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The Arthritic Knee: Treatments and Options Michael Schweppe, MD, Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County, NDH Bone and Joint Center When your knees become arthritic, there are steps you can take to remain active and comfortable. Find out what treatments and options are available to you, from medications and injections through knee replacement.
Wednesday, October 14th
Advances in Laparoscopic Surgery Brian Binetti, MD, Health Quest Medical Practice – Division of Surgery Laparoscopy—also known as “minimally invasive surgery�—allows surgeons to perform many of the same procedures as in traditional open surgery with lower risks and faster healing times. Come learn how this state-ofthe-art technology is being applied to an increasing number of surgeries, thanks to exciting new advances in equipment and techniques.
Tuesday, October 20th
The A-to-Zzzzs of Sleep Testing Barbara Chatr-Aryamontri, MD, Medical Director, NDH Sleep Lab A good night's sleep is fundamental to good health. Come tour NDH's state-of-the-art Sleep Lab, discover the benefits of sleep testing, and discuss solutions to apnea and other sleep disorders.
Wednesday, October 28th
Nasal Sinuses: What’s Old, What’s New, What Works? Michael J. Kortbus, MD, Northern Dutchess ENT, NDH Nasal and Sinus Center Dr. Kortbus will discuss sinus symptoms and treatment, from ancient remedies such as the Neti pot, up to the latest technologies including minimally invasive "Balloon Sinuplasty". You're bound to learn something new about your sinuses!
Thursday, October 29th
Presented by
Seasonal Nutrition and Smart Substitutions Roufia Payman, NDH Director, Outpatient Nutrition Education Autumn provides our beautiful Hudson Valley with a bountiful harvest of wonderful produce. Learn the wisdom of eating seasonally as well as how to avoid unhealthy “diet saboteur� foods with smarter substitutions.
Tuesday, November 3rd
Presented by
Tired of Fighting With Fatigue? Sharagim Kemp, DO, Health Quest Medical Practice – Division of Primary Care Are you always feeling tired and worn down? Tired of being tired? Your body is trying to tell you that something is wrong. Come find out what the problem could be and what you can do to fix it.
Thursday, November 5th
An Update on Stroke Gerald Kufner, MD, Kingston Neurological Associates, Director, NDH Stroke Center When it comes to a stroke, time is of the essence. Come learn about stroke risk factors, symptoms, and available treatments.
Wednesday, November 18th
Presented by
Sexual Health in the Midlife and Beyond Amy M. Novatt, MD, Women’s Medical Care of Rhinebeck Midlife presents special rewards and challenges for women. Come learn how to care for yourself and nurture your sexual health and well being during your middle years and beyond. .
All Lectures begin at 6:30 pm and are held in the NDH Lower Level Conference Room. Registration is required. Call 1-877-729-2444.
Chronogram arts.culture.spirit.
contents 10/09
news and politics
money & investing
19 while you were sleeping
64 shelter from the storm
Death threats to Obama, a record fine against Pfizer, and more.
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Crispin Kott talks to the experts about where to invest in turbulent times.
22 seven myths about alternative energy Michael Grunwald debunks some longstanding misinformation.
26 beinhart’s body politic: changing the dialog Larry Beinhart suggests that perhaps we’re not ready for change.
regional notebook
whole living guide 78 riding the brain’s waves Kelley Granger examines the power of neurofeedback
82 Flowers Fall: a mean animal practices the hard way Field notes from a Buddhist Mom’s experimental life. By Bethany Saltman.
13 local luminary: Tara sullivan Jan Cox chats with the executive director of the Hudson River Quadricentennial.
28 time span: walkway over the hudson .
Lawrence C. Swayne explains the incredible accomplishment spanning the river.
boarding schools 90 what would holden do? .
community pages 30 kingston: urban anomaly .
Lynn Woods examines the clash of old and new in New York’s first capital.
68 rhinebeck: mayberry 2.0 .
John Rodat finds unpretentious elegance in northern Dutchess County.
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Writers Helen Benedict and Stephen O’Connor. BOOKS
Anne Roderique-Jones tells the truth about boarding schools.
business services 56 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 74 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 83 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.
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contents 10/09
arts & culture 38 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 42 music
Peter Barrett goes mushroom hunting with the local mycologists.
112 parting shot A photograph by Yasuhiko Ishikawa from an upcoming show at Unison.
46 BOOKS Nina Shengold visits literary couple Helen Benedict and Stephen O’Connor.
48 BOOK reviews Jay Blotcher reviews All Hopped Up and Ready to Go by Tony Fletcher. Anne Pyburn reviews Totally Killer by Greg Olear and The Principle of Ultimate Indivisibility by Brent Robison. Plus this month’s Short Takes, a round-up of books to give you goosebumps.
50 Poetry Poems by Beth Balousek, Andrew Brenza, Laurence Carr, Richard Donnelly, James Houtrides, Jake St. John, Jessica Lewnadowski, James Lonergan, Stanley M Noah, Sherry Steiner, Christina L. Turczyn, and Tom Weigel.
The Mid-Hudson Mycological Association on the hunt for mushrooms. FOOD
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the forecast 96 daily calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 95 Sixteen young Dutch artists exhibit in HVCCA’s Double Dutch in Peekskill. 97 Wallaceana is part of the “Great Pretenders” exhibit at Carrie Haddad in Hudson. 101 American Ballet Theatre premieres three new works at Bard’s Fisher Center. 103 Chamber vocal ensemble Chanticleer performs at Vassar College. 105 The Woodstock Luthiers Showcase plugs in at locations around Woodstock.
planet waves 106 The Man: Humanity in Transformation Eric Francis Coppolino reports from Burning Man. Plus horoscopes.
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Peter Aaron profiles the Chapman Stick trio Stick Men. Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by Hope Machine Big Free. Reviewed by Michael Ruby. Marshall Crenshaw Jaggedland. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren. Nina Sheldon Harvest. Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson.
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Nancy john waldie | digital c-print | 30” x 40" | 2007 Before he became an art teacher at Washingtonville High School in 2005, John Waldie worked as a commercial photographer. He shot oodles of product still lifes during that time, and Waldie believes that his “30, Plus or Minus” series is influenced by his commercial technique, which relied heavily on oversaturated lighting. The idea came for the project came to Waldie while he was sitting in his beackyard in Beacon, drinking coffee with a friend, who was squinting in bright sunshine. “The light was hitting her in the face and distorting her expression,” Waldie says. Her strained look got Waldie thinking about using artificial lighting to create stress postures—photographic waterboarding. “It’s almost like torture,” says Waldie, describing the multiple hot lights he trains on his subjects’ faces. “In these conditions, people tend to express extreme emotional states.” Waldie believes his camera aids this process as well. Waldie shoots with a 4 x 5 Sinar F2, which takes about 15 minutes to set up and focus, while the model is forced to sit still. Waldie contends this purgatorial period helps to break down any preconceived pose a sitter may have, and induce a mood of vulnerability. “People wait so long they kind of give up,” Waldie says. “And that’s when I start shooting.” To achieve the intense details in his oversized prints, Waldie melds analog and digital techonology, shooting 4x5 color transparencies, then scanning the transparencies onto his computer and reverting the images to black and white. He then spends hours maximizing the detail on the surface of the model’s skin While conceived as a group of portraits, “30, Plus or Minus” is as much an investigation of the emotional states of thirtysomethings as it’s an essay into mapping the surface of a group of faces, noting every hair, freckle, flake, and pore. “My images attempt to illustrate this psychological transition through an exploration of the skin’s physical and tactile properties,” Waldie says. “In front of my camera and through the post-production process, my subjects are transformed into rich landscapes of physical wear and emotional strain.” The distance between the blemish and the crease marks the passage of time. In August, Waldie exhibited as part of the group show “Time and Place” at Gallery 605 in Beacon. Portfolio: www.jswaldie.com. —Brian K. Mahoney 8 ChronograM 10/09
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“ The community’s support has made Columbia Memorial one of the most successful institutions around – even in this bad economy. We thank you.” “ Columbia Memorial Hospital wants to thank you. Through these
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Red Hook’s Tara Sullivan currently presides as executive director of the Hudson River Quadricentennial. Prior, she served as the governor’s regional director for the Mid-Hudson Valley. Sullivan has spent her professional life in both appointed and elected public service, as well as in advocacy. She became known nationally for founding Asbestos Free Woodstock. In 1989, AFW accomplished the removal of 24 miles of asbestos-lead municipal water piping in her hometown, and simultaneously raised awareness regarding asbestos piping in towns all across the country. This success led to her working with several New York State Assembly legislative committees, including those concerned with toxic substances and hazardous wastes, water resource needs of New York and Long Island, and solid waste management. She describes the creation of the Walkway Over the Hudson [see “Time Span” on page 28], which holds its grand opening October 2 through 4 and connects Ulster and Dutchess Counties, as a “true bipartisan public-private partnership.” She relates that state and federal officials, along with many private regional donors, realized that devoting resources to the Walkway would make it a legacy project with a lasting impact from the Quadricentennial celebration—“a perfect marriage,” Sullivan suggests. —Jan Larraine Cox Why was the Walkway constructed? The concept is twofold: to create a park linking rail trails on both sides of the river, and to recycle an existing structure that would have cost more to deconstruct than to refurbish. However, first and foremost, the Walkway will be a magnet for tourism and a catalyst of economic development for the region. I understand that you have focused on economic development and environmental sustainability during your tenure as executive director of the Quadricentennial. Just in the past six months more than six solar businesses have announced new factories for the region. Our legacy projects, which include the Walkway, the refurbishment of the famous Crown Point Lighthouse on Lake Champlain, and the park promenade of Governor’s Island off the tip of Manhattan, are economic investments for eco-friendly tourism dollars that also showcase the importance of environmental consciousness. They will build on the region’s $4.5 billion tourism industry and enhance the beauty and quality of life in the Hudson Valley—which are key assets in attracting businesses and creating new jobs. Our signature event, the River Day Flotilla, has reignited the relationship among the community, the land, and the river by drawing over 125,000 people and 1,500 boats in an eight-day commemorative journey by New York heritage ships from New York to Albany. Describe some of your most successful endeavors in community organizing. I got my start organizing the initiative to remove asbestos from the water pipes in my hometown of Woodstock, and then won an elected position on the town board. In that role, I helped pass land protection and comprehensive zoning policy. As a county legislator, I sponsored a bilingual hiring policy. I co-managed a successful congressional
campaign in Maine and helped bridge relations between Bard College and Red Hook as Bard’s director of community relations and internal affairs. What drew you into activism, and what do you think most needs to be worked on right now, both locally and in the wider community? The asbestos health threat in my community ignited my interest in activism and made me realize I could have an impact if I joined forces with my fellow citizens. The single greatest threat we face is global climate change. Just this month, Governor Paterson set a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New York State by 80 percent below the levels emitted in 1990 by the year 2050. Achieving this goal and doing our part to address this worldwide issue will require everyone to pitch in. Never has it been more important to “Think globally, act locally!” What background and specific skills enabled you to become a community organizer? Management classes in college, owning a successful small business, running three successful campaigns for local office, and a lifetime working in government and public policy. But, really, I have always been deeply wed to my community, both locally and globally. It has been a part of who I am since I was little. Whether raising money for a boys home to enable them to keep pets, selling handmade crafts for a single-moms organization in Central America, organizing the groceries at a food bank, being a hospice volunteer, or working on reducing greenhouse gases, it’s all equally rewarding. The more you work at it, the more you find it satisfying and you get better at it. And when the job gets discouraging, it helps to remind yourself of Winston Churchill’s admonition: “Never, never, never give up!”
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Ill be your mirror Reflect what you are, in case you don’t know I’ll be the wind, the rain, and the sunset The light on your door to show that you’re home —Lou Reed Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: I cornered my wife the other evening to complain about someone we both know. I dissected the person’s psychology and laid out a compelling case for why he is ignorant, selfish, and manipulative. She listened, and to her credit, did not react. She simply said, “I hear you saying a lot of things about his traits, but I don’t hear you saying anything about your own confused and angry feelings about them.” In that moment, I saw that I was mentally tearing the person to pieces before I would acknowledge my own reactions. Seeing this, I could admit that I was angry. What a relief! Better still, I could admit that I possess (or am possessed by) those same manipulative qualities I was complaining about a few moments earlier. For that moment, I was a little more free. Almost every introspective tradition from Vedanta to psychology says the same thing: Other people are a reflection, a mirror for us. From the heights of joy and inspiration to the depths of despair and rage that they evoke, we are given the chance not simply to ride the up and down roller coaster, but to gain self-knowledge by observing and remembering ourselves in the process. “My life is a reflection of my being” is easy to say and believe, but employing and understanding this, in the moment, is, as the Katha Upanishad reads, “A hard path—the sharp edge of a razor.” Seeing others as our mirror is itself the means of transforming an inner life from a pit of righteousness to a chamber of harmonic resonance. Today I was talking with a friend who shared some news about success in an artistic endeavor. I found myself inspired by his story, and the sound he made in describing it. I felt the creative impulse he described present in myself also, with a similar yearning for expression. Because I was available to resonate with him, the quality of my state was improved, and I re-membered a part of myself that had been on holiday. Negative emotions are not all that can be resolved through the praxis of other-as-mirror.When another person gives us joy, that joy is not from them. The matrix of meaning that gives rise to the joy was always in us. It is easy to forget that reacting to someone is precisely resonating with them. Only it is a resonance that is unpleasant to us, so we attempt to remove its source through various strategies. The Pathwork distills the avoidance of our experience into three modes: aggression, submission, and withdrawal. They are all equally negative because they each prevent us from actually experiencing the psycho-physical reaction to a particular frequency of vibration, also known as the experience. With a willingness to explore my reaction like some new frontier, to sense the tensions it creates in the body, and observe and inhabit the emotional content, those three modes of avoidance, are instantly turned into means of active engagement. We realize that “the issue” is not the issue, but we are the issue. The problem is not the other person, the problem is inhabiting and maybe even refining or transcending my reactions to them. What are human beings, really? At an energetic level, we are transformational apparatuses that are always emitting a certain quality of radiation. When we avoid experience we radiate black clouds of noxious fumes like old clunkers burning oil—food for demons, which they quickly sniff out and hover around in droves. When we inhabit and thereby refine our emotions into genuine feeling, we burn clean, and emit something that might even be food for another order of beings—angels. It could even be said that engaging this way is doing God’s work, as we are doing our bit to raise the level of a tiny but in no wise insignificant part of the universe. As the aphorism from the Study House wall says, “the chief means of happiness in this life is the ability to consider outwardly always, inwardly never.” —Jason Stern
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Even though 80 percent of Americans are white, FBI figures show that nearly as many black people were homicide victims in 2008 as white people. Of the 17,000 homicide victims last year, 6.782 were black and 6838 were white. The most “typical” homicide in the US continues to be a black man shot to death by an acquaintance. Twentythree percent of murder victims were slain by family members, 55 percent by acquaintances, and 22 by strangers. More than half of all homicides involved firearms, almost half of those weapons are handguns. Source: New York Times
From 2006 to 2008, carriers of hazardous materials failed to report 1,199 serious incidents, such as spills that cause evacuations and road closures. The Department of Transportation, the agency that oversees hazmat transportation, has sanctioned just seven carries since 2006 for hazmat spills; four were fined $2,750 each. Nearly half of all hazardous material spills were not reported to the government, as carriers are required to do by law. Source: USA Today
During President Obama’s healthcare address on September 9 to a joint session of Congress, Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted “You lie!” following the president’s remark that illegal immigrants would not be offered health care in his administration’s plan. Representative Wilson has apologized, and stated that the outburst, a breach of Congressional decorum, was spontaneous. In an unrelated note, the Center for Responsive Politics reports that over the course of his eight-year congressional career, Wilson has collected $414,000 from the health sector. Sources: Associated Press, Center for Responsive Politics
In early September, drug giant Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal allegations that it had falsely marketed Bextra, a painkiller that has been withdrawn from the market, for non FDA-approved uses, and encouraged its sales force to do so. It was Pfizer’s fourth settlement over illegal marketing since 2002. The $2.3 billion fine amounts to less than three weeks of sales for Pfizer. In January, Eli Lilly agreed to pay $1.4 billion over its marketing of Zyprexa, an antipsychotic. Source: New York Times Consumer debt dropped $21.6 billion in July, a the largest drop since the Federal Reserve started tracking the data in 1943. The sixth straight month of declining consumer debt, the longest streak since 1991, doesn’t bode well for the economy, according to analysts. Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of the nation’s economic activity. Source: Los Angeles Times In late September, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which oversees the fund that protects bank depositors’ funds, announced that it would need additional money to shore up the fund in the wake of recent bank failures. And though the FDIC has a $100 billion dollar line of credit with the Treasury, officials suggested that the fund might
Former Bush administration Interior Secretary Gale Norton has been named as the focus of a Justice Department corruption probe. The investigation centers on the Interior Department awarding three lucrative oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado to a Shell Oil subsidiary. At issue is whether Norton, who resigned in early 2006, two months after the leases were awarded, and who joined Shell as in-house counsel in its oil shale division, violated federal law by discussing employment with Shell during her tenure as interior secretary. Thanks to the leases, Shell is expected to net hundreds of billions from the leases over time. Source: Los Angeles Times According to a new book, In the President’s Secret Service, by Ronald Kessler, the rate of death threats against President Obama has increased 400 percent over the Bush presidency. While president, Bush received approximately 3,000 death threats a year. Obama is on track to receive almost 10,000 death threats during his first year in office. Source: Telegraph (UK) Compiled by Brian K. Mahoney
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ay back when, in 1988, the world seemed a simpler place. Guns N’ Roses topped the charts with “Sweet Child ‘O Mine.” The Soviets, our archenemies, withdrew from Afghanistan in flaming defeat. We elected Dan Quayle vice president. (Partly due, no doubt, to the ringing endorsement of future presidential candidate John McCain, who commented at the time, “I can’t believe a guy that handsome wouldn’t have some impact.”) International terrorism took the form of putting bombs on planes, as in the Pan Am flight that exploded over Lockerbie, not using planes as missiles. Then something happened in 1988 that forever complicated our world. A loss of innocence as clear as the smashed conch in Lord of the Flies, though I doubt anyone reading this knew it at the time. In the hot summer of 1988 (I recall, working as a bicycle messenger in Manhattan, a whole week topping 100 degrees) a NASA scientist named James Hansen gave testimony to Congress that carbon emissions were heating the earth. No doubt about it, the problem was our fossil fuel-burning ways. We’ve spent 20 years debating this point—Is our industrial-based lifestyle really to blame for global warming?—with various smokescreens and diversions thrown up by scientists bought and paid for by petrochemical companies. But that needless argument seems to have been mostly won by the forces of logic and good science. Now, policy makers joust about what are the best solutions to our addiction to carbon. Michael Grunwald, Time magazine’s senior national correspondent, sheds some light on the subject in “Seven Myths About Alternative Energy” (page 22). Even energy companies are now acknowledging that climate change is real. In late September, Pacific Gas & Electric, a large utility company in Northern California, dropped out of the US Chamber of Commerce for what it described as the Chamber’s “extreme position” on climate change. (The Chamber has been one of the biggest opponents of climate change legislation, claiming that regulations would strangle the economy. Bill Kovacs, senior vice president of the Chamber, has also suggested that the Obama administration is secretly hiding evidence that climate change isn’t a real threat.) Okay. So now what? One response is to follow the example of writer Colin Beavan, who spent a year trying to radically reduce his planetary footprint. This meant—for Beavan, who lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter—fanatical lifestyle locavorism: not eating meat; not using paper products, like toilet paper; buying nothing (except food grown within 250 miles); growing his own vegetables in
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a community garden; not using the elevator to get up to his ninth floor apartment; eventually turning off the electricity in said apartment; and driving his Prada-wearing wife mildly crazy with the project. The whole absurd inconvenience of such a scheme can be summarized in Beavan’s yearning for a slice of pizza, which he deconstructs, carbon molecule by carbon molecule, in his recent book No Impact Man:The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux): “My desire for pizza was not the problem,” writes Beavan. “The fact that it came on a disposable paper plate was the problem. Our system makes it virtually impossible to get the things we want and need without leaving behind a trail of trash and pollution and greenhouse gases.” Beavan’s ultraorthodox eco-lifestyle experiment is probably not for many of us in the Hudson Valley. But it points in the right direction. Beavan’s impetus wasn’t personal transformation through asceticism. He tried to live small because the scientific data demands it. The choice is clear: We either consume less or our civilization will cease to exist. Which brings us to that magic number: 350. In our June issue, we printed a piece by eco-superhero Bill McKibben, “The Most Important Number on Earth,” in which McKibben explained that, based on the evidence, if there are more than 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the climate that has thus far sustained human habitation would irrevocably change. Three hundred and fifty is our carbon limit. We are currently at 385 ppm, and adding 2 ppm annually. McKibben launched a grassroots movement, 350.org, to create a sense of urgency around this slide into oblivion. October 24 will be the movement’s second annual day of action, with 1,564 actions planned in 122 countries, from children’s art displays in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu (which may eventually be underwater), to the second annual Rally for a Green New Deal, with 350 or more people linking hands across the Mid-Hudson Bridge. There are 23 actions currently planned in the Hudson Valley, from concerts to bike rides to a Playback Theater performance. Many are listed in our calendar (page 104); all are noted at 350. org. My favorite was posted by someone named “Jac C.” in Olivebridge, who wrote: “Decided [with wife] to start a home garden and worked all last weekend on it.” It’s just one couple’s practical response to a thorny problem that will require something from all 6,786,205,255 of us (global population as of 8:38 am on September 24). The question, moving forward, isn’t so much “What are you going to do?” as “What are you going to not do?”
Celebration of the Arts The third annual arts extravaganza takes on October 10, on the grounds of Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz. www.celebrationofthearts.net
Olana Partnership Viewshed Tour On October 24, visit nine private landscapes and two historic sites as part of this tour looking back at Fredrick Church's magnificent Hudson River estate Olana. www.olana.org
New Paltz Third Saturday On October 17, galleries, museums, and cultural venues in New Paltz will be open from 4 to 8pm. Art mixer at 8pm at Transcendence Gallery and Upstate Light Photo at Water Street Market. www.artalongthehudson.com
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Seven Myths About Alternative Energy By Michael Grunwald
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he current debate about greenhouse emissions and global climate change is the ultimate déjà vu. It simply repeats most of what I learned almost 40 years ago in my high school environmental studies class. The need to recycle; create alternative fuel sources; purchase fuel efficient cars, water heaters, clothes dryers, and refrigerators; insulate homes, lower thermostats, don sweaters, and use solar technology—all of these topics and more were just as hot back then as they are today. The environmental awareness campaign of the early seventies inspired my purchase in 1975 of a Datsun B-210 Honeybee that got 41 miles per gallon on the highway. Somewhere in between then and now a societal flip-off occurred that besides ridiculing Jimmy Carter, effaced the environmental movement and manifested such horrors as fuel-devouring SUV emission monsters and a host of products that exist in a constant state of on—whether they are being used or not. Agricultural lobbyists sold us on greenhouse gas-reducing farm-grown biofuels and shortly thereafter the production of these gasoline alternatives began driving global food prices up causing malnutrition, deforestation, and increases in greenhouse gas emissions. In “Seven Myths About Alternative Energy,” Time magazine’s senior national correspondent, Michael Grunwald, unflinchingly addresses biofuels and other myths that have driven the environmental community in recent years. In a phone interview, Grunwald offered up a simple solution. “Reduce consumption. Americans in particular and people in general are extremely wasteful. In some ways that’s the good news. Because we’re so spectacularly wasteful that by just reducing just a little bit of that waste, we can reduce consumption a lot in gigantic ways that don’t require people to do anything, change their lifestyles, or suffer through the indignity of having to put on a sweater.” “Mandates, incentives, and changing public and utility policies,” are the avenues to change, says Grunwald. For example, phasing out energy-wasting incandescent light bulbs and mandating their replacement by more efficient “twisty” light bulbs would not only reduce consumption, but also save people money. Instead of shutting down factories one day a week, motors that are twice as efficient and use half the energy to obtain the same product should be utilized. 22 news & politics ChronograM 10/09
Yet mandates have also created some problems. At a recent panel sponsored by the UN Millennium Campaign that discussed links between poverty and climate change, Indonesia’s environmental minister, Rachmat Witoelar, railed against the enormous pressure developed countries put upon developing countries to reduce emissions—despite the fact that developed countries are the worst offenders. As pointed out by Grunwald, in order to meet a European market that mandates biofuels usage, Indonesia destroyed huge tracts of thick forest and peat lands to grow palm oil. This caused Indonesia to rise from 21st to 3rd place on the ranking of the world’s top carbon emitters. “In all fairness to Witoelar,” says Grunwald, “the whole biofuel thing is still shockingly misunderstood because until two years ago the entire scientific and environmental community had it wrong too. They just didn’t understand the complex economic forces. I blame the Europeans for the biofuels mandate.” Is it possible to get people to change? “Mostly I hear defeatism about the ability of Americans to change their energy consumption among coal executives and hardcore environmentalists. I’m not prone to big enthusiasms, particularly when it comes to human nature. But this is an actual emergency. So we have to act as if it were possible to get people to change, because I don’t really see another option. Do you?” —Lorna Tychostup
1 “We Need to Do Everything Possible to Promote Alternative Energy.” Not exactly. It’s certainly clear that fossil fuels are mangling the climate and that the status quo is unsustainable. There is now a broad scientific consensus that the world needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more than 25 percent by 2020—and more than 80 percent by 2050. Even if the planet didn’t depend on it, breaking our addictions to oil and coal would also reduce global reliance on petrothugs and vulnerability to energy-price spikes.
But though the world should do everything sensible to promote alternative energy, there’s no point trying to do everything possible. There are financial, political, and technical pressures as well as time constraints that will force tough choices; solutions will need to achieve the biggest emissions reductions for the least money in the shortest time. Hydrogen cars, cold fusion, and other speculative technologies might sound cool, but they could divert valuable resources from ideas that are already achievable and cost-effective. It’s nice that someone managed to run his car on liposuction leftovers, but that doesn’t mean he needs to be subsidized. Reasonable people can disagree whether governments should try to pick energy winners and losers. But why not at least agree that governments shouldn’t pick losers to be winners? Unfortunately, that’s exactly what is happening. The world is rushing to promote alternative fuel sources that will actually accelerate global warming, not to mention an alternative power source that could cripple efforts to stop global warming. We can still choose a truly alternative path. But we’d better hurry.
2 “Renewable Fuels Are the Cure for Our Addiction to Oil.” Unfortunately not. “Renewable fuels” sound great in theory, and agricultural lobbyists have persuaded European countries and the United States to enact remarkably ambitious biofuels mandates to promote farm-grown alternatives to gasoline. But so far in the real world, the cures—mostly ethanol derived from corn in the United States or biodiesel derived from palm oil, soybeans, and rapeseed in Europe—have been significantly worse than the disease. Researchers used to agree that farm-grown fuels would cut emissions because they all made a shockingly basic error. They gave fuel crops credit for soaking up carbon while growing, but it never occurred to them that fuel crops might displace vegetation that soaked up even more carbon. It was as if they assumed that biofuels would only be grown in parking lots. Needless to say, that hasn’t been the case; Indonesia, for example, destroyed so many of its lush forests and peat lands to grow palm oil for the European biodiesel market that it ranks third rather than 21st among the world’s top carbon emitters. In 2007, researchers finally began accounting for deforestation and other land-use changes created by biofuels. One study found that it would take more than 400 years of biodiesel use to “pay back” the carbon emitted by directly clearing peat for palm oil. Indirect damage can be equally devastating because on a hungry planet, food crops that get diverted to fuel usually end up getting replaced somewhere. For example, ethanol profits are prompting U.S. soybean farmers to switch to corn, so Brazilian soybean farmers are expanding into cattle pastures to pick up the slack and Brazilian ranchers are invading the Amazon rain forest, which is why another study pegged corn ethanol’s payback period at 167 years. It’s simple economics: The mandates increase demand for grain, which boosts prices, which makes it lucrative to ravage the wilderness. Deforestation accounts for 20 percent of global emissions, so unless the world can eliminate emissions from all other sources—cars, coal, factories, cows—it needs to back off forests.That means limiting agriculture’s footprint, a daunting task as the world’s population grows—and an impossible task if vast expanses of cropland are converted to grow middling amounts of fuel. Even if the United States switched its entire grain crop to ethanol, it would only replace one fifth of US gasoline consumption. This is not just a climate disaster. The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a hungry person for a year; biofuel mandates are exerting constant upward pressure on global food prices and have contributed to food riots in dozens of poorer countries. Still, the United States has quintupled its ethanol production in a decade and plans to quintuple its biofuel production again in the next decade.This will mean more money for well-subsidized grain farmers, but also more malnutrition, more deforestation, and more emissions. European leaders have paid a bit more attention to the alarming critiques of biofuels—including one by a British agency that was originally established to promote biofuels—but they have shown no more inclination to throw cold water on this $100 billion global industry.
3 “If Today’s Biofuels Aren’t the Answer, Tomorrow’s Biofuels Will Be.” Doubtful. The latest US rules, while continuing lavish support for corn ethanol, include enormous new mandates to jump-start “second-generation” biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol derived from switchgrass. In theory, they would be less destructive than corn ethanol, which relies on tractors, petroleum-based fertilizers, and distilleries that emit way too much carbon. Even first-generation ethanol derived from sugar cane—which already provides half of Brazil’s transportation fuel—is considerably greener than corn ethanol. But recent studies suggest that any biofuels requiring good agricultural land would still be worse than gasoline for global warming. Less of a disaster than corn, ethanol is still a disaster. Back in the theoretical world, biofuels derived from algae, trash, agricultural waste, or other sources could help because they require no land or at least unspecific “degraded lands,” but they always seem to be “several” years away from large-scale commercial development. And some scientists remain hopeful that fast-growing perennial grasses, such as miscanthus, can convert sunlight into energy efficiently enough to overcome the land-use dilemmas— someday. But for today, farmland happens to be very good at producing the food we need to feed us and storing the carbon we need to save us, and not so good at generating fuel. In fact, new studies suggest that if we really want to convert biomass into energy, we’re better off turning it into electricity. Then what should we use in our cars and trucks? In the short term—gasoline. We just need to use less of it. Instead of counterproductive biofuel mandates and ethanol subsidies, governments need fuel-efficiency mandates to help the world’s one billion drivers guzzle less gas, plus subsidies for mass transit, bike paths, rail lines, telecommuting, carpooling, and other activities to get those drivers out of their cars. Policymakers also need to eliminate subsidies for roads to nowhere, mandates that require excess parking and limit dense development in urban areas, and other sprawl-inducing policies. None of this is as enticing as inventing a magical new fuel, but it’s doable, and it would cut emissions. In the medium term, the world needs plug-in electric cars, the only plausible answer to humanity’s oil addiction that isn’t decades away. But electricity is already the source of even more emissions than oil. So we’ll need an answer to humanity’s coal addiction, too.
4 “Nuclear Power Is the Cure for Our Addiction to Coal.”
Nope. Atomic energy is emissions free, so a slew of politicians and even some environmentalists have embraced it as a clean alternative to coal and natural gas that can generate power when there’s no sun or wind. In the United States, which already gets nearly 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear plants, utilities are thinking about new reactors for the first time since the Three Mile Island meltdown three decades ago -- despite global concerns about nuclear proliferation, local concerns about accidents or terrorist attacks, and the lack of a disposal site for the radioactive waste. France gets nearly 80 percent of its electricity from nukes, and Russia, China, and India are now gearing up for nuclear renaissances of their own. But nuclear power cannot fix the climate crisis. The first reason is timing: The West needs major cuts in emissions within a decade, and the first new U.S. reactor is only scheduled for 2017—unless it gets delayed, like every U.S. reactor before it. Elsewhere in the developed world, most of the talk about a nuclear revival has remained just talk; there is no Western country with more than one nuclear plant under construction, and scores of existing plants will be scheduled for decommissioning in the coming decades, so there’s no way nuclear could make even a tiny dent in electricity emissions before 2020. The bigger problem is cost. Nuke plants are supposed to be expensive to build but cheap to operate. Unfortunately, they’re turning out to be really, really expensive to build; their cost estimates have quadrupled in less than a decade. Energy guru Amory Lovins has calculated that new nukes will cost 10/09 ChronograM news & politics 23
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nearly three times as much as wind—and that was before their construction costs exploded for a variety of reasons, including the global credit crunch, the atrophying of the nuclear labor force, and a supplier squeeze symbolized by a Japanese company’s worldwide monopoly on steel-forging for reactors. A new reactor in Finland that was supposed to showcase the global renaissance is already way behind schedule and way, way over budget. This is why plans for new plants were recently shelved in Canada and several U.S. states, why Moody’s just warned utilities they’ll risk ratings downgrades if they seek new reactors, and why renewables attracted $71 billion in worldwide private capital in 2007—while nukes attracted zero. It’s also why US nuclear utilities are turning to politicians to supplement their existing loan guarantees, tax breaks, direct subsidies, and other cradleto-grave government goodies with new public largesse. Reactors don’t make much sense to build unless someone else is paying; that’s why the strongest push for nukes is coming from countries where power is publicly funded. For all the talk of sanctions, if the world really wants to cripple the Iranian economy, maybe the mullahs should just be allowed to pursue nuclear energy. Unlike biofuels, nukes don’t worsen warming. But a nuclear expansion—like the recent plan by US Republicans who want 100 new plants by 2030—would cost trillions of dollars for relatively modest gains in the relatively distant future. Nuclear lobbyists do have one powerful argument: If coal is too dirty and nukes are too costly, how are we going to produce our juice? Wind is terrific, and it’s on the rise, adding nearly half of new US power last year and expanding its global capacity by a third in 2007. But after increasing its worldwide wattage tenfold in a decade—China is now the leading producer, and Europe is embracing wind as well—it still produces less than 2 percent of the world’s electricity. Solar and geothermal are similarly wonderful and inexhaustible technologies, but they’re still global rounding errors. The average U.S. household now has 26 plug-in devices, and the rest of the world is racing to catch up; the US Department of Energy expects global electricity consumption to rise 77 percent by 2030. How can we meet that demand without a massive nuclear revival? We can’t. So we’re going to have to prove the Department of Energy wrong. 24 news & politics ChronograM 10/09
5 “There Is No Silver Bullet to the Energy Crisis.” Probably not. But some bullets are a lot better than others; we ought to give them our best shot before we commit to evidently inferior bullets. And one renewable energy resource is the cleanest, cheapest, and most abundant of them all. It doesn’t induce deforestation or require elaborate security. It doesn’t depend on the weather. And it won’t take years to build or bring to market; it’s already universally available. It’s called “efficiency.” It means wasting less energy—or more precisely, using less energy to get your beer just as cold, your shower just as hot, and your factory just as productive. It’s not about some austerity scold harassing you to take cooler showers, turn off lights, turn down thermostats, drive less, fly less, buy less stuff, eat less meat, ditch your McMansion, and otherwise change your behavior to save energy. Doing less with less is called conservation. Efficiency is about doing more or the same with less; it doesn’t require much effort or sacrifice. Yet more efficient appliances, lighting, factories, and buildings, as well as vehicles, could wipe out one fifth to one third of the world’s energy consumption without any real deprivation. Efficiency isn’t sexy, and the idea that we could use less energy without much trouble hangs uneasily with today’s more-is-better culture. But the best way to ensure new power plants don’t bankrupt us, empower petrodictators, or imperil the planet is not to build them in the first place. “Negawatts” saved by efficiency initiatives generally cost 1 to 5 cents per kilowatt-hour versus projections ranging from 12 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour from new nukes. That’s because Americans in particular and human beings in general waste amazing amounts of energy. US electricity plants fritter away enough to power Japan, and American water heaters, industrial motors, and buildings are as ridiculously inefficient as American cars. Only 4 percent of the energy used to power a typical incandescent bulb produces light; the rest is wasted. China is expected to build more square feet of real estate in the next 15 years than the United States has built in its entire history, and it has no green building codes or green building experience.
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But we already know that efficiency mandates can work wonders because they’ve already reduced US energy consumption levels from astronomical to merely high. For example, thanks to federal rules, modern American refrigerators use three times less energy than 1970s models, even though they’re larger and more high-tech. The biggest obstacles to efficiency are the perverse incentives that face most utilities; they make more money when they sell more power and have to build new generating plants. But in California and the Pacific Northwest, utility profits have been decoupled from electricity sales, so utilities can help customers save energy without harming shareholders. As a result, in that part of the country, per capita power use has been flat for three decades—while skyrocketing 50 percent in the rest of the United States. If utilities around the world could make money by helping their customers use less power, the US Department of Energy wouldn’t be releasing such scary numbers.
6 “We Need a Technological Revolution to Save the World.” Maybe. In the long term, it’s hard to imagine how (without major advances) we can reduce emissions 80 percent by 2050 while the global population increases and the developing world develops. So a clean-tech Apollo program modeled on the Manhattan Project makes sense. And we do need carbon pricing to send a message to market makers and innovators to promote low-carbon activities; Europe’s cap-and-trade scheme seems to be working well after a rocky start. The private capital already pouring into renewables might someday produce a cheap solar panel or a synthetic fuel or a superpowerful battery or a truly clean coal plant. At some point, after we’ve milked efficiency for all the negawatts and negabarrels we can, we might need something new. But we already have all the technology we need to start reducing emissions by reducing consumption. Even if we only hold electricity demand flat, we can subtract a coal-fired megawatt every time we add a wind-powered megawatt. And with a smarter grid, green building codes, and strict efficiency standards for everything from light bulbs to plasma TVs to server farms, we can do bet-
ter than flat. Al Gore has a reasonably plausible plan for zero-emissions power by 2020; he envisions an ambitious 28 percent decrease in demand through efficiency, plus some ambitious increases in supply from wind, solar, and geothermal energy. But we don’t even have to reduce our fossil fuel use to zero to reach our 2020 targets. We just have to use less. If somebody comes up with a better idea by 2020, great! For now, we should focus on the solutions that get the best emissions bang for the buck.
7 “Ultimately, We’ll Need to Change Our Behaviors to Save the World.” Probably. These days, it’s politically incorrect to suggest that going green will require even the slightest adjustment to our way of life, but let’s face it: Jimmy Carter was right. It wouldn’t kill you to turn down the heat and put on a sweater. Efficiency is a miracle drug, but conservation is even better; a Prius saves gas, but a Prius sitting in the driveway while you ride your bike uses no gas. Even energy-efficient dryers use more power than clotheslines. More with less will be a great start, but to get to 80 percent less emissions, the developed world might occasionally have to do less with less. We might have to unplug a few digital picture frames, substitute teleconferencing for some business travel, and take it easy on the air conditioner. If that’s an inconvenient truth, well, it’s less inconvenient than trillions of dollars’ worth of new reactors, perpetual dependence on hostile petrostates, or a fricasseed planet. After all, the developing world is entitled to develop. Its people are understandably eager to eat more meat, drive more cars, and live in nicer houses. It doesn’t seem fair for the developed world to say: Do as we say, not as we did. But if the developing world follows the developed world’s wasteful path to prosperity, the Earth we all share won’t be able to accommodate us. So we’re going to have to change our ways.Then we can at least say: Do as we’re doing, not as we did. Michael Grunwald, a senior correspondent at Time magazine, is an award-winning environmental journalist and author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise.This article originally appeared in Foreign Policy. 10/09 ChronograM news & politics 25
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he fault, dear friends, is not in our Obama, but in ourselves. An imaginary Obama, leading an imaginary Democratic Party, in an imaginary world, by now—hell, with the first 100 days—would have:
1. Gotten us out of the Iraq and Afghanistan; 2. Ended the recession; 3. Passed single-payer national healthcare; 4. Balanced the budget by taxing the rich; 5. Reformed the financial system; 6. Fixed the intelligence services; 7. Legalized marijuana and gay marriage; 8. Put us on a diet and exercise program to end obesity. He has not accomplished those things because the political will to do so does not exist. Not in Congress, not in the media, and not among the people. People do not go to the facts and reason things out for themselves. They accept what they hear around them. Their thinking follows standard, conventional frames of reference. This is even more true of congressional representatives, senators, and reporters. The process for success in those fields selects for conventional ideas, the demands of their professions leave little room for thinking, and, for the most part, they are employees of major corporations. Thinking is the job of other people. Academics, intellectuals, writers, and artists, members of various movements. It is also up to them, however difficult it is, to make their thoughts known and make their ideas influential. They have failed. The problem is so severe that the left’s only public intellectual who can speak up for facts and reason, and actually have an effect, is Michael Moore. Who’s Soft on National Security? The invasion of Afghanistan, the failure to “get” Bin Laden and Mullah Omar, the occupation of Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires, and the invasion and occupation of Iraq, are among the greatest foreign policy and military errors in American history. Just flat out leaving—and in a hurry—might be the best thing to do. But we can’t do it unless we answer certain questions first. Are those countries worse off than before we invaded? Are we responsible for making them whole? If we leave will they devolve into chaos? Civil war? Will it empower the Taliban? Destabilize Pakistan? Empower Iran? Lead to more terrorist incidents? And, if so, is that worse than two ongoing wars? There is also a political problem for Obama. Eisenhower ended Korea in a stalemate, Nixon withdrew from Vietnam, Reagan pulled out of Lebanon, Bush had 9/11 happen on his watch, then came up with a lunatic set of responses. Yet “strong on national security” remains the Republican brand. “Soft on national security” is a weight hanging around Democrats’ neck. How can Democrats end those wars without paying a political price for the next half century? 26 news & politics ChronograM 10/09
Consume to Succeed? America’s greatest economic problem is that we are no longer a production economy. We are a credit economy. Yet we still, universally, speak about consuming our way out of the recession. A person can’t consume their way out of bankruptcy. Neither can a country. You have to produce your way out. How do we do that? Against globalization and free trade? The answer is fairly simple. We have to produce things that can’t be outsourced or undercut by semi-slave labor in third world countries. A third of the deficit in our balance of trade is imported oil.The first answer, therefore, is solar, wind, and geothermal energy—with the infrastructure to deliver and use them efficiently. These are, in essence, giant construction projects. That spending, of necessity, remains here. Once in place, payments for the use of the energy also stay home instead flowing out through the golden pipeline to Saudi Arabia. The second answer is infrastructure. Bridges, broadband, education, transparency and the enforcement of business rules, and healthcare, are all invisible subsidies that make it cheaper, easier, safer, more efficient, and more pleasant to do business. This is so obvious it hurts. So why haven’t you heard the pundits crying for these solutions on MSNBC, NPR, in the Wall Street Journal and the NewYork Times, even on Bill Maher and Bill Moyers? Instead, all we hear, is don’t raise taxes. The simplest, most powerful, one stroke solution to solving our economic problems is raising taxes on the rich. It is a historical truth that a tax hike (so long as it is not combined with a cut in government spending), marks the end of a depression or a recession. It is a historical truth that higher top marginal tax rates correlate with healthier economic growth. Low tax rates for the highest income groups, and especially low rates for unearned income, lead to bubbles, crashes, bank failures, and bailouts.Yet tax hikes is the true third rail of American politics. A politician who touches it dies. Change the Dialog The intelligence services assassinate people, spy on Americans without warrants, attempt to destabilize regimes, and outsource their activities to companies like Blackwater. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is that secret intelligence always, and of necessity, leads to lying. It is the perfect hiding place for incompetence. It is a free pass for cover-ups. Secret intelligence is never as good as public intelligence. Public intelligence is subject to analysis, testing, and review. The real history of our secret history shouts out one lesson—we would have been better off without secrecy. Yet all conversations about intelligence start with absolute presumption that we need secret intelligence services. It’s up to us to change those dialogs. Until we do, remember, when you smoke that reefer you’re breaking the law, when gay marriage is legal, gay divorce attorneys will get rich, and the epidemic of obesity is caused by suburbs, cars, bad food, and too much time in front of screens, so good luck to all of them and to us.
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Time Span The Walkway Over the Hudson By Lawrence C. Swayne Photo by David Rocco
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or nearly a quarter of a century after it caught fire in 1974, the abandoned Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge stood silently, a once proud emblem of the Industrial Revolution and manufacturing prosperity in the Hudson Valley. Considered a technological marvel when it opened in 1888, it was the longest bridge in the world and the only bridge across the Hudson River between New York and Albany until 1924. As such, the “Great Connector” linked local farm produce and Pennsylvania coal with New England cities and factories. Although primarily used for freight, the bridge also conveyed trolleys and passenger cars during its early years, including the elegant Federal Express train from Boston to Washington, DC. During World War II, as many as 3,500 rail cars per day traversed the bridge, transporting soldiers and war materials to eastern seaports. Fittingly, after a complete makeover, the bridge will be reopened this month as the longest pedestrian/bicycle bridge in the world and a symbol of revitalization within the region as well as America’s 21st-century commitment to environmental and historical preservation. Notwithstanding its age and 25 years of neglect, the bridge remains structurally sound, a testament to the skill of its designers, Charles Macdonald and Thomas Curtis Clarke. It consists of three cantilever spans interspersed with two truss spans, supported by steel towers and four 10-story, concretefilled timber caissons resting in nearly 140 feet of water. Stretching from anchorage pier to anchorage pier, the bridge is 3,094 feet long. The 525-foot cantilever spans remain the longest and heaviest in the world, providing 160 feet of clearance above the river, while the bridge surface soars to a dizzying height of 212 feet. The original construction was completed by the Union Bridge Company of New York under the supervision of Chief Engineer John F. O’Rourke at a cost of $3.6 million. Following World War II, railroad traffic over the bridge progressively diminished, thanks to the rise of airfreight, federal highway subsidization, and the consolidation and rerouting of rail traffic to the modern railroad yard in Selkirk, seven miles south of Albany. After the fire of May 8, 1974, burned railroad ties, twisted track, warped steel girders, and popped rivets, the bridge was deserted. While preservationists struggled to raise money for proposed grandiose schemes that included constructing shops, restaurants, condo, hotels, docks with glass-walled elevators, and even a bungee-jumping platform, the bridge appeared fated for continued gradual decline and demolition, despite being added to the National Historic Register in 1979. In 1992 a grassroots coalition, Walkway Over the Hudson, became incorporated as a not-for-profit organization for the avowed purpose of preserving the bridge by converting it to a linear park for pedestrians and bicyclists and providing for its ongoing stewardship. Ironically, these goals belatedly fulfill the mandates of two state bills passed in 1891 and 1893 to open the bridge to pedestrian traffic (a judicial ruling in 1920 declined to implement this requirement, citing legal and safety issues). Although Walkway Over the Hudson
assumed control of the bridge in 1995, it was not until 2007, when the organization secured a $2.1 million gift from the Dyson Foundation, that sustained momentum was created. Subsequent donations from public and private sources including the State of New York and Scenic Hudson raised more than 70 percent of the total estimated $38.8 million cost of the project by April 2009, and by July 23 of this year construction had been 75 percent completed. Several New York construction firms were engaged to complete the renovation. Bergmann Associates Consulting of Albany executed the overall design, under the direction of its project manager, Peter M. Melewski. Environmental Remediation Services, from Schenectady, was responsible for the removal of the old bridge deck, rails, and ties, and the Fort Miller Company of Schuylerville manufactured the 973 concrete panels, some weighing as much as 18 tons, that were installed by Harrison and Burrowes Bridge Construction of Glenmont. The completed walkway is 25 feet wide, with separate lanes for walkers, bicyclists, and rollerbladers. Designed for year-round use, the walkway is handicapped accessible and equipped with galvanizedsteel safety railings, lighting, security cameras, emergency phones, and three viewing stations that encompass the entire width of the original rail bridge. Picnic centers at both ends, an interpretative visitor center and maintenance building, and access elevators are also planned. The linear park falls under the jurisdiction of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. It extends from Haviland Road and the adjacent rail trail in Lloyd to Washington Street in Poughkeepsie, and will connect with existing and future rail trails and riverfront parks, including: the Delaware & Hudson Canal Heritage Corridor (35 miles); Wallkill Valley Rail Trail (12 miles); Ontario & Western Rail Trail (24 miles) in Ulster County; the Hudson Valley Rail Trail (2.5 miles); and Dutchess Rail Trail (12 miles) in Dutchess County. The rich history, extraordinary views, and fresh breezes are expected to draw over 250,000 visitors per year, generate $14.6 million of direct spending, and $1.3 million in new local, county, and state tax revenues, although access to the bridge will be free. Local historian Carleton Mabee, the author of Bridging the Hudson:The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge and Its Connecting Rail Lines (2001, Purple Mountain Press), aptly concludes, “If visitors savor the rich past of the river and bridge, if they exult in the vast panorama of boats, trains, and distant misty mountains, the bridge might rouse the public’s imagination even more than it did when trains passed over it night and day, carrying the wealth of the continent.” The grand opening of the Walkway is scheduled for the weekend of October 2, 3, and 4, part of the Hudson Quadricentennial. Events will include an illumination of the Walkway on Friday evening, a Walking on Air parade on Saturday afternoon organized by celebration artists Jeanne Fleming, theatrical and circus performances on Saturday evening, and a 5K run on Sunday morning. For complete information on the Walkway Over the Hudson and the weekend of opening events: www.walkway.org 10/09 ChronograM regional notebook 29
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Urban Anomaly
Kingston by Lynn Woods Photographs by Rob Penner
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ocated 90 miles from NewYork, Kingston is an urban anomaly in a rural region better known for its gentrified villages and sublime countryside. Everyone’s heard of Woodstock and the Catskill Mountains, but few outside Ulster County know about the small, industrial city on the Hudson. It’s the county seat, predominately working class, with a population of roughly 23,000. Driving down Broadway, the city’s main drag, you perceive a patchwork of tight little neighborhoods edged by a sprawling conflagration of gas stations and fast-food and drugstore chains—and maybe not much more. If Kingston doesn’t always deliver a good first impression, it’s partly the fault of geography. Its attractions are spread out, scattered among three districts: Uptown, the oldest section of the city, which encompasses a two-block shopping arcade; the Rondout, a hilly waterfront district along the Rondout Creek; and Midtown, which contains the city’s industry and connects Uptown and the Rondout via the long central corridor of Broadway. Its neighborhoods are Balkanized by ravines, an arterial highway, and a railroad track slicing through the middle of town. One has to live here a while to discover the full range of assets: its 18th-century stone houses; the outdoor dining options in a row of photogenic 19th-century buildings fronting the Rondout Creek; leafy streets lined with Victorian, Queen Anne, and 1920s neocolonial houses; museums devoted to trolleys, the maritime history of the Hudson River, the Colonial era, and local history; monumental brick industrial buildings converted to artists’ lofts and small enterprises; a lively, well-supplied farmer’s market; and a delightfully landscaped park on the Hudson. There’s even a beach. The city’s urban amenities—its neighborhood delis, weekly pick-up of recyclables, hour-and-a-half access to New York, and proximity to surrounding communities—are major draws. As car dependency becomes less fashionable, real estate prices remain comparatively high in surrounding areas, and people rediscover the value of community, Kingston has grown in appeal. A wave of newcomers is helping transform the city.
Take jazz singer Rebecca Martin, who moved to Kingston with her husband, bassist Larry Grenadier, in 2002. She got involved in the community after becoming frustrated with what she saw as the city’s lack of vision. “The planning and zoning is way outdated; people are holding fast to ways that just don’t work anymore,” she says. Martin formed a citizens’ action group for her ward, which has since been expanded citywide. Among her many initiatives is the Victory Gardens project (see “Backyard Triumph” in the May issue of Chronogram), which has spearheaded the planting of gardens at the city’s public schools. A Liveable City Kevin McEvoy, who with his wife Barbara Epstein divides his time between New York and an 18th-century stone house in Kingston, is the treasurer of the Kingston Land Trust, which is working with the developer of a large tract of land along the waterfront to create a trail system that would link the city’s parks. McEvoy, a history buff, has hosted walking tours of the city and volunteered as a docent at the Persen House, an 18th-century partially restored house and museum at the corner of John and Crown Streets that’s open to visitors for free. He and Epstein don’t have a car, so they walk and rely on the city’s bus service to get around. “The A bus gives you a grand tour of Kingston,” he says. “It runs every hour.” Jennifer Schwartz Berky lived in Rome, Jerusalem, Paris, and Washington, DC, before moving to Kingston after being hired as deputy director of the Ulster County Planning Board. Kingston is “as beautiful as anyplace I’ve lived,” Schwartz Berky says. “It’s deep with history. It’s full of amazing people. It has incredible potential and resources, extremely beautiful architecture, and an amazing landscape. It also has diversity. In [Washington’s] Dupont Circle, no one’s over 35 and everyone works for the government. You’re not likely to spend time with people outside your orbit. But here you’re dealing with an elderly neighbor, people different from you.” Last fall, Schwartz Berky organized the Kingston Studio, a program in which 10/09 ChronograM kingston 31
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left to right: the sloop clearwater docked at the rondout harbor; a view of clinton avenue behind the senate house in uptown kingston.
students from Parsons the New School for Design worked with Kingston high school students to do an analysis of the Broadway corridor. The group also helped Kingston Cares, a federally funded youth program operated by Family of Woodstock, to put on a community forum about employment, beautification, and crime in Midtown, which was broadcast on the high school TV station. Schwartz Berky is now involved in helping Kingston Cares set up a junior common council whose elected members will sit in Common Council meetings at City Hall and present resolutions.
Before IBM Punched Out When the IBM plant in the neighboring town of Ulster closed for good in 1993, it was a big blow. But the decline of the city actually began decades before, when factories shut down and moved south and the malls put downtown retailers out of business. The faded script reading “Blum Variety Store: Cigars and Tobacco” and other archaic messages on the sides of brick buildings are a faint echo of the era when the city was filled with humming factories manufacturing pajamas, lace curtains, and cigars.You could buy anything—a dinette, a pair of shoes, coats for the children—simply by taking the bus downtown. At certain times of night, and on certain corners, Kingston seems lost in the past, and the present takes a backseat in its long, crowded history.The city traces its origins back to 1652, when Thomas Chambers, a hard-drinking English carpenter, obtained a deed from the native Esopus Indians for a piece of land along the Esopus Creek. Others followed, establishing a farming settlement on the fertile fields located a few miles inland from the juncture of the Rondout Creek and Hudson River. Skirmishes with the Indians prompted the governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, to construct a stockade for the settlers in 1658. Long after the English took over the colony in 1664, Kingston preserved its traditional ways, with Dutch still spoken in the Reformed Church up until the early 19th century. During the Revolution, Kingston was the site of New York’s first Constitutional Convention, with the assembly meeting in the low-slung stone building now called the Senate House. In October 1777, an invading British force torched the town—an event commemorated annually with a conflagration at Kingston Point. In 1829, the sleepy Rondout landing was transformed into a boomtown filled with German and Irish immigrants with the opening of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which connected the anthracite coal fields of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, to the Rondout Creek at Eddyville. Italians, blacks, and Poles followed, working on the waterfront quarrying limestone and processing cement, manufacturing bricks, harvesting ice, and chiseling bluestone into transportable slabs. Among the men who made fortunes in this cauldron of commerce, none was more powerful than Thomas Cornell, who owned many of the Rondout’s steamships and barges, railroads, banks, and ferry service. After his death in 1890, his son-in-law Samuel Coykendall took over the business, building a steamboat landing, rail spur, and amusement park for the tourists boarding his train to Catskill resorts. 10/09 ChronograM kingston 33
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The Challenge Like other cities that have lost their manufacturing base, Kingston has struggled to reinvent itself.The city has made some strides, but it needs to be more proactive, according to residents and business owners. Historic preservation guidelines are routinely ignored.The city lacks a comprehensive plan. It has a high quota of empty storefronts; new businesses come and go with alarming frequency. Many Kingstonians are taking action themselves, and a new initiative by the business community could be a sign that the city is about to turn the corner. The city’s three business associations—representing the three parts of town—have traditionally been at loggerheads, but earlier this year, they finally got together, forming a citywide alliance and obtaining a $100,000 community development block grant. The alliance has hired Nancy Donskoj as the city’s first Main Street manager. Donskoj, a photographer who with her husband runs a gallery and organizes the popular Soapbox Derby in the Rondout every August—the couple were among the pioneer artists who settled in the city in the 1980s—says she views historic preservation as key to attracting more businesses and visitors: “It’s the cornerstone of the Main Street manager program.” The business alliance is also in the process of hiring a consultancy to establish three business-improvement districts. “We’re trying to build an incentive for people who might want to plant a flag in Kingston,” says the alliance vice president, Kevin Quilty, a Kingston native and owner of Smith Printing. “We’re being proactive and working with the aldermen to build a plan. We want to be the go-to town in the Hudson Valley.” Mayor James Sottile believes part of the solution is growing the tax base. Marjorie Rovereto, the president and CEO of Ulster Savings Bank, agrees that the creation of more jobs is critical to the city’s future. Rovereto’s parents ran a deli on Broadway when she was growing up, and she remembers the days when many people worked for IBM and businesses thrived. “Kingston has been mostly reactive,” she says. “We have to take a regional perspective and be forward thinking.” Mark Greene, an Emmy Award-winning animator, owns a multimedia graphic design firm with his wife and is working with the city to promote an economic development initiative aimed at attracting more self-employed, techbased workers. Part of the city’s sell to enterprising NewYorkers is its rich trove of affordable, 100-year-old houses. The advantage of bringing in more small, self-supporting businesses is that they don’t require economic assistance, and their nimbleness and adaptability means that they don’t have to lay off workers in a down economy, Greene says.
A bricks-and-mortar version of the “digital corridor” concept is the Seven 21 Media Center, a large brick building on Broadway that formerly housed the RNN TV station. The center rents out space to 18 tenants—CEO Jeremy Ellenbogen, who partnered with his parents to purchase and fix up the building, calls them “strategic partners”—offering a variety of media-related services, from sound studios to graphic design. Ellenbogen says that the “collaborative incubator” of Seven 21 has been an unmitigated success, bringing people from Stone Ridge, Woodstock, Dutchess County, and other neighboring regions to Kingston. However, he notes, the $80,000 he pays in property taxes and the seedy condition of Midtown are ongoing challenges.
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In 1872 blueblood, conservative Kingston and pragmatic, prosperous Rondout merged, and a new, red-brick, towering city hall, inspired by the Palazzo Vecchia in Florence, was erected midway between them. The opening of the West Shore Railroad, which connected Kingston with the New Jersey station of Weehawken, in 1883 shifted industry to the center of the city. In 1957 the Cold War came to town when IBM opened a plant manufacturing mainframe computers for the US Air Force. Code-named SAGE, the computers were part of the military’s continental air-defense system, designed to scan the skies for threatening objects. At its peak, IBM employed 7,000 and brought prosperity to the area, but it didn’t help Kingston’s urban areas.Visions of a new, modern city and millions of dollars in federal funds spurred the Kingston Urban Renewal Agency to tear down a huge chunk of the Rondout in the 1960s. What remained of it was slowly coaxed back to life by intrepid entrepreneurs and artists looking for cheap space. These pioneers established an artists’ community that has expanded and strengthened over the years, and even gained national recognition: In 2007, Ulster County was listed as one of the 10 best places in the nation for artists in a special report published in BusinessWeek.
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This Town Will Get Its Due Among the successful arts-related businesses that set up shop here is R&F Handmade Paints, a maker of encaustic paints. The company bought and renovated an 1890 Standard Oil brick building in Midtown. It employs 12 artists, has a gallery, and hosts workshops, with space available free to local high school and college students.When visiting artists come to town, “I tell them about the LGBTQ Center and the homeless shelter on Thomas Street, where they’re planting a garden. I’m really proud of that,” says owner Richard Frumess. “I find Kingston to be an extremely livable place, but it desperately needs a direction.” Another business with a creative edge is Keegan Ales. Tommy Keegan, born and raised on Long Island, opened the Midtown microbrewery in 2003 and has developed a regular clientele among the city’s professionals. His place has become a noteworthy showcase for top musicians since he bumped into locals like Tony Levin, Peter Gabriel’s sometime bass player, and offered him a local place to play regularly. For musician Adam Snyder, who grew up in Kingston, left, and returned a decade ago, the city is both a muse and a laboratory that makes his creative pursuits possible. His This TownWill Get Its Due (Bare Bones Records, 2007) consists of songs mostly inspired by the city, and his personal collection of memorabilia is included in the current exhibit on Kingston at the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Arts (KMOCA), which he co-founded. “Besides the architecture, there are great, unpretentious people here,” Snyder says. “You can do your own thing. It’s very affordable to do artistic projects here.” Artist Anne Surprenant, who moved to Kingston several years ago with her husband, Brian Early, an architectural designer, agreed that the city’s combination of affordability and lack of posturing is fertile ground for creative endeavors. She is opening a gallery in Uptown this November, which she envisions as a performance space and artists’ hangout. “We can do a small thing in a small way and it grows,” she says. In addition to Surprenant’s gallery, two restaurants and a bar are opening soon in Uptown.The Alternative Bookstore, sold a few months ago, seems to be holding its own under new ownership. After losing several galleries and stores, Uptown seems poised for a comeback. “We’ve been on the cusp for a long time,” concludes Schwartz Berky. “There’s clearly a change, but we could miss the opportunity,” she says. “It has everything to do with everyone working together for the common good.”
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The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure – Greg Miller Inscription: Hoegen&Stikker (Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker) Through Dec.13
The Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th-century American Landscape Painting from the New-York Historical Society Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller Gallery Talk – Betsy Jacks
Director, Cedar Grove, Thomas Cole National Historic Site Oct. 8, 7:00 p.m. at the Dorsky Museum
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Public Historian and Senior Curator for History, The New-York Historical Society Oct. 14, 7:00 p.m. Lecture Center 108
Family Day at the Museum Oct. 17, 1-3:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion – Hudson Valley Artists Then and Now Oct. 22, 7:00 p.m. Lecture Center 104
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Laura Katz, Underwater, mixed media, 2009, from the “Wallpaper” exhibit at Arts Upstairs.
10x10x10 Exhibit 12 MARKET STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-6604. “10x10x10 Exhibit.” Presented by ArtsWAVE. Through October 31.
ALBANY INTERNATINAL AIRPORT GALLERY ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ALBANY (518) 242-2241. “Out of This World.” Contemporary art. Through November 29.
ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519. “Bike Rides: The Exhibition.” October 4-January 3. Opening Sunday, October 4, 1pm-5pm
ANN STREET GALLERY 140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 ext. 119. “Designing Women: Group Textile Exhibition.” Through October 24.
ART WITHIN GALLERY 463 Segar Mountain Road, SOUTH KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 927-4946. “Joy Brown:Sculpture Featuring 108 Dancing Ladies.” October 10-November 15. Opening Saturday, October 10, 3pm-6pm
ARTS ON THE LAKE LAKE CARMEL ART CENTER, KENT 228-2685. “Collaborative Art Show.” Work created during opening on display. Through October 4. “Collaborative Fall Art Show.” Through October 4.
ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Wired.” Group show and Dutch artist Marit Dik. Through October 11. “Wallpaper: Mixed Media.” Laura Katz. October 17-November 8. Opening Saturday, October 17, 6pm-10pm
ARTSPACE GERMANTOWN (518) 537-4469. “Picture Books by the Crews Family.” October 9-November 1. Opening Friday, October 9, 6pm-12am
ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “An Enduring Influence: Eight Painters Inspired by the Hudson River School.” Thomas Locker, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, James Cramer, Robert Schneider, Kevin Cook, Keith Gunderson, Roberta Griffin, and Scott Balfe. October 3-31. Opening Saturday, October 3, 5pm-8pm “Living History: American Revolutionary War Re-enactors and American Indian Powwows.” October 3-31. Opening Saturday, October 3, 5pm-8pm
BARRETT CLAY WORKS 485 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “Sculptural Portraits of People and Others.” Works by Madeline Segall Marx. Through October 10.
BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Wandering Fire. Frozen Steel.” Sculpture by Tom Holmes in steel, stone and wood. Through October 4.
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116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “The Dance.” New work by Carla Shapiro. Through October 11. “Museum Narratives.” Arlene Becker. Through October 11. “New Work by Cynthia Coulter.” Through October 11.
196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592. “Bridges and the Span of Time.” Group exhibit of bridges in the Hudson Valley. Through October 31.
194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “Mysterious Landscapes.” Oil paintings by Martin Davis. October 18-November 6. Opening Sunday, October 18, 5pm-7pm
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201 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1701. “Before They Disappeared from the Farm.” Works by Elana Goren. Through November 14. Opening Saturday, October 3, 3pm-6pm
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO 54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244. “Cross River Fine Art.” Academy of Betsy’s students. October 3-30. Opening Saturday, October 24, 12pm-4pm
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Fall Exhibit.” Featuring Kathy Burge, Louise Laplante, and Valerie Hammond. October 15-November 22. Opening Saturday, October 17, 6pm-8pm “Great Pretenders: An Exhibit of Art Fakery.” Featuring the work of Mark Beard, Scott Serrano, Paul Chojnowski, Kahn and Selesnick and Mark Catalina. Through October 11.
CARRIE HADDAD PHOTOGRAPHS 318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-7655. “Melinda McDaniel.” Through October 11.
CATSKILL MOUNTAIN LODGE 334 ROUTE 32A, PALENVILLE (518) 678-3101. “Palenville First Outdoor Sculpture Show.” Through October 16.
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “And Other Essays.” Rachel Harrison collaborative works with others. Through December 20.
GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Photographs from the Human Bodies, Landscapes and Waterdance Series.” Ernestine Ruben. Through October 19.
THE GALLERY AT R & F 84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “So Far, So Close.” Paintings by Hendrik Dijk. October 3-November 14. Opening Saturday, October 3, 5pm-7pm
GAZEN GALLERY OF ART 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET , RHINEBECK 876-4278. “Dazzling Fall Colors.” Works by Hudson Valley Artists. Through November 10.
GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “The Breakfast Club: Companions in Art, Food, and Country Life.” Mixed media art by a group of artist-friends who meet for breakfast each week . Through November 14.
GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY 5348 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-3104. “Paint Box Excursions.” Exploring the landscape with painters of the Hudson Valley Artists Guild . Through November 15.
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853 OLD ALBANY POST ROAD, GARRISON 528-1797. “Farm Project 2009.” Through October 10.
39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Surface.” Stephen Hannock, Nancy Rothlauf, and Jamie Young. October 3-28. Opening Saturday, October 3, 5pm-7pm
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22 ROCK CITY ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-5342. “Wild Women of Brooklyn.” Works by Sweetbryar and Mimi Amari. Through November 30.
DELAWARE AVENUE, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Kingston Sculpture Biennial.” Through October 31.
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DU BOIS HOUSE, NEW PALTZ 255-1660. “Before Hudson: 8,000 Years of Native American History and Culture.” Through December 31.
168 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 331-0191. “In America.” Oil paintings, watercolors, embroideries, sculptures, drawings, and photographs. October 10-November 27. Opening Saturday, October 10, 6pm-9:30pm
DIA: BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100. “The Resources of Rhetoric.” Works by Antoni Tapies. Through October 19.
DONSKOJ AND COMPANY 93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-8473. “Infra-Structure.” Photos by Richard Edelman. October 3-31. Opening Saturday, October 3, 5pm-8pm
the DRAWING ROOM 3743 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-4466. “Kindred Spirits,” drawings by Gillian Jagger. October 17-November 22. In conjunction with Pearl Gallery. Opening Saturday, October 17, 5pm-9pm
DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Flowers, Flowers, Flowers.” Watercolors by Claudia Engel. October 3-30. Opening Saturday, October 3, 3pm-5pm
THE FIELDSTONE GALLERY 35 NORTH STREET, WASHINGTONVILLE 496-3661. “Foto Flow.” Juried exhibition of member photographs. Through October 9.
FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. “Stories in Clay and Cloth.” Clay tapestries, clay vessels, clay furniture and etchings by Marlene Ferrell Parillo. October 1-November 30. Opening Saturday, October 3, 1pm-5pm
FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199. “American Youth.” Group exhibition of photographers of redux pictures. Through November 9.
THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society.” Through November 1.
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HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Columbia County African American Family Exhibit.” October 9-18. Opening Friday, October 9, 6pm-8pm “Forty Years of Drawings and Small Works.” Tony Thompson. October 3-31. Opening Saturday, October 3, 5:45pm-7pm
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Double Dutch.” Featuring Alon Levin. Through July 26.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. Christopher McEvoy, Evan Venegas, Fran Shalom, Christine Heller, John Van Alstine, Sara Garden Armstrong, and Linda Mussmann. October 15-November 8. Opening Saturday, October 17, 5pm-7pm
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Stephen Flack.” Painting, pastels and drawings. October 3-November 14. Opening Friday, October 30, 4pm-6pm
KAATERSKILL FINE ARTS HUNTER VILLAGE SQUARE, HUNTER (518) 263-2060. “The Writer as Illustrator.” Four artists who write and illustrate their own books. Through October 4.
KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON. kmoca.org “Recent Photographs by Michael Sibilia.” October 3-31. Opening Saturday, October 3, 5pm-7pm
KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Martin Puryear: A Survey of Prints.” Through October 18. “Animal Spirits I: The Personal Iconography.” Peggy Cyphers and Kathy Ruttenberg. October 24-November 19. Opening Saturday, October 24, 6pm-8pm
LICHTENSTEIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 28 RENNE AVENUE, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 499-9348. “Jump In!.” Celebrates all things aquatic beginning. Through October 31.
LIFEBRIDGE SANCTURARY 333 MOUNTAIN ROAD, ROSENDALE 338-6418. “Cosmic Daughters: The Art of Sadee Brathwaite.” October 1-January 5. Opening Sunday, October 18, 2pm-4pm
M GALLERY 350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0380. “Hallowed Ground: An Exploration of the Hudson River Valley.” Through November 10.
MARIANNE COURVILLE GALLERY 341 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 755-4208. “Into the Light.” Photographs by Nitin Vadukul. Through October 30. Opening Friday, October 30, 6pm-8pm
MAXWELL FINE ARTS 1204 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-8622. “Tributaries.” Ten artists approach the theme of “water” both abstractly and associatively through sculptures and site specific installations. Through November 30.
MILL STREET LOFT 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477. “River.” Mural by Long Reach Artists, with talk and book signing. Through October 31.
MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY 26 WING ROAD, MILLBROOK (800) 662-9463. “Art in the Loft: Fall 2009.” Through November 15.
MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “Recent Works by Jim Stevenson and Bill Ayton.” Through October 30.
NEW WINDSOR ART GALLERY 2330 ROUTE 32, NEW WINDSOR 534-3349. “40 year Retrospective Benefit Exhibit.” Roberta Rosenthal. October 18-November 30. Opening Sunday, October 18, 3pm-7pm
NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090. “Ieva Mediodia: Synaptic Katharsis.” Recent paintings. October 24-December 12. Opening Saturday, October 24, 6pm-8pm
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 GLENDALE RD., STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 298-4100. “The Fantastical Faces of Peter Rockwell: A Sculptor’s Retrospective.” Through October 25.
OPEN SPACE GALLERY 510 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0731. “Dan Weise of Thundercut.” Through November 8.
Pearl arts gallery 3572 main STREET, stone ridge (845) 677-0888. “Kindred Spirits,” drawings by Gillian Jagger. October 17-November 22. In conjunction with The Drawing Room. Opening Saturday, October 17, 5pm-9pm
Photosensualis gallery 105 MARKET STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE www.poklib.org. “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.” Through November 1.
POSIE KVIAT GALLERY 15 rock city road, woodstock 679-5333. “Early Work.” Sally Russ. Through December 27.
POUGHKEESPIE LIBRARY 105 MARKET STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE www.poklib.org. “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.” Through November 1.
RED EFT GALLERY 159 SULLIVAN STREET, WURTSBORO 888-2519. “Sacred Grounds, Honored Spirits.” Group exhibition of focusing the relationship of people to animals and nature. October 3-31. Opening Saturday, October 10, 6pm-8pm
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Contemporary Country.” Paintings by Robert Ferrucci. Through October 5.
ROOS ARTS 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE (718) 755-4726. “Hello Stranger: Giselle Potter, Alexandra Lakin & Neal Hollinger.” Portraits and landscapes. Through October 31.
ROSENDALE CAFE 434 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE 658-9048. “Heads & Tails.” New ceramic works by Nanette Rainone and Felicia Flanagan. October 1-30. Opening Sunday, October 4, 2pm-4pm
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858. “Hudson River to Niagara Falls: 19th Century American Landscape Paintings from the New York Historical Society.” Through December 13. “The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure.” Works by Greg Miller. Through November 29. “Panorama of the Hudson River: Greg Miller.” Through December 13. “Riverbank: Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker.” Through November 29.
SHIRT FACTORY 77 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON brinkexhibit@gmail.com. “Salad.” A group show of SUNY New Paltz student artwork. October 3-23. Opening Saturday, October 3, 5pm-8pm
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 66 CLINTON STREET, CORNWALL 534-5475. “Hudson River School of Art Exhibit.” Featuring the art of Thomas Benjamin Pope, Clinton Loveridge, and Benjamin Champney. October 16-18. Opening Friday, October 16, 6:30pm-9pm
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MARIST COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 575-3174. “Self Portraits.” 2009 faculty exhibition. Through October 17.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “On common Ground.” Exhibit of landscape paintings by Marie Cole and Mary Untalan. Through October 18.
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. “BetwixT.” Member exhibit curated by Sadee Brathwaite. October 17-November 15. Opening Saturday, October 17, 4pm-8pm
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CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY OCTOBER 15 - NOVEMBER 22, 2009
WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Nathaniel Gold: Paintings and Drawings.” October 3-25. Opening Saturday, October 3, 6pm-8pm
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VASSAR COLLEGE’S JAMES W. PALMER GALLERY 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5370. “African American Civil Rights and Germany.” October 1-22. Opening Thursday, October 1, 5pm-12am “Celebration of the Hudson River Quadricentennial.” October 29-December 18. Opening Thursday, October 29, 5pm.
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130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. “Visionary Art Collective September Showcase.” Hatti Iles and Ellen Miret. Through October 4.
WINDHAM FINE ARTS GALLERY 5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-6850. “Sublim(e)inal Abstraction.” October 3-December 6. Opening Saturday, October 10, 12pm-12am
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Works by Annette Lieberman and Jenna Lucente.” Through October 12. “The Other Side of the Mountain.” Through October 12. “In the Beginning: The First Decade of the WAA.” Through October 12. “11 Pick 2.” Featuring prominent WAAM artists. October 17-January 3. “Into the Mix: Mixed Media.” Solo show by Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt. October 17-November 15. “Small Works.” Works by Lois Schnackenberg. October 17-November 15. Shows open Saturday, October 17, 4pm-6pm
WOODSTOCK BYRDCLIFFE GUILD 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Where Lies Henry Hudson?” Outdoor exhibition of memorials. Through October 12.
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Franklin Alexander Remembered.” Through October 10.
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Music
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PHOTOS BY FIONN REILLY
hen David Lynch was filming his epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel Dune, he ran into a snag. The director needed a convincing stand-in for the baliset, the fantastical, futuristic instrument played by troubadour-warrior Gurney Halleck (portrayed by Patrick Stewart). Although the scene in question would ultimately be cut from the theatrical release, during its production the filmmaker eventually found the perfect prop for his out-of-this-world opus: the Chapman Stick. Invented in 1974 by jazz guitarist Emmett Chapman, the Stick, as it’s also known, comes in 8-, 10-, and 12-string models and looks like the disembodied neck of an oversized guitar. Worn almost vertically in front of its player’s upper body with a shoulder strap and belt hook, the odd contraption appears to hover magically before the musician. But perhaps even more surreal than the sight of someone playing a Stick are the sounds it produces.With its parallel sets of lowand high-register strings, the instrument is played by tapping on its fretboard with the fingers of both hands, making it more comparable to a keyboard than a guitar. This method, together with its stereo amplifier setup and its players’ frequent use of chorus, delay, and other effects, allows for a much wider range of rhythmic and tonal possibilities than those offered by a conventional stringed instrument. The arrangement also lends itself to playing multiple lines at once, and many players, or Stickists, have perfected the technique of performing bass, octave, and melody lines simultaneously. One of the Stick’s earliest converts—and arguably its most recognized
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avatar—is Kingston’s Tony Levin. Also a legend on the bass guitar, Levin has performed on over 500 albums by the likes of John Lennon, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Cher, Pink Floyd, Yes, Buddy Rich, and Alice Cooper. But as a Stickist, he’s most revered for his groundbreaking work with Peter Gabriel and progrock juggernaut King Crimson during the 1980s, when he brought his furiously popping and highly timbral lines to bear on such top sellers as the former’s So (1986, Geffen Records) and the latter’s Discipline (1981, Editions EG). Besides the luminaries he’s worked with, one of Levin’s biggest fans is none other than Emmett Chapman himself. “Tony’s really taken the Stick in some unusual directions over the years,” says Chapman. “His playing definitely has a lot of thrills and chills, there’s a lot of a high-speed stuff.” Based on the above resume, one could safely—and correctly—assume that Levin’s career itself has been filled with thrilling and speedy episodes. Born in Boston in 1946, he started learning upright bass at age 10 and was later in a local youth orchestra that performed at the White House for President John F. Kennedy. After studying at the Eastman School of Music and playing in the Rochester Philharmonic, he began to move away from classical styles to jazz and rock, a shift that in 1970 took him to New York to join keyboardist Don Preston’s band Aha! (no relation to the similary named ’80s synth-pop act A-ha). Quickly ensconcing himself in Manhattan’s busy studio scene, Levin became a much-in-demand session bassist and, after he’d played on Gabriel’s 1977 solo debut, the ex-Genesis singer tapped him for his touring band. It was during his
the chapman stick. opposite: michael bernier and tony levin (not pictured: pat Mastelloto).
early years with Gabriel that Levin began his ongoing and fruitful relationship with the Stick. “I had heard that the Chapman Stick was an unusual-sounding instrument with bass capabilities,” says Levin via e-mail during a recent Japanese tour with jazz-rock outfit L’Image. “So I was attracted to the idea right way. And its tapping technique was one I had used on bass, so I wasn’t too out of my element when I first picked it up.” In 1979 Levin appeared on Robert Fripp’s Exposure (Editions EG), which led to the guitarist’s inviting him to join the newly reincarnated King Crimson, a unit he would serve with for over 20 years. Levin had settled in the Hudson Valley the year before Exposure’s release, living in Woodstock for several years before finally moving to Kingston. “[The region has] a nice community of players, plenty of jamming opportunities,” he says. “There are fewer clubs to play in nowadays, but it’s still a great area to live in.” Another musician—and also one of the rare Stick-playing variety, coincidentally—who was lured to the Catskills is 35-year-old ex-Long Islander Michael Bernier, who had spent time in the area as a child thanks to his father’s managing of world music ensemble Futu Futu and other locally popular groups. Bernier, who arrived in 1998, was classically trained on violin and cello before he began concentrating on drums; he also plays guitar, bass, and piano. “About five years ago I was over at [Woodstock bassist and luthier] Martin Keith’s place, and there was this Chapman Stick, just sitting there,” Bernier remembers. “He wasn’t doing anything with it, so I asked if I could borrow it, just to check it out. Being a drummer, I guess I was also attracted to the Stick because it’s played very percussively, it’s not picked or plucked like a guitar or bass is. Later on, after I’d been playing it for a while and was starting to get pretty good on it, Martin told me, ‘Man, just keep it.’” Under the name Fugue, Bernier began playing with a small band and recorded an instrumental CD on which he performed all the parts. While working a day job at an uptown Kingston restaurant, he sold copies of the homemade disc from a modest display next to the cash register. One customer who bought the album turned out to be Levin, who went to see Fugue play soon after hearing the recording. “We were playing a gig at the Arts Society of Kingston and I look out and there’s Tony sitting there, which was pretty intimidating, to say the least,” says Bernier. “So I played the set, you know, really nervously, and afterward he came up to me and said that he wanted to ask about lessons. Since Tony is one of my heroes, I was excited that he thought I had potential and of course I said that I’d love take some lessons from him. But then he said, ‘No, I don’t think you understand—I want to take lessons from you.’” Hold on. Tony Levin, the world’s leading Stick player, the man who pretty much introduced the instrument to popular music, was asking a musician nearly 30 years his junior—and one who had then been playing one for barely two years—to teach him? “Michael has a number of techniques on the Stick that are unique to him,” Levin says. “It was his musicality that first attracted me to his playing, but I wanted to hook up with him to get some tips on how he was getting various sounds.” Bernier mentions that his use of a bow was also something
that Levin found intriguing and wanted to learn more about, so the two swapped numbers and were soon meeting regularly to exchange ideas and to jam. “One day after we’d been playing for a while Tony said, ‘Hey, this sounds almost like a whole band, we just need a drummer. I bet Pat [Mastelloto, King Crimson drummer] would do it!’” recounts Bernier. Levin put in a call to the Texas-based Mastelloto, and before long the three were recording their debut album in Kingston. “Pat and Tony work so fast in the studio,” Bernier says. “It’s just amazing to watch as they catch one new idea after another and work them into the tunes.” The process is amazing to hear, as well, as the release’s intial tracks loudly attest; “Hands” and “Voodoo,” to cite two, are rapid-fire, supremely heavy sonic hailstorms, flurries of busy notes and impossibly funky polyrhythms. Put your head in this threesome’s maelstrom at your own risk—their brand of quickness might just tear it clean off. The trio’s live premiere was also swift in coming, as Bernier learned when Levin suggested they put a carrot on the end of the, er, stick, by booking a European tour just months after the group’s formation. Using a scheduled appearance at last October’s National Percussion Festival in Poland as an anchor date, the band set up a handful of overseas gigs, along with shows in Woodstock, Kingston, and elsewhere on the East Coast. “[The tour was] great fun, and a thrill in exposing audiences to some music they hadn’t imagined,” Levin says. “We not only have an unusual lineup of instruments, but we also play very hardedged music, and some compositions go into territories not normally explored. And [Mastelotto’s] electronic drums, in addition to his acoustic kit, give him some wild loops and sounds.” Despite Levin’s and Mastelloto’s reputation for fleet musicianship, however, Bernier maintains that for him Stick Men’s music isn’t just about speedy progrock chops. “I’ve always loved King Crimson, but I’ve never really liked prog in general—I don’t like Rush, Yes, that stuff. Too noodley,” he explains. Although in high school bands he flirted with overly complex styles, which he somewhat derisively refers to as “mathletics,” Bernier found greater inspiration in psychedlic-tinged, so-called shoegazer acts like ’80s college radio staples Lush and My Bloody Valentine. “The shoegazey stuff is much more evocative, I think. [Stick Men] can and does play some pretty technical stuff, but we try to stay away from just noodling. I think that just bores and alienates people.” Much like the band’s blindlingly fast riffs, Stick Men’s itinerary continues to accelerate, with more European shows in the cards for November and a special tour-only version of the trio’s self-titled debut dropping on Levin’s Papabear label that month (the US edition features a different track listing and is set for release in March), and a January tour with UK neo-prog outfit Porcupine Tree. And since things are just heating up, no doubt there’s even more on the way to talk about. “Normally there would be,” Levin says from Tokyo. “But I have to catch the bullet train in 15 minutes.” Stick Men appears in a special tour-only version on Papabear Records in November. www.myspace.com/stickmensounds. 10/09 ChronograM music 43
nightlife highlights Handpicked by Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
“Organic Rock Concert” October 3. This all-acoustic benefit inside the Snyder Estate’s Widow Jane Mine features Chronogram faves the Virginia Wolves and Quitzow, and aims to raise funds for the preservation of the historic 1809 Century House. Also playing: flutist Sarah Elia, singersongwriters Amy Laber and Mike Ponte, Mamalama, the Saddle Tramps’ David Kraai and Sean Powell, and more. But the music isn’t all that’s cool: The acoustically perfect mine is a constant 58 degrees, so bust out that sweatshirt before you dig in. 3pm. $15. Rosendale. (845) 616-3820; www.thevirginiawolves.com.
Pittsfield CityJazz Festival October 7, 15, 16, 17, 18. Now in its fifth year, Pittsfield’s town-wide CityJazz Festival is being headlined by the legendary Dave Brubeck, who performs on October 17 in honor of the 50th anniversary of his classic Time Out LP. In addition to the cool jazz king and local acts, the festival stars African percussionist Royal Hartigan (October 7), the California-based Industrial Jazz Group (October 15), and guitarist Frank Vignola (October 16). See website for complete schedule, venues, and ticket prices. Pittsfield. (413) 442-7718; www.BerkshiresJazz.org.
New Albion Weekend with Terry Riley October 9, 10. One weekend a year Bard College becomes the East Coast refuge of California’s New Albion Records, when the institution presents performances centered on the composers and musicians associated with the gloriously forward-looking label. The star of this year’s program at Sosnoff Hall is the great minimalist pioneer Terry Riley, who with a stellar roster of instrumentalists performs selections from his Book of Abbeyozzud on October 9 and an evening of improvisation on October 10. 8pm both nights. $20, 30, 35. Annandale-on-Hudson. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu.
Tony Trischka October 17. Dubbed “the godfather of what’s sometimes called new acoustic music” by the New York Times, Tony Trischka is easily one of roots music’s most influential banjo players. Trischka, who heat ups Staatsburgh’s Dinsmore Firehouse this month, has inspired countless pickers through his performances and instructional videos, tapes, and publications. Territory, his acclaimed 2008 release on Smithsonian Folkways, features his fellow banjo greats Pete Seeger, Bruce Molsky, Bill Keith, and the late Mike Seeger. With Too Blue. 8pm. $30. Staatsburgh. (845) 889-4683; www.staatsburg.lib.ny.us.
“Erin’s voice wraps around you like a fleece blanket on an autumn evening– warm and cozy, it keeps the chill of the world off.” ~Brian Mahoney, Editor Chronogram
The Trapps Record Release Party October 24. Led by tireless singer-songwriter Sean Schenker, the Trapps may just be the Hudson Valley’s hardest-working band; on any given weekend the jam-flavored crew can usually be found kicking out its classic rock-influenced originals at one area venue or another. The quartet’s sophomore album, Cheap Seats (2009, Independent), drops this month with a celebratory show at the High Falls Cafe, and will also be available online. (The band plays live at noon on 91.3-FM WVKR’s “Radioactive Lunch” on October 21.) 8pm. Call for ticket prices. (845) 687-2699; www.highfallscafe.com.
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cd reviews Hope Machine Big Green (2009, Dys Records)
Damn, folk music is a beautiful thing. Hudson Valley guitar slingers Steve Kirkman and Fred Gillen Jr. grasp this fact in a fundamental way; they wrap their arms around it in a big bear hug. Hope Machine began as a “friendly tribute” to Woody Guthrie, but somewhere along the way it became something more. It became an extension of Woody’s ideas and attitudes—with Kirkman and Gillen taking the wiry little wonder’s spirit forward into the now. Sure, they cover “Pastures of Plenty” and “Deportees” here, and they rock up “I’ve Got To Know,” but, with the aid of pickers like Abby Gardner, Matt Turk, and Lisa Gutkin, they create new songs, too. Gillen’s “Sing Sing Sing” embodies a sentiment Pete Seeger, who is given more than one shout-out on the album, would second; Kirkman’s “Folk Singer” is wise enough to poke fun at itself and every other shlub with a six-string and a dream; and “Martyrs of the Native Nations” turns “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” into a newfangled anthem for old heroes. Gillen and Kirkman have perfect voices for this kind of stuff—tuneful without being too flavorful, plainspoken without being bland. The backing is sweet, tasteful, and tangy enough to bear repeated listenings—especially Gutkin’s whispering fiddle on Scott Urgola’s “My God.” It’s good to know that, with Woody gone and Pete recently turning 90, there’s someone ready to carry it on. Hope Machine is a beautiful thing. www.hopemachine.com. —Michael Ruby
Marshall Crenshaw Jaggedland (2009, 429 Records)
Whatever the opposite of the “Peter Pan Syndrome” is, Marshall Crenshaw has it.Witness his new release, Jaggedland: Rather than denying the aging process, the lengthening shadows of mortality, and the occasional descent into the dank basement of depression, the Rhinebeck resident grapples defiantly with all of the above. Surprisingly, this makes for an inspiring song cycle; the result of Crenshaw’s wrestling with these dark angels is some of his most powerful material to date. His secret weapons? Some fine cohorts on both sides of the mixing desk, unpredictable-yet-rich melodies, and deft lyricism that often reflects the steadfast love of a good woman. And, oh yes—the excellent guitar playing. Can a Crenshaw version of Guitar Hero be far behind? Although Crenshaw has kept busy —helping to raise a family, writing the Golden Globenominated title song to Walk Hard, jamming with the reunited MC5—he’s not released an album since 2003. Jaggedland finds Crenshaw embracing immediacy but also injecting a sonic intensity, to convey multiple layers of complex emotion (that you can hum). It’s an impressive balancing act and, with stand-up bass, vibraphone, viola, and even a guitar cameo by the MC5’s Wayne Kramer, a rich aural treat. Drum god Jim Keltner (Beatles, Stones, Dylan) brings swing and subtle power, while multi-instrumentalist Greg Leisz (Sheryl Crow, Robert Plant) offers his signature mournful steel guitar brushstrokes. It’s Crenshaw’s show, though. From the uplifting pulse of the wistful “Passing Through” to the graceful resignation of “Live and Learn,” he’s the one who has mined the rough-cut gems and wrought something beautiful. www.429records.com. —Robert Burke Warren
Nina Sheldon Harvest (2009, Jazzed Media)
Vocalist and pianist Nina Sheldon has a thing for Bard College; the Woodstock resident graduated from the college and recorded her latest release on campus. On Harvest, which was recorded in 2006 and produced by Bard faculty member and saxophonist Erica Lindsay, Sheldon is accompanied by locals John Menagon (bass) and Bob Meyer (drums). The album is like your favorite flick: It’s got everything—a beautiful setting, a great supporting cast, and a heroine in no need of rescuing. Like the vocalists she sites as influential guides—Joanie Sommers, Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter, Rene Marie, and Mark Murphy—Sheldon demonstrates discipline and flexibility. For some singers the lyrics of “I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So” can sloppily slip and slide out of tune and destroy the song’s bluesy swagger. But Sheldon is devilishly coquettish and pleasingly in tune. She also demonstrates leadership; from her lips, “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” jumps to attention and quickens the pulse, with Menagon and Meyer right in step. Sheldon’s inventiveness and keen harmonic intuition transfer to the keys, as in the rendition of Steve Swallow’s “Eiderdown.” An added jewel to the release is the recently departed tenor man David “Fathead” Newman. Get an earful of Sheldon and Newman joyously trading ideas on “Baby, Baby All the Time.” Harvest reflects patience and a selective eye of the best seeds to sow. www.JazzedMedia.com. —Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
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NORTH OF EDEN The Many Worlds of Helen Benedict and Stephen O’Connor by Nina Shengold photograph by Jennifer May
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es, there really is a Medusa, New York. For the past 10 years, it’s been a second home to a literary couple who, while not at all monstrous, do seem a bit superhuman. A professor of journalism at Columbia University, Helen Benedict has written five novels and five books of nonfiction. In April, Beacon published her wrenching exposé The Lonely Soldier:The PrivateWar of Women Serving in Iraq, and SoHo Press is about to release The Edge of Eden, an elegant, often wickedly funny novel about a British family’s disintegration in the last-gasp colonial outpost of the Seychelles islands in 1960. Each is a marvel on its own terms; that they come from the same writer’s hand smacks of sorcery. Benedict’s husband, Stephen O’Connor, is equally protean, publishing short fiction and poetry (Rescue; 1989, Harmony Books), memoir (Will My Name Be Shouted Out?; 1987, Touchstone Press), and nonfiction (Orphan Trains:The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed; 2004, University of Chicago Press) between teaching gigs at Columbia and Sarah Lawrence. He also writes a hilarious set of driving directions, guiding the uninitiated through T- and Y-shaped intersections, a misleading road sign (“IGNORE IT”), past Camp Medusa (“An Adventure in Christian Living”), and on to a series of winding back roads. Just as the thought dawns that he recently published a story in the NewYorker about the Minotaur, and might have a thing for insoluble mazes, the couple’s pristine Victorian farmhouse comes into view. They’re a striking pair. Benedict is petite and whippet-thin, with enormous green eyes and a piquant face; born in London to American parents, she has a distinct British accent. O’Connor, broad-shouldered and handsome, grew up in New Jersey, the son of an Irish immigrant father and a French mother.
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They met as graduate students in a Berkeley writing class taught by Leonard Michaels. Their bond was immediate. “I looked at Steve and thought, ‘Wow!’” says Benedict. “And we were each other’s favorite writers in the class.” Benedict had just arrived in America, fresh from a job at “a really crappy paper” in England. The pull between fiction and journalism has always been with her. “Fiction was my first love, ever since I was eight, but I wanted to make a living,” she says. “I also have this really political, burning side. Writing nonfiction is more of an activist impulse than anything else.” Women Warriors The Lonely Soldier came out of anti-Iraq War protests at which she heard soldiers and veterans speak out against war. Realizing that “women soldiers had their own stories to tell,” she started to interview them. Initially, she wanted to find out why women would enlist in the military, and what it was like to be a woman active in combat. What she uncovered—from deceitful recruiting techniques to relentless sexual harassment and frequently unreported assaults by male colleagues—makes for gut-twisting reading. The Nation’s Katha Pollitt wrote, “The Lonely Soldier will shock you and enrage you and bring you to tears.” Benedict structures her narrative around five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. She interviewed around 40 female soldiers, eventually weaving an Off-Broadway play, “The Lonely Soldier Monologues,” from the women’s own words. (Specialist Mickiela Montoya: “There are only three things the guys let you be if you’re a girl in the military—a bitch, a ho, or a dyke.”) “It was very important to me that it be a documentary play and that I not mess around with their words,” she says. “It’s not my story, it’s their story. I
wanted to step out of the way, be a vehicle.” When director William Electric Black staged the play at the Theatre for the New City, several interviewees came to see it. “It was surreal and hard and traumatizing for a lot of them, but also cathartic and amazing,” reports Benedict. “They went out for drinks afterward with the actresses; they were like sisters.” Nevertheless, she called afterward to make sure they were all right. While researching her 1985 book Recovery: How to Survive Sexual Assault (1985, Doubleday), Benedict trained for 10 weeks as a rape crisis counselor at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Another book, Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes (1992, Oxford University Press), applies a different lens to the same topic. “From a very early time, I’ve been infuriated by injustice of all kinds, and especially this,” she asserts. “Rape itself is such a ghastly act, and its victims are treated so badly by society—they’re blamed for it. That double injustice—I just can’t stand it, it gets me inflamed. It stands in for all kinds of injustice: race, class. It’s always one on top of another and another.” Books without Borders Benedict is currently writing a new novel set in Iraq. “There were whole inner layers that I came to understand that were more intuitive,” she says. “What do you feel when a prisoner throws excrement on you, when your sergeant is making passes at you all day long, when someone you thought was a friend assaults you?” About half the novel is narrated by an Iraqi woman. It’s a nervy choice, but Benedict, who conjured the voices of a Dominican teen mother in Bad Angel (1997, Plume Press) and Greek islanders in Sailor’s Wife (2000, Zoland Books), is unfazed. “Writers have been crossing cultures and genders and ages and times forever,” she says. “I think we’ve gotten narrow about that, maybe because of all this PC business.” The Edge of Eden’s third-person narrative dips freely into the minds of a wide range of characters. “I didn’t want only the British point of view,” Benedict says. “In old-fashioned novels, the natives, quote unquote, are never full human beings.” Here, Sechellois Marguerite Savy assesses her British employer: “At times Penelope reminded her of the local cattle egrets, stalking around on spindly yellow legs, eyes wide and empty, with no clue as to what they were really seeing.” (Marguerite may be shortchanging Penelope, who can look at her onetime lover and his wife and notice “his hand resting on her plump shoulder with the casual possessiveness of a man holding his bicycle.”) Benedict’s prose glints with such deft observations, along with vivid evocations of a landscape where even the plants appear oversexed.
we’ve been doing it ever since.” Several years ago, on vacation in France, O’Connor set himself a challenge. “I decided to write 14 lines of verse every day. My only requirement was that it could not make sense,” he says. “I was sick of the way I’d been writing. I wanted to explode out of my voice, smash my voice. I’d sit down to write poems and I had to surprise myself with every line. I found I was getting at material I’d never gotten at in my life. It completely changed the way I wrote.” He just sold a story collection to Free Press for publication in June 2010. He’d published many stories in magazines but found little interest in a new collection until “Ziggurat” appeared in the New Yorker. His agent sold the book that weekend. Accomplishment seems to run in the family: O’Connor and Benedict’s son Simon plays lead guitar in rising alt-rock band Amazing Baby, and collegebound Emma has won scholarships for her writing. When they were younger, their parents made charts, dividing the days so they’d each have time to write. “It sounds awfully mechanical, but I think it was a good idea,” says Benedict. “You knew exactly when you were going to write, and the nonwriter would handle all phone calls, chores, et cetera. It’s very good for not messing about. If you only have three or four hours, they become sacrosanct.” O’Connor agrees. “Before we had kids, I could only write when I was inspired. Then it became, ‘My god, if I’ve got five minutes, I’ll write for five minutes. If I’ve got 10 hours, I’ll write for 10 hours.’ Otherwise, I wouldn’t be writing at all.” He shakes his head. “It’s hard to do all this and be a husband and father.” Benedict snuggles next to him on the couch. “Are you a husband and father as well?” she asks teasingly. “Sometimes,” smiles O’Connor. “We’re maniacs.” Helen Benedict will read from The Lonely Soldier and The Edge of Eden at the Hudson Opera House on October 17 at 8pm.
Imagination at Work In 1960, when Benedict was eight, her family moved to Seychelles. “My father was an anthropologist and my mother became a de facto one, helping him with his fieldwork,” she says. “I had this whole rich experience and many memories and had never used them in my writing in my whole life, partly because I shy away from anything autobiographical.” Though Zara, the older daughter whose dark fixations precipitate some of the novel’s most wrenching twists, is the same age Benedict was during her family’s stay in Seychelles, her fictional family is based on London classmates whose parents were sent away during the Blitz, raised by nannies, or farmed out to boarding schools. “How do people learn to be parents if they were exiled from their homes and basically grew up without a family?” she asks. “That began to fuse with the kind of decadent way European adults behave when they’re in the tropics. Even at age eight, I was definitely aware of that with the British adults in Seychelles.” Benedict’s approach to fiction is largely intuitive: “I never think out novels in that much detail. The imagination that’s at work when what you’re actually writing is so much more intelligent than the brain that plots and plots. I tend to just pour out a novel and see what happens, do it really fast, then spend years rewriting.” First Readers O’Connor and Columbia County novelist Rebecca Stowe are always her first readers. Benedict shares her work “when I get blind to it—when I know it needs work but don’t know what.” Her husband concurs, adding, “We literally started our relationship showing each other our work, and 10/09 ChronograM books 47
SHORT TAKES It’s scary season. Whether you’d rather read about ghosts, vampire repellent, the all-too-real horrors of war, or corporate advertising, there’s something here to give you goosebumps.
Hudson Valley Haunts: Historic Driving Tours Linda Zimmermann Schiffer Publishing, 2009, $16.99
Hudson Valley native and “ghost investigator” Zimmermann offers a delectably detailed guide to “one of the most haunted regions in the country,” exploring the shadowy side of such local landmarks as the D&H Canal House (flickering lights, gushing water, odd sounds), Bannerman’s Castle (phantom horse, Flying Dutchman), and Napanoch’s extravagantly haunted Shanley Hotel, whose motto is “The Spirits Are Inn.”
Haunted Party Iza Trapani Charlesbridge Publishing, 2009, $15.95
In this clever Halloween counting book, “spooky,” “gruesome,” and “morbid” guests party like kids: Vampires bob for apples (fangs help) and skeletons rock out—’til they’re terrified by trick-or-treaters. Book signings October 24 at 11am, Kingston Barnes & Noble; October 29 at 10am, Poughkeepsie Barnes & Noble; October 30 at Merritt Books (10am Millbrook, 1pm Red Hook); October 31 at 5pm at Inquiring Minds, New Paltz.
The Vampire Tarot Robert M. Place St. Martin’s Press, 2009, $27.95
So Dracula author Bram Stoker was a lifelong friend of Rider-Waite Tarot designer Pamela Colman Smith; who knew? Place’s idiosyncratic, informative book about Tarot and vampire lore is boxed with a deck of cards whose elegantly creepy graphics refer to both classic Tarot imagery and Stoker’s masterpiece; the minor suits are Holy Water, Knives, Garlic Flowers, and Stakes.
Garlic Capital of the World: Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of a Festive Foodscape Pauline Adema University Press of Mississippi, 2009, $25
Saugerties is big, but Gilroy is bigger, the “Mecca for garlic.” How does a community become identified with an iconic food and successfully market that image? Folklorist and Culinary Institute of America instructor Adema focuses on two place-specific food festivals, the ill-fated Coppel, Texas, PigFest and the triumphant Gilroy, California, Garlic Festival. Vampires beware!
War Games Audrey Couloumbis and Akila Couloumbis Random House Books for Young Readers, 2009, $16.99
When German soldiers occupy 12-year-old Petros’ house near Amphissa, Greece, the distant world war is brought terrifyingly close. Suddenly, neighbors and friends could be enemies, childhood games have deadly gravity, and keeping secrets could mean loved ones live or die. Cowritten by a Newbery Honor-winning author and her husband, whose real experiences formed the basis for this novel.
Adland: Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet James P. Othmer Doubleday, 2009, $26.95
The futurist author and former Young & Rubicam creative director unpacks the madness of Information Age Mad Men in this funny, insightful memoir of his two decades on the advertising planet. Othmer asks don’t-ask questions (“Would you do anti-smoking ads paid for by big tobacco?”) and tells don’t-tell tales (never make fun of Colonel Sanders at a KFC meeting).
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All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-1977 Tony Fletcher W.W. Norton & Company, 2009, $18.95
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f you recognize the book’s title as lyrics from The Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop,” you’ve established your punk bona fides. The seminal band from Queens gets its due in this expansive and propulsive survey of a half century of musical trends that dominated New York City cultural life and, ultimately, America. The Ulster County-based Fletcher, a writer for Spin and Rolling Stone, is that rare music scholar whose purview extends beyond the beat. In chronicling the birth of doo-wop, Afro-Cuban jazz, folk-rock, punk, disco, and hip-hop, Fletcher examines developments through a variety of prisms: sociological, ethnic, cultural, financial, religious, geographical—even pharmacological. Fletcher’s multi-faceted command of his material recalls Ann Douglas’s towering Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. The author has shown equal ambition and whimsy with previous tomes on Keith Moon, The Clash, REM, and Echo and the Bunnymen. But to tackle such a mammoth task invites skepticism. Yet the writing is supple, adroit. So the reader willingly follows Fletcher down a thousand city side streets, into bars, ballrooms, clubs, tenements— wherever the scenes were happening. Like Alastair Cooke’s America, All Hopped Up is an unapologetically opinionated overview of zeitgeists that sparked their own theme music. As Fletcher unveils each phenomenon, we soberly note that the music flowered in the soil of social problems: racism, poverty, right-wing politics, unemployment and, not least of all, adolescent heartbreak. At a formidable 400-plus pages, plus notes, Fletcher’s book often overtells the story. In the hip-hop chapter, is it imperative to absorb 13 paragraphs on South Bronx urban renewal before meeting Grandmaster Flash? Nonetheless, Fletcher’s voluminous interviews uncover material often neglected. The book begins with Havana-born Mario Bauza and Chano Pozo and the birth of the mambo and rumba. This led to their work with “Dizzy” Gillespie and Charlie Parker, a symbiosis that inspired Tito Puente. Fletcher nails such instances of cultural cross-pollination. Fletcher’s most idiosyncratic work occurs in exploring the newly-minted “East Village” from the mid-60s to the mid-70s. While overlooking a welter of popular poseurs, the author emphasizes The Lovin’ Spoonful, Velvet Underground ,and lesser-known bands-cum-social critics like The Fugs, David Peel and the Lower East Side, the Holy Modal Rounders, and The Godz. Laurels are not bestowed sycophantically; Fletcher recognizes that trailblazers can often be rotten people. (He honors Alan Freed but bashes Dick Clark, who beat the payola scandal.) The author celebrates artistic freedom, but he dutifully explains how `60s idealism soon curdled thanks to hippie laziness and excessive drug use. Into this early-`70s wasteland, however, came a new breed: The New York Dolls, Television, Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads, and CBGB mainstays The Ramones. In his zeal for inclusion, Fletcher restores gay people to the group of DJs who crafted disco with their black and Latino counterparts. We are given a virtual tour of the crowded, sweaty dance floors of The Anvil, Paradise Garage, and Studio 54. (Fletcher has a gift for re-creating defunct spaces.) In addition to sterling chops as a historian, Fletcher is an astute musician. When he identifies a classic song, the deconstruction is thrilling. In praising “Sh-Boom” by The Chords (later hijacked for white radio by The Crew Cuts) the author notes the “trotting rhythm track,” the “tightly honed tenor lead,” and the bass “interjection in the middle eight” crowned by “a floating sax solo.” Both an indispensable reference book for college students and a survival guide for modern musicians, All Hopped Up makes lost worlds live again. —Jay Blotcher
Tony Fletcher will read 10/24 at 5pm at the Spotty Dog, Hudson; 11/6 at 7:30pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck; 11/29 at 4pm, Inquiring Mind, Saugerties.
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our November issue is October 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.
Wow, look at those clouds. I think a god lives there.
“Behind every great man is a great woman” and often times
—Sage Perkins (7 years)
in front and greater —p
Penguin
For You
sometimes my grandson Demetrios is a penguin he loves that they are sleek and fast in the water and loves how they walk all awkward and stiff legged on ice and if you didn’t know he was a penguin you’d think he was a cripple sometimes he’s a chinstrap penguin and sometimes an emperor penguin gobbling down fish and squid and that’s all right with him since he loves fish especially lox but only the good stuff that’s 50 bucks a pound but there are days when Demetrios is a leopard seal leopard seals eat penguins when they can catch them and they do catch them or else they would die out which is a valuable lesson in life whether you’re a grownup or three and a half years old he’s no fool and is already learning the world is not a safe place or easy to figure out so sometimes he’s a leopard seal but mostly a penguin he’s hedging his bets and I believe he’s on the right side on that one because if I can’t figure out what it’s all about or what the meaning of life is and I’m almost 74 how can you expect a little kid to get it anyway the answer to all that existential angst if there is an answer is life itself which I think explains why people have kids at all especially in hard times because if there is no life there wouldn’t be an answer or even a question Demetrios says AARGH! but that’s when he’s a peg legged pirate
This is for you, all-powerful wretched pronoun, You the mute roommate I talk to You who know all the constellations in every sky You with gardens that grow dozens of flowers you can name in Latin You who know kids and electronics You who are not intimidated by the keyboard or death You who have read the top 100 books on the top 100 lists of the top 100 books You who listen and sometimes hear You who know vermillion from fuchsia and chartreuse from lime
—James Houtrides You who might read and must be satisfied
Tattoos
You with the power to destroy or ignore You in the front row paying some mind
He sees me from within, eyes of my music. Light scrapes the insides of my bones, healing so harsh after years of dark, and it is he—dancing, transparent feather. I have felt so much. Passaic, my father dying: I carry lead in my heart. Lead. The years peel behind our backs like paint, in silence. And yet we love, like rivers—riddled with bullets of dream. We grow larger for the holes in our wishes, where single parents can rest. Larger for our parents’ love, now buried beneath the day’s long page. Take a walk with me—I don’t care where. I knew you because you listened. To everything I could not say—how words, behind my eyes, pressed against the arc of my tears, how stars turned in my blood, how grief’s paper-thin light cut my tongue. Mythologies, for anyone who reads. Touch my arm and understand—this life, ripening for you. I wake and forget that I have cried, with only salt to retrace memory. Salt, salt—life. Take away the pastels and the green lawns, the “Hellos” and suburbia. Take away the boredom and the easy life--the shoppers trying to be characters. I need the memory of stone, the stone of speech, Demosthenes’ mortal syncopation. No rivers without cliffs. No jazz without white water. —Christina L. Turczyn
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You in the back row sleeping. This is for you. However, this is not all for you. When you chuckle or laugh, that is for me. When you go running for the dictionary, that is for me. When you don’t know the flower or tree, that is for me. When you repeat a liked line or simile, that is for me. When you’re set up like a tackle dummy, that is for me. This is, I hope, enough for both of us. —James Lonergan
Wild Blackberries
Steep Cliffs
He
Diorama After Creeley
on the way up from the creek with my fly rod I saw them picking blackberries a tall blonde college boy and the girl with modest short dark hair bare shoulders carrying a basket in the heat the summer sun hot on her bare shoulders his blonde head pulling off my boots and throwing them into the car I heard a splash in the creek laughing and something like a woman’s low sigh at the farm house I asked Doris oh I don’t know why they’re down there those wild blackberries are small hard to pick and really aren’t any good
I have fallen short of myself.
he became a surrealist from lack of funds. barefoot on a frozen river as slippery as a dance in japanese or italian he held himself upright lit by a string of garden lanterns. trees bared fruit original scripts edited. where is the manifesto—
In a space provided was a copse in late Summer all tamarack & birch. & inside it ever the tallest ferns by sun splashed luminous as dayglow in that greenwood grown by some whimsy in the bird-chirped stillness too over the top a canvas moment beyond the haiku beyond Thoreau’s Cape Cod sketchbook easily acknowledged as yet that still small chirp to recall to see again
Not in perception of, or conception, nor invention of putting together a cultured life with meaningful endings. But rather it has been blinding technicalities that tilt me far downward, tripping me up, until all that’s left are piles of causations: those false ideas dancing from my aching mouth like blue mist arid confetti.
—Tom Weigel —Sherry Steiner
—Stanley M Noah
—Richard Donnelly
Arrhythmia
Paleontology
Gossamer 25
“When I was born the doctor told her I might be an asshole, but my health would be okay.”
She flies in slate. Old bug-winged fossil.
waters as words as breath as undifferentiated pressure as silence of the moment between breaths the heavy undulations round the corner a way of accounting
That’s what he says when I discover his heartbeat is a horse’s gallop— expecting him to run away. But he stays awake, I count the rhythm 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, until the numbered sounds betray me to think that holding on would be easy. —Jessica Lewandowski
Landlocked, but never landing.
At rest in a sky of stone. —Laurence Carr
Summer’s End From a porch along the sound lined with condos and modern homes that take the view into their pocket the trees break in part enough to bring into view one drunken boat wobbling among the waves
pronoun as momentary accumulation of an evaporating vocabulary its articulation a stone skip over waters as what may as words as breath et cetera bounce —Andrew Brenza
To Ann Mikolowski Without Preposition I miss knowing that you are somewhere making muffins smiling making muffins every morning muffins painting loved ones baking paintings I can see you both. Smiling. If you would paint from the other side your eyes glasses. I would keep them my pocket tiny paintings. Tiny paintings. You wallet sized sky-sized. The same. Sometimes the kitchen I see you the corner my eye when I turn to look, you stuck. Corner of my eye again. —Beth Balousek
—Jake St. John
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it’s not even safe to touch them (it is). This is not to say that there aren’t risks; there are. Some kinds can make you sick, and a few are fatal. We can (and should) greatly expand the variety and quantity of the mushrooms in our diet in two ways: by cultivating our own and by foraging for wild species. Cultivation can be as easy as ordering an inoculated log online, watering it, and harvesting the shiitake or oyster mushrooms that burst forth. With a little more effort, we can start to incorporate mushrooms into our gardens and landscaping in easy, yet prolifically productive, ways. Andrew Janjigian is a mycologist and a staff writer for Cook’s Illustrated who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He encourages everyone to give cultivation a try, saying “it’s just another kind of gardening.” What we call “mushrooms” are the spore-producing fruiting bodies of much larger organisms that live underground and/or in rotting wood. The unseen network of fibers that makes up the main portion of the fungus is called the mycelium, and it is the mycelium that we cultivate in order to harvest the fruit. We do this by giving it what it likes to eat, which is usually wood in whole, chipped, or powdered form. Since many of us already use mulch and logs in and around our gardens, Janjigian suggests that we begin there. By inoculating the mulch and edging with desirable mycelium, we can produce luxury food in areas that are currently unproductive. Janjigian’s favorite fungi are oyster mushrooms and winecaps. “Oysters will grow in just about anything, so they’re the best way to start.” Bags of inoculated sawdust are available online (see sources, below) and can be sprouted as they are or broken up to inoculate wood chips, newspaper, grain, or even telephone books. Indoors or out, keeping them damp is really the only requirement. As they use up nutrients and stop fruiting, the trick is then to harvest some healthy mycelium from the substrate and use it to inoculate a fresh batch. That’s really all there is to it; they can fruit in as little as two weeks—an eyeblink in gardening time. Winecaps (which aren’t for sale in stores but make for choice
ABOVE: Maria Reidelbach (center), member of the Mid-hudson Mycological Association, and president of the New york city Mycological Society, with other mushroom foragers on an mmha outing in late september. opposite and following page: Honey mushrooms aka Armillaria mellea
eating) like both soil and hardwood chips, so they spread freely in and out of the garden, requiring little care since they will move to new areas in search of more food. It’s an appealing notion to convert mulched garden paths into productive space, and since mushrooms fruit so quickly there’s no need to tiptoe around them while they grow: Just cut, eat, and repeat. It’s Log, It’s Log Growing mushrooms in logs isn’t much harder. Order a bag of inoculated dowel pieces, drill a bunch of holes in a hardwood log, hammer them in, and seal the holes with cheese wax (the waxing is optional, but helpful). Janjigian suggests using your own wood if you prune a tree; it’s important that the wood be green (freshly cut) from healthy trees with the bark intact to protect the wood from colonization by undesirable species. The ideal size is six to eight inches in diameter and about three feet long, for easy carrying. If you don’t prune trees, he recommends talking to your landscaper, arborist, or the person you buy firewood from. These same sources can also provide free or inexpensive hardwood chips for inoculating and then using for mulch. Oak and (unsprayed) fruit wood are best; evergreens like pine and spruce are not suitable and should be avoided, and it’s a good idea not to grow mushrooms too close to your woodpile, to avoid having it colonized. The best book for people interested in mushroom cultivation is Mycelium Running (2005, Ten-Speed Press) by Paul Stamets, who also runs www.FungiPerfecti.com, an excellent source for bags, plugs, logs, and kits for growing a wide variety of fungi. The book contains extensive information on techniques and ideas for creative incorporation of mushroom plantings into larger yards and gardens. Janjigian extols the satisfaction of being able to grow such healthy, high-price fare with so little cost and effort, and to become more familiar with the least-respected kingdom of living things. To further deepen our respect and pleasure, and get our hands on some species that are hard or impossible to
cultivate, he recommends foraging. “Find a local club, meet people and learn from them,” he says, “it’s all about collecting and practicing.” Those interested in learning to forage wild species need look no further than the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association, which offers regular walks all season long in many beautiful parts of our region, as well as an annual winter mushroom dinner for members. Association webmaster and spokesperson Elmer LeSuer is eager to spread the word, using Facebook and the group’s official site to build the community. “There’s a bounty of wonderful food that people are missing out on,” he says, noting that “one walk with an expert is enough to learn to identify the easy ones.” (This assumes, of course, that they are there for the finding, which is where the use of “hunting” as verb of choice becomes clear.) “It can be as complicated as real science, or as simple as picking raspberries,” LeSuer continues, encouraging beginners to come along on a walk and benefit from all the combined experience of the other members. One could be easily content just to hunt easily identified varieties like black trumpets and chanterelles—which happily happen to make the best eating— or to develop an expert eye over time. Either way, he invites everyone to “come out and play with us.” Janjigian recommends Stan Tekiela’s Start Mushrooming (2003, Adventure Publications) as the best introduction to the six unmistakable edible varieties in North America, but, like LeSuer, he cautions that people should always go out first with an expert and consult more than one book to verify any identification. A recent association outing on a perfect September day in Napanoch yielded a bounty of tasty honey mushrooms in addition to a few hen-of-the-woods (maitake) and chicken mushrooms as well as interesting inedible varieties. The group wandered through the woods for about three hours, searching, chatting, separating, reconvening around an exciting find, and filling baskets with both edibles and other specimens (baskets are important because they 10/09 ChronograM food & drink 55
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RESOURCES Mid-Hudson Mycological Association www.midhudsonmyco.org (Facebook: MidHudsonMyco) Fungi Perfect www.fungiperfecti.com for mail order logs, kits, and plugs Andrew Janjigian www.thefermenter.tumblr.com/post/193457310/porcini-bread recipe for porcini bread and mushroom bread pudding Mycelium Running, Paul Stamets (Ten-Speed Press, 2005) 100 Edible Mushrooms, Michael Kuo (University of Michigan Press, 2007) Start Mushrooming, Stan Tekiela (Adventure Publications, 2003) The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff (Knopf, 1981) Mushrooms of Northeast North America: Midwest to New England, George Barron (Lone Pine Press, 1999)
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a treasure!” “You’ll really get away from it all while feeling right at home at Charlotte’s...... Get toasty by the fire with some homemade mashed potatoes, or a hot toddy in the charming bar. You’ll love the hint of deep country wafting up from their truffle Ajax fries!” “Cozy, fireplaced restaurant with tremendous food from a varied and original menu that ranges from devilish to devine. Charming owners, Alicia in front and Mikael in the kitchen, provide great warmth and make the place particularly comfortable.” These are just a few of our reviews. Wed & Thurs 5-9:30, Fri 11:30-10:30, Sat 11:30-10:30, Sun 11:30-9:30. Reservations recommended.
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BEST Mexican / Latino Cuisine 2008. BEST Margarita 2008 & 2009. BEST Restaurant Interior 2007.—Hudson Valley Magazine, **** Poughkeepsie Journal. Live Music Friday and Saturday Nights. Check our website for our menu and special events schedule.
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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!
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Gomen Kudasai—Japanese Noodles and Home Style Cooking 215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811 Come and experience Japanese Homestyle Cooking served fresh daily at Gomen Kudasai. Our menu features homemade Gyoza dumplings, hot noodle soups, and stir-fried noodles made with either Soba or Udon. All of our food is MSG free, GMO free, vegan friendly, organic when possible, and locally produced when available.
Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub 334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com catskillmountain@hvc.rr.com Live music and authentic curry dishes each weekend make this steakhouse, located in America’s first art colony, a standout. The pub boasts 13 great beers on tap. Call for specials, to make reservations, or arrange a catered affair.
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THE best place for Sushi, Teriyaki, or Tempura in the Hudson Valley. Delectable specialty rolls; filet mignon, seafood, and chicken teriyaki. Japanese beers. Imported and domestic wines. Elegant atmosphere and attentive service. The finest sushi this side of Manhattan! Open every night for dinner and every day but Sunday for lunch. Takeout always available.
Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-range Hudson Valley products. Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.
Osaka Restaurant 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Poughkeepsie Journal. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.
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Terrapin Red Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Sometimes, you just want a really Great Hamburger! Terrapin Red Bistro serves all sorts of comfort foods like macaroni and cheese, quesadillas, nachos, fish ‘n’ chips and hamburgers. Enjoy the build-your-own sandwich menu, or find some favorites from the restaurant in a hip, relaxed, casual bistrostyle atmosphere.
Terrapin Restaurant 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chronogram. From far-flung origins, the world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle here, in this room, at your table. From 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.
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Shelter from the Storm Investing During Turbulent Times By Crispin Kott
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The Long Term Robert Baker, assistant vice president and financial services officer with Ulster Savings Bank, agrees. “If you’re investing for the long haul, the best idea is not to panic,” Baker says. “The market is having a good upturn right now, so it’s a good time to invest.” According to Jones, the best time to invest is often when the market is on the rebound. The real difficulty comes in convincing those who are timid to believe it. “It does make sense to take advantage, even if you do it gradually over time, to do it now,” she says. “People do counterintuitive things.They feel like they shouldn’t put money into the market when it’s down, but that’s when it’s cheap. That’s how people who are wealthy made their money.” Sal Bocchimuzzo, chief financial planner with Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, agrees to a point, though he stresses that it’s not always as simple as “buy low, sell high.” “I don’t advocate market timing,” Bocchimuzzo says. “Looking at the numbers out there, we’ve had a great run since mid March, but this is definitely still in the early stages of the recovery. There’s still a lot of cash on the sideline. These bullish singles were out there in the fourth quarter of 2008, and things were very volatile. But if you’re in for the longer term, it’s a fantastic time to put a plan together and get in.” Diversity In order to ride out the current roller coaster-like climate and keep your cool, the first thing Jones recommends is keeping one’s fingers in a number of pies. “My advice is to always have a well-diversified portfolio,” she says. “The thing that protects you on the downside is having a very solid mix of different-sized companies; US companies, and international companies.” It’s a notion Jones says she always advises, whether in times of strife or prosperity. The idea is that one’s portfolio can manage a hit in some areas if it has others keeping the ship afloat. “I have my clients segment their money into different buckets,” says Jones.
“Their short-term money should be fixed in the bank with a guarantee on it. Their mid-term should be a mix of stocks and bonds, and their long-term can be more aggressive.” Bocchimuzzo agrees. “Even though the market has recovered a bit, people are still concerned, and people want to know how to recover their losses,” he says. “It’s still very prudent to be diversified. Sit down and develop a personal financial plan, come up with timelines and a rational approach, rather than trying to guess the right sector and try to get it back in a year. Now is the time to be smart and have a plan.” Baker also recommends variety in one’s investments, especially in troubled times. “Bear markets come and go,” he says. “If you look at history, there’s a lot of ups and downs.You can’t really panic in these situations. If you have a diversified model, chances are you can ride it out.”
A Wake-Up Call But even many of those well suited to aggressive investing have been rocked so hard by the recent economic upheaval that they’re not being as brave as they might have been in past years. “I think people have had a huge wake-up call and are really paying attention,” Jones says. “Most of my clients never left the market, but they did get more conservative.” Jones says those who are feeling the pinch less today were prepared for the possibility of a collapse, not only by virtue of a diversified portfolio, but also in how they saved their money. It’s advice she gives no matter what the state of the national or global economy. “I always recommend this, it’s not new,” Jones says. “People should have a very good savings account, or an emergency fund. It used to be okay to have three months of living expenses, but now I’m recommending people have as much as six months to a year. It’s good to have that slush fund in case they lose their job.” A Steadying Hand But not every investment plan is right for everyone. There are as many different kinds of investors as there are opportunities for them to try and earn dividends on their money, and no one avenue to take is right for everyone. One of the keys to investing, the experts agree, is to know what you’re looking to do with the process. For many, those questions can be answered with professional assistance. “Everybody’s got a different situation,” says Baker. “You can’t say one size fits all. We try to take everything into consideration and provide some ideas.” In times of trouble, investors both new and experienced may find themselves looking at the market in ways they’ve never considered before. A steady hand may help them to feel a little less shaky. “There’s been a lot of fear in the market, and there’s just so much news out there,” Baker says. People are looking for something to reassure them. Are they on the right track, and should they continue to do what they’re doing?” One of the most significant results of the economic meltdown was that many investors with an eye on retirement were forced to re-think their plans. “Some people may have to work longer based on their market exposure,” Baker says.They wanted to retire next year, and they may have to work a little longer than they wanted to.” Jones says she’s seen the same thing. “It kind of depends on their age, their timeline and what they’re looking to do,” she says. “I would say that most people that 10/09 ChronograM money & investing 65
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were thinking of retiring anytime soon have pushed their timeline back, some as much as five to seven years.”
A Plethora of Options As for investors looking to get their feet wet for the first time, their needs might be a little different, but, like more experienced investors, they shouldn’t necessarily sit on the sidelines. “With newer investors, younger investors in their twenties and thirties, the main theme is a focus on retirement,” Bocchimuzzo said. “It’s pretty much on the individual with pension plans going away. A lot of individuals are looking for growth, because they see CD and savings rates so low. They want to have some kind of confidence that their money isn’t going to go away.” Individual investors, regardless of their circumstances, are faced with a myriad of options to consider, and it’s important to know which is the right road to travel. “Everybody is looking at everything, from real estate to gold,” says Baker. “There’s just so much exposure with the media, people don’t know what to do right now.” While some investors have historically done well in real estate, Jones says it’s clear that avenue isn’t a sure-fire thing. “My concern with real estate is that it’s a great investment if it’s in a place you want to live,” she says. “Real estate [is an option that] you can not turn it into cash instantly. It’s illiquid, and has all these costs, and often people don’t think about that. If you are an investor and have a large amount of cash on hand, there are great bargains to be had.You have to have tenants, and if that’s the case there are a lot of empty spaces. It used to be hard to find a rental. Now they’re abundant, and there’s a fair amount of foreclosures.” But as long as one understands the potential difficulties, Jones says real estate still has enough lure for some investors that it’s hard to pass up. “I love real estate, don’t get me wrong,” she says. “Young couples that were thinking about real estate but thought it was out of reach, with the government tax breaks, it’s a good time to get in.” Social Responsibility Jones says one of the recommendations she makes to the majority of her clients is that they consider sustainable investing, which, boiled down to its most basic principle, seeks to make money on socially responsible investments. One aspect of sustainable investing is a negative-screening process, which is utilized to eliminate certain securities from consideration, such as tobacco and alcohol concerns. Jones says the results can often prove favorable. “Because of the extra screening process, we’ve found that in very difficult times, those particular kinds of holdings fare better,” she says. “People are being a lot more focused on sustainability. It’s a big push that I’m hearing about from a much bigger percentage of my clients. People are starting to pay attention to the value of having those extra screens and putting your money where your mouth is.” Bocchimuzzo says that those who are concerned about where to go should consider working with a professional, one who is prepared to help answer some of their questions. That’s true no matter what the economic climate is like, he adds. “Some of the basic questions, to be honest, always exist,” Bocchimuzzo says. “‘How can I generate an income stream for life?’ ‘Can I still retire in a number of years?’ But with lessons learned, a lot of people now are asking how to protect their assets going forward.” Bocchimuzzo says it’s not only up to the investor to make things happen; a good financial advisor should also be involved in the process. “I do get people from other firms that have been upset with the guidance they’ve had during the downturn,” he says. “The thing that I tell everyone all the time is that when you’re working with a financial advisor it’s a two-way street.They should be calling you from time to time to make sure whatever plan you have in place is working. It’s my responsibility to make sure they’re in the right place at the right time, and it’s their responsibility that they get in touch if things don’t feel right, or if they’re not feeling as aggressive as they thought they were.” But regardless of one’s investment circumstances, Jones says it’s important to keep a sobering thought in mind before counting your chickens. “You’re not going to get rich on anything anymore,” she says. RESOURCES
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o stand in the shadows of a biplane and a 19th-century Italianate mansion both, in the course of a single late-summer afternoon, does not require full imaginative immersion in a Somerset Maugham novel. Nor a time machine. A day trip to Rhinebeck—and the surrounding area—will easily accommodate your baronial (from Red to robber) flights of fancy. Some of the most spectacular historic homes in America can be found in Northern Dutchess County—including the Locust Grove Estate in Poughkeepsie, the Vanderbilt Mansion and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s home in Hyde Park, and the Wilderstein mansion in Rhinebeck, itself. It would take little effort to craft of these domestic palaces and the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, with its collection of vintage airplanes and cars, a circuit that crackles with the optimism and glamour of the early 20th-century American “haves.” Immaculate lawns like acres-wide picnic blankets thrown down in the midst of well-maintained woods, cliff-steep views of the Hudson, paneled and lofty-ceilinged rooms inviting high society and highballs. If you can tour these sites without, even briefly, imagining yourself as a character from The Razor’s Edge, you’re a more grounded person than I. But, of course, present-day Rhinebeck is neither a mere museum nor simply a monument to Industrial Age affluence. Rhinebeck (both the town and the village) is attractive and thriving, drawing transplants and weekenders from New York City and elsewhere, day trippers, as well as entrepreneurs and cultural presenters. For all its activity, though, Rhinebeck’s feel is comfortable and relaxed. On a recent Sunday, the village streets were well populated with shoppers, diners, and smilingly aimless hangers out. It would be a tempting cliché to say that the village bustled; rather, it strolled. Certainly, it’s likely that some significant percentage of the crowd were out-of-towners, but the vibe was decidedly at ease and at home.
by John Rodat Photographs by David Morris Cunningham A Formerly Sleepy Town “Well, there’s always been people here,” points out Steve Leiber, one of the founders of Upstate Films, a nonprofit film organization and theater. “And there was the aerodrome and the Dutchess County Fairgrounds. But now there are 30-plus places to eat, lots of shops, and a great variety of arts organizations. It’s pretty amazing for a one-stoplight town.” Upstate Films was created to provide “an alternative to mainstream film exhibition” and to explore and promote “film as a medium of social communication and aesthetic experience.” It’s a daring enough mission, even now. It was all the more so when Leiber and his partners relocated from New York City in the early ‘70s. At that time, he says, Rhinebeck was a “sleepy little town.” The farming community did not trigger any prescience in Leiber and his cohorts; they weren’t certain of its eventual blossoming. It was, in fact, the town’s very quietude that provided a practical benefit, a necessity, even. “We didn’t have anything like a traditional business plan,” Leiber says. “ We just thought, ‘Hey, let’s put on a show.’” And if the show you intend to put on is cinematic, well, plain and simple, you need a cinema. In the old Star Library building on Route 9, the aspiring group found their theater, one boarded-up and unused for years. From the start Upstate Films’ programming was ambitious and irreverent: among the first screenings, the Marx Brothers’ one notable box-office flop, Duck Soup and Emile de Antonio’s scathing, satirical look at pre-Watergate Nixon, Millhouse. But an anecdote related on the Upstate Films’ website contextualizes the theater’s personality with a reminder of the town’s: “How rural was it in Rhinebeck? Through a phone interview snafu, Upstate’s first foreign film series became a farming film series.” Leiber is hesitant to accept credit on behalf of Upstate Films as catalyst for 10/09 ChronograM rhinebeck 69
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Rhinebeck’s now-burgeoning cultural life. Instead he refers to the area’s indisputable natural appeal, the historic attractions, the increasing attention from real-estate-hungry city folk, and smart civic planning as elements of a “perfect storm” for the growth of the village. He does allow, however, that Upstate Films may have functioned as an early example and anchor. “We were kind of like Army Rangers, dropped behind the lines. We’ve been really fortunate.” Art & Commerce Joel Weisbrod, photographer and owner of the Gazen Gallery, is a more recent arrival in Rhinebeck, though his family has ties to the region dating back to the early years of the last century. (Weisbrod’s wife’s grandfather, a Polish immigrant, came to Rhinebeck, via Pittsburgh, in 1915, to work as the town blacksmith for more than 20 years.) Weisbrod and his wife, Linda, moved to Rhinebeck in 2005, when he retired from his Long Island-based software company. “I wanted to get away from the city rush and traffic,” he says. “That’s no retirement.” His new home seemed at first to be just the thing. “I had the perfect life,” Weisbrod states. “I even bought a tractor.” But as much as the bucolic setting pleased him, the artistic and business opportunities appealed, as well. “I’ve been a photographer for over 30 years. I wrote a book on scuba photography. I knew I needed a gallery to show my work.” Weisbrod investigated the galleries in the Hudson Valley, between Rhinebeck and Albany, but ultimately opted for a different route. “I decided to take the plunge,” he says. The Weisbrods officially opened the Gazen Gallery in May of this year. According to Weisbrod, the gallery’s shows are constructed to be both regionally specific and broadly popular: “Our signatures are that we only show work from artists in the Hudson Valley; that we don’t have artists of the same style in the same show— it’s not just first come, first shown; and the art is priced so that there’s something here for everybody. If I can’t sell it, I’m not going to waste the wall space.”
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A Town Taken Care Of Of those who dedicate much of their time and energy to advancing or protecting Rhinebeck, Fleming says with equal appreciation, “This is a town that is being taken care of.” Given the nature of Fleming’s art, community-oriented and civically engaged as it is, it’s not surprising that she can offer a historical insight that works perfectly—if ideally—as metaphor. “Did you know that Rhinebeck is one of the beneficiaries of one of the oldest private trusts in America?” she asks. “The Thomas Thompson Trust.” As available information has it, Thomas Thompson was the shy—some say eccentric—scion of a wealthy New England merchant family. In 1845, the 48-year-old Thompson married a seamstress 30 years his junior. Together, they amassed one of the most valuable collections of art in America. Together, too, they established a trust intended to benefit, exclusively, Burlington, Vermont, and Rhinebeck. Though used initially to assist the women laborers in those locations, the will ultimately allowed for funds to be used in other “kindred charitable purposes,” including general social or civic betterment. (In the Rhinebeck area, money from the trust has been used for renovations of the historic Wilderstein mansion, for the modernization of the Northern Dutchess Hospital, for literacy programs, and to underwrite Sinterklaas.) Mrs. Thompson was in service in Vermont. Burlington, therefore, is fitting. But Rhinebeck? Why Rhinebeck? According to the trust’s web site, there is little mystery: the Thompsons liked it. Quite simply, in Rhinebeck that leisurely product of wealth and privilege and his formerly working-class wife found something that resonated deeply with each.
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tive settlers of the region, who arrived in the 17th century. “The Dutch were tolerant. That’s evident now in Rhinebeck. It’s an extraordinarily creative community, and it’s got all the things necessary for a lively exchange of ideas.” Fleming is the artistic and producing director for New York’s Village Halloween Parade, a position she has held since 1981. She also organized New York City’s 1986 Harbor Festival Fair, and the Official Land Celebration for the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty, and has been behind numerous other celebration events, like the Walkway over the Hudson Walking on Air Parade on October 3. But to her Rhinebeck neighbors she is perhaps best known for organizing the 2008 winter holiday event called Sinterklaas. The idea for Sinterklaas, which is to be revived and retooled this season, says Fleming, was “a holiday celebration for children based on Dutch history.” Though the concept sounds simple enough, Fleming admits, laughing, “people said, ‘It’s never going to work. It’s never going to work!’” Under Fleming’s direction, the town undertook a year-long preparation for Sinterklaas, which included many meetings to address the concerns of various parties about the appropriate incorporation (or omission) of religiously exclusive symbology and other sensitive issues. “It was as if Rhinebeck were a petri dish,” Fleming recalls. “It was an experiment to see if we could celebrate in a way that crossed boundaries of gender, age, ethnicity, and those separating old and new residents.” The event was an unexpectedly massive success, receiving national media attention. (It was described as an “over-the-top success” by a writer for Huffington Post,” who added, “If you have never experienced a town fully immersed in celebration—that would be most of us—this was something magnificent to observe and participate in, just a smile away from Whoville with a hint of It’s aWonderful Life.”) “It was difficult and it was amazing,” Fleming says. “It was the power of being a community of people willing to let their imaginations be seized.” On a personal level, Fleming feels this is the very point of her practice as a celebration artist: “Well, this is exactly how it works. It always starts with the problem; it ends with the transformation.There are always naysayers, but they are part of the community. So, you keep doing the work. Maybe the naysayers get transformed, maybe they don’t. Maybe they hold that place and make it safe.”
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Holiday Inn Express 2750 South Road (Route 9) Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-1151 www.poughkeepsiehi.com
Rhinecliff Hotel 4 Grinnell Street, Rhinecliff, NY (845) 876-0590 www.therhinecliff.com
Storm King Lodge B&B 100 Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville, NY (845) 534-9421 www.stormkinglodge.com Come, enjoy and relax in our Lodge, a converted 1800 post and beam barn, or the Guest Cottage. Country setting with spacious lawns, gardens and mountain views. Six lovely guest rooms with private baths, huge swimming pool and most creature comforts. Located nearby: Storm King Art Center, Dia:Beacon, West Point, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, Great Restaurants and Hudson Valley Attractions.
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Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org Gallery Hours: Thurs-Sat 11am-5pm Or by appointment. Designing Women: Group Textile/ Fiber Arts Exhibition. The exhibit runs through to October 24, 2009. Artists featured in the exhibit: Laura Breitman, Ann Braver, Heather Cherry, Andrea Brown, Mimi Graminski, Pat Hickman, Elizabeth Sciore Jones, and Kelly Sturhahn .
ASK Arts Center 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0331 www.askforarts.org
Brill Gallery 243 Union Street, North Adams, MA 1 (800) 294-2811 www.brillgallery109.com
Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org Founded in 1977, CPW, an artist-centered space dedicated to photography and related media offers, year-round exhibitions, weekend workshops, multi-week lectures, access to traditional and digital photography workspaces, a monthly photographers’ salon, film/video screenings, and much more.
Country Gallery 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
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Art Instruction Planet Plaster 1418 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-0615 www.planetplaster.com
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston, NY (845) 331-7780 Celebrating 30 years! Art Materials, studio furnishings, custom picture framing, blueprint copies, graphic design services, large format color output, custom printing, personal stationery, legal forms, cards, maps, and novelty gifts. Three locations dedicated to enhancing your creative adventure—voted “Best in the Valley” year after year. Also located in Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251 and Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250
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Joy Brown 463 Segar Mt. Road, Kent, CT (860) 927-4946 www.Artwithin.net
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Auto Sales & Services Ruge’s Subaru Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057
Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union (845) 336-4444 www.MHVFCU.com
Rhinebeck Savings Bank 2 Jefferson Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY
Ulster Savings Bank 1 (866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com sbemz@ulstersavings.com
Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 24 years, we carry a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, iced coffees, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!
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JW ArtWorks, LLC: Gazen Gallery 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4ART (4278) www.gazengallery.com
Mill Street Loft 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org A multi-arts center offering a range of educational programs for children and adults of all ages and
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Oblong Books & Music 6422 Montgomery Street, (Route 9), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 www.oblongbooks.com
Broadcasting Star 93.3 www.star933fm.com
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Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.
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Clothing & Accessories First Street Dancewear Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.com First Street Dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warm-ups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.
KOSA 502 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-6620 www.kosa-co.net Kosa is a unique indie store specializing in organic, recycled, green, independent clothing and jewelry designers. Our designers work with eco consciousness and style. We carry Stewart and Brown, Prairie Underground, Filly, Preloved, Beebop and Wally, Loveheals, Philippa Kunisch, Claudia Kussano, Individual Icons, Supermaggie, and many many more...
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Events Celebration of the Arts Historic Hugenot Street, New Paltz, NY www.CelebrationoftheArts.net
Film Columbia Chatham, NY (518) 392-3446 www.filmcolumbia.com info@filmcolumbia.com
Hudson Valley Estate Planning Council South Manheim Boulevard, New Paltz, NY (845) 564-3654
North Adams Open Studios 243 Union Street, North Adams, MA (413) 664-0197 www.northadamsopenstudios.com
Olana State Historic Site Partnership (518) 828-1872 www.olana.org
Rhinebeck Antiques Fair P.O. Box 838, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1989
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Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY www.woodstockinvitational.com
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Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500, ext. 1 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org
Kingston Farmers’ Market Historic Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com
Mother Earth’s Store House 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY www.motherearthstorehouse.com 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! We can also be found at 804 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY, (845) 296-1069, and 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY, (845) 246-9614.
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Hair Salons
5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620 Located in the Historic Huguenot Street. We now have a gallery space next door. AcOUStIC SuNDaYS 4-7
Dennis Fox Salon 6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777 dennisfoxsalon@yahoo.com Dennis Fox Salon is an upscale salon, located in the heart of Rhinebeck. We offer all hair and nail services in a warm and inviting atmosphere.
Shear Intensity 5455 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-4074 www.shearintensityhairsalon.com
Woodstock Haircutz 80 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7171
Home Furnishings & Decor
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com Organic, local, farm fresh produce. Supplements, homeopathy, bulk coffee, beans, rice, and granolas. Fertile eggs, non HMO dairy, teas, and all natural body & skin care! And so much more.
The Shops at Jones Farm 190 Angola Road, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-4445 www.jonesfarminc.com
Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@verizon.net Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Newly expanded store. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets, Balouchi tribal kilims, Russian sumaks, antique Caucasian carpets, silk Persian sumaks, Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.
Financial Advisors Parnassus Investments 1 Market Street, Suite1600, San Francisco, CA www.parnassus.com
Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Gardening & Garden Supplies Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens 389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 www.NDBGonline.com sales@ndbgonline.com A retail nursery nestled in the back woods of Rhinebeck, where local growers produce an extraordinary variety of annuals, perennials, wildflowers, herbs, vegetables, and organic edibles. Servicing the horticultural needs of gardeners throughout the Hudson Valley for nearly thirty years. Open from the end of April through September.
Internet Services Webjogger (845) 757-4000 www.webjogger.net Webjogger is a local company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. We have a great solution for small businesses: IT including symmetrical High Speed Internet, Offsite On-line Data Backup and Storage, Collaborative Archived Email, Web Hosting and Domain Registration, Server Collocation and Management, and IT support by phone or on site, with nice discounts for bundled services. We’re big enough to have what you need and small enough to make it work for your individual needs. Many local companies swear by us, not at us! We also do high end routing and switching and Gigabit Wireless connectivity for local hospitals and radiology labs.
Italian Specialty Products La Bella Pasta (845) 331-9130 www.labellapasta.com Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our
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excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock.
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Bop to Tottom 799 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100
Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com
Hummingbird Jewelers 23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com hummingbirdjewelers@hotmail.com Hummingbird Jewelers features designer made jewelry from around the globe. We offer a full service workshop specializing in repair, remounting, antique restoration, and custom design by goldsmith Bruce Anderson. Appraisals for estate and insurance purposes by owner gemologist-appraiser Bruce Lubman. At Hummingbird Jewelers your wish is our command.
Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com
Landscaping Coral Acres (845) 255-6634
L. Browne Asphalt Services (516) 794-0490 www.browneasphalt.com (516) 479-1400
Lawyers & Mediators
Miss Vickies 146 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-8958
Networking Hudson Valley Green Drinks (845) 454-6410 www.hvgreendrinks.org
Peekskill Business Improvement District Peekskill, NY
Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce 23F East Market Street, P.O. Box 42 Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5904 www.rhinebeckchamber.com info@rhinebeckchamber.com Professional business membership organization comprised of approximately 400 members. Benefits include monthly networking events, newsletter subscription, referrals, group insurance, business directory listing, website listing and link. Affordable advertising available.
Outfitters Great Blue Outfitters 3198 Route 22, Patterson, NY (845) 319-6172 www.GreatBlueOutfitters.com Great Blue Outfitters, located at 3198 Rt 22 in Patterson, rents the equipment you need (kayaks/canoes/tents/packs/snowshoes and more), plus provides free local transportation, to excellent paddling, hiking, camping, and cycling spots. Our retail store has camping accessories and fun “outdoorsy” gifts. “Real Adventures. Real Close.”
Performing Arts Bard College Public Relations Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
Bardavon Opera House
Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
Music Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd 77 Cornell Street, Suite 303, Kingston, NY (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org info@deeplistening.org
Music Lessons The Creative Music Space 54 Elizabeth Street Suite #12, Red Hook, NY www.creativemusicspace.com info@creativemusicspace.com (845) 444-0607 The Creative Music Space is a community music school that offers a variety of classes and private instruction for adults and kids of all levels. Our goal is to help you develop skills while connecting to the community. We are located at The Chocolate Factory in Red Hook, NY.
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
Performing Arts Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Route 17, exit 104, Bethel, NY 1 (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org
Community Playback Theatre Boughton Place, 150 Kisor Road Highland, NY (845) 691-4118
Hudson River Performing Arts 29 Elm Street, Suite 205, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1888 www.hudsonriverperformingarts.com
Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3080 www.centerforperformingarts.org
WAMC—Linda 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 ext. 4 www.thelinda.org
Pet Services & Supplies Dog Love, LLC 240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com Personal hands-on boarding and daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised play groups in 40x40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats.
Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! B&B for cats, with individual rooms and no cages. Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving 3 counties in the Hudson Valley. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets. Thank you Hudson Valley for entrusting ALL your pets and homes to us for 37 years. Bonded and insured.
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an edible garden made of luscious vegetables, colorful fruit, and fragrant herbs, grains, and flowers. We invite you to touch, taste, and read about each one. Open 10 am to 6 pm daily for mini-golf, weekly special events, tours and tastings. Check website for schedule. We’re at Kelder’s, a 250-year-old farm with the World’s Largest Garden Gnome!
New Paltz Karate Academy 22 North Front Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4523
Schools Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries
Berkshire Country Day School P.O. Box 867, Lenox, MA (413) 637-0755 www.berkshirecountryday.org
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org www.ecostudies.org/events.html
Eagleton School
Photosensualis 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.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 Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Printing Services 1830 Route 9; Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455
Frog Hollow Farm Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com
Hawthorne Valley School 330 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7092 www.hawthornevalleyschool.org
High Meadow School (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org
Indian Mountain School 211 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org
Institute for Integrative Nutrition (877) 730-5444 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com
The Kildonan School (845) 373-2012 www.kildonan.org
22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-4200 www.oakwoodfriends.org
Poughkeepsie Day School
Recreation Homegrown Mini-Golf at Kelder’s Farm 5755 Route 209, Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-7157 www.HomegrownMini-Golf.com Homegrown Mini-Golf is a wonderful, quirky, living art installation great for a family outing,
27 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY, and, 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 256-0788 and (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com Offering innovative comfort footwear by all your favorite brands. Merrell, Dansko, Keen, Clarks, Converse, Uggs, and lots more. Open 7 days a week—or shop online at PegasusShoes.com.
260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600, ext. 201 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org
SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3872 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews
Paper Presence 296 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 849-2443
Woodstock Weddings www.woodstockwedding.com nancybaysinger@gmail.com
Wine & Liquor
Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393 www.mistersnacks.com steve@mistersnacks.com We package the finest and most healthy packaged snacks on the market. Includes trail mixes, nuts, dried fruits, yogurts, chocolates, candy, and even hot and spicy mixes. Also, have gift items and bulk foods available.
Sunrooms Four Seasons Sunrooms Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com
Cascade Mountain Winery & Restaurant 835 Cascade Road, Amenia, NY (845) 373-9021 www.cascademt.com info@cascademt.com
In Good Taste 45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net Full service wine and spirit shop with knowledgeable staff. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 10am-9pm. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10am10pm. Sunday 12pm-6pm. Wine tastings every Saturday. We deliver and consult when planning a party, wedding or any other special occasion. See our display ad in this issue for specials.
Ommegang Brewery
446 Monterey Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4385 www.eagletonschool.com admissions@eagletonschool.com
Oakwood Friends School
Fast Signs
Pegasus Comfort Footwear
www.HudsonValleyBabies.com www.HudsonValleyChildren.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, and online Wedding Guide. Hundreds of weddingrelated professionals. Regional Bridal Show schedule, links, wed shop, vendor promotions, specials, and more. Call or E-mail for information about adding your wedding-related business.
Cooperstown, NY (800) 544-1809 www.ommegang
Tourism Adirondack Trailways/Pine Hill Trailways
Workshops
(800) 225-6815 or (845) 339-4230 ext.169 www.trailwaysny.com
Wallkill Valley Writers
Historic Huguenot Street Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660
Historic Hyde Park The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY www.HistoricHydePark.org
Hudson River Heritage (845) 876-2474 www.WhatsDutch.org
Ulster County Tourism
Writing Services
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Web Design icuPublish www.icupublish.com info@icupublish.com icuPublish a computer consult specializing in web-based graphic design, on-site training for both Mac and PC format. Complete site design, and development for personalized websites created with the professional, artist and/or collection in mind.
Weddings HudsonValleyWeddings.com 120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWeddings.com www.HudsonValleyBaby.com
(845) 255-7090 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khamherstwriters@aol.com Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated.
(845) 679-9441 www.centertopage.com Our small team works with writers nationwide— memoirists, scholars, novelists, and people seeking to develop an authentic writing practice. We mentor, edit, ghostwrite, and more. Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.
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199 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1600 www.bire.org info@bire.org
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Riding the Brain’s Waves The Power of Neurofeedback
From scientific purposes to spiritual ones, brainwave therapy could hold the key to healing and self-actualization.
by kelley granger
illustration by annie internicola
W
e expect miracles. If you research neurofeedback long enough, you’ll eventually come across that phrase. A miracle—by definition, a marvel or event that appears so far from human capability that it must be attributed to supernatural forces—seems an appropriate word for this noninvasive therapeutic endeavor, which is showing profound effects on those who’ve suffered emotional or physical trauma to the brain. It also seems a fitting description, since the actual mechanisms by which the healing process takes place are still a mystery. “Inevitably, someone will say, ‘How, exactly, does this work?’” says Dr. Daniel Meyer, a psychologist who recently opened the Hudson Valley Center for Neurofeedback (HVCNF) in Poughkeepsie with Barbara Monaco, a licensed clinical social worker. “And the answer is that nobody understands exactly how this works—but we know that it works.” From attention deficit disorder, epilepsy, and post-traumatic stress to performance optimization, the potential of neurofeedback is wide ranging and ever growing.
GETTING FEEDBACK Neurofeedback is considered a subcategory of biofeedback, the system of analysis through which information about the body is given back to a person, usually with the help of electronic devices that can register changes in heart rate, breath, perspiration, and more. Armed with this information, people become aware of, and can learn to control, physical processes that otherwise happen involuntarily. Neurofeedback takes this idea and applies it to the brain and central nervous system, supplying the client and his or her therapist with valuable information. How this information is put to use is the basis of a variety of approaches in the field of neurofeedback. At the HVCNF, Meyer and Monaco begin their work with a new client by doing a brain-mapping session, where a cap with sensors is placed on the head to pick up the frequencies of brainwave activity at 19 different sites simultaneously. A computer program records, analyzes, and quantifies the results, providing a quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG). Activity at each brain site can be scrutinized individually, and communication between sites can also be evaluated. In addition, clients are given a subjective self-assessment questionnaire regarding their levels of anxiety, inattentiveness, 78 whole living ChronograM 10/09
learning difficulties, and other factors. These results are compared with the QEEG, often showing considerable correlation. The results of the evaluation are then weighed against those in an extensive database. “We can show them the extent to which a frequency at a given site is or is not at normal limits, and we can show them the extent to which different parts of the brain are or are not communicating effectively with each other,” says Meyer. “It’s really important that we talk about both those things, because it’s not simply about how [just one] site is operating.” In order to be functioning at an optimal level, different areas of the brain need to be doing their jobs alone proficiently but also successfully working together. Take vision, for example. “It’s important how well I see in my left hemisphere and how that’s working with how well I see in my right hemisphere,” Meyer says, “and then how that’s communicated to my frontal lobes, so that they can tell me what I’m seeing and what I need to do next.”
THE MYSTERIOUS BRAIN AT WORK
The brain mapping and database provide Meyer and Monaco with information about which specific sites on the brain need to be treated, usually referred to as “hot spots”—areas that show up on brain maps in bright colors and signify some kind of distress. At subsequent sessions, sensors are placed over these locations and the attending practitioner sets parameters within the frequency of brainwave they’d like to encourage. The client then watches a computer animation—HVCNF’s software shows a jar that fills with blue cells if a client’s brain activity is moving in the right direction. “People are simply looking at a screen,” Meyer explains, “and the brain— below the level of consciousness—captures that information and then over time begins to make adjustments in how it’s functioning. A way to think about this is when you learned how to ride a bicycle, you had to learn very complex integrated behaviors—visually, with your muscles, planning where you wanted to go. As this was happening, your brain was making adjustments and creating neuropathways so that you would have an efficient neuropathway for bicycle riding. At no time during that learning experience did you have awareness of what your brain was doing, and your brain did the job perfectly well.” The entire exercise happens under the level of awareness and any mindful attempt at control: You can’t consciously force the blue cells, or whatever other animation may be used, to accumulate. “If you try to make something
happen, in all likelihood you’re going to interfere with the process,” Meyer says. “If you allow it to happen, it will. It’s very similar to what people do when they meditate—if you try to meditate, you’re probably not going to meditate. But if you pay attention to your breath and allow your muscles to relax and choose a single focus, after a while your brain will make the adjustment and you’ll fall into a meditative state.” Since opening in May, HVCNF has treated clients with varying symptoms and has demonstrable results. As one example, Monaco presents handwriting samples from a client that over four weeks of treatment evolve from erratic and almost illegible to notably smoother, clearly readable words.
TASTES OF OUR OWN MEDICINE Another neurofeedback technique, the LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback System), is performed at the Stone Mountain Center for Counseling and Biofeedback in New Paltz, which is directed by psychotherapist Dr. Stephen Larsen. A method developed by Dr. Len Ochs, LENS involves putting energy into the system; radio waves that mimic a person’s dominant brain frequencies are reflected back as a variation of that frequency. Clients are exposed to a weak wave for an extraordinarily short amount of time, usually just a couple of seconds. Unlike other methods of neurofeedback where a client’s brain makes adjustments based on visual cues from the animation (which informs the client if their brain is performing within set parameters), clients are not viewing anything during a LENS session. Larsen discovered Ochs’s work in 1996 and has been studying and applying it ever since. “This was something brand new, cutting edge, a sort of homeopathy with the tiniest dose,” he says. “Then we skillfully and carefully watched the results, which were extraordinary. People with years of seizures were getting better, those with acute depression, pain syndromes, even paralysis of body parts—they were all getting better.” Larsen’s new clients begin treatment with a brain-mapping session and by answering a questionnaire that Ochs developed, which touches on sleep patterns, energy level, emotional stability, and more. “Sometimes people are astonished at how many questions they answer as yes,” Larsen says. “The reason for so many problems is that they’re not separate problems; they all relate to the central nervous system.” He says he works with clients to restore function, which eliminates many of their symptoms and usually results in a more proac-
tive approach to taking care of themselves. While some neurofeedback camps were training brainwaves using low frequencies, as in alpha-theta training, other camps were looking to high frequencies, like SMR (sensory motor rhythm) and beta, to achieve results such as clarity and attentiveness. Larsen says, however, that according to Ochs, “it’s neither going high nor low. Instead, it’s the flexibility to go wherever you need to” for improvement. The idea of flexibility is a signature of Ochs’s work with LENS. Larsen is author of The Healing Power of Neurofeedback:The Revolutionary LENS Technique for Restoring Optimal Brain Function (2006, Healing Arts Press). Ten years in the making, the book provides an array of case studies that chronicle the ranging symptoms of clients dealing with bipolar disorder, bereavement, traumatic brain injury caused by gunshot wounds, and many more. Mike Quick of Chichester is one case study in a chapter dealing with epilepsy. His seizures began after a bad car accident and continued, at least once a month, for decades. Just six months of regular neurofeedback began to make a difference. “I feel younger, better, stronger, physically fit, and I’m in a lot better shape than I was 20 to 30 years ago,” says Quick. “I owe it all to neurofeedback.” Quick has been a client of Larsen’s for 11 years and still sees him twice a month.
BEYOND THE CLINIC
The enigmatic nature and potential of neurofeedback is not just attractive to clinical providers. Lincoln Stoller, who has a background in physics and computer programming, has a neurofeedback area set up on the second floor of his home in Shokan and gives sessions to friends and acquaintances. His interest in it takes a different direction. “You can see how that’s sort of very Western, in the idea that there’s a normal way to be and people should be encouraged to behave neurologically normally,” Stoller says. “A lot of this whole field has been built on medical remediation—that’s where the patients come from, what society expects, what doctors are familiar with, and I frankly don’t think that’s the promise of it. I think it’s very open-ended. I think it can do everything from enhance people, to evolve people, to cure individuals and social groups,” Stoller says. Earlier this year, researchers at the University of London’s psychology department presented a theory about the alpha-theta technique in neurofeedback and its apparent “enhancement of technical, communication, and artistic domains of 10/09 ChronograM whole living 79
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GRAPPLING WITH MAINSTREAMING As the field of neurofeedback picks up steam, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been more call for regulation and licensure of practitioners. Some practitioners, like Meyer at the HVCNF, have pursued certification by organizations such as the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America, which is open only to clinical healthcare professionals with a degree in psychology, nursing, counseling, or therapy. Such requirements block neurofeedback certification for many practitioners, like Stoller, who do not have a background in mental health or a related field. Stoller feels that while the effort to license neurofeedback practitioners could increase the quality of service, the field will then become â&#x20AC;&#x153;dominated by people with more letters after their name,â&#x20AC;? and leave out others with different strengths â&#x20AC;&#x153;who, in a sense, have the most to contribute and the broadest vision.â&#x20AC;? The question of practitioner qualifications, however, seems secondary to a bigger issueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the fact that many insurance companies donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize neurofeedback as a viable, and therefore reimbursable, therapy. Some organizations, like Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), point to procedural insufficiencies in neurofeedback studies that make endorsements of the techniques difficult; criticisms include a lack of control groups, small sample sizes, and a lack of randomization, among other points. Meyer says that a recently published meta-analysis of studies on neurofeedback and ADHD should put most of these criticisms to rest, having given the treatment the highest rating (level 5) for efficacy and specificity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem with profit and health is that they are clearly often at crosspurposes with each other,â&#x20AC;? says Larsen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the 1990s, the maker of Ritalin paid a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;disinformation dudeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to go around and defame biofeedback as being â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;experimentalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and dangerous, even though, by nature, it puts nothing alien into the body and simply helps it regulate itself. He was revealed to be on the retainer of the pharmaceutical company, taking a robust six-figure annual stipend for bad-mouthing something harmless and self-empowering that could help millions of families.â&#x20AC;? The feeling at the HVCNF is similar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that there are huge political forces at play related to it not being reimbursable at this point,â&#x20AC;? says Monaco. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a noninvasive, nonmedication-related treatment for many disorders that have historically been treated with antidepressants or amphetamines, and so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of resistance to going away from that model because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so lucrative.â&#x20AC;? But for legions of people like Laurie Weeks, a writer from New Paltz who suffered from bipolar disorder type 2 and associated ADHD, the therapy has been a life-changing one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of spending 10 minutes with a psychiatrist and going away with a fistful of prescriptions,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an enormous sense of collaboration with both Dr. Larsen and the rest of the staff in working out a unique therapy tailored for my particular brain.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;Ż
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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
A Mean Animal Practices the Hard Way Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
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eople often ask if we are raising Azalea as a Buddhist, and, if so, what that means. It’s true that we have Buddhas in the house; we sit, we chant, do services, light incense, spend a lot of time at a monastery, and have many shaven-headed monk friends. So there is all that. But Buddhism is a little different from the Judeo-Christian tradition, where there are certain doctrines we could teach a three-year-old; for instance, that God exists, and He loves you. It’s not that Buddhism has no core beliefs, but the heart of our practice is based on some fundamentals that are a bit trickier to translate in a Sunday school setting. And they are meant to be realized by each individual in their own lives, not accepted as true. So while Azalea is not asked to memorize any basic principles like Form is emptiness and emptiness is form; form is exactly emptiness and emptiness is exactly form, catchy though it may be, we hope that by growing up with practitioners—her parents and the larger sangha—she’ll get the gist, perhaps some merit, or at least benefit from our effort. But the bottom line is that in order to raise a Buddhist, we need to actually practice Buddhism. What exactly does that mean for a family, beyond carrying on in some Buddhist fashion? There is, of course, no one answer, or the perfect Buddhist-family style, but one thing is for sure: As the late Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche wrote, “Inasmuch as no one is going to save us, to the extent that no one is going magically to enlighten us, the path we are discussing is called ‘the hard way.’” For instance, take the other day. It was the first day back to preschool, and there was indeed a crispness, a certain bustle in the air, which got me into my favorite feeling-state of happy melancholia, filled with a longing to wear cable-knit tights. But instead, being the parent now, I packed Azalea’s ham with mayo on pita bread with back-to-school delight. I even tied up a butter cookie in waxed paper, with a note written on a heart I cut out from a yellow post-it note: Happy first day of school, Azalea! I love you, Mommy. Okay, I confess.The little heart thing got me feeling pretty darn good about myself. Kind of puffed up, even. Like the only mom in the world who added a little extra touch to her kid’s lunch that day. So when Azalea strolled in to the kitchen from where she was eating her breakfast and leaned against the fridge, staring up at me, and said, “Mommy, I wish I could be just like you,” I was kind of not totally surprised. I mean, really, who wouldn’t want to be just like me, right? And then I asked in an almost rhetorical way, “Why’s that, honey?” To which Azalea replied, “Because then I could be angry all the time.” Wow! “Do you really think I’m angry a lot?” I asked. “Um-hmm,” she answered, nodding. And then I figured if I kept asking questions about the specifics of this… interesting…statement, I might be able to crack the witness and get her to confess that she was making the whole thing up! 82 whole living ChronograM 10/09
So I asked, “What do I look like when I’m angry?” “A mean animal.” Uh-oh. The masochist in me couldn’t stop, so I followed up with, “And what does the mean animal look like?” And there before me stood a perfect mirror. It would be nice if I believed that God was up there, loving me, and I could have prayed to Him to grant me wisdom in that moment, but no such luck. Instead, as Trungpa Rinpoche writes, “The whole point of the hard way seems to be that some individual effort must be made by the student to acknowledge [her]self, to go through the process of unmasking…to stand alone, which is difficult.” So this is what I did: 1) Noticed the impulse to berate myself: You bad, bad, mean, animal! Then I let it go. 2) Noticed the impulse to soothe myself: At least you’re not as bad as that other, really bad mom. At least your kid can come up with a vivid metaphor! At least she’s honest! And then I let go of all that. 3) Noticed the impulse to fix the situation. Quickly. Feeling remorse for all the permissive growling I do, I noticed the urge to have a totally indulgent and inappropriate conversation with Azalea about how sorry I am for all the times I lose my temper or speak harshly. And how I vow to change, really I will, I promise! And then I let go of trying to fix anything, including myself. 4) Finally, I remembered to move my awareness back into my body and my wild (animal) mind, to just let the sting sting (angry all the time? Dang!), and just stay there in the kitchen, reconnecting with the ground, with Azalea, with getting ready for the first day of school. As Trungpa Rinpoche writes, “We have committed ourselves to the pain of exposing ourselves. It will be terrible, excruciating, but that is the way it is.” And indeed, that is how it was. But then you have to let go of that, too. The mean-animal incident happened a few days ago now. It is still with me, and I am definitely making more of an effort to use kind speech, be patient, and not give in to my inner mean animal as freely. After all, letting go doesn’t mean giving up. Lord knows if there is anything I am passionate about, it’s not giving up: Whether you call it being a Buddhist or just being a real person, whether you believe in God, strive for enlightenment, both, or neither, I know in my heart that by not moving away from whatever it is that hurts, I stand a chance of connecting to what I love. And what I love keeps growing. So what does it mean to raise a Buddhist? The easy part is sharing our tradition with Azalea. The hard part is practicing that tradition, together. But when I’m lucky, the youngest person in the family can help me back onto the path, demanding that I take off my ridiculous Buddha mask.
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Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net
Art Therapy Deep Clay New Paltz/Gardiner and Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 417-1369 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LMSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading expressive healing sessions. Women’s art group “Dreamfigures.” Child play therapy. Psychotherapy and brief counseling, individuals and couples. Workplace/agency/ in-school/ in-hospital expressive therapy workshops. Publication: “Getting the Inside Out” in Speaking about the Unspeakable, Dennis McCarthy editor.
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Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC— Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks
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(845) 255-1200 www.drness.com mail@drness.com Active Release Techniques (ART) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica. ART(r) is also used before and after surgery to reduce scar tissue formation and build up. ART works to break up and remove scar tissue deep within and around injured muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. The injured muscle, joint, ligament, and nerves are moved through a range of motion while a contact is held over the injured structure. This breaks up the scar tissue and heals the tissue faster than traditional treatments. ART doctors are trained in over 500 hands on protocols and must undergo rigorous written and practical examination to become certified. In order to maintain their certification in ART doctors attend yearly continuing education and re-certification by ART.
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Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.drness.com mail@drness.com Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ART(r)) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner specializing in helping athletes and active people quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries. In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART(r) to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today.
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Holistic Health Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT— Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 www.holisticcassandra.com Cassandra is a Kripalu-Certified Yoga Teacher and Certified Ayurvedic Nutritionist with a MS in Counseling Psychology. She offers integrative health counseling to individuals as well as groups, melding Ayurvedic nutritional counseling, yoga, and more traditional therapeutic techniques to guide people toward greater self-awareness, empowering them to find joy, balance, and health in their daily lives. Call for classes, appointments, and consultations.
Damsel Fly Center (845) 489-4745 www.teamnorthrup.com
John M Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, massage, and Raindrop Technique.
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Hospitals Columbia Memorial Hospital 71 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY (516) 828-7601
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Hypnosis Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753 A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Complementary Medical Hypnotism, and hypnocoaching with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential.
Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth,
headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change Your Outlook. Gain Control. Make Healthier Choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.
Integrated Kabbalistic Healing Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.
Life & Career Coaching David Basch, PCC (845) 626-0444 david@dwbcoaching.com, dwbasch@aol.com If you find yourself stuck in your career, business or personal situation, I can help you get un-stuck. As a professional certified coach with many years of experience, I work with my clients to help them produce extraordinary results. Clients gain clarity and improved insight into what they want. They very quickly develop a strategy, a plan of action and the tools to achieve their goals. Contact me for a no charge sample session now.
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Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.
Massage Therapy Bodhi Holistic Spa 323 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2233 www.bodhistudio.com
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New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Facebook Group: Brigidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well JanneDooley@gmail.com Free monthly newsletter. Brigidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice helping people grow individually and in community. Janne specializes in healing trauma, relationship issues, recovery, codependency, inner child work and EMDR. Janne also coaches parents and people in life transitions. Groups forming: Mindful Parenting and Psychospiritual group, combining guided imagery and teachings from the book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Radical Acceptanceâ&#x20AC;? by Tara Brach.
Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding
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scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.
Laura Coffey, MFA, LMSW Rosendale & Beacon, NY (845) 399-0319 undefinedreading@gmail.com Family Therapist specializing in Narrative Therapy. Practice includes eclectic interventions tailored to suit individual clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs. Healing conversations for the entire family, gerentological services for the elderly and support for caretakers. Grief counseling, motivational interviewing for substance abuse, couples work, LGBT issues, PTSD and childhood trauma, depression, anxiety and performance anxiety. Fee: $25 a clinical hour.
Amy R. Frisch, CSWR New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
Jamie Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neil, LCSW-R 30 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845)876-7600, 35 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (at train station) (845)483-7600, NY www.therapists.psychologytoday.com/47545 Regain a sense of meaning, connections, and personal control in your life. Offering a variety of approaches, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy and EMDR. Treating anxiety, trauma, depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, relationship issues, advanced recovery, ACOA, eating disorders. Individuals and couples; specializing in work with college students.
Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com I work with adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disordered behaviors, loneliness and life transitions. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve helped teens and adults with substance abuse and trauma connected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. My approach is psychodynamic, linking the painful past with current and cognitive problems which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.
Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613
K. Melissa Waterman, LCSW-R 35 Main St. Suite #333, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 464-8910 www.therapist.psychologytoday.com/52566 melissa@dragonfly88.net My goal is to encourage and guide you to find and live from your own place of joy. I have experience helping with depression, anxiety, trauma resolution, negative thinking, work, relationship problems, and spirituality issues. Certified EMDR practitioner, Sliding scale available. Groups offered.
Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER
WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees.
Radiology River Radiology 45 Pine Grove Avenue; 11 Mary’s Ave, Kingston, NY (845) 340-4500 www.riverradiology.com
Residential Care Archcare at Ferncliff Nursing Home 21 Ferncliff Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2011
Morning Star Residential Care Home 38 Elizabeth Street, Kent, CT (860) 927-3272
Resorts & Spas
Ryan Flowers and Krisha Showalter are NY State Licensed Massage Therapists with additional Certification in Structural Integration and Visceral Osteopathic Manipulation. We specialize in chronic pain conditions, structural/postural alignment and function. We are committed to providing soft tissue manipulation that is communicative and receptive to the individual. Free Consultations.
Tarot Notions-N-Potions 175 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.notions-n-potions.com
Tarot-on-the-Hudson— Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone.
Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com; www.buttermilkspa.com
Marlene Weber Day Spa
Retreat Centers Garrison Institute 14 Mary’s Way, Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org info@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change, in a monastery overlooking the Hudson River • Gelek Rimpoche: The Unique Path to Liberation, October 9-12 • Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Bardo Retreat – Opportunities for freedom within life and death, October 16-22 • Fr. Thomas Keating, Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler & Fr. Carl Arico: Heartfulness – The Christian Contemplative Journey, October 23-29 • Free public talk by Fr. Keating, October 23, 7:30 pm
Rosen Method Bodywork Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.RosenMethod.com julieezweig@gmail.com
Spiritual Flowing Spirit Healing 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com Jwalzer@flowingspirit.com
Structural Integration Hudson Valley Structural Integration 26 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4654 www.hudsonvalleysi.com
Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.com
Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.
You might be if, you’re ready to take some responsibility for what is not working in your life... career... money... relationships... creativity. I’m David Basch. I am a Certified Life and Business Coach, and I want to help you change your life. I don’t do it. You do. I merely show you possibilities. I’ve worked with people just like you to create tangible results. Take advantage of a free coaching session. You’ll immediately experience results. After four sessions, if you don’t experience the same movement, we don’t continue. Contact me at 845-626-0444 or david@dwbcoaching.com. It’s up to you. After all, hasn’t it always been? PC C /Pro fe ssio n a l C e rtifie d C o a ch
Jnana Yoga Study Group www.anjalispace.com Nondualvedanta@aol.com Jnana Yoga, the Path of Knowledge, is the subject of this ongoing study group in the Nondual tradition of Sankaracharya. The facilitator, Michael Chandra Cohen is a former swami & adjunct professor of religion at Hunter College. Open to all level aspirants. Discussion of Swami Dayananda talks.
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Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Lenox, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org
The Living Seed 521 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com
Susan DeStefano
Open to the community for over 5 years. Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced. Including pre- and post-natal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, sauna, and organic Yoga clothing. Route 299, across from Econo Lodge.
Sacred Breath Yoga 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (917) 359-1739 www.sacredbreathyoga.com info@sacredbreathyoga.com
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The program runs from November 15th - April 31st Ongoing newcomer special: 30 days of classes for $30 Please see our web-site for more details.
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Hudson River Performing Arts Center 29 Elm Street, Suite 205 Fishkill, NY 12524 (845) 896-1888
Ballet • Broadway Creative Dance • Jazz Hip Hop • Modern • Lyrical Tap • Acting • Acrobatics Musical Theater • Voice
FALL REGISTRATION Pre-School to Professional Home of the “Hudson River Youth Ballet”
www.hudsonriverperformingarts.com
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Roy Capellaro, PT Integrative Manual Physical Therapy Zero Balancing CranioSacral Therapy 120 Main Street · Gardiner · NY 845.518.1070 www.roycapellaro.com
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Open House Sunday November 8 from 12-4pm Fall Classes beginning now- See John’s website for schedules
johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420
Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York
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Joel Walzer Spiritual Healer, Channel, Attorney & Pathwork Helper
Two classes starting this month. Call now for info. ! Have confidence in your choices: Learn to choose with your heart ! Want to love another? . . . Learn to love yourself 33 Mill Hill Rd. 845.679.8989 flowingspirit.com
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A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence: relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more. Group sessions include expressive art activities - it‛s not all talk!
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Hackley provides an intellectual home for talented students, athletes, artists and musicians, with top-flight academic and extra-curricular opportunities on a picturesque 285-acre campus. Our students understand the importance of working hard on academics, sports and arts, and they understand equally the importance of working hard on friendship. It’s a tight community where everyone feels secure and cared for, and students find the comfort to become who they want to be. This spirit of community thrives in Hackley’s 5-day boarding program, where students deepen these friendships and feelings of support in the
community. Strong relationships with teachers, coaches and mentors become stronger, as students realize their teachers— over a third of whom live on campus— continue to invest their time and caring in them even when the school day has ended. We offer a community so warm, so accepting, so supportive, that our boarders unanimously refer to it as their “second family.” After spending weekdays with us, they spend weekends at home, reconnecting with their family, neighbors and other friends, and strengthening these aspects of their identity as well. Come visit us, and consider becoming a new member of the Hackley family.
HACKLEY SCHOOL An independent coed school for grades K–12 Tarrytown, New York
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Oakwood Friends School, guided by Quaker principles, educates and strengthens young people for lives of conscience, compassion and accomplishment. Discover Oakwood... and find your own voice.
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What Would Holden Do? The Truth About Boarding Schools By Anne Roderique-Jones
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here was a time not so long ago when broaching the subject of boarding school could leave a child shaking in their boots. The name alone can make you shudder by conjuring up images of dark halls, stringent headmistresses, and isolation. A parent could use this as a scare tactic to coerce good behavior out of a youngster. If you’re read Catcher in the Rye then you know that the young mind of Holden Caulfield despised nothing more than phonies at Pency Prep—so much so that his actions led to his expulsion. For many Americans, especially those who have not lived on the East Coast, where boarding schools are more prevalent, the life of a boarder remains a mystery, a bit intriguing and possibly a misconception. Today, boarding school life is nothing like that of Holden Caulfield’s era, when prep school was often associated with an upper echelon of class, the social elite. Now, financial aid is more readily available and students are applying to boarding schools like they would a university. Kathryn Sullivan, the director of admissions at Connecticut’s Kent School, says, “It’s a college process, but at a high school level.” She also believes it’s the students who are making the final decisions on where they’ll be attending boarding school.
HERE AND ABROAD There are three main types of boarding schools: college-prep or secondary schools; junior boarding schools; and therapeutic boarding schools. Military and religious boarding schools are also somewhat common in the US. College-prep boarding schools are typically for the high school-age students and often offer advanced course studies. These schools prepare the students to thrive academically in college. The schools can be small or large, coed or not. Richard Brander, the director of enrollment and external affairs at South Kent School, an all-boys secondary school in South Kent, Connecticut, reflects on what particular type of student thrives in a boarding school environment: “The kid who is excited to live away from home, who is intellectually curious and motivated to do well. Also, those who might get lost in the big sea of public school.” (There are only 153 students currently enrolled at South Kent.) Sullivan’s perspective is similar in that the student must want to be there. “The classes are smaller,” she says. “They do want to be away from home, and have the opportunity to be the lead in the school musical and take six different language options.” 10/09 ChronograM boarding schools 91
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The junior boarding schools are for children from first through eight grades, and, according to www.boardingschoolsinfo.com, “most junior schools are part of a larger campus that includes middle and high school grades as well. A junior school can greatly benefit younger students who have trouble developing the discipline necessary to study and stay organized. The smaller class sizes also enable teachers to give each student more focused attention.” A 1994 article in the London Times discussed the increasing number of working parents who were opting for junior boarding schools over public or private day schools. The burden of a daily commute combined with the weekly costs of after-school childcare, it read, could be put toward an education at boarding school. A mother and two boys chronicled their positive experience with boarding school and the superior education, independence, and personal relationships because of this decision. Since then, statistics show that the number of pupils in boarding schools has increased for the first time since the 1980s, despite higher fees. We should assume that women will continue to grow in the work force, so perhaps junior boarding school is the solution to a happy and harmonious home life. Mike Stubbs is the associate director of admissions at Indian Mountain School, a coed junior boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Boarding students at Indian Mountain are generally 11 to 16 years old. Stubbs feels that the unique dynamic of the junior boarding school is much more nurturing a day school. While it seems that secondary boarding schools put more academic pressure on the student, junior boarding schools do not, he says. “It’s not sink or swim,” says Stubbs. “We provide them with the tools and skills to succeed. They have lots of options—music, art.” Stubbs gives an inspiring example of a ninth-grade student who was playing five instruments by graduation day.That’s not to say that there’s not a rigorous academic curriculum at Indian Mountain. “We just don’t have our students [only] doing calculus,” he says. So why do parents send an 11-year-old to boarding school? There are a number of reasons why a young person can thrive in this environment. The first could be unfit social or family conditions in the home. In these circumstances, the child or young adult can learn better away from the home. There are also cases where some young people who have learning issues will benefit in boarding school environments. Indian Mountain is equipped to support these students and to give more attention to students with extensive tutoring, such as those with mild dyslexia. There are also parents who want to remove children from city environments. One particular parent brought her daughter to Indian Mountain because the 15-year-daughter was living in a metropolitan area and able to enter a bar without being stopped. “We like kids to be kids as long as possible,” Stubbs says. As in the case of the London mother, some parents find it difficult to offer round-the-clock support. Stubbs says that where he works he’s not just a teacher, he’s a fellow human being. “These students not only see me teaching math, but as a coach and a dorm affiliate,” he explains. “They are making connections with adults that can be appreciated on so many levels.” Finally, therapeutic boarding schools are for kids with special learning needs or unstable home lives. These schools have staff trained especially for these therapeutic schools. SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE A variety of online forums can be found with discussions pertaining to boarding schools. A question was posed on www.47things.com from a sophomore asking a group of peers of their opinion of boarding school and their thoughts on a transfer. The responses were surprisingly well thought out for such young minds. One member says that, “although it was intense, it changed me immeasurably.” On the message board of a newlywed site, www.TheNest.com, married women discuss their experiences at boarding schools. The only non-glowing report was from a member whose husband had been a day boarder. She says that this made him feel like a “second-class citizen.” The thread hosts discussions of how these women would not have had opportunities to meet people of other backgrounds, races, and religions were it not for their years at boarding school. More than one had plans of sending their own children to boarding school. The tightly knit relationships that are formed are apparent in the online thread. One member speaks of the need to attend a Latin teacher’s memorial and another member tells of meeting her spouse at boarding school.
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Katherine Pereira, 19, describes her experience at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where she attended the last two years of high school. Enrolling was her own idea, and it initially shocked her parents. She had attended a summer school program at Portsmouth Abbey and â&#x20AC;&#x153;fell in love with the place,â&#x20AC;? she says, adding that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a great two years at boarding school. Of course it was intense, and having class on Saturdays and mass twice a week took some getting used to, but I really enjoyed it. It was a lot of work but it was also a lot of fun. How many kids can say that they used to hang out with a bunch of cool monks?â&#x20AC;? As far as the negative points go, Pereiraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents live in Puerto Rico and she was only able to visit for Christmas, spring, and summer breaks, which made it especially difficult when her father was diagnosed with kidney failure. But she states that this distance also made the relationship stronger. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It made me really excited to see my parents and get to spend time with them,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plus, I had so much to tell them and so much to share with them. We also fought a lot less.â&#x20AC;? During the time that Pereira was attending the school, her first and closest friend that she made at school committed suicide on campus. Despite this she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I were given the choice, I would do it all over again. I think nothing compares to the bonds that are made at a boarding school, whether with faculty members or fellow students.â&#x20AC;? Boarding schools work to prepare students for college life, not only academically, but mentally as well. Pereira, who now attends Fordham University, says that boarding school made the transition to college a lot smoother and a lot easier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was already used to having a roommate and sharing a bathroom, being away from home, and all that stuff, so it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a big deal.â&#x20AC;? She said that some of her classes at Portsmouth were actually more difficult and intense than her college courses, therefore she has rarely felt overwhelmed by the workload in college thus far. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been a procrastinator and I still am,â&#x20AC;? Pereira says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the Abbey helped me start managing my time better, which definitely comes in handy when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in college.â&#x20AC;? Rachel Carey attended the Millbrook School, a coed school in Millbrook. Carey, who is 20 and now attends Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, says something similar about her preparation for college. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Had one of my teachers at Millbrook not recommended applying to Trinity, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if I would have come to college here, or even, have heard of it,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coming into college, I definitely felt as if I had an advantage, for I felt academically prepared.â&#x20AC;? Resources Boarding School Directory www.boardingschoolsinfo.com Indian Mountain School www.indianmountain.org Kent School www.kent-school.edu Millbrook School www.millbrook.org South Kent School www.southkentschool.org
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OPEN HOUSE & BOOK FESTIVAL Sunday November 1st, 10am - 2pm Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY Visit our campus & meet our teachers. Buy new & used books. Enjoy hearty food & drink, music, hands-on craft activities and more. Donations of â&#x20AC;&#x153;gently usedâ&#x20AC;? books are appreciated. Drop-off location at the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Main Office M-F, 9am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3pm.
Storm King Lodge
Currently accepting applications for 2010-2011 school year. Openings available for current year in first grade and upper school.
845.687.4855 highmeadowschool.org
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Come & enjoy our cozy Lodge, converted from an early 1800â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post-and-beam barn, and Guest Cottage in a country setting with gardens, pool and mountain views. The Great Room offers a comfortable place to relax, with a roaring ďŹ re on winter evenings or enjoy those summer nights on the covered veranda. Choose from six comfortable guest rooms with private baths. Comforts include central AC, several ďŹ replaces, spacious lawns, gardens and the grand swimming pool. Located near Storm King Art Center, West Point, DIA: Beacon, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, and 1 hour from NYC. Great restaurants nearby. Recommended as a Great B & B â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lonely Planet.com
100 Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville (Cornwall), NY 10953 845.534.9421 | www.stormkinglodge.com
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Karen Sargsyan's Human Behaviour, Paper, iron, clay, wood, stirring system, sound system, 85”x115”x105”, 2007. part of the "double dutch" exhibit at hvcca in peekskill. Courtesy of Private Collection, New York
Dutch Treat The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art is located in Peekskill, which was founded by the Dutch in the mid-1600s and gets its name from a resident of New Amsterdam (New York City), Jan Peeck. Curated by the founders of the HVCAA, Mark and Livia Strauss, Double Dutch, an exhibition of 16 young Dutch artists, celebrates the Quadricentennial of the Dutch discovery and settlement of the Hudson River and its environs. As a major port city, Amsterdam has long been known for its multiculturalism. Indeed, the cultural diversity of contemporary “New Amsterdam” can be viewed in part as a legacy of our country’s Dutch heritage. Most of the 16 artists whose work is on view at the HVCCA were born in the Netherlands, but many come from a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds, from Armenia to Indonesia, France, New Zealand, and the United States. Daan Padmos, whose work Time Share—a monumental “house” of Cor-Ten steel propped up under one corner by a steel cylinder—is installed at Riverfront Green Park, was born in Rotterdam but now lives in Westchester. What unties these artists is a Dutchness that, far from being monolithic, is open, diverse, curious, and tolerant. The majority of the work in this exhibition can be described as “installation”—neither painting nor sculpture nor architecture (nor theater, cinema, or music)—but incorporating and mixing conventions from these disciplines. Installation itself is characterized by diversity and openness, and the works here, many of which were created specifically for this exhibition, are as varied as its participants. The centerpiece of the show has to be Job Koelewijn’s Sancturary, a 47-foot long, full-scale model of a gas station made entirely of over 3,000 art books from the artist’s library. The “roof” of the work looms elegantly overhead, supported centrally by a single tapered column. At 47, Koelewijn—a kind of eminence grise in relation to the younger generation in Amsterdam—is the oldest in this show of rather young artists. An interest in architecture is reflected in many of the works: Rob Voerman’s meticulously painted works on paper depict a sort of sci-fi vision of urban utopia—or
is it dystopia? It remains open to interpretation. Dylan Graham’s A Geocentric Model is a multimedia installation that tackles astrology, burial rites, and the cosmos. Painting meets architecture in Alon Levin’s On Eagles and Empire, in which multiple panels recording the artist’s strivings to paint the imperial bird ascend a broken tower that impotently projects power. Maartje Korstanje and Lara Schnitger each address sexuality and eroticism. Korstanje’s sculptures, which delight in the vulgarity of their materials and colors and in the surrealistic suggestiveness of their bulbous biomorphic forms, offer a welcome change in tone from the ponderousness of some of the other works in the show. Also noteworthy is Martha Colburn’s seven-minute animated video Myth Labs. Colburn uses hand-painted cut-out figures and imagery, including Dutch settlers, Jesus, machine gun-toting soldiers, and crystal meth users, to create this animated short film that seems to want to deconstruct the machinations of myth-making by conflating historical imagery. It’s not clear what the film is trying to say—one suspects the medium is the message here. Great fun to watch, it is richly visual and the soundtrack has a wonderfully low-tech, DIY aesthetic that suits it perfectly. Dutch artists have traditionally enjoyed an extraordinary level of state funding. This means that their work doesn’t always depend on the vicissitudes of the marketplace, which tends to produce more “projects” that are funded and fewer “objects” for sale. The prevalence of an “installational” mode of working among these artists may owe something to these economics. One can only imagine the spectacular “tea-parties” that the right wing in this country would organize in opposition to implementing “socialized art” here. “Double Dutch” will be exhibited through July 26, 2010, at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill. (914) 788-0100; www.hvcca.org. —Jeff Crane
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THURSDAY 1 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745. The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany 6:30pm. Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
Body / Mind / Spirit Edgar Cayce Healing Circle 7-9pm. Channeled healing circle with Bente Hansen. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. $20/$25.
Classes Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Learn Perspective with George Hayes 10pm-12pm. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Recent Photographs by Michael Sibilia 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. Kmoca.org.
French Wine Tasting with Wendy Crispell 5pm-7pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Dance
Salad 5pm-8pm. SUNY New Paltz student artwork. Shirt Factory, Kingston. brinkexhibit@gmail.com.
RVGA's Harvest Dinner and Barn Dance 6pm-9pm. Norwegian Wood Farm, Kerhonkson. www.rondoutvalleygrowers.org.
Infra-Structure 5pm-8pm. Photographs of Kingston by Richard Edelman. Donskoj and Company, Kingston. 338-8473.
Masquerade Gala Fundraiser 6pm. Benefit for Family of Woodstock. $50. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 338-5953.
An Enduring Influence 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Dream Festival Opening 8pm. Shirt Factory, Kingston. www.deeplistening.org.
Forty Years of Drawings and Small Works 5:45pm-7pm. Tony Thompson. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Film
Swing Away Stress 7pm-11pm. Eleventh annual stress-reducing fundraiser, dancing to The Jim Osborn Orchestra. Dutchess Manor, Beacon. 473-2500 ext. 1305. American Ballet Theatre 8pm. $25/$40/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
FILM Woodstock Film Festival: 10 Year Anniversary Locations in Kingston, Woodstock, Rosendale and Rhinebeck. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
Music
Plein Air Watercolor in the Hudson Valley 12pm-4pm. $180/$160 member. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Home Video Call for times. With special guests Asa Ransom, No Body Parts and DJ P. Josh. Jason’s Upstairs Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-8787.
Introduction to Permaculture Design 6pm-9pm. $125. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Eric Erickson 6pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.
Be Brave Mask Making 6pm-8:30pm. 4 sessions. $144/$130 ASK members. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 338-0331. Beading Class 6pm-8:30pm. $25. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. The Art of Monoprinting 6:30pm-9:30pm. $220/$200 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
FILM Woodstock Film Festival: 10 Year Anniversary Locations in Kingston, Woodstock, Rosendale and Rhinebeck. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
Music Home Video 10pm. Techno dance. The Black Swan, Tivoli. 757-3777. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Circle: Songwriters In The Round 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers 7:30pm. $35-$55. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. The Gypsy Nomads 8pm. French Gypsy Celtic cabaret. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Spoken Word Lincoln's Navy Call for times. Coast Guard Historian, Don Canney. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie. 485-3445. Social Networking Workshop 12pm-3pm. Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce, Poughkeepsie. 454-1700. The Oldest Dominicans 4pm. Villa Library, Mt. St. Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3290.
Theater Diamond Street Call for times. Opera. $50/$25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Play by Play 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Dramatic Performance: Haarlem Berlin 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599.
Connor Kennedy 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Jazz the Night Away 7:30pm. Dave Friedman's Birthday Bash Jazz Jam. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. John Sebastian & David Grisman 8pm. $65. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. The Pone Ensemble 8pm. Classical music. $16/$12 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Jim Curtin 8pm. Jazz. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. They Might Be Giants 8pm. $22. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Main Street Band 8pm. Rock. Dockside Grill, Athens. (518) 444-8080. Beppe Gambetta 8pm. Italian flatpicking guitar wizard. $20. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 356-3197. Butter 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Erin Hobson Compact 9pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company. 229-8277. The Mighty Uke 9pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Walt Michael & Company 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Spoken Word Jerry Seinfeld 7pm. Comedy. $47-$77. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Theater Diamond Street Call for times. Opera. $50/$25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Dramatic Performance: Haarlem Berlin 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. 3-Hole Punch 8pm. Trio of new plays by Hudson Valley writer James Sheldon. Copake Grange Theater, Copake. 677-4446. Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. Play by Play 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Side by Side 8pm. Sondheim revue. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops
Turbulent Voyage 8pm. Original play about Henry Hudson by playwright Paul Cooper. $12/$10 members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Writing Workshop with Eleni Sikelianos Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144.
Workshops
Considering the Fiscal Sponsorship Model to Structure and Support Art Projects 2pm. $10. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100. Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438. Insurance 101 and Radio Advertising 6pm-8pm. $15/$10 members. Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce, Rhinebeck. 876-5904. How to Give a Great Back Rub 6:30pm-8pm. $15/$25 couple. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 2 Body / Mind / Spirit Inner Peace: Inner Power through Raja Yoga Meditation Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
Fall Foliage in Oil 10am-Sunday, October 4, 5pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Introduction to Crystal Healing 6:30pm-8pm. $30. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
SATURDAY 3 Art One River, Many Streams Folk Festival 2009 Annual celebration of folk and traditional arts. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222. Stories in Clay and Cloth 1pm-5pm. Clay tapestries clay vessels, clay furniture and etchings by Marlene Ferrell Parillo. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.
Forever at War 6pm. Works by painter Ben Tritt, architects Aaron and Haily Tweedie, designer Albert Sultan, and photographer Will Wendt. Goliath Gallery, Hillsdale. www.goliathgallery.org. Nathaniel Gold: Paintings and Drawings 6pm-8pm. Unison Gallery, Water Street Market. New Paltz. 255-1559. For the Animals Art Auction 4-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.
Body / Mind / Spirit Sharing Shabbat 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327. Vision Board Workshop 12pm-4pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Voices of the Amazon Jungle 7pm-9:30pm. Healing circle with Eda Zavala, ancestral medicine from the Amazon Jungle. $10. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225.
Classes Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Music Therapy for Children with Disabilities 10am-11am. 7 sessions. $175/$157.50 ASK members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Luminist Snowscapes with Mike Jaroszko 1pm-3pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Color - Learned Intuition with William Noonan 1:30pm-4pm. 4 sessions. $130. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance American Ballet Theatre 8pm. $25/$40/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. English Country Dance 8pm-11pm. Lesson at 7:30. $10. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 679-8587. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. All-volunteer community dance. $5/$2 teens and seniors/volunteers and children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.
C. B. Smith 1pm. Barnes and Noble, Poughkeepsie. 485-2224. Anthony Nisi 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Metropolitan Hot Club 3pm. Jazz. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976. They Might Be Giants 3pm. Indie-rock. $22/$14 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. The Virginia Wolves & Quitzow 3pm. Acoustic. Benefit for Century House Historical Society. Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale. Rush Of Fools 6:30pm. Christian music. Calvary Chapel Hudson Valley, Poughkeepsie. 454-0467. FODfest 09 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Liz Dieleman 7pm. Acoustic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Two Guitars with Gus Wieland 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Music for an Increasing Number of Strings 7:30pm. Leaf Peepers Concert Series. $20. St. James Catholic Church, Chatham. (518) 325-3805. Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer 8pm. Mix of classical, bluegrass, traditional Indian music and jazz. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Frank Vignola's Hot Club 8pm. $25. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Jen Clapp 8pm. Full band show with Michael Holt opening. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Kaisssa and Her Band 8pm. Afro-pop. $25/$20 members/$15 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-1559. Music Faculty Recital 8pm. Concert of solo and chamber music. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Hurley Mountain Highway 9pm. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277. Mose Allison 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Country Seats Tour Barn Supper Call for times. $75. Call for location. 876-2474.
The Rhodes 9pm. Classic rock. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803.
Celebrate the Apple Call for times. Apple turkey carving, apple launching, eco-discovery trail. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825.
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll Blues Band! 10pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Outdoor Flea Market Call for times. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 297-8110.
Sunset Rock and the Catskill Mountain House Call for times. Guided hike, moderate. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.
Hyde Park Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111.
The Garden Conservancy Open Days Program Call for times. Self-guided tour of private gardens. Pawling, Pawling. (888) 842-2442.
Art in the Park & Classic Car Show 9am-4pm. Artists, craftsmen and unique items. Verkeerder Kill Park, Pine Bush. 744-3960. Millerton Farmers Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Riverside Farmers and Artisans Market 9:30am-1:30pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Suicide Prevention Walk 9:30am-11:30am. Forsyth Park, Kingston. 331-5300. The Painted Ladies of the Village 10am-12pm. Walking tour of interesting homes. $12/$10 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. Heart of the Hudson Valley Bounty Festival 10am-4pm. L ocally grown food, arts and crafts, music, kids’ activities. $5/$2 seniors/$children free. CluettSchantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789.
Flowers, Flowers, Flowers 3pm-5pm. Watercolors by Claudia Engel. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
Classes
Before They Disappeared from the Farm 3pm-6pm. Works by Elana Goren. Beanrunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
African American Culture and Heritage Festival 11am-4:30pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.
Impressionism in Oil or Pastel with Dennis Fanton 10pm-12pm. $100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
So Far, So Close 5pm-7pm. Paintings by Hendrik Dijk. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
Working Class Hero 3pm-5pm. John Lennon art and music event. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
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Events
Hudson River Heritage Country Seats Tour 10am-5pm. Self-driving tour of significant architecture and treasured landscapes features rural Dutch American farmsteads. Call for location. 876-2474.
Sukkot Family Service Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Woodstock Film Festival: 10 Year Anniversary Locations in Kingston, Woodstock, Rosendale and Rhinebeck. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
The Outdoors
Singles and Sociables Hike: Devil's Path 9am-4pm. Strenuous 10-mile hike. Call for location. 255-1559.
Spoken Word The Coyote, from Westchester to Woodstock 1pm. Overlook Mountain Fire Tower, Woodstock. 679-2580. Reading/Book Signing by Poet Joan I. Siegel 2pm-4pm. Borders Books and Music, Middletown. 695-2233. Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring Chuck Tripi. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165. Greg Olear 7pm. Author of Totally Killer. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater Diamond Street Call for times. Opera. $50/$25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. 3-Hole Punch 5pm/8pm. Trio of new plays by Hudson Valley writer James Sheldon. Copake Grange Theater, Copake. 677-4446. Dramatic Performance: Haarlem Berlin 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Play by Play 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Side By Side 8pm. Sondheim revue. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
art wallaceana
from scott serrano's "wallaceana" (l-r): Blakelocks Nocturnal Arum and Tri Colored Cereus, part of the "great prentenders" exhibit at carrie haddad in hudson.
News from Nowhere “Mr. Raymond Serrano, Noted Botanical Excursionist, Natural Illustrator, Intrepid Explorer, & Scientific Chronicler, Has Recently Returned from a Botanical Exploration Mission to the Mysterious and Hitherto Unexplored Tropical Island of ‘Wallaceana’” reads the invitation to Scott Serrano’s show at the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson. Wallaceana is roughly the size of England, with no clear location; some place names are reminiscent of Brazil, some of Indonesia. Like Atlantis, it’s an ideal, near-mythical island. Serrano invented the place as a tribute to Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), the British explorer, naturalist, and author of The Malay Archipelago. In 1858 Wallace, while suffering from malarial fever in Indonesia, stumbled upon the concept of evolution. He wrote to Charles Darwin, which spurred the naturalist to begin On the Origin of Species. “That’s what inspired the whole project; read The Malay Archipelago and you get the sense of a man who has the spirit of a five-year-old boy running with glee,” Serrano explains. Explorers are true generalists—almost like artists. “Wallace’s books are filled with drawings of all the tribes, and what kind of food they ate. He just was a sponge; he took it all in with fascination and love. And when I read it, I thought, ‘It’s amazing that this is not taught in school!’” The drawings illustrating Wallaceana and the accompanying wall texts depict a tropical paradise beset by contemporary evils, carefully symbolized. The social commentary is so subtle as to be almost subliminal. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K. Dick, Serrano creates imaginary tales that read like a geography textbook. “If people walk into my exhibition and say, ‘Somebody stuck art on the wall,’ I’ve failed,” Serrano admits. “If they walk up and say, ‘Is this
a science exhibition?’ I’ve succeeded.” “Kurtz’s Five Fingered Creeper,” inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, features a passion fruit named after Kurtz, the antagonist of the novel. The plant strangles tall, black-barked trees, symbolizing the effect of colonialism on Africa. The fruits in the drawing resemble shriveled human skulls. (This drawing is rooted in botanical fact: Passion fruit plants actually do strangle trees.) For 12 years, Serrano was a performance artist based in San Francisco. In 2000 he received an Andy Warhol Arts Grant of $20,000 to dissect his own face—or, actually, a prosthesis of his face. “I let little kids come up and stretch my muscles off my face, and I sliced nerves off, autographed them, put them in specimen tubes, and gave them to the kids,” Serrano recalls. As part of his self-dissection, Serrano made meticulous anatomical drawings. This led him back to art on the page. Serrano experimented with different styles until he found one sufficiently antiquarian-looking. “All the pieces are based on Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora—romantic, Gothic, lush,” he notes. The plates of Thornton’s book, illustrated by Thomas Medland (1755-1833), are vivid and dreamlike. Serrano used a laborious stipple technique, requiring as much as a year to complete one drawing. “Wallaceana” is part of a show titled “Great Pretenders: An Exhibit of Art Fakery,” which also features Mark Beard, Paul Chojnowski, Kahn and Selesnick, and Mark Catalina, and which will be exhibited at the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson through October 11. (518) 828-1915; www.carriehaddadgallery.com. —Sparrow 10/09 ChronograM forecast 97
Workshops Fourteenth Annual Hawk Migration Workshop Call for times. $28/$18 members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Portrait Workshop with Mary Mugele Sealfon 10am-4pm. $74. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Writing and Getting It Published 1pm-3pm. 5-session series with Iris Litt. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
SUNDAY 4 Art Sunday Atelier 9:30am-12pm. Still life set up. $10. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Bike Rides: The Exhibition 1pm-5pm. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. Heads & Tails 2pm-4pm. New ceramic works by Nanette Rainone and Felicia Flanagan. Rosendale CafĂŠ, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Peter Rowan & Tony Rice Quartet 7:30pm. Acoustic. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Freelance Writing for Magazines 1pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
The Outdoors
Events
Singles and Sociables Hike: Awosting Falls 9:30am-4:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Think Pink 5pm-7:30pm. To raise awareness about Breast Cancer. River Station Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 452-9207.
Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Spoken Word
Music
Sunset Reading Series 4pm. Edwin Torres blurs the boundaries between poetry, theater, and music. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. 265-4555.
Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Bernie Williams 7:30pm. $14.50-$34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Side By Side 3pm. Sondheim revue. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Spoken Word
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Turbulent Voyage 3pm. Original play about Henry Hudson by playwright Paul Cooper. $12/$10 members. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Workshops
Theater Play by Play 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
The Dog Show: When the Model Barks 2pm-6pm. A benefit exhibition for companion animals in need. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090.
Workshops
Body / Mind / Spirit
Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Environmental Portraiture Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
Photographing the Nude in the Studio 10am-4pm. $120/$100. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Magical Time with Spirits of the Amazon Jungle 10am-1:30pm. Eda Zavala. $50. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225.
Acting with Andrew 1pm-3pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Psychic Readings 11am-4pm. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Beginning Oil Painting with Steve Blumenthal 1pm-3:30pm. 14 sessions. 4 sessions $100/$275 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Deborah's Galleries: Connect with Those Who Have Passed 1pm-3pm. Gallery readings. $30/$35. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Birth Angels 2pm-5pm. $40/$35 in advance. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. CoSM Full Moon Ceremony 7pm-12am. Ceremony followed by drum and dance. $10. CoSM Art Sanctuary, Wappingers Falls. 632-8330.
Classes Sunday Salsa Dance Class with Pam and Jorge 8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Dance American Ballet Theatre 3pm. $25/$40/$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Events Celebrate the Apple Call for times. Apple turkey carving, apple launching, eco-discovery trail. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. 21st Annual Warwick Applefest 10am-5pm. Harvest celebration with a festival of apples, arts, crafts, foods, entertainment, games, and amusements. Village of Warwick, Warwick. 987-8300. Hudson River Heritage Country Seats Tour 10am-5pm. Self-driving tour of significant architecture and treasured landscapes features rural Dutch American farmsteads. Call for location. 876-2474. Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. African American Culture and Heritage Festival 11am-4:30pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.
Backyard Fruit Growing and Tasting 2pm-5pm. Lee Reich. $40/$30 in advance. Call for location. 255-0417. Birth Angels 2pm-5pm. $40/$35. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Pet Communication Workshop 5:30pm-7pm. $20. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
MONDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Soul Readings 12pm-6pm. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Guided Visual Meditation 6pm-7pm. $12. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. W/George Heidcamp. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. Call 943-8370 to register.
Resonance Call for times. Jazz. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300. Erin Hobson Compact 11am. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Anthony Nisi 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Music Faculty Recital 3pm. Music of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Reger. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Cindy Bullens 7:30pm. Songs of love, loss, faith and hope. Jewish Community Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-0430.
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The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Laughter exercises with deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030. Projective Dream Work 6:30-8:30pm. With Melissa Sweet. Mirabai, Woodstock. Call 246-6195 to register. $10. The Creative Spirit Study Group 5pm-5:30pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Classes Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Different levels offered at different times. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939. Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Botanical Drawing and Painting in Watercolor 10am-1pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Studio 208 Open Level Bellydance Class 6pm-7pm. $60 series/$15 class. Studio 208, Cornwall. Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance
Events
Intro to Bookbinding & Book Restoration 5:30pm-8:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Oakwood Friends School Information Session 9:30am. Speakers and cmapus tour. Poughkeepsie. (800) 843-3341. Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. 2nd Annual Chef Challenge. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618. African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Events
Music
Classes Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Different levels at different times. $60 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Kent CT's Annual Pumpkin Run 12pm. 5 mile run. $20/$18 in advance. Kent Town Hall, Kent, Connecticut. www.kentct.com.
Ben Folds 9pm. Singer-songwriter. $37.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
The Outdoors
Music
Workshops
Music
Body / Mind / Spirit
Holistic Eye Care 7:30pm-9:30pm. $15/$10 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Memorial Service for Michelle Gluck 12:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Woodstock Film Festival: 10 Year Anniversary Locations in Kingston, Woodstock, Rosendale and Rhinebeck. www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
WEDNESDAY 7
Yoga Meet Dance 9:15am-10:15am. $8/$5 seniors. New Paltz Community, New Paltz. www.theartscommunity.com.
Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
FILM
Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Apple and Harvest Festival 12pm-3pm. Sponsored by Family of Woodstock. Cantine Field, Saugerties. 331-7080.
The Big Read 2009 Opening Reception 5pm. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Poughkeepsie Library. www.poklib.org.
Ken Moss: How I Teach 5pm. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz. 257-3933.
How to Overcome Procrastination Now 7pm-9:30pm. $25/$20 in advance. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.
TUESDAY 6 Body / Mind / Spirit Spirit Readings with Psychic Adam Bernstein 12pm-6pm. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Gentle Yoga 6pm-7pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. Archangel Metatron and master teachers. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Sky Top 9:30am-1:30pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Classics in Religion Reading Group 10:30am. Hildegard of Bingen. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Theater Play by Play 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Workshops Watercolor Workshop 11am-5pm. $180/$160 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. How to Build a Successful Web Based Business 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601.
THURSDAY 8
The Art of Monoprinting 6:30pm-9:30pm. $220/$200 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Events Broads Regional Arm Wrestling League Event 7pm. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-3976.
Music
Kristen Capolino, UFO, and Downfire 7pm. Classic rock. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 7:30pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Lucinda Williams with Buick 6 7:30pm. $47/$42 members. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Wood Brothers 8pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Spoken Word H2O and Business: Risks, Strategies, Sustainability 5:30pm. Gregory Kelder. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2609.
Theater Play by Play 7:30pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Red Masquerade 8pm. By playwright Jack Wade. $16/$14 students, faculty and staff. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3880.
Workshops Fall Foliage in Watercolor Monotype 9am-Friday, October 9, 4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Monotype Projects 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Expressive Collage: Yura Adams 9am-12. $10. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438. Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Hudson Opera House, (518) 822-1438. Print Advertising and Chamber Membership 6pm-8pm. $15/$10 members. Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce, Rhinebeck. 876-5904. Topiary 6:30pm-8pm. Create your own fresh floral topiary. $10. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 9 Art Fall Foliage en Plein Air with Shawn Dell Joyce 9am-12pm. $30/$100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Columbia County African American Family Exhibit 6pm-8pm. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438. Picture Books by the Crews Family 6pm-12am. Artspace, Germantown. (518) 537-4469
Body / Mind / Spirit Chain Reaction of Happiness Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Deepening Call for times. Open these channels in ourselves: dream work, intuition, meditation, and psychological process. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Simchat Torah Family Service Call for times. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327. Sufism:The Path of Love and Knowledge Call for times. Tasnim Hermila Fernandez. $280. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. The Unique Path to Liberation With Gelek Rimpoche. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. The Art of Living: Beyond Loss & Grief Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Hypnosis: Ancient Shamanic and Contemporary Perspectives 7pm-9pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Women's Voices; Women's Lives
Body / Mind / Spirit
8pm. 14th Annual Dream Festival. $16/$12 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Angelic Channeling 7pm-9pm. Group channeling with Margaret Doner. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Four Steps to a Satisfying Life 7pm-9pm. Meditation class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 856-9000.
Classes
Classes
Classes
Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
9:30am-3:30pm. $60. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Watercolor with Steve Blumenthal
Impressionism in Oil or Pastel with Dennis Fanton 10pm-12pm. $100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Learn Perspective with George Hayes 10pm-12pm. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 8pm. Faculty and student pieces. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470. Zydeco Dance 8pm-11pm. With Li'l Anne & Hot Cayenne, lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061. Salsa Dance 9:30pm. $5. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Events Mystic Garden Party Call for times. Conscious Activation Festival. Mountain Valley "Peg Leg Bates" Resort Club, Kerhonkson. (888) 966-2568.
Film Inspirational Movie Night 6:30pm-9pm. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Before Mickey Mouse: A History of American Animation 7pm. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. John Lennon Pot-Luck Movie Night 8pm-11pm. Lennon DVDs. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
Music Art Hightower 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Hyde Park Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111.
Garrin Benfield 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467.
Millerton Farmers Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250.
The Rhodes 10pm. Rock. Cabaloosa, New Paltz. 255-3400.
Flea Market 9am. Kandr Building, Poughkeepsie. 227-3327.
The Outdoors
Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 11am-4pm. $9. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-1989.
Friends of SKIPPER Kid's Sale 9am-2pm. Benefit to prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome. Jewish Community Center of Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie. 471-0430. Classics Under the Gunks Car Show 9am-4pm. Kiernan Farm, Gardiner. www.classicsunderthegunks.com. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Riverside Farmers and Artisans Market 9:30am-1:30pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Walk to Fight Hunger 10am. Benefits the Hudson Valley Food bank. Chadwick Lake Park, Newburgh. 534-5344. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 10am-5pm. $9. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-1989. Rosendale Community Drum Festival 10am-6pm. Workshops in multicultural drum and dance, activities for all ages and skill levels. Call for location. 658-4136.
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Rhododendron Bridge and Beyond 9:30am-3pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 2pm. Nancy Wiley. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Poets Patti Martin; Susan Hoover, and Victoria Sullivan. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. www.woodstockartsconsortium.org. Artist Talk with Annette Cords and Mare Vaccaro 5pm-8pm. Posie Kviat Gallery, Hudson. (518) 653-5407. Take a Seat with Leslie 7pm. Leslie LeFevre-Stratton talks about the history of chairs. $12/$10 members. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Theater Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson & the River 2pm. Arm of the Sea Theater. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601.
Hawthorne Valley Farm Annual Fall Festival 10:30am-4pm. Wildlife exhibitions, pumpkin carving, horseback rides, Cheese and Sauerkraut making classes, Biodynamic Farm Tours, and activist "No Impact Man" Colin Beavan. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent. (518) 672-7500 ext. 102.
3-Hole Punch 5pm. Trio of new plays by Hudson Valley writer James Sheldon. Copake Grange Theater, Copake. 677-4446.
New Albion Weekend 8pm. With Terry Riley. $20/$30/$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Trail Tales 11am-4pm. An interactive scavenger hunt & performance. $7. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
Play by Play 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.
Scott Blum 8pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.
Fourth Annual Kingston Chili Cook-Off 11am-4pm. Profits go to the Children's Holiday Magic Fund. Historic Rondout Waterfront, Kingston. 331-7517.
Erin Hobson Compact 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.
Handamde Homegoods Grand Opening 4-8pm. Pie, cider, music. Handamde Homegoods, Beacon. www.claywoodandcotton.com.
Interpreting the Landscape 9am-Sunday, October 11, 4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Apple Shindig 5:30pm-8:30pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-onHudson. 265-3638.
Pastel with Linda Richichi 10am-Sunday, October 11, 4pm. $175. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Oktoberfest 6pm-9pm. St. Andrew's Church, New Paltz. 883-5199.
Hive Maintenance: Fall/Winter Prep 11am-2:30pm. $40. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.
An Evening with Bucky Pizzarelli and Ed Laub 8pm. Guitar concert. $25. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107. Ben Folds 8pm. $40/$35 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Cherish The Ladies 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Theater 3-Hole Punch 8pm. Trio of new plays by Hudson Valley writer James Sheldon. Copake Grange Theater, Copake. 677-4446. Play by Play 8pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Side By Side 8pm. Sondheim revue. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Red Masquerade 8pm. $16/$14 student, faculty, staff, senior. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3858.
Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
SATURDAY 10
Annual John Lennon Beatle Bash 8pm-11pm. With Pete Santora, Al Semenovich, Kenny B & many more. $10. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
Adult & Teen African Drumming 3pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Kids Art Fun with Debbie Cushman Femiak 10am-12pm. Ages 5-12, series of 4. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Pete Seeger Outdoor Concert 12pm-3pm. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745. The Met: Live in HD Tosca 1pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Met Opera: Tosca 1pm. TSL Warehouse, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. C.B. Smith 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Music for Wellness, an Intro to the Diamond Method 2pm-4pm. $45/$40. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Hurley Mountain Highway 6pm. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277. John Street Jam 7:30pm. John Street Jam at the Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. www.johnstreetjam.net. Mala Waldron Group 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Marji Zintz 7:30pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. An Evening with Bucky Pizzarelli and Ed Laub 8pm. Guitar concert. $25. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107. Bronx Opera 8pm-10pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291. Eric Erickson 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus 8pm. $20. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Machan 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. New Albion Weekend 8pm. With Terry Riley. $20/$30/$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. The Laws: Canadian Country Duo 8pm. $19/$14. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. R. Kelly 8pm. $41.50-$97. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Sacred Grounds, Honored Spirits 6pm-8pm. Group exhibition of focusing the relationship of people to animals and nature. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519. In America 6pm-9:30pm. Oil paintings, watercolors, embroideries, sculptures, drawings, and photographs. Cornell Street Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Body / Mind / Spirit Woodstock SpiritPlay Open Groups 10:30am-2:15pm. Spiritplay Studio, Woodstock. Fire Walk With Tiago Israel 3:30pm-7pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Classes Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance Noa Dance 7:30pm. $25. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. Contradance 8pm. Tori Baron calling, with music by The Contra Rebels. $10/$9 members/children 1/2 price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.
Events Putnam Free Day Call for times. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
Vision Board Workshop 12pm-4pm. $35/$25. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Mystic Garden Party Call for times. Conscious Activation Festival. Mountain Valley "Peg Leg Bates" Resort Club, Kerhonkson. (888) 966-2568.
Music
Joy Brown: Sculpture Featuring 108 Dancing Ladies 3pm-6pm. Art Within Gallery, South Kent, CT. (860) 927-4946.
Workshops
Exploding the Myth of "Invasive" Plants 2pm-4pm. W/Herbalist Margo Mullein. $20/$15 in advance. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Celebration of the Arts (COTA) 11am-6pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Second Annual Catskill Village Artist Studio Tour 12pm-5pm. www.catskillgalleryassociation.com.
Red Masquerade 8pm. $16/$14 student, faculty, staff, senior. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3858.
Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789.
Art
Sublim(e)inal Abstraction 12pm-12am. Windham Fine Arts Gallery, Windham. (518) 734-6850.
Side By Side 8pm. Sondheim revue. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
SUNDAY 11 Art Artisans of the Berkshires Fine Art and Craft Show 10am-4pm. Paintings in watercolor, acrylic and mix medium; photography; pottery; fabric art; woodworking; jewelry. Jiminy Peak Ski Resort, Hancock, Massachusetts. Margebride@aol.com. Altered State 2pm-5pm. Opening of Kate Raudenbush's 28 ft sculpture. CoSM Art Sanctuary, Wappingers Falls. 632-8330. Yashiko Ishikawa-Forbidden Forest/Paintings 4pm-6pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Body / Mind / Spirit Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Psychic Readings 11am-4pm. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Marathon of Dreamers 2pm-6pm. Featuring the Center of Symbolic Studies Dream group and Norman Lowrey's "Oneiroscape." Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984. A Day to be Mindful 3pm-5pm. Discover to the art of mindfulness practice and its benefits. $20. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Meditation Class 6pm-8pm. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Between Dreams: Pauline Oliveros 8pm-10pm. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.
Dance Noa Dance 2:30pm. $25. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.
Events The Great Northern Catskills Heritage Festival Call for times. 400 years of food, agriculture and nature in Greene County. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820. Sunday Gospel Brunch to Benefit Family of Woodstock Call for time. Alexis Suter Band, Southern buffet. To benefit Domestic Violence Services. 39 Rock City Road, Woodstock. $75. 331-7080x127. Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck.
Trail Tales 11am-4pm. An interactive scavenger hunt & performance. $7. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. Rustic for the Home 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Pickin' Music and Apple Fest 12pm-6pm. Concert and festival featuring artists, children's activities, drum circles, pick your own apples. $20/children free. Wright's Farm, Gardiner. 255-5300. Lips, Hips and Riffs 7pm. Odd Fellows Lodge fundraising event featuring Middle Eastern belly dancing, music, comedy, food and drink, and a raffle. Odd Fellows Theater, Olivebridge. 657-5115. Mystic Garden Party Call for times. Conscious Activation Festival. Mountain Valley "Peg Leg Bates" Resort Club, Kerhonkson. (888) 966-2568.
Music Bill Bannan & Friends 12pm. Jazz. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Bob Lusk 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Chanticleer 3pm. Chorale performance: In time of...Songs of love & loss, war & peace. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Julie Ziavras 3pm. Classical, opera. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867. Hope Machine 7:30pm. With special guest Abbie Gardner. $12/$10 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501. Sonny Landreth 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Outdoors Trees of the Shawangunks 10am-2pm. 5-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Singles and Sociables Hike: Bonticou Crag 10am-3pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Traveling at the Speed of a Reborn Man: Jimi Hendrix, 1969-1970 2pm-3:30pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Theater Play by Play 2pm. $18-$29. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Red Masquerade 2pm. By playwright Jack Wade. $16/$14 students, faculty and staff. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Side By Side 3pm. Sondheim revue.$20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops Plein Air 9am-3pm. $110/$90. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
MONDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit Guided Visual Meditation 6pm-7pm. $12. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Classes Intro to Bookbinding & Book Restoration 5:30pm-8:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Events Marvelwood School Preview Day 9am. Marvelwood School, Kent, CT. (800) 440-9107. Trail Tales 11am-4pm. An interactive scavenger hunt & performance. $7. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500. Ahoy to Henry Hudson and Christopher Columbus! 2pm-5pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.
Music Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
TUESDAY 13 Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Gentle Yoga 6pm-7pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
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Veggie Resource Group 7pm. Anything you ever wanted to know about going to a more plant based food plan. Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Rhinebeck. 876-2626.
Classes Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Workshops Two-Day Watercolor Workshop with Pat Morgan 9:30am-Thursday, October 15, 3:30pm. $125. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Watercolor Workshop 11am-5pm. $180/$160 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
THURSDAY 15
Freelance Writing for Magazines 1pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Superhero Drawing Class for Kids and Teens 3:30pm-5pm. 4 sessions. $72/$60 ASK members. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 338-0331.
Four Steps to a Satisfying Life 7pm-9pm. Meditation class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 856-9000.
Music Renaissance 7:30pm. Progressive rock band. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Spoken Word Lecture by Balanchine Ballerina, Merrill Ashley Call for times. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470. Fanjeaux: A Twenty-First Century Pilgrimage 4pm. Villa Library, Newburgh. 569-3290.
Workshops Collage 9am-Thursday, October 15, 4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
WEDNESDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit Silence Retreat: The Language of the Soul Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Laughter exercises, deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030. The Feldenkrais Method 3pm-6pm. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Psychodrama Open Sessions: The Magic of Oz! 7:30pm. $7/$5 students. Boughton Place, Highland. 255-7502.
High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Cleansing with Crystal Sounds 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Beginning Wicca 7pm-8:30pm. $28. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Classes Impressionism in Oil or Pastel with Dennis Fanton 10pm-12pm. $100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Learn Perspective with George Hayes 10pm-12pm. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Playground Benefit for Zena Elementary School 7pm. Silent auction and dinner. Hillside Manor, Kingston. 679-8160.
Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
From the Street to the Lawn: A Tour de Paltz 10am-12pm. 4.5 mile bike ride and historic tour. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Music
Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers Market 9pm-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789.
The Art of Monoprinting 6:30pm-9:30pm. $220/$200 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Kids Beginners Still Life Painting with Elise Tancredi 1pm-3pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Music
American Symphony Orchestra Call for times. $20/$30/$35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Ya Yas 7:30pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Acoustic Alchemy 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon 8pm. Acoustic. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Steve Forbert 8pm. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Don Sparks 8pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.
Acoustic Alchemy 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
John Jorgenson Quintet 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Punch Brothers 8pm. Featuring Chris Thile. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Steve Earle with Special Guest Allison Moorer 9pm. $45. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Vaughan Williams. $20/$5 students. Bard College, Annandale. 246-7045. The Gypsy Nomads 8pm. Gypsy Celtic cabaret rock duo. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. The Tragically Hip 8pm. $45/$35. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
David Kraai with Sean Powell 9:30pm. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724.
Events 2nd Annual Historic Viewshed Tour 10am-6:30pm. Followed by benefit party. $40-$100. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135. Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Music by Deb Tankard and Friends. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618. African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. HV Grren Drinks Speed Networking 6:30pm. Cathryn's, Cold Spring. 454-6410.
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Bonticou Crag 9:30am-1:30pm. 4-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Classics in Religion Reading Group 10:30am. Hildegard of Bingen. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Showcase of Champions 12pm-6:30pm. Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce. $5. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 485-5300. The Story of the Trapps Mountain Hamlet 7pm. With Bob Larsen of the Mohonk Preserve. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013. Scholar's Pick Book Discussion 7pm. Featuring Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601.
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Workshops Monotype Projects 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Expressive Collage: Yura Adams 9am-12pm. $10. Hudson Opera House, (518) 822-1438. Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Hudson Opera House, (518) 822-1438. Dowsing/Pendulum Workshop 6pm-7:30pm. Learn how to use a Pendulum and harness your intuitive power. $5/$10. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Getting to Know Your Digital Camera 6pm-9pm. $100/$80 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Financing Your Business 6pm-8pm. $15/$10 members. Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce, Rhinebeck. 876-5904. Cooking with Chef Paul Rabin 7pm-8pm. Samosa. $10. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Setting Sacred Space with Donna Hohman 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.
The Amazing Mr. Twisty and Izzy 10:30am. Comedy and magic. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Music American Symphony Orchestra Call for times. $20/$30/$35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Met Opera: Tosca 1pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Chopin in Paris 6pm. $35/$10 students. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.
spoken word
C. B. Smith 7pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213.
Lewis Black 8pm. Irreverrent comedian. $75/$50/$45 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
The Romantic Era: The Golden Age of the Piano 4pm. Villa Library, Mt. St, Mary, Newburgh. 569-3290. Red Masquerade 8pm. By playwright Jack Wade. $16/$14 students, faculty and staff. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
Dream Masks; A Kids Dream Workshop 10am-2pm. With artist Sadee Brathwaite. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.
Eric Erickson 7pm. Singer/songwriter. Reservoir Inn, West Hurley. 331-9806.
Studio Oil Painting: Traditional Realism in Oils 9:30am-12:30pm. 4 sessions. $144/$130 ASK members. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 338-0331.
Theater
Kids
Four Guys in Disguise 10:30pm. Noah's Ark, Poughkeepsie. 486-9295.
Red Masquerade 8pm. $16/$14 student, faculty, staff, senior. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3858.
Yoga Meet Dance 9:15am-10:15am. $8/$5 seniors. New Paltz Community, New Paltz. www.theartscommunity.com.
Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon.
Introduction to Permaculture Design 6pm-9pm. $125. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Spoken Word
Dance
Riverside Farmers and Artisans Market 9:30am-1:30pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.
Pumpkin Fiesta Weekend 10am-5pm. With live music. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Moonlight maze at 6pm.
Classes
Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.
The Burden of Our Times: The Intellectual Origins of the Financial Crisis 2pm. Conference. Bard College, Annandale. 758-7745.
Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Theater
Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Millerton Farmers Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250.
Johnny Apple seed Cider Festival 10am-3pm. Prospect Hill Orchard, Marlboro. 795-2383.
Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Sheep and Wool Family Festival 9am-6pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-4000.
Events
Classes
Stop Swimming Upstream: Let The River of Life Carry You 7pm. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
Botanical Drawing and Painting in Watercolor 10am-1pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Hyde Park Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111.
Hamlet 10am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Talking With 8pm. 11 linked monologues by Jane Martin.Directed by Ann Citron. Rosendale Theater. 658-8989.
Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
SATURDAY 17 Art North Adams Open Studios 2009 10am-6pm. North Adams, MA. Artists open studios. www.northadamsopenstudios.com. Multiple Art Openings at WAAM 4pm-6pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. BetwixT 4pm-8pm. Member exhibit curated by Sadee Brathwaite. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz. 255-5482. 2nd Annual Art in Gardiner Plein Air Event 5pm. Gardiner Fire House, Gardiner. 648-4605. Group Show Opening at John Davis Gallery 5pm-7pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Fall Exhibit 6pm-8pm. Featuring Burge, Laplante, and Hammond. Carrie Haddad Galley, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.
William Joseph 7:30pm. Piano. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Ray Blue 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Anna Fiszman and Marc Landesberg 8pm. Jazz. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Williams. Pointe of Praise Family Life Center, Kingston. 246-7045. Mozart a la Marsalis 8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Tony Trischka 8pm. With special guest Too Blue, presented by Friends of the Staatsburg Library. $30. Dinsmore Firehouse, Staatsburg. 889-4683. Erin Hobson Compact 8pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277. The Providers 8:30pm. Blues. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Reality Check 9pm. Dance music. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Mestengo 9pm. Acoustic. Alchemy, Woodstock. 684-5068. Steve Forbert 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Outdoors The Garden Conservancy Open Days Program Call for times. Self-guided tour of private gardens. New Paltz Area, New Paltz. (888) 842-2442. Twentieth Annual Ridge Hike 6:30am-5:30pm. 14-18 mile hike. $35-$25 members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Spoken Word Reading and Signing by Jean Nagger 7pm. Author of Sipping from the Nile. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Hudson River School of Art Exhibit 6:30pm-9pm. Featuring the art of Thomas Benjamin Pope, Clinton Loveridge and Benjamin Champney. St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, Cornwall. 534-5475.
Earth Wisdom Burial Initiation Call for times. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Earth Spirit Wisdom Call for times. Initiation burial, new moon. $175. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Sharing Shabbat 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Manifesting With Group Energy 5pm-7pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Dance
Qigong Weekend Retreat Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt Tremper. 688-2228.
Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. All-volunteer community dance. $5/$2. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.
Tsoknyi Rinopoche Call for times. Understanding our opportunities for freedom in life and death. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.
Events
Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 16 Art Fall Foliage en Plein Air with Shawn Dell Joyce 9am-12pm. $30/$100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Harvey School open House 9am. Harey School, Katonah. (914) 232-3161.
Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 7pm. Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. The Lonely Soldier 8pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Theater 17th Annual Columbia County Golden Gathering 9:30am-12:30pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181 ext 5513. Red Masquerade 8pm. $16/$14 student, faculty, staff, senior. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3858. Talking With 8pm. 11 linked monologues by Jane Martin.Directed by Ann Citron. Rosendale Theater. 658-8989. Actors Benefit: Stage Fright 8pm. Monsterpiece Theater Benefit for Unison. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-1559.
dance american ballet theatre marty sohl the american ballet theatre performing Benjamin Millepied's from here on out, which will premiere at bard college this month.
You Down with ABT? From New York, to California, to Beijing. But first, to Dutchess County. Bard College, to be exact. The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) returns to the Hudson Valley this October for a weekend of both dance revivals and premieres exclusively choreographed for the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater. Created 70 years ago by co-directors Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, ABT became America’s National Ballet Company by an act of Congress in 2006. Currently directed by Kevin McKenzie, ABT has performed in 42 countries and features both classic and modern works. The three premieres, choreographed by Aszure Barton, Benjamin Millepied, and ABT artist-in-residence Alexei Ratmansky, have a modern feel, according to McKenzie, but each choreographer’s distinct style reflects divergent dance personalities. From the lighthearted, more neoclassical Barton piece to the contemporary work by Millepied, the premieres present “an opportunity for the audience to gauge where art form can go,” says McKenzie, explaining how these performances are meant to stretch limits and explore all that ballet can offer. What is it about Bard College that has drawn ABT back to the Hudson Valley with such a highly anticipated agenda? McKenzie cites the interest in Bard as being twofold: the Hudson Valley location, which draws both dance aficionados and novices, as well as the concert hall setting, which challenges choreographers and encourages creativity
for ballet performance. “Audiences find the name ABT inviting,” says McKenzie, “and art needs to try different things to move forward.” It’s the combination of ABT’s accessibility and their pushing of boundaries that allows them to appeal to different audiences. Bard presents a unique theater experience for dancers and audiences alike, where the stage permits a more behind-the-scenes performance. At the same time, choreographers must create new work that accommodates the concert hall setting. Stages for ballet performance usually have eight doors for entrances and exits, but the Sosnoff Theater has only two, forcing the dances to make use of the atypical stage design. As a result, the “informal” theater experience forms a connection between audience and performers that can only be created in this setting. As for ABT’s coming to Bard again after their October 2009 performance, McKenzie emphasizes, “We hope this is the beginning of a long-standing annual relationship.” ABT approaches their weekend at Bard with high expectations, and their performances will exhibit the originality ABT has come to be known for. The American Ballet Theatre will perform in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater at Bard College on October 2 at 8pm; October 3 at 2pm and 8pm, with a pre-performance talk at 7pm; and October 4 at 3pm. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu. —Erica Scrodin 10/09 ChronograM forecast 101
Workshops
The Outdoors
Woodworking Show Call for times. $3. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. www.midhudsonwoodworkers.org.
Singles and Sociables Hike: Mud Pond 9:30am-4pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Family Constellations 9am-5pm. Experiential workshop and healing opportunity based on the family Constellation work of Bert Hellinger. $125. Namaste Yoga Studio, Woodstock. 679-5369.
Spoken Word
Beginning Photo with Mary Ann G. Neuman 10am-4pm. $65. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Native Americans 2pm. Town of Hyde Park Historical Society. Little Red Schoolhouse, Hyde Park. 229-9029 ext. 0993.
Family African Dance 11am-12pm. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Reading and Signing by Myriam Miedzian 3pm. Author of He Walked Through Walls: A Twentieth Century Tale of Survival. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz. 255-9817.
What are you Doing with your Dream? 2pm-6pm. $55/$50 in advance. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
SUNDAY 18 Art North Adams Open Studios 2009 10am-6pm. North Adams, MA. Artists open studios. www.northadamsopenstudios.com.
Aging in Place Conference on retiring where you live. Chatham Synagogue, Chatham. www.chathamsynagogue.org.
Theater Red Masquerade 2pm. $16/$14 student, faculty, staff, senior. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3858.
Workshops Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Cosmic Daughters: The Art of Sadee Brathwaite 2pm-4pm. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 338-6418.
How to Photograph a Wedding 11am-5pm. With a follow-up critique session. $130/$110 members. Swann Inn, Beacon. 471-2550.
An Afternoon of Music and Art 2pm-6pm. Singers-songwriters, works of local artists, fresh local fruits, snacks, salads and sweet treats. $10. Ashokan Farm and Theater, West Shokan. 657-5867.
Past Life Regression Workshop 1pm-4pm. $50. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.
40 year Retrospective Benefit Exhibit 3pm-7pm. Roberta Rosenthal. New Windsor Art Gallery, New Windsor. 534-3349. Mysterious Landscapes 5pm-7pm. Oil paintings by Martin Davis. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.
Body / Mind / Spirit Sign Language of the Soul 9am-5pm. Level II with Dr. Dale Schusterman. $125. Namaste Yoga Studio, Woodstock. 679-5369. Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Psychic Readings 11am-4pm. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Classes Jewish Cooking: Healthy and Delicious Vegetarian 3pm-5:30pm. $60 series. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Events Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Pumpkin Fiesta Weekend 10am-5pm. With live music. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Sheep and Wool Family Festival 10am-5pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-4000. Teresa of Avila 12pm-9pm. Day of celebrating a woman, saint, reformer and mystic. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Grand Reopening: Adriance Memorial Library 1:30pm. Entertainment, guest speakers. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie. 485-3445. Wickets and Wine 4pm-6pm. Deyo Hall, New Paltz. 255-1660. Sharing the Harvest 5:30pm-8pm. Community meal in the spirit of ending hunger, a group conversation and reflection. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 658-3439.
Music The Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Met Opera: Tosca 1pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Introduction to the Medicine Wheel with Skye Taylor 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MONDAY 19 OCTOBER Body / Mind / Spirit Guided Visual Meditation 6pm-7pm. $12. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Healing Circle 7pm-9pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Intro to Bookbinding & Book Restoration 5:30pm-8:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Music Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
California Guitar Trio 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Loudon Wainwright III & Richard Thompson 7:30pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Big Sister 9:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
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Classes Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Botanical Drawing and Painting in Watercolor 10am-1pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance Yoga Meet Dance 9:15am-10:15am. $8/$5 seniors. New Paltz Community, New Paltz. www.theartscommunity.com.
TUESDAY 20 Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Gentle Yoga 6pm-7pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Freelance Writing for Magazines 1pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
Music Conservatory Noon Concert Series 12pm. Conservatory students in concert. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Hamlet 10am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Abstraction & Drawing: Interpretation & Form 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208. Introduction to Overtone Singing w/Baird Hersey 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
WEDNESDAY 21 Body / Mind / Spirit The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Laughter exercises with deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030. The Creative Spirit Study Group 5pm-5:30pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Getting to Know Your Digital Camera 6pm-9pm. $100/$80 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Chakras and Colors Therapies 6pm-7:30pm. $10. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 23 Art Fall Foliage en Plein Air with Shawn Dell Joyce 9am-12pm. $30/$100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Events
Heartfullness: The Christian Contemplative Journey Call for times. Father Thomas Keating, Gail FitspatrickHopler and Father Carl Arico. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.
Poughkeepsie Day School Information Session 8:30am. Poughkeepsie Day School. 462-7600x201.
Shabbat Dinner 6pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Music by Deb Tankard and Friends. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618.
Fairie Workshop 7pm-8:30pm. Meet your own fairie. $30. Crystals & WellBeing Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Women's Sacred Moonlodge 7pm. Sing, dance, and honor women's wisdom. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081.
Music Arias and Barcarolles 8pm. Presented by the Graduate Vocal Arts Program. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Millbrook Ridge Loop 9:30am-1:30pm. 4-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Classics in Religion Reading Group 10:30am. Hildegard of Bingen. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Theater
Classes Impressionism in Oil or Pastel with Dennis Fanton 10pm-12pm. $100 series. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Learn Perspective with George Hayes 10pm-12pm. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Paul Tillotson Love Trio. $15/$10. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Film
Skyhunters in Flight 10am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
FilmColumbia 10th Anniversary Film Festival Call for times. See website for specific films and times. Crandell Theatre, Chatham. (518) 766-5892.
THURSDAY 22
Spiritual Movie Night 6pm-9pm. $10. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.
Four Steps to a Satisfying Life 7pm-9pm. Meditation class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 856-9000.
Workshops
Andrew Vladeck 7:30pm. Indie folk/pop. $10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Colorado String Quartet 3pm. Saugerties Pro Musica Concert. $12/$10 seniors/ students free. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021.
Unplugged Open Acoustic Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Willa Cather: A Literary Investigation by Brad Morrow 7pm. Weis Cinema, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7087.
Theater
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Williams. $20/$5 students. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 246-7045.
Expressive Collage: Yura Adams 9am-12pm. $10. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Spoken Word
St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble 2pm. Divine Spark; Young Shubert. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
Sonny and Perley 3pm. Music from Brazil. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601.
Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Classes Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Events Watercolor with Steve Blumenthal 9:30am-3:30pm. $60. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Luncheon & Hudson Valley Entrepreneurial Awards 11:15am-1:30pm. $55/$500 table. Gateway to Entrepreneurial Tomorrows, Poughkeepsie. 790-5004. Arts-in-Education Awards Celebration 5pm-7pm. Mill Street Loft event featuring live music and a video/mural installation. Vassar Alumni House, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
Film
Their Eyes Were Watching God 7:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Music Eric Hobson and The Jesse Janes 7pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Hudson Valley Folk Guild 30th Anniversary Concert 7:30pm. $12/$10 in advance. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067. American Symphony Orchestra: Leon Botstein 8pm. $20/$30/$35. Fisher Center, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. Jama Jandrokovic 8pm. Folk, hymns, and Broadway. $25/$20 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Red Peralta 8pm. Americana. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Scott Blum 8pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Creation 9pm. Dance music. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. The Kurt Henry Band 9:30pm. Rock. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. The Rhodes 9:30pm. Rock. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.
FilmColumbia 10th Anniversary Film Festival Call for times. See website for specific films and times. Crandell Theatre, Chatham. (518) 766-5892.
Spoken Word
Music
Poetry and Paintings with Stanley Blum 6:30pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Shaolin Warriors 7:30pm. $37/$32/$25. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Spoken Word The Altercation Punk Comedy Tour Call for times. Snapper Magee's, Kingston. 339-3888.
Read for Food 7pm-10pm. Writers read and raise money for food pantries. Boughton Place, Highland. www.boughtonplace.org. Sustainability Series: The Green Home 7pm-8:30pm. $10 non-members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. The City, The Country, and the Changing Environment 7pm. Dr. Harvey Flad and Leila Philip. Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.
Theater
Refusing Damage, Repatriating Desire 5pm. Eve Tuck. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.
Black Bear's Hudson Valley Tales Call for times. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Theater
KIDS! And Company 2009 7:30pm. Showcase of Broadway and popular tunes, spectacular medleys, and dance numbers. Doctorow Center for the Performing Arts and Film, Catskill. (518) 263-2066.
Hamlet 10am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. KIDS! And Company 2009 7:30pm. Showcase of Broadway and popular tunes. Doctorow Center for the Performing Arts and Film, Catskill. (518) 263-2066.
Workshops
Workshops
Nature Mysticism Call for times. With Alex & Allyson Grey. $300. CoSM Art Sanctuary, Wappingers Falls. 632-8330.
Monotype Projects 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
music chanticleer michael garnier chamber vocal ensemble chanticleer will perform at vassar college on october 11.
Chaucer’s Rooster Chanticleer is a musical group with 12 instruments who are also 12 human beings. This chamber vocal ensemble, which was founded in San Francisco in 1978, will perform a program titled “In Time Of: Songs of Love and Loss, War and Peace” at Vassar College on October 11. Chanticleer is named for Chaucer’s rooster, of whom he writes: “His voice was merrier than the merry organ that plays in church.” A “vocal chamber ensemble” means a group whose voices are always unamplified, and which has no conductor (although one of the members may secretly cue the others—see if you can guess which one!). Almost always, they perform a cappella (as they will at Vassar). Singing without microphones requires a keen attention to acoustics. “Every place we go, that’s the majority of our time before the concert, learning the hall,” Oltman explains. “We often call the hall ‘the 13th member.’” It’s a rare joy, in the modern world, to hear an unamplified singing voice. Chanticleer has a scholarly side. How many choruses hire a Middle English expert to teach them the exact pronunciation of words—as they were sung, which differs slightly from the spoken pronunciation? “A word like ‘mighty’ becomes ‘mikhty’ and a word like ‘cry’ is still ‘cri,’ and you have lots of diphthongs that we don’t use now,” observes Matt Oltman, the music director of Chanticleer. “One of the funnest words in the song to sing is, instead of ‘rue,’ you have ‘rewe’ [pronounced ‘ree-yoo-uh’].” A concert is a lesson in the history of the English language, without pedantry. The audience will hear English when it was still a rough conglomeration of German and French. (The piece
in question is the anonymous 15th-century “Agincourt carol” celebrating the English victory over the French in the Hundred Years War.) But “In Time Of” is not only in English. The program includes works in German, French, Chinese, Quechua (an indigenous language of South America), Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and Greek. Chanticleer specializes in having no specialty. Other choral groups focus on Renaissance music or plainsong. Chanticleer does both, plus bebop, folksongs, and rounds. When auditioning new members, the group looks for unusual life experience—a singer who played jazz piano to earn his way through music school, for example. A new tenor, Matthew Curtis, worked on a project to record every Gregorian chant. Chanticleer also commissions contemporary pieces, two of which will be performed. Steven Sametz’s “In Time Of” supplies the title for the evening. The composer scored E. E. Cummings’s poem “In Time of Daffodils,” which begins: “In time of daffodils (who know / the goal of living is to grow).” The group will also perform three movements from “Sirens” by young San Francisco composer Mason Bates, who is also well known as a trip-hop DJ. Bates’s work has high voices, undulating rhythms, and a sound much like harps—all created by 12 singing men. Chanticleer will present “In Time Of: Songs of Love and Loss, War and Peace” at Vassar College’s Skinner Hall in Poughkeepsie on Sunday, October 11 at 3pm. (845) 437-7294; www.music.vassar.edu. —Sparrow 10/09 ChronograM forecast 103
Sushi A La Mode, Sushi Making Workshop 3pm-5pm. $35/$30 members. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Shop, New Paltz. 255-1559.
SATURDAY 24
The Wiyos 8pm. Ragtime, swing, blues, jazz, vaudeville. $21/$16 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Gail Archer: Organ Concert 3:30pm. $10. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110.
Stop Swimming Upstream: Let The River of Life Carry You 7pm. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
Trapps CD Release Party 8pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Keb' Mo' 7:30pm. Delta blues and contemporary folk. $36.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Classes
Art
Erin Hobson Compact Shows 8pm. Cafe Bocca, Poughkeepsie. 483-7300.
Cross River Fine Art 12pm-4pm. Academy of Betsy's students. Betsy Jacaruso Studios, Red Hook. 758-9244.
Reality Check 9pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.
Undertow: Thinking Water 2pm-4pm. Photographic images of water. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (877) 840-0457. Animal Spirits I: The Personal Iconography 6pm-8pm. Peggy Cyphers & Kathy Ruttenberg. Kleinert/ James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
The Outdoors Singles and Sociables Hike: High Peterskill 9:30am-3:30pm. 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word
The Outdoors
Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Singles and Sociables Hike: Rock Rift 10am-2pm. Strenuous 6-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Botanical Drawing and Painting in Watercolor 10am-1pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Spoken Word
Cartooning and Graphic Novels with Gerry Acerno 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Thomas Cole: Pioneer, Predecessor and Prophet 2pm. Barbara Novak. $10/$8 members. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.
Theater
Ieva Mediodia: Synaptic Katharsis 6pm-8pm. Recent paintings. Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090.
Ione Call for times. Spoken Word Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 473-1324.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Kenneth Goldsmith on Sol Dwitt 1pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
KIDS! And Company 2009 2pm. Showcase of Broadway and popular tunes. Doctorow Center for the Performing Arts and Film, Catskill. (518) 263-2066.
Our Lives and the Mountain
Workshops
2pm-4pm. Woodstock Oral History Collective, read by the Woodstock Library Young Peoples Readers Theater group. $7. WAAM, Woodstock. 679-2940.
Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Author Reading with Ione 7pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. www.deeplistening.org.
Oil Pastel Workshop with Karen O'Neil 10am-4pm. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Magical Plants 10am-5pm. $75. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Healing Technique of the Ascended Masters 7pm-9pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Beginning Drawing Part II with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. 6 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Memoir Writing 10am-4pm. An introductory class with bestselling author Susan Richards. $60/$50 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Events 350.org Rally for a Green New Deal Call for times. Holy Light Pentecostal Church, Poughkeepsie. 242-3571. Hyde Park Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 229-9111. Millerton Farmers Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Riverside Farmers and Artisans Market 9:30am-1:30pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Pumpkin Fiesta Weekend 10am-5pm. With live music. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. 6pm Moonlight maze. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. Discovering Germantown II 11am-4pm. Book sales, book signing, Apple Fest, mini farmers market, open house at Central House. Artspace, Germantown. (518) 537-4469. Project 350 - International Day of Climate Action 2pm. Find out about the international effort to reduce CO2 levels to 350 PPM. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601. Halloween Zombie March 7pm. Beacon. www.beaconhalloweenfest.org.
Film FilmColumbia 10th Anniversary Film Festival Call for times. See website for specific films and times. Crandell Theatre, Chatham. (518) 766-5892.
Music Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Call for times. Alternative guitar show, featuring contemporary, handmade acoustic guitars and stringed instruments. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. The Met; Live HD Aida 1pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Shane Murphy 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
Theater KIDS! And Company 2009 7:30pm. Showcase of Broadway and popular tunes. Doctorow Center for the Performing Arts and Film, Catskill. (518) 263-2066. Stories 350: Climate Change in Your Life 8pm. Interactive performance with Hudson River Playback Theater. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-7716.
Workshops Estate Planning Essentials 8:45am. Presented by the HV Estate Planning Council. SUNY New Paltz. $20. 564-3654. The Poetic Landscape 1pm-. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Alkanine-Acid Balance for Healing w/Kristine Flones 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. Techniques in Landscape Oil Painting 10pm-Sunday, October 25, 5pm. $195/$175 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
SUNDAY 25 Body / Mind / Spirit Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Standing in Your Light 10am-5pm. Crystal healing workshop with Mika Nelson. $125. Woodstock Wellness, Woodstock. 679-6700. Psychic Readings 11am-4pm. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. An Introduction to Medicine Wheels 3pm-5pm. $20. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Psychic Development Classes 6pm-8pm. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.
Classes Jewish Cooking: Healthy and Delicious Vegetarian 3pm-5:30pm. $60 series. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Events Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 1am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Pumpkin Fiesta Weekend 10am-5pm. With live music. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825. Wings to Dreams Gander Gala Reception 5pm-8pm. Art auction sponsored by Rondout Valley Education Foundation. D&H Canal Museum, High Falls. 687-9311.
Film
Eric Erickson 6pm. Singer/songwriter. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847.
FilmColumbia 10th Anniversary Film Festival Call for times. See website for specific films and times. Crandell Theatre, Chatham. (518) 766-5892.
Hudson Valley Folk Guild 30th Anniversary Concert 7:30pm. $12/$10 in advance. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.
Kids
Joe Gil and The Trio Of Terror 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra 7:30pm. $15/$10 seniors/$5 students. Rhinebeck Auditorium, Rhinebeck. 635-0877. Dar Williams with Nerissa & Katryna Nields 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Lisa Glick 8pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Rickie Lee Jones 8pm. $42/$37 members. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Americana. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-OnHudson. 534-4717.
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Halloween Maskmaking/Storytelling 1pm-3pm. Ages 5-8. $15/$12. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Haunted Hunt 2pm-4pm. Kids age 2 to 10 are invited for this simple, mystery-filled Scavenger Hunt. $5. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Music
MONDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit Guided Visual Meditation 6pm-7pm. $12. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Message Circle 7pm-8:30pm. Receive message s from loved ones in the after life. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
events
Elements of Abstraction with Neil Granholm 6:30pm-8:30pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance Yoga Meet Dance 9:15am-10:15am. $8/$5 seniors. New Paltz Community, New Paltz. www.theartscommunity.com.
Events Woodstock Farm Festival 4pm. Music by Deb Tankard and Friends. Maple Lane, Woodstock. 679-7618. 2009 Dutchess County Executive's Arts Awards 5:30pm. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222. African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Outdoors Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Table Rock 9:30am-1:30pm. 4-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Wild in the Catskills Call for times. Wolf education presentation. Phoenicia Elementary School, Phoenicia. 679-7519. Classics in Religion Reading Group 10:30am. Hildegard of Bingen. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Hurley Heritage Guided Walking Tour 2pm. Tour of Main Street. $5/children free. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
Poetry Reading by Poets of "25" 7pm. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Music
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Call for times. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
Theater
THURSDAY 29
Spoken Word A Conversation with Barney Rosset 6:30pm. Editor of the Evergreen Review. Weis Cinema, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7087.
TUESDAY 27 Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling w/Betsy Stang 7pm. $20/$15. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100. Veggie Resource Group 7pm. Anything you ever wanted to know about going to a more plant based food plan. Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Rhinebeck. 876-2626.
Classes Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Freelance Writing for Magazines 1pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
Kids Jason and the Argonauts Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
ART Celebration of the Hudson River Quadricentennial 5pm. Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
Body / Mind / Spirit Four Steps to a Satisfying Life 7pm-9pm. Meditation class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 856-9000.
Classes Oil Painting with Gene Bove 10am-12:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Events Haunted Huguenot Street 7pm-12am. Special colonial Dutch folklore and scary tales. $11/$9 in advance. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Music
Spoken Word
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Wild in the Catskills Call for times. Wolf education presentation. Marist College, Poughkeepsie. 575-2109.
Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Kingston Chapter of PFLAG Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 331-5300.
Workshops Abstraction & Drawing: Interpretation & Form 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Managing Defiant Behavior 6pm-8pm. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1208. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
WEDNESDAY 28
Spoken Word Mysterious Decoration: West African Textiles 4pm. Villa Library, Mt. St. Mary, Newburgh. 569-3290.
Theater Fun with Energy Call for times. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops Critical Writing as Creative Practice: Frances Richard Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144. Expressive Collage: Yura Adams 9am-12pm. $10. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Monotype Projects 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art. 679-2388.
The Laughter Club 10:30am-11:15am. Laughter exercises with deep yoga breathing. $5. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.
Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Terry Blaine with Peter Tomlinson 12pm. Jazz. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Conservatory Sundays 3pm. Chamber music. Fisher Center, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.
Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Photographing with Your Digital Camera 6pm-9pm. $100/$80 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase Call for times. alternative guitar show, featuring contemporary, handmade acoustic guitars and stringed instruments. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 30
MUSIC woodstock invitational luthiers showcase image provided
Art Stephen Flack 4pm-6pm. Painting, pastels and drawings. Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham. (518) 392-2250. Into the Light 6pm-8pm. Photographs by Nitin Vadukul. Marianne Courville Gallery, Hudson. (518) 755-4208.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Learn Perspective with George Hayes 10pm-12pm. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers Market 9pm-2pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789.
Events
Kids
The 13th Annual Quilting Weekend Call for times. Offering a variety of interesting quilting classes by renowned instructors. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
Halloween Reading by Iza Trapani 5pm. Author of Haunted Party. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Music Brian Dougherty Band 8pm. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.
Film
Main Street Band 8pm. Rock. Dockside Grill, Athens. (518) 444-8080.
The Birds 7:30pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Symposium: John Cage at Bard College 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Music Rickie Lee Jones Call for times. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Symposium: John Cage at Bard College 7:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 7587900.
For much of the public, the guitar and the elder relatives from which it’s descended—the European lute, the Middle Eastern oud—are simply the utilitarian tools one uses to make music. To their blind eyes there’s precious little difference between a $115,000 prewar Martin and last year’s $115 Chinese knockoff. But for more serious guitar aficionados, especially those who play the things, the better-made examples of such instruments are absolute works of art. For guitar heads these beautiful, exquisitely crafted objects not only sound and feel magnificent but also rival the David or the Mona Lisa for sexy visuals. And in celebration of this lavish instrumental decadence comes the second annual Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase, which on October 23 and 24 will see the town become a veritable orgy of guitar porn. Organized by local picker Baker Rorick, the event takes place over the two afternoons at the Bearsville Theater and features hundreds of fine handmade acoustic guitars and stringed instruments exhibited by over 30 makers, a guitar show and sale, live demonstrations by expert luthiers, and continuous performances by classical genius Frederic Hand and other top musicians from the US and abroad. Also in the afternoons, next door at Alchemy Cafe will be a series of instructional clinics and workshops led by oud master Ara Dinkjian and jazz great John Hart, among others. The evenings offer showcase-sponsored concerts at the Colony Cafe by Dinkjian and his trio, fingerstylist Sharon Klein, singer-songwriter Viki Genfan, and folk/jazz artist KJ Denhert. But of course the real stars of this summit are the instruments themselves. “Fine handmade instruments such as these are not usually available in music stores or other retail environments,” says Rorick. “This is a rare opportunity for the public to see, play, and experience the instruments and meet with their makers.” In addition to the numerous nylon-stringed classical and flamenco-style, steel-string flattop, archtop, crossover, and hybrid guitars, mandolins, and banjos on view will be dozens of Middle Eastern ouds, baglamas, and sazzes brought by two master luthiers from Istanbul, Turkey. “Many have two-to-four-year waiting lists [to order] one of their instruments, which are the modern guitar equivalents of the Cremona makers: Guarneiri, Amati, and Stradivari,” Rorick says. “Most of the musicians who are playing are offering their services just for the chance to play some of these instruments.” Among the modern master makers showing at the invitational is Woodstock’s Joe Veillette, whose custom-made instruments reside in the hands of James Taylor, Dave Matthews, and other big names. “[The event] is special because it’s all about the independent builders, one- or three-person operations that still make everything by hand as opposed to the bigger manufacturers, who these days use a production-line approach,” says Veillette. “And Woodstock is the perfect place for this show, because it has an energy that really lends itself to what smaller makers like me do.” The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase takes place on October 23 and 24 in Bearsville and Woodstock. (845) 679-9025; www.woodstockinvitational.com. —Peter Aaron
First Annual mASKerade 6pm-9pm. Halloween costume party and fundraiser. $40. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Classes
Haunted Huguenot Street 7pm-12am. Special colonial Dutch folklore and scary tales. $11/$9 in advance. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Guitar Town
Moonlight Maze Adventure 6pm-9pm. Bonfire, moonlight hayride, flashlight pumpkin picking. Hurd Family Farm, Modena. 883-7825.
Haunted Huguenot Street 7pm-12am. Special colonial Dutch folklore and scary tales in honor of the 400th anniversary of Hudson's voyage. $11/$9 in advance. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Journey Into the 11th Step for those in 12 Step Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
a selection of joe vEillette's Gryphon High 12 guitars.
Halloween Animal Myths & Stories 2pm-3:30pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.
Music Faculty Recital 8pm. Music of Mozart and Brahms. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. David Kraai with Sean Powell 9pm. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724.
Breakaway 9pm. Halloween party. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. MacTalla Mor 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Outdoors Singles and Sociables Hike: Verkeerderkill Falls 9:30am-3:30pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Theater
The Mighty Diamonds 9pm. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Haunted Lives 8pm. $12/$8. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340.
Four Guys in Disguise 10:30pm. Noah's Ark, Poughkeepsie. 486-9295.
Pippin 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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Consumed: Love, Passion and Poe 8pm. And They Flew Theater. $16/$12 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
An Introduction to Project FeederWatch 10am-11:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Haunted Lives 8pm. $12/$8. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340.
Family African Dance 11am-12pm. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Halloween Deck Readings w/George Heidcamp 12pm-6pm. $15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
SATURDAY 31 Body / Mind / Spirit Wisdom Keepers Series Call for times. John Lockley, fully initiated Sangoma in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Halloween Psychic Fair 3:30pm-12am. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Events
SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER Body / Mind / Spirit Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Honoring the Ancestors 11am-3pm. Woodstock, Woodstock. 247-3374. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Meditation Class 5pm-7pm. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.
Classes Jewish Cooking: Healthy and Delicious Vegetarian 3pm-5:30pm. $60 series. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Events Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-1pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck.
Outdoor Flea Market Call for times. Holiday Bowl, Wappingers Falls. 2978110.
Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467.
Trinity-Pawling School Open House 9am. Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling. 855-4825.
Music
Hyde Park Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Hyde Park Drive-In, Hyde Park. 2299111. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers Market 9am-1pm. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (860) 824-1250. Riverside Farmers and Artisans Market 9:30am-1:30pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Hudson River Market 10am-5pm. Fine arts, jewelry, crafts, food, and music. Main Street, Beacon. Ann Street Market 10am-4pm. Ann Street Municipal Lot, Newburgh. 5626940 ext. 109. Ashokan Fall Festival & Halloween Dinner and Dance 11am. 6pm dinner, 7pm dance. $5-$125. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 246-2121.
Maria Muldaur's Garden Of Joy Jug Band 6:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Spoken Word Wild in the Catskills Call for times. Wolf education presentation. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 679-7519.
Theater Haunted Lives 1pm. $12/$8. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340. Pippin 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Planetary Transits and Solar Returns 1pm-3pm. $20/$15 in advance. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino
The Man: Humanity in Transformation
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spent a week in early September at something called Burning Man, a kind of festival in the Nevada desert held each Labor Day. The event takes its name from the burning of a giant neon and wooden effigy of a man, which is burned on Saturday night as 40,000 people gather around and watch. The photo above is the Man, which has become something of a cultural icon, now more than 20 years in circulation. Burning Man traces its history back to 1986, when the founder, Larry Harvey, burned an effigy of a man on San Francisco’s Baker Beach. The event was moved to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada several years later and is now the annual meeting place of a far-reaching, extremely energetic subculture. Astrology is about symbolism, and in this article I’d like to look at a few of the messages of the fire ceremony that’s at the center of this elaborate, creative project called Burning Man. I think for most people who participate, the theme is so intuitive, they don’t really think about it much. You get the message in the creative fire that surrounds the symbol; it comes across as real world. Given the freedom and the safe space to do so, women strip to the waist and walk around in public. Many guys wear skirts and tutus. Everything is connected to a concept, an idea, a game of twisting logic around into something sensible in a different way. In effect, Burning Man grants many people permission to be who they are, and, in the absence of concrete knowledge, to test out some ideas of who they might be; and not have to worry too much about the legacy of who they were yesterday. This legacy is our problem. It’s not that we use the past as a reference point for who we are, or where we are going, which would be fine. It’s that we determine our lives almost exclusively by what has happened in the past; by who we knew in the past; by what we held as true in the past; by our family of origin and what they did to us; by the career that we developed, generally with no special intention to have done so. And this is really the least of it. What we struggle with the most, if you ask me, is the unspoken requirement to be who we were, feel how we felt, and love who we loved yesterday. We allegedly must, by some strange set of unwritten rules, get up in the morning and do what we did the day before. If you look closely there is actually very little to intervene in this train of experience. This is why key life transits such as the Saturn return, Uranus opposition, and Chiron return, are so often experienced as train wrecks. We make
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next to no room to ritualize the idea of change that would allow us an opportunity to in fact actually change. Much of this process is encrypted in our social patterns: that is, our relationships with friends and family. We tend to stay the same, fearing their judgments, therefore trying to live up to their supposed expectations. Some of our most fundamental values, such as whether we think marriage has any validity for us personally, are bound up in these social ties. Deep beneath our fear of being ourselves, which really is a phobia on a cosmic scale, is the fear of being cast out of the tribe if we violate its social order. This by the way is what I would call Chiron in Aquarius stuff: the tribal wound as it manifests as the fear of individuality. Here we have a convenient illustration because this year and next, Aquarius is such a focal point of the astrology. (The once-in-a-lifetime triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune is still working out in that sign, the peak of a five-year transit of Chiron in Aquarius.) From all of this, we get the idea that people don’t change; we merely get locked into patterns. The times we expect to change are generally the moments of the train wreck. Maybe you’ll be different after a divorce or a death in the family, but even then there is only so far the rules of society allow us to go. Enter Burning Man, where we ritualize and embrace the process of growth. We show up, facing the extreme conditions of the high desert, forced into both radical autonomy and the need to embrace community, both consciously, as a matter of survival. The thing about the Man is that he’s this elaborate artistic creation, different every year, and then we do something very odd by our society’s standards: We burn him. This is the Death card (Trump XIII) on a grand scale: the point of no return; the actual moment of transformation. We release the form and some new element of energy has the room to express itself. By the time this ritual comes, most participants have been pushed to the limits of their physical and emotional reality. Burning Man is “fun,” but it’s fun only to the extent that we give up some of our worldly trappings, our sense of time, our daily routines, our names, and so on. Like most valid rituals, this is one that takes preparation. Part of that preparation is what we bring to offer the community. Unlike most enterprises in a capitalist system, Burning Man is about what you give rather than what you get. The whole purpose of capitalism is to maximize profit at the expense
of the worker and the consumer. The idea of Burning Man is to give resources to the community, at your own expense. This is a missing experience for most of us, who don’t think we have so much to give; and if we do, the idea of actual generosity is often repulsive or seems inappropriate. The gift culture ranges from the most elaborate perks from corporate America (somebody with a lot of cash on their hands paid for the Opulent Temple) to the most modest offerings of self. The camp that I was staying in, Poly Paradise, offered a daily Human Carcass Wash, where up to 600 people a day came to be washed down from their coating of playa dust. Part of the preparation involves developing a new relationship to physicality. I’ll give a few examples. It’s really easy to dehydrate in 110-degree heat. Therefore it’s necessary to constantly think about water, which reminds us that we’re made of water. There are ways to measure hydration; you can figure out how much you drink; or count how many times you pee. My personal method is, if my nose is dry, I’m dehydrated. There’s nowhere to buy food; therefore every meal is a conscious act. You cannot simply “grab a sandwich.” If you run out of food or water, you’re at the mercy of your neighbors, who are usually generous; everyone is in the same condition. (This particular part is easy for me, because my first gig as a cook was in the galley of The Pioneer, a century-old steel schooner, cooking for 14 people. I was reminded again what a valuable talent this is, to be able to prepare safe, tasty food for myself and others under odd circumstances.) There are no flush toilets. port-a-potties are glorified outhouses, and if we make a mess out of them, they are messy for the rest of us. We literally have to deal with one another’s shit (something that most of us know not about, in the industrialized world). One result is the most impeccably clean public bathrooms you’ve ever seen at an outdoor event. The potties are plastered with public service announcements created by various camps and factions reminding what and what not to drop down the hole—and the admonition that someone will, in fact, have to dig out your Pepsi bottle if you toss it down there. By my second day on the playa, I was planning my self-care activities one at a time. Find dental floss. Use dental floss. Find toothbrush. Brush teeth. I shaved once; it was a memorable project, involving the spontaneous discovery that I had left my shaving gear in the glove compartment, then boiling half a gallon of precious water. Every step was a conscious act. The result felt like no shave I’ve ever experienced. Then there are relationships. Those tend to be rearranged in this environment. It’s true that I was in a camp that had relationship-oriented discussion groups every morning (called Poly High Tea) and where we hosted talks on the history and sociology of monogamy. However, all around, people seemed to be tossed around in a kind of relational anarchy—sometimes pleasant, sometimes not—as a result of being confronted by so much intense beauty and so many people bringing out some aspect of their creative fire. In reality, one makes one’s boundaries, rules, and agreements; then what happens, happens. Synchronicity is the name of the game at Burning Man; this thing we call manifestation is in full force. The stories are too many to count, and it’s fun to see it in action. I really had to surrender to the notion that if I think of something, it could happen in a matter of minutes; and even if I wasn’t consciously thinking of it, but I secretly wanted it, it could happen in when I was least expecting it. Some of these stories are more appropriate for Book of Blue. Synchronicity messes with your idea of how physical reality intersects with consciousness. It’s true that we were in an alternate plane of reality that was a lot closer to the astral/causal levels. If you play this game well, it’s possible to let go of a lot of negativity. Then, after a week of this, the whole community gathers for the Burn. This year, all day Saturday was in what I’ll call a category 2 dust storm, caused by persistent winds blowing across an ancient lakebed. The storms do get worse: absolute whiteout. But this one was pretty bad, and it seemed to last forever, all day and into the night, threatening the ritual itself. I got myself there early, to have a seat in the front row, the better to photograph for you. And I sat there as the dusty wind pounded my body and my cameras and my lenses, catching dust in my mouth and eyes despite my mask and goggles. They can’t safely light a fire that big with 40,000 people around it in such a stiff wind, but unlike last year (when there was a similar problem) the higher-ups made the decision to start the preburn festivities: A lot of fire dancers and musicians and acrobats came out and performed in a vast circle to the audience/participants. These performers were dedicated, doing their thing at full strength despite being slammed by the elements. Most of them had prepared for a year for this event. Finally, the wind stopped and the arms of the Burning Man were hoisted into burn position: high above his head. Then came the fireworks and the pyrotechnics, and then he burst into flames, taking all of us with him. More photos and articles about Burning Man are at www.PlanetWaves.net. Thanks to Dr. Jeff Patterson for getting me to Burning Man this year. Eric Francis Coppolino writes daily at PlanetWaves.net. 10/09 ChronograM planet waves 107
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Aries (March 20-April 19) The challenge of the coming seasons and indeed years of your life could be stated this way: In order to thrive, you must get your most intimate relationships working in harmony with your most ambitious worldly goals. There are a number of elements to this, one of which is tapping into an unusual sense of mission or aspiration that has emerged in your life over the past year or more. One of the things I’ve learned from my clients is that most of us tend to set our goals too low to be satisfying. What we think of as thinking big is typically another form of thinking little. You are now being invited to think bigger than you ever have before. The second part of this challenge involves the way we conceive of our relationships. Too often they are experiences that work against our overall progress; we employ people in our lives who end up with the role of setting limits on our potential. While it’s challenging to change this assignment, you will soon arrive at a point where it feels like you have no choice but to do so. Here is a key. If you view these as separate missions, they will likely seem impossible. If you reach a point within yourself where you experience them as the same thing, you will find a way.
Taurus
(April 19-May 20)
Your life is a study in expectations and agreements. We often confuse the two; you would benefit from sorting them out, and replacing the first with the second. It’s challenging to notice when we are acting on the basis of an expectation, or presuming that another person will do so, though this is your first assignment. This takes honesty with yourself, and it will raise the issue of where those expectations came from in the first place; usually they are a lot older than the situation you are examining, and by a lot older I mean decades or lifetimes. Replacing expectations with agreements is more challenging, but it’s the action piece in this equation. Agreements imply that both parties to the agreement actually know what they want—very much opposite the situation where expectations rule. Step one starts with you, and it involves figuring out what you want; give a voice to those wispy notions and concepts that brew in the back of your mind. Remember, you’re not committing for the rest of your life, only as a medium-range goal to give you a sense of direction. Then get a grasp on what the people closest to you want. Look for the places that intersect; these are the actual points of contact in your relationship, the common ground you both stand on.
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Gemini (May 20-June 21) Many seasons of your life have been spent figuring out what was bothering you. This has involved a difficult confrontation with the past, during which you’re likely to have discovered how much emotional baggage you’re dragging around, courtesy of your family and your upbringing. This nagging sense that something was wrong has been the source of so much of your perfectionism. What you’re now discovering is that it’s best to exchange this for other methods of growth that actually get you somewhere. At the moment, it’s equally important that you leave behind the baggage as it is that you leave behind your struggle to sort it out. You’re about to embark on a new kind of challenge: something entirely more creative and that is obviously beautiful. You crave this with all your heart and soul. How many times have you discovered that analysis only gets you so far? At a certain point you have to pick up the world and sculpt it with your hands, proceeding on the basis of feeling. For the next few weeks, you may still need to iron out your concepts. I suggest you boil what you’ve learned down to a few ideas short enough to write on the wall; something easy to remember, akin to a sharp tool you can hang on your belt and use when you need it.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) Your physical location on the planet is about to come under your own scrutiny. Are you where you belong? Have you ever lived more than 100 miles from where you were born? Does your living space reflect the combination of beauty and high-functioning practicality that is one of the defining ideas of your birth sign? Oh, one last question: Much of your growth at the moment is focused on relationships, and your evolving idea of what a relationship is. You are poised to pass through a series of experiments that reveal the importance of getting your physical space into alignment with your needs and desires in your partnerships. This means making room in your life for the people you want to be there. In order for you to be comfortable in your own world, you need the people you care about to be comfortable in your world as well. This is not really a matter of “Take care of yourself first” but rather one of designing your living situation so that it works for everyone who you want to feel welcome in your environment. Yet the big question, the one of where in the world you actually live, is about to ring the bell. That’s a direct invitation to get out a map and dream a little.
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Leo
(July 22-August 23)
It really is amazing, once you choose to work out old, crippling fears, just how many you find. Yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more amazing to realize once you start to discover them, how easy it is to let go of them. When you do, the benefit is the release of energy that you can access any time you want or need to. This issue is attached, at the moment, to a particular risk and a corresponding reward. More than ever, you are going to attract what exists on your current level of vibration. If you are fearful, then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll attract fearful people and events that threaten your stability. If you set your mind in the direction of growth and evolution, that is what will turn up in the people around you. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a phase of what might be called â&#x20AC;&#x153;enforced growth.â&#x20AC;? This is putting many of the established structures and ideas of your life under scrutiny. What you might not be reading about this transit elsewhereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pluto through your 8th house of shared resources and partnership agreementsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is that you pretty much get to choose the level on which it manifests; and the way you choose is by how you feel and therefore what you attract to you. Change is inevitable; the form and direction of that change is not.
Virgo
(August 23-September 22)
You are finally poised to develop a long-term financial strategy. Given the number of banks that have failed this year (and associated problems), you may feel thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a ridiculous notion, but to take that position would be to once again isolate yourself from your own potential with a negative philosophy. What does not change, no matter what happens to the economy, is that human beings are driven and directed by their values system. They are, that is, if they choose to follow what their values are telling them, and if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they are likely to live in considerable conflict. One of your defense mechanisms is to isolate yourself from the values of others, to keep your own finances in a bubble, and to conduct as little commerce as possible. This is unusual, given the influence of the sign Libra on the money angle of your chart. Your life is about cooperation and an exchange of viewpoints that creates a thriving microeconomy. The defining concept within that cooperation is beauty and balance. This becomes the overarching theme of your life as Saturn makes its ingress to Libra; the test is not one of productivity but of creativity. The two are related, but in your particular situation, integrating them both becomes the foundation of the new identity youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working so diligently to create.
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For years, your potential has existed like a mirage. You see what is possible; you feel the strength of your ideas and the need to hold a clear vision for yourself; but often, this turns out to be like peering into a different dimension, one that you cannot reach or experience as solid. This is a special kind of torture, but for you, its days are numbered. Here is an astrological secret youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re unlikely to hear elsewhere. Libra is the most potent creative well of the zodiac. Fortunately, since everyone has Libra somewhere in his or her natal chart, we can draw on an unlimited battery of innovation and beauty. You have your Sun placed in this sign; you can be one and the same as this creative well, if you allow yourself to go there, and if you allow yourself the permission to take initiative. Saturn is about to enter your sign for the first time in nearly 30 years. This is likely to represent one of the few times in your adult life that you feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re standing on solid ground. Decisions will mean more, and you will finally have a sense of how valuable you are to your relationship partners, business partners, and colleagues. Manifesting this will require some elements of letting it happen, and certain elements of making it happen. Trust that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know exactly what to do.
Scorpio
(October 23-November 22)
Your curiosity about people grants you your most dependable interpersonal skills. Now you are about to turn that curiosity on yourself. The relationship we have with ourselves is the most important one of all, because it grants us the quality that mediates our whole vibrational field. You may soon experience a phase of your life where you pull in and let a number of old associations drop away. I suggest you not fall for the illusion that you are losing anything. Rather, dive into your curiosity about your own inner relationship. This corresponds with a sense of radical independence you may be feeling in the ideas about life that you are developing. You will be able to shift gracefully from the sense that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the only person in the world who thinks the way you do, to being someone who knows that first you focus your own mind, then you will meet the likes of others with whom you can share and develop your ideas. The first step in this process is stepping back from any notion of having to fit in, conform, or be accepted by others. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure you would never want to admit that this has been on your agenda, but the moment you let it go you will see how it has dominated your thinking and your choices.
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Sagittarius
(November 22-December 22)
Here is a brief summary of 2009 for you: The year started and built to an early peak with events that demonstrated both how good and how challenging life could be. There were many times when you felt like it was all too much, and yet the sense that you could create something absolutely new and innovative with your life went off like fireworks. To the extent that there were challenges, those only fueled your determination to live well in the time and space you are allotted on this Earth. Then somehow many things that had such incredible potential seemed to go into reverse. Certain things hit frustrating delays and others seemed to vanish like smoke, leaving you to wonder whether you had made any progress at all. Somehow your mind is changing about this. You may not be able to document new progress, but the backsliding has stopped, for one thing, and for another, you are starting to feel like you can make some choices that put you back on track. October brings the tipping point; it is the threshold where you regain your confidence in yourself. It is easy to say “All things in their time,” but it takes wisdom and experience to see and feel this in action. All things in their time—and that time has very nearly arrived.
Capricorn (December 22-January 20) If you’re the type of person who is introspective and concerned about your personal growth, you may not count yourself as a Capricorn who is ambitious. I would advise you to reconsider this position, and to embrace the spiritually wholesome nature of true achievement. Here is the defining point, however: It’s not really about you. Yes, you are the spearhead and you will soon emerge as the visionary of an impressive and challenging project. This project has an apparent goal, such as building a skyscraper or creating an art exhibition. Yet there is a secondary goal that’s really the point of the whole endeavor, which is learning how to think in terms of mutual benefit all the time. I am therefore not talking about climbing the corporate ladder or any kind of usual heroism. I am talking about the highly focused path of self-development that you have embarked on since Pluto entered your birth sign. Everything, and I do mean everything, in your life is hooked into this engine of personal growth. Later this month, Saturn is going to cross the achievement angle of your solar chart, which is one of the hallmarks of success. But for a number of reasons, we are not talking about success, but rather about dharma: acting as if to hold the world together.
Aquarius (January 20-February 19) It would be an understatement to say that you’ve been living through one of the most outrageous identity crises in the history of psychology. Okay, maybe that’s actually an overstatement, but you know what I’m talking about. There have been so many elements to this, going back so long, you seem to have a) lost track of them and b) grown accustomed to this simply being the way things are. There is something about yourself, essential to this whole process, that keeps coming in and out of focus. It’s like you get it into your vision and manifestation field, then it disappears; then you refocus, and feel its reality, then it vanishes again. If you study this, you will get a look at how your inner components speak to one another. If you study this over time, you will see how you are gradually integrating aspects of your character that have tended to exist in layers and to act independently of one another, sometimes leading you to make the kinds of strange decisions that can only be accounted for by a lack of self-awareness. You have taken some amazing steps this year to both raise your awareness and integrate many seemingly separate aspects of yourself. As the next few weeks unfold, notice the strange and beautiful feeling emerge that you are one coherent entity, poised to travel a distinct, unique trajectory in life.
Pisces
(February 19-March 20)
Applying discipline to one’s life is challenging. It’s one thing to hold to a plan; it takes even more tenacity to apply subtle, radical changes in a consistent way, utilizing the quality of structure on the one hand and continuous experimentation on the other; this, in a balanced way. Yet that’s precisely what is necessary when old patterns have taken over: something akin to a conscious, active process of invention. This has been developing on many levels for you, with your charts revealing essentially the same process unfolding in a number of ways. There is the obvious level: the confrontations of Uranus in your sign with Saturn in your opposite sign, which have created some interesting relationship situations for you, wherein you take the role of an agent of change. Yet the real agents of change are working deep within your psyche, in the mysterious angle of your chart represented by Aquarius. That is the origin (in the symbolic language of astrology) of your deepest progress, and the message is: You are involved in reworking and rewriting deep, unconscious patterns of thought and feeling; and that you are reaching a vital conclusion of a long phase of this process. I would repeat, you have not seen the best results of this yet, but as Jupiter begins one final sweep through this territory, you will indeed discover them. Read Eric Francis daily at PlanetWaves.net. 110 planet waves ChronograM 10/09
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Parting Shot
An untitled image by Yasuhiko Ishikawa, from his “Forbidden Forest” series
This month at Unison, “Forbidden Forest,” the first US exhibit of Japanese photographer Yasuhiko Ishikawa, showing October 11 through November 1. Ishikawa, who has been working on this series since 1994, brings an element of figural portraiture to his landscapes, transforming branches into arms and legs, bowed trunks into lithe ballerina torsos, a stand of trees into a gang of sullen, skulking teenagers. Ishikawa’s photographs invite anthropomorphic commentary and then reject it in favor of the literal interpretation, as if Ishikawa clicked the shutter just as his subjects were caught in the liminal space between two worlds. There will be an opening reception for the exhibit on Sunday, October 11, from 4 to 6pm. The Gallery at Unison, 68 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz. (845) 255-1559; www.unisonarts.org. Portfolio: www.ishikawa-d.jp. —Brian K. Mahoney
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