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VIEW FROM THE TOP
KIDS & FAMILY
13 ARTSCENE TV
34 EXTENDING THE FAMILY
A preview of our monthly video series highlighting Hudson Valley artists.
14 ON THE COVER An appreciation of November’s cover artist, Giselle Potter.
16 ESTEEMED READER Jason Stern takes a tour of a madrasa in Uzbekistan.
19 EDITOR’S NOTE Brian K. Mahoney asks: Do you believe in flying saucers?
NEWS AND POLITICS 20 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Prisoners win debate against Hardvard students, water-absorbent concrete, Shell abandons drilling in the arctic, Monsanto sued by farmworkers, and more.
21 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart reports on the rise of violence by gun-wielding toddlers.
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Hillary Harvey meets the parents who shrug off the culture of isolation around families and intentionally build a village of support.
HOME & GARDEN 36 STROKE OF GENIUS Artists Philip Howie and Sasha Chermayeff have spent the last four years rebuilding their lives on the banks of the Catskill Creek after Howie suffered a stroke in 2011.
43 FIRST CACTUS CONFIDENCE
Michelle Sutton on growing prickly beauties indoors.
FOOD & DRINK 68 OLD FRIENDS
Renowned gardener Amy Goldman talks about her latest book, Heirloom Harvest.
WHOLE LIVING 78 FITNESS, REIMAGINED
22 FISHKILL, WAPPINGERS FALLS, AND HOPEWELL JUNCTION
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Tradition and innovation meet in southern Dutchess County.
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73 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 74 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 82 WHOLE LIVING Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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54 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE
86 DAILY CALENDAR
58 MUSIC: MAKING THE CUT
Peter Aaron discusses music, politics, and ambition with hip-hop artist Decora. Nightlife Highlights include Woods, Steve Gorn and Friends, SK Kakraba, Soweto Gospel Choir, Ry Cooder and Friends. Reviews of Only Sky by David Torn; Bocce and Bourbon by Chandler Travis & David Greenburger; and Skin & Bones by Mark Brown.
62 BOOKS: WIDE ANGLE
Books Editor Nina Shengold talks with author Peter Golden about the lens of history.
64 BOOK REVIEWS
Reviews of Take This by Steve Lewis, Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg, and After Woodstock by Elliot Tiber. Plus Short Takes.
66 POETRY Poems by Louis Altman, Virginia L. Esposito, Pamela Ethington, Martha Frankel, Danielle Gasparo, Joseph Goosey, Havilah Graff, Devin Kelly, Benjamin Kukoff, Jeff Paggi, Mary Cuffe Perez, Janelle Roberts, Mike Vashen. Edited by Phillip X Levine.
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PLANET WAVES 98 FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
Eric Francis Coppolino on the chaos and potential of the current moment.
100 HOROSCOPES
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104 PARTING SHOT Gene Dauner’s photos of pre-urban renewal Kingston.
Sasha Chermayeff and Philip Howie’s home in Catskill.
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Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS Matt Pond PA plays a valedictory gig at BSP Kingston on November 20. Self-described “fat” burlesque artist Lillian Bustle talks about perceptions of female body types prior to her SUNY New Paltz apperance on November 2. Debo Band brings its African-inspired groove to Bard College on November 19. “Ulysses Cylinders,” an exhibition of early glass work by Dale Chihuly, is shown at Vassar’s Thompson Memorial Library through November 22, . Basilica Farm & Flea draws the hipster throngs to Hudson Thanksgiving weekend. “Greenhouse” is exhibited at 1 Mile Gallery in Kinsgton though November 14. The Amazing Nina Simone screens at Upstate Films' two locations this month. Column McCann delivers the William Gifford lecture at Vassar on November 4.
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Art Scene TV Each month, filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss produces “ArtScene,” a monthly video web series with short segments on artists, galleries, and museums in the Hudson Valley. Stephen previews November’s episode below. Check it out at Chronogram.com/TV. Gene Dauner—Photographer Gene Dauner spent 25 years documenting what was about to be lost in the Catskills and Hudson Valley region, by taking over 10,000 photographs in slide film from 1965 to 1980. Good thing he did, because just about everything he covered has disappeared from the scene. Thinking back, Gene noted that, although he had a lot of fun, he was always broke from buying and processing film. In this segment, he discusses his philosophy of documenting the history of the area, knowing that the only way to save these scenes was with photography. He has often said, “I was always one step ahead of the wrecking ball,” though at the same time, he would always take care to wait for good light, or would come back when the light could be better, possibly at a different time of day. Gene felt so much was about to be lost at the same time, that he followed several interests simultaneously, from the Rondout neighborhood of Kingston, mostly torn down during urban renewal, the dwindling Ulster & Delaware railroad, historic barns, 19th-century iron truss bridges, and more. Many of the shots range from the classic to the unusual, to even painterly. Gene laments that, “For every great thing we lost, we seem to get a chintzy thing to replace it,” referring to the gas station that replaced a magnificent church and the Jack in the Box restaurant that replaced the Beaux Arts post office in Kingston. Lost Rondout Project—Film and Multimedia Exhibition Here I’ve included the trailer to Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, a soon the be completed feature length documentary I am coproducing with journalist Lynn Woods. Gene Dauner’s photographs also play an intricate part in the movie—in fact if Gene hadn’t gifted us access to his over 900 photographs on the subject, I don’t think we would, or even could have taken the project on. The film incorporates over 40 interviews with many residents who were there, and takes an in-depth look at the downtown neighborhood of Kingston through the lens of 1960s urban renewal, and discusses the ramifications for the city today. The film also touches on the industrial origins of the area while placing the whole redevelopment scheme into a national context. The film is saturated with rare vintage photographs that go back to the 19th century and film footage of Rondout from the early 1930s and mid-1960s, including some of the demolition. As a work-in-progress, the film has played to standing room only crowds over the past year. A screening this month of the nearly completed film on November 21 at 7:30pm at the Arts Society of Kingston will have an original score by composer Peter Wetzler, whole new sections, newly added photographs, and vintage footage. On The Cover—Giselle Potter Included as usual is a short film about this month’s Chronogram cover artist, Rosendale illustrator Giselle Potter. An appreciation of Potter’s work appears on page 14.
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insome. This is the term that best describes the illustrations of Rosendale-based artist Giselle Potter. While the word has taken on a pejorative sense in recent years (winsome = something lightweight, or lacking seriousness); and it’s used, erroneously, in place of its mawkish cousin, “wistful” (“having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing”), Potter’s paintings radiate empathy. Her characters are depicted in a flat, 2-D style which is half pre-Renaissance icon painting and half folk art, but their expressions convey a depth of soul that carries the etymological root of the word (from the Old English: wynsum, from wyn “joy” + some). Some joy—that’s it in a nutshell. Sharon Bates, director of the Art & Culture Program at the Albany International Airport, who curated the exhibition “Folk Modern,” the current show at the airport in which Potter’s work is prominently featured, is a fan. “Giselle’s work doesn’t offer a true sense of dimension or perspective,” says Bates. “In her paintings, many of them the mouths are slightly open, and you see little tiny teeth. She’s adept at capturing certain emotions in the depictions of the faces. Given her primitive style of rendering, she’s really able to capture complexity.” Potter’s first book, The Year I Didn’t Go to School (Atheneum, 2002) a graphic bildungsroman based on her experiences traveling in Italy as a child with her parents’ puppet troupe, the Mystic Paper Beast goes a long way toward explaining her marveling eye. (One notable performer in the carnival is Eva, “who could hang by her long hair and play the tuba.”) Her parents were traveling puppet minstrels in the land of Fellini—who’s surprised that Potter would wind up a mixed media artist with a flair for the miraculous in the mundane? Potter got her start in commercial illustration at The NewYorker, doing spot illustrations for the Talk of the Town section. “I’d be sent to play and then have to sketch it out,” says Potter. Her connections at the magazine led her into children’s books, where her love of narrative is given free reign. Her most recent book, Tell Me What To Dream About (Schwartz & Wade, 2015), is inspired by her two daughters, who would ask their mom what they should envision in slumberland. In the book, the sisters discuss the dreamy possibilities—one delightful idea: eating a meal of teeny-tiny waffles with teeny-tiny animals—until the girls hit on the notion of the perfect dream. (I won’t spoil it.) “Folk Modern,” a group show with Anima Katz, Mat LaFleur, Jack Metzger, John McQueen, Nancy Natale, Steve Rein, and Susanna Starr, will be on exhibit through May 8 at the Albany International Airport. Portfolio: Gisellepotter.com. —Brian K. Mahoney CHRONOGRAM.COM
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The route to the tomb was along a walkway through a grove lined with orange trees. It was a tunnel with a light at its end and appeared to be an entryway to a mystery. We had the feeling of being enveloped in a special atmosphere that grew more intense and substantial the further we walked along the path. The walkway emerged into a clearing with the eight-sided pool found at many of the pilgrimage sites around Old Bukhara. A madrasah inlaid with eyeboggling geometric tile mosaics rose up beyond the pool. It was in mild disrepair, with some missing tiles and crumbling stones. Still the compound was clean, and a bent old man swept the patio with a broom made of slender sticks tied to a more robust branch for a handle. Like most of the once burgeoning religious sites in Uzbekistan, this one was empty save the sweeper. After 70 years of Communism and a new government intent on keeping sects and fundamentalists out of the country, the madrasas are closed and people stay away from the mosques other than on important holidays. But the most devout still come out to the tombs and shrines of the Sufi masters, a “golden chain” of teachers who lived five hundred to a thousand years ago in this part of Central Asia. This was the tomb of Khwaja Muhammad Baba Sammasi, who lived and died in the 14th century. He was called a master teacher, and is known to have identified the infant Baha ad-Din Naqshband, considered the greatest master in the golden chain, and many Sufi orders trace their lineages back to him. Arriving in the courtyard of the tomb, I was already feeling an otherworldly quality, the kind of atmosphere I’ve encountered in other places, and also at special events, notably around births and deaths—intersections of time and eternity where it feels as though the membrane between the visible and invisible worlds becomes very thin, and something truly new and creative enters the continuum. As a litmus test, I looked at an ancient tree in the courtyard, and indeed I could see every leaf shimmer in the slight breeze. My senses had come alive as though pulsing with finer, more concentrated fuel. My body tingled with sensation as I found that I could easily become present in my whole form, even my atmosphere. In my heart I felt a kind of thrill—it was energized as though I were anticipating something wonderful, though I had nothing particular in mind. We continued through a gate and along a low building to the tomb, which I circumambulated a few times, and finally went to the stone box in which the body of Khwaja Sammasi was said to be inhumed. I put my head against the rough, cool stone and closed my eyes. Then a surprising thing happened—I had the distinct sensation that the stone was malleable, liquid even. I didn’t push—there was no impulse to test the impression. It was enough to encounter a solid substance— granite—as insubstantial as water, or air, or light. There was in that moment, a sense of the continuousness of everything, a totally undifferentiated unity. The perception of the unity of all landed in my mind like a shooting star, and then titrated and settled in my heart, opening ripples of joyous well-being, a satisfaction that is not the absence of dissatisfaction. It was the energy of love. This was the message of this particular place—unique and different from the others. It was like a spoonful of yogurt dropped into the warm milk of being, transforming the contents of the whole vessel. Why the place had this impact I don’t know. Really it doesn’t matter, as the experience had more reality than a pan of sautéing onions. Most important, I was given help in working on myself, which continues to ripple and resound. When I opened my eyes, there was a group of people surrounding the tomb each with their foreheads against the stone with their eyes closed. Without lingering I stepped away and returned along the path. It was sunset and the orange grove was filled with birds. I didn’t see any of them, but I could hear them talking in loud voices verging on cacophony, but not overwhelming. The sound was intense and enveloping, a torrent of crowing, cawing, and chirping as I traversed the walkway toward the gate. Emerging, we saw the orange sun setting in a fiery western sky. Skinny dogs crowded around begging for snacks. In that moment we were the radiant sun, the mangy dogs, and the conferencing birds. There was no looking back. —Jason Stern
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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Do You Believe in Flying Saucers?
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recent episode of the marvelous radio program/podcast “Radiolab” focused on “Candid Camera,” the long-running hidden camera TV show. “Candid Camera” had its heyday in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and its technique of secretly filming people, ambush style, often in unusual situations or involving trick props (one memorable bit involved a vending machine that dispensed cans of soda via a human hand), is seen as a visionary precursor to the sea of reality television we now swim in. The show’s creator, Alan Funt, sought to capture people at their most spontaneous and unguarded. One of the interesting psychological gleanings of the show was that people wanted to be on television, even after the camera was revealed—“Smile, you’re on ‘Candid Camera’!”—and they found out that they had been hoodwinked. People desperately desired to be part of the story, even if they played the fool. Listening to the “Radiolab” episode flipped a switch in my memory. “Candid Camera” was an early influence on me as well. Joey DiPietro and I were sitting around one summer afternoon, one of those impossibly long summer afternoons when you’re 10 or 11 that seem to stretch out forever and there’s nothing left to do. Every idea is hackneyed, played out. We’d reenacted a wiffle ball version of Reggie Jackson’s three-home run game from the 1977 World Series. We’d played Parcheesi. We’d gone swimming. We’d played Stratego. We’d ridden our bikes around the block dozens of times, on each circuit pretending to be different characters from TV shows, first “Starsky and Hutch,” then “Dukes of Hazard,” and on and on. The game ended after we impersonated Lenny and Squiggy from “Laverne & Shirley.”We’d set small fires behind the garage. We’d sat on the stoop asking each other, “Whaddya wanna do?” “I dunno, whaddya wanna do?” for what seemed like an hour. We were bored. So we left the bright sunshine for the dark interior of the DiPietro household to watch TV. For those who’ve grown up in the warm, bosomy light of nine-hundred station cable TV and TiVo and webisodes, allow me to explain something about the bad old days of TV in the `70s: There were three national networks, PBS (old people talking grown-up piffle, or the Public Bull Shit network as we called it), three local independent stations that played old cartoons for a couple hours in the afternoons but mostly broadcast amateurish snoozefests like “The Joe Franklin Show” or “Bowling for Dollars” (an actual game show, Scout’s honor). Before the cartoons came on was the worst time of day to watch TV, all soap operas and “Donahue” and crappy reruns of “F Troop” and “Bonanza.” (Joey’s grandfather, who was off-theboat Italian, having come to live with his daughter and her family after retiring as a bricklayer in Turin, loved “Bonanza,” and was teaching himself English by watching the show. His typical greeting—picture Roberto Benigni saying this—was “Howdy pardner.”) On the day in question, Joey’s grandfather was watching “Candid Camera,” waiting for “Bonanza” to come on, I assumed. Squished on the plastic-covered couch between Joey and his chain-smoking grandfather, increasingly delighted by the pranks being played on unwitting passers-by, I had a thought: What if we made our own “Candid Camera?” We didn’t have a TV camera, so a cassette recorder would have to do. I had one of those, a top-loading job about the size of a small textbook. I used it mostly to record songs off the radio, hitting the record button and putting it face down on top of my
circa 1962 hand-me-down radio alarm clock and hoping the DJ wouldn’t come in too early to back-announce the song and ruin the end of it for me. The recorder fit snugly in a brown paper lunch bag. We would secretly record our conversations with people in the neighborhood. I can’t remember how Joey and I landed on the idea of UFOs as the provocative topic we would discuss—Close Encounters of the Third Kind had just come out, so perhaps that was a factor. (Popular culture was an influence on us.) Part Alan Funt, part Alan Lomax, Joey and I decided to set off in the morning. We walked around the neighborhood and asked people a simple question: Do you believe in flying saucers? The typical encounter went something like this: Joey and I walk up the steps to a house, brown paper bag with recorder not-so-secretly stuffed into it clutched to Joey’s chest. Ring the bell. Ding-dong! Door opens, homeowner appears. “Good morning, Mr. Lavado, I’m working on a school project and I’d like to ask you a question.” Cue Joey pressing down on the front of the bag to hit Record. The wheels of the tape recorder turning can faintly be heard. Mr. Lavado, skeptically eyeing the bag, says, “But it’s summer, Brian.” In my best bright-boy voice I respond: “Indeed it is, Mr. Lavado. I’m trying to get a leg up on 7th grade by doing a report over the summer on UFOs. Mr. Lavado, do you believe in flying saucers?” For his part, Mr. Lavado gave us a buck and told us not to go around bothering people. He wouldn’t talk. It was a long day. Joey and I had doors slammed in our faces. People laughed at us and just walked back inside. Old women invited us in and fed us stale cookies and wrinkled grapes and told us about their grandchildren, who looked just like us. But some people did talk to us, like Mrs. Schwartz, a widow, who told a rambling tale about her husband, who was a pilot in World War II, and who had seen UFOs flying sorties in the South Pacific. And Steven Garvey’s mom, who never came out of her house—Steven claimed she was sick but wouldn’t say what of— said she had been for a ride in a spaceship and nothing more. And the construction worker on his lunch break, who opened up about an experience he had a few years before in the Bronx. It was the middle of the afternoon, he said, right on Grand Concourse, plenty of people on the street, when a flying saucer descended right over the intersection and hovered. Everyone on the street stopped. After a minute, the UFO flew up and away. People on the street exchanged glances, but nobody said anything and just walked away. After telling us the story, construction worker looked genuinely spooked by it. And then there was Mr. Rappoport, retired subway conductor, who we ran into on the street, on his way back from the OTB. After some preliminary conversation about aliens, he confided to us that he written a theme song for the Boy Scouts, and would we like to hear it? Why, of course we would, Mr. Rappoport. Standing on the corner of 29th Avenue and 210th Place, Mr. Rappoport gave full throat to the song he had written, pumping his arms in a marching rhythm. I can only remember a snippet: Win square, lose fair, we’re Scouts ya know / doing our duty, helping as we go / But when the flag’s out, every Boy Scout / pledges his loyalty for-e-ver. Mr. Rappoport had sent the song in to the Boy Scouts, offered it to them free, he told us, but they rejected it. People just want to be heard, be part of the story. And their stories live on in me, like that little snatch of Mr. Rappoport’s song. I bet that tape is up in my attic somewhere. I hope I find it. There are more stories waiting to be unlocked. 11/15 CHRONOGRAM 19
A debate team composed of three members of the Bard Prison Initiative, a program that offers a collegiate experience to inmates at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in Napanoch, won a debate against a team of students from Harvard University. The win follows a 2014 victory against the US Military Academy at West Point and another against the University of Vermont. The debate was organized as a means of demonstrating the value of offering educational opportunities to incarcerated men and women. While the national average for recidivism is around 68 percent, research indicates that the percentage falls to 22 percent when education is available. Fewer than 2 percent of Bard Prison Initiative students have returned to prison. Source: Daily Kos As a result of a drop in oil prices from slowing European and Chinese economies and a rise in alternative drilling techniques, Shell has abandoned its offshore drilling operations in Alaska. The decision has followed an industry trend of trimming costs while the worldwide demand of oil remains low. Michael C. Lynch, president of Strategic Energy and Economic Research, explains, “When prices go down, the oil industry shortens their list of projects in development by removing the most expensive ones.” Shell has released a statement acknowledging “the high costs associated with the project and the challenging and unpredictable federal regulatory environment in offshore Alaska.” The president, Marvin E. Odum, said that although the withdrawal is a disappointment, the company still sees exploration potential. Environmentalists, such as the executive director of Greenpeace, Annie Leonard, considers Shell’s departure to be a victory for sustaining the Arctic. Source: New York Times A new water-absorbent concrete may help cities hit hard by storms prevent flooding and save lives. Topmix Permeable, also known as “thirsty concrete,” is a new pavement developed by Tarmac able to absorb 880 gallons of water per-minute, which allows water that would otherwise flood areas to be filtered and used for drinking, plumbing, or firefighting. In addition, Topmix Permeable could prevent car accidents on slick roads. Although Tarmac is the first company to create a surface strong enough for city streets, the system is unable to function in extreme cold because of the potential for water to freeze. Source: Good Magazine
A US farm worker and a horticultural assistant have filed lawsuits claiming Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused their cancers and Monsanto intentionally misled the public and regulators about the dangers of the herbicide. The lawsuits come six months after the World Health Organization’s cancer research unit said it was classifying glyphosate, the active weed-killing ingredient in Roundup and other herbicides, as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” The lawsuits claim that Roundup was a “defective” product and “unreasonably dangerous” to consumers, and that Monsanto knew or should have known that glyphosate could cause cancer and other illnesses and injuries, failing to properly warn users of the risks. Source: Reuters The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell in mid-October, matching the lowest level since 1973, strong evidence that employers remain confident enough in the economy to retain their staffs. Hiring has stumbled in the past two months, however, raising worries that employers have turned cautious about adding jobs. The US economy gained just 142,000 jobs in September and only 136,000 in August, below the average of nearly 229,000 in the previous 12 months. The economy is expected to expand just 1 percent to 1.5 percent in the third quarter, a sharp drop after 3.9 percent growth in the second quarter. Source: New York Times In early November, about 6,000 federal prison inmates are to receive early release due to changes implemented by the US Sentencing Commission. The early release program comes amid bipartisan support for changes to the criminal justice system, including reductions in the mandatory minimum sentences that land many offenders in jail for lengthy stints. Jesselyn McCurdy, senior legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, said: “Far too many people have lost years of their lives to draconian sentencing laws born of the failed drug war. People of color have had to bear the brunt of these misguided and cruel policies. ” Source: Time Magazine 20 CHRONOGRAM 11/1511/15
A study published in Psychology of Popular Media Culture found that, out of its 356 teenage subjects, 12 percent of girls and 3 percent of boys were “compulsive texters.” (According to figures published in 2012 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, texting is the primary means of communication by teenagers.) A compulsive texter is described as exhibiting behaviors common to compulsive gamblers, including loss of sleep, problems cutting back, and lying to cover up time spent on his or her habit. The study found that these behaviors put the girls at a higher risk for doing poorly in school. Dr. Kelly M. Lister-Landman, the paper’s lead author, hypothesized that these girls’ texts may be causing a distraction due to their “emotionally laden” content. Though not involved in the recent study, Kimberly Young, founder of the Center for Internet Addiction, says, “I don’t think texting is causing academic problems—I think it’s an attention-span issue.” Source: New York Times Following the deaths of 10 people at at the hands of a gunman at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, President Obama called on news organizations to compare data on the number of gun related deaths with deaths resulting from acts of terrorism. CNN presented information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stating that between 2004 and 2013 deaths caused by firearms (including homicide, suicide, and accidents) totaled 316,545, while domestic terrorism caused 36. NBC reported that between 2001 and 2013, the data from the CDC put the number of gun-related homicides at 153,144. Vox’s report included September 11, 2001, which brought the total number of deaths from terrorism to 3,000. The Washington Post reported that there have been 9,948 gun-related deaths in 2015. President Obama urged Americans to evaluate these numbers and requested support in changing the country’s gun laws. “Each time this happens I’m going to bring this up,” said Obama. “Each time this happens I’m going to say that we can actually do something about it but we’re going to have to change our laws and this is not something I can do by myself.” Source: Good Compiled by Mary Looram
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ho shoots whom these days in America? Crazy, demented teens who can’t get a girlfriend? Mexicans who’ve crossed the border of Donald Trump’s mind to form gangs in Iowa? Thugs in urban ghettos? Yeah, them. And then there are the toddlers. “A two-year-old in South Carolina found a gun in the back seat of the car he was riding in and accidentally shot his grandmother, who was sitting in the passenger seat.”1 Does that sort of thing happen a lot? As of October 15 of this year, “at least 13 toddlers had inadvertently killed themselves with firearms, 18 more injured themselves, 10 injured other people, and 2 killed other people.”2 It’s tough out there in tot-land.They’re not just killing, they’re being killed. In 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control, 15 children no more than a year old were shot to death (12 ruled homicides, three ruled accidents by whatever local authorities handled them), 46 between the ages of two and four (39 homicides, 27 accidents), and 181 between the ages of five and 14 (142 homicides, 39 accidents). The NRA sponsors “youth days” to close out their annual conventions. Reporters were banned from the 2014 “Youth Day” in Indianapolis. But reports from others, where witnesses were not kept out, make it clear that it’s a commercial event in which gun dealers and others in ancillary enterprises display their wares to children and their parents, allowing them to handle and try them out. At the 2013 convention, a five-year-old who got to shoot said, “I like it because I like the smell of gunsmoke.” Parents said things like, “If a child understands how to properly and safely shoot, then they become much safer. In a bad situation, they will understand what needs to be done.”3 Tot shooters are largely an issue of gun safety. Parents, relatives, friends, and neighbors leave a gun where someone small can find it. When it comes to guns, there seems to be even more parental self-delusion than there is with sex. A group of parents and children, five to 14 years old, were surveyed. Many of the parents were confident their kids didn’t know where their guns were kept. When those children were questioned, 39 percent of them knew. Of those who swore their kids never handled their guns, 22 percent had. A gun instructor, speaking of safety at an NRA Youth Day, said that children’s bedrooms were the best place for a home gun safe. A lot of gun advocates say proper training is the answer. Perhaps at some point it is. But in 1996, a experiment was done with fout-to-six-year-olds by Professor Marjorie Hardy at UNC-Charlotte. She brought in 48 children. Half were given a lesson from a uniformed crime prevention officer, then got a parent-child meeting in which they went over the rules, like, if you see a gun, “Don’t touch, leave the room, get an adult!” Combined groups, trained and untrained, were put in a playroom where they could be observed through one way glass.There were toys, including toy guns.There was also a woman’s purse on a table with a real—but disarmed—gun inside. As soon as a kid discovered the real gun and announced it, all other play ceased. The gun was it! “They were putting it in their mouths, shooting the toys, shooting each other, shooting the mirror. Some of them tried to make bullets out of crayons.”4 Professor Hardy did a follow-up study with older kids. The results were the same. One of the most interesting gun advocates sounding off at the moment is
almost-leading Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. He claims that if he had been at the mass shooting in Oregon, “I would say, ‘Hey guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can’t get us all.’” Sometime later, he told a tale of a real-life encounter at a Popeye’s Fried Chicken. “Guy comes in, puts the gun in my ribs. And I just said, “I believe that you want the guy behind the counter.’ He said, ‘Oh, okay,’ and moved on.” There is something wonderfully childlike in both of these.The first is the sort of thing my son and his friends would have come up with when they were five or six and all sorts of miraculous derring-do seemed utterly plausible. As for the second, it’s like a schoolyard moment when the bully appears and you get out of it by pointing at someone else, saying, “It was Joey who said that thing about your sister,” without a moment of hesitation or worry about what’s going to happen to Joey. It’s significant because there is something astonishingly childlike about the whole guns-for-defense position. There are two entities gun owners want to be—need to be—ready to fight. First, the government! That’s been attempted many times, most seriously from 1861 to 1865, and it never ends well for the people trying to shoot their way out of the federal system. The other group, of course, are the perennial bogeymen—home invaders, rapists, carjackers, and other fearsome creatures—we see on TV. In 2013, there 11,208 homicides involving firearms. That same year there were 742 justifiable homicides—most, 461, by law enforcement.5 Keep in mind that the advent of “StandYour Ground” legislation in a group of states made it much easier to claim a killing was “justified” and the rate did go up,6 yet there were still merely 281 by private citizens. From that we can imagine that maybe 2.6 percent of the time, when confronted with homicidal violence, gun owners stood up to their attackers and killed them. Bravo! We salute those heroes. Except for George Zimmerman. However, a study in the American Journal of Public Health reported that individuals with a gun were approximately 4.5 times more like to be shot than someone who was unarmed. Just living with a gun is, at least statistically, dangerous. The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that said an individual’s risk of death by homicide increases 40 percent if there are guns in the home. The American Journal of Epidemiology put the number at 90 percent. It may be true that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” But it’s also true that people with guns kill people much more easily than people without guns. Including themselves. About half of the 38,000 suicides a year in the US are with firearms. And tots. Tots almost never, ever kill anyone with a bow and arrow, a knife, a club, their bare hands. No, tots don’t kill people, but tots with guns do. Notes 1 “People are getting shot by toddlers on a weekly basis this year,” Christopher Ingraham, Washington PostWonkblog, 10/14/2015. 2 Ibid. 3 “YOU’RE KIDDING! NRA pushes guns on kids as young as Newtown victims in sick ‘Youth Day,’” Bill Hutchinson and Daniel Beekman, NewYork Daily News, 5/5/2013. 4 “Gun Safety—Too Many Kids Die,” Dr.Greene.com, 2/4/2000. 5 The police number is probably a radical undercount. A story for another time. 6 Almost the entire increase in the number of “justified” killings under the “Stand Your Ground” legislation was of black people. 11/15 CHRONOGRAM 21
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Sophia Quinones with a very sincere pumpkin at Fishkill Farms.
ENHANCING TRADITION FISHKILL, WAPPINGERS FALLS & HOPEWELL JUNCTION BY ANNE PYBURN CRAIG PHOTOS BY EVA DEITCH
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ust north of I-84 and just east of the Hudson lie the two largest watersheds in Dutchess County, those of Fishkill Creek and Wappinger Creek. It’s a corner of the Hudson Valley, like Kingston and Poughkeepsie, that was home to a massive IBM plant for decades. IBM brought thousands of living-wage jobs and encouraged folks to get involved in civic affairs; having no city to play in, East Fishkill’s IBMers and their neighbors poured their love into enhancing village and suburban life. It’s always been high-energy territory. The Continental Army sited a massive supply depot in Fishkill. The mill in Wappingers Falls was the largest printworks in the country in the latter half of the 19th century. Hopewell Junction was the place where three major railroads came together. Nowadays, there’s a blend of quaint and distinctly up-to-the-minute here. Neighbors romp and listen to band concerts in the pretty parks, come together around everything from cheering for the kids and helping the burdened to community yard sales, festivals, and parades. They avidly support topnotch community theater in Wappingers Falls, where the County Players are offering “Of Mice and Men” this month; sustainable agriculture at Fishkill Farms, where you can purchase local eats year-round at the Farm Store; and a triple handful of varied fine cuisines. It’s a great place for a shopping day. If you need to comparison shop for almost anything, Route 9 between Fishkill and Wappingers Falls is your mecca; big-box places alternate with indie offerings that survive here because they do their unique thing well. Flea market fans will find happy hunting at the Dutchess Marketplace, a repurposed mall with 100,000 square feet of indoor vendor space and an outdoor market every weekend through December. Created with Love Boutique in Wappingers Falls brings together fine crafters under one roof. It’s a great place to play. There’s Bowdoin Park on the banks of the Hudson, with its award-winning handicapped-accessible playground. There’s the Dutchess Rail Trail, a paved and tree-lined 13 miles with Hopewell Junction’s restored depot on one end and the Walkway Over the Hudson at the other; trail fans rave about its thoughtful construction and pleasant views. Need wheels for the trail? Visit Wheel and Heel in Wappingers. 22 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 11/15
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Clockwise from top: Kevin Fischetti at North River Hops and Brewery in Wappingers Falls; Grinnell Library, the sixth oldest library in New York, in Wappingers Falls; Rob Hanlon at In the Cut in Fishkill. Opposite, top to bottom: The bustling snack stand at Fishkill Farms; Paul DeFelice eating a hearty breakfast at Ground Hog Coffee House in Wappingers Falls.
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Ten Things to Know About WAPPINGERS FALLS, FISHKILL, AND HOPEWELL JUNCTION Native American residents christened Fishkill Tioranda, “the place where two waters meet.” The Dutch name, Vis Kill, means “fish creek.” The translation was apparently lost on PETA when they tried to pressure the town to change the name to something less “violent” in 1996. The town demurred—Mayor George Carter characterized the proposal as “idiotic.” Wappingers Falls was the scene of a lesser-known Revolutionaryera tea party. In 1777, local folks decided that a Loyalist merchant from the city named Peter Mesier was charging too much for his tea. They invaded his house, knocked him and his slaves around, and drank his wine. Oh, and they took the tea, but left him what they considered a fair price. They then dumped the tea—some say— in Wappinger Creek. At the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Wappingers Falls, you can take in a large collection of spiritually themed art and sculpture; walk the Wisdom Trail, created by “earth sculptors” and featuring a labyrinth and human-size nests; and nosh on vegan and gluten-free eats and local kombucha. You can also attend a full moon celebration, come to Art Church one Sunday a month, and study with the M.A.G.I.—the Mystic Artists Guild International. Fishkill Farms, located in Hopewell Junction, was originally founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s buddy Henry Morgenthau, secretary of state and father of Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, on what was already the site of one of the nation’s oldest apple orchards. Henry’s grandson Joshua runs Fishkill Farms today, as a sustainably managed pick-your-own, and the farm’s been ranked #1 in the New York metro area by new media company Organic Authority LLC.
Hudson Valley Foodsmith, located in Wappingers Falls, is an omnivorous locavore’s dream. Bacon, sausage, cole slaw, pickles, mayo, and dressings are among the many items made in-house; no preservatives, nitrates, or other chemical nasties are allowed to darken the doorstep. The chef is a CIA grad. Stop in and try the sweet potato griddle cakes with pure maple syrup and fresh fruit. Hopewell Junction itself made #31 on Money magazine’s 2005 list of best places to live. Here’s why: A quick commute to Manhattan, comparatively reasonable housing prices, excellent schools, recreation, and open space. Wappingers is home to the Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center, owned by the DEC and run by a nonprofit, the Stony Kill Foundation, that hosts an Open Barn at its working 19th-century farm every weekend and maintains eight miles of hiking trails open all day, every day, free. Wappingers is also where you’ll find one of the region’s most comprehensive veterinary practices. Earth Angels offers state-ofthe-art holistic treatment including dentistry, ultrasound, senior care, pain management and wellness exams to furry companions ranging from Great Danes to pocket pets. The preserved Van Wyck homestead in Fishkill is one small component of a much larger slice of history. The Fishkill Supply Depot and Encampment covers 70 acres; in 2009, archaeological studies confirmed that it contains what may be the largest Revolutionary War-era burying ground anywhere. Much of the land has been built on, but a dedicated group, the Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot, is seeking to preserve the rest. Hopewell Junction history buffs have a noble mission of their own. Having successfully renovated the railroad depot and put together a lovely museum and visitor’s center, the Hopewell Depot Restoration Company would like to build a reproduction of the old switching tower—and use the lower level of it to house restrooms for Rail Trail visitors. Fundraising is proceeding nicely.
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The Dutchess Rail Trail in Hopewell Junction.
Phil and Debbie are former teachers who have been promoting cycling in the HV since the 1980s, and they have state-of-the-art equipment that’ll help you find a bike that fits you to perfection. When summer comes again, so will the 2016 season of Splash Down Beach, “America’s Biggest Little Water Park,” located right here in Fishkill. And it’s a great place to watch others play. Dutchess Stadium in Wappingers has long been the home of the Hudson Valley Renegades baseball team; this fall, for the first time, they’re bringing us minor league football. Collegiate talent from NFL pre-season camps will be giving it their best, on new state-of-the-art turf. It’s a great place for history buffs: the Grinnell Library in Wappingers Falls is the sixth oldest in the US, and within it you’ll find special collections including a unique display of bird taxidermy (ever see an actual passenger pigeon?) and the John R. Ferris Civil War collection, all in a funky 1887 building that’s a quirky mix of British and Swiss architecture.The Van Wyck Homestead in Fishkill, used as officers’ quarters during the Revolution, has been lovingly renovated, as has Hopewell Junction’s historic train depot, now a railway museum featuring a diorama of the depot in its glory days with working lights that visitors can operate. All of this will undoubtedly make you hungry, and you’ll find you’re in good hands. In Wappingers, those in the know head to Ground Hog Coffee for blueberry pancakes, French toast, or peanut butter muffins with their ambrosial cuppa, and the new location of Mexicali Blue for healthy, fresh-made Southwestern and Californian. In Fishkill, check out Leo’s, a Hudson Valley based chain offering topnotch classical Old World Italian, or Il Barilotto Enoteca for an updated take in a casual-chic atmosphere. The newly opened Dutchess Biercafe offers New American with a Belgian twist and fine craft brews. And that’s just a sampling; this is Culinary Institute turf, and you could probably eat somewhere fine and different every week for a year. It’s still a great place for high-tech industry. IBM stuck around into the third millennium, and sold their East Fishkill semiconductor plant to GlobalFoundries, retaining most of those living-wage jobs for smart folks. The future, for these sweet towns where tradition gets enhanced rather than obliterated, is looking bright—stay tuned. 28 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 11/15
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Thanksgiving Edition By Jana Martin
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hen we say “giving thanks,” we mean to these great makers and shops—for local home, table, edible, and drinkable treasures that turn any meal into an occasion. Whatever your fare or inclination, here’s a dollop of Hudson Valley goodness from elegant to hearty, iron to linen to wood to wine. Just don’t forget to save room for dessert. 30 SHOPPING CHRONOGRAM 11/15
Above: Sourdough bread from Made In Ghent, which bakes two or three kinds of bread every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and other times by arrangement.
Goodness Little Ghent Farm is a picturesque family shop and rural gem that produces remarkable loaves of bread in their rustic kitchen: Crusty and chewy sourdough comes in boule and white tin forms, $7 each; their focaccia is, well, to die for, $16 for half a sheet. Bring as a hostess gift wrapped in a cotton bread bag, $5, and you’ll be loved forever. And don’t forget the dogs: handmade dog treats, 4-oz. bag (about 30 treats), $6. Madeinghent.com
Handmade modern version of a traditional English jug designed by William Reardon, from Burkleman in Cold Spring.
Form Is Function From Burkelman in Cold Spring are sleek, handmade wares by William Reardon in New York stoneware: The pitcher is a neatly elongated revision of the traditional English jug, $200; the mixing bowl has a pouring edge, a quietly functional take on the classic batter bowl, $80. Both come in Turquoise, Aubergine, Cream, or Orange. And if you’re looking for that perfect carving board, there’s David Rasmussen’s solid walnut Bias Carving Board, shot through with diagonals of color and entirely food safe, $175. Shopburkelman.com Aim High, Serve Low, Add Glow Three ways to elevate your dining room from Hudson Home: An impressiveAA-B2B_2015-SIERRA_LILLY-4.25x5.825.indd 2 chandelier by Thomas O’Brien makes a rustically grand statement over any table. By special order, in aged iron or antique white finish; $1,750. Nesting serving trays in concentric rectangles of woven rattan are low-slung updates Community Thrift Store of Tiki chic, perfect for passing out canapés; $90-$150. Set things aglow with 7856 Rt. 9W | Catskill, NY 12414 | 518.943.9205 | www.cagcny.org Cire Trudon candles by France’s oldest candlemaker (and supplier to Louis XIV), in an array of sublime scents, $95 and up. Hudson-home.com
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Sturdy, with Color Light House Style in Saugerties has top-shelf items for home and entertaining, including a Le Creuset soup tureen in classic cherry red that takes three quarts of goodness from stove to table brightly and beautifully. Well designed, it will last for years of repasting, is easy to clean, and dishwasher, microwave, and oven safe; $99. The same stoneware is used for Le Creuset’s capacious 12-ounce mugs—perfect for hot toddies or mulled cider, in a range of saturated hues, $14 each. Lighthousestyle.com Lap of Luxury Set a table with sublime linen napkins from Boxwood Linen and it instantly whispers with understated luxury. The Chatham shop makes its own 100 percent pure linen goods for the home, from tea towels to tablecloths to sheets, available in subtle shades like Oyster and Dijon, with optional monogramming (so they’re great gifts as well). Belgian linen napkins, $26.50; linen table runner, $71; best linen tablecloth, $363. Boxwoodlinen.com
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Left: 2014 Beaujolais Rouge from Domain Depeuble at Kingston Wine Co. Above: Animal platters from Paper Trail in Rhinebeck.
Perfectly Hewn Valatie home and gift boutique Great Finds is stocked with the well-crafted and well-made. Overlooking the legendary Houdini House (site of Houdini’s last films), the shop has inventive bowls made by woodworker Spencer Peterman, who sources fallen trees during frequent woods walks in western Massachusetts and turns them into bowls on a specially designed lathe. Of black walnut, spalted maple, and more, these are entirely food safe. Medium serving bowl, $259. And toast the season with lovely French drinking glasses adorned with bees, scrolls, or seashells, $12 each. Greatfindsforhome.com
Sweetness In maple syrup, there’s the real thing and then there’s the other stuff; Crown Maple & Madava Farms in Dover Plains have the real thing, and gallons of it. The intense Bourbon Barrel Aged Maple Syrup is a pure organic wonder that riffs off the bourbon barrels it ages in, 375 ml, $19.95. The Crown Maple trio offers a variety pack of full-size bottles for cooking, baking, and cocktails: Amber Color and Rich Taste, Dark Color and Robust Taste, and Very Dark Color and Strong Taste. All are varieties of Crown Maple Grade-A syrup, and all are insanely amazing, $59.95. Crownmaple.com
Country-Folksy Comforts Frazzleberries in Warwick serves up homespun home goods and folk art: Their Mason jar lid coasters have cork bases inside (the better to soak up any errant drops) and are stamped with country farm images of a pig, a rooster, and the words “Mason Jar.” Get a whole set to handle your guests and don’t worry about the furniture; $4.99 each. Serve your snacks in cheery bowls by Color Code: Glazed in bright Honey Butter, Pumpkin, and Wasabi, they’re durable and seasonally appropriate. Small, $7.99; medium, $12.99; large, $16.99. Frazzleberries.com
Toast-worthiness The Kingston Wine Co. specializes in the kind of European wines that make you want to stand up and raise a glass. Recommended for the season are a 2013 Cabernet Franc (Elizabeth’s Vineyard) from Eminence Road Farm Winery, $20.99; a 2014 Beaujolais Rouge from Domain Depeuble, $15.99; and for something altogether different, an organic 2012 Slovenian Orange Wine, $23.99. Shop.kingstonwine.com
LIBATIONS & COMESTIBLES Treatness Jones Farm in Cornwall has treats famous on both sides of the Hudson: bestselling Harvest Bread Pudding, regular with cider, cream and rum, $12.95; holiday with cranberries, spices, and pumpkin, $14.95. Locally made Coyote Kitchen Jams come in flavors like strawberry balsamic with cracked black pepper and thin-cut grapefruit; 4 oz. jar, $5.99. Scrumptious Hudson Valley Caramels are $7.75 for a 5 oz. bag. Jonesfarminc.com 32 SHOPPING CHRONOGRAM 11/15
Spirited The right bitters can really kick up a cocktail a notch, and Dutch’s Spirits from the Harvest Homestead Farm in Pine Plains include finely handcrafted versions. Go for Dutch’s American Era Variety Three-Pack for a sampling, including one-oz. bottles of Dutch’s Colonial Cocktail Bitters, Boomtown Bitters, and Dutch’s Prohibitors, $14.95. There’s also the swanky Sugar Wash Moonshine, approximately $25 for 750ml. Check with local liquor stores, or contact Dutch’s directly. Dutchsspirits.com
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Kids & Family
The Leonardsmiths and the Taylors at home.
EXTENDING THE FAMILY BUILDING PARENTING VILLAGES
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By Hillary Harvey
n the afternoon that the Taylors were moving into their new house, their friend Ellie Leonardsmith heard the movers chatting outside with a neighbor. As she introduced herself, Leonardsmith learned that he was a developer and flipping the house next door. She glanced at the light blue house next to the Taylors’ new one and told him right then, “I’d like to buy it.” And she and her wife, Kelsey, did just that. The Leonardsmiths and Taylors joke that their two houses are now a cohousing community, but with a new fence encircling a shared backyard, a communal toolshed with newly co-purchased lawn mower, an extra bin on one house’s garbage service, and a reflector to aim Wi-Fi from door to door, that description of their situation isn’t that far from the truth. Imported from Denmark in the 1980s by American architects interested in a mix of design and sustainability, modern co-housing is a living situation where individual houses share a common space or facilities. (Cantine’s Island in Saugerties is one local example.) Unlike a 1960s-style hippie commune, cohousing doesn’t often pool finances or provide for organized communal decision making. It’s an informal sharing economy based on personal attributes and favors among chosen neighbors. Similar to religious communes like Israeli-style kibbutzim or Christian monasteries, there might be a focus on mutual values, but the autonomy built into the cohousing model often leads to a flexibility and open-mindedness around variety in individual tastes. At the heart of cohousing is the ability to craft the community to suit each inhabitant’s needs. The Leonardsmiths had a longtime fascination with cohousing and were looking to shift away from what they call the individualistic, consumerist dream of having your own house and your own stuff. When presented with
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the opportunity to buy the place next door to the Taylors’, it felt like the moment to achieve their ideals. And with the variety of personalities involved, it’s a well-rounded and full parenting experience for everybody. Two-year-old Graylyn Leonardsmith, currently an only child, goes over to the Taylors’ house most afternoons to run with their pack of three kids. She’ll quietly craft and bake with the Taylors, and engage in loud, extroverted, and musical play with her moms. The families often eat dinner together, preferring to prepare a dish or two for everyone over cooking a whole meal for just a few. “For us, it’s already relieved so much of the stress of child-care needs,” says Leonardsmith. “A half an hour here, 15 minutes there—if you don’t have family support, you’re hiring a babysitter or schlepping the kid around. It’s stressful.” There’s a culture of isolation in modern day parenting when people, like the Leonardsmiths, find job opportunities far from their families. That translates to a sometimes overwhelming amount of parental responsibility falling on the shoulders of parents alone. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey on time use, 56 percent of mothers and 50 percent of fathers find juggling work and family life to be difficult, and 40 percent of working mothers and 34 percent of working fathers say they always feel rushed. The convenience of relying on their neighbors for child care while the Leonardsmiths run to the store for milk makes the arrangement feel more like an expanded family. They don’t have to calculate their requests and diminish the burden on any one friend. With a cohousing neighbor watching all the kids play in a shared backyard, it’s just not a big deal. “Our vision would be, as houses go up for sale, to buy out the whole block with more friends,” Leonardsmith says. “It would be amazing to have more internal space for the kids to run around; add goats and greenhouses. This is small, but it’s a beginning.”
Open Houses When her kids were four and six, Marika Lindholm became very sick. She was recently divorced and parenting alone. “It felt like I swam awkwardly in a sea of couples. Slowly my circle of friends expanded to more moms like myself, who, for a variety of reasons, were raising kids on their own. It wasn’t a conscious process but more of a social comfort in finding a group of women who didn’t worry about you stealing their husband or judge you for the pile of dishes in the sink.” Her network of solo mom friends took her kids for sleepovers, brought them food, and pushed Lindholm to get more tests. Her illness turned out to be a curable blood disorder, but that feeling of vulnerability Lindholm experienced crystalized how alone a single parent is sometimes and became a driving motivation for her. A sociologist, Lindholm knows that a parent’s social network is pivotal to her well-being. And for solo moms, reclaiming the group’s status was key. Last July, she launched a confidential online community called ESME (Empowering Solo Moms Everywhere), based in Red Hook. It’s a parenting village for the digital age, providing articles, resources, and databases, and bridging diverse communities of solo moms in an inspirational and supportive environment. Lindholm wants solo moms, who are collectively tasked with raising 22 million American children, to feel proud and connected. Run by solo moms or the people who love them, from the writers to the PR agents, the impetus is to help solo moms build a network of support from people who “get it.” Lindholm advises that effective social networks should be a blend of people who are closely connected (strong ties) and acquaintances (weak ties). She draws inspiration from her former colleague at Northwestern, Mark Granovetter, now a professor at Stanford and the author of The Strength of Weak Ties. She says that people should recognize practical and emotional support might not come from the same source. “There might be another mom or dad that’s always willing to help with a school pickup, but you would never cry on their shoulder,” Lindholm says. That goes for parenting couples, as well. Monique Heenan of Gardiner thinks of her parenting circles in terms of tiers of support: there are the friends or acquaintances who share carpooling, playdate hosting, and everyday favors (first tier); and there are the close friends who respond in a crisis (second tier). “They’re different relationships,” Heenan says, “but at the foundation of both is reciprocity.” The Heenans have moved three times since relocating from Albany to the Hudson Valley 10 years ago. Each time, they’ve lost some of their first-tier circle, and Heenan has worked to rebuild it. In Woodstock, she initiated a tacoand-sundae night on Fridays at their house for a gang of kids her son and daughter knew through homeschooling. Appreciative for the invite and the night off, some of the parents reciprocated in kind, indicating that they were looking for the same thing for their families. In the Hudson Valley, parents create support circles for various reasons. Aside from single parenting or co-parenting in divorce, very often one parent works in New York City or travels for work, leaving the other to fly solo for several days each week. In families where both parents work, it may be born of necessity, especially during afterschool hours. A child’s extensive activities, like dancing five days a week, might only be possible with the help of other dance parents. 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The House
Stroke of Genius
Above: Sasha Chermayeff and Chai Walla creekside behind the house. Bottom: Philip Howie in his drawing studio.
RECOVERY AND INSPIRATION IN CATSKILL By Karen Angel Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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hey were the lucky ones. On both sides of West Main Street in Catskill, the houses flooded during Hurricane Irene in late August 2011—but Philip Howie and Sasha Chermayeff’s stayed dry because it sits on a high knoll above the bank where the Catskill and Kaaterskill Creeks intersect. In a light moment, after their yard disappeared beneath the rising water, Howie and his daughter, Olivia, kayaked above their garden. “Then it got very grueling,” says Chermayeff, a painter, and the wife of sculptor Howie. “None of us believed the water could get any higher—we just thought it was over.” But it did get higher, flooding Howie’s studio and sparking days of frantic work, first to save the art, including a sculpture commission he had been working on intensely for a year, and then to clear the layer of mud left behind. On September 1, an exhausted Howie and Chermayeff drove into Hudson for dinner, then headed home to bed. “I woke up because he was hiccupping in his sleep,” Chermayeff says. “I said, ‘Phil, wake up, you have the hiccups.’ And all I got back was more hiccups. I was shaking him. Then I jumped up, flipped on the light, and looked at his face. I could see half of his face was dangling down. I could see his right arm and right leg were dangling down, and he was looking at his hand and leg with a question like, ‘What’s happening?’ I saw the whole thing and realized he was having a stroke.” It turned out to be a massive stroke. Howie’s right side was totally paralyzed, and he had lost his capacity for speech. Over the next four years, in his personal version of posthurricane rebuilding, the right-handed Howie painstakingly taught himself to sculpt and draw with his left hand and to speak again. He has since produced dozens of sculptures—including a commissioned bust of Michael Pulitzer of the Pulitzer publishing dynasty—and thousands of drawings, held workshops at his studio, and had seven exhibitions. His latest runs through November 10 at the Rose Gallery in Hudson. Far from being compromised, Howie’s art has been enriched by his stroke, art experts who know him say. Whereas he once focused on capturing classical ideals of physical perfection, his sculptures and drawings now are infused with emotion. “I was completely bowled over by his work,” says Nancy Cobean, director of the Rose Gallery, who first saw Howie’s drawings at the Spotty Dog bar and bookstore
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Clockwise from top: Chermayeff’s studio; Howie’s bust of daughter Olivia; Howie’s sculpture studio.
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Top: Chai Walla in the master bedroom, sculptures by Howie and Peter Agostini Bottom: The living room, with bronze bull sculptures by Howie and paintings by Chermayeff
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in Hudson, then later at his studio. “There’s more passion in work of his done after the stroke.There’s a whole different pool of inspiration that he draws from because of what he’s gone through.” Chermayeff, daughter of famed graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff, also thinks her husband’s work has changed for the better. “The stroke knocked something loose in him, in a good way,” she says. “He’s a little wilder now. There’s more emotional content. I wouldn’t wish him to be hurt, but I think it’s incredible that his artwork has become something alive and new.” Or, as Howie puts it, “It’s really not superficial. It’s real stuff.” He started drawing three weeks into his six-week stint at Albany Medical Center, when the doctors still didn’t know if he would ever walk or talk again. “He couldn’t feel his right arm and leg,” Chermayeff says. “You could see his soul was intact, but he was entirely unable to communicate.” Though wobbly, his drawings illustrated that his vivid imagination was untouched. “I remember drawing flowers—the right hand was bold, and the left hand is really sketchy and trembling,” Howie says. “I practiced thousands of drawings.” On his release from the hospital, Howie began physical, occupational, and speech therapy, which continues to this day. He left the hospital in a wheelchair but insisted on using a walker at home. At four months, he was walking unassisted, dragging his right leg. His speech took longer to return, and he has only recently begun to use full sentences. He has also become a fine left-handed harmonica player and a regular at Helsinki Hudson’s Tuesday-night open mike, wowing audiences with his heartfelt blues renditions. “I work really hard trying to get back what I used to be,” Howie says. “I’m determined as hell—and stubborn, too.” Howie and Chermayeff, both 55, met in 1984 as grad students at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in Manhattan’s West Village. They moved into an East Fourth Street apartment that same year, and each rented a separate studio nearby. After marrying in 1992, they decided that buying a house would be a wiser use of their money. They fell for an 1870s Federal-style three-bedroom on three acres—plenty of space to build two wood-frame studios (Chermayeff’s is much farther from the riverbank and didn’t flood). They moved upstate in 1993 with their one-year-old son, Phineas, now 23; daughter Olivia, 20, was born two years later. A decade ago, they added a modern open living area and a downstairs master bedroom and bath, doubling the house’s square footage to about 1,800.
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Clockwise from top left: Front of the house; sculpture by Howie in the backyard; kitchen with paintings by Chermayeff and children; handmade bathroom tiles glazed and fired by Howie, sculptures on shelf are by Chermayeff and Chuck Bowdish; sculpture by Howie and children.
Their art inhabits nearly every horizontal and vertical surface. On a counter near the front door is a collection of Howie’s classical sculptures with arms outstretched; a series of Chermayeff’s small landscapes, many of scenes just outside the windows, hangs above one stairwell. Among eclectic touches, textiles from around the world adorn the furniture, and a cowhide rug shares floor space with a Navajo rug. In the upstairs bathroom are colorful tiles sculpted, fired, glazed, and laid by Howie. Small, comical men’s faces that he sculpted serve as andirons for the living-room stove. He still chips in around the house as much as he can, taking the couple’s rescue hound, Chai, for long walks and mowing the lawn, which doubles as a sculpture garden for his work, complete with an eight-foot-long reclining figure he dubbed Big Lady. He spends most of each day in his studio drawing, sculpting, and making molds to cast his sculptures in bronze, all of which takes much longer now that he has full use of only one hand. To help compensate for lost income, Chermayeff teaches yoga. In the first few years after his stroke, Howie spent hours sketching the regulars at the Spotty Dog, where Chermayeff would drop him off while she ran errands. With their exaggerated yet naturalistic features, those striking drawings culminated in three shows, at the Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn, the Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham, and the Spotty Dog, where they still hang. “The lines were barely in control in the early drawings, but even they had a beautiful quality,” says Alan Coon, co-owner of the Spotty Dog. “This was a really safe place for him to spend time and draw and focus on his recovery.” Along with the Pulitzer commission, one of Howie’s proudest recent moments was an invitation to submit work for a show last summer at the renowned Naumkeag estate in Stockbridge, Mass. “He’s really inspiring,” says Margaret Moulton, an organizer of the show. “He just works so hard.” Howie says he is grateful for this second chance, and it shows. “He was somber before,” says Coon, who first met Howie a dozen years ago. “He smiles a lot more now. I’ll be at work on a day like today, and he’ll be on the bench out front playing his harmonica. It’s beautiful.” 40 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 11/15
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Decker’s Dos and Don’ts Siting Your Indoor Cactus “There’s a popular misconception that all outdoor and indoor cacti should be in constant full sun,” Decker says. “Many will burn that way. “Also, it’s not true that cacti want to be hot all the time; too much heat can dry them out or kill them. Don’t put them in a hot place with poor air circulation, and don’t put them near the radiator.” Decker grows some of his collection under grow lights, where they can get the light they need without the heat that comes with full sun window exposure. The overhead grow lights also promote straight stems. If you think about the conditions of semi-arid or arid deserts, the day and night temps can differ substantially; the plants are used to having cool nights. How can you replicate that at home? It’s not so easy, but during the summertime Decker puts most of his cacti out on the porch, with the filtered shade of furniture mitigating the direct sun. “Find out your plant’s environment of origin in order to know what light and temperature conditions they need,” he says. Repotting Decker says that when you get home you will want to repot the cactus shortly thereafter. Most cacti are sold in plastic pots as a convenience to the seller, because plastic pots are cheap, easy to ship, and retain water. Plastic retains water too well for cacti; you want to use unglazed terra cotta (clay) pots, and ones that are shallow. The root systems of cacti are very shallow; if your pot is overly large, too much soil moisture can overwhelm the plant’s tiny root system. Decker advises that when you repot your new purchase, you wash all the soil off; this is because the seller may have used a plant mix heavy in peat or other organic matter, which isn’t appropriate for cacti in the long term because such mixes retain water too well. It’s fine to expose the roots to clean them. Decker says, “These are plants that are routinely shipped bare root. Cacti are amazing. In the Southwest, you can gather them and put them bare root in a cardboard box in a cool dry place for a year before you even plant them.” Repot using a quality cactus soil; never use pure sand (most cacti require a small amount of organic matter in the soil). From his mentor, Decker learned a simple and invaluable trick for handling cacti, like when they have outgrown their pots and need to be bumped up to a slightly bigger one. The process has to be gentle on the plant, avoiding
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Above: Entertaining ideas from The Cocktail Party include “snacktivities” like build-your-own sandwich bars, doughnut dressing stations, make-your-own cocktail bars. Below: Mary Giuliani enjoying a beverage at home in Woodstock
grandmother’s shindigs of old and her own discovery of hosting, is arranged as a number of different parties, each for a specific holiday, ranging from baby showers to Cinco de Mayo to Thanksgiving. Each section is broken down into what food to serve, drinks to make, playful ways to arrange, and tips for recovering after a longer party. Choice piece of advice: “Clean up the same night. Cleaning up with a buzz is much better than with a hangover.” Giuliani uses both her own recipes, as well as ones from her catering company, prioritizing fancy finger foods like pigs in a blanket and mixed drinks, like Jell-O shots, that you’re unlikely to find in a more formal setting. She also includes one of the surprise successes from her business: “snacktivities,” or bars where guests can dress up their food with a mix of ingredients. Most important for Giuliani, each party is bookended by a story from her experiences that relates directly to the parties she has catered, such as a Thanksgiving party where waiters dressed like pilgrims, or a night spent serving Oprah martinis. It was in 2005, soon after the company’s founding, that Giuliani and her husband moved up to Woodstock. “We were running the business together, and we knew we needed a separation from the business,” she explains. They currently live with their infant daughter in a two-story farmhouse in Bearsville, all unvarnished floors and vintage furniture, with a backyard—seen frequently throughout the book—that looks out on a mountain meadow where Giuliani watches wildlife frolic.The setting, she thinks, is perfect for slowing down and recharging. “It makes you able to handle the city,” she says with a laugh, and because of this she tries to enforce a separation between the two, only doing upstate catering for particular “causes” like the Woodstock Film Festival and Woodstock Writers Festival. “I sort of want to keep it sacred.” She and her husband also co-own the restaurant Shindig and a group of vacation cabins. Giuliani, perhaps invoking her grandmother, always enjoyed hosting gettogethers and parties among friends, and the size of her Woodstock home allows her to do most of her “personal entertaining” up here. Upstate, then, served as both her muse and her workspace. She wrote most of The Cocktail Party in a small yellow house on her property, each successful shindig inspiration for a new menu item or party arrangement. The result is a book that encapsulates the simpleyet-elegant style of entertaining that makes Giuliani’s parties seem so effortless. And with simplicity in business, she hopes, might also come some simplicity in her life. With a singular tweak, of course. If possible, she would like to “cut the cord” and move full-time to Woodstock, or perhaps somewhere in Dutchess County, where she would open her ideal business: a flower shop by day, low-capacity bar by night. “An open/closed sign on a door?” she says. “That’s the endgame.” Mary Giuliani will be celebrating the release of The Cocktail Party at bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy in Rhinebeck on November 7 from 3 to 6 pm.
Mary Giuliani’s Tips for Hosting This Holiday Season Prepare, Prepare, Prepare Prebatch your drinks, put out all your food platters from the get-go, scan the house to make sure everything is in order, and make your playlist ahead of time. Break It Down and Keep It Simple Ask yourself three questions: Where are we eating? What are we eating? What are we drinking? Once these are cleared up, your party planning should go off without a hitch. Each party breakdown in the book features two savory dishes, two sweet dishes, two drinks, and two “play” stations. Anything more, she says, can get the party offtrack and keep you running around and unable to enjoy the party yourself. Get Your Guests Involved The Cocktail Party recommends setting up food stations, a make-your-own taco bar, for instance, or a waffle-dressing station—what Guiliani calls “snacktivities.” This means you don’t have to make as much food and your guests will get just the dish they want. Have a Clean-up Plan Empty your dishwasher ahead of time, make sure to-go containers are ready, and clean up the same night. “Do not allow yourself to go to sleep with a dirty house,” she writes. Make Sure You Want to Do It “You have to want to entertain,” Giuliani says. If you don’t want to, “your guests can feel it,” and no one will enjoy themselves. 11/15 CHRONOGRAM HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING 49
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Kenco The Work and Play Outfitter A locally grown store operated by family and friends. Kenco’s doors first opened in 1982 on Rock City Road in Woodstock. We specialize in clothing and footwear for work, outdoor adventure, and Catskill living. We aim to be the premier destination for knowledge and gear in the sports of kayaking, boating, camping, hiking, hunting, archery, snowboarding, and fishing. All of our products are chosen by our experienced staff who are passionate about the outdoors. Come in and see why we have been repeatedly awarded “ The Best Outdoor Store in the Hudson Valley”. Please check out our new website at atkenco. com or stop by and see why Kenco wants be your favorite store. We outfit your life. 1000 Hurley Mountain Road, Kingston (845) 340-0552 www.atkenco.com
Barcone’s Music 528 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6089 www.barconesmusiconline.com Barcone’s is a name that has represented quality and integrity for 5 generations. For 125 years, music education has been our biggest priority. Currently, we service over 100 schools in 8 counties, as well as Cape Cod! The Repair Department has over 140 combined years of experience, and we are one of the most complete shops in the Hudson Valley. We are a family business, and we look forward to welcoming you into our expanding family!” - Janice, Melissa and Tim Barcone
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Have a Happy Thanksgiving at Friends and Family II Hillside Restaurant. Whether you choose to join us for Thanksgiving in our fire lit dining room or decide to pick up your entire meal ready to serve in the comfort of your home, make your reservations now. Reservations Recommended for Friday and Saturday. Closed Tuesday. We can cater any of your holiday gatherings at your home or office. Call Denise for details.
The Den of Marbletown 1 Basten Lane, Kingston (845) 687-6441 www.thedenofmarbletown.com Step into a fantasy world of teddy bear dioramas and stuffed animals, harkening to the great old days of brick and mortar toy shops. An assortment of lines including Steiff toys, limited editions, and historic replicas intended for collectors. Plush toys for children and babies. Visit our Teddy Bear museum and return to your childhood. Stop by and visit us today!
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Scott Mcintire’s The Pollinator, an enamel on canvas painting from 2015, part of the “Art + Science” group exhibition at Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, showing through November 28. “Art + Science” highlights the innovative work of 17 exhibiting artists and scientists from around the globe integrating methodologies and concepts borrowed from science into their artwork, helping to create a new aesthetic way to experience science. Other artists in the exhibition include Jennifer Boldt, David C. Bryant, Tyler Bohm, Wilson Butterworth, Kindra Crick, Greg Dunn, Forceperunit, Mary Giehl, Bojana Ginn, Dana Lynn Harper, Paula Imirzian, Katherine Jackson, Cristin Millett, Shannon Novak, Denes Ruzsa, and John Sabraw.
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galleries & museums BCB ART 116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “Remnants.” An exhibition of wall drawings which explore the space between reality and illusion. Through November 22. BEACON ARTIST UNION 506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177. “In the Weeds.” New work and collaborative installation by Carla Goldberg and Erica Leigh Caginalp. Through November 8. Works by Gary Jacketti, Grey Zeien, and Chuck Glicksman and Ginger Andro. November 14-December 6. Opening reception November 14, 6pm-9pm. BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS AND ESTUARIES 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600. “Along the Mt. Beacon Incline Railway: Past, Present & Future.” Through March 6, 2016. BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS 200 HUROADROAD, BETHEL 454-3388. “Threads: Connecting ‘60s & Modern Rockwear.” Through December 31. BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY 43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 516-4435. “Hudson River Musings.” Explores atmosphere and luminosity in landscape. Through November 30. BOSCOBEL 1601 ROUTE 9D (BEAR MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY), GARRISON BOSCOBEL.ORG. “Every Kind of a Painter: Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1818-1871).” Through November 29.
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BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Up the Hill: Byrdcliffe Artists 2015.” The exhibition showcases the depth and creative diversity of the visual artists, writers, musicians, performers, and more who live in the year-round and seasonal cottages at the historic Byrdcliffe Art Colony. Through November 29.
Center, by Barbara Bash, from the exhibit “The Moving Line: Calligraphic Illustration” November 8-December 6 at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz.
CAFFE A LA MODE 1 OAKLAND AVENUE, WARWICK 986-1223. “Art Photography Exhibit by Frederick Buell.” November 1-January 31. CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Color Theory.” A group exhibit featuring the work of local artists Vincent Pomilio, James O’Shea and Stephen Brophy. Through November 15.
1 MILE GALLERY 475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON 338-2035. “Greenhouse.” Group show. Through November 14. ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 737 ALBANY-SHAKER ROAD, ALBANY (518) 242-2241. “Folk Modern.” Group show. Through May 8, 2016. ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY 22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “Eric Lindbloom & Thomas Sarrantonio: Photographs & Field Paintings.” Through December 31. AMITY GALLERY 110 NEWPORT BRIDGE ROAD, WARWICK 258-0818. “The Figure: A Salon Style Drawing Show.” The Warwick Artists Group will exhibit a salonstyle drawing show, including paintings & sculptures, inspired by the figure. November 8-30. Opening reception November 8, 12pm-4pm. ANN STREET GALLERY 104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 784-1146. “Art and Science.” Group show. Through November 28. ART CENTRO 485 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4525. “Northeast Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition.” Juried by Tim Rowan. November 7 to December 5. Opening reception November 7, 6pm-8pm. ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Super Natural.” An introspective retrospective of the lifetime works of Dave Channon. Through November 30. BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “Holiday Small Works Show.” November 21-December 12. Opening reception November 21, 4pm-6pm. 54 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 11/15
COLUMBIA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1 NORTH FRONT STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4417. “Thank You Show.” Through November 14. COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “Small Gems Show.” Fundraising exhibit features donated works by our generous memberartists each 7” ‘big’. Through January 9, 2016. CORNELL STREET STUDIO 168 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 679-8348. “Estelle Tambak: A Painter’s World Travels.” Fri., November 13-30. Opening reception November 13, 5pm-8pm. CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART 81 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 399-9751. “Iain Machell: Platte Clove Lens.” Through November 22. DIA:BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. “Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3.” Landmark site-specific work. Excursus: Homage to the Square3 exemplifies Irwin’s practice of creating environments that bring attention to the subtleties of perception. Through May 31, 2017. DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL ST. TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Under Water Photography: David Hall.” November 3-28. ELENA ZANG GALLERY 3671 ROUTE 212, SHADY 679-5432. “Donald Elder: New Works.” Through November 17. THE EMPORIUM ANTIQUES & ART CENTER 319 MAIN STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA (413) 528-1660. “Small Works Group Exhibition.” November 5-December 27. FIELD LIBRARY 4 NELSON AVENUE, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1212. “Sabrina Occhipinti: Doorways.” Through December 31. FOYER OF THE MINDY ROSS GALLERY, KAPLAN HALL, SUNY ORANGE CORNER OF GRAND & FIRST STREETS, NEWBURGH 341-9386. “Artists of Excellence: Sculptures by Kevin Feerick.” Through November 30.
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FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument.” Exhibition examines the making of a seminal Life magazine photo essay, the first by noted African-American photographer Gordon Parks. Through December 13. FRG OBJECTS & DESIGN 217 WARREN STREET 2ND FLOOR, HUDSON. “Zen Dot Energy.” Through November 30. THE GALLERY AT R&F 84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Bound Forces: Works by Natalie Abram.” Encaustic works on paper. November 7-January 15. Opening reception November 7, 5pm-7pm. GALLERY 66 NY 66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “Cross-Pollination: A Dialogue Between Mediums.” Group Show. November 6-29. Opening reception November 6, 6pm-9pm. GALLERY @ 46 46 GREEN STREET, HUDSON (518) 303.6446. “Taboo & Revelation.” A solo exhibit of recent work by Tom McGill. Through December 15. HOTCHKISS SCHOOL, TREMAINE GALLERY 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663. “The Melody of Structures.” New work by Field Kallop. November 7-December 13. Opening reception and performance November 7, 4pm-6pm. HOWLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY 313 MAIN, BEACON. “Document.” An exhibition of 6 contemporary Hudson Valley documentary photographers, Jennifer Blakeslee, Markie Baylash, Michael Bowman, Sasha Bush, Meredith Heuer and Ronnie Farley. Through November 7.
galleries & museums
THE HUDSON MERCANTILE 202 ALLEN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-6318. “Works by Michael Quadland.” Through December 15. HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-4181. “Works by Logan Visscher, Esme Shapiro and Adelaide Ruff.” Through November 20. HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Love: The First of the 7 Virtues.” Through December 6.
THE MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY @ SUNY ULSTER 491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Works by Visiting Artists Kahn & Selesnick.” Through November 6. OBER GALLERY 6 NORTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CT (860) 927-5030. “Crossroads.” Paintings and drawings by Ford Crull. Through November 15. OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER: EDUCATION OMI 1405 COUNTY ROUTE 22, GHENT OMIARTSCENTER.ORG/EDUCATION. “Linear Element: Alain Kirili and James Siena.” Through January 3, 2016. ORANGE HALL GALLERY SUNY ORANGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “Organic Farmers & Chefs of the Hudson Valley: Photography by Francesco Mastalia.” Photographer Francesco Mastalia’s works depict Organic Farmers & Chefs of the Hudson Valley having all been produced in the wet collodion process. Through November 30. PALMER GALLERY VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVE., POUGHKEEPSIE PALMERGALLERY. VASSAR.EDU. “Quasibotanics: From Apocalypse to Now.” Paintings by Charles Geiger. November 5-30. Opening reception November 5, 5pm-7pm. RITZ THEATER LOBBY 107 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 784-1199. Newburgh: Past, Present and Future. Through November 29. RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Spirit Houses.” Works by Jennie Chien. Through November 8. ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY 9091 ROUTE 22, HILLSDALE (518) 325-4101. “Travels & Talismans: Canterbury Tales Re-imagined.” An exhibit of mixed media collages by Lynne Perrella. Through November 29. SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. “Thomas Benjamin Pope: Landscapes of Newburgh & Beyond. Through December 13. “Jervis McEntee: Painter-Poet of the Hudson River School.” Through December 13. SEVEN21 MEDIA CENTER 721 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 331-0551. Abstrakt Paintings by Justin Wixson. Through Novermber 30.
HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. 300 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 331-5300. “Sites and Sights: Photo-Based Images by Arlene Becker.” Through Noveber 30.
SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ARTS CENTER 790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN (518) 392-3693. “Fur. Fin. Feathers.” Carrie Haddad of Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson served as judge, selecting works created by 27 local artists. Through November 22.
JEFF BAILEY GALLERY 127 WARREN STREET, HUDSON JEFF@BAILEYGALLERY.COM. “Amy Talutto: Bonewhite Light.” Through December 6.
THE TRANSVERSE GALLERY, LOCUST GROVE ESTATE 2683 SOUTH ROAD (US ROUTE 9), POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500. “Moments in Manhattan.” Photography by Claudia Gorman. Through February 28, 2016.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Lee Marshall: Water Colors.” Also showing Jan Abt: Sculpture; Erin Walrath: The Old and the New; Nandita Raman: When Mountains Rise and Fall Like Waves; Elisa Jensen: Call Out; and Ying Li: Paintings. Through November 8.
THEO GANZ STUDIO 149 MAIN STREET, BEACON (917) 318-2239. “Remastered Portraits: Sydney Cash.” Through November 8.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Works by Stuart Farmery.” Through November 28. KAPLAN HALL, MINDY ROSS GALLERY THE CORNER OF GRAND & FIRST STREETS, NEWBURGH 341-9386. “Old as Adam: Paintings and Sculptures by Daniel Grant.” Exhibit of paintings and sculptures by Daniel Grant. Through November 30. LONGYEAR GALLERY 875 MAIN STREET, MARGARETVILLE LONGYEARGALLERY.ORG. “Fault Lines.” Paintings by Patrice Lorenz. November 6-30. MANITOGA RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER, GARRISON 424-3812. “Sanctuary.” Through November 9. MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. Andrea McFarland: Stone, Lake and Sky, Shawangunks in Pastel.” Through November 21. MATTEAWAN GALLERY 436 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. “Eggshells and Ashes.” Works by Eleanor White. Through November 8. MCDARIS FINE ART 623 WARREN STREET, HUDSON MCDARISFINEART.COM. “David Eustace: New Work.” Through November 15. THE MOVIEHOUSE GALLERY 48 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON THEMOVIEHOUSE.NET. “Jeffrey Neumann: Vanishing America.” Through January 9, 2016. 56 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 11/15
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Holiday Show.” Hanging art and prints. Also there will be cards, hats and scarves, pottery, 3D creations,tote bags and all kinds of interesting things. November 20-December 20. TRANSNDANCENDRUM CENTER 415 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE 658-4136. “Main Street Artists and Friends.” November 20-December 31. Opening reception November 20, 6pm-8pm. UNFRAMED ARTISTS GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ, “Truth Out.” An exhibit of politically incorrect art. Through November 7. UNISON ARTS CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559 “The Moving Line: Calligraphic Illustration.” Calligraphy by Barbara Bash. November 8-December 6. Opening reception November 8, 4pm. VASSAR COLLEGE LIBRARY RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 229-0425. “Ulysses Cylinders.” Glass sculptures created by renowned artist Dale Chihuly, with pen and ink drawings by painter Seaver Leslie. Through November 22. WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Along the Farm Art Trail: Paintings by Marge Morales & Janet Howard.” November 7-30. Opening reception November 7, 5pm-7pm. WIRED GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613. “Judith Hoyt to the Rescue.” 30 years of making art from rescued metal, ost pages, and discarded fabric. Through November 22.
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Music
Making the Cut Decora By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly
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ewburgh, admittedly, feels at least a decade away from matching the level of renewal that has recently swept other urban areas of the Hudson Valley—Beacon, Kingston, and Hudson, to be specific. But a handful of proud and hearty Newburghers are on the case. They’re taking advantage of the city’s wealth of raw infrastructure—block upon block of beautifully built, but boarded-up, Federal-era brick row houses—and opening restaurants, coffeehouses, small shops, and other businesses, with an optimistic eye toward the future. And then there’s Space Create, the 24-hour collaborative workspace in a restored Broadway building that’s been partially spearheaded by local hip-hop artist and poet Decora. “The goal of Space Create is to have a central location within the City of Newburgh for people to meet and come up with ideas on how to better the city,” he explains about the center, which was conceived a year ago and features studios for artists, offices and retail spaces for small-business entrepreneurs, a weekly farmers’ market, and other facilities. “What drew me to Newburgh in 2006 was that it has a ‘blank canvas’ vibe.True creativity always comes out of a place of struggle.” A more serious and committed Hudson Valley musical figure than Decora does not come to mind. Everything the 32-year-old does and says comes with a breathtaking level of lockeddown, unwaveringly intense focus. What’s further inspiring is the way in which this dead-set devotion has not only been brought to bear on his own craft as an artist but firsthand local- and world-improving efforts like the one mentioned above. Perhaps, then, it’s not so surprising that one of his biggest heroes is the man he also calls a mentor: his late across-the-Hudson neighbor, Beacon’s Pete Seeger. “I met Pete at Clearwater in 2010,” says Decora, who was inspired by Seeger’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” to write “Flowers,” the single from his solo debut Bread and Oats (Debefore Records). “He showed me how there’s no separation between art and activism.” The album’s title, its maker explains, is an allusion to the creative process. “To make bread or to make art, you need more than just the right ingredients,” he says. “You also need the heat—the creative spark. And by making your art—your bread—you’re also feeding your soul.” We last met up with Decora in these pages in August 2010, when he was profiled as a member of ReadNex Poetry Squad, the group he co-founded in 2001. Since then, ReadNex has gone on hiatus but the vocalist himself has been constantly on the move, working on his music and organizing events like last June’s second annual Newburgh Illuminated cultural festival. He’s no stranger to movement, though. “Newburgh is stop 24 for me,” says the rapper, who was born in Texas. “I was very much a gypsy growing up. My parents split up when I was young and I moved around a lot. My dad is a drummer who played in rock bands, and I come from a family of entrepreneurs. So there was definitely a feeling in the family of us being against the grain.” As for his introduction to hip-hop, Decora, who spent his formative years in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood, says he was “born into the culture. It was the place M.O.P. and [the late MC] Sean Price came from.” He cites A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, and J. Dilla as hiphop influences, but “funk, soul, and jazz also spoke to me: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass, Miles Davis. Poetry went hand in hand with music for me, I started writing lyrics when I was 13.” After moving upstate he enrolled at Orange County Community College, majoring in business before switching his focus to sociology. ReadNex Poetry Squad came together in 2001, when he met fellow students/MCs Jarabe Del Sol, Latin Translator, and Freeflowin (his eventual partner in Space Create), and
turntablist DJ H20 at a campus open-mike. Within two years, the group was touring the US at the same time that Decora was earning a bachelor’s degree. A year after that they were rocking Europe, and by 2006 they’d released their third album. Eventually, though, the group’s nonstop itinerary of touring, self-management, recording, and co-conducted youth workshops and other activist work caught up with them. “We were basically on tour for six years,” he recalls. “The last time we were on the road was in 2012, and it was for 18 months. That was the hardest.” Currently, the other members are, variously, concentrating on teaching hip-hop and poetry, art therapy, and yoga, along with running a startup fashion business. The panoramic, state-of-the-nation commentary of “Flowers” aside, Bread and Oats is a distinctly more personal effort than the issue-driven albums Decora made with ReadNex. Was this a conscious move, to further define himself as his own man? With characteristic thoughtfulness and solemnity, he nods. “Conscious and difficult,” he says. “It definitely makes me feel more exposed. As an artist, I always describe myself as an introvert with well-seasoned extrovert tendencies. There are no hidden messages [on the album].” Chief among the set’s self-baring tracks are the opener, “Something,” a reaffirmation of the MC’s chosen art (“I love rhymin’ / like Neil’s wife loves diamonds”) and a statement on his newfound openness (“I’m puttin’ down my chips / like Frito-Lay”) above a bubbly, head-bobbing bass line and amid an insistent horn loop. Co-produced by engineer Angelo Quaglia (Teairra Marie, Mario, Joe), Bread and Oats features guest appearances by rising singer Ruby Stinson and two notable Newburgh locals: keyboardist Neil “Nail” Alexander and Living Colour front man Corey Glover. “Decora and I met through [Newburgh rapper, poet, and actor] Saul Williams,” says Glover, who sings on the tracks “Nantucket” and “Beautiful Bitch.” “One of the things that strikes me about him as an artist is that he really reflects the total diversity of his environment, not just where he lives but the world as a whole. And sonically the album reflects that as well. It’s all over the place. There are elements of rock, folk, soul, all kinds of stuff.” Debuting this month is a video for the track “Nah Mean.” Another departure from Decora’s music with ReadNex Poetry Squad is his working with a live band instead of the traditional hip-hop DJ. At Kingston’s 0+ Festival last month, he and his five-piece group slammed the front room of BSP with a funky force that left the thick crowd a whooping mass of ecstatic goo. “I definitely think the live-band thing is the direction hip-hop is going in,” says the lyricist, who also counts Bob Dylan and Nina Simone among his foremost inspirations. “Ska, rock, and funk have always been favorite genres of mine, so putting a hip-hop flow together with a band felt like a natural evolution for me. I like the random element that comes from collaborating live with musicians, and the way a live band helps move people to dance. I’ve worked with a 13-piece band, and I’d decided to set that as a size limit. But now I’m saying, ‘No limit.’ I’d love to work with a large orchestra at some point.” No limit. And seemingly no break, as the dedicated family man and father of a four-year-old son continues to pump the new album, perform, organize events (watch for news about a New Year’s Eve party at Newburgh venue 299 Washington Street), work to advance the community, and, of course, create. “I’m on what I call my 120-hour-a-week schedule,” he says. “I sleep six hours a night and the rest of my time goes toward my art. But art isn’t work. It’s just what you do as an artist, an extension of who you are. And I believe everyone is an artist—whether they’re aware of it or not.”
“One of the things that strikes me about Decora as an artist is that he really reflects the total diversity of his environment, not just where he lives but the world as a whole.” —Corey Glover
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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
WOODS November 19. Brooklyn-based psychedelic folk band Woods have been at it since 2005, releasing most of their output on band founder, singer, and guitarist Jeremy Earl’s label, Woodsist Records. The trio, who wend their way into our woods for this date at the Bearsville Theater, hew a path parallel to those of other folky freaks of the post-Devendra generation: trippy, wistful, megamellow comedowns and quiet celebrations for gray days. Their eighth and newest opus, With Light and Love, perhaps their most produced to date, finds the band moving into countryish, organ-and-pedal steel-laced folk rock à la Bob Dylan circa 1965-66. Steve Gunn opens. (Yonder Mountain String Band jams November 11; Leon Russell sings a song for you November 12.) 7pm. $15. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com.
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SK KAKRABA/AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA DJ SET
November 7. Titled “Brushing with the Muse,” this highly interesting event at Unison Arts Center brings together three of the Northeast’s most creative improvising musicians—local multireedist Steve Gorn, percussionist Harvey Sorgen, and downstate pianist David Lopato—with the “spontaneous brush expression” of calligraphic artist Barbara Bash. “Weaving music and visual art created on the spot,” organizers explain, “the evening will be full of surprises, evoking the unique, creative potential of moment-to-moment wakefulness.” (Yuri Liberzon strums November 8.) 8pm. $18-$24. New Paltz. (845) 255-1559; Unisonarts.org.
November 18. Ghana native SK Kakraba, who visits the Half Moon this month, is a master of the ancient gyil,or Ghanian xylophone. An instrument maker as well a musician, Kakraba recorded his latest album, Songs of Paapieye, for the well-named Awesome Tapes from Africa label, which founder Brian Shimkowitz established to reissue the micro-edition DIY cassettes of indigenous music sold by African street vendors; the AFTA imprint rapidly broadened to include older and current music from across the continent. This event features a DJ set by Shimkowitz himself. (People’s Champs bring more Afro-centric sounds November 14; Last Good Tooth returns November 4.) 9pm. $10. Hudson. (518) 828-1562; Thehalfmoonhudson.com.
SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR November 13. South Africa’s 26-member Soweto Gospel Choir has sung for presidents (Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela) and on national TV (“Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “The Today Show”)—and now they’re coming to sing for us, at the Bardavon. The choir was launched with the patronage of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and their 2002 debut album, Voices of Heaven, hit number one on the Billboard World Music chart within three weeks of its release while their second and third, 2007’s Blessed and 2008’s African Spirit, both grabbed Grammys. Expect a jubilant jolt of joyful noise. (Jazzed Up hosts the Metta Quintet November 12; the Hudson Valley Philharmonic performs November 22.) 8pm. $35-$55. Poughkeepsie. (845) 473-2072; Bardavon.org.
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RY COODER, RICKY SKAGGS, SHARON WHITE, AND FRIENDS November 15. How’s this for a musical matchup? Part of the Egg’s ongoing American Roots & Branches series, the bill unites Grammy-winning guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Ry Cooder (solo, Buena Vista Social Club, Rolling Stones, Captain Beefheart) with bluegrass mandolin god and fellow Grammy-winner Ricky Skaggs, beguiling trad-country singer and guitarist Sharon White (the Whites), and the ace rhythm section of bassist Mark Fain and percussionist Joachim Cooder. On the program: a roundup of blues, gospel, and bluegrass that can only be sublime. (Buddy Guy burns November 11; Boz Scaggs buzzes by November 13.) 7:30pm. $45-$65. Albany. (518) 473-1061; Theegg.org.
CD REVIEWS DAVID TORN ONLY SKY (2015, ECM RECORDS)
Only Sky finds the experimental guitarist/composer and long-time area resident David Torn not only on the ECM label but in full-on ECM mode. Manfred Eicher’s imprint—the original home of Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, and more of jazz’s best watercolorists—has always emphasized the smeared, impressionistic, introspective, and meditative dimensions of jazz. Improvisational, but antimachismo, reverberent, and glacial in its willingness to dwell on sound, the ECM brand may be a second cousin of the New Age, but nothing closer. As a legit modern jazz institution and heir to that tradition’s full payload of cerebral sophistication, ECM allows—nay, requires—far more tension, dissonance, and challenge than would ever trouble a Windham Hill reverie. At times in his career, Torn has blurred the distinction between composition and sound design, and Only Sky does in fact open with a lengthy soundscape. But on track two and thereafter, Torn issues plenty of challenge, whether in the Frisell-like tense prettiness of “Spoke with Folks,” the liquid, minimalist bluesiness of “Reaching Barely, Sparely Fraught,” the pawing noise of “Was a Cave, There…,” or the lovely Terje Rypdal-esque soloing of the title track. Via looping and other real-time manipulations, these solo performances don’t always seem so very solo. Torn’s master soundscaping comes as no surprise, but it is moving and fun to be reminded what a finely colored and fluid lead guitarist he can be. Davidtorn.net. —John Burdick
CHANDLER TRAVIS & DAVID GREENBERGER BOCCE AND BOURBON: THE COMFORTABLE SONGS OF CHANDLER TRAVIS & DAVID GREENBERGER (2015, IDDY BIDDY RECORDS)
MARK BROWN SKIN & BONES (2015, INDEPENDENT)
On Skin& Bones, his second album in 10 years, Rosendale treasure Mark Brown offers up acoustic-based Americana tunes that sound like they’ve always existed on the underside of your skin; although you’ve never actually heard these 14 gems, you’ll also somehow recall this campfire singalong, that tear-stained lament, this lustful chant, that celebratory/cautionary drinking song. Everything resonates in deep places you may have forgotten existed. You’ll feel you’ve known Mark Brown for years, maybe decades; he’s your confidante, the guy who not only recognizes your secret heart but also provides the perfect accompaniment to its beating. Brown’s distinguished team of co-conspirators includes Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Dean Jones, who, along with ace guitarist Ken McGloin, also set up the microphones, lit the candles, and turned the knobs to make it all gel. Jones’s sonic touches—keyboards, ukulele, trombone, vocals, and various “sound making devices”—create framework for country-fried morsels like “Hatchet Man,” Cried in Your Bed,” and downhome lament “Pony.” Mike & Ruthy’s Mike Merenda provides combustible banjo on “See You Next Time,” and angel-voiced Eli McNamara leavens “Creosote” and “Trouble” with mischievous sweetness, a perfect foil to Brown’s gravelly croon. John Parker’s gut-strung upright bass and Dean Sharp’s pulsing, rollicking trap set provide whatever foundation the tunes need: slippery, rock-solid, funky, or gracefully falling-down-the-stairs. You can tell everyone is having a good time, and even on the weepers, it’s a catchy kind of joy. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without these brand-new longtime good friends. Unclebuckle.com. —Robert Burke Warren
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Songwriting. It’s a funny thing, a code that can be cracked any number of ways. Speak to enough songwriters and you’ll find more than enough methods. In the case of Chandler Travis and David Greenberger, the division of labor has always been pretty straight. The former writes the music, the latter writes the words. But the flow goes both ways, with a lyric prompting a tune, or a melody inspiring a new musing. Bocce and Bourbon is a compilation album, pulling selections from eight discs released over 17 years. But, in keeping with the duo’s ways of working, it’s also a new record, packed with eight numbers making their digital debut. Greenberger is best known for his extensive Duplex Planet oeuvre, encompassing albums, books, magazines, and more, all built on the wisdom of the senior citizens he’s interviewed throughout his career. And Travis, an original member of the legendary Incredible Casuals, is loved for his passel of wacky NRBQ-like bands. All the songs here (played by many combinations of pickers) are delivered in Travis’ sweetly, beautiful, wholly eccentric voice and filled with his bumptious melodic sense, which can recall John Flansburgh, Roy Wood, or Jeff Tweedy. The gentle “When the Roses Shine in Picardy,” “The Strongman of North America,” and “I’ll Wait,” are witty, smart pop songs that linger longer than you’d expect. For fans of the Morrells and Jaques Brel. Chandlertravis.com. —Michael Eck
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Books
WIDE ANGLE
Peter Golden Turns His Lens on History by Nina Shengold Photo by Roy Gumpel
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F
ade in on a well-appointed kitchen on the outskirts of Albany, where Peter Golden is pouring seltzer. “The obligatory tour of the author’s lair. That’s part of the gig, right?” he asks wryly, ushering me up a carpeted staircase. To the left is a large book-lined study with a counter-size desk. “That’s the nonfiction room,” Golden says. To the right, two steps lead to a smaller room, also lined with books. “And that’s the novel room.” Golden has spent ample time on both sides of the hall, producing two novels, Wherever There Is Light (Atria Books, 2015) and Comeback Love (Atria, 2012), O Powerful Western Star: American Jews, Russian Jews, and the Last Battle of the Cold War (Gefen Publishing, 2012), and two acclaimed biographies. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as “a keenly detailed historical romance,” the justreleased Wherever There Is Light is the sprawling saga of unlikely lovers Julian Rose, a German-born Jew who made a fortune in Prohibition-era Newark, and Kendall Wakefield, a headstrong, gorgeous African American photographer. The novel room’s bookshelves bulge with hundreds of titles on France, World War II, and the Holocaust, women photographers, art history, the Negro Press, and other topics infusing the novel’s epic sweep. There are also hints of an equally ambitious novel-in-progress, including a print of Wayne McAllister’s iconic 1949 Bob’s Big Boy restaurant. Fascinated by postwar futurist architecture, Golden launches into a free-associative riff about the “grand illusion” of Baby Boom prosperity, the infantilization of women after WWII, the nascent Civil Rights movement, the Eichmann Trial revelations, and JFK. “History’s got all these threads,” he observes; in his fast-moving mind, they interweave fluidly, and there’s a story wherever you look. Heading downstairs, he says, “You missed the Nixon letters,” pointing out several framed letters from the former president on the wall. Nixon was an interviewee for Quiet Diplomat (Cornwall Books, 1992), Golden’s biography of political insider Max Fisher. He’s also interviewed former presidents Ford, Reagan, and G. H.W. Bush, four secretaries of state, and three Israeli prime ministers; his website boasts a photo of him with Mikhail Gorbachev. Even at home, he’s dressed for a stroll on the Riviera: blue blazer over a striped French navy pullover, khaki pants, Topsiders worn without socks. The home he shares with his wife Annis, chair of SUNY Albany’s Communication Department, is impeccably neat, with rolling expanses of carpet. Golden sprawls on an overstuffed chaise, next to a plate of Pepperidge Farm cookies that prove irresistible to Layla, one of two well-loved cats; the second, Rocky Raccoon, dozes in a corner. It’s hard to get a short answer from Peter Golden. Ask him about one of his books, and Spinoza or Nietzsche may make a sudden appearance—or James Baldwin, or Alexander Hamilton, or WWII photographer and model Lee Miller, one of Golden’s inspirations for Kendall. Or Jewish gangster Longy Zwillman, who not only appears in Wherever There Is Light (alongside other historical figures), but whose father once had a pushcart on the same Newark street as Golden’s great-grandfather. “You have to understand, in the absence of a social service network, you had gangsters,” Golden says. “They made sure hungry people got fed.” They also offered protection. When Golden’s grandfather, a wholesale fishmonger, got threatened by NewYork mobsters at the Fulton Fish Market, Zwillman’s name calmed the waters. “When he went back the next day, they said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me who your friends were?’” Golden says, adding, “Julian is a fictional character sort of based on Zwillman.” Julian had other roots too.Years ago, Golden spotted two guys on the Garden State Parkway, cursing out bad drivers. These became prototypes for Julian and his hothead Irish friend Eddie. “Every time I went back to Jersey, I’d think about them. They were just make-believe people I wanted to use in a book.” He also imagined a privileged woman of color as Julian’s love interest. “I wanted to look at race backwards,” Golden says, noting that America’s first female self-made millionaire was hair tonic entrepreneur Sarah Breedlove. “I wanted Julian to be from an impoverished background, a gangster, violent— any of the stereotypes associated with African Americans today.” Kendall is the daughter of a college president and landowner “from enormous wealth, with department stores being opened early for her.” The issue was how they would ever meet. Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb’s book From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Universities provided an answer. In 1939, after the Nazis expelled hundreds of Jewish scholars from German universities, many were hired by black Southern colleges whose leaders saw parallels between white supremacist lynchings and Hitler’s ideology.
Julian’s émigré father teaches at the Southern college run by Kendall’s imperious mother, Garland. Fate throws the lovers together and tears them apart repeatedly, in Jim Crow Florida, in an artsy Greenwich Village where landlords still veto black tenants, and in a vividly rendered postwar Paris: “Electricity was rationed, so the great monuments weren’t lit. Still, he could see sparks of moonlight on the Seine, and the towers and spires of Notre-Dame etched in black against the stars, and the comforting flicker of candles in the apartment houses on one side of the Rue Guynemer with the locked gates of the Luxembourg Gardens on the other, and down a deserted stretch of the Boulevard Montparnasse, the light in the windows of Le Select, an all-night cafe and a haven for les vagabondes nocturnes.” Both Julian and Kendall are haunted by wartime experiences, which Golden leaks out slowly. “Writers are always asking questions that readers want answered. It’s the treasure hunt mentality: I want to find the prize,” he explains. Was he anxious about writing characters of different races and genders? His answer is swift and unambiguous. “Not for a moment. That’s the moral aspect of being a novelist. The more different people you can become, the more compassionate you can become.” Nevertheless, he puts these words into Garland’s mouth: “White people don’t have a clue what it is to be a colored. Not one damn clue.” Here as elsewhere, he uses period-accurate language, including such mouth-friendly slang as “The band was cookin’. And Eddie and me got boiled as owls.” Golden also writes juicy sex scenes and unapologetically romantic plot twists. His turf is the intersection of love story and history. Does he approach novels and nonfiction differently? “Narrative is narrative. The only difference is you’ve got to look things up when you’re doing nonfiction,” says Golden. “When you pick up a history book, for every sentence you read, the person who wrote it has probably read five or six books. What informs nonfiction is a lifetime of work.” An early illness may have nudged him toward literature. Home sick for a week, Golden binge-read the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. His sister wrote a Nancy Drew-inspired book at age 12, and read him selections aloud. At college, he devoured Hemingway and Fitzgerald while majoring in philosophy. “I was interested in the history of ideas and how they change,” Golden says. In 1973, during Christmas break, he saw James Earl Jones in “The Iceman Cometh” and came out determined to write. “I went back to Albany and read everything in the library that had Eugene O’Neill’s name on it.” But he decided playwriting was “not pragmatic—I wanted to make a living as a writer.” After a brief stint as an aide on a psych ward, he started writing for magazines, worked as an advertising copywriter, and created five interactive novels for a joint project by IBM and Bantam Books. He spent two years in Silicon Valley, moving back east when his mother was diagnosed with cancer. Back in Albany, he wrote for Capital Region magazine, eventually becoming its Managing Editor. When a former professor recommended him to write a biography of Max Fisher, “I thought, ‘Who the hell is Max Fisher?’” Golden reports. He soon found out. One of the world’s richest men, the octogenarian practiced private diplomacy on an international scale. “Max was the reason I got to interview all those people,” Golden says of the heads of state on his résumé. Between all these travels, Golden wrote an early version of Comeback Love. At 850 pages, the manuscript didn’t sell. He set aside the `60s-themed love story for a decade, then revised extensively.When it still didn’t land a publisher, he brought it to Susan Novotny, owner of Albany’s The Book House and Troy’s Market Block Books, who was launching an imprint called Staff Picks Books. That small-press edition caught the attention of sales rep John Muse, who recommended it to his employers at Simon & Schuster; agent Susan Golomb sold it at auction. Both Comeback Love and Wherever There Is Light have attracted Hollywood interest, and Golden is hard at work on another historical novel, about a deejay who broadcasts rock ‘n’ roll into the Soviet Union and winds up in a Cold War intrigue. Does the compulsive researcher enjoy any nonliterary activities? Golden pauses to think, then offers traveling, taking photos, and (reluctantly) exercise. He leans forward. “I want to be able to stay up later. I won a contest in ninth grade for a short story about a machine you stepped into, got your sleep, and stepped out of a minute later. I still have that fantasy.” Peter Golden will appear 11/7 at 5pm for a book launch event at the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany. 11/15 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 63
SHORT TAKES Over the river and through the woods...Hudson Valley writers celebrate the place we call home.
THE CATSKILLS: ITS HISTORY AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA STEPHEN M. SILVERMAN AND RAPHAEL D. SILVER KNOPF, 2015, $45
From Rip Van Winkle to the Borscht Belt, the Catskills have had a distinctive hold on American culture. Silverman and Silver’s lively, photo-filled history is a rich buffet of robber barons and immigrant dam-builders, tummlers and hippies, Hudson River School painters and bootleggers, the Harlem headliners of Peg Leg Bates Country Club, and the cross-dressers of Casa Susanna. Honey, it’s home. Appearing 11/4 at 7pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck; 11/7 at 1pm, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter; 11/21 at 3pm, Book House at Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany.
THE GUNKS (SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS) RIDGE AND VALLEY TOWNS THROUGH TIME RONALD G. KNAPP AND MICHAEL NEIL O’DONNELL FONTHILL MEDIA, 2015, $22.99
This ingenious book pairs historical photos, mostly black and white or sepia-toned, with the same landscapes in 21st century color. Some landscapes appear grandly unchanged, but there are startling additions (New Paltz’s Town and Country Condominiums and Starbucks franchise) and subtractions (Minnewaska Lake’s ill-fated Cliff House and Wildmere hotels). Informative historical descriptions make this addictive browsing for locals and fans of the region.
WALLKILL VALLEY WRITERS ANTHOLOGY 2015 INTRODUCTION BY KATE HYMES SOUL GARDEN PRESS, 2015, $15
The diverse and talented wVw workshop has assembled its second “collection of poems, stories, and personal essays we just can’t keep to ourselves.” This edition features a striking variety of work by 18 local writers, including the late Barbara Taylor Martin. From workshop leader Hymes’ poem “Believe”: “Hold within you the knowing/ Wounds are possibilities/ Made manifest at the edge-tip/ Of scratchy pens and sharpened tongues.”
TALKING WALLS: CASTING OUT THE POST-CONTACT STONE-WALL-BUILDING MYTH MATT BUA PUBLICATION STUDIO HUDSON, 2015, $23
The first thing you notice is this handsome book’s binding, a visible stitchery of metal wire. How apt that an artist’s book examining the history and metaphor of wall-building should be bound by a handbuilt structure! Bua’s “amateur but passionate investigation” of his Catskill home turf opens a dialogue: Were our local stone walls all built by hardy Colonial farmers, or are some indigenous, perhaps prehistoric? Appearing at Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson, Date TBA.
ORGANIC STRUGGLE: THE MOVEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES BRIAN K. OBACH MIT PRESS, 2015, $29
SUNY New Paltz Professor of Sociology Obach traces the organic farming movement from its 1970s counterculture roots (“more potluck than policy”) to a multibillion-dollar industry, replete with government regulations and corporate investment. Examining local CSA farms and food markets as well as federal food policy, he asks, “Where is the movement moving?” Book talk and panel discussion with Liana Hoodes and Dan Guenther 11/11 at 4pm, College Hall Honors Center, SUNY New Paltz.
UPSTATE CAULDRON: ECCENTRIC SPIRITUAL MOVEMENTS IN EARLY NEW YORK STATE JOSCELYN GODWIN EXCELSIOR EDITIONS, 2015, $29.95
Celebrate All Saints Day with this fascinating study of alternative religions, utopian communities, and Doomsday cults, tracing what Godwin calls “the spiritual archaeology of Upstate New York.” You’ve heard of Shaker founder Mother Ann Lee and Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, but what about Seneca visionary Handsome Lake, “sleeping preacher” Rachel Baker, free love apostle John Humphrey Noyes, Theosophist Madame Blavatsky, or hollow Earther Cyrus Reed Teed? Pull up a pew.
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Take This
Did You Ever Have a Family
Steve Lewis
Bill Clegg
Codhill Press, 2015, $16
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Simon and Schuster, 2015, $26
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X 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.
Lucia: Havilah, what are you going to do with your life? Havilah: I’m going to play with my life! —Havilah Graff (2½ years)
NOVEMBER
LEAVES AND RAINDROPS
November stomps on like a New Age poet full of loss and thrown down beauty. Dresses darkly, goes solemn and bleak, then turns its back on you. Walks off the stage.
This poem won’t contain any leaves I’d like to warn you upfront If you were expecting leaves now is your chance to exit quietly to the back of the room or the front I don’t know where the door is located in this imaginary space All I know is that there are no leaves I’m all leafed out There won’t be any raindrops either I almost forgot to mention there won’t be any raindrops but I didn’t forget to mention there won’t be any raindrops so consider yourself informed there won’t be any raindrops I realize I’m being repetitive I’ve been told repetitively that’s one way
You’re glad it did. But when it doesn’t put on so much, when it’s not acting at all, but back stage, unrehearsed, all the dark stuff tossed in the corner, you see through the door left ajar the lovely slope of longing.
to get you to listen —Mary Cuffe Perez —Joseph Goosey
PINE BUSH BLUES “This town’s known for UFO sightings,” he says between our calculations. “There’s a diner on the corner that’s called The Cup and Saucer.” I stare through the fractions stamped on my tape measure; stare through the apprentice fumbling through our Trade. “I dated a girl who worked there,” I tell him, boiler room sweat stopped by my eyebrows. “Did she believe in aliens?” he asks. The Kid’s a year older but he’s got a lot to learn. “She believed in someone more far-fetched.” I grin like a burglar immune to the Universe and pull another trigger that only revs the band saw. —Mike Vahsen
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A CASE FOR THE ROCKING CHAIR Snow is falling. In a trance, I sit, watching the angelside of the wideworldsky give itself to the now of down. And in this moment, from this ticktocked farmhouse crib, the staircase of my mind leads to disbelief that someone,
Time for some good news. Wish I had some. —p
WHAT YOU WEAR TO BURY YOUR SON, AFTER HIS HEROIN OVERDOSE You want to cloak yourself in your fury, but it’s too sharp Like wind on the beach against a bad sunburn So instead your first layer is the toddler he was, Grape jelly smeared across his smiling face Blonde hair sticky and damp His grandma laughing beside him You scream his name And remember him as A Mutant Turtle, A Pirate, Batman A sword always at the ready You hold onto that, breathing in the smell of him The sharpness, before that other smell, that smell of decay, of deceit That sword, how you wish he could’ve used it You’re still seething but next you add on the boy he was on the field All sinew and charm and goofiness You’ve forgotten that he was once goofy! Before the lying, before the stealing, before his mother grabbed him from behind and wouldn’t let go, screaming into the night Before the lying Before the stealing That boy, in his dirt-stained uniform You wrap yourself in that You add a layer of grace, for the times it seemed like he would find it Might find it, please, let him find it, let him know A minute of peace in the center of his swirling madness The days he dropped the lies and the attitude and admitted He was scared You wrap yourself in that And then it is time to walk out the door But you know there is something else, and you run back to find it Your wife calls from the door—“Hurry, we’ll be late!” You don’t even know what it is you root for in the drawer Past the tie clips and the golf tees and buttons and paper clips Past the coins that say II and VI and X, not even the heaviest, XXVI Not those, but the cheap white plastic one that says 1 Day You put that in your left breast pocket, like the sword it is And go to bury your son —Martha Frankel
somewhere, is running late.
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Walked along found each other buried treasure —Jannelle Roberts
PHANTOM ITCH
EVE’S COFFEE TIME
Since the night fanned the air into a dark cool enough to never have to reach for the other side of the pillow, I propped my screenless window open & let it inside.
Tell them your name.
When I woke, it was 3 in the morning & still dark & the mosquitoes had covered me in the red scratch of their feasting. Sometimes, the word I want slips away into a nothing full of stars. I sat on the edge of my bed & itched & itched. The tree outside shook a leaf onto my floor. When I am done wanting, will I know? There was that night I couldn’t sleep next to you, & you might’ve woke at some odd hour to find me at my desk, bent over words that no longer echo. Do you remember everything? Does it haunt you like humidity? Follow me back & back. To the soft sound kissing off your lips. Can you rub my back, you said. Last night I scratched & itched & scratched. There were places I could not reach. You know them. Those bits of muscle rising up between the bones beside my spine. Where the blood is. Sometimes I feel you feeling them. I slap to make the phantom go away. It does not. You do not. I do not want you to. You are still here. —Devin Kelly
Open your portfolio To the most beautiful photo Demonstrate the effect of light And the significance of shade Ask them what they like And show the correspondences With your own work. Do not dispense with formalities; Shake hands with eye contact. Give them your card. —Louis Altman
WHAT A SLIVER OF HOPE LOOKS LIKE Woman on death row for her last meal orders cheese dip and chips Texas fajita nachos and a diet frosted lemonade —Pamela Ethington
SUMMER 2015 Oh summer how I’ll miss thee. Time to be free. Time to be me. Oh summer how I’ll miss thee. —Virginia L. Esposito
LOVE POEM #9 Love is a palette of five wet colors. The third is your bottom lip. The first tastes like a goodbye kiss and dries to shades of cinnamon. The fourth is louder than the first time I said “I love you.” The second is a saltwater breeze. The tide coming in. The fifth is the way my hair smells after your shampoo. Like apples we haven’t picked yet. The third color becomes your freckles after a day in the sun. Your freckles smell like April rain. Same. When it rains your freckles burn like the first color. The cold pavement of love is painted like this with five colors. I’ll fly to you when you were a five year old. Become your stuffed honey bear. You will hold him every night. Protect him in your dreams. Stick your hand inside me. Sticky and sweet and as hard as honey, fur, and paws. You will grow up so strong. You will swim to Martha’s Vineyard. Vacationers on a whale watch will see you jump like a porpoise. A porpoise will read you this letter. Love is written in five colors and stuffed in a bottle. Thrown overboard. Found by a porpoise. di quest’onda che rifluisce dai ricordi la città s’imbeve coma una spugna e si dilata. The city shines with five wet colors: l, o, v, e, s.
MY DAUGHTER’S GETTING MARRIED She wants a simple country wedding at our 19th century, Greek Revival farmhouse in the Upper Hudson Valley. She wants to be surrounded by nature, to be looking out over wind-rippled, hayed fields, frond-rimmed pond, dense woods, and the rising Catskills beyond. The “Save the Dates” have gone out. At last count there will be roughly two hundred and fifty people. They’re coming from everywhere— New York, L.A., London, Tel Aviv— enough to populate a dozen Bruegel paintings. It will span four days and require a published schedule of events, much like a Princess Cruise to the Bahamas, with brunches, dinners, afternoon activities around the pond, a big barbeque Saturday night. We don’t get to the wedding until the third day. My wife and daughter are doing all the planning and I am keeping my distance, for though relatively strong of body—a smidgen of high blood pressure here, a pinch of arthritis there— I have developed over time an informed but fragile psyche, full of ambivalence and a profound lack of assuredness. For example: I ask myself and myself only, (not even dreaming of going public) Why are we doing this? All these rentals of tents, tables, chairs, plates, place-settings, glasses. Flowers and centerpieces, menu-tasting and finding the caterer willing to drive a herd of kosher beef up the Taconic deep into Methodist country. And landing the band that does it all: salsa, disco, the big-band forties, Motown, hip-hop and hora— with the sax player who they claim sings just like Julio and the vocalist who does maracas, tambourines and Aretha. My advice to my daughter (which I don’t dare give.) Take the money this whole thing costs, and get thee to the local rabbi’s Talmud-lined study. You can crush the glass there to remember the Temple. Then you and your fella hop on a plane for Paris, Tahiti or Timbuktu. The wedding will be in May. I expect it to be warmish. For the ceremony I’m thinking a linen suit, dressy loafers, white pima shirt—but no tie—maybe— —Benjamin Kukoff
—Jeff Paggi
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Food & Drink
Old Friends
Goldman and Spagnoli’s Heirloom Harvest By Timothy Malcolm Photos by Jerry Spagnoli
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anhattan gallery owner Edwynn Houk was representing daguerreotypist Jerry Spagnoli when he recommended him to heirloom gardener Amy Goldman for a project in 2000. Goldman, one of the world’s foremost experts on heirloom vegetable gardening, was slightly skeptical but brought samples of a previous year’s harvest to Spagnoli’s Manhattan studio. “We didn’t know where this thing was going,” Goldman says. But each photo shoot showed daguerreotype made an ideal medium to capture the unique beauty of heirloom vegetables—antique varieties originating from openpollinated seeds—and the “constantly evolving wonderland” of Goldman’s home, the 210-acre Abraham Traver farmstead outside Rhinebeck. The result is Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures (Bloomsbury, 2015), a perfect collaboration between two people passionate about preserving historical techniques. Goldman’s devotion to heirloom gardening began after moving onto the Traver property in 1988 with then-husband Larry Arno.Tucked away off a onelane road, the property was hilly and 75 percent forest; the original farmland worked by Traver in the late 18th century had long been abandoned, as had a four-acre pond, which reverted to marsh. But Goldman fell for the white farmhouse with blue shutters, and the bluestem and maple trees growing around the structure. “It was really like stepping back to the 18th century,” says Goldman, who was then harvesting nonheirloom fruit and vegetable plants, and practicing clinical psychology fulltime. She remembers noticing an abundance of flora sprouting 68 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 11/15
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from all corners. “I felt a sense of complete calm and tranquility.” Then she laughs: “And I was sold before I set foot in the house.” Once moved onto the Traver property, she had little room for gardening, thanks to the lack of open space. But over the first two years she and Arno renovated the house and property by ripping up floorboards, replacing the roof, planting maple trees and shrubs, dredging the pond, and even planting a small apple orchard. And fortunately, she found a sun-soaked vegetable garden spot outside the kitchen. The crops grown there were impressive enough to compete at the Dutchess County Fair, and in 1990 she won first prize for her American Flag leeks and Red Giant onions. “It had always been fruits and vegetables for me,” she says, “but it wasn’t until 1990 when I read two books about heirlooms and the looming threat of genetic erosion in our agriculture that I really became aware of what heirloom was.” Those books—Cooking from the Garden by Rosalind Creasy and Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity by Dr. Cary Fowler, whom she married in 2012—showed her “these gorgeous things out there are endangered.” She felt drawn to their odd shapes and interesting histories, which can date back centuries. People may know the popular varieties by their curious names, like “Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter Tomato,” which helped a mechanic pay bills during the Great Depression, or the famous “Moon and Stars Watermelon,” a light summer sweet globe from Missouri whose very appearance—and name—begs van Gogh comparisons. One of Goldman’s favorite heirloom histories is that of the San Marzano tomato, which you can find peeled or crushed in a can at the supermarket, thanks in part to her cousin Tillie (born Myrtle Ehrlich). “She is responsible for introducing the San Marzano tomato to America,” says Goldman of her Brooklyn-bred Jewish cousin, both maternal and paternal. Tillie, who had grocery distribution experience, met tomato farmer Florindo del Gazio while on vacation in Italy. The two struck a partnership to bring the San Marzano to American markets, though there’s a second partnership that was rumored within the family—one of romance between the Jewish grocer and Italian farmer. Whatever is true, because of the intense family connection, Goldman calls the San Marzano her “love apple.” She would grow other varieties of tomato, plus vegetables like purple bell pepper and white eggplant, at the Traver farmstead, finding more harvest time after ending her psychology practice in 1991 to raise her daughter, Sara. She won dozens of ribbons, including top showings at the New York State Fair and the Philadelphia Harvest Show. By the early 2000s, she was Martha Stewart’s go-to heirloom expert. She would chair the Seed Savers Exchange—a global network of 13,000 heirloom gardeners—of which she is now a special adviser. And she wrote three books, informational dives into the worlds of heirloom tomatoes, squash, and melons. Heirloom Harvest, however, is a departure for Goldman, and that’s thanks to Spagnoli, a modern master of the daguerreotype process, which was popular during the mid-19th century. The process—applying chemicals to copper polished on a mirror and exposed to light—offered entirely different interpretations of Goldman’s oddly shaped vegetables. Alabama Coschatta corn became weary specks hanging onto fading life. Female squash blossom became a delicate, wistful dancer. For the first six years of the project Goldman would bring vegetables to Spagnoli’s studio, but this posed problems. “I was working in the studio with the vegetables, and with the daguerreotype the exposures were long,” he says. “They were delicate plants, and during the length of the exposure they would wilt.” So he decided he had to shoot at the farmstead, which meant updating the daguerreotype process. He began shooting with 8-by-10 film, transferring the images to daguerreotype plates. Later, after the factory that produced the 8-by-10 film burned down, Spagnoli switched to digital film. “I realized the charm of the daguerreotype as an object isn’t compromised if the original is from another source,” he says. “So I thought of daguerreotype as being a presentation medium. I sort of freed myself.” The freedom allowed Spagnoli to shoot not just the vegetables but also the environment around them, chronicling daily life at the Traver 11/15 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 69
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Osaka Restaurant 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY, (845) 876-7338 or (845) 757-5055, 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 20 years! For more information and menus, go to osakasushi.net.
osakasushi.net osakasushi.net “4.5 “4.5 STARS” STARS” Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie Journal Journal
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Rated Rated “EXCELLENT” “EXCELLENT” by by Zagat Zagat for for 20 19 years
Phoenicia Diner 5681 NY-28, Phoenicia, NY www.phoeniciadiner.com
Puccini Ristorante 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3055 www.puccinirhinebeck.com
Red Hook Curry House 28 E Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2666 www.redhookcurryhouse.com
Ship to Shore 15 West Strand, Kingston, NY www.shiptoshorehudsonvalley.com
Tuthill House 20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151 www.tuthillhouse.com
Vault 446 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 202-7735 www.thevaultbeacon.com
The Would Restaurant 120 North Road, Highland, NY (845) 691-9883 www.thewould.com
Yolo Bistro 260 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 345-9230 www.yolobistrony.com
Yum Yum Noodle Bar 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-1400 www.yumyumnoodlebar.com
Specialty Food Shops Immuneschein Tea Haus
Kingston Candy Bar
The Hop at Beacon
22 St. 74Garden Broadway (845) (845) 876-7338 757-5055
100 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4283
Friends and Family II Hillside Restaurant
63 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 802-0883 www.frogmoretavern.com
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Ole Savannah Table & Bar
446 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (828) 319-1844 www.immune-schein.com immuneschein@gmail.com
Frogmore Tavern
JAPANESE RESTAURANT
1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446
1475 Route 208, Wallkill, NY (845) 895-8975 www.elsies-place.com
4802 US Highway 209, Accord, NY (845) 626-7777 www.friendsandfamily2.com
OSAKA
319 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 901-0341 www.kingstoncandybar.com
Quattros Game Farm and Store
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Wine Bars Jar’d Wine Pub Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.jardwinepub.com
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Gifts, Jewelry, Clothing, Fashion Accessories, Swell Stuff! 299 Wall Street • (845) 338-8100 www.boptotottom.com
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Serves deliciously fresh street style tacos in a spot you won't want to leave 38 John Street • (845) 338-2816 diegoskingston.com
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Accommodations Diamond Mills
25 South Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-0700 www.DiamondMillsHotel.com info@DiamondMillsHotel.com
Sky Lake Lodge Bed and Breakfast 22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8556 www.skylakelodgebnb.com
Alternative Energy
Attorneys Jacobowitz & Gubits (845) 778-2121 www.jacobowitz.com
Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys 30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY (845) 266-4400 or (212) 213-2145 k.friedman@msn.com newyorktrafficlawyer.com
Audio & Video
(845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
Markertek Video Supply
Antiques Hudson Antique Dealers Association Hudson, NY www.hudsonantiques.net hudsonantiques@gmail.com
Milne’s At Home Antiques & Gallery 81 Broadway , Kingston , NY (845) 331-3902 www.milneathomeantiques.com
Pay it Forward Community Thrift Store - A Division of Community Actioin of Greene County, Inc. 7856 Route 9W, Catskill, NY (518) 943-9205 www.cagcny.org5 fohle@cagcny.org
Art Galleries & Centers Crawford Gallery of Fine Art
www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services Fleet Service Center
185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812
Kinderhook Toyota, Inc
1908 New York 9H, Hudson, NY (518) 822-9911 www.kinderhooktoyota.com
Books Monkfish Publishing
22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Bookstores Mirabai
65 Main Street, Pine Bush, NY (845) 744-8634
23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com
Dorsky Museum
Olde Warwick Booke Shoppe
SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu
31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 www.yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com warwickbookshoppe@hotmail.com
Gallery 66
66 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 809-5838 www.gallery66ny.com
Mark Gruber Gallery
New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.woodstockguild.org events@woodstockguild.org
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply
Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250 Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251
Olivieri’s Arts Crafts Coffee 63 Broadway , Kingston, NY (845) 383-1663 www.olivieriart.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Berkshire Products, Inc.
Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com
John A Alvarez and Sons 3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com
Millbrook Cabinetry & Design
2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3006 www.millbrookcabinetryanddesign.com
N & S Supply
www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
New Leaf Treehouse Company
(518) 526-6675 www.newleaftreehousecompany.com
Terra Tile of Dutchess
525 North State Road, Briarcliff Manor (914) 923-4295 1115 Us 9, Fishkill (845) 298-7737 www.terratileandmarble.com
Williams Lumber & Home Center 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films
6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608 (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org
Clothing & Accessories Antilogy Design & Screening (845) 255-2200 antilogydesign@gmail.com
Columbia Costumes
66 North Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996 www.columbiacostumes.com
de Marchin
620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657
Kasuri
884 Ashley Falls Road, Sheffield, NY www.berkshireproducts.com
1 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 291-9922 www.kasuri.com
Cabinet Designers
Lea’s Boutique
747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Cord King
(845) 797-6877 cordkingllc@gmail.com
Glenn’s Wood Sheds
33 Hudson Avenue, Chatham, NY (518) 392-4666
Next Boutique
17 West Strand Street, Kingston, NY www.nextboutique.com
Pleasant Valley Department Store
(845) 255-4704
1585 Main Street, Pleasant Valley, NY www.pleasantvalleydepartmentstore.com
H Houst & Son
Willow Wood
Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com
38 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4141 willowwoodlifestyle@gmail.com
Computer Services Tech Smiths
45 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 443-4866 www.tech-smiths.com
Craft Galleries Crafts People
262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.
Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes
2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com
Dance Instruction Robert Allen
(845) 332–4315 www.tangonewpaltz.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adam’s Fairacre Farms
1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-0303 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Apple Bin Farm Market
810 Broadway, Ulster Park, NY (845) 339-7229 www.theapplebinfarmmarket.com
Beacon Natural Market
348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 www.beaconnaturalmarket.com
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org
Sunflower Natural Food Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates Ltd.
38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Gardening & Garden Supplies The Crafted Garden
(845) 858-6353 www.thecraftedgarden.com
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Hudson Solar
Herrington’s
Graphic Design & Illustration
Francis Morris Violins
Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.annieillustrates.com
Great Barrington, NY (413) 528-0165 www.francismorrisviolins.com
Rabe & Company
Imperial Guitar & Soundworks
Beacon, NY (646) 770-3367 www.rabeandco.com
Mosa Tanksley, Illustrator & Designer mosa.tanksley@aot.co mosatanksley.com
Hair Salons Allure
47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Le Shag.
292 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0191 www.leshag.com
Home Furnishings & Decor Nest Egg County Store
84 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5851 www.nesteggshop.com
Tender Land Home
64 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-7213 www.tenderlandhome.com
Home Improvement Robert George Design Group
27 West Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-7088 www.robertgeorgedesigngroup.com
Interior Design
99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com
Stockade Guitars
41 North Front Street, Kingston, NY
Organizations Buy In Greene
www.buyingreene.com/catskill
Catskill LDC
422 Main Street, Catskill, NY nrichards@villageofcatskill.net
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New York Designer Fabric Outlet 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-1555 www.nydfo.myshopify.com
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Bop to Tottom
299 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100
Dreaming Goddess
44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.dreaminggoddess.com
Hudson Valley Goldsmith
11 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5872 www.hudsonvalleygoldsmith.com
Hummingbird Jewelers
23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com hummingbirdjewelers@hotmail.com
Sharon Chandally (917) 470-9432 www.chandally.com
Sierra Lily
1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
Tonner Doll Company Inc. 301 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9537 www.tonnerdoll.com
Music Daryls House
130 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 289-0185 www.darylshouseclub.com
Music Lessons Stockade Guitars
41 N Front Street, Kingston, NY StockadeGuitars.com (845) 331-8600 Ted@StockadeGuitars.com Stockade Guitars offers music lessons from beginner to advanced levels. AND WE LOVE KIDS! Kid’s get their first lesson for free with the purchase of any instrument. Stockade Guitars specializes in vintage and boutique guitars and amplifiers. We also buy, sell and trade instruments, as well as, perform professional guitar and amplifier repairs.
www.rethinklocal.org
Kingston Library
55 Franklin Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0507 www.kingstonlibrary.org
Re>Think Local
www.rethinklocal.org
Wallkill Valley Writers
New Paltz, NY (845) 750-2370 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com Write with WVW. Creative writing workshops held weekly and on some Saturdays. Consultations & Individual Conferences also available. Registration/ Information: www.wallkillvalleywriters.com or khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com.
YMCA of Kingston
507 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org
528 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6089 www.barconesmusiconline.com
Photography Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com
Green Light Gallery
Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY www.catherinebalephotography.com
Woodstock Picture Studio
8456795913 www.woodstockpicturestudio.com
Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing
The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and CPF, has over 25 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Pools & Spas Aqua Jet
1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
1000 Hurley Mountain Road, Kingston, NY (845) 340-0552 www.atkenco.com
Performing Arts
Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate - Cold Spring 60 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-5500 www.houlihanlawrence.com
Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg.
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com
Basilica Hudson
Lawrence O’Toole Realty
Bardavon 1869 Opera House
110 S Front Street, Hudson, (518) 822-1050 www.basilicahudson.com
Bearsville Theater
291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com
BSP Kingston
323 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.bspkingston.com
Center for Performing Arts
661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 232-2320 www.centerforperformingarts.org
County Players
2681 W. Main Street, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-1491 www.countyplayers.org
The Falcon
1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org
The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio
339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Poughkeepsie, NY www.midhudsonciviccenter.org
Tangent Theater Company Tivoli, NY (845) 230-7020 www.tangent-arts.org
Pet Services & Supplies Earth Angels Veterinary Hospital 8 Nancy Court, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-7297 www.earthangelsvet.com
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Montgomery Montessori School 136 Clinton Street, Montgomery, NY (845) 401-9232 www.montgomeryms.com Montgomery Montessori encompasses students from PreK-8th grade. We are a learning community where children are inspired to realize their academic, personal, and social potential to become global citizens. The historically proven Montessori education model supports the whole child, creates lifelong learners, and educates for peace. The resulting academic excellence is supported by a prepared classroom environment that inspires self-paced, individualized discovery and love of learning, as well as respect for self, others, and the environment.
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School 16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org
Primrose Hill School Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com
Randolph School Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org
Trinity - Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org
Real Estate
Outfitters Kenco
Musical Instruments Barcones Music
3040 Route 32 South, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1050 www.hoppvet.com
Go>Local
LAD Interiors
Pawling, NY www.ladinteriors.com
Hoppenstedt Veterinary Hospital
30 John Street, Kingston, NY www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com
Mary M. Orapello - Murphy Realty Group
304 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 590-0386
Tourism Historic Huguenot Street Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660
New Paltz Travel Center 43 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7706 www.newpaltztravel.com
Toys & Games The Den of Marbletown 1 Basten Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 687-6441 www.thedenofmarbletown.com
Wine & Liquor
Select Sotheby’s International
Saratoga Springs, NY (518) 580-8500 ww.sherretchase.selectsothebysrealty.com
Willow Realty
120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-7666 www.friendlycircle.weebly.com LWillow@Aol.com
Record Stores Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217
Schools Bard MAT
Bard College (845) 758-7151 www.bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
Center for the Digital Arts / Westchester Community College Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill peekskill@sunywcc.edu
1857 Barber’s Farm Distillery Middleburgh (518) 827-5454 www.1857spirits.com
Denning’s Point Distillery, LLC 10 North Chestnut Street, Beacon, NY www.denningspointdistillery.com
Hetta (845) 216-4801 www.hettaglogg.com
Kingston Wine Co. 65 Broadway on the Rondout, Kingston, NY www.kingstonwine.com
Miron Wine and Spirits 15 Boices Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5155 www.mironwineanspirits.com
Nostrano Vineyards 14 Gala Lane, Milton, NY (845) 795-5473 www.nostranovineyards.com
Town and Country Liquors Route 212, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8931 www.tcliquors.com
Workshops
Columbia-Greene Community College 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1481 ext.3344 www.mycommunitycollege.com
Hudson Valley Photoshop Training, Stephen Blauweiss
High Meadow School
(845) 339-7834 www.hudsonvalleyphotoshop.com
Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org
Hotchkiss School
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts
Writing Services Peter Aaron www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org
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FITNESS, REIMAGINED BREAK OUT OF YOUR ROUTINE WITH EXERCISE THAT’S SO FRESH AND FUN, IT HARDLY FEELS LIKE EXERCISE AT ALL.
by wendy kagan
illustration by annie internicola
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o ahead: I dare you. Ditch your dusty old cardio machines and barbells. Lose the perfunctory pushups and stomach crunches. Instead, turn everything you think about exercise upside down—including, maybe, your own body. There couldn’t be a better place to do that than right here, right now in the Hudson Valley, where a bevy of new fitness offerings— from parkour to pole yoga—is blasting open the old paradigms to make exercise not a drag-yourself-through-it chore but a life-affirming joy. Awaken Your Inner Ninja Parlez-vous parkour? If you’ve seen an action movie like Casino Royale, or you’ve watched competitors in the TV show “American Ninja Warrior” performing near-impossible feats of agility, then you’re probably familiar with the physical discipline.Yet true parkour is a lot more accessible and meaningful than cat-leaping between buildings, says instructor Dylan Johanson, who teaches his Innate Movement Parkour classes at The Jungle, a new athletic movement studio in Kingston that specializes in out-of-the-box exercise. “People might see [it in the movies] and say, ‘I have no intention of jumping over death drops, so parkour is not for me.’ But really, it’s a holistic movement discipline where we challenge ourselves with obstacles.” Students start where they’re at and can be any age or fitness level. Drawing upon the body’s natural motions—running, jumping, climbing, swinging—they develop a whole-body approach to fitness that improves mobility, strength, endurance, and flexibility. At The Jungle, a 2,500-square-foot practice course includes such elements as an 8-by-4-foot tower, a rail system, balance beams, and bulk boxes. Students become masters of not only their bodies but also the world around them. “A body builder might have these big muscles but can’t climb a tree to get a kite out of it,” says Johanson. “I want to train people so they can explore and reclaim their environment.You start to get the parkour vision.” Above all, suggests Johanson, it’s about being fully alive in your own body. “Parkour rejects the idea that exercise is something that you have to force yourself to do in order to not gain weight or to achieve some sort of aesthetic ideal. It’s about finding joy, passion, and engagement in the movement process.” Find Grace with Flow Arts The Jungle is perhaps the only place in the Hudson Valley offering parkour, but the fitness novelties don’t end there. “It’s the kind of place where you can study circus arts such as aerial silk and lyra, as well as walking on barrels, riding unicycles, slack line walking, and flow arts like fire spinning, Hula-Hoop, poi, and juggling,” says Richard Ferrono, The Jungle’s owner. “We’re offering different paradigms in fitness and we’re embracing fun, because fun leads to health.” Ferrono recommends that people begin with the flow arts and build from there to more physically demanding forms like aerial silks. “What’s good about the flow arts is that they’re low impact, gentle, and fun—and they’re a gateway to health. Any fitness level, age, or body shape can jump into it. People become transformed.” One of those people, a teacher at The Jungle, lost over 100 pounds and quit smoking after he started practicing flow arts. “He’s a total inspiration in regards to health,” says Ferrono, who is himself a former gymnastics 78 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 11/15
coach. Also on offer are power tumbling classes with two-time New York State champion Kody Priest, as well as daily athletic movement courses for children in which Ferrono teaches circus arts, tumbling, and free running, which he describes as “parkour with flips.” The studio will eventually feature performances by its instructors, who are headliner acts in their fields. In early October, The Jungle had been open just one week—yet business was booming. “People are getting it,” says Ferrono. “What we’re offering is based on kindness, inclusivity, and I’ll use the word ‘love’—that’s part of it.” Even though it’s not a martial arts studio, students bow in and out of class. “We’re spiritual beings in physical form,” Ferrono explains to his younger students, adding, “Our goal is to inspire anyone who walks in the door.” Jump for the Joy of It Trampolines are not new—the first one was created in the 1930s—but indoor parks like Bounce! Trampoline Sports in Poughkeepsie are innovative havens for those seeking fun and fitness of the vertical sort. “People are pretty amazed at what an incredible workout they get when they jump on a trampoline,” says Bounce! co-owner and managing partner Bruce Katz. “It’s low impact, and it’s something that everybody can do.” Open to all ages, the park recently introduced an Adult Night on Wednesdays from 7 to 8pm, when jumpers 18 and up can bounce unencumbered by the teeny-bopper set. The evening includes two half-hour Bouncercize classes, round-robin dodge ball games, and timed competitions on the park’s new Xtreme Challenge Course—an agility/obstacle course that’s loosely inspired by “American Ninja Warrior.” On any given night, parents often jump along with their kids for a workout that engages the whole family. Popular highlights include slam-dunk basketball and two foam pits. Daytime Toddler Time sessions for children up to six years old help get wee ones and their parents out of the house and moving. Another draw is Jump n’ Glow night on Fridays, when the whole park glows in the dark under lasers and black lighting. With all the hullabaloo, you might forget what a great workout you’re getting. (NASA scientists say that jumping on a trampoline is one of the most efficient forms of aerobic exercise we have—68 percent more effective than jogging while requiring less effort.) Says Katz of Bounce!, “It’s a great place to come, have fun, and get incredible exercise at the same time.” Join the Circus (for an Hour or Two) With a focus on aerial fabric—also known as aerial silks or split silks—Hudson Valley Circus Arts has a brand-new home at BSP in Kingston. Owner Alisha Mai McNamara is offering a “soft launch” of two classes a week for adults and teens but plans to scale up with more diverse classes in the coming months. “Our tagline is ‘Get fit, have fun, join the circus,’” says McNamara, whose aerial classes involve two pieces of fabric that extend from the ceiling to the floor; students learn how to climb them, wrap themselves up, unroll, and turn tricks as they get more experienced. “We tie a knot so people can hang from their hips or shoulders.They’re really supported, and we have lots of protocols to keep people safe. One nice thing is it’s low impact—kind of like swimming in the air.”
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Spice It Up with Fitness Pole Dancing The play continues—without hanky-panky, mind you—at Studio 9, where owner Sarah Jacoby and her instructors liberate women (and a few intrepid men) from their couches and chairs with fitness pole dancing. Not just for men’s kicks, pole dancing has a lot to offer—from toned arms, legs, and core muscles to creative cardio that gets you moving. “It’s really catching on in the Hudson Valley,” says Jacoby, who has seen business take off at Studio 9’s three locations in Middletown, Poughkeepsie, and Kingston. The Kingston studio is expanding to a larger space by year’s end, and like the other two studios will also offer aerial silks, lyra, and yoga. It wasn’t always this way: When Jacoby started teaching pole dancing as fitness six years ago, people thought she was crazy. “All they could think of was women in next-to-nothing clothing and men in dark clubs throwing money,” she says. “We really stay on the fitness aspect. Yes, you do learn to dance, and yes, you feel very sexy and confident—but we gear it with the fitness in mind and let you play with the creative side of it being sexy or not.” While the athletic payoff is notable, the mental boost that women get from fitness pole dancing is even more valuable, says Jacoby. One student started when she was very overweight and suffering from low self-esteem; after 10 weeks of classes (and help from a nutritionist), she’s lost 20 pounds and walks into the studio with a newfound sass. The best part about pole? “It gives you a level of confidence and empowerment that doesn’t come from running 17 miles on a treadmill,” says Jacoby. Learn to Fly with Pole Yoga With all the maverick fitness styles today, it’s natural that we’re seeing creative fusions develop. Aerial yoga—a marriage of aerial fabric and yoga—is popping up around the country, with classes using silk “hammocks” to support and enhance students’ yoga poses. Now, thanks to a pioneering Hudson Valley local, we have a new one to put on our do list: pole yoga. The brainchild of Michelle Dawson—owner of The Body Art Barn in Blooming Grove—pole yoga is a combination of yoga, aerial yoga, and Chinese acrobatics, using the pole for resistance training. Starting in November, Dawson will offer pole yoga classes on Saturdays; in the meantime, she’s been introducing the art form to students as part of the Barn’s daily 7am boot camp classes. Both the pole yoga and the boot camp do demand a certain level of fitness from the get go, says Dawson. And it helps to love heights. “We use the pole to climb, mount, do spins. It’s a strong workout:You gotta be a ninja to be on the pole.” Yet Dawson is careful to keep the division between pole dancing and pole yoga very clear—you won’t see any high heels or suggestive sashays in these classes. “Yoga is the backbone of every type of movement that we teach at the Barn,” she says. “Even the kids that come are still getting that spirituality, kindness, and intention.” It’s all part of the Barn’s creative roster of classes, from teen circus arts to adult vinyasa yoga and even henna parties. Also new to the schedule, Friday night dance parties invite people to experience the unique vibe of what Dawson describes as a very spiritual place. And maybe even try to be a ninja.
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Dog on Fleas November 21
Thanksgiving Weekend Magic with David Garrity November 28
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EVENT PREVIEWS & LISTINGS FOR NOVEMBER 2015
SEAN HANSEN
Chris Hansen, Matt Pond, and Shawn Alpay of Matt Pond PA. Matt Pond PA plays BSP Kingston on November 20.
Last Shot to Shake the Leaves The hamlet of Wallkill is known more for its sports than its music.But for all its concentration on varsity letters, the two national breakouts from the area were not in the realms of football, baseball, or basketball, but rather in rock ’n’ roll. The most famous one, of course, is former Skid Row drummer and 1981 graduate Rob Affuso. The other man might not have been on MTV beyond his short stint working in their video library after college but is equally prolific, and has international exposure. Chris Hansen, who recently celebrated his 20-year high school reunion with Wallkill’s class of 1995, is a key member of Philadelphia-born indie rock institution Matt Pond PA, who are playing the BSP Lounge in Kingston on November 20 (with opening act Laura Stevenson, whose excellent new album Cocksure was just released). Hansen has been with the group since 2006, first appearing on 2010’s The Dark Leaves, and remains an important architect of Pond’s tried-and-true blend of indie rock grit and chamber pop grace, a sound they take to new heights on their latest LP, The State of Gold, while remaining faithful to the distinctive sound Pond and company established back in 1998. “We tried to push it electronically with this new one, with more pulsing, gyrating sort of rhythms and building up from that,” Hansen says about the direction of Gold. “Matt’s always gonna write songs the way he’s gonna write songs, but we are trying to push around the edges of that any way we can. But I guess it always does sound like us. Some people are always trying to reinvent themselves, but someone like Matt is going to write about what he wants to write about. His songs can be oblique, but knowing him as well as I know him, everything he’s singing about is a true story. He can’t make up a fake emotional backstory to a song. Every song is about something in his life. These songs are essentially the story of his life, which attests to the familiarity of the sound.” Pond initially met Hansen when Matt Pond PA were recording their 2007 LP Last Light at Bearsville Studio, where Hansen had been working as an in-house studio
guitarist and engineering assistant. He’s played on albums by such legends as Steely Dan, Branford Marsalis, Cheap Trick, and Phish, to name a small selection. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect, according to Hansen, as he joined the band just as the facilitating squeeze of the digital world was putting full-time studio musicians like him out of work. “In the middle of the last decade, the recording studio world kind of imploded,” he explains. “People weren’t buying records, and then there were new, inexpensive ways to make records. When I started working at Bearsville in 2000, we had a staff of 25, three studios, and the rate was $3,000 a day. And that was just for the room. By the time we closed the studio in late 2006—the Matt Pond album was the last one we did in the studio—I was the only person working there and the studio was like 400 bucks a day.” Turns out this BSP show coming up in November will be Matt Pond PA’s penultimate concert—Hansen explains that the following night at Webster Hall in Manhattan will be the group’s last gig indefinitely—as he and Pond, who recently moved to Kingston himself and is in the exploratory stages of opening a bar in one of the town's burgeoning neighborhoods, plan to focus their concentration on producing other artists from the mobile studio setup they’ve staged in houses and cabins from St. Augustine, Florida, to Calais, Maine, and is compact enough to fit in a Toyota Corolla. “We’re gonna keep recording and stuff,” Hansen assures. “But we’re a little burnt on the grind and cycle of recording an album and touring. I haven’t had a day off in two years, almost. It's one of those things where you feel like a jerk complaining about it, but it would be nice to see my wife for more than a day or two.” Matt Pond PA plays BSP Kingston on November 20. Laura Stevenson opens. (845) 481-5158; Bspkingston.com. —Ron Hart 11/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 85
SUNDAY 1 DANCE Middle Main Poughkeepsie Día de los Muertos Grand Celebration 4-8pm. Hudson River Housing’s Middle Main Initiative is holding its fifth annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) grand celebration. Mystic Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 454-5176.
Swing Brunch
First Sunday of every month, 10:30am2pm. $12.95. Eagle’s Nest 2 at Dinsmore, Staatsburg. 475-4689.
FILM “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” 3-5pm. $7. Lon Chaney plays Quasimodo. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
FOOD & WINE Fall Cookout Openhouse & Tours
2-6pm. $15 donation. Palatine Farmstead, Rhinebeck. (914) 466-4957.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Sound Healing and Yoga with Lea Garnier
2-3:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
KIDS & FAMILY I-Spy Halloween Trail
11am-3pm. Visitors will sharpen their observation skills as they search for objects such as bones and skulls cleverly hidden along the “I Spy” Trail. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
LITERARY & BOOKS The Deep Six
7-8:30pm. $10/$5. Six writers go six feet deep, performing readings about death and dying. Anvil Gallery at Tech Smiths, Kingston. Tech-smiths.com/anvil-gallery.
Hudson Valley YA Society: Jennifer Donnelly
4-5:30pm. Author of These Shallow Grave. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Nancy Fuller: Farmhouse Rules
11am-1pm. Nancy Fuller is the host of the #1 in-kitchen show - Farmhouse Rules. Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
MUSIC Bard College Conservatory Orchestra
3pm. $25/$20/Bard ID free. Byron Adams, Strauss, Beethoven. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Concerts Con Brio
7pm. $12/students free. Long-time collaborators Benedikt Kellner (tenor) and Maria Rivera White (pianist) will present Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452.8220.
Cuboricua Salsa Band
7pm. Latin jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
George WInston
7:30pm. $45/$40 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.
Rob Paparozzi Trio
11am-2pm. Blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Adult Chess Club
First Sunday of every month, 1:30-3:30pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
The Barn of Terror
7pm. Boice Farm, Lake Katrine. Thebarnofterror.com.
Hike Iona Island
1-4pm. $7/$5 members. With Donald “Doc” Bayne, a regionally recognized naturalist, educator and historian. Registration required. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
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Wild Earth Wilderness Club
10am-noon. Suggested donation of $15. The Wilderness Club is a place for adults and families to learn about tracking, wild edibles, bird language and more. New Paltz Park and Ride, New Paltz. 256-9830.
THEATER Sweeny Todd
3pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Blow Your Own Ornament
$35. Sessions last 15 minutes. Call for sessions. Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon. 440-0068.
MONDAY 2. LITERARY & BOOKS Forrest Pritchard
6pm. Presenting his book Growing Tomorrow: A Farm to Table Journey in Photos and Recipes: Behind the Scenes with 18 Extraordinary Sustainable Farmers Who Are Changing the Way We Eat. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC Karl Berger Residency
7pm. Improv jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Impact: Crafting a Thriving Venture for the New Economy
$70/$375 series/$195 scholarship series. A series of 6 workshops for entrepreneurs + local businesses. With social/environmental/ personal values, inner awareness, community vision (and community building) woven throughout, this series does more than give you tools and tactics. Hands-on workshops include mindfulness, individual exercises, and opportunities to share ideas with your peers. Etsy Hudson, Hudson. Bit. ly/impactHV2015.
TUESDAY 3 DANCE Dojo Dance Company’s Argentine Tango and Salsa
7pm. Lesson and social dance. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
HEALTH & WELLNESS KIDS & FAMILY Autism & ADHD Support Group
First Tuesday of every month, 6:30pm. This support group is designed to meet the psychosocial needs of parents with children affected by autism and/or ADHD. Parents share challenges they face in raising a child with these disorders. Guest speakers and community leaders also share their expertise with parents. The program is facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.
LECTURES & TALKS Dr. Howard C. Stevenson: Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools
7:30pm. How schools are often places where racial conflicts remain hidden, at the expense of a healthy school climate and the well-being of students of color. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311.
The History of the Fight for Storm King 7:30pm. Robert Lifset will speak about the environmental opposition that emerged in 1962 when Consolidated Edison of New York announced plans to build a pumpedstorage hydro-electric plant at Storm King Mountain. Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall. 534-2903.
Madison Quakers Work in Vietnam
7-9pm. free. Mike Boehm speaking about Madison Quakers’ work in Vietnam. Quaker Meeting, Old Chatham. (518) 766-2992.
Book Signing with Suzanne Kelly
6-7:30pm. Her new book highlights the green burial movement. Greening Death – Reclaiming Burial Practices & Restoring Our Tie to the Earth. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
LITERARY & BOOKS Open Mike
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Noticing Nature Workshop
5-6pm. Enjoy a 1 hour walk on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, contribute to data that is strongly linked with climate change, make observations about the life cycle of plants and trees, learn to identify plant species, and enjoy the beautiful Autumn colors. Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, Poughkeepsie. 437-7435.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Advanced Abstract Painting Workshop
9am-4pm. $360. Through Nov. 6. This workshop is designed for painters interested in exploring more deeply the fundamental elements that come together to create a successful abstract painting. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Beginner Swing Dance Classes
6-7pm. $80/four week series. With professional instructors Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. New series begins every four weeks. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
Chinese Brush Painting
6-8pm. $120/$35 material fee. Come and learn the basics for this meditative art form. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0333.
Health Plan Help: How to Buy Insurance from New York State 5:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
WEDNESDAY 4 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Coxsackie Earth Day Movie Series
First Wednesday of every month, 6-8pm. Free environmental movies/documentaries. Jeffrey Haas, Coxsackie. (518) 478-5414.
FILM On Screen/Sound: No. 6
7pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Gut Feeling: Digestion and Your Health
6-7:30pm. $25. Join Holly Shelowitz, culinary nutrition counselor and educator, and learn how to support your digestion, how to heal from digestive issues like reflux and Gerd, and ultimately how to trust your gut. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.
KIDS & FAMILY Suspense! Halloween Radio
7pm. $70/$50. Presented by The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
LECTURES & TALKS William Gifford Lecture by Author Colum McCann
6pm. Acclaimed author Colum McCann, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for the novel Let the Great World Spin, will deliver the William Gifford Lecture at Vassar College. McCann will read from his work at this event. Afterward, there will be a question and answer session and McCann will sign copies of his books. Sponsored by the English Department and the William Gifford Fund for Writers-in-Residence. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7690.
LITERARY & BOOKS Native New Yorkers: the Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
7pm. A talk and book-signing with author Evan Pritchard, a descendant of the Mi’kmaq people and founder of the Center for Algonquin Culture. Rosendale Public Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.
Book Signing with Stephan Silverman
5:30-7pm. In The Catskills Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Talk and Book Signing Marc B. Fried
7-8:15pm. Local historian, nature writer and columnist Marc B. Fried will be reading from his new book, Notes from the Other Side, followed by a book signing. Plattekill Library, Modena. 883-7286.
MUSIC Claudia Acuña Featuring Samora Pinderhughes
7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Munich Symphony Orchestra
7:30pm. A program of Bizet, Rodrigo and Massenet, including two guitar concertos by Rodrigo. Guitar soloist Pepe Romero and the
guitar quartet The Romeros will also appear with the orchestra. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
SPIRITUALITY A Course in Miracles
7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Encaustic Comprehensive Workshop
Multiple-day e workshops are designed to give participants thorough knowledge of the encaustic medium and method. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
THURSDAY 5 ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS Along the Farm Art Trail: Paintings by Marge Morales & Janet Howard Opening reception November 7, 5pm7pm Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-2787.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Exodus: Newburgh Extension
First Thursday of every month, 6-8pm. A prison re-entry support group (formerly known as the New Jim Crow Committee). Come join us to assist the new Exodus Transitonal Community in Newburgh, (a re-entry program for those being released from prison), as well as other matters related to Mass Incarceration. The Hope Center, Newburgh. 569-8965.
COMEDY The Capitol Steps
8pm. $56. The Capitol Steps put the “mock” in democracy, as they skewer Republicans, Democrats, red states and blue states, with hilarious send-ups and satire on the current political climate. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
DANCE Swingin’ Newburgh
First Thursday of every month. Beginner swing dance lesson provided by Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios 7-7:30. Swing Shift Orchestra plays 7:30-9pm. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. Got2lindy.com.
KIDS & FAMILY Story Time
9:15-10:15am. Up to age 4. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.
Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia 10:30am. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Suspense! Halloween Radio
7pm. $70/$50. Presented by The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
LECTURES & TALKS Eternity and Megalomania: The Politics and Mechanics of Archiving 7pm. Johannes Goebel. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
First Thursdays in the Archives
First Thursday of every month, 12-2pm. Welcoming visitors to learn more about the library’s special collections. These tours provide an insider’s glimpse at rare menus and documents, as well as sneak peeks of newly discovered materials. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.
Water for Consumption: A History of Drinking Water: Its Source, Treatment and Distribution
7pm. Michael J. Sandor, PE, MJS Engineering & Land Surveying, PC, explains, with a short design example, surface water and ground water sources, methodologies of calculating the safe yields, and domestic and fire protection requirements. Engineers and architects will receive a certificate for one PDH-CEU for lecture attendance. Rowley Center for Science & Engineering, Sandra and Alan Gerry Forum, Room 010, Middletown. 341-4891.
MUSIC Jake Shimabukuro
8pm. $35-$45. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
BURLESQUE LILLIAN BUSTLE BETTINA MAY
The “F” Word: Body Image Talk with Lillian Bustle Lillian Bustle’s burlesque résumé might read something like this: Well-versed in nipple tassels. Expert corset unraveler. Audience charmer. Fat. Yes: Fat. Bustle identifies as such, viewing it not as an insult but as a physical description—one that people ought to get more comfortable with. Indeed, the socially conscious burlesquer strips, shakes, and shimmies in the name of body image reform, insisting that beauty is a personal choice. And according to Bustle, the more we see diversity among bodies, the more we’ll see diverse bodies as beautiful. In a TEDx talk earlier this year, Bustle discussed controlling our “visual diets”—what we eat with our eyes. “Want to get all of your visual food groups in?” she asked. “Burlesque is a pretty great way to do that.” Fat, thin, tall, short, white, black, bejeweled, or nude: The new burlesque movement is revolutionizing the way that we see other bodies—and teaching us to be more accepting of our own. Bustle will talk on “Stripping Away Negative Body Image” at SUNY New Paltz’s Lecture Center Room 108 on November 2 at 8pm. (845) 257-3025; Newpaltz.edu/events. —Jennifer Gutman You embrace the word “fat” as a self-descriptor. How come? There’s no doubt that a lot of times when people say that word that they’re trying to hurt somebody. I spent a lot of my time living in a body that I was afraid somebody would describe to my face. The implication was, “You’re fat and you’re worthless; you’re fat and I have control over the way you feel right now; you’re fat and therefore I think you’ll be alone all your life.” Being able to own the word allowed me to strip away all of the “fat and,” so instead of “You’re fat and bad,” it was just “You’re fat.” It’s just one aspect of who I am; it’s not my entire identity. But being able to accept it and embrace it and not let it be a hurtful word sucked the poison out of it, and now I don’t walk around afraid that someone will notice something that is clear and obvious and that I was trying to hide. Our society struggles with female sexuality—the madonna-whore complex comes to mind. How does burlesque respond to these labels and expectations? There is something about the new burlesque movement that’s allowing people to reclaim their sexuality in a way that’s empowering to them that is hard to come by in other forms of expression. The art form is different for everybody. There are people who identify as trans or genderqueer or gay or bi or anything along the spectrum. Everyone who gets up on stage is doing it to bust through certain expectations and to redefine what that performance means and what sexuality means. The more that we see these tired clichés on TV or stereotypes in movies, the more we believe them. To be part of an art
form that forces people to take a different look at women or people that are stereotyped is incredibly rewarding. What are your thoughts on recent decisions to feature plus-size models in the media? It is really great that we’re starting to see more body diversity, but I think where it gets problematic is that I see a lot of plus-size models but the general shape seems to be one shape of fat, which is an hourglass shape. My body isn’t that. I’m glad that we’re working toward it, but we’re still not there—as evidenced by Tess Holliday. She was the first over-250-pound model to sign with a major agency. People just freaked out. And I don’t mind that people are freaking out because people are talking about it. But unfortunately, I think it’s kicking up a very deep self-loathing in people that’s coming out as anger and aggression. I’m happy for visibility, but as far as “All Women, All Bodies,” I’m not seeing all bodies. I don’t want to sound bitter—all of it is good, but it shouldn’t be something that’s unusual. But until people get used to seeing different kinds of bodies, any aberration is going to feel radical. Do you think burlesque is for everyone? It’s less important to me that people go see burlesque and more important to me that people challenge themselves to find ways to see different bodies portrayed in a positive light. I think that burlesque is a good jumping-off point, but obviously there are a lot of people who do not have that comfort level or just don’t think it’s fun. I respect that! But there are so many other ways. Tumblr and Instagram are amazing resources full of body-positive blogs. The Adipositivity Project is a wonderful activism project whose mission is to show fat bodies in a positive light. It’s a low-risk way to expose yourself to different styles of bodies—folks that don’t fit this thin, white, able-bodied standard. Only about five percent of people even have bodies that are predisposed to be anything like the bodies that we see in the media. There are benefits about burlesque that are very unique to that art form, but I don’t think that’s the only way that people can get good stuff from this visual diet. What should people expect from your SUNY New Paltz event? My main goal is to get people to rethink the entire concept of beauty. To get into the idea that happiness is not a size. I’m going to be talking about my own personal journey, and specific lessons that burlesque has taught me and actual things that you can do without taking a class to bring body diversity into your own life. And there will definitely be a Q&A session—the dialogue for this is so important to me. I can stand on my soapbox and say anything I want, but we really listen when we actually have a discussion. 11/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 87
Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project
7pm. $20. Focusing on songs collected by folklorist and field recording pioneer Alan Lomax, this collaboration brings together some of North America’s most distinctive and creative roots musicians to recycle, reimagine and recast traditional music. The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy. (518) 272-2390.
ProJam 13
8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Rex & The Rockabilly Kings Celebrate Early Elvis 7pm. Opener: Film “200 Cadillacs.” The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THEATER Capitol Steps
8pm. Capitol Steps will put the “mock” in democracy, as they skewer Republicans, Democrats, red states and blue states, with hilarious send-ups and satire on the current political climate. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
NEWvember New Plays Festival
2 & 6pm. $15. Six new plays from emerging playwrights. Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. Tangent-arts.org.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Playing with Voice and Rhythm with Pete Blum and Bill Ross
First Thursday of every month, 8-9pm. $10. An opportunity for musicians and those with no prior musical training at all to explore some of the basic ways that we can communicate non-verbally through the beautiful medium of pure vocal tones and rhythmic improvisations. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
LITERARY & BOOKS Paul Russell
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES African Dance
MUSIC Alexis P. Suter Band
Healing Circle to Nourish Your Soul
7pm. Presenting his new novel, Immaculate Blue. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
7pm. Opener: Jefferson Murphy. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
The Fred Savages
9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Hudson Valley Folk Guild’s Friends of Fiddler’s Green Chapter: Debra Cowan and John Roberts 8pm. $12/$10 seniors/$8 HVFG members. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 758-2681.
Indie-folk Duo Tall Heights
9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
The Indigo Girls
8pm. $49/$39/$32. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Joe Fiedler Quartet featuring Gary Versace 8pm. Jazz. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Jon Pousette-Dart
9pm. $20. Folk rock. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Julie Parisi Kirby CD Release Concert 7pm. $10. In Her Dream, brings to the fore Julie’s extraordinary voice, as warm and strong as oak, in songs of joy and beauty, peace and family, passion and compassion. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 750-2749.
Marc Delgado
Word Cafe
6:30-8pm. $15/$125 series/free for teens and college students. A master class for readers and writers hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. Wordcafe.us.
FRIDAY 6 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Living Your Life to the Maximum
8am-4pm. $30/$20 students. Jewish Family Services of Ulster County’s 8th Annual Aging and Caregiver Conference. Best Western Hotel, Kingston. 338-0400.
DANCE Beginner Swing Dance Classes
6:30-7:30pm. $80/series. Beginner Swing Dance Class Series in Newburgh. New series starts every four weeks. No experience or partner needed. Taught by professional teachers Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.
Cajun Dance with C’Est Bon Cajun Dance Band
7-11pm. $15/$10 FT student ID. An allfemale Cajun dance band with attitude. 7pm: free lesson; 8-11 pm: dance to band. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. (914) 388-7048.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS A Weekend of Folk/Roots/ Americana Music
Play, sing, listen, learn, share music. Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson. 626-8888.
KIDS & FAMILY Family Fun Nights
First Friday of every month, 5:307:45pm. Catskill Recreation Center, Arkville. 586-6250.
Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia 10am & noon. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Suspense! Halloween Radio
7pm. $70/$50. Presented by The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
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8-10:30pm. Marc writes, plays guitar, and sings in the alternative rock/folk/Americana group Wounded Knee. When not writing and recording with the band, he performs as a solo acoustic act. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Ra Ra Riot
First Friday of every month, 6:157:45pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. First Friday of every month, 6:30-8pm. $35. A sacred circle to connect, explore and expand. Acupuncturist and intuitive healer Holly Burling will guide you through a soulful healing experience. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. (646) 387-1974.
What Does It Take to Be a Competent Musician? Master Class by Joy Zelada
10am. Joy Zelada, classical guitarist, BM in performance and MA in music in Arts, Hunter College, offers a conversation-discussion about the work it takes to be a professional musician: education, practice & rehearsal, more than natural talent. Orange Hall Room 23, Middletown. 341-4891.
Work-Life Alignment
9-11:30am. $175. Cale Communications, Rhinebeck. (8450 876-2220.
SATURDAY 7 COMEDY Artie Lange
8pm. $60. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
DANCE Benefit Ballroom Dance
First Saturday of every month, 7:30pm. Proceeds go towards our scholarship fund. Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster Counties, Inc. MISU, Ellenville. 399-1293.
Project 44
7:30-9:30pm. $30/$10 student rush and children. Established in 2010, PROJECT 44 (Queens, NY) is an all male dance group that serves as the artistic platform for choreographer Gierre Godley. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Primrose Hill Clothing & Toy Sale
8pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.
9am-3pm. Fundraiser for 3rd grade farm trip. Live music and refreshments. Primrose Hill School, Rhinebeck. 876-1226.
Three Dog Night
Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair
8-10pm. $54/$74. Legendary music icons, Three Dog Night celebrate their 4th decade bringing some of the most influential hits in popular music to their legions of fans. 8pm. $74/$54. Classic rock. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Green Mountain Energy
10am-8pm. free. Representatives from Green Mountain Energy will be setting up information tables at our store to help inform you of what they do. Note: They will also be in our Rhinebeck location on Thursdays from 9-7! Sunflower Natural Foods Market, Woodstock. 679-5361.
TMI Project 5th Anniversary Celebration 8pm. $25/$20 in advance. Stories, toast, DJd music. Seven21 Media Center, Kingston. 331-0551.
TMI Project’s 5 Year Celebration
8pm. $25/$20 in advance. An evening of storytelling, followed by a dance party with Deejay Ali Gruber spinning, and a champagne/seltzer toast. It will include performances by Executive Director and co-founder Eva Tenuto; Marketing Director, co-founder and comic performer Julie Novak; and Editorial Director, Sari Botton, plus one storyteller from each of the non-profit organization’s five years in operation. Seven21 Media Center, Kingston. Tmiproject.org/#!tickets/c1ko9.
THEATER Bond: The Story of a Soldier and His Dog
10am-4pm. $3/$2 students & seniors. Dozens and dozens of vendors on 2 floors! Plenty of snacks and food. Discount admission coupon on website. John A Coleman Catholic High School, Hurley. 338-2750.
A Weekend of Folk/Roots/ Americana Music
Play, sing, listen, learn, share music. Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson. 626-8888.
KIDS & FAMILY Chocolate Arts and Crafts (Yes! Chocolate!)
11am-4pm. $12/$10 in advance. Create a chocolate bowl and fill it with candy. Make a chocolate pizza topped with treats. Craft animals and other shapes entirely out of chocolate. Little Pickles Toy Shop; Sweet Shop; Playhouse, Red Hook. 835-8086.
Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia 11am. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Reading, Mindfulness Practice & Book Signing with Deborah Sosnin
12-1:30pm. At this event the author will read the story “Charlotte and the Quiet Place” then engage the audience in some easy & fun mindfulness exercises before signing books. For kids ages 3-8. Oblong Books & Music, Millerton. (518) 789-3793.
Saturday Social Circle
7:30-8:45pm. $15/$10 students, seniors and veterans. Based on true events, this one-man show chronicles a year in Iraq, the incredible bond formed between a handler and his bomb-sniffing K-9 partner, and what happens to both once they return to the States. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
First Saturday of every month, 10am-noon. This group for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids, we welcome you to join us on Saturday mornings for conversation, fun and laughter over tea and homemade cookies. There is time for socialization so you can connect with old friends and get to know new ones. New Baby New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0624.
NEWvember New Plays Festival
Suspense! Halloween Radio
Sweeny Todd
LECTURES & TALKS John Bragg Slideshow
2 & 6pm. $15. Six new plays from emerging playwrights. Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. Tangent-arts.org. 8pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
7pm. $70/$50. Presented by The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Rock & Snow, New Paltz. 255-1311.
Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Armistead Maupin
7:30pm. $25/$5 Bard ID. Join a public conversation between Neil Gaiman, Bard’s Professor in the Arts, and Armistead Maupin, the best-selling writer and activist. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. 7:30pm. $25/$5 Bard community. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
LITERARY & BOOKS Alton Campbell
7pm. Presenting the first novel in his series, Children of Ohm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Poetry Reading by Bernie Kukoff
4-6pm. A conversation with Thomas Chulak from the bookstore and Q & A will follow a brief reading. The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. 518-392-3005.
Two Plays by Suzanna Cramer 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
MUSIC 420FM Super Meltdown Pre Holidaze TripFest with the 420 Funk Mob/Rx
9pm. The 420 Funk Mob/Rx is Parliament/ Funkadelic frontman Mike Clip Payne’s off days project that features members of P-Funk with some all-star musical friends. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Abraham and the Groove
8:30-11pm. The group features Tony Parker on drums, Kevin O’Toole on guitar, Peter Martin on percussion and vocals, and Jeff Schecter on keyboards. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Brushing with the Muse
8pm. In this multimedia performance, brushstroke interweaves delightfully with musical textures, creating a seamless mix of sound and visuals. Seasoned musicians Steve Gorn, David Lopato and Harvey Sorgon draw on world music, jazz and improvisation, sparking spontaneous brush expression by calligraphic performance artist Barbara Bash. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Bryan Gordon
8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Dennis Nelson
7pm. Folk, traditional. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333.
Guy Davis
7pm. $30/$24 in advance. Guy Davis is the consummate bluesman. Guy will be introducing songs from his new album “Kokomo Kidd.” Crawford Park Mansion, Rye Brook. (914) 417-9151.
The Lucky 5
8pm. $10. Hard swinging jazz. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes 8pm. $52/$62/$72. 8pm. $52-$72. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Vassar College Choir
8pm. Christine Howlett, conductor, Drew Minter, stage director. Purcell’s beloved Dido and Aeneas is presented in a semi-staged version with orchestra. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
Voices of Veterans Songwriting Workshop and Concert
Calling all Veterans: join us for this special full-day songwriting workshop (10 a.m.–5 p.m.), closing with an evening concert at the Lobby at the Ritz Theater (7 p.m.). Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 342-2400 ext 237.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS First Saturday Reception
First Saturday of every month, 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. These monthly events are part of Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Public Walking Tour 10am & 1pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 229-0425.
THEATER Bond: The Story of a Soldier & His Dog 7:30-8:45pm. $15/$10 students, seniors and veterans. Based on true events, this one-man show chronicles a year in Iraq, the incredible bond formed between a handler and his bomb-sniffing K-9 partner, and what happens to both once they return to the States. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
MUSIC DEBO BAND
PETE LEE
Debo Band plays the LUMA Theater at Bard College's Fisher Center on November 19.
Deep Grooves Western-dwelling lovers of exotic, exceptional music are delighted. But who among them could’ve predicted the international success of the Ethiopiques series? The compilation CDs, 29 so far and all released by French label Buda Music, assay the golden age of indigenous Ethiopian and Eritrean popular music. We’re talking about the 1960s and ’70s, when sweltering native rhythms, ululating Arabesque vocals, bold American soul- and European-brass-band-style horns, Memphis-stew funk grooves, and fuzzy psychedelic rock guitars slithered together in torrid, packed Abbis Abeba nightclubs. It’s this period and place that directly informs the music of the Boston-based Debo Band, which will perform at Bard College’s Fisher Center on November 19. “I guess the popularity of Ethiopiques kind of reached its peak in 2005, when [director] Jim Jarmusch used some tracks from the series in Broken Flowers,” says EthiopianAmerican saxophonist and band leader Danny Mekonnen, who was born in the Sudan in 1980 to refugees from dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam’s violent, state-sponsored Red Terror campaign. “I think the music has mainly been popular in the West among music critics and underground listeners; it’s not like it hit the mainstream. But one of the reasons I think people here have come to love it is because it’s just the right mix of the familiar and the ‘weird.’” Yet for all its fervor for the West African sounds of 40 years ago, the 11-piece Debo Band, which started in 2006, is not bent on simply recreating the past. To the core
Ethiopiques-era template of five-string and electric violins and droning accordion— instruments not usually identified with the style that make for some intoxicating new twists on a mode of music that’s already plenty spicy to begin with. Add to this the trilling, mysterious, and unfathomably deep vocals of singer Bruck Tesfaye, and one ends up with an innovative, gloriously colorful aural hullabaloo for the head and the hips. Debo Band debuted on disc in 2012 with a self-titled effort on the famously forwardthinking Seattle indie label Sub-Pop, best known as the home of alt-rock acts like Nirvana, the Shins, and Fleet Foxes. With sizzling movers like “Asha Gedawo,” “And Lay,” and “Habesha,” Debo Band instantly won over the pundits at NPR, Pitchfork, Tinymixtapes, and other critical outlets. But the real test came in 2009, when the group toured Ethiopia for the first time. “We were never interested in being a cover band and didn’t know if people there would like what we were doing with the music,” Mekonnen says. “But the reaction was really positive. One of the Ethiopian musicians at a festival we played at told us, ‘Your band has its own sound.’ To me, that’s the biggest compliment a band could hear.” Debo Band will perform in the LUMA Theater at Bard College’s Fisher Center in Annandale-on-Hudson on November 19 at 8pm (a preconcert talk with the artists will take place at 7pm). Tickets are $15. (845) 758-7900; Fishercenter.bard.edu. —Peter Aaron 11/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 89
Call Mr. Robeson: A Life, with Songs
7-9pm. $25 or $35 (incl all tax/fees). Rollercoaster journey through actor/singer Paul Robeson’s remarkable life highlights his pioneering and heroic political activism as well as his music. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039 ext 2.
NEWvember New Plays Festival
2 & 6pm. $15. Six new plays from emerging playwrights. Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. Tangent-arts.org.
Sweeny Todd
8pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
You are Beautiful ... I am Beautiful
4-5pm. Free. Donations accepted. Unique, moving and beautiful play about mental health and homelessness -- with renowned Tibetan singer YungChen Lhamo and members of HeartStreet house. Not to be missed! Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 399-7891.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Swing Dance
First Saturday of every month, 7:3010:30pm. $10. Basic lesson at 7:30 and a bonus move at 9pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. MAC Fitness, Kingston. 853-7377.
SUNDAY 8 DANCE 2nd Sunday Swing Dance
Second Sunday of every month. $12/$6 full time students with ID. Beginners’ lesson 6:00-6:30, dance to live music 6:30-9:00. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Giselle
3pm. $12/$10 members/$6 children. High definition film presentation of “Giselle” performed by Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Swing Dance to the Bernstein/ Bard Quartet
6:30-9pm. $12/$8 FT students. Beginners’ lesson at 6pm. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. Hudsonvalleydance.org.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair
10am-3pm. $3/$2 students & seniors. Dozens and dozens of vendors on 2 floors! Plenty of snacks and food. Discount admission coupon on website. John A Coleman Catholic High School, Hurley. 338-2750.
A Weekend of Folk/Roots/ Americana Music
Play, sing, listen, learn, share music. Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson. 626-8888.
FILM Riding my Way Back
4pm. A short documentary, chronicles one soldier’s journey back from the brink of suicide. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Meditation, Intention and Zero Point Healing
Second Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
KIDS & FAMILY Sleeping Beauty
3pm. The Yates Musical Theatre for Children. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-3533.
Suspense! Halloween Radio
7pm. $70/$50. Presented by The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
LECTURES & TALKS Microcosm
3pm. Columbia University physics lecturer Jeremy Dodd. Roeliff Jansen Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.
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LITERARY & BOOKS Forrest Pritchard: Growing Tomorrow
11am-1pm. Growing Tomorrow: A Farm-toTable Journey in Photos and Recipes: Behind the Scenes with 18 Extraordinary Sustainable Farmers Who Are Changing the Way We Eat has more than 50 mouthwatering recipes and over 250 photographs. Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Owen King
4pm. Presenting his new book, Intro to Alien Invasion. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC Blues Guitarist Buddy Guy
8pm. $110/$95. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Chaka Kham
7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
Chris Farlekas Tribute Concert
3-5pm. $10. Concert celebrating the life of the popular journalist, activist, philanthropist and patron of the arts Paramount Theatre, Middletown. 346-4195.
Classical Guitarist Yuri Liberzon
2pm. $20. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Concerts Con Brio
7pm. $25 priority seating/$15/students free. Benefit concert of music by Women Composers for Organ and for Women’s Choir. Presented by Gail Archer, organist and Vassar College Women’s Choir. The concert will benefit the Dutchess County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452.8220.
The Five Creations: Group Harmony Acappella
5pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
John Abercrombie and the Rob Scheps 4-tet
7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Joy Zelada Classical Guitar Recital: Selections by Bach, Tarrega, Falla and Barrios
3pm. $5/students and children free. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.
Organist Gail Archer
7-9pm. $15. Gail Archer is a Grammynominated, international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer.” Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220.
Saints of Swing
11am-2pm. Jazz standards. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble
3pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Champagne Brunch & Silent Auction Noon. This annual fundraising event will directly benefit the Nature Museum’s environmental education programs for school children. Powelton Club, Newburgh. 561-4481.
The Star Party, Annual Sinterklaas Fundraiser & Celebration
5:30-7:30pm. $50. Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn, Rhinebeck. Sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/star-partytickets-on-sale/.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Cornwall Lions Club Fall Harvest Race
8:30am. $35/$30/$25/$5. Categories are the 5K Walk/Run, and the 7.5 Scenic Challenge Run. We have racing fun for everyone, including a Kid’s Fun Run. Storm King Engine Company #2, Cornwall. Fallharvestrace.com.
THEATER Bond: The Story of a Soldier & His Dog 2-3:15pm. $15/$10 students, seniors and veterans. Based on true events, this oneman show chronicles a year in Iraq, the incredible bond formed between a handler and his bomb-sniffing K-9 partner, and what happens to both once they return to the States. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
NEWvember New Plays Festival
2 & 6pm. $15. Six new plays from emerging playwrights. Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. Tangent-arts.org.
Sweeny Todd
3pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Abstract Comics Workshop
9am-4pm. $121. This course explores sequential art consisting of abstract imagery that cohere into a narrative. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Color and Energy Workshop
9am-4pm. $120. With Karen O’Neil. Working from landscape or still life, students are encouraged to work with larger brushes, and to simplify form. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
MONDAY 9 HEALTH & WELLNESS Flexing Your Memory: Mastering Names and Faces
6:15-7:45pm. $30. Memory coach, Sverdloff, will teach how to break names down into easy-to-remember categories, no matter what the name’s origin or perceived complexity, as well as techniques to better link names to faces. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.
LECTURES & TALKS The Mythology of Women and Their Jewelry
5:15pm. Renowned religious scholar Wendy Doniger will discuss “The Mythology of Women and Their Jewelry.” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 229-0425.
MUSIC Brian Charette’s Mighty Grinders
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Safe Harbors Informational Tours
Second Tuesday of every month, 9am. The tours highlight how Safe Harbors’ transformative supportive housing. Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-6940.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES The Abstract Landscape Workshop
9am-4pm. Through Nov. 12. With Donald Elder. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Beginner Swing Dance Classes
6-7pm. $80/four week series. With professional instructors Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. New series begins every four weeks. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
Chinese Brush Painting
6-8pm. $120/$35 material fee. Come and learn the basics for this meditative art form. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0333.
WEDNESDAY 11 DANCE Thining: Dance and Translation and the Work of Anne Carson
7pm. Lecture, talk and performance. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Feel Calmer, More Relaxed and More Confident Using the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
8pm. Jazz. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Second Wednesday of every month, 6:308:30pm. $67/$57 early reg. Jeff Schneider, New Paltz. 255-4175.
Karl Berger Residency
Meditation and Intention Circle
7pm. Improv jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Arthritis and Acupuncture: Improving your Joint Health
11:30am. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
Impact: Crafting a Thriving Venture for the New Economy
$70/$375 series/$195 scholarship series. A series of 6 workshops for entrepreneurs + local businesses. Etsy Hudson, Hudson. Bit. ly/impactHV2015.
TUESDAY 10 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Solopreneurs Sounding Board
Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9pm. donation. Struggling with a work issue? Need a perspective shift? Take advantage of collective intelligence (“hive mind”) and an inspiring meeting place to work out creative solutions to problems. Expertly facilitated by BEAHIVE founder Scott Tillitt and/or Lauree Ostrofsky. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. Beahivebzzz.com/events/solopreneurssounding-board-2014-07-08/.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Free Healthcare Day
Second Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served basis upon check-in, from 4-7:00PM. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 679-5984.
LECTURES & TALKS Domesticating the Wilderness: 19th Century Artists, Tourists, and Mountain Houses in the Hudson Valley
7:30pm. $7/$5 members. Dr. Harvey K. Flad will speak about Thomas Cole and other artists of the Hudson River School. Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall. 534-2903.
Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk Second Tuesday of every month, 7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Surfing Between Reality and Fiction
6pm. Well-known in Spain for his longrunning, humorous and innovative morning radio talk show, Gomaespuma, journalist Guillermo Fesser will preside over a screening of his film, Bienvenidos. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 229-0425.
LITERARY & BOOKS Abigail Thomas & Kim Wozencraft 11:45am-1pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Second Wednesday of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Susan Linich will guide you through a meditation on love of self. We will be actively work on issues of anger, forgiveness, and the impact of words on identity. Emotional Rescue, Poughkeepsie. 243-0168.
LECTURES & TALKS Pathways to Prevention: Tips for Healthy Eating from a CMH Nutritionist & Dietician
5:30-7pm. Discover the benefits of seasonal superfoods as the cooler weather sets in. Anyone can join this presentation and short hike. Participants will enjoy a 25-minute talk and food demo in the Wagon House Education Center, followed by questions, answers, and conversation all along a short hike on Olana’s moderately easy walking trails. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Presentation, Q&A and Book Signing to Commemorate Veterans Day with John Kelly
Never Surrender. In commemoration of Veterans Day, author John Kelly presents his remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill debated whether the British would fight Hitler. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
MUSIC Gordon Lightfoot
8pm. $75. Singer/songwriter. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
SPIRITUALITY A Course in Miracles
7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Beginners’ Oil Painting Workshop
6:30-9pm. $100. With William Noonan. This 3 day workshop will introduce students to the medium of oil paint. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
THURSDAY 12 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting
Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.
FOOD & WINE Cider & Apple Fest
11:30am & 6:30pm. Culinary Institue of America -- American Bounty Restaurant, Hyde Park. Ciachef.edu.
ART DALE CHIHULY
"Ulysses Cylinders," an exhibition of early work by Dale Chihuly, at Vassar College's Thompson Memorial Library through November 22.
A Glass Menagerie The Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College, built in 1905, is presenting its first art show ever: circular glass sculptures inscribed with line drawings based on James Joyce’s Ulysses. “Ulysses Cylinders” was designed by Dale Chihuly, the most prominent glass artist in the world. The exhibition will remain until November 22. This show is the product of an old friendship. In 1975, Chihuly and Seaver Leslie conceived of a series of glass sculptures celebrating Ireland. Leslie made the drawings, and Chihuly inscribed them on glass cylinders. Soon afterward, the two artists were in a devastating car accident, ultimately resulting in the glassmaker losing the sight in his left eye. Their artistic collaboration was never exhibited. Almost 40 years later, in 2013, the friends returned to the project. Using Leslie’s original drawings—but only the ones referring to Ulysses—Chihuly asked two glass artists to recast the pieces. Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick meticulously fabricated the cylinders, using gold leaf and powdered glass pigment. “Ulysses Cylinders” debuted at Dublin Castle last year. This is the first American showing of the work. “Ulysses Cylinders” represents an early stage of Chihuly’s work in glass. Since then, he has created massive sculptures, often dreamlike, multicolored, tentacled installations hanging from ceiling. Chihuly has vastly expanded the possibilities, and the scale, of glass art. I saw the exhilarating 42.5-foot-high “Lime Green Icicle Tower” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it looms over the atrium like a third-grader’s prank. In comparison to these later works, “Cylinders” is almost absurdly simple: cartoony drawings on glass vases. Yet the work has unmistakable presence. The cylinders sit inside transparent boxes—glass within glass—and the light from the floor-to-ceiling windows brings them to life. Much of Chihuly’s work seems to levitate, or explode, while “Ulysses Cylinders” gently hovers.
Why cylinders, I asked Mary-Kay Lombino, curator of the show? “Chihuly prefers the rounded sides to a flat surface,” she says. “They also catch the light beautifully; they almost look like they are glowing from within.” Though the cylinders are large—some of them could be umbrella stands—they have a presence like votive candles. Perhaps Chihuly is suggesting James Joyce’s complex relationship with the church of his youth: Joyce is one of the most famous ex-Catholics in history. The mostly amber color of the glass also suggests pints of Guinness. The glassworks are popular with students. “It’s nice to study around them at night,” says Colin Edwards, a prelaw student from the class of 2016. “They’re very calming.” Built in an English perpendicular Gothic style, with large stained-glass windows, the Thompson Library is perfect for an exhibition of colored glass. Chihuly’s wife, Leslie, who majored in English at Vassar, helped organize the show, which transforms a masterpiece of modern literature into glittering glass relics. An accompanying exhibit, “James Joyce’s Ulysses: Text and Art,” displays rare editions of the novel, including ones illustrated by Robert Motherwell and Henri Matisse. (It’s possible that Matisse never read the book, because all his drawings illustrate Homer’s Odyssey.) This exhibition reminds us that when it was published, Ulysses was considered pornography. The book went on trial for obscenity in New York City in 1921—and lost! A subsequent trial in 1933 reversed the decision. Several of Leslie’s drawings have an erotic element, most effectively, one titled Penelope, showing a naked woman rising from bed while her lover sleeps. “Ulysses Cylinders” will remain at the Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie until November 22. The show is free of charge, but advance reservations are required. (845) 437-7400; Chihuly.vassar.edu. —Sparrow 11/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 91
HEALTH & WELLNESS Hearing Loss Group
Second Thursday of every month, 1-2pm. The goal of the group is to provide information and support to those who have or live with someone who has hearing loss. Hearing loss can be an isolating condition. The group will provide strategies for maintaining and improving the quality of life for hard of hearing people in the area. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
The Hearing Loss Support Group
1-2pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
Method Fitness with Jillian Hargrove
10:15-11am. $25/$180 10 sessions. A fusion of yoga movements, pilates poses, stretches, and other combinations of deep muscle contractions and rhythmic rotations. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.
Understanding Your Options for a Sucessful Conception
Second Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. Assisting persons/couples understand fertility and options available to them. Hudson Valley Fertility, Fishkill. 765-0125 ext. 304.
FRIDAY 13 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Star Gazing with the Mid Hudson Astronomical Association
7:30-11pm. Join the MHAA for our Star Parties. Enjoy the night sky away from the bright lights of the towns and cities in our area. Bring your own telescopes and binoculars or use those provided by our members. RSVP is required. Lake Taghkanic State Park, Ancram. Midhudsonastro.org.
COMEDY Comedian Artie Lange Crushes Comedy
8-10pm. $54/$64. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
DANCE Beginner Swing Dance Classes
6:30-7:30pm. $80/series. Beginner Swing Dance Class Series in Newburgh. New series starts every four weeks. No experience or partner needed. Taught by
MUSIC Ani Difranco
8pm. $38-$68. Folk. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
The Bar Spies
8pm. Classic rock. Juan Murphy’s, Poughkeepsie. 473-1095.
Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Corey Glover of Living Colour
7pm. Rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Eric Anderson
Rodney Carrington
8pm. $20-$26. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Hit Men
8pm. $55. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
The Songs–The Piano–The Stories
8pm. Electronic music by Howard Jones. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335.
KIDS & FAMILY Anime and Manga Group
LECTURES & TALKS The Human Condition and the Nature of the Soul in Hindu Spirituality
6pm. Author of The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs. The White Hart Inn, Salisbury, CT. (860) 435-0030.
MUSIC Singer-Songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield 8pm. Moody indie-rock. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Adrien Reju, Breakfast for the Boys 7pm. Indie rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Food Bank of the Hudson Valley: Farm to Table Fundraising Event 6-9pm. $150/$1350 table of 10. 4 courses prepared by local chefs. Rocking Horse Ranch, Highland. 534-5344.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Communicate with Confidence
4-6:30pm. $175. Cale Communications, Rhinebeck. (8450 876-2220.
Word Cafe
6:30-8pm. $15/$125 series/free for teens and college students. A master class for readers and writers hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. Wordcafe.us.
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8-11pm. $10/$5 kids and teens. Birthday dance with Jay, Molly and David Kaynor. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.
1-4pm. Fre. A festive gathering in the winery’s circular tasting room overlooking the vineyards. Join an eclectic group of 15 Hudson Valley authors signing their books for holiday gift giving. Millbrook Winery, Millbrook. 677-8383.
Second Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. The Relatives As Parents Program (RAPP) implements monthly Coffee and Conversation support groups for grandparents and other relatives raising children. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8440.
Presentation, Q&A and Book Signing with Elaine Sciolino
DANCE The Woodstock Dance
FOOD & WINE Sip & Sign with Local Authors
Support Groups for Relatives Raising Children
7pm. The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy. (518) 272-2390.
7pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
Second Saturday of every month. Second Saturday is a city-wide celebration of the arts where galleries and shops stay open until 9pm. Beaconarts.org Downtown Beacon, Beacon.
11am. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
LITERARY & BOOKS The New Bread Basket with Author Amy Halloran
8pm. $15. Virgo’s Sip n Soul Cafe, Beacon. 831-1543.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Beacon Second Saturday
Jazzed Up: Children’s Concert
7pm. Wildlife rehabilitator Annie Mardiney tells about preventing and caring for injured wildlife, with live owls and hawks as guests. Boughton Place, Highland. 679-2036.
SATURDAY 14 COMEDY Freddie Ricks & Friends
9pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
9:15-10:15am. Up to age 4. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.
A Night of Wildlife and Raptors
5:30pm. Your funeral will be the last party you ever throw so why not make it fabulous? Beverly Kipp, a nurse and lay minister with 40 years of experience, will teach us how to plan your final send off during an upbeat and practical program. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
Electronic Musician Tim Hecker
KIDS & FAMILY Story Time
7pm. Dana Sawyer, Professor and Program Chair, Maine College of Art, Portland, offers the worldview through the compelling logic of the Hindus. Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown. 341-4891.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Planning Your Final Party
Basilica Farm & Flea Last year, Basilica Farm & Flea doubled its attendance, jumping up to 7,000 visitors to Basilica Hudson over Thanksgiving weekend for the urban-chic-meets-new-rural extravaganza. Created as an alternative to the big box stores “Black Friday” abominations, the annual market brings together a collection of products presented by a diverse group of about 125 regional makers, farmers, chefs, and vintage collectors—think of it as a downhome flea market curated by a hipster junta—and we mean that in the best possible way. This year, in collaboration with craft curators Hudson River Exchange, Farm & Flea promises another stellar shopping be-in, The fair kicks off with shopping from 2pm to 5pm on November 27, followed by a “Black Friday Soiree” complete with cocktails from 5pm to 9pm, and then picks back up the next morning with two more days of shopping, music, craft demos, and food and drink. (518) 822-1050; Basilicahudson.com. professional teachers Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.
Soweto Gospel Choir
Dutchess County Singles Dance
Spillway Band
8-11:30pm. $20. Lesson at 7:30pm. Fabulous music from 40’s, 50’s, 60’s to the present by DJ Johnny Angel also a light dinner buffet with desert and coffee. Elks Lodge #275, Poughkeepsie.
FILM Firemen, Architects and Engineers Expose the Myths of 9/11
7:30-11pm. Presented by the Woodstock Truth Squad. Leading architect, Richard Gage AIA, will be on hand to speak and answer questions after the show. The film deals only with facts and not theory. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 532-5120.
KIDS & FAMILY Cub’s Place
Second Friday of every month, 6-7:30pm. Activities and support for children in grades K-5 and their parents dealing with a serious family illness or crisis. Children engage in age-appropriate super Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.
LITERARY & BOOKS Presentation, Q&A and Book Signing Howard Axelrod 6-7:30pm. Author of The Point of Vanishing. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Robert Milby and Carl Welden
7pm. Performing ghost and gothic poetry with Moog theremin accompaniment. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. 8pm. 50s and 60s rock. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Green Mountain Energy
10am-8pm. free. Representatives from Green Mountain Energy will be setting up information tables at our store to help inform you of what they do. Note: They will also be in our Rhinebeck location on Thursdays from 9-7! Sunflower Natural Foods Market, Woodstock. 679-5361.
THEATER Bond: The Story of a Soldier & His Dog 7:30-8:45pm. $15/$10 students, seniors and veterans. Based on true events, this one-man show chronicles a year in Iraq, the incredible bond formed between a handler and his bomb-sniffing K-9 partner, and what happens to both once they return to the States. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
Pygmalion
7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476.
Selected Shorts
8pm. $34/$27. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Sweeny Todd
8pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Every other Saturday, 1pm. Japanese anime and manga are drawn in a very distinctive style and are an important part of Japanese culture. Students from Bard College’s Anime Club will be sharing their passion for the popular genre with younger students. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
Frosty the Snowman
11am & 2pm. $15. Magical holiday musical. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Wild Earth Mother and Daughters
5-8pm. $320 per pair/$160 per additional family member. Mothers and Daughters will gather together to witness each other changing and growing, Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
LITERARY & BOOKS Amy Axelrod and David Axelrod
3pm. Presenting their young adult novel, The Bullet Catch: Murder by Misadventure. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Dia:Beacon Gallery Talk: Helga Christoffersen on Agnes Martin
2-3pm. Helga Christoffersen is an assistant curator at the New Museum of Contemporary in New York, where she is currently working on Leonor Antunes: I Stand Like a Mirror Before You. Dia:Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
Izzy Doroski: A Book Talk and Signing 5pm. Author of The Inverted Mask. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
Used Book Sale: Friends of the Kingston Library 9am-4pm. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
MUSIC Anthony from Reality Check
8pm. Acoustic. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
Arlo Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary Tour 8pm. $30-$40. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
Bumper Jacksons
9pm. Roots, jazz, country. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.
Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors
7pm. Pop rock. Opener: Dante DeFelice. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Dom Bizzaro
8:30pm. Classic rock. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466.
Donna the Buffalo
8pm. $37.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
ART "GREENHOUSE" AT 1 MILE GALLERY
A detail of Vanda Coerulea aka Blue Vanda and Cypripedium Acaule aka Lady Slipper, two screenprints by Justin Amrhein, showing as part of the exhibit “Greehouse” at 1 Mile Gallery through November 14.
Miracles of Purpose In Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan wrote: “Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.” This month at 1 Mile Gallery, art returns to its Aristotelian roots, acting as a mirror of nature in the group show “Greenhouse.” Justin Amrhein’s mechanical drawings of orchids are particularly intriguing—a meticulous combination of scientific drawing and fantasy. Amrhein writes of his work: “Figuring out how things work and how things are built intrigues me. After studying how a particular object is made and the major components crucial to its function I have the basic knowledge needed to develop versions of these objects or invent an entirely new object altogether. In the form of schematic drawings, I can define the function and purpose of elements that border between real objects and imaginary creations. By using different forms of labeling systems to illustrate and organize and object, I am able to provide a commentary on a multitude of subjects while creating complicated, purpose-driven machines.” “Greenhouse” will be exhibited at 1 Mile Gallery in Kingston through November 14. (845) 338-2035; Onemilegallery.com. 11/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 93
Eric Erickson
8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Kandelab
8pm. Musical evening celebrating Haiti’s voodoo/folk traditions: singing, storytelling, drumming, dancing. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Jonny Hirsch
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Chakras, Color and Creativity
1-4pm. $35/$5 materials fee payable to instructor. Using the ancient chakra system as a guide, you will create a watercolor painting with a focus on color and energy. Union Arts Center, Sparkill. (925) 352-4150.
SUNDAY 15
8pm. $20/$10 students/$15 for City of Newburgh residents. Safe Harbors’ welcomes Jonny Hirsch. Hirsch is a multidimensional front man, leading the show with his voice & saxophone. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Community Sound Healing Circle
Mary Gauthier
3-5pm. $30. An engaging and inspirational experience for those traveling on the road of recovery from addiction, this unique blend of story, music and song, personal narrative, creative expression, and guided discussion will help participants see their personal story through a different lens, and cultivate compassion for themselves and others as they honor their healing journey. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.
8pm. $25. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
The Orchestra Now
8pm. Leon Botstein, conductor. Rylan Gajek, cello. Prokofiev: Summer Night. Weinberg: Cello Concerto. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7900.
People’s Champs LP Release Celebration Performance 8pm. The Half Moon, Hudson. (518) 828-1562.
Senior Recital: Patrick Walker, organ 3pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
The Ultimate Bradstan Reunion
8pm. $57. Featuring: Scott Samuelson, Jeanne MacDonald, Lumiri Tubo, Brian Gens, Steven Wing and Jim Quinlan. Recreating all the favorite numbers from The Bradstan years with a couple of new rocking surprises. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS 40th Harvest Hop 7-10pm. $50. Complimentary wine, beer, and soft drinks with a cash bar. Dancing to the music of the nationally acclaimed The Phantoms, acapella and plugged-in! A superb assortment of hors d’oeurvre and fun fare to fit the season. A cornucopia of silent auction items, services, and goods. Supports local children and families with autism. The Chateau, Kingston. 331-4386.
Information Session
10-midnight. Information sessions begin in the Walter Reade, Jr. Theater at 10:00 with brief welcoming remarks. During the tour, the group will learn about Storm King School, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-9860 ext. 210.
Kaatsbaan 25th Anniversary Gala
4pm. $200/$290 with bus transportation from NYC. Champagne reception, Gala performance, dinner, dessert, dancing, silent auction, featuring music by Duo-Orfeo. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2 or 10.
Swinging Moments Cabaret: A Benefit for the Alzheimer’s Association 7pm. $20/$15. Annual fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION CycloCross Race
10am-3pm. The Renegades Mountain Bike Club is holding their annual Cyclocross Race. Lippman Park, Warwarsing. Renegadesmtbcom.ipage.com/index.html.
THEATER Actors and Writers
8pm. $10. Unison’s theatre-troupe-inresidence, will offer the first of two staged readings. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Auditions
Third Sunday of every month, 2-3pm. Facilitated by Jax Denise. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Return to Joy
KIDS & FAMILY A Day of Jewish Learning
8:30am-4:30pm. $30/$20 in advance/$18 students/$15 students in advance. Participants 13 and up may choose to attend sessions from a wide variety of classes throughout the day, taught by area rabbis, cantors, scholars and lay leaders. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
Ritz Kidz Talent Show
4-6pm. $5. Safe Harbors of the Hudson is seeking local talent for our annual Ritz Kidz Talent Show. Open to all students in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District. Bring your sheet music as well as your completed application and waiver form. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.
Wild Earth Kestrel
10am-3:15pm. $80/$225 series. Ages 7-10. Gather in the forest to play games, tell stories around the fire, craft, track, build and so much more! Stony Kill Road, Accord. 256-9830.
Wild Earth Screech Owl for 4-7 yr olds
10am-3pm. $80/$225 for series. Gather in the forest to play games, tell stories around the fire, craft, track, build and so much more. Stony Kill Road, Accord. 256-9830.
LITERARY & BOOKS Cathy Gigante Brown
4pm. Presenting her novel, The El, a stirring historic novel set in Depression-era Brooklyn. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Community Book Discussion
7pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
Community Book Discussion & Bagel Brunch
2pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
MUSIC Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis
10am-2pm. Blues and jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Gail Archer, organ
3pm. An all-Russian program on the Vassar College Chapel’s Gress-Miles organ. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS 8th Annual Gala Auction and Dinner
5-9pm. $125. The annual gala hosted by Women’s Studio Workshop is a celebration of women artists and individuals whose contributions help improve the lives of artists in our local community. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 658-9133.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Adult Chess Club SPIRITUALITY New Moon Voice Journey
More on Migraines: When to Worry, What to Do
Third Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. $20. Shamanic medicine melodies; invoking the nature within with Stephanie Rooker. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
THEATER Auditions
8-10pm. NA. The ACME Mystery Co. is a paid repertory theatre and expanding its actor base.. Visit www.acmemysterytheater. com for company info. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 315-569-5488.
Bond: The Story of a Soldier & His Dog 2-3:15pm. $15/$10 students, seniors and veterans. Based on true events, this oneman show chronicles a year in Iraq, the incredible bond formed between a handler and his bomb-sniffing K-9 partner, and what happens to both once they return to the States. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES 2nd Annual Day of Jewish Learning
8:30am-4:30pm. $25/$20 in advance/$18 teens/$15 teens in advance. Area spiritual and lay leaders offer a wide range of fascinating subjects. Admission includes: book exchange, kosher foods & children’s activities. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 338-8131.
Meredith Rosier: Abstract Comics Workshop
9am-4pm. $121. This course explores sequential art consisting of abstract imagery that cohere into a narrative. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
MONDAY 16 HEALTH & WELLNESS Art & Alzheimer’s: A Pathway to Connection for Patients and Caregivers 2pm. Hear from two creative individuals who have brought visual arts programs to people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, using the arts as a pathway to connection. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
LITERARY & BOOKS Academic Panel Moderated by Gerald Benjamin
4:30pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
Student Panel with Professor Alexandra Cox
2pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476.
Sweeny Todd
Piedmont Bluz and Pat Daley
Pygmalion
8pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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2pm. Blues. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
The Harmony of the Spheres Revisited
High School Open Day
3pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Bond: The Story of a Soldier & His Dog
3pm. Leon Botstein, conductor. Rylan Gajek, cello. Prokofiev: Summer Night. Weinberg: Cello Concerto. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7900.
7:30pm. $7/$5 members. Dr. Betsey Blakeslee will speak about Kosciuszko’s Garden, one of the oldest continuously existing gardens in the United States. Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall. 534-2903.
Sweeny Todd
Max Johnson Trio
The Orchestra Now
LECTURES & TALKS The History and Meaning of Kosciuszko’s Garden at West Point
2pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476.
Pygmalion
Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter Joseph Arthur
8pm. $68-$138. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
5:30pm. Migraines are one of the most common complaints in medicine today. Learn when a headache is a migraine, what causes one and tips for coping. Speaker: Dr. Yul Rapoport, Kingston Neurology. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
8-9pm. Join the Mid Hudson Astronomical Association for a talk by Dr. Michael Bank, medical doctor, professional jazz pianist as he talks about the relationship of musical notes to the planets and the zodiac. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. Midhudsonastro.org.
MUSIC Karl Berger Residency
Loretta Lynn
Meditation
Third Sunday of every month, 1:30-3:30pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
Heart Like a Wheel: Beacon Riverfest Fundraiser
7:30-8:45pm. $15/$10 students, seniors and veterans. Based on true events, this one-man show chronicles a year in Iraq, the incredible bond formed between a handler and his bomb-sniffing K-9 partner, and what happens to both once they return to the States. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
Third Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. Free. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. www. rvhhc.org. Rondout Valley Holistic Health Community, Inc., Stone Ridge. 687-2252. 6:30pm. Rev. Susan Olin-Dabrowski, BS, CHt Certified Consulting Hypnotist & Reiki Master Teacher. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
2-4pm. NA. The ACME Mystery Co. is a paid repertory theatre and expanding its actor base. Visit www.acmemysterytheater. com for company info. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 315-569-5488.
7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Free Holistic Healthcare
7pm. Improv jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. 8pm. Jazz. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Generalogy Workshop by Valerie LaRobardier
10:30am. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
TUESDAY 17 DANCE Dojo Dance Company’s Argentine Tango and Salsa
7pm. Lesson and social dance. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
8:15am. Sit in on classes, tour the school’s 11-acre campus, and speak to Administrators and faculty. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. Gmws.org.
Perspective on the Prison Experience 7:30pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. With David Miller. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
LITERARY & BOOKS Book Discussion with Local Writer Sharon Roth
3pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. Woodland Pond at New Paltz, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
Open Mike
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC Roger Hodgson
8-11pm. $58-$125. Co-founder of Supertramp, . Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
Sublime with Rome
7pm. $35. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Beginner Swing Dance Classes
6-7pm. $80/four week series. With professional instructors Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. New series begins every four weeks. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
Chinese Brush Painting
6-8pm. $120/$35 material fee. Come and learn the basics for this meditative art form. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0333.
Resume Writing & Cover Letter Workshop
4:15-5:30pm. Presented by Meghan Heady-Amara of Dutchess One Stop. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
WEDNESDAY 18 RSCLive from Stratford-UponAvon: Henry V
7pm. $21. RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s History Plays with Henry V performed in the 600th anniversary year of the Battle of Agincourt. Following his performance as Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II Alex Hassell returns as Henry V. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Diabetes Prevention
6pm. Roufia Payman, nutritionist at Northern Dutchess Hospital, has undergone an intensive year-long CDC training in order to be certified as a diabetes prevention Lifestyle Coach. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
Introduction to Meditation
6-7:15pm. $20. In this class, participants will learn and practice some of the essential elements of meditation. This program is especially suited for beginners with little to no prior experience in meditation. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.
LECTURES & TALKS Encore Genealogy Class
7-8pm. Here’s another chance for beginners to learn how to map out your family tree with an encore presentation! Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272.
Talk & Q&A with Bernetta Calderone 7:30pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. Bernetta Calderone, Technical Advisor to the Netflix TV series, Orange is the New Black. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
MUSIC Brad Whitford and Derek St. Holmes 8pm. $50. Rock. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Debo Band 8pm. $25. Presented by Bard Ethnomusicology. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. Bard.edu.
THEATER Spoon River
FILM Brooklyn Roses
7pm. 100th anniversary of Spoon River Anthology. Each poem is an epitaph of a dead citizen delivered by the dead themselves. This production is a fundraiser for Academic Travel and will feature students, faculty, administration and staff. Directed by Richard Cattabiani. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Library Knitters Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
Waugh and Langan
7pm. Robert Waugh presents The Bloody Tugboat and Other Witcheries and John Langan reads from his latest work. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC Anthony Gach & Harmonic Agression
7pm. Author of The Brothers Vonnegut. The White Hart Inn, Salisbury, CT. (860) 435-0030.
9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Brenda Bufalino and Friends: An Evening of Jazz Tap Dancing and Beyond
MUSIC Billy Gibbons
8pm. $110/$95. Blues, rock. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
8pm. $18-$24. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
The Bush Brothers
Steve Chizmadia
8pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
FOOD & WINE Soup Sale
11am-12:30pm. Get ready for Fall with a bowl of homemade, steamy hot, delicious soup from the Rhinecliff Ladies Auxiliary Rhinecliff Firehouse, Rhinecliff. Rhineclifffireresecue.org.
Third Thursday Luncheon
Third Thursday of every month, 11:30am1pm. $6/$7 takeout. As part of Messiah’s Outreach Programs, each luncheon benefits a local organization to support its ongoing programs. Luncheon includes soup, sandwich and delicious desserts. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-3533.
KIDS & FAMILY Story Time
9:15-10:15am. Up to age 4. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.
LECTURES & TALKS Presentation: School to Prison Pipelone 4pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
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LITERARY & BOOKS Book Discussion with Tania Miller and Jan Schmidt
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Presentation, Q&A and Book Signing with Ginger Strand
Third Thursday of every month, 6-8pm. A prison re-entry support group (formerly known as the New Jim Crow Committee). The Hope Center, Newburgh. 569-8965.
7:30pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
Storytelling with Janet Carter
3pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Exodus: Newburgh Extension
OITNB Episode #1 Veiwing and Discussion
7-9pm. A monthly event featuring writers, poets and storytellers from the Hudson Valley and beyond. Each month a preselected line up of writers and storytellers engages an appreciative audience with original works of fiction, creative non-fiction, essay and poetry. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.
LITERARY & BOOKS Book Discussion with Professor Tom Olsen
THURSDAY 19
7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
Story Slam
7pm. Fulbright scholar Mariah Adin, PhD, a writer and activist, speaks on the legal system and the development of juvenile delinquency, with references to questions of social justice, using the story of the Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang as a vehicle to explore these intertwining topics. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.
7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Edward Scissorhands
4pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. Woodland Pond at New Paltz, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
Murder, Comics, Law: The Great ComicBook Scare of the 1950s
SPIRITUALITY A Course in Miracles
8pm. Filmed over 20 years with the same actors playing the same characters and interweaving fictional and documentary footage. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079.
The Amazing Nina Simone Eunice Waymon’s prodigious talent as a pianist was noticed early on in Tryon, North Carolina, and a determined set of admirers nurtured it enthusiastically. But it wasn’t until the young piano phenom was denied admittance to Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute and she started to play and sing (at the insistence of a nightclub owner) in Atlantic City that Nina Simone was born. Simone’s complicated life—young stardom, mental health issues, political activism (Malcolm X was her neighbor for a time), exile, and mercurial stage presence—make her an amazing documentary subject. Jeff L. Lieberman’s The Amazing Nina Simone travels down some different paths than the other Simone doc released in 2015, Liz Garbus’s What Happened, Miss Simone? Lieberman conducted interviews with over 50 former Simone friends, siblings, and bandmates to compose a portrait of a towering figure of 20th century jazz and pop. The Amazing Nina Simone will screen at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on November 20 at 8pm and at Upstate Films in Woodstock on November 21 in the afternoon, time TBA. Both screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Jeff L. Lieberman. Upstatefilms.org.
Joe Ely 7:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.
Thana Alexa Project 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Academic Programs & College Services Info Fair 6-7pm. A wonderful opportunity for high school students and their families to learn everything you want to know about SUNY Ulster. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.
SPIRITUALITY Mediums Circle with Adam Bernstein and a Guest Psychic Medium Third Thursday of every month, 7-9pm. $25. Join me for our monthly guest Mediums Circle where myself, Adam Bernstein, and one other talented Medium will deliver messages from your loved ones in Spirit in a positive setting of love and validation. Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg., Kingston. 687-3693.
Sculpting in Stone: Master Class by Daniel Grant 3-4:30pm. Daniel Grant demonstrates sculpting and explains techniques and training. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.
Word Cafe 6:30-8pm. $15/$125 series/free for teens and college students. A master class for readers and writers hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. Wordcafe.us.
FRIDAY 20 DANCE Beginner Swing Dance Classes 6:30-7:30pm. $80/series. Beginner Swing Dance Class Series in Newburgh. New series starts every four weeks. No experience or partner needed. Taught by professional teachers Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.
9-11:30pm. Their music is a combination of traditional country, bluegrass and gospel music fused with contemporary acoustic sounds delivered with great vocals and instrumental solos. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
City Boys Allstars
7pm. Jazz rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
David Jacobs-Strain
9pm. Rootsy blues. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
James Emery/John Stowell Contemporary Jazz String Quartet
8pm. $10/$5 senior citizens, faculty, staff, alumni/studetns free. Contemporary Jazz with guitarists James Emery & John Stowell, violinist Rob Thomas, and bassist Tony Marino. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.
Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singer-songwriters and musicians at ASK GALLERY, 97 Broadway, Kingston 8-10:30 pm Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Green Mountain Energy
10am-8pm. free. Representatives from Green Mountain Energy will be setting up information tables at our store to help inform you of what they do. Note: They will also be in our Rhinebeck location on Thursdays from 9-7! Sunflower Natural Foods Market, Woodstock. 679-5361.
Wreaths, Sweets & Dutch Treats
5:30pm. Sinterklaas kick-off event. Cocktail reception and silent auction will feature delicious food and beverages (beer, wine, signature cocktails) with a Dutch theme. Attendees may bid on decorated wreaths, trees, gift baskets, and gift certificates to exciting local businesses to welcome the holiday season. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.
THEATER Pygmalion
7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476.
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Spoon River
7pm. 100th anniversary of Spoon River Anthology. Each poem is an epitaph of a dead citizen delivered by the dead themselves. This production is a fundraiser for Academic Travel and will feature students, faculty, administration and staff. Directed by Richard Cattabiani. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES African Dance
Third Friday of every month, 6:157:45pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
Two Great Guitars: James Emery and John Stowell
11am. Guitarists James Emery and John Stowell demonstrate their different techniques and explain making a living in the music business. Orange Hall Room 23, Middletown. 341-4891.
Veterans, Trauma & Resilience: What’s New
Through 11/21. $245. Do you work with veterans? Join experts in resilience, community reintegration, and complementary and alternative medicine in this special conference for health care professionals, administrators, and all those engaged in veterans’ care. Explore some of the most successful mind-body treatments and reintegration programs being used today for veterans with PTSD. Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
SATURDAY 21 COMEDY Hester Mundis: Live Comedy Hour 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Third Annual Hudson Valley Hullabaloo
10am-5pm. Hullabaloo is family-friendly, holiday event that showcases the area’s highest quality design-focused artists and makers, bringing the traditional craft fair to the next level by adding all the components of a great party. Featuring: 65+ handmade vendors (artisanal foods, housewares, jewelry and accessories, art and illustration, and other giftable items), a DJ, Peter Demuth Photography’s photo booth, Tom DeLooza’s wet-plate portraits, food, children’s activities, and more. Andy Murphy Rec Center, Kingston. 633-4772.
KIDS & FAMILY Bells on Broadway Holiday Market and Children’s Festival
11am-4pm. Enjoy live music, storytelling, crafts for the kids and photos with Santa and Frosty while getting a jump on holiday shopping. The market features local artisans and vendors offering beautiful jewelry, scarves, handbags, pottery, candles, soaps and more. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1110.
Naturalist Walk and Talk
10am. $3-$7. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Wolf
5pm. $30/$26 children/$22 members/$18 children members. MHH welcomes the Wolf Conservation Center of South Salem, NY and their ambassador Arctic Gray Wolf, Atka. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
LECTURES & TALKS Presentation by Actress Barbara Rosenblat
7pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
LITERARY & BOOKS Book Discussion with Lauren Marcus and Molly Shanley
4pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. Lauren Marcus & Molly Shanley will discuss the book from the perspective of their experiences working with prisoners. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
Jeffrey L. Diamond
5-7pm. Reading from his new book, Live to Air: An Ethan Benson Thriller. The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. (518) 392-3005.
Ryan Sessler presents Disappearing Girl
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
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MUSIC Anthony from Reality Check
8pm. Acoustic. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
Benjamin Bowman, Violin & Peter Longworth, Piano
7pm. Karol Szymanowski, Mythes Op.30 Three Poems for Violin and Piano, Edward Elgar Violin Sonata Op. 82. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-4181.
The Brighton Beat
9:30pm. Afrobeat, jazz & funk. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Christine Aliventi
8:30pm. Covers. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466.
Third Annual Hudson Valley Hullabaloo
11am-5pm. Hullabaloo is family-friendly, holiday event that showcases the area’s highest quality design-focused artists and makers, bringing the traditional craft fair to the next level by adding all the components of a great party. Featuring: 65+ handmade vendors (artisanal foods, housewares, jewelry and accessories, art and illustration, and other giftable items), a DJ, Peter Demuth Photography’s photo booth, Tom DeLooza’s wet-plate portraits, food, children’s activities, and more. Andy Murphy Rec Center, Kingston. 633-4772.
FILM RSCLive from Stratford-UponAvon: Henry V
Kurt Henry Band
1pm. $21. RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran continues his exploration of Shakespeare’s History Plays with Henry V performed in the 600th anniversary year of the Battle of Agincourt. Following his performance as Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II Alex Hassell returns as Henry V. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
Mik Horowitz & Gilles Malkine
FOOD & WINE Hudson Valley Wine & Chocolate Festival
Hudson Valley Philharmonic A Toast to WMHT 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. 8pm. $18-$24. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion
8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Sandra Bernhard
8pm. $48/$42/$34/$28. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Senior Recital: Corinne Cotta, soprano
4pm. Assisted by Richard Mogavero, piano. Works by J.S. Bach, Brahms, Gounod, Mozart, Rossini and others. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
Singer/songwriters Jimmy Webb and Karla Bonoff
$45. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Slam Allen
8pm. $15. Blend of soul and blues. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Stephin Merritt
8pm. The acclaimed songwriter Stephin Merritt is responsible for some of the wittiest and most melodic songs in the indie music canon. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. Massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=1038 8pm. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
Vassar College Orchestra
8pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
THEATER Pygmalion
7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476.
Spoon River
7pm. 100th anniversary of Spoon River Anthology. Each poem is an epitaph of a dead citizen delivered by the dead themselves. This production is a fundraiser for Academic Travel and will feature students, faculty, administration and staff. Directed by Richard Cattabiani. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Barbara Bash: Brush Spirit
$25/$23 members. Calligraphy workshop. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Crowns & Branches Workshop
1-4pm. Part of Sinterklaas celebration. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
SUNDAY 22 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Repair Café
Fourth Sunday of every month, 12-4pm. The Repair Café features tools and materials to help attendees make the repairs they need on furniture, small appliances, housewares, clothes and textiles, jewelry, lamps and lighting, artwork, crockery, toys and more. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS The 18th Annual Rosendale International Pickle Festival
10am-5pm. $5. Pickles, food, games, contests, music and more. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 204-8827.
11am-5pm. $35/$25 in advance. Come sip wine and sample chocolate, wine, spirits, cider, craft beer from all across our region. Celebrate the fall harvest with over 40 vendors. Ramada Inn, Fishkill. 278-7272 ext. 2287.
KIDS & FAMILY Turkey Tales
10am. Learn all about the turkey’s natural history and interesting adaptations. Make a fun turkey craft just in time for Thanksgiving. For adults and families with children ages 5 and up. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
LITERARY & BOOKS Wrap-up with Chris Watkins, Civil Rights Lawyer
1pm. One Book/One New Paltz event for Orange is the New Black. This will be an interactive book and program discussion, focusing on prison reform and advocacy, led by Chris Watkins, civil rights lawyer. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. Onebookonenewpaltz.com.
MUSIC Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Apollo’s Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
3pm. “The Power of Love: Fireworks from Handel & Vivaldi.” Jeannette Sorrell, conductor, and Amanda Forsythe, soprano. Vassar alumna Ms. Forsythe ’98 collaborates with the esteemed early music ensemble. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
Brooklyn Rider Quartet
3pm. $25/$5 students/under age 13 free. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-3533.
Darlene Love
7pm. $15. Rock. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Laura Frautschi, Violin; John Novacek, Piano
2pm. Program: Schumann Märchenbilder, Mendelssohn Piano Trio in d minor, Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 454-3388.
The Met: Live in HD Berg’s Lulu 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Michele Kennedy and Victoria Schwartzman
3:30-5pm. $15. Tower Music Series. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110.
Wolff & Clark Expedition
7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THEATER Pygmalion
2pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476.
Spoon River
2pm. 100th anniversary of Spoon River Anthology. Each poem is an epitaph of a dead citizen delivered by the dead themselves. This production is a fundraiser for Academic Travel and will feature students, faculty, administration and staff. Directed by Richard Cattabiani. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
MONDAY 23 HEALTH & WELLNESS Bible Meditation for Spiritual Seekers: Coping with Anger
6-7:30pm. $30. Many stories of the Bible are relevant to the emotional experiences, relationships, spiritual questionings, and struggles we experience today. . Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.
MUSIC Honey Ear Trio
8pm. $10. Jazz. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Karl Berger Residency
7pm. Improv jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
TUESDAY 24 HEALTH & WELLNESS Diabetes Management Lecture Series: Foot Health
5-6pm. This series aims to provide education and support for diabetic patients and their family members. Lecture and discussion by Dr. John Zboinski of Rhinebeck Foot Care. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 431-2445.
KIDS & FAMILY Curators of the Lost Art
3:30pm. The group will feature lessons in art history from around the world for kids in grades 6-9. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Beginner Swing Dance Classes
6-7pm. $80/four week series. With professional instructors Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. New series begins every four weeks. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
Chinese Brush Painting
6-8pm. $120/$35 material fee. Come and learn the basics for this meditative art form. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0333.
WEDNESDAY 25 KIDS & FAMILY Chess Club for Beginners
Fourth Wednesday of every month, 4:30-5:30pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
MUSIC Dorraine Scofield and JB Hunt
5pm. Acoustic. JK’s Wine & Liquors, Kingston. 331-6429.
George Clinton And Parliament Funkadelic
8-10pm. $49.50/$69.50. George Clinton revolutionized R&B during the ’70s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late-’60s heroes. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
Thanksgiving Eve Tradition: Alpha Male Gorillas, Mazzstock Allstars & Das Super Gruppen
7pm. Rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
SPIRITUALITY A Course in Miracles
7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THURSDAY 26 HEALTH & WELLNESS Hatha Yoga class
6:30-8pm. $10. Gentle Hatha Yoga for all levels with Dave Shanti Mandir, Walden. 845 778 1008.
Method Fitness with Jillian Hargrove
10:15-11am. $25/$180 10 sessions. A fusion of yoga movements, pilates poses, stretches, and other combinations of deep muscle contractions and rhythmic rotations. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.
KIDS & FAMILY Story Time
9:15-10:15am. Up to age 4. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION New Paltz Turkey Trot
9am. 5k and Mashed Potato Fun Run. This year’s event will also include prizes for best costumes, tee shirts for adults and children, who sign up by October 31st, and the popular Mashed Potato Fun Run, which is free for kids 8 and under. New Paltz, New Paltz. Newpaltzturkeytrot.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Word Cafe
6:30-8pm. $15/$125 series/free for teens and college students. A master class for readers and writers hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. Wordcafe.us.
FRIDAY 27 DANCE 4th Friday Swing Dance
Fourth Friday of every month, 8-11:30pm. $15/$10 full time students with ID. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Beginners’ lesson 8:00-8:30 pm; Band 8:30-11:30 pm; Performance 9:30 pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Tribute to The Band: The Last Waltz 39th Anniversary Celebration 8-10:30pm. $30-$45. The THE BAND Band will perform a tribute to “The Last Waltz”. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. NIGHTLIFE Late Night/Date Night Fourth Friday of every month, 6-9pm. Join us for our monthly late night, open studio session for adults only. Fiberflame Studio, Rhinebeck. 679-6132.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Green Mountain Energy 10am-8pm. free. Representatives from Green Mountain Energy will be setting up information tables at our store to help inform you of what they do. Note: They will also be in our Rhinebeck location on Thursdays from 9-7! Sunflower Natural Foods Market, Woodstock. 679-5361.
Le Shopping Event
11am-7pm. Featuring local artists including Sarah Blodgett, Tony Henneberg, almbijoux and many more. A preview benefit will be held on Friday evening to benefit the Pine Plains Food bank ($20 contribution). The Stissing House, Pine Plains. (917) 975-0779.
KIDS & FAMILY Anime and Manga Group
Every other Saturday, 1pm. Japanese anime and manga are drawn in a very distinctive style and are an important part of Japanese culture. Students from Bard College’s Anime Club will be sharing their passion for the popular genre with younger students. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
LITERARY & BOOKS Kingston Spoken Word
7pm. $5. Readings by poets Alison Koffler, Leslie Gerber, Judith Lechner, Guy Reed and Victoria Sullivan. Followed by 3-minute open mike. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Sinterklaas Send Off Celebration 11am-6pm. A day of open houses, musical performances, workshops creating beautiful crowns and branches, a Children’s Maritime Parade down Broadway with stars and puppets galore. Kingston sends off Sinterklaas and his white horse on a tugboat across the river. After his send off, there will a Sinterklaas Soiree, Tree Lighting Ceremony. Kingston. 514-7989.
SPORTS Phoenicia Turkey Trot 10am-1pm. $15/$10 pre registered. The 2.4 mile run/walk will benefit the Rotary Club of Phoenicia. Parish Field, Phoenicia. 688-7064.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Crowns & Branches Workshop 11am-3pm. Part of the Sinterklaas celebration. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
Make Your Own Candy Cane Demonstrations
6:30-7:30pm. $80/series. Beginner Swing Dance Class Series in Newburgh. New series starts every four weeks. No experience or partner needed. Taught by professional teachers Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.
12, 1:30, 3 & 4:30pm. Attendees experience the transformation of sugar which is cooked to 300 degrees. From the permeating peppermint smell to the deep crimson stripes, this is an opportunity for kids of all ages to stimulate their senses, and to participate in a captivating, hands-on and free demonstration. And everyone gets to take one home! Commodore Chocolatier, Newburgh. 561-3960.
Swing Dance to The Lustre Kings
Pigment Stick Mixed Media Lab
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica Farm and Flea
11am-4pm. $65. Our Pigment Stick Mixed Media Lab allows artists to explore the many possible applications of R&F Pigment Sticks. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088.
Beginner Swing Dance Classes
8:30-11:30pm. $15/$10 FT students. Lesson at 8pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 471-1120.
2-5 & 5-9pm. Created as an alternative to “Black Friday” culture, the annual market brings together a collection of quality products presented by a diverse group of about 125 regional makers, farmers, chefs and vintage collectors to promote the talents and resources within our community. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
Hudson Valley Artisan Marketplace
4-7pm. Fine art, unique handmade gifts, Fair Trade products, craft beer and spirit tastings, food trucks, more. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
Le Shopping Event
5-8pm. Featuring local artists including Sarah Blodgett, Tony Henneberg, almbijoux and many more. A preview benefit will be held on Friday evening to benefit the Pine Plains Food bank ($20 contribution). The Stissing House, Pine Plains. (917) 975-0779.
KIDS & FAMILY Lego Santa’s Workshop
12-3pm. $45. Enjoy the magic of the holidays with Lego Santa’s Workshop. Children will build a Lego Christmas city plus they will make their own Lego holiday ornament to take home. The Stockade Martial Arts, Kingston. 255-1318.
MUSIC Black Light Dance Party with Breakaway and Robin Baker
8:30-11:30pm. Continue your Thanksgiving celebration at The High Falls Cafe with the Black Friday Black Light Party with Breakaway featuring Robin Baker. This band is rocking and has everybody dancing the whole night. Wear something white and shine bright in the black light! High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Scott Sharrard & The Brickyard Band 7pm. Blues rock. Opener: Black Horse Riders. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
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Column McCann Reads at Vassar College “Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.” So begins Column McCann’s National Book Award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin. The man in question is Philippe Petit, the French highwire artist (and longtime Ulster County resident) who crossed a threshold of air 110 stories up and straight into mythology with his World Trade Center stunt in 1974. Let the Great World Spin follows the lives of a diverse set of New Yorkers on that day. In interviews, McCann has remarked on the metaphor of the tightrope of “ordinary” life: “There is still an invisible tightrope wire that we all walk, with equally high stakes, only it is hidden to most, and only one inch off the ground.” On November 4 at 6pm, McCann will deliver the annual William Gifford lecture in Taylor Hall at Vassar College. (845) 437-5370; Vassar.edu
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Crowns & Branches Workshop
1-4pm. Part of the Sinterklaas celebration. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
Make Your Own Candy Cane Demonstrations
12, 1:30, 3 & 4:30pm. Attendees experience the transformation of sugar which is cooked to 300 degrees. From the permeating peppermint smell to the deep crimson stripes, this is an opportunity for kids of all ages to stimulate their senses, and to participate in a captivating, hands-on and free demonstration. And everyone gets to take one home! Commodore Chocolatier, Newburgh. 561-3960.
SATURDAY 28 DANCE Learn to Swing Dance Workshop
Last Saturday of every month, 6-7:30pm. $30/$25 pre-register. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica Farm and Flea
10am-6pm. Created as an alternative to “Black Friday” culture, the annual market brings together a collection of quality products presented by a diverse group of about 125 regional makers, farmers, chefs and vintage collectors to promote the talents and resources within our community. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
Hudson Valley Artisan Marketplace
11am-6pm. Fine art, unique handmade gifts, Fair Trade products, craft beer and spirit tastings, food trucks, more. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
Laura Ludwig Presents Poetry and Performance Art 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC The Bar Spies
8pm. Classic rock. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
The Brothers of the Road Band
9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Chris Jackson
8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Club d’Elf with John Medeski & Reeves Gabrels of The Cure 7pm. Improv Moroccan jazz rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
SUNDAY 29 FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica Farm and Flea 10am-6pm. Created as an alternative to “Black Friday” culture, the annual market brings together a collection of quality products presented by a diverse group of about 125 regional makers, farmers, chefs and vintage collectors to promote the talents and resources within our community. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
Hudson Valley Artisan Marketplace 11am-4pm. Fine art, unique handmade gifts, Fair Trade products, craft beer and spirit tastings, food trucks, more. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
KIDS & FAMILY Wild Earth Screech Owl for 4-7 yr olds 10am-3pm. $80/$225 for series. Gather in the forest to play games, tell stories around the fire, craft, track, build and so much more! Stony Kill Road, Accord. 256-9830.
MUSIC Erik Lawrence Quartet 7pm. Jazz rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Sarah McLachlan
Milkweed
7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
Petey Hop Trio
SPIRITUALITY Akashic Records Revealed with June Brought
Professor Louie And The Crowmatix
Last Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. 6:30pm. Blues. Village Market and Bakery, Gardiner. 255-1234. 8pm. $20. Rock. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335.
Windham Hill: A Winter’s Solstice
7:30pm. $34/$27. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
NIGHTLIFE Vine Van Gogh
7-9:30pm. $45. Join Vine Van Gogh, the Hudson Valley’s premier “Sip and Paint” for a night of drinks, painting, fun, and relaxation. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
MONDAY 30 MUSIC Jazz Monday: Patrick Brennan/Jason Kao Hwang/Warren Smith 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Karl Berger Residency 7pm. Improv jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
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Planet Waves ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
Emily Roberts Negron working on her installation for the O+ Festival.
Fire on the Mountain “Long distance runner, what you standing there for?”
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—The Grateful Dead
hough the Sun is now in Scorpio, there is some unusual activity going on over in Libra and one sign back in Virgo. The current astrology weaves together these three signs beautifully, which is useful. Let’s start with Libra, or rather, the Aries-Libra axis. The lunar nodes are currently positioned across the first degrees of those signs. The nodes move slowly, and have taken 18 months to make it across this most important axis of the zodiac. They move in reverse, so they start at the end of a sign and then retrograde back to the beginning. Now they are aligned with this thing called the Aries Point; the South Node is in the first degree of Aries (called the Aries Point), and the North Node is in the first degree of Libra. This aligns the personal-as-political or individual-as-cultural property that both the Aries Point and the nodes often display. Both elements have a way of increasing the scale of events and ideas. You might say that it puts our whole mini-era of history into a kind of resonator, which makes it easier to hear what we’re saying to ourselves and to one another. In other words, to hear the message that we are sending to ourselves and to one another, all that’s necessary is to listen—and this is especially easy now, since the message is so clear. Listening, of course, is an issue. Most people either don’t have the time or don’t care. Yet there is vital information coming through. If you start to get the same message coming through many channels, you know that your own mind is talking to you. Later this month the nodes arrive in Virgo-Pisces, which will give us an
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extended phase of emphasis on that sign polarity. There’s plenty else going on in that vicinity as well. As you may be aware, back in August, Jupiter ingressed Virgo for a one-year visit. Venus and Mars have been in a series of conjunctions through the year. The first one was in Aries, and then there was another in Leo. As of early November, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are in Virgo, making a series of conjunctions. In late October, Mars conjoined Jupiter, followed by Venus. Next, on November 2, Venus and Mars align for the third and last time of the year. That’s a lot of conjunctions in Virgo within a short time, involving planets that are real to us, planets we don’t need telescopes to see or any special theory to feel. That alone is interesting, particularly when you remember that there have been two prior Venus-Mars conjunctions recently; this is all part of a developing story. Of course, that’s the nature of astrology: the perpetual work in progress. This set of conjunctions is evoking astrological history—or said another way, it’s talking to many, many natal charts. For example, Pluto was in Virgo from 1957 through 1972 (minus a little time on each far end of that range); Uranus was in Virgo from 1962 through 1968. The result was something called the Uranus-Pluto conjunction. There were three exact contacts, from 1965 through mid-1966. If you’re wondering how The Beatles went from “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” to “I am The Walrus” in such a short time, think: Uranus-Pluto. As an exact astrology event, the conjunctions were short-lived, spanning just nine months. But they were the concentrated epicenter of an energy wave that resounded in all directions, and with which we are still living today. By today I mean in contemporary times, though because there is so much unusual activity in Virgo right now, the Uranus and Pluto placements in the charts of millions of people are now being activated. This is called a transit—
what happens if you’re born with a planet in a particular place, and then at some future time, something comes along and makes an aspect to it. For the past couple of months and into the present, the charts of all people and all events from the 1960s are taking multiple transits. The 1960s were an unusual time. It wasn’t exactly a unique era—the Uranus-Pluto cycle tends to stir the pot, and there have been several similar eras throughout the centuries. Yet that particular conjunction happening in its own way, at that time, created something really wild. Richard Tarnas, in his monograph Prometheus the Awakener, described “the rebellion against established structures of all kinds, the intense intellectual adventurousness of the era, the radical consciousness and transformation, the titanic technological advances into the space age [and] the general atmosphere of revolution on all fronts.” He correctly notes the stunning, simultaneous advances in every technological, artistic and intellectual field, along with truly unusual social conditions. There was also a counter-revolution, which took the form of the political murders of Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. As I described in the article series Born in the Sixties, those who lived through this era got to express this astrology for a phase of time. Those who were born with this astrology take it with them through their whole lives. Regarding how this theory has played out, there’s probably a book in that. Certainly in the realm of technology it had sweeping manifestations. Though Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were from the prior wave of births (what we now call the Baby Boomers or people with Pluto in Leo), the first generation of software engineers who designed the Internet were of UranusPluto in Virgo vintage. There was a certain idealism there, which for a while was driven by more than money. Malicious social engineering of various kinds has been aimed at every aspect of the progress society made in the 1960s. I recognize that not everyone considers what happened in those years to be progress; to some extent that’s a matter of viewpoint. Regardless, most of the gains made either were unraveled, destroyed, reversed, or co-opted. The assassinations of Malcolm X, King, the Kennedy brothers, and others, including John Lennon a bit later, sent a terrifying message that one immediately risked one’s life to take leadership for progressive causes, or to speak out at all. It’s no wonder that we don’t have vocal progressive or liberal leaders in our era and have not had them for a long time. It’s not that people are not interested; there’s just so progressive you can be, without being afraid you’ll get shot, or having it actually happen. It’s worth recognizing just how threatened the power structures were by what happened in the 1960s. I count the beginning of the Sixties to be the assassination of JFK in 1963, and the end to be the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1974. The very next year, a newly formed entity called the Trilateral Commission published a report called “The Crisis of Democracy.” Yes, the Trilateral Commission actually exists, and it has an address and a published list of members. One of the first things it did after its founding by David Rockefeller in 1973 was to publish a report designed to help national and corporate leaders get a grip on the uprisings of the immediately previous era. The report is part history, part analysis, and part strategy proposal—and it remains the only major publication of the commission to date. Describing public uprising and involvement in society as a “crisis of democracy” is not friendly to the idea of public participation. Despite its position, the report offers a truly interesting analysis. Here is a sample: “The late sixties have been a major turning point. The amount of underlying change was dramatically revealed in the political turmoil of the period, which forced a sort of moral showdown over a certain form of traditional authority. Its importance has been mistaken inasmuch as the revolt seemed to be aiming
at political goals. What was at stake appears now to be moral much more than political authority—churches, schools, and cultural organizations more than political and even economic institutions.” The Trilateral authors recognized two meaningful things—one, this was not about the government but rather about progress through all institutions; and two, that the drive was moral rather than political. I would call that dangerous to those clinging to the status quo, or acting in clearly immoral ways. This will give you an idea of the antipathy they were expressing toward those who had the nerve to dissent: “At the present time, significant challenge comes from the intellectuals and related groups who assert their disgust with the corruption, materialism, and inefficiency of democracy and with the subservience of democratic government to ‘monopoly capitalism.’” When you consider this was written 40 years ago it seems all the more incredible. Another thing the authors recognized is that a level of personal social freedom allowed for this freedom to rebel. They describe “an explosion of human interaction and correlatively a tremendous increase of social pressure. The social texture of human life has become and is becoming more and more complex and its management more difficult. Dispersion, fragmentation, and simple ranking have been replaced by concentration, interdependence, and a complex texture.” They conclude with this thought: “Because of the basic importance of the contemporary complex social texture, its management has a crucial importance, which raises the problem of social control over the individual.” Remember this phrase, “the problem of social control over the individual.” If you’re wondering where the progress of the 1960s went, please consider that it was consciously erased by this meta-corporate, meta-governmental philosophy. Standing up against the war was replaced by standing up for Coca-Cola in that silly “I’d like to teach the world to sing” advert. The Trilateral Commission is nothing more or less than an organization of government and corporate policy makers—who have the power to achieve something like massive, sweeping, free-trade agreements that subvert domestic national authority and which created a new era of slavery. Yet it’s chilling that they reduce this power down to the problem of social control over the individual. Since this report was published, many policies have been put into place that obstruct and confuse individual will—for example, abstinence-only sexual indoctrination. That is the still-extant school program, begun under President Reagan, designed to ruin sex for young people before they even know what it is. So now, in these days, a lot of astrology is passing through mid-Virgo, lighting up the Uranus and Pluto placements of everyone born in the 1960s era, particularly those in the peak years of 1964 through 1967, whose placements are in the middle of that sign. At the same time, everyone in this era is close to the time of their Chiron return in Pisces, a topic I plan to come back to soon. This is your latest chance to feel what you’re made of. This is your chance to tune into your moment of incarnation and to consider the world that you chose to enter, or happened to show up in, perhaps with some conscious, useful purpose for being here. Your inherent, organic patterning, contained in your astrology, is deeper than any fabricated social concept or control device. To get to that level of original intention, you really must feel yourself and tune into your point of origin. Listen for those vibes. They are speaking to you now—in an era when the world needs every awake person who can open up their eyes and greet the chaos and potential of our moment. Are you willing? You seem to be paying attention. What are you doing with what you know? The world is waiting for you. We are all eagerly anticipating your participation.
The assassinations of Malcolm X, Dr. King, the Kennedy brothers, and others, including John Lennon a bit later, sent a terrifying message that one immediately risked one’s life to take leadership for progressive causes.
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) There are two main aspects to this thing we call spiritual. One is the visible part, which involves bodies of ideas, teaching and learning those ideas in the world, the organizations people take part in to facilitate that, and more formal institutions and their various rules and laws. It’s in this area of life that someone may strive to be a better person, to accumulate knowledge, to attain purity, and so on. Then there is the invisible dimension—the one that lurks and lingers behind everything, occasionally finding its way to the front of awareness. It’s a parallel world, which can be visited through direct experiences: dreams, journeying, direct exploration of awareness, transcendent erotic experiences (such as through tantric practice), near-death experiences, and those vast moments of personal revelation that cannot be planned. It’s easy to see why Carl Jung said that religion (the first group of concepts) interferes with religious experience (the second). For you now, the conceptual and pre-programmed level of spiritual life is about to be dissolved into the direct, authentic experience. This will take some time—the next year or two—though it’s beginning now, as you read. Therefore emphasize your actual journey—what you feel, and who and what you experience. Put less into books and concepts and “practice.” The rehearsal is over. You are now the instrument, the musician and the audience.
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For any individual in possession of talent or desire to accomplish something, there is a phase of learning about how the quality of your work and the audience response are two different things. This could be said about any phase of life, though let’s focus on the work you do: the thing you want to be known for, and what you feel is your true gift. One reason people hold back developing their talents (we all have them and in my experience, just about all people are aware of that fact) is out of fear of how they will be received. I would remind you that some of the very greatest artists and thinkers have received initial responses verging on insulting. To give one hilarious example (which I will come back to soon): the Wright brothers were busy flying an early model of their airplane around a field in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, but the local newspaper refused to send a reporter. I could rattle off dozens of these tales from memory. The message of the story is that your work must proceed regardless of what you think people will think, what they actually think or whatever the heck else. This includes your friends, your “friends,” your family and so on. Ultimately you must resonate with your own creative core. Be true to your vision, come what may.
GEMINI (May 20-June 21) Beware of anything that someone claims is both a moral and a medical issue. Said another way, how you feel is not a matter of some external opinion, and neither is how you seek your wellbeing. Gradually you’re breaking down your old, mostly inherited beliefs of right and wrong. An ethical person must be in command of their own understanding of their personal truth. You recognize that people do what they do, and you will do what you do. There’s actual freedom in that, because when you recognize that you have a choice in any matter, you’re more likely to exercise that choice honestly. So I could start this horoscope over by saying, beware of any situation where you seem not to have a choice, or where someone tries to convince you of that. Or: be aware of your options. If you seem to run out of them, ask yourself, what would I do if I didn’t feel some authority was breathing down my back? What would I do in a world where judgment and grudges were not such an issue? Incidentally, if you’re at some crossroads where the choice seems to be either relationship or career, you might start by asking yourself who set that up and why it is you would have to choose one over the other. There are potential reasons, though it may not be true.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) The feeling of risk is not the same thing as actual risk. The notion that ‘this feels like I’m about to jump off of a cliff’ is not the same thing as standing at the edge of a mountain precipice with the wind blowing and condors gliding around. Make sure you understand the difference, because where your creative (and sexual) process is taking you is in the direction of a personal boundary. You might say that’s the place where you will decide to keep it real, or to choose some other alternative. Why would you do anything but be real? Well, you might feel out of practice. You might think it’s scary, mistaking a personal edge for an actual thing you can fall off of. This zone I’m talking about is the place where you can make contact with your vitality. I know this seems to spook or freak out those who are easily frightened. Many people think there’s such a thing as too real or too alive or too free or whatever. That simply must be their problem. You have reached a point in your development when nothing but actually being—and feeling—alive will suit you. This truth or necessity or bottom line (as you wish) resounds through all areas of your life, which are not really areas at all. Part of being alive is embracing how all of your existence is indeed your existence. 100 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 11/15
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You must remember what you’ve learned and are still learning about how to handle your finances. First of all, I reckon you’ve gotten the message that the details matter. Second, it looks like you’ve figured out that the bigger scenario matters—and that these two things must align into a unified whole. However, there is deeper information in terms of understanding what your assets really are. Whenever you make or earn money, you are converting something into it. That might be your time, it might be your ideas, it might be your labor. Probably it’s a mix of all three. In terms of really understanding your assets, I suggest you consider what blend you’re currently using, and how you would like to change that in some way. Less time and labor requires having better ideas. Not caring so much about ideas means more effort over more time. The thing to remember is that you actually do have personal assets, a fact which may be asserting itself in many ways at the moment. It would be wise of you to keep track of what you know about what you have to offer. Yet more significantly, it’s in the experience of actually offering your gifts that you make them real. Be generous. Measure with a cup and not a spoon. Measure by the week rather than by the hour. Or perhaps don’t measure at all.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22) You are learning how to get out of your own way. This is a lifelong theme for you, though recent developments have made this a necessity rather than some kind of luxury. Virgos are the experts at outsmarting themselves. That’s the first of many seeming skills that you will get to dismantle on the way to accessing your true purpose and gift. Another is the thing about trying to convince yourself of something, such as whether it’s true or false. You could more easily do an assessment, review the facts and make a decision based on what you actually observe. A third thing is the concept that you are less than anything or anyone. That’s something that seems to prove itself, though that’s why you really need to suspect it to some scrutiny. Now, as for what is actually true—it’s very likely that at your core, you live to be in service. That can work against you. It will, unless you choose consciously to make it work for you—which directly implies a kind of plus-plus symbiosis with your environment. Getting out of your own way is about seeing the relationships you have with others. Mostly it’s about understanding that you exist both as an independent entity and also as one who is interdependent with others around you. That is a fact of existence, and it’s beyond reproach. Put it to good use.
LIBRA
(September 22-October 23)
Venus returns to your sign in a week or so. This happens about once a year, though it’s still a beautiful thing, coming right when you need it. It was only recently that Saturn (another planet that represents you) moved out of Scorpio, which signals a loosening up of your resources. If you have not noticed this, you can use the Venus principle to help get things moving. In a word, that’s about attraction. But attraction doesn’t mean standing around looking cute, seeing who offers you what. Libra and Venus in Libra are self-assertive. The image in the planets is about having the confidence to present yourself to the world in an open and accepting way. There’s a serious confidence issue in our society right now, crippling many people. Our obsession with spectating is a direct expression of lacking the courage to dare. You now get some direct relief from any such shortage. You still must present yourself to the world, start the conversation and practice the art of mingling with the human race. It’s just that you’re likely to be feeling better about yourself, as if you’ve somehow found yourself after having lost track of who you are. Thing is, your current experience of finding is likely to bring a real discovery. Keep your sense of wonder right where you can feel it.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) After sending an email query to all the Scorpios in my database, I got an earful one weekend in late October, hearing what many have been through during the past two years of Saturn in your sign (that ended in mid-September). Saturn is usually experienced as lessons learned or struggled with. The purpose of Saturn is to convey the authority principle, inviting you to make your own decisions, rather than having the rules imposed on you from the outside. You’re now in a delicate position of having to step up to this challenge. Look around and you’ll see that it’s clearly more than most people can handle, hence the extreme over-reliance on government, family and corporations. Saturn in Sagittarius presents similar, but subtler, challenges. Do you believe what you believe because you were told to, or did you actually determine that it was true? A rare aspect (Saturn square Neptune) describes some of your most cherished opinions being challenged. This in turn calls for a total reassessment of your reality. It’s not enough to believe something because you always believed it, or because someone presented it as the only option. Where this really comes home is your self-worth. Your opinion of yourself must be balanced and realistic, and usually that means recognizing that much of what you were told simply was not true. When you get there, it’s a profound and stunning revelation.
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Saturn’s journey through your sign will have many plots and themes, and each will feel like a distinct phase of your personal history. A new one is about to begin. The immediately prior phase involved accountability (that was Saturn square Nessus). That was the message about how it’s easier to take responsibility than it is to blame. It’s better to have a personal code than be subject to the laws of others. Now we have the first of three Saturn square Neptune events, which extend through 2016. This describes the challenge of certainty, which so often seems nonexistent. You may have heard the term “moral relativism,” a fancy name for the idea that we decide what is right for us. That’s exactly what you must do, but the challenge is honoring the wider context in which you live. You can and must do what is right for yourself, though for that to work you need a fairly wide definition of self. What you will be exploring is the intersection between you and the connection you have with others, who to some degree are also part of your “self.” That’s not a fixed line. It’s barely visible. It will change based on context. Remember, there are no absolutes; there are no proscribed definitions. You must apply these ideas with each decision you make, and learn something from each experience.
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You might be wondering what you’re pushing against, or what you’re running into. It’s something that’s there but which you can neither see nor feel easily. Trying to describe it to others is akin to describing the logic of a dream, which doesn’t even make sense to you when you try to consider it rationally. You must start this phase of your life being the only one who understands who you are or what you go through. Because so much is in motion, it would not be helpful to declare, “There, I get it!” Rather, I suggest seeking the kind of understanding that comes in layers. Remember, though, that we’re in the territory of dream logic. That implies a unique point of view, and at other times a state of isolation. When you find people who actually understand something you say or feel, spend some time with them. When you encounter someone who cares enough to listen, pay attention and share in any way that feels appropriate. You have one special responsibility right now, and it may be difficult: to be absolutely honest with yourself, even when you’re uncertain what the truth is. If all you know is that you don’t know, that’s a good place to start. Your other quest is doing something with fear. Running, hiding and avoidance have outlasted whatever use they had, which was not much to begin with. (January 20-February 19)
The Sun, and soon enough Mercury, will be in your 10th solar house of getting things done. Whether you use your solar chart (as I’m doing here) or your natal chart, it’s helpful to follow the Sun’s journey through the various seasons of your year. The 10th house is about visibility. It’s about being seen but, moreover, making sure you’re known for what you want to be known for. Reputations, properly established, take time to be built. The returns can seem minimal, even over long years. But you are starting to accrue some experience, and to make some progress on the issue of personal power and influence. Still, I suggest you seek to establish yourself with your good work rather than try to collect. The world is in an extremely confused state right now; the wars and violence seem never to stop, and we get very little in the way of pleasure that doesn’t come with corporate sponsorship or a high-priced admission ticket. Therefore, keep your focus on what is right. Remind yourself that you’ve cleared out enough psychological baggage from your internal space to have a clue who you actually are. Not everyone has made this investment; most people have kept filling their attic while you were busy cleaning up yours. You are therefore in a distinct position of leadership. You can actually see, feel and breathe.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) You’re in a period of achievement—though it may not feel like that, or at least not every day. Such a phase is different in that it’s not so much about preparation as it is about the results of the work you’ve already done. Of course, you’re always still learning, and this is essential to maintain as a daily yoga. Your current project is about working on the perfect hybrid of what you do and who you are. (I originally typed that as “who you do and what you are,” also accurate.) We see a lot of problems arise in the world when people try to split their character. By that I mean they have a reputation for one thing, and then conduct themselves in a way that entirely contradicts that. For you, Saturn square Neptune is about being one with yourself, which you will get to do on a moment-to-moment basis. The more you do “out in the world,” the more you will need to reconcile that with who you are, and who you are becoming. This is saying a lot, given that the end of the year is the busiest time for your professional activities. The underlying theme is about never losing touch with your humanity. But it works the other way too—the closer you stay to your core truth, the more you will achieve.
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The Rondout neighborhood of Kingston, circa 1963, as photographed by Gene Dauner. Urban renewal came to Kingston in 1961, part of a utopian federal program that sought to inject millions of dollars into cities for modernization and revitalization. The neighborhood principally targeted was the Rondout, a former bustling port in the 19th century, which was home to the city’s poor and working class. Entire blocks were acquired by eminent domain, families were displaced, and over 400 historic buildings were bulldozed. By the time President Nixon ended the program in 1974, the Rondout was unrecognizable as its former self, and a close-knit community had been torn down. But the urban renewal bump never made it to the Rondout. Much of the cleared land sat vacant for years and many of the residents were eventually relocated into two massive housing developments, one more like a prison in appearance than an apartment complex. 104 CHRONOGRAM 11/15
At the time of the demolition, local resident Gene Dauner sought to document as much of the Rondout’s landscape as possible before its destruction. The hundreds of photographs he captured of a community about to disappear inspired Chronogram contributors Stephen Blauweiss and Lynn Woods to make a documentary film. Two years later, Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal will be screened at the Arts Society of Kingston on November 21 at 7:30pm. In conjunction with the film, a multimedia exhibition of photos, maps, postcards, video clips, and other ephemera curated by Blauweiss will be exhibited at the Arts Society of Kingston November 7 through December 1, with an opening reception on November 7, from 5-8pm. Lostrondoutproject.com. —Brian K. Mahoney
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