Chronogram November 2018 by Chronogram

Chronogram 11/18

The Birthday Issue

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Discover Uptown Kingston

Uptown Kingston is full of great things to see and do. Spend the day with us. Explore the shops and businesses. Visit our notable historic sites.

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Oak 42 34 John St. (845) 339-0042 oak42.com A clothing and lifestyle boutique offering

Yum Yum Noodle Bar 275 Fair St. (845) 338-1400 yumyumnoodlebar.com Noodle bar and Asian street food with a twist. Every day 11:30am-10pm. New location: 7496 S. Broadway, Red Hook.

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Le Shag 292C Fair St. (845) 338-0191 leshag.com A hub of happy hair artists with an amazing clientele that, hopefully, return to the community reinvigorated, excited, and Le Shagged.

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F E S T I VA L S AT B E T H E L W O O D S

Holiday Market

Making it in the Mountains The growing culture of success in Greene County

December 1-2 • 11 am-4pm Free Admission • Shop Local Artisans & Specialty Vendors • Pictures with Santa • Arts & Crafts & More

Wednesday, December 5, 5–7pm

Film Screenings Dec 1 The Santa Clause • 4pm Dec 2 The Santa Clause 2 • 4pm

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Scribner’s Catskill Lodge 13 Scribner Hollow Road, Hunter NY

Make a day of it by visiting The Museum & Special Exhibit: Peter Max: Early Paintings Plan your next visit at BethelWoodsCenter.org

Come join the discussion! We’ll talk about the growth of this thriving region and sample the culinary and mixology delights of Scribner’s Lodge.

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BARD FISHER CENTER THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI with a live, original score by Chris Washburne featuring Rags and Roots Presented with Catskill Jazz Factory

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MUSIC November 3 and 4

THE ORCHESTRA NOW Copland’s Lincoln Portrait

PERFORMANCE

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CONVERSATION November 10

BRIAN REED Creating S-Town: A New Way to Tell a Story PERFORMANCE November 17

ISABELLA ROSSELLINI Link Link Circus CABARET December 8

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LEA DELARIA Oh F*k It’s Christmas CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT AND DAN TEPFER Les Belles Chansons Françaises

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845-758-7900 fishercenter.bard.edu CONGRATULATIONS TO CHRONOGRAM ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! Thank you for sharing the arts, culture, and spirit of the Hudson Valley for 25 years. Clockwise from top left: Conrad Veidt in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920, Wikimedia Commons; The Orchestra Now by David DeNee; Isabella Rossellini by Brigitte Lacombe; Cécile McLorin Salvant by Mark Fitton; Lea Delaria by Kharen Hill; Brian Reed by Sandy Honig; Backgound: Detail, The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto

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FRONT MATTER

HOME & GARDEN

16 On the Cover 18 Esteemed Reader 21 Editor’s Note 27 Big Idea: Downing Park 29 Q&A: Jillian Fisher 30 While You Were Sleeping 33 Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

50 Horse Heaven

FOOD & DRINK

62 Peak Experiences

A horse-lover’s childhood dream comes true in Clinton Corners.

HEALTH & WELLNESS 58 (Self) Love From childbirth to end-of-life, women are helping women take charge of their health.

OUTDOORS The Catskills’ highest summits are calling.

36 Pop Goes the Restaurant A survey of the Hudson Valley food scene’s latest culinary phenomenon: pop-up events.

41 The Drink Lis Bar in Midtown Kingston serves Polishinspired tapas and craft cocktails.

43 Sips & Bites A who’s who of newcomers to the region’s dining scene.

45 Holiday Events From seasonal markets to live performances, the Hudson Valley offers plenty of events for all to enjoy this joyful season.

ART OF BUSINESS 64 Caffeinated Politics

Democracy Coffee is using the free market to crowdsource funding for candidates who support campaign refinancing.

COMMUNITY PAGES 66 Gaining Velocity Wappingers Falls, Hopewell Junction, and Fishkill are ramping up.

features 70 women’s work by Karen Angel Women are on the ballot in record numbers this November. The Hudson Valley is no exception. Here’s a look at the women running locally.

76 lite brite neon by Brian K. Mahoney Midtown Kingston-based arts fabrication studio Lite Brite Neon illuminates the visions of artists and business owners with their custom neon work.

84 edie brickell by Peter Aaron Brickell and the New Bohemians captured the quintessential late ’80s sound. Now the band is back together and on the road.

HOROSCOPES 114 Feelings in the Rearview Mirror Astrologer Lorelai Kude scans the skies and plots our horoscopes for November.

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Warren Kitchen & Cutlery For The Holidays. The Hudson Valley’s Most Complete Kitchen Emporium! Professional cutlery from around the world • Cookware • Bakeware • Grilling Tools Glassware and Barware • Kitchen Appliances • Serving Pieces and Accessories • Coffee Makers • Unique Kitchen Gadgets • Coffees, teas, chocolates and spices

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Zach Velkoff at Lite Brite Neon Studio in Kingston. Photo by Monica Simoes

ARTS

THE GUIDE

88 Arts Q&A: Gary Shteyngart

101 Obie-winning artist Andrew Schneider performs “NERVOUS/SYSTEM” at Lumberyard.

An interview with the author of Lake Success.

93 Music Album reviews of After the Fall by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette; L by Rosine; Singing Songs in the Dark by Tulula!; and One Drop of Truth by The Wood Brothers.

95 Books Carolyn Quimby reviews Mary Beth Pfeiffer’s meticulously researched and timely book, Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change. Plus six short book reviews.

96 Poetry Poems by Michaela Brannigan, Lachlan Brooks, Laurie Byro, A. Carlzon, Megan Coder, Enid Dame, Christine Donat, Gary Hittmeyer, Michael Lee Johnson, Donald Lev, Jahnavi Mundra, Will Nixon, Jean Tock, Meg Tohill, Meagen Towler, and Mike Vahsen. Edited by Philip X Levine.

103 The spirit-lifting Ahimsa Yoga & Music Festival returns to Hunter Mountain. 105 Brian Reed, producer of the sensational podcast “S-Town” will speak at Bard’s Fisher Center. 107 HVMoCA is a new name for an old favorite. The Peekskill museum celebrates 15 years. 109 A gallery guide for November. 113 Six live music shows to pencil in, from Kill Switch Engage to the Richard Thompson Electric Trio.

120 Parting Shot Andrew Zuckerman’s photographs explore the intersection of humanity, technology, and nature.

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on the cover

A Manifesto for Change

e did it. We redesigned Chronogram. Welcome in, make yourself at home. For the last year, we’ve been talking in earnest about a redesign—and not just tinkering. We’ve been envisioning and incubating a wholesale, start-from-scratch, throw-the-baby-out-with-thebathwater redesign. This left us with a daunting question: How do we freshen the packaging of Chronogram—creating a more readable, relevant, and useful reader experience in print—without losing our idiosyncratic voice and unorthodox design, the key attributes that have defined us? After much discussion, iteration, discussion, and reiteration, we arrived at a simple rubric: Tell more stories in a more engaging way. In the early stages of our process, all options were open. Would we create a new logo? Change the column grid? Throw out long-running departments? Eliminate the calendar listings, the foundation of the magazine for 25 years? Ideas we would never have considered even a few years ago now seemed plausible, even exciting. Here are several of the changes we landed on and implemented that have significantly impacted our magazine’s look and feel. TYPE One of our long-standing desires was to use the classic font, Helvetica, as the defining font of the magazine. The subject of much design debate, Helvetica has always resonated with us. But we felt that going strong and central with it would provide an anchoring contrast to the more playful fonts we want to incorporate into features, callouts, and pull quotes. A common piece of feedback we get from our reader surveys is that our body type is hard to read. In response, we’ve pumped up the font size. We also went from a two- to three-column text grid where possible. WHITE SPACE They say a picture is worth a thousand words. How much is white space worth? To us, it’s worth a lot as a design element. As underrated as the silence between musical notes, white space is the canvas upon which the page elements exist. Over the years, some of our layouts became crammed with type, images, rules, info boxes, and icons—too noisy. We sought to strip out the nonessentials and let the pages breathe. ENTRY POINTS For too long, our pages were text-heavy walls of words. With the redesign, we looked to add more entry points that lead a reader into a page. In our new format, we make sure that no page is a sea of type, and we utilize drop caps, pull quotes, and inventive type treatments to attract readers’ attention and invite them into each page. STRUCTURE Chronogram’s evolution from a utilitarian guide to a content-driven read was nontraditional in many ways, including the magazine’s structure, which never had a standard feature well. We regularly ran feature-length pieces and special sections, but the bulk of the content was presented as

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departments of mostly medium-length pieces. We wanted to break that up and have space to stretch out, so in the redesign, we developed our own version of a feature well. First, a long-form piece with supporting art but weighted towards text. Second, a medium-length piece profiling a regional personality, with a lean toward art and more images. Third, a photo essay, on any subject, with robust captions. We’ve also added an Outdoors column (page 62), a subject near and dear to so many of our readers. UTILITY Following the guiding principle of telling more stories, better, we did what at one time seemed unthinkable: We removed the calendar listings. (The name of the magazine actually refers, with a little creative license, to a calendar; the literal meaning of chronogram is “time writing.”) For many of our readers, Chronogram is the when and where for events they care about. However, because of our monthly publication schedule, the print calendar is not all-inclusive, and though edited, doesn’t offer much more than the basic facts. In the redesign, we have preserved our curated previews of upcoming events. And we’ve shifted the calendar completely to our website, where it can be comprehensive, paired with audio/ video, and user-generated. Ultimately, we more than tripled the events receiving feature treatment in the print version while also achieving a betterlooking magazine. STAYING RELEVANT When Chronogram started in 1993, there were no smartphones; computers were still relatively expensive for casual use; and most online experiences consisted of message boards and the now-quaint “You’ve got mail” ding. Print was where you got your information. These days digital and print are territories on equal footing, and Chronogram lives in both. Our readers want to engage with us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and our Eat.Play. Stay newsletter. Our print version is digitally aware, and we expand the content we’re presenting on the page to our stories online, adding more photos, audio, video, and resource links. Like many publications, we now publish some of our stories first online, then giving the luxe and languorous print treatments suitable to the medium. One of the most satisfying things about the Chronogram redesign for those of us who worked on it was that there was no pressing need. We’re not downsizing, we’re not retrenching, we’re not tightening our belts for an uncertain future. Our work is driven by service to our readers, and the redesign is a way to give our appreciative audience more of what it loves in a smarter and sleeker container. Highlighting what’s best and most inspiring about the Hudson Valley has always been our intention at Chronogram, and we brought that attitude to our work on its latest incarnation. —David C. Perry and Brian K. Mahoney

EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR David C. Perry dperry@chronogram.com DIGITAL EDITOR Marie Doyon mdoyon@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Wendy Kagan wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip X Levine poetry@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Anne Pyburn Craig apcraig@chronogram.com HOME EDITOR Mary Angeles Armstrong home@chronogram.com CONTRIBUTORS Karen Angel, Larry Beinhart, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Michael Eck, Morgan Y. Evans, Ian Halim, Carolita Johnson, James Keepnews, Lorelai Kude, Sierra Elizabeth Flach, Luke Stoddard Nathan, Hallie Newton, Carolyn Quimby, Seth Rogovoy, Sparrow, Jonah “Drumming Wolf” Young

PUBLISHING FOUNDERS Jason Stern & Amara Projansky CEO Amara Projansky amara@chronogram.com PUBLISHER Jason Stern jstern@chronogram.com CHAIRMAN David Dell Chronogram is a project of Luminary Media MEDIA SPECIALISTS

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Art Local Contemporary Hudson Valley Artists. Small works available for Holiday gifts. Opening Reception Saturday Dec. 1, 5:30pm-8:00pm Starting on November 27

Work in Window: Carole Kudstadt, Judy Sigunick

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esteemed reader by Jason Stern

Maitreya’s* Call: My Xenophilic Chronogram Is Indelible, Infinite.

Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: There it is, the first chronogram to wittingly appear in Chronogram in 25 years and 297 issues. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time and I am happy! A chronogram is an acrostic construction in which a date is encoded in roman numerals as the first letter of each word of a phrase. The chronogram above indicates the year of the magazine’s inception, MCMXCIII, or 1993. In the summer of that year cofounder Amara and I took a trip to the big library on the New Paltz college campus to peruse the massive 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary. We sought expressive synonyms for “calendar” as a title for a magazine about the creative and cultural life of the Hudson Valley. We immediately liked “chronogram” because it has so many syllables and bucked the trend of mainstream magazines using short names like Time, Life, People. We noted that some of the more obscure magazines we enjoyed had as many syllables—Interview, Parabola. We admired the conceptual architecture and design magazine Metropolis, boasting four syllables, but had an intellectual rigor we found intimidating. We were satisfied with three syllables. We also liked the name Chronogram because it suggested something concealed in plain sight, a cipher understood only by those with the eyes to see. Historical examples of chronograms appear in every language that uses the same characters for letters and numbers. These include Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Latin, all languages called objective by esotericists arguing that the vowels of these languages are pure and unmuddied by colloquial corruption. Idealistic as we were, we thought we were starting something in this tradition of flawless tongues, a magazine in which readers would find lotus flowers growing from mud. Conceived in the minds of some twenty-somethings who were soon joined by another young visionary, Brian Mahoney, the magazine has upheld its part in the chorale of an evolving community. In these 25 years an influx of curious visitors and new, committed locals have enriched the cultural landscape if the Hudson Valley. We see a growing community of people who share our appreciation the environment, human-scale communities, local enterprise, and a pace of life more closely matched with the rhythms of nature. We hope we’ve helped deepen this identity for our region, and attract more like-minded people. A guiding principle of Chronogram is that the means of any endeavor must be congruent with the result. The result we seek is to nourish and empower the region’s creative and cultural life. To be congruent with this aim we strive for the print magazine and all our extended digital channels and events to be examples of the quality of substantive, creative work we endeavor to represent. It is in this latter direction that Editorial Director Brian Mahoney and Creative Director David Perry, also a multidecade veteran of Luminary Media, undertook to redesign Chronogram, the magazine. The process spanned a full year and you are holding the result of this effort in your hands. The new design is different without being shocking, more spacious and yet more substantial, and with a deeper view into many of the topics that have hitherto received only cursory attention. I hope to see you at Chronogram’s 25th birthday party on November 10. It’s a birthday party for our whole community and for you, our esteemed readers, in particular. — Jason Stern *According to Buddhist tradition, Maitreya is a bodhisattva who will appear on Earth in the future, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the pure dharma.

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editor’s note

by Brian K. Mahoney

THIS WHOLE THING BEGAN 25 YEARS AGO, BACK IN 1993.

Do you remember where you were in ’93? Perhaps you were in swaddling clothes, or wondering why the IRS had just granted full tax-exempt status to the Church of Scientology, in junior high, or listening to “Loser” by Beck, or studying for the bar exam, or expecting your first child, or loading paper into your dot-matrix printer, or rooting for Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls to win their third NBA title in a row, or wearing flannel and ripped jeans, or some mix of the above. In 1993, the Unabomber’s brother had yet to turn him in. Bill Clinton was inaugurated the 42nd US president. Chance the Rapper was born. “Beavis and Butthead” premiered on MTV. Monica Seles was stabbed during a tennis match by a crazed Steffi Graf fan. Dizzy Gillespie died. Jurassic Park was released—going on to gross $914 million worldwide at the box office. Fighting broke out in the former Yugoslavia. Nirvana played a set on “MTV Unplugged,” setting the bar for all future performances on that show. ATF agents stormed the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ending a 51-day siege; 76 Branch Davidians died. I was working at Mumbles, a bar on the Upper East Side. In mid-March, New York City was digging out from a foot of snow that had been dumped in what was dubbed the “Storm of the Century.” (Pundits get a little overexcited toward the end of centuries and millennia; there’s always a nomenclature fever around Something of the Century this or Something of the Millennium that. Remember the technological end-of-times that Y2K was predicted to be? How we love to live in a state of apocalyptic expectation.) It being March in New York City, the much-anticipated holy day of inebriation known as St. Patrick’s Day was upon us. As Mumbles was at the end of the parade route, it really lived up to its name as tipsy paradegoers got stinko. One such reveler, a New York City police officer in uniform, was so wasted he accidentally discharged his firearm into a urinal. Its destruction caused localized flooding, which I had to clean up. I had just moved back to the city of my birth—but I was already plotting my escape to the Hudson Valley, where I had gone to college. (Go Hawks!) While I was mopping up bathrooms in Manhattan, Chronogram cofounders Jason Stern and Amara Projansky had stars in their eyes. Here’s how Jason described the magazine’s founding moment in the 20th anniversary issue back in 2013: I remember well the moment the idea of Chronogram first occurred.

It was almost dawn on a balmy night in July of 1993. Amara and I had been lying in the grass all night, talking about the future. We were college dropouts living in a spiritual community, unsure of what we would do “in the world.” The stars were bright and we identified some constellations. Following the line described by Orion’s belt downward I pointed out Sirius, just as it rose above the horizon. It was as though the star itself conveyed an idea. “We should start a magazine,” I said as we looked at the dual star. “ Yes,” said Amara, as though it was obvious. Chronogram was launched in 1993 with a simple premise: Provide readers with a guide to cultural events in New York’s Hudson Valley. In the 25 years since, Chronogram has evolved from a flimsy zine launched by a couple of 20-somethings into Luminary Media, a multimedia company with four inhouse titles and custom publishing, event, and marketing agency divisions. Our work now includes social media management, marketing communications, and business consulting—specialties we never could have foreseen ourselves offering a decade ago. But what’s fueled this growth is the brand equity of Chronogram. The publication’s voice and role as curator of the Hudson Valley lifestyle extends like a halo over all of our projects. Chronogram has evolved through many small iterations. The first issue, in October/ November 1993, was a Mad Libs-style flip book on newsprint. It was 72 pages, and a compact eight-by-five inches. (A size, one reader noted, that fits equally well in your back pocket or on the back of your toilet. Some referred to the early version of the magazine as “that little thing.”) We love what Chronogram has become in the past 25 years: a storyteller for an evolving region full of entrepreneurs, artists, makers, thinkers, and doers. And our reader surveys consistently indicate that the magazine’s design and editorial are well-aligned with our readers and serve as a kind of calling card for the region. A typical reader comment: “I was hesitant about moving out of New York City, but when I saw a copy of Chronogram, I knew I could live here.” (Some might suggest that we’ve been too successful on that count, especially when the Hudson Valley is referred to as “Brooklyn North.” Apologies on that count.) In 1996, I moved back upstate and took a job with Chronogram as a distribution agent, dropping magazines at locations across Dutchess County out of my ’88 VW Fox (RIP Esme). I gradually took on various editorial duties and became Big Cheese Editor a couple years later. And here we are, 297 issues in, and still cranking along. It’s been a wondrous and interesting quarter-century tracking the evolution of the Hudson Valley in these pages. And we’re just getting started.

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A group of determined volunteers, the Downing Park Planning Committee, are working to restore Newburgh’s 35-acre natural marvel to its former glory after decades of neglect—a symbol of a city that’s working hard at revitalization. “You can neither lie to a neighborhood park, nor reason with it. ‘Artist’s conceptions’ and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighborhood parks, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.” —Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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he New York State Film Tax Credit Program was established in 2004 to lure production companies to the area for filming and post-production. While the incentive program did draw some activity, it wasn’t until Governor Cuomo increased the post-production tax credit from 10 percent to 35 in 2012 that the local film industry really took off. With over 20 qualified production facilities and a growing local workforce of trained professionals, the Hudson Valley is well positioned to lead New York State’s film revolution. Last quarter, our region broke production records, with more than $15 million in revenue, according to the Hudson Valley Film Commission. Many more projects are underway in the fourth quarter of 2018, including the Amazon Studios pilot “Panic.” With the region bathed in the gentle glow of limelight, we spoke to industry insider and location scout Jillian Fisher about work, travel, and the regional film industry. —Marie Doyon How did you get started? About six years ago, I had a boutique PR company. At the time, the City of Kingston was one of my clients. A movie crew contacted the city saying that they were going to either film in Kingston or just outside New York City. I spoke with the location manager and asked her to tell me about the script, and as she was talking about it I started filming it in my head, saying, ‘check, check, check.’ So the director and location manager came up to see how Kingston would stack up. That movie was The Sisterhood of Night, starring Georgie Henley, from the Narnia trilogy, and Kal Penn. Then I worked on Cold in July, and after doing that I decided I really enjoyed this work. Take me through your process. I read the script. It’s very easy to get sucked in, but I have to make sure while I’m reading it, I’m filming it in my head to get a feel for where the destinations are going to be. Then the next day is filled with coffee as I drive around. Before I hit the road, I try to speak with director, and say, “This is how I read it, this is how I see things,” just to make sure it jives with their vision. I’ll say things such as, “I read this location as background,

something you don’t want the viewer to notice, something that could be anywhere,” or “It seems to me that the house is a character unto itself.” And they’ll confirm my thoughts, or we’ll discuss further. I did a movie with Yale Productions called Welcome the Stranger, starring Riley Keough, and the whole thing was filmed in one house—that house was a character. Sometimes finding one location can be as difficult as finding more than 20, which I’ve had to do. Do you pitch the Hudson Valley as a location or do people come to you? Yes and no. Producers I’ve worked with before will sometimes say, “This director wants to film out in Colorado, we want him to film in the Hudson Valley. Can you take him out?” I’ve done that before and gotten them to change their vision. I’ve made a road trip “across the country” happen in a 20-mile radius. What do you look for in a location? Every time is different. I try never to reuse a location and always present new things, but sometimes directors have been sitting with a project, envisioning it, and they want something specific. There’s a stone church on Albany Avenue in Kingston that was featured in both Sisterhood of Night, and Andie MacDowell’s Love After Love. Does the Hudson Valley have a filming niche? Are we being typecast? Not at all. The Hudson Valley can be anywhere. For Growing Up Smith, Kingston was made into India. Since these movies are low-budget indie features, they don’t have budget to go shoot b-roll in India. When I’m scouting, I have to be on lookout for details that make a scene work. There was specific foliage in Kingston that worked for the India flashback scenes in the movie.

Last quarter, our region broke production records, with more than $15 million in revenue, according to the Hudson Valley Film Commission.

Are these scouting skills useful in your personal life? There is a lot to be said for a destination, but it’s really the places in between. There are four key pieces of advice that I would give for adventuring: 1. Always bring water. 2. Don’t be afraid to back up. 3. Trust your gut. 4. Take lots of pictures.

Above: Jillian Fisher out scouting locations; below: hanging out with Mary Stuart Masterson.

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On October 7, Taylor Swift posted a note to her 112 million followers on Instagram, encouraging them to vote in the upcoming election. This broke a long and conspicuous silence on political issues by Swift, who wrote that she felt compelled to speak out “due to several events in my life and in the world the past two years.” The pop star went on to say that though she prefers to support women candidates, she could not bring herself to vote for Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn in her home state of Tennessee because Blackburn’s “voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.” Vote.org, the nonpartisan registration website where Swift directed her followers, saw a jump of over 150,000 unique visitors in the first 24 hours after Swift’s post. “We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T. Swift’s post,” said Kamari Guthrie, director of communications for Vote.org. In the entire month of September, 190,178 new voters were registered nationwide. Source: BuzzFeed early October, BBC Radio LONELY Inannounced the results of The

Loneliness Experiment, a nationwide survey in the UK of 55,000 people aged 16 and up, the largest survey into the issue of loneliness to date. The results indicate that people between16-24 experience loneliness more often and more intensely than any other age group. 40 percent of respondents aged 16-24 reported feeling lonely often or very often, while only 29 percent of people aged 65-74 and 27 percent of people aged over 75 said the same. Pamela Qualter, professor of psychology at the University of Manchester, who led the study, said: “The most interesting findings relate to the stigma of loneliness and the varied solutions people had to overcome loneliness. Those findings suggest that we need to be kinder to ourselves when we feel disconnected from others, but also that there is a whole toolkit of potential solutions that we can try.” Source: BBC

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In June, the Canadian government passed the Cannsbis Act which legalized marijuana possession, home growing, and sales for adults. The move makes Canada the second country in the world to legalize pot for recreational use. Only the South American country of Uruguay legalized marijuana before. (The Netherlands, despite its reputation, has not fully legalized pot.). In mid-October, over 100 retail stores to buy weed opened for business in Canada. At the same time, the Toronto police launched a public awareness campaign advising Canadians to stop snitching on their marijuana-smoking neighbors, because it’s no longer illegal. Some of that public awareness campaign took the form of funny tweets, invoking truly absurd 911 calls. An example: “Asking what to do with your frozen meat during a power outage is not a 911 call. Smelling weed coming from your neighbor’s home isn’t either. Cannabis is no longer illegal on October 17, 2018. Consumption is allowed for anyone 19 years or older. Do not call police for this.” Source: Vox 30 CHRONOGRAM 11/18

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Tobacco companies explored the use of filters in the mid-20th century as a way to ameliorate concerns about the health impacts of tobacco. But research suggested that smoke-bound carcinogens couldn’t be adequately controlled, so filters became an ineffective health tool but an effective marketing one. This development has led to cigarette butts being the number one human-made contaminant in the world’s oceans. The Ocean Conservancy has sponsored a beach cleanup every year since 1986. For 32 consecutive years, cigarette butts have been the single most collected item on the world’s beaches, with a total of more than 60 million collected over that time. (That amounts to about one-third of all collected items and more than plastic wrappers, containers, bottle caps, eating utensils and bottles, combined.) The vast majority of the 5.6 trillion cigarettes manufactured worldwide each year come with filters made of cellulose acetate, a form of plastic that can take a decade or more to decompose. As many as two-thirds of those filters are dumped irresponsibly each year, as focus groups have shown, most smokers prefer to flick their butts. Source: NBC News

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When it comes to mental health, every country is a developing country. A team of 28 global experts assembled by the Lancet medical journal reported that there is a “collective failure to respond to this global health crisis” that “results in monumental loss of human capabilities and avoidable suffering.” Every country in the world is facing and failing to tackle a mental health crisis, from epidemics of anxiety and depression to conditions caused by violence and trauma. The experts estimate that the economic loss of failing to provide adequate care will hit $16 trillion by 2030. The commission estimates that 13.5 million deaths every year could be averted if the underlying mental ill-health problems were addressed. In many countries, there is no expectation of help. Surveys in India and China, which have a third of the global population, suggest that more than 80 percent of people with any mental health or substance use disorder do not seek treatment. Source: Guardian

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Starting in 2011, Republicans in Congress repeatedly cut the IRS’s budget, forcing the agency to reduce its enforcement staff by a third. Last year, the IRS’s criminal division brought 795 cases in which tax fraud was the primary crime, a decline of almost a quarter since 2010. “That is a startling number,” Don Fort, the chief of criminal investigations for the IRS, acknowledged at a conference in June. Bringing cases against people who evade taxes on legal income is central to the revenue service’s mission. With fewer cases, experts fear, Americans will get the message that it’s all right to break the law. The result is huge losses for the government. Business owners don’t pay $125 billion in taxes each year that they

owe, according to IRS estimates. That’s enough to finance the departments of State, Energy and Homeland Security, with NASA tossed in for good measure. Unlike wage earners who have their income reported to the IRS by their employers, business owners are often on the honor system. Sources: ProPublica, New York Times

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In October, doctors in Shetland, Scotland were authorized to prescribe nature to their patients. It’s thought to be the first program of its kind in the UK, and seeks to reduce blood pressure, anxiety, and increase happiness for those with diabetes, a mental illness, stress, heart disease, and more. A leaflet of nature prescriptions accompanying the program is filled with whimsical suggestions: in March, you can “borrow a dog and take it for a walk”; in April, you can “touch the sea” and “make a bug hotel”; in May, you can “bury your face in the grass”; in July, you can “pick two different kinds of grass and really look at them.” The evidence for the benefits of nature on mental and physical health are numerous. Research suggests that if you spend 90 minutes of your day outside in a wooded area, there will be a decrease of activity in the part of your brain typically associated with depression. Source: Big Think

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Nicholas Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are most likely to report being in a “very happy” marriage. Meanwhile, the lowest odds of marital happiness—belong to women who have had six to 10 sexual partners in their lives. For men, there’s still a dip in marital satisfaction after one partner, but it’s never as low as it gets for women. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, when it comes to sex, less experience is better, at least for the marriage,” said W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist and senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. In an earlier analysis, Wolfinger found that women with zero or one previous sex partner before marriage were also least likely to divorce, while those with 10 or more were most likely. Other studies’ findings have also supported the surprising durability of marriages between people who have only ever had sex with one another. Source: The Atlantic

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he deficit! It’s growing! It hit $779 billion for the last fiscal year that ended in December. The National Debt! Panic! Gasp! It’s $21 trillion and growing. Wring your hands, tear your hair! Do you care about deficits and debts? It’s not a spending problem. It’s a revenue problem. Isn’t it caused by government waste? Boondoggles? Welfare? Especially from entitlements! Social Security! Medicare! Medicaid! No. It’s a revenue problem. The best way to measure debt is in comparison to earnings, since earnings are the way it gets paid back. A personal debt of $100,000 for someone who makes $10,000 a year is problematic. The same debt, $100,000 for someone who makes $10,000,000 a year—that’s just their AmEx bill after Christmas. US debt as a percentage of GDP (the nation’s earnings), shot up during World War II, then peaked in the immediate postwar years, at 120 percent. After that it mostly went down, even through the Korean War, it ended up at about 65 percent of GDP. Through the start of Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security increases and the War on Poverty under Lyndon Johnson, plus the start of the Vietnam War, the debt still kept going down, to about 40 percent of GDP. It continued down, mostly, under Nixon, with a slight uptick under Ford. Under Carter, it headed down again, to near just 30 percent of GDP. Then came Ronald Reagan. It was Morning for Debt in America Again! Tax cuts, tax cuts, merry tax cuts! The debt, as percentage of GDP more than doubled under Reagan and Bush the Elder. Then came Clinton. He raised taxes. The deficit declined. Significantly. It looked to be headed steadily down. Then along came George W. Bush. New tax cuts. The deficits shot up. Surpassing even the great Morning for Debt in America Again accomplished by Ronald Reagan! Wow! Didn’t the debt go up under Obama!? Hugely! More than under any other president? Yes, it did. But Obama couldn’t end the Bush tax cuts. Also, he had economists with advanced degrees who told

him to never raise taxes in a recession and that tax cuts would stimulate the economy. He added more tax cuts but targeted them more at the middle class. Strange as it may seem, economists have about as much connection to realism as alchemists have to chemistry. As a matter of actual history, when the US economy has been hit by a big stock crash leading to a recession, it has recovered after tax increases. Also, tax cuts for the rich—like the continued Bush tax cuts—just create greater income inequality, not genuine economic growth. Even tax cuts aimed at the middle class are far less useful than economists thought they would be. After 2014, when Obama finally got to raise taxes, however slightly, on the rich, deficits and debt began to decline. So here we are with Donald Trump, who jammed through new Republican tax cuts. The great thing about Trump is that he’s so disreputable and lies so much about so many things, that people—even economists!— have been primed to realize that his claims that the tax cuts are for everyone, not just the very rich, that they will grow the economy, and said growth will raise revenue sufficiently that they will pay for themselves, are false. Even though they are the same claims made by Reagan and Bush and long ago by Coolidge and Hoover, and accepted then as quite sound and reasonable. You may have noted that the US-debt-toGDP ratio peaked during the Second World War. If you suspect that was a spending issue, not a revenue issue, you are correct. That suggests another issue. It’s not just how much you spend, it’s what you spend it on. The investment during World War II, and the fact that America was the only modern economy left standing after the war, gave our country the opportunity to become both the dominant economic and political power in the world. In the collective mind of economists, cutting taxes is often considered the same as increased spending. That, too, takes us to the issue of what over how much. Giving the money to the rich, as all these tax cuts have done, leads to inflation in stock markets, commodities, and in real estate. It gets spent on stock buybacks, which have to be the most useless form of business spending in the world.

Let us thank Mitch McConnell for his moment of frankness. He has announced that the deficits that he has worked so hard to create by cutting revenues will next be used to attack spending—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in particular. So, it has a double purpose: Making the rich richer and creating the excuse to grab those piles of money. Chronogram is a monthly publication. If you are reading it the first week it’s out, before November 6, go out and vote. If you are at all inclined to vote Republican, consider this. Russian efforts to affect our elections have been constantly in support of Republicans and fomenting Republican issues. It seems axiomatic that Russia doesn’t want to make America Great

The great thing about Trump is that he’s so disreputable and lies so much about so many things, that people—even economists!—have been primed to realize that his claims that the tax cuts are for everyone, not just the very rich, are false. Again, or to keep it as Great as it Has Been, or to Make Us Greater. They want to diminish our strength, power, credibility, and leadership. A vote for Republicans is a vote for the Russian agenda. That’s not my opinion. That’s the opinion of Vladimir Putin and the FSB. If this seems to be too broad and generic a condemnation of a political group, let me say there have been many fine Republicans who have done much to build and improve our country. Dwight Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, Teddy Roosevelt, John Lindsey, Jacob Javits, and John McCain all had their moments. Sadly, what I notice about that list, is that they’re all dead. If they were alive, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump would drive them out. 11/18 CHRONOGRAM 33

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From left: A Ric Orlando pop-up at 7Miles to Kingston; three scenes from the Hudson Valley Kitchen Club’s pop-up at Miss Lucy’s Kitchen in Saugerties.

POP goes the restaurant by Marie Doyon

arn dinners, kitchen takeovers, popup events, seasonal restaurants— temporary food events come in many shapes and sizes with just as many monikers, but there is no denying the sharp increase in these ephemeral culinary experiences over the past few years. “From a chef ’s perspective, when you own a restaurant, it’s really difficult to step things up and evolve,” says Rei Peraza, former chef/ owner of Panzur in Tivoli. “Pop-up dinners allow you to be creative and have fun. They are, in essence, catered events that you are calling shots on—and maybe also an opportunity to manipulate or infiltrate the market.” In the Hudson Valley, many of the popup pioneers are familiar faces—iconic local chefs, like Peraza, who’ve shuttered their brick-and-mortar restaurants. “New World 36 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 11/18

Home Cooking had reached a plateau,” chef Ric Orlando says. “With all the new places that had opened, we decided that we had done all that we could do, and I wasn’t making a ton of money.” Since closing the restaurant in April, Orlando has made multiple guest appearances on the culinary scene from a one-night buffet at Stockade Tavern to a sit-down tasting menu with wine pairings at event venue 7 Miles to Kingston. Pop-ups events emerged as a way to stay connected with his loyal customer base and make some cash on the side. But they are also spreading the wealth. “The Hudson Valley is an interesting market,” he says. “From Mother’s Day till the last leaf falls, there are lots of people around, but after that, it becomes a dog-eat-dog market.

Everyone is trying to create different forms of energy to draw people in.” Orlando has been approached by a handful of local restaurants hoping to have him do a kitchen takeover this winter. “In some way, shape, or form, we have to get residents to get out of their houses to support restaurants during the colder months,” Peraza says emphatically. “Otherwise restaurants just stay open trying to hemorrhage as little cash as possible.” Pop-ups can provide a welcome financial boost to both parties. But pop-up dinners are not necessarily cash cows. After Orlando worked a food booth at the Empire State Record Fair in the back of BSP Kingston in July, his wife figured that between prep time and onsite time, he had netted $9 an hour. “I’m not going to get rich doing it around here,” he

“This is the first time in 20 years that I’m not going to bed every Thursday or Friday night with spreadsheets dancing in my dreams.” —Chef Ric Orlando

says. “But it is fun. And a little money in the pocket doesn’t hurt.” For Orlando, it’s about the quality of life that he gets from not owning a restaurant. “As a chef or an owner, when it’s busy, you have to be hands-on. And when it slows down, you have to be hands-on, because you can’t afford to pay people,” he says. “This is the first time in 20 years that I’m not going to bed every Thursday or Friday night with spreadsheets dancing in my dreams.” That said, Orlando has been anything but idle—a podcast, a cookbook, a memoir, a documentary film series, a culinary tour series, and a line of CBD hot sauces are just some of the spinning plates. “I’m in my fifties now, and my time is best-spent working on the projects that I’ve been incubating in my brain,” he says.

The Snowbird Model From June through October, a handful of New York City’s culinary elite set up shop in the Quarter Moon Café in Delhi for a hyperlocal seasonal restaurant. A collaboration between Bovina native Carver Farrell (former owner operator of The Pines and Willow), Joe Aponte, Stephanie Hirsch, and Katie Phelan, Goldenrod was an innovative vegetable-forward restaurant open for dinner Thursdays through Sundays. “I think the temporariness of pop-ups is a pretty big draw, but I never really liked that aspect,” Aponte says. “It’s just like, ‘Here it is. Then, poof ! Done. It just vanishes.” A seasonal restaurant offered the perfect solution—a culinary destination that offered consistency to its customers and creative freedom to its proprietors, without the ball-

and-chain of a year-round restaurant. With the season over, Aponte and Hirsch (spouses) will head back to their homebase in Los Angeles. After winter, he and Farrell will look for a new spot upstate to host their concept. “I was really fortunate at young age to work at a couple kitchen jobs that had an amazing schedule,” Aponte says. “I got a taste for having a life and not working a 65-hour week. Now, I want to make my own schedule. When I’m in California, I want to sit on beach, go play golf, and smoke a cigar...Unless I open a full service restaurant.” That unless is always looming—an elusive, cryptic balance these pop-up chefs are always weighing in their minds of the trade-offs between free time, financial gain, improvisational liberty, and market demand. 11/18 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 37

“I love the pomp and circumstance of sitting down for a few hours and connecting to food as an experience. In the end you get sustenance, but dining can bring you so much more pleasure and memories.”

Rei Peraza plating a course of rabbit, peas, and morels at a pop-up dinner.

—Chef Rei Peraza

An Intense, Indulgent Experience Despite the seasonal fluctuations in the Hudson Valley market, Peraza is toying with opening another brick-and-mortar. In the meantime, since June, he has been focused on a monthly pop-up dining series at venues around the Hudson Valley. Past venues have included his home, The Inn at Ca’Mea in Hudson, and the banquet hall at Farmers & Chefs in Poughkeepsie. These high-end dinners cost upwards of $200 per person and offer a 10- to 15-course tasting menu with drink pairings. Trained at the Culinary Institute of America, Peraza feels an itch to constantly innovate. The popups provide an opportunity for him to hone his edge and continue exploring while he figures out his next project. “When you own a restaurant, you have a financial responsibility. You have customer base. You have box you are working within,” he says. “So the pop-ups are selfish in a way.” Peraza’s tasting menus offer a highly seasonal, progressive experience that is complemented by the custom dishware, curated decor, and drink selection. “To prompt an internal evolution, I had to make this about the process, about technique, about self-exploration, and food exploration,” Peraza says. Without the overhead of a brick-and-mortar restaurant, the pop-ups allow Peraza to more value for the money. In a given evening, you might taste between eight and 15 wines. 38 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 11/18

”The point is to have a fun, intense, and indulgent experience. I love the pomp and circumstance of sitting down for a few hours and connecting to food as an experience,” Peraza says. “In the end you get sustenance, but dining can bring you so much more pleasure and memories.” Biologist by Day For Stephen Bewsher of the Hudson Valley Kitchen Club (HVKC), this idea of experience-driven dining gets to the heart of it. “I’m not a huge fan of going out,” he says. “It gets old after a while; I would rather cook at home. But if I hear about something different happening, I would be interested.” Though he worked in cooking and catering through high school, college, and the Navy, Bewsher does not consider himself a chef (his day job is in a biology lab.) “I like to cook,” he says. “But what I like most is bringing people together.” The premise of his nascent business is to pick an organizing concept—whether that be a guest chef, album release party, or game night—choose a venue, and pool local resources to create a meal around it. “The sky’s the limit with this sort of thing,” he says. HVKC’s inaugural event was a pop-up dinner at Miss Lucy’s Kitchen in Saugerties, featuring Bewsher’s friend Eoin O’Donoghue of Marea restaurant in New York (and formerly of Morimoto

and Daniel). Despite the impressive CV, O’Donoghue is still a relatively junior member in his kitchen, meaning he largely runs a station without many opportunities to design dishes. “I challenged him by saying, ‘I don’t want to see anything on menu that you can get at a restaurant across the street. I’m giving you opportunity to be artistic and crazy,’” Bewsher says. “I feel good about it. People had things in front of them that they could only get if they went into Manhattan. And hopefully they left with a few new friends. The biologist-by-day, event-plannerby-night is using his new platform to as a testing ground for the next phase of his life. “I look at stats and numbers all day long,” Bewsher says. “Hopefully, whatever I do in the next chapter will give me the satisfaction I’m looking for.” Despite the widely divergent manifestations that pop-up events take, it’s clear that a key function they provide is a safe sandbox for exploratory play. And whether these culinary luminaries move on to new cities or states, pivot careers, or stay in the Hudson Valley and open full-service restaurants, their wayfinding journey is a delicious experience for all of us bystanders, so play on chefs. On November 10, Ric Orlando will host a New World feast at 7MilestoKingston featuring a four-course meal of indigenous dishes from the Americas and accompanying cocktails. $145. 7milestokingston.com/events

Also on November 10, the Hudson Valley Kitchen Club will host Asian Night Out at Oriole 9 in Woodstock. This pop-up event will feature Asian bites and cocktails by chef Leon Biscoe and proprietor Jessica Anna, along with a Mahjong game night. Facebook.com/hudsonvalleykitchenclub

On November 17, Rei Peraza will host an Autumn Tasting Menu event at The Inn at Ca’Mea in Hudson. This hyper-seasonal tasting menu is produced in collaboration with local farmers and foragers and includes beverage pairings. Peraza will host a Winter Tasting Menu event on December 15. $250. Exploretock.com/chefreiperaza

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hen The Beverly opened up shop in Midtown Kingston in 2016, the elegant gastropub heralded a sea change for the quirky residential/industrial neighborhood. A handful of food and beverage businesses have followed suit (Village Coffee & Goods, Outdated Lite, Tubby’s), expanding the culinary repertoire of the burgeoning arts district. The latest of these is Lis Bar, which opened last month in a buzz of neon and millennial excitement. Just two doors down from The Beverly, Lis features Polishinspired cocktails and small plates, ranging from the uber-familiar (pierogis, duh) to the more obscure (zapiekanka—a late night, pizza-like street food, served here with caramelized onions, smoked gouda, and mushrooms.) Inside, the dark, textured walls are illuminated by antique brass-toned light fixtures and accented by thoughtfully configured nooks of plush armchairs, bookshelves, rugs, and lamps. Lis blends the casual comfort of your grandma’s living room with the elegance of a bohemian lounge. —Marie Doyon

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This past May, Dolly’s Restaurant opened on Garrison Landing in the former location of the iconic Guinan’s Pub. The legendary Irish watering hole/deli/general store was a local favorite that shuttered in January 2008 after a 49-year run. Now after a decade, “the little chapel on the river” (see Gwendolyn Bounds book of that title about Guinan’s) is getting a fresh lease on life under new owners Shelley Boris and Kimball Gell, who have endeavored to maintain the spirit of the community embodied by Guinan’s. The waterfront eatery features eclectic, seasonal menus rooted in traditional dishes, with produce sourced directly from local farms. 7 Garrisons Landing, Garrison

Maker Lounge

From the revivers of the Bartlett House in Ghent comes a swanky new bar and soon-to-be-hotel in Hudson. When Damien Janowicz and Lev Glazman took over the building at the corner of Warren and 3rd streets, it was beaten down, boarded up, and unkempt. The duo has since elevated the space to a state of grandeur, and the Maker Lounge is now a highceilinged opus of a room that F. Scott Fitzgerald would be quite at home in. Bar Manager Michael King has put together a program of knockout cocktails and globetrotting wines and beers, while Executive Chef Nicole Craft turns out inventive small plates. Filled with vignettes of “lusciousness and a little mystery,” the lounge is all plush, dimly lit nooks perfect for exchanging sweet nothings, plotting empires, or simply kicking back after a long workday.

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At long last, the Mid-Hudson Valley has a Moroccan restaurant. This summer, husband-and-wife team Azeddine Yachkour and Mary Sweeney opened Casablanca in Poughkeepsie’s Little Italy district, in the former Delafield’s location. The name of the restaurant is both an homage to Yachkour’s home city and to the timeless Bogart film, stills of which decorate the walls of this cozy eatery. A velvet rope-lined red carpet welcomes you to have a glamorous experience as you enjoy traditional dishes like the harira soup, lamb shank tagine, and the Arabesque Sampler, a platter of hummus, baba ganoush, and Mediterranean vegetables. Despite a meat-centric diet of Morocco, it’s not hard to eat well as a vegetarian at Casablanca, with offerings like the lentil salad, vegetable tagine, and couscous. 2 Delafield Street, Poughkeepsie

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holiday events ‘Tis the season for cooking Thanksgiving dinner, cutting down your Christmas tree, lighting the menorah, and taking out the Mkeka! From seasonal markets to live performances, the Hudson Valley offers plenty of events for all to enjoy this joyful season. “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

Everyone is giddy with Christmas cheer, but Charlie Brown has the Yuletide blues. Will directing the Christmas play help him get in the spirit of the season? The beloved 1965 animated special based on Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip comes to life at County Players in Wappingers Falls December 1-3. Countyplayers.org

Winter Walk on Warren Street

Bundle up the tots on December1 and head to Warren Street from 5-8pm for a magical evening as holiday cheer transforms Hudson’s mile-long main street. You’ll be walking in a winter wonderland with illuminated storefront displays worthy of A Christmas Story; roaming carolers; and Santa, Mrs. Claus, and their

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“The Nutcracker,” with its fanciful story, timeless musical themes, and tantalizing confections, makes for the perfect family outing. The New Paltz Ballet Theatre performs this holiday classic with principal dancers from the New York City Ballet at the Bardavon on December 8-9. Bardavon.org

Unison Craft Fair Twenty-four master craftspeople and fine artists display a wide range of handmade crafts, including pottery, jewelry, fiber, woodwork, herbal products, baskets, and paintings at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz. Enjoy a local and intimate shopping on December 1-2. Unisonarts.org

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The GAC’s Annual Holiday Pottery Show & Sale is back this year November 16-25. Shop locally while supporting ceramic artists and the pottery program at Garrison Art Center. The pieces range from whimsical to highly sophisticated and include sculptural works as well as some items for children.

Rhinebeck connects with its Dutch roots through this Christmas tradition, when Bishop Nicholas Sinterklaas, the patron saint of children, parades down the street on a white horse with an entourage of kings and queens, animals, and celestial bodies. The event fuses old customs with new interpretations for an inclusive, cross-cultural celebration. Festival Day in Rhinebeck on December 1; Sinterklaas send-off in Kingston November 24. Sinterklaashudsonvalley.com

“Into the Light” A multicultural pageant presented by the Vanaver Caravan and Arm-ofthe-Sea Puppet Theatre, “Into the Light” combines live music, puppetry, storytelling, and dances from all over the world honoring such holidays as Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Yule, Winter Solstice, Sankta Lucia (Sweden), and Diwali (India). December 8-9 Kaatsbaan.org

Lea DeLaria: “Oh F*k It’s Christmas” You probably know her as Big Boo from “Orange Is the New Black.” What you probably didn’t know is that Lea DeLaria is also a jazz singer and stand-up comic. She performs an extra sassy concert of holiday favorites with her jazz ensemble at the Fisher Center at Bard College on December 8 at 8pm. Fishercenter.bard.edu

“Winter Wonderettes” When Santa turns up missing, the girls use their talent and creativity to save their annual holiday party! This Shadowland Stages production features great ’60s versions of holiday classics such as “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Run, Rudolph, Run,” and “Winter Wonderland.” November 30-December 16. Shadowlandstages.com

Mountain Laurel Winter Faire New Paltz’s Waldorf school hosts its annual winter faire on December 9, from 11am-4pm, with gift making, wreath decorating, crafters, and roasted chestnuts and other holiday treats. Mountainlaurel.org

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Polar Express Pajama-clad passengers will see their favorite characters come to life aboard the Catskill Mountain Railroad’s Polar Express, as they are whisked away on a magical trip to the North Pole from Kingston Plaza. During the journey, the conductor will punch tickets while chefs serve hot chocolate to the music of the motion picture soundtrack. At the North Pole, Santa will board the train to greet the children and give special sleigh bells to all those who believe. November 16-December 23. Catskillmtrailroad.com

Celebration of Lights Parade & Fireworks Voted by Dutchess County Tourism as the “Best Event” of the holiday season, the Celebration of Lights Parade & Fireworks takes place in Poughkeepsie on November 30 at 6:30pm. Bardavon.org

Yuletide Tea The Wilderstein Historic Site, former home of FDR’s cousin, Daisy Suckley, will be hosting this festive holiday event featuring a variety of teas paired with finger sandwiches, homemade cakes, and cookies on December 8 at 1pm. Tickets are $30 for adults and $20 per child. Admission includes a tour of the decorated Queen Anne mansion. Wilderstein.org

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AN 18TH-CENTURY FARMHOUSE AND EQUESTRIAN CENTER IN CLINTON CORNERS By Mary Angeles Armstrong Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid

Top: Caroline Goodman-Thomases and James McKenna on the 40-acre horse farm they’ve been renovating together. With their business, Thomases Equestrian, they board horses as well as teach riding and dressage. Bottom: Goodman-Thomases on her Hollsteiner, Wiloughby. “It’s an incredible feeling when you’re on a horse, like no other," she says. "You have to learn to communicate with another creature that’s 1,200 or 1,300 pounds in a nonverbal way."

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W Top: James McKenna and the couple’s dog Jonesy in the front hallway of their farmhouse, which they’ve been slowly renovating themselves. McKenna sanded and refinished the wide-plank floorboards that stretch throughout the ground floor. The stairway and second floor are next.

hen Caroline Goodman-Thomases was a little girl, her dreams ran fast, and a little wild. “I was obsessed with horses,” explains the elegant, red-headed equestrian, who— wearing knee high boots and riding pants— looks like she could jump on the back of one of her five horses and gallop off at a moment’s notice. Growing up in Rockland County, where her father was in the horse business and her neighbors were farriers, she was immersed in her passion from a very young age. “My neighbor and his wife had horses, and knew that I loved them, so he cut a hole in our fence and built me a gate. I could go and play with the horses anytime I wanted,” she recalls. GoodmanThomases took her first official riding lesson at age seven and began officially working on horse farms by age 12, helping to care and train for the creatures she loved. By the time she was a teenager she was competing with show horses, and accomplished in both jumping and dressage.

Bottom: The interior of the property’s 24-stall horse barn. They refinished the space’s wood, metal trim, and brick floors before they tackled anything else on the property.

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As for her fantasy abode? It wasn’t a castle, or a beach house or a big city apartment. “I had a fantasy barn,” she says with a laugh. The large map her six-year-old self drew of it—on construction paper, complete with detailed paddocks and stalls sketched in crayon—is now framed and hanging in the sunny office she shares with her partner, James McKenna. Adjacent to the barn they’ve just spent a summer renovating, the office is the center of the couple’s recently launched business Thomases Equestrian, where they train horses, teach riding, and board the graceful, intelligent beasts. The barn and office are just one part of their newly purchased 40-acre farm in Clinton Corners, a rambling property in the heart of horse country that also includes an 18th-century farmhouse, stables, and a large covered riding arena, as well as lush paddocks and open fields for riding. It’s a place Goodman-Thomases’s six-year-old self might be delighted by. McKenna grew up with a similar connection to the wild. A native of

Northern Ireland, his family lived in an old stone vicarage turned cattle farm. “I come from a farming background with dogs running around and roosters. The ‘wood world’ was just there all the time,” he remembers, describing the ever-present natural world that surrounded him in childhood. “We had horses, too, but we would jump on with no saddle and run around like idiots.” As a young adult, he learned carpentry and apprenticed as a mason, then came to the United States to play Gaelic football. (“Where I come from,” he explains, “we were trained like pedigree horses to play the sport.”). He soon got a job with the construction firm Structure Tone and began working in New York City, furthering his knowledge in the trades. Although renovating the farmhouse and barn while starting their new business has been a challenge, it’s one they’re up to. “Luckily, Jimmy and I have a good skill set,” explains Goodman-Thomases. “I have the horse experience, and he has the farming and the construction background.”

Above: The downstairs’ living room is part of home’s original 1790 construction. Open to the kitchen behind, the large fireplace includes multiple cubbies and cabinets for cooking or warming food and other items.

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Skin and Bones Originally an assistant and producer in the film business, working on films such as Ricki and the Flash and The Belles of Greenlee County, Goodman-Thomases decided to commit to a full-time equestrian career four years ago. She began a small business teaching riding skills, as well as boarding horses, in Rockland County. As her business grew, she realized she would need more space. “We needed to find a place with more freedom, where the horses could run around and be the way horses are naturally made to be,” she explains. The couple began looking upstate, on the east side of the Hudson River. “This area is great for horses,” she says, describing the confluence of fellow horse lovers, who gravitate to the rolling hills around Rhinebeck and Millbrook, as well as HITS in Saugerties. The two first thought of renting something in the area, but then stumbled onto the listing for the vacant farm in Dutchess county. The property, empty for five years, had fallen into a state of disrepair. “It looked pretty scary from the pictures,” remembers Goodman-Thomases, “but we could tell it had good bones.” Built in the 1790s by farmer Zadock Southwick, the original farmhouse, and a barn, were once the center of a tannery, with the house added onto throughout the 19th century.

The stables most likely were built in the 1970s, when the farm was owned by a show jumper who used it as a breeding facility for race horses. However, the years of neglect had left the place feeling eerie. “Nature had really taken over,” McKenna remembers. The bushes and trees were overgrown, water damage and neglect had left the stables in a shambles, and a number of bird species had moved into the former horse arena and taken over. They knew making it livable for humans or (domesticated) animals would take some work. “You don’t want to bring your horses to something that looks like a haunted house,” explains McKenna. Even so, the couple decided to take the leap, buying the property in March and moving in during the spring.

Top left: The home features a classic farmhouse kitchen with wood trim fully renovated by the previous owners. Top right: The upstairs’ master bedroom faces west through exposed vertical beams and offers a view of the surrounding fields. It also includes a full bathroom and a walk-through cedar closet. Bottom: Originally the center of a tannery and farm, the farmhouse was added onto throughout the 19th century. The couple hopse to replace the wood siding with stone.

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They began by stripping the paint from the siding and then powerwashed the boards, uncovering cedar wood beneath. When they saw the powerwasher was actually damaging the cedar, they turned the shakes over. “We took a board or two off and realized it was lovely,” explains McKenna. They thought the slight water staining gave the siding character, so they sealed the boards as is. Next, they had to repair the indoor arena and get it up to working order. Nests lined the ceiling beams and covered the window sills, and the interior walls and floors had turned completely gray with bird droppings and feathers. McKenna cleared the birds out from the 233-foot long, 80-foot-wide structure and then, clad in a wetsuit, cleaned the ceiling and walls with a powerwasher and ladder. Now, it’s a space fit for champions to practice throughout the year.

Top: The horse barn with three of the couple’s horses. With two barns on the property, along with paddocks and fields, Thomases Equestrian will be able to board up to 40 horses. Bottom: The interior of the riding arena took a lot of cleaning to make it horse- and rider-friendly. Having a space where riders could practice in the winter was part of the property’s appeal to the couple.

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For the Birds They dove into the renovation right away. Their first priority: creating a safe, inviting environment for their horses. Along with Goodman-Thomases’ first horse, Paddington—a chestnut quarter horse she’s had for 18 years—the couple also has a grey Holsteiner called Willoughby; two Throughbreds called Nola and Finn; as well as Bonita, a chestnut pony GoodmanThomases utilizes for lessons. The horse barn and stable was the first structure they rehabilitated. First, they cleaned and refinished the 24 wooden stalls and then repaired the interior iron hinges and latch work. They also restored the stable’s original floor of loose inlaid bricks, which now resonate with the rattle and clack of hooves and boots. The entire outside of the green painted structure needed refurbishing as well. “It was a bit decrepit,” admits McKenna.

Tied to Horses After clearing and repairing fields and fences, they turned their attention to their 1790 post-and-beam farmhouse. Centered around a large floor-through brick hearth and fireplace, the 1,020-square-foot home’s first floor has a large farmhouse kitchen and the home’s original living room, with wide plank wood floors and the original front door. With the original iron cooking spit still in place, the fireplace also has a “hotbox” above the hearth for keeping bread warm, and an additional built-in cupboard utilized for 18th-century cooking. Along the living room ceiling, the original hand-hewn beams are held together with wooden pegs. The room was expanded in the 18th century with a hallway leading to an additional wing of the house, and eventually skylights were also added above the hallway. Here, McKenna sanded the wide plank floors of a parlor where a red brick fireplace, white painted walls and crown molding give this wing a 19th-century air. A hallway with an additional exterior door, as well as a dining room, complete the downstairs. Upstairs, a warren of hallways, closets and four bedrooms offers views to the surrounding fields, paddocks, and woods. The master bathroom, recently redone with blue tile, retains the old tub. It was while repairing pipes behind a wall of the second floor that McKenna realized the farm had, in its own way, come full circle: The original wall underneath was made of cement mortar bound by horse hair. The master bedroom, complete with a full cedar closet, looks through exposed vertical beams towards the west. The north-facing window, right next to the bed, offers a full view of a paddock. “That was always my dream,” says GoodmanThomases, “To wake up, look out the window, and see my horse in the field.”

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LABOR OF (SELF) LOVE FROM FERTILITY AND CHILDBIRTH TO END-OF-LIFE CARE, WOMEN ARE SUPPORTING WOMEN TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR HEALTH. By Mary Angeles Armstrong

s Laura Rodriguez prepared to give birth, she cycled through an abundance of conflicting emotions. “The way everyone talked about it was scary—it was also exciting, thrilling, and full of love, but I was scared and I knew it would be a really big change.” To Rodriguez (not her real name), so much felt daunting at the time: the expectations and advice coming at her from all sides, and the lack of experience that she and her partner had with the major transition of starting a family. “There are a lot of ‘shoulds’ with giving birth, and there’s a certain negativity about the possibility of what could go wrong.” So Rodriguez contacted Alyia Cutler and Meghan Conway, both certified doulas and founders of Wyld Womyn, which offers birth and doula support, classes, events, and more out of its Main Street center in Beacon. Her immediate intention was clear: Rodriguez wanted a natural birth in the hospital, and, above all, to avoid having a C-section. Conway and Cutler were there for Rodriguez—and with a handson approach throughout her labor and a calm encouragement born from years of experience as birth workers, they helped her achieve her goal of a healthy, natural birth. Yet the support Conway and Cutler offered Rodriguez has extended far beyond the birth of her son. She also hired the duo to provide postpartum support, visiting her at home twice weekly in the first few months of her son’s life to help Rodriguez “set her house in

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order” by assisting with everything from crib construction and lactation support to infantfriendly travel planning. Even more, what Cutler and Conway offer Rodriguez—and the women, female-identifying, and gender nonconforming clients they work with—is an opportunity to be seen, heard, and supported in their uniquely chosen path. “I felt empowered,” Rodriguez explains. “They were looking out for what I needed. Their attitude, then and throughout my journey into motherhood, has always been ‘You can do this, and here’s how.’” Wyld Womyn’s mission as doulas— whether it’s through ‘doulaing’ birth, death, coming out, healing from traumatic events, abortion, or many other life transitions—is rooted in the practice of holding space for their clients. Through active listening and bearing witness, they utilize their own expertise or that of their extended network of professionals, as well as their ability to create community, to best serve the people who come through their doors. “We’re expanding the idea of the word ‘doula’. We take the values and roots of that traditional role and expand it to everything our clients need,” says Cutler. At their root, the offerings at Wyld Womyn reflect a broader shift in women’s, and indeed human, healthcare—away from merely treating bodies, lifecycles, reproductive cycles, and sexual health as syndrome or sickness, and towards empowering people to tune into themselves. It’s about

understanding one’s unique physicality to embrace an individualized approach to healing and a kind of radical self-care—as well as the community-building that happens when we give each other permission to speak and listen. This kind of approach is helping women to rethink old judgments as they take their reproductive health and sense of value into their own hands. Beyond Con- and Contra-ception Beacon’s Wyld Womyn are not the only practitioners helping to empower a personalized approach to feminine health. Dyami Soloviev, based in High Falls, helps women tune into their bodies and rhythms through natural contraception practice, coaching, and classes. “You learn the language of your body,” Soloviev explains as she describes her work teaching the fertility awareness method to women at various stages of their reproductive cycle throughout the Hudson Valley. The fertility awareness method—or FAM, for short—is a method of tracking the body’s changes through a woman’s monthly menstrual cycle. While there are multiple FAM-based methods, Soloviev teaches the symptomthermal method, which tracks and records a combination of body temperature and changes in cervical fluid to pinpoint both ovulation and menstruation. Symptomthermal involves a highly tuned examination of the body’s subtle changes throughout the month, and then applies a detailed

Alyia Cutler and Meghan Conway of Wyld Womyn in Beacon. Photo by Alicia King Photography.

knowledge of both the female reproductive cycle and hormones to an individual’s personal information. “The two primary fertility signals, the changes in cervical fluid consistency and waking temperature, when charted side by side, tell us different things at different points of the cycle,” Soloviev explains. An “average” menstrual cycle consists of four phases: a pre-ovulatory phase, ovulation, a luteal—or progesterone dominant phase—and then menstruation. While the luteal phase is usually very regular for most women, the pre-ovulatory phase often varies from body to body. However, once a woman has a regular record of her cycle, she can begin to understand her own body and reproductive track and begin to plan around it. FAM can be utilized as natural birth control (Soloviev notes studies show it can be up to 96 percent effective and, unlike many religious-based rhythm practices, encourages tandem methods of birth control during ovulation) or as a first step for women trying to conceive. “We live in a very demanding and stressful culture, and our reproductive hormones are in a delicate balance with our cortisol [stress hormones]. We are hardwired for baby making, but we can actually steal from our healthy reproductive hormones when we are in high cortisol production,” Soloviev explains. “Certainly, FAM is not a fix-all if there are deeper fertility issues, but oftentimes somebody who is having trouble conceiving can bring themselves back to

health and conceive naturally.” Turning inward and gaining a deeper understanding of the natural ebb and flow of human hormones is not just a means of natural contraception or conception—it’s a profound way for people to reclaim and understand their own bodies. This connection, and way of learning the language of the body, is valuable throughout one’s lifespan. “My primary motivation for sharing this work is that there is an unfortunate trajectory of confusing the healthy rhythms of the reproduction cycle with craziness,” Soloviev explains. For example, she continues, “premenstrual hormonal shifts have gotten medicalized as a syndrome. While certainly some extreme symptoms of discomfort can be signs of hormonal imbalances, a lot of our issues with it are really lifestyle. There is nothing wrong with us, but there’s something wrong with the culture that doesn’t let us do what we need to make changes day to day.” While Soloviev teaches body literacy throughout the Hudson Valley and to people throughout all stages of their reproductive cycle, she has found teaching body literacy to young people especially powerful. “I love working with teenagers. FAM is an amazing skill to have as they’re coming into cycling and their reproductive journey.” FAM does not have any religious association; it’s open to all people and meets them wherever they are. The key, explains Soloviev is trust. “We’ve learned to not trust ourselves. This is a tool to trust ourselves again.”

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Healing Circles and Radical Doula-ing A kind of magic can happen when women support other women on the journey of self-trust. That’s why Cutler and Conway have increased their scope beyond the prenatal and birth sphere to additional services for the community at large. “There seemed to be a lot of need in this community for women and female-identifying people for space to get together, talk, and learn,” Cutler remembers. Before opening Wyld Womyn, the two began conducting full moon women’s healing circles, renting various spaces in the area in an attempt to help tear down “the competitive boundary relationship between women,” explains Conway. Held on the Friday after every full moon, the healing circles offer a theme from the Farmer’s Almanac or current events, and open with each participant lighting a candle and calling down their “maternal line” for guidance and support. Next comes a chance for participants to share, without judgment or crosstalk, and then Cutler and Conway close with a ritual or meditation that participants can incorporate into daily life. These monthly gatherings quickly became very popular, attended by people from across the Hudson Valley. “The more we did them, the more we realized we could better serve this need if we had our own space,” remembers Culter. The storefront in Beacon soon presented itself and the two jumped on it, opening the doors of Wyld Womyn in May 2018. Since then, the pair has expanded its range of doula services to address a broad gamut of human needs, offering assistance and bearing witness to beginnings and endings, as well as many parts in between. They offer a variety of classes and support groups, and also sell herbal health remedies as well as vegan personal lubricant and massage oil. Soon after opening, Wyld Womyn joined forces with Sarah Capua, an end-of-life doula rooted in the Zen Buddhist tradition, who helps people and families with the practicalities and transition around death. “There are so many parallels between birth and death,” says Conway. “It’s another big transition for people. Having someone to hold space for you and your family can be essential to your progress and ability to move forward.” With the assistance of therapist Dorinda Cataldo, they began a weekly “survivor circle” for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. Always open to female-identifying and gendernonconforming individuals, they’ve also expanded their education and support to work with LBGTQ communities and youth, and are planning to begin support groups for men in need of a safe space to process current events or just get in touch with their feminine side. “Recently, we’ve been noticing how people are flocking to us and the space. They need it to figure out what the next steps are for themselves personally, as a community, and even bigger than that,” explains Cutler. It was the need for self-care and support that attracted Sherry Graham to Wyld Womyn’s grand opening last spring. A case worker in the social services sector who works with at-risk kids and struggling families, Graham (not her real name) immediately began attending the full moon healing circles as well as other events. “As soon as I heard about them I just felt this joy,” says Graham, who says she has a tendency to put off self-care. “I went to my first healing circle with a migraine and I felt so cleansed afterwards.” Graham notes that the need for, and effectiveness of, “radical doulaing” isn’t limited to life’s larger and more monumental moments; it’s also a powerful antidote for the stress of daily life, especially for women. “It’s so easy to get caught up in an ongoing pattern where you have to keep giving and keep going,” she says. “This kind of self-care is important to caregivers, people in human service—anyone who is interacting with other humans. But it’s really important for women to come together and share support for one another.” “We see you. We hear you,” says Cutler, echoing the underlying message she sends to her clients. “Life can be so much sweeter and so much fuller if we can all support each other.” RESOURCES Dyami Soloviev Fertilegroundny.com Wyld Womyn Wyldwomynbeacon.com

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ith 287,500 acres of state-owned forest preserve, the Catskill Mountain range has a lot to offer hikers—from the sharp relief at its eastern edge, where it falls off into the Hudson Valley, to the merciless rises and descents of the Devil’s Path. There are 98 peaks here above 3,000 feet; 35 peaks above 3,500 feet; and two peaks above 4,000 feet—Slide and Hunter mountains. The peaks here were created by compressed sedimentary rock that was then uplifted and carved out by streams and glaciers. Because of their origins, the Catskills are known as an erosionally dissected plateau. This process explains the fairly uniform elevation of the peaks, and the deep cuts known as cloves, such as Kaaterskill Clove, where the well-known falls of the same name can be found. Full membership in the Catskill 3500 Club requires hiking all 35 peaks over 3,500 feet and then four of these peaks again in the winter—Slide, Blackhead, Panther, and Balsam. Those who climb all 35 peaks in the winter, as Kingston resident Jake Haisley has, are awarded a winter 35’er patch. The club was founded in 1962, and leads hikes every weekend of the year. You must sign up in advance, but these hikes are free and open to the public. Summiting these peaks gives hikers the chance to learn what makes the Catskills special—for instance, the yellow birch. “Its roots just stretch over the rock and find whatever little pocket of nutrient-rich 62 OUTDOORS CHRONOGRAM 11/18

soil it can access,” Haisley says. “It’s got characteristic birch bark, usually silverish or yellowish, and oftentimes, rather than growing straight up, you’ll see them growing out over the trail, contorting themselves in interesting ways. It’s a very Catskills tree.” Of the 35 peaks over 3,500 feet, 15 have no official trails, and require bushwhacking to gain the summit. Small canisters are maintained on these trailless peaks, and the challenge is to navigate to the summit and find the canister. The first time Haisley summited the set of 35 peaks, he did it without a GPS. “It made it more exciting. I had to actually stop and think and read the landscape and read the map and use the compass,” he says. Catskill 3500 Club President Heather Rolland describes finding the sign-in canisters as euphoric. “It’s like hide and go seek, but it’s the next level up. You’ve got to find it and it’s smaller than a bread box,” she says. Yet this area is more than a playland for people’s enjoyment. The areas above 3,500 feet that define the high peaks are also a bird conservation area, in part because of the Bicknell’s thrush. This songbird was first discovered in the late 19th century on Slide Mountain, and it is vulnerable partly due to its very restricted range, limited to the kind of high-altitude coniferous forest that gives the Blackhead Range its name—with evergreen foliage that looks dark against the white snow when deciduous trees are bare. The songbird’s numbers may also have been impacted by the impact of mercury pollution

on its ability to mate, and the destruction of forest in its winter habitat in the Dominican Republic. Between 1990 and 2015, hiking in the high peaks has more than doubled—as measured by the number of hikers registering in Ulster and Sullivan Counties (where many of the high peaks are located). And between 2010 and 2016, canister sign-ins, a measure of trailless peak ascents, have also more than doubled. Rolland describes hiking Thomas Cole (part of the Blackhead Range) and finding Balsam firs hacked down, with wildflowers and moss replaced by hard-packed earth. Marking a new trail or cutting down trees is illegal. But even responsible hikers can alter the landscape— with heavy foot traffic generating de facto trails called herd paths, even on the peaks that are not supposed to have trails. Hikers should use caution when relying on these herd paths, as they do not always lead to the summit. In order to enjoy these peaks responsibly, seasoned hikers like Rolland and Haisley urge leave-no-trace principles. Those who are not confident in their skill to summit a particular peak can also join a hike led by the Catskill 3500 Club, rather than going at it alone. And recognizing your responsibility to the Catskills may actually enrich your experience—Rolland couldn’t keep the excitement out of her voice when she started talking about the club’s new search and rescue team. “Our club has people who are really expert in off-trail navigation, for whom spending 10 hours slogging through brush is nothing—we do that for fun.”

HIKING THE HIGH PEAKS The Catskill Mountain High Peaks offer rock scrambles, fire towers rising above two summits, and sweeping views of the adjacent peaks and the farms and towns nestled in the mountains. Less rugged than the White Mountains or the Adirondacks, the Catskills are subalpine, never rising above treeline, but this is still the backcountry, complete with bears and stinging nettles. Hikers should come prepared, both with the right skill and planning, and also with the right gear. For day hikes, it is critical to set a turnaround time that gives an extra buffer to ensure a safe return home. Winter 35’er Jake Haisley also urges hikers coming to the Catskills High Peaks to bring a headlamp with extra batteries, in case the return must unexpectedly be made after nightfall. Here are three recommended high peaks hikes, including one northern peak with a very satisfying view, another peak that is westernmost of the High Peaks, and, lastly, one bushwack to a trailless summit.

Windham High Peak Distance: 6 miles Round-trip Time: 4.5 hours Total Ascent: 1,500 feet Max Elevation: 3,524 feet

Windham High Peak is positioned at the northern edge of the Catskill Mountains. The approach offered here is from the trailhead at Peck Road. Begin by taking the yellow-blazed Elm Ridge Trail north. At the juncture with the blue-blazed Escarpment trail, turn right and head east toward the summit. According to Catskill 3500 Club member Lawrence D. David, at one time there was a giant hayfield here. You can detect the reforested farmland from the landscape, which includes a meadow, stone walls and non-native stands of Norway spruce. Once you reach the summit of Windham High Peak, looking north you can see across flat terrain to the Albany skyline. Looking south, the peak commands a view of the three conifer-covered peaks of the Blackhead Range. According to David, the geographically savvy hiker can also identify more distant peaks—Mount Greylock (Massachusetts), Mount Everett (Appalachian Trail in Massachussets), and Mount Equinox (Vermont).

Balsam Lake Mountain Distance: 3.3 miles Round-Trip Time 2.5 hours Total Ascent: 1,200 feet Max Elevation: 3,720 feet

Balsam Lake Mountain is the westernmost peak exceeding 3,500 feet. The shortest way to the top is from the trailhead at the end of Beaver Kill Road, following a northerly route. Begin your hike on the blueblazed Dry Brook Ridge Trail, and then take a left at the juncture with the red-blazed Balsam Lake Mountain Trail. This trail will bring you to the summit. The peak (and the nearby Balsam Lake) are named for the characteristic subalpine Catskills foliage of Balsam fir and red spruce found here. The first firetower in New York State was also built in this spot in 1887. Once you have attained the peak, you can ascend another 47 feet by climbing the current firetower that stands here today, which was erected in the early 20th century. From this added height, you can enjoy well-earned panoramic views of the western Catskills.

Rusk Mountain

Distance: 3.5 miles (out and back) Round-Trip time: 2.5-4 hours Total Ascent: 1,600 feet Max Elevation: 3,680 feet Near the well-known Hunter is the trailless Rusk Mountain. This is a good entry-level bushwhack. Begin at the Spruceton Road trailhead, and follow the blue-blazed Spruceton horsepath about one half-mile northeast. Shortly after passing over a footbridge, the trail veers to the right, heading east. Before this bend, head off trail and begin your bushwhack northwest toward Rusk Mountain. Always study the route in advance and alert someone to your intended route and return time before attempting to bushwhack to a trailless peak. Haisley cautions that it is usually easier to find the peak, as all upward slopes lead to the summit, while it can be more difficult to descend to the right spot, since you can walk down in any direction. “You will see plenty of interesting ledges, rock overhangs, and rock shelters on your way up,” he adds. He also advises bringing a map and compass, as well as a GPS, to ensure you navigate safely. Don’t forget to look for the canister at the summit.

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Matt Edge, founder of Democracy Coffee; packaging illustration by Shiloh Vanaver.

Caffeinated Politics DEMOCRACY COFFEE By Luke Stoddard Nathan

emocracy Coffee’s packaging doesn’t say much about the product itself. Rather than rhapsodize about the coffee’s flavor profile, the back of a 16-ounce bag of “People Power,” one of the local brand’s roasts, depicts an argument about publicly funded elections between a cartoon dinosaur and Abraham Lincoln. A system like that would be too expensive, the dinosaur insists. Lincoln disagrees. “Fair Elections are expected to cost each taxpayer less than a penny a day, four scores more affordable than corruption,” he says. The dinosaur laughs at this claim, though it’s not without evidence. Several years ago, the nonprofit Campaign Finance Institute found that if New York state were to adopt a small-donor, public-matching-funds program like the one already operative in New York City, the whole thing would cost each of the Empire State’s 19-million-plus residents only about $2 a year. Score one for Lincoln. But then the dinosaur makes a more dispiriting point: Elected officials won’t go for it. Having either mastered the art of wooing big donors or already made (or inherited) a pretty penny themselves, today’s politicians won’t embrace a campaign finance system that might cancel out their fundraising advantages and expand the pool of potential challengers. Touché? Lincoln, not one to shy away from debate, fires back with an optimistic prediction. “Your plan relies on people being duped by corrupt politicians,” he says. “As more people learn the truth, those politicians will become increasingly unelectable.” This copywriting might not excite the coffee cognoscenti. But although Democracy 64 ART OF BUSINESS CHRONOGRAM 11/18

Coffee’s parent organization’s mission—“to give people a way to rein in the corrupting influence of big money on our democracy,” its website explains—sets it apart from other micro-roasters, Kingston-based founder Matthew Edge says plenty of attention is paid to his final product’s taste, too. “In our marketing it gets skipped over, not in the product,” Edge, 36, says. A graduate of the CUNY School of Law and veteran of the Occupy movement, Edge roasts the fair trade, organic beans, sourced from workerowned cooperatives in Honduras, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Colombia, in small batches himself in a concession trailer parked at his friends’ farm in the town of Berne, near the border of Albany and Schoharie counties. Crowdfunding Democracy The roasts “tend to be on the lighter side” to bring out the coffee’s fruitier flavors, says Edge, who in the past worked for a handful of local food establishments, including The Alternative Baker and Market Market Café in Rosendale. The mobile facility’s aluminum interior, with a snazzy, copper-clad roaster at one end, likely looks like any number of other professional operations of this scale and type, though a crystal perched on the machine (the friend who gave it to Edge said it has “protective powers”) and a couple of exhortatory stickers affixed to the walls (“When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty,” one reads) seem to gesture toward the project’s idiosyncrasy. Edge started roasting coffee around 2011, but the whole story dates back to the mid-aughts, when Edge, then a SUNY

New Paltz student, formed a chapter of Democracy Matters, a national student organization that focuses on money in politics. “Matt just jumped right on it and has been doing it ever since,” says Joan Mandle, the organization’s executive director and now a board member of the People’s Empowerment Project, the nonprofit that oversees Democracy Coffee. “In fact, he’s the only student, as far as I know, who has continued to do it in the kind of passionate way that he continues to do it—building his life around this issue, really.” Following sobering trips to Albany with other student activists to talk to seemingly unmovable state legislators, Edge started a money-out-of-politics voting bloc— essentially a list of potential voters who have asked to be notified of candidates’ stances on clean elections and similar issues. To sustain this sort of outreach effort, Edge thought crowdfunding, rather than appealing to foundations, which he says tend to be “controlled by extraordinarily rich people,” made more sense. The small donations, in this case, would be purchases of coffee, a commodity he chose partly because of its centrality to the fair-trade movement. Edge sees the nearly two dozen stores and cafés in the Hudson Valley and Capital Region that now carry Democracy Coffee as ballot boxes that allow consumers to vote year-round for campaign finance reform, which he sees as a crucial first step in curbing the influence of deep-pocketed entities that obstruct the fights against climate change, student-loan debt, and other crises. Democracy Coffee’s cause is boosted by a pragmatic factor: competitive pricing. On

a recent visit to Honest Weight Food Co-op in Albany, this writer saw one-pound bags for sale for less than $10. (The relatively low prices boost sales, keeping the coffee on shelves fresh, Edge says.) Largely a one-man operation, though a few volunteers help with packaging and a contractor handles about half the deliveries, Democracy Coffee sold more than $110,000 worth of coffee last year, Edge says. In recent months, he has increased the average amount of beans he roasts each week by about a third, from 300 to 400 pounds. Caffeine-Fueled Elections The idea is to use proceeds from the growing operation to promote publicly funded elections through online advertising; candidate report cards (more than a thousand were distributed in the lead-up to the 2016 elections, though two contenders receiving high marks, Sara Niccoli and Zephyr Teachout, lost); banner drops; a nascent podcast called “The Tipping Point”; the coffee’s continued occupation of shelves and bulk sections; and educational animations, two of which are currently viewable on and more or less strike the same tone as the colloquy cited toward the start of this article. (By the way, in case you were wondering about the dinosaur in the cartoon: The lifeform of Lincoln’s counterpart was chosen “just for fun” but also to reflect “modes of thinking that bring us closer to extinction,” Edge says.) “When this thing has really reached a certain threshold of financial well-being, what I’d like to see myself doing full-time is making animations and ads,” says Edge. “I’m a filmmaker, and that’s really sort of my forte.” There’s a kind of intuitive, circular appeal to crowdfunding an awareness campaign for publicly financed elections, which, at least in one popular iteration, essentially use tax dollars to incentivize candidates to seek small donations from ordinary folks. The New York City program matches contributions up to $175 from residents to participating candidates at a six-to-one rate. If someone gives a candidate $100, for instance, the city kicks in $600. According to its executive director’s testimony, the city’s independent Campaign Finance Board, which administers the program, paid just over $17 million for last year’s municipal elections to 106 candidates, including the two major party nominees for mayor. The program’s cost drops dramatically in non-election years; CFB has allocated just $1 million this year, for instance, to cover the potential cost of any special elections. “It’s built on the idea of trying to encourage participation,” says Michael Malbin, a professor of political science at the University at Albany and executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute. A public matching funds system cannot prevent independent expenditure-only political committees, better known as super PACs, from spending gobs of money against you or for your opponent. It probably would take a constitutional amendment to block that. The best way for candidates to fend off influxes of hostile money, in Malbin’s opinion, “is to make sure that your within-district networks are strong.” This method of fundraising— being able to tell constituents that their seemingly meager contributions will count for much more—helps that effort, he says. The state legislature could end up seriously considering some sort of clean elections bill next year. The lower house is forever blue, and Democrats are within a hair of taking control of the state Senate for the first time in nearly a decade. Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, all but assured of a third term, has repeatedly included a public matching funds program in his annual executive budget proposal, though it has never made it into the final deal. “There actually is kind of a star alignment happening in New York,” says Edge, though he allows the legislation might not pass “this cycle” because “the people who are against it are the ones that are the most powerful.” Proponents better come caffeinated.

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Gaining Velocity WAPPINGERS FALLS, HOPEWELL JUNCTION, FISHKILL By Anne Pyburn Craig

entral Dutchess County is a fascinating and useful place. From the quirky, curvaceous, and cultured village of Wappingers Falls, to Hopewell Junction in East Fishkill where three railroads once converged, this part of the Hudson Valley blends down-to-earth practicality with wide-ranging variety like few other neighborhoods can. The Fishkill and Wappinger Creeks meeting the Hudson meant that this area was always a strategic location, a transit hub and crucial crossroads since before there were roads. This was the home of the prosperous Wappinger Indians until 1683, when New Yorkers Frances Rombout and Gulian Verplanck purchased the 85,000-acre Rombout Patent in exchange for “a quantity of rum, powder, cloth, hatchets, shirts, knives, bottles, white wampum, earthen jugs and

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80 pounds of tobacco,” according to Fishkill historian Joseph D. Cavaccini. Fishkill was the site of the main supply depot for the Continental Army during the American Revolution (you can learn a lot about that era at the Van Wyck Homestead Museum) and afterwards became a thriving industrial region. In the mid-20th century, IBM spread north from Westchester, bringing with it jobs for techies and engineers, jobs with good benefits and a culture that prioritized community involvement. At its peak, the 450-acre East Fishkill campus employed almost 12,000 people; more thousands worked just a few miles to the north at the Poughkeepsie campus. That’s a good-sized amount of people, most of whom wanted to dine out, shop, be entertained, and play outside.

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It would be wrong to say that central Dutchess felt no pain when those jobs vanished by the thousands in the 1990s. It would be even more inaccurate to underestimate the creativity and resilience of the onetime IBMers, their families, and the robust service, retail, and cultural landscape that had grown up to serve them. A simple illustration: Nowhere else on the planet are the essential New York food groups of pizza, deli, and Chinese produced with greater passion and expertise. Ask somebody in Wappingers, Fishkill or Hopewell Junction where to find the best of these and be prepared for a list of answers, from legacy family places to wildly creative new kids on the block, and the bar keeps rising: pizza places add beloved Italian entrees and vegan choices, delis add housesmoked meat and charcuterie, Chinese takeout becomes pan-Asian.

Courtney Kolb loves turning people on to the amazing places in what at first glance looks like an unexceptional strip of Route 9 in Wappingers Falls. “Sai Gon Pho is 100 percent authentic,” she says. “It’s the absolute best pho and dumpling place. They make dumplings by hand. Be patient! You’ll be so happy.” “Then behind that same little strip mall, you have Cousins Ale Works. People are really excited about the apple pale ale style beer they’re bringing out in late November. The apples are straight from Fishkill Farms; you can’t get much more local than that.” Village Life West of the strip malls, in the heart of the village, Kolb and her husband have been renovating a historic building to create four apartments and the Revival on Main hair salon and spa. “Both our families go back

here for generations, and we knew this was an opportunity,” she says. “There’s an energy here right now. That’s why we call our group Wappingers Rising. This town has a great history, but I think there may just be more cool stuff than ever.” Kolb’s got her own favorites list: “Groundhog for coffee: they close at three, but they’ve got amazing coffee, homemade pastry, big hearty breakfasts. Our local vinyl shop [The Vinyl Room] has a vast record collection and serves pizza through a pizza window in the wall from the Wagon Wheel next door. The pizza place has been there forever; the vinyl shop moved in next door and brought arcade games, craft beer and wine, and the hippest live DJs anywhere. It’s such a fun place. So is di’Vine. They’re a gorgeous, mellow wine bar on the waterfall; they’ve got great small plates and live music Fridays and Saturdays. Oh, and a 11/18 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 67

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Culinary Institute grad opened West Main a few years ago, and the food is straight up fabulous.” Wappingers Falls will soon be lit for the holiday season; historic Mesier Park will have “head-to-toe lights” says Kolb, with a tree lighting and parade to take place on November 24 at 5pm. “Candlelight By The Falls will be open; they have tons of wildly creative gifts. Ruinous Revived [a furniture restoration shop] does the most amazing work with furniture out of a little garage on Reservoir Place, by appointment only. There’s just so much going on. I’m far from the only person investing in the village right now; the restoration after the fire’s been handled like the major opportunity that it is.” To the east, one minute off Interstate 84 in East Fishkill, the onetime IBM campus is now the site of Sloop Brewing’s new 26,000-square-foot facility. Seven years ago, Sloop Brewing was a stand at local farmers’ markets; it grew into a barn in Elizaville and is now roaring into Central Dutchess to ramp up production from 4,000 to 28,000 barrels a year at a location that is as perfect for distribution across the northeastern US and beyond as any on earth. The location also houses a second taproom in the former industrial space, where beer lovers can sample the outfits trademark hazy IPAs and eat pub grub from chef Adam Slamon’s beer-centric menu.

Sloop is a harbinger of much more to come. National Resources announced in late 2017 that it had purchased 300 acres of the site for a trademark mixeduse iPark, redeveloping two-million square feet into mixed-use: build-to-suit warehouse and distribution space, retail, residential and lodging. Sloop has already been joined by More Good, an artisanal soda company, and Cozzini Brothers, a knife company. The other 160 acres are already buzzing: GlobalFoundries bought IBM’s semiconductor business in 2015 and employs 2,500. Another onetime IBM property being repurposed nearby exemplifies yet another field of central Dutchess excellence: the Sports KingDome, 347,000 square feet of state-of-the-art training facilities for baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, flag football, field hockey and recreational choices ranging from Wiffle ball and kickball to bocce, ultimate Frisbee, and quidditch. Opening in 2019, the KingDome will be a natural next level for a neighborhood that’s been home to Dutchess Stadium since 1994. Delectable Dutchess November is a fine time in central Dutchess. Holiday shopping? There’s literally too much retail of all sorts, from discount chains to exquisite jewelers and

boutiques, to list. In Wappingers, the County Players at the Falls will be offering “Our Town” as part of their 61st season. Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is on through November 11, meaning you can get delicious deals at places like Aroma Osteria or Heritage Food and Drink in Wappingers Falls and Sapore or Hudson’s Ribs and Fish in Fishkill. The Van Wyck Homestead in East Fishkill will host a juried craft bazaar on Thanksgiving weekend. Whatever your definition of play might be, you can find it in this place where jocks, geeks, and gourmands have long since intermingled and discovered that they may even be the same people. In Hopewell Junction, the 1873 Hopewell Depot has been restored as a railway museum and charming entry point to the William R. Steinhaus Dutchess Rail Trail. Hopewell Junction, although small, fully embodies the aforementioned standard of pizza/Asian/deli excellence, along with some venerable pubs and Julie’s Jungle, the first fully accessible playground in the county. And when the snow hits, pretty Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls—the “gem of the Dutchess parks system”—is the place to go for skating, sledding, and tubing. “You can really get some speed going on the main hill,” says Kolb. “But there are smaller hills. Everybody can find a spot they like.” 11/18 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 69

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omen’s W Work: Election 2018

omen are on the ballot in record numbers this November, stepping into the political fray with zeal and enthusiasm, and running in tough districts against long odds. The Hudson Valley is a proving ground for a few of the current generation of energized and ambitious Democratic women.

By Karen Angel

Fears for her children’s future led Tistrya Houghtling to seek political office. “I want my daughters to have the same rights and opportunities as my son and the right to decide what happens to their bodies,” says Houghtling, who won the Democratic primary for New York’s 107th Assembly District in September. “I want my biracial son to be safe walking down the street as a black male. I want clean air for them to breathe and clean water for them to drink.” Houghtling is not alone. Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, despite her popular vote victory, and the direction the country has taken under President Trump have galvanized an army of female political candidates locally and across the country. The #MeToo movement, combined with the election of a president who has mocked women and praised neoNazis, is spurring them on. Trump’s disparaging and sexualized remarks about women, the many allegations of sexual misconduct against him, his failure to condemn violence by white supremacists, and an administration filled with white men have impelled women, and particularly women of color, to seek office in record numbers. Women’s rights rallies and marches across the country have demonstrated huge grassroots support for the values these candidates represent. This year, more women than ever before ran in major-party gubernatorial, US Senate, and House primaries—and won them. So far, 256 female candidates for Congress, or nearly half of the 524 who ran, have advanced to the general election. They include about 50 AfricanAmerican women. Thirteen women have been nominated by their parties to run for governor. If elected in Georgia, Stacey Abrams would become the first black female governor. In Idaho, Paulette Jordan has a chance to become that state’s first Native American governor. Running unopposed, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan is set to become the first Muslim congresswoman. The election of these women would have far-reaching effects on their keys areas of focus, including health care, education, reproductive rights, and gun control. 11/18 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 71

local government for a decade as chair of the Rosendale Environmental Commission and deputy town supervisor, and is currently serving her second term on the town council. She is cofounder and director of the energy-reform group Citizens for Local Power. The recent retirement of longtime Republican Senator John Bonacic in the 42nd state Senate District has created an unexpected power vacuum. In one of 10 two-woman state Senate battles this year, Metzger and Republican Annie Rabbitt, county clerk in Orange County, are battling it out for the seat.

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“A record number of Democratic women are running this year and beyond, because they’re frustrated and want to do something for their communities,” says Stephanie Schriock, president of the women’s political advocacy group Emily’s List, which says it has fielded 36,000 inquiries from women interested in running for office since the 2016 election. “They’re running to replace Republicans who do nothing but push dangerous policies and coddle their out-of-control president,” says Schriock. “When these women win in November, they’re going to bring positive, progressive change to Washington and statehouses across the country.” In the Bronx, the stunning primary victory of House candidate Alexandra OcasioCortez—a young woman of color, socialist, and onetime bartender with scant political experience—over 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley symbolized the upending of politics as usual. Two high-profile actresses also joined the fray, using their celebrity as a springboard into politics, as have a long line of male celebrities, including Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Sonny Bono, Jesse “The Body” Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Franken, and yes, Donald Trump. “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon lost the primary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but managed to win more than a third of the vote. Diane Neal of “Law & Order” is running as an independent against Democratic candidate Antonio Delgado and Republican John Faso in the 19th Congressional District. Along with Hillary Clinton, these candidates are the spiritual descendants of Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham Law School professor who challenged Cuomo in 2014, winning more than a third of the vote on a shoestring budget. She ran for New York attorney general in this year’s primary, campaigning while eight-months pregnant, but lost to another woman, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, the first black woman to win a major-party nomination for statewide office 72 FEATURE CHRONOGRAM 11/18

in New York. Heavily favored in the general election, James is poised to make more history as the first black woman to hold statewide elected office in New York and the first woman to be elected attorney general in the state. Brett Kavanaugh’s charged confirmation hearing and his subsequent nomination to the Supreme Court have added fuel to the fire and may end up sealing some political legacies, just as Clarence Thomas’s elevation to the Supreme Court after Anita Hill’s testimony led to a doubling of women in Congress in 1992, which was dubbed “The Year of the Woman.” Among them was California’s Dianne Feinstein, now the longest-serving female senator and also record-holder for most votes out of any candidate nationwide in the Senate election of 2012. We spoke to local female candidates about why they decided to run and what they hope to accomplish.

en Metzger, Democratic candidate for the 42nd Senate District

A 17-year resident of Rosendale, Jen Metzger is the mother of three sons. She has worked in

Pat Strong

As a mother, a local elected representative, and director of Citizens for Local Power, an organization that fights for fair utility rates and a clean-energy economy, I understand firsthand the challenges we’re facing in the Hudson Valley and Catskills, and frankly, our state government is failing us. This is a critical time. At the federal level, we’re going backward on so many issues—on women’s health and reproductive rights, on protections of our air and water, on public education, on workers’ rights. Our state government needs to step up, protect us from this assault, and move us forward. Women’s issues are everyone’s issues. Women’s rights are human rights. We’re not living up to our democratic principles when women are paid less than men for equivalent work, or when women don’t have control over decisions about their own health, their own bodies. More than a third of female-headed households in New York live in poverty. Child care can consume a third or more of a woman’s income. Most women in my district are paid less than 82 percent of what men make for equivalent work, and the disparities are even greater between white men and black and Latino women. These gender and race injustices affect everyone. Families suffer and our communities suffer when a sizable portion of the population faces obstacles to full and fair participation in the economy.

at Strong, Democratic candidate for the 46th Senate District

Diane Neal

Pat Strong has lived in Ulster County since 1983, working as a newspaper reporter and editor and as a consultant for the US Department of Energy. As a contractor for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, she has helped local businesses, government, and homeowners make their buildings more energy-efficient. In 2009, Strong cofounded the Business Alliance of Kingston, and for five years, she has produced Made in Kingston, an expo of locally made art and other creative goods. In 2012, Republican George Amedore lost the 46th state Senate District to Democratic sheep farmer Cecilia Tkazyk by just 18 votes, but came back to beat her in 2014. Strong’s long history in the local business community makes this race also a bit of a toss-up. The New York State Senate is 80 percent male. That seems absurd in 2018. Women bring a different perspective, and it should be the goal of every US legislative body to accurately reflect the people being served. My experiences as a woman, mother, small-business owner, and community volunteer in the arts have all played a role in my decision to run. I’m not wealthy, and, like many small-business people, I have struggled to pay taxes and provide health insurance to my employees. My children went to public schools, so I’m very concerned with ensuring that our schools get the fair and equitable funding they deserve. And I am convinced that not only does art enrich our lives, it’s an economic driver in upstate communities that are experiencing an influx of New York City transplants who are bringing their arts businesses with them. The #MeToo movement has brought many women’s traumatic experiences into the light of day, where they can be seen for what they are—violations of the law and a danger to progress in a civil society. Although we’ve just witnessed reprehensible behavior among Republican senators and the American president on this issue, it seems that we as a society are moving closer to zero tolerance for acts of sexual violence.

iane Neal, independent candidate for the 19th Congressional District

In 2015, after a debilitating car accident in Los Angeles, Diane Neal moved from New York City to the Ulster County town of Hurley. An avid flyfisher, she had been coming to the area for decades to fish. Neal is best known for playing assistant district attorney Casey Novak on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” She dropped out of college to pursue a career in modeling and then turned to acting, but returned to school in 2009. Last May, she graduated from the Harvard Extension School with an associate degree. According to recent polls, Democrat Antonio Delgado is leading Republican incumbent John Faso 43 percent to 36 percent in the 19th

“The #MeToo movement has brought many women’s traumatic experiences into the light of day, where they can be seen for what they are—violations of the law and a danger to progress in a civil society.” —Pat Strong

Congressional District. It is unclear what percentage of the vote Neal will garner, but she is unlikely to change the race’s trajectory. What has really ignited me is the deepening factionalism and hyperpartisanship that the loss of Hillary and the accession of Trump has exacerbated, and my desire to find another way forward. The Kavanaugh hearing and his subsequent confirmation have only made more clear the divide between us as a population. With Hillary’s loss, I felt a pang of sadness for what could have been and an understanding that there need to be more women in elected office. Most people do not understand things that they have not experienced, and that is true for many of the men in government. They can’t legislate well for women if they have no empathy for the challenges all women face on a daily basis, most of which are underaddressed or not addressed at all. Hillary will always have a special place for many of us. She blazed a trail through unknown territory and over decades when the world was changing rapidly. Both her successes and failures have provided innumerable valuable lessons for all of us who have followed her path to any degree. 11/18 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 73

Tistrya Houghtling

T “Our current president has led a constant attack on women, with their voices and stories not being heard or believed and their bodies being objectified and disrespected.” —Tistrya Houghtling

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istrya Houghtling, Democratic candidate for the 107th Assembly District

Tistrya Houghtling was born and raised in New Lebanon, where she now serves as town clerk. After a career organizing events across the country, she returned to her hometown eight years ago to raise her three children. Houghtling served as deputy court clerk and court clerk before mounting a successful bid for town clerk. Houghtling is hoping to replace Republican Jake Ashby, who earned his seat in a special election and has been in office for only four months. In a district that leans to the right, this will be a steep climb for the Democrat. I am running to ensure that our government is for the people, by the people, and of the people—so women and workingclass people have proper representation and all voices are heard. It was hard as a mother of three young children to make the decision to sacrifice time with them, but the stakes are just too high right now. Women are vastly underrepresented in our government, and it is time that we had a voice at the table. A woman’s right to choose what happens to her body, pay equity, women’s health and reproductive rights, redefining how we treat victims of sexual assault to ensure that they are safe and not blamed when they come forward are all important issues for me. Women should be comfortable reporting when they are a victim of assault and should not be asked questions like what they were wearing. We also need to make sure that our young people understand consent and respect for all people.

I felt that our country was on the right track to bring true equality to women and girls, but recently has taken a U-turn and started quickly heading in the wrong direction. Women for too long have remained silent, and with the #MeToo movement, women have once again found their voices. Our current president has led a constant attack on women, with their voices and stories not being heard or believed and their bodies being objectified and disrespected. I’m standing up for women in this current state of politics.

aren Smythe, Democratic candidate for the 41st Senate District

Dutchess County native Karen Smythe grew up in Poughkeepsie and now lives in Red Hook. After working in marketing, she became the fourth generation of her family to run their construction business, C. B. Strain & Son. She also has served on the board of Bardavon and the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum and as a trustee of Vassar College. Smythe is challenging Republican incumbent Sue Serino of Hyde Park. The race has put partyline divisions on issues such as health care, gun rights, and abortion in the spotlight. Smythe may gain an edge from her family ties: She is the sister-in-law of Governor Cuomo’s campaign chairman and former top aide, William Mulrow. What has transpired in this country since 2016 has truly motivated me to get involved and take action by running for elected office. Knowing that my opponent, the current senator, opposes protecting Roe v. Wade, access to contraception, and legislation to protect domestic-violence victims from gun violence

Karen Smythe

“Women’s issues are everyone’s issues. Women’s rights are human rights. We’re not living up to our democratic principles when women are paid less than men for equivalent work, or when women don’t have control over decisions about their own health, their own bodies.” —Jen Metzger

gave me further incentive to get into the race to give people a real choice in November. I will also advocate for more protections against sexual harassment in both the private and public sectors and for pay equality. My personal experiences are why I believe that I can be effective and help improve people’s lives. While raising a family here in Dutchess County, I ran a local mechanicalcontracting firm. My parents are both in their 80s, and I work hard to ensure that they can have what they need to age gracefully. I know how important it is to support good economic development, have good public schools, and ensure that families are safe in their community and seniors are able to find fulfillment and comfort as they age.

oyce St. George, Democratic candidate for the 51st Senate District

Joyce St. George has lived in the 51st state Senate District for more than 30 years. Trained as a corruption investigator in the New York attorney general’s office and an expert witness on sexual assault in the Queens district attorney’s office, she and her husband have conducted workshops on crisis and conflict management for police departments, government agencies, and major corporations from their Kingston office. St. George has been a chair of the board at Margaretville Hospital and the Mountainside Residential Care Facility and has taught communications courses at Columbia University and New York University. St. George is vying to replace Republican incumbent James Seward, who has held the seat for 32 years, in solid Republican territory. Her campaign is very much a long shot but represents a concerted effort to build an opposition movement to the old-boy politics that have dominated the area for decades.

I had no plans to run, but after the 2016 election of Trump, I became more interested in political dynamics. Friends asked me to run and I declined, until one suggested I review my opponent’s record. I did, and then I called my friend who is a member of the Democratic Committee in Delaware County and said I would run. My senator voted against legislation to take guns from individuals convicted of domestic violence, against gay marriage twice, and against gays adopting children. He blocked legislation that would have codified Roe v. Wade in New York State and protected reproductive and contraceptive rights. I believe many issues are interconnected: poverty, education, lack of jobs and economic development, environmental pollution, social

justice, and women’s rights. We can’t solve one problem that challenges women without looking at the impact of others. My resolve was pretty well-fueled before Kavanaugh. My opponent has given me all the impetus I’ve needed to run. However, as a former expert witness in sexual assault for the Queens district attorney’s office and an experienced rape counselor, I’ve been disgusted by the entire Kavanaugh affair, on many levels. I now speak about the Kavanaugh incident at rallies throughout the state. This article was produced in conjunction with The River, a newsroom on the Civil platform reporting on regional issues of national relevance, connecting the Hudson Valley to the world. Find out more at Therivernewsroom.com.

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he history of neon can be traced back to the exuberant experimentalism of the Victorian Age, when inventors like Heinrich Geissler and Nikola Tesla made great advances in scientific, medical, and technological knowledge. Among these breakthroughs were the isolation of a category of elements known as noble gases—neon, helium, krypton, argon, xenon, and radon—and the discovery that when a high-voltage current is applied to the gas in a sealed tube, the gas molecules emit light. This magical illumination inspired the phrase “liquid fire.” The first neon sign was introduced in the US in 1923, hawking a Packard dealership in Los Angeles. Neon lighting quickly became a popular fixture in outdoor advertising, enjoying a heyday in the 1950s but gradually losing ground to municipal ordinances banning the signs and the introduction of cheaper LED bulbs. Today, neon is remembered as an iconic part of the 20th-century American design vernacular, but few new pieces are being made. An exception to the rule is Lite Brite Neon, one of a handful of artist-quality neon fabrication studios currently operating in the US. Lite Brite Neon Studio began in 1999 as a way for founder Matt Dilling to support his own artistic practice, which focuses on the decorative and architectural possibilities of neon: chandeliers and lighting fixtures. Over the years, the studio expanded to include a range of neon artists working in everything from original gallery work to commercial signage and restoration. When the business outgrew its original Brooklyn location (which now serves as a showroom and design studio) in 2017, Dilling moved production to a 15,000-square-foot former furniture factory in Kingston. Lite Brite’s 12-member fabrication team works on 500 to 700 projects a year and operates like a sculptural foundry. Artists and clients bring concepts at various stages of ideation to Lite Brite—some are detailed renderings, some are sketches on napkins—and the team transforms them into neon reality. Litebriteneon.com —Brian K. Mahoney

Above: Lite Brite Neon Studio’s founder, Matt Dilling, with his partner, artist Erika DeVries. Photo by Monica Simoes. Opposite, clockwise from top left: Our infinite capacity for love, Erika DeVries, photo by Monica Simoes; I Can Feel, Suzy Kellems Dominik; I AM,Tavares Strachan. All works fabricated by Lite Brite Neon Studio. 11/18 CHRONOGRAM PORTFOLIO 79

François Morellet’s No End Neon, 1990/2017. Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York. ©️ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation. Photo by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Fabricated for Morellet by Lite Brite Neon Studio.

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Top: en plein air for Beacon-based artist Robert Brush. Bottom: custom neon sloth for private client. Opposite: Somos 11 Millones/We Are 11 Million (Andrea Bowers in collaboration with Movimiento Cosecha), on the High Line in New York City.

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A Familiar Voice

Edie Brickell and New Bohemians By Peter Aaron

you were alive and anywhere near a radio at the twilight of the 1980s, it was inescapable. It came curling out of the speakers like patchouliscented smoke. The bass line: round, smooth, coyly uncoiling. The guitar: slow-moving jazz chords, skanked along with a lazy, sunbakedska offbeat. And the voice, a twangy tang of sly Southern molasses offering the Zenencrypted lyrics: “I’m not aware of too many things / I know what I know, if you know what I mean.” “It was overwhelming,” says the owner of that voice and the writer of those lyrics, Edie Brickell, via conference call. She’s remembering the runaway ride that immediately followed the release of her band New Bohemians’ double platinum 1988 debut, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, and its Top 10 single, “What I Am.” “Being so overwhelmed was part of the reason I eventually decided step away from music for a while,” she explains. “That, and I fell in love with a man [singer-songwriter Paul Simon], and for a while I felt like I had to choose between music and having a family life. But now the band is back together, so things have come full circle.” Success for Brickell and the Texas-born New Bohemians was certainly swift. Initially a ska outfit, the group had already been going for several months when, one night in 1985, Brickell, an aspiring but inexperienced singer, 84 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 11/18

went to see them play at the Dallas comedy club where they were doing a residency. Fortified by a shot of Jack Daniels, she asked if she could sit in with the group. “She just went up there and started improvising, and she was so great,” says guitarist Kenny Withrow, who, like Brickell and several of the band’s other members, were students at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts, an area magnet school. “I wasn’t in the band yet [Withrow would soon replace founding guitarist Eric Presswood], but after the show I told those guys if they didn’t ask her to join their band I was gonna ask her to join mine.” Those guys, however, were way ahead of him, quickly welcoming Brickell into the fold. Brickell was born in 1966 in suburban Oak Park, Texas. Her father, Eddie Brickell, was a professional bowler who played for the National Bowling League-affiliated Dallas Broncos; her mother, whose birth name is Larry, was an office receptionist. Eddie and Larry’s tastes leaned toward R&B, soul, and country—Al Green, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin, Ike and Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, and Willie Nelson ruled the hi-fi—and Edie, the younger of their two daughters, loved what she heard. “I was always running around the house, singing,” she says. “When I was nine, my dad bought me a guitar and I started learning how to play. One day, he asked me to write him a song and I did. I was too shy to play it for him, though, so I

taped it in my bedroom on the little cassette recorder I had. It was kind of a George Jones thing: [singing] “As he walked through the door / of the liquor store…” [Laughs.] Soon after Brickell had joined, the New Bos, as they were affectionately known to their more dedicated Dallas followers, became a commanding draw on the local scene, packing the clubs in the city’s nightlife district of Deep Ellum and building a formidable fanbase among students from the University of North Texas in nearby Denton. A management deal led to better bookings and a contract with Geffen Records, who bumped Brickell’s name out in front of the band’s for the release of Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, which was swiftly and warmly embraced by college radio before landing at number four on the US mainstream chart. The group toured with Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Don Henley and performed on “Saturday Night Live.” It was on “SNL” that she met Simon, whose presence momentarily made the nervous singer forget her lines when she spied him watching from off set. (The couple began dating soon after and married in 1992; they have three children and live in western Connecticut.) After the 1990 follow-up, the critically praised Ghost of a Dog, didn’t match the commercial showing of its predecessor, the band decided to take a break, with the showbiz-pressurefatigued Brickell left questioning whether she even wanted to continue making music.

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The New Bohemians: John Bush, Kenny Withrow, Edie Brickell, Brandon Aly, Brad Houser.

Her uncertainty about playing and composing wouldn’t last, although the New Bohemians name would remain on ice for a while. “I was walking through the park one day, and I recognized the fact that I still went around singing all the time,” she recalls. “I started thinking, ‘Maybe music isn’t a fluke.’ I realized it was the business of music I wanted to leave, not the music part. I decided I wanted to start recording songs again, but not tour.” She made a critically lauded solo album, 1994’s Picture Perfect Morning, and an unreleased album with Withrow and New Bohemians percussionist John Bush under the name the Slip before the group’s ties with Geffen were severed. After another Brickell solo outing, 2003’s Volcano, New Bohemians briefly reunited for 2006’s Stranger Things but once again went on hiatus after their keyboardist, Carter Albrecht, tragically, was killed in an accidental shooting. As Brickell and Simon raised their children, she continued to keep busy writing and recording: In 2008, she made a one-off album with Harper Simon, Paul’s Simon’s son from his first marriage, as the Heavy Circles; her eponymous third album appeared in 2011, as did the first of two albums with the Gaddabouts, an old-timey project also featuring famed drummer Steve Gadd and guitarist Andy Fairweather-Low. The detour into old-time sounds took Brickell into another fruitful musical partnership, this one with banjo player (and comedy legend on the side) Steve Martin.

The pair wrote and recorded 2013’s sweet and earthy Love Has Come for You and toured that year with Martin’s band, the Steep Canyon Rangers. In 2015 they returned to the record racks with So Familiar and began developing “Bright Star,” a musical inspired by the songs on Love Has Come for You. In February 2016, after being workshopped at Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater in Poughkeepsie and premiering at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the production opened at New York’s Cort Theater and ran for 109 performances on Broadway before touring nationally. “I really loved the whole Broadway experience,” says Brickell, who contributed music, lyrics, and story to the play. “And, of course, I always adore working with Steve. So I’d love to do something like that again.” Right now, though, it isn’t Broadway that’s beckoning Brickell. It’s her old buddies in New Bohemians. The seeds of their latest reunion were sown last year, when Brickell, Withrow, Bush, and original bassist Brad Houser and drummer Brandon Aly reconvened for a run of benefit concerts to aid La Rondalla, an Oak Cliff music school for underserved students where Withrow taught. Sadly, the sold-out shows weren’t enough to save the school: In August, it closed due to lack of funds and the loss of a key benefactor. But, on a positive note, the experience resulted in Rocket, the group’s first album in 12 years. “Whenever we rehearse, we immediately start jamming and making up new songs—we

can’t help it,” Withrow explains. “So we came up with a few songs and decided to record a batch of them.” Launched last month via Verve Forecast Records, Rocket was produced by Kyle Crusham, who engineered Brickell’s 2011 self-titled album. “I never really felt like the producers on the other New Bohemians records captured the essence of the band, the energy,” Brickell says. “But Kenny did with this one. He made it pure magic.” Less stylistically structured than the band’s previous three records, the eclectic set bounces between the feels of smooth ’70s AM gold (“Trust”), Gap Band funk (“What Makes You Happy”), and buoyant resort-club reggae (“Singing in the Shower”). “I get bored listening to a genre-specific record,” says the singer. “We’re exposed to all these different sounds—how can you stick with one flavor?” With her husband recently announcing his retirement from touring and the couple’s eldest child off to college, Brickell is excited to be back on the road and back in the studio with her bandmates. “It takes a serious mind to be devoted to a relationship, and there’s definitely a special relationship between everybody in this band that comes out in the music,” she says. “Life has funneled all of us back into this position. So right now we’re all looking forward to seeing what the next 10, or however many, years will bring.” Edie Brickell and New Bohemians will perform at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on November 10 at 8pm. Bardavon.org. 11/18 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 87

arts q&a

On the Bus A TALK WITH GARY SHTEYNGART ABOUT HIS LATEST NOVEL, LAKE SUCCESS

ary Shteyngart has a knack for capturing the sense of dislocation and loss associated with the immigrant experience, displayed in novels like The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002), Absurdistan (2006), and most poignantly in his 2014 hilarious memoir Little Failure. Born into Jewish family in Leningrad, the former Soviet Union, Shteyngart moved to Queens with his parents at the age of 7, experiencing what might be charitably described as a rocky start to his new life in the US. Lake Success (Random House, 2018), Shteyngart’s latest novel, is a tragicomedy about hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen, who abandons his career and family for a cross-country bus ride to rediscover himself. Think of it as a dystopian On the Road for the Trump era, written by one our greatest satirists at a time when satire itself may be past its prime. Shteyngart and his family split their time between an apartment in Manhattan and a house in northern Dutchess County. —Brian K. Mahoney

Brian K. Mahoney: You’ve written about the Hudson Valley in your work a number of times. The first time I noticed it was when you namechecked Stockade Tavern in a New Yorker piece. How did you first come to know the Hudson Valley? Gary Shtyengart: Does Ellenville count as the Hudson Valley? BKM: It sure does. GS: Yeah, then for sure it was, we had a dacha, which is a Russian bungalow. Every summer, we’d go up there. It ended up having a chapter or so in my memoir, Little Failure. We spent a lot of time there, and it was also the happiest time of the year. Getting away from school is always happy for a kid. It was happy also because it was a Russian bungalow colony, and I felt really out of place. I didn’t speak English at first. In this bungalow colony, everybody spoke Russian. All the kids spoke Russian with me, so I felt like I really belonged. It was also really, really beautiful. My whole life, I have this idea of having a place somewhere upstate. Of course, I ended upon the other side of the river. It’s just my favorite place in the world. I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful than the Mid-Hudson Valley.

“Satire, in some ways, is the confluence of evil and stupidity.”

BKM: I’ve seen your photos on Instagram documenting Overlook and Huckleberry Point, and other spots. You’ve taken to the natural world.

GS: Yeah no. I go on a lot of, and to say hikes may be overstating it, but a lot of walks/possible hikes. Almost every week I do something like that. There’s just so many places. I love hiking around Lake Taghkanic and Poet’s Walk, Mills Mansion, Overlook. The list goes on and on.

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BKM: What’s a good day for you when you’re upstate? GS: A good day is waking up around nine or 10, taking it easy, then going for a very long swim in the pool, for like an hour or even longer after lunch, and a little bit of work. Then when it gets a little bit cooler, going for a very long hike. The swim and the hike, one can replace the other. Getting in a good hike/walk and a good swim, you really feel great. People say I look much better in the summer because I’m able to do all that. When I’m in the city, I look like crap. BKM: Lake Success is a bit of a departure from your previous books. GS: When I was writing Little Failure, the idea was that I would write to such an extent about my past and my childhood, that for my next book, I wouldn’t be able to write about Soviet Russian, Jewish immigrants. Barry Cohen is not Russian, but he is Jewish, so baby steps. For me, the only way I could do that departure is to get rid of all the material that I could in Little Failure, which is why there’s that progression in Little Failure and Lake Success. BKM: Little Failure was an exorcism in a way? GS: In a way, or a fire sale if you will, yeah. BKM: Okay, sure. That’s a better metaphor. Lake Success is more naturalistic in tone and less satirical than your previous books. GS: I wanted to do something more realistic. I think in some ways, it’s hard to write about the times we live in without doing satire because they’re such satirical times, but on the other end, if you look at it, what’s happening politically is pure satire. Everything is an exaggeration. Satire, in some ways, is the confluence of evil and stupidity. This is where we are. I think it’s very hard for me to outdo what’s on CNN. For me, writing more naturalistically is a different approach to understanding where we are right now, because the book is set in 2016. It’s not historical fiction, but it almost feels like historical fiction, because so much of it takes place before Trump. BKM: Sure. There are loads of historical markers that are very contemporaneous. Then let’s talk a bit about Barry Cohen. You’ve always had lovable misfits as protagonists in your previous books. But Barry, boy is he tough to like. GS: He’s tough to like. Whenever I would tell people I’m writing about a hedge fund guy, they’d be like, “Oh my god, how am I going to get into this book?” I’ve written likable characters, but I want to write a book about a hedge fund guy, and I wanted him not to be redeemed, but I wanted the reader to ask, “Is redemption possible?” It’s a huge challenge for me. I don’t know if I pulled it off or not, but I really wanted to present a chance for myself, so that the created character would be very difficult to redeem by the end of the book, then see how far I can get with it. BKM: One of the central conceits of the story is that Barry leaves his comfortable life and gets on a Greyhound bus. In the acknowledgements of the book, you thank Greyhound from ferrying you from one coast to the other. You actually road coast-tocoast on a bus?

GS: Yeah, I did it. I did it. I started out in June, and ended about September in 2016. I went home at a number of points during the trip. BKM: What was that like for you? GS: It’s less horrifying than you would imagine, although I grew up in the Soviet Union, so my horror level is pretty high. It’s interesting that the whole premise now of Greyhound is we have power outlets. The whole idea is you plug in your phone and you zone out of the Greyhound experience. It’s all about the power outlet. You get on the Greyhound and the first thing the driver will say is, “Everybody needs to check their power outlet.” Everyone plugs in their phone and see if the phone works. He’s like, “If it doesn’t work, you have to change your seat,” or something like that. It’s a funny kind of conceit, is that you plug into the electronic world so much, you don’t notice you’re in a bus where the bathroom really stinks. BKM: Can electronics overcome Greyhound bathrooms, that’s the question. GS: Yeah. You learned really quickly to sit as far away from the bathroom as possible, so you sit up front. I have to say, that in terms of understanding America, in terms of getting a good idea of what the center’s like, nothing beats the Greyhound. You leave the coast behind, if you take a crosscountry trip you do. You see what things are. During this trip, I kept meeting people. The bus trip was primarily through the South. Throughout the trip, people would tell me, “Hilary’s not going to win.” It was the first time I’d ever heard anything like that. People would say, “Well, she’s not going to win. She’s going to lose Ohio and Pennsylvania,” which I thought was ridiculous. I thought Ohio perhaps, but Pennsylvania, come on. That was crazy. These people seemed to know more than I did about the state of the country. It was a real shock. So much of what happens in Lake Success is journalistic in nature. The white supremacists that Barry meets in Louisiana, that really happened. That was pretty much the dialogue that I heard. All this stuff is out there. Again, I knew there were white supremacists in the country, but what was different I think was that, during the first summer of Trump, they were able to talk so loudly about how they felt on a bus comprised mostly of African American passengers. BKM: On the bus trip in the book, Barry witnesses and experiences drug use, sexual experimentation, and food insecurity, as well as meeting all kinds of people. You say your trip was journalistic, so I imagine you saw a lot of behavior like this on the bus. GS: Yeah. We all know this stuff is out there. It’s not a surprise exactly, but it’s still interesting to see it up close, and sometimes shocking to see it up front. America’s a strange country. America’s a rich country, but there’s two kinds of rich. There’s rich where you average it out, so many markers of convergence running around that it becomes true per capita. The mean seems like it’s up there, but we also have a lot of very poor people. I mean poor by almost any standard imaginable. We not only are not addressing the issue, it’s getting worse and worse.

In a way, the existence of people like Barry Cohen is what leads us to the kind of inequality that then leads us down the path to all kinds of horrible other things as well. The precariousness of people’s lives allows them to stand up and voice the horrible things that they never voiced before. There’s a feeling I think among people that the whole country is going off the rails in some ways. Many people think that their children aren’t going to do any better than they are, but there’s a feeling I think that we live in a kind of plutocracy or kleptocracy where people like Barry Cohen, who was on the run from the SEC, are the ones that hold the cards. Not to give away to the reader what happens at the end, but in the end, he gets a slap on the wrist. I think that’s what does happen, and that’s almost what people expect. They live in a country where all the rules are different for wealthier people than they are for people on the Greyhounds. BKM: You fled the Soviet Union with your parents when you were a kid. What’s it like watching your adopted country possibly falling under the sphere of Russian influence? GS: It’s insane. It’s insane. I always thought after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that things would go quite in the opposite direction, that Russia would try to adapt some of America’s civil society, democracy, free market, etc., but what happened was that America adapted to Russia, the kleptocracy, authoritarianism, hatred of the media, independent media. Now, with Fox News, we have essentially a state channel, a channel that defends the state, produces lies on behalf of the state, or the one person who’s in charge of the state, Trump. It’s truly remarkable that it’s been a complete turnaround from what I expected. As a Russian American, how do I not address that in future novels? I think in future books that’s obviously a thing that’s going to come up. 11/18 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 89

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GO DEEPER AT ASHOKAN Nestled in the lush foothills of the Catskill Mountains, the Ashokan Center welcomes students and guests from around the world. Visitors flock to this peaceful place for its immersive Music & Dance Camps; events like the family-friendly Summer and Winter Hoot festivals; and school programs focusing on natural science, living history, music and the arts, team building, environmental responsibility, and outdoor recreation. It’s estimated that over 100,000 students have crafted a fire poker in the Center’s blacksmith shop, one of Ashokan’s unique offerings. This kind of hands-on, unplugged education is increasingly crucial—and increasingly rare. In a world overtaken by technology, climate crisis, and “nature deficit disorder,” Ashokan provides experiences that allow people of all ages to connect with each other, the planet, and themselves on a deeper level. Ten years ago, this thriving present was precariously uncertain. The campus, founded in 1967 by SUNY New Paltz, was set to be sold by the university, spelling an end to the magical nature center and its long-running music and education programs. But thankfully, a group of Ashokan advocates, including current president/CEO Jay Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, sprang into action to form the Ashokan Foundation. With help from the governor’s office, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, The Catskill Watershed Cooperation, and the Open Space Institute, the Foundation was able to preserve 385 idyllic acres, and build new, sustainable learning and lodging spaces, to create the Ashokan Center of today. The Ashokan Center will be celebrating its first decade as an independent nonprofit organization with a Harvest Gathering benefit, taking place on November 17 from 1 to 4pm at the center’s Olivebridge campus. Tickets are $75 per person. For tickets and information, call (845) 657-8333 or visit ashokancenter.org.

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music Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette After the Fall (ECM Records) In 1996, the esteemed jazz pianist Keith Jarrett was waylaid by chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), prompting serious concern he might never be able to play again. After a period of intense experimental therapy, Jarrett and his longtime associates in the popularly known Standards Trio—the all-star Hudson Valley rhythm section of bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette—reconvened at Newark’s NJPAC in November 1998 for Jarrett’s return to live performance. Spoiler alert: It went superbly, and the result is this superlative two-CD document containing the nearly two-hour concert. If there’s a hint of hesitation in Jarrett’s solo during the opening measures of the first tune, “The Masquerade is Over,” the circumspection is over very quickly, as he lets fly a torrent of stirring invention. Jarrett’s playing on both discs suggests a continuous cascade as one theme subsumes another, somehow developing a precise articulation and flawlessly smooth legato simultaneously, whether skittering around the changes on Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple for the Apple” or sticking to the hairpin dismount from his solo on “Autumn Leaves.” Peacock’s upper register suffers some from a pinched, direct-to-the-board sound, though this doesn’t impact his own melodic ideas and solid, effortless swing. And DeJohnette is simply a marvel throughout, inscribing into every measure a fully committed artistry that is both supportive and strikingly provocative. Even without the poignant backstory, this recording is a commanding achievement by one of the preeminent piano trios in the history of jazz. Ecmrecords.com. —James Keepnews

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Composer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Lerner’s new album under the band name Rosine kicks off with “Walter,” at first featuring the Kingston-based musician’s jittery guitar finger-picking, putting it in the realm of new acoustic music.Then Carrie Bradley’s Eastern European-drenched violin comes soaring in, lending the tune the flavor of Minimalist avant-chamber music, before the former member of the Breeders goes full-fledged klezmer atop rock ’n’ roll drums. The rock beat then enters with electric bass as it subtly morphs into dub-reggae before a mysterious, angry-sounding vocal sample emerges, carrying the listener to the end. If this sounds like a wild, genre-hopping psychedelic trip, it is; but in the hands of Lerner—the longtime bassist of Poughkeepise-based Life in a Blender—it all goes by with perfect logic and beauty, setting the tone for the next dozen tunes on this stellar effort by a dazzling visionary. Ragandboneshop.com. —Seth Rogovoy

Tulula! is a very interesting five-member Ulster County project helmed by songwriter, singer, guitarist, and keyboardist (and Chronogram contributor) Jason Broome and featuring Bongos bassist Rob Norris. Their fun, sort-of-playful, catchy vocals make me imagine college rockers who, thankfully, aren’t getting unironically into the harmonies of the Grateful Dead over a bowl of mixed-nuts arrangements ranging between math rock and indie rock. Seriously, some instrumental sections almost sound like Karate or Slint, if they’d been aimed more at the jam-band crowd. “Alimony” is like a breakup soundtrack to an Edward Gorey illustration. “Bootstraps” also stands out, showcasing Tulula!’s power to create songs that feel like fully composed short stories. Violin and cello enhance the excellent songwriting throughout the album. Pair with absinthe or a little green grass and you’ll be all set. Facebook.com/tululamusic. —Morgan Y. Evans

Chapter 10, in which the Woods get winsome. One Drop of Truth is chock-full of singalong choruses, many of them grinningly happy, in tone if not always in lyric. Rhythmically—thanks in large part to Jano Rix’s always brilliant sticksmanship—the Brothers have become frighteningly tight, often sounding like a dreamy mix of the Band and the Violent Femmes. But the songs have rarely felt this up. Put the blues in a blender with a couple “Have a Nice Day” buttons, and you’ll get the freaky, nutritious smoothie that is Truth. “Sparkling Wine” cops a “Walk on The Wild Side” bass slide to open, but then gets soggy in the second line—in a righteous way. Similarly, “Happiness Jones” is all bright eyes and infectious groove, while “Sky High” makes good on the hippie promise of its title. More drops, please. Thewoodbros. com. —Michael Eck

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Tuck your pants into your socks. Wear chemical repellents. Avoid wooded, overgrown areas. Check yourself after being outdoors. Anyone living in the Hudson Valley has heard this advice countless times. In her meticulously researched book, Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change, Mary Beth Pfeiffer argues that tick prevention is just one piece of the complex Lyme disease puzzle. Pfeiffer, an award-winning investigative reporter who worked at the Poughkeepsie Journal for three decades, began reporting on Lyme disease in 2012. Rife with scientific, medical, and environmental intricacies, her book lays out three major problems: climate change’s exacerbation of tick-borne illness; the lack of medical consensus surrounding Lyme; and the disease’s human toll. In additional to being terrifying, Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme bacterium, is an evolutionary marvel that has found ways to survive and thrive in nature and the human body over millennia. It avoids diagnostic blood tests, breaks through the blood-brain barrier, and affects joints, memory, and the nervous system. Infected ticks are also more likely to outlive their uninfected counterparts for various reasons from increased body fat to more effective food searching. Pfeiffer outlines the distressing fact that the medical community is at odds about nearly every aspect of Lyme disease. On one side is the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Center for Disease Control, which contend that Lyme disease can be cured with a single course of antibiotics—and that “chronic Lyme” does not exist. On the other side of the divide are ill patients, some “marginalized but well-intentioned” doctors, and researchers who disagree. The two sides differ on everything from testing to diagnosis and treatment of the disease—and their unwillingness to listen to each other has only served to harm the afflicted. Pfeiffer writes that in her five years of reporting on Lyme disease that she has “found a medical landscape that is breathtakingly controversial and, in many ways, dysfunctional, one characterized less by warring sides than by parallel universes.” Throughout the book, Pfeiffer proves herself to be a wonderfully capable writer who is able to render science and biology beautifully. About the Borrelia pathogen, she writes: “[It’s] content to nestle in a dirt-covered tick that has not fed for months, to lay low in the knee of a mutt or a thoroughbred, or to swim in the heart or brain of a billionaire.” Pfeiffer laces the chapters with stories of those suffering from Lyme or tick-borne illness, like the tale of Barbara Pronk, the woman who posted her suicide note to a Lyme website and helped push the Dutch parliament to address Lyme disease. Lyme disease may be difficult to tackle but Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change warns of the dangers if we don’t try. Due to global warming, ticks are less dormant, they travel further, and infect more people in woods, suburbs, and cities. Eventually we will reach a breaking point in both medical and human costs—and we can only hope it’s not too late. —Carolyn Quimby

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Anderson, a Beacon resident and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, has written a somewhat unclassifiable book about the capital of Oklahoma. Here’s the subtitle: “The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis.” Part history, part urban studies primer, part sports reporting, part gonzo memoir, Boomtown is a trip into the weirdness born and bred in the middle of the prairie.

Ross, a Lakeville, Connecticut resident, sets her third novel in her home state, where a saga of five generations plays out on an ancestral estate, kicked off by a murder uncovered almost a century after it occurred. Bridey, a 16-year-old Irish housemaid who takes a job at Hollingwood, a sprawling country manor in 1908, is the center of this narrative meditation on love, betrayal, and the passage of time.

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BOOTLEGGER OF THE SOUL: THE LITERARY LEGACY OF WILLIAM KENNEDY Edited by Suzanne Lance and Paul Grondahl EXCELSIOR EDITIONS, $19.95, 2018

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy is best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world’s literary map alongside James Joyce’s Dublin, Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo, and William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Grondahl and Lance of the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany are the editors of this authoritative survey of Kennedy’s long career, replete with reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays on his work, as well as little-known work by the author himself.

GRAFFITI GIRLZ: PERFORMING FEMINISM IN THE HIP HOP DIASPORA Jessica Nydia Pabon-Colon NYU PRESS, $30, 2018

Pabon-Colon, an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at SUNY New Paltz, points her critical lens at female graffiti artists in a male-dominated subculture. Drawing on ethnographic accounts of more than 100 women in 23 countries, Graffiti Girlz examines the intersection of hip-hop, feminism, community network building, and urban belonging in an art form open to all comers while acknowledging its machismo origins.

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Oblong Books presents a reading by Ross at the White Hart Inn in Salisbury, Connecticut, on 11/6 at 6pm.

ALICE ISN’T DEAD

Joseph Fink

HARPER PERENNIAL, $19.99, 2018

The spooky third novel from by the “Welcome to the Night Vale” podcast creator and Dutchess County resident is a fast-paced horror thriller about Keisha, a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed dead—except for the fact that she keeps appearing in the background of news reports. Along the way, Keisha encounters gas station oracles, not-quite-human serial murderers, and a terrible secret hidden in American history (which, to be frank, is not that surprising). Fink reads at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck on 11/29 at 6pm.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE Matthew Farrell

THOMAS & MERCER, $24.95, 2018

When a mutilated body is found in a seedy Philadelphia motel, it’s anything but business as usual for forensics expert Liam Dwyer. The murdered woman turns out to be a former lover from a relationship that almost broke up his marriage. But there’s a bigger problem: Liam has no memory where he was or what he did the night of the murder. All evidence points to Liam, who enlists his homicide detective brother to help clear his name in this thriller from Matthew Farrell, a Peekskill native.

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poetry

EDITED BY Phillip X Levine

Fate Like a whisper you can’t hear, Like a gray cloud that never rains, It’s a decision unmade. Nothing to be heard, Nothing to be controlled, It comes and it goes. Like a mystery that can’t be solved, A book with an unpredictable end, Science with no answers. A word with no meaning, A song without a tune, An instrument that makes no sound. A stranger you don’t know, Is the future your friend Or your enemy?

I lost a friend and the poetry world lost a unique voice when Donald Lev passed away this September. Included below are poems by Donald and by his late wife, Enid Dame. Both are missed and remembered here. —phillip (from “Where Is the Woman”) This is a missing-Don letter. Here, I count the pills myself imagining you sitting across from me: your voice your face your hands opening a bottle, breaking the stillness of the morning. We talk of poetry or friends or shopping over bread cheese almond butter fresh blueberries in season.

What lies beyond now? You will never know.

Because food is a benediction because sharing food is a sacrament because shared language is a morning prayer because I miss the tabernacle in which our love increases,

Don’t Split

it is difficult to eat alone in this place of healing.

—Jahnvi Mundra (11 years)

hairs or infinitives—they’re equally sinister practices— persnickety, clock-like, tock-tickedy. Iconoclasts: to boldly break, to breakingly fall; all old and quixotic, antediluvian thoughts and ethics sclerotic; the world is full of eager comparatives, and every superlative is idiotic. Instinct says “look for needles in haystacks”; yes, temptation is the root of every creation, and human nature’s dare prods you to sin, to swear, to damnation’s snare (the trinity); I promise that in every agony there is epiphany, and in every split hair there is infinity; (infinity’s finicky); in every flinch or wince or wisp, in lip and lisp, and every pinch— to softly find the sorry source in every wretched syllable (silly you!—your Latin ought to stay invisible); so don’t cry, whatever you do, over spilled milk— the mortal coil or antique toil, the roughest silk— take care and take advice, rhyme not imperfectly, nor double negative, nor adverb, churlishly; because it’s in the details—the devil, I mean, is in every sip and trip, Freudian slip and treacherous snip, in minutiae and bloated verse, in adjectives (and even worse). They say you have to know the rules in order to break them. And you have to make mistakes in order to unmake them. And if you want to meet the devil, he’s a very ubiquitous fellow: the snip, the spark, the treble, the rough of every pebble. Beware the particulars of life (there’s the rub, the snare)— the devil’s not in everything, but hell is everywhere, bureaucratic fussiness, quibbling, fumbling, fastidiousness— and every detail a witless plunge, a thrust towards despair! Man and woman are obscene inventions (parthenogenesis) with more diabolical than godly intentions (nemo and nemesis); tears and stitches, breaking and mending—and all of their premises are only the glitches in human intending (ending or genesis); god or dog or dyslexic; the promise of heaven: just a daydream dose, and the threat of a devil (pervasive, kinetic) is only to stop you from looking too close. We live in a ludicrous tapestry; we invented gods to explain its weaving; we invented devils to explain its gore; the devil’s in every prepositional ending, but as per usual, it isn’t the devil you ought to look out for. —Lachlan Brooks

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—Enid Dame Shiva

They have rent all my garments. They make me sit upon the hard wet ground. They have sent their children away from me. They have crushed my mirrors. And they command me to mourn. I ought to rejoice in the commandment. And I do. I do. I have always loved you, my buried bride. As now I am commanded to do. I will always love you my beautiful one. As I am and am not commanded to do. —Donald Lev

Her Grace, The Moon I wonder if the moon and I are kindred. Will one stay empty while the other remains full? The other shines bright while I feel dull. I can grasp to nothing; I have no gravitational pull. —Meg Tohill

Street Poem, Kingston More buckles on her boots than I’ve worn in a lifetime. She takes her time wherever she goes. —Will Nixon

Autumn Haiku

Ode to “The Science of Selling Yourself Short”

Channeling Garfunkel

the campfire sparks back to life autumn stars drift

She feels pressured to like the smell of rain and wonders about those things the things that set her apart from everyone else—the people who like that country song which she just agrees to like when really she hates his voice and relates it to all things wrong with her. Like when she watches the news and sees a girl beaten debased ripped apart and wonders if she’s pretty enough to be raped and killed and those thoughts haunt her and distance her from society. It makes her remember how far Heaven is when she puts it into your GPS knowing God only gave her the address to Hell. She’s scared you’ll be mad at her and not because she sent you to Hell or because she thinks that’s where you belong but because she wasted your gas to get there. She’ll offer to pay for it but she won’t have cash or card so she’ll ask, “Can I Venmo you?” and then panic when you answer “Only if you like the smell of rain.”

You take a break from trying to like the vegetarian ravioli she whipped up at her place to say a trademarked name and turn another female off—probably two.

Injured Shadow

You think the next day after work in your shower, where you focus best that from seven years of living alone silence to you is silver— not a perfect gold, but close.

icy foliage sways in the gathering dusk late autumn daylight wanes an autumn breeze finds the last pine cone —Gary Hittmeyer Café 210 I miss our café days where we might stab each other’s ego, but before the night was over kiss the wounds. I have not thought of the naked heart since you. —Jean Tock Piano Keys Glew Never really knew I, had this spiritual glue, like I due. I really never Knew. It’s an invisible glue. A transparent mew; when blue, comes through. You. Like smooth keys do; tinkling too, a melody’s coo. I really never knew, but it comes through. Few. A Sifting hue waves of true. Never really knew, it’s an invisible glue, comes through, tinkling too, like a melody’s coo. Spiritual…it’s true. —A. Carlzon

Gravity To you I’m the moon. To me you’re the sun. To our child we rotate, for that is the only thing about us we still love. —Michaela Brannigan

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In nakedness of life moves this male shadow worn out dark clothes, ill fitted in distress, holes in his socks, stretches, shows up in your small neighborhood, embarrassed, walks pastime naked with a limb in open landscape spacedamn those worn out black stockings. He bends down prays for dawn, bright sun. —Michael Lee Johnson 3 a.m. Paint her body with the knowledge you hold on your tongue —Meagan Towler A Red Scarf Je vais à l’amour. —Isadora Duncan I wanted to be a cardinal, landing on the white shoulders of a lady. I never wanted to be a slash of blood or a ghost gathering pieces of a heart. But when she brought me on stage, I got the taste of a thunderous moment. It seemed like a kind of destiny. It seemed like I made a pact with a silent assassin. That I was summoned somehow to always be with her. —Laurie Byro

Celebration of Life It was the summer of poached eggs. Slotted spoon, vinegar Burnt toast Jarring memories Dangling like deflated balloons in the branches of a tree. —Megan Coder

“I like background noise,” she protests between bites. You mention the crickets the window fan, the creaking of old wood in her Victorian and the voice that you’re using for no apparent good. “Not on the table, then,” she states in singular compromise though the hockey puck’s still quiet— only listening, recording words without her innocent blue light.

Silence is waiting for an ambush at dawn— war paint donned; no prisoners. Silence is an Irish goodbye when it’s warranted. Silence is a humbled contrarian biting his tongue ‘til it bleeds. Silence is the comfort of purging your apartment and tossing out mementos with no one there to see you cry. Silence is the black towel you lay out to protect the sheets when necessary for modified passion in the moment. Silence is what makes you appreciate the least important fingers on your most important hand. Silence is giving keys to your lover yet receiving none in return. Silence is the slight hangover caused by a splash of weekday wine. Silence is the peace that calms you after labor in the heat and in the dirt and alongside those who loathe you. Silence is what you hear at Union meetings when you know better than to voice your concerns. Silence is the list of heartaches you don’t write. Silence is when it ends as it should instead of well. Silence is a friend who is never inconsistent. The same applies to family since silence knows your blood. —Mike Vahsen

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Puddles Pity Party The sad clown with the golden throat who brought down on the house on “America’s Got Talent” in 2017 with his cover of Sia’s “Chandelier” brings his repertoire of captivating and melodramatic covers to Bardavon in Poughkeepsie on November 18. Bardavon.org

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November 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 A Note To Readers On The Calendar Listings, Or Lack Thereof

Following the guiding principle of our redesign—telling more stories, better—we’ve done what at one time seemed unthinkable: We’ve taken out the calendar listings out of the print edition. For many readers, Chronogram is the when and where for events they care about. However, because of our monthly publication schedule, the print calendar is not all-inclusive, and though edited, doesn’t offer much more than the basic facts. We’ve decided to emphasize curation in print and comprehensiveness online. So, no more calendar listings in the print edition. We’ve shifted the calendar listings completely to our website, where it can be comprehensive, searchable, paired with audio/video, and user-generated. Apologies to anyone looking for calendar listings in print. I invite you to visit Chronogram.com/events and browse or search the 2,000 events in our events database. As you’ll see in the pages that follow, we have preserved and expanded our events previews, doubling the events receiving feature treatment in the print version while also achieving what we believe is a better-looking magazine. —Brian K. Mahoney

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Alicia ayo Ohs and Andrew Schneider performing in NERVOUS/SYSTEM. Photo by Andrew Schneider.

Obie-winning performer, writer, and interactiveelectronics artist Andrew Schneider’s work examines the ever-blurring boundaries between technology and humanity. His newest production, “NERVOUS/SYSTEM,” is the third prong of a triptych that includes “YOUARENOWHERE” (2016) and “AFTER” (2018). Schneider is joined by collaborators Lindsay Head, Antonio Irizarry, Kedian Keohan, Peter Musante, Alicia ayo Ohs, Ashley Marie Ortiz, Jamie Roach, and T. L. Thompson at Lumberyard this month as part of the facility’s residency partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Below, Schneider answered some questions about his artistic approach. —Peter Aaron What’s your background? What led you to your multimedia hybrid style? I grew up in Milwaukee. My parents got a VHS camcorder when I was about five or six. I played with it all the time, making videos of my friends, and I realized I could create whole worlds using the parameters of that video camera. Later, I was going to go to school for black and white photography and I decided to study theater instead. I ended up combining photography with performance, which led to video creeping into my shows. I moved to New York and got internships with [seminal experimental theater companies] the Wooster Group and the Builders Association and learned how to tell stories over space and time—not just with humans, but also with recordings, visuals, and lights.

How did your whole wrenching-the-soul-fromthe-maw-of-machinery aesthetic start? I think that started when an ex of mine texted me to say, “I love you.” I thought that heralded the collapse of society. I was, like, “What are we doing, writing love notes with our cell phones?” I applied to grad to school for interactive electronics to study that idea from the inside out, and then I started coming up with ways to map machinery, sound, light, and video to human gesture. That became an accurate representation of what was in my mind. As if I could stick the audio cables into my brain and express myself.

Man and Machine ANDREW SCHNEIDER’S NERVOUS/SYSTEM AT LUMBERYARD November 3 at 7pm, November 4 at 2pm Tickets $45 and up Lumberyard.org

Your method is an onslaught of the senses. What’s the idea behind that approach? The idea is to overstimulate, overstimulate, overstimulate—so that I can then take all that away, and you’ll be left with a simple idea that you can look at in a new way. Speaking of feeling overwhelmed, how would you say the current state of the world has shaped your work? We [Schneider and his collaborators] don’t necessarily make political work. But in working on this piece, every day I’ve been thinking about the power of distraction. People are very easy to control when they’re fighting amongst themselves. What do you most hope people take away from the experience of seeing "NERVOUS/ SYSTEM"? I hope that people take away more questions than answers. I hope they feel change inside and don’t know why.

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Sri Dharma Mittra teaches advanced Yoga class at 2017 Ahimsa. Photo by Clear Lotus.

Most of us these days are familiar with big music festivals—Coachella, Bonnaroo, and the like. Yet, what about something geared more toward the modern spiritual seeker, or perhaps the yoga enthusiast—or both, for that matter? Does such an event exist? Indeed, it does! Ahimsa Music Festival is such a scene. Started by music industry veteran Bernie Walters and his yoga teacher wife Katherine Walters, Ahimsa Yoga & Music Festival succeeds in gathering spiritually uplifting musicians and yoga teachers under one roof to share their gifts. Inspired by his wife, Walters started Om Planet Music Management, representing artists singing kirtan and spiritual music. This led to the creation of the festival. The name of the festival, Ahimsa, is the yogic principle of nonviolence toward all living things. The Ahimsa Yoga & Music Festival, which started six years ago as a one-day event, has grown into a three-day long festival. “We’ve been fortunate to have great turnouts and smooth operations for the past five years,” says Walters. Hosted in the bucolic setting of the Hunter Mountain lodge, the changing of the seasons and

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colorful falling leaves serve as a beautiful backdrop for this event. “Everyone seems to leave feeling connected, rejuvenated and inspired every year,” says Walters. No surprise, given the broad array of workshops available to attendees, from yoga (Kundalini, Bhakti, Vinyasa, Hatha, and more) to meditation to Ayurveda to hoop dancing. Evening events such as a drum circle and a DJ dance party are also on the menu for this spirit-lifting shindig. “We are trying to create an event that demonstrates how we can all compassionately interact,” says Walters. If you have attended a yoga class in this decade you may have heard one or more of the artists perfroming at Ahimsa on your instructor’s playlist. This fusion festival of rhythm, movement, and healing arts will feature 12 main musical acts and 80 workshops with 40 different presenters including yoga music superstars like Krishna Das, Wah, and MC Yogi.

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Called the first rock musical to “truly rock” by Rolling Stone, the Obie- and Tony-winning “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” tells the tale of genderqueer rock singer Hedwig Robinson and her journey of finding love “by looking within.” The raucous show runs at the Center for the Performing Arts at Rhinebeck from November 2-10. Fridays at 8pm; Saturdays at 7:30pm and 10pm. $25, $27. Centerforperformingarts.org

Festivals

Basilica Farm & Flea

Every fall, just in time for thoughtful holiday shopping, Farm & Flea takes over Basilica Hudson for the third weekend of November. This “antidote to big box Black Friday” fills the former foundry’s 10,000 square feet with dozens of independent farmers, makers, designers, artisans, and vendors offering handmade and vintage goods and art and locally sourced agricultural products. November 23 (12-7pm), 24, and 25 (10am6pm). Weekend pass: $5. Basilicahudson.org

Dance

Buglisi Dance Theater

Cofounded by Martha Graham Dance Company dancer and choreographer Joyce Buglisi, Buglisi Dance Theater is revered for its poignant, theatrical repertoire and its innovative multi-disciplinary collaborations, which combine a classical sensibility with intuitive creativity. The troupe, which has received the American Dance Guild Award for Artistic Excellence, comes to the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli on December 1 at 7pm for a rare regional performance. $30 (students and children are $10). Kaatsbaan.org

Theater

“The Face of It”

Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davidson’s Storyhorse Documentary Theater group will present “The Face of It,” a program of three new one-act documentary plays about “love at the edge of reason.” The stories, inspired by actual conversations with local Hudson Valley residents, will be brought to life at Hudson Hall on November 9 and 10 at 7pm and November 11 at 3pm via multimedia-infused readings. $25, $30. Hudsonhall.org

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Brian Reed in Woodstock, Alabama. Photo by Andrea Morales.

“S-Town” is the electrifying podcast that starts with a murder, morphs into a treasure hunt, and exposes the intimate secrets of John B. McLemore, the maze-making, tattoo-enthused antique clock restorer from Woodstock, Alabama. The story became wildly popular and was downloaded 16 million times the first week it was released, in March 2017. The skill behind this unconventional and gripping portrait of a misunderstood, Deep South genius garnered journalist Brian Reed a Peabody Award, and is as addictive as it is unforgettable. What Reed and the “This American Life” team developed when making “S-Town” was a fresh take on audio reporting: a biography constructed in the form of a novel, complete with its stylistic flourishes—creative nonfiction for the podcast set. On November 10 at 7:30pm, Reed will appear at Bard’s Fisher Center for the event “Creating ‘S-Town’: A New Way to Tell A Story.” Reed will talk about creating the podcast and play previously unheard audio that didn’t make the final cut. Tickets are $25-$50. Fishercenter.bard.edu. —Hallie Newton What did you expect when you started “S-Town” and how were those expectations met or not met? I didn’t have a ton of expectations, more just a curiosity about John [McLemore]. It was all a starting point. It’s helpful not to have expectations. It’s helpful to have theories, perhaps.

What are signifiers that something might be worth researching? How do you know when a story is special? For “This American Life,” we have specific criteria. We look for stories about interesting situations. Revelation. Surprise. I think all good stories explore universal ideas that are bigger than the topic at hand. We are interested in stories that highlight human moments. Moments that unfold and speak to something larger. One of the main criteria is that someone is interesting to listen to. If you don’t have a natural storyteller, some stories begin to be a challenge. The podcast is full of twists and turns. How did you maintain the element of surprise while keeping true to this factual story? A lot of these twists and turns were true to life. I was surprised as a reporter, and I shared the surprise with the listeners. And then, yeah, in structuring a story, there’s thought behind how you reveal information. We’re always keeping an eye on how to make that meaningful. What are some things you learned from John B. McLemore? I learned to appreciate small moments more. I learned to actually get mad at things that are wrong in the world. To maintain the ability to feel outrage. It’s easy to lose that, given the various problems in the world. It can drag you down. He really felt the pain of people who are hurting in the world. That was unique about him. 11/18 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 105

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The number of vegans in American has skyrocketed by 600 percent over the last three years. In 2017, the Hudson Valley Vegfest was launched to give voice to this growing population and to showcase the world of vegan food and conscious living. Sponsored by the Institute for Animal Happiness, the festival returns to the Gold’s Gym in Poughkeepsie on November 3 and 4 and will feature over 80 holistic vendors, chefs, food producers, food activists, and speakers such as Dr. Milton Mills from the film What the Health and published MMA fighter Omowale Adewale. $10. Hvvegfest.org.

Film

Newburgh: Beauty & Tragedy

Of all the large Hudson Valley cities, Newburgh has had the farthest distance to go, in terms of its renewal. Yet, with its rebirth seemingly finally here, it’s also clear how much the town has to offer. Dmitri Kasterine’s new film Newburgh: Beauty and Tragedy, which will screen at the city’s Atlas Studios on November 3 at 6pm, gives voice to Newburghers fearful of being squeezed out during the transformation. Free. Atlasnewburgh.com.

Food & Drink

Peripheral Wine Festival

Launched last year by award-winning Hudson-based chef and restaurateur Zak Pelaccio (Fish & Game), the Peripheral Wine Festival returns to his Warren Street bistro Backbar on November 3 from 1 to 5pm. Focusing on natural wines, the event brings together esteemed vintners from around the world to pair their wares with fare from regional restaurants and local live music. Attendees can order their favorite wines to take home. $35-$45. Peripheralwine.com

Music

Arlo Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant Back by Popular Demand

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving season without Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre” on the radio. The 1967 countercultural classic chronicles the true story of Guthrie’s 1965 Thanksgiving Day arrest for illegally dumping garbage in Western Massachusetts and inspired a 1969 movie. On November 17 at 8pm, the singer returns to the scene of the crime for this intimate evening at the Mahawie Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington. $29-$79. Mahaiwe.org

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Damien Hirst, Death Is Irrelevant (detail), 2000

“Some collectors will go into a studio and they’ll buy everything by an artist. We’ve never done that. It always had to be our favorite piece,” explains art collector Livia Straus. Celebrating its 15th anniversary, the Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art in Peekskill has changed its name to the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art (HVMoCA). Also, for the first time, the museum presents an exhibition drawn from the private collection of its founders, Marc and Livia Straus. “Death Is Irrelevant” surveys figurative sculpture over a 40-year period, with artists from 15 countries. The overview was curated by Tim Hawkinson and Ken Tan. It’s a spare show, arranged in a maze, with each sculpture commanding a little realm of white space. It’s almost like meeting a series of eccentric strangers, each in her own room. Pawel Althamer’s The Power of Now depicts a person in a welder’s mask—probably a man—bent over in anguish on a whitewashed park bench. The soundtrack is a talk by Eckhart Tolle, the German self-help guru and author of The Power of Now. Tolle’s idea is to “be in the moment,” but the nameless protagonist seems to find this moment excruciating. What good is New Age philosophy to a guy who works in a factory? As in many of the works in “Death Is Irrelevant,” wit, philosophy, and deep emotion are intertwined. Mother by Kiki Smith is the torso of a woman with milk pouring from her breasts and long hair

flowing down her shoulders. Both the milk and the hair are paper; Mother is papier-mache. The delicacy of the material heightens the tenderness of the work. The nameless mother holds her breasts in her hands. Death Is Irrelevant is the title of a stunning sculpture by Damien Hirst consisting of a skeleton he purchased at a curio shop in London “crucified” on two perpendicular planes of glass. One glass wall bisects the bones along the midline; the other is at the level of the arms. The skeleton’s feet are crossed, as in most artistic renderings of Jesus. Floating above the eye sockets are two pingpong balls painted like eyeballs, held aloft by two streams of compressed air. A reddish discoloration on the rib cage suggests the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Hirst’s sculpture presents Jesus’s sacrifice in quite literal terms. A human being died to create this art installation. It’s hard to imagine anyone liking all these sculptures. Some are disquieting, even nightmarish. This is art that provokes disagreement, debate and conversation. Some of it makes you LOL, as the teenagers say. My favorite piece is Patricia Piccinini’s Undivided, in which a lifelike six-year-old sleeps in a bed, with a grotesque troll-like creature hugging him from behind—the same sort of monster that usually terrifies a six-year-old boy. Maybe our demons are also our protectors. —Sparrow

“Death Is Irrelevant” will remain at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art in Peekskill until August 2, 2019. Hudsonvalleymoca.org.

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Stephanie Anderson's Marathon, a watercolor graphite and colored pencil illustration, is part of Berkshire Botanical Garden's exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ecophilia,â&#x20AC;? on display through November 21.

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exhibits William Bradford (American, 1823–1892), Between the Iceberg and Field Ice, from The Arctic Regions, 1869. Albumen print, 19 7/16 x 24 7/16 in. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA: Museum purchase, Joseph O. Eaton Fund (77.27) From "Extreme Nature!" at the Clark Art Institute.

Cross Contemporary Art Melinda Stickney-Gibson and Jen Dragon curate “Of This,” an installation of sculptures from the past decade by Millicent Young. Using horsehair, lead, string, wood, wax, and paper, Young’s work is an investigation of light and space at its most elemental, layering luminosity amid dreamlike shadows. Young’s pieces hew to no discernable style—ranging from dangling hair assemblages to Rorschach-type blotches on paper—yet they are unmistakably hers. November 3-December 9. Hudson Hall Architect and photographer Scott Benedict spent eight years documenting the buildings of renowned architect Louis I. Kahn. “Kahnscious: Photographing Architecture” is the culmination of Benedict's odyssey through inspiration, delusion, exhaustion, and exhilaration at his attempt to express the immaterial aspects of Kahn’s architecture through photography. On November 17, Benedict will lead a tour of the show at 2pm, followed by a screening of Nathanial Kahn’s film My Architect: A Son’s Journey at 3pm. Through January 20. Wired Gallery Surrealist painter Marc Chagall lived and worked in High Falls between 1946 and 1948 with his lover Virginia Haggard—an artist in her own right—and their daughter Jean. Tina Barry has written a series of prose-poems imagining the inner life of the mother and daughter. For “The Virginia Project,” Barry collaborated with 14 female artists—including Amy Talutto and Giselle Potter among others—who pair her poems with visual work. Through November 27.

Frances Lehman-Loeb Art Center Patricia Phagan has curated “Past Time: Geology in European and American Art,” an interdisciplinary exhibition that weaves art and science in a broad display of artwork by European and American artists from the 1770s to the 1890s who were engaged with a new scientific investigation of the earth’s crust. The exhibition features 49 works of art by leading artists of the period—Asher B. Durand, Frederic Church, J. M. W. Turner—and numerous samples of natural specimens, including red sandstone from Petra, Jordan, and basalt from the Palisades of New Jersey. Through December 9. Thomas Cole Historic Site “Spectrum.” The exhibition is part of the ongoing series “Open House: Contemporary Art in Conversation with Cole” and is made up of 30 installations by 11 contemporary artists who examine color in relation to smell, sight, and taste, as well as music, emotion, science, abstraction, and the natural world. Through November 18. Olana State Historic Site Frederic Church was a great collector and a lover of all things Middle Eastern, as the architecture of his grand estate Olana reflects. The exhibition “Costume & Custom: Middle Eastern Threads at Olana” is the first time that the costumes Church collected on his 1867-68 Middle Eastern journey have been thoroughly identified and exhibited in his Persian-inspired home, alongside drawings, sketches and paintings inspired by his travels. Through November 25.

Berkshire Museum The centerpiece of glass master Josh Simpson’s “Galactic Landscapes” show is an original orrery—a moving, mechanical model of the solar system—that incorporates Simpson’s glass spheres as the sun, the planets, and their moons. The show also features 30 of Simpson’s imaginative Planets—solid glass spheres that suggest distant worlds, ranging in size from that of a golf ball to a basketball. Through January 6. bluecashew Kitchen Homestead Despite the fact that he is not giving any interviews until the feature film about his life, Welcome to Marwen, starring Steve Carell, is released on December 21, Mark Hogancamp is exhibiting his Marwencol photographs in Kingston this month. “Hogancamp’s World” is a survey of the World War II-era doll narrative that the artist has created following a traumatic brain injury. Part historical tableaux, part personal fantasy, Hogancamp’s photographs are compelling documents of a fully realized alternate universe. Through November 17. Clark Art Institute From an early photograph of Yosemite by Edward Muybridge to a typically volatile work by J. M. W. Turner of the Scottish peak of Ben Arthur, “Extreme Nature!” explores how nature’s edges—remote, fantastical, and unpredictable— permeated artistic imagery throughout the nineteenth century in prints, drawings, and photographs. Through February 3.

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ACRYLIC STRIATIONS When you work in an artistic medium for over half a century, you get to know its tricks, traps, and temperament intimately. Each new piece becomes an ever-finer exploration of nuance. Beacon-based artist Stanley Lindwasser’s latest acrylics paintings are detailed examinations of the infinite capacity of color. Each painting in this series begins with lines of color running in one direction across the canvas. Lindwasser compares this body of work to the natural striations found in layers of clouds or rock. Beginning with a single tube of paint, Lindwasser’s pieces evolve naturally, as he responds to the density, viscosity, and impact of colors on one another. “Anything you do affects what you do afterward. It’s all provisional, and it’s all relative,” he says. Lindwasser’s painterly style belies a meticulous yet dynamic preoccupation with texture, the brushstrokes inviting viewers to peek behind the curtain. “When you are working just with paint on canvas, you are naked, in effect,” Lindwasser says. “Whether I’m changing color or working color on top of color, all of it comes through, kind of like a palimpsest.” Some of the lines in this series are created by transitions between different colors or layers of a color, while other areas are marked by changes in texture across a single color. The gestalt evokes scenes in nature—sunsets, waterways, landscapes barren and lush. “I’m not trying to do representation or get away from it,” Lindwasser says. “I’m trying to extract a degree of emotion and color possibilities from paint.” The paintings ultimately affect a deep sense of balance and dimensionality. “In the same way that flowers grow or nautiluses grow, the process essentially becomes a fairly straightforward algorithm,” he says. “And then, of course, there are nice accidents.” “Stanley Lindwasser 2018” will be on display at Oak Vino Wine Bar in Beacon from November 10–January 2019. The opening reception is on November 10, from 6–9pm. Stanleylindwasser.com.

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A detail of an installation image of "The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004)," on view through December 14 at the Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Photo by Chris Kendall. Spencer Sweeney (in collaboration with Alex Bag), Tron, 2001, video and arcade game case, 70 x 36 x 25 in. John Waters, Campaign Button, 2004, latex paint on steel, plywood, Masonite and epoxy, 59 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.

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“Nina Lipkowitz: Battle Fatigue.” November 2-25. Opening reception November 3, 2pm-6pm.

“High Contrast: Culture Confronts Chaos.” Organized by the collective In_Question, 28 artists address social, political, and environmental issues. Through November 28.

“The Earth from Above.” Recent wax and oil paintings by Joy Wolf. Through March 30.

510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 737 ALBANY-SHAKER ROAD, ALBANY

“Landmark.” Featuring 10 contemporary visual artists and 7 writers responding to the natural world. Through February 25.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY

22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK “Fall Salon”. Through December 16.

ALBERT WISNER PUBLIC LIBRARY MCFARLAND DRIVE, WARWICK

“Hazda: The Roots of Equality.” Jon Cox, Katrin Redfern, and Andew Stern have produced a multimedia exhibition documenting the Hadza tribe of Tanzania. Through January 12.

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT

“Helena Hernmarck: Weaving in Progress.” Through January 13.

ARTSWESTCHESTER GALLERY

201 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL

BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN

5 WEST STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA “Ecophilia.” Ecophilia brings together thirty artists from throughout the country whose work is inspired by nature. Through November 21.

“Looking Back.” Group show. Through November 25.

“Peter Max: Early Paintings.” The art of the psychedelic 1960s. Through December 31.

EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE ART CENTER

BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY

“Milton Glaser Landscape Prints.” Through November 4.

200 HURD RD, BETHEL

43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK

“Hogancamp’s World.” Marwencol photograps by Mark Hogancamp. Through November 17.

BANNERMAN ISLAND GALLERY

BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS

“American Impressionist Painters: Deborah Cotrone and Gary Fifer.” Through November 4.

“Osi Audu: Dialogues with African Art.” Through December 2.

BARD COLLEGE : CCS BARD GALLERIES

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

“The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004).” Through December 14.

“Landscapes: Capturing the View”. Group show. November 7-January 6.

BARRETT ART CENTER

CATALYST GALLERY

“New Directions 2018/BAC Juried Members’ Show.” Through November 17.

“David Kendrick: Paintings.” Bold abstract paintings. Through November 25.

BEACON ARTIST UNION

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“Fault Trace.” Alison McNulty’s multi-disciplinary awork. Through November 4.

“Extreme Nature.” November 10-February 3.

506 MAIN STREET, BEACON

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BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS

“Kings and Peasants.” Eight puppet sculptures by Sam Shippee and glitter paintings on cardboard by King Norman. Through November 18.

55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE

EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY

ECKERT FINE ART

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33 GARDEN ROAD, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON

“Mary Corse.” Long-term installation. Ongoing.

“Josh Simpson: Galactic Landscapes.” A solo show by the glass artist. Through January 6.

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“Fred Fodera Exhibit.” November 1-30.

“Inner Visions.” An exhibition of new watercolors by Betsy Jacaruso. November 17-January 31. Opening reception November 24, 5pm-7pm.

793 BROADWAY, KINGSTON

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BERKSHIRE MUSEUM

“Brick by Brick: The Erie Canal & the Building Boom.” Through January 31.

31 MAMARONECK AVENUE, WHITE PLAINS

4400 ROUTE 23, HUDSON

37 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON

36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK

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137 MAIN STREET, BEACON

225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA

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EMERGE GALLERY & ART SPACE 228 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES

“New Work by Abstract Luminary Peter Bradley.” Through November 26.

FIELD LIBRARY

4 NELSON AVENUE, PEEKSKILL “A.B.I.: A Benign Indifference.” Exhibit by Void and Null. Through November 28.

FLAT IRON GALLERY

105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL “Watercolors by Wendie Gerber.” November 1-30.

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

“Past Time: Geology in European and American Art.” A broad display of watercolors, drawings, oil sketches, and sketchbooks, and looks at studies made by European and American artists from the 1770s to the 1890s. Through December 9.

FUEL

293 MAIN STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA “Art That Speaks.” Guatemalan-born artist Clemente Sajquiy. Through November 16.

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exhibits

OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON

“Costume & Custom: Middle Eastern Threads at Olana.” Through November 25.

OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER 1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT

“Betty Parsons: Blue sky very high.” Abstract paintings. Through January 6.

REBECCA PEACOCK

45 NORTH FRONT ST, KINGSTON “Witch Tapestries: Weavings by Kat Howard.” Through November 4.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY

172 MAIN STREET, BEACON “R. Wayne Reynolds: Channeling the Cosmos.” Paintings. Through November 5.

ROOST GALLERY

69 MAIN STREET, 2ND FLOOR, NEW PALTZ “Exotic Locations Close to Home.” November 8-December 2. Opening reception November 17, 6pm-8pm.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. “Time Travelers: Hudson Valley Artists 2018.” Regional artists. Through November 11. “Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Trans List.” December 11.

STANDARD SPACE

147 MAIN STREET, SHARON, CT “Ghost of a Dream.” Through November 4.

Lynda Akerman's photograph Oliver Bronson House, Hudson, NY, part of the exhibit "Built in the Hudson Valley, organized by Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance. Opening is at the Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff on November 9 with a reception from 6-8pm.

SUNY ULSTER

491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE “Andrew Zuckerman: A Message From the Exterior.” Through November 2.“Ernie Shaw: Form of Shadows.” Photography. November 16-December 14. Opening reception November 16, 5pm-7pm.

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HUDSON HALL

“Synchronicity: 4 Artists/4 Perspectives.” Donna Mikkelsen, Lois Walsh, Valerie Sharp, and Marisol Rodriguez. Curated by Corene Concepcion Rivera and Jean Hinkley. Through November 17.

“Scott Benedict: Kahnscious: Photographing Architecture.” Through January 20.

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GARRISON ART CENTER

23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON “Explorations in Line.” Curated by Tamar Zinn, with works by Jaanika Peerna, Tenesh Webber, and Tamar Zinn. Through November 11. “Holiday Pottery Show and Sale.” November 16-25.

327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

HUDSON VALLEY MOCA

1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL “Death is Irrelevant: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975–2018.” Through August 2, 2019.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY

362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON

THE GALLERY AT KENT

“Paintings by Pamela Cardwell.” November 10-December 2. Opening reception November 10, 6pm-8pm.

“2018 Juried Photography Show.” November 10-Decemebr 1.

JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY

21 SOUTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CT

THE GILDED OWL

318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Don Freeman: My Familiar Dream, 1994-2018.” Through November 17.

GREEN

92 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES Paintings, Drawings, Collages and Photographs by Margaret G. Still. Through December 30.

GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY

19 CENTRAL SQUARE, CHATHAM “Stuart Farmery: Bearing Up.” Through November 10.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY

17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ “Jane Bloodgood-Abrams and Paul Abrams: A Shared Passion.” Through November 3. “Holiday Salon Show” November 17-January 31. Opening reception November 17, 5pm-7pm.

MILLBROOK FREE LIBRARY

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“Ralph Della-Volpe: A Mini Retrospective.” Through November 28.

The Bright Future Group Show, Works on Paper. Through November 10.

MORTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY

HEERMANCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1 ELY STREET, COXSACKIE

“The Art of Music Group Art Exhibition.” Through November 16.

HUDSON AREA LIBRARY

51 NORTH 5TH STREET, HUDSON “Colors of Columbia County Photo Exhibit.” November 8-December 21. Opening reception November 8, 6pm-8pm.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON

“Synergy.” Paintings of Eleanor Grace Miller and ceramic sculptures by Marlene Krumm-Sanders, curated by Barbara Galazzo. Through November 4.

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“Built in the Hudson Valley” Through December 7. Opening reception November 9, 6pm-8pm.

NO.3 READING ROOM & PHOTO BOOK WORKS 469 MAIN STREET, BEACON

“Reverse Punctuation Constellations.” A collaboration between artist Melissa McGill and writer Sam Anderson. Saturday, November 3, 12-6pm and Sunday, November 4, 12-6pm.

OAK VINO

389 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Stan Linwasser: Paintings 2018.” November 10-January 31. Opening reception November 10, 6pm-8pm.

“Guns and Butter: American Food Experiences During the World Wars.” Primary texts, cultural artifacts, and multimedia. Through December 31.

THE LOFTS AT BEACON GALLERY 18 FRONT STREET, BEACON

“People of the Fields by Barbara Masterson.” Through November 3.

THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL “Spectrum.” Through November 18.

TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI

“Anita Fina Kiewra & the Printmakers of the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory.” Through November 11.

TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT

“Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers.” Nadine Boughton, Blake Fitch, Nancy Grace Horton, Marky Kauffmann, Tira Khan, Rania Matar and Emily Schiffer. November 1-January 13.

THE WESTCHESTER GALLERY

27 NORTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL “High Contrast: Culture Confronts Chaos.” Organized by the collective In_Question, this exhibition addresses social, political and environmental issues. Through November 28.

WOODSTOCK ART EXCHANGE 1398 ROUTE 28, WOODSTOCK

“North American Travels. Works by Bennett Harris Horowitz.” Through December 2.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION & MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK

“Focus: Looking Real/Really Looking.” Irwin Berman, Alon Koppel, Francesco Mastalia, Ralph Moseley, Richard Pantell, Elise Pittelman, Kenneth Ragsdale, Russell Ritell, Joyce Washor Saltzman. Through November 25. Opening reception November 3, 4pm-6pm.

WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK

“Founders: 1968.” A collaboration with the Historical Society of Woodstock presenting a selection of work by founders of the school and their contemporaries. Through December 15.

live music

Richard Thompson plays The Egg in Albany November 17.

SHTREIML November 3. Players of “high-octane Eastern European Jewish music,” Montreal’s Shtreiml formed in 2002 and are named for the traditional furry hat worn by the chassidm. On Eastern Hora, their latest full-length offering, the group—Jason Rosenblatt (harmonica, piano, vocals); Rachel Lemisch (trombone); Thierry Arsenault (drums); Joel Kerr (bass), and special guest Nicolas Royer-Artuso (oud)—fuse improvisatory Eastern European Jewish and Ottoman melodic modes with blues flavors and occasional rock rhythms. And now the roots-festival favorites make their long-anticipated return to the Rosendale Cafe. (The Lucky 5 count their blessings November 17; Greg Farley holds forth November 24.) 8pm. $15. Rosendale Rosendalecafe.com

CHRIS BROKAW & THALIA ZEDEK November 5. Besides being the core of the seminal Boston band Come, guitarists and singers Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek were in some other darkly influential underground rock acts of the late 1980s/early 1990s: Brokaw drummed for slow core kings Codeine; Zedek, in addition to fronting Live Skull and Uzi, has done likewise more recently for the trio E as well as her own band. Currently touring as a duo, the two veterans help get the promising new Midtown Kingston venue Tubby’s off the ground with this rare and intimate local appearance. (Psychedelic guitarists Stefan Christensen and Alexander trip out November 3; free jazzers the Michael Foster/ Ben Bennett Duo jam November 7.) 8pm. Kingston Tubbyskingston.com

BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RITE BOYS November 10. Since forming back in 1988, Rockabilly Hall of Famers Big Sandy and His FlyRite Boys, who make this welcome return landing at Club Helsinki, have expanded their retro-rock ’n’ roll/Western swing base to take in soul, R&B, honky-tonk country, mariachi, doo-wop, and other genres. Singer-guitarist Big Sandy (Robert Williams) got the bug via his parents’ healthy collection of jump blues records and was inspired to put his own outfit together by, among others, rockabilly revival greats—and frequent tour mates—the Blasters. Although the band hasn’t released an album since 2013’s What a Dream It’s Been, they always deliver the goods live. With Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles. (Mark Cohn comes by November 2; the Wiyos wing it November 30.) 9pm. $15-$18. Hudson Helsinkihudson.com

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE November 25. Boston bashers Killswitch Engage are monsters of metalcore (i.e., heavy metal/ hardcore crossover), placing albums in the Billboard Top 200, getting Grammy nominations, and selling over four million records in the US alone—a phenomenon greatly abetted, no doubt, by the inclusion of their track “Loyalty” on Catch the Throne: The Mixtape, Vol. 2, a mixtape inspired by the wildly popular HBO series “Game of Thrones.” The ear-splitting quintet brings their brutally bruising blast beats to the Chance for this late-November, multi-band bill. With Born of Osiris, Crowbar, and Death Ray Vision. (Corroded Roots take hold November 3; DevilDriver crashes November 5.) 6pm. $30-$250. Poughkeepsie Thechancetheater.com

RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC TRIO November 17. It’s been too long since we’ve featured Richard Thompson on this page. If you’ve never seen the legendary English folk rock guitar master and singer-songwriter, go: He hits the Egg this month with his aptly named Electric Trio on the heels of his newest album, 13 Rivers. Thompson arrived on the scene in the 1960s as the leader of Fairport Convention, leaving after 1970’s Full House for a solo career and a duo with his wife of 10 years, Linda Thompson (see 1974’s milestone I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight). His staggering ballad “1952 Vincent Black Lightning,” off 1991’s Rumor and Sigh, is, quite simply, a wonder of modern music. (Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds alight November 10; David Crosby drops in December 1.) 8pm. $45, $55. Albany Theegg.org

HAR MAR SUPERSTAR AND SABRINA ELLIS DO THE SONGS OF DIRTY DANCING November 15. Har Mar Superstar is the camp pop/contemporary R&B alter ego of Minnesotaborn singer-songwriter and actor Sean Tillman, who’s written songs for Jennifer Lopez and Kelly Osbourne; Sabrina Ellis is the singer of Texas band A Giant Dog. The duo will reprise the music of 1987’s kitsch classic film Dirty Dancing at the Beverly Lounge. 7pm. $18. Kingston Thebeverlylounge.com —Peter Aaron

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Horoscopes By Lorelai Kude

Feelings in the Rearview Mirror: Closer Than They Appear Drive your life carefully to avoid whiplash from abrupt energetic shifts during November! The status quo is officially dead. Collective insecurities are exposed as we cast around for a firm foundation upon which to stand as everything we think we know about “reality” comes into question. Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius/Scorpio from November 16 through December 6 asks, like Pontius Pilate: “What is Truth?” Venus direct in Scorpio after November 16 exposes the foundational facts behind stunning secrets of the intimate kind. Combative Mars finally moves out of Aquarius, where he’s been since mid-May, and into Pisces on November 15. The highest permutation of Mars in Pisces is the spiritual warrior, and the lowest is the victim/martyr. We’ll see the entire broad spectrum of Mars in Pisces play out by the end of the year, enhanced by Jupiter’s ingress into his home sign of Sagittarius on November 8. Jupiter was the ruler of Pisces in classical astrology, until the discovery of Neptune in 1846. Jupiter in Sagittarius “supersizes” Neptune as he stations Direct in his home sign of Pisces on November 24. Are you good at walking on eggshells? Ultra-sensitive feelings in the rearview mirror are closer than they appear. Those straddling the high wire of delusional belief systems without a net of actual reality refuse to believe they’re not on solid ground. The shift of the Lunar Nodes from Leo/Aquarius, where they’ve been since May 2017, to Cancer/Capricorn on November 17 refocuses our concerns from the dynamic tension between the individual and the collective to issues of security, both personal and public, emotional and institutional. If you’ve invested in developing your heart, your soul, and your consciousness, you’ll ride the coming waves instead of being drowned by them. It’s the last possible moment to learn how to swim!

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It’s uncomfortable for assertive Aries when ruling planet Mars enters Pisces on November 15. Aries prefers direct combat; Mars in Pisces can be passive-aggressive, a tactic Aries generally respond poorly to. Hone your Samurai skills this month. Learn to deflect negative energy by aligning yourself with the flow rather than setting everything ablaze with oppositional fire. Heightened self-awareness prevents you from being blindsided by kickback from your own unconscious/ subconscious defense mechanisms. Settle outstanding scores, clean up loose ends, and, when you’re called on to fight, fight for what’s right without the nagging fear that your own shortcomings will be exposed.

The New Moon in your solar opposite Scorpio on November 7 stresses tensions around possession and partnership issues, especially if there has been any secrecy about money or jointly held resources. If you’ve been brutally honest with yourself and your partner, you’ll have come out of the Venus retrograde season after November 16 with enhanced wisdom and intimacy. Don’t allow yourself to be provoked by a potential rewrite of the terms and conditions of a deal you thought was already done during the Full Moon in Gemini on Thanksgiving Day. Literally ignore this provocation, and it will evaporate by early December.

Horoscopes GEMINI

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G I O VA N N I D I M O L A

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The Full Moon in Gemini on Thanksgiving Day makes the annual family get-together even chattier than usual. This would normally be your fun opportunity to be a gadfly, but because your ruler Mercury goes retrograde in your solar opposite Sagittarius on November 16, instead of buzzing around the garden of ideas sipping nectar from a variety of flowers, you’re more inclined to be drunk on rhetoric—and you know what a strident, sloppy ideologue you are when you’re rhetoric-drunk! You don’t have to prove your cleverness but, in this case, you may have to prove your wisdom. Less is the new more!

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CANCER

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(June 21–July 22)

The Lunar North Node enters Cancer on November 17, ushering in a 19-month reconfiguration of your concept of security. The last time this happened (April 2000–October 2001), you saw external societal structures crumple around you, and your response was to build your own emotional security on the rock of family and clannish relationships. This time around, the rock you thought was firm may show some cracks. Allegiances can alter, loyalties might waver, and allies might become adversaries. Defining who is inside the circle of trust and who needs to be watched warily or altogether excluded begins now. Trust your gut.

LEO (July 22–August 23)

This month you complete a transformational process that began in May 2017. By now you understand that your identity is so much more than simply the tribal, ideological, and class affiliations you share with others. The essence of what makes you unique has been stress-tested, refined in the crucible of crushed ego, and sifted through the sieve of redefined expectations. You’re leaner, meaner, more powerful and hungrier for ultimate meaning than you’ve ever been. Get ready to stalk your prey—the core value of your own significance—like a lion on the prowl for fresh meat over the coming year.

VIRGO (August 23–September 23)

Planetary ruler Mercury’s retrograde in Sagittarius on November 16 squares your natal Sun and prompts reconsideration of recent communicative reformations. Remember how you vowed to hold your tongue at Thanksgiving dinner, even under duress from half-sauced relatives? Review that promise for likelihood of success and realize that all the logic, reason, proofs, and evidence in the world won’t dissuade an ideological fanatic from believing an outright lie is the gospel truth. Though you normally treasure family tradition, a nontraditional, extended, family-free vacation might be better for your emotional health and spiritual equanimity than turkey, stuffing, cranberries, and indigestible family feuds.

LIBRA (September 23–October 23)

Retrograde Venus retreats into the latter degrees of Libra throughout November, as you review what you once thought you’d love “forever.” Does “forever” abruptly end when things get uncomfortable or awkward? Did you invest your heart (not to mention your resources and your reputation) into something/ someone you thought was genuine, only to discover they’re just an unreasonable facsimile? When you said, “I can live off of love, baby!” did you forget rent is due the first of every month? Love that survives the ideal and thrives in the messy mix of actual reality is real and won’t fade away.

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(October 23–November 21) Your magic powers peak as the New Moon in Scorpio on November 7 caps off a year’s worth of concentrated growth and development, the result of Jupiter’s transit through your sign. The personal power upgrades and transformational enhancements of this past year now focus on issues of personal worth. This is relevant to your soul as well as to your stock portfolio. Investments which align with your personal values and beliefs are the only ones to pay off in the year to come. Listen carefully as a “sure thing” hits a discordant note, warning you away from a losing proposition.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22)

You’re ready to sing “Happy Days Are Here Again” when ruling planet Jupiter enters Sagittarius on November 8. Get ready for the biggest year you’ve had since the last go-round (December 2006–December 2007), made even more permanently significant by Saturn in his own home sign of Capricorn. Last time, you took the giant leap in an area of personal creative growth. This time around, the giant leap occurs in building castles—not in the air, and not out of sand, but on the firm foundation you’ve spent the last dozen years preparing by layering hard-won experience upon heart-rending wisdom.

CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20)

It’s been almost two decades since you last faced the kinds of challenges you’re confronting now. The good news is that you’re smarter and better equipped to handle existential and personal security threats than you’ve ever been. You’ve internalized truths: Power is fleeting, control is a temporary illusion, material resources come and go despite the best efforts to conserve. The maturation process you’ve undergone has yielded impressive results, surprising even you as you’re tested by fortune’s ebb and flow. You wisely alternate floating with dog-paddling instead of jumping off the deep end or drowning in shallow waters, emerging a triumphant survivor.

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The First Quarter Moon in Aquarius on November 15 helps bid goodbye to combative Mars as he finally leaves Aquarius, where he’s been since mid-May. You may be so tired after the latest series of ideological wars you’d like to sleep for a year or take an extended vacation. Renew your strength and energy by disengaging from collective struggles for a time. You’ll be called on again in early 2019 to muster your battle-tested troops and charge forward, but investing in your own personal serenity and the rest you allow yourself now will strengthen you for the tough times ahead.

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Forceful Mars enters peaceful Pisces on November 15, infusing your dreamy, imaginative world with assertive energy for the remainder of 2018. Neptune, your modern planetary ruler, stations direct in Pisces on Thanksgiving Day, inviting you to launch a trial balloon filled with the gas of the vision you’ve nurtured since mid-June of this year. Your million-dollar idea has both wings and legs: This time, you need the support of grounded, sensible allies who share your enthusiasm and are willing to invest resources into bringing your dreams into corporeal reality. “Angel” investors will realize heavenly payoffs by believing in you now.

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11/18 CHRONOGRAM HOROSCOPES 117

Ad Index [AAN] Defend Press Freedom Campaign . . . 4

Green Mountain Minerals . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Pet Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Aba’s Falafel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Green Toad Bookstore . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Peter Aaron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Adams Fairacre Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Habitat Real Estate Group . . . . . . . . . . 25

Poughkeepsie Day School . . . . . . . . 19, 24

Angelina’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Hawthorne Valley Association . . . . . . . 102

Primrose Hill School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Aqua Jet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Health Quest / VBMC . . . . . . . . .back cover

Pussyfoot Lodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

ArtsWestchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Herrington’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Putnam Visitors Bureau . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Ashokan Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Historic Huguenot Street . . . . . . . . . . 104

Quattros Game Farm and Store . . . . . . . 48

Atlantic Custom Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Hollenbeck Pest Control . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Red Cedar Arborists & Landscapers, Inc. . . 68

The Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Hopewell Animal Hospital . . . . . . . . . . 68

Red Hook Curry House . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Bard College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Hotchkiss School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Refinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Bardavon 1869 Opera House . . . . . . . . 100

Hudson Ale Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Regal Bag Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Beacon Bread Company . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Hudson Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

The River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Berkshire Hathaway - Bronte Uccellini . . . 114

Hudson Highlands Veterinary Medical Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Rocket Number Nine Records . . . . . . . . 92

Berkshire Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Bethel Woods Center for the Arts . . . . . . 10 Bistro To Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Bop Island Jazz Festival . . . . . . . . . . 100 Buns Burgers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Burnette Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa . . . . . . . . . . 20 Buy In Greene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Cabinet Designers, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Calmbucha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Cassandra Currie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Catskill Art & Office Supply . . . . . . . . . . 48 Catskill Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Catskill Farms Builders . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Colony Woodstock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Columbia County Tourism . . . . . . . . . . 44 Conscious Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Creatives MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Curabba Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Hudson Valley 5 Rhythms . . . . . . . . . . 106 Hudson Valley Cancer Genetics . . . . . . 117 Hudson Valley Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Hudson Valley Sunrooms . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Hummingbird Jewelers . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Hurleyville Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Jack’s Meats & Deli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Jacobowitz & Gubits . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Jagerberg Beer Hall and Tavern . . . . . . . 43 John A Alvarez and Sons . . . . . . . . . 54, 57 John M. Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Judy Hartford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Kaatsbaan International Dance Center . . . . 8 Kary Broffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Kasuri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Kent Art Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Kingston Ceramics Studio . . . . . . . . . . 90 Kingston Consignment . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 LC Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Daryls House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Leed Custom Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Dental Office of Drs. Jeffrey & Maureen Viglielmo . . . . . . . . . 102

Liza Phillips Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Dia: Beacon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Diamond Mills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Dreaming Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 The Eggs Nest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Embodyperiod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

The Lodge at Woodstock . . . . . . . . . . 86 Lush Eco-Salon & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 M&K Music Instruction and Studio . . . . . 117 Main Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Mark Gruber Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Rockland County Tourism Office . . . . . . . 63 The Rodney Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Roostcoop Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Rosendale Theater Collective . . . . . . . . 117 SaLune Hair Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art . . . . . . . . 90 Seoul Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Shire City Sanctuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Silver Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Silvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Stacie Flint Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Stacie R Laskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Stamell String Instruments . . . . . . . . . . 86 Stan Lindwasser . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91, 110 Stewart House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 SUNY New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Roost Inn Stoneridge . . . . . . . . . . 40 Third Eye Associates Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . 117 Time and Space Limited . . . . . . . . . . 117 Tito Santana Taqueria . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Transcend Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Transpersonal Acupuncture . . . . . . . . . 60 Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP . . 57 Tuthilltown Spirits LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Unison Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Upstate Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Uptown Kingston Map . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Emerson Resort & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Mid Hudson Regional Hospital . . . . inside back cover

Estate Sale Services of the Hudson Valley . . 54

Middle Way School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Exit Nineteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Mikel Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Falcon Music & Art Productions . . . . . . . 92

Mohonk Mountain House . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Fionn Reilly Photography . . . . . . . . . . 114

Monkfish Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

First Day Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School . . . . . . . 44

Flat Iron Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

New Paltz Ballet Theatre . . . . . . . . . . 100

Gallery at Rhinebeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

The New York Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . 25

Garrison Art Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Oblong Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

George Cole Auctioneers . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Olana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 94

Win Morrison Realty . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 35

Glenn’s Wood Sheds . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Old Souls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Woodstock Art Exchange . . . . . . . . . . 91

Glint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Osaka Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Woodstock Guild Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Great Life Brewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Outdated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

YMCA of Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Green Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Peekskill Coffee House . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Yoga on Duck Pond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Green Meadow Waldorf School . . . . . . . 31

Pegasus Comfort Footwear . . . . . . . . . 46

Ziatun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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Vegetalien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Wallkill View Farm Market . . . . . . . . . . 19 WAMC - Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Warren Kitchen & Cutlery . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Warwick Valley Olive Oil Company . . . . . . 42 WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock . . . . . . . 86 Westchester Community College Center for the Digital Arts . . . . . . . 26 Williams Lumber & Home Center . . . . .inside front cover, 49

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A burst of fall colors and flavors at the Stone Ridge Orchard.

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The Tomato Cafe, Poughkeepsie

A complete meal: Grilled cheese, salad, beer, and Chronogram.

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Audreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farmhouse

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Sun rise illuminates the Hudson and Bannerman Island.

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July Chronogram cover artist Paolo Arao.

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A pup hikes Minnewaska to take in the sweeping vistas.

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Kingston Design Showhouse

A plush raspberry loveseat anchors a corner designed by Fred in High Falls.

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WM Farmer & Sons, Hudson

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A moment of quiet in the dining room before evening service begins.

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parting shot

Grizzly Bear, a photograph from Andrew Zuckerman’s book Creature, published by Chronicle in 2007. Photographer Andrew Zuckerman traveled the world to capture the subjects seen in his books Creature (2007), Bird (2009), and Flower (2012). But as the currently featured exhibitor in SUNY Ulster’s Visiting Artist Series, the Stone Ridge resident didn’t have to travel far to present “A Message from the Exterior,” a new exhibition of his work. The show reflects Zuckerman’s fascination with the relationship of humanity and technology to the natural world, focusing on his intensely detailed, lifelike composite images of plants and animals, many of which—such as the bear from Creatures seen here—which are life-sized and appear three-dimensional. “The title of the series is a play on the title of Walker Evans’s 1966 photography book Message from the Interior,” Zuckerman explains. “His FSA [Farm Security Administration] photos have a formal, posed feel about them. I wanted to reference that when I was shooting these animals and flowers against white paper in the studio.” Nature isn’t Zuckerman’s only interest—his books Wisdom (2008; also a film and touring exhibition) and Music (2010) feature the portraits and words of figures from the arts, politics, business, and religion—but it’s his concern for the wild world that fueled the photos in the SUNY series. “[Living in the Hudson Valley] puts me in a headspace where I recognize certain aspects of nature more when I travel,” he says. “It’s inspiring just being here.” “A Message from the Exterior” is on view in the MuroffKotler Gallery at SUNY Ulster Community College in Stone Ridge through November 2. SUNYUlster.edu. —Peter Aaron

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