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22 while you were sleeping
44 new paltz and gardiner: DELICIOUS AND DARING
Global miliary spending increases only 0.3 percent, PCBs outside current Hudson dredging, and the CDC says no to zombies.
24 beinhart’s body politic: unchartered territory
Private, public, or virtual—the impact of privatized education.
26 frack watch: drilling in towns that want it
If a town supports hydrofracking, will surrounding areas remain safe?
antiques 57 Paying it Backward: A Hudson Valley Antiques Tour
Where to find your perfect match from the past.
30 house profile: a chic cabin amid the conifers North River Architecture & Planning delivers on a request for a house at home in the forest.
37 the garden: driven to shears
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Composer Camille Saint-Saëns will be the focus of this year's Bard Music Festival. FORECAST
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80 Kingston and Rosendale: renaissance realized
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culinary adventures 100 head of the glass: navigating the vines of hudson valley wines Let your cup overflow with the Hudson Valley's finest.
whole living guide 112 space for healing
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114 flowers fall: on the last day of school
A movement toward peace as Bethany Saltman watches her daughter grow.
Community Resource Guide 14 education Opportunities to broaden the mind. 104 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 106 weddings Offerings for the potential bride and groom. 108 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 116 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.
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BARDSUMMERSCAPE july 6 – august 19,
Bard SummerScape 2012 presents seven weeks of opera, music, theater, dance, films, and cabaret.
The season’s focal point is the 23rd annual Bard Music Festival, which this year celebrates the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, whose remarkable career shaped not only the history of music, but also the ways in which that history was transmitted and communicated to the public. SummerScape takes place in the extraordinary Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues on Bard College’s stunning Mid-Hudson Valley campus.
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Opera
Bard Music Festival
THE KING IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (Le roi malgré lui)
Twenty-third Season
Music by Emmanuel Chabrier American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger
A brilliant opéra comique, scored by a master of harmony, about a reluctant 16th-century French noble elected by the people of Poland to be their king. SOSNOFF THEATER July 27 – August 5
2012
SAINT-SAËNS AND HIS WORLD
Two weekends of concerts, panels, and other events bring the musical world of French composer Camille Saint-Saëns vividly to life. Weekend One Paris and the Culture of Cosmopolitanism Weekend Two Confronting Modernism August 10–12 and 17–19
Film Festival
Dance
FRANCE AND THE COLONIAL IMAGINATION
COMPAGNIE FÊTES GALANTES LET MY JOY REMAIN
The legacy of French rule in Africa and Southeast Asia Thursdays and Sundays, July 12 – August 12
Choreography by Béatrice Massin
Spiegeltent
Taking Baroque dance into the 21st century
CABARET and FAMILY FARE
SOSNOFF THEATER July 6 – 8
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Theater
THE IMAGINARY INVALID (Le malade imaginaire)
July 6 – August 19
By Molière Directed by Erica Schmidt Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Photo: ©Scott Barrow
The final play by a master of comedy, The Imaginary Invalid is among Molière’s greatest works. THEATER TWO July 13 –22
The Bard Music Festival presents two extraordinary weeks of concerts, panels, and other special events that will explore the musical world of Camille Saint-Saëns.
weekend one Friday, August 10
Paris and the Culture of Cosmopolitanism program one
Saturday, August 11 program two program three
Sunday, August 12
program four
the bard music festival presents
Saint-Saëns and His World AUGUST 10–12 AND 17–19 Photo: Camille Saint-Saëns, c. 1875. Adoc-photos/Art Resouce, NY
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Liszt, and others
Saint-Saëns, a French Beethoven?
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Saint-Saëns
The Organ, King of Instruments
Works for organ by Saint-Saëns, Adam, Widor, Franck, and others
Ars Gallica and French National Sentiment
program six
Zoological Fantasies: Carnival of the Animals Revisited
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Chausson, Magnard, Duparc, and others
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Fauré, Poulenc, and others
Confronting Modernism program seven
Saturday, August 18 program eight program nine
Sunday, August 19
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns
Performing, Composing, and Arranging for Concert Life
program five
weekend two Friday, August 17
Saint-Saëns and the Cultivation of Taste
program ten program eleven
Proust and Music
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Franck, Fauré, Debussy, and Hahn
La musique ancienne et moderne
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Rameau, d’Indy, Dukas, and others
The Spiritual Sensibility
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Saint-Saëns, Schmitt, Boulanger, and others
From Melodrama to Film
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns and Berlioz
Unexpected Correspondences: Saint-Saëns and the New Generation Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Debussy, and Stravinsky
program twelve Out of the Shadow of Samson et Dalila:
Saint-Saëns’s Other Grand Opera
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Concert performance of Saint-Saëns’s opera Henry VIII
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94 Waiting for Bordeaux: Eminence Road Farm Winery
71 music: Stars Aligned Peter Aaron speaks with creative connoisseur David Arner about 1960s Queens, Oberlin, and silent films.
72 nightlife highlights Preview includes Woodstock Concerts on the Green, Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts and Sharon van Etten comes to Club Helsinki.
73 cd reviews Jason Broome reviews Leviathan by Michael Bernier. Sharon Nichols reviews Near Infinite Possibility by Sarah Fimm. Jeremy Schwartz reviews Wurlitzer Seeburg Rock-Ola by The Greyhounds.
74 books: Magic Valley Nina Shengold spends time with the prolific Carole Maso, discussing motherhood, tragedy, and persistence.
76 book reviews New books by Laurie Boris, Benjamin Busch, Kathy Leonard Czepiel, Cara Hoffman, Kay Larson, Ron McLarty, Michael Perkins & Will Nixon, and Boria Sax.
78 Poetry Poems by Gale Acuff, Bobbi Cole, Richard Donnelly, Autumn Fairleigh, Andy Fogle, William Hayes, Clifford Henderson, Philip Kobylarz, Priscilla Lignori, Samantha Martin, Marilyn McCabe, Anita McKay, and Chuck Mishkin. Edited by Phillip Levine.
144 parting shot Alva Joe, a painting by Will Johnson at Team Love RavenHouse Gallery.
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96 I Gelato, You Gelato, We All Scream for Gelato Karin Ursula Edmundson tastes the "cow-to-cone" technique at Lazy Crazy Acres.
99 Farmers' Market Directory The go-to resource for locally grown markets.
the forecast 122 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 121 Peek into the tunnels of Alice Aycock's creation at Omi International Art Center . 123 Polly Law brings the seashore to Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. 124 Jay Blotcher previews Bard's 2012 Summerscape. 126 The Rosendale Street Festival hosts 74 bands for July 21 and 22. 129 Local farms host charity banquets in their fields, the finest fresh dining. 130 The famous Bannerman Island hosts "Showboat" on July 7 and 8. 133 Philip Glass performs at the Garrison Institutate on July 19. 136 Hudson Valley Shakespeare Company stages "The 39 Steps," Romeo and Juliet," and Love's Labor's Lost" at Boscobel. 137 Chely Wright: Wish Me Away screens at the Rosendale Theatre on July 20.
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Esteemed Reader Fear is a preparation for failure.
—Robert Fripp Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: I once had a teacher who was always ready to travel. He had whittled his set of possessions so that they all fit in a medium-sized canvas backpack, albeit tightly packed. He believed in purity, which was reflected in his garb—he wore nothing but spotless white clothing. And he was a lover of rhythm, and music, and included a hand-drum, and a small reed flute, called a ney, in his set of things. The reason for his readiness to travel was to model is life after the hoopoe in the 15th-century Persian epic poem Conference of the Birds, who famously said “Our home is not where we are; It is where we are going.� The man wanted to be ready to depart on that journey into the unknown immediately, should the opportunity arise. I mention the teacher not specifically to advocate for sparseness of belongings, though this is clearly a sensibility that would contribute to a greater sustainability on the planet, but in consideration of what is really essential; and to raise the question of the usefulness of what we spend energy carrying around. It’s a question that addresses physical items for sure, and, perhaps more importantly, ideas, which exert the guiding influence on our decisions and activities, our acquisitions and sacrifices. Formulations that succinctly encapsulate larger meanings, sensibilities, or modes of perception can be handy mnemonics for what is really important on the highways and byways of life. These sayings, or aphorisms, can be brought to mind as a means of engendering being-effort that puts us in touch with another level of intelligence, or a more organized pattern of activity. In modern literature there is little to compare with the succinctness of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, or the Ten Commandments, or the Beatitudes, but there are some who have made the attempt. Robert Fripp is one, in his “Fripperisms,� which are mostly followed by a cultish group of guitarists. His are largely from the world of music, (though also relevant in life) like: Silence is an invisible glue. or, Answers will come through the guitar. or, How we hold our pick is how we organize our life. One who achieved some mastery in this is Robert DeRopp, in an excellent book on neo-gnosticism called Self Completion: Keys to a Meaningful Life. His set of life-principle aphorisms are suitable contents of the single backpack of ideas possessed by those who aim to enrich being, and pan the fragments of insight from the rushing torrents of life. I include them here for our collective pondering (and invite you to read the book for helpful elucidation—and some required context—of the meaning of each expression): Define your life aims.

 Conserve and concentrate chi.Your life depends on it.

 Learn how to convert your knowledge into wisdom.

 Stop dreaming; be here now.

 Breathe consciously.

 Control the Horse, care for the Carriage, awaken the Driver, discover the Master.

 Substitute intentional doing for accidental happening.

 Do only what is necessary.

 Maintain a watchman at the gate of impressions.

 In activities learn to see the play of three forces.

 Believe nothing; test everything.

 Distinguish between the higher will and the lower wills.

 Strength exerted gives more strength; weakness indulged gives greater weakness.

 Separate from all the manifestations of your machine.

 Distinguish the quality of essence from that of the persona.

 Stand on the bank of time’s river and watch the flow.
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To plumb the depth of these principles warrants long pondering and application in life. Only such an effort will transmute them from words to knowledge, and knowledge to understanding. They also beg us to inspect the ideas and assumptions we have automatically accumulated in life, which may or may not be as reflective of what is true. It is often necessary to sacrifice one item in the pack to make room for another. —Jason Stern
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We’re all from somewhere else. And I don’t mean just Williamsburg, TriBeCa, and Astoria (though the migration of creative class urbanites continues to redefine the region). Even those of us who can trace our roots prior to the appearance of the Half Moon in 1609 came from elsewhere, our ancestors traversing a land bridge from Siberia in the late Pleistocene 16,000 years ago. Back further still, we were simply carbon, rocketing away from the Big Bang. (Or, for literal biblical interpreters, Adam and Eve were evicted from the Garden of Eden 6,000 years ago, give or take a begat or two.) We’ve been traveling for a long time. How our stardust got sprinkled in its current place is how we make sense of ourselves. When we meet, we tend to self-identify like so: I grew up in Queens and came to study at SUNY New Paltz in 1988. I moved to Brooklyn for a few years after college but then relocated to the Hudson Valley again in 1996. Now, I live and work in Kingston. The interesting bits, of course, are not the dry timelines of our comings and goings, but the passions, intuitions, and sometimes sheer chance that brought us here. At Chronogram, we butter our bread telling the stories of the interesting bits. A typical case: Jennifer Clark and David Scott relocated to the Sullivan County hamlet of Long Eddy in 2008, parachuting out of successful careers in corporate Manhattan.Why? To make wine. Ah, there’s the interesting bit. Using indigenous yeast and grapes from the Finger Lakes, Scott and Clark make natural, unfiltered wines along biodynamic principles.They’re not producing all that much wine—600 cases last year—but according to Food and Drink editor Peter Barrett, the juice that’s coming out of Eminence Road Farm Winery is some of the best wine New York has to offer (“Waiting for Bordeaux,” page 94). As Jennifer Gutman reports (“Head of the Glass,” page 100), there are plenty of grapes being grown in the Hudson Valley, with over 20 vineyards producing wines made from grapes grown on site. While no particular style defines Hudson Valley tipple—its offerings range from traditional varietals like chardonnay to oddities like chocolate-flavored wines—the region boasts some of the country’s oldest winemaking traditions, dating back to 1677. The story of Hudson Valley wine is as much about looking forward as looking back, as wineries expand their product lines to distilled spirits (made from local produce, naturally) and continue to experiment with the terroir. A very strange transplant recently turned up in Ghent, at Omi International Arts Center. Alice Aycock’s A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels is a re-creation of a piece constructed in 1975 for an exhibition at Merriewold West in New Jersey. It is, as the title suggests, a series of passages dug in the ground. The interesting bit is what happens when you descend below the surface of the earth, and Jeff Crane notes parallels with ancient structures designed as communal, sacred spaces (“Underground Art Scene,” page 121).
Health and Wellness editor Wendy Kagan also goes off in search of sacred places this month, investigating how the composition of the spaces we inhabit affect us (“Space for Healing,” page 112). She talks with Francis Pitts, an architect who pioneered therapeutic environments in the modern context by designing hospital rooms constructed to aid wellness. Lyla Yastion, a professor of anthropology at SUNY New Paltz, teaches a two-week course, “Sacred Spaces,” which looks at the similarities between spiritual nodes like St. John the Divine cathedral in Manhattan and the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery in Woodstock. A visitor to our region bringing its own space is the Spiegeltent (a merrily profane space, for sure). Translated literally from the Dutch as “mirror tent,” the wood and canvas structure that lands on the lawn of the Fisher Center at Bard College holds some of the liveliest entertainment of the summer season, including the bawdy return of the Wau Wau Sisters. (A few years ago, I chronicled the exhilarating humiliation of being press-ganged by the Sisters, dragged on stage, dressed in women’s clothing, forced to drink Jack Daniels and beer, and thrown around like a rag doll by one half of the incredibly strong duo. Note to Wau Wau attendees: Sit in the back and keep your head down when they’re looking for “volunteers.”) Jay Blotcher previews Bard’s SummerScape 2012, which kicks off on July 6 with a performance by the French dance troupe Compagnie Fêtes galantes (“When the Saint-Saëns Comes Marching In,” page 124). This summer marks the 60th anniversary of the premier of John Cage’s 4’ 33” at Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock. In Kay Larson’s remarkable new book, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (reviewed by Marx Dorrity on page 76), the Accord resident and former student at Zen Mountain Monastery graphs Cage’s emergence as a towering figure of 20th-century music along the axis of his Zen studies. (The journey from something to nothing, perhaps.) Cage’s breakthrough work, 4’ 33’’ was steeped in Zen and his realization that there was no such thing as silence. As Larson writes, 4’ 33” was a statement of Cage’s essence. He told an interviewer three years before he died: “No day goes by without my making use of that piece in my life and in my work. I listen to it every day….I don’t sit down to do it; I turn my attention toward it. I realize that it’s going on continuously. So, more and more, my attention, as now, is on it. More than anything else, it’s the source of my enjoyment of life.” Those four-and-a-half moments of quiet that Cage carved out of the raucous din of our anxious, chattering minds is not only one of the most interesting bits of contemporary music, it's also, in its way, the theme song of the Hudson Valley.Why else would he have premiered it here, instead of NewYork City? Cage heard our song. The song that’s always playing. Like now. And now. 7/12 ChronograM 21
Two motorcyclists were arrested after refusing to stop for police at speeds of 170 and 193 mph on the Thruway. The slower of the two sped from Ravena to New Paltz, fleeing police en route. Despite 20 days in jail and a revoked license, the motorcyclist taunted officers, promising to speed again. The second motorcyclist, insisting he was traveling to a hospital, covered nearly 60 miles from Albany to Rosendale before his arrest. In cars that reach 140 mph at most, police were forced to decide in both cases that a chase would be less effective than hoping to successfully track the motorcyclists. Sources: Associated Press, Jalopnik, Times Union In April, the Food and Drug Administration suggested suppliers limit antibiotic use for livestock, out of fear that human ingestion of meat and poultry fed antibiotics may make humans more resistant to antibiotics, and proliferate drug-resistant bacteria. Not only was this a health-conscious decision, but businesses have also found it to be fiscally beneficial. After switching to antibiotic-free pork in its carnitas burrito nearly 10 years ago, Chipolte has seen a 50 percent increase in sales of the menu option. Hyatt Hotels reports a 30 percent increase in sales for antibiotic-free beef options in their restaurants. While only an estimated 2 percent of markets sell antibiotic-free meat currently, the profit growth for antibiotic-free markets gives businesses a new incentive. Antibiotic-free meat and poultry can be purchased at most Wal-Mart locations. Source: NPR Cannibals? Don’t worry about it. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the recent burgeoning of cannibal attacks—including the infamous face eating in Miami and other flesh-and-guts consumption in Canada, Washington, and Maryland—are not forebodings of a Zombie Apocalypse. Despite the CDC’s publication of zombie survival guides in January 2012, reportedly a “tongue-in-cheek campaign” (pun intended, CDC?), the CDC now asserts that, to their knowledge, there is no “virus or condition that would reanimate the dead.” Source: Time Cardinal Timothy Dolan, leader of the Archdiocese of New York, is reported to have authorized payments of up to $20,000 to priests accused of sexual assault while he served as Archbishop of Milwaukee from 2002 to 2009. An archdiocese spokesman explained that the payments were an incentive for accused priests to leave the Church quickly, so they could then be removed from both position and payroll, without formal and extensive Vatican proceedings or accrual of fees from successive lawsuits. The Church asserts that the payments were purposeful— expediting the removal of the priests and preventing further lawsuits—and obligatory—upon ordainment, a priest is guaranteed provision by the Church. Dolan, who succeeded an archbishop accused of sexual assault in Milwaukee, worked not only to remove accused priests, but also to assuage the victims. He held forums with survivors, offered consolation, and created a $4 million fund for their counseling and compensation. The selling of Church property provided for the fund. Source: New York Times Jay Townsend, a campaign spokesman for Rep. Nan Hayworth, (R-NY), resigned on June 4 after urging, “Let’s hurl some acid at those female Democratic senators.” Townsend posted the suggestion on the Facebook page of the 19th Congressional District—Hayworth’s current representation. Hayworth hopes to be elected to the new 18th Congressional District, which includes Orange, Putnam, and parts of Dutchess and Westchester Counties. The May 26 remark targeted senators Townsend believed claim to support, but fail to enact, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay bill, which allows women to take legal action for equal pay in the workforce. Sources: New York Times, Poughkeepsie Journal A review by the Environmental Protection Agency of the Superfund cleanup of the upper Hudson River strongly suggested additional dredging of the area. General Electric deposited 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) into the river from 1946 to 1977; dredging began in 2009. The review notes, however, that high amounts of PCBs exist outside the current dredging zone, resulting in 50 percent lower PCB reduction than expected. While the EPA does not have the jurisdiction to enforce additional dredging, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Clearwater, Riverkeeper, and Scenic Hudson have agreed that dredging should be expanded now. Sources: EPA, Wall Street Journal
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The new favorite charity for billionaires is charter schools. What a set of fevered images this conjures up: There are the inner city schools. They’re filled with drugs, violence, and promiscuity. The teachers barely teach, but they’re protected by unions who just want to rip off taxpayers to get their members pensions and health care. Our suburban and rural schools are not thrilling: full of not-so-bright kids who’d rather get high than study chemistry—and their teachers have unions, too. Ah, charter schools! They’ll be like Groton and Spence, little gems, like prep schools but available to the masses. They’ll have discipline and uniforms, high standards and no damn unions so teachers can be fired at will! Shape up or ship out! Ah, vouchers! That’s the way to do it! Put the power of the market to work. Like shoppers selecting an Internet provider—whoops, most places have a choice of one or none. Like selecting a TV set then. Schools that satisfy consumers will thrive. Unsatisfactory schools will die! A quick reality check here. Nobody is talking about handing out $36,000 or $37,000 vouchers (day student tuition at Spence and Groton) or $48,900 (boarding at Groton). Let alone providing endowments of $85 million (Spence) or $194 million (Groton). They won’t even pop for the relatively discounted tuition at Mitt Romney’s alma mater, Cranbrook School: $27,500 for a day student, four-and-a-half times the average expenditure on a public school student. Romney says, “We don’t need to spend more on education.” And we won’t. Why should anyone who’s not rich have it that good? Granted, there are all sorts of problems with public education. Which is a bit like saying there are all sorts of problems with humanity. There are some really lousy public schools. There are also many incredibly great public schools. They don’t get much publicity, partly because good news is not news and partly because we presume that’s how things are supposed to be. There are some excellent private schools. There are many dreadful private schools. They rarely get publicized. Unless, like Horace Mann (ranked 19th on Business Insider’s The 28 Most Expensive Private High Schools In America) an otherwise great school has a history so rich in sexual abuse you’d think priests were in charge. Then it all ends up in the NewYork Times. For some not yet fathomed reason, public school sex scandals tend to feature female teachers and teenage males. I know sex abuse is sex abuse and horrors are horrors. Still, I’ve yet to meet a single adult male who didn’t respond to such tales with, “Where was she when I was in school? Har! Har!” So, if you fear that your child will be sexually abused, no place is safe, but the relatively healthier choice seems to be a public school. School privatization is high on the list of all those Tea Party governors swept in by the right wing backlash of 2010. Privatizing schools busts unions. Unions support Democrats. It’s a very simple equation. It’s also high on the list of ALEC proposals. ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is an organization that brings state level politicians together with corporate interests. Corporations pay large sums to participate.They get to write “model” legislation that they give to the politicians, packaged with talking points, hot button language, skewed statistics, and colorful 24 ChronograM 7/12
anecdotes. For example, the Corrections Corporation of America—exactly what it sounds like—writes both model legislation on privatizing prisons and model criminal codes that keep more people in prison for longer periods of time. Nothing comes out of ALEC unless there’s profit in it. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, “School districts had total expenditures of approximately $596.6 billion in 2007-08.”What a pile of money! Gotta make you salivate! Rub your hands together like Scrooge McDuck! So who are the players? There’s Michael Milken. Remember him? He’s the junk bond king who drove the brokerage house Drexel Lambert into bankruptcy and went to prison. Now he’s running an education corporation. His company, Knowledge Universe, like several others, offers the coolest scam in the private education racket, virtual schools. No actual buildings, no social interactions, no soccer fields, no pools. No dating, no shop classes, no teams, no bands, no Glee. No coaches, no nurses, no guidance counselors. No teachers for the blind, the deaf, the intellectually challenged. Just computer terminals. Unlimited class size, 50, 70, 100 kids. Who knows? Who can tell? Who cares? Most of these programs are set up so that the state will pay as much for a virtual education as a real one. Privatization takes many forms. One is simply the diversion of funds. Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, and Rhode Island currently allow corporations to make contributions to “scholarship funds” and deduct 75 percent to 80 percent of that money from the amount they owe in taxes. It’s a really neat way around the separation of church and state. The money can, and often does, go to religious schools, making an ellipse around the state’s actual hands, so it’s possible to pretend that it’s not government support of religious indoctrination. There’s a nifty documentary, School Choice: Taxpayer-Funded Creation, Bigotry, and Bias, on Vimeo. Highlights include: Textbooks used in schools funded by the Pennsylvania program teach that Christians can’t accept evolution, the Loch Ness monster is a real living dinosaur, there’s no global warming, the Great Depression was exaggerated to push socialism on the United States, and the Roman Catholic Church is “a perversion of biblical Christianity.” The Catholics seem willing to live with that because the same law puts public funds into Catholic schools. Down in Louisiana they’re using a voucher program to achieve the same ends. Now they’re freaking out because an Islamic school asked for some of it. The way the law was written, they absolutely can, because nobody thought there is such a thing as a religious school that isn’t Christian or Jewish. Another way to go is to hire private companies like National Heritage Academies to run tuition-free schools paid for by local school boards. NHA charter schools are strict, they have dress codes, they keep longer than usual school days, they keep out unions, they teach creationism as equivalent to evolution, and the guy who owns the company doesn’t think gay people should be hired as teachers. Bottom line, does privatization work? To bust unions, to use public funds for religious education, to support segregation, to let a few people skim profits off the top, the answer is a resounding, “Yes!” As for education, the answer is a wimpy, “Nah.” Sure, there are some individual programs that do very well. Just as there are many public schools that do very well. But every study that compares the two, as far as possible, under equal conditions, says the answer is, nah. Not a big, huge, they’re a horrible disaster, “No!” Just, nah. But who cares, that’s not what it’s really about.
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Coming Soon: Drilling in Towns That Want It By Lynn Woods It was the first sign of the lifting of the state’s four-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. On June 13, the New York Times reported that the Cuomo administration planned to allow fracking for natural gas in a few counties along the Pennsylvania border. Leaked by an unnamed senior official in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), this “trial balloon” quickly lost air as both opponents and supporters dissed the plan, according to Shale Gas Review blogger Tom Wilber, author of a book about hydrofracking called Under the Surface. The DEC provided no more details following the news article. DEC spokesperson Emily DeSantis wrote in an e-mail that the drilling moratorium will not be lifted until the agency has completed its final environmental review, which could happen by the end of the summer. The DEC is in the midst of preparing responses to the approximately 80,000 comments it received. Under the plan, only drilling in communities supportive of hydro-fracking would be allowed. Fracking opponents says this would create “sacrifice zones” that unfairly put those communities at risk. “The governor’s office is essentially telling communities to make decisions when they don’t have the information,” says Ramsay Adams, executive director of Catskill Mountainkeeper. “He wants to appease as many environmentalists as possible while moving forward with natural gas development in the most limited, protective way.” Such a solution is premature, given the inadequacy of the DEC’s environmental review and proposed regulations, says Adams. One major problem is that the DEC classifies the chemical-laden and possibly radioactive wastewater from fracked wells as nonhazardous, he notes. As it is, the DEC is allowing fracking wastewater to be disposed of at the municipal wastewater treatment facility in Niagara Falls, according to Adams. Furthermore, toxic wastewater from the state’s 14,000 vertically drilled wells (which contain the same chemicals) is being disposed of on roadways as a deicer and dust suppressor. The plan would allow drilling only in shale formations more than 2,000 feet below the surface and would require a vertical distance of at least 1,000 feet between the fractured rock and a water source, such as an aquifer. But, according to Adams, that requirement would not protect groundwater. He cites a recent study by hydrologist Tom Myers that shows fractures in the Marcellus Shale formation serve as natural conduits for the chemically laden wastewater, causing it to eventually migrate into the groundwater. Matt Ryan, who is mayor of Binghamton, which has a two-year ban on drilling, says that the natural gas companies admit to a seven percent failure rate in the cement well casings. That, coupled with the industry’s use of 596 harmful chemicals (many of them known carcinogens) in the drilling and fracking process casts serious doubt on the assertion that fracking can be done without impacting drinking water supplies, he says. “I don’t see how the governor can possibly go forward with a demonstration project,” Ryan says. “We’re supposed to know before the drilling whether it will work or not. It’s either safe in every area or it’s not safe. The reality is that in every place drilling has happened, the stories continue about the mounting failure rate.” Katherine Nadeau, water and natural resources program director at Environmental Advocates of New York, says the state’s failure to conduct an assessment of the health impacts of hydrofracking, despite an urgent request from hundreds of medical and health professionals, is another cause for concern. Plus, before allowing drilling, the state needs to ensure “a fair process for enabling communities to determine that they have the resources needed to deal with this type of development,” says Nadeau. Industry representatives welcomed the plan but said it didn’t go far enough. James Smith, spokesperson for the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York, says the plan was “a positive first step. With the proper regulation we can enjoy the economic benefits of natural gas and protect the environment.” Tom West, an Albany-based lawyer who represents the oil and gas industry, says the plan was “a step in the right direction, but I don’t think it’s necessary to limit drilling.” West says the DEC is “going too far. There are too many restrictions. You can’t have so many prohibitions and setbacks that you can’t get at the resource.”
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West adds that the rock-bottom price of natural gas means “there’s not much of a business argument for drilling in New York right now.” However, the attorney says he expects demand to increase as more power plants are converted from coal to natural gas and more liquefied natural gas fueling facilities are built for use in transportation. The companies need to drill test wells in New York to ascertain the amount and quality of the resource, West says. A permanent ban “would stimulate a lot of litigation.” Dewey Decker, who is town supervisor in Sanford, a small town in Broome County, says that 80 percent of the local populace support drilling. He was on the verge of selling off his 1,100-acre dairy farm because he could no longer make a profit when the land men arrived. Thanks to the payment he received for leasing his farm, he was able to hold on to his land and keep farming. He is head of the Deposit Landowners Coalition, which signed two leases with XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, for $110 million. The coalition represents more than 300 property owners who are collectively leasing 50,000 acres. “The government has been trying to create some kind of economy for years and years,” says Decker. “They take taxpayer money and give out grants to have businesses come in”—a strategy that hasn’t worked, given that large retailers like Wal-Mart get big tax breaks and cannibalize local businesses when they hire, Decker notes. In contrast, “gas is not creating a cost but a benefit.” Decker says the coalition’s lease agreement with XTO Energy requires the gas company to pay for road maintenance, locate wells at least 500 feet from buildings, test residents’ wells prior to drilling, and store fracking wastewater in enclosed tanks, which would be recycled in the drilling of new wells. “I’m confident the DEC is making a study strong enough to regulate the drilling and protect the water,” Decker says. “Gas is the cleanest and most abundant fuel that we have. I’m not against wind or solar, but we need to have them all.” Fracking opponents contest the assumption that fracked gas is clean. High levels of greenhouse gases are emitted from the diesel equipment and trucks in the gas fields and compression stations, Ryan notes. Unfortunately, the DEC’s environmental review does not look at the alternatives for a clean energy future, he says. Rather than buying into gas drilling, which is “a short-term vision, just a way to get rich,” Cuomo “should make the state a leader in clean energy by producing windmills, putting in photovoltaics, and growing biofuels.” Once drilling comes to New York, there’s no turning back, says Adams. “This industry is building a natural gas infrastructure that will force us to be addicted to a fossil fuel for the next 50 years. What we’re doing is handing over an opportunity to save ourselves from falling off the climate cliff.” Can drilling be done safely? Shale Gas Review blogger Wilber says the answer is yes, hypothetically. “For me it starts with transparency,” he says. That would mean rescinding of the so-called Halliburton loophole, which exempts fracking from the oversight of all federal environmental laws, by the president and the Environmental Protection Agency—a possibility under Obama but definitely not under Romney, Wilber says. While the oversupply of natural gas has eased the political urgency to drill, Wilber says that will change given the growing demand for a cheap source of energy in India and China. The natural gas industry sees itself as a global leader in meeting this need, he adds. “We have a huge shale gas reserve and the industry here has a two-decade lead over other places,” he says. While exporting natural gas to overseas markets would obviously be a sensitive political issue, Wilber says the first facility for liquefying natural gas for export overseas has been approved on the Gulf Coast. “As more money comes on the table, there could be a lot more pushing and shoving,” says Wilber. “The gas industry can push hard.” But so can activists. “The truth will overcome corporate greed here in New York,” says Adams. “So far, we’re just practicing. The war starts when they poke a hole in the ground. Our one hundred thousand [activists] will turn into a million.”
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Building with Resale in Mind The client’s brother bought the property as an investment. His only requirement of his sister was that she take charge of its environmental renewal, while also overseeing the building of a main house and a guest house for their mother. Not one to put down roots, due to a peripatetic disposition, the siblings anticipated that the estate would be theirs to enjoy for about a decade, and then probably sold. “Even with resale in mind, we knew that with this client, we could explore fun alternatives,” says the architect. North River won the work in spring 2010 and initiated the collaborative design process that summer. “We use SketchUp for the conceptual stage,” says Bassler. “Few people seem to know about this free software from Google. We like it because it’s so experiential, in three dimensions, for the client.” A dilemma about cutting down an old-growth oak tree was solved by making it the surreal focal point of the main house. Blanched of its bark, the oak stands today in nearly the same spot as it did when growing. It’s a joyful touch. Since the residence was conceived of as an accretive family compound, there are presently several secondary projects that are ongoing. For example, a 27-foot 1975 Airstream trailer bought on Craig’s List will eventually connect to the main house. It’s
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Above top: Stephanie Bassler and Peter Reynolds of North River Architecture & Planning in front of the studio at the Woodstock area house they designed. Above Bottom: A child’s laboratory off the kitchen, with the studio seen through the glass door. Opposite: The house, with studio on the left. Page 33: Looking past the rope swing up to the loft bedroom from the living room..
The Cook, Her Zen Treehouse, and Almost No Furniture The new residence freshly interprets the archetypal cabin in the woods.The galvalume standing-seam metal roof, and corrugated metal cladding around the kitchen exterior, contrast texturally with vertical pine siding. There’s lots of glass. It’s wrapped by screened or open porches. To date, the client has made just three major purchases to finish the interior—a six-burner stove, the mud room’s Yugoslavian midcentury modern bench, and an adjustable overhead light designed by Germany’s acclaimed Ingo Maurer. The bench came from a Brooklyn flea market.
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What plants are the easiest for beginners to learn topiary on? Keith Buesing: Pretty much any plant will work if the conditions are right. Generally, though, you avoid coarsely branched, big-leaf shrubs like rhododendrons in favor of shrubs with smaller leaves and finer branching. Boxwood is my number one go-to. It’s deer resistant, evergreen, and takes a certain amount of shade. There’s a common misconception that boxwood is slow growing, but there are some varieties, like Winter Gem, that grow pretty quickly. I also like Green Mountain boxwood and the variety called Winter Green.You can use a string of planted boxwood to create something interesting [like a reclining womanly figure at Buesing’s place]. By using a series of plants (rather than one big one) to compose your topiary, you are able to readily swap out individual plants if one shrub dies or has major damage. Burning bush is another great shrub for beginners. You can shape it into a heart, and then in the fall when it colors up, you’ve got a red heart. Yews are great for topiary but you have to plant them only where deer aren’t prevalent, like in busy towns or where there’s extensive deer fencing. I also like arborvitae (but again, beware the deer) and different types of junipers. The Hetzi juniper grows nice and fast, as does the one called Sea Green. These cultivars put on a good foot of growth a year, which is significant for a juniper. Mercifully, the deer don’t bother junipers. 7/12 chronogram home 37
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How often do you have to trim topiary to maintain their shape, and what tools do you use? Buesing: It depends on how fast growing they are; boxwoods I visit twice a year, in June and then August. Other things that are fast growing like a Rosy Glow barberry I might trim three or four times a year. The stegosaurus/dragon at Ireland Corners I trim once a year after it fluffs out with new growth in mid to late June. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s composed of yews for the body, blue junipers for the feet, and golden arborvitae for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;fins.â&#x20AC;? About 95 percent of the time, I use hand shears, as they give me way more control and allow me to do finer work than do gas-powered hedge shears. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most common frustration new topiarists report? Buesing: Commonly, the topiary is not happening as quickly as people might hope, depending on how elaborate the design is. A common misconception is that you walk up to a plant and just shape it immediately like you would a piece of woodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one time and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re done. In fact, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to revisit this plant numerous times to get it into the shape you want, and you always will. Even in my own experience, I frequently find that when I go back to a shrub thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got all this new growth, I think, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that great.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a picture thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out of focus and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not that psyched about it. But then I trim it up and stand back and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, yeah. This is actually something awesome.â&#x20AC;? So some patience and perspective are helpful. Any other tips for the topiarian-minded? Buesing: You have to work with the growth habit of the plants. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to make something tall out of boxwood because that would take a long time, but something prostrate, like lizards or people lying on the groundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you can build that out of a number of boxwood plants very quickly, almost instantaneously. So think low-profile when you are getting started. Let shapes suggest themselves based on new growth, and let the creatures morph over time. For instance, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dragonâ&#x20AC;? in Ireland Corners started out as a basic traditional crocodile. But every year, eight or 10 inches of new growth would come out on it. So, for instance, on the tail, I used that new growth to make spikes, and in the mouth, I used the fluffy growth to make teeth. The last thing to develop on that was a forked tongue that came to me when I was contemplating new growth coming out of the creatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mouth. Try not to impose your will too much, but rather, be open to suggestion. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need special training. Just look at pictures for inspiration and go out and do it. If you make a mistake, most shrubs will grow back, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get to try again.
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How do you know which individual shrub at the nursery to pick out? Buesing: It depends on what your goal shape is. I did an arborvitae topiary for the Living Seed Yoga Studio and we decided on a person standing with hands in prayer position. I knew the basic shape so I went to the nursery and looked through arborvitaes to find that one that had thick growth up top for the head and shoulders and had a little extra material in front that I knew I could use to make hands. If you pick well, the general silhouette can come out right away. In this case, after one growing season you got the idea that it was a person standing there, and now you can really see the arms and hands.
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I also recommend trying out the barberriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;greens, reds, and bright yellows. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not evergreens, but they grow very fast and they get very thick from trimming. I also like to work with viburnums, spireas, and forsythia. The forsythia is neat because you get a shape that is flaming yellow in spring, then the leaves are a pretty green in the summer, then the plant has some underappreciated burgundy fall color.
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drive through the town of Gardiner provides many views typical of other Ulster County locales—bucolic fields, winding roads, looming mountains—with one unique exception: You might see people falling from the sky. Thrill seekers and natureenthusiasts flock to Gardiner to take part in the vast array of outdoor activities available, including skydiving. On a sunny weekend, The Ranch hosts up to 250 tandem jumpers. But with the Shawangunk Ridge watching over the town, hiking, biking, and climbing reign as top heart-pumping activities. Those who are less inclined to scale rock faces, however, have plenty of options for ground-level activities.There is a small but interesting row of shops along Main Street, including Hi Ho Home Market and Antique Center, one of the coolest home-goods stores in the area, with two floors of vintage and contemporary wares. Items for sale are set up in themed rooms with scenes so perfectly designed that you feel as though you’re walking through a dollhouse. There’s even a Christmas room, guaranteed to bring out your inner 12-year-old with sparkly ornaments, faux trees of various sizes, jolly Santas, and other red-and-green merriment. Just across the street is the Village Market & Café, the sort of hometown joint where nobody’s a stranger. They offer a varied menu of sandwiches, salads, and baked goods, plus a case containing some less-expected options—lime and cilantro slaw and veggie burgers, for instance. Not to mention, tasty treats baked so fresh they put 44 new paltz + gardiner ChronograM 7/12
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Although Christine DeBoer, originally from Miami, has lived in the Hudson Valley for less than a decade, she understands the importance of protecting the region’s natural landscape. As the executive director of the Wallkill Valley Land Trust, she sees the same beauty that’s inspired countless artists, activists, and naturalists, and has made it her goal to conserve the integrity of the land as much as possible for future generations. “What I love most about this job is working with people in this area— there is so much passion for the land,” DeBoer says. “I find that a lot of people who move away often end up coming back because of how much they love the region. And many landowners want to protect their properties from development.” DeBoer, 34, came to New York for grad school and her love of rock climbing. She was the first person to graduate from Bard’s dual master’s program, with degrees in environmental policy and in teaching. She was offered the executive director position three years ago and has worked an average of 60 hours per week to bring various projects to life, including extending the New Paltz-Gardiner portion of the rail trail through Rosendale and Ulster, and the restoration of the Rosendale trestle. The next project lined up is creating public trails across 118 acres on Joppenburgh Mountain, also in Rosendale. “The main mission of the Land Trust is to create legal land-protection agreements that place restrictions on what can be done to a property, in order to protect its conservation value,” she explains. These restrictions— called easements—are forever binding; they cannot be removed. They can only become more restrictive. “We monitor the land annually and legally uphold the landowner’s wishes to ensure it won’t be developed or mistreated. This becomes more difficult as the land is sold to second and third owners, but so far people have responded well and we’ve avoided going to court,” she says. To date, they’ve placed more than 1,600 acres in conservation easements in southern Ulster County alone. DeBoer doesn’t have much spare time outside of her job, but she has devoted most of it to another passion of hers: dogs. “I love my two dogs and I know so many people who wish there was a dog park around here,” she says. “So I’ve been working with others for about two and a half years to create a safe space for dogs to run.” The city asked the group to become a nonprofit—now For Paws of Ulster, Inc.—and they’ve acquired land at the Field of Dreams recreational area in New Paltz. “It’s not always easy, but these are the things I love the most,” she says. “I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.” Wallkillvalleylt.org
Blueberry. Within the nucleus of the village, there are two record stores, a few indie bookshops (secondhand shoppers must stop by Barner Books, constantly stocked with tomes that once belonged to philosophical college kids, homesteading farmers, and admirers of beat literature), a couple of art supply shops, and a handful of java joints that stand completely unintimidated by the Starbucks a few doors down. But there is only one heavy-metal thrift shop— perhaps in the whole region. Crazy Dan’s Secondhand Hardcore and More, formerly Déjà vu Thrifts, offers new and used shirts, records, CDs, jewelry, and more for those into heavy metal and punk culture.While it might seem out of place in a “hippie town,” it only adds to the increasingly eclectic culture. “I get a surprising amount of people who stop in and go, ‘Finally! A metal store!’” says owner “Crazy” Dan Chisena. “There’s nothing like this around here and New Paltz seemed like the best place for one. The people are very accepting and the customers appreciate the shop. Even people who aren’t metalheads.” Most likely inspired by the multicultural student body at the college, dining options are impressively varied for such a short distance. Go around the world in 80 plates with Greek meals at Yanni, Thai dishes at Lemongrass, sushi and Asian cuisine at Neko Sushi or Gomen-Kudasai Noodle House, falafel and Mediterrranean fare at Anatolia, A Tavola’s Italian dishes, Eastern options from Suruchi and the New Paltz Indian Restaurant, Caribbean from Jamaican Choice, and others. And of course, American fare can be found at Zagat-rated 36 Main, the award-winning Main Course, and Main Street Bistro, where there’s guaranteed to be a line out the door on weekends, but it’s worth it for their make-your-own omelets and savory jambalaya. Even the smaller eateries are worth a visit: There’s a vegan café with killer smoothies (Karma Road); a gluten-free haven, Rock da Pasta, with funky rock décor and groovy rainbow cheesecake; Hudson Valley fried-chicken chain Kennedy Fried Chicken, plus almost 10 pizza joints within a two-mile radius. But one of the most beautiful things about food in New Paltz is that the town is abundant with accessible farm stands, orchards, and CSAs; it’s hard to not find fresh produce. During the summer, Phillies Bridge Farm Project,Taliaferro Farms, and other CSAs provide helpings of fruits, vegetables, and flora to 7/12 ChronograM new paltz + gardiner 49
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its members in exchange for a monthly fee and occasional helping hand on the farm. In autumn, New Paltz has cemented itself as the place-to-be for apple picking, hayrides, and fall foliage drives. There are a number of apple orchards that allow visitors to load up on fruits—locals know them as “U-Pick-’Em” spots—such as Apple Hill Farm near the college and the tucked-away Minard Farms, which is famous for its bottled cider sold in stores around the Valley. Truffle Shuffle And when you eat enough apples, it’s okay to splurge on decadent chocolates, right? (Maybe just a little truffle?) In the last year or so, a collection of chocolate shops have nested in town. While the shop Sweet offers chocolates of various bold flavors at Water Street Market, a spacious outpost of the popular Saugerties-based Krause Chocolates has opened just off Main Street. There you’ll find everything from fruity truffles, to handmade gummies, to chocolate Darth Vaders (dark chocolate, of course). Lagusta’s Luscious makes you feel even less guilty about indulging in a chocolate fix: Everything chocolatier/ owner Lagusta Yearwood creates is vegan, organic, and sourced via fair trade. “We believe that both the people who produce the chocolates and the earth from which the cacao beans come should be treated fairly and with respect and sustainability,” Yearwood says. Her chocolates have been for sale online for almost nine years, but she purchased a storefront (formerly a rundown laundromat) in March 2011 and has attracted a steady combination of locals and out-of-towners with unique flavor combinations. Try the Rosemary Sea Salt Caramels or the New Paltz Truffle, made with local black currant brandy and blueberries from the Shawangunk Ridge. “We’re passionate about using local ingredients in our chocolates, and New Paltz really respects and loves our local farmers, so it’s a natural fit,” she says. “We love New Paltz with our whole hearts. It’s the weirdest, most awesome town I’ve ever been to.” While it’s easy to spend a full day wandering in and out of shops, dining in town, and drooling over the sugary pastries at The Bakery (a must-see for any sweet tooth), one would be remiss to not take advantage of the numerous outdoor activities New Paltz allows. The Wallkill River runs right through town and is usually in ideal condition for kayaking or canoeing. The stunning Mohonk Mountain House allows tours of its grounds and hikes of various levels; rumor has it author Stephen King has been seen here. One could also do a moderate trek to view the Awosting Falls, swim in Lake Minnewaska, climb the Trapps—the most commonly scaled part of the Shawangunk Ridge—or bike along Route 299 when the road is lined with stalks of sunflowers, then meet back in town for a pint at the Gilded Otter Brewing Co. and swap stories about your adventures with the wide-eyed folks sitting next to you. Then get ready for that nightlife.
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EVENTS Hudson Valley Chalk Art Festival Chalk art is celebrated because of its beauty and impermanence— it can all wash away after a single rain. This three-day chalk festival takes place July 20-22 from 10am-6pm at the Water Street Market in New Paltz and features 12 of the top chalk artists in the U.S. creating vivid and/or 3D images to be enjoyed while they last. Eleven local artists will create their own visions as well. 10 Main Street, New Paltz. Hudsonvalleychalkfestival.com
Gardiner 5K Classic Run/Walk Now in its 10th year, this annual 5K benefits the Gardiner Fire Department and the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail. The race takes place at 6:30pm, starting at George Majestic Memorial Park, with a separate Fun Run for kids at 7:30pm. Awards are given by gender and age group, and there is a free barbecue for all competitors. Murphy Lane, Gardiner. Townofgardiner.org
Ulster County Fair Carnival rides, live music, country crafts, a petting zoo, and— of course—pig races await you at the Ulster County Fair, July 31-August 5. One-price admission includes parking, entertainment, and rides at only $15, free for children under age four. Performances by the McClymonts, Justin Moore, Joey and So much of our culture is centered around fitness for weight loss. Peter Nathan, owner and director of Gunx CrossFit in Gardiner, places an emphasis on strength training and preventative health and has been able to help people transform their bodies, minds, and lives. “It’s really rewarding, especially to see many of our female members start out hesitant to lift anything, then get a lot stronger and lift impressive weights,” he says. “It’s been very empowering to them to see their physical strength increase because, for many of them, that translates to emotional strength and social strength. Nathan, age 60, has 30 years of formal experience in physical training. He was an athlete through high school, then joined a professional modern dance company in college. “I realized I couldn’t make much of a living through dance, but physical movement has always been my passion, so I studied applied physiology in grad school and worked for one of the first PT studios in New York City,” he explains. He became a physical director at a YMCA, then worked in a cardio pulmonary and orthopedic rehab center for 10 years. When he had enough of the insurance companies dictating how he can best treat a patient, he opened a Pilates studio in his native New Jersey. He moved to Gardiner four years ago and established the CrossFit center in a barn on his property. “It was small and there was very little insulation, so it was cold in the winter, and there was no indoor plumbing,” he says, “but it was fun and we developed a real community over three years. Once we hit about 50 members we needed a bigger space. We’ve been in our new location for about a year and it has showers, more room, and it’s located right next to the rail trail, so you can go for a run through nature then come in for strength training.” Nathan ensures that his five-person staff and the gym’s members focus on communal support. “We’re not like those places where you get on an elliptical, plug into a TV or whatever and avoid talking to anyone,” he says. “My gym sets aside particular times for small groups to work out. Everyone kind of looks out for each other and encourages each other; some even choose to go get coffee together after workouts or organize hikes to the Ridge. We have a great group.” As for his personal fitness goals, Nathan is attending the finals in the annual CrossFit Games this month. “Three years ago they started the Masters competition portion, which is open to people over 50,” he explains, “and only 20 people in the world are going. It’s airing on ESPN mid-July and is sold out. This is usually the type of show a person sees on TV that makes them feel intimidated by CrossFit gyms. There are some fantastically strong and talented people, that’s true, but everybody starts somewhere and needs instruction at some point. That’s where I can help. It’s what I love to do.” Gunxcrossfit.typepad.com
Rory, and others take place during the evening while chainsaw carving, children’s events, and 4-H activities are showcased during the day. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. Ulstercountyfair.com
Hudson Valley RibFest With a slew of barbecue joints popping up around the Hudson Valley, it’s no surprise the Hudson Valley RibFest is quickly becoming one of the biggest annual food festivals. Nearly 14,000 people were in attendance last year to sample and vote for their favorite barbecue-slathered, dry-rubbed, and fall-offthe-bone ribs. This year, 50 teams will compete for prize money and bragging rights for a New York State Championship title on August 18-19 at the Ulster County Fairgrounds. There will also be a demonstration tent, children’s activity area, and live music by Exit 19, Thunder Ridge, and Chain Gang. Hudsonvalleyribfest.org
Center for Symbolic Studies Mid-Summer Arts Festival Located near the border of New Paltz and Rosendale, the Center for Symbolic Studies is a place where myth is examined, archetypes are discussed, and inspiration is found in nature. This two-day event takes place July 31-August 1 and allows attendees to explore the grounds, hike, play games, attend workshops, and listen to some live music by Bakana!, Laterno, Collin Couvillion, Trevor Extor, and others. Workshops include drumming, flying trapeze skills, children’s stories, singing, and more. Symbolicstudies.org
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Relax at Roots & Wings Country Getaway, located near the “Gunks” in the New Paltz and Gardiner area, featuring privacy and comfort in a restful setting with beautiful views. Choose the Garden Room; or the Mountain Studio Apt, also available for longer stays. Visit our website:
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KARMA TRIYANA DHARMACHAKRA Monastery retreat center in a serene, traditional Tibetan Buddhist setting Enjoy delicious vegetarian meals and rooms with woodland mountain views. Private interviews with lamas and Rinpoches Free Meditation Instruction Weds. 7:00-8:00 PM, Sat. 2:00-3:00 PM 335 Meads Mt. Rd, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5906, ex: 3 www.kagyu.org
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laura levine Browsing the racks of vintage clothing on the porch at Mystery Spot Antiques on Main Street in Phoenicia.
Paying it Backward A Hudson Valley Antiques Tour
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By Erik Ofgang
or antique lovers and collectors, sometimes it is not just finding a new piece, but the search itself that provides the joy of antiquing. That may be why the Hudson Valley is such a hot spot for the antiques industry. Not only is the region full of antiques stores that offer classic items and have atmospheres full of quirk and character, but the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley makes the search pleasant, whether you find what you’re looking for or not. As you search through antiques shops, many of which are located within walking distance of one another in villages like Cold Spring and Hudson, you’re almost guaranteed to find classic items you may not have even realized you were searching for. Some antiques dealers think the term “antique” can have a negative connotation and sometimes conjures images of old, worn, and dust-covered junk. But antiques lovers know that a true antique is not merely old, but classic. It is an item that has stood the test of time, and hearkens to an era a buyer may have a connection to. True antiques have character and a story to tell, and when you purchase the item you add to that story. The Hudson Valley is full of classic items and the stories that surround them. Thelma Zwirn, owner of the Millbrook Antiques Mall, says that the Hudson Valley has been a popular antiquing destination for some time, most likely as a result of the region’s rich history. “It’s probably because we have an early history. We have a long history here, and we have a lot of old things,” she says. She adds that antiquing in this country gained huge mainstream appeal “around the time that Jackie Kennedy was in the White House. That was the time that antiques became very interesting to people and it just exploded in popularity. That was in the 1960s, when she did the tour of the White House [for NBC TV in 1962]. It spurred an interest in antiques in the general public.” Zwirn’s store is a 3,000-square-foot space. She works with 25 antiques dealers and carries a wide variety of items. In particular, she specializes in American and European antiques from the 18th to 20th centuries. Zwirn said that in recent years “there’s been an increased interest in midcentury Americana items by young people, which has brought a younger set of costumers into antique stores.” She says that the younger generations concept “of what an
antique is, is a little different,” but once they’re in the store they are exposed to all types of antiques. A Mecca of antiquing in the Hudson Valley—and the country for that matter— can be found in the city of Hudson, which is home to more than 80 antiquesrelated businesses and shops. In this antiques lovers paradise you can find shops that carry decorative objects, home furnishings, items dating from the 17th century all the way to the contemporary. During the 1980s and 1990s, the city began to develop a reputation for its antiques stores, dozens of which lined Warren Street, the city’s main thoroughfare. Over time, a distinct yet hard-to-define “Hudson look” developed. On its website, the Hudson Valley Antiques Dealers Association (HADA) defines the Hudson style with the following statement: “No two antiques dealers define their trade in quite the same way. And yet, there is a certain Hudson ‘look’ which emerges from the wildly divergent styles and prices around town. Often, that look arises from sensibilities which see beyond categories and conventions. Few Hudson shops deal strictly in one period or style, preferring to mix high and low, old and new, pristine and distressed.” The HADA website also has information about various antiques shops and galleries in Hudson and offers helpful tips on antiquing in the city. On the opposite side of the Hudson River, New Paltz, is home to another antiques destination, the Water Street Market. The outdoor market is a Europeaninspired grouping of antique shops, galleries, boutiques, and restaurants located along the Wallkill River, at the base of the Shawangunk Ridge. Walter Marquez manages the Water Street Market and two antiques shops within the market—the Antiques Barn and Antiques on Main. “We sell everything from small [items] glassware, pottery, china, fabrics, art, you-name-it, to larger pieces such as furniture,” he says. “We price our items very fairly so they will move out quickly. Our customers have learned if they see it and like it, they should buy it quickly, as it might not be there the next time they come in.” Marquez says antiquing in the Hudson Valley is popular for a variety of reasons. “We are close enough to major population areas such as New York City, Long 7/12 ChronograM Antiquing in the hudson valley 57
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Island, Northern Jersey, Westchester, etc., and prices are fair. We have established businesses and there are so many things [to do] along with antiquing, that people can spend a day or a weekend.” The village of Rhinebeck is home to the Antique Market, which is located in an historic barn at the Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn. Marlene Johnson, the manager of the antiques market, says, “We have over 35 dealers and they each specialize in a different style of merchandise. We have regular costumers, and of course on the weekend we get a lot of people who are visiting Rhinebeck or traveling through.” She says the proximity of other antiques shops in Rhinebeck and surrounding towns helps draw people who are passionate about antiques to the region, and helps provide more options for people who are looking for something in particular. Hudson Valley Auctioneers in Beacon conducts regular antiques and estate auctions. Neil Vaughn is the auctioneer of Hudson Valley Auctioneers and has more than 20 years of experience conducting antiques and estate auctions. He previously held the position of auctioneer at Cold Spring Galleries, a wellrespected auction gallery that conducted regular auctions in Cold Spring, and later in Beacon, for over two decades.Vaughn’s areas of knowledge include art, pottery, native Indian objects, arts and crafts, art glass, bronzes, folk art, and more. This knowledge helps ensure that both buyers and sellers are treated fairly at Hudson Valley Auctioneers. The village of Montgomery is also home to several antiques stores within walking distance of one another. Among them is the Clinton Shops Antique Center, located at 84 Clinton Street.The shop was opened in 1985 by husband and wife Steve and Nina Snyder. Since opening, the couple has grown the business to include additional merchants. Currently, 12 dealers share their wares at the shop. The merchandise spans from the early 1800s to the current midcentury period. In Phoenicia, an unusual retail establishment can be found in Mystery Spot Antiques on Main Street. The store’s owner, Laura Levine, proudly describes the place as the “Catskills' shrine to clutter.” She adds that the store “is home to an amazing array of hand-picked vintage clothing, old housewares, antiquarian art books, rusticalia, midcentury lighting, found objects, and thousands of used records.” “We’ve been in business since 2001—this is our 11th season in Phoenicia. People tell us that Mystery Spot Antiques is the kind of vintage store they didn’t think existed anymore. Part museum and part odditorium, every nook and cranny of its seven rooms in a former 1800s Main Street hotel is packed to the ceilings with 100 percent vintage goodness,” she says. Levine has a background as a passionate collector. “I opened the Mystery Spot as an outlet to contain the overflow of vintage items collected at weekend yard sales, flea markets, and auctions. Every weekend I try to bring in fresh stacks of vintage vinyl dug out of a recently purchased estate collection of over 15,000 used records, and armfuls of killer vintage clothing fresh from estate sales,” she says. “Being near Woodstock, we’ve picked up some incredible period hippie clothing. We don’t always go for the names—it’s the pieces themselves and of course, this keeps the prices way down.” Her passion for collecting has paid off. Her store has a loyal following of costumers and has played host to celebrities such as B-52s singer Kate Pierson and iconic punk rock drummer Tommy Ramone. For Levine, the greatest joy of her job is “whenever a perfect match is made between the item and the customer.” She adds, “I recall one killer 1960s—babysoft and very unusual—handmade leather jacket which came from its original Woodstock owner, which was then purchased by a young woman who it fit like a glove.” For antiques lovers, it’s perfect finds like that which make searching for antiques worthwhile. And sometimes the harder you search for something, the greater the joy of discovery is. For weekend treasure hunters, it’s not only the final item that matters, but also the joy of the quest, or as the old saying goes, “It’s not the destination—it’s the journey.” RESOURCES Hudson Valley Antiques Dealers Association Hudsonantiques.net Millbrook Antiques Mall Millbrookantiquesmall.com Water Street Market Waterstreetmarket.com Antiques Barn Newpaltzantiqesbarn.com Antique Market Beekmandelamaterinn.com/market.htm Hudson Valley Auctioneers Hudsonvalleyauctioneers.com Clinton Shops Antique Center Clintonshops.com Mystery Spot Antiques Mysteryspotantiques.com
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An installation view at Unison Arts Center in 2011 from Suspended Carbon by Keiko Sono. Sono’s work is featured in Round 5 of the “Masters on Main Street,” storefront exhibition in Catskill, opening July 14.
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442 MAIN STREET, BEACON 418-4840. “Secret Messages.” Julianna Swane. Through July 9.
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1601 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON-ON-HUDSON 424-3960. “Current.” Summer sculpture exhibition. Through October 8.
69 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2650. “Eileen Polk: On the Scene, Max’s Kansas City Photography and Beyond.” Through July 1. “Ricky Powell Photography: Ricky at 50...A Zooted Retrospective.” July 6-September 3. Opening Saturday, July 21, 6pm-8pm.
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AMERICAN GLORY 342 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1234. “Photography of Chad Weckler.” Through July 29.
THE ART AND ZEN GALLERY 702 FREEDOM PLAINS ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3334. “Works by Ilga Ziemins-Kurens.” July 21-August 31. Opening Saturday, July 21, 4pm-7pm.
ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN ST., PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Harper Blanchet Solo Show.” Paintings and photographs. Through July 14. “Something Simple.” Through July 15. “Visual History: A Group Show.” Solo room shows: Lynn Fliegel, Liz Smith and Robert Ricard. July 21-August 12. Opening Saturday, July 21, 6pm-12am.
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CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Avedisian: Paintings and Drawings.” Featuring works by the late Edward Avedisian. July 12-August 12. Opening Saturday, July 14, 6pm-8pm.
CLOCKTOWER 65 MAIN STREET, WARWICK WarwickFA.com/events. “In Motion.” A group show featuring Orange County Artists exploring motion, dynamics, and action. Through July 27.
COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “Poets and Painters.” A visual and literary exhibition that will showcase poems that were the inspiration for artwork. July 28-September 14. Opening Saturday, July 28, 5pm-7pm.
COLUMBIA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 11 NORTH FRONT STREET, HUDSON Artscolumbia.org/member_exhibitions. “Potpourri: An Exhibition of Art.” Herb Rogoff. Through July 14.
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54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244. “Luminous Landscape.” Paintings by Betsy Jacaruso. Through July 21. “Tests of Time.” Iconic photographs by Brian Hamill. Through July 21.
3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON. 440-0100. “Jean-Luc Moulène: Opus + One.” Through December 31. “Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive.” Through September 24.
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DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Wizard of Id.” Acrylics by Kim Schneider. July 7-28. Opening Saturday, July 7, 5pm-7pm.
FAITH IN ART GALLERY FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BEACON Beaconpresbychurch.com. “Who Do You Say That I Am? Discovering Images of God-with-Us in the Gospel of Luke.” Work in various mediums by seventeen artists from diverse backgrounds who have been inspired, challenged, and disturbed by a serious encounter with the Gospel of Luke facilitated by Rev. Ben Larson-Wolbrink. Through July 29.
FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. “Moved By Summer.” New watercolors by Doreen Pagano Halsall and Wendie Garber. Through August 26.
GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “In a Big World Wandering.” Bryan David Griffith. Through July 9.
GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Whale Oil to Whole Foods.” Eco art exhibit. Through July 28.
GERMANTOWN LIBRARY 31 PALATINE PARK ROAD, GERMANTOWN (518) 537-5800. “Reflections on Life: The KEEP Conservation Germantown Preserve, Spring 2012.” Amateur and professional photography exhibit. Through July 27.
GOOD PURPOSE GALLERY 40 MAIN STREET, LEE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 394-5045. “Kayla Corby & Myrna Lieb Citron.” Through July 30.
HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE 1843 WEST HOUSATONIC, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (800) 817-1137. “A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA.” Through October 28.
THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “John MacDonald & Paul Caponigro.” Landscape paintings and photography. July 7-31. Opening Saturday, July 7, 5pm-7pm.
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HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “From 199A to 199B: Liam Gillick.” Through December 21.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Donald Alter: Chromatic Tales.” Paintings, drawings, prints. Through July 5.
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HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Treasures of the Hudson Valley’s Night Sky.” Astrophotography exhibit by Scott Nammacher. Through July 8.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “CIRCA 1986.” 70 artworks from more than 40 international artists who emerged with significant artworks between 1981 and 1991. Through July 31.
IMOGEN HOLLOWAY GALLERY 81 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES (347) 387-3212. “Oil Paintings by April Berger and Brian Lynch.” Through July 1.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Paintings by Linnea Paskow.” July 19-August 12. “Paintings by Priscilla Derven.” July 19-August 12. “Paintings: Pamela Cardwell.” Through July 15. “Shadows.” Lisa Sanders. July 19-August 12. “Works by Brenda Goodman.” July 19-August 12. “Works by Leonid Lerman.” July 19-August 12. “Works by Louise Fishman.” July 19-August 12. Opening Saturday, July 21, 6pm-8pm.
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34 TINKER AVE, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Beautiful Garbage.” Art made out of or directly inspired by garbage. The seven artists featured in the exhibition—Josh Blackwell, Tasha Depp, Amy Mahnick, Shari Mendelson, Christy Rupp, Ilene Sunshine and Kristen Wicklund. Through August 12. Opening Saturday, July 7, 3pm-12am.
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288 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 338-1300. “A Summer Feast.” Paintings by Virginia Giordano and Jennifer Leighton. July 1-August 31. Opening Saturday, July 21, 11am-1pm.
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LOOK|ART GALLERY 988 SOUTH LAKE BLVD., MAHOPAC Lookartgallery.com. “Members’ Exhibit.” Paintings, pastel, mixed media, sculpture, fiber. Through July 29.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Disrobed: A Group Show.” Exhibition of the human figure. Through July 7.
MCDARIS FINE ART 623 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-9896. “Found: New Sculpture.” Mark Wasserbach. Through July 8.
MOUNT TREMPER ARTS 647 S. PLANK ROAD, MOUNT TREMPER 688-9893.
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ORANGE HALL GALLERY ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “An Appetite for Art.” Botanical paintings of Ronni Oxley. Through July 19. Opening Sunday, July 8, 2pm-4pm.
ORIOLE 9 17 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-5763. “Carl Van Brunt: Digital Photography.” Through July 10. “Ellen Miret: Glass Artist.” July 17-August 14. Opening Saturday, July 21, 5pm-7pm.
THE PAINTERS ART GALLERY 1109 MAIN STREET, FLEISCHMANNS (347) 204-5833. “Discreet Aspects of the Whole.” Photography by Paul Savage. Through August 5.
RE INSTITUTE 1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON TheReInstitute.com. “Photos of Things Next to Me.” Ryan Frank, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, and Greg Lock. Through July 21.
RED HOOK COMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK 7516 NORTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK redhookcan@gmail.com. “Gardens and Landscapes of the Hudson Valley.” Sponsored by Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens. Through July 15.
RHINECLIFF HOTEL 4 GRINNELL STREET, RHINECLIFF 876-0590. “David Borenstein: Selected Works 2010-2012.” Exhibit of recent photographs, assemblages, and paintings. Through July 8.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Hudson Valley Light.” Oil paintings by Paul Abrams. Through July 9.
ROOS ARTS 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE (718) 755-4726. “Dirty Messy Painting In Collaboration with Gerben Mulder.” Through July 22.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ 257-3844. “Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012.” Through November 4.
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STORM KING ART CENTER OLD PLEASANT HILL ROAD, MOUNTAINVILLE 534-3115. “Light and Landscape.” Through November 25.
TEAM LOVE RAVENHOUSE GALLERY 11 CHURCH STREET, NEW PALTZ Tl-rh.com. “Every Player is a Star: Will Johnson’s Baseball Paintings.” Through September 7.
THEO GANZ STUDIO 149 MAIN STREET, BEACON Theoganzstudio.com. “Summer Blues.” Group show featuring 13 artists. July 14-September 2. Opening Monday, July 16, 6pm-8pm.
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-7465. “Worlds Between—Landscapes of Louis Ramy Mignot.” Through October 28.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Second Nature.” Through July 22.
TOWN OF ESOPUS PUBLIC LIBRARY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Paintings by Kim Schneiders.” July 7-27.
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Stars Aligned David Arner By Peter Aaron Photograph by Fionn Reilly
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ot five minutes from the campus of Bard College is Barrytown, a shady hamlet of Red Hook tucked along the edge the Hudson. Sitting there like a tiny toy is the area’s former post office and general store, a one-room 18th-century shoebox reopened this year as the Barrytown Archive arts space. Inside, David Arner, on keyboard and baliphon, and George Quasha, on Roland Octapad and snare drum, are playing before a packed house. Their unspoken conversation is animated. The squiggling blips and squeaks and the sampled organ and vibes emanating from Arner’s device comingle with Quasha’s frenzied tapping, which sounds at times like hard rain on a corrugated roof. Between pieces, Arner looks over at his accompanist and calls out a number. “32,” he says. Quasha nods dryly, and plays. The piece ends. “43.” The next piece begins and ends. “35.” And so on. What is this, a secret language? Some arsenal of obscure aphorisms à la Brian Eno’s mysterious “Oblique Strategies” cards? Arner laughs when the questions are put to him in his Kingston home the following day. “No, no,” he explains. “Those numbers were just the presets for George’s electronic drums, some sounds that we’ve found and liked as we’ve jammed over the years.What George does with those sounds, and what I do around them, aren’t planned at all. That music’s totally improvised, with no predetermined ideas.” With a pianist whose innovations have lately astonished the jazz world, one might be forgiven for assuming the shop talk was yet more evidence of his deep creativity. Locally for several years, however, it was perhaps more as a curator of creativity that Arner was known. From 2003 to 2007 he ran the New Vanguard Series in Kingston, a vital weekly event that presented performances by the free jazz/improvised scene’s top players. Yet while he did play occasionally inside and outside of the series, Arner, 61, had largely put his own music aside. And since moving on from his self-sacrificing role he’s been knocking out acclaimed recordings and snagging high-profile gigs at music meccas like New York’s the Stone and elsewhere. It’s vindicating to see the pianist, whose startling style blends the bristly dissonance of Cecil Taylor with the fragile lyricism of Keith Jarrett, enjoying the renaissance that has him at last getting the attention he deserves. Born and raised in Bayside, Queens, Arner was an explorer from a young age. “I loved riding my bicycle through the side streets, taking the bus or the train into Manhattan and going to museums and performances,” says the composer-musician, who counts among his formative experiences one of Leonard Bernstein’s celebrated Young People’s Concerts, a 1964 Living Theatre staging of “The Brig,” a radio broadcast of Vladimir Horowitz’s 1965 Carnegie Hall return concert, a 1967 production of “Hamlet” starring Martin Sheen, and a 1968 performance of “Astarte” by the Joffrey Ballet. The diversity of such a list would come to the fore in his work, which besides a wide range of musicians, includes collaborations with artists in dance, literature, and visual art. But it was music that grabbed him first, and his home was filled with it. “There was always classical music in the house,” he remembers. “My parents didn’t play, but my uncle and aunt were serious classical musicians. My grandfather died before I was born but I do know he played piano for silent films, which is ironic because that’s something I go into doing.” Arner began piano lessons at age nine and went on to study under the renowned Edna Golandsky. “We had a baby grand in the house, but it wasn’t very good,” he says. “In high school I got an inheritance and my parents took me to the Steinway showroom to pick out a grand, which I still have.” It was while majoring in music, philosophy, and religion at Oberlin College that he connected with jazz. “This kid I made friends with played me three or so records from start to finish,” the pianist recalls. “Then he said, ‘Okay, now you’re ready” and put on a Coltrane album—My Favorite Things, I think. That just opened me up.” For his junior year Arner apprenticed with influential sound artist and composer Charlie Morrow, and a campus visit from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which then included John Cage and David Tudor, was also revelatory. Although he did play a 1973 one-off gig, on flute and percussion, in a box car in Grand Central Station with poet Jackson Mac Low for the 10th Annual Avant-Garde Festival, Arner remained “afraid to commit myself ” to playing music. Upon graduation he instead worked as a roadie for rock bands, mixing monitors for The Band, the Grateful Dead, the Bee Gees, Labelle, the Jackson Five, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin, and other acts. He also began his ongoing association with the medium of dance, though as not as the simpatico accompanist he’s frequently worked as. “I went to see Meredith Monk to ask if she needed a sound engineer,” he says. “She looked at me and said, ‘No, you’re going to dance.’ I didn’t really dance, but I said yes anyway.” Arner appeared in Monk’s operas “Vessel” (1971) and “Education of the Girlchild” (1973) and lived in a Soho loft for a year with dancers from choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s troupe and Coltrane bassist Jimmy Garrison’s family. He moved upstate in 1975 and finally and completely turned himself over to music, beginning a two-year regimen of practicing 10 hours daily and performing in collective improv unit Dream Time and various cover and wedding bands. In 1981 he became the music advisor of Bard College’s dance department, a position he would hold until 2009, and began to take flight as a creator of music for dance performances,
serving as music director for Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute and seeing his compositions for choreographers Aileen Passloff, Albert Reid, and Jeanette Leentvaar presented in Venezuela and France and at New York’s Merce Cunningham Studio. Arner eventually became a Bard composer-in-residence and continues to teach at Bard as well as at Troy’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In was also the ’80s Arner that began scoring and performing music for silent film. “I was hanging out with Steve Lieber from Upstate Films in Rhinebeck and he was talking about showing some silent movies,” the musician says. “And we both thought, ‘Why don’t we do live music?’” The keyboardist’s first foray as a film accompanist was at Upstate in 1986 for the Buster Keaton comedy The General (1926), and he’s since played for genre classics like F. W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh, J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan (both 1924), and Victor Sjöström’s The Wind (1928); a 2009 retrospective of films by French pioneer Alice Guy Blaché at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and events at the American Museum of the Moving Image and the National Gallery of Art. Along with dance and film, a fascination with mythology has informed much of Arner’s work. This includes two long-form opuses with the poet Charles Stein, 1992’s “Prometheus Project,” which was performed at the Knitting Factory and “explored collective composition though spontaneous consensus and was primarily focused on Greek mythology but covered a wide variety of related interests, including sound poetry, philosophy and tarot,” and 2006’s “An Invocation of Hermes Twice Revealed,” a nine-part, semi-improvisational suite for piano, harpsichord, and spoken word based on the ancient Homeric Hymn to Hermes, which was presented at EMPAC in Troy this past May. The pianist’s first releases, the overtly named Solo Piano and the in-concert Live from the Center (2002 and 2005, respectively, Dogstar Records), led to his being cited by jazz bible Cadence as “an intense, introspective pianist who methodically constructs sound portraits of shattering dimensions...a discerning musician who retreats inwardly to project his obsessions externally.” For most of the last decade, though, he was devoted to overseeing the New Vanguard Series, which across 216 shows presented over 150 musicians from around the world. “[Cottekill saxophonist] Joe Giardullo had started the series under a different name but stopped doing it, so I stepped in,” explains Arner. “At first I called it New Directions in Jazz, and it was at the [now defunct] Uptown Cafe in the Stockade area. When the Uptown closed, it moved to the old Deep Listening Space in the Rondout and when that place closed we moved back to the Stockade, to Alternative Books.” For lovers of out jazz the New Vanguard was a godsend, hosting performances by saxophonists Joseph Jarman and Joe McPhee, trombonist Julian Priester, pianists Burton Greene and Dave Burrell (a former teacher of Arner’s), and bassist Barre Phillips, among other icons. But after four glorious years its booker was spent. “I needed a break,” he says. “It was great to do but very time consuming, particularly as volunteer work.” (Downloads of the series’ mind-expanding sets are now available through Deeplistening.org.) From the New Vanguard’s ashes, however, emerged the David Arner Trio. The unit, which includes series veterans bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Jay Rosen, debuted in tandem in 2009 with Out/In the Open, on Polish label Not Two Records, and Porgy/ Bess Act 1, the first of two volumes of inspired impressions of music from George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” on the crucial CIMP imprint. “What really strikes me about David is how he brings his hard-core classical background to the music,” says Bisio, a sometime Troy resident who also performs with pianist Matthew Shipp. “He’s very gracious as a player and just allows [collaborators] to be who they are. Also, David’s an expert on birdsong and astrology. He’s a mystical cat.” In addition to his performing at Manhattan’s renowned Vision Festival in 2010 with saxophonist Lorenzo Sanguedolce, Arner’s resume has expanded to include work with creative paragons like cellist Tomas Ulrich, guitarist Dom Minasi, drummer Susie Ibarra, and bassist Dominic Duval. Another association, with pianist Connie Crothers, has proven incredibly fruitful. In May 2009 the pair recorded nearly four hours of music at Bard’s Fisher Center, which is newly out on French label RogueArt as the four-CD box set Spontaneous Suites for Two Pianos. As one might expect, it’s a lot to take in. A pristinely captured epic—or Homeric, perhaps, given Arner’s mythological interests—experience, the album boasts 11 extended, completely improvised pieces, most of which have been titled for their distinct segments (“Suite II: The Metropolis,” for example, comprises the bustling “City Rhapsody,” the tranquil “Night Through Dawn,” and the rising “In the Midst”). A document of two artists who share an uncanny telepathy, Spontaneous Suites is a modern landmark, the sound of two amazing-untothemselves universes existing as their glittering constellations overlap. More heavenly sounds are in store as Arner readies the celestially themed work “Planetary Invocations” and learns to use the Expanded Instrument System (EIS), an electronic signal processing system developed by Pauline Oliveros. The recipient of a Jazz Fellowship award from the National Endowment for the Arts and several Meet the Composer grants, the pianist says that at this point he’s “looking to get beyond the keyboard.” Considering the transcendent nature of his music, one might say he’s already there. Spontaneous Suites for Two Pianos is out now on RogueArt Records. Roguart.com. 7/12 ChronograM music 71
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Billy Martin/Wil Blades Duo July 7. Billy Martin is well known as one third of out jazz/jam-circuit faves Medeski, Martin & Wood. The drummer’s newest side project, a duo with soulful San Francisco organist Wil Blades, is currently touring on the pair’s debut album, Shimmy. The appropriately named set recalls the great 1960s organ jazz records by Jimmy Smith, Richard “Groove” Holmes, Brother Jack McDuff, and Charles Earland, and positively bubbles over with booty-rolling rhythms. Get yourself some when the twosome hits the Colony Cafe early this month. (The Dharma Bums drop by July 1; Nina Violet sings July 29.) 9pm. $15. Woodstock. (845) 679-8639; Colonycafewoodstock.com.
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July 13-15. The inaugural installment of this promising happening brings together events sponsored by 15 regional arts organizations and takes place at the storied Byrdcliffe art colony, the Colony Cafe, and the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts. In addition to film, theatrical, spoken word, and dance events, there are some intriguing musical components on the roster: a chamber trio set by Tracy Bonham, Jerry Marrotta, and Simi Stone; a Woody Guthrie centennial concert hosted by Happy Traum; an evening of “Jesus Christ Superstar” songs organized by Radio Woodstock DJ and School of Rock founder Paul Green and performed by a band that includes Bonham and 3’s Joey Eppard; and more. (Pianist Justin Kolb presents “Liszt and the Barefoot Carmelite” July 7.) Check website for schedule. Woodstock. (845) 679-2079; Woodstockguild.org.
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July 21. Now based in Catskill, this husband-and-wife team is the union of two of the finest pop songwriters around. British expat Wreckless Eric was, along with Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, and others, one of the early stars of seminal punk label Stiff Records; his 1977 debut single “Whole Wide World” remains, for our money, one of the greatest 45s of all time. A veteran of the ’80s New York scene, Amy Rigby played in the Last Roundup and the Shams before making her solo debut with 1996’s acclaimed Diary of a Mod Housewife. The couple plays BSP Lounge this month and is currently finishing their third album. Mike Hollis opens. (Sarah Perrotta returns July 12; Living with Elephants jam July 14.) 8pm. $10, $12. Kingston. (845) 481-8158; Bsplounge.com.
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July 7, 21. This outdoor concert series sponsored by Woodstock Music Shop kicked off in May and happens twice a month on Saturdays through September 8. Now in its seventh season on the Village Green, the afternoon event has become a veritable tradition that showcases area artists to locals and visitors. 2012’s performers include Jeremy Bernstein, the Flash Band, Justin Love, Ras T. Asheber, the Trapps’ Sean Schenker, Spiv U:K, Two Dark Birds, and more. Check website for schedule. 1pm. Free. Woodstock. (845) 679-3224; Woodstockmusicshop.com.
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July 29. Brooklyn singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, who plays Club Helsinki in July, is one of indie’s rising stars. After hearing her songs, TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone encouraged Van Etten to perform and she debuted in 2009 with the sparse Because I Was in Love. 2010’s Epic featured the haunting “Love More,” since covered by Bon Iver, Dave Alvin, and the National, whose Aaron Dessner recorded and produced Tramp, Van Etten’s newest album. The disc features guest appearances by Zach Condon, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, and the National’s Bryce Dessner. (Wye Oak performs July 8; the Punch Brothers’ Noam Pilkeny picks July 19.) 8pm. $18, $20. Hudson. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com.
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cd reviews Michael Bernier Leviathan (2011, New Spectrum Records)
Some may recognize Saugerties multi-instrumentalist/ Chapman Stick player Michael Bernier as a once-upona-time member of Stick Men, a group featuring King Crimson Stickist/bassist Tony Levin and drummer Pat Mastelotto (the latter plays on Leviathan’s first track). Even without this knowledge, it would be hard to listen to Leviathan without being enveloped by a large King Crimson influence. This is Bernier’s first official solo album, and, aside from a few other guest appearances, it’s his show as he ambles effortlessly through a mix of tricky, dangerous, ethereal, and mostly vocal-less compositions while manipulating a plethora of instruments that includes guitar, bass, violin, acoustic drums, electronic Roland V-Drums, and, of course, Chapman Stick. For the uninitiated, the Stick is a polyphonic, electric guitar-like instrument with 8, 10, or 12 strings that can be strummed, bowed, or tapped to create multiple melodic lines. Bernier does all of the above beautifully, and, aside from the balance and tone of some of the drum tracks, Bernier’s skills at composing, performing, and engineering are relatively flawless. The record dutifully mines the quarries of intricacy and exploration that is progressive fusion, occasionally snaking in and out of space prog. “The Old Ways,” one of only two tracks with vocals, is an odyssey that spans a gulf from Jeff Buckley to Bad Brains. Quite a feat. Myspace.com/michaelbernierchapmanstickist. —Jason Broome
Sarah Fimm Near Infinite Possibility (20011, Idependent)
Woodstock composer Sarah Fimm has received continual accolades from Rolling Stone and Billboard for her stellar songwriting. Near Infinite Possibility, her seventh album, is a bit of a departure from her earlier trippy electronics and quieter piano-based work. It’s edgy, powerful, and exhilarating rock with shades of pop, alt-rock, and goth, and shows that she can hold her own against such rock-chick peers as Alanis Morissette, PJ Harvey, Sinead O’Connor, and Sarah McLachlan. Taking on layered vocals and piano, Fimm is joined by powerhouse bassist Sarah Lee (B-52s), guitarist Earl Slick (David Bowie), and a dozen other players who know how to keep it tight. There’s something intensely sad about the feel of this album, albeit beneath a cloak of provocative rock ’n’ roll. A melancholy vibe penetrates the work both lyrically and musically. Take the first single, for example, the claustrophobic “Yellow,” which is based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s shocking short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It seems every bit as much a descent into madness as its source; the feelings of loss and isolation are heavy and searing as Fimm sings, “Don’t be so quick to trust your eyes / They have been petrified / All is white when terrified / But what is unreal dies.” Song after dynamic song, this record is a gut-punch—perhaps it will encourage new listeners to check out her sumptuous early work. Near Infinite Possibility, however, is the cherry on top of all that went before it. Sarahfimm.com. —Sharon Nichols
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The jukebox in the corner by the soda fountain of the checker-floored drugstore is shooting out sounds of solid gold. Each tune is a more perfect distillation of the postElvis, pre-Beatles rock sound than the one before it. When your eyes are open, though, the jukebox and drugstore are gone, and the Poughkeepsie-based Greyhounds’ latest is booming from the stereo. The title track is a roll call of top jukebox manufacturers of the classic rock ’n’ roll era, while the reverbed surf of “On the Move,” the frantic Lieber and Stoller gospel of “Saved,” and the Bayou-flavored accordion-and-sax fest of “Honey Bun” are similarly rock-solid genre workouts. For the sessions the ’Hounds lineup of Stuart Millman (vocals), Mark Hollenbeck (guitar/ vocals), Steve Greenfield (greasy saxophones and keyboards), Jimmy Malthaner (bass), and Kris Kaiser (drums) was augmented and co-produced by keyboardist and Woodstock roots rock luminary Aaron “Professor Louie” Hurwitz. Although the playing here is excellent, the record often feels just a little too faithful to the primary sources; the most interesting moments are when the genres transgress a little. A fine example of this is the cool, reverbed surf undertow backing the badass Gene Vincent strut in “Little Lulu,” or when the band brings the energy on “It’s a Crime”— making it hard not to shake a tail feather. The Greyhounds will rock the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz on July 7. Greyhoundsrocknroll.com. —Jeremy Schwartz
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notice there’s a whale hanging over your head. I could move that,” Carole Maso says helpfully. The whale is small and silvery, suspended from an open-work wire lighting fixture that resembles a bottomless birdcage. It is not alone. Maso’s rambling farmhouse near Clermont is full of curios: a wooden squirrel, a sculpted deer head, a small Virgin Mary, a porcelain boat with mother and child huddled in the stern, a curvaceous “grandmother clock.” Outside are a “half-wild” rose garden, a cement rabbit under an ancient maple tree, two strutting cats. To a reader of her new novel Mother and Child (Counterpoint, 2012), entering this terrain recalls the vertiginous end of The Usual Suspects, in which the camera swoops from object to object, assembling the clues from which the narrative has been woven. “We’re sitting on the stage set,” Maso acknowledges, settling into an armchair in front of the hearth. In author photos (often taken by her longtime partner Helen Lang), Maso can appear severe, ice-blue eyes commanding, full mouth dark with lipstick. In person, she exudes motherly warmth, immediately offering coffee and seeming dismayed when the answer is no. She wears comfortable layers—flowing print dress, rumpled scarf, soft patterned cardigan; her cornsilk hair tumbles from a loose knot. She laughs freely, often bouncing up to pad barefoot across the floorboards to fetch a knickknack or one of her books. Maso’s work defies classification, leaving critics gasping for airless words such as “post-modern” and “experimental.” Her nine previous books (novels Ghost Dance,The Art Lover,The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, AVA, and Defiance; essay collection Break Every Rule; Aureole: An Erotic Sequence;The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth, and Beauty Is Convulsive:The Passion of Frida Kahlo) showcase a fierce literary intelligence and point-blank refusal to compromise her singular vision. It’s hard to imagine anyone less concerned with the mainstream. Maso was 42 when she gave birth to her daughter Rose, conceived in a single encounter with an amorous stranger after she and Lang prayed for a child. If The Room Lit by Roses illuminates the miracle of gestation, Mother and Child limns the darker terrain of motherhood, presaged by this phrase from Roses: “The dizzying and terrifying shift seemingly overnight from no one can hurt us to no one can protect us.” Its titular characters are never named, which—along with Maso’s hypnotically lyrical prose—lends it a heightened, oracular cadence: “The mother is a beautiful star, hot to the touch, radiant beyond belief. When the child turns away, she is draped in darkness, and when she turns back, she catches fire.” “A lot of it started with real events, which is usually not true of my books,” Maso says, describing a terrible storm which knocked out the electricity and split a hollow maple near the porch, releasing a swarm of bats into the house while she and Rose slept. Maso’s mother was an ER nurse, so she knew it was dangerous to sleep in a house with bats. Rose’s pediatrician concurred, sending them for rabies shots at Northern Dutchess Hospital. “It spun me into a whole other world,” Maso says. “I felt very, very vulnerable. I thought, ‘I can’t keep the outside out.’ The outside and inside are porous; you can’t keep anything safe.” She’d been working on another novel, The Bay of Angels, but “I felt as if some kind of veil had been lifted, so that what had been there before but had always been invisible was revealed.” She started chronicling quotidian shards–a funeral service, a fire truck dedication, the loss of a cherished stuffed lamb–often writing a story a day. “It was like taking dictation. I didn’t know what to do but to be receptive to what was there.” The resulting novel is a magic-realist paean to the elemental bond between mother and child, weaving small-town events through a weft of large-scale calamity: the Chinese earthquake that buried thousands of schoolchildren, the Twin Towers in flames. Maso, who once lived near the World Trade Center, recalls a “disconnected, surreal feeling after 9/11—was I there or not? Am I here for real, or was I there? It’s about the empathetic imagination.” It’s also about where she lives now. A recurring motif is the Spiegelpalais, a surreal venue for transmogrifying art exhibitions, “and of course we really have one, right down the road,” she says, referring to Bard Summerscape’s Spiegeltent. “Mother and Child is so much informed by the Hudson Valley–every moment of it takes place here.” Even the bookjacket has local provenance: the cover art is by Kathy Ruttenberg, whose work Maso first saw on a Chronogram cover. Maso was born in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of Allan Ginsberg and
William Carlos Williams. Her mother’s heritage was Swedish, her father’s Italian. Three generations lived under one roof; Maso’s immigrant grandfather founded the Wood, Wire, and Metal Lathers Union. She was the first of five children born in quick succession. As the family grew, her father stopped playing jazz trumpet and became a labor organizer. “He always seemed a little sad; part of him was elsewhere,” Maso says. Seeing him relinquish his artistic dream fueled her determination to follow her own. She attended Vassar College without any thought of becoming a writer. During her senior year, she opted for a creative rather than critical thesis, but was rejected from the creative writing class because she hadn’t finished enough work. Her mentor, Elizabeth Bishop scholar Barbara Page, proposed an independent study. Maso wrote 50 pages of prose poetry, which launched her debut novel Ghost Dance. “I’d never been engaged in that way before, never felt so immersed. It was an utter gift and shock to me,” she recalls. After graduation, she and Lang moved to Greenwich Village, where Maso supported herself with odd jobs: graveyard-shift paralegal, waitress at Lord & Taylor’s tearoom, fencing instructor, artist’s model. Modeling was especially useful, she says. “It’s infuriating to watch everyone work except you.You’re just the object. I really, really wanted to be on the other side, be the one making art. But I learned about sitting still, staying still long enough for something to happen. “ Throughout, she wrote. She rejected the notion of graduate school on the grounds that “I didn’t want to be told what I was doing before I knew what I was doing.” At her parents’ urging, she applied to Boston University and won a full fellowship, but dropped out the first day in what she calls “a now-or-never moment of lucidity.” She returned to temping and dog-sitting stints. Once a year, on her birthday, she read sections of her novel-in-progress to dubious friends. “By now, they were all attorneys and doctors, and here I was, waitressing.” But her persistence bore fruit. After Ghost Dance was published in 1986 to glowing reviews, Maso won an NEA grant. She went to an artists’ colony in France, staying on as caretaker. Then she was offered a teaching appointment at Illinois State University, which she later ceded to David Foster Wallace. More teaching jobs followed, at George Washington, Brown, and Columbia, where she received a $50,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship. This windfall became the down payment on her beloved farmhouse. Lang works in the city during the week, while Maso stays upstate with Rose. She still teaches alternate semesters at Brown, offering classes in literature, film studies, and creative writing. “The hard thing about teaching is that it’s demanding in exactly the same way as writing is. One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain—rigor and recklessness—simultaneously.” The front door swings open as poet Louis Asekoff, a neighbor, arrives with a bag of porcini mushrooms Maso needs for a dish she’s cooking tonight. She digs in her wallet for money and thanks him. Returning to her chair, she explains that she doesn’t drive, “so I make a lot of arrangements for things.” She and Asekoff started a writers group with novelist Mary-Beth Hughes and playwright Martin Epstein; the late Romulus Linney was their fifth. Maso has now returned to The Bay of Angels, which shares some characters with AVA but “spins out into a history of human suffering, all kinds of wars. It’s huge.The notion of suffering and salvation. This is the one I feel all my other books were an apprenticeship for. I’ve done two very large drafts. I’m hoping to finish within a few years.” Maso gets up to show her giant manuscript, much of it written longhand in oversize sketchbooks. Its many folders and cartons are stashed in a dining room cabinet, with more in her study. Maso’s desk sits dead center, covered with artfully arranged figurines, flanked by a leaping ballerina and a topiary tree. These objects come and go with different projects, she explains. “It can get to be too much, but I love it. As soon as I cross the threshold, I’m in my little world.” In Carole Maso’s world, writing is a sacrament. In The Room Lit by Roses, she calls it the “dark radiance” that “brings me to a place of unearthly happiness.” She always asks her MFA students why they write, and her own answer speaks volumes: “It’s an honor and a privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that’s what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There’s so much that’s beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There’s nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.” Carole Maso will read on July 28 at 7pm at Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck. 7/12 ChronograM books 75
SHORT TAKES “Are we there yet?” is the oddly metaphysical question of every summer journey. Six new books by Hudson Valley authors chart landscapes near and far. The Pocket Guide to Woodstock Michael Perkins & Will Nixon, illustrated by Carol Zaloom Bushwhack Books, 2012, $13.95
The Walking Woodstock duo returns with a lively, opinionated guide to “a small town with a large hold on the world’s imagination because of a landmark rock festival that didn’t happen here.” Compact and wide-ranging, it rambles from Village Green to mountain monastery, scattering fistfuls of facts like Johnny’s appleseeds. Town picnic book launch 7/8 2-5pm, Comeau property, with live music, history, and nature walks.
Drawing Breath Laurie Boris Amazon, 2012, $8.99
Teenage love is never easy, but Caitlin Kelly’s obsessive crush is a triple whammy: Her art teacher Daniel is 34, he lives upstairs, and he has cystic fibrosis. Convincing herself she’s protecting him, she meddles in his personal life, with devastating consequences for all of Boris’ s well-drawn, dimensional characters. This empathetic novel covers local turf from the Poughkeepsie station to Albany Med, and deserves a far wider audience.
A Violet Season Kathy Leonard Czepiel Simon & Schuster, 2012, $15
Some books have the ability to pick you up out of time and set you down smoothly in the past. Such is this lovely tale, set in the Hudson Valley of the late 1890s, where the violet industry is still booming. For one family, hard times are getting harder, and it is the women who rise to the occasion. Filled with historical details and compelling characters, Czepiel’s debut novel will give you a new sense of place.
The Dropper Ron McLarty Cemetery Dance Publications, 2012, $25
Hardscrabble boxer and plumber’s apprentice Albert “Shoe” Horn has grown up fast since his mother died; he looks after his handicapped brother Bobby and their drunken father. But can he protect Bobby from the nightmarish Dropper, a spectral midwife turned murderess? Set in the north of England in 1922, Dutchess County author/actor/audiobook star McLarty’s two-fisted novel is atmospheric as a foggy night.
City of Ravens: London, the Tower and Its Famous Birds Boria Sax The Overlook Press, 2012, $22
Charles II’s declaration that “Britain will fall” if the ravens leave the Tower of London is legend; intellectual historian Sax reveals that the birds arrived centuries later. Invented traditions, he writes, may become genuine folklore, “like a speck of sand in an oyster that eventually is transformed into a pearl.” Building lucent layers of inquiry and metaphor, he offers a fascinating natural history of ravens, men, and mythmaking.
Dust To Dust: a Memoir Benjamin Busch Ecco, 2012, $25.99
The actor who played Officer Colicchio on The Wire has an unlikely resume: son of novelist Frederick Busch, Vassar grad, Pushcart Prize nominee, US Marine officer. How he got there from here, and the elemental impulses that sent the son of two pacifists to war, is the theme of this somber, poetic memoir. Busch’s eye for detail renders his Upstate New York childhood as vividly as his two tours in Iraq.
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Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Kay Larson
Penguin Press, 2012, $29.95
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ne of Western culture’s supreme subversives, the composer John Cage was a theorist and guru whose influence on the avant-garde began in the 1940s and continues to this day. Conceptual art, Minimalism, Fluxus, and punk claim him as godfather. With his partner, the dancer Merce Cunningham, he helped advance the medium we now know as performance art. Cage’s “experimental music” made use of chance operations and ambient sound. His iconic 4’33”, where a pianist sits without playing for four minutes and 33 seconds, premiered at Woodstock’s Maverick Concert Hall in 1952. The restless audience, perhaps taking it as a hoax, was not appreciative. A new book by art critic and Accord resident Kay Larson, Where the Heart Beats, endeavors to map the path that led the composer to his silent masterpiece. We learn that Cage, after having already developed a serious interest in Asian spiritual texts (his circle included Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts), attended D. T. Suzuki’s legendary classes on Zen Buddhism at Columbia in the early ‘50s. Larson demonstrates that this experience was transformational, that the master’s teachings “cracked open” the composer’s mind. A Zen practitioner herself, the author explores Cage’s conversion and the culminating leap marked by 4’33” in a novel way. Excerpting from his writings, interviews, and recorded talks, wherein he often revealed his chops at dharma instruction and seemed to relish retelling Suzuki’s koans, Larson has Cage collaborate in his own Buddhist hagiography. “He speaks in his own voice, as I think he would want to do,” she explains. With rich source material and inspired hunches, she brings his interior process and karmic progress to the fore. Cage confesses he “poured a lot of emotion” into The Perilous Night, a 1944 composition for prepared piano (an instrument that’s been tonally altered by objects placed on its strings—a specialty of Cage’s). When it tanked with critics: “I determined to stop writing music until I found a better reason than ‘self-expression’ for doing it.” Larson augments this assertion: “Caught in the roar of his emotions, Cage was forced to confront a question totally new to him: What is the ‘self’ that is being expressed?” Next he tells us, “I got involved in Oriental thought out of necessity.” His quest for wisdom situated him at a nimble distance from the dire intellectual currents of the day. Sartre’s Being and Nothingness may not have mattered to him, but the Tang Dynasty Zen teachings of Huang Po did. In his “Lecture on Nothing,” given at The Club—a downtown forum whose dues-payers included the emerging A-list of 20th-century art—Cage took a swipe at 12-tone row composition, the method devised by his mentor Arnold Schoenberg: “There is not enough nothing in it.” Beyond his predecessor’s freedom from tonality, Cage sought freedom from ego, intentionality, and value judgments. The I Ching became a compositional tool. Works were based on his Gita-thumping heroes, Ramakrishna and Thoreau (woodsy Cage was also one of the world’s foremost mushroom experts, and spent considerable time foraging in our Upstate region). Larson’s Cage consistently comes across as a regal bodhisattva, “the man of the great smile, the outgoing laugh,” as music writer Peter Yates described him. We merely glimpse the anarchist wit who in an interview with poet Ted Berrigan said, “One must not be serious…a serious person cannot have sex.” Larson succeeds in her mission, convincing us that Cage—who, incidentally, never meditated—was not just a Buddhist, but a profound and playful light. Kay Larson will read on 7/14 at 7:30pm at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. —Marx Dorrity
Experience So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman
Simon & Schuster, 2012, $16
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he essential plot of Cara Hoffmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brilliant first novel, So Much Pretty, has an almost spaghettiwestern, Clint Eastwoodesque logic to it. Something terrible happens in the little farming town of Haeden, New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a woman disappears, her damaged body found months laterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and her case is terribly mishandled by the corrupt arm of the law from the get-go. Who killed her is a mystery for much of the book, though everyone has a theory. Adhering to the rules of classic Westerns, retribution must follow, and it does. Haeden has a familiar population: insiders who will always be insiders, and outsiders who will always be outsiders. The pressure borne by tragedy serves to unearth their flaws and magnify their differences. The Haytes, a stalwart farm familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who sold their dairy to an agribusiness now poisoning the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nevertheless see themselves as embodying the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agricultural heritage, like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Haeden nobility,â&#x20AC;? one character thinks. The Pipers, a family of social activists with fervent if impractical ideals, leave their urban, gritty life to raise their daughter Alice in a back-to-the-land, idyllic setting. They try to impart on her an intellectual education in social responsibility, but what she internalizes is a more anarchic definition of right and wrong. At the center of the telling is Stacy Flynn, a journalist whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left a successful big city paper beat to make her mark. A marvelous, big-hearted character full of fire and fight, she comes to Haeden to investigate the dairy farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental mess. But she uncovers something even more toxic that, ultimately, sends her back to the relative safety of her former life. She says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was caught off guard by the shock of learning what it takes for regular people to be at peace in their homes, in their communities. I was thrown, entirely thrown, by the price of their quiet lives, their contentment.â&#x20AC;? The story is a narrative tour de force, told from multiple points of view, each character theorizing on a different version of events. Hoffman handles time deftly, structuring short chapters that keep you moving, whether back or forward. And truly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderful as a reader to feel smart, to be able to go back to the beginning and recognize signs for what they are; to grow your own hindsight as you add up all the details. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what makes the best of mysteries so satisfying. Hoffmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s language is fluid and luminous, and takes on a magnificent glow at key turns. She layers images upon each other until they have a kind of poetic weight: a girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fascination with butterflies, a parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homily about what lies beneath the stones, the wildness of woods, the courses of rivers. In the end this is a heroic story with a triumphant ending, written by someone who knows how to hew to the task yet take care of her reader. She tells this story the way it has to be told. One of the many welcome surprises in So Much Pretty is who perpetuates the revenge on behalf of the victim, and how strangely rational is the reasoning behind the actâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both within the context of the story and characters, and outside the storyline, in the world in which we live. Hoffman, also a successful journalist, has tapped into one of our darkest and seemingly insolvable truths. The very scope of that truth makes the outcome of the story feel even more inevitable; the aftermath even more of a relief. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jana Martin
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our August issue is July 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
I don’t know if I’m on top of the world or the world is on top of me.
Modesty I’m not just ordinary. I’m extra ordinary.
—Autumn Fairleigh (10 years)
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Victory Garden I’m staying home from Sunday School today because I’m sick, the flu or a bug or I’m going to die because God calls me away, to Heaven I hope, but Hell’s more likely even though I try not to sin too much, try not to exceed the limit, whatever that is exactly, and to make things worse Miss Hooker, my teacher, says that folks sin anyway, we can’t help it and all because of Adam and Eve, our first parents, who crossed God and got cast out of the Garden of Eden. Father grows a garden, it’s Mother’s, too, and I see them from my window working in it now, it’s just dry enough out there, the dew’s gone and the sun still isn’t too high. They send me to church and Sunday School, when I’m well that is, but today I’ve got my eye on them out there so I’m not sure if I feel like God or Satan most but I’m not scared of snakes and neither is Mother, after Father killed a chicken snake and only because we keep chickens and they eat eggs, the snakes I mean, but we do, too, they’re ours by right somehow, I guess God says so, at least Father does, Mother picked it up by its tail and even twirled it like a sling and let it go and watched it sail away into the woods where it came from, where its friends might eat it or a stray dog or ‘coons or ‘possums or maybe magically it will disappear or maybe just mice will scavenge it or even maggots or worms. I’ve never witnessed that, not that I’m afraid, I’ve just never had the chance to be there at the right time. Worms aren’t too fast but maybe a million of them will make short work of it and good riddance even though a snake has a right to live, too, just not here, killing chickens in the cradle, so to speak. It’s like a jungle out there, I guess, but only if you’re afraid but when you’re not then maybe you should be and if I could settle the matter I’d know too much for my own good, I guess, not that I’m close yet, I’m only 10, you could write an encyclopedia about stuff I don’t know and another set for all
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Greenridge Cemetery #2 I never will. Or you couldn’t, God could, and maybe He did, Creation’s what it’s called but who can live long enough to read it all? And anyway I nearly flunked third grade. Father teaches geography and Mother sells greeting cards so we’re poor when it comes to money but rich because we pretend we own the place we rent, it is our garden, they are our chickens, snakes who slither in are our snakes as much as anyone else’s because, Father says, everything belongs to God anyway but he still pays his taxes, Father does, and one day he’ll pay the ultimate price, he says, and we’ll pay, too, he says, and that means we’ll die. Miss Hooker says so, too, and tells us we’d better decide where we’ll spend Eternity, with God or with Satan, and I choose God but Satan’s not all bad, sometimes He’s fun—I sin and afterward I ask God to forgive me and He does, but maybe that’s not fair of me, maybe that’s taking advantage and that’s a sin. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Maybe I’m sick now as punishment, a warning that I’d better change my evil ways lest when I die it’s Hell for me, and dying in sin means Hell as well, Miss Hooker says. I see Father hoeing corn and Mother sitting in the shade, fanning herself with her straw hat and watching Father as if she’s never seen a man before. Maybe it’s the heat. They try to make Paradise out there, I sure give them credit for that, but if it doesn’t rain it won’t mean beans except for their knowing that they tried, they did the work, and even though they failed they
Above the decaying bodies, even the markers fade, falter at a pace I can’t conceive. So-and-so carved this-or-that for what’s-his-name. How long did it take to make my son?
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In one hollow of the graveyard, the ice has melted, pooled, and refrozen so the ice pond’s center is a cedar.
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In the world of forms, training on the mid-distance treeline, I see more rain than I feel. O the joy to waken in the palace of my kind.
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Tight grove of cedars I’d never been in, all with multiple trunks, like vapor-gnarls that frenzy from the fissure, make the oracle rave, the priest interpret, the supplicants behave. I ask the grove my question, then makeshift its python-answer. —Andy Fogle
Fibonacci’s Inquiry
succeeded, they did it without my help —God’s help I mean—and that must mean something, to rule the world that used to rule itself. Take me, for example—I ought to rise and walk out there but I’m too dizzy with revelation and anyway Mother would say, If you’re too sick to be in church then you’re too sick to be outside. That’s good.
1, 1, 2, 3…: Does nature train us to see beauty in symmetry with its tightly wound geometry? But don’t we also love the windsculpted errant tree leaning like a drunken sentry lonely in an empty field?
—Gale Acuff
—Marilyn McCabe
Writer at 80
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Made for Each Other
Her eyesight and hearing faded first but that was okay there are devices and strategies, to slow the slide into darkness and silence, but when her mind began to drift, misplace thoughts and words, she hoped that like Monet she would see vague patterns of beauty for her work.
For my birthday I wanted to get a burger & a beer and to roll up my sleeves carelessly to let the greasy juice slide down over my wrists and along my forearms to my elbows balancing here on the edge of this formica table and not to care; to drink the beer in gulps inelegant and unhurried cracking the bottle(s) down thoughtlessly once and again with a loud thwack on this same slippery surface saying, “that’s one, & that’s another; & there . . . & there . . . & there again.”
Nobody will ever love you like your money, the way it clings, so reluctant to leave, the sorrow it evokes when it passes on to others. How often you think of it there with them, making them happy, yet irrepressible in its longing, what it goes through to reassure it is only about you, awaiting your touch in your wallet, or clip, and, when you awaken, clumped together in servitude in change and crumpled bills on your bureau, even sending statements through the mail! And the reverie. How bright it was when first you met, that single shining coin, how reaffirming when held close. How often have you almost lost it entirely, only to have it return, made small, yet pleading for your attention. How it struggled through your efforts to find you, saying, Here I am, with you again at last. It could always be like this.
—Anita McKay
Summer Mists Summer mists cover only part of the mountains and not very well —Priscilla Lignori
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And just so to celebrate in this simplest of ways the passing of time, my time, its measure: what there’s been of it, and to get some sense of what’s left of it to me in the oniony drift of the air upwards into the salty gloom licking along the limits of what’s yet on offer—a piece perhaps of pie thickly wedged alongside a steaming mug of something black & strong like the darkness just beyond my reflection in the window where a mean swirl of windblown scraps of “might-have-beens” & “couldn’t-possibly-be’s” gutter crazily. As from across the room the waitress is coming my way check-in-hand, a pretty girl, impossibly young & poised to ask the question that’s been wanting all the while, “Will there be anything else, sir? Anything at all?” —William Hayes
how much the scent of your skin is to me like a daffodil how like an apple blossom how dizzy I am with desire and here all anyone wants to do is travel and see the world when the world is here inside this room a small place and even then it’s smaller still
Meridians October at the beach and they are still swimming. To parachute, one must first practice. Ladies expose their backs to us, their breasts to the sun. A haze envelopes the city we don’t want to see anyway. —Philip Kobylarz
—Richard Donnelly
A Priori i’ll try to squeeze my roundness into the squareness of this week But first i need you, earthy tongue and supple fingers to kneed and shape me like you do those pieces of bric-a-brac: Metal crimped and thrusting into space, Or canvases shocked into quiescence by furious spatter. i need a night’s riotous transcendence where skin and sea and breath pulse our hearts and flay our souls; Flume-and-flame, a plunge into primordial sea, but then— Sundering from flesh, opening into atoms, into sky. Cells hold the memories, Drawing us into tomorrow Where i becomes I.
—Clifford Henderson
She now takes the short path to my door Green shawl White skirt Buddha of gold at her heart unfolding for all to see As if in a dream, she whispers I love you From her garden she hands me a rose From her garden, a rose —Chuck Mishkin
A Morning Observation In the morning It’s always the second sock that’s difficult He said. —Samantha Martin
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LOCAL NOTABLE Kevin O’Connor
Founded in 1981, RUPCO (Rural Ulster Preservation Company) is a nonprofit agency centered on housing and community development in Ulster County. The Kingston-based organization takes a broad approach to providing housing and home-ownership assistance through its partnering with national community developer NeighborWorks America and several area banks, and is led by a committed, all-volunteer board of directors and advisory council. “Our mission is simple: to create homes, support residents, and strengthen communities overall,” says Kevin O’Connor, RUPCO’s chief executive officer since 2002. “We’ve long had a housing affordability gap in Ulster County, which is dominated by inaccessible, single-family suburban homes but also has one of the largest stocks of older, underutilized buildings in the country.” RUPCO takes a five-pronged method to realizing its vision by operating as many individual business lines, each focusing on a key aspect related to housing and development. The first looks toward real estate development, working with communities to achieve a healthy balance of local housing opportunities, including those for seniors, families, and the people who make up the county’s economically vital work force. The second arm concerns property management, and seeks to create and sustain communities of choice by overseeing selected housing units (currently, the organization manages 321 such properties). RUPCO’s third line focuses on rental assistance, providing nearly 1,600 affordable rental units in scattered, private-sector properties throughout the county for its most needy residents; this includes emergency assistance to those needing help with rent or mortgage arrears, and offers payments to prevent eviction and foreclosures. A fourth division takes aim specifically at community development, working closely with 25 towns in Ulster County using an asset-based, community-building approach to provide planning, revitalization, sustainability, and smart growth to municipalities. Finally, there’s RUPCO’s partnership with NeighborWorks, a HUD-certified national organization that offers assistance with home ownership education, grants, and mortgages; provides counseling on foreclosure prevention, reverse mortgage equity, and credit, as well as dispensing other types of guidance; and works in housing rehabilitation in order to preserve the country’s aging housing stock and increase its accessibility. RUPCO’s many successful housing development and property restoration projects can be found throughout Ulster County. Since the 1999 opening of Rosendale’s award-winning Park Heights facility, which offers independent living for the elderly, disabled, and handicapped, the agency has completed construction of Buttermilk Falls Townhomes, a community of 15 available and affordable, Energy Star-rated units in Ellenville. RUPCO is currently overseeing the building of Woodstock Commons, an intergenerational, clustered development of 53 units that will provide affordable housing for seniors, working families, and artists in Woodstock. The repurposing of the county’s many long-neglected historic structures into affordable and green housing has been a prime directive of RUPCO since its inception. RUPCO-restored sites in Kingston include the grand Stuyvesent and Kirkland Hotels in the Stockade district; a seven-unit 1860s brick building on Hunter Street in the Rondout neighborhood; and Petit House, a 4,000-square-foot Gothic Revival Midtown structure acquired and remade into four condominiums in a joint effort with the City of Kingston. In the offing is another Midtown rehab venture, the revamping of the former United States Lace Curtain Mill (built in 1903) into a complex of 54 artist live-and-work spaces. Construction on the project, which is now in the planning and approval stages, is expected begin next year and see completion by spring 2014. “There needs to be more instances of the nonprofit sector working with the public and private sectors to create housing opportunities,” O’Connor says. “At RUPCO, that’s a big part of the work we all do.” Rupco.org
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ahead of the troubled saga of, say, Catskill, whose commercial promise remains frustratingly frozen and unfulfilled. So in terms of realized potential, Kingston and Rosendale are in the middle tier—cool and happening, but at the same time comparatively affordable. Not a bad place to be at all. Beyond a Redoubt One could say Kingston’s three business districts make it feel like three cities in one. Uptown, whose historic eight-block core area, the Stockade, is Kingston’s oldest section and features original 17th-century stone buildings (many of its early structures were burned by British troops in an infamous 1777 raid).With its beguiling covered sidewalks, the pedestrian-friendly Stockade is home to art galleries and dozens of interesting shops that include the nationally acclaimed Fleisher’s Grass-Fed Organic Meats, a butcher whose locally raised, hormone-free products attract customers from far and wide. The district is also a prime destination for those in search of a fine meal, a relaxing drink, or an evening of entertainment. “Uptown has a really good atmosphere, which is why we decided to open here,” says Juan Romero, the chef and co-owner of DUO, a contemporary American bistro that opened in April in the same John Street space that once housed Gabriel’s cafe. “The businesses here generally support each other, which is great, although the neighborhood could use more parking. I like to describe our food as ‘free-range berserker’—familiar, but somewhat eclectic and with a modern take on things.” (Try the scrambled eggs with spring morels.) Also relatively new is Yum Yum Noodle Bar, which specializes in “pan-Asian” street food that’s fast, healthy, inexpensive, and, most importantly, delicious. Delicious as well is the cuisine at Boitson’s, which features American fare with a French twist and boasts a raw bar and outside dining. For a lighter bite and a glass (or two) of vino, there’s Elephant, a wine bar serving modern European tapas and spinning classic punk and new wave records on the house stereo. Live music, though, is found straight across Wall Street at Backstage Studio Produc7/12 ChronograM kingston + rosendale 83
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tions (BSP). A bar and performance space that had been long plagued with inconsistent management and spotty booking, the renovated BSP has lately been reenergized by a younger, more motivated and informed staff, and looks to become a viable venue at last. Around the block is the jumping Stockade Tavern, which focuses on quirky, pre-World War I cocktails with offbeat names like the Pink Stag and the Vieux Carre. Uptown visitors with outdoor adventure needs are likewise in luck, as family-owned outfitter Kenco is only a short drive north via Route 28. Midtown has long been Kingston’s slowest-changing district. The once proud but now blighted area was still recovering from the 1970s exodus of its main businesses when the recent recession hit, and it continues to be saddled with crime and decay while struggling to fill a surplus of empty storefronts with steady tenants. But Midtown does have its share of success stories. Most notably, there’s microbrewery, restaurant, and music venue Keegan Ales, the multifaceted Seven21 Media Center production facility, and the majestic Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), a restored 1927 vaudeville house that presents movies and top performers in music, dance, comedy, and theater. There’s also been another, perhaps less expected, addition to Midtown’s densely urban landscape: farms. “We grow all the produce that we sell at our farm stand, which is open three days a week,” says Jesica Clark, who began the South Pine Street City Farm on a quarter-acre plot in 2010. “We also donate a fourth of everything we raise to [local relief kitchen] the Queens Galley.” Thanks to a recently received Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant, Clark is also overseeing the construction of a community garden with an innovative compost-heated greenhouse at the close-by YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County, which is expected to be completed at summer’s end. Kingston’s third main section is the Rondout, which was a city unto itself until 1872 and lies along the creek that bears its name; according to Marc B. Fried, the author of The Early History of Kingston and Ulster County, NY (1975,
Ulster County Historical Society), the creek was named for the now gone 1662 Dutch fort, or “redoubt.”With its two functioning marinas and the Hudson River Maritime Museum (the future winter home of the sloop Clearwater and the recipient of funding for the planned Kingston Home Port and Education Center), the Rondout continues to build on its history as a shipping center.The community is a bustling center of dining and nightlife, especially in the warmer months. “A lot of people come up from the New York area and dock their boats,” says Brandy Walters, general manager of restaurant and nightclub the Rondout Music Lounge. “We have live music almost every night, and our business has really grown since we opened last year.” Other busy nearby boites include Ship to Shore, Mariner’s Harbor, and Mahoney’s Restaurant and Tap Room. Built with Cement The Rondout Creek flows south through Rosendale, which flourished as a producer of commercial cement from the mid 1830s to the early 1970s—much of it used in the construction of the Statue of Liberty’s base, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Washington Monument, Grand Central Terminal, and the US Capitol. Towering over the town is Joppenbergh Mountain and a nonfunctioning, 150-foot-high iron railway trestle built in 1895 that’s presently being refitted as a Wallkill Valley Rail Trail pedestrian walkway. Rosendale flirted with rebirth during its time as an artist colony in the ’70s, but for decades its Main Street (Route 213) remained tumbleweed-ready, despite the comings and goings of many brave but unsuccessful entrepreneurs. Lately, however, there’s been an undeniable feeling that the town has at last crested the hump. “I moved up here from the Lower East Side 10 years ago,” says Jeff McCoy, whose Rosendale Guitars shop grew from a modest basement operation with a handful of guitars and amps into a full-service store that opened in January. “I love the town. In some ways it reminds me of the East Village.” As evidence of Rosendale’s current revitalization, he cites the openings of Guts ’n Glory Ink tattoo parlor, the renovated 1850 House & Tavern bed and breakfast inn, and the new Associated Supermarket in Fann’s Plaza on Route 32, and mentions 7/12 ChronograM kingston + rosendale 85
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Waiting for Bordeaux Eminence Road Farm Winery By Peter Barrett Photographs by Roy Gumpel
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dvances in technology are almost exclusively perceived as positive; they increase productivity, speed our travel, extend our lives, and provide us with cool gadgets. In food, however, the most important recent development has been a growing shift away from technologies like genetic modification and honeybeekilling pesticides and toward techniques for production and processing with a lighter touch and a lighter footprint. The wine world is currently experiencing an expanding global movement of natural winemaking: a style of production that uses indigenous yeasts, minimal sulfur, no filtration, and which is often practiced by growers who farm organically or biodynamically.While France is the epicenter of the change, a tiny winery in a remote corner of the Catskills is hard at work making exceptional natural wines. In 2008, Andrew Scott and Jennifer Clark moved up from New York City to live full time in what had been their weekend retreat, a 19-acre farm in Long Eddy, a hamlet in Sullivan County. Scott, who had been working as an art director for Random House, explains the decision. “One day, I reached a point where I just couldn’t do it anymore, so I quit.” He had been making wine as a hobby for several years, and his thirst to do it for a living would go unslaked no longer. Clark, who holds an MBA, was able to telecommute to her marketing job at Brooks Brothers via a satellite Internet connection for a couple of years so that the transition was financially feasible. Now she covers the business side while he makes the wine. Eminence Road Farm Winery produces wine from seven different varietals, with a total production up from 600 cases last year to 800 planned for the 2012 vintage, and a goal of 1,000 for the following year. They source their grapes from several vineyards in the Finger Lakes. Scott has spent the last four years working with different growers, and has settled on a few who produce excellent fruit using a minimum of spraying. (It’s virtually impossible to grow grapes organically in this part of the world). They are growing some grapes—pinot noir and a hybrid called Landot noir—on the hill behind the farm. It’s too steep for a tractor, so all the work has to be done by hand, and the harsh winters damage the vines. The grapes are an experiment, and look unlikely to replace the fruit from the more favorable microclimate further north. Scott and Clark bring all the grapes to the winery 94 food & drink ChronograM 7/12
in their truck and stomp them by foot before piping the juice into the fermenters; all such movements of juice in the winery are gravity powered. They do not remove the stems from the grape bunches. “The stems are where a lot of the character and tannins come from,” Scott explains. Eminence Road wines are fermented using only indigenous yeast. These wild yeasts, which are visible as the haze on apples and grapes, are more finicky and less aggressive—Scott often has to wait a harrowingly long time for the juice to begin bubbling—but the result has a depth and complexity of flavor that it’s impossible to match. Commercial yeasts are bred for fast fermentation and specific flavor profiles; experienced tasters can often easily determine which strain was used in a given wine. As with many modern additives, this means you taste flavors that were added by the vintner rather than what the soil, grapes, and yeast from a given vineyard have to offer. All of Eminence Road’s wines undergo malolactic fermentation, during which bacteria convert malic acid (commonly found in apples, and very tart) into lactic acid (found in milk) that unsurprisingly has a rounder, more buttery feel in the mouth. It’s a natural process, in keeping with Scott’s approach. “Preventing it requires more intervention than letting it happen,” Scott says. The use of sulfur goes back at least to Roman times, so it is not controversial per se. Opponents of its use in quantity mostly dislike it for the flavors it imparts, and for the hangovers and headaches that many ascribe to it. Besides the addition of a small amount of sulfur shortly before bottling, Scott’s technique is one of minimal interference throughout the process. “Wineries today have all sorts of tricks: They can add yeast, nutrients, acid, tannins, sugar, water, enzymes, and bacteria, among other things. They all change the flavor.” He believes that the best expression of the terroir comes through when the grapes are allowed to be themselves. He is most emphatic when talking about fining or filtering wine. “It strips the life and character from the wine; it kills it,” Scott explains. Quite literally: Natural wines are still alive. And unfiltered wines age better, with the tiny particles imparting character and enhancing the evolution of the wine in the bottle over time.
Opposite: Andrew Scott, Jennifer Clark, and Lester outside the Eminence Road Farm Winery in Long Eddy. Above: Scott, formerly an art director at Random House, makes the wine; Clark, who holds an MBA, runs the business.
The winery is in the large barn—painted an archetypal red with white trim, and complete with a silo—set into the east-facing hillside next to the house. The back wall of the barn is fieldstone, and below grade, so regulating temperature for most of the year is simply a question of opening or closing doors to the outside. During the winter, they use a woodstove in the tasting room.Temperature matters a lot with natural wine; the low sulfur levels and minimal processing make it more fragile than industrially produced products. While getting chilly in the winter is no problem—it just slows down fermentation—heat can spoil the wine very quickly. His creative background and their aesthetic as a couple is visible in the details: the sign over the door, the wine labels, and the tasting room, which is decorated minimally with a funky couch, a rustic farm table, a vintage chandelier, and old, blue glass power line insulators in a row on a windowsill. The winery interior is spotless, too, though Scott attributes the neatness to having too much time on his hands during the long fermentation. The 2010 cabernet franc from Elizabeth’s Vineyard is the best New York wine I have tasted to date. It smells like Bordeaux (specifically, Saint-Emilion) and tastes like the Loire Valley, which is appropriate given that those two regions produce the finest expressions of the cabernet franc grape. Ripe fruit is well balanced by tart acidity and elegant tannins; it’s drinking well now, and as with all their wines, it has real aging potential. Scott is making two single-vineyard cabernet francs and pinot noirs in 2011, and will make three Pinots this year. A fine 2010 cabernet sauvignon is in bottle and will be released in the fall. He also makes a very drinkable Bordeaux-style blend of cabernet franc, cabernet sauvignon, and merlot from a single vineyard overlooking Seneca Lake called Cuvée Acidalia. Eminence Road’s chardonnay is unoaked and aged entirely in stainless steel. The 2011 vintage experienced stuck fermentation—what happens when the yeast stops fermenting while there’s still sugar in the wine. Scott added a bit of a neutral commercial yeast and put the wine in thick-walled champagne bottles for a secondary fermentation as a remedy. He’s frank about the yeast: “I can’t afford to lose a whole vintage of chardonnay.” The 101 cases sit, neatly stacked in a squat, white monolith of boxes in the center of the room, while the yeast metabolizes that residual sugar into the fine carbonation that makes a sparkling wine. Though it has not finished, a bottle
opened to monitor its progress showed promise (and a strong whiff of marzipan). Scott and Clark are debating what to call the bubbly when it’s ready to label and sell sometime in the fall; “Petulant” is a current contender, a play on pétillant, the French word for lightly fizzy. Scott is happy with the 2011 Riesling: “It came together perfectly. He hopes to have it on sale by the time this sees print. He has also settled on a vineyard for Gewürztraminer, and will be making a whole barrel of it next year. “Everyone knows the Riesling, but Gewurz is really the grape up there. It’s got so much character.” The 2011, still in the fermenter, is not yet ready for bottling but promises an interesting balance between the classic peachy-lychee fruit flavors and a more complex spiciness and minerality, courtesy of the shale under the thin topsoil in the vineyard. The 2010 pinot noir is still tight, and should be cellared until fall (or decanted before drinking) so that its elegance can unfold.You could do worse than to have a couple of bottles on hand come Thanksgiving. Tasted from barrels, the two 2011 pinot noirs—from Elizabeth’s Vineyard near Seneca Lake and Auten Vineyard near Cayuga—reveal interesting differences between the pieces of land: the essence of terroir. Scott’s description is succinct: “Elizabeth’s has power, and Auten has finesse.” There are still many challenges. The increase in production means a lot more work since everything, especially bottling, is done by hand. Money is tight. “So far, our wine hasn’t had trouble finding its market.“ Scott says, “Even if it takes a while, the right people always come to it. We’re about two thirds of the way [to profitable], and hope to be able to support a modest lifestyle.” The couple is optimistic, and appear to have adjusted well to their new life; Scott writes a sarcastically entertaining blog recounting their adventures with the winemaking, ice fishing, their dog Lester, and the colossal pumpkins they grow as a hobby. The insights gleaned from visiting the winery, reading the blog, and seeing their personal wine collection reveal the secret behind their excellent products: They’re doing it for themselves. The winery sells their products at several Sullivan County farmers’ markets, and this year also has a table at the Woodstock Farm Festival, where their next appearance will be on July 11. The winery is open for visits every Saturday. Eminenceroad.com 7/12 ChronograM food & drink 95
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I Gelato, You Gelato, We All Scream for Gelato Lazy Crazy Acres Farmstead Creamery By Karin Ursula Edmondson Photographs by Andy Ryan
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elato translates from Italian into frozen and evokes chic, tanned style—Gucci, Ferrari, Milan—not Deere, Carhartt, and Catskills. Lazy Crazy Acres Farmstead Creamery near Arkville is changing this perception. Jake and Karen Fairbairn produce fresh, all-natural “cowto-cone” gelato in nine flavors: Vanilla Bean, Very Chocolate, Very Chocolate Super Crunchy (with handmade salted pecan praline), Maple Walnut, Hudson Valley Honey, Apple Cobbler, Mint Honey Cake, Buttered Rum Raisin, and Haulin’ Oats. In addition, seasonal flavors like Strawberry Rhubarb make brief, tasty appearances. Once the seasonal berries are over, so are the pints of gelato—until next year. Jake is a Fairbairn, a venerable Delaware County farming family— dairying the current land since the 1930s and in the Margaretville area for over 200 years. Karen, a Florida native, fell in love with Jake (and dairying) and joined him on the farm. Dire milk prices in 2008 and 2009 prompted the couple to create a value-added product more profitable than shipping milk directly to a commercial creamery and to make farming a viable career and lifestyle. A failed run at ice cream with a large producer who pushed all sorts of unnatural ingredients they did not believe in, left them with “1,200 pints of crap,” says Karen. This unfortunate venture, combined with the economic downturn and the price of milk dropping to $12 per one hundred pounds of milk when shipping to the large commercial creamery, finally financially forced them to sell their herd. Neighbors in dairy, the DiBenedetto Family, adopted six of their cows—Bumble, Pasta, Jellybean, Lucky Charm, Mrs. Fields, and Pipsqueak—incorporating them into their herd. A year and a half later, with Frank Kipe’s invention of a microcreamery system that
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produces from 3 to 33 gallons (as opposed to a minimum of a 100 gallons), Jake and Karen returned to the local dairy frozen dessert (New York State doesn’t recognize gelato) scene. Continuing a Fairbairn tradition of working closely with the DiBenedettos, Jake and Karen installed the microcreamery in their barn, bottle the DiBenedettos’ Crystal Valley Creamline milk and make Lazy Crazy Acres gelato. The cows were milked at the DiBenedettos’ while Karen and Jake raised the heifers (young cows). Both families made hay together. June 2012 marked the return of Bumble, Pasta, Jellybean, Lucky Charm, Mrs. Fields, and Pipsqueak to Lazy Crazy Acres pastures. June 2012 also marked the one year anniversary of Lazy Crazy Acres Gelato. Average weekly production is 500 to 700 pints. They have hired a part-time employee Karen insists they “don’t want to grow bigger than what the farm can sustain—about 25 cows. In five years, we want to stay true to our roots and adhere to our principles.” This meant saying no to a request for national media coverage merely one week after their initial production run in 2011. Lazy Crazy Acres principles are sometimes unusual. No god-awful early morning milking hours. This summer, Jake is experimenting with milking only once a day to preserve precious hours for everything else—making the gelato basemix, hand packing the pints, sourcing Oliverea Schoolhouse Maple, Ray Tousey’s honey, chocolate from Fruition Chocolate in Shokan, berries from Wright’s Farm, Heller’s Farm, and Lucky Dog Farm, Tuthilltown Distillery rum, and scooping at the Kingston, New Paltz, Pakatakan, Rhinebeck, and Woodstock Farmers Markets. Karen and Jake have also designed and have nearly completed construction of an Ag and
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M&T Bank Plaza Friday, 3pm-7pm. Through October 26. Lagrangeny.org/farmers_market
Clinton Street Saturday, 9am-2pm. Through October 27. (845) 616-0126. Villageofmontgomery.org
MILLBROOK Tribute Garden, 3219 Franklin Avenue Saturday, 9am-2pm. Through October 27. Millbrookfarmersmarket.com
MILLERTON Railroad Plaza, Main Street Saturday, 9am-1pm. Through October 20. Neccmillerton.org/millerton_farmers_ market
PAWLING Village Green, Charles Colman Boulevard Saturday, 9am-12pm. July 7 to October 6. Pawlingfarmersmarket.org
POUGHKEEPSIE Pulaski Park, Washington Street Friday, 2pm-6pm. Through October 26. Farmproject.org/market
RHINEBECK Municipal Parking Lot, 61st & 80th East Market Street Sunday, 10am-2pm. Through November 18. Rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com
ORANGE COUNTY CORNWALL
NEWBURGH Downing Park, Route 9W & South Street Friday, 10am-4pm. Through October 26. (845) 565-5559. Newburghrestoration.com/2011/07/ farmers-market-in-downing-park 131 Broadway Tuesday, 10am-3pm. Through October 30. (845) 568-5247. Ocfarmersmuseum.com/Farmer-s-Markets
PINE BUSH Corner of Main and New Street Saturday, 9am-1:30pm. Through October 20. Pinebushfarmersmarket.com
PINE ISLAND Jolly Onion parking lot, Corner of County Route 1 and Glenwood Road Saturday, 10am-2pm. Through September 29. (845) 258-1469. Pineislandny.com
WALDEN Wooster Memorial Grove, Route 52E Friday, 1pm-5:30pm. Through October 19. (845) 778-2177. Villageofwalden.org/events/farmers-market
183 Main Street Wednesday, 11:30am-5:30pm; Saturday, 11am-3pm. Through October 6. (845) 527-1084. Cornwallcooop.com
WARWICK
FLORIDA
WEST POINT-TOWN OF HIGHLANDS
Route 17A and Route 94 Junction Tuesday, 11:30am-5:30pm. Through October 30. (845) 641-4482. Warwickinfo.net/floridafarmersmarket
Across from West Point Visitor Center Sunday, 9am-2pm. Through October 28. (845) 548-6274. Visiontownofhighlands.com
GOSHEN Village Square, Main and South Church Street Friday, 10am-5pm. Through October 26. (845) 294-7741. Goshennychamber.com/wordpress/?page_ id=111
MIDDLETOWN Erie Way Saturday, 8am-1pm. Through October 27. (845) 343-8075. Ocfarmersmuseum.com/Farmer-s-Markets
MONROE Museum Village, 1010 Route 17M Wednesday, 9am-3pm. Through October 24. (845) 344-1234. Monroevillagefarmersmarket.org
South Street Parking Lot Sunday, 9am-2pm. Through November 18. Warwickvalleyfarmersmarket.org
PUTNAM COUNTY COLD SPRING Boscobel House and Gardens, 1601 Route 9D Saturday, 8:30am-1:30pm. Through November 17. Csfarmmarket.org
MAHOPAC 1085 Route 6 Wednesday, 1pm-6pm; Saturday, 9am-3pm. Through October 31. (914) 819-0414. Mahopacfarmersmarket.com Temple Beth Shalom, 760 Route 6. Sunday, 9am-3pm. Through October 28. (914) 819-0414. Mahopacfarmersmarket.com
ULSTER COUNTY ELLENVILLE Market Center Street Sunday, 10am-2pm. Through October 7. (845) 647-5150. Facebook.com/pages/Ellenville-FarmersMarket/130898950326230
GARDINER Gardiner Library 133 Farmer’s Turnpike Friday, 4pm-8pm. Through October 19. (845) 255-1255. Gardinerlibrary.org
HIGHLAND Vineyard Avenue Wednesday, 3pm-7pm. Through October 17. (845) 235-4771. Townoflloyd.com/pages/LloydNY_Bcomm/ Events/S01657BF2-018DE466
KINGSTON Wall Street Saturday, 9am-2pm. Through November 17. (845) 853-8512. Kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com
MILTON Cluett-Schantz Park 1801-1805 Route 9W Satuday, 9am-2pm. Through October 20. (845) 616-7824. Hhvfarmersmarket.com
NEW PALTZ 24 Main Street Sunday, 10am-3pm. Through November 18. Newpaltzfarmersmarket.com
ROSENDALE Rosendale Community Center 1055 Route 32 Sunday, 9am-2pm. Through October 28. (845) 658-3467. Rosendalefarmersmarket.com
SAUGERTIES 115 Main Street Saturday, 10am-2pm. Through October 20. Saugertiesfarmersmarket.com
WOODSTOCK 6 Maple Lane Wednesday, 3:30pm-dusk. Through October 24. Woodstockfarmfestival.com
WESTCHESTER COUNTY PEEKSKILL Bank Street Saturday, 8:00am-2pm. Through November 17. Downtownpeekskill.com
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Head of the Glass Navigating the Vines of Hudson Valley Wines By Jennifer Gutman Photograph by Roy Gumpel
W
e’re on about the same latitude as Florence, Italy,” says John Bruno, coowner of Oak Summit Vineyards in Millbrook. A sip of Chianti, Tuscany’s signature wine, is perhaps the closest you can get to experiencing the birthplace of the Renaissance without actually being there. The initial aromas recall the sweetness of Sangiovese grapes at the peak of ripeness, the acidic and tannic mid mouth feel almost demands pairing with rich, red sauces, and the full, nutty finish warms like the Tuscan sun. We may not have Dante, Petrarch, or Michelangelo, but in the vineyard, the Hudson Valley and Tuscany are kindred souls. Sharing a similar climate as Florence, Bruno argues that the Hudson Valley is one of New York’s best grape-growing regions. It is the “happy medium,” he says, between the cold temperatures of the Finger Lakes and Long Island’s sandy soil. Beyond the soil, Hudson Valley wines, too, embody the traditions of a rich history, one that dates back to 1677, making it the country’s oldest wine-producing region.The complexities of a dynamic, diverse culture are evident in the range of styles and flavors produced within miles of each other. The expansive lands accented by mountains and rivers serve a purpose beyond acting as picturesque backdrops to a weekend visit, but also as resources for local, sustainable agriculture. You need not hop a plane to experience wines on par with the classic European greats. The sprawling presence of Hudson Valley wines is at your fingertips. Experiencing Hudson Valley Wines Your reach need only extend as far as a local store or restaurant. Whether it is a last-minute stop on your drive home from work at In Good Taste in New Paltz or a week’s cap-off at the Aroma Thyme Bistro in Ellenville, complementing your favorite meal with wine made in the Hudson Valley is always an option. To further satiate that locavore craving, visit one of the Hudson Valley’s many weekly farmers’ markets that feature local wines as well as produce, breads, meats, and, with some luck on a hot summer day, ice cream. (See our guide to Farmers’ Markets on page 99.) If you are looking for a more immersive Hudson Valley wine experience, go straight to the source. Staying true to the region’s Eat Local movement, wineries open their doors, and in some cases their vineyard gates, to show you exactly where their wines come from and how they are produced.Wine tastings and tours have become a favorite “staycation” activity for those who want to make the most of a couple of days off without having to deal with exorbitant travel costs. Its convenient location to New York City, New Jersey, and Westchester makes the Hudson Valley a destination for people looking to explore the terrain that lies just outside their reach. Stephen Osbourn of Stoutridge Vineyards notes that Hudson Valley wineries attract a “sophisticated customer,” people who are “knowledgeable but open to ideas and comfortable with wine,” which, he argues, is less common in “more industrialized wine states.” While the wine industry has become commercialized in many regions, Osbourn praises the Hudson Valley for its biodiversity. “Here we have a variety of grapes that are historical,” he explains. “In Napa Valley, you can’t have wine that was there 60 years ago because they grow commercial grapes.” It is possible to drink a glass of wine made from the same grape varieties planted centuries ago in the Hudson Valley because of its focus on small-scale production. In many cases, wine is made by the same people who own the wineries, like Jonathan and Michele Hull of Applewood Winery in Warwick, and in some cases, they even lead the tastes and tours, like John and Nancy Bruno of Oak Summit. At Pazdar Winery, only David Pazdar himself knows the secrets to his wines’ exotic recipes. Though they take different shapes, Hudson Valley wineries offer the kinds of personal stamps that are impossible in a commercial market. In addition to biodiversity, Osbourn employs natural and sustainable practices that include gravity winemaking—a technique consisting of a vertical winery that allows wine to flow from tank to tank without a pump—a natural underground wine cooler, and solar power. Osbourn says that his all-natural wines draws customers of the eat local mindset who are more aware that “farms are producing flavors that can’t exist in the store.” Using locally sourced ingredients is a common trend among Hudson Valley wineries. “Everything that we produce is from grapes and fruits that are grown in New York,” says Hull. In fact, many winemakers use grapes grown on their own properties and picked by their own hands (a notable exception being a new trend in hybrid wines available only by distribution, such as Cereghino Smith in 100 culinary adventures ChronograM 7/12
Rosendale, who source grapes from New York and California to make what they call “bicoastal blends”). Oak Summit’s Bruno prunes 30 percent of his crops to grow the best, most intensely concentrated grapes possible for his renowned pinot noir. “We would rather make less wine, but make it better, than make a lot of mediocre stuff,” he says. Tastings and tours allow for an insider’s look on the mechanics of local vineyards and wineries, but there is more to wine than science. Seasonal festivals and events hosted by the wineries get closer to the true bacchanalian spirit.This July, Applewood will host Bounty of the Hudson, a wine and food festival that honors the region’s appetite for diverse local products. Hull describes the event, which will host over 20 different wineries and food producers from the Hudson Valley, as representative of “basically everything that’s made locally in our community.” Events hosted by the wineries do not always have such weighty cultural and economic implications, though. Enter Benmarl Winery’s annual Harvest Grape Stomping Festival: Masses of purple-stained ankles act as the exclamatory conclusion to a seemingly endless immersive experience of Hudson Valley wineries. “You Don’t Have to Fit the Mold” The launch of the Hudson Valley Food and Beverage Alliance in February, an initiative that Senator Schumer hopes will “thrust the Hudson Valley to the forefront of the food and beverage industry,” and his April visit to Brotherhood Winery in Washingtonville to discuss marketing strategies geared toward international tourists signify a recent push to make the Hudson Valley a world class wine destination. Many wineries and vineyards have plans for expansion to accommodate the growing wine industry in the area including Whitecliff’s recent addition of a geothermal winery building,Warwick’s push to produce 10 times their current distillery capacity, and Applewood’s soon-tobe-released new line of hard ciders. While increased production in the Hudson Valley wine industry warrants much excitement, might it also pose a threat to the small-batch, handcrafted, noncommercial methods that make this region’s wineries distinctive? A strong dedication to preserving the diversity that makes producing wine in this region so rewarding seems to indicate not. Even after expansion, wineries in the Hudson Valley will still be considered small-scale by industry standards. “My wine production equals what a large California winery spills on the floor,” says Michael Migliore of Whitecliff Vineyards in Gardiner. Jeremy Kidde of Warwick Winery and Distillery explains that the goal of their expansion is not primarily to produce more, but to allow for more variety by introducing oak-aged whiskey and apple jack to their product line. “I wouldn’t trade it for any other place,” says Osbourn, whose winemaking experience extends from the Finger Lakes to California with many stops in between. The Hudson Valley “allows wineries to be different.You don’t have to fit the mold.” Pazdar Winery is home to experimental and exotic wines that include the first chocolate wine ever made, “Eden’s Pleasure,” and a line of hot pepper wines including “Hot Sin,” the first wine to win at the world’s largest spicy food competition, the Scovies. Clearly, Pazdar employs a melting pot ethos to winemaking and appreciates this capacity of Hudson Valley wineries. “There are a lot of very different winemakers in the Valley with different philosophies and styles,” he says. From using homegrown grapes, to experimenting with ciders and spirits, to employing eco-friendly, all-natural strategies, Hudson Valley wineries not only take great care in the winemaking process, but also push boundaries, have fun, and, perhaps most importantly, support one another and the local economy while doing so. “People come for the wineries then go to the restaurants, local bed and breakfasts, and gas stations,” explains Randy Maduras of the Shawangunk Wine Trail. “It’s all-encompassing.” In an attempt to nurture the winemaking industry in the Hudson Valley, Michael and Yancey Migliore are helping local farms, like Dressel Farms in New Paltz and Kiernan Farm in Gardiner, put in vineyards.They teach farmers about grape varieties that work well in this region, such as the Seyval Blanc vine from which their bestselling Awosting White is made, and about trellising and planting density. Whether sharing expertise or simply a bottle, winemaking is a labor of selfless love in the Hudson Valley. “We’re interested in seeing the whole region do more and do it better,” Migliore says. “And we’re absolutely seeing that happen.”
Hudson Valley Wineries Directory Adair Vineyards New Paltz Adair’s 10-acre vineyard is planted with two white varieties, Seyval blanc and Vignoles, and two red varieties, Foch and Millot. They currently produce more than 20,000 bottles, made with both estate and locally grown grapes ranging from dry to mildly sweet. Tastings available in a 220-year-old barn. Open May to October. Adairwine.com.
Applewood Winery Warwick Applewood’s “limited edition” wines can only be found on their website or in their tasting room, located on one of Orange County’s oldest farms. Since opening in 1993, Applewood has offered wines made from Vinifera grape varieties, and wines and hard ciders made from apples grown in their orchards. Look for their soonto-be-released new line of hard ciders. Live music every Saturday and Sunday, 2-5pm. Open April to December. Applewoodwinery.com.
Demarest Hill Vineyards Warwick Founder and winemaker Francesco Ciummo makes Italian-inspired wines and spirits including a wide variety of red, white, and sparkling wines, distilled beverages including classic Italian apertifs, and vinegars made from his own wine. Open year round. Demaresthillwinery.com.
El Paso Winery Ulster Park First established in 1977 by Felipe Beltra, an old-world Spanish winemaker from Uruguay, El Paso Winery uses traditional sweet wine recipes with a New World twist including dry reds, fragrant Rieslings, and crisp chardonnays. Peruse the gift shop for homemade salsas, sauces, and wine ephemera. Open April to December. Elpasowinery.com.
Glorie Farm Winery Marlboro Housed in a 1913 barn atop Mt. Zion, Glorie Farm Winery was established in 2004 as an extension of the family fruit farm whose products provide flavors for many of their 16 different wines including the Rumple Pumpkin, Peach Winemaster, and Black Currant. Open April to December. Gloriewine.com.
Baldwin Vineyards Pine Bush The Baldwin’s 35-acre family-run vineyard produces 15 different wines ranging from dry to dessert, but they are most known for their internationally acclaimed Strawberry Wine. A Strawberry, Chocolate, and Wine Festival is hosted every weekend in August, September 1-3, and every weekend in October. Open April to December. Baldwinvineyards.com.
Hudson-Chatham Winery Ghent Specializing in handmade small batches, HudsonChatham makes over a dozen wines that have received many awards. The DeVito family restored the grounds as well as a 1780s farmhouse. For something different, look for their Bannerman’s Castle Amber Cream, a cream-sherry named after the Hudson River icon. Open year round. Hudson-chathamwinery.com.
Benmarl Winery Marlboro Self-proclaimed as America’s oldest vineyard, Benmarl uses grapes from all over New York to produce regional styles like Seneca Lake Reisling and Northern Long Island Merlot. Open April to March. Benmarl.com.
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A family-run operation for over 30 years, Magnanini serves a family-style six-course Northern Italian dinner at their winery restaurant with live accordion music every Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon in addition to seven wines made from grapes grown on their 13-acre vineyard. April 8 to December 9. Magwine.com.
Pine Bush This 13-acre vineyard specializes in Frenchinspired wines of the Loire Valley, Burgundy, and Champagne. Celebrating 30 years of operation, Brimstone continues to experiment with new varieties of vines to achieve European flavor profiles. Open year round. Brimstonehillwinery.com.
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Brookview Station Winery Castleton Located on a century-old family farm, home to Goold Orchards, Brookview offers award-winning wines, including apple and pear varieties, cider, and baked goods. Open year round. Brookviewstationwinery.com.
Brotherhood Winery Washingtonville Established in 1810 by French Huguenot emigré Jean Jacques, Brotherhood, America’s oldest continuously operating winery, offers award-winning premium reds and whites, dessert, and specialty wines as well as vintages aged in a late-19thcentury underground cellar. Open April to December. Brotherhood-winery.com.
Cascade Mountain Winery Amenia Founded in 1972, Cascade Mountain Winery, located on top of the Berkshire foothills, offers seven table wines and lunch at its wine and tapas bar and art gallery. Open year round. Cascademt.com.
Clinton Vineyards Clinton Corners Modeled on small European estates, Clinton Vineyards, established in 1977, makes wine in the classic “méthode champenoise,” a traditional French technique for sparkling wine production. Open May to October. Clintonvineyards.com.
Millbrook Since 1984, winemaker John Graziano has been producing varietals including chardonnay, pinot noir, cabernet franc, and Tocai Friulano for one of the Hudson Valley’s most critically acclaimed wineries. Individual or group tour and tasting packages are available as well as food and live music at the Vineyard Grille and Café. Open year round. Millbrookwine.com.
Oak Summit Vineyard Millbrook This small, sustainable vineyard only makes pinot noir and chardonnay from vines planted in six acres of soil that requires no artificial maintenance. The pinot noir is made entirely from Oak Summit Vineyard grapes. Each year, 30 percent of the crops are pruned for maximum grape intensity and concentration. All tours and tastings are conducted by owners John and Nancy Bruno who also host exclusive wine luncheons and tastings throughout the month. Open year round. Oaksummitvineyard.com.
Palaia Vineyards Highland Mills A working farm for over two centuries, Sweet Clover Farm is now home to Palaia Vineyards and Winery since 2006. The Palaia family’s winemaking tradition extends back through three generations. Tastings of their domestic and internationally award-winning varietals and blends take place on the top floor of their 200-year-old renovated barn. Live music every weekend. Open year round. Palaiavineyards.com.
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Royal Kedem Winery Marlboro Founded in 1848 by the Herzog family, this kosher winery earned its “Royal” title by supplying wine to Franz Josef, emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Eight generations of winemakers bring this once sought-after European product to the Hudson Valley. Wines produced in-house, as well as imported wines from Kedem’s parent company, Royal Wine Corp., are available for tasting. Open year round.Kedemwinery.com.
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Robibero Family Vineyards New Paltz The Robibero Family Vineyards opened on the land previously known as Rivendell Vineyards in New Paltz in 2010. Handcrafted, small-batch wines include their double-goldmedal-winning 2010 Dry Riesling as well as their limited production reserve wines. Live music every Saturday and Sunday, 2-5pm. June-October.Rnewyorkwine.com.
Stoutridge Vineyards Marlboro Stoutridge Vineyards, a vertical winery built into a hillside, practices sustainability to create unprocessed, natural wines. Methods include a gravity-fueled filtering system, underground cellars that make use of geothermal energy, solar-generated electricity, and a heating system generated by waste heat from their stills. Open year round. Stoutridge.com.
Tousey Winery Germantown Tousey Winery, the brainchild of an English family with a bounty of blackberries and a love for cassis, got its start in 2006. Now, they have four whites, two reds, and a dessert wine to offer along with a tasting room overlooking the Hudson River and the Catskills and a new winemaking facility. Open year round. Touseywinery.com.
Warwick Winery & Distillery Warwick The Warwick Winery & Distillery got its start with hard ciders, eventually making the critically acclaimed Doc’s Draft Hard Apple Cider, and is home to the first distillery in the Hudson Valley since prohibition. They have won numerous awards for their fruit cordials and brandies. Live music Saturday and Sunday, 2-5pm. Open year round. Wvwinery. com.
Warwick Rustic Gin is Distilled and Bottled in the Hudson Valley using the finest hand selected botanicals. WARWICK VALLE Y WINERY & DISTILLERY 114 Little York Road, Warwick NY · wvwinery.com
Whitecliff Vineyard & Winery Gardiner Michael and Yancey Migliore built Whitecliff, one of the largest vineyards in the Hudson Valley (70 acres), from the ground up over 30 years ago after falling in love with the Shawangunk Mountains. Since then, their 2009 Riesling won double gold and best in show at the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition. Today, they are on the cutting edge of new grape varieties and eco-friendly building techniques through work with Cornell Cooperative Extension. Open June-October. Whitecliffwine.com.
Hudson Valley Wines available only for distribution Alison Wines and Vines Red Hook In an effort to focus on the craft of fine winemaking, Alison Wines has closed their tasting rooms. Current vintages, including their award-winning Fraise, made from fresh Hudson Valley strawberries grown near the winery, are available at local retailers and may also be ordered through their website. Alisonwines.com.
Cereghino Smith Rosendale Handcrafted from grapes sourced from New York and California, Cereghino Smith’s artisanal wines are characterized by the complementary relationship between West and East coast fruit.Tastings available at Pine Bush and Ellenville farmers markets and at local retailers. Cereghinosmith.com.
Happy Bitch Wines Beacon Debbie Gioquindo, Hudson Valley wine blogger, recently launched a line of Hudson Valley sourced wines including Happy Bitch Rose, a blend of chardonnay and pinot noir. Distributed in Rockland, Putnam, Orange, and Dutchess Counties. Happybitchwines.com.
Pazdar Winery Scotchtown Self-proclaimed as the first makers of chocolate wine, Pazdar is one of the most creative wineries in the Hudson Valley. Their flavored wines are as unusual and exotic, as names like Blueberry Banana Split, Chocolate Mint Dreams, and Naughty Virginia suggest. Tastings available at local farmers’ markets and festivals. Pazdarwinery.com.
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Wines & Spirits from Around the World and the Hudson Valley Located in the historic waterfront district of downtown Kingston. Sundays 12pm - 8pm • Monday - Saturday, 10am - 9pm Check our website for wine tastings! www.MaddensFineWines.com 65 Broadway, Kingston, NY 845.340-WINE (9463)
989 Broome Center Road, Preston Hollow, NY (518) 239-6234 www.heather-ridge-farm.com Great lunches right on the farm! Enjoy views of the Catskill Mountains from shaded picnic tables or eat inside our 1820s farmhouse. Our own grassfed meats and pastured poultry lovingly prepared with local organic produce and cheeses. Café and farm store open Saturdays and Sundays, Mem. Day through Col. Day Weekends. Menu and schedule on website. “Soup Kitchen” Saturdays, Nov-April.
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Restaurants American Glory BBQ 342 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1234 www.americanglory.com
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Charlotte’s Restaurant and Catering 4258 Rte 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com 3328 Rt. 23A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3250
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Elephant 310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 www.elephantwinebar.com 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!
Global Palate Restaurant 1746 Route 9W, Esopus, NY (845) 384-6590 www.globalpalaterestaurant.com/
Rainbow Drive-In, The 90 Old Rt. 9W, Port Ewen, NY (845) 384-6670
Rock Da Pasta 62 Main St., New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1144 rockdapasta.com
Stella’s Station 150 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-5998 955 Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3254 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Local. Organic. Authentic. At a Terrapin event, you can expect the same high quality, award-winning cuisine and service that you know and love at Terrapin Restaurant. Terrapin’s professional event staff specializes in creating unique events to highlight your individuality, and will assist in every aspect of planning your Hudson Valley event.
Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle. Out of elements both historic and eclectic comes something surprising, fresh, and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Local. Organic. Authentic.
The Would Restaurant 120 North Road, Highland, NY (845) 691.9883 www.thewould.com
Tuthill House 20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151 www.tuthillhouse.com
Wildfire Grill 74 Clinton Street, Montgomery, NY (845)457-3770 www.wildfireny.com
194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2633 www.labellapizzabistro.com
The Wildfire Grill has been serving the Hudson Valley delicious, cooked to perfection meals and is ready to serve you and yours. Voted Best Rack of Lamb in the Hudson Valley by Hudson Valley Magazine.
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McGillicuddy’s 84 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.cuddysny.com
Mexicali Blue 87 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5551 www.mexicali-blue.com
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Chronogram is a forward-thinking publication. The advertising is affordable and the magazine has a great circulation. It feels larger than a regional magazine. I’ve been advertising for over 7 years. Both the magazine and my restaurant are wonderful discoveries. Tourists come from long distances to seek our gluten-free menu— all because of our ads in Chronogram.
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528 Main Street, Beacon NY 12508
Wedding and Event Floral Design Garden Design & Installation Fresh Cut Flowers Deliveries for all Occasions Nicole Mora (845) 440-3206 nicole@seedtofruit.net www.seedtofruit.net
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Dazzles salon & Day spa 738 Rte 9, Fishkill Plaza, Fishkill 845-897-5100 www.dazzlessalon.com since 1983
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Accommodations Aspects Gallery Inn Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com
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The new Aspects Inn resides in the heart of the historic artists’ colony of Woodstock, NY, nestled in the famed Catskill Mountains ski and summer resort region. Aspects provides a unique and exclusive sensual retreat with two private luxury two-bedroom apartments joined to a 2,000 square-foot cathedral ceiling, cedarand-glass enclosed, climate-controlled spa with 40’ saline pool, Jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna.
Louis J Dianni Antiques & Auctions (914) 474-7710 LouisjDianni.com LJDmarine@aol.com
Millerton Antique Center Inc. 25 Main Street, (518) 789-6004
Orange County Flea Market 100 Carpenter Avenue, Middletown, NY (845) 282-4055 www.ocfleamarkets.com
Outdated 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0030 outdatedcafe@gmail.com
Diamond Mills
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25 South Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-0700 www.DiamondMillsHotel.com info@DiamondMillsHotel.com
7392 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-0202 redhookemporium.com info@redhookemporium.com
Roots and Wings
Water Street Market (Antiques Center)
PO Box 1081, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com/getaways
The 1850 House Inn & Tavern
10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com
435 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7800 or (855) 658-1805 www.the1850house.com 1850house@gmail.com
Hyde Park Antiques Center
Windham Mountain Ski Resort
Jenkinstown Antiques
Windham, NY (518) 734-4300 www.windhammountain.com edewi @windhammountain.com
520 Route 32 South, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4876 www.JenkinstownAntiques.com
Alternative Energy Hudson Solar (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
4192 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY (845) 229-8200 www.hydeparkantiques.net
Lorraine’s Place 424 Main Street, Beacon, NY (914) 980-0465 june.crilly@gmail.com
The Hidden Barn
Animal Sanctuaries Catskill Animal Sanctuary 316 Old Stage Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 336-8447 www.CASanctuary.org
Antiques Aphrodite’s Antiques & Gifts 77 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 8255-2769
Beekman Arms Antique Market Beekman Arms Hotel, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3477
Eclectic Eye 16-18 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5520 theeclecticeye@gmail.com
24 Bailey Road, Montgomery, NY 845-778-2575 ww.hiddenbarn.com
Architecture
36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.byrdcliffe.org events@woodstockguild.org Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm July 7 - August 12: Beautiful Garbage; Opening Reception: July 7, 4-6pm; Free Artist Talk: July 7, 3pm. July 7, 8pm, Justin Kolb: Liszt and the Barefoot Carmelite. July 13 - 15, Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts. July 21, Woodstock OffBeat:The Musical Life of Peter Schickele. July 28, 4-6pm, A.i.R. Open Studios. Saturdays, 12-2pm, Byrdcliffe Cafe
Theo Ganz Studio 149 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 318-2239 www.theoganzstudio.com
Time and Space Limited 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY www.timeandspace.org
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston, NY (845) 331-7780
Artisans
Clark Art Institute
Berkshire Woodworkers Guild
Williamstown, MA (413) 458-2303 www.clarkart.edu
Berkshire Botanical Garden, Great Barrington, MA www.berkshirewoodworkers.org
Exposures Gallery
Shandaken Artist Tour
1357 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-9382 www.exposures.com Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11 to 5
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Internationally recognized and the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since 1979 when he opened Exposures Gallery. To date he has sold over 50,000 prints to corporations and celebrities such as Steven Spielberg and Quincy Jones. Along with images from the Hudson Valley, his new special exhibit “Mekong Journal” can be viewed this season. Visit online at exposures.com for Photo Workshops in Sugar Loaf and Italy.
Gallery Arts Guild 342 Main Street, Lakeville, CT (860) 596-4298
Attorneys Traffic and Criminally Related Matters Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys, 30 East 33rd Street, 4th FL, New York, NY (212) 213-2145 fax (212) 779-3289 www.newyorktrafficlawyers.com Representing companies and motorists throughout New York State. Speeding, Reckless Driving, DWI, Trucking Summons and Misdemeanors, Aggravated Unlicensed Matters, Appeals, Article 78 Cases, 27 Years of Trial Experience.
Audio & Video
Gray Owl Gallery
Markertek Video Supply
Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.grayowlgallery.com
www.markertek.com
Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Auto Sales & Services Arlington Auto & Tire 678 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2800 www.arlingtonautotire.com
Balzer and Tuck Architecture
Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45
468 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY (518) 580-8818 www.balzertuck.com
45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org
Fleet Service Center
RiverWinds Gallery
Kingston, NY (845) 336-6600, ext. 336 jp@heartvw.com
North River Architecture 3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com
Art Galleries & Centers Ai Earthling Gallery 69 Tinker Street , Woodstock, NY (845) 679 -2650
Fairground Shows NY
Ann Street Gallery
P.O. Box 3938, Albany, NY (518) 331-5004 www.fairgroudshows.com fairgroundshows@aol.com
104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 784-1146 www.annstreetgallery.org facebook.com/annstreetgallery
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Byrdcliffe Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts
172 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2880 www.riverwindsgallery.com
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltz.edu/museum
Sierra Lily 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org
185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812
James J. Parkhurst
Main Street Auto 160 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845)255-0530
New Paltz Taxi Trailways Bus Station (845) 255-1550
Wheels of Time 2694 Route 199, Pine Plains, NY (518) 398-7493 www.wheelsoftimeinc.com
Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re back in Saugerties now!
Bicycle Sales, Rentals & Service
Will III House Design 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0869 www.willbuilders.com office@willbuilders.com
Wood Trades (845) 677-9274 woodtrades.blogspot.com
Barner Books 3 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2635
Mirabai of Woodstock
Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
The Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603 (845) 373-8309 (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com
Cabinet Designers 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Glennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704
H. Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com
Herringtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com
Clothing & Accessories Judy Go Vintage 848 Route 32, Tillson, NY (845) 658-3028 www.judygovintage.com judyvintage@gmail.com
Surviving Sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boutique 4412 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY (845) 229-0425
Woodstock Design 9 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8776 www.shopwoodstockdesign.com
Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com
Craft Galleries Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.
Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com
Dance Instruction Got2LINDY Dance Studios
(518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com
Kingston, Highland, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-3939 www.got2lindy.com
44 Elm Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-6225 www.montfortgroup.com
)ULGD\ $XJXVW UG DW S P Freshwater ecologist Dave Strayer will discuss the Hudson River, including the Cary Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research program, the riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental recovery, and challenges that need to be met. Copies of Strayerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new book, The Hudson River Primer, will be available for sale. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Seating is first come first served.
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N & S Supply
Little Explorers Nursery and Daycare Center
www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
304 Route 32 North, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-2299
Mindfulness Retreat
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23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com
Jupp Kerckerinck, conservationist and President of the Shark Research Institute, will give a presentation about the dramatic decline of sharks and the role they play in the ocean ecosystem. From their evolution to their persecution for soupâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a fascinating look at these ancient and misunderstood creatures. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Seating is first come first served.
Rosendale Theater Collective
6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org
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Refreshing our Relationship with Life August 22-26, 2012
Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, NY
We invite you to join us for our Mindfulness retreat here at Blue Cliff Monastery, a branch monastery of Plum Village. Blue Cliff is located only 90 miles NW of NYC in the lush Walker Valley close to the Catskills. While here, we shall learn how to come back to ourselves and to discover that enlightened living is possible with the practice of mindfulness in everyday life. We will learn to practice walking and sitting meditation, touching the Earth, Dharma discussion and beginning anew. These practices help to bring about healing and transformation in ourselves and refreshing our relationship with our families, society, and the world.
For more information and registration, please visit www.bluecliffmonastery.org Tel: 845-733-4959 ext 22 Email: office@bluecliffmonastery.org
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Little Owl’s Preschool
FarmieMarket
Joseph’s Hairstylists
Uptown Kingston, NY (845) 481-5215 LittleOwlsPreK@yahoo.com
www.farmiemarket.com
257 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-5588
Events Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc. Katonah, NY (914) 232-1252 www.caramoor.org
Chalk Art Festival Water Street Market, 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.hudsonvalleychalkfestival.com
327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon - Sat 7:30 to 7, Sundays 9 to 5 A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic Bakery and Creamery. Farm-fresh foods include cheeses, yogurts, raw milk, breads, pastries, sauerkraut, and more. Two miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit. Farm tours can also be arranged by calling the Farm Learning Center: (518) 672-7500 x 231.
Connecticut Wine Festival
Hudson Valley Bounty
Goshen Fairgrounds, Rt 63, Goshen, CT www.ctwine.com
(518) 392-9696 www.hudsonvalleybounty.com
Dan Smalls Presents
Mother Earth’s Store House
656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown, NY (607) 544-1800 www.Dansmallspresents.com
1955 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614 300 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 www.motherearthstorehouse.com
Hudson Music Festival www.hudsonmusicfest.com
Jazz in the Valley Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 384-6350 www.transartinc.org
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org
Phoenicia Festival of the Voice
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Hawthorne Valley Farm Store
Phoenica, NY (888) 214-3063 www.phoeniciavoicefest.com
Quail Hollow Events P.O. Box 825, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8087 or (845) 246-3414 www.quailhollow.com At the Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair you can experience one of America’s largest variety of art & craft demonstrations, be entertained by the best regionally based musicians, as well as experience the very best the Hudson Valley has to offer in both New York State wines and locally produced handcrafted specialty foods. The Hudson Valley’s premier art & crafts show takes place every Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz, NY.
West Point Band (845) 938-2617 www.westpointband.com
Woodstock Shakespeare Festival Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY (845) 247-4007 birdonacliff.org
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845)569-0303 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Beacon Natural Market 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 www.beaconnaturalmarket.com
Berkshire Co Op Market 42 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-9697 www.berkshire.coop
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Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself!
Pennings Farm Market & Orchards 161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com
Farms Brookside Farm 7433, Gardiner, NY (845) 895-7433 www.brookside-farm.com
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Gardening & Garden Supplies
Love Hair Salon 460 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 340-4544 lovehairNY.com
Home Furnishings & Décor Asia Barong
Graphic Design
Art et Industrie 420 Park Street, Housatonic, MA www.artetindustrie.com
Carpet Store Corner of Route 213 & 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8338 www.rosendalecarpetstore.com
Evolve Design Gallery 88 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY
Home Improvement Certapro Painters (845) 987-7561 www.certapro.com
Sheeley Roofing (845) 687-9182 www.sheeleyroofing.com
Tommy Topcoat (845) 337-9947
William Wallace Construction (845) 750-7335 www.williamwallaceconstruction.com
Household Management & Planning Liberty Security Services
Lawyers & Mediators Pathways Mediation Center 239 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com A unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or families in conflict with the innovative, combined services of 2 professionals. Josh Koplovitz has 30 years as a matrimonial & family law attorney and Myra Schwartz has 30 years as a guidance counselor. This male/female team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultation to find out about us.
Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
Music Lessons Jacobs Music Center 1 Milton Avenue, Highland, NY (845)691-2701 Jacobsmusiconline.com Dennis@jacobsmusiconline.com For all your music needs! Retail Store, Music School, Band Rentals, Repairs.
Musical Instruments Imperial Guitar & Soundworks
Noel Phillips Gilding & Restoration
Woodstock Music Shop
(845) 290-2116 knoelphillips@gmail.com
Internet Services
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dreaming Goddess 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com
Edelweiss Soap company 38 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 282-3001 www.edelweiss-soap-company.com
Vision of Tibet 416 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3838 www.visionoftibet.com
2722 W. Main Street, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5900, 738 Route 9, Fishkill Plaza, Fishkill, NY (845) 897-5100, NY www.dazzlessalon.com
Webster Landscape
99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com
www.aydeeyai.com
Dazzles Salon & Day Spa
(845) 255-6634
PO Box 2767, Kingston, NY (845) 418-3577 sales@issasap.com
Annie Internicola, Illustrator
Hair Salons
(845)742-2488 www.auroralandscapedesign.com contact@auroralandscapedesign.com
Sheffield, MA (413) 229-8124 www.websterlandscapes.com
High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com
(845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net
1160 Platte Clove Road, Elka Park, NY (518) 580-5014 www.ravenswoodfarm.org
Aurora Landscape
Lounge
(845) 876-1559, 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, (845) 255-0050
Ravenswood
9W & Van Kleecks Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 338-4936 www.augustinenursery.com
Coral Acres, Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art
DragonSearch
389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 www.NDBGonline.com
Augustine Landscaping & Nursery
Route 7/199 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-5091 www.asiabarong.com
Mac’s Agway
Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens
Landscaping
Kitchenwares
6 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3224 www.woodstockmusicshop.com
Organizations Country Wisdom News (845) 616-7834 www.countrywisdomnews.com Subscribe to Country Wisdom News, Ulster County’s newest source for good news — age old and modern thoughts on food, the land, and the home. An annual subscription is $35. Send checks to PO Box 444, Accord, NY, 12404.
Wallkill Valley Writers New Paltz, NY (845) 750-2370 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com
Performing Arts Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org
Warren Kitchen & Cutlery
Falcon Music & Art Productions
6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 895-2051 www.warrenkitchentools.com
1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236 7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (413) 243-0745 www.jacobspillow.org
Maverick Concerts 120 Mavervick Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8217 www.MaverickConcerts.org
Powerhouse Theater Vassar Campus (845) 437-5599 www.powerhouse.vassar.edu
Starling Productions The Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8410 astarlingproduction@gmail.com
The Linda WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
Pet Services & Supplies 509 Hurley Avenue, Hurley, NY (845) 331-7100 www.hurleyveterinaryhospital.com
Natural Pet Center 609 RT 208, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-7387 info@thenaturalpetcenter.com
Pet Country 6830 Rt. 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-9000
Woofstock Companion Animal Supply 7 Elwyn Lane, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9663
Photography Corporate Image Studio 1 Jacobs Lane, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.mgphotoman.com mgphotoman@gmail.com
Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com
Rob Penner Photography (646) 470-1694 www.robpennerphotography.com rob@robpennerphotography.com
Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship,
Pools & Spas Aqua Jet 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
Ne Jame Pools, Ltd (845) 677-7665 www.nejamepools.com
Printing Services Fast Signs 1830 South Rd Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455 455@fastsigns.com
Real Estate Copake Lake Realty 285 Lakeview Road, Copake Lake, NY (518) 325-9741 www.copakelakerealty.com
Gate House Realty 492 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-9550 www.gatehouserealty.com
Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg. 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com
River Management (845) 656-2226
330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-3225 www.msmc.edu
North River Charters (845) 750-6025 www.theteal.com northrivercharters@yahoo.com
River Rose Tours and Cruises (845) 562-1067 www.riverrosecruises.com
Schools Acorn School 2911 Lucas Avenue, Accord, NY (845) 626-3103 www.acornschoolhouse.com motria@acornschoolhouse.com
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
Center for the Digital Arts / Westchester Community College Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill peekskill@sunywcc.edu
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HEALING An architect and an academic tap into the therapeutic power of place. by wendy kagan illustration by annie internicola
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ama, let’s go see the big Buddha.” This sudden proposal from my three-year-old daughter comes amid a day of surprises, most of them unwelcome and leaving me rough around the edges. Is this just another example of her carefree, preschool whimsy asserting itself? Or is she, from a subtle, wise-child knowing, offering a salve for mama’s out-of-sorts mood? In any case I obey my tiny spiritual guide, and we head off in the car for a visit to the main shrine room at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery in Woodstock. Slipping off our shoes, we enter an incense-perfumed refuge. Warm, bright colors surround us, lit by dozens of prayer lanterns and the gold-leaf glow of a giant Buddha statue. Usually a whirling dervish of energy, my daughter settles quietly into my lap amid the meditation cushions. There is a shift in me, too, as a gray veil lifts from my consciousness and leaves a light contentedness in its place. Whether they’re monasteries or malls, nature preserves or boardrooms, the spaces we inhabit affect us. We don’t need science to prove this—personal experience will do just fine—but science has gone ahead and made the fact official, as it likes to do. More than that, science has shown that spaces can affect us in more dramatic ways than most of us even realize. Take the oft-cited 1984 medical study that compared the records of 46 patients recovering from gallbladder surgery; half of the patients were assigned to rooms with a window view of a natural setting, while the other 23 subjects inhabited similar rooms with windows facing a brick wall. The difference was impressive, as the roomwith-a-view patients averaged a 25 percent shorter postoperative hospital stay, received fewer negative evaluative comments in nurses’ notes, and requested fewer potent analgesics than the brick-wall-view patients. Similar studies followed, and designers started to take notice. “A relationship exists between environment and health outcome,” says Francis Pitts, an architect specializing in hospital design and a principal at Architecture+, based in Troy. Back in the `90s, Pitts was something of a pioneer in what he calls therapeutic spaces. “At that time, when we began using terms like ‘healing environment’ and ‘patient-centered environment,’ we were received with skepticism. People talked about it as a California fad, like we had eaten too much granola. Today, it’s impossible to read the literature and not hear about these ideas. Now they’re just naturally employed. The last 10 years have been an extraordinarily interesting time in hospital design.” Sacred Places, Healing Spaces It seems that certain environmental cues can help turn on our body’s relaxation response, reducing unhealthy stress and restoring a sense of wholeness and peace. Herbert Benson, a cardiologist, famously described this response in the 112 whole living ChronograM 7/12
1970s as an activation of the parasympathetic nervous system, which causes the body to relax and can bring profound health effects, such as a strengthened immune system. What makes certain spaces more healing than others? I take this question with me on a journey down the Thruway to SUNY New Paltz, where Dr. Lyla Yastion, adjunct professor of anthropology, is introducing her two-week summer course, “Sacred Spaces.” The computer-projected image of a Native American medicine wheel looms overhead as Yastion, author of Pause Now: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution (Hamilton Books, 2009), launches into a discussion of the geometry of sacred symbols and soulful places. Folding in Celtic crosses, indigenous spirituality, Buddhism, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists, and St. John the Divine cathedral in Manhattan,Yastion argues convincingly that there is some consensus across cultures and traditions on what constitutes sacred space. Could there be a universal truth about such places—and if so, what is it? Do we assign sacredness to a place, or are some spaces inherently infused with supernatural energies? While such lofty academic questions swirl, I begin to wonder if there is really a connection between “sacred” and “healing”—two contemporary buzzwords bordering on the overuse that can strip charged words of their meaning. Then Yastion steps in with an explanation that sufficiently bridges the gap between them. “The words health, healing, whole, and holy all have the same Anglo-Saxon root, hal, which means whole or healthy,” she says. Sacredness and health literally grow from the same seed. Yastion mentions examples of sites that the class will visit on field trips—a nature preserve, monastery, cathedral, and ashram—each offering its own kind of restorative medicine. “Places like these give us solace and realign the body-mind-heart-spirit into an integrated whole. We feel their effects as health and happiness.” Turning again to etymology, Yastion points out that an ordinary place, called topos in Greek, can be transformed—whether through history, personal experience, or some other energizing force—into choros, a sacred place. With intention and attention, we can sacrilize—or at least optimize—the spaces around us and make them more healing. The question remains, but how? A New Kind of Hospital Hospitals are topos through and through—they are ideologically neutral, secular places—and they need to be. Hosting people from diverse cultural backgrounds, hospitals can’t risk alienating health-care consumers with something as subjective as spirituality. Science is the only god admitted here. But according to architects like Pitts (who would never use a New Age catchphrase like “body-mind-heart-spirit”), that doesn’t mean we have to accept less than optimal surroundings. “The traditional model for the design of a hospital revolves
around the delivery of services,” he says. “It’s doctor- and nurse-centric.” The downsides of that model are obvious to anyone who has ever been in a hospital and felt assaulted by round-the-clock noise, bright lights, pungent odors, and a jarring lack of privacy. The new wave of hospital design says good riddance to as much of that as possible. “A complementary point of view to the traditional model suggests that there’s a difference between healing and curing,” he adds. “Curing is about providing a procedure or administering a drug—it’s an intervention that’s often necessary. Healing is what comes afterwards, and it’s what the body does naturally. Hospitals designed around the delivery of services focus on the optimization of the curing process, but they don’t really address the needs of the healing process. We’re coming to the conclusion that it is important to create an environment that focuses as much on healing as it does on curing, supporting the body’s natural tendency to heal and reducing the amount of stress that we create in hospitals traditionally.” Transforming a hospital into a healing environment involves bringing certain elements into play. A focus on nature is primary, says Pitts, who incorporates natural views and natural materials in his designs. Positive distractions from boredom, sameness, and pain can take the form of water sounds or music, or the aromas of good food, while acoustic or soundproofing elements can buffer patients from the bustle of 24/7 nursing activity. Lighting that doesn’t interfere with the sleep-wake cycle can promote healing, as can a space that allows quality interaction with visitors and not just edge-of-the-bed perching amid hospital equipment. Several studies have confirmed that a private environment is essential to accelerating the healing process; happily, shared rooms are becoming passé in hospitals thanks to new guidelines from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare. “If you are building a new hospital, it has to have all private rooms,” says Pitts. For future patients, things are looking up; hospitals are getting almost warm and fuzzy. Paths to Wholeness On my next visit to Yastion’s seminar, nature is our classroom, and the sounds of raindrops and mourning doves fill the pauses around the professor’s words. “Sacred space is more than a concept; it’s an experience,” she says. “We can find it in a mountaintop, a river, a forest clearing. In our modern world of buildings and roads, we can be starved for this kind of nourishment.” We have come to the Mohonk Preserve to visit a replica of a Native American medicine wheel and to, as the Lakota Sioux describe it, walk in a sacred manner with nature. “Are we losing our connection to the land, to our geography? The flux of people to national parks is down,” says Yastion. “We have to use our intel-
ligence to shift from an egocentric world view to an ecocentric one—in which we recognize sacred land and respect our place in the great web of life.” It’s here on the rain-soaked trails that Yastion introduces a practical way of bringing sacred space into our everyday lives. After a morning dedicated to Native American and Buddhist philosophies, Yastion segues into an introduction to walking meditation. We are instructed to walk a length of trail with quiet focus and attention, to be present for each footfall. As my motorcycle boots press against the wet earth I think of lotus flowers blossoming underfoot, as the Buddha was said to have left with each footprint. According to the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, we are to feel peace with every step; we can find solace from our worries by simply being awake to the miracle of our bodies stepping upon the miracle of the Earth. “Any time we move in space in a conscious manner, we are manifesting and creating sacred space,” says Yastion. She sends us home with an assignment:We are to practice this same meditative mindfulness while engaged in one ordinary activity, such as getting dressed or washing dishes. We don’t need to visit a monastery or even be in nature; we can make sacred space wherever we go. Beauty Without, Beauty Within In his business of dealing with literal-minded, results-oriented administrators and doctors, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever hear Pitts quoting someone like Thich Nhat Hanh. (“I’m not going there entirely,” he says when our conversation borders on the spiritual. “I need to be effective talking to people who don’t necessarily embrace that belief system.”)Yet I can’t help but notice a few striking similarities to his hospital work and the kind of work in the world that Yastion is asking us to do. At one of the crown jewels in his firm’s portfolio— the brand-new, therapeutically designed Worcester Psychiatric Hospital in Massachusetts—he included plans for four labyrinths in the courtyard. Visually beautiful, these ancient geometric tools invite the quiet contemplation of walking meditation. “They’re an effective way to allow someone to move and focus, and to find comfort in that process,” says Pitts, who carefully keeps his language free of mysticism. Perhaps we respond to healing places because they actively remove stress and let the body do what it does naturally: restore itself to wholeness. Or, taking the mystic view, places like these reflect back to us our own essential nature—an inner landscape of peace that is always available to us. “When we are attentive we discover that the outer is the inner, and the inner is the outer,” says Yastion. “We resonate with these places because the sacredness we see without we feel within our hearts. It is the same sacredness.” 7/12 ChronograM whole living 113
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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. — Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan
Dealings with Feelings on the Last Day of School
This summer I will put my girl on a bus for pony camp. And though this will be a new level of distance, I do have some experience with this separation business. All year long our beloved friend and neighbor drove her to kindergarten every day, and off she went. And every day, there was something eerie about watching my baby’s head, motionless, moving away from me, with no giant skullthrashing struggle to stay close. Sometimes I could see that her head was turned slightly toward her friend, or I imagined (hoped for) little tremors of laughter. Any way I looked at it, however, she was in another car. Even though we share the essential unity of all things, not to mention a lot of DNA, it is also true that her body exists in another world. And I have some feelings about that. And I also have some options in how to deal with those feelings. T and I have been talking a lot about the idea of orienting toward pleasure, a concept he came across in his work with Somatic Experiencing, a body-based approach to trauma, which I have studied a bit myself. Does “orienting toward pleasure” mean just doing what feels good and avoiding what doesn’t? This happens to be the Buddha’s definition of suffering—that continuous search for the perfect moment, perfect life, penultimate meal, seamless relationship, otherwise known as samsara, otherwise known as hell. So…maybe it means just making my house prettier? Appreciating what I have? Stopping to smell the roses? Looking on the bright side? Sort of, but optimism is kind of creepy. And replacing one set of conditioned responses with a knee-jerk other is not exactly the liberation I have in mind. And so, when I see my girl’s little noggin moving away from me, and I have that thought: There she goes, and my body falls into its familiar groove of melancholy, which often results in feelings of loss, or sadness (or guilty relief!), or some form of self-doubt or even, on a really dark and stormy day, self-hatred (as in, Look at how you’ve squandered this, that, and the other!), what can I do other than what I have always done, or its opposite? To orient toward pleasure, I first have to notice my habitual tendencies (see above). And wait. Take a gulp of not-knowing, allow a few beats of nothingness to arise. Using my senses, instead of my head, I can listen to the wind in the trees, feel my skirt against my legs, smell spring rising from the dirt. I can orient my self-habits in a new direction, toward open-heartedness, see what else is possible. I mean, my god, the universe is vast. There must be ways of being other than the handful I ricochet between. Even my more pleasant pings and pongs are reactive, in some way, seeking another dose of familiar comfort, which always leads to more familiar desire. But allowing myself to rest in the genuine experience of being alive, even in the face of real sadness or disappointment or loss—that’s the orientation I am going for. After all, resting, even in a bucket of shit, is better than spazzing out, and much more effective as I make every effort to get the hell out. 114 whole living ChronograM 7/12
However, one of the reasons I find this reorienting so difficult is because of my determination to not get ensnared by a trap called “spiritual bypass,” a term coined by a guy named John Welwood, who defined it this way: Spiritual bypassing is a term I coined to describe a process I saw happening in the Buddhist community I was in, and also in myself. Although most of us were sincerely trying to work on ourselves, I noticed a widespread tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks. When we are spiritually bypassing, we often use the goal of awakening or liberation to rationalize what I call premature transcendence: trying to rise above the raw and messy side of our humanness before we have fully faced and made peace with it. And then we tend to use absolute truth to disparage or dismiss relative human needs, feelings, psychological problems, relational difficulties, and developmental deficits. I see this as an “occupational hazard” of the spiritual path, in that spirituality does involve a vision of going beyond our current karmic situation. Bypassing comes in all flavors, not just Buddhist ones.Who wants to face the mess when we don’t have to? The problem is, we really do have to. Or the mess ends up facing us—in the mirror, across the table, or in the lining of our gut. And yet. The belief that I have to face the music all the time, that tendency to be hypervigilant, on guard against denial lest I get embroiled even deeper in some unresolved mishegoss is my “karmic situation,” and it is rooted in fear. It’s compulsive, habitual, some deal I made with the devil long ago, with the idea that if I kept myself spinning I would be safe from anyone else being able to turn me. The thing is, it’s a lie. I can be turned, affected, let down, hurt. Bigtime. There is no safety from that. Though of course this has always been true, since giving birth…it’s different. This morning A went to her last day of school with a tummy ache, not interested in her smoothie or cheese, just sad. So I let her munch on a piece of nutty chocolate as we moved through the morning routine, wanting to give her a little sweetness and some energy. As I stood behind her, braiding her hair, cleaning her brand-new earrings, I listened to her little mouth munching, one of my favorite sounds in the whole world. I asked her if it tasted good, and she softly nodded. When I asked if it went down okay, like felt good in her tummy, she shrugged.When she was all tidied, I reached down, she turned around, her arms flew up, and she did her little jump into my body, squeezing me like a tree with her strong legs. My little monkey. God help me just love this love. Check out Bethany’s latest writing adventure,“Is This My Chair? Notes on Being,” a blog at Isthismychair.com.
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event PREVIEWS & listings for juLY 2012 Dave Rittinger A view of Alice Aycock's A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels at Omi International Arts Center.
Underground Art Scene In the 20th century, what we agree to call “sculpture” changed dramatically. In the good old days, the words “sculpture” and “statue” were more or less interchangeable. A sculpture meant an image of a man or woman, carved out of stone or wood, modeled in clay or wax, perhaps cast in bronze. Now sculpture means something like “three-dimensional art.” And since every object that we experience is three-dimensional, every object can be experienced, at least potentially, as sculpture. So what is three-dimensionality? It is the experience of objects, the space around them and the space that they displace. We experience space in at least three ways: with the body, with the eyes, and with the mind. Alice Aycock’s A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels is a work that explores space in each of these ways. The piece, recently installed at The Fields Sculpture Park at Art Omi in Ghent, is a unique collaboration between the artist, Bill Maynes, the director of the park, and Peter Franck, director of architecture Omi. Originally constructed by the artist for an exhibition titled “Projects in Nature” in 1975 at Merriewold West in New Jersey, the work is a historically accurate re-creation of the original structure. The artist describes the work as “a subterranean network of passages set up for the purpose of operating below the surface of the earth,” and cites French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s references to childhood fears of the cellar and the attic. The work creates a primal architectural experience of moving beneath the earth from light to darkness. It is constructed of a simple grid of six square well-like shapes. Alternating in a checkerboard pattern, the floor of the concrete-block enclosures either terminates at the ground plane or penetrates the earth, giving the viewer (or, better, the experiencer) access, via ladders, to the network of tunnels below. There’s just something about tunnels—kids are fascinated by them, and you don’t have to be Freud (or even to have read him) to know, intuitively, that the experience of entering in, moving through, and emerging from a passage through the earth
recapitulates for us some of the most primal experiences of our physical bodies. From the surface, there is mystery—one sees the structure, the holes, the ladders, the wooden covers. One imagines what might lie below. If we are conscious enough of the feeling this evokes, we become aware of irrational fears associated with the unknown—and, simultaneously, of a competing desire to know. Then, perhaps, we take action. We carefully step down the ladders into the network of tunnels. It is neither especially large nor deep, but as we enter and pass through, we gain understanding of the structure of the work, and, perhaps too, of our own perception. From above, we could not quite fathom what was below; from below, we have the memory of what is above in our minds. We move into the dark and out to the light. This is not metaphor; it’s just what happens. Aycock is part of a generation of artists that emerged in the late 1960s and early '70s that sought to move out of the confines of the white walls of the gallery and away from objects that could be easily appropriated by the system of commerce that is, inevitably, the art market. Her work, like much of what is frequently grouped under the term “earthworks,” is a kind of hybrid of sculpture, architecture, and landscape. Of course, there are precedents for this sort of thing—Egyptian and Mexican pyramids and tombs come to mind, and especially Native American Pueblo kivas, ceremonial spaces in which participants enter in order to commune with sacred and ancestral spirits. But the only spirits we encounter inside Aycock’s tunnels are our own. Entering the mysterious wells and finding nothing to look at but the framing of light, which may be called the “subject” of the work, we may become a bit more conscious of the ways in which our need to understand and to know the world is structured. A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels will be on permanent display at The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center, Ghent.The covers to the tunnels are currently opened only on Saturdays. (518) 392-4747; Artomi.org. —Jeff Crane
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SUNDAY 1 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Energy of Money Call for times. Explore the dynamics of the energy of the spiritual dimension of money and learn to sustain a consciousness of generosity. Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. A Contemplative Reading in the Temple 4pm. Short readings interspersed with music. Lectorium Rosicrucianum, Chatham. (518) 392-2799. De-Stress Mixed Level Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
CLASSES West African Drum 11am/12pm/5pm $15. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 399-6488. Wheel Throwing Crash Courses 3pm-6pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
QiGong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm-9pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Argentine Tango Tango: basics 6pm-7pm; intermediate 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
MUSIC Melvin Chen and 2012 Resident Quartet 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org. Python Soup 8pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
SPOKEN WORD New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. For eight weeks, $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
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Community Dance Day 9:30am-12:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, Massachusetts. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members; $48/$36 for series of four. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. beaconfleamarket@gmail.com. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. 876-3847. Sacred Earth Festival 11am-7pm. Theme: Water. Performers of song, dance, storytelling, music, drumming, folk arts and crafts, demonstrations, food. Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie. 849-2205.
FILM 2012 Litchfield Hills Film Festival Call for times. Festival will feature close to 100 films, including 13 documentary films, 12 feature films and 53 short films. Warner Theatre, Torrington, CT. Hillsfilmfestival.org. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 4pm. $3.50. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
KIDS Dirt, Works, and Weeds 4pm. With author Jeff Hutton. Your children learn how to start garden seeds indoors, prepare soil, and plant seeds. The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600.
MUSIC Caramoor International Music Festival Call for times. See website for specific performances and times. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc., Katonah. (914) 232-1252. Caramoor.org. Hannah's Field 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. St. Petersburg String Quartet 3pm. All-Schubert program. Music Mountain, Falls Village, Connecticut. (860) 824-7126. The Imani Winds 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. JB's Soul Jazz Trio 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Annual Harpin' for Hunger Benefit Concert 7:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
SPOKEN WORD Jimmie and Friends 4pm. Comedy. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
THEATER Abigail/1702 2pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. The Fortress of Solitude 2pm. Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Fully Committed 2pm. $25/$23 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. 1776 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. A Grand Night for Singing 3pm. Summerstar Theater. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4790. Auditions for The Last 5 Years 6pm. SummerStar Theater. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4790. Romeo and Juliet 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org
MONDAY 2
Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 series/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Gentle Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
Modern Dance Class 7pm-8:15pm. Beginner and intermediate. $15 class/$54 series. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 282-6723.
DANCE Vertigo Dance Company 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA (413) 243-9919 ext. 5. LeeSaar The Company 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
EVENTS The Grand Celebration and Grand Illumination Call for times. Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195. 4th of July Picnic Bash Call for times. With live music and hamburgers, corn on the cob, chicken, and other traditional picnic fare. Bannerman Island, Beacon. 831-6346. 4th of July Celebration 10am-5pm. See a military drill and cannon firing (2pm) as well as blacksmithing and children's activities throughout the day. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765. Farmers Market 11:30am-5:30pm. Cornwall Community Co-Op. Town Hall, Cornwall. Cornwallcoop.com. 4th of July BBQ and Shot Gun Tournament 1pm. Stone Dock Golf Club, High Falls. 687-2699.
MUSIC Tom DePetris Trio 7:30pm. Jazz, Blues. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.
THEATER Romeo and Juliet 7pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. Hvshakespeare.org.
THURSDAY 5
Jon Cobert 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Zappa Plays Zappa 8:30pm. $40. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
SPOKEN WORD The BeanRunner Poetry Project 6pm. 6-7pm poetry workshop with Ibrahim Siddiq followed by open mike. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
THEATER Love's Labour's Lost 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org Abigail/1702 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Fully Committed 8pm. $30/$28 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
FRIDAY 6 ART 11th Annual Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-6pm. The juried show features more than 200 artists and artisans. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, MA. Berkshiresartsfestival.com.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Transform Karma to Transform Your Life 7pm-9pm. Elaine Ward. $20. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
CLASSES The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
DANCE
MommyBWell Prenatal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $78/6 weeks. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
ART
Compagnie Fates Galantes 8pm. $25/$40/$45/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Tai Chi Tuesdays 7pm-8pm. Scenic Hudson's River Center, Beacon. 471-7477.
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members; $48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MOMIX Botanica 8pm. $22-$72. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
Full Moon—Sound and Light Activation 7:30pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Vertigo Dance Company 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
YogaDance 9pm. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
Violet Alchemy Dowsing 11:30am-6pm. Dona Ho Lightsey. $125. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CLASSES
Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
West African Drum/Dance 5:30/6:30pm.$15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 399-6488.
Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $10/$75 series members; $12/$100 series. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. 6-week series. $100 series/$15 dropin. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
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The Triplets of Belleville 8:30pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Traditional Arts Weekend Call for times. Weekend summer workshop for beginning and advanced artists alike. $475. Lake Conference Center, Tusten. 252-7367.
KIDS Wayfinder Youth Summer Program 9am-3pm. Through Aug. 3. Character building, unlocking the imagination, arts and crafts, and fun mini-adventures for ages 6-8. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Insect Explorations 10am. Ages 6-9. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
MUSIC Blues and Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. Aashish Khan and Ray Spiegel 8pm. Classical Indian music. $20. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.
THE OUTDOORS
Euro Dance with Helvi and Richard Impola 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Private Energy Healings and Soul Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Mommy and Me Yoga 10:30am-11:45am. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Community Yoga 6pm-7pm. With Kathy Carey. $7. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
The Wizard of Oz 8:30pm. Academy Green Park, Kingston. Kingstonparksmovies.com.
KIDS
Ben Taylor Call for times. Sponsored by Radio Woodstock. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Marc Black Band 7pm. Opening: Amy Frandon. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
LeeSaar The Company 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Brentano Quartet 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org.
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Orlando Marin, The Last Mambo King 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
The Distinguished Gentleman 7pm. The Crafted Kup, Poughkeepsie. 483-7070.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
FILM
Vertigo Dance Company 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
FILM
Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 series/$12. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Poughkeepsie Farmers' Market 1pm-6pm. Pulaski Park, Poughkeepsie. Farmproject.org/market.
MUSIC
Inside/Out Performance: Rukmini Vijayakumar 6:15pm. Bharatanatyam, classical Indian dance. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
The 39 Steps 7pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. Hvshakespeare.org.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Saugerties First Friday The streets of Saugerties come alive with music, libation, shopping and art. Downtown Saugerties, Saugerties. Diane@ihgallery.com.
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Kindermusik Development through Music 11:30am-12:15pm. Birth to 20 months. $93. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Moonlight Hike to Mount Beacon 7pm-10pm. Strenuous, four-mile hike. Mount Beacon, Beacon. Scenichudson.org.
Abigail/1702 8pm. With post-show discussion. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
LeeSaar The Company 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
West African Dance 6:30pm. $15. M*Power Studios, Poughkeepsie. 399-6488.
Festival of the Arts Call for times. 8-week long festival of music, theater, and dance. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646.
Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
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Christine Lavin and Don White 8pm. $30/$25. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. Guthriecenter.org. Ben Taylor 9pm. $20/$15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Jonah Smith 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Mandalas 1pm. Children's art workshop. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Charlie Sabin Acoustic 9:30pm. Max's on Main, Beacon. 838-6297.
MUSIC
A Forum on Transitional Ecology 9am-3:30pm. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.
Jazz with Tom DePetris Trio 6:30pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. John Simon and the Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. The Blue in Green Jazz Quartet 7pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Imagining Lennon and McCartney Beatles Classics 7pm-9pm. Music in the Park summer concert series. Dutchman's Landing Park, Catskill. (518) 943-0989. Akie B. and the Falcons 7pm. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
SPOKEN WORD
THEATER Caesar 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Abigail/1702 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. 1776 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Fully Committed 8pm. $30/$28 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
ART POLLY LAW
The Empress in Winter, Polly Law, bricolage, 2011. Law's assemblages are on display through July 15 at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum.
Under Penalty of Law “I found this on the shore and I whooped for joy!” remarks Polly Law, of a piece of animal vertebrae. Presently, this bone functions as the tiara for The Empress In Winter, a paper doll sculpture. It will be at the Woodstock Art Museum until July 15, in Law’s solo show. The Empress In Winter is from the series “What the Tide Brings,” which arose out of a workshop Law took with artist Christie Scheele in Cape Cod. Law spent hours walking along the shore, collecting keepsakes offered up by the tides: seagull feathers, driftwood, shells, bones. Soon she began integrating them into her art. Law’s first such work was a “Wrack Angel,” the bedraggled corpse of an angel, which looks like it’s screaming. (The title comes from the “wrack line,” the area on the beach where detritus is strewn.) This series is set in an imaginary kingdom between sea and shore. Its citizens include The Dauphine, The Messenger, The Luck-Bringer, The Royal Surrogate. After returning to Kingston, Law began collecting oddities in the woods for a second series titled “Esopus Mystics.” At the Catskill Native Nursery, where she works, Law found a garter snake skin, which became a turban for a doll known as The Seeress. Law is best known for her vocabulary-themed works: paper dolls illustrating such unfamiliar words as “lissotrichus,” “napiform,” and “slimikin.” Her book, The Word Project: Odd and Obscure Words Illustrated (2010), contains over 120 images. The volume was published with the help of a Kickstarer grant, and 100 subscribers. Her dolls are constructed from illustration board; the background is painted Masonite—often employing Law’s handmade stencils. Law uses acrylic paint, buttons, string, and plastic-coated wire. A tortuous journey led Law to her present genre. She began studying glassblowing at Kent State University. (Her first semester was the one following the shootings.) After
picking up the wrong end of a glass-blowing rod and badly burning her hand, Law switched to weaving and textiles. Graduating Kent State, she moved to New York City, where she worked in advertising for 20 years, doing storyboards for commercials— including five years with Continuity Associates, an agency founded by Neal Adams, the visionary comic book artist. After moving to the Hudson Valley, Law met Pam Hastings, a paper doll artist, who commissioned her to make a doll in 2001. “I had all these bits and pieces of a doll, and I was trying to figure out how to fasten them together,” Law recalls. “The brass brads that a lot of people use have never appealed to me—they’re too big and clunky, and sort of boring. I was just walking around, and I saw my button jar, and thought, ‘I’ll sew them together with buttons!’ I absolutely fell in love with the technique, and that’s what I’ve been doing ever since.” In this show, all but one of the characters are female—unless you count the angels. “I consider the Wrack Angel figures to be male, because technically all angels are male—according to the Bible,” Law explains. Another series, “When I Talk About Love,” features dolls with tiny boxes cut into their chests, each revealing an inner truth: a rusted screw, a cinder, a moon, a golden filament. Paper dolls are paralyzed, helpless. They await the warm, adoring hands of a young child to bring them to life. “Polly M. Law, Solo Show” will be at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum until July 15. Law will give an artist’s talk on Sunday, July 8 at 1pm. For more information, call (845) 679-2940; Woodstockart.org. —Sparrow
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WHEN THE SAINT-SAËNS COMES MARCHING IN SummerScape 2012 at Bard College By Jay Blotcher
For many, summer in the Valley prompts torpor, the only sensible response to the monotony of cloudless days, Cro-Magnon barbecues, and lightweight beach novels. But as a restless aesthete, you believe that warmer months don’t signal a vacation from education. Happily, the annual SummerScape festival (July 6 through August 19) returns, offering cerebral stimulation for the caliber of übernerd who hungers for extra-credit assignments between school years. For the 23rd season, Bard College unveils its seven-week schedule of theater, film, opera, dance, classical music, discussions, and cabaret—the latter in the glittering temple of vaudeville sin, Spiegeltent—calculated to whisk away mental stagnation. Each year, Bard selects an avatar of the classical music world, honors him by reviving his works, and then builds out the schedule from there, citing the works of his contemporaries, mentors, and influences in a deluge of entertainments that offer both resonance and dissonance vis-à-vis Saint-Saëns. (Legends previously receiving SummerScape canonization have included Shostakovich, Liszt, and Sibelius.) This year’s front-and-center protean genius is French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), who had the luck of seeing his symphonies and chamber music celebrated during his lifetime, even as the polymath detoured into philosophy and astronomy. But he was similarly cursed, forced in later years to watch his fame sputter out as he refused to alter his composing style to accommodate evolving tastes. (On the plus side, Saint-Saëns was commissioned to compose for the fledgling medium of moving pictures, although contemporaries probably considered this an act of artistic heresy.)
The Imaginary Invalid Before Cher and Madonna, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin went by the single nom de célébrité Molière. The playwright, who thrived in the 17th century, predated Saint-Saëns by 162 years and gained fame for a series of theatrical farces whose proto-slapstick plots tickled so ardently that some may have overlooked the lacerating satire beneath the surface. Returning director Erica Schmidt (who dazzled with 2008’s Uncle Vanya) acknowledges Molière’s rapier wit. But when asked to identify the relevance of this year’s The Imaginary Invalid (Le malade imaginaire) (performances July 13-22) for contemporary audiences, her answer is disarmingly simple. “I think it’s really funny,” she said. Pressed, Schmidt cites the 339-year-old work’s prescient commentary on the chaotic state of modern medicine. “Although we no longer bleed people, it’s still a relevant question for a lot of people: whether or not doctors are good for us or bad for us.” The play concerns the hapless Argan, who has spent most of his life clamoring about putative aches and pains that have restricted him to bed. But the hypochondriac is a wise fool; he schemes to marry his daughter to an accomplished doctor, not in tribute to love but because he divines that a physician as son-in-law will guarantee free bedside care. Schmidt will stage the work with an all-male cast. But her point is not a ponderous commentary of gender. (In fact, she said, she’s not above simple laughs evoked by cross-dressing.) Her casting choice has a historic precedent: In Molière’s own acting troupe, the distaff members were particularly vain and resisted roles of dowagers and other aging females. 124 forecast ChronograM 7/12
“They wanted to get to play the ingénues,” Schmidt said. Faced with the collective mutiny—even his wife was among the rebellious players— Moliere conscripted an older male actor to assay the senior female roles. Like Molière, Schmidt has also cast her spouse. In this case, it is Peter Dinklage, recent Emmy winner for HBO’s ensanguined “Game of Thrones.” (He was the title character in his wife’s "Uncle Vanya.") In The Imaginary Invalid, he will play Toinette, the put-upon female maidservant to Argan. Schmidt plans to direct The Imaginary Invalid as “A comedy ballet,” playing up what she identifies as “four different moments of choreographed chaos.” One example features 50 shepherdesses crowding the scene, dancing a ballet and singing, suggesting a 17thcentury version of the Marx Brothers’ stateroom scene in A Night at the Opera. Ultimately, she said, her mission is to emphasize the absurdity contained in the text. “I read that [Moliere’s] goal, his desire, was to entertain—just have a wild, hilarious spectacle.”
Spiegeltent While skewed particularly for the egghead patron of the arts, SummerScape also offers refuge for unbridled hedonists. They have a home at Spiegeltent, a mirrored pavilion showcasing cabaret, jazz, comedy...and uncategorizable forms of entertainment that lean toward the bawdy. In fact, the original boozy European profile of Spiegeltent, in which drinking lustily and then staggering home was a matter of pride, had to be dialed down for its Bard incarnation. “We had a responsibility not to have drunken patrons leaving the tent,” said Susana Meyer, associate director at the Fisher Center, who brought the festival to campus five years ago. In fact, while edgy adult entertainment holds sway—from the Wau Wau Sisters, acrobats who always find an excuse to shuck their clothes, to the überneurotic plaints of comedienne Jackie Hoffman—Spiegletent also offers a series of acts suitable for children. For instance, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus tempers its satiric burlesque material for the tykes. To complement the salute to Saint-Saëns, Spiegeltent has booked several Gallic and French-inspired cabaret acts, including swing practitioners Les Chauds Lapins, Jean Brassard paying homage to the unflappable crooner Yves Montand, the Gypsy jazz of Ameranouche, and the lowdown jazz of Le Chat Lunatique. While Meyer admits that she finds it “challenging to get the right mix” each year, Spiegeltent is a go-for-broke testament to the axiom that nothing succeeds like excess.
The King In Spite of Himself Billed as a comic opera, Emmanuel Chabrier’s now-overlooked late-19th-century masterwork The King in Spite of Himself (Le roi malgré lui) plays equally as well as trenchant political satire. (Performances July 27 through August 5.) A Gallic nobleman is about to be installed in16th-century Poland. However, Henri de Valois, the puppet ruler in question, is ambivalent about the appointment, his reluctance fueled by an aversion to Poland’s food, fashion, and weather. (The storyline was historically factual and first adapted by novelist Alexandre Dumas.)
(Left to right): Compagnie Fetes galantes performs July 6-8; Peter Dinklage stars in "The Imaginary Invalid" July 13-22; the Spiegeltent hosts cabaret, music, family-friendly acts, and dance parties July 12-August 19.
Hailed by Maurice Ravel for a rich score that, he declared, changed French musical history, the 1887 show had a rocky birth; in its fourth performance at Paris’s OpéraComique, a fire broke out and the run was truncated. Bard offers the first complete revival in 125 years. Yet wunderkind director Thaddeus Strassberger, a theater veteran at 36, prefers to ignore “the baggage that comes along with each piece” and will tackle The King in Spite of Himself as a new piece instead of “approaching [the opera] like it’s an autopsy.” Strassberger, who last directed the robust and gloriously assaultive opera The Distant Sound (Der Ferne Klang) at Bard in 2010, observed that Chabrier’s work is rife with political commentary. “This is a story that speaks of today—not just a story of Renaissance politics, but the idea of a new Europe opening up and being controlled. “It’s not just a sitcom,” he added, “a power struggle being played out among bumbling, inept characters along the way. That rings true with the way we see a lot of politicians on the world stage today, handling international affairs.” The prevailing message of this scabrous look at the machinations of political domination, Strassberger said, is marvelously succinct: “The rich and the powerful are anything but.”
Bard Music Festival The celebrated music of Camille Saint-Saëns is a positive example of a cultural export. But, in a delightfully perverse twist on that concept, SummerScape’s film festival examines the results when culture—through political rule—is foisted upon people. “France and the Colonial Imagination” (July 12-August 12) will screen 10 different films, from 1930 to 2008, that examine France’s far-reaching effect after planting its flag in foreign soil during centuries of empire-making zeal. Curator John Pruitt has selected films that both romanticize sociocultural invasion—the evergreen Casablanca (1942)—and denounce it, such as 1966’s visceral The Battle of Algiers, which recounts the still-potent tale of the bloody 1960 rebellion against French rule. “It’s not propaganda,” Pruitt said of the latter-day neorealism classic, which embroiders as much as it enlightens, “but maybe it ends up a little bit sensationalistic.” More of a judicious combination of romanticism and realism regarding Algerian rule by the French, Pruitt said, is 1937’s Pépé le Moko. Jean Gabin—a Gallic combination of Cooper and Bogart, Pruitt opined—is a gangster hiding out in the fabled Casbah. The perspectives on colonialism vary widely across the series, from Xala (1975), a war-between-the-sexes satire in post-French Senegal, to Beau Travail (1999), a hothouse homoerotic meditation on life in the French Foreign Legion. The Sea Wall (2008), which has never before been screened in the States, examines corrupt French ruler in 1930s Indonesia. These works, the curator cautioned, do not provide an aggregate history lesson in French foreign rule. “[The films] are much more imaginative, romantic, allegorical, and so on—not so much about history as a meditation on the colonial problem.” Bard SummerScape 2012, July 6 through August 19. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson For tickets to events: (845) 758-7900; Fishercenter.bard.edu. Bard SummerScape: Fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape. Bard Music Festival: Fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf/2012.
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Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association 5:30pm. $20. Moriello Park, New Paltz. Qualifying test. Minnewaskaswimmers.org.
The Wizard of Oz 11am. With Hampstead Stage Company. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Orange County Antique Fair and Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055.
Romeo and Juliet 8pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
MUSIC
Caesar 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. 876-3847.
Vince Durango’s, Just Having Fun 8pm. Comedy with live music. $10. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-7516.
SATURDAY 7 ART 11th Annual Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-6pm. The juried show features more than 200 artists and artisans. $12/$10/$5. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, MA. Berkshiresartsfestival.com. Beautiful Garbage 3pm-6pm. Art made out of, or directly inspired by, garbage. The seven artists featured in the exhibition— Josh Blackwell, Tasha Depp, Amy Mahnick, Shari Mendelson, Christy Rupp, Ilene Sunshine and Kristen. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Wizard of Id 5pm-7pm. Acrylics by Kim Schneider. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. John MacDonald & Paul Caponigro 5pm-7pm. Landscape paintings and photography. Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700. When The Dreamer Dies, What Happens To The Dream? 5pm-8pm. Recent work by Petra Nimtz. Storefront Gallery, Kingston. TheStorefrontGallery.com. Women in Emotion 5:30pm-7:30pm. Tori St. Pierre. 291 Wall Street, Kingston. 340-8625.
New York Philharmonic Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Young People's Concert 11am. Simon Powis, classical guitar. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Woodstock Concert on the Green 1pm-6pm. Featuring Steven Capozzola and the Gary K Band. Woodstock Village Green, Woodstock. Woodstockchamber.com. Annalise Emerick 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. St. Petersburg String Quartet 3pm. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126. Steve Gorn and Friends 6:30pm. An evening of Indian classical music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Sketchy Black Dog 7pm. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Dylan Emmet Band 7:30pm. Acoustic. $5. Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton. (518) 789-3340. Amber Kelly
Too Much Information 8pm. Featuring true monologues. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Billy Martin and Wil Blades Call for times. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.
1776 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Fully Committed 8pm. $30/$28 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Abigail 1702 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
MUSIC Random Window 1pm. Rock. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. St. Petersburg String Quartet 3pm. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126. The Shanghai Quartet 3pm. With Pedja Muzijevic, piano. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Vince Durango’s, Just Having Fun 8pm. Comedy with live music. $10. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-7516.
The Epiphany Project CD Release Show 8pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
WORKSHOPS Botanical Drawing Summer Workshop Call for times. Hollengold Farm, Accord. 626-1146
Rosendale Street Festival The Rosendale Street Festival lives up to its billing: “1 Street, 2 Days, 6 Stages, 74 Bands.” profit, grassroots organization will line Main Street with vendors offering up food, drinks, art, crafts, jewelry, clothing. The live music in-
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
The Bright Stream 2pm. The Bolshoi Ballet in HD. $10/$6 children. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
The 39 Steps 8pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org Too Much Information 8pm. Featuring true monologues. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
On July 21 and 22, this volunteer-run, non-
Dream of the Red Chamber: A Performance for a Sleeping Audience 7pm-11pm. Jim Findlay’s installation. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
FILM
Noo Moves's Artist Appreciation Showcase 6pm. Gospel. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Wye Oak 8pm. Indie. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
THEATER Showboat Call for times. Musical performed by the Opera Company of the Hudson Highland. Bannerman Island, Beacon. 831-6346. Abigail/1702 2pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Fully Committed 2pm. $25/$23 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Too Much Information 2pm. Featuring true monologues. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. 1776 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Qi Gong 10am-11am. $10. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.
cludes performances by Deni Bonet, the Dylan
Yoga in the Park 10am-11am. Adult yoga. Academy Green, Kingston. 877-5263.
mission to the yearly event, a boon to the local
Caesar 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
economy and community, is free, five-dollar
Reflexology Clinic 11:30am-4:30pm. $45/45 minutes. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.
donations are suggested. All profits help fund
Love's Labour's Lost 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org
Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223
pretzel, and maybe a hula hoop, and brave
Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:45am-1:30pm. Workshop will cover postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
summertime in the Hudson Valley.
Yoga in the Park 4pm-5pm. Adult yoga. Academy Green, Kingston. 877-5263.
Emmett Band, and Joey Epperd. Though ad-
musical scholarships for local youths. Grab a the heat at the event that captures the spirit of
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SUNDAY 8
DANCE Freestyle Frolic Community Dance 8:30pm. $7/$3. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. Freestylefrolic.org.
Christine Lavin and Don White 8pm. $30/$25. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. Guthriecenter.org.
Inside/Out Performance 6:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
The Spinners 8pm-2pm. R&B and pop. $25-$66. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.
11th Annual Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-5pm. The juried show features more than 200 artists and artisans. $12/$10/$5. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, MA. Berkshiresartsfestival.com.
Compagnie Fates Galantes 8pm. $25/$40/$45/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Justin Kolb: Liszt and the Barefoot Carmelite 8pm. $15/$12 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Vertigo Dance Company 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Lviv Virtuosi 8pm. Works by Astor Piazolla, Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Tschaikovsky, Mykola Lysenko and Myroslav Skoryk. $20/$15 seniors/$12 members. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479.
LeeSaar The Company 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
EVENTS Orange County Antique Fair and Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. Kingstonfarmersmarket.org. Saugerties Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Kiersted House, Saugerties. 246-0167. Meet the Animals Tour 10am-2pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. July Jamboree 11am-5pm. Live music, delicious food, kids’ entertainment, sanctuary tours. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. On the Side of the Angels 1:30pm. An original living history presentation taking place in 1863. $8/$6/$4. Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie. 831-8172. RVGA Barn Dance & Local Food Barbecue 5pm-10pm. Featuring the Shoe String Band and callerfiddler Liz Slade. $30/$25 in advance/$10 children. Kelder's Farm, Accord. Rondoutvalleygrowers.org/ rondout_valley_growers_events.cfm.
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WORKSHOPS Letting Go: Beyond Fear to Freedom 2pm-4pm. Janet StraightArrow. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
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Faculty Artists, Ida Kavafian, Brentano Quartet 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org.
MOMIX Botanica 8pm. $22-$72. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
The Crossroads Band 8pm. Classic rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Butterfly 8pm. The latest creation from Ken McGloin. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. Alexis P. Suter Band 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Ana Egge Band 9pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Ray Blue 9pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. The Connor Kennedy Band 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
SPOKEN WORD Poetry on the Loose 3:30pm. Featuring Carol Graser. Studio at the Seligmann Homestead, Sugar Loaf. 469-9168. Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival 2012 7:30pm. Mikhail Horowitz performs the works of Beat Poet Janine Pommy Vega, along with 5 other outstanding poets and performing artists. $15/$8 members. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.
THEATER Showboat Call for times. Musical performed by the Opera Company of the Hudson Highland. Bannerman Island, Beacon. 831-6346.
ART
An Appetite for Art 2pm-4pm. Botanical paintings of Ronni Oxley. Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown. 341-4790.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MONDAY 9 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Divine Healing Hands Free Soul Healing Evening 7pm-9pm. Experience the power of Soul Healing Blessings offered by a Divine Channel, Master Elaine Ward. Whispered Dreams, Saugerties. 849-1715. QiGong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm-9pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES
Meditation, Intention and the Zero Point Field 2pm-3:30pm. With Ricarda O’Conner. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Argentine Tango Tango: basics 6pm-7pm; intermediate 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
De-Stress Mixed Level Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
Long-form Theater Improv Workshop Call for times. $225. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 389-5889.
CLASSES
SPAF Summer Jazz Camp Choose from Jazz Improv, Small Ensemble Workshop, Guitar Ensemble, and How To Produce a CD: From the Artistic Idea to Getting into the Buyer's Hand. $350. SPAF, Saugerties. Saugertiesperformingartsfactory.com.
Bringing Science to Life Call for times. A course to stimulate the practice of science teaching. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116. West African Drum 11am/12pm/5pm $15. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 399-6488.
Swing Dance Class 6pm. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
Wheel Throwing Crash Courses 3pm-6pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
KIDS
DANCE Vertigo Dance Company 2pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5. LeeSaar The Company 2:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5. Compagnie Fates Galantes 3pm. $25/$40/$45/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
EVENTS Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. Beaconfleamarket@gmail.com.
A Taste of the Arts Camp 10am-7/13, 1:30pm. Ages 6-10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Youth Performance Workshop 10am-2pm. Six-week camp presented by the Kings Youth Theater Program. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Sky Hunters: Birds in Flight 5pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
MUSIC Summer Sing 7:30pm. Gretchen Rueckheim directs a community sing. $10/$8 members/$25 series/$20 members’ series. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Kyle Esposito Band 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
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SCARS ON 45 JUL 6 / 8pm
Bertoni Gallery presents
the 8th annual Sundays in July Free Music Festival at Bertoni Gallery Sculpture Garden Where: Bertoni Gallery Sculpture Garden 1392 Kings highway Sugar Loaf, NY WheN: Every Sunday in July, 2012 TimeS: July 1, 12:30pm-5pm July 8, 15, 22, 1pm-5pm July 29, 5th Annual Bill Perry Day 11:30am-7:15pm
to see the full schedule of performances and times, please visit the upcoming events section on www.bertonigallery.com.
JUL 13 / 8pm
JUL 14 / 7pm
DR BRIAN CLEMENT, NMD
CREATING A DISEASE-FREE FUTURE
JUL 17 / 8pm
JUL 19 /67
PM -RECEP PM- FILM
CHRIS SMITHER
JON HERINGTON BAND
AUG 11 / 8pm
SEP 1 / 8pm
JUL 20/89
PM -DOORS PM- SHOW
TICKETS ONLINE AT
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EVENTS
New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100 8 weeks/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Farmers Market 11:30am-5:30pm. Cornwall Community Co-Op. Town Hall, Cornwall. Cornwallcoop.com.
THEATER
Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association 5:30pm. $20. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. Qualifying test. Minnewaskaswimmers.org.
Caesar 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
WORKSHOPS Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. 5-week course developed to help parents of children ages 2 to 11. $25. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208.
TUESDAY 10 ART Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members; $48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT QiGong 10am-11am. $10. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757. Herbal Medicine and Nutrition Consultations 11:30am-4:30pm. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757.
KIDS Summer Fun Kick-Off 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Sukey Molloy. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.
MUSIC Kairos: A Consort of Singers 6pm. St. John's Episcopal Church, Kingston. 331-2252. Tom DePetris Trio 7:30pm. Jazz, blues. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424. David Temple: Mid-Summer Sounds for Classic Guitar 8pm. $18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
THE OUTDOORS Guided Garden Tour: Systematic Order Beds 6:30pm-7:30pm. Tour with staff horticulturist, Michael Hagen. $10/members free. Stonecrop Gardens, Cold Spring. 265-2000.
Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 series/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
THEATER
Hatha Yoga 1pm-2pm. $2.50. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
WORKSHOPS
MommyBWell Prenatal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $78/6 weeks. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Gentle Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. YogaDance 9pm. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
CLASSES West African Drum/Dance 5:30pm/6:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 399-6488.
Love's Labour's Lost 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org Comfort Measures 6pm-9pm. Gives practical hands-on tools to help during labor and birth. $65. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
THURSDAY 12 ART Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $10/$75 series members/$12/$100 series. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
FILM
Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. 6-week series. $100 series/$15 dropin. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Tending Fires 7pm. Documentary about the inner workings of a rite-of-passage wilderness challenge created for 7 adolescent boys in the Hudson Valley. $6. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Funny Girl 8:30pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
CLASSES Euro Dance with Helvi & Richard Impola 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 13 JULY ART
Art Talk 6pm-7pm. Member artists share their creative vision and passion for art. Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac.
Avedisian: Paintings and Drawings 4pm-6pm. Featuring works by the late Edward Avedisian. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.
Traces of Existence Angela Bacon-Kidwell. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.
Wanderers 6pm-8pm. Exhibition of the landscape paintings of Jeff Joyce. Darren Winston, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-1890.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Midsummer Night's Dream 6pm-9pm. Featuring Bernard Carver. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.
Integrated Energy Healing 11:30am-6pm. Kristine Flones. $95/$75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Yoga in the Park 10am-11am. Adult yoga. Academy Green, Kingston. 877-5263.
CLASSES
Yoga in the Park 4pm-5pm. Adult yoga. Academy Green, Kingston. 877-5263.
The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
DANCE OtherShore 6:15pm. Contemporary dance. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5. Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5. New York City Ballet 8pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. The Men Dancers: From the Horse's Mouth 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
EVENTS
44th Annual Children's Day Parade 6pm. This year's theme is "Family Films" in honor of the newly created Kingston Park's Movies Under the Stars program. Kingston, Kingston-ny.gov. Christine Lavin and Don White 8:30pm. Comedian musicians. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
KIDS
Cari Cunningham/Bella Contemporary Dance Co. 6:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Ed Palermo Big Band "Eddy Loves Frank" 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
MUSIC
Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Romeo and Juliet 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org
WORKSHOPS Journaling 10am-12pm. Through August 14 with Ev Ellsworth. $60/$50 early registration. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
WEDNESDAY 11 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 series/$12. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Mommy and Me Yoga 10:30am-11:45am. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Community Yoga 6pm-7pm. With Kathy Carey. $7. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
CLASSES Basic & Intermediate Wheel Throwing with Eileen Sackman Call for times. Through August 8. $190/$170 members. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Swing Dance Class 6pm. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
EVENTS Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration 7pm. With David and Jacob Bernz, Spook Handy, Amy Fradon, Fred Gillen Jr. and Steve Kirkman of Hope Machine. $10. Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon.
KIDS Discover Ancient Egypt 1pm. Exploring this great civilization: pyramids, mummies, hieroglyphs, with crafts and activities. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
MUSIC Jazz with Tom DePetris Trio 6:30pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Saints of Swing 7pm-9pm. Music in the Park summer concert series. Dutchman's Landing Park, Catskill. (518) 943-0989. The Chris O'Leary Band 7pm. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THE OUTDOORS Tuesday Trek: Mountain Laurel Walk on Mossy Glen 10am-1pm. 3-mile hike. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.
THEATER
Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Mira Quartet 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org. The Chad McLoughlin Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. 2nd Friday Jams with Jeff Entin and Bob Blum 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Carrie Newcomer 8pm. $25/$20. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. Guthriecenter.org. Gillian Welch 8pm. Alt-country folk. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Fat City 8pm. Blues. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700. A Night of Paul Butterfield 9pm. Hosted by Gabe Butterfield. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
THEATER The Comedy of Errors 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Vince Durango’s, Just Having Fun 8pm. Comedy with live music. $10. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-7516. 1776 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
The Men Dancers: From the Horse's Mouth 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5. Cragsmoor's Renaissance Decade: Call for times. Exhibit, concert, and other events TBA. Cragsmoor Historical Society, Cragsmoor. 647-6487. 30th Annual DeLisio Memorial Golf Tournament Call for times. Fundraiser for Special Olympics in Ulster County. Woodstock Golf Club, Woodstock. 339-4600. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. OC Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the healthy eating series: blueberries. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. Kingstonfarmersmarket.org. Saugerties Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Kiersted House, Saugerties. 246-0167. Meet the Animals Tour 10am-2pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Rondout Valley Garden Tour 10am-4pm. Followed by a reception 4:30-6pm. $25/$20 in advance. Rondoutvalley.org. Annual Monastery Vinegar Festival 11am-4pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. Ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com. Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Tours 11:30am. $20/$10 children. Hudson-Athens Lighthouse, Hudson. (518) 822-1014. Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association 5:30pm. $20. Moriello Park, New Paltz. Qualifying test. Minnewaskaswimmers.org. Christine Lavin and Don White 8:30pm. Comedian musicians. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
FILM Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Soul Masters Film Screening & Divine Healing Hands Blessings 7pm-9pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884. ET: The Extraterrestrial 8:30pm. Kingston Point, Kingston. Kingstonparksmovies.com.
KIDS Wild World of Reptiles with Wildman Jack 11am. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
MUSIC
Fires are Confusing 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
PianoSummer Faculty Gala Call for times. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
WORKSHOPS
Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Young People's Concert 11am. Andrew Appel, harpsichord. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Doody Calls 1pm-2pm. Cloth diapering info sessions. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
The 39 Steps 8pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. Hvshakespeare.org.
Guthrie Birthday Party 11am-3pm. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. Guthriecenter.org.
DANCE
Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
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Swing Dance 7:30pm-10:30pm. Beginner lesson at 7:30pm. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.
Doo Wop Extravaganza Call for times. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Fully Committed 8pm. $30/$28 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
The Men Dancers: From the Horse's Mouth 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
DANCE
Fully Committed 8pm. $30/$28 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Modern Dance Class 7pm-8:15pm. Beginner and intermediate. $15 class/$54 series. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 282-6723. Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. With Dan McCormack. $120/$110 members/$350 series/$300 series member. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
EVENTS
Yoga Creative Arts Camp 11am-7/12, 2pm. Ages 5-11. $120. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.
THEATER
CLASSES
Poughkeepsie Farmers' Market 1pm-6pm. Pulaski Park, Poughkeepsie. Farmproject.org/market.
MUSIC
The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth 8:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
The Sound of the Spheres 5pm-6:30pm. Sound and Astrology with Beth Ylvisaker and Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Northern Week Dance 8pm. Contras, squares & waltzes. $10/$5. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
Dance
Marji Zintz 6pm. Acoustic. Quarter Note Café, Walden. 778-6683.
Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.
Cragsmoor's Renaissance Decade: Art and Music 1975-1985 Call for times. Revisit the artistic revival that flourished on the mountain more than thirty years ago. Exhibit, concert, and other events TBA. Cragsmoor Historical Society, Cragsmoor. 647-6487.
Kindermusik Development through Music 11:30am-12:15pm. Birth to 20 months. $93. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Children’s Theater Arts Workshop Call for times. Ages 7-10. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
BODY / MIND /SPIRIT
Songs for Women's Circles 7:15pm-9pm. Singing from your heart, sing joyously, sing powerfully; presented by Grandmother Barbara Threecrow. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
West African Dance 6:30pm. $15. M*Power Studios, Poughkeepsie. 399-6488.
KIDS
SATURDAY 14
ART
food farm dinners laura pensiero Fettuccine with asparagus pesto from Gigi Hudson Valley. Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Gigi Market offers Agriturismo Dinners at Greig Farm in Red Hook.
Feasts of the Field On certain weekends this summer, expect to find Hudson Valley farm fields humming with conversation as diners gather to share in food, community, and charitable causes. “We bring together chefs, farmers, consumers, in one space, to see that we’re all connected,” says Jesica Clark, farmer and president of the board of directors of Phillies Bridge Farm Project (PBFP), the host of the July 28 Meal in the Field. PBFP offers community supported agriculture (CSA) and education outreach programs, including a partnership with Family of Woodstock for at-risk families. Over 20 farms will contribute ingredients for the benefit at the New Paltz farm, catered by six local eateries, including the Village Tearoom Restaurant and Bakeshop. Like PBFP, the Poughkeepsie Farm Project (PFP) holds outreach programs and is also a CSA. A Seat at the Table, PFP’s July 21 benefit dinner, will be prepared by Sara Lukasiewicz of Red Devon, preceded by cocktails and tours of Vassar Farm. “Farmland is an important and precious resource,” says Susan Grove, executive director of PFP. “Local agriculture can’t happen without support, and it’s hard to build that support if people are disconnected from the sources of their food.” “Children are more likely to try a vegetable introduced to them by the local farmer than a plastic package,” says Laura Pensiero, owner of Gigi Hudson Valley. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Gigi Market offers Agriturismo Dinners at Greig Farm in Red Hook. “We’re only going to serve local ingredients at their peak on that given day. Whatever is best dictates the menu,” explains Pensiero. “Food in its prime should be appreciated when nature meant for it to be enjoyed.” Genuinely fresh fare can be tantalizing. “It’s a sensory experience,” explains Anna Hammond, executive director of the Sylvia Center (TSC), an organization that teaches children health-consciousness and nutrition. The Farm to Table Dinner, a benefit for TSC, will be held on August 4 at Katchkie Farm in Kinderhook. Chefs from 16 local markets will prepare the evening’s banquet, beginning with cocktails in the Children’s Garden before moving to the buffet in the field. “Food is our common language,” Hammond says. “It’s a starting point for any conversation.” That conversation may lead to a dance. On July 7, Rondout Valley Growers Association will host the annual Summer Fun Fundraiser at Kelder’s Farm in Kerhonkson. The barn dance will be accompanied by the Shoe String Band, while more than 10 local merchants provide the barbecue. “You choose to meet your farmer and support your community,” says Tessa Edick, founder of Friends of the Farmer and Hootenanny!, a July 27 pig roast with chef David Burke, where all ingredients are sourced within five miles of the event’s
location, Copake Country Club. “Buying local means we support the farmers, workers, and growers in our area, and in turn, their families,” Pensiero says. “The farmer is the real celebrity,” adds Edick. “What would we do without our farmer?” Pine Island was forced to confront that possibility when Hurricane Irene ravaged Scheuermann Farm and Greenhouses. While many farms reported some crop and economic losses, at Scheuermann, “the entire area was under water, and only navigable by boat,” explains Black Dirt Feast Co-chair Peter Lyons Hall. A strong start of the season has aided the recovery process, and the Feast will be held at Scheuermann on August 7. Nine chefs, including Erik Johansen of Iron Forge Inn, will cater the six-course event, while the Chamber Strings Orchestra of Warwick Valley High School and the Jon Werking Trio serenade diners. Despite troubles in the past year, these farms host the benefits selflessly, focusing on the future. Select funds raised at Black Dirt Feast are distributed to a scholarship for students pursuing degrees in agriculture or the culinary arts. Hootenanny! hosts a similar scholarship, in the hope of encouraging more youth to turn to farming. “We can learn from farmers and farming families, because without food, there is no future,” Hall says. “When you know where your food comes from, you can have confidence that your family will be able to sustain itself.” Agriturismo Dinners at Greig Farm Red Hook. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Through October. $32 adults, $10 children. (845) 758-1999; Gigihudsonvalley.com. A Seat at the Table Poughkeepsie Farm Project Field, Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, Poughkeepsie. July 21, 3:30pm. $150-$155. (845) 516-1100; Farmproject.org/events/2012/07/a-seat-at-the-table. Black Dirt Feast Scheuermann Farms & Greenhouses, Warwick. August 7, 6pm. $100. (845) 258-1000; Warwickinfo.net/blackdirtfeast. Hootenanny! Copake Country Club, Copake Lake. July 27, 6pm. $150. (518) 325-9437; Friendsofthefarmer.com. Meal in the Field Phillies Bridge Farm, New Paltz. July 28, 5:30pm. $65 adults, $15 children. (845) 256-9108; Philliesbridge.org. Farm to Table Dinner Katchkie Farm, Kinderhook. August 4, 5pm. $125. (212) 337-6090; Sylviacenterdinner2012.eventbrite.com. Summer Fun Festival Barn Dance & Local Food Barbecue Kelder’s Farm, Kerhonkson. July 7, 5pm. $30 adults, $10 children. (845) 626-1532; Rondoutvalleygrowers.org. —Meghan Gallucci 7/12 ChronograM forecast 129
Kayln Rock 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.
The Men Dancers: From the Horse's Mouth 2:15pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Keith Newman 2pm. Acoustic. Bashakill Vineyards, Wurtsboro. 888-5858.
West Coast Swing Dance 6:30pm. Beginner's lesson 5:30-6:30pm and dance to DJ'd music 6:30-9pm. $8/$6 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 255-1379.
WORKSHOPS
Four Nations Ensemble 6:30pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
EVENTS
Charlie Sabin Acoustic 7pm. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.
Cragsmoor's Renaissance Decade
Robin O'Herin 7pm. Acoustic, Blues, Gospel. Knox Trail Inn, Otis. (413) 269-4400.
Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. Beaconfleamarket@gmail.com.
Call for times. Exhibit, concert, and other events TBA. Cragsmoor Historical Society, Cragsmoor. 647-6487.
Gene Ess: A Thousand Summers 7pm. Featuring Nicki Parrott. Opening: Marc Von Em. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Orange County Antique Fair and Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055.
Native Soul 7:30pm-10:30pm. With Steve Johns (drums), Marcus McLaurine (bass), Peter Brainin (sax) and Noah Haidu (piano). $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. 876-3847.
C.B. Smith and the Lucky Devils 8pm. Liberty Public House, Rhinebeck. 876-1760. Grazhda Chamber Ensemble Fund-Raising Concert 8pm. $25. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Josh Turner 8pm. $25-$99. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Living with Elephants CD Release 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Marc Black Band 8pm. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. Tom Chapin 8pm. $25/$20. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. Guthriecenter.org.
Annual Monastery Vinegar Festival 11am-4pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Lagrangeville. Ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.
FILM Oral History/Marfa Voices 8pm. Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmaker and Rainer Judd of the Judd Foundation. $5-$10. Basilica Hudson, Hudson.
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Faculty Artists with the Miro Quartet 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org.
Helping Teens Find Purpose and Direction 7pm-8pm. Talk and discussion with James Porter, MA, CPC, Purpose Coach. $5. Canaltown Alley, Rosendale. 658-8563.
MONDAY 16 ART Summer Blues 6pm-8pm. Group show featuring 13 artists. Theo Ganz Studio, Beacon. Theoganzstudio.com.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. QiGong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Find Peace: Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1213.
CLASSES Argentine Tango Tango: basics 6pm-7pm; intermediate 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
lets and the whistle of wind through the
merstien’s classic “Showboat.” Staged
island with the vigor of Kern and Hamby the Opera Company of the Highlands in the island’s invitingly fragrant, historical garden, the performances are part of a
Back to the Garden 1969 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
series of upcoming events to raise aware-
THEATER
to preserve the island as a historical and
Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid 3pm and 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
recreational destination. The $65 ticket
The Comedy of Errors 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
and a tour of the island. (845) 831-6346;
ness of the castle’s necessary stabilization
includes round-trip boat transportation Bannermancastle.org/events.
Fully Committed 8pm. $30/$28 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. 1776 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Fires are Confusing 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Long-Form Theater Improv Performance 8pm. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 389-5889. Love's Labour's Lost 8pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
WORKSHOPS Botanical Drawing Summer Workshop Call for times. Hollengold Farm, Accord. 626-1146. Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
SUNDAY 15 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. De-Stress Mixed Level Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
CLASSES West African Drum 11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 399-6488. West African Dance 12pm and 5pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 399-6488. Wheel Throwing Crash Courses 3pm-6pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
DANCE Northern Week Camp Call for times. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen 2pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
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MUSIC TJay Call for times. Rock, pop, folk. Bannerman Island, Beacon. 831-6346. Matt Finck Group 10am. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Richie Kaye 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. Charles and Bernard 1pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Puccini's La Fanciulla del West 2pm. $20. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. The Blue in Green Jazz Quartet 2pm. Robibero Family Vineyards, New Paltz. 255-WINE. Cassett String Quartet 3pm. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126. Latitude 41 Piano Trio 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Phil Lesh & Bob Weir 7pm. With their band Further. $39/$71.50. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Jimmie Dale Gilmore 7:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Vocal Faculty Quartet 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org.
THEATER Fully Committed 2pm. $25/$23 students and seniors. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Long-Form Theater Improv Performance 2pm. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 389-5889. 1776 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid 3pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Comedy of Errors 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. The 39 Steps 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org. Fires are Confusing 7pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
Gentle Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Transformation Through Kinesiology 7pm-9pm. Explore a particular theme and use Transformational Kinesiology to access and clear subconscious blocks, stuck places and limiting beliefs. $20-$40. The Sanctuary, New Paltz. (413) 259-4369. YogaDance 9pm. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
CLASSES West African Drum/Dance 5:30pm/6:30. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 399-6488. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
FILM Latcho Drom 8:30pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Nature Games for Children 10am. Ages 6-9. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
are only the sounds of the Hudson’s wave-
Big Joe Fitz 9pm. Blues. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646.
Vince Durango's, Just Having Fun 8pm. Comedy with live music. $10. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-7516.
MommyBWell Prenatal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $78/6 weeks. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
KIDS
On July 7 and 8, voices will reclaim the
Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Rondout Valley Holistic Health Group 4pm-8pm. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. Rvhhc.org.
On the shores of Bannerman Island, there
Helen Avakian 8:30pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 series/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Showboat on Bannerman Island
crumbling frame of the abandoned castle.
The Greg Douglas Band 9pm-1am. Charlie O's, Red Hook. 758-2123.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Permaculture: Fundamentals and Bioregional Design 10am-7/19, 4pm. With Andrew Faust. $350/$300 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Swing Dance Class 6pm. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
KIDS Children’s Media Project: Summer Media Camp 10am-7/19, 4pm. Youth participants will get a hands-on experience in media-making as they try out a variety of media including animation, radio, and video. $235. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
MUSIC Summer Sing 7:30pm. Gretchen Rueckheim directs a community sing. $10/$8 members/$25 series/$20 members’ series. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Gounod Messe Solennelle 7:30pm. $10/$8 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. St. Paul’s Hong Kong Choir 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org. The Duke McVinnie Band 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
SPOKEN WORD New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100 8 weeks/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
THEATER The Comedy of Errors 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
WORKSHOPS Demystifying Chinese Medicine 7pm-9pm. Cathleen Dowd. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
TUESDAY 17 JULY
MUSIC Blues and Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
SPOKEN WORD Dutchess Holistic Moms Chapter Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
THEATER Love's Labour's Lost 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org
WEDNESDAY 18 JULY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 series/$12. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Mommy and Me Yoga 10:30am-11:45am. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Community Yoga 6pm-7pm. With Kathy Carey. $7. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Able Together 6:30pm-8:30pm. A support group focusing on helping to support mothers with disabilities and families who have children with disabilities. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Experience the Power of Soul Language 7pm-9:30pm. $20. Whispered Dreams, Saugerties. 849-1715.
CLASSES Swing Dance Class 6pm. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939. Modern Dance Class 7pm-8:15pm. Beginner and intermediate. $15 class/$54 series. Mountainview Studio, Woodstock. 282-6723.
DANCE The Hong Kong Ballet 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
EVENTS Farmers' Market 11:30am-5:30pm. Cornwall Community Co-Op. Town Hall, Cornwall. Cornwallcoop.com.
FILM The Island President 7:15pm. Documentary. $7. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
KIDS Birds and Lizards with Bill Robinson 6:30pm-8:30pm. Ages 4 and up. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext. 15.
MUSIC Student Vocal Concert 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org. Tom DePetris Trio 7:30pm. Jazz, blues. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.
ART
SPOKEN WORD
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Writers Circle 7pm-8pm. Writers meet-up group. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
THEATER
CLASSES
Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid 3pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Romeo and Juliet 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
DANCE
The Power of Duff 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
THURSDAY 19 JULY ART Works by Nancy Copley 5pm-7pm. Healing Art Gallery, Ellenville. 210-3043. Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $10/$75 series members/$12/$100 series. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. 6-week series. $100 series/$15 dropin. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Message Circle: Receive Messages from the After Life 7:30pm-9:30pm. With Adam F. Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Euro Dance with Helvi and Richard Impola 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. West African Dance 6:30pm. $15. M*Power Studios, Poughkeepsie. 399-6488.
DANCE The Hong Kong Ballet 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
KIDS Hands-On Llamas 1pm. With a live llama in this nature and science program. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
MUSIC Jazz with Tom DePetris Trio 6:30pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. An Evening with Philip Glass and Friends: Benefit Concert for the Garrison Institute 7pm. $150 VIP/$50/$25 students. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Maria Muldaur and her Red Hot Bluesiana Band 7pm. With special guests electric Rubyfish. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
The Hong Kong Ballet 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
EVENTS Poughkeepsie Farmers' Market 1pm-6pm. Pulaski Park, Poughkeepsie. Farmproject.org/market.
FILM Cheryl Wright: Wish Me Away 7:15pm. Q&A with the filmmakers. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. The Goonies 8:30pm. Performance by POOK at 7:30pm. Cornell Park, Kingston. KingstonParksMovies.com.
KIDS Kindermusik Family Style Classes— Creatures of the Ocean Call for times. $96/$40 additional children. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Kindermusik Development through Music 11:30am-12:15pm. Birth to 20 months. $93. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
MUSIC The Big Takeover Call for times. Reggae. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE): Latin American Composers 7pm. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 6889893. Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fi's 7pm. Blues. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Woodstock 2012 Summer of Peace 7pm. Part of a global grassroots movement for peace through music. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. Summerland Tour 2012 7:30pm. Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Lit, Marcy's Playground. $19.50-$71.50. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Ying Quartet 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org. The 5 Creations 7:30pm. Rock. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. ASK for Music 8pm. Featuring Jude Roberts, Phil Miller and Betty Altman, Bob Bottjer and EC Lorick. $6. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. Maria Muldaur 8pm. $50/$45. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. Guthriecenter.org.
The Blue in Green Jazz Quartet 7pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.
Chris Barron 8:30pm. With Chris Brown. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Witkowski Piano Duo 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org.
Connor Kennedy's 18th Birthday Bash 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
An Evening with Noam Pikelny and Friends 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Richard Thompson 8pm. $25/$35/$55. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
THE OUTDOORS Pitch in for Pars: Bridging the Gap 5:30pm-8pm. Help assemble a bridge connecting Scenic Hudson's Harrier Hill Park with the Greenport Conservation Area. Stockport Flats Conservation Area, Hudson. Scenichudson.org.
SPOKEN WORD Meditation with Maria Polhemus 7pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Self-Healing with One Light Healing Touch 7:15pm-8:45pm. Family Traditions, Stone Ridge. Rvhhc.org.
THEATER Love's Labour's Lost 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org. Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. The Power of Duff 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
WORKSHOPS Supply and Demand 1pm-2pm. Breast pump info session. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
FRIDAY 20 ART Chalk Art Festival Check for time. Professional chalk artists from around the country will draw breathtaking illustrations and unreal 3-D images. Water Street Market, New Paltz. Hudsonvalleychalkfestival.com.
THEATER Off Leash for Kids 11am. A family version of Walking the Dog Theater's hilarious improvisation performance. $10/$5 children. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Medea 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Vince Durango's, Just having Fun 8pm. Comedy with live music. $10. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-7516. 1776 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Burnt Umber 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The 39 Steps 8pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org. The House That Will Not Stand 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. The Power of Duff 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
WORKSHOPS 2nd Women's Weekend Retreat Call for times. Lifebridge Sanctuary Cottage, Rosendale. 338-6418.
SATURDAY 21 ART Chalk Art Festival Call for times. Professional chalk artists from around the country will draw breathtaking illustrations and unreal 3D images. Water Street Market, New Paltz. Hudsonvalleychalkfestival.com. A Summer Feast 11am-1pm. Paintings by Virginia Giordano and Jennifer Leighton. Hudson Coffee Traders, Kingston. 338-1300.
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Shandaken Art Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Shandaken. Shandakenart.com. Works by Ilga Ziemins-Kurens 4pm-7pm. Art and Zen Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 473-3334.
Reading and Discussion with Iza Trapani 2pm-4pm. Children's book author of The Bear Went Over The Mountain. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
CLASSES
MUSIC
West African Dance 12pm/5pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 399-6488.
Ellen Miret: Glass Artist 5pm-7pm. Oriole 9, Woodstock. 679-5763.
Alexander Melnikov Recital Call for times. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
Travelers 5pm-7pm. Brigid Watson. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Woodstock Concert on the Green 1pm-6pm. Featuring The MDB Trio and The Catskill 45's. Woodstock Village Green, Woodstock. Woodstockchamber.com.
In Memoriam: Watercolors and Pastels 5pm-7pm. Alex Martin. Albert Shahinian Fine Art Upstairs Galleries, Rhinebeck. 505-6040. Opening Night at John Davis Gallery 6pm-8pm. Opening of 8 new shows. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Ricky Powell Slide Show 6pm-8pm. Ai Earthling Gallery, Woodstock. 679-2650. Visual History: A Group Show 6pm-12am. Solo room shows: Lynn Fliegel, Liz Smith and Robert Ricard. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Lama Surya Das Call for times. Summer blossoming retreat: the three vital points that strike at the core. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Yoga in the Park 10am-11am. Adult yoga. Academy Green, Kingston. 877-5263. QiGong 10am-11am. $10. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. Develop Your Spiritual Journey 10am-5pm. With Divine Channel, Master Elaine Ward. $60. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Reflexology Clinic 11:30am-4:30pm. $45/45 minutes. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:45am-1:30pm. Workshop will cover postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Yoga in the Park 4pm-5pm. Adult yoga. Academy Green, Kingston. 877-5263. Music for Inner Peace 4:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1213. New Moon Crystal Sound Healing 7:30pm-8:30pm. With Philippe Pascal. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. With Dan McCormack. $120/$110 members/$350 series/$300 series member. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Family and Friends CPR and First Aid for Children 1pm-3:30pm. $45. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
DANCE Freestyle Frolic Community Dance 8:30am-2pm. $7/$3. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. Freestylefrolic.org. Argentine Tango Milonga 8pm-11pm. Lesson from 6pm-7pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. The Hong Kong Ballet 8pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
EVENTS Country Dance and BBQ Festival Call for times. Opus 40, Saugerties. 246-3400. Orange County Antique Fair and Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Saugerties Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Kiersted House, Saugerties. 246-0167. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the Celebrity Corn Roast. Uptown Kingston. Kingstonfarmersmarket.org. Meet the Animals Tour 10am-2pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Blue Cliff Monastery Open House 4pm-8pm. Enjoy guided tours, fun and games, a vegan BBQ, 'and learn about the practice of mindfulness. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush. Bluecliffmonastery.org. Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association 5:30pm. $20. Qualifying test. Moriello Park, New Paltz. Minnewaskaswimmers.org.
FILM Short Flix Fest Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. City Island 7pm. $5. Woodstock Reformed Church, Woodstock. 389-9201.
Annette A. Aguilar and the Stringbean 4Tet 1pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. PP Junior 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Blue in Green Jazz Quartet 5pm. Millbrook Vineyards, Millbrook. 677-8383 ext.11. The 2012 Woodstock Beat 6:30pm. Peter Schickele in concert, benefit concert for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Alternative Firing with Eileen Sackman 1pm-3:30pm. Weekly through August 26. $220/$200. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Wheel Throwing Crash Courses 3pm-6pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
DANCE
Faculty Artists with the Ying Quartet 7:30pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. Hotchkissportals.org.
Guided Walking Tour of Main Street 2pm. $3/children free. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
Marc Black Band 8pm. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.
On the Side of the Angels 2pm. An original living history presentation taking place in 1863. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.
Maria Muldaur 8pm. $50/$45. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Guthriecenter.org. Total Faith: Faith Prince 8pm. $35-$55. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Vocal Recital 8pm. Victoria Lukianetz, prima donna of the Vienna Opera will sing arias. $20/$15 seniors/$12 members. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE): George Lewis & Franz Schubert 8pm. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
FILM Short Flix Fest Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
MUSIC The Saints of Swing 10am. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Uncle Rock 3pm. Children's music. Cue, Saugerties. 246-4283. Leipzig String Quartet 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Justin James 4pm. Acoustic. The Wherehouse Restaurant, Newburgh. 561-7240. Sam McTavey 7:30pm. With special guest Jake Klar. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
THEATER
SugarRay and the Bluetones 8:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Power of Duff 2pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
Bomba Estereo 9pm. Colombian Cumbia dance night. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
1776 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Scott Sharrard's Brickyard Soul Revue 9pm. Blues. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.
Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid 3pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
THEATER Medea 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Vince Durango’s, Just Having Fun 8pm. Comedy with live music. $10. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-7516. 1776 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Moliere: The Imaginary Invalid 8pm. $45. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Romeo and Juliet 8pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org The House That Will Not Stand 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. The Power of Duff 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
WORKSHOPS Botanical Drawing Summer Workshop Call for times. Hollengold Farm, Accord. 626-1146. Supply and Demand 1pm-2pm. Breast pump info session. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
SUNDAY 22 ART Chalk Art Festival Call for times. Professional chalk artists from around the country will draw breathtaking illustrations and unreal 3D images. Water Street Market, New Paltz. Hudsonvalleychalkfestival.com. Shandaken Art Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Shandaken. Shandakenart.com.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
KIDS The Zucchini Brothers 11am. Children's music. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
De-Stress Mixed Level Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
SPOKEN WORD New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100 8 weeks/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Berkshire Playwrights Lab Staged Readings 7:30pm. $10. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. Beaconfleamarket@gmail.com.
Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. 876-3847.
Keith Newman 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Summer Sing 7:30pm. Gretchen Rueckheim directs a community sing. $10/$8 members/$25 series/$20 members’ series. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
EVENTS
All-Bach Choral Concert and Organ Recital 7:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220.
Christine Ebersole 8pm. $25-$66. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344.
MUSIC
THEATER
Orange County Antique Fair and Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055.
Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby 8pm. $12/$10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.
Mini Movies 10am-Thursday, July 26, 4pm. Children's Media Project summer program for ages 10-14. $250. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-2515.
The Hong Kong Ballet 2pm. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 5.
Alexis P. Suter Band 7pm. Opening: Tim Hutchinson. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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West African Drum 11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 399-6488.
Medea 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. The House That Will Not Stand 7pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Love's Labour's Lost 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org. Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$30. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
WORKSHOPS A Holistic Approach to Lyme Disease 2pm-4pm. Author Katina Makris (Out of the Woods). $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MONDAY 23 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 8765952. Find Peace: Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1213. QiGong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 7:30pm-9pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $5. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Argentine Tango Tango: basics 6pm-7pm; intermediate 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Creative Strings Summer Camp 9:30am-7/27, 4pm. $250. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. Chapelrestoration.org. Swing Dance Class 6pm. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
KIDS Caravan Kids Weeks 2012 9am-7/27, 3pm. Ages 4-8. Half-day or full-day. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. Vanavercaravan.org.
Medea 6pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
TUESDAY 24 ART Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 series/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Gentle Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. MommyBWell Prenatal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $78/6 weeks. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. YogaDance 9pm. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 2465805.
CLASSES West African Drum/Dance 5:30pm/6:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 399-6488. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
FILM Soul Masters Film Screening & Divine Healing Hands Blessings 7pm-9pm. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. African Dance: Sand, Drum and Shostakovich 8:30pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
KIDS Jamal Jackson Dance Youth Workshop 10am-Friday, July 27, 12pm. A dance workshop for ages 14 to 18 exploring African and African-American dance. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Yoga Creative Arts Camp 11am-7/26, 2pm. Ages 5-11. $120. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.
THEATER The 39 Steps 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org
WEDNESDAY 25 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 series/$12. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Mommy and Me Yoga 10:30am-11:45am. $30/month. SMYL Studio@ Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Community Yoga 6pm-7pm. With Kathy Carey. $7. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
CLASSES Swing Dance Class 6pm. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
EVENTS Farmers Market 11:30am-5:30pm. Cornwall Community Co-Op. Town Hall, Cornwall. Cornwallcoop.com.
KIDS Night Lights 6:30pm-7:30pm. Storyteller, Diane Edgecomb. Unusual star myths will take you on a multi-cultural voyage across the heavens. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272 ext.15.
MUSIC KJ Denhert Duo with Jennifer Vincent 6pm. St. John's Episcopal Church, Kingston. 331-2252. Tom DePetris Trio 7:30pm. Jazz, blues. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424. Conor Oberst 8pm. Folk. $40/$35. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
music philip glass image provided Philip Glass performs "Mad Rush" at the Garrison Institute's Satyagraha Project, held at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, April 11-13, 2008. Glass will perform at the Garrison Institute on July 19.
Minimal Minimalism If you hopped in a New York taxi back in the late 1960s or early 1970s, your driver may well have been Philip Glass. During the same era, you may have encountered him if you were contending with a backed-up toilet, as he also worked as a plumber, or needed to schlep your furniture across town and hired the moving company he ran with fellow composer Steve Reich. The figure recognized as one of the most influential composers of the last 100 years, who will perform in a benefit concert at progressive interfaith organization the Garrison Institute on July 19, once worked all of these jobs as he developed the mesmerizing music known as minimalism. Did such overly routine work impact his famously repetitive early compositions? “That’s an interesting question. I’m not sure how to answer it,” says Glass. “I guess the real reason I did all of those jobs, rather than just work as a music teacher, was to be very clear with myself as to what my true vocation—my calling—really was. I could do these freelance jobs and then compose in my off hours and know just where I stood with myself. People in Europe don’t always get the way things work over here, and they say to me, ‘You are a plumber who became a composer!’ But I tell them, ‘No, even back then I was a composer. Being a plumber is just something I did until I didn’t have to do anything except be a composer.’” Glass was born in 1937 in Baltimore. He studied flute at the Peabody Conservatory of Music before entering, at age 15, an accelerated academic program at the University of Chicago, enrolling at Julliard (Reich was a classmate), and studying under Darius
Milhaud in Colorado. A Fulbright Scholarship took him to Paris, where he studied with preeminent educator Nadia Boulanger and worked with Ravi Shankar, immersing himself in the music of the Indian sitar legend’s homeland. After returning to New York, Glass formed an ensemble to play his music in lofts and galleries. The early minimalism of Reich, La Monte Young, and Terry Riley, and a love of loud rock, led him through a “rigorously minimal” period before his work grew more complex. His 1974 opera Einstein on the Beach is one of the 20th century’s landmark works, a haunting, five-hour “metaphorical look at Albert Einstein.” To many, Glass—a cousin of “This American Life” host Ira Glass—is best known for 1982’s Koyaanisqatsi, 2003’s The Fog of War, and other film scores. This month’s concert promises a solo performance by the composer and a recital of his vocal work (with texts by Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Cohen, and others) by Trevor Gureckis and Tara Hugo. Work from his minimalist era will be kept to a, well, minimum. “‘Mad Rush,’ which was first performed for the Dali Lama in 1979, is the only piece from that period that will be played,” says Glass, a Buddhist and former Hudson resident. “All the selections relate to Buddhism, which is key to the institute’s pursuits.” Philip Glass will perform at the Garrison Institute in Garrison on July 19 at 6:30pm. Tickets are $50 (general seating), $150 (preferred seating), and $25 (students). (845) 424-4800; Garrisoninstitute.org. —Peter Aaron
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THEATER Romeo and Juliet 7pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. Hvshakespeare.org. The Power of Duff 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
Workshops ArtWorks: Adventures in the Arts 8:30am-5pm. Day of art workshops for adults 55+. $30/4 workshops. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 246-2800 ext. 452. Breastfeeding Essentials 6pm-8pm. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
THURSDAY 26 ART Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Swing Dance to Shorty King's Clubhouse 8:30pm-11:30pm. Beginner's lesson at 8pm. $15/$10 FT students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
EVENTS Poughkeepsie Farmers' Market 1pm-6pm. Pulaski Park, Poughkeepsie. Farmproject.org/market.
FILM Grease 8:30pm. Performance by AME Zion Youth Choral at 7:30pm. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston. Kingstonparksmovies.com.
KIDS Kindermusik Family Style Classes— Creatures of the Ocean Call for times. $96/$40 additional children. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Kindermusik Development through Music 11:30am-12:15pm. Birth to 20 months. $93. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
MUSIC
Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $10/$75 series members/$12/$100 series. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Emmanuel Chabrier: The King in Spite of Himself 7pm. Opera. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. 6-week series. $100 series/$15 dropin. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Roof Access 7:30pm-10:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. 6-week series. $90. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Tom Rush 8pm. $50/$45. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. Guthriecenter.org.
CLASSES
Missy Raines & The New Hip 8:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Euro Dance with Helvi & Richard Impola 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. West African Dance 6:30pm. $15. M*Power Studios, Poughkeepsie. 399-6488.
DANCE Paul Taylor Dance Company 8pm. $22-$67. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
KIDS A Ladder of Dreams 1pm. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Chris Cubeta & The Liars Club 7pm. Rock. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Tall Tall Trees 10pm. Folk rock. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164.
SPOKEN WORD The Xenotex 7pm. Experimental poet and conceptual artist Christian Bok showcases excerpts from his current project. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
THEATER Measure for Measure 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff’s Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.
MUSIC
The Power of Duff 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
Uncle Rock 6pm. Children's music. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.
Vince Durango’s, Just Having Fun 8pm. Comedy with live music. $10. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-7516.
Jazz with Tom DePetris Trio 6:30pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.
Fuddy Meers 8pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3133.
Jim Campilongo Electric Trio 7pm. Opening: Daniel Goodman. Live at the Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Johnnie Moon and Starz 7pm-9pm. Music in the Park summer concert series. Dutchman’s Landing Park, Catskill. (518) 943-0989.
THEATER The 39 Steps 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org
Legally Blonde 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Murder Ballad 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
WORKSHOPS Swing Dance Intermediate Workshops 6:30pm-8pm. Two 45-minute workshops. $15/$20 both. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
The Power of Duff 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Fuddy Meers 8pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3133.
WORKSHOPS Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Alternative Healthcare at its Best: Massage 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
FRIDAY 27 ART A Little Space for Artists 6:30pm-7:30pm. Artists meet-up group. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Reconnective Healing 2:30pm-6:30pm. $75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Sound Healing for Ascension: Gong Song for the Soul 7:30pm-9pm. With Kate Anjahlia Loye. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
DANCE Dancing Under the Stars 7:30pm. Jamal Jackson Dance Company will offer professional instruction during the first half hour, music performed by Alan Thomson's Little Big Band. $10/$8 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Paul Taylor Dance Company 8pm. $22-$67. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.
SATURDAY 28 ART 5th Annual Otis Arts Festival 9am-3pm. Ceramics, jewelry, photography, oil and water paintings, local artisan products, and varied quilted and fiber works. Farmington River Regional School, Otis, MA. (413) 269-0220. Fine Woodwork Show and Silent Auction 10am-5pm. Berkshire Woodworkers Guild. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Poets and Painters 4pm-7pm. A visual and literary exhibition that will showcase poems that were the inspiration for artwork. Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson. (518) 671-6213. This Clement World 8pm. Cynthia Hopkins' musical performance. $15. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT QiGong 10am-11am. $10. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757. Yoga in the Park 10am-11am. Adult yoga. Academy Green, Kingston. 877-5263. Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Consultations/Reiki & Reflexology 11:30am-4:30pm. The Wellness Center of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 233-5757. Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Sacred Pulse 2pm-4pm. Drumming and rhythm workshop with Mary Anne Flanagan. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Yoga in the Park 4pm-5pm. Adult yoga. Academy Green, Kingston. 877-5263.
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The Restorative Yoga of Passive Poses & Sound Healing 7pm-9pm. Join Lea and Philippe Garnier as they guide you in a gratitude journey of deep relaxation and healing. $35. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. With Dan McCormack. $120/$110 members/$350 series/$300 series member. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
DANCE Paul Taylor Dance Company 3pm. $22-$67. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Jamal Jackson Dance Company Performance 8pm. $25/$20 members/$15 students. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Poetry Through the Ages Call for times. Featuring actor/playwright Carey Harrison reciting poems of Shakespeare, Tennyson and Dylan Thomas. Bannerman Island, Beacon. 831-6346. Measure for Measure 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff’s Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.
Swing Dance 7pm. Hosted by Got2Lindy. $15. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Fuddy Meers 8pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3133.
EVENTS
Find Peace: Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1213.
Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. 6 Henry Street, Beacon. Beaconfleamarket@gmail.com.
QiGong with Zach Baker 7:30pm-8:30pm. $12/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055.
CLASSES
The Power of Duff 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Vince Durango’s, Just Having Fun 8pm. Comedy with live music. $10. American Legion Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-7516.
EVENTS
Love's Labour's Lost 8pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org.
Fifth Annual Otis Arts Festival 9am-3pm. Farmington River Regional School, Otis, MA. Townofotisma.com/culturalcouncil.
Maggie Rothwell and Darian Rivera 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.
The region’s only professional Shakespeare company presents “Love’s Labor’s Lost” and “Romeo and Juliet” in repertory with “The 39 Steps,” adapted from the John Buchan novel and Alfred Hitchcock film. The Hudson Valley Shake-
Minnewaska Distance Swimmers Association Long Distance Qualifying Test 5:30pm. $20. Moriello Park, New Paltz. Minnewaskaswimmers.org.
speare Company has a simple approach: an open-air stage and unadorned cos-
Henry Knox's Birthday 7pm-9pm. Watch the officers and soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Continental Artillery Regiments completing the preparations for the move to Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. Knox's Headquarters, New Windsor. 561-5498.
tumes keep the script and actors front
the Hudson River on Boscobel’s pastoral grounds before the show, or grab a bite
To Kill a Mockingbird 4pm. $3.50. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
at their on-premises café. (845) 265-9575;
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 10pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Hvshakespeare.org.
KIDS
Robin O'Herin 7pm. Acoustic blues and gospel musician with a hint of Appalachian mountain. Knox Trail Inn, Otis. (413) 269-4400. The Blue in Green Jazz Quartet 7pm. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Claudia Jacobs, CD Release Party for "Rally On" 7:30pm-10:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Marc Black Band 8pm. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. Harpeth Rising 8pm. $15/$12. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. Guthriecenter.org. Puccini's La Boheme 8pm. Opera. $25-$66. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Cherish the Ladies 8:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Marc Cohn 9pm. $35/$45/$60. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Black Dirt Band 9:30pm. Jazz. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.
Argentine Tango Tango: basics 6pm-7pm; intermediate 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Ukrainian Folk Singing Call for times. Ages 4-10. $130. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Dances for a Variable Population Performance Workshop 11am-8/3, 12:30pm. Community members will create a dance to be performed with the Dances for a Variable Population Company. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Swing Dance Class 6pm. Beginner at 6pm, intermediate at 7pm, advanced at 8pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
Caravan Kids Weeks 2012 9am-8/3, 3pm. Ages 4-8. Half-day or full-day. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. Vanavercaravan.org. Children's Media Project: Summer Media Camp 10am-8/2, 4pm. Youth participants will get a hands-on experience in media-making as they try out a variety of media including animation, radio, and video. $235. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. Mega Media 10am-8/2, 4pm. Children's Media Project summer program for ages 7-11. $250. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-2515.
SPOKEN WORD New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100 8 weeks/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
and center. Enjoy a picnic overlooking
FILM
Jazz at the Maverick 6:30pm. Cole Porter in Paris. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Conversation with Angels 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 6792100.
KIDS
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Annual Chicken Barbeque 5pm-6:30pm. $14/$12 seniors/$10 children and 90+. Reformed Church of Shawangunk, Wallkill. 895-2952.
Rainbow Fresh 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.
MUSIC
Romeo and Juliet 8pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. Hvshakespeare.org.
Connecticut Wine Festival 12pm-7pm. Connecticut Wine Festival, Goshen, CT.
Jeremy Denk Recital Call for times. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3880.
Connecticut Wine Festival 12pm-6pm. Connecticut Wine Festival, Goshen, CT. C.B. Smith and the Lucky Devils 11am-1pm. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties. 246-5306.
Meet the Animals Tour 10am-2pm. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.
MUSIC
Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. 876-3847.
Murder Ballad 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the healthy eating series: corn. Uptown Kingston. Kingstonfarmersmarket.org.
Family Clay Day 10am-1pm. Receive step by step instructions to make wall hanging containers for all sorts of interesting things. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 8765952.
THEATER
Legally Blonde 8pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Saugerties Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Kiersted House, Saugerties. 246-0167.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Guitar Camp Call for times. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. Jamal Jackson Dance Company Performance 2pm. $25/$20 members/$15 students. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Ballroom by Request with Joe Donato & Julie Martin 9pm-11pm. Lesson from 8pm-9pm. $12. Snap Fitness, LaGrange. 227-2706. Orange County Antique Fair and Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055.
DANCE
WORKSHOPS Botanical Drawing Summer Workshop Call for times. Hollengold Farm, Accord. 626-1146. Drumfest Japan Featuring Elaine Fong Call for times. Taiko class and Matsuri class wherein participants will develop a song to be performed. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Write Saturday Call for times. Full-day writing workshop with Wallkill Valley Writers. 20 Milton Avenue, Highland. Wallkillvalleywriters.com. Build Your Own Fuzz Guitar Effect Pedal 10am-4pm. $120. Beacon Music Factory, Beacon. Doody Calls 1pm-2pm. Cloth diapering info sessions. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
SUNDAY 29 ART Fine Woodwork Show and Silent Auction 10am-5pm. Berkshire Woodworkers Guild. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Akashic Records Revealed 2pm-3:30pm. With June Brought. The recording of our soul imprint revealed. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. De-Stress Mixed Level Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.
CLASSES
Bel Canto Music Series 2pm. Metropolitan Opera bass Valerian Ruminski and soprano Anne Tormela. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070. Emmanuel Chabrier: The King in Spite of Himself 3pm. Opera. $30/$60/$70/$90. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Beyond a Simple Folk Song 3pm. The Hudson Valley Folk Guild. $10/$8 seniors and members. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 229-0170. Zuill Bailey and Robert Koenig 4pm. Cello with piano. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Sharon Van Etten 8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
SPOKEN WORD Words Words Words: 5th Annual Author Readings 3pm. Larry Carr author of Pancake Hollow Primer, Mihai Grunfeld author of Leaving: Memories of Romania, William Rhoads author of Ulster County: A History & Guide. $5. Maple Grove Restoration, Poughkeepsie. 471-9651.
TUESDAY 31 ART Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 series of 4. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Pilates: Mama with Baby 12:45pm-1:30pm. $100 series/$15 drop-in. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Gentle Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm. $30/month. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. MommyBWell Prenatal Yoga 5:30pm-6:45pm. $78/6 weeks. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. YogaDance 9pm. SMYL Studio@Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 2465805.
CLASSES West African Drum/Dance 5:30pm/6:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 399-6488. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
FILM Ladies and Gentlemen Over 65 8:30pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
THEATER
KIDS
The Power of Duff 2pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
Nature Walk and Journaling 10am. Ages 6-9. Create a nature journal, press plants, play games and go on a scavenger hunt. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
Fuddy Meers 2pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3133. Legally Blonde 3pm. $26/$24 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Murder Ballad 5pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Measure for Measure 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.
MUSIC Laura Wilde 7pm. Rock. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
SPOKEN WORD
Hurley Mountain Highway 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. The Trestle Restaurant, Cornwall. 534-2400.
West African Drum 11am. $15. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 399-6488.
SPOKEN WORD
West African Dance 12pm, 5pm. $15. The Living Seed Yoga and Holistic Center, New Paltz. 399-6488.
ART
THEATER
Wheel Throwing Crash Courses 3pm-6pm. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
Stone Carving Demonstration 1pm-4pm. Master sculptor Kevin VanHentenryck. Opus 40, Saugerties. 246-3400.
Romeo and Juliet 7pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. Hvshakespeare.org.
One Tongue Reading Call for times. A literary evening with writer Yuriy Tarnawsky featuring excerpts from his latest collection Short Tail,. $15/$10 students, seniors and members. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479.
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The 39 Steps 7pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Hvshakespeare.org
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Dutchess Doulas 10am-11am. Doulas get together to discuss upcoming events and all things birth related in Dutchess County. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
film chely wright: wish me away image provided Chely Wright, serving as grand master of the Chicago Gay Pride Parade in 2010, from the film Wish Me Away, which will be screened at the Rosendale Theater on July 20.
Wright Out Front Somewhere along the lonesome road between Hank Williams’s plaintive wails and Faith Hill’s power ballads, country music got tangled in the Confederate Flag. Ditties about honky-tonk romances were soon sharing jukebox space with chest-beating anthems about America, right or wrong. Three decades ago, The Allman Brothers posed on the campaign trail with peanut farmer-cum-Chief Executive Jimmy Carter. Nowadays, Grand Ole Opry stars cozy up to Grand Old Party members. This cultural shif t proved a career-stopper for the Dixie Chicks, whose offhanded comment against George Bush at a 2003 London concert resulted in a national boycott. Other country stars were put on notice: Toe the line or bear the wrath of Republican fans. Chely Wright ached to be a country singer. As a toddler, she crooned Loretta Lynn tunes on the toilet. By the mid-'90s, she was a Nashville star with number-one songs. But Wright held back one bittersweet melody: her lesbianism, which she had tried for years to pray away. Suppression only deepened Wright’s trauma. Finally, she opted for honesty—and probable career suicide. Wright embarked on a carefully orchestrated campaign to come out publicly. The record of that process is Chely Wright: Wish Me Away, directed by veteran filmmakers and Ulster County weekenders Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf. Alternately sentimental and harrowing, but keenly observed, Wish Me Away unfurls slowly, like a country neighbor spinning a homespun yarn. But the pace quickens with Wright’s decision to amble—then sprint—towards liberation. Chely Wright: Wish Me Away will screen at the Rosendale Theatre on July 20 with directors Birleffi and Kopf in attendance. (845) 658-8989. Rosendaletheatre.org.
Did she agree to the project from the start, or did it take some time? Kopf: You have to understand that when Chely walked into our loft and began telling us her story, there were only about a handful of people on the planet who knew that she was gay. So we began developing trust almost immediately. We sensed the importance of filming right away because the story was unfolding before our eyes. Bobbie picked up the camera, I picked up the boom, and we started interviewing her in the spring of 2008. In a way, those early interviews with Chely (and with her wonderful sister Jeny) gave us tremendous insight and may have helped Chely herself think out what she was about to do. But even though we were building trust, when you’re dealing with a very experienced hider the process takes time. It was a year before Chely shared her private video diaries with us. The fact that [Beverly and I] are in a life partnership, as well as a creative one, may have made Chely more comfortable.
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What was the biggest challenge of this project? Kopf: One of the biggest challenges for this project was its longevity and finding funding for it. Because we were keeping Chely’s secret for all those years, we couldn’t apply for foundation grants. Instead, we sought out individuals one at a time, and after they signed a nondisclosure agreement, we showed them a sample tape. Another challenge was Nashville itself. During filming we tried to get A-list country stars to be interviewed. No one would agree to go before our cameras, though some offered support privately. One manager said, “To be honest, there is no upside, only a downside,” meaning the potential loss of fans. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is still the tone of the music industry in Nashville, even though there are many openly gay men and women working within it. Nashville is marketing God, family, and patriotism, and somehow that
What about Chely Wright’s story drew you in? Beverly Kopf: We didn’t know who Chely was, and we weren’t aware of her music. But in 2006, Chely had seen a one-hour doc we produced that aired on LOGO called “Be Real” about young openly gay people making contributions to their communities. At the time, Chely was at a low point in her life and the film really impressed her. A couple of years later, when she started thinking about coming out publicly and being the first in country music to do so, she spotted a poster for “Be Real” on the wall of a mutual colleague, who put us in touch. The evening Chely came to our [Manhattan] loft to share her secret with us was a night that both of us will never forget.
What moment was true gold for your film—the zenith of the narrative? Bobbie Birleffi: Filming a performer is a challenge, because you are looking for true moments, not “performed” moments. But there is a moment in the film that captures the essence of Chely’s strength. It’s at a photo shoot for People magazine and her publicist Howard Bragman comes in to give her the first copy that she’s seen of her book. The camera captures a moment where she realizes—It is happening—I am coming out—and she tries to hide in the corner, shaking. The camera relentlessly stays on her and we watch as she turns around, wipes the tears away, takes a breath, and faces the camera and the reality of what is about to happen.
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Stating the Ominous: Silent Spring at 50
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ast month was the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. This is the book that not only started the modern environmental movement; it defined the notions of the “environment” or “ecosystem” as we think of them today. Though it’s difficult to believe, prior to Silent Spring, those concepts did not exist in public consciousness. Fifty years is a special cycle in astrology—that of Chiron, the astrological patron of healing, holistic consciousness and the environment. Silent Spring is about to have its Chiron return. That means that the modern environmental movement is having that same transit, which is a significant rite of passage. Today, most people have heard the book’s title, though I’ve been asking around and so far I have not found anyone younger than I am who knows what it’s a reference to. A marine biologist and avid birder who became a naturalist author, by the time Silent Spring was published, Rachel Carson had already written three bestsellers and had won the National Book Award For Nonfiction with her 1951 book The Sea Around Us. Her writing career grew out of working for the publications office of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where she was editor in chief. Following up a longstanding interest, she began to focus her efforts on pesticides in the 1950s. This was the era when chemistry was going to solve every problem and save the world from the evils of nature. But Carson was suspicious, and had been collecting data about potential problems since before World War II. Her research resulted in Silent Spring, which exposed the dangers of broadcast spraying of pesticides and herbicides, principally the insecticide DDT. The military, the US Department of Agriculture, and various industries were busy pouring tons of the stuff onto cities, towns, suburbs, farms, and wilderness areas, telling everyone that it was perfectly safe. In one propaganda film, a British public health official is trying to convince an African chief and his tribe that DDT isn’t toxic. At the time it was being used to kill malaria mosquitoes. He has the chemical sprayed onto a bowl of hot cereal, which he then eats. But the chief refuses to accept that the insecticide is safe. Carson was the first to note that DDT not only killed insects; it acted as what she called a biocide, often wiping out the entire ecosystem where it was sprayed. The interconnection between the levels of nature is what we think of as “the environment.” Writing with a vivid appreciation of the beauty of nature, Carson describes how, after airborne spraying of the insecticide, contaminated leaves would fall to the forest floor and be eaten by worms, which would then be eaten in large quantities by birds. The DDT would concentrate in the birds’ bodies (through a process called biomagnification), poison them, and then the forests would fall silent—hence the book’s title. Until this time nobody had explained from a scientific standpoint that all of nature is related in a complex web of life. Though Carson had been making that point in her earlier books, when she pointed out that those webs of life were being murdered by the chemical fogs, people started to notice.
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“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes—nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the ‘good’ and the ‘bad,’ to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil—all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects,’’ Carson wrote. A condensed version of the book was first published as a series in the New Yorker in June of 1962 and the full book came out that autumn. Industry and government response to Silent Spring was immediate and scathing, declaring a kind of national emergency and attempting to discredit Carson as an hysterical nature freak. The response of industry only pushed the book higher up the bestseller list. She was accused of being part of a cult—that freaky religion of people who love nature. Carson wrote “not as a scientist but rather as a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature,’’ said P. Rothberg, president of the Montrose Chemical Corporation of California, a manufacturer of DDT. Notably, in Silent Spring Carson never calls for a ban on DDT, only its carefully controlled use when necessary. Regarding Carson’s book as “an opportunity to wield our public relations power,’’ Monsanto Chemical Company, a manufacturer of herbicides, pesticides and PCBs, published a long parody of Silent Spring, The Desolate Year, portraying nature as evil and depicting the horrors of a world without chemical pesticides. The company distributed 5,000 copies of it to newspaper editors and book reviewers all over the country. onsanto had reason to worry. At the time, the company was making most of its money on chemicals similar in behavior, composition and toxicity to DDT, called PCBs, and subsequent lawsuits revealed that the company was lying to everyone about their dangers. The writing and the message of Silent Spring were so powerful that the book got the attention of then Pres. John F. Kennedy, who referred it to his Science Advisory Panel. They studied the scientific assessments in the book and a year later determined that Carson’s work was based on valid toxicology. This led to a 1972 ban on DDT in agricultural use in the United States—though not until after 600,000 tons of the stuff had been dumped on the environment. Once the DDT issue was raised to public awareness, many other events followed, which helped raise awareness of toxins and begin the process of regulating them. In 1964, Swedish scientist Dr. Soren Jensen, inspired by Carson’s work, was studying DDT levels in human blood when a mysterious group of chemical compounds kept recurring in his samples, interfering with his analyses. The chemical was so pervasive that his first task was to determine whether it was natural or synthetic. A two-year investigation established that the mystery compound was manmade, chlorine-based and chemically similar to DDT. Jensen knew it wasn’t a pesticide because he found it in wildlife specimens collected in 1935, years before chlorine-based pesticides were in general use. All of Sweden and its adjacent seas were contaminated,
he discovered; even hair samples taken from his wife and three children showed traces of the compound, with the highest levels in his nursing infant daughter. The mystery pollutant was everywhere he looked. Jensen told me in a 1993 interview for Sierra magazine, “I was convinced that what I had to deal with were chlorinated biphenyls, but I didn’t have the faintest idea where such compounds were used in the society.” Searching the literature, Jensen learned of PCBs’ industrial uses. A German chemical manufacturer provided Jensen with a sample, which he analyzed and found to match the “peaks,” or chemical readings, found in a massively contaminated white-tailed eagle. “The circle was closed,” Jensen said. “There was no doubt that the unknown peaks came from the use of polychlorinated biphenyls, which I gave the name PCB.” As a direct result of Carson’s work on DDT, PCBs were banned by the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976, just four years after the ban on DDT. Both chemicals are so persistent in the environment that they still turn up in samples of human blood and breast milk. The problem with the TSCA and its successors is that despite the current obsession with fetal rights, Congress will not allow the words “fetus” or “embryo” into the language of the law, and it’s the as-yet-unborn who are hurt the most. Dr. Theodora Colborn is sometimes credited with writing the modern version of Silent Spring, a 1997 book she co-authored, called Our Stolen Future. Colborn studies the issue of persistent toxic compounds for their effects on the human endocrine system, which regulates hormones that influence reproduction, emotions and every organ in our bodies. All of these chemicals are carcinogenic, though that’s considered a high-dose effect. At extremely low concentrations—for example, the parts-per-trillion level—the chemicals function as hormonal toxins. Colborn’s work, developed in the decades after Silent Spring, determined that thanks to DDT, PCBs, benzene-based plasticizers including BPA ,and many heavy metals, we are all swimming in a sea of hormone-disrupting chemicals. Unlike natural hormones, hormone disruptors tend to be extremely persistent, lodging in the liver and other organs, creating cascades of reactions. Because a healthy body is so dependent upon endocrine balance, hormone disruptors are associated with nearly every medical condition. These include reproductive issues, miscarriages, birth defects, endometriosis, and many forms of cancer. “Silent Spring acknowledged that the entire ecosystem was being destroyed, that DDT was affecting all life on Earth and there was nothing that was not being affected,” Colborn said in an interview for Chronogram. “Carson was using her research on animals that was quite strong.” “Rachel Carson began to create an awareness that we should have had innately. We became aware of the obvious things around us. Yet we could make these chemicals that we could not see. If humans are going to survive they are going to survive because they’re going to understand what they’re actually doing when they’re fooling around with chemicals that were never in the environment before. It’s taking us too long and too many people too late to realize this.” Colborn noted that “there are two places in Silent Spring where Carson has just one sentence: I wonder what’s happening to the babies in the wombs of the women who are exposed to these chemicals. If she only had a chance to live three or four more years, she would have caught on to the endocrine disruption and the transgenerational transmission of these chemicals.” The effects of many endocrine disruptors can be passed down for seven generations (scientific validation of the name of the chlorine-free paper product brand, which is based on an Iroquois concept). Had she lived long enough, Colborn speculated, Carson would have made these discoveries on her own. But she died at the peak of her influence of complications arising from breast cancer in April 1964. “I myself never thought the ugly facts would dominate, and I hope they don’t,’’ Rachel Carson wrote to a friend as she finished writing Silent Spring, quoted in the 1980 book Speaking for Nature by Paul Brooks. “The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind—that, and anger at the senseless brutish things that were being done. I have felt bound by a solemn obligation to do what I could—if I didn’t at least try I could never again be happy in nature. But now I can believe I have at least helped a little. It would be unrealistic to believe one book could bring a complete change.’’ This was probably the most erroneous prediction that Carson ever made. Her one book did bring a massive change in the way pesticides were used and regarded by both governments and people. For a time, it even seemed possible that precautionary policy— that is, avoiding danger and factoring in for worst-case scenarios—would replace reckless uses of “economic poisons.’’ While that did not happen, Carson demonstrated what one person can do. Though I don’t have space to go into her astrology here (you can find that on the Chronogram website or linked from the 8-Day Week newsletter), I can say this: She came from the place of a deep connection to life and existence, yet with her roots in the unseen world. Carson was a mystic in the deepest sense of the word, and her ability to bridge the worlds of mysticism and science is something that today we would describe as “shamanic.”
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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries (March 20-April 19) You’re about to experience what you can think of as a progress-check on your journey to wellness. You’ve been through a long phase of reflection, many experiences of learning how to change your mind, and gradually devoting yourself to healing. Yet it seems like the real demonstration of your progress is going to come through your relationships in the coming weeks. Part of what you’ve been working through is how to handle anger and aggression. Along the way, you may have noticed what a big problem this is for so many people these days. Where you stand today is at the point of connecting theory to practice. You’ve studied the map, you’ve studied yourself; now as Mars moves out of Virgo and into your opposite sign Libra, you get to dive into the territory. This includes how you handle your own Mars-related emotions (desire, anger, aggression, fear) and how you handle those feelings in partners. You will need to notice carefully when you go into reaction mode, as opposed to response mode; it’s essential that you be able to distinguish whose feelings are whose; it will not always be easy. Most significantly, you become the guardian of fairness and balance, and this will necessarily involve situations wherein you’re the judge of your own cause. On one level I could describe the aspect structure of the next month as an experiment in integrity, which is to say, both inner wholeness and the question of what your relationships reflect about your state of mind.
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Self-esteem is the core issue for you now, though culturally we have so many problems with this topic that it’s like trying to describe air. By all rights, you should be feeling great about yourself these days, though inside that feeling there appears to be a deeper question. It might help to think in terms of “as if.” Faced with any decision or circumstance, how would you respond if you valued yourself more? By that, I don’t mean responding to your fear—I mean your actual affirmative value on yourself, which extends into your environment and your community, since you’re so deeply dependent on your surroundings for your happiness. Your charts suggest there’s something you may be struggling to let go of, and to the extent you’re stressed at all, consider this. When self-worth is compromised, people tend to compensate other ways. Some do this by getting rich or famous. Some exert their power over others, or by fostering an obsession with physical strength. Some substitute the need for public adulation as a substitute for being loved by their parents. I suggest that you be vigilant about when any form of behavior is designed to make up for a perceived loss or lack. If you pay attention you will notice when this is happening, and you may also get the hint that it won’t work. No substitute for authentic self-value will ever work. So forget the substitutes and go for the real thing. It’s right within reach, and you’ll know it when you feel it.
Gemini (May 20-June 21) You may have been getting the message in recent weeks how crucial it is that you be honest with yourself—and various reminders of how easy it is to be less than honest. It’s not too late, and yet moving forward, it’s essential that you be scrupulous in your self-assessment and your dealings with others. Dishonesty is not always about telling outright lies. It also includes concealing your motives and intentions. It can slip in through being idealistic, exaggerating, or denying certain facts. One thing that will help you is to consider your sense of proportion before you speak or take action. How important is something, really? How important is it that you get your way? In addition, Jupiter in your sign is offering you depth and wisdom, but its square aspect to Neptune cautions that you could dismiss what you know because you consider it inconvenient. This is another way of saying don’t let your idealism get in the way of perceiving the truth of any situation. Rather, get under the surface and be honest about your motivessomething that has not been easy for you lately. As the month develops, you could find yourself involved with a crusade of some kind, or at least, a crusading attitude. And if that turns out to be true, you’ll want your moment of commitment to be based on something authentic. Doing this well is a matter of practice, then, of preference. I suggest you start with the commitment to being all real, all the time.
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You are starting to feel what’s missing, because it’s not missing any more. It’s as if you’re remembering your own presence among so many events and activities that surround you, though your awareness may occasionally drop below the surface before bobbing back up. When this happens, I suggest you ask yourself if you’re trying to deny the intensity of your own life, or your need for deep commitment to handle the many demands on your growth. One of them seems to be about playing a central role in the emotional cohesion of your family or circle of friends. I suggest you listen carefully to what children have to say, and keep your mind on their well-being—even if they’re not your own kids. See if you can remember your own observations about the world when you were much younger. There are things that didn’t make sense to you then, which still don’t make any sense to you today. What if you refused to pretend that they do? The things you held dear when you were much younger, such the concept of life itself, and your corresponding respect for existence, can be of significant help to you and the people around you. Nearly all of the problems the world faces emerge from the refusal to have even the most basic respect for life. You will be a lot happier if you don’t play this game, and you will set the example that it’s possible to focus on what really matters.
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(July 22-August 23)
Give up any desire to control how people perceive you and it’ll be easier for you and everyone else to see you for who you are. Though you may have your doubts lately, the thing that your friends value the most about you is your sincerity. This quality about you will work with an almost mystical power through July and into the next year of your life. The thing to remember, and the thing so often forgotten, is that all you can really be is yourself, so you may as well do that exclusively. The example you set is one of the most likely to be followed; you have the privilege this year of being a kind of trendsetter, though it’s best not to think in those terms. Rather, remember the wisdom of A Course in Miracles, which reminds us that “everyone teaches, and teaches all the time.” If you’ve ever noticed that people tend to do a lot of imitating of others, it’s time to take that to heart. While words are a vital part of this process—especially over the next few weeks, with Mercury making an extended visit to your sign—what counts the most are actions. If you do use words, remember to use them wisely; there is a pattern developing where you may regret what you say, and have to correct yourself. That alone sets a good example, as so few people can admit that they were wrong, though it’s preferable to get it right the first time.
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Virgo (August 23-September 22) Mars has been in your birth sign since November, and on July 3 it heads for Libra. A review of this momentous transit is in order. Mars carries a rather different energy than Virgo, though the two are an essential combination. The point of this transit has been to teach you how to assert yourself. To do this, it helps to be clear with yourself and come from a unified position within your own consciousness. If you’re not in conflict with yourself, it’s a lot easier to stand up to the world. This transit has provided you with the opportunity to work out any misunderstandings with yourself that you’ve been carrying around. Next, when Mars is present in such a distinct way, it’s necessary to learn how to direct your will and your intention. Mars is a sharp object, and it has to be handled with both mental and physical precision; that is the role of Virgo. In sum, this transit has provided you with the kinds of benefits that a teenager gets from taking a martial arts class. Remember what you’ve learned during the past eight months of your life, because they are indeed valuable, once-in-a-lifetime lessons. Now with Mars moving into your 2nd solar house, you get to direct your will and intent into the management of your resources, including money. Mostly, this will amount to an extended exploration (and use) of the concept of balance—the single most important skill when it comes to wise management of resources.
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Libra (September 22-October 23) You’ve been learning a lot about fear the past few months—and soon, the topic switches to faith. Fear tends to live in a self-contained world. That world follows its own rules and has its own internal logic, which is self-serving and, as it turns out, self-defeating for you. I suggest you make a list of everything you’ve worried about since late autumn and then note how much has actually come to pass. Fear is largely a creature of the imagination, of misdirected creativity. Faith works differently. It opens you up to a world beyond yourself. It is a power that comes through you. Apart from any difference in the subject matter, the energy flow is worth observing, because it’s a useful way to figure out what you’re actually feeling. Simply, stuck is of the nature of fear and moving is of the nature of faith. This idea is in harmony with something that Joe Trusso, one of my teachers, once said: The opposite of depression is expression. The next few months are all about you expressing yourself in a bold way. Per the characteristic of faith, that expression can have the sensation of something flowing through you. That something is “beyond yourself” yet still distinctly recognizable as yourself. Among the seeming paradoxes we face in life, this is one of the most pleasant. We don’t often think of that thing beyond ourselves as part of us, though for sure this experience will help you recreate your understanding of who you are.
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The child in you is a revolutionary. I don’t mean a rebel—I mean someone with an agenda to set the world right. The challenge you have is to embrace the potential for change, healing, and liberation with the youngest part of yourself, while at the same time bringing in the focus and maturity that is your prerogative as an adult. To this end, I suggest that you do a few things. One is to pace yourself. Yes, time is of the essence, but getting ahead of yourself is a good way to waste time. Take things in order, one at a time. Next, remember that while there may be revolution in the air, at least half of that equation is evolution; and this is a process of trial and error. Yet it can take vast leaps even when contained in an environment of orderly progress. Keep in mind that the unstoppable evolutionary force is in the sign that’s associated with how you think. So for you, as a revolutionary, the core theme is understanding your thought process, specifically for making corrections to what you can think of as your mental genetic code. Like any strand of DNA, this is based on ancient information—though you are clearly aware of the pressing need to bring this up to date. Your goal is to make sure that your thought process is current and not something akin to that of your ancestors who were roaming around the planet in 1895.
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Relationships are said in many spiritual and therapy traditions to be a mirror. This is good in theory; somehow we all know it’s true. In practice, though, it’s easy to forget, and challenging to apply in a pragmatic way. Now would be the time, however. The first thing to remember about mirrors is that unlike a photograph, they present an image that is reversed horizontally. Plus, every mirror is a little different; at a certain point you choose the one you like the best. One particular mirror in your life is showing you the past. You can peer right into your own history, and make a decision about whether you resemble that person at all. Other mirrors represent your potential, and show you how much beauty and wisdom you’ve got available. The thing about those reflections is that you might not believe them. In fact, you’re more likely to believe the image that shows you who you were, since you’re more accustomed to it. I suggest you gradually cultivate your relationship to what you think is unrealistically positive. As you do this, you may notice certain emotional zones where you feel like you may be injured or fall short of who you want to be. As part of making peace with your potential, you get the opportunity to heal those parts of you that you might have decided are unworthy of love. This is a bold place to be; in a sense you’re confronting one of the deepest insecurities that people are capable of. It’s about time, too.
Capricorn (December 22-January 20) You are poised to take charge, though I suggest you work with a strategy. Step one involves something called power analysis. This is a conscious dissection of your goals (and figuring out what they are and why you have them); of who in the situation has influence over whom; and of your actual leverage in the situation. You need to place having a clear strategy over your tendency to react or respond emotionally, no matter how strongly you may feel about the situation. You’ve spent a long time analyzing the ethics involved, and examining your own psychological tendencies. Now that it’s time for action, I suggest you remember one thing: The scales of justice can be tipped one way or the other by a single gram. It is therefore vital that you use your influence wisely, and with precision. If you proceed in a reserved, understated way, you will gain the respect of others—particularly if you spend time listening. This process will also build trust. There will be many developments over the next month that seem to take on a life of their own—though I assure you that they’re reasonably predictable—and much more flexible than you might imagine, in case you want to sway things in another direction. The thing to remember is that exerting less influence is better than overdoing things. You want to be respected, not feared. And these days, fortune favors those who are capable of changing their mind—which is another way of saying capable of growing.
Aquarius (January 20-February 19) You tend to need a lot of reassurance before you take any kind of risk— and you have that now. Yet even if external validation is available, I suggest you emphasize what’s coming from within, because you are the person you’re most likely to listen to. Most of the time we think of achievement as something we reach for. It’s “up there,” away from us. The sensation of your charts is gently stretching your capacities from within. Think of it as being a bigger person, rather than a better one. Imagine that you encompass more possibilities, and that you’re friends with a diversity of potential outcomes, rather than being attached to any one. Contrary to popular folklore, Aquarius is one of the more conservative signs of the 12. This raises the question of your relationship to fear. You don’t really believe the worst-case outcome is the one that’s going to happen—why do you so often conduct yourself as if you do? Now life is encouraging you to take some chances of a sort that you have not experimented with in a long time. Yet you do have experience with stretching yourself in this way. You may feel like you need extra courage to account for the extra risk involved, though I would say that curiosity will serve you better. In its most valuable form, this would be curiosity about yourself—which will serve you many ways.
Pisces (February 19-March 20) You’re looking right at the very tendency in your relationships that you’ve wanted to work out very nearly forever. You now have the power of awareness to not only avoid making the same mistakes again, but better still, the courage to be free from fear if you do. Ultimately, every relationship involves embarking on the unknown. At some point, we have to decide that someone we care about really is being honest, and this is a feat that has its deepest roots in your ability to trust yourself. If you use what your senses and your intuition tell you, then you’ll be able to make clear decisions. I suggest you set a limit on the extent of using your past errors as a teaching device. You definitely need to understand where you’ve been, but more significantly you need to use your creativity to do something different. That’s to say, you cannot go forward merely by avoidance—you go forward by envisioning what you want, setting a destination and then setting out in that direction. While you’re unlikely to arrive exactly where you planned to go, there’s a good chance you’ll end up someplace better, with unexpected rewards that come as a direct result of your willingness to take a chance and explore unfamiliar regions of yourself. One of the most exciting things about your chart is the strength of your inner presence. It’s as if a world is opening up within you, which will manifest first in your awareness, then in your home space, then in your immediate surroundings. Enjoy the trip. 142 planet waves ChronograM 7/12
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In 2008, at age 37, Will Johnson started painting in order to tell stories about baseball players. The Texas-based musician and self-taught artist’s exhibition, “Every Player Is a Star: Will Johnson’s Baseball Paintings,” is on view at Team Love RavenHouse Gallery in New Paltz until September 7. The baseball card-esque portraits of players and demolished stadiums accompanied by hand-lettered text both pay tribute to baseball’s forgotten heroes and humanize the glorified idols of the game. Babe Ruth, who looks up and out in his baseball cards as if at a ball sailing over the centerfield fence or his own larger-than-life image, gazes down with tired eyes in Johnson’s painting. The quiet solemnity of the image is countered with a more characteristic quote from the Bambino: “I swing big with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.” In the same camp of baseball legends, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of Jackie Robinson, but what about the guy who taught Robinson about the double play? Johnson shares the story of Willie Wells: the first shortstop in the Negro Leagues to combine fielding and home-run power, and the first player to use a batting helmet. By favoring matter-of-fact biographical information over ornate odes, Johnson creates unassuming testimonies for his baseball heroes. Decentered portraits feature half faces that seem to creep in from some lost past, and the small text is visually demanding. The style, which physically draws viewers in, requires the kind of close attention that Johnson feels these individuals deserve. Johnson’s paintings will be exhibited through September 7 at Team Love RavenHouse Gallery in New Paltz. Team-love.com. Portfolio: Will-johnson.com. —Jennifer Gutman Alva Jo, Will Johnson, acrylic on medium-density fiberboard, 2012
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