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DEPARTMENTS 6 On the Cover: Le Jugement Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have released a new tarot deck, Tarot of the Drowning World.

8 Esteemed Reader Jason Stern on the revolutionary worldview being born.

11 Editor’s Note Brian K. Mahoney makes room for the people of Beacon.

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30 French Twist: L’Impatience Ceramics What started as a hobby has turned into a growing business for Benedicte and Jerome Leclere.

HIGH SOCIETY 33 Lighting Up Four new dispensaries have opened in the Berkshires in the past year. We take a tour of the newcomers to the green revolution.

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12 Raising a Glass (Ceiling)

36 The Future of Work is Green

The region’s distilling scene is seeing more women crafting spirits and running beverage businesses.

A wave of green jobs is coming to New York and local educational institutions are meeting the moment.

16 Hudson Valley Craft Beverage Map

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19 Sips & Bites

41 Good to Go: Travel Nursing

Recent openings include Kitchen Sink Supper Club, Tony and Nick’s, Quinnie’s, and Momma Lo’s BBQ.

HOME 20 Community Consensus The cohousing commnuity at Cantine’s Island.

The rise of travel nursing in the Hudson Valley.

COMMUNITY PAGES 40 Beacon: Vibe Shift An ever-changing city looks to the ways in which its reclaimed abundance can benefit everyone.

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Living in Delusionville tracks the life and career of Beacon-based street artist Ron English. GUIDE, PAGE 65

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The Center for Photography at Woodstock moves to Kingston with a show of Doug Menuez’s photos.

Beacon-based street artist Ron English is the subject of the new film Living in Delusionville.

Live Music: Some of the concerts we’re going to this month include Bob Mould at Daryl’s House, Ornettiquette at Quinn’s, and the Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA.

The Short List: Savage Wonder ,Festival Tap NY, Hudson Valley Pirate Festival, “Stomp,” and much more.

Art exhibits: Shows from across the region, including “Floresence,” the debut exhibition at Turley Gallery.

Album reviews of Transition Zone by Fred Longberg-Holm, Abdul Moimeme, and Carlos Santos (reviewed by James Keepnews); Wickham Falls by Wickham Falls (reviewed by Morgan Y. Evans); and Genius of the Spirit by John Berenzy (reviewed by Jeremy Schwartz). Plus listening recommendations from Jerrice Baptiste, host of the show “Women of Note” on WKZE.

61 Books Jane Kinney Denning reviews Hooker Avenue, Jode Millman’s reimagining of the Kendall Francois murders. Plus short reviews of The Door-Man by Peter Wheelwright; What Are the Rich Doing Tonight? by Dennis Rush; How to Adjust to the Dark by Rebecca Van Laer; The Music Therapy Studio: Empowering the Soul’s Truth by Rick Shoshensky; and The Chocolate Jar and Other Stories by Roselee Blooston.

60 Poetry Poems by Riston Benson, Ryan Brennan, Liam Connor, Clifford Henderson, Robert Harlow, Nicole Hughes, Nina JeckerByrne, Anna Kevile Joyce, Wayne L. Miller, Emily Murnane, Megan Phillips, Bertha Rogers, and Eli Thompson-Jones. Edited by Phillip X Levine.

HOROSCOPES 76 Transformative Changes What the stars have in store for us this month.

PARTING SHOT 80 Elliott Landy’s Photos of Janis Joplin The Woodstock-based chronicler of rock legends releases a new book of photographs of Janis Joplin.

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A view of the potager garden where Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick staged and shot much of Tarot of the Drowning World.

Kahn & Selesnick Le Jugement, phtograph from the Tarot of the Drowning World

ong known as a mystical resource for predicting the fate and future of spiritual truth seekers, tarot cards have played an important role in music and arts. “Let’s go upstairs and read my tarot cards,” Rod Stewart sang as a pick-up line in “Stay With Me,” his 1971 megahit with the Faces. But tarot cards are also things of visual beauty featuring cryptic and sometimes menacing visual images that only an experienced reader truly knows how to interpret. Hudson-based visual artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have taken tarot imagery traditionally rendered on card stock and applied the mystery and intrigue to photography with mixed media, creating their own Tarot of the Drowning World. (This is not the duo’s first tarot. In 2017, they produced the Carnival at the End of the World Tarot deck.) After the pandemic started in March of 2020, they created a potager garden, a French kitchen garden that incorporates herbs, fruits, and vegetables with flowers and ornamentals to create a functional, aesthetically pleasing space. “In March 2020, we had all just entered 6 CHRONOGRAM 5/22

internal exile as the Plague was descending throughout the land,” Selesnick says. “There was nowhere to go but inside oneself, or set oneself the task of recalibrating the settings on the experience of time and space so that one’s immediate surroundings became a vast terrain in which to wander the whole day.” The minor arcana (the counting cards of the four suits) photographs were shot largely within a central square basin in the garden. “Over the course of the summer, the fruits, vegetables, flowers, and leaves grown in the potager became the stars of the photos, along with Bulgarian wheat sickles, press-molded biscuits, antique chapati rolling pins, and Delftware figurative blue-and-white goblets created for the project,” he says. “These last were used to represent the classic suits of swords, coins, wands, and cups.” Most of the major arcana (images with floating figures) were shot in the marshes of Columbia and Dutchess counties, some directly behind Khan’s house in Ghent. An invisible netting supported the items that didn’t float and arranged wild flowers gathered for specific meanings were used to create each

card in the deck. They suspended a camera on a long pole over the set, usually using a remote viewfinder to see and shoot at the right moments. Very little Photoshop was used. “We created these photos by changing perspective and floating the camera directly overhead about a body of water, the god’seye view of a world where water is rising up, infiltrating, and flooding, creating this netherworld dream space for us to see our future selves in,” Selesnick says. “Pretty much what you see in the images is a result of working with and fighting the elements of chaos and order in arranging the objects and flowers and costumed characters in the everflowing, uncontrollable water,” he adds. Running throughout these works is a harvest theme that follows the seasons from early spring until late fall with growth, death and rebirth. By combining the natural, organic elements of potage gardening with the modern technology of photography, Khan and Selesnick capture and create a magical new tarot all their own. Kahnselesnick.biz —Mike Cobb

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In school, perhaps 8th grade, I read about Galileo Galilei, the renaissance polymath who, along with Giordano Bruno and others, proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system. Here’s what I recall. In Galileo’s time, the prevailing geocentric cosmology was the dogma supported by the most powerful institution in Europe, the Church. Presumably this was because it meshed neatly with Biblical cosmology, which, at least when taken literally, places the Earth squarely in the middle of the creation. At the same time Europe received an influx of new tools for perceiving and evaluating the physical world. Notable acquisitions borrowed or stolen from the Arab society during the Crusades included mathematics (algebra comes from the Arabic aljabr, literally “the reunion of broken parts”) and lens technology that gave rise to new, far-seeing telescopes. These gave students of the cosmos the ability to observe, chart, and calculate the movement of celestial bodies with greater precision. These two currents—the dominant dogma and the new tools of observation and measurement—ran in parallel for a time. During this interstitial period in the evolution of worldviews the establishment scientists went to great lengths to prove the geocentric model. Their mathematical explanations were complex, sophisticated, and convincing, yet the models were so Byzantine that only the most erudite could understand the complexities of their formulations. These were the experts. In contrast to the geocentric proofs, the mathematical modeling for the heliocentric view was remarkably simple, elegant, and understandable without elaborate training. Anyone could understand it because it was verifiable with naked eye astronomical observation and common sense. More importantly, understanding the model didn’t require the indoctrination into dogma required to promote an ideology that contradicted what people saw. When the new renaissance thinkers proposed the heliocentric model, they were summarily dismissed, their work labeled fake science, censored, and made illegal. They were charged with terrorism, tried, and sentenced to death. Galileo recanted his theories and was spared. Giordano Bruno, whose statue now stands at the center of Campo de’ Fiori in Rome, his back to the Vatican, burned. The inscription at the base reads “A Bruno—Il Secolo da lui Divinato—Qui Dove Il Rogo Arse” (To Bruno—From the Age He Predicted—Here Where the Fire Burned). Mark Twain wisely observed that “history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Ask any researcher whose interests or views depart from a narrow set of acceptable dogmas and learn that she has either been forced to keep silent or has been defunded and her work labeled fake. The establishment makes heretics of anyone diverging from a narrow set of assumptions promoting discrete self-serving agendas. A further indication of the inflamed state of what is called science is the arrogance of its adherents. We are admonished to trust “experts” without question or recourse to common sense. We are told that the specialist’s work is too complex and complicated to understand without extensive indoctrination. Meanwhile, we can see clearly where the dominant worldview has led— catastrophic environmental destruction, obscene inequity of wealth and power between the rich and poor, and epidemic suggestibility to a handful of media corporations. The dominant worldview is what led to this situation, and it is not the solution. If history is any indication, this state of ideological fundamentalism suggests that a new model, a new worldview is nascent, trying to find its way into the world. I suspect this is a seismic shift in perception, a revolution of understanding akin to a new model of the universe. For me, the beginning is embodied in a formulation attributed to Socrates—summa scientia nihil scire—the highest knowledge is to know nothing. Striving to be empty of accumulated ideas opens a portal to mystery. Steadfastly facing the infinite mystery may lead to some genuine humility. Understanding that I don’t know opens the possibility of coming to see something new. My own inquiry has led to the consideration of what may be reliable bases of the new worldview. The unity of life. With humility, I see that though humanity has exceptional powers, the race is nevertheless an organ in the body of Great Nature and must strive to perceive and serve her purposes. Life is sacred. Life and all life’s manifestations as plants, animals, and humans, are an unfathomable mystery that I can only face with humility and reverence. I don’t know, but I can respect the unity of life. The universe is a cosmic ecosystem. Everything is an instrument for the transformation of energies. Everything eats and is fed upon. Beings exist in bodies at different scales and every being is part of a larger whole, which in turn is part of a still greater whole. Human beings are no exception and must strive to serve as transformers of energy in the way the cosmic ecosystem requires. These are some of my thoughts. How do you see the revolutionary worldview that is surely on the verge of being born?

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or the past 15 years, Chronogram has published a town profile each month (sometimes more than one) in our Community Pages section. It’s a wide-ranging feature in which we try and capture some of the longstanding essence of a place as well as the more transient zeitgeist of the moment, that lightning-ina-bottle vibe. Given the accelerated pace of change in the region over the last few years, we’ve spent a lot of time and energy chasing the rapid evolution of the Hudson Valley in our coverage. Right now, it feels like lightning is crackling everywhere. Earlier this year, we started experimenting with pop-up portrait shoots in the communities we cover. As well as reporting on the towns and photographing the main attractions and select businesses, we’ve invited members of the

The Whole Picture community to sit for a rapid portrait session with our photographer David McIntyre. We brought the traveling road show to Beacon on April 2, where we set up at Garage Gallery. (“Beacon: Vibe Shift” by Brian PJ Cronin begins on page 45.) Over 50 Beaconites showed up on a sunny spring day to be photographed. It was a glorious event, neighbors coming together to support their fair city. Even the mayor showed up! The only problem: We didn’t have enough room to run all the photos in the Community Pages section. And while all the photos will run online (Chronogram.com/Beaconshoot), we wanted to make sure everyone at the shoot got their picture in the magazine. Voila! A big thank you to everyone who came out on April 2 and to Scott Lerman and Susan Keiser of Garage Gallery for hosting us. 5/22 CHRONOGRAM 11

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Raising a Glass (Ceiling) WOMEN IN DISTILLING By Kristin L. Wolfe

rom former firehouses to village storefronts to historic farms, Hudson Valley distilleries come in all shapes and sizes. And, increasingly women are taking the reins as the industry expands. (There are currently 160 distilleries operating in New York State.) “The future looks bright,” says Amy Litt of the Hudson Valley chapter of Women Who Whiskey. “A lot of people who have been left out of the spirits industry are bringing their own chairs, to paraphrase Shirley Chisholm.” Litt, who happens to have a gender studies degree and who can quite easily offer a dissertation on the history of women at work in this country and the conflicts from industrialization and war to domestic labor or the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, continues: “Instead of just putting out a new vodka, bourbon, etc., that will compete for shelf space, women in our region are elbowing open other categories in really risky, exciting ways.” There have been women-owned or women-led distilleries since the Farm Distillery Act kicked off the craft beverage boom in 2007. No matter how long or short their tenure, the glasses they pour are varied, complex, and celebrate all that’s grown and nurtured in the region. Catskill Provisions, Callicoon When you walk into Catskill Provisions in Callicoon, the echo of the building’s former life as a firehouse makes sense, and yet the way owner Claire Marin has had it transformed is a sight to see. Split into three vast spaces with plenty 12 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 5/22

of walking around and sitting space inside and outside, it is part shop, gallery, tasting room, and restaurant. With the help of designer Hadley Wiggins-Marin (no relation), the space has a minimalist sensibility and yet a warmth from the honey-colored furniture and objects filling the space. Everything is intentional. Just like every spirit in Marin’s collection has honey, even minimally, running throughout it. Like many highlighted here, it took professional pivots, countless conflicts, and lab-like experiments to get to where Catskill Provisions and her award-winning Pollinator Spirits line is today. From a career in publishing and media to a focus on bee-keeping and honey, Marin soon married her honey operation to the world of spirits in 2011. She worked with local farmers, many of whom were facing real concerns surrounding fracking, and she got an education on the ins and outs of Sullivan County. Marin spent three years learning the trade, exploring possibilities and creating before selling her first bottle, a honey whiskey, in 2014. “I was a nomad at first and worked with other distillers,” Marin says, before deciding to go solo. “There was a point in 2018,” she says, “that I wondered if I was on the right path.” And yet, she says her partner redirected her and reminded Marin that the buzz of “what if ” would always be there. They bought the building in 2019 and just barely assembled the operation before the pandemic hit. Today, Marin and her team sell honey and spirits to over 300 restaurants in New York City,

not to mention ketchup, apple cider vinegar, and maple syrup. Most of her visitors, she says, come from Philadelphia and New York City, or Connecticut, Litchfield, in particular. “The brand is a feeling,” Marin says. She believes her line is soft on the palate, which can be due in large part to the kiss of honey running throughout. From the lineup: award-winning Pollinator Spirit line: Vodka, Gin, Bespoke Gin, Maple Bourbon, Honey Rye, Hone-Barreled. They are now experimenting with their own Amaro that will challenge Campari. A personal favorite (and surprise), their latest, limited batch called Bonfire Rye, with a hint of smokiness. Denning’s Point Distillery, Beacon In an old brick warehouse, just off Beacon’s main drag, Denning’s Point Distillery has the most citified vibe on the list. The interior feels like a large, open industrial loft with piping and tanks, with a small cocktail bar running along bags of grain, and a tasting nook near the entrance. The actual aging happens at a warehouse in Newburgh. The (possibly apocryphal) story goes that George Washington met with his officers at the spit of land in the Hudson called Denning’s Point during the Revolutionary War, and, although not confirmed, that Hamilton wrote the foundation for the Federalist papers there. Susan Johnson, owner of the distillery, revels in the area’s history which is noted as signatures on every bottle. “And to this day,” she notes, “there

are the remains of a cidery at Denning’s Point.” Johnson, who married her former marketing experience in both large corporate and small start-up businesses with the world of distilling in 2014, says “celebrating local history has been very important to us and is incorporated into each aspect of our brand.” Even the bottle tops beckon to the area’s role in the American Revolution. “Our signature turquoise wax was the color of the officers’ sash during the Revolutionary War that distinguished them from the foot soldiers,” Johnson mentions. “The Beacon Bourbon was named for the fires set on Mt. Beacon to alert enemy troop movement; the Great 9 Gin is a dual reference to the land grant of Dutchess County—the Great Nine Partners Patent (and the nine botanicals we use in this spirit),” she continues. Even the bar in the tasting room is studded by reclaimed “DPBW” bricks from the Denning’s Point Brick Works. When asked about how she got into distilling, Johnson says, “When my business partner, Karl Johnson, started talking about this business, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to weave everything together.” As a marketing generalist, she fully develops the brand strategy, which involves every aspect of the business—from the overall vibe for visitors on the weekends, to the visuals of the brand, the business development strategy. “It’s really the culmination of everything I’ve done before the distillery [and] far and away the best job I’ve had.” Instead of focusing on the many trials that have halted some women in the business, Johnson believes, in her experience, it has been a benefit. “In fact, I think being a woman-led business has opened some doors. People have been open and curious to hear my perspective and interested in learning more about what we are producing,” Johnson says. “I’m not the guy with the beard in a plaid flannel (which is a look I happen to love) so I think it’s been a new experience for some industry veterans to work with a woman. I’m sure I’ve been dismissed by others without even knowing it, but those wouldn’t be relationships I would have been interested in cultivating anyway.” A personal favorite of mine is the Maid in the Meadow vodka, with hints of herbs and honey, which, at time of print, had just been awarded a Gold Medal at the San Francisco World Spirits competition; and the Beacon Coffee Bourbon, a collaboration with Beacon’s Trax Espresso Bar & Coffee Roasters that tastes like an Italian affogato. Cooper’s Daughter Spirits, Claverack What a way to come full circle. Not only did the Newsome family fall in love with the land along the Claverack Creek, but they later discovered that there was a distillery there back in 1805, when it was owned by Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Speaker of the New York State Assembly. When Sophie Newsome and her husband Rory Tice began experimenting with infusions back in college at SUNY Plattsburgh, they had no idea that just a few years later, their experiments would end up becoming one of the area’s most popular local brands. Although it is a family affair, Newsome and her mom, Louise, are the owners. And, Cooper’s

At Catskill Mountain Moonshine, Allyson Barbaria has created a Nashville-style roadhouse tasting room on Market Street in Saugerties. Opposite: Louise and Sophie Newsome behind the bar in the tasting room at Cooper’s Daughter Spirits in Claverack, the distillery the mother and daughter jointly own. Photo by Mike Altabelo

Daughter is not just a clever name; Newsome is in fact the cooper’s daughter. The distillery is actually one of just two in the country with an actual cooperage on site, according to Newsome. Her father, Stuart, spent a lifetime as a contractor before shifting his focus to barrel-making. Wanting to maintain, yet bolster the history of the barn, he makes every barrel at the distillery. “I’ve always been passionate about the farm-totable movement,” Newsome says, and honoring traditional methods has been an integral part of the business. From apples or ramps to walnuts and roses, they work with neighboring farms for all their ingredients, and, after just five years, their small-batch whimsical concoctions have become popular selections in their outdoor cocktail garden or at the many markets they attend. In terms of being a woman in the business, she says, “there were definitely times when people looked to my dad in a meeting, but thankfully, with experience and confidence, that has changed.” Cooper’s Daughter Spirits offers a wide variety and highlights the agricultural stars of the region. From Black Walnut Bourbon (my personal

favorite) or Smoked Maple to Pumpkin Spice or Ramp Vodka, their line of bourbons, whiskeys, vodkas, and liqueurs creatively utilize the harvests of each season. C. Cassis Although there’s no public space yet, newcomer Rachael Petach and her sensational sipper/mixer C. Cassis get around. I caught her just before a mad dash to Chicago for a tasting event. After 12 years in Brooklyn, including many years at the Wythe Hotel and experience in food and beverage since she was 15, Petach had an itch for more. Something that brought her professional experience in line with her personal taste happened, to her surprise, while she was pregnant a few years ago. Looking for a non-alcoholic alternative but something akin to what she’d like as a cocktail, Petach began experimenting. Just before the pandemic, she landed on a confluence of flavors using the once banned bad-boy fruit of agriculture: the black currant. For nearly 100 years black currants had been banned due to the threat it posed to white pine. 5/22 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 13

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Susan Johnson behind the bar at Denning’s Point Distillery in Beacon. Photo by Meghan Spiro Photography

Fortunately, with the determined help of farmer and botanist Greg Quinn, the ban was lifted and the fruit returned in 2003. Today, its potential is endless. “I love black currants,” says Petach with a contagious enthusiasm. “I love them as a fresh fruit. I think they are phenomenal; they are herbaceous and semi-savory and really bright. And, totally cool.” For now, the space she creates in is referred to as the Studio, shared with her husband, and graphic designer Steven Quested. However, those visiting in Catskill can get a tasting, since the studio is connected, for the moment, to Left Bank Ciders. First bottled in December 2020 and originally envisioned as a spring or summer drink, C. Cassis gained instant popularity in the middle of the first pandemic winter. The sipper/mixer is much less sweet than its syrupy grandad, Creme de Cassis. It’s just 16-percent ABV, so it’s light on the alcohol, and blends well with other spirits like gin or vodka. Petach says she likes it with a little bubbly and a squeeze of lemon, like a spritz. When asked about being a woman in the business, Petach admits, “It can be exhausting to sit in this gender-niche anomaly space. How often do we say, ‘Look, it’s a male-owned company.’ It’s complex. Between [distilling’s] roots in early patriarchy and cultural judgment around women and drinking, it has taken a long time to course correct.” Petach says she’s technically a “rectifier,” “which falls somewhere between distilling, wine-making and alchemy,” she says. “We blend and balance and lightly ferment.” They wanted a quick, fruit-to-bottle process, so their fresh-frozen method has become a part of production, just one experiment of many to find the balance in flavor, color, and alcohol content she was aiming for. Currently playing with barrels that come its way, C. Cassis recently added to its light and bright signature version a whiskey barrel-aged iteration. Although the first bottle was certainly vibrant, and as Petach believes, will be the rage for spritzes all summer, the deeper, more textural edition was a personal favorite. C. Cassis (and their popular, graphic merchandise) is sold online, but also at select liquor stores across the country. When I told Petach that my local liquor store didn’t carry it, she made a note and said, “I’ll call them tomorrow!”

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Rachael Petach mixing up a batch of her currant liquer, C. Cassis. Photo by Phillip Angert Claire Marin left a career in publishing to start Catskill Provisions in Callicoon.

Catskill Mountain Moonshine, Saugerties You’d swear you were in the South when sidling up to the bar, just six weeks old at time of print, but you’d actually be in downtown Saugerties. In what was previously a soda fountain, the long bar lends itself to a festive, communal space. “Just an hour before you showed up, women from a bachelorette party were dancing on the bar,” owner Allyson Barbaria says, proudly, of the Nashville-inspired bar and distillery, Catskill Mountain 16 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 5/22

Moonshine. With cowboy hats along the walls, grain bags on the floor, and a clothesline of bras tagged with funny “pick-up” lines leading to the restrooms, Barbaria knows how to throw a party. “For the last 29 years, my husband and I made cider and even tried our hand at wine. At the same time a friend of ours was trying his hand at distilling,” Barbaria says. After a 2019 visit to Tennessee, they fell in love with the family-get-together vibe they experienced in Nashville, and thought, “There must be a way to incorporate the two experiences together and create one unique atmosphere back home,” Barbaria says. After a decade in accounting and a dream to be her own boss, the possibility finally presented itself when a friend and former colleague bought the corner building that is now home to Catskill Mountain Moonshine. Being able to create distillates from all that is available locally is a big draw. “It’s amazing how much agriculture is available right here in the Hudson Valley, [but] it’s a challenge to divide the time between creating spirits and then creating an experience to offer patrons,” she says. When asked about being an owner in the spirits business, Barbaria admits, “tenacious, professional women will always push forward and build equitable environments where they will thrive; this industry is a prime example of just that.” Even those who are more recently starting in the business, like Meg Swett, assistant distiller of Coppersea Distilling in New Paltz, admits, “It is fascinating and rewarding work [and] the image of a rugged, strong, rebellious, cigar-smoking white man making moonshine or distilling…is a facade. While it holds some truth, it is only a piece of the ever-changing story. Whisky is adaptable to whoever drinks it and it is shaped by the current reality of those who enjoy its nature.”

sips & bites Kitchen Sink Supper Club

After a long dining room closure for COVID, Kitchen Sink Food & Drink in Beacon reopened in January as an exclusive supper club. In this iteration of the restaurant, chef Brian Arnoff seeks to recreate the experience of going to a friend’s house for dinner, with a rotating, seasonal menu and communal seating. Guests can make a reservation and join in the communal dining experience, in which they’re seated with other parties, not just the people they came with. The prix-fixe menu switches every four to six weeks, according to what’s in season and what regional cuisines are inspiring the chefs. There’s no substitutions or long menu. It’s simply what Arnoff and his co chefs have chosen to serve you. Meals are five to six courses, with an optional beverage pairing. 157 Main Street, Beacon | Kitchensinkny.com

Tony and Nick’s

The iconic building at the corner of Wall and John streets in Uptown Kingston has been home to many restaurants over the years, including Alebrijes and the Kingston Tea Garden. Since 2018, it’s been Palizzata, a white-tabelcoth restaurant serving up Northern Italian fare like vitello tonnato and porchetta. But owners Eric and Joseph Cafaro noticed that when the pandemic began, their Ellenville restaurant, the more casual eatery Tony and Nick’s, was thriving while Palizzata, with its sit-down service, was struggling. So they pivoted, reopening the spot in March as a second Tony & Nicks location with a menu of classic Italian-American favorites, like chicken parm, meatballs, burgers, and brick-oven pizza. The Kingston location also offers up housemade pasta dishes like garlic cream alfredo ($16.99), shrimp scampi ($21.99), and stuffed rigatoni ($19.99) alongside a small provisions market of imported food, which they launched mid-pandemic. 298 Wall Street, Kingston | Tony-nicks.com

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Quinnie’s

When the pandemic hit and most of her gigs went up in the air, New York City event planner Quinn Levine decided to dive headfirst into a longtime dream. She and her husband, who had moved upstate together in 2018 to start their family, bought a run-down, 250-year-old farmhouse, six minutes from the center of Hudson on the side of Route 66, and set about restoring it. With a fresh coat of lemon-yellow paint the old building catches your eye as you drive by. Inside, you’ll find Quinnie’s—part breakfast and lunch spot, part provisions market, part community gathering place. When conceptualizing the menu, Levine and her co-chef Amy Hess wanted approachable food that would still push diners a little out of their comfort zones. Think a meatball sub with chermoula and harissa ($16) or an egg sandwich with parsley butter and anchovies on a milk bun ($12). Sourcing from the surrounding farms, Quinnie’s offers a fresh, innovative shake-up on roadside breakfast and lunch fare. 834 Route 66, Hudson | Quinniesnewyork.com

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Momma Lo’s BBQ

You’ve got to love the story of Momma Lo McClendon and her barbecue, going from a tent in a parking lot in Craryville to a coveted spot in Great Barrington, in the midst of a pandemic. Tucked into the back of the welltrafficked Great Barrington House Atrium, Momma Lo’s may be humble in size and appearance but is serving up the authentic Southern-style barbecue that South County has been missing. The menu is simple and classic: combos ($17.50-$35.50), like pulled pork, brisket, jerk or barbecue chicken, and ribs, served with two sides; or family dinners that range from a whole rack of ribs ($45) to the Stanley Platter, which offers a taste of everything ($69.50). The sides are what you’d expect, with a level of execution you probably wouldn’t expect in the Northeast: collard greens, baked beans, corn muffins, cole slaw, mac and cheese, and a house salad. Open Wednesday through Sunday for lunch and early dinner, Momma Lo’s has had lines out the door since the doors of its brick-and-mortar opened in March.

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Alimentari Rossi & Sons

Since 1979, Rossi & Sons has been serving up classic Italian deli fare in a shoebox location on South Clover Street. It’s a Poughkeepsie institution and the sandwich gold standard in the region. After long COVID delays, the four Rossi brothers have finally opened its second location at Eastdale Village Town Center, a self-billed “live-work-dine-shop-play experience” on 60 acres outside Arlington. Alimentari Rossi & Sons is the family’s take on a traditional Italian food hall, with multiple stations announced by neon signs where you can order meat and cold cuts (prosciutto, anyone?), wildfermented loaves and pastries, antipasti, cheese by the pound, and, of course, sandwiches. As the brothers iron out the kinks, they’ll add paninis, salads, and a pasta bar, among other offerings. 27 Eastdale Ave N, Poughkeepsie | Rossideli.com —Marie Doyon

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1. Abandoned Hard Cider 1802 Route 28, Woodstock 1. 2 Way Brewing 33. Keegan Ales 2. Angry Orchard 18 West Main Street, Beacon 20 Saint James Street, Kingston 2241 Albany Post Road, Walden 2. Another Moon Brewing 34. Kings Court Brewing 3. Annandale Cidery 2278 Route 9, Hudson 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie 8 Davis Way, Annandale-On-Hudson 35. Kingston Standard 33. Apex Brewery 4. Bad Seed Cider 405 Route 17M, Monroe 22 Jansen Avenue, Kingston 43 Bailey’s Gap Road, Highland (845) 202-3498 36. 36 Lasting Joy Brewery 5. Breezy Hill Orchard Apexbeer.co 485 Lasher Road, Tivoli 828 Centre Road, Staatsburg Apex is a welcoming craft brewery with (845) 757-BEER 6. Brooklyn Cider House a fun roller derby theme. An industrial Lastingjoybrewery.com 155 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz setting that is also dog friendly in the Designed to celebrate the Hudson’s 7. Fishkill Farms heart of Monroe. Valley’s history of craftsmanship 9 Fishkill Farm Road, 4. Arrowood Farms and agricultural excellence, Lasting Hopewell Junction 236 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord Joy serves up farm-grown beers in a 8 Forthright Cyder And Mead 5. Bacchus stunning indoor/outdoor taproom. 8. 4052 NY-52, Youngsville 4 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz 37. Locust Grove Brewing Company Forthrightcyder.com 162 North Road, Milton 66. Barber and Brew Forthright specialize in a prod69 Main Street, Cold Spring 38. Long Lot Farm Brewery uct called cyser, a hybrid of hard Barberandbrew.com 153 Johnson Road, Chester cyder and mead! Cold Spring’s best selection of craft beer, 39. Mill House Brewing 9. Graft Cider wine and small plates—tucked away 125 North Hamilton Street, behind a classic, picturesque Barber Shop. Poughkeepsie 218 Ann Street, Newburgh 7. Black Snake Brewery at Old 40. Newburgh Brewing Company 10. Greenpoint Cidery Adriance Farm 88 South Colden Street, Newburgh 4161 Route 9, Hudson 148 North Creek Road, Staatsburg 41. Obercreek Brewing Company 11. 11 Hudson Valley Farmhouse 8. Blue Collar Brewery 59 Marlorville Road, Cider at The Stone Ridge 40 Cottage Street, Poughkeepsie Wappingers Falls Orchard Tasting Room 9. 42. Obscure Oscillation Brewing 9 Catskill Brewery (845) 687-2587 672 Old State Route 17, Livingston Manor 19 Lown Court, Poughkeepsie hudsonvalleyfarmhousecider.com (845) 439-1232 43. Old Factory Brewing Company Stone Ridge Orchard hosts the Catskillbrewery.com 628 Main Street, Cairo Hudson Valley Farmhouse Cider’s Located in Livingston Manor, Catskill Brewery 44. Old Glenham Brewery Farm Bar with hard ciders for tasting crafts award-winning ales and lagers in a 126 Old Glenham Road, Fishkill and wood-fired pizza available. LEED certified building powered by the Earth 45. Old Klaverack Brewery 12. Kettleborough Cider House and Sun. 150 Thielman Road, Hudson 277 State Route 208, New Paltz 10. Chatham Brewing 46. Plan Bee Farm Brewery 59 Main Street, Chatham 115 Underhill Road, Poughkeepsie 13. Kings Highway Cider 127 Cooper Road, Millerton 11. Clemson Bros Brewery 47. RB Brew 14. 14 Left Bank Ciders 14 Cottage Street, Middletown 317 Springtown Road, New Paltz Leftbankciders.com 12. Crossroads Brewing 48. Reifenberg Brewing 150 Water Street, Catskill 21 Second Street, Athens 3021 Main Street, Valatie Left Bank makes ciders and meads 13. Crossroads Brewing 49. Return Brewing from foraged apples and local 201 Water Street, Catskill 726 Columbia Street, Hudson orchard fruit. Try our thoughtful 14. 50. 50 Rip Van Winkle Brewing 14 Dogwood beverages at the tasting room! 47 East Main Street, Beacon 4545 Route 32, Catskill 15. Little Apple Cidery (845) 202-7500 (518) 678-9275 192 Orchard Lane, Hillsdale Dogwoodbeacon.com Ripvanwinklebrewery.com Serving Old Glenham Brewery’s Producing world-class, award-win- 16. 16 Metal House Cider traditional English cask ales. Unfiltered, ning ales and lagers with eight Esopus | Metalhousecider.com contains no additives, and served in-house beers to choose from. Metal House Cider makes hand-drawn using a beer engine. 51. Roaring 20s Brewery And champagne-method ciders aged 15. Drowned Lands Brewery Tap House long on the lees and disgorged 251 State School Road, Warwick 565 US Route 20, New Lebanon by hand, using wild and sustain16. Dubois Farms 52. Roe Jan Brewing Co ably grown Esopus fruit. 209 Perkinsville Road, Highland 32 Anthony Street, Hillsdale 17. Orchard Hill Cider Mill 17. Dutchess Ales 53. Roscoe Beer Company 29 Soons Circle, New Hampton 4280 Route 22, Wassaic 145 Rockland Road, Roscoe 18. Pennings Farm Cidery 18. Equilibrium Brewery 54. Rough Cut Brewing Co 4 Warwick Turnpike, Warwick 28 South Street, Middletown 5945 Route 44-55, Kerhonkson 19. Pitchfork Hard Cider 19. Foreign Objects Beer 55. Rushing Duck Brewing 16 Hornbeck Road, Poughkeepsie 150 West Mombasha Road, Monroe 2 Greycourt Avenue, Chester 20. Fox N Hare Brewing 56. Russian Mule Brewing Company 20. Rose Hill Farm 14 Rose Hill Farm, Red Hook 46 Front Street, Port Jervis 1465 Denning Road, Claryville 21. 21 Seminary Hill Orchard 21. Freight Yard Brewing 57. Shepherds Eye Brewing And Cidery 59 Main Street, Chatham 9 Industrial Drive, Florida 43 Wagner Lane, Callicoon 22. From The Ground Brewery 58. Shrewd Fox Brewery (845) 707-5510 245 Guski Road, Red Hook 552 Route 55, Eldred Seminaryhill.co 23. Gardiner Brewing 59. Sloop Brewing Co Located in the foothills of the 699 Route 208, Gardiner 755 East Drive, Hopewell Junction Catskills and overlooking the wind24. Glenmere Brewing 60. Suarez Family Brewery ing Delaware River, Seminary Hill 55 Maple Avenue, Florida 2278 Route 9, Livingston crafts distinctive ciders that reflect 61. Subversive Malting & Brewingz 25. Great Life Brewing the agricultural heritage of the area. 96 West Bridge Street, Catskill 75 Clarendon Avenue, Kingston 22. Stickett Inn Cider 62. The Brewery At Orange County 26. Honey Hollow Brewery Hops 771 Route 52, Walden 376 East Honey Hollow Road, Earlton 3380 Route 97, Barryville 63. The Brewery At The CIA 27. Hudson Ale Works 23. Stone Bridge Cider 1995 Campus Drive, Hyde Park 17 Milton Avenue, Highland 85 Middle Road, Hudson 64. The Peekskill Brewery 28. Hudson Brewing 24. Sundog Cider 47-53 South Water Street, Peekskill 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson 343B State Route 295, Chatham 65. Tin Barn Brewing 29. Hudson Valley Brewery 25. The Green House Cidery 62 Kings Highway Bypass, Chester 7 East Main Street, Beacon 2309 New York 203, Chatham 66. Upward Brewing 30. Hunter Mountain Brewery 26. Westwind Orchard 171 Main Street, Livingston Manor 7267 Route 23A, Hunter 215 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord 67. Weed Orchards Brewing 31. Hyde Park Brewing 27. Yankee Folly Cidery 43 Mount Zion Road, Marlboro 4076 Albany Post Road 69 Yankee Folly Road, New Paltz 68. West Kill Brewing 32. 32 Industrial Arts Brewing Company 2173 Spruceton Road, West Kill 511 Fishkill Ave, Beacon 69. Woodstock Brewing (845) 765-1355 5581 Route 28, Phoenicia Industrialartsbrewing.com 1. Mysto Mead 70. Yard Owl Craft Brewery Our state-of-the-art brewery overlooks 187 Church Hill Road, Carmel 19 Osprey Lane, Gardiner epic mountain landscapes. Grab a beer 71. Zeus Brewing and enjoy the views from our expansive 2. Slate Point Meadery 178 Main Street, Poughkeepsie (dog-friendly) “brew-deck”. 178 Main Street, Poughkeepsie

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1. Apple Dave’s Distillery 82 Four Corners Road, Warwick 2. Arkadiya Distillery 714 Ulster Heights Road, Ellenville 3. Arrowood Farms 236 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord 4. Black Dirt Distilling Co 385 Glenwood Road, Pine Island 5. Branchwater Farms 818 Salisbury Turnpike, Milan 6. Castle Spirits 18 Quickway Road, Monroe 7. Catskill Distilling 2037 Route 17B, Bethel 8. Coppersea Distilling 239 Springtown Road, New Paltz 9. Current Cassis 391 Main Street, Catskill 10. Dennings Point Distillery 10 North Chestnut Street, Beacon 11. Gardiner Liquid Mercantile 273 State Route 208, New Paltz 12. Grazin Spirits 170 Schmidt Road, Ghent 13. Harvest Spirits 3074 US Route 9, Valatie 14. Hetta Glogg 85 Broadway, Kingston 15. Hillrock Spirits 408 Pooles Hill Road, Ancram 16. Hudson House Distillery 1835 Route 9W, West Park 17. Hudson Valley Distillers 1727 Route 9, Germantown 18. Kas Spirits 46 Miller Road, Mahopac 19. Liquid Fables 1 East Main Street, Beacon 20. Millbrook Distillery 78 Sinpatch Road, Wassaic 21. Olde York Farm 284 State Route 23, Claverack 22. Orange County Distillery 19 Maloney Lane, Goshen 23. Prohibition Distillery 10 Union Street, Roscoe 24. Queen City Farm Distillery 25 Clarks Lane, Milton 25. Shady Knoll Orchards & Distillery 29 Brush Hill Road, Millbrook 26. 26 Spirits Lab 105 Ann Street, Newburgh (845) 674-9944 Thespiritslab.com Using New York State grains and botanicals, Spirits Lab produces a line of small-batch craft spirits including a gluten-free vodka, gin, bourbon, and rye, plus a line of bottled cocktails. 27. Taconic Distillery 215 Bowen Road, Stanfordville 28. Tuthilltown Spirits 14 Gristmill Lane, Gardiner 29. Uncouth Vermouth 82 Potter Hill Road, Saugerties 30. Vale Fox Distillery 619 Noxon Road, Poughkeepsie 31. Warwick Valley Distillery 114 Little York Road, Warwick

8. Cascade Mountain Vineyards 835 Cascade Road, Amenia 9. Cereghino Smith 2583 Route 32, Bloomington 10. Christopher Jacobs Winery At Pennings Vineyards 320 Crawford Street, Pine Bush 11. City Winery 23 Factory Street, Montgomery 12. Clearview Vineyard 35 Clearview Lane, Warwick 13. Clermont Vineyards & Winery 241 County Route 6, Germantown 14. Clinton Vineyards 450 Schultzville Road, Clinton Corners 15. Crown Regal Wine Cellars 1519 Route 9W Building 2, Marlboro 16. Demarest Hill Winery 81 Pine Island Turnpike, Warwick 17. Dutch’s Spirits 98 Ryan Road, Pine Plains 18. El Paso Winery 742 Broadway, Ulster Park 19. Elysabeth Vineyards 309 Woodstock Road, Millbrook 20. Engel Wines 6 Quickway Road, Monroe 21. Enlightenment Wines 67 Barclay Road, Clintondale 22. Ferreira Carpenter Winery 62 West Ridge Road, Warwick 23. Fjord Vineyards 156 Highland Avenue, Marlboro 24. Glorie Farm Winery 40 Mountain Road, Marlboro 25. Home Range Winery 146 Flints Crossing Road, Canaan 26. Hudson Chatham Winery 1900 State Route 66, Ghent 27. Liquid Altitude 428 Decker Road, Wallkill 28. Magnanini Farm Winery 172 Strawridge Road, Wallkill 29. Milea Estate Vineyard 46 Rymph Road, Staatsburg 30. Millbrook Winery 26 Wing Road, Millbrook 31. Nostrano Vineyards 14 Gala Lane, Milton 32. Oceane Vineyards 1661 Kings Highway, Chester 33. Palaia Vineyards 20 Sweet Clover Road, Highland Mills 34. Pazdar Winery 6 Laddie Road, Middletown 35. Quartz Rock Vineyard (formerly Glorie Farm Winery) 40 Mountain Road, Marlboro 36. Red Maple Vineyard 25 Burroughs Drive, West Park 37. Robibero Family Vineyards 714 Albany Post Road, Gardiner 38. Rosina’s Winery 51 Grahamtown Road, Middletown 39. Royal Wine 1519 Route 9W, Marlboro 40. Sabba Vineyard 383 Pitts Road, Old Chatham Applewood Winery 41. Stoutridge Vineyard & Distillery 82 Four Corners Road, Warwick 10 Ann Kaley Lane, Marlboro Baldwin Vineyards 42. The Vineyard At Windham 176 Hardenburgh Road, Pine Bush 11 Mount View Estates Road, Ashland Bashakill Vineyards 43. Tousey Winery 1131 South Road Wurtsboro 1774 Route 9, Germantown Benmarl Winery 44. Warwick Valley Winery & Black Dirt 156 Highland Avenue, Marlboro Distillery Brimstone Hill Vineyard 114 Little York Road, Warwick 61 Brimstone Hill Road, Pine Bush 45. Weed Orchards and Winery Brotherhood Winery 43 Mount Zion Road, Marlboro 100 Brotherhood Plaza Drive, 46. Whitecliff Vineyard & Winery Washingtonville 331 Mckinstry Road, Gardiner Bruynswick Winery 47. Wild Arc Farm 1308 Bruynswick Road, Gardiner 918 Hill Avenue, Pine Bush 5/22 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 19

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Above: Friday evening happy hour on the shared patio. “Living here is learning how to communicate and compromise and to think and work cooperatively,” says Dorothy Lagana, the chairperson for the community living committee. “It stretches me to be my most compassionate and empathetic self. However, the gifts of cohousing are boundless.” Opposite, from top: The Cantine’s Island cohousing community from above. Though the almost 10-acre community is within walking distance of downtown Saugerties, it feels a world away as it’s circled by the Esopus Creek. Shown to the right, the 12 original homes were built around a shared green space in 1997. Two additional plots of land were later purchased, shown to the left, expanding the community to 19 homes. Cars are restricted to the central parking lot to encourage resident interaction and preserve the community’s abundant green space. A mix of the community’s oldest and newest residents. The benefits of living in the multigenerational community benefit all three generations living there. “I love the influence and care the other adults offer: They are truly the village it takes to raise a family,” says Lagana, a mother of two boys. “When the children were younger, adults would take turns reading to them after a community meal to offer tired parents some time to connect. When children are making questionable or unsafe choices in their play, community members are often a helpful nonparent voice. And I really love being surrounded by happy couples married decades long—I’m grateful for their example, and for my children to witness these healthy examples of marriage.”

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y consensus, Friday evenings on Cantine’s Island are a jolly affair. Each week, from 5 to 6 pm, residents of the cohousing community gather for happy hour—one of many regular gettogethers designed to strengthen the bonds of this flourishing intentional community which is one part lifestyle, one part old-fashioned neighborhood. Sharing almost 10 quiet acres enveloped by a meander of the Esopus Creek, the community’s 19 privately owned homes, as well as commonly owned outbuildings and green spaces, were designed to strike a balance between privacy and interconnection. 5/22 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 21

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Lagana and her husband bought one of the community’s smaller, original homes in 2013. “Since then, we’ve been finding creative and beautiful ways to make it bigger,” she says. Their large living room was converted from a small, outdoor porch. Any changes to the structures are first run by the architectural preview committee, chaired by Susan Murphy. “If someone wants to make substantial changes to the outside of their house, they have to take their neighbors’ concerns into consideration,” Murphy explains. “We delve into all the ramifications with respect for everyone’s concerns. Once we trust everyone else is okay with the change, it goes forward.”

Attending the weekly gathering isn’t mandatory, but it is enticing. On a recent mild spring evening, the variety of the community’s residents, and the deep bonds they’ve formed over years of building their thriving cooperative neighborhood, are on full display. “OG” retirees, some of them residents since the association first broke ground on the site in 1997, gather around a table on the property’s common patio. Children take advantage of the warm spring weather, setting up a ping-pong table or playing on the central green space ringed by 12 of the original single-family homes. Other children dart into the community’s six acres of preserved woodlands. A few parents play with the children, while others take a break to socialize with their neighbors. Plenty of homemade nourishment, laughter, and talk are on hand, as well as the requisite bottle of wine. The adjacent common house, complete with a full kitchen, dining area, and living room, serves as gathering site in inclement weather and over the years it’s seen— along with weekly shared dinners—group yoga classes, music jam sessions, holiday celebrations, and many, many birthday parties.

It’s also the site for the multiple committee meetings it takes to run this community harmoniously. “Cohousing is not a commune,” says Dorothy Lagana, the chairperson of Cantine Island’s community living committee. “We share—but not in everything. We are also not a spiritual or eco-village, though we do work as a community to make decisions in line with caring for the future.” The modern cohousing movement began in Denmark in the 1960s and eventually spread to the United States where it’s estimated there are now more than 160 communities. While there are multiple models for this lifestyle, typically, members own their own homes and share ownership of common buildings and resources according to their location and needs. Cantine’s Island is legally structured as a homeowners’ association and along with the common house, green, and nature preserve, residents also share a garden, a parking lot, certain large appliances such as lawnmowers and a communal washer-dryer, as well as a beach along the Esopus, and a resident boathouse with shared kayaks and canoes. 5/22 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 23

One thing it doesn’t have is a president or board. Rather, the community is committed to governing through consensus and members participate in committees overseeing everything from architectural changes to site maintenance to, even, parenting in the community. While there are some official requirements to become a new member, it seems the number one unofficial requirement is a combination of patience and compromise. “More than anything, we trust each other,” explains Peter Poccia, one of the groups founding members. “If we voted on something and I win the vote, but my neighbor losses, I’d be happy and my neighbor would be unhappy. But we’d still have to live together. It’s worth the time it takes to find solutions that work for everybody.” Finding Fellow Travelers Indeed, patience and compromise are required just to take a cohousing project from inception and aspiration all the way to manifestation. This is especially true in New York State, where antifraud laws such as the Martin Act make it hard for individuals to pool the financial resources necessary to get a cohousing development off the ground. These are obstacles Angela Garnier 24 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 5/22

and Elissa Cohen, founding members of the Hudson Valley Cohousing Study group, know well. “Cohousing is a bottom-up model, with a group coming together that want to live together intentionally,” says Cohen. “Rather than just buying property from a developer, our members want to be involved with the whole process of designing and developing the community structures according to our needs.” Formed a year ago, their exploratory group has been delving into ways cohousing can become a more prevalent reality in the Hudson Valley. Right now, the group meets regularly on Zoom to discuss issues surrounding the movement and to get the word out to others who may be curious about living in an intentional community. They also regularly visit other cohousing communities throughout the Northeast. “In the end, it’s really about the journey,” explains Cohen. “It’s not for the faint of heart. However, through the process of coming together, figuring out what the structures will look like, facing the obstacles and weathering the ups and downs of the process actually forges the community required to see it through. It’s almost necessary to the process.”

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Resident Leah Novak walks with her two sons on the community’s central green space. “I love how the houses are mostly all in a circle with the common space in the middle,” she says. “It’s so nice to not have cars driving by our house and just have trees, walking paths, and gathering spaces instead.” Novak is chairperson of the grounds committee, which organizes the monthly groundwork days, works with the community garden, and supervises all else growing on the land.

How it Started Susan Murphy, Poccia’s wife and sometimes considered the mother of Cantine’s Island, might agree with that sentiment. “My number one advice for a new group is that somebody has to be the burning soul,” she says. “There are so many challenges and risks, you have to keep your eyes on the prize and never waver.” Formerly a nurse in New York City, Murphy was taken by the social isolation often faced by her elderly patients. “Often that social isolation led to a downward spiral,” she says. “They would get depressed, they would stop eating well, and then get debilitated from a lack of activity. I never had a large family, I never had a lot of money, and I’m a bit introverted. I realized I was actually at risk for the same thing happening.” Murphy and Poccia often travelled to the Hudson Valley as members of the Clearwater committee and already loved the area. In 1990, on one of their trips upstate, they saw a classified notice about a Saugerties based cohousing community that was forming. The site’s 10 acres had been donated to the group with the provision that the creekside area would remain preserved land and could never be sold piecemeal. Poccia and Murphy attended a meeting and went to see the site. “I was like,

bingo! There it is!,” she says. “I realized this is what I needed to do for myself and my husband agreed.” The couple bought a car and came up every other weekend to attend meetings. “It actually took seven years,” she says. In that time, other members came and went, but Murphy and Poccia remained. With an eye toward sustainability, the community eventually decided on building 12 modular homes and a common house, all designed to blend in with the surrounding environment. Working with architect Raym de Ris, each structure was carefully planned to balance the needs of the family with the whole ethos of the shared property. Just around 1,000 square feet, Murphy and Poccia’s home includes an openconcept living room, dining room and kitchen on the first floor as well as a guest room. The couple’s large primary bedroom, bathroom, and ample closet space are upstairs. Eventually, the community expanded, buying two adjacent properties, renovating one home and building others for a total of 19. How It’s Going While it does take work, according to residents of Cantine’s Island, the benefits of living in a cohousing community are exponential 5/22 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 27

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The Novaks' living room overlooks the woods and the creek—she says the close proximity to the Esopus is one of her favorite aspects of living on the property. “Being on the Esopus is amazing,” she says. “We swim and paddle through the summer and walk on the ice in the winter.”

and felt for generations to come. Leah Novak moved with her husband, Jason Novak, to the community in 2008, first as a renter, then buying a 1,700-square-foot, three-bedroom house overlooking the woods and the creek. “We were really looking for a space where we could get to know our neighbors and be friendly with the people around us,” she says. While they loved the site next to the Esopus Creek, the extra green space and the fact that cars are relegated to a parking lot rather than driving by their front door, the community’s deeper benefits didn’t become apparent until the couple started a family. “Everyone here values both community and privacy,” says Novak. “When you are out in the common areas, neighbors will stop and say hi, but they also respect your privacy. In fact, when I had a newborn I didn’t understand why no one was pounding down the door to see him. Then I realized they were just respecting my space.” Eventually Novak left the house and brought her son, now 12, to one of the community’s weekly dinners. As soon as she walked in the door, arms went up asking to hold her baby, offering to give her a break. “It was really like the angels started singing,” she says. “As a new mother, I never felt isolated or alone.” Over the

years, as a working parent, the benefit of having weekly shared meals has helped Novak balance the modern-day dilemma of having both a family and a career. Learning to work with other parents to compromise when parenting styles clash has deepened her compassion for her neighbors and different ways of thinking in general. “Living here has spurred both great personal and professional development,” she says. Novak believes learning to live in the community has been a blessing for her children as well. Not only do her children have the benefits of friends to grow up alongside, she loves watching the cross-generational relationships that evolve between the children and the founding residents. “They have older neighbors to learn skills from and to take care of,” says Novak. “My 10-year-old routinely takes in groceries for an older neighbor and also does random chores for another. They benefit from being around others and learning how to give back to others.” “In this busy life, it’s so nice to have community right outside your door,” she adds. “It’s like an old neighborhood where everyone knows everyone, works and plays together, learns from each other, and cares for each other.” 5/22 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 29

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n 2017, Jerome and Benedicte Leclere were living in Brooklyn, both working in advertising. To decompress from their heady, computer-heavy work, the couple— high school sweethearts from France—had dabbled in multiple art forms and tactile crafts over the years, including woodworking and carving, knitting, macrame, sewing, and even Bonsai cultivation. So that year for Christmas, Jerome decided to gift Benedict a two-hour introductory pottery class. “It blew my mind,” Benedicte says of that first experience. “I got obsessed right away.” Four years later, the couple is living in Saugerties; they have a child and a thriving, Kingston-based ceramics business, L’Impatience, which employs them both and as well as a small staff, and their mugs have been featured on Food52—twice. “It was hard to imagine back then that it would become our life,” Jerome says of that fateful Christmas present. The introductory workshop gave way to regular classes and then paid studio time. Eventually Jerome and some friends teamed up to buy the fanatical Benedicte her own wheel. She set up a tiny studio in one corner of their apartment. 30 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 5/22

That’s when Jerome tried his hand at throwing for the first time. “I didn’t think I would like it, personally,” he says. “But it’s funny—it ticks all the boxes. We are both pretty creative and have always liked hands-on crafts.” Benedicte taught him everything she was learning in class each week. “It became a real obsession for the both of us,” she says. Controlling the Variables As the couple continued cultivating their skills, they began looking for a home upstate, ultimately landing on a house in Saugerties. After closing in October 2018, the idea for a weekend home turned into a full-time relocation with a plan to continue doing freelance advertising work. Moving upstate catapulted the Lecleres’ craft to the next level. In Brooklyn, they were creating pieces in their apartment and schlepping them to the ceramic studio in an Uber to be fired—a process that could take anywhere from two to three weeks, and over which they had no control. “We didn’t have access to the kilns,” Benedicte recalls. “We weren’t able to really see what was happening. It was very limiting.”

Dot Dulgarian and L'Impatience cofounder Benedicte Leclere loading the kilns. L'Impatience x Food52, an exclusive collection of mugs created for the Food52 brand. Jerome Leclere storing brand new vases hot from the kiln. Opposite: Benedicte Leclere throwing on the wheel.

Having their own studio and getting a kiln, the Lecleres were able to control all the production variables and reintegrate the feedback loop. “There is so much that can affect the piece in the final stages—how much glaze, where you are going to put it in the kiln, how long you’re going to fire it,” Benedicte says. “In the city, we didn’t know if that piece turned out like that because it wasn’t laid properly on the shelf or because it was too high up. Being able to do all those tests ourselves really helped us change and improve a lot.” Colorfast Rather than working with common red clay and using glazes to add high-gloss color, the Lecleres opt for white stoneware clay, which they tint directly using ceramic stains. This means each batch of clay is colored and hand-mixed before throwing—a labor-intensive process that results in solid color throughout, lending the pieces a sort of artistic integrity that appeals to the couple. “We like the idea that the whole piece is one color,” Benedicte says. “If you pick it up it isn’t a different color underneath. If you break it, it isn’t revealing something.” Fired at a whopping 2,232 degrees Fahrenheit, the stoneware undergoes a process called vitrification, in which it becomes fully solid. “It becomes so dense that it doesn’t leak water,” Jerome explains. Since the high-temperature process yields water-tight vessels, the Lecleres are not tied to all-over glaze as a waterproofing measure. Instead, they have developed a distinctive style, leaving the exterior of their mugs, jugs, and vases unglazed and the interior glazed (for food safety). “We love that contrast between the shiny, glossy effect of the interior and the outside of the piece which has a rougher feel.” The L’Impatience line includes a candleholder, bud vases and bouquet vases, planters, dinner and dessert plates, bowls, aroma burners, mugs, colanders, and pitchers. The product selection is separated into collections by colorway. L’Impure is a classic white stoneware, L’ingenu is a soft coral color, and L’insolence is a greyish forest green. Embrace imperfections (and save some money) with the L’imparfait collection, which features pieces with small cracks, burn marks, minor aesthetic blemishes, or a mismatched color. “The fun thing about ceramics is that there is no limit to what you can create,” Benedicte says. “There are a lot of chemical reactions and it is going to depend so much on what clay, what glaze. But the possibilities are endless and the learning process is endless. No one can say they know everything. It’s really exciting.” On May 7, L'Impatience will launch their shop at the Fuller Building in Kingston, part of the Fuller Market event from 10am to 4pm, which will include over a dozen makers. To find out where to purchase L’Impatience ceramics, visit Limpatience.com.

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Lighting Up New Berkshires Dispensaries By Amadeus Finlay

hile New York’s adult-use cannabis industry is yet to get going, the Massachusetts recreational market continues to grow at a remarkable pace. Sales in the Bay State exceeded $1 billion in 2021, more than double the amount recorded for the threeyear total in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to public data from the state Cannabis Control Commission. This year is set to be the most profitable yet—estimated to draw $1.4 billion in gross revenue. All this comes from 387 licensed cannabis retailers, with a further 28 pending applications, supplied by 296 licensed cultivators. And with recreational cannabis bills having also passed in New York and Connecticut in April 2021 and June 2021 respectively, the Northeast green rush that began in Massachusetts continues to spread further from its borders. New York is progressing apace—Sen. Jeremy Cooney recently announced plans to introduce legislation designed to make it easier and less costly for financial institutions to service adultuse cannabis businesses in the state. At the same time, lawmakers are approaching an agreement to approve a budget that includes provisions for recreational cannabis businesses to benefit from tax deductions available to other industries. Connecticut is also blazing its own trail, not only in a licensing lottery that does not require information from applicants to be pre-reviewed, but also opting not to cap the number of licenses it can issue. For the time being, however, as New York and Connecticut find their regulatory footing, Massachusetts continues to not only supply

its own citizens, but recreational users from the Empire and Constitution States, as well as Vermont and New Hampshire. The Berkshires enjoy a robust recreational market, with dispensaries slinging everything from flower to tinctures, edibles and more to eager, multistate consumers. The first adultuse enterprise, Theory Wellness in Great Barrington, opened its doors on a cold day in January 2019, sparking a chain reaction of adult-use enterprises throughout the region—Canna Provisions in Lee, The Pass in Sheffield, Temescal Wellness in Pittsfield, the list goes on. Not all has been plain sailing. Resistance has been met in various forms, and as recently as April 7, after North Adams Mayor Jennifer Macksey filed a lawsuit contesting the town Planning Board’s decision to grant New England Alchemy a permit for an outdoor cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility, citing concerns pertaining to “odor control,” the firm pulled up stakes and is currently looking elsewhere to site its facility. Such protests are but bumps in the road for a regional cannabis industry that continues to grow with gusto. Adult-use dispensaries continue to pop up across the Berkshires, tussling for market share to an increasingly savvy body of consumers. Following up an article from April 2021, where Chronogram profiled the 10 Berkshires dispensaries in business at that time, this profile provides information on four further locations, and how each has found its own, distinct way to leave a footprint on the recreational cannabis landscape.

Great Barrington Dispensary | Great Barrington For a town of just 6,852 inhabitants, adding a fifth adult-use dispensary might seem like a bold move. But the intention behind opening Great Barrington Dispensary in March of this year was to offer an alternative customer experience to something purely transactional. “We created an interactive space,” explains Michaella Tretheway, general manager. “What customers refer to as ‘Cannabis Castle,’ where they can enjoy our medieval vibe, taking photos on our throne, and be encouraged to spend time understanding the product they are purchasing.” Some of that product is the store’s own outdoor-grown flower—raised far from the environs of Indiola House (the mid-19th-century manor building that contains the dispensary), at No. 9 in Wareham, Massachusetts, on the state’s far eastern shore. “Our growers have homed in on authentic terpene profiles,” continues Tretheway, “and the flower they produce goes into what is now our best-selling preroll.” Alongside pre-rolled joints, customers can also purchase topicals, concentrates, vape cartridges and batteries, as well as a range of edibles. 454 Main Street, Great Barrington, Massachusetts Greatbarringtondispensary.com

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For Liberty’s COO, AnnMarie Belair, however, what sets Liberty apart is their relationship with the local community: “It’s a true Berkshires-esque experience here,” comments Belair. “We support small businesses, artists, and entrepreneurs by allowing them to showcase and sell their items.” Small businesses who sling their wares at Liberty include Berkshire Bong Company and the Berkshire Dog—a fitting choice, since Liberty is also dog-friendly, meaning that Rex can join you when buying your ganja. Speaking of which, customers can purchase flower (of which there is an extensive offering, even by Massachusetts standards), pre-rolls, concentrates, and edibles, including LEVIA Seltzers, and a range of gummies. Liberty’s tinctures menu is particularly impressive, stocking a mixture of hybrid, indica, and sativa blends from Tree Works and Garden Remedies, among others. 25 North Main Street, Lanesborough Massachusetts Lm420.com

Clear Sky | North Adams Clear Sky in North Adams is the Berkshires representative of a trio of dispensaries, the others being the group’s Worcester flagship store and a soon-to-open branch in Belchertown. In North Adams, Clear Sky is located in a former Friendly’s building that dates back to the 1960s, having switched the ice cream for gelato (a popular hybrid strain) in March 2021. In recognition of its ancestry, a Friendly’s door is hung on one of the walls of the dispensary as an art installation. “Art is part of our identity,” explains Kristina Alexander, general manager at Clear Sky, “and we have strong ties to the Common Folk Artist collective, with their artists exhibiting on our walls on a rotating basis.” For the consumer, Clear Sky’s overwhelming attraction is their comprehensive flower menu, with products from Sira Naturals, Bountiful Farms, and Smyth, as well as cultivars from Nature’s Heritage and Harbor House Collective. Concentrates, topicals, and an impressive range of edibles are also available if bud just isn’t your thing. For studious cannabis enthusiasts, Clear Sky also stocks a range of books on all things weed, including bud guides, anthropological studies, and more. 221 State Road, North Adams, Massachusetts Shopclearsky.com

Jack’s Cannabis Co. | Pittsfield The eponymous brainchild of Jake Carney, Jack’s Cannabis Co. grew from the ashes of Colonial Cannabis into a twopronged extension of ego in Northampton and Pittsfield. Nevertheless, shopping is a distinctive experience at Jack’s, where products are ranked by a financial tier; opening the door for buyers on a shoestring. There is also a “Mix & Match” option for products within the same tier, with prices dictated by bulk cost, rather than by the single unit. Jack’s comprehensive menu is certainly impressive, with a dozen or more flower options, including products from Trulieve, the Botanist, and Nimbus Flowah, as well as Revolutionary Clinics, Cultivate, and Cresco. There are also concentrates, vaporizers, and edibles, plus topicals that include a high-CBD, high-THC transdermal pain gel by Sanctuary Medicals. But it is the seemingly endless list of pre-roll options—Wonka Bars from Nature’s Heritage, NF Nightmare by Cultivate, multi-packs from Ace Weidman’s, the list goes on—that really catches the eye. 1021 South Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Jackscannabisco.com

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n 2019, Time magazine chose the relentlessly serious 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as Person of the Year. The magazine called Thunberg “the icon of a generation,” the voice of a surging movement of “young progressives already keen to remake the world.” On the other side of the world, in New Paltz, 16-year-old Jayden Brown just wanted to get through high school. “My junior year was coming around. My parents talked about pursuing a trade,” he says. Brown’s mother works at a local McDonald's; his father works at a storage facility. A vocational degree from Ulster BOCES seemed like a good idea to the whole family: At least, Brown figured, it would let him spend less time in the classroom than he would at New Paltz High School. “I just wanted to relax and play my sports,” he says. The pandemic shrank Brown’s world and sharpened his focus. By the end of his junior year, he was working two or three days a week through a capstone project—a work experience program that places BOCES students with local employers—and he was thriving. “That taught me a lot of skills—soft skills and in-the-field skills,” he says. “It helped me work with talking to people, being a foreman.” To remake the world as a more livable place, we might need more environmentalists and climate activists like Thunberg. But we will certainly need a lot of people learning the skills Brown is now mastering as a full-time heat pump installer: How to keep yourself safe on a job site. How to choose the right circuit breaker for a device you’re installing. How to handle different types of refrigerant fluid, which are damaging to the environment if spilled, but are also vital to the heat pump technology that could one day free the world’s buildings from dependence on fossil fuels. A wave of green jobs is coming to New York. Renewable energy and the rise of building electrification are already driving job growth. As the state ramps up its commitment to clean energy over the next decade, that growth is expected to accelerate. But in order to seize that opportunity, local institutions—employers, educators, local 36 EDUCATION CHRONOGRAM 5/22

government, and nonprofits—will need to scale up local workforce training. In the Hudson Valley, local leaders are starting to lay the groundwork for a pipeline that will funnel new workers and people changing careers into the emerging green jobs sector. Though she’s only been on the job for a few months, Sharon Williams, Ulster County’s new director of the Office of Employment and Training, can already see what’s coming. The state is beginning to put its 2019 climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), into action. Once New York’s draft plan for turning the CLCPA’s goals into policy is complete—a process due to wrap up by the end of the year—a flood of new public and private investments is expected to pour into clean energy and climate action. Jobs will follow the money.

“We’re trying to position ourselves so that when the real need is there— and it’s going to be sooner rather than later—we’re ready. This is not going away.” —Steve Casa, workplace learning coordinator at Ulster BOCES

Williams wants to be ready. “We’re all waiting with bated breath to see what’s going to happen,” she says. “It’s really a timing issue—getting people through the door, getting them trained.” New York’s Bright Green Future Between 2015 and 2020, according to figures from NYSERDA, jobs in clean energy grew by 12 percent in New York, even as the pandemic sent statewide employment levels plummeting. But state clean energy experts say there’s a lot more growth to come. “We see such a huge opportunity for job growth in clean energy,” says Doreen Harris, NYSERDA’s president and CEO. “When we start to look at the clean energy careers that we’re talking about in the future, those types of investments are expected to only grow as we fully decarbonize our buildings.” In December of 2021, the Just Transition Working Group—a part of New York’s Climate Action Council, the state committee tasked with developing a plan to guide state climate policy—released a study on how working toward the climate goal of decarbonizing New York’s $1.7 trillion-a-year economy will affect jobs in the state. It predicts that by 2030, New York will lose about 22,000 jobs in industries that depend on fossil fuels. Almost half of those will be in gas stations. But for every job displaced by the shift to clean energy, 10 more will be created: New York is expected to gain at least 211,000 new jobs related to clean energy, and possibly more if manufacturing gets a boost in the state. Harris says about 18,000 of those new jobs will come to the Hudson Valley. Most will be in building trades. “We are investing in heating and cooling and automation systems,” she says. “We’re investing in the building shell, as we call it—the envelope itself. Ultimately, what that equates to is a tremendous number of jobs.” In Ulster BOCES’ HVAC program, about a dozen seniors are currently preparing to graduate into the workforce, some with the credentials Brown earned last spring: OSHA 10 for job safety, EPA universal technician certification, a Green Awareness certificate for knowledge of energy efficiency and clean-energy technology. In

January, Brown, who’s now a full-time technician at the New Paltz-based HVAC company Rycor, returned to his alma mater to teach a hands-on class, helping the BOCES students install a heat pump donated by his employer. “I think me going back and teaching that class shined a little bit of light in some of the kids’ eyes—like, ‘He just graduated, he was here one year ago and look at him now, that’s something that is very possible for me to do,’” Brown says. Steve Casa, workplace learning coordinator at Ulster BOCES, says that while interest in green careers is picking up, it hasn’t yet translated into a huge increase in the number of students enrolled in clean-energy job training. Right now, the BOCES program, along with other local efforts like Ulster County’s Workforce Development Board and Green Careers Coalition, is focused on building networks to support rapid growth in the job training pipeline. In Ulster County in particular—a county with a government looking to be at the forefront of state climate action through its Green New Deal initiative—laying a solid groundwork for green job training is a priority among those involved in workforce issues. “We all know this is coming. Everybody knows this is coming,” Casa says. “We’re trying to position ourselves so that when the real need is there—and it’s going to be sooner rather than later—we’re ready. This is not going away.” Old Buildings: A Challenge and an Opportunity For a lot of people, the phrase “green jobs” conjures images of solar panels and wind turbines. Those jobs are on the rise in New York—and so are efforts to ramp up local manufacturing and supply chains for renewable energy, especially for offshore wind. But the biggest impacts of climate action on the workforce will be felt in the building industry. A look at the state of New York’s housing reveals the reasons why building trades are expected to drive so much job growth in clean energy. A third of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions come from heating and cooling buildings, mostly from the direct burning of fossil fuels for heat. New York has the oldest housing stock in the nation: As of 2021, the median age of an owner-occupied home in the state was 60, compared to a national median of 39. The task of making New York’s aging building stock more energy-efficient and preparing it for high-efficiency electric heat is a huge opportunity for the workforce over the next few decades, as well as for highimpact climate action. State investment in that project has barely begun to scrape the surface: In her executive budget proposal for 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul proposed to spend $250 million on electrifying and weatherizing homes, a small step toward the state’s fiveyear goal of making two million homes electrification-ready, and a tiny fraction of the $10 to $15 billion a year state analysts believe it will take to meet the state’s overall climate goals. Raising a workforce to solve the energy problems of New York’s oldest buildings

Career & Technical Center Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and New Paltz Central School District 2021 graduate Jayden Brown (front), shows current HVAC student Eric Oakley, of the Rondout Valley Central School District, how to hang a bracket on the outside wall to hold the heating system’s condenser. Photo provided by Ulster BOCES

won’t be easy, says local building scientist Melinda McKnight, vice president of Energy Conservation Services in Port Ewen. Demand from customers is growing, but it’s hard for companies like hers to find qualified, dedicated workers who want to get into the dirty work of weatherizing old buildings. “It’s a tough nut to crack to find someone who not only wants to work, but is willing to crawl into the nastiest spaces,” she says. “We need an army of them to meet the climate goals of the CLCPA.” The Hudson Valley has its fair share of old buildings, and each is different. For some, their beauty and historical importance is as much of a barrier to climate action as their advanced age. Take Basilica Hudson: a former railroad foundry with a cavernous 18,000-square-foot unheated industrial space at its heart, given new life in the 21st century as a nonprofit arts and events venue. Under the guidance of Basilica Hudson’s cofounder and director, rock-industry veteran Melissa auf der Mar, the organization recently launched an ambitious net-zero campus renovation project. When it is complete—a process that project manager David Szlaza estimates will take at least $3 million—Basilica Hudson will be a fully weatherized, year-round venue that produces as much energy as it consumes on its five-acre campus, incorporating a solar carport canopy and battery storage to offset the energy use of the building and the airsource heat pumps that will heat the vast space. Basilica Hudson is also seeking to make the project a training ground for green workforce development. “We’ve long thought of our building as a muse,” says Sonia Skindrud, a Basilica Hudson board member who is currently in discussions with NYSERDA, the city of Hudson, and the project’s contractors to create a green jobs training project for five or ten workers. “Now, we really talk a lot about our building and the campus as a teacher.”

It’s an unusual project, made more challenging by the building’s status as part of local and federal historic preservation districts. But what makes Basilica Hudson’s renovation a challenge might also make it a good training opportunity as a laboratory for practicing retrofits in a way that respects the history and character of a building. “Those kinds of high energy goals combined with a historic building renovation— when I talk to other designers and project people, it often is met with laughter. It’s hard to do, to thread that needle,” Szlaza says. “And yet there are so many cool historic buildings in our region in the Hudson Valley. Rather than tearing them down—to have a pathway to renovate them in a responsible way for the present and the future is ideal, right?” Turning Green For workers like Brown, the clean energy transition might be their first real taste of the working world. Others take a more roundabout path toward a green job. Before joining the local green workforce, Desiree Lyle had a more office-based career in nonprofit work and investment banking. Lyle bought a wild piece of land in Saugerties in 2017. “I wanted to have a simpler life, closer to the earth,” she says. “I wanted to build a tiny house in the woods.” What began as a way to earn the hands-on skills she’d need to develop her own property has become a calling. In 2020, Lyle enrolled in the first year of Empower Kingston, a program run by Citizens for Local Power that gives green job seekers field training. In the first week, McKnight came to give the students a talk about building science. Lyle’s ears perked up. “That really intrigued me—the science along with the building and construction,” she says. Ultimately, Lyle’s Empower Kingston course led to a stint at SUNY Ulster’s Green Careers 5/22 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 37

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After receiving training with SUNY Ulster's Green Careers Academy and apprenticing at Energy Conservation Specialists, Desiree Lyle is now a certified building analyst with her own business, Simply Sustainable. Photo courtesy of Oceans 8 Films

she says. “In 2022, people are probably more concerned about finding a sustainable career. A lifestyle that provides dignity and security for a worker and their family. You shouldn’t have to go into debt to find that.” This Is What Green Energy Looks Like On a bright February morning, it was eight degrees in Rycor’s New Paltz parking lot. Inside the company headquarters, where a pair of electric heat pumps kept the space at a balmy 71, visiting master electrician Chris Peone was giving a PowerPoint lesson. “If we take these two little screws off and look under the cover, what do we find here?” Peone said, gesturing at a slide of a water heater. “Another ground screw,” one employee volunteered. “Another ground screw! I’m glad you know that,” Peone said. Most of the people in the room weren’t on a mission to save the planet, but this is what the climate action revolution looks like: a team of young workers in black company-issue Milwaukee jackets and work boots, getting a lesson on circuit breakers. In the past year, Rycor has more than tripled in size, growing from about a dozen workers in early 2021 to more than 40 now. Rapid growth means there’s a lot of new ground to cover, and most mornings at the company start off with a little education, says founder Scott Arnold. “All the teams sit down together before they go out, and they get to talk about what went right yesterday, what went wrong yesterday, how can we learn from that,” Arnold says. “To get someone trained from knowing nothing, it’s somewhere between 30 and 90 days to be a pretty competent member of the team. And within six months to a year, fully competent at everything that we do as a heat pump company.” As the owner of a local business whose rapid growth is being fueled by the rise of clean energy, Arnold has gotten involved in helping to build the local career education pipeline, working with NYSERDA and programs at Ulster BOCES

and SUNY Ulster to help students get realworld training and job placement. Other local employers are also stepping up for green career training: Advanced Radiant in Stone Ridge works with NYSERDA’s training programs, as does Aaspen HVAC in Carmel. According to Harris, 19 employers in the Mid-Hudson region have helped get more than 100 workers through NYSERDA’s clean energy on-the-job training program, which provides training assistance and partial reimbursement for the wages of new hires. It’s a drop in the bucket compared to the 18,000 clean energy jobs that are coming to the Hudson Valley over the next decade, and the pipeline for training workers needs to grow. In the near future, Harris says NYSERDA has committed $120 million to expanding its existing workforce development and job training efforts, which are also supporting local programs at places like Ulster BOCES, SUNY Ulster, and the Westchester Community Opportunity Program. Alongside NYSERDA’s quasi-public funding, which mostly comes from ratepayer fees on utility bills, Harris says private businesses are ramping up investments in education to make sure they’ll have the workers they need. “$120 million gets us a long way with bringing those hundreds of thousands of trained workers forward,” Harris says. “But the thing that makes me the most excited about this is the leverage that you see—the actors that are moving forward, because there’s not only incentives from NYSERDA, but frankly, the opportunity to benefit from this new economy.” Brown is looking to the future, too—and although he loves his work at Rycor, a job in clean energy might not be forever. He plans to earn a college degree eventually, and possibly go into business or real estate. But for those just a little younger than he is, he recommends going the green job training route. “Having a trade under your belt is great, because you’ll always have work,” he says. “It’s a great feeling. If I need to be able to fall back on that knowledge, then I can.” 5/22 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 39

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eroy Pryce was born 33 years ago at the former Benedictine Hospital on Mary’s Avenue in Kingston, where his mom was a nurse. Watching the way she cared for other people inspired him to pursue a career in health care. In 2012, Pryce began working as a tech at Kingston Hospital, on Broadway, which had merged with Benedictine as part of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley. He worked evening shifts while attending nursing school during the day, eventually becoming a registered nurse at the hospital. “I felt a lot of loyalty because I grew up in this town,” he says. Pryce loved the work, but the long hours and rough shifts began to take a toll. After Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) purchased HealthAlliance in 2016, the culture started to change. Decisions to cut costs and consolidate services made it “more and more apparent, as time went on, that we were no longer that little community hospital,” he says. Then COVID hit, and Pryce’s relationship to the hospital really deteriorated. A devout Muslim, he had a long beard, and N95 masks didn’t fit his face properly. HealthAlliance couldn’t reliably supply him with a powered air-purifying respirator, a hooded device often used as an alternative to N95s for employees with facial hair, so he was given a choice: Go on unpaid leave, or shave the beard. Pryce and his girlfriend were planning to buy a house, and he didn’t want to be the reason they couldn’t. So he cut off his beard. What bothered him was not being forced into a choice, but the manner in which it was communicated. “The way an entity can treat you, when it’s not someone who loves and cares for you—there was a profound lack of compassion,” Pryce says. He started to see his job differently. Then last fall, he got recruited by Travel Nurse Across America, a healthcare staffing firm based in Arkansas that places nurses at hospitals on a temporary, as-needed basis. Pryce had seen several friends leave staff positions to become travelers, and the gig offered a lot of perks, including weekly paychecks nearly twice as high as the biweekly checks he was bringing home from HealthAlliance. “With all the stuff that was going on, I was like, ‘Why am I going through this here?’” Pryce says. “It doesn’t pay for them to be loyal to us, and I don’t think it necessarily pays for us to be loyal to them.” Last October, he made the leap to travel nursing with TNAA, and signed his first contract with Garnet Health Medical Center in Middletown.

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Beating Burnout During the pandemic, two emergencies have unfolded inside hospitals across America. One is the suffering of patients; sometime in early May, the US will exceed one million confirmed COVID deaths. The other is the wellbeing and working conditions of the nurses who care for them. Bedside nursing is hard. Twelve-hour shifts are routine—as is coming in early, or on your day off, or staying late. The work is physically and emotionally demanding, and burnout is common: a 2019 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found alarmingly high rates of burnout that were damaging to quality of care and harmful to healthcare workers. It called for a systemic overhaul “to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of healthcare.” COVID only made things worse, overtaxing a system that for decades has attempted to maintain a tenuous equilibrium that precisely matches the number of nurses to the number of occupied beds. Repeated surges have overrun the capacity of many hospitals, traumatizing frontline healthcare providers in the process. A survey of acute and critical-care nurses last September

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Vanessa Holzmann has been working as a traveling nurse since 2014. She acknowledges that it can get lonely. “You’re really out of touch with any of your support,” Holzmann says. “We go through trauma daily, especially ICU nurses. Friends and family are a phone call away, but it’s not the same as being in person.”

kit thanwhat he was used to. “I’m not an anxious person, but I had so much anxiety regarding my job for the first time in years, and it was so weird. It was embarrassing.” The lack of consistency can also be lonely. Catskill native Vanessa Holzmann has been traveling since 2014. A paramedic and trauma nurse by training, she started traveling in order to see new places. Her first assignment took her to Eugene, Oregon, where she knew exactly zero people. “You’re really out of touch with any of your support,” she says. “And we see a lot of terrible stuff. We go through psychological trauma daily, especially ICU nurses. Friends and family are a phone call away, but it’s not the same as being in person.” Lawrence Clayton, a nurse at HealthAlliance Hospital: Broadway Campus, says he gets multiple phone calls and texts every day from traveling nurse agencies promising big bucks to go elsewhere. “Why do I stay? I have a young child here,” he says. “And I feel responsibility to my colleagues and my community.” Added Incentives Any work environment travel nurses enter is fraught with potential tension. Travelers are often making much more money than staff nurses, but don’t have seniority, and may lack specific, local expertise, whether in the community of patients or with basic hospital protocols. That can lead to resentment from staff, though the travel nurses I spoke with for this article all say they haven’t experienced that situation—at least during the pandemic, when hospitals have been thankful for whatever help they can get. And for some, there are benefits to this lifestyle. Grazier has picked up new skills due to working in a wider variety of units than he had access to as a staff nurse. Holzmann is an extrovert, and her ability to make friends easily—plus the fact that she began seeing some

fellow travelers across multiple gigs—eventually mollified her loneliness. It has also given her new insight on the profession. “Being a traveler, I see the vast differences between working in different healthcare systems and in different locations,” she says. Holzmann enjoys working in California, the only state in the US to mandate nurse-to-patient ratios for all specialties (New York has tried, and failed, to implement its own staffing law). “Reasonable ratios are the safest thing we can do for patients and for staff,” she says. Her plan is to stop traveling next year and pursue flight nursing. She’ll be paid less than if she were a hospital staff nurse, but the money she’s saved as a traveler will allow her to pursue a career path she has long deferred. Plus, she says, “life’s not all about, you know, making money.” Nevertheless, local hospitals are offering more incentives, including higher pay, to retain staff. Grazier says WMCHealth gave out a $10,000 bonus last year for workers who renewed their contracts. William Van Slyke, a spokesperson for Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson, says “as with most industries today, staffing for healthcare can be challenging.” He touts CMH’s “competitive rates of pay, comprehensive benefit packages, flexible schedules, retirement plans, tuition reimbursement, and positive and compassionate work atmosphere.” But for nurses like Grazier, these actions are too little too late, especially in an industry that has systematically undervalued and overburdened its workers. “If they had paid nurses what we’re worth and what we deserve, then the majority of the nurses who jumped ship during this pandemic probably wouldn’t have,” he says. Plus, he adds, “I was really burned out at Kingston, and was actually looking into changing my career. Travel nursing deterred me from that. I found my passion again.” 5/22 CHRONOGRAM HEALTH & WELLNESS 43

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VIBE SHIFT Ever-changing Beacon looks to the ways in which its reclaimed abundance can benefit everyone. By Brian PJ Cronin Photos by David McIntyre

Tourists pose in front of the mural outside Beacon Bread Co. Opposite, clockwise from top left: Artist Kazumi Tanaka, who exhibited her sculpture and drawings recently at Fridman Gallery; Michelle Caves-Deal opened Blackbird Attic, her curated consignment boutique on Main Street, in 2010; Marko Guzijan, owner of Hudson Valley Food Hall; Twinkle Burke, writer and actress. On April 2, Chronogram held a pop-up portrait shoot with Beacon residents at Garage Gallery on North Elm Street. Over 50 Beaconites showed up on a sunny spring day to be photographed by David McIntyre. Our thanks to all who came out and to Susan Keiser and Scott Lerman of Garage Gallery for hosting us. The portraits on the following pages are a fraction of the whole. All the photos from the shoot can be viewed at Chronogram.com/Beaconshoot.

here’s never only one beginning. It’s 1913. The villages of Fishkill Landing and Mattewan have grown prosperous and, as fate would have it, into each other. There’s not a whole lot of extra room here, nestled in-between a curve in the Hudson River and the slopes of Mount Beacon, so it was only a matter of time before their Main Streets met in the middle and the two towns became one. After some heated discussion and false starts, they name their new city after the mountain that shields them from southern storms. It’s 1987. The Hudson River city of Beacon, after decades of factory closings and urban renewal projects that laid whole neighborhoods low, has seen better days. People drive through town with their doors locked and their windows rolled up. But folk icon Pete Seeger is still here, sailing with the good sloop Clearwater and fighting for a cleaner Hudson River. Rent is cheap and the buildings have good bones. Antique stores spring up. And in a studio on Maple Street, a glass-blowing studio called Hudson Beach Glass opens. 5/22 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 45

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Lucky Longo in their hair-cutting studio at the former Beacon High School. Opposite: Nia (foreground) and Haile Thomas of Matcha Thomas, a wellness teahouse on Main Street serving vegan and gluten-free drinks and sweets. Jeremy Pyle, founder and creative director of Niche Modern, in the boutique lighting company’s headquarters on Fishkill Avenue.

It’s 2003. An old brick firehouse on Main Street becomes the new home of Hudson Beach Glass, and soon artists are meeting there. The meetings get bigger, they start putting up shows, drawing up plans, stirring the pot, producing a potentially explosive brew. Then the Dia Art Foundation swings into town like a lit match, takes a look at an old Nabisco factory down by the river, and “Kaboom!” Next thing you know, the train station platform is packed with international tourists, all of whom have fiercely held opinions about Richard Serra. There’s never only one beginning, I think to myself in 2007 when I move to Beacon. Dia:Beacon has been open for four years. “Beacon is back!” people tell me, but half of Main Street is still boarded up and there’s only a single B&B to accommodate the many new tourists. I buy a couch from a woman in town, and her son, a student at SUNY New Paltz, drops it off. “Why would anyone want to live here?” he asks me. “Everything closes at 8pm and there’s nothing to do.” It’s 2011. The Roundhouse opens in one of the abandoned factories: a hotel with a stylish bar and restaurant overlooking a waterfall. I walk by it the night it opens as a tastefully dressed older couple walks out of it. “Well I guess we’re going to be people who go out at night now,” the man tells his wife. The Towne Crier moves into the long-empty, low-slung shell across from the post office. Quinn’s transforms from a cash-only breakfast spot into a ramen and free jazz bar. Rickie Lee Jones is playing

up the block one week, Mdou Moctar down the block the next. There are three places where you can drink beer 10 feet away from where it was brewed (Two Way, Industrial Arts, and Hudson Valley Brewery), two places where you can drink coffee 10 feet away from where it was roasted (Trax and Big Mouth Coffee), and one place where you can drink coffee while covered in cats (Beans Cat Cafe.) It’s never just one poetry reading or book written or museum opening or back room meeting or amp plugging in that starts it all off. One thing leads to another, which leads to another, and then, one night, as Emily Murnane tells me, you find yourself walking down Main Street in the middle of the night by yourself without thinking twice about it. Murnane knows more than most what Beacon’s been through. A lifelong resident, she’s taught in the public school system here and currently serves on the board of the Beacon Historical Society. Her father moved here in 1978, started serving on the Volunteer Ambulance Corps, and can tell you some hair-raising stories about what the city was like back then. But now, Murnane tells me, she can walk into any part of town, any hour of the day or night, and feel as safe as if she were standing in her front yard. There’s a catch, though, which Murnane knows all too well, having seen who has had to leave Beacon in recent years as the town changes. “It’s a wonderful thing to feel safe in your own home,” she says. “I just hope everyone in town gets to feel that way.” 5/22 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 47

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Seth Porges, filmmaker; Stowe Boyd, writer. Opposite, clockwise from top left: Lee Kyriacou, Beacon mayor; Terry Nelson, writer, former city councilmember and founder of the Beacon Independent Film Festival; Neil Caplan, co-owner of the Swann Inn and executive director of the Bannerman Castle Trust; Denise Gianna, owner of Denise Gianna Designs Interiors.

Building Abundance There’s a feeling, says city council member Dan AymarBlair, that the success of Beacon hasn’t worked out so well for everyone who lives here. “It’s only worked for the people who were able to make investments related to the resurgence,” he says. Even before the pandemic jokerized the entire country’s real estate market, Beacon’s rental and housing market had transformed from “robust” to “bonkers.” New luxury housing units on Main Street, built higher than any other buildings around them, helped nudge the market even further out of reach for many and have been a convenient scapegoat to point to when anyone starts grumbling about what’s wrong with Beacon today. On one hand, it’s probably unfair to blame every single recent ill on a few four-story buildings. On the other hand when, after the first snowstorm this winter, two of those buildings were the only ones along Beacon’s mile-long Main Street that didn’t shovel their sidewalks. A lot of people noticed and drew their own conclusions. This has led to the impression that Beacon is antidevelopment, which Aymar-Blair says isn’t exactly true. “I don’t think there’s a lot of people out there that are opposed to actual construction,” he says. “Usually the questions I hear are: Why does it look so awful and out of place? Why is it so ugly and big? Why doesn’t it have any affordable housing in it?” There’s more than aesthetics at stake. One might think that years of new construction would lead to a massively growing city, but initial 2020 census numbers

show the opposite is true: The population actually shrank 11 percent in the past 10 years, and the city’s Black population was hit particularly hard, dropping by 47 percent. Until more detailed data is released, it’s hard to know exactly what to make of this. Initial analysis suggests that the census may have included the population of the recently closed Fishkill Correctional Facility, which lies partly in Fishkill and partly in Beacon, as part of Beacon in the 2010 census and Fishkill in the 2020 census (Fishkill grew by 10 percent in the past decade.) Residents identifying as multiracial also increased by 129 percent, which may partly explain the decrease in Beacon’s Black population, as the 2020 census asked different questions about race than the 2010 census did and tabulated the results differently. But the decrease matches anecdotal accounts of those who’ve noticed the city’s Black population shrink in the past 10 years. The shift was noticeable to Murnane in her years teaching in Beacon’s schools, as she saw which students had to move away and which didn’t. It’s also been noticeable to Reverend Ron Perry Sr., of Beacon’s Springfield Baptist Church. The church is one of the oldest in Beacon, and once served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. But Rev. Perry told me that over the past decade, much of his congregation has had to move out of Beacon, coming from as far away as Poughkeepsie and Hyde Park, before eventually leaving the state altogether. To him, this points to a statewide problem, as opposed to a Beacon 5/22 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 49

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Nikki Hayes opened Stella’s Fine Market, on Main Street, in December. Her provisions shop is named for daughter, Stella.

problem. “New York State has priced a lot of people out, not Beacon,” he says. Affordable housing is needed, but what exactly qualifies as “affordable?” Aymar-Blair goes by the federal definition, which says that no more than 30 percent of one’s income can go towards housing. “To truly create affordable housing for people of every income range, we need to have housing that’s available at 30 percent of those different income levels,” he says. Beacon’s in good shape at the bottom level, with large amounts of subsidized housing. And all the new luxury housing takes care of the top end. “But we need to plug in a lot of gaps in between,” says Aymar-Blair. The job market may be booming, but what happens if you’re in Section 8 housing in Beacon, you get a new job that pays significantly more, but now you make too much to continue to qualify for subsidized housing? “I have a choice of taking a higher-paying job and moving out of Beacon because of the lack of available housing at that price range, or I have to turn the job down so I can stay in my home,” says Aymar-Blair. “We need to look at those kinds of scenarios and make sure that there’s sufficient housing stock for people at all income levels.” In order to do that, the city can increase the amount of affordable housing it requires developers to have in any building with 10 or more units. The city is also looking at the amount of public land it owns and which lots would be good candidates to offer to developers who will build low-income and affordable

housing. Beacon also recently became one of the few cities in the state to pass a Good Cause Eviction law, which places some limitations on rent increases and stipulates that landlords can’t evict tenants without a good reason. The law remains controversial; the city’s own attorney advised against it because landlords in Albany recently sued that city after their Good Cause law was passed. What happens with the Albany lawsuit will determine what happens in Beacon and elsewhere while New York considers enacting a statewide version of the law. In the meantime, AymarBlair said that even if Beacon gets sued, it’s worth the legal fees if it means people can stay in their homes and communities don’t continue to get ripped apart. Together, these actions will hopefully ensure that everyone who wants to stay in Beacon can stay in Beacon, especially since some of the upsides of the city’s development boom will soon be apparent. The revenues created by the new developments funded a badly needed overhaul of the city’s ancient wastewater and sewage systems, which were at their breaking points. Every Beaconite who thinks all the new buildings look like crap can thank those buildings for making sure their own basement doesn’t soon become flooded with crap. The city has an ambitious list of possible projects to consider: A new community center, to replace the two that closed years ago, is a frequent public demand. Also being discussed: new sidewalks on roads that don’t currently have them, more public bathrooms, more 5/22 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 51

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Christian Larson filling a bucket of popcorn at Story Screen movie theater on Main Street. Opposite: Manriah Carey perfoming at Hudson Valley Food Hall. Hakkan Martensson working on a chocolate sculpture of a dragon in his chocolate shop on Main Street.

public spaces on Main Street, municipal composting, upgrades to the city’s parks, and more greenway trails. “The idea is, you take all the money from the new development, and you use it to improve the lives of everyone who lives here,” says Aymar-Blair. And those still coming. Even a cursory walk down Main Street shows that for a lot of people, the pandemic was a new beginning. The New Class It’s 2020 and Nikki Hayes has just lost her job. She hated working behind a computer anyway. What she loved about her design job were the parts when she got to work with her hands and be creative. She decides that it’s time for a change, and if it doesn’t happen now, it’s never going to happen. She looks at what she loves—cooking, design, supporting small businesses owned by women— and sets her sights on opening a store in Beacon selling artisanal, small-scale grocery products and cookbooks. She knows that the store has to be in Beacon, because she loves Beacon. She lives close by, and she and her husband always come here on their days off to walk down Main Street. “Why would I go anywhere else?” she says. “I don’t feel comfortable anywhere else.” Unfortunately, everyone else has had the same idea, so it takes a year and many near-misses before she is able to open Stella’s Fine Market, a provisions shop on the west end of Main Street named after her

daughter, in December 2021. “This is like a dream, like a Nancy Myers movie,” she says. The store is small, but for anyone who enjoys food and/or design, it’s a place one can spend a lot of time. The shelves groan with Fat Gold olive oil, Fly By Jing chili crisp, Rancho Gordo beans, and copies of the feminist food magazine Cherry Bombe. Stella’s joins an impressive new crop of stores that have opened in Beacon in the last two years. Some of them, like Momo Valley, were a long time coming. The Tibetan restaurant started years ago as freezer bags of their homemade frozen dumplings being sold out of Beacon Natural Market. That led to sometimes selling food during busy nights at Hudson Valley Brewery, to a booth at the new Beacon Food Hall, to their own restaurant on Main Street. Nearby, the sustainable bulk retailer Refill Restore has just opened up, a long overdue place where Beaconites can buy cleaning products and other home goods in bulk without the packaging. The awardwinning chocolatier Hakan Martensson has opened up his namesake store of astonishing handmade bonbons and baked Swedish treats. 20-year-old cookbook author and vegan activist Halie Thomas opened up the Matcha Thomas tea house with her family. The business grew to be so popular in the first few months that they’ve already moved to a bigger space. Little King opened last year as both a cafe and a homeware store with an impressive selection of 5/22 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 53

Dan Rigney, nonprofit consultant and Elder at First Presbyterian Church of Beacon; Penelope Rigney, Beacon High School Class of ‘23.

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Victoria Cameli, Jaeden Drysdale, Samantha Brittain, Helanna Bratman, and Aidon George of Green Teen, a youth urban farming program that’s part of Cornell Cooperative Extension, Dutchess County.

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food-adjacent zines on the shelves as well. “Beacon is very community oriented, but it’s also very future oriented,” says Aimee deSimone of Berte, the handmade design shop she opened in October of 2020. Before opening the store, deSimone worked in television production, which involved a lot of traveling around the country and shooting B-roll of various main streets. So it carries particular weight when she says that Beacon’s mile-long Main Street sticks out. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” she says. As the nation approaches the end of—or a lull in—the pandemic, the city’s new residents are emerging from their homes and searching for community. DeSimone hit on the idea of having a monthly event to get locals out and onto Main Street. Last month, local businesses kicked off First Fridays to complement Beacon’s long-running artsfocused Second Saturdays. The city’s galleries usually have their openings on the second Saturday of the month, so that people can walk around town and check out all the shows in one day. First Fridays serves a similar function, only with raffles, giveaways, extended hours, sales, and other surprises. “It’s a choose-your-own-adventure kind of night,” said deSimone. “One store had you flip a coin, and if you guessed right, you got a discount.” “It’s great that there’s so much love coming back into the city,” says Murnane, who says that at the Beacon Historical Society there’s something they 56 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 5/22

call “the Beacon Magic.” Someone, after years of wanting to move to the city or open a business here, finally makes it happen. Then they come into the historical society to learn about their new home or storefront and discover that they have long-lost family that used to live here, or that a store very similar to theirs was operating out of the same space 100 years ago. “You almost get the sense that this city is drawing in missing pieces and reassembling them,” she says. “When people put those connections together, there’s this burst of love and pride that comes out of them.” You can see the effects of this love and pride that Beaconites continue to have for their city after a particularly rough few years through the care and mindfulness that people are bringing to their new stores, their new projects, their new dreams for the future. “People come to this town and they can’t help but fall in love with it,” she says. It’s 2022. Scenic Hudson is holding public meetings going over the details of its new Fjord Trail, an ambitious multi-year project that will build a riverside trail from Beacon to Cold Spring. A new hotel and concert venue is planned for a closed church near City Hall, as well as the restoration of the church’s historic graveyard. Someone who just moved to the city is walking down Main Street and realizing, for the first time in a long time, that they finally feel at home. There’s never only one beginning.

Back row: Martin D. Fowler, composer and musician; Erin Ashoka, educator and housing justice advocate; Twinkle Burke, actress and writer; Masha Schmidt, acupuncturist and founder of DayDream Collaborative Clinic; Justice McCray, Beacon City Councilmember; Paloma Wake, Beacon City Councilmember. Front row: Xavier Mayo, activist and athlete; Taylor Jackson, intuitive astrologer and tarot reader of Black Satin Venus; and Veekas Ashoka, software engineer and climate justice activist.

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the same spirit of inclusivity with which the event was originally launched. Along the Broadway and Liberty Street corridors, you’ll find six outdoor performance stages featuring a diverse selection of the area’s live music acts and dance groups, with additional focuses on fashion and art. The Wherehouse, a restaurant and performance venue that helped establish the flourishing Liberty Street creative district, will be hosting intimate acoustic music shows while live DJs will be spinning at new sandwich and nightlife hotspot, Toasted Newburgh. Broadway itself will be lined with over 150 of the Hudson Valley’s top food vendors, local makers, community organizations, and more. There will also be children’s activities, historical

tours highlighting Newburgh’s prominent past, and an interactive art exhibition on the corner of Liberty Street and Broadway. New this year will be a classic car show, as well as fashion shows featuring regional designers on the Safe Harbors Green. “This really is the city’s day to shine,” says Anthony Vesnaver, another festival board member. “Our hope is that everyone enjoys the day and feels renewed support for our local community organizations and businesses yearround.” Newburgh Illuminated Festival will be held on Saturday, June 4 from 12pm to 10pm. It is free and open to all. For more information, visit Newburghilluminatedfestival.com.

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n 2012, the then-newly elected mayor of Newburgh, Judy Kennedy, had the bright idea to host a free street festival to celebrate the city’s arts, culture, and heritage. Launched in June 2013, the Newburgh Illuminated Festival—a reference to Newburgh’s history as one of the first US cities to be lit by electricity— would shine a light on the hard work that the city’s residents, businesses, organizations had been putting into the city’s growth. “I was always amazed by Judy Kennedy’s passion for the city that she was not from,” says June Henley, one of the festival’s founding board members. “That helped to relight the heart of this community.” In the years since the festival began, the all-volunteer, grassroots group of community members and business owners who organize the event have turned the Newburgh Illuminated Festival into one of the Mid-Hudson Valley’s largest celebrations. By 2019, the festival reported its highest attendance ever—attracting more than 40,000 people to Broadway and Liberty Street for a daylong family-friendly celebration of music, art, dance, poetry, food, and more—and ensured its legacy as the city’s preeminent cultural event of the year. In part, the festival’s success has also become a testament to the late Kennedy’s legacy as one of the most enthusiastic champions of the city. “When the mayor discovered the magic of this place and community, she immediately began a process of celebrating it—recruiting folks in the community to do our best and shine a light on the place we live,” says Paul Ernenwein, another festival board member. “It’s something we try to do today, almost 10 years later.” This June, after a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus, the festival is returning to celebrate Newburgh’s vibrant cultural and arts scene with

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Jupiter Nights

May 5 at Basilica Hudson To celebrate the unveiling of its newly opened year-round gallery space, Basilica Hudson is kicking off a weekly multimedia art series, "Jupiter Nights," on May 5. The inaugural event will be hosted by Davon with poetry readings by O Zotique and featuring DJ sets from Adrian is Hungry, Laura Se Fue, Sonido Talacha, and DJ Uncle Rudy. Murals made by local youth during a spray-paint workshop will also be on display, as well as work by Ramiro Davaro-Comas. Basilicahudson.org

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The Workshop Experience

May 7-8, Hillsdale Think about a skill you’d like to sharpen. Maybe you want to learn to knit or plant your own garden, or master some simple dance steps. The Workshop Experience in Hillsdale will provide a plethora of opportunities to better yourself and your craft on May 7-8 at various locations across the town. The weekend-long festival brings together over 35 hands-on classes hosted by the Hillsdale Workshop Alliance and taught by various professionals. A sampling: Nocturnal Bird Migration, Podcasting 101, Art of the Woodland Terrarium, What the !@#$% is the Metaverse?, and Springrolls & Wontons with Chef Kiam Lam Kao. Theworkshopexperience.org

FESTIVAL

Hudson Valley Pirate Festival

May 14-15 at the Ulster County Fairgrounds Think of it as a Ren Faire for pirate enthusiasts—and you know who you arrrrrre. Captains, peasants, mateys, and wenches will run up the Jolly Roger in New Paltz for a weekend of sword play, singing (those pandemic sea shanties finally come in handy), and living the life of a pirate. There will be four stages of live entertainment, dozens of vendors selling corsets and crystals and wands, food and grog aplenty, and camping. Avast ye! Hudsonvalleypiratefestival.20m.com

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Hudson Valley Beltane Festival

May 21 at Stone Mountain Farm in New Paltz A family-friendly outdoor festival, this long-standing Beltane celebration features a rainbow of giant puppets, talking birds, dancing dragons, prancing horses, and a menagerie of mythical beings. There’s music, Capture the Flag with the Wayfinder Experience, a children’s maypole dance, flying trapeze lessons, and a Beltane pageant led by the Vanaver Caravan. Vanavercaravan.org

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Tap NY

May 21-22 at Bethel Woods There are almost 500 licensed breweries in New York State. Over 100 of them will be gathered this month at Tap NY’s new home at Bethel Woods to celebrate the world’s third-most popular beverage (after water and tea). Your tasting ticket gets you unlimited sampling, an all-you-can-eat food court, and entertainment. The Wallflowers headline on Saturday and Almost Queen tops the bill on Sunday. Before you tip back too many, you can take a ride on a mechanical bull. Bethelwoodscenter.org

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Garner Arts Festival

May 21-22 in Garnerville The Garner Arts Center is a 14-acre, 19th-century textile mill that’s been transformed into a contemporary art venue in Rockland County that’s home to artist studios, creative economy businesses, and the Industrial Arts brewery. The Garner Arts Fest offers worldclass art exhibitions, large-scale installations, open studios, artisan demonstrations, live music, crafts, performances, craft beverages, and food. Highlights include an interactive installation by Brooklyn-based duo TROUBLE and The Wishing Booth, a surreal visualization by filmmakers Samtubia + Samgoma. Garnerartscenter.org

Holland Tunnel Gallery Celebrates 25 Years May 21 - June 26, 2022 • Alexandra Limpert • Bix Lye • Jacques Roch • Jan Mulder • Larry Lee Webb • Paulien Lethen • Susan Daboll

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Savage Wonder Festival

May 29 at Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center Veterans Repertory Theater presents a day of art, poetry, dance, music, and theater by veterans in honor of their comrades in arms on Memorial Day weekend. Performers include outlaw country singer and former Marine Gethen Jenkins, former Marine Roman Baca’s Exit 12 Dance Company, poetry by combat veteran Amy Sexauer, and many others. The event will coincide with Sugar Loaf’s Spring Festival, and the streets of the village will be shut down for the day. Proceeds benefit local veterans nonprofits: Clear Path 4 Veterans, Blue Star Families, YIT Foundation, and the Veterans Repertory Theater. Savagewonder.substack.com

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Stomp

May 26 at Ulster Performing Arts Center What began as street performance in the UK has grown into an international sensation over the past 20 years—"Stomp" troupes have performed in more than 50 countries and in front of more than 24 million people. If you’ve not seen it, imagine percussionist/ dancers dressed in ragamuffin-meets-grunge couture pirouetting with brooms, banging on garbage can lids, and crinkling newspaper in unison. The transfiguration of the commonplace into the incredible via the power of theater. Bardavon.org

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art exhibits Huitzilopochtli by Anna Ortiz is part of the exhibition "COVID Haus" at Motherin-Law's in Germantown.

THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 474 BROADWAY, KINGSTON

“Wild Place: People of Kingston.” Photographs and interviews with residents of Kingston by Doug Menuez. Through July 17.

CLARK ART INSTITUTE

225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA “As They Saw It: Artists Witnessing War.” Four centuries of war imagery. Through May 30.

CROTON FREE LIBRARY

171 CLEVELAND DRIVE, CROTON-ONHUDSON “Life Patterns.” Paintings by Theresa DeSalvio. May 3-June 29.

D’ARCY SIMPSON ART WORKS 409 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

“Mary Breneman.” Paintings. Through May 8.

FRIDMAN GALLERY

475 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Substance in Ethiopia.” Multimedia works by Hana Tilma Godine. Through May 31.

GARAGE GALLERY

17 CHURCH STREET, BEACON “Baju Wijono, Robert Treat, and Aaron Nelson.” Paintings, photographs, and sculptures. May 8-31.

GARNER ARTS CENTER

55 WEST RAILROAD AVENUE, GARNERVILLE “Big Risks: Creative Discoveries”. Sculptures by Peter Strasser. Through June 25.

GARRISON ART CENTER

23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON “No Parity.” Vintage hand-printed photographs by Alfred Schwartz. May 7-June 12. “From the Seance Series.” Sculpture by Carla Mae Johnson. May 7-June 12.

GREEN KILL

229 GREENKILL AVENUE, KINGSTON “Permeable Boundaries.” Alan Falk, Julie Seidman, Joel Silverstein. May 7-June 25.

GRIT WORKS

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“In the Same World.” Catherine Ramey and Mark LaRiviere. May 7-June 12.

“Raven Halfmoon: Ancestors.” Monumental ceramic sculptures. Through June 12.

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“Doris Simon: Mountain Panoramas.” Berkshire landscape paintings May 6-29.

“May Group Show.” May 14-30.

1053 MAIN STREET, FLEISCHMANNS

510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

1405 COUNTY ROUTE 22, GHENT

CLINTON CORNERS

ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER 24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS

BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN 5 WEST STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA

“Hunt Country.” Paintings by Hunt Slonem. May 7-June 5.

BUSTER LEVI GALLERY

2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE “Hudson Light.” Landscape paintings. May 6-29.

CARRIE CHEN GALLERY

“Annual Members Show.” 19th annual members show. Sun., May 29.

“Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski: Portal Pieces.” Two large-scale works on paper: Graduation Day, and The Guardians. Through May 29.

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BANNERMAN ISLAND GALLERY

“Lily Prince: Both Sides Now.” Paintings. Through May 8.

ANN STREET GALLERY

“The Transylvania Effect.” K.P. Devlin’s full moon paintings. Through May 29.

“Objects for Reading.” Works by artists/designers designed for reading. Through May 20.

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“Activate!”. Member show. Through May 1. “Signs & Letters.” Monotypes by Daniel Berlin. Through May 1.

258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT

104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH

71 EAST MARKET STREET #5, RHINEBECK “Marcia Slatkin.” Collages from photography. May 2-June 5.

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150 MAIN STREET, BEACON.

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CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Bold Little Beauty.” Paintings by Julia Whitney Barnes, Linda Newman Boughton, Sue Bryan, Shawn Dulaney, Susan Hope Fogel and photography by Betsy Weis. Through May 30.

“Brass Tax and the Invisible Complexities Within.” Multimedia work by David Lionheart. Through June 19.

HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART/CCS BARD BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ONHUDSON.

“Interference.” Fourteen exhibitions curated by members of CCS Bard’s graduating class and drawing upon the Marieluise Hessel Collection and CCS Bard’s Library and Archives. Through May 29.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WOODSTOCK NY

20 COMEAU DRIVE, WOODSTOCK "Woodstock Weavers 50th Anniversary Exhibit, Demonstrations, Sale." Woodstock Weavers Guild. Through June 12.

HOLLAND TUNNEL GALLERY

46 CHAMBERS STREET, NEWBURGH “Dare to be Square.” Artwork by Marc Bernier and Tadashi Hashimoto. Through May 15. “Holland Tunnel Gallery Celebrates 25 Years.” Alexandra Limpert, Bix Lye, Jacques Roch, Jan Mulder, Larry Lee Webb, Pauline Lethen, and Susan Daboll. May 21-June 26.

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Pure Pleasure by Casey Jex Smith is part of "Florescence," the inaugural exhbition at Turley Gallery in Hudson.

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MARK GRUBER GALLERY

NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ “Hardie Truesdale: Special Places.” Nature photographs. Through May 14.

MERGE

178 SCHOONMAKER LANE, STONE RIDGE “Fear Not.” Exhibit and book launch showcasing Stephen Zaima’s invented landscapes of enigmatic images. May 28-June 5.

TREMAINE ART GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL

4033 ROUTE 28A, WEST SHOKAN “Behind the Scenes.” Work by the Olive Free Library exhibition committee. Janette Kahil, Elaine Ralston, Sandra Scheuer, Linda Schultz, Jan Sosnowitz, and Kathy Yacoe. May 21-July 9.

PALMER GALLERY

VASSAR COLLEGE, 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE "Vassar College Studio Art Students’ Exhibit." Through May 11.

PAMELA SALISBURY GALLERY

“Birds.” Paintings of birds by Steven Strauss. May 20-July 20.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON

“Wall Works.” Frescoes, photo-sculptures, and mixed media photographs by Franc Palaia. May 14-June 8.

HUDSON HALL

327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Nearly Stationary: Performance and the Still Object.” Twenty years of sculpture, drawings, photographs, and collaborations with contemporary dance by Barbara Kilpatrick. May 7-June 12.

JANE ST. ART CENTER

11 JANE STREET, SAUGERTIES

LIFEBRIDGE SANCTUARY

333 MOUNTAIN ROAD, ROSENDALE “Pathways and Waterways: Explorations into Light and Color.” Paintings by Dan Shorenstein. Through August 12.

“Overdramatic.” Drawings, collages, and prints by Elena Grajek. Through May 8. “Constant Carnival: The Haas Brothers in Context.” Through June 26. “Let’s Step Inside.” Whimsical site-specific installation by Jelia Gueramian. Through June 26.

KENISE BARNES FINE ART 7 FULLING LANE, KENT, CT

“Unexpected Windows.” Paintings by Elizabeth Gourlay. Through May 15.

LABSPACE

2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE “Pauline Decarmo: Exit.” New paintings. Through May 29.

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UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 9 PARADIES LANE, NEW PALTZ

“Inside Out, Outside In.” Work by Mimi Graminski. Through June 12.

VASSAR COLLEGE

"The Campus Green: The Olmsted Firm’s Designs for Vassar College." Contributions by three generations of the Olmsted firm to the Vassar campus. Through June 6.

PLAY CATSKILLS

THE POUGHKEEPSIE TROLLEY BARN 489 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE

"Reel Exposure." Teen film and photography festival. May 4-6.

PRIVATE PUBLIC

530 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON “Restless Nights.” Paintings by Kathryn Lynch. Through May 22.

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VASSAR COLLEGE: THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE

“Beyond the Threshold: Tibetan Contemporary Art” highlights the diversity of contemporary Tibetan creative expression, presenting works from 10 artists based around the world. Through July 31.

VISITOR CENTER

233 LIBERTY STREET, NEWBURGH “Pricked and Broken.” Paintings and wall sculptures by Julia von Eichel. May 7-June 11.

THE WASSAIC PROJECT

“Walter Gurbo: Ancient Future.” Relief paintings and sculpture. Through May 23.

WEST STRAND ART GALLERY

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SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

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747 ROUTE 28, KINGSTON "Dreams Within a Dream." Farrell Brickhouse, William Gary, David Pollack, Joel Longenecker, and Claudia Renfro. Though May 8.

MAGAZZINO ITALIAN ART

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“Florescence.” Inaugural exhibition featuring the work of 12 contemporary artists. May 7-June 19.

“Wild Place: People of Kingston.” Photographs and interviews by Doug Menuez of residents of Kingston. In collaboration with the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Through July 17.

LIGHTFORMS ART CENTER

JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART

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LONGYEAR GALLERY

“Atmosphere.” New work by Patrick Neal. Through May 7.

TURLEY GALLERY

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“A Repairing Mend.” Textile art by Patricia Miranda. Through May 8. “Traci Horgen: Weather.” May 14-June 19.

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“Fragmentary Blue.” Work by Cynthia Alberto, Mandy Cano Villalobos, Rosa Chang, Nancy Cohen, Ann Conrad-Stewart, Joy Curtis, Beth Dary, Grace DeGennaro, Valerie Hammond, Tate Klacsmann, Jordana Munk Martin, Caitlin Parker, Sarah Pettitt, Beau Bree Rhee, Dora Somosi, Alyce Santoro, and Janis Stemmerman. Curated by Joan Baldwin and Terri L. Moore. May 15-June 17.

“Jeanne Silverthorne: Sculpture.” “Richard Bosman: Selected Work.” “Willard Boepple: Towers and Tablets.” “Amy Pleasant and Pete Schulte: Works on Paper.” “Don Voisine: On Point.” “Kamilla Talbot: Works on Paper.” All shows May 7-June 5.

“Bountiful Beauty.” Paintings by Deborah Ruggerio. Through May 19.

“Farm to Table: The Bounty of Beacon and Beyond.” Group multimedia show. Through May 29.

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“COVID Haus.” Work by Susan Hamburger, Richard Estrin, Emily Roz, and Anna Ortiz. Through June 19.

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TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY “Closely Scene.” Melissa Katzman Braggins and Ted Braggins. May 6-29.

“Kristallnacht.” Multimedia installation by Dean Goldberg. May 22-June 10.

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“Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration.” Late works by Thomas Cole. Curated by Franklin Kelly, Senior Curator and Christiane Ellis Valone Curator of American Paintings at the National Gallery of Art. Through October 30.

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HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER

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Baikal Teal by Steven Strauss, from his show "Birds" at Le Shag in Kingston.

THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

785 MAIN STREET, MARGARETVILLE “Works in Series.” Group show. Through May 8.

2700 ROUTE 9, COLD SPRING “Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura.” Piero Gilardi’s Tappeto-Natura (Nature-Carpets). Curated by Elena Re. May 7-January 9.

MANITOGA

584 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON “Formfantasma at Manitoga’s Dragon Rock: Designing Nature.” Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of the Italian design duo Formafantasma will present a selection of works in dialogue with the house, studio, and surrounding landscape at Manitoga. In collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art. May 13-November 14.

MASS MOCA

1040 MASS MOCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA “Marc Swanson: A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco.” Exhibition curated by Denise Markonish, in conjunction with an exhibition at Thomas Cole Historic Site July 16-November 27. Through January 1, 2023.

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"SUNY New Paltz Student Thesis Exhibitions.” Through May 24. "Madonna and Child: A Journey from Conservation to Restoration.” Through July 17. "The Dorsky at 20: Reflections at a Milestone (Part II)." Through July 17. “Mary Frank: The Observing Heart.” Retrospective of the six-decade career of the acclaimed artist and activist. Through July 17.

SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ARTS CENTER

790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN "Spring Mix." William Bullard, Tia Maggio, and Gina Occhiogrosso. Through May 30.

STEPHEN POSER STUDIO & GALLERY SALT POINT

“Hudson River Landscapes & Abstractions.” May 1-October 31.

STUDIO 89

89 VINEYARD AVENUE, HIGHLAND “Earth Day Celebration.” Poster show. Through June 11.

SUSAN ELEY FINE ART

433 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Malia's Garden.” New paintings by Allison Green. Through June 19.

“A Tournament of Lies.” Summer group show of 46 artists. May 21-September 17.

29 WEST STRAND STREET, KINGSTON “Metaphors.” Works by Rodriguez Calero, Josh Kramb, Nitza Tufino, and Eliezer Parrilla. May 5-29.

THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

15 LAWRENCE HALL DRIVE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints." Through June 11.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM

28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK “Active Members’ Spring Exhibition.” Group show. Through May 8. “Large-Scale Abstract Paintings from the Permanent Collection.” Large-scale works by Ethel Magafan, Edward Chavez, Ernest Frazier, Gwen Davies, Lou Tavelli, Roman Wachtel, Ezio Martinelli, Edward Millman, and Richard Crist. Through May 8. “Nancy O’Hara: Inner Landscapes.” Large abstract paintings. Through May 8. “Every Picture Tells A Story.” Paintings by Natalie Wargin. May 20-July 4. “What Unites Us: Americana Art From the Permanent Collection.” A collection of images that celebrate America throughout the 20th century, from historical moments like V-J Day to iconic events like the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of 1969, from WAAM’s permanent collection. May 20-August 21.

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Can’t Miss Makers Coming to Field + Supply OUR SHORTLIST FOR THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND FAIR AT HUTTON BRICKYARDS

et on 73 acres of Hudson riverfront property in Kingston is the historic Hutton Brickyards, once home to a brickmaking manufacturer that supplied materials for iconic New York City structures like Yankee Stadium and the Cloisters. Today, its remaining industrial architecture—three soaring steel-frame kiln sheds—play host twice a year to a different kind of waterfront maker magic: Field + Supply. Founded by interior designer Brad Ford in 2014 as a modern interpretation of a traditional arts and crafts market, Field + Supply brings together a carefully curated selection of makers from across the country for one of the region’s most anticipated events. This Memorial Day weekend, May 27 to 29, over 200 vendors in a wide range of categories—from high-end furniture and home decor to apothecary goods, ceramics, clothing, jewelry, and small-batch food and beverage products—will gather for three days of shopping paired with live music, demos, and gourmet fare from local vendors. Want some help deciding who to make a beeline for when you arrive? We’ve put together a shortlist of must-see makers you won’t want to miss. DBO Home Husband-and-wife design team Dana Brandwein and Daniel Oates are the makers behind DBO Home, an artful line of homewares, including ceramics, serveware, bronze objects, lighting, and custom furniture, made by hand in their Litchfield County studio. Along with Brandwein’s handcrafted ceramics in contrasting black and white glazes, you’ll definitely want to linger over Oates’ heirloomquality furniture. Practical pieces like benches, TV consoles, and sideboards made from American-

sourced hardwoods with minimal, rustic detailing have indelible visual appeal thanks to his years as a fine art sculptor exhibiting in acclaimed galleries and institutions such as the Whitney Museum. Lail Design Rooted in traditional craft and influenced by the pottery styles of North Carolina and England, Brad Lail’s eponymous line of wheel-thrown stoneware is made in small-batch firings at his studio in the Catskills. Product releases on Lail’s online shop typically sell out in a day or two, so this is your chance to ogle super-saturated, handmixed glazes in nature-inspired hues such as Fawn, Bluestone, Moss, and Rhubarb and snag a few mugs, plates, or pasta bowls in person. Umber & Ochre San Francisco-based clothing company Umber & Ochre was founded by Kunal Desai, a native of Mumbai who grew up surrounded by family in the apparel business. The company seeks to create an ethical supply chain by working with family-run factories in India whose artisans use hand-woven natural fibers and traditional pattern and dyeing techniques. Swing by and swoon over the curated seasonal collection of men and women’s apparel featuring intricate processes like ikat, brush-painted potai, and woodblock and leaf printing. Mana Made Searching for quality, sustainably made jewelry at affordable price points? Enter Mana Made, a New York City-based line created by designer and metalsmith Amanda “Mana” Paulsen. Each piece is fabricated in Paulsen’s New York City and Los Angeles-based studios and made using

recycled metals—a sustainable practice that also helps lower the cost. Pieces like the brass Seapod Ring and Scallop Charm Necklace are striking yet minimal enough for everyday wear and reflect Mana’s coastal roots on Long Island’s East End and southern California. Rane Leather Goods After Connecticut-based Rane Leather Goods founder Kate Cook’s favorite Italian leather handbag designer retired, she threw herself into the study of leather sourcing, tannery practices, and hand-stitching techniques and taught herself how to make her own leather totes. The company uses ethically sourced and repurposed leather goods to make its strikingly minimal, customizable tote bags, wallets, clutches, and belts in classic neutrals like black, tan, and natural. The Field+Supply Spring MRKT will take place at the Hutton Brickyards in Kingston May 27, 28, and 29 from 10am to 6pm. Proof of vaccination is required and advance tickets are recommended. Fieldandsupply.com

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Boundaries break as the feeling of confinement continues to fade. May speeds by as Venus whips through Aries May 2–27. The pursuit of pleasure feels fresh, vital, and for the first time in a long time, fun. Nobody wants their long-delayed enjoyment spoiled by global issues, and yet, shocking revelations around the presumed stability of Mother Earth herself can no longer be ignored when Sun meets Uranus in Taurus May 5. Big, bountiful, and beneficent Jupiter enters Aries May 10. In an individual’s natal chart, this supersizes courage, boldness, and leadership qualities. In terms of society and nations, Jupiter in Aries is all about aggressive expansion of beliefs, and acting against perceived societal and ideological wrongs. The last time Jupiter was in Aries we saw Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the passing of the Affordable Care Act, and the rise of the Tea Party before the midterm elections. Mercury stations retrograde May 10, re-enters Taurus May 22 before stationing direct in early June and returning to his original retrograde point in Gemini by the Summer Solstice. It’s never been more important to have solid, verifiable facts. Many will make life-altering decisions May 15/16 at the Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio, with Sun sextile Neptune and square Saturn, and the Venus/Chiron conjunction. Don’t make fear-based, radically uninformed changes. Ignorance is never bliss. Once your desire for change is vetted through the lens of objective reality, the conjunction of Mars and Neptune and the Sun’s trine to Pluto May 18–19 give you the energy you need to take off like a rocket. Mars entering Aries May 24 and meeting Jupiter May 29 lifts you out of gravity’s reach. Behold your life from this exalted view, and you’ll know what to do.

ARIES (March 20–April 19)

Your robust vitality is boosted May 4–7 with the Sun, Mars, and Uranus in a triple sextile. On your mark, get set, go! Rise like a rocket May 10 when Jupiter enters Aries, through late October. Everything you do will be big, bold, courageous, and pioneering. Energized dreams turn to concrete reality when Mars conjuncts Neptune May 18. If you think things couldn’t get any faster, wait until Mars enters Aries May 24. Your immensely powerful life-force feels like it’s been liberated from a prison. Stretch yourself to the maximum May 29 at the conjunction of Mars and Jupiter.

TAURUS (April 19–May 20)

Powerful leadership skills are being molded this month, with Venus sextiling Pluto May 1 before entering Aries May 2. You are bold to take action toward reconciliation, with insight, empathy and compassion, at the conjunction of Venus to Wounded Healer Chiron May 15, during the Full Moon/Full Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio. Hierarchal relationships are redefined May 24–27 with Venus sextile Saturn and square Pluto. You’re feeling squeezed too tight and you’re ready to break out of a feeling of confinement. Venus enters her home sign of Taurus May 28, resyncing your natural rhythms and regulating your reactiveness. A practicing, professional astrologer for over 30 years, Lorelai Kude can be reached for questions and personal consultations via email (lorelaikude@yahoo.com) and her Kabbalah-flavored website is Astrolojew.com.

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GEMINI (May 20–June 21)

Mercury in Gemini retrogrades May 10, reentering Taurus May 22 until stationing direct again June 3. Think of the period between May 10 and June 3 as being a parenthetical thought inside a larger conversation. What’s being discussed is big and important—Mercury sextile Jupiter May 19—but part of the details have been hidden until now, and it’s your job to uncover them. Your curiosity is reenergized May 20-23 when the Sun enters Gemini and Mercury sextiles Mars. Powerful insights into your subconscious mind are revealed when Mercury trines Pluto May 25. Pay attention to your dreams.

CANCER (June 21–July 22)

Your self-worth gets a stimulus package May 8 as the First Quarter Moon in Leo enhances your personal value, in everybody’s eyes, as well as your own. The Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio May 15/16 profoundly affects your romantic sensibilities as well as your creativity. When the light is hidden and then reappears, something new is revealed. You’ll find strength and resources you hadn’t been aware of are now at your beck and call. The Last Quarter Moon in Pisces May 22 facilitates a higher level of spiritual awareness. Humility makes space for beautiful new growth.

LEO (July 22–August 23)

Public recognition of your valuable personal uniqueness comes May 5 at the Sun/Uranus conjunction. Revitalized energy and redirected focus result from the Sun/Mars sextile May 7; First Quarter Leo Moon May 8 prompts greater personal responsibility for those whom you lead. Full Moon/ Total Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio May 15 at the Sun’s sextile to Neptune and square to Saturn inspires creative solutions to conflicts between partnerships and nuclear. Wield power gracefully May 19 with the Sun trine Pluto. Sun enters Gemini May 20 and conjuncts Mercury May 21. Tell it like it is.

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VIRGO (August 23–September 23)

Mercury in Gemini stations retrograde May 10, re-entering Taurus May 22. This is an opportunity to redefine the spiritual priorities in your life and reconsider how you bring those forward into a morea x i • quiet • rel lea visible and public realm. The sextile ofnMercury •c l u perspective on to Jupiter May 19 enlarges your tif institutions that are supposed to provide nourishment for your higher mind and soul. Perhaps those structures no longer serve their original purpose. Find new ways to connect long-neglected parts of yourself when Mercury sextiles Mars May 23. Powerful, compassionate words heal yourself and others when Mercury trines Pluto May 25.

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LIBRA (September 23–October 23)

Venus is extra sensitive to issues of power May 1 at her sextile to Pluto. Any perceived imbalances won’t be tolerated after Venus enters Aries May 2. You’re courageous to protect the vulnerabilities of others from exploitation when Venus conjuncts Chiron May 15; your sense of fairness and justice serves as an example to all May 24 at the sextile of Venus to Saturn. Venus squares Pluto May 27, requiring a readjustment of hierarchal relationships. Venus enters her Earth-Sign home of Taurus May 28, helping your flow and your comfort zone feel more comfortable, which is important right now!

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SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)

You’re unusually—maybe even supernaturally— lucky May 1-3 with Venus and Jupiter sextile Pluto; this luck may unexpectedly offer a chance to change your life in surprising ways which could appear around May 4’s sextile of Mars to Uranus. Your big event this month is the Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio May 15/16. This isn’t about mere change; it’s about utter transformation. Dreams otherwise left for dead find resurrection May 18–19 with Mars conjunct Neptune and the Sun trine Pluto. Are you ready to give birth to a version of yourself you’ve never dared to reveal?

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22)

Time to stop being coy and ambivalent about owning your personal power when Jupiter sextiles Pluto May 3. If you’re the family black sheep, it’s because they’re envious of your freedom. Throw off false guilt and empty apologies for not fulfilling other people’s expectations when Jupiter enters Aries May 10. Be big, bold, and beautiful and be 100 percent authentically your own self. Mercury and the Sun both sextile Jupiter May 19–23, empowering you to speak your truth in the most illuminating way possible. Revitalized energy and vitality are yours when Mars conjuncts Jupiter May 29. Use it to move mountains!

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20)

That disconcerting feeling when the stability of institutions and societal structures, long taken for granted, is suddenly in question may show up during May, as the Sun, Uranus, and North Lunar Node in Taurus feel more like an earthquake than solid ground. The Sun/Saturn square May 15 accompanies the Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio, with the Sun sextile Neptune and Venus conjunct Chiron. The light hides and reappears, revealing new perspectives on friendships, affinity groups, and what makes you part of any given community. The gracious Venus / Saturn sextile May 24 softens judgement.

AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19)

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You’re full of restless excitement May 4–5 with Mars sextile and Sun conjunct Uranus, which could turn into nervous anxiety without a vigorous physical outlet. Developing a practice to get out of your head and into your body should be your top priority. All those genius ideas percolating inside your head will come to fruition once your body is calmed and balanced. The Full Moon/Total Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio May 15 reveals secrets in your most public places. Make sure you have nothing to hide when your career and vocation come under scrutiny. Be an open book!

PISCES (February 20-March 19)

Last month you were graced by the first Jupiter/ Neptune conjunction in Pisces since 1856. This month the dreams and visions you received begin to take formation. Boldly push forward when Jupiter enters Aries May 10; receive a fresh influx of passionate power when the Sun sextiles and Mars conjuncts Neptune May 15–18. Like a sculptor removes excess clay until the figure they alone perceive emerges, your inner eye is fixed upon what you alone can see. Keep chipping away until that vision is revealed. Last Quarter Moon in Pisces May 22 perfects your inspirations: Your aim is true.

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Elliott Landy’s Photographs of Janis Joplin: On the Road & On Stage The personality difference in Elliott Landy’s pictures of Janis Joplin is dramatic, to say the least. In live concert shots, pulsating with the saturated psychedelic colors of a light show swirling around her, she’s a DayGlo dynamo, burning brightly like a carnival fireworks display. But in monochromatic moments, those little alone times backstage, sad and lost in thought, perhaps nursing a cup of tea in a diner or waiting for a ride to the next show, she’s someone else; perhaps the little girl blue she sang about. But which is the real Janis Joplin, the searing performer shredding her soul before the audience or the wounded waif buried behind it all? It’s something to contemplate while gazing at Photographs of Janis Joplin: On the Road & On Stage (Backbeat Books), the legendary Woodstock photographer’s beautiful new book of images of the rock icon. “The first time I saw Janis perform was with [her then band] Big Brother and the Holding Company, at the Anderson Theater on Second Avenue on the Lower East Side, on February 17, 1968,” recalls Landy, who had previously been a paparazzi-style photographer for celebrity magazines and was then working for underground New York paper The Rat. “It was one of the first rock ’n’ roll concerts I saw, and my second one at the Anderson—I’d seen Country Joe and the Fish there, two weeks earlier—and it’s still one of the most powerful concerts I’ve ever seen.” Shots from that very event, and the hangout that followed it, are among the wealth of visual riches in Photographs of Janis Joplin. The book’s 129 photos, many of them previously unseen, are interspersed with quotes by the singer culled from rare interviews she did with writer David Dalton that uncannily reflect the pictures they’re paired with. Alongside one of the black and white images of Joplin laughing and holding court backstage, drink in hand, her trademark lust for life comes fully into focus thanks to the adjacent text. “Hey listen, man. I plan on being around a long time, but that’s the only fuckin’ thing I’m planning on,” she espouses. “Let it happen, man! I’m getting’ it now, today…” “Meeting Janis was just like meeting anyone,” Landy says. “She was an incredible performer, but there was no ‘star’ stuff with her. When you met her offstage, she’d be laughing out loud with you and everyone. She definitely was not shy.” That lack of shyness, along with other sides of her complicated personality and, vividly, her force-of-nature presence as a performer, are on stunning display in Landy’s fantastic photographs of Joplin. What does he most hope people see when looking at the book? “The unbridled spirit of a very talented woman who demanded to be free,” he says. “In all aspects of her life.” —Peter Aaron

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A day of music, art, dance, spoken word, & a special movie screening—all featuring veterans in the arts. Join this exceptional lineup of warrior-artists to celebrate Memorial Day like never before. May 29: Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Chester, NY

Complete schedule: savagewonder.com All proceeds go to the following New York-based veterans nonproﬁts

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