring what looks like truth is fact. Venus sextile Chiron and trine Saturn at First Quarter Moon in Leo May 19 helps soothe the savage beast within. Seek to understand the motivation of those who challenge you now.

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Mercury at the final degrees of Taurus trines Pluto in Capricorn May 2, creating space for you to ask for the resources and financial support you need to build your practical, sustainable, and profitable idea. Mercury moves into his home sign of Gemini and squares Jupiter at the Last Quarter Moon in Aquarius May 3, challenging you to sharpen your elevator speech and keep alert for unexpected xi iet • rel a a n • q uCreativity le opportunities to pitch your initiative to bigwigs. c • ul peaks at the Mercury-Venus conjunction May 29, followed tif by Mercury Retrograde, and the search for solid ground upon which to build your dearest dream.

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LEO (July 22–August 23) The Sun in Taurus square Saturn in Aquarius May 3 at the Last Quarter Moon in Aquarius is your chance to speak now or forever hold your peace. Sun sextile Neptune with Jupiter entering Pisces May 13 opens a creative doorway with potential profit, Sun trine Pluto May 17 powerfully manifests your most noble instincts. Sun enters Gemini and squares Jupiter May 20–21, occasionally hiding your motivations from your own consciousness until they jump out of corners to surprise you. The Full Super Blood Moon / Total Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius May 26 expresses your creativity through dramatic extremism.

VIRGO (August 23–September 23) Mercury’s trine to Pluto May 2 favors making a transformative change in the way you communicate your needs around creative autonomy in the workplace. Mercury moves into Gemini and squares Jupiter May 3, powerfully enhancing your public position by reminding everyone you’ve always been “one of the people”. Receive the respect you deserve May 12 at Mercury’s trine to Saturn during Moon in Gemini; Jupiter’s ingress into Pisces May 13 translates that respect into admiration and even desire as partnership possibilities arise from seemingly nowhere. Mercury conjuncts Venus and then stations retrograde May 29; prepare for a sentimental journey.

LIBRA (September 23–October 23) Venus enters multifaceted, multidimensional Gemini May 8, emphasizing the spiritual dimensions of romantic love. Venus square Jupiter wants to love-bomb uncomfortable differences, but don’t short-sell faith’s role in establishing common ground. There are no shortcuts to intimacy if you want something built to last. Venus sextiles Wounded Healer Chiron and trines serious Saturn May 18–19, confession of vulnerability is good for the soul and healing for the heart, which learns to trust when revealing its tender side. Venus squares Neptune May 27; discern wisely between nuanced variants of perspective and plain old disinformation, especially in matters of the heart. 5/21 CHRONOGRAM HOROSCOPES 69

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Mars in emotional Cancer square vulnerable Chiron in courageous Aries, and sextiles abrupt shock-jock Uranus at the New Moon in Taurus May 11. Surprise announcements and unforeseen occurrences in the partnership realm come without warning, like an earthquake. Sun trines Pluto May 17, illuminating what parts of the edifice have crumpled and which still stand. Upon that which remains you may build with confidence. Mars trine Neptune May 31 giving new life to an old dream. Everything you’ve survived has only made you stronger. What would have killed you years ago is easy pickings now. Trust your own experience.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22) Jupiter squared by Mercury May 4 and Venus May 8 implores you to tell the truth in all partnership matters, personal and professional. Jupiter enters Pisces May 13 through the end of July for a taste of 2022’s zeitgeist. Sun square Jupiter May 21 revealing family matters which need resolution. The Total Lunar Eclipse of the Full Super Blood Moon in Sagittarius May 26 is either your personal Olympic gold medal for extreme emotional intensity or your ego’s Gotterdammerung. Either way take great care not to burn any bridges you’ll need to re-cross to get to your next adventure.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20) Taurus Sun square Saturn in Aquarius May 3, testing nobly conceived ideas for practical sustainability. You’re evaluated favorably at Mercury’s trine to Saturn May 12, demonstrating your harmonious efficient systems at work. Venus trines Saturn May 19 bringing supportive, positive feedback around your creative endeavors which always have a practical application. Saturn’s retrograde starts May 23 and continues through mid-October. This period gives you the time to go back and develop ideas and initiatives you began to gestate midway through February of this year. Nothing is wasted as you follow the breadcrumb trail back to where it all began.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19)

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Last Quarter Moon in Aquarius May 3 with Mercury square Jupiter and Sun square Saturn brings some unwanted drama. You’re on a roll and don’t want to slow down long enough to explain yourself to the Muggles or supporting cast players. Results are all that matter to you, while those impeding you seem only to care that methodology conform to their expectations. Mars square Chiron and sextile Uranus at the New Moon in Taurus May 11; the ensuing confusion could be good cover for you when at the last minute you realize cooperation is key to your future freedom.

PISCES (February 20-March 19) Venus in Taurus sextiles Neptune in Pisces May 2 for that warm and fuzzy feeling, Sun sextile Neptune for that inspirational, golden glow May 13. It’s a doubledose of you-can-do-it energy, inspiring you to doubledown on your efforts to manifest your daydream into your daydream job. Get ready to answer sharp questions when Mercury squares Neptune May 22; quiz well under pressure and take one giant leap forward at the square of Venus to Neptune May 27. Diffuse a ticking time bomb on the domestic front May 31 at the trine of Mars to Neptune with straight-up truth telling.

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Integrative Healing Arts . . . . . . . 37

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Margery Schab in a photograph from the exhibition “I Still Count: Voices from Nursing Homes.”

Margery Schab’s photographs of residents at longterm care facilities is exactly what New Yorkers need to see right now. “I/We Still Count (Voices from Nursing Homes)” is the end result of 20 years of visiting nursing homes pre-pandemic, but the project has taken on a larger and incredibly important narrative since more than 5,000 New York nursing home residents have died from COVID-19 in the past year. It was Schab’s time visiting her late husband in a nursing home that initially sparked her interest in 72 PARTING SHOT CHRONOGRAM 5/21

connecting with others in nursing care. “I started this series 20 years ago, and I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t think about all the people I took pictures of,” Schab says. “This was so enriching to my life and to just sum it up quickly, it’s the ‘extraordinary of the ordinary.’ We’ve forgotten that. And these people certainly reminded me of that.” After New York nursing homes became the epicenter of the state’s outbreak, Schab felt like it was time to dust off this project with some minor reworking. The interviews that complement her

portraits can now be accessed through voice memos at the exhibition. Schab hopes the series will widen the perspective on people in nursing home care. “All of humanity counts, no matter how young or how old,” Schab says. “The audience will be looking at them and hearing them and maybe see themselves. We all go through a process of life.” “I/We Still Count (Voices from Nursing Homes)” will be exhibited at the Art Society of Kingston (ASK), May 1–30. Askforarts.org. —Diana Testa

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