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19 while you were sleeping
30 wappingers falls & fishkill: a winning pair
Historic dam removals along the Klamath River, musicians protest the use of their songs for interrogation, Bloomberg’s record election spending, and more.
22 one world under allah Lorna Tychostup interviews Jarret Barchman, author of Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice, about the current state of militant Islam, the complex relationships between global jihadist factions, and how the West should just get out of the way of groups like al Qaeda and the Taliban and allow them to self-destruct.
26 beinhart’s body politic: plutonomy, plutocracy, kleptocracy Larry Beinhart questions the whether it’s good for America that the top one percent of households in the US account for more of the country’s financial net worth than the bottom 95 percent combined.
regional notebook 13 local luminary: clark strand .
Marx Dorrity talks spirituality with the lapsed Buddhist and author of How to Believe in God: Whether You Believe in Religion or Not.
28 man with a mission: carleton mabee on father divine .
Jay Blotcher talks with Carleton Mabee about his biography of Father Divine, Promised Land, in which the Pulitzer-prize winning historian chronicles the life of the messianic black preacher who established a number of religious communites in Ulster County in the first part of the 20th century.
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Atticus Lanigan travels off the beaten path in southern Dutchess County.
68 marbletown: a precious stone .
Anne Pyburn prowls the Ulster County villages of High Falls and Stone Ridge.
holiday events 62 savoring the season .
Erica Scrodin previews holiday events around the region.
whole living guide 76 What the F? Flu Vaccine in the hot seat Lorrie Klosterman presents Dr. Joseph Mercola’s case against vaccination.
80 Flowers Fall: inexhaustible Bethany Saltman relfects on the life of her teacher, John Daido Loori.
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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arts & culture 38 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 42 music
52 food & drink Peter Barrett has some suggestions for a tastier Thanksgiving dinner.
104 parting shot A photograph from the Quiet Man series by John Foxx.
46 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles young adult authors Nova Ren Suma (Dani Noir) and Susannah Apppelbaum(Poisons of Caux: The Hollow Bettle).
48 BOOK reviews Marx Dorrity reviews All Fall Down by Mary Caponegro. Kim Wozencraft reviews Night Navigation by Ginnah Howard. Plus this month’s Short Takes, a eclectic round-up of local books.
50 Poetry Poems by Barbara Adams, Paul Assey, Rowan Brind, Hilary Davis, Oliver Grannis, Jacob Internicola, Piper Levine, Tommi Panitz, Emma Silverman, Theo Stieve, and Kate Stone. Edited by Phillip Levine.
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the forecast 88 daily calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 87 The ceramic sculptures Kathy Ruttenberg at the Kleinert/James in Woodstock. 89 Half Moon Theater’s Emerson High examines a teacher-student affair. 93 Eric Weiner talks about his book The Geography of Bliss at SUNY New Paltz. 95 Aerial photographer Alex MacLean shows slides at the Cary Institute in Millbrook. 97 Freeing Silvia Baraldini screens at the Community Theater in Catskill.
planet waves 98 The Man: In the Shadow of Saturn Eric Francis Coppolino explains the pull of the ringed planet. Plus horoscopes.
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Inspired Bicycles, Danny MacAskill david sowerby | video still | 2008-09 Anyone who’s ever learned to ride a bicycle has some sort of attachment to the experience, whether it led to a lifetime of biking or was set aside like other youthful fads. “Bike Rides: The Exhibition,” which runs through January 3 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, with the ambitious goal of not only showing the bicycle as a contemporary art form, but also illustrating its cultural relevance around the world. According to Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, the idea came from her co-curator, Richard Klein. “He had been seeing a lot of artists that were using bicycle components for sculptures,” she says. Once the pair came to terms with the magnitude of the project, they determined that it could not be contained in the small gallery space initially set aside for “Bike Rides.” But before they could settle on anything else, they knew they needed to bring in an expert, one who was both a cycling enthusiast and was also tapped into the art world. They found their man in musician David Byrne. “We wanted him to curate, but he was on tour,” says Ramírez–Montagut. “He advised to do the show not only with artists, but also with bicycle advocacy teams, and to also open up to people who are not art professionals. Aficionados that restore and ornament bikes. Their hobby is a projection of their identity.” And so, Ramírez-Montagut and Klein began searching around the world, not only to view bicycles as pieces of art, but to show how they’re utilized in different societies. “With our research we found that everyone talks about their bike like it’s the best bike in the world. It’s very different for different people, and in different cultures,” Ramírez-Montagut says. “In developing cultures like China, Brazil, and India, bicycles are really the transportation vehicle used by a broad part of the population. And there are street vendors using bicycles as mobile stores.” The exhibit focuses largely on design and cultural relevance, though it also includes celebrity contributions from Byrne and others. Competitive cycling’s most recognizable face, Lance Armstrong, even loaned a pair of bikes to the museum for use in the show. (And, in case you were wondering, the image on this month’s cover is an unaltered video still of stunt rider Danny MacAskill riding atop a wrought-iron fence. Watch video of MacAskill’s insane antics at www.dannymacaskill.co.uk.) “Bike Rides: The Exhibition” will be on display through January 3 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. (203) 438-4519; www.aldrichart.org. —Crispin Kott 8 ChronograM 11/09
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“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner,” known as the Jesus Prayer, is an Eastern Orthodox devotion that is meant be repeated and internalized. Many know it as the vehicle of a satori experience in J.D. Salinger’s novella Franny and Zooey. In 2000, when Clark Strand was on a commercial flight with his family, the plane hit serious weather and for a fatal instant seemed certain to crash. In the anguish and confusion, Strand found himself intoning the Jesus Prayer. This surprised him, as it also might anyone familiar with his career as a teacher of Zen meditation, a Tricycle magazine editor, and the author of books that brim with Zen wisdom. Though raised Christian, he first encountered the potent mantra in Salinger. To Strand’s mind, the difference between prayer and meditation is merely semantic; still, the Jesus Prayer led him to a close study of the Judeo-Christian scriptures. How to Believe in God: Whether You Believe in Religion or Not (2009, Doubleday Religion) unites traditions in Strand’s ongoing search to find a new way to be religious. Strand is also the founder of WholeEarthGod.com, a forum for inter-religious dialogue and Koans of the Bible, an open-ended discussion group that takes up the Bible from a multitude of perspectives. —Marx Dorrity Do you still think of yourself as a Buddhist?
another ignited people’s imaginations. For the first few years, I talked about koans like
I’m not sure I think of myself as belonging to any religion, but I certainly have practiced
a Zen master, then I started to notice that what people really loved and what really
across several different traditions and studied them in great depth and appreciate them
transformed them was the discussion.
a lot. What I do now is I sponsor this open-ended free discussion of spiritual texts using the teachings of one religion to interpret the spiritual texts of another.
In your book, you explain the test of faith given to Abraham in an innovative way. The real test for Abraham is not whether he is willing to listen to God telling him to kill
What was your Zen training?
his child, but will he listen to God telling him not to. The same test could be applied
I did Zen training with a Japanese Zen master for 14 years and I was on the verge of
today: Do religious people listen to God telling them to kill other people or harm the
being installed as a roshi and I walked away. The reasons are complex. A big part of it
Earth—or do they listen to the fresh new voice of God, who helps them adapt to changing
was I felt that religion itself was on the verge of changing in some very profound way.
circumstances and see the right way to go, and reveals the way as we go along, and
But this was a very ill-formed idea—all it was, as God says to Abraham in the Bible,
shows a way to act in each situation.
was “Get out.”
How does doubt play into the believer’s journey?
How is religion changing?
No one comes to religion, as far as I can see, other than the fact that they’re locked in
What’s happening in religion is those traditions that are based on top-down authority and sermonizing or formal talks by experts are beginning to decline. What’s on the rise are spiritual movements that stress discussion. It is very much like what’s happened on the blogs and with journalism, for instance. It’s become much more dialogical, participatory, and interactive. We have a group in Woodstock where anyone can come. The Bible is our anchor, but we’re not likely to have anything approaching a religious understanding of it. Is the group therapeutic? We’ve been together for about 10 years—people say they tend to get happier, tend to get clearer. It isn’t that the group sets out to accomplish that. We’re a group that has therapeutic benefits but we don’t have any therapeutic agenda. Nobody’s ever trying to heal anybody. We just get together and talk about things that really matter.
a battle between faith and doubt. Part of them wants to believe and part of them can’t quite manage it. So they engage in all kinds of religious study or religious behavior and attitudes; a religious way of thinking is a way of trying to vanquish their doubts and get more faith. But how can you possibly get rid of doubt, unless you brainwash yourself? And on the other hand, if you don’t have faith, then you haven’t fully opened yourself to the possibilities for joy and love and the blessings that sustain your life at every moment. Belief is really a step beyond, because at a certain point we realize that this battle between faith and doubt is itself all right. Do you think belief is more difficult for people now than it was in biblical times? Well, I think it’s getting easier, oddly enough. I think people are approaching the true object of belief—which on my blog I call the Whole Earth God. As people begin to look at nature, not through the metaphor of Yahweh, or God, or Vishnu, but at the planetary ecosystem itself, what they’re finding is that we’re safe together or
How did the koans of the Bible study group start?
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When I came back to the Bible, the first thing I noticed were the koans, or Zen paradoxes,
The Golden Rule that grows out of axial age religions, “Do unto others as you would
and the Bible’s just filled with them. My Zen master had taught me koans and how to
have them do unto you,” is now ripening and fully maturing—if you follow the logic far
work with them and help others study them. So I put this ad out, "Koans of the Bible,"
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and 50 peopled showed up. This pairing of a term from one tradition with the text of
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I find it useful to look at the question in light of the idea that each person is a microcosmos—a direct reflection of the whole of humanity. In other words, the ignorance, greed, and blithe indifference to what matters, shown by governments, corporations, academicians, and religions to what matters, are present in us also. But that is not all that is within us. There is also a knowledge of truth, a conscience, if you will, that is present within our confusion. In the teachings of Gurdjieff, the word conscience has a specific, technical meaning. It is an instrument deep within the emotional center that attunes to reality, and provides intelligence for suitable responses. It is the “still, small voice” which is not speaking against our self-involved fantasy of ourselves and our role, but above it. It is not some prepared set of ideas or dogmas. Conscience is our source of living intelligence, and we need only quiet the cacophony of competing voices to hear it. If we can hear it, we can obey it, for it is the voice of self. In his system Gurdjieff points to a means of hearing the voice of conscience. He said we are all made up of many different selves— “I’s”—that compete for control, like so many monkeys in a car, each taking its turn in the driver’s seat, and steering the car in a different direction. But in our distracted state we don’t see when the I in charge changes, and are left with the illusion that our multiple personalities are one, integrated self. The I’s are often contradictory to each other. One wants to love his neighbor and the other hates him for running the leaf-blower at 8 o’clock on Sunday morning. One wants to be fit and thin, and another eats pints of Ben & Jerry’s in the middle of the night. Each I has its own aim, however miniscule or destructive, and each has its own satisfactions. Each conducts some of our real power—our feeling and desire—with the summary result that our power is dissipated in multifarious counterproductive or destructive directions. The means Gurdjieff suggests for awakening conscience is to remove the cushions from between the different I’s so we can feel the real impact of their contradiction. We have all had the experience of being shocked to discover some truth about ourselves, and awakened to a new state of tenderness and compassion. The shock could be a near-fatal accident, in which we see our blithe and disinterested state against the backdrop of our inevitable death. Or it could be the threat of the loss of an important relationship as a result of selfish habits—we realize that though we profess love for another, we ultimately love our habits more. But when these two separate I’s come into proximity, and collide, the emotional energy flowing though each as separate tributaries combine to become a single, stronger flow, and in their collision create an inner shock to awaken conscience, even for a moment. Unfortunately these awakenings are fleeting, and rarely last. Clearly it takes more than an accidental shock to sustain an awakened conscience. It takes work, and that work is struggle with our habits, for it is the habits that allow the endless easy transition from one tiny fraudulent I to the next. This is the opportunity for us personally and for the whole world. We collectively say we understand our dependency on and unity with all life on earth, and yet we are on a collision course with environmental catastrophe. We want alternative energy but we don’t want windmills turning in our backyards. We want peace, but we want the spoils of war—a lifestyle that can only be sustained by stealing from the rest of the world. How close will we get to annihilation before we truly feel its imminence and are shocked by the destructive contradictions of our many wants; feel it enough to individually and collectively awaken conscience—a summary perception of what is true? The most sacred prayer in Hebrew begins with admonition Sh’ma—“hear.” If we can hear the truth, we can act on it. But do we have the capacity to listen? —Jason Stern
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In his quest for a third term as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg (pictured above, waving to members of the Bukharian Jewish Community Center) spent $85 million of his personal fortune on his reelection campaign as of October 24, and was on pace to spend approximately $125 million by election day, November 3. This is more than any other individual in US history has spent of their own money in pursuit of public office. (Other recent instances of personal wealth converted to political war chest: Jon Corzine of New Jersey has spent $130 million on two races for governor and one for Senate; Steve Forbes put $114 million into two presidential bids; and Ross Perot spent $65 million running in the 1992 presidential race.) Bloomberg, whose personal wealth is estimated at $16 billion, has outspent his opponent, Democrat William Thompson, 14 to 1. A Marist College survey in late October gave Bloomberg a 16-point edge over Thompson. Bloomberg persuaded New York’s City Council earlier this year to overturn term limits that would have prevented the mayor from running for a third term. Sources: New York Times, CNN In late September, 29 parties signed a draft agreement to destroy four dams along the Klamath River, running across the California-Oregon border. The product of years of negotiation, the dam removal project will be the largest in the world to date, and will reestablish 700 miles of river flow on the Klamath, once a flourishing source of salmon and steelhead. The fishing industry on the river dwindled once the first dam was built in 1908. The dams, owned by the PacifiCorp utility—a subsidiary of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway—are being dismantled as PacifiCorp was faced with expensive government-mandated fish-saving modifications that would have cost the utility $300 million. The estimated expense of destroying the dams: $200 million. Source: Greenwire According to the FBI, 89,000 women reported being raped in 2008—the lowest level in 20 years. Victims advocates and crime researchers believe this is due to the rise of the use of DNA evidence in prosecutions, awareness of rape as a crime, and the willingness of victims to come forward. Source: USA Today Chief executive officers at the 29 largest public financial institutions that took federal bailout funds received perks and bonus of $380,000, on average, in 2008. “You would have thought that this would be the moment when everyone would say, “Okay, the perks have got to stop—at least while we’re indebted to the government,’” said Paul Hodgson, senior research associate at the Corporate Library, a corporate watchdog group. “But that didn’t happen.” In contrast to the four percent increase in perks at the companies benefiting from the bailout, top executives at non-financial services companies in the Fortune 100 saw their benefits decline by seven percent in 2008. Source: The Washington Post
A study of 6,877 married couples published recently in the Journal of Family Issues suggests that the more housework you do, the more often you are likely to have sex with your spouse. In a related survey of 2,000 adults, respondents placed “sharing household chores” the third most important factor in a successful marriage, behind faithfulness and a happy sexual relationship. Source: Wall Street Journal Over the past two years, an increasing number of children in the US have left home for a life on the streets, according to government officials and child welfare experts, who point to financial stresses on families due to the economic downturn. Though the government does not keep close track of homeless juveniles, it’s estimated that 1.6 million people under the age of 18 run away or are thrown out of their homes each year. Most return home within a week. In more than three-quarters of runaway cases, parents or caretakers do not report the child missing. Source: New York Times Nearly $30 million of federal stimulus money was awarded to six companies under investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government by the Department of Defense. The Army and Air Force gave 112 projects at military bases to the companies, ranging from repairing airplane hangars to renovating dining halls and childcare centers. The companies claimed to be small, minority-owned businesses, which allowed them special preference in obtaining contracts. Investigators found, however, that the firms were all part of a larger enterprise controlled by Craig Jackson, an African-American businessman. It was almost a year after the investigation started that the Air Force suspended the companies from receiving new government contracts. Source: Pro Publica A high-profile coalition of musicians—including Pearl Jam, REM, and Roseanne Cash—have endorsed a Freedom of Information Act filing by the National Security Archive, an independent research institute, demanding that the government release the records relating to the music it used to interrogate detainees since 2002. While President Obama ended the use of music as a form of torture on his second day in office, the portrait emerging from prisoner testimonies is that the use of music as a psychological warfare agent enjoyed widespread use by the US government and in secret CIA prisons. Former detainees describe the music played to torture them was usually heavy metal, rap, and country. Specific songs included “We Are the Champions” by Queen and Nine Inch Nails’ “March of the Pigs.” Former prisoner Binyam Mohammed told Human Rights Watch that he had been forced to listen to Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady” for 20 days. The use of loud music to control or coerce prisoners is a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture. The US is a party to the convention. The Washington Post On October 8, 21 people were hospitalized after a sweat lodge ceremony in Sedona, Arizona led by New Age guru James Arthur Ray. Three participants have since died. The sweat lodge occurred after a 36-hour desert fast. Ray has been accused by some of the surviving participants of not allowing people to leave the cramped, intensely heated tent, despite repeated appeals and visible physical distress. Ray came to national prominence after a segment on the “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and an appearance in the 2006 film The Secret. According to Alton Carroll, an adjunct history professor at San Antonio College who moderates the website Newagefraud.org, at least seven people have died in ceremonial sweat lodges since 1993 in the US, Engalnd, and Australia. Source: New York Times The number of ships captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia dropped dramatically in August and September. There have been only three ships captured since then, the largest a Spanish-flagged fishing boat with a crew of 36 seized on October 2. In 2008, 18 vessels were seized during the same time period. The crisis came to a head when the US-flagged vessel Maersk Alabama was boarded by a band of pirates in April. Navy SEAL snipers operating from the USS Bainbridge ended a hostage standoff when they killed three pirates. After the Alabama seizure, the number of international navy ships operating in the area has tripled, to an average of 25 to 30. Merchant ships have also taken anti-pirate measures: sailing quickly through the Gulf of Aden, placing concertina wire around the ship, or using water hoses to ward off pirates. Some crews even make it a point to stock up on Molotov cocktails. Source: USA Today
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Sex Belongs in Marriage To the Editor: In response to Larry Beinhart’s “Republican Sex II: Invasion of the Sexophobes” [9/09] I’ll share a quote from Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is very disturbing; about as disturbing as Mr. Beinhart’s broad assessment that it’s the fault of Republicans and condoms, Really?!? Your rehtoric sounds like you’d like a civil war, but judging from the tone of your article, I doubt you’d actually be civil. It would be interesting to see who is on which side of this debate; in 2006 there were 39,337,282 registered Democrats and 30,593,698 registered Republicans in the United States and with approximately 40 precent of the electorate identifying themselves as Independents (whose mission statement in part says (they), “seek to diminish the regressive influence of parties and partisanship.” I’d say with your article that you just alienated a lot of people. Was the name-calling and finger pointing in your article really necessary? Starting as early as first grade, our public schools are now teaching our children how to resolve conflict and get their points across without those tactics, it’s called “Character Education.” You should try it. Your answer to countering teen pregnancy is condoms. Consumer Reports tests on condoms put the failure rate at 12 percent, lower than the statistic you found on ProLife.com. Nevertheless, I am wondering if you would tell your child to get on an airplane that had a 12 percent chance of crashing. Oh, right, I guess you’d offer them a parachute (abortion) so they’d have more of a chance of surviving, despite the emotional and psychological drama of the crash itself, not to mention the dead bodies all around. Personally, I’ll tell my child not to get on the plane; it’s not a truly fulfilling ride anyway. I don’t teach my children that just so they avoid disease and pregnancy—I say wait until you’re mature enough to find and live real love. Pope John Paul II’s theology of the body stresses that sex is an act of both giving and receiving in the spouses. They surrender themselves to each other in an act of profound love and unity. Fidelity is fostered between the spouses, even if no children are conceived. Which contrary to your assertion, is allowed in the Catholic Church—it’s called natural Family Planning, which I have used successfully in my 19 years of a very sexually-healthy marriage, having produced only three children. Your answer for teens is to throw some condoms at them and let ’em have at it is pretty disconnected—as if it is just a physical act, as if they’re just animals in heat. That should encourage the belief that giving sexual favors will make them be loved or that they can “trade” on their bodies to gain popularity or acceptance. Significant emotional pain occurs with early sexual involvement and countless hearts are broken. These are young people whose age makes their dignity and self-esteem very vulnerable. They’ve already heard how to avoid AIDS, but what they want to know is the difference between love and lust. No, Mr. Beinhart, Republicans are not “sexophobes.” We have serious discussions with our children about sex, making sure they understand that sex is sacred, that it’s beautiful, that it’s powerful, and that it belongs in marriage. Mary Ellen Yannitelli, Garrison
department of corrections In a review of Tony Fletcher’s All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-1977 in the previous issue, the Ramones’ song the book takes its title from was misidentified as “Blitzkrieg Bop.” It is, in fact, “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker.”
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A photo of Karen Sargysan’s Human Behaviour, from the “Double Dutch” exhibit at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, went uncredited in the previous issue. The photographer is Dale Leifeste. The organizer of a benefit for Alchemy in Woodstock was misidentified in the Chronogram Seen last month. The organizer was filmmaker David McDonald, not singer Michael McDonald.
Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note A November Miscellany In late October, President Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a “national emergency” as thousands of concerned people were lining up across the country to receive scarce flu vaccine for H1N1. While the national emergency designation is merely a tool that allows hospitals and municipalities to establish offsite clinics should existing medical resources become taxed by flu patients, there has been mounting fear about a possible pandemic, and the vast majority of the information released by the government and reported on by news organizations has focused on how, when, and where, to get vaccinated—not why it’s necessary. Dr. Joseph Mercola, a leading national health practitioner, has long questioned the rationale for flu vaccination and warned of its side effects. Health and Wellness editor Lorrie Klosterman has excerpted material from Dr. Mercola’s voluminous articles and commentary on the subject, laying out a case against immunization and suggesting ways to keep our immune systems in top-notch form so as to avoid the flu altogether this coming winter. Whole Living, page 76 ••• Bethany Saltman has been writing a column for us for a year now, ostensibly on parenting, tracking the joys and challenges of raising her daughter Azalea with her husband, T. Bethany happens to be a Buddhist, which informs her experience of parenting, writing her column, and, I imagine, just about everything else in her life. For years, Bethany lived at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, where she studied with ZMM’s founder John Daido Loori, one of the most influential Zen teachers in the West. Loori died on October 9. Bethany offers a remembrance of her teacher this month. Flowers Fall, page 80 ••• Father Major Jealous Divine was the head of the Peace Mission Movement, a Christian religious group that built 31 small communities in Ulster County in the early part of the 20th century. Divine, a charismatic black preacher, brought blacks and whites together in his communities, a rarity at the time, and promoted a doctrine of racial equality and nonviolent social change. While little trace is left of the Divine communities, Pulitzer-Prize winning local historian Carleton Mabee has documented the impact of Divine’s influence on the area in his recent book Promised Land: Father Divine’s Interracial Communities in Ulster County. Jay Blotcher talks with Mabee, who turns 95 this December, about the Divine legacy. Regional Notebook, page 28
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In our ongoing profiles of local cities and towns, we’ve noticed a recurring theme: the tension between economic development and the preservation of open space. The communities we feature this month are no different, though dissimilar from each other in many ways. Wappingers Falls and Fishkill, in southern Dutchess County, are often thought of solely (and soullessly) as towns shot through by Route 9 and Interstate 84. Off the main drags, pedestrian-friendly downtown areas are at the heart of efforts to re-create sustainable village life away from the traffic and congestion. The Marbletown hamlets of Stone Ridge and High Falls face the problems at the other end of the economic development spectrum: How do you maintain open space while fostering economic opportunity and retaining young people with good jobs? Anne Pyburn and Atticus Lanigan report back from opposite ends of the Hudson Valley. Community Pages, pages 31 & 69 ••• For years, Chronogram has wrestled with an issue that is both a blessing and a curse. We distribute 20,000 copies each month across the Mid-Hudson Valley and into the Catskills and the Berkshires. For free. And within the first week of the month, the magazines are almost always all picked up. This is a testament to the fierce loyalty of our readers and, we believe, the quality of our product. The consistent problem for readers has been: Where can I find a copy of the magazine if I missed it that first week? In an attempt to solve this dilemma, we began offering the magazine for sale at selected locations last month for $4. This came as a shock to some, conditioned as they were to just picking up the magazine for free. And you still can! But when you’re needing a copy and you can’t find it, look no further than the following locations: Garrison Garrison Market, 1135 Route 9D New Paltz Trailways Bus Station Shop, 139 Main Street Red Hook J&J’s Gourmet, 1 East Market Street Rhinebeck Upstate Films, 6415 Montgomery Street Tivoli Country Grocer, 76 Broadway Warwick Atkins Pharmacy 33 Main Street Chronogram is and will remain a free distribution publication. Pick it up every month at your same trusted locations. And there’s always, of course, the subscription option. For only $36/year, you can get the magazine delivered to your mailbox each month so you’ll never miss an issue again—or at least not until your subscription runs out. E-mail info@chronogram.com for details.
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one world under allah An interview with Jarret Brachman, author of Global Jihadism By Lorna Tychostup
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eventeen people on a bus heading to a wedding are killed when a bomb explodes. A suicide bomber detonates himself and kills seven. Fifteen people are wounded when a car bomb blasts through the parking lot of a recreational facility. What looks and sounds a lot like Iraq has furiously surfaced in Pakistan, as the global jihadist movement focuses its attention on what some Western regional analysts have coined AfPak. Pakistan and Afghanistan and the amorphous border meant to separate the two states instead conjoins them in what has become the world’s latest most conspicuous war theater. The illdefined border between the two countries, coupled with terrorist attempts to hemorrhage Afghanistan’s instability into Pakistan, is joyously wedded to jihadist hopes of reestablishing an Islamic Caliphate representative of the Ottoman Empire’s greatest expanse. Just as it watched a leaderless, unstable Iraq ignite under waves of sectarian violence stoked by outsiders—internationally roaming jihadists, the world’s eye is now on AfPak, where this emboldened, self-corporatized horde are bleeding their incendiary tactics into Iran. Proselytizing a fanatical, puritanically violent interpretation of Islam that flies on the face of true Islam, Internet chattering of their successes inspire budding radicals from Kashmir to Chechnya, Somalia to the US, Great Britain to Indonesia. The roots of this Jihadist movement can be found in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century, with the rise of Sunni Salafism, according to al Qaeda expert and former director of research at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, Jarrett Brachman. His recent book, Global Jihadism:Theory and Practice (Routledge), provides a virtual who’s who of global jihadists and attempts to clear up the confusion surrounding the vague, varying, and self-serving ideologies that feed an ever-growing array of Islamic jihadist groups. Senior Editor Lorna Tychostup interviews Brachman and asks him to demystify the complexities of the Global Jihadist movement and the reasons behind its violent tactics—directed equally against Muslims judged by this extreme minority as adopting Western ways, and the rest of the world. Brachman’s blog: www.jarretbrachman.net. Lorna Tychostup: You break down the Salafist movement into seven categories, a spectrum from Establishment Salafists to Global Jihadists. What are the differences between these groups? Jarret Brachman: Establishment Salafism is the official Saudi state religion, which is Sunni based. Establishment scholars are the official scholars of the Saudi state to whom the regime looks for support and legitimization of their 22 news & politics ChronograM 11/09
own rulings and decisions. “Establishment” is not my term but that of a religious hardliner and is a bit pejorative. Al Qaeda has moved to reject such breakdowns they feel are attempts to fragment the Salafist movement. Since insurgents are desperate to blend into the population around them, their goal is to limit the number of distinctions that can be made between the people and them. My article, “Abu Yahya’s Six Easy Steps for Defeating al-Qaeda,” explains the strategy laid out by senior al-Qaeda member, Shaikh Abu Yahya al-Libi, where he says to make these sort of artificial distinctions across Salafism is an effective way to highlight how extreme the global jihadists are versus mainstream “establishment” Salafists who believe that the Saudi regime is legitimate. Salafists are constantly striving to have more sharia or Islamic law implemented, they understand it is a process, and feel the application of sharia in Saudi Arabia sufficient. Jihadis accuse them of being sellouts and say, “You can’t work your way toward establishing Islamic law, you just have to establish it.” As you move more to the right, you get legendary Salafist scholars like Yemeni Shaikh Rabi al-Madkali, Saudi Shaikh Bin Baz, Shaikh al-Albani who acknowledge the sins of the rulers, saying they are minor, and acknowledge Arab regimes as legitimate. What separates the categories has to do with perspectives on the legitimacy of Arab rulers and whether you support, unseat, revolt, or use violence against them. Aren’t these differences based more on different men proselytizing their own personal beliefs and/or interpretations of Islam than on a singular desire to unite all Muslims under one Islamic system? In [Global Jihadism] I’ve spun each of these different schools of thought around one individual, so they do become sort of cult of personality-type schools. Most aren’t calling for the establishment of a local caliphate, although they all buy into that narrative. The only ones actually demanding a global caliphate immediately are the global jihadist scholars. They are creating these separations between themselves and other scholars in order to maintain their following. The Caliphate at its widest extent covered Northern Africa, Spain, the Middle East through the Pakistan/Afghanistan region to Indonesia. Is this what Global Jihadists are striving for, to bring this same swath of territory under Islamic rule? Yes. You have to build into this. First, they are okay with emirates, which are smaller versions of the Caliphate. They discuss, ‘When do you establish an Islamic state versus an Islamic emirate?’ And ‘If you are an emir, what does that mean?’ They think of Afghanistan and Iraq as emirates. Anywhere where there
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one strain of current fundamentalist islamic calls for Muslims to abolish national boundaries within the Islamic world and return to a single Islamic state, known as “the Caliphate,” that would stretch from Indonesia to Morocco and contain more than 1.5 billion people.
is a jihadi presence they look to establish some sort of an emirate or island of sharia.The goal is to slowly bleed these out, then tie them together and take over the historic geography that was ruled at one point under Islamic law—the swath you are talking about. Their bigger goal is global domination. They are happy to subordinate Christians and Jews to second-class citizens—no need to destroy them, just subordinate them. Marx wanted a global communist state. The jihadists want a global sharia state or caliphate. They don’t think they can have that anytime soon, but for now whatever was under Islam, they want it back—North Africa, Al-Andalus, all the way to Indonesia. Can you briefly address what you call the “awakening” of the ‘60s and its three interconnected phenomena? The movement began in the early 1920s with the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which bubbled into this sense that the solution to all social and political ills was to be found in Islam, specifically the pure and fundamental components of the Sunni and Salafist version of Islam. Turning more into a political/social movement, it culminated with Sayyid Qutb, an educated Egyptian government official well versed in English literature and culture. Qutb studied in the US from 1949 to 1950 and came away believing that America was nothing short of a hotbed of perversion, racism, and exploitation. Returning to Egypt he joined the Muslim Brotherhood and began to write prolifically about the potential threat of the invasion of Western culture into the Islamic world. His writings stirred up the hornets’ nest and caused the Egyptian government to aggressively crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood. Sayyid Qutb was executed and his brother led an exodus of highly educated, ultra conservative followers from Egypt to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to expand the Brotherhood’s civil infrastructure bureaucracy. Going to Saudi Arabia was a match made in heaven. By the early `60s, a vacuum appeared among the Islamists in Egypt with many imprisoned, executed or fled to Saudi Arabia. After the 1967 Six-Day War with Israel, Arab states were collectively humiliated, emasculated, and embarrassed. It became apparent within Islamist circles operating at the time—including that of Aman al-Zawahiri, who was in his formative age in Egypt during the `67 War, and of Sayyid Imam Sharif—that the Arab governments were impotent and could not, even as a unit, defeat the tiny state of Israel. Reenergized, they began to take matters into their own hands. By the early `70s you’ve got Zawahiri’s group, the blind Shaikh’s group, and a number of other popping up to fill the vacuum. These young upstarts came in
very aggressively with a new wave of jihadist terrorism shooting out of Egypt. In 1979, three major events converged. First, the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan. This was a global call to Muslims facilitated by the US, UK, the Saudis, and many European countries—all enemies of Soviet Communism pouring money into Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence and doing everything they could to move resources and Muslims from all over the world into Afghanistan’s battlefield to fight the Soviets. The Saudi government bought plane tickets for these kids. Second, you have the Iranian Revolution where the Shi’a, the Sunni’s archenemy, get their own state apparatus represented by an extremist, Jihadist form of Shiism, the goal of which is to export the revolution of Shi’a Islam—the worst scenario for hardcore Sunnis.Third, you have Osama Bin Laden 0.1—Juhayman al-Utaibi, a Saudi jihadist who seizes the Grand Mosque in Mecca to show it is possible to overthrown Arab regimes. He sets an important model to potential jihadists—this upstart, hardcore jihadi attempts to unseat the Saudi regime, or at the very least, expose the hypocrisy of the Saudi establishment scholars. Establishment scholar, Shaikh Bin Baz, the Saudi Grand Mufti at the time, has to make a choice—side with the regime or with this revolutionary movement embodied by Juhayman? He chose the regime and passed a fatwa allowing French Special Forces to enter Saudi Arabia, temporarily converting them to Islam so that they could enter Islam’s holiest of holy places. This was the death knell for establishment scholars. Juhayman was captured and killed. His banner passed onto Abu Muhammed al-Maqdisi, who took Juhayman’s ideas and turned them into a robust set of arguments that became the backbone of the global jihadist movement. Why is it so difficult to define jihadism? There is generally a broad acceptance of the doctrine behind jihadism. One of the core doctrinal points for global jihadism is Al-Wala wal-Bara—loyalty to all that is in accordance to sharia and disavowal of all that stands in your way of implementing sharia. Most agree with this concept, even mainstream Salafists. But the question is what do you mean by “disavowal”? Don’t speak to Jews and Christians? Don’t live around them? Kill them? There is a spectrum of how you apply this doctrine. You can be a mainstream Salafist, hate the West, think most Arab governments are illegitimate, and think that eventually it would be great to destroy them all, but not any time soon, or not by violent tactics but through political means. So they all agree with the doctrine of Al-Wala wal-Bara, but how to apply it in the real world. I wouldn’t consider people of that bent an enemy of 11/09 ChronograM news & politics 23
the US; I think they are a potentially powerful ally. But they believe in the same doctrine that groups like al Qaeda does. That is the level of complexity here—it is less what you believe and more of how you apply it. You suggest the jihadist movement be viewed as a tremendously successful entrepreneurial initiative and talk about the “branding” of the jihadist movement. Can you explain? It is one of the world’s most successful self-fulfilling prophecies in the sense that Bin Laden, in 1996, talked about this global untied front, a worldwide organization. Represented by a few hundred people and networks in a lot of countries that had some money, it was an organization, not a robust social movement or ideology. But the more they talked about it as being such and the more we responded to it as such, the more it became what they said it was. Even after 9/11, al Qaeda was best described as an organization.This is an important point: By 2003-4 al Qaeda transformed from a terrorist organization that used media propaganda to talk about itself into a media organization that used terrorism to keep it relevant. This represents a tremendous shift in prioritization regarding who they think they are and what their goal is. 9/11 checked the box for “We’re the best terrorist group on the block.” But their goal isn’t just to blow stuff up; their goal is to change people’s minds about policy. It’s fundamentally a religious movement—using religion to get political change. The way to do that is create a social movement with a robust ideology. All these disparate jihadist themes, books, scholars, attacks, and groups have been slowly consolidated into a coherent phenomenon that today we understand as Global Jihadism. Its taken a long time, a lot of it was ad hoc, but it has cemented over the past few years into a really powerful movement. Global Jihadism lists a large number of Jihadist books and writings that are now appearing in English, a lot of which is available over the Internet. How important is the Internet to the jihadist movement? The jihadists didn’t know how important it was, using it out of novelty at first and later out of necessity after we took out their training camps in Afghanistan. They needed a way to continue to train, educate, and inspire the new kids. Soon they realized it wasn’t just a place to download stuff that operated in one direction, but a new sphere in and of itself—one of the only places where they could try to apply sharia law. The Internet became a virtual state, a virtual emirate, allowing them to consolidate their strength and feel as if they were accomplishing something. From 2003 to 2005 they were buzzing around the Internet, something clicked, and it became the most important weapon in their arsenal. Now it is their primary vehicle for distributing their ideology, communicating globally with one another, informing the movement, reassuring one another that they exist. Sitting there feeling isolated in Chechnya and under attack you see on the Internet your brothers in Saudi Arabia wage an attack, claim responsibility, and say, “We are doing this on behalf of our brothers in Chechnya”—this is very powerful. This crosstalk helps each group feel emboldened and perpetuates this sense that the jihadists movement is globally united and coherent. What are jihobbyists? The Internet has expanded the number of opportunities that somebody has to participate in jihad without having to cross the threshold—it’s hard work to get people to leave their jobs, wives, and lives and go blow themselves up in Iraq or Afghanistan. Short of that, there are a lot of things one can do to get somebody hooked. Over the past five to eight years, al Qaeda has expanded the number of ports of entry into jihadism. Their goal is to you get in on any level, get you hooked and wanting to move up the chain eventually to culminate in your committing an attack. It is very Marxist, according to your ability, whatever you are good at, you can do. A young college student is a little interested, finds these things intriguing, wants to learn more and the end effect is similar to that of gateway drugs. Totally. On the Internet you get whatever it is you are looking for. If you want to see people get their heads cut off, or see a thousand Humvees get blown up in a row, you can find it. If you want to read a 1,500-word book on the history of jihad, or learn Arabic, or how to use a graphics program, all of this is available. The Internet has become this one-stop shop for whatever level of intellectual sophistication you are on and you can come play. 24 news & politics ChronograM 11/09
The great debate going on right now is about Afghanistan: More troops, a lot more troops, less troops, or keep the status quo. No one is saying the US should pull out completely. Why is Afghanistan the recurring nightmare and what should be done there? There is a deep sense of anger among the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan toward the US. After the Soviets left in 1989, we left them high and dry. The region collapsed into a state of civil war, and tribal leaders, criminal syndicates, warlords, and drug cartels moved in. It became a bloodbath, a place of anarchy with a gravitational pull attracting a lot of Pakistani jihadists and causing a lot of trouble for the Pakistani government. We let the region fall apart causing a lot of deep-seated resentment and mistrust. After 9/11 we said, “You are going to work with us again.” They have been trying to take care of the situation by themselves and things are very gray. The Taliban had been on our payroll during the Soviet invasion when we were funding the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency and now they are told they are the enemy. The US comes in and starts dictating who is good and who is bad. It just doesn’t work like that. Al Qaeda and the Taliban are very familiar with the terrain, have a longstanding relationship with many of these tribes, there is mistrust within the tribes toward the US and Pakistani governments, there is no history of centralized government within Afghanistan and that is one of the first things we try to set up—a strong sense of government. There are a lot of layers at work that don’t lend themselves to stabilization. Historically, no one has been able to stabilize or centralize control of Afghanistan. Isn’t that in part, due to our inconsistency? They say we have been at war in Afghanistan for eight years. US and British forces began offensive air strikes there in 2001, made inroads and then the focus shifted to Iraq, leaving Afghanistan minimally resourced in terms of reconstruction aid and military presence. Compared to Iraq, this could not be seriously called a war. Now with Iraq surged and calm, and the resurgence of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, all eyes are turned toward them. Senior military commanders were saying mid-2001 that Afghanistan was the forgotten war, even while we were at war in Afghanistan. The fact is it had been undermanned, under-funded, under-resourced, under-prioritized, and underaddressed by the Bush administration.This is not a political statement, it is a reality. As Iraq starts to improve, starts to stabilize, we turn our attention back and realize that we have been absentee landlords and that the force on the ground were doing the best they could, but just didn’t have the power that they needed from the onset. So now we’ve got mistrust from the Afghan people, not just because we pulled up our tent poles in ’89, but also because we go in and destabilize the place and address the situation half-heartedly. Now they are living in if not as bad, even worse living conditions and they are forced to make a choice: “Am I with the Taliban or am I with the US?” What are the connections between al Qaeda and the Taliban? That is one of the most complicated and most asked question I get. The Taliban has proliferated, and looks and smells different wherever you find it between Pakistan and Afghanistan.You’ve got Afghan Taliban and Pakistani Taliban, neither of which isn’t a coherent organization. Then you’ve got al Qaeda. On top of that you’ve got a push from Kashmiri groups moving into the game, and now Punjabi groups. I can’t disaggregate this very cleanly, but in some ways the Taliban and al Qaeda are indistinguishable, and in other way there remains some historic tension. Then there are nationalist issues.You’ve got your old al Qaeda guard, which are mostly Egyptians and Saudis. Then you’ve got your young upstarts, which are mostly Libyans—guys like Abu Yahya al-Libi, Abu Laith al-Libi before he was killed—who have a long history of working with the Taliban. They seem to get along swimmingly, whereas there is tension with the old guard Egyptians. It is a complicated relationship and often it comes down to the individual leaders themselves that determines the nature of the relationship and level of cooperation. It sounds amorphous. It has always been personality dependent. Their new leadership is a lot smarter, more lethal, and extreme than any previous leadership incarnation. Getting rid of Bin Laden and Zawahiri will see a rise in lethality and creativity from al Qaeda, not less, once these young Libyans get in charge. They are highly strategic, thoughtful, and nefarious in terms of their ideology, much more extreme than Zawahiri
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or the current leadership. The movement is getting smacked in Iraq right now, they are embellishing their ties with Al-Shabab in Somalia, their North African Maghreb franchise is sputtering about, but the guys in Yemen and Saudi Arabia are on the upswing right now. The high command has been pretty quiet. But the Pakistani Taliban and the Pakistani Kashmiri groups that are closely coordinating with al Qaeda are being very very aggressive. We don’t know how much command and control al Qaeda has over them, but we do know there is coordination. The attack on the Pakistani Pentagon, followed by the simultaneous bombings, then the more recent massive suicide strike by the group called Jundallah, which is a Baluchi-based terrorist group who attacked senior Iranian Shiite generals who were trying to have a conference on Sunni/Shiite relations.These Baluchi guys are not al Qaeda, but they fight like al Qaeda.They’re hardcore Sunnis who don’t buy into the global jihad, only buying into the local jihad. Meanwhile, al Qaeda supporters are heralding these guys as one of their own. So we are seeing a lot more chickens coming home to roost and they are doing it a lot more aggressively and sophisticatedly, making it a crazy and complex world right now. In Global Jihadism, you suggest that the jihadis will be their undoing, and you quote Napoleon: “If your enemy is busy shooting himself in the foot, don’t get in the way.” At the end of the day, al Qaeda is its own worst enemy. Nothing they do presents a positive image of where they can take the world. Everything they stand for is negative and revolves around killing. That message doesn’t resonate with most Muslims.The problem is, we have put the Islamic world in a position where they have to decide, are they with al Qaeda or with the US, rather than are they with al Qaeda or against al Qaeda. The latter is a much easier decision for people to make. On top of that, al Qaeda has been backing off considerably, trying to piggyback on existing grievances and social issues, trying to make themselves look less extreme and more mainstream. “We’re the only people willing to fight on behalf of the common Muslim man” is the new mantra for al Qaeda. The key is
to show just how extreme and awful they are, which involves simply reflecting the mirror back on them and getting most of the Islamic world to understand what a minority group al Qaeda really is. We just keep getting in the way, in part by invading two Muslim countries. I agree that invading Afghanistan was necessary, but we had to get it right. And now we’ve put ourselves in a position where Muslims look at us and Afghanistan and say, “Well, there are the Americans mucking it up again.” Even al Qaeda has historically said, “The Soviets had a stomach for bloodshed and massive casualties. We can respect that. When they got a hold of us, they would torture the hell out of us. They were a worthy adversary.” About the Americans they say, “These guys are sissies. It’s just a matter of time before they pull out. Let’s just bide our time, inflict as much pain as possible, and wait for them to leave and then we’ll have our fun.” The key is we need aggressive military action to stop this spread of Taliban and al Qaeda, and push them back up into the hills where they won’t have any control over major population centers. At the same time, we need to use all instruments of national power to help delegitimize their message, engage, rebuild, present the positive vision of where we want to take the world, which is what the US has historically been known for doing, because it is inherently appealing to people. And get out of our enemies’ way. Let them destroy themselves because they are experts at that. The current administration has not spent enough time talking about al Qaeda’s ideology and body of propaganda, and is not responding in any meaningful way. Most of what they have talked about has been kinetic responses to groups. There is this body of believers who may never do anything, in terms of blowing something up, but are deeply committed to this ideology and promoting it in other ways. Unless we take a comprehensive approach, this ideology will continue to grow. We can play whack-a-mole with terrorists as long as we want, but the fact is the body of thought and the guys who promulgate it will keep this alive. When addressing global jihadists, the devil is in the details. 11/09 ChronograM news & politics 25
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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic
Plutonomy, Plutocracy, Kleptocracy
Plutonomy is a term recently coined by Citigroup Research, a division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., to describe an economy in which a tiny group of people have the vast majority of the wealth. The term is from an investing memo, for internal consumption only, about how to invest in plutonomies. The key plutonomies today, it said, are the US, Britain, and Canada. Not all modern capitalist countries are plutonomies. Citigroup Research identifies an “egalitarian bloc” that consists of continental Europe (Germany, France, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and so on, except Italy) and Japan. Plutocracy is one of the several types of government categorized by the ancient Greeks. It is rule by the wealthy. Kevin Phillips used to be a Republican political strategist. He wrote The Emerging Republican Majority. It outlined the “Southern strategy” and was the blueprint for Richard Nixon’s victorious presidential campaign. Once he saw the results of Republican rule under Ronald Reagan, Phillips became violently disenchanted. By 1990, Phillips was arguing that the United States had become a plutocracy. He was right. Kleptocracy—from the Greek klepto (theft) and kratos (rule)—is a government that takes money from the general population for the personal enrichment of themselves and their cronies. Reagan basically got government out of the way of corporations and the rich. He cut taxes, cut regulations, and busted unions. The Bush Administration added a radical innovation. It was to treat government as a means to take money from regular people and transfer it to the rich. Its crowning moment was the bank bailout. The people who ran the banks and investment companies made stupendous personal fortunes while they inflated a financial bubble. When the bubble collapsed, they kept the money they had skimmed off the top and had the government pay the losses.To say the government is paying means that we must pay for it, as the government’s only revenue stream is taxes. Once the government— we—rescued the banks and investment firms, they continued to take huge incomes from the money we provided. This is a kleptocracy. What makes us a plutonomy? From the Citigroup report: “The top 1% of households account for 40% of financial net worth, more than the bottom 95% put together.” Were we always this way? Sometimes. But from World War I right through the 1970s, with a hiccup in the 1920s, we moved steadily toward a more egalitarian society. In 1981 Ronald Reagan came into office. Our nation changed direction. Let us look at the top one tenth of the top 1 percent of our population. That’s just 100,000 households. In the 1970s they got a bit less than 2 percent of the national income. By 2000, their share of the national income had gone up to 7 percent. In 2000, the top 1 percent of households accounted for 20 percent of overall US income. That’s only slightly smaller than the share that goes to the bottom 60 percent. In other words, there are one million households 26 news & politics ChronograM 11/09
that make as much as 60 million households. The report is worth reading. It’s a fresh perspective and very insightful about certain things. Most economists are very concerned about America’s trade imbalances. The Citigroup guys note that the egalitarian countries have trade surpluses, and all the plutonomies (US, UK, and Canada) have negative balance sheets. So it’s something endemic to a plutonomy. The analysts are quite cheerful about it. They predict that as long as we remain a plutonomy, the rich will continue to find ways to get even richer.They will do so through costcutting: lower wages and outsourcing, and more leveraging. It does not matter to plutocrats if US workers get less and less, and if America’s assets get mortgaged off and hollowed out, so long as the plutocrats can rip their millions off the top at each step on the way down. Economists also worry about the US savings rate, now approaching zero.The Citigroup team point out that this too is an inherent part of plutonomy: “In a plutonomy, the rich drop their savings rate, consume a larger fraction of their bloated, very large share of the economy. This behavior overshadows the decisions of everyone else. The behavior of the exceptionally rich drives the national numbers—the ‘appalling low’ overall savings rate, the ‘over-extended consumer,’ and the ‘unsustainable’ current accounts that accompany this phenomenon.” The point of all this, for the authors, is to figure out how to make money when you’re in a plutonomy. Here is their investment advice: “Buy shares in companies the make the toys that the Plutonomists enjoy.” Their list includes Porsche, Bulgari, Burberry, Hermes, Sotheby’s, luxury hotel chains, and private banking. The authors are, however, astonishingly blind to other things. They begin with a list of plutonomies: “16th-century Spain, 17th-century Holland, the Gilded Age, and the Roaring Twenties in the US.” Yet they fail to notice that all of these ended with crashes. In the case of Spain and Holland, those crashes marked the end of their status as world powers. To them, the way that America became a plutonomy is a mystery. Yet the answer is very simple.Tax cuts for the wealthy. In the 1920s, tax rates for that top 1 percent went from 70 percent down to 21 percent. We quickly became a plutonomy. That was followed by the Great Depression. Reagan cut taxes on the wealthiest from 70 percent down to 50 percent. The plutonomy was reborn. George Bush (the lesser) cut the top rate even further, down to 28 percent. The plutonomy became a kleptocracy. We’re still there. We saved the banks. They big ones are now reporting record profits. The stock market is back up. But we didn’t save working people. Unemployment is now nearly 10 percent.The highest since the greatest hero of the Right, Ronald Reagan, was in power. There is no doubt that a plutonomy is good if you’re super-rich. They will fight for it, propagandize for it, control the means of communication, buy every politician they can, every way they can. There is also no doubt that it is bad for you and me, bad for America, and a disaster for our children.
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Man With a Mission
Historian Carleton Mabee chronicles Father Divine By Jay Blotcher Portrait by Jennifer May
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n the 1930s, Gardiner town historian and former SUNY New Paltz history professor Carleton Mabee was a student at Columbia University. Possessing a sense of racial justice not in fashion at the time, Mabee often took the short trek uptown to Harlem, where a startling urban renaissance offered jazz, gospel, theater, and art. Mabee was fascinated with this flowering of Negro culture, and breathed freely of its perfume. He would attend the Abyssinian Baptist Church on Sundays, where gospel masses shook the rafters. One of the most compelling uptown attractions, however, was Father Divine. A short African-American man dressed in a tailored suit and radiating charisma, Divine drew people because he offered low-cost feasts (25 cents or less) at a time when the Depression had emptied most pockets. Mabee, whose modest budget was gobbled up by the cost of college books, was grateful for the bountiful meals of chicken, gravy, and mashed potatoes. In addition to a full belly, Mabee also received an earful of rhetoric. Father Major Jealous Divine (1880-1965) was the head of a religious sect called the Peace Mission Movement. Preaching a combination of Old and New Testament scriptures, Divine gathered followers and organized utopian communities. Here, black and white people lived together—a startling proposal during this racially charged era. Mabee was fascinated by this emerging sect. He heard Father Divine fulminate only once, speaking of the enduring power of God’s love, but the memory of that magnetic preacher persisted. Seven decades later, Mabee (who turns 95 on Christmas Day) has returned to the story of Father Divine. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (for a 1943 biography of Samuel F. B. Morse), Mabee has completed a book on Father Divine, who had a community of followers in Ulster County. The result of six years of research by Mabee—often by poking through old newspapers and musty county records and by interviewing survivors of the sect—is Promised Land: Father Divine’s Interracial Communities in Ulster County, New York (Purple Mountain Press, 2008). His followers came from NewYork and from the South in the 1930s, buying 28 regional notebook ChronograM 11/09
up tracts of inexpensive land to build and manage hotels, stores, restaurants, gasoline stations, guesthouses, resorts, and shoe repair and barber shops. In fact, Ulster County once boasted the highest concentration of members of the Peace Mission Movement, with residents living in Krumville, Lloyd, New Paltz, Elting Corners, Stone Ridge, and Kingston. All told, there were 31 different Divine communities in the area, most bearing the name “peace” in the name of the establishment and a photograph of their well-dressed leader on the wall. Bill Rhodes, professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz and a colleague of the nonagenarian Mabee, asserts that the historian’s subjects are chosen with an eye toward the man’s own belief in racial equality, integration, and nonviolent social change, and that much of his scholarship is related to the education of blacks. Promised Land is not merely an inventory of the buildings that stood in tribute to Father Divine in Ulster County; the book, meticulously researched, also delves into the life and deeds of a man who was complicated in his endeavors, but ultimately a pioneer in the fight for desegregation. Mabee cites Father Divine as one of the people, like Martin Luther King Jr., who paved the way for Barack Obama to occupy the White House. An engaging man, Divine was also a controversial one. He preached a “Modesty Code” that banned smoking, drinking, obscenity, and accepting bribes. He believed in faith healing over Western medicine—except in cases of emergency. He insisted that shopkeepers in his flock accept cash only, sell at competitive prices, and refrain from selling tobacco or liquor. The code also forbade a mixing of the sexes; even husbands and wives were housed by gender on separate floors. Those who disobeyed were cast out from Divine’s blessed social experiment. Followers were a fervent lot. They took new names to reflect their spiritual rebirth, such as Victory Dove and Sweet Love.They conducted their businesses quietly and honestly and even drew begrudging respect from neighbors. (They
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above: (LEFT) Among Father Divine’s progressive causes was an anti-lynching bill, which was brought before Congress. (RIGHT) Many Divine settlements were easily identified by the word “peace” appearing on buildings, such as this barn in west park circa 1941. opposite: historian carelton mabee.
paid their debts on time and in cash.)Yet there were limits to their piety; some found the vow of celibacy most trying. Since Divine was absent from the MidHudson Valley more often than not, his adherents might relax certain strictures of faith in his absence, Mabee says. “There were many suspicions that there was a lot of sex going on,” he explains. “There are many people who claim that or charge that. And [Divine] would say himself, ‘You’re supposed to be living in Utopia and you’re not.’” “He was asking for perfection,” Mabee says of Father Divine’s mission. “He would say, ‘You people talk too much about material things.’ About possessions, about money, about how you sell this product, and how you make this product. ‘And you should be thinking about eternal things. You should go on to infinity,’ he would say.” On the plus side, Divine was a pacifist who worked toward uplifting the status of the Negro in America, lobbied for an antilynching bill in Washington, and recognized women as equal to men in the movement. He saw no need for churches and encouraged people to speak directly to their Lord. His communal dinners served as a sacrament. Divine had a gift for working a crowd. At one of the Divine dinners, Mabee remembers how the man purposely kept people waiting. When he finally appeared, a combination of impatience and anticipation caused the crowd to erupt in wild cheers. “He was very clever in things like this,” Mabee says. Father Divine exhibited a typical lack of consistency known to evangelists. While telling his supporters to eschew materialism, Divine traveled to his numerous outposts in New York, Long Island, and Ulster County in a blue Rolls Royce. Not requiring much sleep, Divine was known to travel at night and show up at peace settlements unexpectedly. “He was a strong boss,” Mabee says. “He was really quite autocratic in his behavior sometimes.” Divine maintained a large entourage. Secretaries organized his appointments and scheduled his appearances while lawyers protected him from the many lawsuits that dogged him through his life and challenged his empire. Many citizens of Ulster County bristled at the lifestyle of these new neighbors, Mabee says. They found the no-sex policy “unnatural,” and saw their desegregation campaign as a threat to civilization (read: Euro-American white supremacy). Detractors did not mince words; a New Paltz town father addressed Father Divine’s followers in a 1936 letter to the local newspaper.The message read, in part, “We just don’t want you here.You’re black, you’re ignorant, your money comes from mysterious sources that we don’t understand. You’re following a hypnotic figure.” Eventually, a few buildings owned by Divine acolytes were burned down. Granted, there was an odd bent to Divine’s utopia, Mabee says. Young women were ordered to wear navy blue shirts and dark red jackets adorned with a white “V” (for virtue) over their hearts. “Among other things, he said he wasn’t claiming to be God, but his followers called him God,” Mabee says. But he dismisses the notion that the Peace
Mission movement was a cult. “He didn’t have members, he had followers, and followers can be enthusiastic or not enthusiastic.” At one point, Divine planned to establish his international headquarters in Ulster County. But that did not happen. The Divine empire would soon suffer several setbacks. In the tradition of Shakespearean tragedies, the most potent act of betrayal came from within. A follower known as Faithful Mary (aka Mary Rozier), a former streetwalker who had been redeemed, operated a hotel in High Falls. In 1937, she declared Divine a charlatan. She wrote a memoir titled God: He’s Just a Natural Man (1937, Universal Light Publishing Co.), which claimed Divine was a sex fiend who made unwanted advances toward her. Citing his willingness to be called “God” by adherents, Mary planned to set up a competing egalitarian movement. Reporters dubbed the irate woman “Faithless Mary” and happily spread her allegations.These charges had a negative impact on the Peace Mission Movement. Mary’s movement did not gather supporters, Mabee says, which prompted her decision to return to Father Divine, hat in hand. After she agreed to renounce her accusations before Divine supporters in a large Harlem hall, “Father Divine accepted her back in the movement,” Mabee says, “but refused to give her any considerable responsibility.” Mary eventually left for California and reverted back to her dissolute ways. In the 1940s, following the death of his first wife, known as Mother Divine, Divine married Canadian Edna Rose Ritchings. “He called her the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary,” Mabee says. Despite their leader’s commitment to desegregation, many followers deplored his marriage to a Caucasian and departed. When Father Divine relocated from New York to Philadelphia, his Hudson Valley visits ended. Without the guidance of this charismatic leader, the local communities deteriorated. By the late 1950s, five Peace Mission properties in Ulster County had been sold off. By the man’s death in 1965, the glory days of Father Divine’s movement were a memory, traceable in Ulster County only by a handful of extant buildings on whose outside walls one could detect the word “peace” in fading paint. An encampment named Kingston Mansion lasted the longest, since people from Divine’s Philadelphia temple would periodically visit. But the building, located in the Wilbur neighborhood of Kingston, closed in1985. If the Ulster County communities had never existed, Mabee says, the movement would have not been diminished; Divine communities flourished on the West Coast, as well as in Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany, despite the fact that Divine never visited them. The Universal Peace Mission Movement continues today in Philadelphia. However, in addition to making strides toward modern desgregation, the Divine followers provided a boost to Ulster County business when it was most needed. “In a place like High Falls, the economic community was virtually made by Father Divine for several years during the Depression,” Mabee says. “It saved High Falls is one way to look at it.” 11/09 ChronograM regional notebook 29
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WAPPINGERS FALLS + FISHKILL By Atticus Lanigan Photographs Amber S. Clark
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he intersection of Interstate 84 and Route 9 shines brightly for those passing through on either of those nighttime highways. One of the principal gateways to Dutchess County and regions north and east, this stretch of stores, chain restaurants and hotels, medical offices, and industrial parks can be called a big box-store carnival, a food extravaganza, a multilane bumper car ride, or a festival of lights. Despite its many informal appellations, the area described above is most appropriately called the Village of Fishkill.Yards away lies its other half: the quintessential small town housing some of the oldest buildings in Dutchess County. Traveling north out of the mouth of heat and bright lights, one encounters a crown jewel to the west, the First Reformed Church of Fishkill, standing sentinel at the gateway to this historic region. Rich in its own history, including its employment as a prison during the Revolutionary War, it is maitre d’ to the Fishkill Village District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 for containing a significant concentration of structures dating from the late 1700s. As in many Hudson Valley towns, a distinct revival is currently underway in Fishkill, admittedly made possible by the success of the bustling strip down the road. According to Kathy English of the Southern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce, the 10 or so hotels clustered at the junction of I-84 and Route 9 are what has allowed Fishkill’s restaurant row to flourish on Main Street. Employees of IBM subsidiaries who stay for extended business trips and who seek solace from chain-restaurant monotony have also added to the increasingly popular Fishkill dining and nightlife. Main Street offers a variety of creative dining spots tightly packed in refurbished brick buildings. One such restaurant, Il Barilotto, offers Italian peasant cuisine with an urban twist and provides a cozy atmosphere with an extensive wine list. The manager of Il Barilotto since its opening in 2001, Scott Rosenberg, values the restaurant’s role in fueling the recent status upgrade of the village, attracting a crowd of transplanted families from New York and Westchester who are accustomed to urban amenities. Fishkill’s enclave of eateries allows visitors a taste of the typical Hudson Valley Main Street: quaint, historic, reviving, and chic. And, as per its original function, the village acts as a gateway to the rest of Dutchess County; specifically, the historic lands of the Rombout Patent. The first tract of land ever licensed in the county, the patent once encompassed Hudson River shoreline access and stretched as far afield as present-day LaGrange and East Fishkill.
Green Jewels and Sacred Lands Visitors to the region via the Fishkill gateway can further experience the lands of the patent as they rise up to greet drivers. Heading northwest will eventually lead to the 1,000 acres of the Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center on Route 9D. As one draws closer to this significant chunk of preserved open space, the road actually becomes incidental to the thriving meadows, perfect overgrowth, and various species of birds. The splendor is especially present in the autumn, when the country roads in Southern Dutchess County, despite their proximity to suburban sprawl, stand as worthy representatives of the region. Stony Kill sponsors a variety of educational opportunities for those seeking to know more about all things natural. In addition, it is home to Common Ground Farm. Devin Foote, one of the principal farm managers, recognizes Stony Kill as a community asset and an oasis within such a rapidly growing part of the region. In turn, he characterizes Common Ground as a suburban farm meant to be experienced by the surrounding residents, specifically through projects like its 180-family CSA (community-supported agriculture) project, its Green Teen community gardening project, and its weekly donations to a local food pantry. A short drive north through more canopied hills and stonewalled corridors leads into one of the true spiritual pulse points of the region. Known for its role in the growth of industry, the generative force of the Wappingers Creek falls have long attracted those of a sublime sensibility, such as the Wappinger Indian tribes. Heading towards the hamlet of New Hamburg and the southwest border of the Village of Wappingers Falls, one encounters the lands of Alex and Allyson Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. Heading a nonprofit spiritual community since 1996, the Greys found themselves drawn to the serene, protective lands, which had most recently been owned by the United Church of Christ. Allyson describes the property as a “wonderful jewel,” perfect for a retreat center and permanent home for Alex’s visionary art collection. (Alex Grey’s painting Praying appeared on the November 1999 cover of Chronogram.) As a way to raise money for the construction of the chapel the Greys offer wisdom walks, musical events, workshops, and intense full-moon ceremonies complete with bonfires. More sacred lands and corresponding holy structures exist north of the village, including the Mount Alvernia Catholic Retreat Center, the Monastery of Saint Clare, and the Kagyu Thubten Choling Buddhist Monastery. Of particular interest is the latter’s elaborate and breathtaking enlightenment stupa (temple 11/09 ChronograM wappingers falls/fishkill 31
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A Homegrown Renaissance A keen awareness of a churning energy will next lead any traveler straight into the heart of another historic town, the Village of Wappingers Falls. When the Rombout Patent was eventually divided, Lot 1 became the setting for the village and contained a large portion of Wappingers Creek, including its powerful falls. An extremely fortunate development, driven either by luck or keen business sense, the division of land set the stage for a great influx of industry in the years to follow. The result is a certain mystery that permeates the streets fueled by the dynamic nature of water, the remarkably intact historical structures, and a well-layered industrial past. Like Fishkill, Wappingers Falls is experiencing a revival of its own. One of the premier driving forces behind it is Mayor Matt Alexander, who has attracted the attention of prospective developers, hard-working business owners, and even the folks up in Albany. One of the first notable pioneers, Mike Kocan, is the owner of the Ground Hog Coffee House located at the top of West Main Street. Opening his doors in 2001, Kocan renovated the former saloon and tailor shop to mimic the original aesthetics of the building. At the time, the fury of big-box retail and commercial overflow along Route 9, including the construction of the South Hills and Galleria malls, had left its mark among the empty storefronts in the village. Kocan answered the call by providing a unique place for coffee and conversation. The efforts of Alexander and Kocan have not gone unnoticed. Among recent developments in the village is the anticipated Franny Reese Memorial Park. Conceptualized in 2006 and set to be completed with the next two to three years, the project seeks to honor Franny Reese, an heir to some of the original inhabitants of the village and one of the original founders of the Scenic Hudson organization. The location of the proposed park is Wappinger Lake, just east of the falls, a body of water impounded by a masonry dam built in the 1840s. It is a peaceful sanctuary for birds and those in the immediate community but falls short of attracting regional visitors because of a lack of real waterfront access. The park has a truly urban design and will loosen the dense and gritty landscape of West Main Street. It will also provide 400 feet of water access, municipal parking, a winding pathway, innovative landscaping, an amphitheatre, and a dock for canoes and kayaks.
Slowly, its original attributes are leading this village into a renaissance of sorts. And it can be said that a green revolution underpins the growth. Perhaps the most exciting green prospect is the long anticipated redevelopment of the Dutchess Bleachery complex, described by Mayor Alexander as the true heart of the village. Original operations occurred there as early as 1830 as a calico dye and printing company that employed a large chunk of the population in the village all the way to 1955. Nowadays, the Bleachery is a mixed-use complex housing many small businesses, including the studio of well-known sculptor Michael Speaker and an active hydroelectric plant that feeds power into the common electrical grid. Challenges to development include the property’s long-held designation as contaminated. In the meantime, the village continues to engage the state on several different fronts, securing funds in the name of smart growth, brownfield clean-up, and waterfront revitalization. There is no doubt that potential abounds in the many efforts now under way in Wappingers Falls. Simply put, this special village is creeping to an apex. Like the other revitalized towns in the region, it is undoubtedly a place of even more untapped exploration. It contains a permeating history that is palpable on the sidewalks and along the winding back roads. Although suburban growth patterns remain popular for some, communities recognize that efforts at rebirth and historic preservation do not have to be shadowed by rampant growth along the mighty Route 9. In fact, these two distinct animals may be able to someday coexist, and provide for a more diverse economy and an inherent sense of place for the residents of Dutchess County. RESOURCES Fishkill www.fishkill-ny.gov Wappingers Falls www.wappingersfallsny.gov Southern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce www.gsdcc.org Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center www.dec.ny.gov/education/1833.html Il Barilotto www.ilbarilottorestaurant.com Chapel of Sacred Mirrors www.cosm.org The Ground Hog www.groundhogcoffee.com Mount Alvernia Catholic Retreat Center www.mtalvernia.org Common Ground Farm www.commongroundfarm.org Kagyu Thubten Choling Buddhist Monastery www.kagyu.com Green Teen Community Gardening Program www.greenteen.org 11/09 ChronograM wappingers falls/fishkill 33
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622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Dreamscape.” Featuring paintings by Kathy Burge and Louise Laplante, constructions by Stephen King and prints by Valerie Hammond. Through November 22.
6400 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6331. “Himalayan Blues.” Photography by Jamyang Lodoe. Through November 16.
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318 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-7655. “Architectural Photography: 1860 to the Present.” With selections from the Stan Ries Architectural Photography Collection. Through November 29.
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CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “And Other Essays.” Rachel Harrison collaborative works with others. Through December 20.
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center for photography at woodstock 59 tinker STREET, woodstock 679-9957. “Nutopia.” Group show curated by Platon. Through December 20.
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168 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 331-0191. “In America.” Oil paintings, watercolors, embroideries, sculptures, drawings, and photographs. Through November 27.
DAVIS ORTON GALLERY 114 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 697-0266. “Collage & Constructions.” Photographs by Nadine Boughton, Emily Corbat, Carol Krauss. Through January 3. Opening Saturday, November 7, 5:30pm7:30pm.
DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Glens & Gardens.” 2009 annual watercolor show. November 7-28. Opening Saturday, November 7, 5pm-8pm.
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.
HISTORIC HUGUENOT STREET DU BOIS HOUSE, NEW PALTZ 255-1660. “Before Hudson: 8,000 Years of Native American History and Culture.” Through December 31.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Double Dutch.” Featuring Alon Levin. Through July 26, 2010.
INNER SPACE 12 MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 282-6062. “Totems, Divas & Icons.” Paintings by Sean Bowen. Through November 8.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
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3671 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-5432. “Mary Frank: Photographs.” Through November 4.
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. Group show: Evan Venegas, Christopher McEvoy, Christine Heller, Linda Mussmann, Sara Garden Armstrong, John Van Alstine. “New Work by Colin Cochran.” November 12-December 6. Opening Saturday, November 14, 7pm-8pm.
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Our November Auction has become a tradition, known for investment quality antiques, and this year is no exception. For this Thanksgiving auction we are delighted to offer fine examples of Period & Country Furniture, Formal & Country Accessories, Sculpture, Sterling Silver, Clocks, Historical Blue & Canton China, Signed Oil Paintings and Fine Art, Textiles, Oriental Carpets, Cast Iron Garden Decoration, Nice collection of Arms & Armament, Small group of Estate Jewelry, etc. Eat, drink, visit with the relatives and then plan to attend the sale. Check our website for a complete catalogue & full color photographs. Phone Bids are gladly arranged, please make those requests by Weds. Nov. 25th.
193 WHITFIELD ROAD, ACCORD (212) 439-9611. “Hudson Valley Modernism/Impressionistic Landscapes.” Deborah Freedman. November 7-15. Opening Saturday, November 7, 4pm-6pm.
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FERRIN GALLERY 437 NORTH STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 442-1622. “A Recent Epoch.” Paintings and monotypes by Joe Goodwin. Through November 14.
FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. “Stories in Clay and Cloth.” Clay tapestries, vessels, furniture and etchings by Marlene Ferrell Parillo. Through November 30.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Stephen Flack.” Painting, pastels and drawings. Through November 14.
KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON. “Threshold.” Installation by E. Elizabeth Peters. November 7-30. Opening Saturday, November 7, 5pm-7pm.
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143 MAIN ST, BEACON 765-2199. “American Youth.” Group exhibition of photographers of Redux pictures. Through November 9.
34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Animal Spirits I: The Personal Iconography.” Peggy Cyphers & Kathy Ruttenberg. Through November 19.
THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “Albrecht Durer: Impressions of the Renaissance.” November 14-December 24. Opening Thursday, November 19, 5:30pm.
THE GALLERY AT R&F 84 TEN BROECK AVE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “So Far, So Close.” Paintings by Hendrik Dijk. Through November 14.
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VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5370. “Celebration of the Hudson River Quadricentennial.” Through December 18. “The River.” Selected works by Linda Cross. November 5-December 17.
LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “Mysterious Landscapes.” Oil paintings by Martin Davis. Through November 6.
LIFEBRIDGE SANCTUARY 333 MOUNTAIN ROAD, ROSENDALE 338-6418. “Cosmic Daughters: The Art of Sadee Brathwaite.” Through January 5.
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THE SAMUEL MORSE HISTORIC SITE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500. “More Common Ground.” Landscape paintings by Marie Cole and Mary Untalan. Through November 22.
172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Seven Walks.” Paintings by T.S. McFadden. Through November 5.
M GALLERY 350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0380. “Hallowed Ground: An Exploration of the Hudson River Valley.” Through November 10.
ROOS ARTS 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE info@roosarts.com. “Pollinator Dreams: Hudson Valley Seed Library Pack Art 2010 & Ayumi Horie Pottery.” November 14-December 12. Opening Saturday, November 14, 7pm-9pm.
MAXWELL FINE ARTS 1204 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-8622. “Tributaries.” Ten artists approach the theme “water” both abstractly and associatively through sculptures and site specific installations. Through November 30.
MILL STREET LOFT 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477. “Junior Art Institute Art Exhibit.” November 14-December 4. Opening Saturday, November 14, 6pm-8pm.
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. “Capturing The Love: Dance Partners: Animals and Their People.” Photography exhibit by Alice Spears. November 7-December 30. Opening Saturday, November 7, 5pm-7pm.
155 MAIN STREET, BEACON, NY, BEACON 765-0214 ext. 1. “Persistent Thoughts, Arguments and Symbols.” New paintings by Ed Burke. Through November 6.
434 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE 658-9048. “Photography by f-stop Fitzgerald.” November 1-30. Opening Sunday, November 22, 3pm-5pm.
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 Caroline Stikker.” Through November 29.
SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ARTS CENTER ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN (518) 392-3693. “The Dog Show: When the Model Barks.” A benefit exhibition for companion animals in need. November 1-8. Opening Sunday, November 1, 3pm-4pm.
TWISTED SOUL 442 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 705-5381. “A Twisted Soul Show.” Exhibition of varied works by Art Institute Alumni: Leigh Bromer, Alexandra Jaffer, Chelsea Lewyta, and Michael Petruzzo. Through December 17.
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MUROFF-KOTLER GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Fighting, Dancing and Standing Still.” Paintings and other works by Heather Hutchinson and Mark Thomas. November 19-December 18. Opening Thursday, November 19, 5pm-7pm.
NEW WINDSOR ART GALLERY 2330 STATE ROUTE 32, NEW WINDSOR 534-3349. “40 year Retrospective Benefit Exhibit.” Roberta Rosenthal. Through November 30.
NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090. “Ieva Mediodia: Synaptic Katharsis.” Recent paintings. Through December 12.
NORTHERN SPY CAFE ROUTE 213, HIGH FALLS 687-7298. “Human Nature- Photographs on Paper and Wood.” November 8-December 31. Opening Sunday, November 8, 3pm-5pm.
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. “BetwixT.” Member exhibit curated by Sadee Brathwaite. Through November 15.
UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Paintings by Barbara Gordon & Dena Schutzer.” November 8-30. Opening Sunday, November 8, 4pm-6pm.
UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Paintings by Judy Gonzales.” November 6-30. Opening Friday, November 6, 5pm-7pm.
WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY
510 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0731. “Dan Weise of Thundercut.” Through November 8.
232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Brushstrokes! Artwork of Marylyn Vanderpool and Bruce Thorne.” November 1-30. Opening Saturday, November 7, 5pm-7pm.
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3572 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-0888. “Kindred Spirits.” Drawings by Gillian Jagger. Through November 22.
5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-6850. “Sublim(e)inal Abstraction.” Through December 6.
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437 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 653-5407. “Cross Coupling: Annette Cords.” Paintings. Through November 30. “Redux.” Catalogue show featuring Alvin Booth, Ric Dragon, Conor Foy, Kira Greene, Jeff Leonard, Lora Shelley, Anique Taylor, and Mare Vaccaro. Through November 30.
28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Into the Mix: Mixed Media.” Solo show by Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt. Through November 15. “Small Works.” Works by Lois Schnackenberg. Through November 15. “11 Pick 2.” Featuring prominent WAAM artists. Through January 3.
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freeze frame Who Shot Rock and Roll?
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ABOVE: Laura Levine, R.E.M, Walter’s Bar-B-Que, Athens, Georgia, 1984 OPPOSITE: Jerry Schatzberg, Frank Zappa, New York City, 1967
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hile rock ‘n’ roll is found in the rhythms that move feet, and the singers that reach deep into one’s soul, there’s no denying it’s also a visual medium. But while MTV ushered in the video age, rock ‘n’ roll photography is as old as the music itself, and Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present (2009, Knopf), a new book by part-time Warwick resident Gail Buckland, seeks to bring attention to the photographers rather than the subjects themselves. “It was actually a friend’s idea,” says Buckland, who has written and collaborated on 11 previous books of photography. “He just said, ‘There’s not a great book that looks at the image of rock.’ I realized he was correct; almost every collection of photographs is really about who is in the image, rather than who took the image. My intention was to really bring this group of photographers from history into the pantheon because of the merit of their work.” While some photographers like Annie Leibovitz and Bob Gruen have become well known for shooting iconic rock ‘n’ roll photographs (included in Who Shot: Liebovitz’s images of Bruce Springsteen and Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, and Gruen’s photos of Kiss and John Lennon), others in the book aren’t quite household names. But even so, Buckland says they played a pivotal and often unheralded role in the explosion of rock ‘n’ roll in the mid 1950s. “This is a bipartite revolution,” Buckland says. “The music alone really couldn’t do it. It really needed images. It’s the pictures the kids responded to in terms of how they dressed or wore their hair.”
Who Shot Rock & Roll sees legendary shots like Gered Mankowitz’s 1967 image of Jimi Hendrix and Astrid Kirchherr’s stark 1960 pictures of the pre-Fab Beatles in Hamburg sit comfortably alongside lesser-known images from the inception of rock ‘n’ roll right up through the present. And because the book focuses on the photographer rather than the star, rock is also gloriously represented by images of fans of everyone from the Smiths (Ian Tilton) to P. Diddy (James Mollison). Of all the photographs in the book, the one that perhaps shows the most joy found in rock was taken by Walter Sanders. In the 1955 image, an integrated crowd at the Brooklyn Paramount is in the throes of ecstasy at Alan Freed’s Easter Rock ’n’ Roll Show. But seen among the grinning faces of teenage rebellion is a pair of fathers, one looking stunned, the other nauseated. Buckland won’t say whether she has a favorite photograph in the book, though she does recall being inspired by the work of Don Hunstein as a teenager, especially his image of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo arm in arm on West Fourth Street. “Just on a personal level, I remember having The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan propped up on my bedroom wall, and I remember thinking, ‘I want to go where they’re going,’” she says. An outtake of the session features in the book. The book arrives at roughly the same time as an accompanying photographic exhibit, which continues at the Brooklyn Museum through January 31. —Crispin Kott 11/09 ChronograM music 43
nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Eric Person/Dave Shock Bryant/Don Miller/Chris Bowman November 4. Holding fast while too many other local spots have trimmed jazz from their rosters, Jack & Luna’s Cafe continues to present the music’s top names alongside its menu of tasty casual fare. This killer date features sax god Eric Person, whose incisive style has always managed to be both challenging and accessible, and the rest of the band is no less attractive: ex-Ornette Coleman pianist Dave Shock Bryant; ex-everyone bassist Don Miller; and drummer and Jack & Luna’s proprietor Chris Bowman. (Guitarist Mark Dzuiba perfoms on November 27.) 7:30, 9pm. $10. Stone Ridge. (845) 687-9794; www.jackandlunas.com.
Tributon: An Evening of Madonna Cover Songs November 7. This assuredly amusing night at the Hudson Valley’s hippest new venue, Market Market, honors the Queen of Pop in all her ever-changing, sugar-sweet glory by inviting local acts to take on her tunes—and do with them what they will. Among the growing bill as of this writing are Kelleigh McKenzie, Tiger Piss, the Laura Pepitone Show, Victoria Poptrashbaby, Rented Mule, and others. Riffs meet midriffs? It’s November but we can still hope, can’t we? (Come out for This Ain’t Your Mama’s Karaoke on November 20; Sarah D, Superbobby, Klessa, and the Bones of Davey Jones play on November 21.) 9pm. Call for ticket info. Rosendale. (845) 658-3164; www.marketmarketcafe.com.
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill November 14. The newly formed Studio Woodstock promotion company gets under way in high style this month, debuting with this concert at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Hall by the acclaimed Irish folk duo of fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill. Born in East County Clare, Ireland, Hayes was raised in a family of renowned traditional musicians and is a six-time All-Ireland fiddle champion. Raised in Chicago to parents from County Kerry, Cahill studied jazz and classical guitar before performing with some of Irish folk’s leading artists. Why wait for next year’s Hooley on the Hudson to get your jig on? 7pm. $30. Red Hook. (845) 802-6515; www.studiowoodstock.net.
Casket Architects Record Release Party November 20. If you caught Chronogram’s May 2007 profile of Warwick’s Casket Architects then you know how much we dig their unholy blend of damaged sci-fi punk-metal. In celebration of its just-minted third album, Future Wounds (Altercation Records), the trio once again trains its death ray on Snapper Magee’s with this muchawaited return. Earplugs and radiation suits are recommended. With Love Panther, Komondor, and Lost in Society. (November 8 rocks with Nothington, the Hand Me Downs, Dirty Tactics, and Measured in Grey.) 10pm. $5. Kingston. (845) 339-3888; www.myspace.com/snappermageeslivemusic.
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November 22. The mission of Saugerties not-for-profit group Heritage Folk Music is to collect, preserve, document, display, and interpret the regional and historic folk music, folklore, and oral history of New York State, with a focus on that of the Hudson Valley. Centering on the music of the ’60s Woodstock and New York folk revival, this happening at Unitarian Fellowship Hall includes organizer Bob Lusk, Rich Bala, Jim Donnelly, Terri Masardo, Norm Wennet, Hank Yost, Bruce Blair, Bob Horan, David Howells, Pat Keating, Pat LaManna, Phil Miller, Melissa Ortquist, Deb Martin, the Kingston Sea Chantey Singers, and more. 3pm. $5. Town of Ulster. (845) 594-4412; www.heritageconcerts.blogspot.com.
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martin hayes and dennis cahill perform at st. paul’s lutheran church on november 14.
cd reviews
The Stone Ridge Library presents
Levon Helm Electric Dirt (2009, Vanguard Records)
In 2007, Levon Helm released Dirt Farmer, a Grammy-winning comeback that redefined his long, storied career. Dirt Farmer deserved all the praise it won, but the fact remains that it pales next to this year’s Electric Dirt. Electric Dirt, once more produced by Helm’s longtime guitarist Larry Campbell, is a lifetime achievement award on its own terms. It’s simply brilliant. It’s largely a gospel album in disguise, with Helm putting the spirit into Pop Staples’s “Move Along Train,” the Stanley Brothers’ “White Dove,” Ollabelle’s “Heaven’s Pearls,” the Nina Simone standard “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free,” and Campbell’s glorious, soul-dripping “When I Go Away.” But Helm’s mark is just as fierce on secular songs like the Grateful Dead’s horn-driven “Tennessee Jed” (featuring a wonderful arrangement by trumpeter Steven Bernstein), Randy Newman’s “Kingfish” (with charts from old pal Allen Toussaint), and a pair of Muddy Waters numbers, “Stuff You Gotta Watch” and “You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had.” Any one of these performances will make you glad that music was invented and that Levon Helm was born, but they are not the best of the bunch. Happy Traum’s shimmering, droning “Golden Bird” is held in Helm’s palm like a great lost discovery from America’s past, and Helm and Campbell’s “Growing Trade,” about a desperate farmer turning his fields over to cannabis, is as fine a song as Helm has ever sung. Levon, we hope you’re working on your Grammy speech—again. www.vanguardrecords.com. —Michael Eck The Erin Hobson Compact Talk Radio
Iraq - Making Peace with Many Truths LORNA TYCHOSTUP, Senior Editor of Chronogram and Independent journalist working in Iraq since February 2003 will share her experiences, photos and offer insights into some of the positive outcomes that are taking place within Iraq, followed by Q&A and reception.
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POISON AND POLKA DOTS Susannah Appelbaum and Nova Ren Suma Cast a Spell by Nina Shengold photographs by Jennifer May
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’ve always been fascinated with poisoning. It’s a hard thing to talk about at a dinner party,” says Susannah Appelbaum. She describes a mushroom known as the inky cap that’s not dangerous at all unless it’s combined with alcohol. “So the way you poison someone is to make a mushroom dinner and pour them a lot of wine. You eat the food too, but don’t drink anything,” she says with a knowing smile. “Poison is sly.” When Applebaum was around four, she tasted an alluring blue flower in her aunt’s garden and wound up in the hospital for three days. Several years later, she took to crossing an old railroad trestle near her New Paltz home. “This was in the pre-Rail Trail days, so there were ties missing, it felt very dangerous. I used to look down and think, What if there was a little man living under there?” Appelbaum’s debut novel, Poisons of Caux:The Hollow Bettle (Knopf Books forYoung Readers) features trestlemen, a trained crow, a wild boar, some exceedingly scurvy knaves, and a mysterious jewel. Her feisty young heroine, Ivy Manx, has a way with plants, both healing and lethal—a valuable skill in a land where the rule is “Poison or be poisoned.” Tall, striking, and regally poised, the author resembles a fairy-tale princess whose basket of apples may not be entirely safe. She’s the daughter of poet, SUNY New Paltz philosophy professor, and Codhill Press publisher David Appelbaum; her mother died when she was eight. A voracious reader, young Susannah wasn’t allowed inside her father’s office, but “I’d peer around the door at his writing table—the same table he still uses—piled with messy papers. He was a pipe smoker back then, so there was a haze in the room. It was a place that was very intriguing.” When David Appelbaum went to teach at the Sorbonne for two years, his teenage daughter learned French by the “sink or swim” method. She attended NYU, traveled abroad, and found work as a magazine editor, shunning New Paltz for 13 years. “But 46 books ChronograM 11/09
like some twist of fate in a story, I guess I was destined to raise my kids on the same playground I played on,” she says. She and her husband moved back here nine years ago and just built a house, which he designed; the paint on the porch is still wet. Though the Poisons of Caux trilogy targets young readers, its supple prose and award-winning artwork will also entice adult readers of fantasy. It’s hard to resist a character introduction like “Mr. Sorrel Flux’s heart, in fact, which pumped its limp business inside his chest, was just as hard and calloused as the rest of him. It was stony and small, and if someone had plucked it from his chest and thrown it at you, it would have certainly left a bruise.” The trilogy’s second volume, The Poisoners’ Guild, will be released in August 2010; Applebaum is currently writing the third. The mother of two young children, she often wakes at 4:30 and writes until her husband leaves for work. She treasures the quiet intensity of predawn hours. “You’re transferred from your dream world right to your desk,” she avers. “The less time from bed to desk, the better.” On her first publication day, Appelbaum took a day off. “I allowed myself a day of celebration before I went back to work,” she says. Though she was afraid to go into bookstores “in case they didn’t have it,” she did make a stop at New Paltz’s Inquiring Minds. As she passed a college-age woman making a purchase at the cash register, the salesclerk said, “This author will be signing books later this month.” Appelbaum turned, and the book in the young woman’s hand was The Poisons of Caux. She was exultant. “That’s me! You can’t beat that feeling.” Or maybe you can. She just received an e-mail from a male reader who wrote that he wished the book would go on and on, and couldn’t wait for the next volume. “I guess it’s officially my first fan mail.” Appelbaum shakes her head, smiling. “You can float on that for, like, a week at 4:30 a.m.”
nova ren suma (above) and susannah appelbaum (opposite)
Woodstock noir Appelbaum is not the only Hudson Valley-raised young-adult writer enjoying a first publication this fall. Four days before publication of Nova Ren Suma’s middle-grade novel Dani Noir, the author can barely contain herw excitement. “I don’t think I’m going to stalk the book in stores, but honestly, if I walk past a bookstore, how can I not go in?” she says. Dani Noir (Aladdin) is set in the mythical Catskill town of Shanosha, where 13-year-old Danielle Callanzano is spending the summer after her father’s desertion chilling out at the town’s art house cinema. Her imagination inflamed by film noir classics, she starts stalking a teen femme fatale wearing polka-dot tights. You won’t find Shanosha on any map, but Suma grew up all over Ulster County, living in Saugerties as a young child. After her parents’ divorce, she moved with her mother and two younger siblings to Accord, with forays to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Midway through high school, she finally settled in Woodstock. “It was the first time I ever lived in a town where I fit in,” she says gratefully. “There were other kids with funny names and hippie parents.” (Nova means “chases butterflies” in Hopi, and ren means “lotus flower” in Japanese.) “It seemed like what was weird in other places was the mainstream at Onteora [High School]. The jocks and cheerleaders were weird.” Suma was voted “most individualistic” in her high school yearbook. She liked to hang out in the Woodstock Artists Cemetery with friends, writing in notebooks. “And you had to go to the Green,” she recalls. “The stores would close, the tourists would go home, and the teenagers would come out. Every night.” Suma and her friends also snuck into the Ashokan Reservoir to swim and camp out, eluding the cops. She’s tapped this material for an upcoming young adult book, Imaginary Girls, in which a teenager dares her sister to swim across the reservoir. They’re separated, and a body turns up. “Basically, it’s the night when everything goes wrong,” she says; there’s also a hint of the paranormal. Her unfinished manuscript sparked a two-day bidding war among six publishers. “My constant comment was, ‘Is this really happening?’” says Suma. “I thought I was going to faint.” The book will be published by Penguin/Dutton in the summer of 2011. Ironically, Suma didn’t read young adult fiction when she was that age. “In seventh and eighth grade we were living in Accord, on a dead end up several dirt roads. It
was so remote. I’d sit on the roof and see nothing but treetops,” she recalls. “There was no library, and my mom couldn’t buy me books, so I was always scrounging.” Her mother, who currently lives in Beacon and runs a recovery program, was an avid reader, and the house they were renting had books left on the shelves by previous tenants. Suma read Margaret Atwood, Marge Piercy, and The Mists of Avalon (a particular favorite), alongside Ann M. Martin’s “Babysitter’s Club” series. She attended Antioch College in Ohio, where she met her husband-to-be, filmmaker Eric Ryerson. The young couple moved to NewYork, where Suma got an MFA from Columbia University, studying with Maureen Howard and Sigrid Nunez. She wrote two novels for adults, both “still under the couch,” while supporting herself with editing jobs at Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly’s RAW Books & Graphics, on Marvel Comics’ X-Men series, and at Penguin and HarperCollins. Suma also published stories in such literary journals as Gulf Coast, Orchid, and the Portland Review, and won fellowships from NYFA and the MacDowell Colony. While she was working as a copy editor at Penguin, she started ghostwriting middle-grade series books. Though she found it frustrating to carry on somebody else’s characters, she realized how much she loved writing for tweens. “I always wrote about teenagers,” she admits. “The difference is the distance. You’re not a 30-year-old looking back at being 14; instead, you are 14. I really remember being that age. Everything feels so urgent and important.You don’t feel like a kid any more, but everyone treats you like one.” From Dani Noir: “Let’s just say if a grown-up wants to watch the news, you’ll watch the news. If a grown-up wants chicken for dinner, grab your fork because you’ll be eating chicken. You can’t make your own choices, watch your own TV channels, or eat your own food until the world freezes over, or, I don’t know, college.” Suma currently lives in Manhattan. Her apartment is too small to work in, so she carries her laptop to favorite cafes and a Writers Room office. Gazing out at the sun setting over the Catskills, she admits that she’s starting to dream about having more space. It could be someplace in Brooklyn, or it could be farther upriver—all very mysterious. Follow that girl in the polka-dot tights. Nova Ren Suma will read from Dani Noir at the Golden Notebook inWoodstock, on Friday, November 27, at noon. 11/09 ChronograM books 47
SHORT TAKES A Thanksgiving feast of eclectic offerings from Hudson Valley authors.
All Fall Down The Manual of Detection Jedediah Berry Penguin, 2009, $25.95
Berry’s dark, playful, and lucidly narrated debut novel is a journey through the mind of a meticulous dreamer. When Charles Unwin, a humble clerk at the elusive, all-seeing “Agency,” is suddenly promoted to investigate his former boss’s disappearance, the eponymous Manual helps him become the detective’s detective. Reading at Bard College’s Weis Cinema, 11/09 at 2:30pm, introduced by Bradford Morrow.
Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm Jon Katz Villard Books, 2009, $24
The New York Times bestselling author of A Dog Year and other canine chronicles poses the venerable philosophical question of whether animals have souls, exploring the topic through his relationships with animals, including a wildly affectionate but murderous barn cat, a chocaholic steer, and a dog with a singular talent for hospice work. Do dogs have souls? Katz’s title may offer a hint.
Reiki for Spiritual Healing Brett Bevell Ten Speed Press, 2009, $15.99
Reiki master and Omega Institute instructor Brett Bevell takes this traditional method of energetic healing of the physical body into the realm of healing the spirit. Reiki, he writes, “can be a doorway to spiritual awakening, to reaching that point of no separation between you and the Divine, and that Divine essence which is in all things.”
Divas On Screen: Black Women in American Film Mia Mask Univeristy of Illinois press, 2009, $25
An associate professor of film at Vassar, Mia Mask offers an wide-ranging academic disquisition on five iconic actresses—Dorothy Dandrige, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry—who “have deftly navigated the uneven terrain of racial, gender, and class stereotypes,” paving the way for new generations.
Collecting Under the Radar: Tomorrow’s Antiques Michael Hogben & Linda Abrams Red Rock Press, 2009, $26.95
Pine Plains author Abrams teamed with British auctioneer Hogben for this savvy survey of what collectibles are likely to increase in value, from Deco wall mirrors to mid-century costume jewelry, with some unlikely stops (cowboy spurs & horse bits?) along the way. If you have the flea market gene, this handsomely designed book gives great browse.
Summer Pleasures, Winter Pleasures: A Hudson Valley Cookbook Peter G. Rose Excelsior Editions, 2009, $14.95
Think local, cook seasonal. Food writer and historian Rose offers a bounty of unfussy recipes perfectly suited to dining al fresco on the deck or cocooning beside a crackling hearthfire. Each season includes a selection of breakfast dishes, take-along sandwiches, entrees to savor with friends, and desserts, with tidbits of local lore and destinations tucked in between.
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Mary Caponegro
Coffee House Press, 2009, $14.95
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he characters in All Fall Down, the masterful new short-fiction collection by Bard professor and literary avant-gardist Mary Caponegro, are overburdened to the point of dropping, and the reader may also plunge into dismaying self-reckoning. Illness and spiritual crisis blend together, body and imagination come to cross signals, and epiphanies are like trap doors: A man who sleeps in the bed of his cancer-ravaged mother, so as not to wake his pregnant wife, rescues his young child after she has fallen from atop a stairwell. “‘Daddy, I’m bad.’ Daughter, I’m worse. I’m cursed, and by extension so are you.” Rather than patiently unfolding, Caponegro’s stories are top-weighted with a relentless compounding of detail. Each sentence has a magnetic pull on our attention and ideas are fibrously interconnected. Her prose is wrought to the point of being almost distracting, and because of this, the revelatory zingers land with unexpected power. Caponegro veers toward the comic at times, yet her humor is never sunny. At a creepy marriage therapy retreat, where a “cathartic” group activity is to pretend to murder one’s spouse and then write a eulogy, a husband cautions his wife not to choke lest he be deprived the satisfaction of “metastrangling” her. The wife, who long ago was wowed by her wisecracking husband’s college Lenny Bruce act, now is able to demolish him at every turn, “Subversive at 50 just doesn’t cut it, Norm. I hate to tell you.” In another story, one whose dark alterity might make Kafka seem like “Seinfeld,” Power Rangertoting orphans run an abortion clinic—black “struction paper” covers the windows and “Scooby Doo” plays on the recovery room TV. One child asks the 12-year-old ringleader, “How come we never get to take Siamese twins apart or something cool like that?” In Caponegro’s work, overarching metaphors govern the psyches of her characters in a fairly overt way, though at the same time, her attunement to the varied inflections of intimacy might seem to mark this writer as a closet realist. A woman remembers the “archival zone”—the initial months of a yearlong relationship that precede her athletic girlfriend’s falling victim to chronic fatigue—as a time “laden with long walks and protracted kisses, constant motion and surprises, unexpected but exciting gestures, every minute an adventure.” The sick partner in this novella-length story, titled “IllTimed,” is a Harvard-educated black woman who, when well, was a freelance instructor of recreational sports such as rock climbing and kayaking. For her, pre-illness is best recalled via her unfulfilled erotic fantasy of teaching her uncoordinated, albino lover to skydive. The cosmic correctness that this adrenalized embrace and motherly tethering suggest to her is overridden by her currently weakened state, that of “parachuting through viscid, grayish-brown hell.” This couple, which has giddily sought to project its own “blatant” symbolism—“Our wedding cake has to be chocolate and vanilla, right? Don’t you remember?”—has been made all too aware of the master-slave reversal resulting from the alpha female’s declining health. Indeed, the multiplicity of oppositions the women themselves eagerly deconstruct may fatigue the reader. The incarcerating clasp of language is a matter into which Caponegro obsessively delves, and readers are dropped down into the cell block. The book’s final story, “The Translator,” is a Nabokovian riff that mingles Lolita and “Pygmalion.” By a feat of exceptional erudition, it never strays into parody. A rococo afterward to the other stories, it bestows on them a radiant unity and delicate stasis that lingers. —Marx Dorrity
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Ginnah Howard
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009, $24
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our December issue is November 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.
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i should never have fastened
So God lives in a cloud
my balloon to your belt loop.
But which cloud?
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—Jacob Internicola (6 years)
Cherry Blossoms
The Vulgar Way
“Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.”—Pablo Neruda
Orphic farewell, and farewell, and farewell and the ego sum of Dionysos... —D. H. Lawrence
You do a handstand, my girl And this is how the world looks now Mountains the soft blue underbelly of the lake Birds skimming the ceiling like rocks on the water Fingers becoming roots in the dirt The bird lands on the arch of your white foot This is how the world looks now, With love to support you, Your knobby knees become knots in tree branches Toes curling and uncurling into flowers The bird sings your skirt into bark Trees never die As long as there are cherry blossoms You are in full bloom, my girl And when the petals fall They will be retrieved by fair girls in gingham dresses Brought in baskets to the river Which shines like eisenglass in the morning —Emma Silverman
Meaningless Tripe this poet, his words fold deep meaningless tripe a riot in the mezzanine explosion of laughter like bibles written to have written floating dark damp decaying scum words of this poet folded deep in meaningless tripe. —Tommi Pantiz
I’m in your mouth to the calyx, you still can’t crack the secret in one smooth flesh bite. Split her sideways, symbol in a thimblesized gender-petalled squash blossom fruit.
Supposedly the quiet one around here, I still occasionally feel compelled to join in when the village sirens suddenly begin their terrible moaning and screaming. I’ll willingly take my place then alongside the many other neighborhood dogs, throwing back my head to howl away for the simple relieving pleasures of pure unrestrained grief, and to enjoy the sight of the poor dogs around me as they gradually grow silent, cocking their massive heads in wonder, watching and softly whimpering as they realize that even I have no suitable answers. —Oliver Grannis
—Kate Stone
I Am Vietnam Revisited Bringing medical supplies to hospital in Ha Tan, 1997 A man my age lies on a cot, his brown face exposed to the wall. Leg wounds a week old ooze. A 30-year-old mine went off, I’m told, he was gathering wood. I’m asked to take his picture. He turns with narrowed eyes, I aim, focus, hate fills the lens. I close my eyes and shoot. —Dayl Wise
Dry Rain It’s raining on the graves. Thomas isn’t thirsty, But if he were He’d rather have a beer. Sara is very dirty. She’d love a hot shower With herbal shampoo— She has a permanent bad hair day. Gail the baby girl Is soaking wet, Not a diaper in sight. A shame. God knows None of them Will grow In this earth. —Barbara Adams
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The Simple Pleasures of Howling
I am my mother’s eyes Her ability to let things go Even when repeated a dozen times I’m her oblivious mind The angel and devil that rest on her shoulders The thought that helps her sleep at night I am my father’s smile His strength and pride The strange, fickle man constantly on his toes I’m the beat of his heart The spark to his ideas The sun that gives light to his life I am my brother’s laugh His mistakes and his fury The missing link to his soul I’m his better half The structured man he lost in the past His greatest accomplishment I am a family dream Built in the past for a promising future A living hope I’m a rocky road With a dusty trail And a fork at the end I am all these things And they are all me The people that surround you You will always be —Rowan Brind
Le Petit Mort
Song: She Built a Wall
RIP Jim Carroll A small plain brown package Of a bird flew into my windshield On my way to work today Committing suicide. Who knows why he/she couldn’t Take on living anymore. Was it the spouse that drove this bird to its end? I saw it flying in slow motion Through the haze of the Rising morning sun. It started from the top left of the driver’s side Arcing down in a wide curve Until the bird hit The top right of the passenger side Where my daughter likes to put Her footprints on the glass Above the dashboard. I was doing sixty. I do not know how fast the bird was going. How fast does a small brown bird fly? It was a barely distinguishable impact. There was a soft thud Followed by a streak of thick brown blood Seeping down Then reversing Up the windshield As I was driving Comprehending it all. It was a tragic, if small, waste of life. For some strange reason I am reminded of all of the friends That I’ve lost to death In a random manner Not unlike this. So many of my friends have fallen Like tiny birds From wide open wounds in the sky. Addiction, disease, suicide, violence, crime And for absolutely no reason at all. Their time was up Like a brown bird parcel hitting The windshield In slow motion. It was fast and fleeting Events already in progress And couldn’t be stopped. Now, I don’t want to sound like Jim Carroll Who died today, ironically On Friday, September 11th, 2009 Of a heart attack.
A grim day for the reaper To come-a-calling For anyone... But even more so For a man who’s known mostly For his honest poetic tome About growing up in the wreckage of Sixties and seventies New York. “Jim up and died, died!” He at least lived to sixty. Not bad for a has-been Hustler and junkie That cheated death before. Jim’s delivery was laid back and nodded With a thick New York street smart drawl. Exposed and naked With no apologies. Humbled and humorous. His laugh was peppered With lines that were savvy and witty And trickled of comedy At his expense. I always enjoyed hearing him read. I heard about his death On the radio Not long after The bird Flew like a determined Jet plane Into the glass Igniting fuel Recklessly Into an inferno Hotter than Hell itself Could produce. I know that No matter how hard I could think about it That there is no correlation Between these deaths. Some might see symbolism Or a shared deeper meaning. I don’t think about it that hard. I drive. I think about my dead friends “People Who Died.” I listen to folks that were close Talk about Jim On the radio As a brown bird’s blood Sets on my windshield. —Theo Stieve
She built a wall around her. Not just with steel, glass and reinforced concrete but with words. Thousands of words. From poems, novels, stories and plays. Thousands and thousands of words. One day, strolling pass the wall, he heard her read a sonnet to the wind. Suddenly, kissing her became his priority. So he devised a plan: to go over, under or through the wall. Next day, he returned with a telescoping ladder, a round nose shovel and a stick of dynamite. He climbed, dug, covered up his ears. When he finally stood on the opposite side of the wall, he was alone. Quickly, he picked a hundred words up off the ground and tossed them in the air. His sonnet to the wind... —Paul Assey
“What’s It Like on the Reservation?” About the reservation, I have nothing to say. Nothing to say about what it seems to lack. The kids’ clothes are colors-conscious, and may have been shot at, too, through a car window when there was nothing better to do. The Indian girls want to punch other girls; the Indian boys want to give the Indian girls Indian babies, because no one will want to fight over who those babies belong to. My suffering is middle-class: having been told by educated, intelligent men “I love you,” only to be found unnecessary, like ill-fitting underpants. Their suffering is simile-less and lower-class: parents tell them “I love you” in a text message, from Canada, while drunk. From a distance, the world is green and blue and home all over; from a distance, the reservation looks like a desert. There are no humans there. Things are as they once were not. But of the way things should have become, no one has the memory except for the drunk who has lost his way to McDonald’s, and I am too afraid to ask him why. “Who did this?” echoes “Who did this?” echoes back, “That is the wrong question.” I have nothing to say about why you feel abandoned, like Mary when the motel was full and the airport floor too cold. Fear holds this reservation back from saying anything, until you sit down in her, and relax, and relax, and loosen the grip of what has been lost, in time and suffering-long silence. —Hilary Davis 11/09 ChronograM poetry 51
Food & Drink
Bird of a Different Feather A Reconstructed Thanksgiving Feast By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May
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urkey is kind of boring. There, I said it. It can be bland, and dries out easily. The different parts of the bird cook at different rates, and reach perfect doneness at different times. Lacking an industrial deep fryer (which I have been assured gives a wonderfully succulent result) it’s hard to make the meat a delicacy without an assist from gravy, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. Turkeys are also big, which means they often leave us with a monotonous monolith occupying most of the fridge for a week or so after Thanksgiving is over until it’s finally exhausted as sandwiches and soup. We’re lucky because the original Thanksgiving meal was made in the Northeast; most of the traditional ingredients are easily sourced locally. But preparing the meal can still be a chore, and timing everything to be ready at once is not easy. Too often the result is a day or three of stress culminating in a food coma. With some minor tinkering, the menu can instead relax the host, excite adventurous eaters, and still please devout traditionalists. The secret? Break down the bird and cook the parts separately. Everything gets done perfectly, and it’s far more efficient: much of the work can be done a week or more beforehand and any leftovers will be much more manageable. By confiting the legs, brining and smoking the breasts, and making stock from the carcass, we can make an easier and tastier holiday dinner—and we’ll have some excellent stock in the freezer for future use. The first step is to divide the bird into the three parts to be treated differently. (If you’re unsure of your butchering skills, ask whomever you buy the bird from to do it for you.) Remove the legs at the hip joint, and cut the breasts out, removing as much of the meat as possible; start at the breastbone and work the knife down the outside of the ribcage, pulling gently on the meat as you go. Any meat that remains will make your stock taste extra-good, so don’t worry too much. Cut the wings off. That’s it. Instead of making turkey soup a week after the fact, make stock at the outset, using the raw carcass. Rather than regular old turkey stock, try making pho—a rich, complex Vietnamese 52 food & drink ChronograM 11/09
soup (normally made with beef) flavored with anise, ginger, and clove. Turkey makes an excellent—if untraditional—pho, and the pie spices really sing with other Thanksgiving ingredients. By using the raw carcass, the stock will have much more flavor and body than it would if made post-cooking. TURKEY PHO 1 raw turkey carcass and wings (heritage breeds from local farmers are best) Turkey neck, gizzard, organs 1 onion, halved 1 thumb of ginger, halved 4 star anise pods 12 cloves 1 cinnamon stick (about 4 inches long) 10 black peppercorns Put onion and ginger halves cut-sides down in a pan and brown them well. (Don’t add any oil). Add spices and toast for a minute or two. Place the carcass and offal in a large stockpot and cover with cold water. Add aromatics and heat to a bare simmer; the surface of the liquid should ripple but not boil. Periodically skim any scum that appears, and let simmer for about three hours. Skim one last time, then pour stock through a strainer into containers and chill them in an ice bath. Store containers in the fridge or freezer. For a first course, try simmering peeled, cubed winter squash (about 1 lb. per quart) in the pho until tender, then blending, straining, and salting it to taste. The spices in the broth make it taste a bit like a savory pumpkin pie. And be sure to use this stock to make your gravy; since there won’t be much in the way of drippings from a whole roasted bird, use a bit of the confit fat to make a roux, then whisk in the pho. The stock can also be used for braising greens to further unite the flavors of the meal.
above: Kabocha squash soup made with turkey pho; Bowl by Peter Barrett. opposite: Turkey leg confit on sweet potato gratin with sumac-cranberry reduction. In the background, smoked turkey breast on braised collard greens with burdock-black trumpet mushroom gravy and radicchio pesto.
TURKEY LEG CONFIT Confit is an old method of preservation; by slow-cooking meat in fat, it can then be stored in the cooking fat for a long time without spoiling. It’s an easy technique, and it turns turkey legs into something sublime. Two turkey legs Duck fat (4 lbs. or more if needed; available from Hudson Valley Foie Gras) 4 fat cloves garlic, smashed 1 sprig rosemary 1 bunch thyme 2 teaspoons cracked black pepper 2 bay leaves Rinse the legs and pat dry. Mince the herbs and garlic and mix them into the salt. If so moved, blend salt and herbs in a food processor first to more thoroughly distribute the flavors. Put the legs into a nonreactive container (a Pyrex baking dish works well) and rub all over with the salt, covering all surfaces of the meat. Cover the container and refrigerate for 12 hours. Preheat the oven to 180˚ F. Rinse off the cure and dry the legs well. Put them into a deep, nonreactive baking dish. Heat the duck fat until just liquid and pour over the legs to completely cover them. Place the covered vessel in the oven and cook for 10 hours. Carefully remove the legs from the fat and pour the fat through a strainer, taking care not to include any of the juices at the bottom. Those juices make a wonderful addition to gravy or stuffing, so don’t discard them. If serving within a day or two, store meat and fat separately, otherwise put the legs into a container that just holds them and pour the strained fat back over them to cover completely. Submerged in fat, they will keep for months in the fridge. The fat can be reused several times before it gets too salty, at which point it can be used as an ultra-luxe substitute for butter. To serve, preheat the oven to 350˚ F. Put the confited legs skin-side down
in a deep skillet on medium heat and cook until the skin becomes super-crisp. A gentle weight, like the lid from a smaller pan, can help maximize the surface area of skin in contact with the pan. Once thoroughly crisp, drain excess fat and move the skillet to the oven until the legs are heated through. Shred the meat from the bone, and cut the crisp skin into as many pieces as there are people. Place some shredded meat on a disc of sweet potato and top with a piece of skin. As for the breasts, brine them. They tend to dry out, and brine will keep them moist and impart lots of flavor. Make a five percent brine by dissolving 50 grams of salt per liter of water (or about 2 tablespoons per 2½ cups) and then add some smashed garlic, cracked pepper, a few cracked juniper berries, herbs (thyme, rosemary, a couple of bay leaves) and put the meat in the brine, weighing it down so it stays submerged. Put it in the fridge for a day or two, then remove the meat and pat it dry. From here, the two best choices are smoking or roasting. For a nicer presentation and more even cooking, tie the two breasts like roasts. Smoke or roast them until they reach an internal temperature of 160˚ F, then rest them for a few minutes before slicing. Either way you prepare them, they will be very happy on some cabbage braised with white wine and cider vinegar. SWEET POTATO GRATIN This is kind of halfway between a gratin and a confit, and results in meltingly tender discs of tuber that complement the richness of the turkey legs. Sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into enough three-quarter inch rounds to allow one per person Heavy cream (or half-and-half) 5-spice powder salt black pepper 11/09 ChronograM food & drink 53
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Preheat oven to 350˚ F. Place the sweet potato rounds at the bottom of a baking dish that can hold them all in a single layer crowded together tightly. Pour cream over the rounds just to cover, and sprinkle them with a pinch each of 5-spice, salt, and pepper. Bake them until the cream has all but evaporated. SUMAC-CRANBERRY REDUCTION Sumac is an excellent local substitute for citrus, and is used widely in the Middle East as a spice. This sauce is a slightly more elegant take on cranberry sauce, and acts as a good foil for the rich food. Staghorn sumac is ubiquitous in this region, especially on roadsides and vacant lots; the fruit looks like fuzzy red torches about six inches long. Poison sumac looks completely different. Consult an expert or search the Internet for photos to help with identification. 3 sumac panicles 8 oz. bag cranberries ½ cup local maple syrup or honey Rinse the sumac and break the panicles apart, discarding the woody stems. Put the fruit into a blender 2/3 full of cold water (about 3 cups) and blend for 30-60 seconds. Pour mixture into a container and refrigerate overnight. The next day, strain the liquid into a saucepan on medium heat and add the cranberries. Simmer uncovered until the berries have all burst and the liquid begins to reduce, then strain the sauce into another pan, pushing gently on the solids to release more juice. Add syrup and/or honey. Continue to reduce until the sauce coats a spoon, adding more sweetener if desired, then keep warm until serving. Spoon sauce around the confit and sweet potato. You know how the stuffing from inside the bird always tastes better than the extra that’s baked in a pan? The reason, of course, is all of the fat and drippings that enrich the mixture in the cavity. The secret, then, given the lack of whole bird in this case, is to use the ph and some of the duck fat from the confit to compensate. I’m not going to wade in to the Great Stuffing Debate (Sausage? Oysters? Chestnuts? Cornbread? Mushrooms? It’s all good.) Just use the recipe you like best, but make sure to begin by sautéing your aromatics in some of the duck fat. It’s salty, so remember to taste before adding salt. And use the ph in place of chicken or other broth. Baste the top with a little melted fat right before you put it in to bake, and it should come out rich, decadent, and deeply satisfying. For desserts and other recipes not covered in this article, visit Peter Barrett’s cooking blog: http://quisimangiabene.blogspot.com/2009/10/thanksgiving-recipes-continued.html.
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Main Course 232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2600 www.maincourserestaurant.com
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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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 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 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.
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Kyoto Sushi 337 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1128 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.
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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 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best of the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;? by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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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Sinterklaas in Rhinebeck and Rhinecliff
November 3–December 5 Rhinebeck has a rich heritage in Old Dutch customs, and the secular Sinterklaas holiday event celebrates the town’s earliest roots. The month-long celebration begins on November 3 with workshops on Wednesdays through Sundays to build giant puppets in preparation for the Children’s Starlight Parade. November 28 marks the arrival of Sinterklaas by boat at the Rhinecliff dock at 3:30pm, followed by musical and theatrical performances at the Rhinecliff Hotel. The celebration leads up to December 5, with a parade and performances beginning at noon around Rhinebeck by the Vanaver Caravan, Arm of the Sea Theater, and the Bindlestiff Family Circus. Free. www.sinterklaasrhinebeck.com
Downtown Unwrapped in New Paltz
November 20, 5–8pm It’s the beginning of the holiday season, and New Paltz will be decorated for the occasion with window displays and special discounts for shoppers. Historic Huguenot Street will host an open house at DuBois Fort. Fine arts by local artists will be featured all weekend, along with guided candlelight tours of historic houses. www.huguenotstreet.com; (845) 255-3022
A Gilded Age Christmas & Holiday Whodunit at Mills Mansion
November 27–December 31; weekends and select dates Ornate turn-of-the-previous-century decorations highlight Christmas at the Mills Mansion, when this Greek Revival structure will be designed to reflect 19th-century living during the holiday season. Tours will be given every half hour from 12 to 5pm. $5 for adults; children under 12 free. www.staatsburgh.org; (845) 889-8851
Catskill Mountain Winter Holiday Train
November 27–December 26; weekends and select dates Take a train that brings the North Pole to Kingston with the Catskill Mountain Railroad. Ride the recently restored RS-I engine adorned with wreaths and lights on a twomile loop departing on the hour from 1 to 6pm from Westbrook Lane. $6; $4 children ages 4-11; children under 4 free with paying adult. www.catskillmtrailroad.com; (845) 688-7400.
Dutchess Community College Holiday Craft Fair
November 28–29, 10am–4pm Just in time for the holidays, the 38th annual craft fair will take place at Dutchess Community College. The event will include vendors specializing in candles, soaps, oils, wood sculptures, paintings, paper, photography, pottery, Ukranian eggs, leather goods, glass, jewelry, and food. Admission benefits student scholarships. www.sunydutchess.edu; (845) 431-8400.
Frosty Fest Festival of Lights in Ulster Park
November 27–December 27; weekends and select dates Thought hayrides were only for Halloween? They’re for the holiday season too. Ride or drive through a vivid display of lights, displays, and animation within Frosty Fest, featuring an enchanted forest, a candy cane factory, a snow village, Santa’s Workshop, and more. www.frostyfest.com; (845) 339-2666.
Poughkeepsie Celebration of Lights and Fireworks
December 4, 6:30pm Thousands of tiny lights illuminate Poughkeepsie as people fill the downtown streets to invite the winter season. The decorated trees, light poles, and windows along the parade route adorn the streets to make way for marching bands, giant puppets, classic cars, community groups, and Santa. The night will conclude with fireworks and a showing of It’s a Wonderful Life at the Bardavon. www.bardavon.org; (845) 473-5288.
Martin Van Buren Winter Celebration
December 4, 5:30–8:30pm Enjoy the holidays at the home of America’s eighth president! It’s an 1840s holiday season for the Lindenwald farm at the Martin Van Buren State Historic Site, where the estate will be specially adorned for the season. Keep warm with hot cider under the winterized tent, join friends around a bonfire on the front lawn, or take part in Kinderhook Village’s Candlelight Walk. Free. www.nps.gov/mava; (518) 758-9689.
Woodstock Holiday Open House
December 4, 5–8pm The 28th annual event in Woodstock will feature more than 70 participating stores and businesses with lighted decorations and window displays, and even elegant ice sculpture. Shops will be open for book and CD signings, wine and cheese tastings, fresh popcorn, and hot cider. www.woodstockchamber.com; (845) 679-6234.
Holiday House Tours at Olana
December 4–January 3, 11am–4pm; weekends Take an hour-long tour and see how Frederic Church’s family spent the holiday season in their magnificent house, lavishly decorated for the season. Hear a reading of Church’s oldest son Frederic Joseph’s letter to Santa Claus. $9; $8 students and seniors; children under 12 and Olana Partnership members free. www.olana.org; (518) 828-0135.
Winter Walk in Hudson
December 5, 5–8pm Bundle up for an evening of winter celebration, when Warren Street overflows with music, dance, and costume to welcome the season. Businesses exhibit their best holiday window shows and invite festival-goers inside to begin their holiday shopping. Street-corner musicians will play everything from carols to jazz to African drumming. Horse-drawn carriage rides are offered up until the evening closes with fireworks at 8pm. www.hudsonoperahouse.org; (518) 822-1438.
Holiday Open House at Springwood and Val-Kill
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Springwood and Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill, both in Hyde Park, will be decorated for the December holidays. Experience the holiday season in a 1950s presidential style from 9am to 6pm at the FDR site, or attend the evening open house at Val-Kill, with viewing and refreshments from 4 to 7pm. Free. www.nps.gov/hofr; (845) 486-1966.
Cold Spring by Candlelight
December 5, 12–6pm This annual holiday celebration to benefit children and adults with developmental disabilities features historic homes and sites that will be open to the public, as well as holiday music, discounts at local stores and restaurants, and visits with Old Saint Nick. Enjoy walking tours of historic sites or take a trolley for a one-of-a-kind view. $30; $25 seniors; $15 children under 12. www.partnerswithparc.org; (845) 278-PARC, ext. 287.
Pine Bush Festival of Lights
December 5, 4:30–7:30pm This family-oriented event will transform Pine Bush into a winter carnival. English carolers will roam the streets as the town enjoys free hot chocolate and snacks while listening to the Middletown Chorale. Laurel Hollow Horse Farm and Friends of Equine Rescue will bring Clydesdales and a miniature horse, and the Not Just Country Line Dancers will perform until the 7:15pm tree lighting. www.pinebushchamberofcommerce.org; (845) 220-8125.
Vanderbilt Mansion Holiday Open House
December 12, 9am–5pm Hyde Park’s Vanderbilt Mansion dressed up as the most elaborately decorated mansion in the Hudson Valley. Music and refreshments will be provided by the RooseveltVanderbilt Historical Association. Free. www.nps.gov/vama; (845) 229-7770.
Yuletide High Tea at Wilderstein in Rhinebeck
December 12, 1pm Celebrate the holiday season in high social fashion with this afternoon affair featuring traditional holiday cakes, open-faced tea sandwiches, and music. $25; $10 children. Reservations necessary. (Victorian holiday tours are offered on select dates from November 27 through December 27.) www.wilderstein.org; (845) 876-4818.
Newburgh Candlelight House Tour
December 13, 12–5pm Before icicle lights and garlands were used to decorate, there were fresh greens, flowers, and fruit, which will be used for this 1830s holiday celebration. The opulent Captain David Crawford House will hold its annual house tour, highlighting the best of Newburgh’s rich architectural history. Advance tickets: $20; day of event $25. www.newburghhistoricalsociety.com; (845) 561-2585.
Winterfest in Historic Chatham Village
December 13, 5–8pm Chatham gets in touch with its past as it transforms into a winter wonderland for this holiday celebration. A tractor-drawn stagecoach will provide a view of the festivities, and an appearance will be made by Santa himself. www.chathambusinessalliance.org; (518) 392-4710.
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Holiday Gift Guide 2009 A Special Advertising Section in Chronogram There are limitless gift buying options for the holiday season, from the Internet to the big box stores. But shopping locally is not only just as convenient as the mall, it also keeps money in our local communities. What’s more, independent retailers are more likely to be experts in their business, intimately aware with the products and provenance of the items for sale in their store. Often, the retailers are the designers or artisans themselves. This holiday, let Chronogram introduce you to some great solutions for everyone on your list. Check back again next month for a second helping of holiday gift ideas in the December issue!
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Books = Gifts The Christmas Magic by Lauren Thompson illustrated by Jon J. Muth Scholastic, hardcover, $16.99 The winning team of a bestselling author and Caldecott Honor artist present a glorious holiday gift for children everywhere. The Best American Short Stories 2009 edited by Alice Sebold Mariner Books, paperback, $14.00 The stories in this year’s collection serve as a provocative literary antenna for what is going on in the world. Photo: Box by Roberto Koch Abrams, hardcover, $29.95 A collection of 250 photographs by 200 of the world’s most prominent photographers. www.oblongbooks.com 26 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON (518) 789-3797 MONTGOMERY ROW, RHINEBECK (845) 876-0500
WILLIAMS LUMBER AND HOME CENTER Come celebrate the 20th year of the Williams Lumber and Home Center famous Christmas Holiday display. Located in their Rhinebeck location, hundreds of home and gift items, holiday decorations and everything you need for a fabulous fall and holiday season is available during their Tis the Season sale. Stock up on your gift and holiday needs at all Williams locations. (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
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MCMAHON’S HOME IMPROVEMENT As one of the Hudson Valleys most respected green home remodeling companies, we will make sure your project is handled professionally from concept to completion. Only by combining talented craftsmanship and quality materials with an organized execution of a good remodeling plan and a proven process can a home remodeling contractor expect to consistently please its clients.
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ATELIER RENEE FINE FRAMING Mirrors – a variety of vintage to new, simple to ornate, rustic to modern, large to small – are ready to go as unique gifts! Or choose from a beautiful selection of moldings for a custom mirror of any size: a one-of-a-kind look destined to be a lasting gift. (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com The Chocolate Factory 54 ELIZABETH STREET SUITE 3 RED HOOK, NY 12571
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LOOMINUS WOODSTOCK LOOMINUS WOODSTOCK creates the finest hand woven chenille, cashmere, alpaca & fur scarves & jackets for men, women & children, and throws for your home! LOOMINUS has been creating artto-wear for over twenty years in the Hudson Valley, exploring color, texture, design, comfort, warmth & luxury! The best gifts for everyone! (845) 679-6500 www.loominus.com 18 TINKER STREET (on the Village Green) WOODSTOCK, NY 12498
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NECTAR A rare blend of home furnishings, jewelry, art, and tea salon, Nectar celebrates our World Community everyday with unusual items from around the world. Featuring organic teas, furniture from â&#x20AC;&#x153;greenâ&#x20AC;? reclaimed materials, affordable Fair Trade gifts, local artwork. Architectural elements, statuary, and large scale custom furnishings. A Feast for the Senses. (845) 687-2870 www.nectarimports.com 1412 ROUTE 213, HIGH FALLS, NY
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After 21 years in NYC, Vision of Tibet is now open in the Hudson Valley! Featuring handcrafted items from the Himalayas, including fine & ethnic jewelry, home decor, ritual items, textiles, clothing, antiques, photos of Tibet, and much more. We also feature the handmade wares of Fromm Clothing Design. We are global AND local!
My approach to portraiture? To capture the richness of life with a conceptual dimension that makes my paintings unique like my clients. The result, a timeless and contemporary work of art and a treasured heirloom. For your husband, your wife, your partner, your kids and their kids. For you. Forever.
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KRINGLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHRISTMAS HOUSE Welcome to Kringleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas House, the oldest Christmas Store in the Hudson Valley. We carry an extensive line of giftware from Lenox and Department 56, as well as Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from Possible Dreams and Jim Shore. For the discriminating taste, we carry glass ornaments from Poland, Germany and Russia. No holiday is complete without a whimsical doll from Annalee. Come to Kringleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for all your Holiday needs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tradition.â&#x20AC;? (845) 849-2637 163 MAIN ST., BEACON NY
Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Miss Your Chance for the December Gift Guide Missed out on featuring your business in the November Gift Guide? Well, good news: thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one more issue of the Chronogram Gift Guide in December! Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose your chance to showcase your businessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; best gift ideas for the holiday season in the December issue. We can help create the concept for your ad and design it for you, making your brand a reality in the pages of Chronogram! With three sizes available, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an affordable option for every business. CONTACT US FOR RATES AND AVAILABILITY. (845) 334-8600 SALES@CHRONOGRAM.COM 314 WALL STREET, KINGSTON, NY 12401
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Nestled in the gentle streams and valleys of the ancient Catskill Mountains, the new Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa invites you to experience a private sensual retreat in the heart of the village of Woodstock, NY. Just a short stroll from the unique boutiques, art and antique galleries, Aspects Inn & Spa features luxury two bedroom apartments with full kitchens conjoined to a 2000 sq. ft. cedar and glass enclosed climate controlled spa with 40 foot saline pool, 64 jet jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna. Experience an array of personal spa therapies from yoga to massage to facials and salon treatments with select local professional therapists. Enjoy a leisurely poolside bar brunch or order an organic gourmet dinner prepared by your host, French chef Lio Magat. Bienvenue et bon appetit !
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SPRING’S SPREE CUSTOM COLLECTIBLES Springs Spree couture collection of handcrafted custom collectible scarves and shawls are as unique as the person who wears them. Each scarf is reversible, enabling you to have many different looks from one scarf. Enjoy knowing that you own a very opulent original scarf, designed by Spring’s Spree with you in mind. (845) 831-9460 www.shopspringsspree.com BEACON, NY
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Twenty Shops and over forty antique dealers Food, coffee, art & oh... that view! Welcome to a truly unique Hudson Valley experience—a hip and vibrant Europeaninspired community of boutiques, galleries, and restaurants surrounded by the beauty of the Shawnagunk wilderness and set on the banks of the Walkill River. It’s a destination at once a favorite with locals and visitors alike, all drawn by the distinctive treasures and treats found at every turn. (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com 10 MAIN ST., NEW PALTZ, NY
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A NewYork State Certified Interior Designer, Maria R Mendoza, IIDA, owner of Marigold Home Interiors, has over 25 years of interior design experience in New York City. With an eye for art and design, Maria is highly influenced by her ability to interpret and achieve her clients’ visions and needs. Unguided by trends, Maria creates interiors that are appropriate for their place and function. Maria has always had the love for all things beautiful and elegant, and at the same time gives importance to the health, safety and welfare of the public. Marigold Home Interiors is not just a design destination... it is an inspiration. (845) 338-0800 phone (845) 338-0811 fax maria@marigold-home.com www.marigold-home.com 747 ROUTE 28, KINGSTON, NY 12401
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A Precious Stone
Marbletown
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o truly grasp the spirit of Marbletown, it’s instructive to consider the story of Elsie. Elsie, a proudly working class, unashamedly cantankerous reminder of the days when the Marbletown hamlet of High Falls was not, as latter-day advertising has christened it, “the center of the universe,” but rather a hardscrabble little postcanal town. Elsie lived in a trailer—not a house trailer, but a camper trailer—near the canal in downtown High Falls, cheek-by-jowl with top-rated restaurants and designated historic sites. The trailer had no running water or electricity; one would probably have to search the farthest corners of Marbletown’s hill-hamlets to find another such residence. Elsie didn’t have much—her cats, a small garden, an adult son who occasioned as much stress as comfort. But she was no recluse; rather, everyone in High Falls was familiar with the sight of Elsie walking around town on her errands, stopping to chat with everyone. “She’d never ride when she could walk,” remembers realtor Mary Collins, whose cozily elegant offices are a small stone’s throw from Elsie’s place. “So the help had to be somewhat subtle. Vaughan [Smith, the proprietor of Westcote Bell Pottery] took her cats to be spayed. I arranged firewood deliveries. John Novi [chef/owner of the renowned DePuy Canal House] ran a hose over so she’d have water. Betty Davenport [of the Davenport Farms family] and a lot of other people always gave her clothing. And Aidan [Quinn—yes, that Aidan Quinn] tried to get her a nicer trailer, but the town wouldn’t allow it.” Thus was Elsie able to maintain her independence and considerable social life for years longer than one might expect. Finally, a medical emergency brought her to the attention of officialdom and she was whisked to the hospital and then to a senior residence—where, hair and nails done and quite contented, she still receives regular visits from her High Falls crew. Not Your Everyday Mall High Falls and Stone Ridge are the two most populous hamlets of Marbletown, which sprawls over 55 square miles and is home to roughly 6,000 people. Together, they make up the two limbs of the town’s L-shaped business district. Along Routes 213 (High Falls) and 209 (Stone Ridge) are an eclectic array of places ranging from working farms to arts centers and professional offices, from places to grab a sandwich to elegant traditional dining and haute cuisine foodie havens. As for retail, one could do one’s entire holiday shopping list within Marbletown’s borders, from straight Aunt Mabel’s angel figurines to Cousin Ned’s imported incense and the very latest in food processors for Mom. National chains are scarce. A Rite Aid pharmacy co-anchors the only thing in town that could be described as a “shopping plaza,” and when its construction was first proposed, things got heated. “I was on the planning board at the time,” recalls Collins, “and it was a huge, huge thing. The original owners had a very high-end, vintagey operation—a dress designer and so on. When the new owner planned a mall—well, most of the land had been a nursery. It meant losing a lot of trees. It was a fight. But we did the best we could, and it turned out pretty decent.” Not to mention useful. The Town Center shopping complex houses, along with assorted small businesses, the only supermarket for some miles around:
Emmanuel’s, with a large selection of organics, hormone-free local meats, sushi—and a good stock of budget-brand staples for the cost-conscious. Local art is showcased on the walls, inside and out—the building is wrapped in a mural depicting a diverse community going about its business—and the cashiers are warmly courteous. Like Elsie moving to her new digs, it’s possible that the worst thing Stone Ridge residents had to fear was fear itself—especially with folks like Collins on the planning board. “The lights would have shone right into the Hasbrouck House,” she says, naming the fanciest inn in the hamlet. “You know that big berm along the side of the parking lot? That’s why it exists.” Civic Participation Citizen involvement in government and good works is a Marbletown tradition that’s going strong. When a series of community visioning meetings were held back at the turn of the century, they were scheduled on weekends so that parttime residents and working folks alike could be heard. “Such a wide variety did show up, and everybody got to know each other—it was great,” says Collins. “From the survey done in 1997 and the visioning process that was done between 2000 and 2002, we’ve moved forward with a lot of great work around conservation and the preservation of both open space and history,” says Brooke Pickering-Cole, who was appointed supervisor last year after serving for four years on the town board and two years as deputy to the previous supervisor, Vin Martello. “Last spring, we decided to create a sustainable economic development task force and move the process along that path, too,” says Pickering-Cole. “We got the new master plan done in 2005—it mandates the preservation of farmland, natural resources, and history. We passed a historic preservation landmark law [Marbletown has over three dozen 18th-century stone buildings] and a bond issue to purchase development rights.” In 2007, the Open Space Institute added another 382 acres of farmland to the over 3,400 acres of Marbletown’s protected rolling hills. Marbletown, explains Pickering-Cole, calls its open space plan a “natural heritage plan.” “And we have an additional farmland protection plan in draft form,” she says. “All that is only part of the job. It’s a crucial part, but equally crucial is ‘How do we see the community evolving?’The actual people, I mean. You can have beautiful scenery, but if people aren’t prospering and healthy and happy, so what?” To that end, the economic development task force is holding its own series of visioning meetings. “The task force has been working on ideas for clean energy, micro-farming, balanced housing, and how to retain the younger people and keep the older folks in their homes,” says the supervisor. “They’ll share their ideas, people will get into groups and talk it through. I have no doubt we’ll have our next full plate served up. I love this work.” Arts and Education Plenty of full plates get served each weekend in High Falls, where the Canal House—operated by the man dubbed “the father of the new American cuisine” by both Time magazine and the Food Network—has several other eateries as neighbors: the High Falls Cafe, which offers live music and hearty food; the First Bite (the former New York Store), which serves excellent sandwiches; 11/09 ChronograM marbletown 69
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above (l-r): the interior of nectar in high falls; elsie’s trailer. previous spread: the depuy canal house in downtown high falls.
Good Karma While both Stone Ridge and High Falls have distinct personalities—as do Marbletown’s outlying hill-hamlets, their winding roads laced with a mix of long-time countryfolk and weekenders—the road between them is becoming much more than a way to get from here to there. A new hamlet of sorts is forming at the corner of Route 213 and Lucas Avenue, where the four corners are anchored by the venerable High Falls Food Co-op, the Morning Brew (a cozy breakfast spot), Jake’s Garage, and Nectar, a three-year-old import emporium summarized as “Home-Art-Tea” on the business card of owner Jenny Wonderling. After passing a statue of Ganesh and entering Nectar, every sense is engaged. Spicy-clean incense and soaps and herbal tea blend into one light perfume. Polished wood and brass and colorful fabric draw the eye in every direction, and Wonderling has just found a rare blues CD at the request of a customer; its sounds fill the store. Toys and home furnishings and gifts from every continent are attractively arrayed, a great deal of it fair trade; all of the furniture is made from reclaimed wood. The on-site tea salon beckons the wanderer to sit and
chat—at which point, if things aren’t too hectic, one is likely to be offered a cup of organic, hand-blended tea. “Amazing things happen over a cup of tea,” Wonderling observes. Customer Dakota Blair is in search of unique men’s clothing, so Wonderling reaches out to her network, finds a supplier, and hands him the phone. “The British tended to design towns without a central town square, because the weather there was so nasty everybody had to be inside the pub,” Wonderling says. “I think it’s the responsibility of a business owner to provide a substitute town square where people can connect—I think of this as sort of the healthy corner bar. We do readings and parties, and I never know what’s going to happen next on any given day.” The next party in this lushly exotic setting will be held November 7 from 5 to 8pm to celebrate Wonderling’s relaunch as sole proprietress. Her personal celebration: donating 5 percent of all sales between the seventh and December 25 to Family of Woodstock. If Marbletown is prospering, perhaps it’s the karma incurred by people like Wonderling and Alan Markel of Alan’s Computers. Located in the Stone Ridge plaza, Markel has made it his personal mission to make sure no one who needs a computer goes without. It began with veterans; then he realized that “everybody’s in some kind of a struggle. So I started working with Goodwill, the Salvation Army, Family of Woodstock—anybody who might know who needs a computer,” he explains. “And I tell people to call me, not be embarrassed—we’ve all been through it. I’ve refurbished and passed along something like 400 computers now.” It may be true that, as a New York Times writer waggishly observed several years ago, “There is no marble in Marbletown.” But from the bluestone hills of Lomontville to the lowlands beside the canal—from Elsie’s trailer to the posh estates of Legget Road—a careful observer can find much that is far more precious than gold. RESOURCES Alan’s Affordable Computers www.alanscomputers.net Depuy Canal House www.depuycanalhouse.net Egg’s Nest www.theeggsnest.com Emmanuel’s Marketplace (845) 687-2214 Marbletown Arts Association www.marbarts.com Marbletown Multi-Arts www.cometomama.org Mary Collins Real Estate www.marycollinsrealestate.com Nectar www.nectarimports.com Rondout Valley Business Association www.rondoutvalleybusinessassociation.org Rondout Valley Growers Association www.rondoutvalleygrowers.org Stone Ridge Library www.stoneridgelibrary.org Town of Marbletown www.marbletown.net 11/09 ChronograM marbletown 71
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and the delicious Egg’s Nest, where Richard Murphy keeps the menu and the decor equally fresh, eclectic, and fun. Food for the soul is also in good supply in Marbletown. The Marbletown Arts Association, made up of over 120 visual, literary, and performing artists, immerses the town in culture each fall, when it’s ArtHarvest time. In the spring, the Stone Ridge Library—a 100-year-old organization housed in a stone building that dates to around 1798—hosts its annual fair, a lively explosion of books, music, and food that beckons folks from all over.The library is busy year round, and strives to be up-to-the-minute useful; besides the standard mystery-book groups and kids story hours, it houses a workforce development center and hosts public discussions. There is also a community college, SUNY Ulster, offering a varied menu of continuing education and a private elementary school. Then there’s MaMA. Also known as Marbletown Multi-Arts, the maturing brainchild of educator and world traveler Robert Evry Mann, the center utilizes a renovated church to offer classes in tai chi, yoga, and dance, in addition to performances and parties. The Ridge Gym, across Main Street, offers other options for mind-body development. And should one need to get well before undertaking such vigorous endeavors, just a hair to the north is the Stone Ridge Center for the Healing Arts. Things are moving right along in Marbletown in 2009: MaMA is building more studio space, and the town is installing sidewalks along Route 209. Over in High Falls, restoration of the historic Rock Cliff House—long beloved by much of the county as a spot to chill over a beer and a game of pool—is proceeding apace. Plans are under way for a restaurant and inn, with a walking trail connected to the hamlet’s center. A former garage is being converted to shops and a deli.
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Ann Street Gallery
334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com
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The Catskill Mountain Lodge, celebrating forty years of hospitality, is set on the banks of the historic Kaaterskill Creek in Palenville, America’s first art colony. Accommodations include fireplace rooms, cabins, cottages, and a three-bedroom house.
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Inn at Stone Ridge 3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-0736 info@innatstoneridge.com
Minnewaska Lodge 3116 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-1110
Rhinecliff Hotel 4 Grinnell Street, Rhinecliff, NY (845) 876-0590 www.therhinecliff.com
Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc. (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
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Mountain Flame, Inc.
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Animal Sanctuaries Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary 35 Van Wagner, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org
Carlson Gallery
9931 Route 32, Freehold, NY (518) 634-2466 www.carlsongallery.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.
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Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery.
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 abilities in Poughkeepsie, Millbrook and Red Hook. Programs include the awardwinning Dutchess Arts Camps (building selfesteem through the arts for ages 4-14); Art Institute (pre-college portfolio development program); art classes and workshops and outreach programs for economically disadvantaged urban youth.
Art Galleries & Centers Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100 www.nrm.org
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum
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Country Gallery
1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org
Dutchess County Arts Council (845) 454-3222 www.artsmidhudson.org
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 1701 Main Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 788-4531 www.hvcca.org (914) 788-0100
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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
Manny’s Art Supplies
83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902
Artisans DC Studios 21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200 www.dcstudiosllc.com
Ingrained Woodworking, Inc. (845) 246-3444 www.ingrainedwoodworking.com
Jessica Wickham, Woodworker 578 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 797-9247 www.jessicawickham.com
Joy Brown 463 Segar Mt. Road, Kent, CT (860) 927-4946 www.Artwithin.net
Namaro Design (845) 233-0082 www.nadinerobbinsportraits.com
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Auto Sales & Services Ruge’s Subaru Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057
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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!
Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com
Oblong Books & Music 6422 Montgomery Street, (Route 9), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 www.oblongbooks.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock P.O. Box 367, Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Adirondack Design Associates Rhinebeck, NY, Sarancac, NY (518) 891-5224 www.adkgreatcamps.com (845) 876-2700
Ghent Wood Products 483 Route 217, Hudson, NY (518) 672-7021 www.meltzlumber.com
Williams Lumber & Home Centers 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Cinemas Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org
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Spring’s Spree Beacon, NY (845) 831-9460 www.shopspringsspree.com
Star Real Clothing Corporation 26 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-6868 tami8888@verizon.net
Utility Canvas 2686 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY www.utilitycanvas.com/about:ourStore/
White Rice 531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500
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Past ‘n’ Perfect Resale & Retail Boutique 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, and accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
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The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.
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Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500, ext. 1 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org
Androgyny 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.
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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.
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Home Furnishings & Decor 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.
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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.
Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com
Clay, Wood and Cotton 149 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.claywoodandcotton.com
Marigold Home Interiors 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0800 www.marigold-home.com
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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.
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What the F? Flu Vaccine in the Hot Seat
Hesitation about lining up for flu shots mounts as doctors like Joseph Mercola build the case for just saying no to vaccination.
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Dr. Joseph Mercola, osteopathic physician, natural health practitioner, and founder of Mercola.com, a leading natural health website, has long warned against flu vaccination. As an unprecedented effort to vaccinate against H1N1 (swine) flu as well as seasonal flu marches forward, we felt it valuable to give readers a sampling of Dr. Mercola’s diverse concerns. The following are excerpted from Dr. Mercola’s articles at www.mercola. com, where the full articles with references and additional commentary are available. Is the H1N1 Vaccine Really Safe? While symptoms of H1N1 flu and seasonal flu are virtually identical, the H1N1 vaccine is showing signs of being quite different from the seasonal flu shot. There are factors involved with this vaccine that are brand new, which means it will be highly experimental and unpredictable. Although both are produced using antiquated 50-year-old technology that involves injecting the virus into eggs and allowing it to grow, the virus being used to produce the swine flu vaccine has been found to reproduce much more slowly in eggs than the ordinary flu virus. And according to a separate CBS News report, the US government is now funding newer unprecedented technologies to speed up vaccine production, including one that involves growing the virus inside animal cells and another that involves flu proteins grown inside insect cells. The risks of these, and the current fast-tracked swine flu vaccine, are truly unknown at this time. Unfortunately, many people will not realize that when they line up for the swine flu vaccine, they are in fact accepting their role as test subjects. GlaxoSmithKline [maker of one form of the vaccine] has actually stated, “Clinical trials will be limited, due to the need to provide the vaccine to governments as quickly as possible. Additional studies will therefore be required and conducted after the vaccine is made available.” Seasonal Flu Vaccine Concerns The flu strains selected for developing a [seasonal] vaccine are cultivated in chick embryos for several weeks before being inactivated with formaldehyde, which is a known cancer-causing agent. Then they’re preserved with thimerosal, which is 49 percent mercury by weight. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the majority of flu vaccines contain thimerosal. Some contain as much as 25 micrograms of mercury per dose. This means that it may contain more than 250 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limit for mercury. By now, most people are well aware that children and fetuses are most at risk of damage from this neurotoxin, as their brains are still developing.Yet the CDC still recommends that children over six months, and pregnant women, receive the flu vaccine each year. In addition to mercury, flu vaccines also contain other toxic or hazardous ingredients like aluminum (a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease), Triton X-100 (a detergent), phenol (carbolic acid), ethylene glycol (antifreeze), Octoxinol 9 (a vaginal spermicide), and others. Serious reactions to the flu vaccine include, but are not limited to: life-threatening allergies to various ingredients; Guillain-Barre Syndrome (a severe paralytic disease that is fatal in about 1 in 20 cases); encephalitis (brain inflammation); neurological disorders; and thrombocytopenia (a serious blood disorder). Vaccine Makers Protected The last swine flu vaccination campaign that took place in 1976 led to thousands of lawsuits. Damage claims totaled $1.3 billion.The vaccine claimed 25 lives and hundreds 76 whole living ChronograM 11/09
of previously healthy young adults were crippled from Guillain-Barré Syndrome. The swine flu itself claimed one life. You may already know that since the 1980s, vaccine makers have been protected against lawsuits stemming from the use of childhood vaccines. Now, for the first time, they can wash their hands of any hazards stemming from a flu vaccine. The 2006 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (the PREP Act) allows the DHHS Secretary to invoke almost complete immunity from liability for manufacturers of vaccines and drugs used to combat a declared public health emergency. The PREP Act removes your right to a trial jury unless you can provide clear evidence of willful misconduct that resulted in death or serious physical injury. Hence, it’s in their best interest to know as little as possible about the adverse reactions it might cause. Most Deaths Are From Pneumonia The CDC and mainstream media use the statistic that 36,000 people die from [seasonal] influenza every year. Interestingly, that number has remained static. However, the truth is that less than 1,000 people actually die from type A or type B influenza. The other 35,000 die from pneumonia.This is actually clearly listed on the CDC’s own website, yet virtually everyone ignores this fact.The actual number of people who died from the flu in 2005 (this is the most recent data that’s available) was 1,806. The remainder was caused by pneumonia. In 2004, there were just 1,100 actual flu deaths. Dr. David Rosenthal, Director of Harvard University’s Health Services, brings further clarity to this confusion. Most of these so-called influenza deaths are in fact bacterial pneumonias—not even viral pneumonias—and secondary infections. So, for example, if we are to take the combined figure of influenza and pneumonia deaths during the flu season of 2001, and add a bit of spin to the figures, we are left believing that 62,034 people died from influenza. The actual figures: 61,777 died from pneumonia and only 257 from influenza. Even more amazing, in those 257 cases, only 18 were lab-confirmed as positive for the influenza virus! H1N1 Tests Overwhelmingly Negative The CDC states on their main flu Web page that flu activity is increasing in the US, with most states reporting “widespread influenza activity.” The CDC goes on to say, “So far, most flu is 2009 H1N1 flu (sometimes called ‘swine flu’).” But a three-month-long investigation by CBS News revealed some very different facts. CBS reported: “The results reveal a pattern that surprised a number of health care professionals we consulted.The vast majority of cases were negative for H1N1 as well as seasonal flu, despite the fact that many states were specifically testing patients deemed to be most likely to have H1N1 flu, based on symptoms and risk factors, such as travel to Mexico.” According to the CBS News study, when you come down with chills, fever, cough, runny nose, malaise and all those other “flu-like” symptoms, the illness is likely caused by influenza at most 17 percent of the time and as little as 3 percent! The other 83 to 97 percent of the time it’s caused by other viruses or bacteria. Vaccination Ineffective Study after study, and master studies that compile the results from several studies to get a more objective result, keep coming to the same conclusion: Flu vaccines do not work, and in many cases do more harm than good. In fact, before the CDC advocated vaccinating children under the age of five, the number of children dying from [seasonal] flu was very low, and on the decline. Then,
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in 2003, just after children aged five and under started getting vaccinated, the number of flu deaths skyrocketed.The death toll was enormous compared to the previous year, when the flu vaccine was not administered en masse to that age group! Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of scientific evidence available to back up the recommendation to avoid flu vaccines. Here are several examples showing that flu vaccines do not work for any age group: A study published in the October 2008 issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu had no impact on flurelated hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent flu seasons. The researchers concluded that â&#x20AC;&#x153;significant influenza vaccine effectiveness could not be demonstrated for any season, age, or settingâ&#x20AC;? examined. A 2008 study published in the Lancet found that influenza vaccination was not associated with a reduced risk of pneumonia in older people. This supports an earlier study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine also confirms that there has been no decrease in deaths from influenza and pneumonia in the elderly, despite the fact that vaccination coverage among the elderly has increased from 15 percent in 1980 to 65 percent now. A large-scale, systematic review of 51 studies, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2006, found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo in children. The studies involved 260,000 children, aged 6 to 23 months. Last but not least, I think it says a lot that 70 percent of doctors and nurses, and 62 percent of other health care workers do not get the yearly flu shot. Protect Yourself Without Vaccination Following these simple guidelines will keep your immune system in optimal working order so that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re far less likely to acquire flu to begin with. Optimize your vitamin D levels. As Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve previously reported, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of all kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the true culprit behind the seasonality of the fluâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not the flu virus itself. This is probably the single most important and least expensive action you can take. I would strongly urge you to have your vitamin D level monitored to confirm your levels are therapeutic at 50â&#x20AC;&#x201C;70 nanograms per milliliter, and done by a reliable vitamin D lab. If you are coming down with flu-like symptoms and have not been on vitamin D you can take doses of 50,000 units a day for three days to treat the acute infection. Avoid Sugar and Processed Foods. Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice. Get Enough Rest. Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Have Effective Tools to Address Stress. We all face some stress every day, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness. If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as meridian tapping techniques, which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma. Exercise. When you exercise, you increase circulation and blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. Take a Good Source of Animal-Based Omega-3 Fats. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response. WashYour Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth, or to other people. Be sure you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use antibacterial soap for thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to. Use Natural Antibiotics. Examples include colloidal silver, oil of oregano, and garlic. 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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
Inexhaustible In loving memory of my teacher, John Daido Loori, Roshi, Abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and Zen Center of New York City and founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order June 14, 1931 - October 9, 2009
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hen I lived at Zen Mountain Monastery I was the editor of the Mountain Record, a Zen quarterly. This was a great job that gave me a lot of contact with Daido Roshi, who had… shall we say… strong opinions about what went out for publication. In the winter of 2003, I suggested one of my all-time favorite topics, Desire, for the next issue. I was surprised by how easily Daido okayed the subject and excitedly went to work, finding articles that I thought would add some juice to the “Desires are inexhaustible; I vow to put an end them” routine that we chanted nightly. I indulged myself completely, fully expecting to be reined in by Roshi when I showed him the issue. But instead he just said, “Looks fine.” The layout guy and I eagerly set out to find the perfect cover for Desire.We went for fires, violent things, total drama. We were having a great time. Until five covers later, after Daido, who was apparently roused by our discouragement and really getting into it now, kept saying, “No, hell no, and not even close! That’s attachment,” he told me. “Desire’s a good thing,” he added. “We need it to live. What are you thinking?” One day we were meeting about something else, looking at his old photographs, when I saw a black-and-white photo of two pigs in a field, the sow just 80 whole living ChronograM 11/09
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standing there, her four piglets sucking on her teets. I picked up the photo and asked, “How’s this for Desire?” “Okay,” he said. I wouldn’t say that Daido Roshi’s teaching lacked the typical hallmarks of Zen: The stick-wielding machismo was in no short supply, especially in the early years. However, what really killed me was his spaciousness, his quiet commitment to waking us up, one deep-seated delusion at a time. Since the time I met Daido Roshi in 1996 I’ve moved through some identity-rocking life events—not the least of which was the difficult transition from Zen warrior to nursing mom. During that tender time especially, I craved something solid from him, something that I could use to light my way, or fight against. But instead, he pretty much just went about his business, holding the door of practice wide open or manifesting the Italian grandmother, nagging me to give more blankets, more hats, more warmth, to my baby. And showing me, as he moved his own body through the monastery buildings, and winding through his own life and karma, how to be a real person, settling down, into reality, which includes everything. Even my desire for the people I love to live forever.
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Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060 For the past 18 years, Dr. Hoon J. Park has been practicing a natural and gentle approach to pain management for conditions such as arthritis, chronic and acute pain in neck, back, and legs, fibromyalgia, motor vehicle and work-related injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, and more by integrating physical therapy modalities. In addition Dr. Hoon Park is a board-certified physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and electrodiagnostic studies. His experienced, friendly staff offer the most comprehensive and individualized rehabilitative care available. Please call the office to arrange a consultation. New patients and most insurances are accepted. Half mile south of the Galleria Mall.
Samira Y. Khera, M.S., M.D. FELLOWSHIP-TRAINED BREAST SURGEON
Breast Care
Stone Ridge Natural Medicine 264 Old Kings Highway, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 389-2547 www.stoneridgenaturalmedicine.com
Specialist, PLLC
The Integrative Medicine Program
Transpersonal Acupuncture (845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
Compassionate Care You Can Count On! Benedictine Medical Arts Bldg., 117 Mary’s Ave., Suite 105, Kingston
Apothecaries
845.338.8680
Dr. Tom’s Tonics 6384 Mill Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5556 www.drfrancescott.com info@drfrancescott.com
Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net See also Massage Therapy.
Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (877) 453-8265 www.planetwaves.net
www.breastcarespecialist.net
Judith A. Chaleff RN L.Ac
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Balancing Qi The Way It Should Be 275 North Street Newburgh, NY 12550 (845) 565-2809 Fax (845) 565-2608 www.hudsonpindoctor.com
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A nurturing center for experiencing one of the most relaxing paths to reach your individual physical and spiritual health care goals. We treat patients with a variety of complaints ranging from emotional and physical pain, to digestive and pulmonary disorders to reproductive issues, labor and delivery. “Balancing Qi, the way it should be.”
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“ John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last eight years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen.” —Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now “ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.” —Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations
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
Susan DeStefano
Body & Skin Care Essence MediSpa, LLC — Stephen Weinman, MD 222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.com
Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com
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 BodyCentered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz.
Chiropractic
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Dr. David Ness
845.255.6482
(845) 255-1200 www.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.
Colon Health Care/Colonics Connie Schneider — Certified Colon Therapist New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1516 www.hudsonvalleycolonics.com Colon hydrotherapy or colonics is a gentle approach to colon health. A healthy digestive tract helps support a healthy immune system, improving overall health, basics for a healthy lifestyle. Herbal Detox Programs available. See display ad.
Counseling IONE — Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.org www.ministryofmaat.org IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. Appointments sign up at: www.instant-scheduling.com/ sch.php?kn=128796.
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Mothering with Soul (845) 256-0833 sacredmama@aol.com
Crystals Crystals & Well-Being Center 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, NY (845) 888-2547 crystalshealing.googlepages.com crystalswellbeing@gmail.com
Dentistry & Orthodontics Dr. Marlin Schwartz 223 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2902 www.schwartzqualitydental.com dr.marlinschwartz@verizon.net Quality dentistry provided with comfort and care. Cosmetic improvements, Reconstruction, Implants, Veneers, Crowns, Root Canal,Periodontics (non-surgical and surgical), Extractions, General Dentistry.
Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, LicAcup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729
Holistic Health 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.
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org
Hospitals Columbia Memorial Hospital 71 Prospect Avenue, Hudson, NY (516) 828-7601
Health Alliance (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org
Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.health-quest.org
Vassar Brothers Medical Center 45 Reade Place Joseph Tower, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org
Hypnosis Dr. Kristen Jemiolo Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2
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.
Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).
Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net
107A Montgomery Street , Rhinebeck, NY 914-388-5163 www.jattile.com jeanette@jattile.com
Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. For information, contact Joan Apter.
Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT
Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center
New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302
(845) 255-6482
Netta’s Place
Integrated Kabbalistic Healing Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC
Fixed Braces Functional Appliances ∙ Invisalign Children and Adults Insurance Accepted ∙ Payment Plans Rhoney Stanley LicAcup, RD, DDS, MPH 107 Fish Creek Road | Saugerties, NY 12477 2 miles from NYS87 exit 20 0.5 miles from 212
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Meditation The Center 372 Fullerton Avenue, Newburgh, NY deborah@beingknowingdoing.com
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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.
Holistic Orthodontics in a Magical Setting
Zen Mountain Monastery 871 Plank Road, Mount Tremper, NY (845) 688-2228 www.mro.org registrar@mro.org Daily Zen Meditation Sessions • Weekend Workshops • Monthly Silent Meditation Retreats. Abbot John Daido Loori, Roshi • Vice-abbot Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, Sensei. Beginners are welcome at our Sunday morning program 9 am - 12 pm.
(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 Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach
Midwifery Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 www.midwifejennahouston.com womanway@aol.com
Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts
Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com
Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.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.
Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. Offices in Rhinebeck and Stone Ridge.
Massage Therapy
Physical Therapy
Bodhi Holistic Spa
Roy Capellaro, PT
323 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2233
120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 518-1070 www.roycapellaro.com
www.bodhistudio.com
Imago Relationship Therapy
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Listening. Touch. Quiet. The interface of structure and energy. There are optimum ways of working without of balance states in our body, utilizing the hierarchy of forces within us. I have been a manual physical therapist for over 30 years, specializing in gently unlocking the roots of structural dysfunctions and their associated patterns. Zero Balancing. Craniosacral Therapy. Muscle Energy Technique. Ontology.
Physicians Breast Care Specialist 117 Mary’s Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8680 www.breastcarespecialist.net
Pilates Conscious Body Pilates 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus sessions available.
Psychics
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Psychologists
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Anton H. Hart, PhD 39 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-2477; (212) 595-3704 antonhartphd@alum.vassar.edu Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute. Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Poughkeepsie and Manhattan Offices. Specializing in intensive long- and short-term work with problems of anxiety, depression, relationships, career, illness, gay, straight, lesbian and transgender issues. Consultation by appointment.
Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023 Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-doctoral candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunities available for intensive psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
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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.
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
Jamie O'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.
Janne Dooley, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Facebook Group: Brigid’s Well JanneDooley@gmail.com Free monthly newsletter. Brigid’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 “Radical Acceptance” by Tara Brach.
Judith Blackstone, PhD (845) 679-7005 www.realizationcenter.com Offering traditional psychotherapy and EMDR for healing from trauma and changing limiting beliefs, breathwork for relieving stress, and breathing difficulties, and Realization Process, a body-oriented meditation for deepening contact with oneself and others. For individuals and couples. NY State licensed. Offices in Kingston, Willow, and NYC.
Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP
Amy R. Frisch, CSWR
25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613
New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229
K. Melissa Waterman, LCSW-R
New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218
35 Main St. Suite #333, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 464-8910 www.therapist.psychologytoday.com/52566 melissa@dragonfly88.net
Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depres-
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,
Debra Budnik, CSW-R
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sion, and relationship problems. Sliding 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 client’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.
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. I’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.
New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.RosenMethod.com julieezweig@gmail.com
Residential Care Morning Star Residential Care Home 38 Elizabeth Street, Kent, CT (860) 927-3272
Mountain Valley Manor Adult Home 397 Wilbur Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1254 www.mountainvalleymanor.com
Resorts & Spas 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 751 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5852 www.marleneweber.com
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
7:30 pm.
Tarot Awakenings 215 Katonah Avenue, Katonah, NY (914) 232-0382 www.awakeningskatonah.com
Just Alan (845) 657-9903 tarot@justalan.com
December 11-13 weekend retreat
Eshin Brenda Shoshanna
Relationships as Spiritual Practice The Gift of Being Human
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Notions-N-Potions 175 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.notions-n-potions.com
Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York
Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack
Facilitator: Amy Frisch, CSWR
Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com
some insurances accepted space is limited
Yoga
(845) 706-0229 for more information
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.
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!
Yoga Teacher Training 2009-2010 Become a nationally certified Yoga instructor and dive deeper into your personal practice. Our 200-hour program, registered with Yoga Alliance, includes: Unlimited classes 7 days a week Yoga asana instruction Anatomy & Physiology Yoga history & philosophy | Nutrition Thai Yoga Massage | Sanskrit & much more...
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
The program runs from November 15th - April 31st Ongoing newcomer special: 30 days of classes for $30
Lenox, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org
Please see our web-site for more details.
Sacred Breath Yoga 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (917) 359-1739 www.sacredbreathyoga.com info@sacredbreathyoga.com
The Living Seed 521 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com 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.
Woodstock Integrative Health 2565 Route 212, Woodstock NY (845) 679-6210
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Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor
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,
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IRENE HUMBACH, LCSW, PC Offices in New Paltz & Poughkeepsie (845) 485-5933
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Out on a Limb Not much in art, like life, can be described as sui generis. Enter the unruly subconcious of Kathy Ruttenberg, an unstopperable stream of exquisite complexity. Ruttenberg's intricately detailed ceramic sculptures possess the stately elegance of Proust, as well as the winsome immediacy of an indie pop song— simultaneously solid and slight; rooted down and taking flight. They exist in a distinct world that belongs solely to the artist. You can pay a visit to Ruttenberg's realm this month at the Kleinert/James Art Center in Woodstock, where her sculptures are being exhibited alongside large abstract paintings by Peggy Cyphers, part of a smart two-person show curated by Paul Smart, “Animal Spirits I,” through November 19. (845) 679-2079; www.woodstockguild.org. Portfolio: www.kathyruttenberg.com. —Brian K. Mahoney
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SUNDAY 1 Art The Dog Show: When the Model Barks 3pm-4pm. A benefit exhibition for companion animals in need. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.
Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi 5:30pm-Monday, December 14, 7:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Journey Into the 11th Step for those in 12 step programs Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Inner Peace: Inner Power 2 Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Wisdom Keepers Series Call for times. John Lockley, fully initiated Sangoma in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Honoring the Ancestors 11am-3pm. 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.
Pippin 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Critical Writing as Creative Practice: Frances Richard Call for times. Millay Colony, Austerlitz. (518) 392-4144. Clowning as an Inner Journey Call for times. Fall clown workshops for adults. $150. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 929-5392. Kiyana Whirling and Persian Dervish Exercise Workshop 12pm. $45/$80. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.
Classes An Introduction to Diamond Method for Music 10am-11:30am. $25 class/$200 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Drawing and Painting the Figure 1pm-4pm. Judith Reeve. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Sinterklaas Puppet Workshop Check for times. Celebration Space, Rhinebeck. www.SinterklaasRhinebeck.com.
Freelance Writing for Magazines 1pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
Constitutional Class 8am-5pm. $100. Hillside Manor, Kingston. 853-6944.
Music
Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Raising Children Compassionately 12:45-4:45pm. W/Roberta Wall. Parenting with nonviolent communication. $45-$100. Anjali Space Yoga Center, Accord. 246-5935. Birth Angels Workshop 1pm-4pm. $35. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Planetary Transits and Solar Returns 1pm-3pm. $20/$15 in advance. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MONDAY 2
Classes Guitar Lessons with Joey Eppard Call for times. $70/$35. Woodstock. 679-8616.
High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Art
Blues and Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band 7:30pm. $74.50/$64.50/$59.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Music for Cello and Piano, with Guest Bassoonist 8pm. $6/$5. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
Spoken Word Stories into Screen: Do Good Books Make Good Movies? 7pm. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454. Peter Andreas: The Battle for Sarajevo 5pm. Author of Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo. 300 Rockefeller Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
Jewish Cooking: Healthy and Delicious Vegetarian Cooking 3pm-5:30pm. $60 series. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Figure Drawing Sessions 7pm-9pm. Open model session. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3830.
Events
Soul Readings with Intuitive Bente Hansen 12pm-6pm. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Abstraction & Drawing: Interpretation & Form 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Drumming Circle 6:30pm-8pm. $10. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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 Theme Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 1am-1pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Admissions Information Session 7:30am. Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600. Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-2pm. Community Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Open House and Book Festival 9am-1pm. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.
Film Waiting for Mercy 2pm. Documentary about FBI terrorism sting in Albany. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. www.waitingformercy.com. Totentanz: The Dance of Death 11am. The MovieHouse, Millerton. (860) 435-2897. Under Our Skin 6:30pm. $7/$5 students and members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Music Quartetto Poesia y Clave Call for times. Music and poetry in Spanish and English to create programs of broad cultural impact. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (800) 745-3000. Music Faculty Concert 2pm. Anna Polonsky, piano. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Song of the Valley Sweet Adelines Dinner Show 3pm-7pm. $35/$30 seniors/$20 children. Walden Fire House Social Room, Walden. 227-2853. Herb Albert & Lani Hall 6pm. $55/$42/$36/$29. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Guy Clark, Elizabeth Cook 6:30pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Maria Muldaur's Garden Of Joy Jug Band 6:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Matt Finck All Star Jazz/Blues Band 7pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Black Creek Walk 12pm. 2-3 mile hike. Black Creek, Esopus. 373-8202.
Spoken Word
WEDNESDAY 4
Reiki Circle 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Art
Full Moon Crystal Sound Ceremony 7pm-9pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Family Art Night 6pm-8pm. Enjoy hands-on activities and live music. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5155.
Healing Circle with Peter Blum 7pm-9pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Classes Swing Dance Class Call for times. Beginner and intermediate classes available. $60 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Guitar for Beginners 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 15-adult. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Beginning/Intermediate Ceramics 5:30pm-8pm. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Music Doug Elliot 7pm. Alternative. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Bob Lusk 7pm. Folk, traditional. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8910.
Spoken Word Playing with Words: Theories of Idiom 5pm. Madeleine Arseneault. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.
Theater Pippin 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
workshops The Veneration of Life 11:30am-1pm. Discover inspiring new perspectives on Alzheimer's disease with Dr. John Diamond. $100. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
TUESDAY 3
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Dry Brook Ridge 8am-3pm. 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Workshops
Art Saugerties Art Lab Art Drop-In Call for times. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. www.saugertiesartlab.com. Crafts and Camaraderie 6:30pm-8:30pm. Open crafting time, carry in and carry out. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136.
Shiva-Sutra/Creative Spirit Group Call for times. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. 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. Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. Melissa Sweet. $10. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
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. Basic Painting 1pm-4pm. Karen O'Neil. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Staying in Balance Using Qigong in Your Daily Life 6pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Life Drawing Class with Steve Sax 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Adult Hebrew Class 6:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327. An Introduction to Diamond Method for Music 7:30pm-9pm. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.
Dance Yoga Meet Dance 9:15am-10:15am. $8/$5 seniors. New Paltz Community, New Paltz. www.theartscommunity.com.
Events African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Kids
Spoken Word Readings by Michael Cunningham Call for times. Author of The Hours. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Friends of Senate House Annual Meeting 4pm. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. Wafaa Bilal 6:30pm. Multi-media and performance artist. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3830. Sound & Story Project of the Hudson Valley 6:30pm. Eileen McAdam speaks on the project at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Senate House. Senate House Museum, Kingston. 338-2786. Theremin Ghosts 7pm. Milby, poems, Welden, Theremin. $8. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Pruning and Restoration of Older Trees for the Gardener 7pm. Charles P. Blume, NYS ISA Certified Arborist. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013. United Friends Observer Society 7:30pm. Support group that provides a safe & supportive environment for people who have seen a UFO, have experienced UFO contact or who would like to see a UFO. $2. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Walker Valley. 744-3960.
Theater Oliver Twist Call for times. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops Paper Arts with Christina DiMarco 10am-12pm. Experiment with the fascinating and magical ancient Japanese water-marbling process called suminagashi. $90. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Eating Locally in Winter 6pm-8pm. Food preservation options, sponsored by Poughkeepsie Farm Project. Main Building Faculty Parlor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 454-6532. Unleashing Your Comedy Power Stuff 6:30pm-8pm. With Myrna Hilton. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
THURSDAY 5 Art Annual Regional Portfolio Day 4pm-8pm. Henry A. Wallace Educational and Visitors Center, Hyde Park. 471-7477. Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.
Classes 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 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Dance Kimberly Bartosik 2pm. Open rehearsal. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.
EVENT Gut Fawkes' Day Bonfire Night 6-9pm. Storyteller Jonathan Kruk, family-style banquet. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff, Tivoli. 876-0590.
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164. Madd Dog 10pm. The Celtic House, Fishkill. 896-1110.
Spoken Word Environmental History of the Hudson River 9:30am. $80-$115. Holiday Inn, Fishkill. www.hres.org. Conversations in French 11:30am-12:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Eleanor Garrell Berger 3pm. Author of Stepping Out. Vassar College Bookstore, Poughkeepsie. 437-5871. George Meredith: A Retrospective on the 100th Anniversary of His Death 4pm. Villa Library, Newburgh. 569-3290. UFO Circle 6pm-7:30pm. Learn about recent activities & encounters with UFO researcher Bill. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Eric Weiner 7pm. Author of Geography of Bliss. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. grossig@newpaltz.edu.
Fiber Arts Group 6:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
The Wiggles Go Bananas 6:30pm. $12-$42. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Music
Runt of the Litter 1pm. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Spirit Readings with Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Peter Yorn 7:30pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
The Outdoors
The Pioneers 10am. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Haunted Lives 1pm. $12/$8. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340.
Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk 9:30am-1:30pm. Franny Reese Preserve, Highland. 255-0919.
Colonial Life 11:30am. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Wild in the Catskills Call for times. Wolf education presentation. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 679-7519.
Theater
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The Power to Never Feel Powerless 7pm-8:30pm. Filmed Guy Finely talk. $5. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 725-7666.
Theater
theater emerson high Linda Malave Andrew Dolan and Marie-France Arcilla star in Half Moon Theatre's production of "Emerson High" at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center this month.
Don't Stand So Close to Me “Give all to love; obey thy heart.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson An interesting congruity occurred the morning after I finished reading the script of “Emerson High,” Jim Knable’s examination of forbidden love between a teacher and a student which will be performed this month in Poughkeepsie by Half Moon Theatre. The front page of the Kingston Freeman bore this headline: “Teacher, 39, charged with raping student, 16.” The circumstances between the fictional and real-life stories are markedly similar: A male teacher in his 30s has an ongoing sexual relationship with an underage girl. (In “Emerson High,” the student, Gina, played by Marie-France Arcilla, is 16, and the teacher, Mr. Hagan, played by Andrew Dolan, is 34.) The word “rape” does not appear in the dialog of Knable’s play; it’s used three times in the 400-word Freeman article about the accused Ellenville teacher who engaged in multiple sexual acts with a student this summer. The rape referred to in this instance is statutory rape, not forcible rape. And here’s where it gets sticky: Statutory rape laws are based on the idea that a minor cannot consent to sex. The law assumes that even if he or she willingly engages in sex with an adult, there must be some form of coercion involved as a minor does not have the experience to understand the consequences of their actions or the defense mechanisms that (in most cases) protect adults from sexual predation. And this goes to the heart of Knable’s approach to the relationship between 16-year-
old Gina and her band teacher, Mr. Hagan. What if such a relationship could actually be consensual? Can there be an exception to the rule? Knable takes his cue from the father of transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose writings make a brief appearance in the play. Knable overlays transcendentalism’s central idea—that one needs to transcend established doctrines and rely on one’s own intuition of what’s right and wrong—on the illicit relationship, asking the playgoer to withhold judgment. To be clear, “Emerson High” is no apologia for sex with underage girls. The play’s characters come to grief in all the ways you expect, and the illicit relationship on founders on the rocks of conventional morality. The play is directed by Jeremy Dobrish, who has a longstanding relationship with Half Moon Theater. Marie-France Arcilla and Andrew Dolan are reprising their roles from the original production, when the play was the first selection for the 2008 NYU Dramatic Writing Behind the Scenes Showcase. Molly Katz, a founding member of Half Moon Theatre and its producing director, will play Ms. Galloway, another teacher at Emerson High. Millbrook native Tim Dowd plays Gina’s jealous ex-boyfriend Brian. The Half Moon Theatre production of “Emerson High” will be performed on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm; November 5–15 at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie. (888) 718-4253; www.halfmoontheatre.org. —Brian K. Mahoney
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Immigrant Stories Project 7-9pm. $6. Hudson River Playback Theater. Shepard Recital Hall, SUNY New Paltz. 257-3033.
Workshops Autumn Pie Baking with Deborah O'Connor 8am-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Lightbox Exploration Series Photographing with Your Digital Camera 6pm-9pm. $100/$80 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Improvisation Workshop 7pm. SUNY Ulster's fall Artist-in-Residence Denny Dillon. $8. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Winter Herbal Medicines 7pm-9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 6 Art Paintings by Judy Gonzales 5pm-7pm. Unison Gallery, Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Body / Mind / Spirit The Artist Within Call for times. Discover the intimate relationship between spirituality and creativity. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Spirit Readings with Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Red Peralta 8pm. Americana. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142. The Press 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. newpaltzcc@gmail.com.
Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
An Evening with Jackson Browne 8pm. $60/$55 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Beginning/Intermediate Ceramics 5:30pm-8pm. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Butter 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Dance
Milton Band 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Open Mike 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.
The Outdoors A Night Nature Hike 6pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Night Hike 7pm-8:30pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.
Theater Gerontologist Laura Mulvihill 9am-11am. New Paltz Reformed Church, New Paltz. 255-2340 Pilot and Photographer Alex MacLean 7pm. Reads and narrates slideshow from Over. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343. Lorna Tychostup: Iraq 7pm. Chronogram senior editor shares personal experiences of Iraq and offers insight into the current situation. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. Rosalyn Cherry 7pm. Author of Be Clutter Free: Sorting Made Simple. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Calling All Poets 8pm. Featuring John Kenselaar & Susan Hoover. $4. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Starting Wicca #2 7pm-8:30pm. $28. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Theater
Dance Dances of Universal Peace 7:30pm. With Karuna Theresa Foudriat, Maitreya Jon Stevens, Amy McTear and Joseph Jastrab. $5-$10. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. All-volunteer community dance. $5/$2 teens and seniors/volunteers and children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.
Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. The Pajama Game 8pm. Two of Us Productions. Hudson Middle School, Hudson. (518) 329-6293. Twelve Angry Men 8pm. County Players. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
Workshops
Community Stitchers: Cool Ties 12:30pm-3pm. Making special ties for service men and women. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Film Mary Poppins 5pm. $6. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.
Kids Girl Scout Adventure Sports Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
Music Steve Kimock Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. David Kraai with Sean Powell 7pm. Singer/songwriter. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400. Jay Ungar & Molly Mason 7:30pm. $5. Rhinebeck Auditorium, Rhinebeck. 635-0877. Dark Star Orchestra 7:30pm. $31. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Neil Alexander and Nail 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Once Upon the Hudson 7:30pm. A quadricentennial concert with the Hudson River Ramblers and The Barefoot Boys. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. Kate McCoy, Red Peralta, and E.C. Lorick of GaiaWolf. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142. Stephen Kaiser Group 7:30pm. Jazz. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Tracy Grammer 8pm. Folk. $21/$16 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Limelight 8pm. Rush tribute. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. La Follia Barocca 8pm. String ensemble. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.
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Needle Felting 10:30am-12:30pm. $40/$50. Clay Wood and Cotton, Beacon. claywoodandcotton.com. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. All-volunteer community dance. $5/$2 teens and seniors/volunteers and children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.
Events Gunks' Climbers Coalition End-of-Season Soiree Call for times. Gala event, celebrating the acquisition of an area of large boulders amid deep, wooded beauty and valley light in Rosendale. $75. Call for location. 613-0683. Work Exchange Weekend Call for times. Earn credits towards stays and classes. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Sugar Loaf Farmers' Market 11am-3pm. Romer's Alley, Chester. www.localharvest. org/farmers-markets/M29203. Annual ChiliFest 1pm-4pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. A Night At The Headquarters 5pm-7:30pm. Accompany a night watchman during one of the rounds of the historic house. $4. Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195. Fifth Annual Vampyre Ball 9pm. Black attire. The Basement, Kingston. 340-0220.
Kids
American Revolution Call for times. $6. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Events
A Night At The Headquarters 5pm-7:30pm. Accompany a night watchman during one of the rounds of the historic house. $4. Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195.
Hunting the Poem/The Moderns Call for times. Part of College of Poetry. $150. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165.
The Robert Cray Band 8pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Full Moon Ceremony 6pm-12am. Includes drum and dance. CoSM Art Sanctuary, Wappingers Falls. 632-8330.
Leading from the Heart Call for times. Learn the practical tools that allow us to gain access to our inner resources. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
Classes
Conservatory Preparatory Division Call for times. Instructive music program ages 5 through 18. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7671. Art for a Cause 10am-12pm. Book making and book reconstruction workshops for middle and high school students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. First Niagara's Art in the Barn 1pm. Children's creative art program. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135. Sing Out! Reach Out! II 1pm-3pm. Ages 5-13. Prerequisite Level I. $15/$150 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Wild Life Program 1pm. $10/$7. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Music
SATURDAY 7 Art Revisiting the Hudson: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Context 8:30am-6pm. Hudson River School symposium. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. Hudson Valley Modernism/Impressionistic Landscapes 4pm-6pm. Deborah Freedman. The Ephriam Dupuy 1730 Stone House, Accord. (212) 439-9611. Brushstrokes! Artwork of Marylyn Vanderpool and Bruce Thorne 5pm-7pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Dance Partners: Animals and Their People 5pm-7pm. Photography exhibit by Alice Spears. Montgomery Row, Rhinebeck. 876-6670. Threshold 5pm-7pm. Installation by E. Elizabeth Peters. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org. Glens & Gardens 5pm-8pm. 2009 annual watercolor show. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Colorscapes: The Art of Susan Minier 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Collage & Constructions 5:30pm-7:30pm. Photographs by Nadine Boughton, Emily Corbat, Carol Krauss. Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson. (518) 697-0266. Bound 6pm-9pm. Artist book exhibition. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 119. Acoustic Artists Coalition & Art Party 8pm-11pm. Featuring Erin Powers and The Art & Music of Joni Bishop. $10. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
Body / Mind / Spirit Sharing Shabbat 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Hudson Valley Philharmonic Call for times. With violinist Li Lao. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso 8pm. Preview of new material and hits from the legendary performers. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Senior Recital 4pm. Seth Biberstein, baritone. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Lisa Dudley 7pm-9pm. Concert to benefit the Fisher House. St. John's Episcopal Church, Kingston. 331-2252. Straylight Run 8pm. W/Dangerous Summer, Moving Mountains. The Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Sharon Klein 7:30pm. Acoustic. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. The People's Open Mike 7:30pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. The Andy Polay Trio 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Darius Rucker 8pm. Hootie and the Blowfish frontman goes solo. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. David Kraai 8pm. Singer/songwriter. 2 Alices Coffee Lounge, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-4717. Vassar College Women's Chorus 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Hurley Mountain Highway 8pm. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277. John Prine 8pm. $75/$50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Mother's Borscht 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. newpaltzcc@gmail.com. Murali Coryell 9pm. Blues. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Astrology 101 with Sharita Star 1pm-3pm. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390.
Tribution 9pm. Evening of covers in tribute to the songs of Madonna. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
The News Guys Band 9pm. Rock. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.
The Rhodes 10pm. Rock. Cabaloosa's, New Paltz. 255-3400.
The Outdoors Shawangunk Ridge Trail Call for times. 12-mile hike. Call for location. 462-0142. Mohonk Preserve: Geology of the Shawangunk Mountains 9am-1pm. 5-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Millbrook Mountain 9:30am-4pm. 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Poetry Hike 10am. Poets' Walk, Red Hook. 452-1727. A Night Nature Hike 6pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
Spoken Word Revisiting the Hudson: Nineteenth-century Landscape Painting in Context 8:30am-5pm. Symposium organized by New Paltz professor Dr. Kerry Dean Carso. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. Broadway Public Design Workshop 9:30am-12:30pm. Hands-on planning session to shape the future of Broadway and Route 17K to the vicinity of Route 300. Newburgh Activity Center, Newburgh. 855-7077. Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165. All Hopped Up and Ready to Go 5-7pm. Author Tony Fletcher reads and hosts a panel discussion. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. 679-8000. Night of Poetry and Prose 7pm. Featuring Annie Rorick. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater Shorts and Misdemeanors 5:30/8:30pm. Actors & Writers 16th Annual 10-minute play festival. Odd Fellows Halll, Olivebridge. 657-9760. Funny You Should Say That Call for times. The letters of Fred Allen and Grouchco Marx by the Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Pippin 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Pajama Game 8pm. Two of Us Productions. Hudson Middle School, Hudson. (518) 329-6293. Twelve Angry Men 8pm. County Players. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
Workshops Seeing Color & Light 9am-Sunday, November 8, 4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Pet-painting Workshop with Carrie Jacobson 10am-4pm. $60. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Family African Dance 11am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Soul Manifesting 2pm-4pm. $20/$15 in advance. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
SUNDAY 8 Art Double Dutch Event Day 1pm-3pm. Family and student craft activities; tile trail walk; and treasure hunt through the "Double Dutch" exhibition. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100. Public Tile Project 1pm-3pm. Over 2,000 tiles created by students from across the Hudson Valley. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100. Cristina Biaggi's Woodspeak: Creating Form 2pm-5pm. The Outside In, Piermont. 398-0706. Human Nature- Photographs on Paper and Wood 3pm-5pm. Northern Spy CafĂŠ, High Falls. 687-7298. Paintings by Barbara Gordon & Dena Schutzer 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. Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Creating Eggshells Art, Meditation in Action 12pm-4pm. $35. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Intro to Shamanism 1-3:30pm. Explore time-honored practice of shamanism. Pre-reg req. Lagrgangeville. 424-6049. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Classes Guitar Lessons with Joey Eppard Call for times. $70/$35. Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-8616. From Garden to Table 1pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Dance Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble Call for times. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.
Events Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. 38th Annual Railroad Exhibition 10am-3pm. $5/$4. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
Music Maggie Seligman 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Conservatory Sundays: Performance by the Conservatory Orchestra 3pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Sergio and Odair Assad 3pm. Brazilian guitarists. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Jay Ungar and Molly Mason 3pm. $20/$5 students. St. George's Church, Newburgh. 562-1861. Jonathan Edwards 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Drawing and Painting the Figure 1pm-4pm. Judith Reeve. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Film Stories into Screen: Do Good Books Make Good Movies? 7pm. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.
Music Choral Ensembles I 8pm. $6/$5. United Methodist Church, New Paltz. 257-2700. Evening with Brian Wilson 8pm. $65-$85. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Spoken Word The Earth's Climate: Past-Present and Future 5pm. Gilbert Brenner. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.
Workshops Abstraction & Drawing: Interpretation & Form 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Black Rock Forest 9:30am-4pm. 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Theater The Pajama Game 3pm. Two of Us Productions. Hudson Middle School, Hudson. (518) 329-6293. Pippin 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MONDAY 9 Art Figure Drawing Sessions 7pm-9pm. Open model session. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3830.
WEDNESDAY 11 Body / Mind / Spirit 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. Introduction to The Sedona Method 7pm-8:30pm. Simple but highly effective way to let go of stress and obstacles to success. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 626-3191. Stop Swimming Upstream: Let The River of Life Carry You 7pm. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
Classes Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Basic Painting 1pm-4pm. Karen O'Neil. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Life Drawing Class with Steve Sax 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Crystals and Metaphysical Evening 6pm-7:30pm. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Staying in Balance Using Qigong in Your Daily Life 6pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Adult Hebrew Class 6:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Classes Beginning/Intermediate Ceramics 5:30pm-8pm. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Guitar for Beginners 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 15–adult. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Adult “Learn to Draw” 7pm-9pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Events Pine Hill Area Community Supper and Food Giveaway 5:30pm-7pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Workshops The Veneration of Life 11:30am-1pm. Discover inspiring new perspectives on Alzheimer’s disease with Dr. John Diamond. $100. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
TUESDAY 10 Art Saugerties Art Lab Art Drop-In Call for times. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. www.saugertiesartlab.com. Crafts and Camaraderie 6:30pm-8:30pm. Open crafting time, carry in and carry out. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136.
Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. 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 An Introduction to Diamond Method for Music 10am-11:30am. $25 class/$200 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Unleashing Your Comedy Power Stuff 6:30pm-8pm. With Myrna Hilton. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
An Introduction to Diamond Method for Music 7:30pm-9pm. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.
Dance Yoga Meet Dance 9:15am-10:15am. $8/$5 seniors. New Paltz Community, New Paltz. www.theartscommunity.com. Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company 7:30pm. Folk dance ensemble. $24/$20 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Events African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Green Drinks Triple Feature 6:30pm-9pm. Art show “Flags and the Familiar,” with Green Drinks networking and presentations. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 454-6410.
THURSDAY 12
Dancing On The Air 8pm. $12. Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Liana Gabel & John Craigie 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. newpaltzcc@gmail.com.
The Outdoors
Kids Girl Scout Adventure Sports Weekend Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
Body / Mind / Spirit Hare Buddha Dharma: Buddha & the Yogis Call for times. $425/$383. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia. 688-6897. The Healing Power of Meditation 7pm-9pm. $8/class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Classes 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 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Events Admissions Information Session 7am. Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600.
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Black Dahlia Murder 7pm. W/Skeletonwitch, Toxic Holocaust, more. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Metallica 7pm. Times Union Center, Albany. (518) 487-2000. CRUMBS Night Out at The Linda 7pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Medeski Martin and Wood 8pm. Jazz funk trio. $25/$29 day of. MassMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. (413) 662-2111. Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Spoken Word Michael Korda 5pm. Author of With Wings Like Eagles. Vassar College Bookstore, Poughkeepsie. 437-5871. Gallery Talk by Greg Miller 7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. The Plant as a Teacher of Living Thinking 7:30pm. $12/$8 students. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.
Theater Into the Woods 8pm. $10/$5 seniors. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507. A Streetcar Named Desire 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Metamorphoses 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Workshops Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Dowsing/Pendulum Workshop 6pm-7:30pm. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 13 Body / Mind / Spirit Hope in Healthcare Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Maintaining a Strong Immune System 6pm-9pm. Essential oils have the ability to boost your immune system. $42. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Tarot for the Holidays 7pm-9pm. $20/$15 in advance. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Spoken Word
Zydeco Dance 8pm-11pm. With Johnny Ace & Sidewalk Zydeco, lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.
Workshops Paper Arts with Christina DiMarco 10am-12pm. Experiment with the fascinating and magical ancient Japanese water-marbling process called Suminagashi. $90. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Intro Lecture on Honeybees and Organic Beekeeping 6pm-8:30pm. For novices, gardeners and wannabeekeepers. $25. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.
Divided We Fall 7pm. By Jan Hrebejk. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.
Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Split Rock 9:30am-1:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Matt Owens 6:30pm. Graphic designer. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3830.
The Godfather: Part II Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Art
Music The Morning Of 6pm. W/The Graduate, the Hoodies. The Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Film
Dance
Events
Music Tom Rush Call for times. $40. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. David Kraai with Sean Powell 6pm. Steel House, Kingston. 338-7847. Breathe Carolina 5pm. W/Cash Cash, Stephen Jerzak. The Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. John Basile Organ Trio 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. The Guthrie Family Rides Again 7:30pm. $29.50-$39.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Silverstein 8pm. Oh, it's loud. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Magpie in Concert 8pm. $8. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 229-0170. Rob Johnson and Scott Clark 8pm. $5. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. newpaltzcc@gmail.com. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and Kingston High School Choir 8pm. $20/$5 students. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 246-7045. The Machine 8pm. Pink Floyd Tribute. Paramount Theater, Middletown. 647-1772. The Outlaws 8pm. Southern rock. $20-$30. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Tom Rush 8pm. $40. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Vassar Camerata and Mahagonny Ensemble 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Rock. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Reality Check 9pm-2:45pm. Starr Alley, Rhinebeck. 876-2924. The Crossroads Band 9:30pm. Rock. Copperfield's, Millbrook. 677-8188.
Spoken Word Superstitions Tour 11:30am. Skeptics and believers alike are welcome at Olana to hear stories of the superstitious practices our ancestors used to ward off evil. $9/$8. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135. Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Zydeco Dance with Johnny Ace & Sidewalk Zydeco 8pm-11pm. Lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.
Theater Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats Call for times. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. A Streetcar Named Desire 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. The Pajama Game 8pm. Two of Us Productions. Hudson Middle School, Hudson. (518) 329-6293. Twelve Angry Men 8pm. County Players. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Festival of Love 8pm. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340. Into the Woods 8pm. $10/$5 seniors. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507. Metamorphoses 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Pet Communication 6pm-7:30pm. $20. The Crystal Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
National Philanthropy Day Luncheon 12pm-2pm. Seminars available pre-luncheon. $35. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. (646) 226-9082. Community Stitchers: Cool Ties 12:30pm-3pm. Making special ties for service men and women. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Kodi Kids Benefit 7pm. Peter Einhorn, Deanna Kirk, Lou Pappas, Peter Tomlinson, Emily Einhorn and more. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884.
SATURDAY 14 Art Visions, Sensations, Considerations 1pm-4pm. Reflections Fall 2009 Art Exhibit, consider a picture, not in 1000 words, but in a few. Arts on the Lake, Kent, CT. (860) 228-2685. Saugerties Art Lab Fundraiser 5pm-10pm. 2 movies and an auction. Saugerties Art Lab, Saugerties. 246-9962.
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Linda Cross: Reflections on the River 5pm-7pm. Opening reception. Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Beacon. www.bire.org
Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (860) 435-4866.
Junior Art Institute Art Exhibit 6pm-8pm. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
Amy & Leslie Reunion Concert 8pm. Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter, Scott Petito, Helen Avakian. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
New Work by Colin Cochran 7pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.
Aoife Clancy & Robbie O’Connell 8pm. Folk. $19/$14 members/$2 more at the door. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Pollinator Dreams: Hudson Valley Seed Library Pack Art 2010 & Ayumi Horie Pottery 7pm-9pm. Roos Arts, Rosendale. HYPERLINK "mailto:info@roosarts.com" info@roosarts.com.
Beacon Riverfest Kickoff Party 8pm. Music by Local 845. $15. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Body / Mind / Spirit Dream Interpretation Workshop 1pm-4pm. $40. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. The Art of Intentional Living 3pm-5:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Lisa Williams: Messages From Beyond 7:30pm. Medium and clairvoyant. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Classes Hunting the Poem/The Moderns Call for times. Part of College of Poetry. $150. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165. Oil Painting Fundamentals 9am-12pm. 4 sessions. $144/$130 ASK members. Shirt Factory, Kingston. 338-0331. Reiki I Certification 12pm-5pm. $80/$70 in advance. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Beginning/Intermediate Ceramics 5:30pm-8pm. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and Kingston High School Choir 8pm. $20/$5 students. Pointe of Praise Life Center, Kingston. 246-7045. Grant Lee Phillips 8pm. With special guests The Winter Pills. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. The Crossroads Band 8pm. Rock. Pamela's on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Tony Trischka & Frank Vignola 8pm. Jazz and bluegrass. $25. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Vassar College Choir 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Roomful Of Blues 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Virginia Wolves 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Stars of the Heroes of Woodstock 8pm. Rock, featuring Jefferon Starship. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.
The Outdoors
Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512. Sugar Loaf Farmers' Market 11am-3pm. Romer's Alley, Chester. www.localharvest. org/farmers-markets/M29203. Sip and Sign 1pm-4pm. Holiday book signing with 25 local authors. Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, Millbrook. (800) 662-9463. Native American Celebration 2pm-4pm. Food, ceremony, drumming, singing and dancing. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Stephen Elliot 4pm. Author of The Adderall Diaries. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164. Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words 7pm. An evening of mystical poetry, music and inspiration with Kim Rosen. $10. Stone Ridge Healing Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-7589. Daniel Tosh 7:30pm. Comedian. $30/$28.50 in advance. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Theater The Pajama Game 8pm. Two of Us Productions. Hudson Middle School, Hudson. (518) 329-6293. Twelve Angry Men 8pm. County Players. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. A Streetcar Named Desire 8pm. Powerhouse Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5599. Festival of Love 8pm. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340.
Catskill WGXC Sound-Voice Benefit 7pm-10pm. Low-power FM station benefit. Brik, Catskill. (518) 943-0145.
Into the Woods 8pm. $10/$5 seniors. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507.
Kids
Metamorphoses 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Conservatory Preparatory Division Call for times. Instructive music program ages 5 through 18. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7671. Art for a Cause 10am-12pm. Book making and book reconstruction workshops for middle and high school students. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.
Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. To Kill a Mockingbird 8pm. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Workshops
Amazing Reptiles 10:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Family African Dance 11am-12pm. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
Sing Out! Reach Out! II 1pm-3pm. Ages 5-13. Prerequisite Level I. $15/$150 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.
Open Pit Fired Pots with Bill 12pm-2pm. 2-week series. $100/$85 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Music 2-Joni Bishop Call for times. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Met Live in HD: Turandot Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Jesse Janes 1:30pm. Acoustic. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. 626-8888. Christine Pizzuti 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Senior Recital 4pm. Isaac Leslie, trumpet. Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill 7pm. Irish fiddle music. St. Paul's Parish Hall, Red Hook. www.studiowoodstock.net. The Jeff Allen Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Works by Grog Philipp Telemann 7:30pm. Crescendo. $25/$10 children. First
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SUNDAY 15 Art ARTlandish! 1pm. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Body / Mind / Spirit Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. The Mystical Dimension of Sound 11am-5pm. Sacred Space Yoga Sanctuary, Red Hook. www.sacredspaceredhook.com. Dreams as Windows to the Soul with Cathleen O'Connor 1pm-4pm. $40. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Saugerties Healing Arts Salon 3:30pm-5pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
MONDAY 16
Dance Trisha Brown Dance Company 1pm/3pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. Dance Salon 2pm-5pm. Join other women and dance. $10. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Venus 3pm. 70-minute dance piece inspired by Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. $20/$18 seniors/$12 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Events Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Open House, Fall Fest, and Scorpio Birthday Party 11am-5pm. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Art Figure Drawing Sessions 7pm-9pm. Open model session. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3830.
Body / Mind / Spirit Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Healing Circle with Peter Blum 7pm-9pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. New Moon Cleansing with Crystal Ceremony 7pm-9pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes
DAR/Museum Holiday Auction 1pm-3pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-6892.
Beginning/Intermediate Ceramics 5:30pm-8pm. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
High Tea Party 2pm-4pm. Benefit for Ann Street Gallery. $35. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 119.
Guitar for Beginners 5:30pm-6:30pm. Ages 15-adult. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
Kids
Adult “Learn to Draw” 7-9pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Muttville Comix 4pm. Comedian with performing dogs. $15. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Lyle Lovett & His Large Band Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival 2pm. Featuring poets Angelo Verga and George Wallace. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.
Events
Yoga Teaching Training Course Call for times. 200 hour program running until April. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
Locust Grove Walk 10am. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 473-5557.
Trisha Brown Dance Company 1pm/3pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
Venus 8pm. 70-minute dance piece inspired by Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. $20/$18 seniors/$12 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Music
Spoken Word
Elaine Colandrea Dance 8pm. $20/$18/$12. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops
Guitar Lessons with Joey Eppard Call for times. $70/$35. Woodstock. 679-8616.
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Stokes Loop 10am-4pm. 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Dance
Contradance 8pm. Fern Bradley calling Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. $10/$9 members/children 1.2 price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.
Classes
Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle 2pm. Free. The Red Priest of Venice: Vivaldi. Bard Hall, Bard College. 758-7512.
Ensemble Caprice 2:30pm. Trail Mix concert series. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-6864. St. Petersburg Men's Ensemble 3pm. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867. Jane Monheit 3pm. Jazz. $32/$27 members. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Tom Chapin and Friends 3pm. Benefit Hospice Music Therapy. $15/$10 students and seniors. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216. Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and Kingston High School Choir 3pm. $20/$5 students. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 246-7045.
Music David Kraai 10:30pm. Acoustic. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
Workshops The Veneration of Life 11:30am-1pm. Discover inspiring new perspectives on Alzheimer’s disease with Dr. John Diamond. $100. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477. Basic Money Seminar 7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
TUESDAY 17 Art Saugerties Art Lab Art Drop-In Call for times. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. www.saugertiesartlab.com. Crafts and Camaraderie 6:30pm-8:30pm. Open crafting time, carry in and carry out. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136. Fiber Arts Group 6:30pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
Body / Mind / Spirit Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Alexander String Quartet 4pm. $30/$10 students. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Duo Rhone 4pm. $25/$5 children. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 758-5673.
Angelic Channeling 7pm-9pm. $20/$15 in advance. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Unplugged Open Acoustic Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Classes
Works by Gerog Philipp Telemann 4pm. Crescendo. $25/$10 children. Trinity Episcopal Church, Lakeville, Connecticut. (860) 435-4866. Pandit Debi Prasad Chatterjee 7pm. Accompanied by Ray Spiegel on tabla. Kleinert/ James Art Center, Woodstock. 679-2926. Live Music by D'Antony D 7pm-9pm. $20. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. The Del McCoury Band 7:30pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Wolf Jaw 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Oh, Deer! 1pm-2:30pm. History of white-tailed deer in the region. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word No Reservations: Anthony Bourdain 7pm. $20-$75. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.
Theater Metamorphoses 2pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Festival of Love 2pm. Dragonfly Performing Arts Center, Cairo. (518) 731-3340.
Drawing and Painting the Figure 1pm-4pm. Judith Reeve. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Drawing and Painting the Figure 1pm-4pm. Judith Reeve. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Staying in Balance Using Qigong in Your Daily Life 6pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Film Nicole Quinn Film Screening of First 7pm. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Food for Thought: American Casino 8pm. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Music Blues and Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Ani DiFranco 8pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Student Chamber Jazz Ensembles 8pm. $6/$5. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
Spoken Word
Into the Woods 2pm. $10/$5 seniors. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507.
The Legacy of New Deal Art on Long Island 4pm. Villa Library, Mt. St. Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3290.
Twelve Angry Men 2pm. County Players. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.
Workshops
The Pajama Game 3pm. Two of Us Productions. Hudson Middle School, Hudson. (518) 329-6293.
Abstraction & Drawing: Interpretation & Form 9am-4pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Great Marketing Made Simple 7pm. Creating a one page marketing plan road map for success. $19/$44 package. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165.
spoken word eric weiner chuck berman Eric Weiner will read and sign copies of his search-for-happiness travelogue, The Geography of Bliss, at SUNY New Paltz on November 5.
Beaches Are Optional Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in
Have you revised any of your idea on happiness since the book came out?
the World (Twelve, 2008) is an odd hybrid of a book. Part travelogue as stand-up routine,
The big event that happened since I wrote the book is the economic downturn, the
part self-help memoir, part pop sociology report, the tome chronicles Weiner’s travels to
collapse in some places. Economic difficulty does not equal misery, however. We place
10 countries—many of which he reported from as a foreign correspondent for NPR—and
so much emphasis on money and wealth as a road to happiness, we assume that its
asks the question: Are you happy? For scientific support, Weiner relies heavily on the
lack makes people miserable. People feel like when they’re interviewed on TV or by a
evolving discipline of happiness studies. The World Database of Happiness, located
newspaper reporter, they almost have to say they are miserable because they’re worried
in—where else?—Amsterdam, tracks happiness country by country with life-satisfaction
about their job. It becomes the defining narrative.
surveys. (In case you were wondering: Costa Rica is tops, happiness-wise, with Denmark and Iceland close behind. A number of nations in war-plagued Central Africa are at the bottom. The US ranks about 20th, slightly happier than the United Arab Emirates, slightly less happy than New Zealand.) What Weiner finds is both surprising (monumental wealth has not made the population of Qatar blissful) and axiomatic (there’s more than one path to happiness). Weiner does notice some universal truths, but cautions against a paint-by-numbers approach. For those who won’t get a chance to read the book, here’s the distillation of Weiner’s findings on how to be happy, from the epilogue of The Geography of Bliss: “Money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.” Eric Weiner will lecture on topics related to The Geography of Bliss at SUNY New Paltz’s Lecture Center, Room 102, on Thursday, November 5 at 7pm. (845) 257-3426; www.ericweinerbooks.com. —Brian K. Mahoney Do you think Americans put too much emphasis on happiness? We spend too much effort pursuing it head on, when we really should be pursuing it at an angle. “Sideways like a crab” is how John Stuart Mill described how one should approach happiness. It’s one of those paradoxes: The more you try and pursue it directly, the more it eludes you. I’m sure we spend more on self-help on a per capita basis than any other country in the world, and I don’t know if it’s made us any happier. It’s amazing how many books on happiness are published each year by the self-help industrial complex. I’ve bought lots
The economic downturn hit Iceland especially hard. Are you still in touch with people in Iceland? Are they still as phenomenally happy as when you visited? Yes. They’re obviously affected by things, and there’s obviously anxiety, but I don’t think they’re miserable. They say that people are pulling together. They have this strong culture to fall back on during difficult times because there’s such a sense of connection to the place. We tend to assume that if a country faces economic difficulty, even serious economic difficulty, as they have in Iceland, then everyone is miserable. There’s this concept of worried happiness, in which you can be anxious about your future yet happy at the same time. Worry and happiness are not mutually exclusive, and I think Icelanders are in a state of worried happiness. What was the saddest place you visited? It’s probably a toss-up between Moldova and Qatar, though I’ll give the nod to Qatar. Moldova I sort of expected to be sad, and my expectations were met. It ranks as the least happy country in the world. Qatar has all this wealth—it’s like the whole country won the lottery. You can see what’s it done to people, some of it good: Their health is very good, though obesity is a problem, along with car accidents, because they drive like maniacs. Qatar is a tiny little country with about 150,000 citizens and 800,000 people living in the country, the rest being hired help. Qatar is a poster child for instant wealth and the problems it can cause, especially in a country that didn’t quite have its footing yet on the world stage. It’s is an example of the corrosive nature of rapid wealth. But I don’t want to say bad things about the money and happiness, because Switzerland is very wealthy and very happy. It’s not the money per se, it’s what you do with it, your attitude toward it, and your ability to absorb it. What’s one simple thing we all might do to be even slightly happier?
of these books myself—my wife hides them down in the basement when guests come
I met this woman the other day when I was giving a talk in Illinois. She said she tries
over. It’s the "self" part of the self-help movement that I have a problem with. It becomes
to talk to five strangers every day. That’s her policy: Have a real conversation with five
so narcissistic and inward. “How can I improve my own happiness?”—as if it was totally
people she doesn’t know. I thought that was pretty cool. Most of us probably don’t have
disconnected from anyone else on the planet. We’re a very individualistic country. We
five real conversations with people we know.
use terms like personal happiness without being ironic. Happiness is not personal.
So, read my book, get out of your own head, and lighten up a little. 11/09 ChronograM forecast 93
Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
WEDNESDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit
Music Matinees & Music: Big Band Tribute Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Hit the Lights 5pm. W/There for Tomorrow. The Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Shiva-Sutra/Creative Spirit Group Call for times. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Young Performer's Concert 7:30pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
The Creative Spirit Study Group 5pm-5:30pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.
Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Spoken Word
A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Conversations in French 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
Classes
Peaceful Mind, Peaceful World 7pm-8:30pm. With Buddhist monk Gen Samten Kelsang. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.
Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Artie Lange 8pm. Comedian. $25-$95. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Basic Painting 1pm-4pm. Karen O'Neil. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Theater
Life Drawing Class with Steve Sax 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art. 679-2388. Adult Hebrew Class 6:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
Dance Yoga Meet Dance 9:15am-10:15am. $8/$5 seniors. New Paltz Community, New Paltz. www.theartscommunity.com.
Events African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Bob Babb Wed. Walk: Black Creek 9:30am-1:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Metamorphoses 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. I Take Your Hand In Mine 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Workshops Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
FRIDAY 20 Art A Little Space for Artists 7pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
Spoken Word
Body / Mind / Spirit
Chad Curtis 6:30pm. Ceramicist. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3830.
High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Theater
Dance
I Take Your Hand In Mine 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 8pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.
Workshops Unleashing Your Comedy Power Stuff 6:30pm-8pm. With Myrna Hilton. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. The Art of Soap Making with Lourdes Lobo 7pm-8:30pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
THURSDAY 19 Art Fighting, Dancing, and Standing Still 5pm-7pm. Paintings and other works by Heather Hutchinson and Mark Thomas. Muroff-Kotler Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113. Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745. Albrecht Durer: Impressions of the Renaissance 5:30pm. Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
Body / Mind / Spirit Karuna: Compassion Meditation Call for times. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Chakra and Color Therapies Workshop 6pm-7:30pm. $10. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Feeding Your Demons 6:30pm-8pm. A psychospiritual journey incorporating Shamanic elements of Buddhist Chod, hypnosis, and shadow psychology. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. The Healing Power of Meditation 7pm-9pm. $8/class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. SOL CycleTM Seminar I 7pm-9pm. Awaken DreamTM. Family Association Center, New Paltz. 256-1929.
Events Community Stitchers: Cool Ties 12:30pm-3pm. Making special ties for service men and women. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. For the Love of Dance 7pm. Dancing for Angels, Inc. benefit. $10/$5 children. Central Valley Elementary School, Central Valley. dancingforangels@yahoo.com.
Film Star Trek: The Motion Picture Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. The Yes Men Fix the World 7:30pm. Proceeds to Benefit WBCR -LP 97.7 FM. $15/$10 students. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.
Music Open Mike 7pm. $5. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Anna Fiszman Trio 7:30pm. Blues. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Mindcrime 8pm. Queensryche tribute. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. David Kraai with Sean Powell 9pm. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724. Vixen Dogs Band 9pm. Rock. Ruben's Mexican Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 739-4330.
Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
The Outdoors
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Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Water Fairies Workshop 4:30pm. $28. Crystals & Well-Being Center, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. The Art of Gratitude: Psychodrama of Thanks-Giving and Receiving 7:30pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 255-7502.
SATURDAY 21 Art Fine Art and Craft Market 10am-5pm. $5/$4 students and seniors. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222.
Body / Mind / Spirit Sharing Shabbat 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327. Going Deeper into Love: A Love Ceremony 3pm-5pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Classes Hunting the Poem/The Moderns Call for times. Part of College of Poetry. $150. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165. Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Beginning/Intermediate Ceramics 5:30pm-8pm. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Hunting Camp Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
Theater Twelve Angry Men 8pm. County Players. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Metamorphoses 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Gospel Cafe 8pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Hal Ketchum 8pm. $20. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Professor Louie and the Crowmatix's 8pm. $12.50. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Experience Drum 8pm. Music, rhythms, and dance. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Dana Fuchs Band with Chris Trapper 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Mojo Daddyo 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Pickwick Pub, Poughkeepsie.
The Outdoors Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Ashokan High Point 10am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Sustainability Series: Sustainable Gift Giving 10am-11:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Jimmy Fallon 8pm. Comedian. $45/$32.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine 8pm. Comedy. $19/$14 members/$2 more at the door. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Theater Shorts and Misdemeanors 5:30/8:30pm. Actors & Writers 16th Annual 10-minute play festival. Odd Fellows Halll, Olivebridge. 657-9760. Resistance: A Maroon Story Call for times. Original music, arrangements, dance and choreography, and visual art. $5/$10 at the door. John Jay High School, Hopewell Junction. 227-7761. A Taste of Wine and Murder 7:30pm. Women in Arts. $15. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867. Twelve Angry Men 8pm. County Players. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Metamorphoses 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Dance
I Take Your Hand In Mine 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 8pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.
The World Goes Round 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. All-volunteer community dance. $5/$2 teens and seniors/volunteers and children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319.
Events Work Exchange Weekend Call for times. Earn credits towards stays and classes. Wise Woman Center, Woodstock. 246-8081. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 853-8512.
Workshops Advanced Clowning as an Inner Journey Call for times. Fall clown workshops for adults. $150. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 929-5392. Family African Dance 11am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. 2012 & Inner Transformation 2pm-4pm. $20/$15 in advance. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Annual Holiday Fair 1pm-9pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Opera Benefit 6pm-9pm. $75/$150/$450. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Film The Asperger's Difference 11am-12pm. For and about young people with Asperger Syndrome. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-2515. Freeing Sarah Baraldini 6pm. Community Theater, Catskill. (518) 943-4871.
Kids
Sing Out! Reach Out! II 1pm-3pm. Ages 5-13. Prerequisite Level I. $15/$150 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.
The Lifesize Gorgeous Cocktails 10pm. Rock. The Sunset House, Peekskill. (914) 734-4192.
The Path: Afterlife 7pm. Film & discussion of the afterlife. $6. ColumbiaGreene Community College. (518) 828-4181 ext 5513.
Workshops
Frank Sinatra Jr.: Sinatra Sings Sinatra 8pm. $39-$65. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.
Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Film
The World Goes Round 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Conservatory Preparatory Division Call for times. Instructive music program ages 5 through 18. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7671.
Classes
Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 8pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.
Rip Van Winkle 8pm. One Book, One New Paltz Reading by Mohonk Mountain Stage. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Calder Quartet 8pm. $25/$12 students. Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling. 855-3100.
Big Joe Fitz & the Blues Party Band 9pm. Holiday blues dance party. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.
Dance
I Take Your Hand In Mine 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Music Tern Rounders 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Senior Recital 4pm. Mark Van Hare, composer. Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Opera Benefit 6pm-9pm. Music by Bard's Conservatory graduate students, opera trivia, refreshments. $450, $150, $75. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Upstage NY Community Com 6pm-9pm. Potluck dinner followed by coffeehouse. $5. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Foodstock 2 7pm. W/The Big Takeover, Chasing Daybreak. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Bob Meyer and the Youth Quartet 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
SUNDAY 22 Art Fine Art and Craft Market 11am-5pm. $5/$4 students and seniors. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222. Photography by f-stop Fitzgerald 3pm-5pm. Rosendale CafĂŠ, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Body / Mind / Spirit Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. $10. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Pendulum Fun with Bente Hansen 2pm-4pm. $30. The Center for Being, Knowing, Doing, Newburgh. 784-5390. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Classes Guitar Lessons with Joey Eppard Call for times. $70/$35. Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-8616.
Events Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot.
Film Notorious 7pm. $6. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.
Music Jazz at the Falls 12pm-3pm. Featuring The Saints of Swing with Renee Bailey. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Marji Zintz 7:30pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.
Drum 3pm. 20 musicians, dancers, drummers, and singers. $25/$12.40 children. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Solid Smoke 8pm. 50 years of Motown. $20. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
Heritage Folk Music 3pm. Folk, traditional. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884.
art alex maclean
photos from alex maclean's Over: the american landscape at the tipping point. ABOVE: Harborwalk is a planned waterfront community built on wetlands on the western coast of Galveston Bay. In the coming century this land will be some of the most vulnerable on the Texas coast to sea-level rise, yet developers continue to construct low-lying waterfront homes. left: waterfront homes in the Glendale, Arizona desert.
Looking Down on Climate Change Pilot and photographer Alex MacLean has spent the last 30 years flying over much of the United States, documenting the landscape. A trained architect, MacLean’s aerial photographs track the evolution of the ground from large open tracts to city grids and small suburban plots, providing visual proof of our culture’s excessive use of resources and energy. These profound changes to the planet’s surface are the products of human intervention, the literal footprints of climate change. How we’ve made our mark, so to speak. Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (Abrams, 2008, foreword by Bill McKibben), is MacLean’s latest cri de coeur. Divided into sections covering the topics of Atmosphere, Way of Life, Automobile Dependency, Electricity Generation, Deserts, Water Use, Sea-Level Rise, Waste and Recycling, and Urbanism, Over illustrates the patterns that humans have enforced on the landscape—tract housing, highways, parking lots—that cannot be fully grasped in their immensity from the ground. MacLean’s photographs provide a wide-angle lens of our environment, a sense of the whole that exists outside ourselves. Alex MacLean will lecture and present a slideshow of aerial photographs from Over on Friday, November 6 at 7pm at the Cary Institute Auditorium in Millbrook. Sponsored by Merritt Bookstore. (845) 677-7600x121; www.ecostudies.org. —Brian K. Mahoney 11/09 ChronograM forecast 95
Mysteries and Miracles: Songs and Carols, Medieval to Modern 3pm. Vassar College Madrigal Singers. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. Bard Conservatory of Music piano trio. $12/$10. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021. Neil Alexander and Bob Meyer 6pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. BettySoo 7pm. Singer/songwriter. $10. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501. Howland's New Sign Benefit 7pm. Featuring Chip Taylor, John Platania, Kendel Carson, and Kari Spieler. $15. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Musical Heritage Night 7:30pm. Celebrating the music & message of Pete Seeger. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Outdoors
Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 1pm-3pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Drawing and Painting the Figure 1pm-4pm. Judith Reeve. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
The Outdoors Franny Reese Park Easy Hike 9am. Franny Reese Preserve, Highland. 462-8305.
Events
Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Community Stitchers: Cool Ties 12:30pm-3pm. Making special ties for service men and women. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
WEDNESDAY 25 Body / Mind / Spirit Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
I Take Your Hand In Mine 2pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. $10. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Workshops Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
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Workshops
Metamorphoses 2pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
A Taste of Wine and Murder 7:30pm. Women in Arts. $15. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867.
Life Drawing 7:30pm-9:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Beacon Historical Society Meeting 7pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Theater
Open Auditions for “Rent” 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Choral Singing Workshop 3:30pm-4:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Swing Dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Featuring Huguenot Slim and the Shuffle Kings, lesson before the dance. $15/$10. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Spoken Word
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Mud Pond 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
The World Goes Round 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops
Sedona Method Support Group 7pm-8:30pm. Simple but highly effective way to let go of stress and obstacles to success. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 626-3191. Stop Swimming Upstream: Let The River of Life Carry You 7pm. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
Hand Building with Clay with Gita Nadas 10am-12pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Basic Painting 1pm-4pm. Karen O'Neil. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Gandolf Murphy and Slambovian Circus of Dreams Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Stephen Kaiser Group 7:30pm. Jazz. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Creepin Cadavers 8pm. W/Dead Luck Devilles, The Greyhounds. The Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. The Rhodes 9pm. Rock. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 255-5803. Tension 9pm. W/Black Jack, Naenia, Our Only Reason. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Read for Food 7pm-10pm. Writers read and raise money for food pantries. Boughton Place, Highland. www. boughtonplace.org.
Art
The World Goes Round 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Figure Drawing Sessions 7pm-9pm. Open model session. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3830.
Staying in Balance Using Qigong in Your Daily Life 6pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Adult Hebrew Class 6:30pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.
I Take Your Hand In Mine 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Classes
Dance
Adult “Learn to Draw” 7pm-9pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Yoga Meet Dance 9:15am-10:15am. $8/$5 seniors. New Paltz Community, New Paltz. www.theartscommunity.com.
Events Pine Hill Area Community Supper and Food Giveaway 5:30pm-7pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Music Ray Davies 7:30pm. $34.50-$49.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
The Outdoors Monday Nights with the Stars 7:30pm. Night sky observation. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.
Theater
The Veneration of Life 11:30am-1pm. Discover inspiring new perspectives on Alzheimer’s disease with Dr. John Diamond. $100. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
TUESDAY 24 Art Saugerties Art Lab Art Drop-In Call for times. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. www.saugertiesartlab.com.
Drawing and Painting the Figure 1pm-4pm. Judith Reeve. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
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Spoken Word Reiko Tomil on On Kawara 1pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. The World Goes Round 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. I Take Your Hand In Mine 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Workshops Family African Dance 11am-12pm. Hudson Opera House. (518) 822-1438.
SUNDAY 29 Body / Mind / Spirit Subtle Vinyasa Yoga and Meditation 9:30am-11:15am. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors 1:30pm-2:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
SATURDAY 28
Guitar Lessons with Joey Eppard Call for times. $70/$35. Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-8616.
Events Rhinebeck Farmers' Market 1am-2pm. Rhinebeck Municipal Parking Lot, Rhinebeck. Monastery Christmas Craft Fair 10am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Millbrook. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.
Music Elaine Rachlin 11:30am-2pm. International chanteuse. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. The Sparrows 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
Music
Classes
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Castle Point 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Main Street Band 8pm. Rock. Dockside Grill, Athens. (518) 444-8080.
Hunting the Poem/The Moderns Call for times. Part of College of Poetry. $150. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165.
Vanderbilt Mansion Loop Walk 10:30am. 3 miles. Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park. 471-1168.
Workshops
Beginning Drawing with Shawn Dell Joyce 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Theater
Unleashing Your Comedy Power Stuff 6:30pm-8pm. With Myrna Hilton. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
THURSDAY 26 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7745.
Beginning/Intermediate Ceramics 5:30pm-8pm. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Events Carlsen Gallery Antiques Auction 10:30am.Thanksgiving weekend antiques auction. Carlsen Gallery, Freehold. (518) 634-2467.
The Outdoors
I Take Your Hand In Mine 2pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $25/$22 seniors/$20 members/$15 students. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.
Workshops Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MONDAY 30
Body / Mind / Spirit
Monastery Christmas Craft Fair 10am-5pm. Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery, Millbrook. www.ourladyoftheresurrectionmonastery.webs.com.
The Healing Power of Meditation 7pm-9pm. $8/class. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Arrival of Sinterklaas 4:30pm. Rhinecliff Dock, Rhinecliff. www.SinterklaasRhinebeck.com.
Figure Drawing Sessions 7pm-9pm. Open model session. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3830.
Film
Body / Mind / Spirit
Classes
Acrylic Painting Studio with Nancy Reed Jones 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Classes
Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Hike: Peterskill 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Community Yoga Class 5pm. $5. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.
Body / Mind / Spirit
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.
The Outdoors
African Drum 6pm-7pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Pastel Studio with Shawn Dell Joyce 6:30pm-8:30pm. $100/4 classes. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
High Frequency Channeling 6:30pm-7:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Perfect Thyroid 5pm. Ska. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Crafts and Camaraderie 6:30pm-8:30pm. Open crafting time, carry in and carry out. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136.
Tai Chi for Seniors 2pm-3pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Alexis P. Suter Band 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Events
Open Auditions for “Rent” 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops
David Amram 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Classes
Theater
Life Drawing Class with Steve Sax 6pm-9pm. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Select Star 5pm. W/Action Item. The Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Theater Music
Spoken Word
Classes
The Acoustic Medicine Show 2pm. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
The Wizard of Oz Call for times. $6. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.
Kids
Events
Reptile Encounters 10am-11:30am. Ages 4 and up. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
6th Annual Family of New Paltz Turkey Trot 9am. Benefit the Family of New Paltz food pantry. Call for location. www.newpaltzturkeytrot.com.
First Niagara’s Art in the Barn 12pm. Children's creative art program. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Music
Sing Out! Reach Out! II 1pm-3pm. Ages 5-13. Prerequisite Level I. $15/$150 series. The Institute for Music and Health, Verbank. 677-5871.
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Jazz Jam 9pm. Marvin "Bugalu" Smith and his drum band. $6. Market Market Cafe, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Music The Brew Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Art
Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Receive Messages From Your Loved Ones in the After Life 7pm-8:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Adult “Learn to Draw” 7pm-9pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Film Goldfinger 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. SUNY Ulster Wind Ensemble Holiday Music Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
Theater The Pine Bush Community Band 7:30pm. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867.
film freeing silvia baraldini courtesy thin edge films silvia baraldini was sentenced to 43 years in prison for helping assata shakur escape from prison. Freeing silvia baraldini screens in catskill on November 21.
When Revolutions Fail, There’s Always Prison “Why don’t you live for the people? Why don’t you struggle for the people? Why don’t you die for the people?” So spoke Black Panther Fred Hampton. On December 4, 1969, he was shot dead by police and FBI agents in his apartment, apparently while he slept. Hampton’s death galvanized a generation of political activists. One was Silvia Baraldini. Born in Rome in 1947, she came to the United States at age 14. (Her father worked in the Italian embassy.) At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she joined the Students for a Democratic Society. Her path from SDS to the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee to the May 19 Communist Organization is familiar to students of late-'60s politics. The May 19 group (named for the day on which both Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X were born) supported the Republic of New Afrika, a black nationalist movement that believed five states in the Deep South should become a new socialist nation governed by African-Americans. The idea strikes one as absurd today, but in fact a similar plan succeeded in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Eventually, Baraldini joined an underground cadre of militants. In 1979, this group freed Assata Shakur, “the soul of the Black Liberation Army,” from prison in New Jersey. Three visitors to the prison pulled revolvers, took two guards hostage, and commandeered a prison van. “History is written by the victors” is the Roman proverb. If events had played out differently, Silvia Baraldini would be a national hero like Nelson Mandela. As it is, she was sentenced to 43 years in prison. The filmmakers shrewdly interview the activist in
an enclosed space with white walls. Throughout the movie, we wonder: Is she still in prison? The ending—which I won’t give away—is so improbable that if a screenwriter had penned it, it would be rejected as “too Hollywood.” Freeing Silvia Baraldini is not propaganda but a narrative of an era blotted out of the American memory. While Michael Jackson was having his first hits, police and revolutionaries were fighting in the streets and alleys of Amerikkka (to use the terminology of the era). How gorgeous were the radicals of 1971, with their symmetrical afros, raised fists, foreheads shining with righteous zeal! And they had great names, too, like Sekou Kambui and Kojo Bomani Sababu! Margo Pelletier, director of the film, knows the story from the inside. She worked with the May 19 Communist Organization and was one of the Anti-Springbok 5, spending six months in prison at Riker’s Island for throwing stink bombs at an airplane carrying the South African rugby team. (Due to a miscalculation, they attacked the wrong plane.) “In the Movement, you feel such euphoria. You feel that you’re living with a purpose,” Pelletier observes. “And the camaraderie is so addictive.” Making an independent film requires all of one’s talents. Pelletier has been an artist, a silkscreener, a sound engineer, a carpenter. Her co-director, Lisa Thomas, is a film and television producer who speaks fluent Italian. The film also has the best reenactments I’ve ever seen a documentary, filmed in 16mm by Ted Ciesielski. Freeing Silvia Baraldini will be shown at the Community Theater, 373 Main Street, Catskill, on Saturday, November 21, at 6pm. (518) 943-2410; www.thinedgefilms.com. —Scott Ettman
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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino
In the Shadow of Saturn
S
ign changes of Saturn are fairly rare, coming about every 30 months. Many planets (Venus, Mars, the Sun) change signs every few weeks or so; the Moon changes signs every few days. When Saturn changes signs, it tends to define a mini-era of history. At the current rate of time, even these phases of two and a half years can seem to blur by. On October 29, Saturn moved from Virgo to Libra, one in a sequence of events that adds up to the high-voltage astrology of 2010 and is a step on the way to what we’ve been calling 2012. Later this month, Saturn makes its first of three 90-degree or square aspects to Pluto, which describes the transition of the world that we are witnessing. It also describes an inner process of learning to take responsibility for ourselves and the direction of our lives. This month and for the next few seasons, distinct historical events will provide opportunities to make personal decisions. Most astrologers you ask to define Saturn would give you a list of keywords that sounds a bit like this: structure, form, responsibility, parents, career, discipline, the government, limitations, time, and death. In the body, Saturn rules the bones and the teeth. All of that is prepsychology; the values still hold, but they’re based on an external worldview. We’re now free to understand Saturn as being about one’s relationship to authority. As we mature and gradually take responsibility for our lives, authority increasingly becomes an inner experience. When we’re young, we usually need to be told what to do. As we get older and understand the customs and laws of our society, and accept the demands of living, we can be self-directed within those boundaries. In the process, we acquire the privileges of freedom, or we overdo Saturn and get hung up on guilt and fear. As adults, we can still experience Saturn as an external factor (a cop pulling us over and writing a speeding ticket) or an internal factor (using cruise control and following the speed limit). Get enough tickets and you lose your license; the Saturn factor sets a limit. Avoid tickets and your insurance rates stay on the lower side of the scale; discipline offers a reward. There is flexibility if we choose the self-directed method. For example, if you’re driving on a highway and set your cruise control at about 7 to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit (still following a structure, and an understanding of informal rules), it’s reasonably safe and generally you won’t get pulled over. If you drive your own car with a sense of self-control, you won’t need to encounter the state trooper with a radar gun. Being aware of boundaries puts us into a conscious relationship with them, and therefore we can stretch them a little if necessary. The flexibility in the relationship becomes more apparent. If you get pulled over, your relationship to authority counts for a lot. If
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you start the conversation by saying, “How fast was I going? I’m sorry I was speeding,” you’ll do better than if you say, “You’ve got a lot of nerve for pulling me over when I pay your salary with my taxes!” (Note, the reason he pays those taxes to pay that salary is because he needs a babysitter.) Saturn works by both inner and outer methods, and in truth our lives are directed by a combination of external factors and internal factors. Indeed, as children, we experience external authority (parents, teachers, religious leaders) and that is what we internalize, unconsciously, until we become aware of the process and take over for ourselves. That, in turn, is influential in creating our sense of authority, which we usually transfer onto bosses, spouses the government and what we call “god.” To give a friendly example, at first they have to “make us” do our homework, with the treat of an external factor (the promise of good grades, or the threat of getting left back) as incentives. Then as adults we figure out that if we stay on top of our work, we have more freedom, including the freedom to do the kind of work we want as adults. To give a more challenging example, imagine you have parents who are afraid of people and afraid of life, and they constantly put this fear into you in the form of fearful expectations and rules you have to follow, including the habit of judging everyone. This leads to isolation and misery, and being a miser is a way of life that might come naturally to someone who can’t work with the energy of Saturn in a constructive way. In modern psychological terms, the word constructive is one of the first ideas we can apply to Saturn. To a significant extent, this energy or mental property that I’m calling Saturn grants us the ability to structure our lives. It is quite literally maturity (usually gained over time, a Saturn function), a sense of independence of thought and respect for process, including the process of time. Do I need to say that we’re living in very tough times, where Saturn is concerned? Maturity is not so popular; we constantly expect others to take responsibility for why we tripped or tried to drink a scalding cup of coffee. I would propose that our current struggle started around the time George Bush took the office of president without actually having been elected. That set a tone for our society’s relationship to authority. This happened shortly before the last Saturn-Pluto alignment (technically, quadrature alignment), which took place in the summer of 2001: Saturn (in Gemini) opposite Pluto (in Sagittarius). At that point, we experienced Saturn as an external factor, seizing authority over us: the Patriot Act, the cultivated obsession with terrorism and thus with the government’s ability to control and spy on us without a warrant, and, more to the point, to influence us with fear. For the next decade, we lived under a government that started illegal, unnecessary
wars, wasted trillions of dollars and was unaccountable to the people or to anyone, for that matter. Little wonder, given that the authority process known as an election was not honored by politicians. Moreover, the people failed to internalize their responsibility and demand a fair election. Then, having not learned the first time, we failed to demand a fair election again in 2004 and the story continued. Healthy authority, like most things we talk about in astrology, is based on internal motivation and relationships that go at least two ways. All of this was classically oppositional in nature: Saturn opposite Pluto. Oppositions generally manifest as some form of external factor, even though there are many internal factors we need to reckon with (for example, our personal relationship to our own fear). In the second half of the decade, Saturn opposed two other slow-moving outer planets: Neptune and Uranus (still ongoing), and the drama continued. This month, we experience the first square between Saturn and an outer planet in many years: Saturn square Pluto. That is to say, Saturn, newly in Libra, will meet Pluto, newly in Capricorn, at a 90-degree aspect. Squares are like oppositions, only turned outsidein. They guide us to consciously recognize that we contain the polarities that previously existed in the opposition aspect as a relationship between an internal and an external. Saturn and Pluto are having this meeting in different signs than the last time. Pluto is in Capricorn (a new transit that began in 2008-09), and is teaching us something about the actual nature of government and corporations. For example, we are seeing an actual government process take place with the health care debate rather than the march to war under strictly fundamentalist values (Pluto in Sagittarius). Now we are seeing corporatist values and discovering that big companies really do think they’re god. Saturn is in Libra, a transit that will emphasize relationships of all kinds. We actually think very little about relationships, and most people don’t have conscious relationship contracts. Saturn in Libra will be a study in agreements. We’ll see the theme of cultivating a more mature alignment to the concept of justice (i.e., something besides revenge). Saturn is well placed in Libra; the astrologers of yore inform us that it’s exalted in this sign. Saturn has a self-directed quality here that manifests as a healthy sense of responsibility in relationships. It can also represent our extremely rigid view of relationships and relationship structures that is getting extremely worn out and is starting to seem as useless as it actually is. Saturn here is saying that an overly rigid relationship structure is not the same thing as authentic commitment. Now let’s put the two factors together. All Saturn-Pluto meetings are opportunities to get real; they are confrontational. The square takes this confrontation to an inner level, where we have a significant opportunity for growth. Depending on your relationships to Saturn and Pluto, that growth will feel more or less enforced. Our concepts and structures are going to meet the unstoppable evolutionary force of Pluto. If you got a group of smart, imaginative people together, you could spend an entire evening coming up with visualizations for this. For example, for a long time we’ve been living and trying to love through times when the government has taken a heavy hand in our private affairs—for example, abstinenceonly sex indoctrination in schools; constitutional amendments banning some people from having lawful, family relationships; and a manic paranoia around sex that has many people terrified of even looking at one another. Saturn in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn is going to remind us that there’s an element of letting go of inner control when we enter into a relationship with someone. Our concept of relationship changes with each new experience. All living traditions change with time. We have to learn to be flexible to accommodate another human being in our lives. We might feel fear, then we have to deal with it internally; we might experience jealousy, and then at the end of the day we have to deal with our own jealousy rather than attempt to control our partner (or ourselves). I think the current manic phobia about sex is about the fear of losing control. Everything in our lives right now is about control: the iPhone controlling your data and granting access to the Internet anywhere; the privacy/security issues we obsess over; all these remote “controls” in front of the TV and on the key chain; our obsession with controlling our image on Facebook; and our numerous obsessions with controlling the people around us. Sex, with its elemental forces (Pluto), the constant threat of supposed scandal, our emotions getting involved, actual passion, all the secrecy issues, and letting out the erotic genie anywhere but in a text message would seem a total threat to the ego, as the ego is now oriented. Erotic experiences that dissolve the ego are the ones we want, but to have them we need to be able to let go of control, and tap the deep unconscious and set it free. Of course, to do this, “control” has to go out the window. We must overthrow all those inner (and at times outer) authorities. It’s fashionable these days in the world of psychology/ psychiatry to consider “any eruption from the unconscious” as illness or abnormality. If nothing else, sex is surely that, and by this standard, go figure: Here in the shadow of Saturn, it’s become the new definition of insanity. No, wait—it’s the old one, come back for a visit. Eric Francis Coppolino writes daily at PlanetWaves.net.
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Planet Waves Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net
Aries
(March 20-April 19)
Keep your sense of humor; exercising that on a daily basis is more important than going to the gym. Humor is not just about getting a good laugh; it’s about taking a light enough approach to life so that you can see your options, and have a sense of flexibility. That said, the ability to laugh at something means one thing: You’re not afraid of it. You’re being summoned for the first time in years to make enormous changes, and you may indeed be nervous, and reluctant to move forward, lest you make an error from which you cannot recover. Remember that you’re not in this alone. The whole point is that a relationship is getting your attention, as is your sense of priorities for what to do with your life. Most people take these as separate issues. The planets in their courses are giving you little choice but to see these seemingly separate things as one topic: your existence. The meta-theme is maturity: having adult relationships and an adult sense of purpose. Finally, this is not something that might happen in the future; rather, it’s something that’s calling your name right now. You may feel like certain elements in this equation are being dictated to you, and you might be right. If you take a light touch, you will see how many options you really have within reach.
Taurus (April 19-May 20) Do you need to take your life more seriously, or less? The answer is, some of both. They’re not actually opposites. Most things that you think of as opposites aren’t really opposites. Most things that you think of as difficult aren’t really that difficult, but how you apply your mind to the situation is another story. What you usually think of as a mental approach involves getting snagged in your emotions. If you’re in an endless loop of any kind, you can be pretty sure that you’re trying to handle a situation that calls for an analytical approach in a way that avoids real analysis. The “more seriously” piece of the original question involves the dismantling of your sense of being stuck in something you cannot see but can only feel. Then you can reassemble the pieces in a way that actually makes sense. The “less seriously” approach involves letting go of your sense of fate, doom or looming imperatives. Clearly, you’re being summoned to take on a new level of responsibility, and then to take action. Other factors suggest that you examine the beliefs that have so far dictated the course of your life, most of the time below the level of full awareness. Awareness is light, and you’ll know it’s increasing because you will have a greater sense of your power of decision.
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There is such a thing as overfocus. It’s true that concentrating your mental energies is something you must do consciously, but you tend to compensate for this by laying all kinds of rules on yourself and then attempting to follow them like choreography. But the way dancers actually work would serve you much better. Just like a dance routine is composed of many smaller parts that are brought together, improving your mental process is about learning separate elements of something, and the gradual acquisition of discipline. Connect to the creative impulse at the core of what you’re doing; your true motivation. That will make the effort seem worthwhile. I suggest that you be leery of telling yourself you’re doing anything for altruistic or “service” purposes, and instead, stay focused on the creative and business aspects of the work. The same would hold true in personal relationships, though there is an added caution here: beware of approaching anyone with a set of expectations about how he or she is supposed to feel, in advance of the experience actually happening. Indeed, be cautious about approaching anything with set of expectations about how you are supposed to feel. At the moment, your life is about being in the moment, taking a risk on suspending your beliefs about the presumed outcome. Those beliefs are a burden that interferes with your true creative process.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) If you knew how guilty people felt about money, you would be shocked. That’s why they try to get rid of the stuff so fast. Then there’s debt. A colleague in the UK suggested that one of the places that sex energy is being drained faster than we can fill it up is credit card debt. Debt is like negative worth or lack of worth, and at the moment the world is overrun with it. For the next seven months, Mars is going to be taking up residence in your house of selfworth, self-esteem, your financial resources, and “how you really feel about yourself.” With Leo in this solar house, you’re well suited to have a strong relationship with yourself and a balanced, mutually profitable relationship with others. The issue with Mars here is: how deep can you go, making peace with your existence, your values and your sense of belonging? How useful can you make that value, to yourself and to others? Do you have the guts to make the money you want to make? One of the forms that guilt about money takes is that money is considered “unspiritual,” and we’ve all met enough people who seem to demonstrate that quality quite effectively. Yet one theme here is learning that you and nobody else gives the things in your life the value that they have.
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One of your greatest talents is that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned how to doubt your doubts. That ability has proven useful, as so much of what you were uncertain about in recent months has either revealed itself to have little basis in truth, or has worked out better than you were planning. Even as your confidence and sense of purpose build, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still going to need that skill. You have some unusual discretion now, the ability to apply your power in a direct, focused way. At the same time you may run into a few more puddles of self-doubt, particularly about your involvement in a family situation that seems too complicated for your tastes. The key here is to not overreact, or to apply too much strength or force when a little will do just fine. Indeed, you can safely put off smaller actions, solutions, or possibilities for resolving things in place of larger ones that come a little later in the month. Something that seems obvious today is still coming into focus. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know details that you cannot quite see yet, but those details exist. Some of them will emerge when an event or circumstance represents the universe making a move; then suddenly it will be much more obvious what you need to do. You can safely wait for any strong emotions or confusion to fully clear before you say or do anything.
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Understanding your obsessive tendencies will be the key to your freedom, and your enlightenment. First, I suggest you see them for what they are, and note the complications they bring into your life: for example, your struggle to let go emotionally, the difficulty you have forgiving yourself and therefore others. Obsession is a quality so inherent in your makeup that you take it for granted, but you also take for granted the damage that it does to the fragile fabric of your existence. Saturnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence in your sign the past few years has provided a compelling influence to question why you are the way you are, and why you feel the way you do. Yet another factor suggests that there is a hidden source of energy lurking deep within your makeup, there is a notion of who you are supposed to be. You are trying to live up to this idea, even though youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not aware of it most of the time. I suggest you bring it out into the open. Perhaps make a scrapbook called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Perfect Me,â&#x20AC;? and collect images and examples of what you are trying to be. This will teach you that your prototype is not really you; it is a concept that was installed into you, and modified over time. This is your moment to take control over the process. If you must strive for a certain ideal, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best that it be consciously chosen.
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Libra (September 22-October 23) Self-awareness is the thing. The thing, as in the very thing; the only thing and the thing to value above all else. Nobody is perfectly selfaware, so you can let yourself off the hook for that one. Yet there are those who value the stuff and those who really, truly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be bothered. Now is the time to bother, to take every step you have to take to hoist that flag and raise it high. Saturn beginning its 30-month journey across your birth sign is some of the best astrological news that has come your way in many years. You have faced challenging transits (as have we all), and while this one will indeed bring its challenges, they are the kind that worth every bit of effort five times over. Saturn is here to bestow you with one of the most precious gifts of the postmodern age: maturity. Among the most serious problems our society faces is the collective lack of maturity among its members. This not only leads to people being unable to take care of themselves and one another; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contributing to a significant failure of ethics and sense of awareness about the future. All of this and more are the gifts that Saturn is here to offer you; in due time, of course, but that time is close. And what is the cost? Self-awareness.
Scorpio (October 23-November 22) You are accustomed to constantly having to adapt to your circumstances; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rare enough that your circumstances must adapt to you, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s precisely what is happening. You may be thinking, That would be a lot easier, were it only true. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how to help make it true. The first thing you can do is to be clear about your intentions, mainly with yourself, then in any conversation or encounter where you need to state your agenda. Or perhaps the correct word would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;understate.â&#x20AC;? The key is to say things once and then allow the energy to align around your goals. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect anyone to read your mind, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overstate your position. Next, maintain a continuous awareness of how things have been done in the past, including the distant past, and then make conscious, gradual modifications to those methods, never veering far from the wisdom of tradition. You are in the rare position of rewriting tradition, which is best done incrementally, with the awareness, evolutionary steps are what keep the intelligence of the past alive. I suggest you take any opportunity you can to actually feel the strength of your position. If you feel it, others will respond, even those you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually talk to. Your mind reaches to other minds; but among those in your immediate environment, clarity is of the essence. It will be the vector of your true strength.
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Humans learn a bit in school, but mainly we learn from example. One of the most useful methods of example is mentorship. I suggest you take this two ways. One is by working with people far more experienced than yourself, setting aside any notion that you â&#x20AC;&#x153;know moreâ&#x20AC;? than they do. This will give you sufficient freedom from your own preconceived ideas to be able to adapt new approaches to what you do. The second is teaching someone younger or less experienced than yourself the basic professional methods that you are developing. You will know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing this right when you are the one learning from your student. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that your student â&#x20AC;&#x153;knows moreâ&#x20AC;? than you; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that you know enough to learn from those both more and less experienced than you. Advancing your education is a key theme of the next two years of Saturn in Libra, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the one who is in charge of the process. Part of the story involves an exploration of why ethics matters more than anything. There is an emphasis on learning fairness, as a prerequisite of having the additional authority that is going to be given to you after you pass what amounts to a series of personal tests of your integrity. The first of these challenges begins now; and for the moment, the whole process is on the honor system.
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Saturn has moved across the midheaven angle of your solar chart, and later this month will make a high-powered aspect to Pluto in your birth sign. This is your moment to wake up to who youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to be in the future. Everyone has an image of that, but who, exactly, comes along and tells you when the time has arrived? Your astrologer, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who. In the past, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had transits that have called on you to reach for higher goals. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had transits that have focused your sense of identity. But you have never had a transit like this, and the truth is, neither have most of the people you see walking around on the street. If this astrology is working rightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is to say, if you are responding with awareness to the conditioning forces that surround youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you will be feeling a mix of certain key elements: one of them being a sense of responsibility. Another will be the urgency to rise to the occasion; that is, to be the very best person you can be, under the circumstances of your life and your professional situation. This is a calling to leadership, but the kind that requires you to contemplate every decision carefully, and to make sure that each step you take comes with an actual change in your psyche; actual growth, no matter how challenging that may be.
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Be aware which of the sweeping changes that flood through your life the next month exist in your consciousness, and which of them have a definite source in your environment. There is a valid theory of existence which says that everything the mind perceives begins and ends in the mind, and what we perceive is strictly a matter of interpretation. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take this one two ways; there may be more. First, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assume that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not true. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assume that there really are elements of existence that come from the outside, over which you have no control, except how you respond. Then letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assume that the nature of everything you see and experience is strictly a matter of your own interpretation, based on your level of awareness, your prejudices, your personal history, and your imagination. (A Course in Miracles sums this up in three words: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Projection makes perception.â&#x20AC;?) In the end, the difference between the two viewpoints may be subtle, but I would ask: which gives you a greater sense of influence over your life? Which puts you in the more influential position of co-creator of your existence? Bear in mind, the current dominant philosophy of existence is that only externals matter, and that everyone except the supposedly famous and powerful are victims of circumstance. That is not an option.
Pisces (February 19-March 20) During the past year, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve grown increasingly aware of how important your friends are to you. The sense of having old, established friends is vital to your sanity, your sense of personal security, and your ability to get things done. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been worth every bit of the effort youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve put into the relationships. From among those friends, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now time to select certain ones as partners in an important series of ventures in both your personal and professional endeavors. Looked at one way, these people will be self-selecting: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the ones who stick around, who demonstrate their love and loyalty, and most of all, who demonstrate their commitment to growth. Once you apply those criteria, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to be left with a lot of candidates, but you will have just enough; and certain people you can depend on are about to come out of the woodwork. The feeling youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for in partners is the sense of needing to collectively rise to a challenge, individuals who are moved to action by the times we are living in. Emphasize your encounters with people who are responding in the present rather than being stuck in the past. Keep your mind focused on this and you will remind yourself over and over to keep your focus in the moment, where it belongs, and where you access your true power over your destiny.
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