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12 On the Cover 14 Esteemed Reader 15 Letters to the Editor 17 Editor's Note 18 While You Were Sleeping 21 Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic 22 Q&A with Caroline Crumpacker
52 Summer Adventure Guide
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34 Sips & Bites
62 Development in the Spotlight: Beacon
Five places to dine and drink this May.
35 The Drink: Prescription Julep In honor of spring and the Kentucky Derby, WM Farmer & Son’s julep variation of choice.
HOME & GARDEN 36 Trusting the Detours WNYC radio host Alison Stewart takes a circuitous route to finding her dream home.
Fifteen can’t-miss outdoor activities for a perfectly adventurous Upstate summer.
EDUCATION 56 A Viral Debate Tensions are running high around the controversial topic of vaccination. Here’s a look at both sides of the debate.
Fifteen years after the launch of Dia, Beacon is no longer a “best-kept secret,” drawing tourists, artists, and developers in droves.
FASHION 72 Green Eileen At Eileen Fisher’s Tiny Factory in Irvington, the national brand is leading the industry toward sustainable horizons.
45 A Way to Garden 2.0
76 Fashionable Destinations
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48 SOS for the Troubled Soul
108 We Sing the Body Electric
An excerpt from Margaret Roach's recently updated hands-on primer A Way to Garden.
New walk-in centers for mental health and addiction offer help in urgent situations.
Seven destination clothing boutiques and vintage shops.
features 28 craft beverage update by Bryan Miller & Carrie Dykes From beer to spirits and wine, all sectors of the Hudson Valley’s craft beverage industry are growing at unprecedented rates.
78 waking dreams on the great white way by Lynn Woods Kathy Ruttenberg’s Broadway installation, “In Dreams Awake,” bewitches harried passersby with its cast of mythological characters.
84 a sense of place by Peter Aaron
Having ticked the boxes of hard-rocking frontwoman and backup singer to the stars, Woodstock-born Simi Stone has returned to the quietude of her hometown.
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87 Books
79 Mark Dion's collection of whimsical outbuildings, "Follies," is on display at Storm King.
From a vegetable gardening how-to book to an anthology of stories on lived changed by chance to a heart-racing novel about a government scandal, seven short book reviews.
89 Music Album reviews of Heaven Depends by Lorkin O’Reilly; Bill Brovold’s Stone Soup by Bill Brovold; Celebrations by Nightmares for a Week; and Zulu's Ball by Ted Daniel.
90 Poetry Poems by Gary Barkman, Jessica Judith Beckwith, Alan Catlin, Sheila Petnuch Fields, Dean Goldberg, Isabella Harris, Ava M. Hu, Lu Ann Kaldor, Tracey Long, Liula Marcellina, Maggie Mitchell, Lori MS, Elsie O'Keefe, Matthew J. Spireng, Fern Suess, J Sweet, Meagan Towler, Nicholas Trieste, Dan Vollweiler, and Neal Whitman. Edited by Philip X Levine.
97 LAB Fest at Garner Arts Center is a weekend of immersive art, performance, and craft beer. 99 Actor-turned-author Craig Ferguson reads from his latest memoir at Bard. 101 A roundup of events celebrating folk singer and activist Pete Seeger's 100th birthday. 103 A gallery guide for May. 107 Six live music shows to pencil in, from Meat Puppets to the Dirty Projectors.
112 Parting Shot Time freezes in Gerard Wickham’s paintings, offering a rare, intimate, and often comical window into his home life. A solo show of his work is on display at Unison Arts Center.
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To Arms! To Arms! DAVID SIEVER ceramics, wood, mixed media, 2017, 10" x 11" x 8"
“Growing up, I played with Star Wars toys and GI Joe figures. I had the iconic D-Day GI Joe,” says sculptor David Siever. “As I grew up and got older, I wondered, ‘Where are my Spanish American War GI Joes? Where’s the MexicanAmerican War GI Joes? Where are these narratives in history that are not the dominant narrative? What has been swept under the rug?’” Thus began Siever’s journey from SUNY Purchase history major to graduate school at the Art Institute of Chicago and later, to create his own series of historical dioramas, or as Siever terms them “narrative dollhouse room-boxed vignettes.” “I realized that I could just make my own toys,” says Siever. “I call them ‘inaction’ figures. They’re not really action figures, as they can’t move.” (All the figures in Siever’s pieces are painted white, their lack of color a metaphor for their place among the ashes of history.) Siever, the resident artist at the Crown Heights Library, employs history as an instrument of discovery, bringing history’s footnotes to life in his work, whether it’s the story of conjoined twins Chang and Eng’s marital relations, an early failed ascent of Mt. Everest, or the assassination of William McKinley. One historical event that caught Siever’s attention was the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). Some things to know about the Mexican-American War: Mexico lost nearly half its territory as a result of its defeat in that conflict; it’s the only major war in US history without a monument in DC; 13 years after the war ended, the start of the Civil War eclipsed the conflict, relegating it to the dustbin of history. “It’s been sort of forgotten on two sides,” says Siever. “Mexico chooses not to remember what is pretty much their greatest defeat. America chooses not to focus on a war, not unlike Iraq, that started with a presidential lie.” For To Arms! To Arms!, Siever researched letters home from American soldiers, filled with accounts of malaria and horrific injuries, like the retired soldier drinking in the foreground. On the back wall of the bare soldier’s room is a reproduction of an actual Mexican-American War recruitment poster used by the US government. It reads: “To Arms! To Arms! Wanted: Men for Mexico.” It’s the only thing in the room with two arms. “David Siever: Tiny Tragedies,” a collection of the artist's narrative dollhouse room-boxed vignettes, is on display at Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie through May 18. Barrettartcenter.org. —Brian K. Mahoney 12 CHRONOGRAM 5/19
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esteemed reader by Jason Stern
i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth day of life and love and wings and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any-lifted from the no of all nothing-human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened) —e e cummings Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: This poem always comes back to me in springtime. After so many cycles, I can recite it from memory. For me, it is a prayer of rebirth, of arising again like Osiris re-membered, like Jesus resurrected, like Helios driving his firedarting steeds across the sky once again. No rebirth is complete without the preceding death, and so we are gifted with a composite, dual-face image, like Janus. The binary event is celebrated in the Egyptian text alternately titled Egyptian Book of the Dead and Book of Emerging Forth into the Light. The cycles are perennial overlapping alternations of darkness and light, expansion and contraction, emergence and withdrawal, like the arc of the pendulum, with stillness at the apex of each end. Death and rebirth are continuous, emerging in large and small fluctuations. The earth circles the sun, and in that cycle, the life of the biosphere and the light of days swell and shrivel. Each month beautiful queen Regina, the moon, wains to extinction and waxes to fullness. Each day brings its phases, a cycle that Vedic scripture organizes into three phases of qualities, or gunas—rajas, the fiery expansion of morning and early evening; tamas, the inert lethargy of afternoon and the nighttime “witching hour;” and sattwa, the moment of balanced equipoise at dusk and dawn. Closer to the home of our own being, we lie down to sleep at night and rise up awake in the morning. With each breath, we exhale with the possibility that we may never breathe in again, and then inhale once more, a respiratory death and rebirth. Then there is what we call the present moment of consciousness. What of consciousness? How often do I die into a kind of hypnotic sleep, the living death of the zombie, in a physical body with habit and instinctive impulses, and yet no one is home? How often to I retreat into a dream of past or future, of others and their opinions, of how I look compared to a manufactured image of myself ? And what happens when I wake up from this dream? Isn’t this also a kind of rebirth, a springtime of the soul? “I who have died am alive again,” because I woke up from the dream. I was gone, and then I came home. In returning to myself, I am freshly birthed into a new moment in which I can accept and take the choice to see the world, my circumstances, myself, and others, as they are—infinite. In this moment of awakening, I see that I was asleep, and I accept it. In this moment of coming around, I return to the effort to more fully inhabit myself and be empty of self. If I am vigilant, I see that in a moment I may let go of my righteousness, resentment, and greed. I may let go of my self-concern and self-love. I may let go of my vanity. I may put these impulses in a box and allow them to dissolve and disappear. I see that in a moment I have permission to release tension in my body and become mindful to what I am doing and the people I am with. In a moment I die to the unreal and rebirth in presence. Each death and rebirth is a practice for the demise of the body. Or perhaps the death of the body is a practice for dying to unreality. In either case, it is an invitation to the unknown, as Hamlet soliloquized, “death, / The undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveler returns, puzzles the will.” 14 CHRONOGRAM 5/19
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The Schneeman-Bard Connection To the Editor: We were pleased to see your remembrance of the groundbreaking artist Carolee Schneeman (In Memoriam, 4/19), but disappointed that you did not mention her connection to Bard. While Carolee’s time at Bard as a student was contentious and she clashed with the male-dominated art department, she went on to graduate from Bard in 1959 and developed close and enduring relationships with many at the college. She returned to Bard many times to teach and lecture in our undergraduate and graduate programs, and last year led a sold-out alumni/ae tour of her highly acclaimed lifetime retrospective at MoMA PS1. In 2012, she received Bard’s Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters, and this year was excited about Bard’s plan to award her the Alumni/ae Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts at our 2019 Commencement ceremony. Bard will give her the award posthumously. We at Bard are very proud of Carolee’s singular contributions to the art world, and grateful for her commitment to mentoring the next generation of artists through her long-term association with her alma mater. Malia Du Mont ‘95, Chief of Staff Jane Brien ‘89, Director of Alumni/ae Affairs Bard College The Law Is the Law To the Editor: You printed “Why is this man in jail?,” and sought to groom people into thinking that open borders and illegal migrants are the humanitarian and enlightened way to go (“Undocumented in the Hudson Valley: The Luis Martinez Story,” 4/19). Whatever the pain of the man in question, the fact remains that his mother broke the law and he, sadly, has to pay for it. Sins of the parents. What steps could he have taken to become an American citizen once an adult? Would you, Mr. Mahoney, even be able to board a plane without proper papers in place? Why not call airline procedures that demand admittance only for those who lawfully paid their dues “racism” or “travelerphobia”? Laws are there for a purpose. If you don’t believe it, then give me your wallet. Don’t call it “theft.” Call it “cash relocation.” But, on second thought, don’t lie and pretend that it’s OK to break the law. You couldn’t enter Disneyland without paying your dues. Why do you and
people like you believe you can enter the US without paying your dues? You can’t enter China or Russia either. So why should America be exempt from law and order? The law is the law and those who believe in open borders and not obeying the laws can live on Mars—I understand they have no border laws in place there. But every country on planet Earth has borders and laws that must be strictly obeyed. Those who do not believe this should not lock their doors at night. They should leave their entrance doors wide open—if they personally stand by their philosophy that a free-for-all is really considered humanitarian and progressive. My family came here as legal immigrants, the legal way. We paid our dues. We do not fear ICE. We do not disrespect the law or our adopted country’s sovereign borders. If you want a lawful country filled with lawabiding citizens, I urge you to respect the laws of the land and its borders, too, and do not make excuses for those who don’t. Or won’t. Eleni Brown More Carlson Than Chomsky In the 3/19 Chronogram, in the While You Were Sleeping section on page 18, there is a Hoda Muthana quote asking for forgiveness and understanding and admitting that she had made a mistake by joining ISIS. You titled the quote “Extremists Say the Darndest Things” and it just seemed odd. You are clearly mocking her, which seems unfair. If someone had escaped Jim Jones’s cult and wrote that she her joining was a mistake, I would imagine the tone would be different. But my point is, really, why wade into Middle East politics in a Hudson Valley arts and culture magazine in such a flip way? It was just annoying to see a blurb mocking a Muslim woman in your magazine with a cute, “darndest thing” title. The title felt like something from “Weird News,” a fluff, isn’tthis-nuts-type story and then the quote was very heartfelt. I get it that your politics could be closer to Tucker Carlson than Noam Chomsky in your contempt for Muslims, but at least improve your writing. There are far more “crazy” quotes than Hoda Muthana’s that you can use to mock Muslims. Chris Brown
From the Editor: In addition to this note, Chris Brown, we received an email from a reader who wished to remain anonymous, who also took exception to our inclusion of a picture of Hoda Muthana and the headline “Extremists Say the Darndest Things.” The reader identified herself as a “Muslim female doctor that was raised in the US, I too wear a headscarf and call myself a proud American above all else.” She wrote: “Considering it’s already hard for me to be here and practice my religion, as the media such as yours promotes Islamophobia, I expect more of our community members to feel hatred towards me. I too probably look like a polite kind person but hey, likely there is some anti-American sentiment laying underneath.” She concluded with: “I’ll look forward to the April issue to see what page you’ll feature your next religion of choice in the “Extremists Say the Darnest Things”, unless you really just only want to focus on Islam. Be fair and feature every other religion. And be sure to post photos of people that otherwise look like really good human beings.” As the recent demonization of Rep. Ilhan Omar by President Trump and conservative media outlets indicates, calling someone an Islamic extremist is an easy way to demonize/ marginalize a political opponent. In the era of Trump, it has been done with alarming frequency and degrades our political discourse. Hoda Muthana, however, is an extremist— she went to Syria to join ISIS—who happens to be Muslim. We have called out extremists of all stripes in these pages—both religious (Christian, Jewish, and otherwise) and political. And we will continue to take no sides other than an anti-extremist one. —Brian K. Mahoney Department of Corrections In our profile of poet Gretchen Primack last month (“Rhyme & Punishment”), we incorrectly stated that she had worked as the psych coordinator at Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch. She was, in fact, the site coordinator at the prison. We omitted a photo credit in “The Drink” feature last month, for a photo of a cocktail called “Applecar Named Desire,” from Gardiner Liquid Mercantile. The photo is by LACE Photo Media. 5/19 CHRONOGRAM 15
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by Brian K. Mahoney
Six Brief Eulogies for My Father Kevin J. Mahoney (1946-2019) 1. I remember the first time I thought my father was going to die. I was no more than five or six. Dad was preparing a fire in the grill. Lacking lighter fluid, he sent me to the garage for the jerrycan of gasoline and proceeded to douse the grill with it. When the match hit, it sent up a fireball 20 feet high, singing the side of the house, and setting my father’s clothes on fire. In a surprisingly graceful move for a man of his size, he dove over the side of our aboveground pool into the water. When he stood up, waist deep in the pool, Dad looked startled. (It’s not every day that you set yourself on fire.) But he had a wry smile on his face, as if to say, “Well, that went sideways, but I pulled it out.” I learned two powerful lessons that summer evening: 1. Dad was flammable. 2. Dad didn’t always know what the heck he was doing, but he would probably stick the landing. 2. My father attended McQuaide Jesuit High School, in Rochester, New York, where he learned, among other things, Latin. This is a fact he would not let his children forget, none of whom studied Latin in the degraded educational environment postVatican II. To which I will now say to you, dear departed father: non omnia possumus omnes. For those of you, like my siblings and me, not schooled in Latin, it translates as: “We can’t all do everything.” 3. The summer after my father graduated from high school, 1964, there was a race riot in Rochester. The (white) police tried to arrest a 19-year-old (black) man at a block party, and simmering tensions boiled over. Governor Rockefeller called out the National Guard—the first such use of troops in a northern city since the Civil War. The riot lasted three days and left four people dead and 350 injured. One of the injured was my grandfather, who was struck by a brick thrown through the windshield of the car my father was driving. The incident played a pivotal role in my father’s life. Rather than react with anger or resentment toward the rioters, it caused him to think about the magnitude of social inequity that would drive people to destroy
their own neighborhood. It kindled within him a thirst for justice and led him to a life of public service, first in social work, then in public health. 4. My father joined the New York City Department of Health in 1985, beginning his long tenure there. He eventually rose to the position of Assistant Commissioner. In the mid-1980s, the epidemic first known as “gay cancer” was raging. Government, from the federal level on down, was slow or unwilling to dedicate resources to what became known as the AIDS crisis. My father was a key ally within the public health apparatus for getting funding and setting up support for HIV/AIDS prevention, detection, and treatment. 5. One summer afternoon I fell asleep on the beach. Three hours later, I awoke with a back blistered by sunburn. I rode my BMX back to our rented house in a rising panic. The house was deserted except for Mary Ellen, a close family friend and a mother of two. Acting in loco parentis,
Mary Ellen tried to address my wounds by applying Absorbine Jr. This product is a topical analgesic balm for arthritis pain. It should not be applied to open wounds or sunburned skin, as it will draw heat and inflame the affected area. By the time my father got home a few minutes later, I was wheeling around the house like a rabid raccoon caught in an elevator. Seeing the state of my back, my father led me to the shower, turned the cold water on, and rubbed popsicles up and down my back for 20 minutes until the swelling subsided. 6. My father coached youth soccer when I was a child. Our team, the Bayside Bombers, was terrible. I played the part of inept goalkeeper. So inept, in fact, that I was once scored on with my back to the game, staring at the gulls circling under the Throg’s Neck Bridge. That year, the local newspaper wrote a story on the fledgling soccer league that my parents founded with some other folks. When asked about the Bomber’s dismal record, my father told the reporter, “Winning is an added bonus.” 5/19 CHRONOGRAM 17
WHILEYOUWERESLEEPING In August 2017, scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service readied a report proving that three widely used pesticides were harmful to endangered species, like the kit fox and seaside sparrow. Two of the three pesticides, malathion and chlorpyrifos, were so toxic that they threatened the continued existence of more than 1,200 endangered birds, fish, and other animals and plants. On the eve of making their research public in November, David Bernhardt, then the deputy secretary of the interior and a former lobbyist and oil-industry lawyer, unexpectedly blocked the release. Bernhradt initiated a new process to apply a much narrower standard to determine the risks from the pesticides. Bernhardt, who became Secretary of the Interior on April 11, is now under investigation by the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General, into allegations of conflict of interest and other violations during Bernhardt’s tenure as the agency’s deputy secretary. Sources: New York Times, CNBC Snowmobile-related crashes and fatalities in New York have tripled this winter compared to last year. On March 19, a Hadley man lost his life while snowmobiling, bringing the number of fatalities for this season up to 20, according to the New York State Snowmobile Association. The previous season had seven snowmobile related deaths in the state, a drop from 24 deaths in the 2016-2017 season. The executive director of the Snowmobile Association, Dominic Jacangelo, has no explanation for the spike in deaths, since this winter’s weather conditions were similar to last year. Many attribute the deaths to driving too fast or driving while intoxicated. Overall, snowmobile crashes and fatalities have dropped over the last 15 years. Source: Times Union NASA’s announcement of the first ever all-female spacewalk was met with celebration. This historic event was to showcase astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain as they left the space station on a mission to replace
batteries, supported by flight director Mary Lawrence and Kristen Facciol of the Canadian Space Agency. However, the giant leap for womankind was deferred due to a wardrobe issue. On March 25, NASA canceled the all-women spacewalk because they didn’t have enough spacesuits in the right size. Following a final test run, Anne McClain decided to change from a large suit to a medium for a better fit and safety, but NASA didn’t have a medium hard upper torso ready in time. McClain ceded her spot to a male colleague. Source: Guardian For the surprisingly fast-growing community of Flat Earthers, the globe-denying conspiracy theorists, Antarctica is the end of the world. Though this movement has been met with bemused incredulity and criticism by the online community, Flat Earthers have held firm, convening in web forums, organizing conventions, and even planning a television series. Rumors of a factfinding voyage to Antarctica started after founder of the Flat Earther International Conference in Denver, Robbie Davidson, told Forbes magazine that he would like to explore the seventh continent. He also committed to hosting a 2020 cruise, though he has since clarified that next year’s expedition will stick to temperate regions and is purely an opportunity for fellow believers to come together and “network.” Source: Independent A well-contrived ploy to ensnare two sneaky art thieves has a slapstick comedy plotline. Italian police, the mayor, and even the townspeople collaborated on this sting operation, in which a real $3.4 million painting by 17th-century Flemish master Pieter Brueghel the Younger was replaced with a replica after rumors of theft circulated. The painting depicts the crucifixion and was donated to the Santa Maria Maddalena Church, located in Liguria. It’s not the first time The Crucifixion or The Calvary has been coveted— it was hidden from German soldiers during World
War II and was successfully stolen in 1981 (then later recovered). In this hilarious heist gone wrong, the town’s mayor had to feign sadness and suspicious residents played their part in hiding the secret in order to keep the real painting safe and capture the thieves. Source: Fortune There’s no due date for a good decision. After 53 years, New Jersey resident Harry Krame finally returned a library book that he thought was long lost. After finding it while cleaning up his basement, Krame walked back into the Fair Lawn middle school, which he attended in the 1960s, and turned in The Family Book of Verse in mid-March. Krame wasn’t charged any fees for his tardy return. Source: CNN Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund that controls more than 100 local newspapers (including Kingston’s Daily Freeman), moved nearly $250 million of employee pension savings into its own accounts in recent year, sparking an investigation by the Department of Labor. In some cases, it moved 90 percent of retirees’ savings into two funds it controlled. Most of the money has now been moved back out of the hedge funds. Federal law requires that pension managers avoid conflicts of interest and avoid taking excessive risks with the assets they manage, though some exemptions are allowed—though government officials acknowledge that Alden was not offered any. Alden has faced criticism for its stewardship of local newspapers, the company has purchased: It has cut jobs more rapidly than other owners and degraded the newsgathering capabilities of its acquisitions. This government scrutiny will complicate Alden’s ongoing bid to acquire Gannett’s 100-plus newspapers, including the Poughkeepsie Journal. Source: Washington Post Compiled by Shrien Alshabasy
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he Green New Deal is the best idea in economics in 50 years. It’s the best idea in politics in 50 years. It is also, without a doubt, the best idea to come out of the Democratic Party in 50 years. At least in its essence. That essence is to have the US commit to making “100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zeroemissions energy sources.” Energy has to be delivered. That calls for upgrading the grid. It needs to be used efficiently, so the plan calls for “upgrading all existing buildings,” building new ones according to an energy code, and improving the transportation system. The brilliance of the idea is that it allows us to deal with the sources of our greatest political discontent. If Hillary Clinton had said, “the coal industry is declining, so we’re going to put a whole lot of coal miners to work building solar installations and giant wind farms. They’ll make more money than in the mines and will even be able to get their unions back,” instead of “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” would those mythically miserable coal miners still have voted for Trump? And continue to hate the EPA? After World War II, the US was the only industrial power left standing. It was easy to have a great economy. But the rest of the world started catching up. They could compete with lower wage, safety, insurance, environmental, and health care costs. Simultaneously, America’s economic thinking become more rigidly theological, with “free trade” and “free movement of capital” as core beliefs. Free trade means no barriers to low-wage competitors. Free movement of capital means money can travel freely, chasing profit around the world, and it has no obligations to the friends and family it has left behind. Those “freedoms” gave business their ultimate weapon against labor. Do it cheap or we move it overseas. They gave the finance sector its ultimate weapon against businesses. If a business can be leveraged, downsized, and asset-stripped to get cash out, and if that cash can race electronically around the globe, churning mini-percentage profits in microseconds, finance will insist on doing exactly that.
The Green New Deal—solar, wind, tidal power, rebuilding the grid, emission-free cars and trucks, efficient transit systems, making buildings energy efficient—is essentially a massive construction project. It can’t be outsourced or off-shored. Doing things creates expertise and talent pools. Hollywood remains Hollywood against constant assaults. Every week, some place is the “new Silicon Valley,” but it isn’t. Boston and London both have six of the world’s top 200 universities, yet Oxford—with just one—is still Oxford. Wall Street is finance. Paris is fashion. Whoever is the first to be the greatest at green will become known for it. They’ll attract talent and investment. They’ll be the Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Oxford of green. The Green New Deal calls for massive investment in research. Like we did for the arms races in World War II, the Cold War, and whomever we’re fighting today. As a result, we make great weapons and have 32 percent of the world’s arms trade. Last year, 45 percent of the world’s investment in renewable energy went to China. China invests $3 in electric vehicles for every $1 the US invests. Japan, India, Germany, Scotland, and Sweden are all making major investments in renewable energy. Five years, 10 years, 20 years down the road, who will be the producers and who will be the consumers? The big scream against the Green New Deal is that it costs too much. It can’t be paid for. It will bankrupt the country. There’s a problem. Alexandria OcasioCortez put every wish a lefty could have in the New Green Deal bag: universal guaranteed income, housing, medical care, higher education, plus repairing the oppression of all possible minorities. All of those things are admirable. Some of them are much more achievable if the green part of the deal comes to pass, and some should probably be dealt with separately. The estimate put forth by a right-leaning, traditionalist think tank for the entire collection is from $51 to $93 trillion. The same study says that the cost of the essence—the green part, getting to zero emissions—would be between $8.3 and $12.3 trillion.
Oh, gosh, oh, gee, that still sounds like a terrifying amount. Here are some things to compare it to. With the stock market crash of 2008 and the Great Recession, $19.2 trillion in household wealth disappeared. Vanished. From the free forces of the free market, with nothing to show for it. According to the Special Inspector General for TARP, the government put up $16.8 trillion to rescue the banks. A study from the Levy Institute asserts that the bailout was actually $29 trillion. The way to evaluate cost is what you get for it. World War II and the Cold War were very expensive. Both turned out to be great investments for America. Saving the biggest banks after 2008 was great for the banks, but even though we got most of that money
If a business can be leveraged, downsized, and asset-stripped to get cash out, and if that cash can race electronically around the globe, churning minipercentage profits in microseconds, finance will insist on doing exactly that. back, it was not a great investment for the nation. With the Green New Deal, we save about $120 billion a year in health care costs. If we’re lucky, we save much of our coastline. We recreate the blue collar middle class, rebuild our manufacturing center, and make a serious bid for world leadership in what is likely the most profitable economic sector of the future. 5/19 CHRONOGRAM 21
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with Caroline Crumpacker of Opus 40 we’re working with arborists and landscapers to nourish the trees. I am also really focusing on community partnerships and creating more access to our space. There are a lot of people for whom the admission cost is a challenge. We’re working with six different libraries to offer family memberships that people can check out like a book and come for free. We want everyone to feel seen and welcome. What's planned for the Fite Gallery? We have a nice season planned, including exhibitions by Kenji Fujita, Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick, and Faheem Haider. And we’ll probably be partnering with Radio Woodstock to do some music programming. What are some of the long-term plans? We are talking to funders about buying the Richards family house and converting it he masterwork of artist Harvey into a space that is part of Opus 40. [Tad Fite, Opus 40 is an astounding 6.5Richards, Fite’s stepson, still lives onsite acre bluestone sculpture and earth with his wife.] We might turn it into a artwork amidst a sylvan setting in Saugerties. visitors center with spaces for workshops and Breathtaking in scope and execution, the possibly artist residencies. The idea is still structure is carved from an existing quarry being developed. and built by hand to frame a view of Overlook Mountain. Opus 40 opens its season on May 18. What In addition to the main sculpture, Opus 40 kind of season kickoff are you having? has 55 acres of meadows, paths, stone walls; We are hosting a free Community Day. and a gift shop, art gallery, and museum of Max’s New Hat is going to play; the Farmers Fite’s tools. Last year, Caroline Crumpacker & Chefs food truck will be here; we’ll be was hired as the first full-time executive selling beer; there will be games for kids and director for Opus 40, heralding a new era for chair massages. the National Historic Register site. We sat down with her to talk about future plans. In the ’80s and ’90s Opus 40 hosted some Opus 40 is open to the public May through pretty big concerts, like the Orleans shows. November. Opus40.org. Will you be doing anything like that? —Marie Doyon This year, we’re not doing any big blowouts
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You’ve come in at a pivotal moment in the history of Opus 40. What are some of your plans for the future? Short term, we’re just trying to give everything a lot of TLC. We’re refreshing the buildings—resanding and staining floors, getting new furniture, building new shelves, and expanding the gift shop to have a focus on local and sustainable products. Outside,
like that. We are going to wait and see if that is a good role for us to fill in the area.
You worked at the Millay Colony for the Arts and other nonprofits. Tell me about your professional background. I was the executive director at Millay for just over 12 years. It is totally fascinating how different that role was. Millay offered artist residencies, so the marketing focus was mostly national and to some degree international. Opus 40 gets a lot of out-oftown guests, but it is really woven into the local fabric, so there is a lot of communitybased outreach. I am still getting to know people who are part of the cultural landscape. I also worked at Art Omi in Ghent as a consultant, and in the city, I worked at the Public Theater for six years.
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How has that experience set you up for this job? When I worked at the Public Theater, George Wolfe was the producer. I learned so much from his ethos of welcome: You invite everyone into your space really respectfully and deliberately, you don’t just assume people feel included in what you’re doing. He had a whole outreach department. I was doing government relations, and we would go out through five boroughs and tell people “We want to bring little showcase to Jamaica, Queens,” or, “We want to offer you a block of tickets to give to your constituents.” We did that year-round and in Spanish. A lot of nonprofits struggle with that question—how to create a place that everyone feels like they have some stake in, and not just some place that is too old, too white, too rich, or whatever. What do you see as Opus 40’s place in the Hudson Valley arts and culture scene? Recently, the director of Unison Arts Center was talking a lot about the sustainability of nonprofits Upstate being developed along sharing lines. We can do things together that build a lot of options for the community, so that we’re all part of a deep, complementary ecosystem. It’s a noncompetitive model, which I love—we won’t be reinventing the wheel six times over. What project are you most excited about bringing to Opus 40? I would love to develop the onsite educational opportunities—photography workshops, poetry workshops, drawing workshops. I am also working on a series of lesson plans for schools, so teachers can feel like visiting is manageable. There is an endless array of opportunities that are specific to Opus 40. It’s not just bringing kids to a park; teachers can talk about economic history of the Hudson Valley, the biodiversity of the trees, and earth art and the Mayans. Classes can do soil analyses or research the history of the local quarrying industry. The gallery inside the gift shop changes but Opus 40 itself is a static exhibit, you could say. How do you entice people to return? If you are just coming to see the sculpture itself, once a year is plenty. That said, it changes a lot with seasons. In fall, it’s a totally different aesthetic than spring. I also want people to be able to engage with whole property. It’s nice to come and experience it as a park. If you get a season membership, you can go on a hike and take a picnic. Then you can check out art in the gallery, come see a concert or a theater piece. There are also so many nooks and crannies to that sculpture. Everytime I am on that structure, I find some new place to engage with.
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eniors today have more long-term care options than ever before, but the prospect of moving to a retirement home or independent living community can still be daunting. Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) were developed to make the decision easier by offering retirees a range of living options including independent housing, assisted living, and skilled nursing all in the same campus setting. This means that if a resident’s health care needs change over time, they’d be able to get the support they need while remaining part of the same larger community in which they’ve developed friendships, found new hobbies and interests, and grown accustomed to their surroundings. Since the early 1990s, the number of CCRCs in the US has surged, becoming one of the top choices for seniors, allowing them to manage their medical care, lifestyle, and housing needs. However, since New York State legalized the establishment of these senior living arrangements in 1989 (under Article 46 of the Public Health Law), only 12 have become operational in the state, the first of which opened in 1995. To compare, about 30 exist in Massachusetts and almost 300 in Pennsylvania. The strict requirements set forth by Article 46 are largely to blame for New
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in the mid-2000s, Woodland Pond was faced with the arduous task of creating awareness about the benefits of such a community to a state that had yet to see the numerous ways it could contribute to regional development. In addition to myriad benefits to seniors, CCRCs support local economies by encouraging economic development while containing public spending. Though awareness of in-state options has steadily grown since then, choosing whether to live in a CCRC still remains a difficult decision for many seniors—and not necessarily because of lack of interest or similar communities in other states. “We have found that the single most effective way to reassure our area seniors that this is a positive move is to give them access to current residents, their peers,” Gramoglia says. “So many of our residents want to share their own decision-making process.” A scrupulous researcher, Dick Barry visited several CCRCs throughout New York before choosing Woodland Pond. “In my eight-year residency at Woodland Pond, I feel very blessed to have found a home I love and a vibrant, caring, inclusive community,” he says. “Best of all, I have the comforting security of knowing that whatever health issues I might face in the future, I’ll be right here on campus, surrounded by friends.” Recognizing the magnitude of the decision to leave home and join a retirement community, Woodland Pond launched a trial program a couple years ago. “We offer certain prospective residents that are still unsure of their decision the chance to visit, dine, partake in programming, attend events, and get to know our staff and residents at their own pace,” Gramolia explains. “We find it very helpful in demonstrating that there is so much more to a joyful retired life than people may imagine when they’re still living in their long time home.” Prospective Woodland Pond residents can schedule a visit, learn more about CCRCs and their specific community, and review fee options online at wpatnp.org. 5/19 CHRONOGRAM 27
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Top: Tasting straight from the barrel at Coppersea. Middle: Grapes at Benmarl Winery. Bottom: A flight of beers at Hudson Brewing.
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Floor malting at Coppersea Distilling.
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More Ways to Lift Your Spirits By Bryan Miller
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he total number of craft manufacturers statewide is up 282 percent since 2011, with the Hudson Valley proving integral in this surge. An estimated 40 craft distilleries will be in operation in the region by year’s end (of the 180 in New York). Like the nowexplosive beer industry, craft distilling started out tentatively, at times below the radar, but quickly found a fan base. Valley distilling received its first kickstart in 2007 with passage of a farm-to-flask law allowing farms become full-on distilleries with tourist-friendly tasting rooms and easing fees and regulations for operations using New York grains and fruits. More recently, a group of distillers came up with a cooperative marketing initiative called “Empire Rye.” For a distillery to put an official Empire Rye sticker on its label, the whiskey must meet four criteria. At least 75 percent of its grain must be New Yorkgrown rye. It must be distilled to no more than 160 proof; put into a barrel at no more than 115 proof (which is below the industry standard of 125 proof ); and aged at least two years in new, charred oak barrels. The goal is to create a regional identity to its spirits similar to those of Tennessee whiskey and Kentucky bourbon. “The Empire label has really galvanized the industry,” observed Jenn Smith, executive director of the New York State Distillers Guild. “We’ve more than doubled the number of distillers using it, and it’s a great valueadded sales tool.” In distilling circles around the valley you will hear terms like “heritage,” “terroir,” and “grain to glass.” If it sounds like wine speak, it is, as spirits makers approach every step of their craft in the eco-sensitive, artisanal manner associated with vineyards. One of the first heritage-designated distilleries in the valley, Coppersea Distilling, sits on 75 lush acres on the fringe of New Paltz. Christopher Williams, the head distiller,
was among the originators of the Empire Rye campaign. “The idea really caught on and made sense for us,” he says. Coppersea’s core spirits are “Bonticou Crag” Single Malt Rye, Excelsior Bourbon, and Big Angus Green Malt (an oak-aged single malt whisky). “I believe if you want to make a whiskey that really reflects the region where it is produced, the Hudson Valley is ideal,” Williams says. He cites three factors: access to abundant, high quality raw materials, like grains and fruits; proximity to an enormous market in the tristate region and beyond (Coppersea just stepped way beyond with its first shipment to Taiwan); and natural beauty that attracts visitors who are curious about food, wine, beer, and spirits. It is said that before Prohibition more than 1,000 farm distillers used New York state grains and fruits to make alcohol. The industry collapsed with the arrival of the temperance movement and did not see a recovery in the Hudson Valley until little over a decade ago, in 2005, when Tuthilltown Spirits in Gardiner led the charge in the state legislature to unshackle the alcohol trade. The turnaround was immediate and dramatic. Today, Tuthilltown is widely recognized for its elegant and nuanced Hudson Whiskey line as well as its gin and an apple vodka made with fruit from a nearby orchard. There is also a maple cask rye, a clear corn whisky, and cassis. In 2017, Tuthilltown Spirits was purchased by the international spirits giant William Grant & Sons, best known as the parent company of the Balvenie and Glenfiddich scotch brands. Unlike beer making, which is relatively inexpensive pursuit (small setups can be built for $20,000), distilling costs many times that, and it is not practical to continually experiment. Consequently, distillers establish their core brands then experiment with
sidelines like fruit liquors and eaus de vie. Hillrock Estate Distillery in Ancram applies a distinctive technique to core brand whiskies, called solera, which is traditionally used in the distillation of ports, sherries, and sometimes rum. The process involves filling a series of casks at different intervals over a long period of time. As the whiskey from the oldest cast is bottled, the cask is refilled with the equivalent amount from the next oldest cask. This is repeated until the youngest cask is filled with new whiskey. This is said to assure consistency from batch to batch and add complexity to the finished product. Steve Osborne and his wife, Kim, both biochemists, came to distilling through the back door. Fourteen years ago, they opened Stoutridge, a small winery in the town of Marlboro, with modest hopes of making a go of it selling wines at their onsite tasting room. From the outset, however, their dream was to run a distillery. “We even left the space in the building knowing it would happen one day,” Osborne says. That one day turned out to be two years ago. The wines had been selling briskly, and Osborne had a hunch that visitors might be open to something different. Stoutridge Winery & Distillery now produces more than two dozen vodkas, gins, assorted whiskies, and fruit liqueurs. It also carries an Empire Rye. The fruit-based products are among the most sought-after. “It just makes so much sense when you look around the valley,” Osborne says. “We have this abundance of nature—and the people who enjoy it. It’s great.” Total revenue for US craft distillers increased more than 70 percent between 2014 and 2016 and is projected to continue growing through 2020. With the second most distilleries of any state in the nation, New York continues to lead the way with industry-friendly legislation, distilling innovation, and successful marketing. 5/19 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 29
Beer
The taproom at Equilibrium Brewery.
Steins Away Something’s Brewing... By Bryan Miller
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otwithstanding speculation that the Hudson Valley’s beer stein is close to overflowing, the brewing business continues at full tilt. Numerous breweries are expanding, adding new equipment, or moving to larger quarters: Industrial Arts Brewing Company, in Garnerville, is opening a large brewery in Beacon that will double its brewing capacity; Clemson Bros. Brewery in Middletown has purchased the iconic New Paltz brewpub Gilded Otter; and Sloop Brewing Co. has expanded to a 25,000-square-foot facility at the former IBM plant in East Fishkill. Overall, in 2018 there were 86 licensed breweries in the Hudson Valley, up from 69 the year before. According to a report by the trade group New York State Brewers Association (NYSBA), the industry generated $5.4 billion to the state’s economy. (The figure reflects jobs, wages and output of the state’s estimated 434 craft breweries.) And for the first time, the craft beer business statewide has caught pace with the wine industry. Little Bavaria is on a roll. Several factors underlie the phenomenon. One of the major reasons, brewers say, is that in recent years, the tourist net has significantly widened, as visitors arrive from more distant reaches of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and western New York State. And, with services like Airbnb, more tourists are sticking around. And drinking. “The Hudson Valley has a lot going for it,” says Paul Leone, the executive director of NYSBA. “It has the wine industry, the cider industry, the distilled spirits industry, and that makes for robust tourism.” The state government has also been a strong advocate for the craft beverage industry, making it far less cumbersome to open and operate breweries—and distilleries, 30 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 5/19
of which there are now nearly 40 in the greater Hudson Valley. Visiting craft breweries throughout the Valley, one is struck by the camaraderie of this competitive profession. “Everybody is super cool. We’ve been hanging out with some of them forever,” says Pier Di Camillo, cofounder of the eight-month-old Obscure Oscillation Brewing Company, in Poughkeepsie (its opaque name has an equally inscrutable definition). If you think that the Hudson Valley is too fancy and too expensive for a little guy with a thirst for free enterprise, consider Obscure’s origin story. Along with a childhood buddy, di Camillo, whose day job is at an oil and propane company, purchased a secondhand one-barrel brewing setup for about $6,000. Within a week, they were making a potable product, and soon after, they were bottling it and delivering it to a few local bars. “We do this after work until 1am,” he says. “It was my dream.” One of their recent potions is called Tree City Oatmeal Honey Chocolate Stout. On the other side of the Hudson, in Pine Island, Mike Kraai, a former CPA, trod a similar path. In 2014, he invested $120,000 to build a modest brewery called Pine Island Brewing, which soon became successful enough to convert a former firehouse into a large, homey taproom. Kraai notes that even in today’s crowded Hudson Valley beer scene, it’s possible to make a living while doing what you love. “Yeah, there are a lot of breweries in the valley,” he says. “But the competition is not really so bad. There’s a long way to go before there’s a bubble bursting.” Local breweries are endeavoring to distinguish themselves and build brand recognition with increasingly inventive and whimsical beers, creative can design, enhanced social media campaigns, onsite
events and release parties, and expanded taprooms with food. The result? A diehard fanaticism among the ever-growing group of hopheads. Equilibrium, a two-year-old craft brewery created by two MIT graduates, Ricardo Petroni and Peter Oates, has succeeded on all fronts. Its brews sell out regularly, and on weekends, customers line up outside the brewery at 4:30am to purchase their limited edition beers. On a recent day in April, the brewery turned out its best known blend, Photon, a New England-style IPA, hazy, orange-tinted, and full-bodied. Among their less conventional creations are a beer with hints of pineapple, lychee and peach; another features guava and passionfruit. The experimental beers have equally playful names like a Vulgar Display of Flowers and Vanilla Gorilla. “Millennials are driving this movement,” observes Paul Leone, executive director of the brewers’ association. “They like choice, they like flavor. It’s hard to believe that when they hit mid-life they simply will choose to drink macro beer and give all of that up.” Because beer making is a relatively fast process, certainly compared with wine, brewers can react quickly to trends and fads. In recent years, the market has been dominated by New England IPAs—dark, hazy, bitter, and high in alcohol. Now there is talk about IPA fatigue. “IPAs pay the rent, so they’re not going anywhere soon,” avers John Fischer, who teaches beverage classes at the CIA. That said, lighter beers may be making a comeback. “There’s definitely a little movement toward craft lagers,” observes Hutch Kugeman, chief brewer at the Culinary Institute of America and a board member of NYSBA. “Look at it this way: If I go to a bar, I’m going to have three pints of lager because that’s what I do. Can I drink three pints of a heavy IPA? No. I can’t.”
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Wine
The cellar at Brotherhood Winery.
Grape Expectations Regional Winemakers Embrace Innovation By Carrie Dykes
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hile the Hudson Valley’s robust craft beverage scene may seem like a new phenomenon, this fertile region is actually home to America’s oldest winery and its oldest vineyard. In the past few years, local beer and spirits may have overshadowed wine, but the Hudson Valley vintners paved the way for so many others and their work is finally gaining recognition. In 1677, the French Huguenots planted the first vines in New Paltz, but it was some time before commercial wine production began. Brotherhood has been continuously operating in Washingtonville since 1839, even throughout Prohibition, staking its claim as the oldest winery in America. “Working together, the wineries of New York have been able to make a name for ourselves, being recognized as a wine region of substance,” says Hernan Donoso, President of Brotherhood Winery. Not 20 miles away, Benmarl Winery is America’s first vineyard—a 37-acre estate that holds the first New York Farm Winery license. Benmarl’s former owner, Mark Miller, pioneered legislation in 1976 advocating for a law that would allow small grower-producers to sell directly to consumers while reducing certain fees and providing tax and marketing advantages. Another pioneer of the Hudson Valley wine industry is Whitecliff Vineyards, which has earned global recognition for their vintages. The family-run business will celebrate 20 years in operation this summer and will be opening a second tasting room in Hudson overlooking the river later this year. In 2018, Whitecliff started and ended the year with a bang, earning double gold for estate wines at both the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition (Gamay Noir) and at San Francisco International Wine Competition (Cabernet Franc). A Signature Grape The most important grape on the local wine scene right now is Cabernet Franc. Famous as one of the five permitted red grapes of Bordeaux, this superstar is on its way to 32 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 5/19
becoming the Hudson Valley’s signature grape, championed by the Hudson Valley Cabernet Franc Coalition (HVCFC) and the eight local wineries that have joined the cause so far. “For decades, the Hudson Valley winemaking scene has suffered from a lack of identity, sidelined by the Finger Lakes region, which built its reputation on Riesling over that course of time; and Long Island, which did the same with Merlot,” says Linda Pierro, cofounder of Hudson Valley Wine Magazine and HVCFC. “The Hudson Valley Cabernet Franc Coalition is unifying the Hudson Valley’s winemakers and creating an identity for the region that consumers can embrace.” Tourism Boost With a growing selection of awardwinning winemakers and a stunning natural backdrop, the Hudson Valley is also gaining popularity as a destination for wine tourism. The region has put together useful maps and information on the wine trails in the area, as well as focused advertisements, so that when out-of-towners are visiting Storm King Art Center or Dia:Beacon or coming for a hike, they might pop into a winery as well. An upcoming boost is the addition of City Winery in Montgomery—a nerve center of wine, with locations in major cities across the US. Each City Winery has a restaurant, concert venue, and winemaking facility. Some host classes and offer “make your own wine” experiences. The local wine trails host events yearround, and there are a number of tours that can shepherd groups safely through a Hudson Valley winery crawl. The Little Wine Bus will pick groups up in Manhattan and drop them off after a day in the vineyards. “Here in the Hudson Valley, wineries are personable,” says Monica Pennings, owner of Christopher Jacobs Winery at Pennings Vineyards. “Visitors can actually meet the vintners, the growers, and the owners while enjoying their tasting.”
A New Style of Wine Enthusiast Hybrids, low-intervention, natural, and biodynamic wines are the sort of innovation that is propelling the region forward. Hybrid grapes are crosses between the European vine and various native American species. They are grafted together to make diseaseresistant vines that can tolerate specific climates. Once thought to not hold the gravitas of European varieties, hybrids are finding a niche in the market. Bon Appétit wine writer Marissa A. Ross recently declared, “It’s about time the industry’s much maligned crossbred species get their due.” “I think paying attention to what does well in an area and allowing the wines to express—that is the future of any region,” says Todd Cavallo, owner of Wildarc Farm in Pinebush. “It’s even more important in a place that has maybe tried for too long to emulate other regions.” Whitecliff ’s Traminette is a shining example of what hybrids can be; made entirely with estate grapes, this white offers bold tropical notes of lychee and grapefruit, like its parent grape, Gewurztraminer. Whitecliff ’s most popular bottlings are the Awosting White and the Red Trail—both made with hybrids, both blends. Another interesting take on the Traminette hybrid is Wild Arc’s Luca. A skin-contact Traminette, the juice is left on the skins for a period of time to impart textural qualities and complexity. Wild Arc Farm, a small, biodynamic winery in Pine Bush, is a prime example of adventurous, low-intervention winemaking happening in our valley. Their on-farm tasting room is slated to open later this year. It’s truly an exciting time for wine in the Hudson Valley. Time-honored styles are being perfected, while fascinating, newer styles are being developed. The region is honoring its own distinctive journey with hybrids, and the world is finally taking note. It’s the perfect time to uncover the bounty we have right in our neighborhood and share our pride in our local wine region.
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The mouthwatering aromas of Southeast Asian cuisine hit you as soon as you walk in the door at Thai Spice—lemongrass, peanut, garlic, ginger. From their popular fried dumplings ($5.95) packed with shrimp and topped with bell pepper, onion, and Massaman curry, to the Kang Keow Wan ($11.95), a green curry made with coconut milk, the menu is filled with flavor-packed options from starter to entree. Order a classic dish like the Pad Thai ($10.95) or expand your culinary palate with a Chef ’s special, like the Pad Yala, a duck dish served with pineapple, vegetables, and tamarind sauce. Big portions make for yummy leftovers.
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We heard it straight from a Caribbean-born Ellenville resident: This is the best food around. Known for its delicious spicy curries and stews and super friendly waitstaff, Island Pepper Pot is a shining treasure in a town not exactly known for its culinary scene (apart from Aroma Thyme). Aside from pan-Caribbean classics (curry goat, oxtail, roti), they offer up fish specials including red snapper, ackee, and saltfish (served with fried dumplings, sweet plantain, and cabbage). Portions are large, so you’ll either leave very full and very happy or with leftovers for lunch. Don’t forget to order a Guyanese cream soda to go with your meal and a Caribbean fruit cake to cap things off.
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Lucky Dragon (Rhinebeck)
Chinese takeout has long been a cornerstone in the American diet—a greasy, guilty pleasure on those nights when you can’t be bothered to cook. Award-winning local restaurateurs Chris and Howard Jacobs (The Amsterdam) realized that this beloved cuisine was ripe for a farm-to-table reimagining and seized on the opportunity. Lucky Dragon, which opened in April with chef Alex Burger at the helm, celebrates classic Chinese restaurant fare and the Hudson Valley’s bounty with a farm-fresh menu featuring Mandarin, Cantonese, and Sichuan dishes. Order takeout faves like hot and sour soup ($6), crab rangoon ($8), kung pao shrimp ($19), and Szechuan chicken ($18) to-go or dine in the cozy, remodeled two-level restaurant for the full experience.
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At this Delaware County restaurant, the reigning philosophy is one of understatement and simplicity, where farm-fresh ingredients are foregrounded and flavors are complex (often enhanced by processes of curing and fermentation), but preparation is uncomplicated. “What inspires us is thoughtful, lovingly made comfort food that tastes good and also reflects the season we are in,” says Brushland co-owner Sara Mae Elbert. The simple, clean black-and-white interior is warmed by rich wood floors and benches. The light fixtures are a nod at industrial styling without being over the top. The property is one of a growing trend of beyond-B&Bs— cozy-chic microhotels with knock-your-socks off cuisine. So if you drive all the way out there for a meal (it’s worth it), you can bed down in one of the four Airbnb rentals onsite.
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Vitality Bowls specializes in making delicious acai bowls, which are a thick blend of the acai berry covered with organic granola, topped with fresh fruits & finished with superfoods such as goji berries and bee pollen. Additional antioxidant-rich menu items include smoothies’ fresh juices, soups, salads & panini.
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The Stewart House, a recently renovated, luxurious nine-room inn on the waterfront in Athens, has a gorgeous Art Deco bar and restaurant on the ground floor, plus a riverside outdoor grill in summer. Open Thursdays through Sundays, the Ca. 1883 Tavern has a cocktail hour from 3 to 5pm with $2 oysters and a bar menu. Dinner service starts at 5pm, and the mains range from a one-flip double cheeseburger made with grilled onion, aged cheddar, and special sauce on a brioche ($16) to a whole roasted Catskill trout with roasted hakurei turnips, charred brassica mayo, and baby watercress ($32).
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Alison Stewart in the sunny kitchen of her Woodstock retreat overlooking the woods. As of late, the home’s solitude has lent itself well to reading the authors she hosts on her WNYC program “All of It.” “It’s a dream job,” she explains, “especially for a working mom who was an English major. In the past six months, we’ve had 570 guests.” She adds, “I really think if someone has spent all that time working on a book, I should offer them the courtesy of trying my best to read it.”
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the house
Trusting the Detours
WNYC RADIO HOST ALISON STEWART’S WOODSTOCK HIDEAWAY By Mary Angeles Armstrong Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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Above: The handbuilt home was once part of an enclave of Norwegian immigrants and retains many of the original architectural details of rich wood, iron trim, and bluestone. Stewart covered the back porch and added screens. Below: “When I first moved here an older neighbor welcomed me to the hill,” remembers Stewart. “He told me they used to make pottery in the property’s kiln when he was a kid.” One of the original settlers to the area, he gave Stewart photos and a map with the neighborhood’s original Norwegian street names.
ike many people before her, Alison Stewart first landed in the town of Woodstock thanks to a little geographic misunderstanding and a lot of serendipity. In 1994, the journalist, writer, and radio host was working as a correspondent for MTV News. She was given the assignment to visit the town before the 25th anniversary of the historic 1969 festival to do a “Woodstock Gets Ready” story. “So, I got into a van with a PA, and we just followed the signs,” remembers Stewart, describing her kismet detour and the common confusion between the town of Woodstock and the actual namesake festival site 60 miles away. On their way to the hotel, the rock ‘n’ roll news crew decided to stop in town for dinner. Afterward, they dropped into the local ice cream shop Taco Juan’s and then wandered along Tinker Street enjoying the small-town ambiance and chatting with locals. “There were strings of lights in the trees and everyone was really friendly. I just fell in love immediately,” recalls Stewart. It reminded her of her family’s former summer home in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, where her sister now resides. After their night in the town of Woodstock, Stewart and her crew drove on to Winston Farm in Saugerties, where she helped cover Woodstock ’94 for MTV. Even after heading back down to the city, she couldn’t forget the friendliness of Tinker Street and the peaceful, throwback charm she found there. In the 25 years since that 25th anniversary, Stewart’s life has certainly changed. She went on from MTV to work as a television journalist for ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS’s “NewsHour.” She started a family, published two books, and, six months ago, began hosting her own live radio show on WNYC. (“All Of It,” Stewart’s daily take on “culture and the culture,” is on weekdays at noon.) Over those years, her understanding of Woodstock also evolved—from festival site to small town, from small town to weekend getaway, and then from weekend getaway to full-time home. The road to her historic, 1,900-square-foot stone cottage involved another slight detour, but eventually led her to a place that has endured as a peaceful oasis amid the changing times and seasons of her life. 5/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 37
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Two-Hit Wonder After the 25th anniversary concert, Stewart began taking weekend trips to Woodstock, staying at a bed-and-breakfast overlooking Cooper Lake. It became her regular respite, and she quickly realized that the money she was paying toward her weekend sojourns could be better spent on a house. When she found her two-bedroom home, nestled amongst the pine trees on a local mountaintop, she took to it immediately. “I just knew it right away. I thought, ‘This is my place. This is where I’m supposed to be,’” she remembers. Handbuilt in 1937 by Norwegian settlers, the home retained many of its original architectural details. A cozy den features wood panelling, crown molding, and intricately trimmed floorboards, and leaded-glass windows. In the sitting room, bluestone floors meet a giant bluestone fireplace, with multiple windows offering views to the surrounding woods. Stewart loved the various textures of the home’s interior, its tranquil setting, and the mix between indoor and outdoor living.
But she didn’t buy it. “It’s one of those life lessons. To this day, I think about it: Trust your gut,” Stewart says. Well-meaning friends and family members convinced her that another home on Wittenberg Road would be a smarter financial decision. “That home was beautifully built,” she explains. “It was bigger and newer. It was a great space.” However, once she moved in, the large space felt lonely and cavernous to Stewart, a selfdescribed homebody. “I think I moved in with one chair and a bed,” she remembers. “I was in love with being up here, but that house just wasn’t right.” Stewart held out for almost a year then decided to let the Wittenberg house go. As if it were waiting for her, the stone cottage was still for sale. Formerly owned by Rogers Stevens, the guitarist of the rock band Blind Melon, she finally bought it in 1998 and hasn’t looked back. (More evidence of kismet: When she was finalizing the paperwork for the purchase, Stewart realized that she had once considered moving into an apartment in Stevens’ Manhattan building.)
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The Keys for a Home In the ensuing 20 years, the rustic stone cottage has proved versatile enough to suit Stewart’s varying needs for creative solitude and camaraderie. Quiet, but close to town, it’s been the perfect space to work and read, without ever making her feel isolated. Its more modest size has proved adequate to entertain guests, host family events, and raise her son. The contrast between the “light airy sunroom” and “the cozy inside warmth” of the den lets Stewart choose between an outward sense of expansion or a more intimate nook to match her mood. “I find that during the day, I like to feel like I am one with the outdoors,” she explains, “and at night I like to hunker down and be surrounded by the wood paneling.” Stewart has decorated the wood-paneled den with family heirlooms inherited from her parents and filled the built-in bookshelves with her reading materials. The walls are edged with a decorative wooden crown molding, and the room also features a fireplace, adding to its already abundant charm. On one end of the den, a small wood-paneled office doubles as an ad-hoc guest room; on the other end, a tiled bar features an additional sink, built-in wood shelving, and access to the kitchen. Stewart realized the vaulted ceilings and light in the home’s main living room, 40 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 5/19
as well as the view of woods and exterior stone walls, would make a perfect space to work. She installed a large wooden dining table near the stone fireplace to write and added comfortable chairs near the windows for reading. The space includes the original exposed wood ceiling beams and an additional wood stove in the corner. Adjacent to the living room, Stewart covered an open porch to create an outdoor haven for buggy or rainy summer days. When Stewart bought the home, its kitchen and bathroom were finished in a “high ’80s” style. Three years ago, a job opportunity for her husband precipitated a potential relocation to the West Coast and multiple weekend trips across the country. Stewart decided to shut down the house for a year while the family explored their options. When they decided to stay in New York, they realized the home hadn’t quite been devoid of residents that whole time. “Some squirrels decided the house was their winter cottage and ate through the insulation and wiring,” explains Stewart. “I had planned to do a cosmetic remodeling, but it turned into a full-blown renovation. Thank God for Patrick Murphy and Lillian Mauer from Building Logic.” After fixing the damage, Stewart added a backsplash and counter of beveled subway tiles and a new sink. She elected to keep
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Top: When she first visited the home she immediately knew the downstairs vaulted great room would be the perfect space to write. “It’s got perfect light and a nice view of the trees, but the view isn’t too distracting,” she explains. She added a large wooden table to the space, where she’s written and organized parts of her two non-fiction books. Bottom: The wooded property includes a storage space and garage. Her second book Junk: Digging Through America’s Love Affair with Stuff details three years of riding along with junk removal companies all over the country. 42 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 5/19
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n honor of the 21st anniversary of her gardening bible, A Way to Garden, local author and horticulturalist extraordinaire Margaret Roach just released an updated version of the book in April. The 2.0 edition shimmers with Roach’s signature witty and sometimes razorsharp commentary on the triumphs and woes of gardening, along with updated methodologies, and the cumulative wisdom of decades spent tending the same plot. Roach’s impressive resume includes long stints writing for Newsday and the Martha Stewart empire, an 11-year stint as a blogger and talk show host, and author of three books. Her website is a greenthumb encyclopedia for all current and aspiring gardeners, including a section dedicated to monthly garden chores, plus countless interviews with friends and fellow experts. In the introduction to A Way to Garden, Roach writes, “By becoming a gardener, I accidentally—blessedly—landed myself in a fusion of science lab and Buddhist retreat, a place of nonstop learning and of contemplation, where there is life buzzing to the maximum and also the deepest
stillness. It is from this combined chemistry that my horticultural how-to and ‘woo-woo’ motto derives.” Delightful, practical, and highly readable, this guide book is an ode to the ever-evolving mystery and magic of gardening. Tour Roach’s garden oasis in Copake Falls during the open day and plant sale on May 11. Awaytogarden.com —Marie Doyon
bit more work to tend than sheets of the stalwart geranium, but worth it. Here’s how to do it:
Making Mosaics (Underplanting) It is easier to bring home several flats of some extra-sturdy ground-covering perennial, plug it in under trees and shrubs, and check that bed off the list. Done! In fact, in the outermost beds, to serve as living mulch and reduce weeding chores under big groups of woody plants, that’s what I did with Geranium macrorrhizum and some other strong but not invasive souls. Near the house, where I come and go—as do visitors—that would be boring, no fun at all for a she’s-gotta-have-it gardener. In high-profile areas, I make mosaics, not masses—layered, intermingling compositions aimed at visual interest over the longest possible season. They are a
No polka dots (except at first) It’s all about learning to “think mosaic,” which doesn’t mean polka dots of onesies, but sweeps and drifts and deliberate repetition of said sweeps and drifts. At first, though, no matter how many plants you buy or what you feed them, the new underplanting will look like polka dots. Which leads to the next lesson:
No ring-around-the-rosie, thanks anyway Rather than circling the dripline of trees or shrubs (or a group of trees and shrubs) with ground covers and bulbs and such, you have to get all the way in there, even nearly right up against the trunk, to make it look unman-made, as if it just happened.
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Notice I say “divisions,” as in small pieces of plants When working in the root zone of trees and even established shrubs, I work with a small trowel or a hori-hori, and plant very small things. I use divisions made from older plants, or order “liners” from my local nursery (the baby plants they get wholesale in late winter, then normally pot up and grow on to sell). I ask them to order me a tray of liners and mark it up accordingly— but to skip the repotting and growing on. No digging with a shovel (or tiller, heaven forbid) in root zones. Again, patience is required, and a gentle hand, too.
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Include ephemerals, whether early spring bulbs or perennials, that rise and take advantage of the sunshine before the canopy leafs out, then vanish underground or at least don’t take up much space. Winter aconites, trilliums, Dutchman’s breeches, bloodroot, twinleaf, Virginia bluebells—the list goes on. I get about six extra-early weeks of color from my underplantings, before my mainstay plants fill in, by using ephemerals lavishly. Include some “ground cover” types, meaning plants that form thick mats (but not English ivy or pachysandra or vinca). For this part of the plan, I am partial to epimediums, European ginger, Hakonechloa, and hellebores.
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Make space for some real gems These might include species peonies, choice hostas (I love gold ones for this purpose), or even bulbs—like an effusion of martagon lilies such as redflowered ‘Claude Shride’. What about an unexpected outburst from the bawdiest of primroses, Primula kisoana, with orchidpink flowers and lovely scalloped, fuzzy foliage?
When choosing plants, remember that leaves are your best friend Plan on a mix of textures and colors, coming mostly from foliage (as the leaves will be there all season or even all year, the flowers just briefly). Think of the color range of heucheras alone you could employ, or hostas—foliage is hardly boring. Which relates to this lesson:
Texture is also a great ally. Work it I cannot imagine “mosaics” working without some linear things (grasses, or sedges), contrasted against some ferny things (like, well, ferns, or Aruncus aethusifolius), and against some larger-textured things (like bigger hostas, Astilboides tabularis, or the Northwest native Darmera peltata—which also offers extra-early pink flowers on naked stems). Speaking of large and textured: the Astilboides cousins in the genus Rodgersia are among my most prized shade ground covers.
Once you’ve selected a palette, repeat, repeat, repeat Not just in the first area you underplant, but (if it works) in another area, where it may be all mulch right now, or a sea of a single ground cover. Soon your first mosaic will fill in and afford you divisions, and you will move on to making the next beautiful carpet. Taken from A Way to Garden © 2019 by Margaret Roach. Published by Timber Press, Portland, Oregon. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.
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magine that it’s two o’clock in the afternoon on a Sunday and someone, let’s call him Steve, is feeling agitated. He’s beyond agitated—he is having another panic attack, or perhaps he is jonesing toward a relapse with alcohol or opiates. Steve is not used to asking for help, but he’s feeling desperate. The idea of checking into a psychiatric emergency room at a local hospital only spooks him more. Luckily, he has another choice: an urgent care center for mental health. Two such facilities, based out of community centers, opened on May 1 in Middletown and Newburgh (at the Middletown Community Counseling Center and the Kaplan Family Counseling Center in Newburgh, respectively). Here, no one tags Steve with a hospital wristband. Instead of institutional cinderblock walls, homey decor surrounds him. He sees a window marked “Urgent Care,” where a trained person is ready to help him. Comfort comes first, so if he is too upset to talk, he’s invited first to sit in a comfortable room with couches and a TV, have a snack, and chillax for a bit. “We’re not going to greet him with, ‘Fill out this form. Give me your insurance card.’ That’s not what happens first here,” says Patricia Tuber, acute behavior health services regional director at Access: Supports for Living, the organization that created the two urgent-care centers with grant money from
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the federal government. “Instead it’s, ‘Hey, how can we help you? Tell us what brought you here today.’ We want to give people an opportunity to tell their story. Then we’re
“One example of how stigma is still very real is that people who have been released from hospitals for inpatient psychiatry visits in our area have only about a 50 percent rate of showing up to get follow-up care in an outpatient clinic.” —John Bennett able to engage them and start making a plan.” A person like Steve doesn’t need to know anything in advance of his visit, and he doesn’t need to fork over any money. He can just show up and get help from trained staff including on-site nurses and social workers.
If his issue is opioid addiction, he can opt to start treatment with suboxone right away. “We can wrap services around him to get his behavioral health needs met without having to go unnecessarily to an emergency room,” adds Tuber. “It’s friendlier, warmer, more engaging.” Express Route to Compassionate Care Urgent care for mental health is a fresh concept, and we need it—urgently. According to a recent Pew Research Report, about 70 percent of US teens see anxiety and depression as major problems among their peers, and their concerns about mental health cut across gender, racial, and socioeconomic lines. And it’s not just young people. Midlife mortality rates are falling among all education classes in America, partly due to a rise in the number of “deaths of despair”—deaths by drugs, alcohol, and suicide—according to a 2015 study out of Princeton University. Exacerbating these problems, and sometimes preventing people from getting the help they need, is the enormous stigma that looms over mental-health conditions and addiction struggles. (They often come hand in hand: Nearly half of people with a mental-health condition have a co-occurring substance-use disorder, according to Mental Health America.) The shame people feel about their condition will keep them isolated
during times when connection and support could be life-saving. With the class divide in our country, the stigma is worse in lowincome populations. Having a therapist is a middle- and upperclass luxury, but in other communities, getting help for mentalhealth issues doesn’t carry the same cachet. To break the stigma, it’s essential for people to share their own mental-health struggles so that others can replace judgement and blame with empathy and understanding. “One example of how stigma is still very real is that people who have been released from hospitals for in-patient psychiatry visits in our area have only about a 50 percent rate of showing up to get follow-up care in an outpatient clinic,” says John Bennett, director of behavioral health for Access: Supports for Living. Moreover, the hospital model doesn’t work for everyone. “More and more, we’re realizing that people get better when they stay in the community, with their family, and involved in life with their supports in place,” adds Bennett. The family and community piece is key—and Access’s two urgent care facilities will often incorporate the family or social circle into the care process. “We’re embracing a new way of working with families called Open Dialogue, which is a family communication intervention in which we try to get all the members of a family (or a social network or self-defined family) really talking with each other and really understanding whatever it is that brought in the person who’s at the center of clinical concern to us,” says Bennett. “Then we explore how we can help that family or social network to support the person.” Urgent care for mental health is not entirely new to the Hudson Valley—in Poughkeepsie, the Dutchess County Stabilization Center is a walk-in facility for people in crisis or distress, and it has become a valuable community resource since it opened in 2017, particularly for people with opioid use disorder. The Access centers in Newburgh and Middletown will serve a similar purpose, and what makes them unique is that they’re based on a concept of care called the Living Room model. “The idea is that if you’re in an agitated state and want to seek help, you don’t really want to go to an institution—you want to go somewhere that feels comfortable,” explains Bennett. “The one in Newburgh is in a refurbished Victorian house downtown. It’s very pretty, with chrome molding and a fireplace (not working, but we’ll figure out how to maybe put an electric fireplace in there). We’re working on comfort first, connection after, and, if somebody is starting to feel comfortable, then engagement in the services.” Recovery, Your Way There is an inclusive feel to a walk-in center—and inclusivity is exactly the point at Samadhi Recovery Community Outreach Center in Kingston, a new resource geared toward helping people with addictions. “This is an open door. It’s a very compassionate setting where everyone is welcome to come and find out for themselves what their recovery could be,” says David McNamara, Samadhi’s founder and executive director. “The primary purpose of the outreach center is for people who are in the contemplation phase. They’re thinking, ‘Maybe I have a problem. I lost three jobs.’ They’re not ready to go to rehab. They’re not ready to even go to a 12-step meeting. But they’re ready to just talk to people and start investigating.” McNamara is a filmmaker by trade, as well as a substance abuse counselor, and he started making a film about addiction four years ago, after his son’s best friend died of a heroin overdose. While working on the film, he met experts in the field of addiction treatment such as Gabor Maté, known for his studies connecting adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and addiction, and Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John, co-creator of Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery. “I saw that there was this great paradigm shift happening in the way we treat and heal addiction,” says McNamara. “I really wanted to do something not just with film but also on the ground. That was the birth of this center.”
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Part of the paradigm shift is an expansion away from a one-size-fits-all model (often a 12-step program) and toward multiple avenues for healing. “Everyone’s journey is different. One person’s recovery might include mindfulness and meditation. Another’s might have yoga or qi gong. Or it might include somatic experiencing.” All of these mind-body therapies, and several more, are on offer for free at Samadhi six days a week, Monday through Saturday. But the best place to start is likely one of the two recovery meetings held each day—a refuge recovery meeting (supporting abstinence) or an eight-step recovery meeting (supporting a harm-reduction model rather than total abstinence, and based on Buddhist teachings). People with any kind of addiction can find a haven here—alcohol addiction, food addiction, sex addiction. It’s important to note that Samadhi does not bill itself as a treatment clinic. Rather, it’s a peer-based support center. “The easiest person to talk to is someone who has lived experience of addiction,” says McNamara. “A recovery peer advocate is someone who has that experience. They go through a certification process to become a recovery coach or a peer advocate so that they can help other people find their own recovery by presenting multiple pathways.” McNamara himself has that experience—he dealt with a cocaine and alcohol addiction for over 20 years before becoming sober just over a decade ago. After spending many years trying to recover and relapsing multiple times, he turned to his longtime practice of Zen Buddhism for wisdom. He also dug deep into his own past to find the trauma behind his addiction—a forgotten experience of childhood abuse. “The core of what we do is help people to begin to look at the underlying causes of their addiction,” says McNamara. “A lot of people will say at first that they don’t have any trauma and nothing happened to them. Over time, people will start to realize that there is something. Sometimes it’s subtle. Your parents were both busy with their careers and they didn’t have time to give you enough attention. Or your mother had postpartum depression after you were born. In my own experience of my recovery, until you address the core pain and underlying causes, [the addiction] won’t ever go away. It will continue to keep spouting up in different ways.” The community outreach center is just a first step for Samadhi. Future plans include a residential in-patient recovery center, where people can stay for three to nine months, as well as a detox center. Plans are also in the works for a Recovery Cafe—a coffee shop open to the public where people in recovery can find employment in a supportive environment (several such cafes have opened across the country). Perhaps one day soon, walk-in centers for mental health and addiction will be neighborhood fixtures in more communities. It certainly seems to be part of the current zeitgeist. “I think the model of the behavioral-health clinic where you make an appointment and show up a week or two later to see a professional—I don’t know if that necessarily matches the way our society works anymore,” says Bennett from Access. “We like things to be a lot more spontaneous and personalized.” “If we greet people with hope and possibility, then that can change their experience and keep doors open for what they can achieve in their lives,” he adds. “And that’s really what we’re going for here. Keeping hope and possibility alive.” The Access: Supports for Living urgent care centers are located at the Middletown Community Counseling Center and the Kaplan Family Counseling Center in Newburgh, and are open seven days a week, 11am–7pm on weekdays and 9am–5pm on weekends. Accesssupports.org Samadhi Recovery Community Outreach Center is located at 122 Clinton Avenue in Kingston, and is open six days a week, Monday through Saturday, 11am–9pm. Samadhiny.org
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s the days lengthen and the temperatures warm, the Hudson Valley begins to teem with life. Trees and bushes bloom, snow melts, and the streams and creeks of the Catskills rush with increased fervor. It’s a time for backyard barbecues, deep plunges into swimming holes, long night walks under star-spangled skies, bike rides, and long drives.
It’s also a time for exploration. The bounteous natural landscape of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills is a playground for the adventurer in each of us, and there are innumerable ways to commune with the great outdoors. Here is a guide to 15 summer adventures, with something for everyone— from the boldest thrill-seeker to the most contemplative nature lover. 52 OUTDOORS CHRONOGRAM 5/19
1. The Hudson River Paddle
Even if you’ve driven, walked, hiked, and biked the region for years, touring by kayak offers a distinct perspective, providing direct contact with the region’s namesake waterway. The five-day Hudson River Paddle is an immersive introduction to this way of communing with nature. Last year’s journey, guided by Hudson River Expeditions, went from Albany to Poughkeepsie. This year, from July 8 to 12, paddlers will travel from Poughkeepsie to New York City. The registration for the group paddle includes camping gear, all paddling equipment, and catered meals prepared in HRE’s mobile kitchen, so you’ll need to bring only a robust sense of adventure. The itinerary includes stops at locations of cultural significance and natural beauty along the river. The odyssey is open to all experience levels, though HRE advises “any previous paddling experience will be beneficial.”
2. Tubing the Esopus
We think of tubing as the lazy man’s preferred form of riparian engagement, but tubing Esopus Creek requires a little more derring-do. This is no lazy river: Esopus Creek is Class II whitewater, which means waves up to three feet with rocks and other occasional obstacles that require maneuvering around. Thrillseekers up for the challenge can run the 1.5 to 2-hour course that starts just upstream at Town Tinker Tube Rental, in Phoenicia, which opens for the summer on Memorial Day weekend. 3. Mountain Biking at Ski Resorts
The ski season may be long over, but many mountain resorts are still in operation. To make the most of their prime slopeside access, more and more ski resorts are building and maintaining biking trails, some of which are accessible via lift. There are several local options to get your legs pumping. Windham Mountain has dozens
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of miles of trail, including the longest jump trail on the East Coast, for riders of various experience levels. (And there’s a skills park.) Plattekill Mountain opens for biking on a limited basis, mostly corresponding with holiday weekends ( July 6-7, August 3-4, August 31-September 1, and October 1213). And Belleayre Mountain offers up both downhill mountain biking and mountain top bike tours. 4. Zipline at Hunter Mountain
Over at Hunter Mountain, meanwhile, you can take the highest, fastest, and longest zipline canopy tour in North America: the SkyRider tour, a three-hour, 4.6-mile circuit that peaks at 600 feet above the valley, offering stunning views. That’s the most extreme of several summertime adventures at Hunter Mountain offered by New York Zipline. The Mid-Mountain Tour is decidedly more family- and beginner-
friendly. For a moonlit thrill, adrenaline junkies can opt for the Night Zip Tour, which is the same course done under cover of dark, followed by stargazing. 5. Hiking
Obviously. With more than a dozen state parks and preserves—the Catskills, the Shawangunks, the Hudson and Appalachian Highlands, the Hudson River and all its tributaries—this region is one of the best for hiking in the entire United States. There are hikes of wildly varying terrains and difficulty levels; the challenge is picking which ones to do. Let Scenic Hudson and Hike the Hudson Valley be your guides. (Some of our favorites: Breakneck Ridge, Sam’s Point, Mt. Beacon Fire Tower, Gertrude’s Nose, Storm King Mountain, Overlook Mountain, Bash Bish Falls, and Lower Peter’s Kill Loop.) To add some socialization to your nature, consider joining
a club based on skill level or identity, like the Mid-Hudson Adirondack Club or Hudson Valley Queer Outdoors. 6. Rock Climbing
There are many places to go rock climbing in the Hudson Valley, but it’s hard to beat the Shawangunks for accessibility and diversity. (It’s the busiest climbing region in the US for a reason). The Trapps are the most popular rock walls and have more than 300 routes to the top, so all skill levels can find something suitable. Peter’s Kill, in the Minnewaska State Park portion of the Gunks, is less intimidating for beginnners. There are several licensed guide services in the Gunks (check out Mountain Skills, Alpine Endeavors, or HighXposure). If you prefer to get your climbing legs indoors first, Gravity Vault in Poughkeepsie has 65 rope stations and extensive bouldering areas. 5/19 CHRONOGRAM OUTDOORS 53
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Sometimes you just want to hike to a spot to stand in awe of the magisterial force of water rushing over rocks and falling into pools. There are innumerable waterfalls to chase in the Hudson Valley. The biggest of them is Kaaterskill Falls, the 260-foot, two-stage fall just east of Hunter. The gently cascading falls and swimming holes of Vernooy Kill Falls are also worth the trek into the Catskills. High Falls, located in the heart of the eponymous village, and Awosting Falls, a 60-foot plunge just a 15-minute hike from the entrance of Minnewaska Park, are two of the more accessible falls in the region. Follow the stream from Awosting to arrive at Sheldon Falls, visible from an old power station and dam. The tallest waterfall in the Shawangunks is Verkeerder Kill Falls, 187 feet tall and accessible via a three-mile trail in Sam’s Point Preserve. 8. Swimming Holes
Summer seems like a gift as we emerge from the long winter, but come the first big heat wave—when the humidity accosts you and beads of sweat form every time you step outside— the season can feel like a curse, and the mind turns to the cool, blue relief of a swimming hole. Some of our favorites include: Lake Awosting (Minnewaska State Park Preserve), Rudd Pond (Taconic State Park), Kaaterskill Falls (Greene County), Peekamoose Blue Hole, Vernooy Kill Falls, and Split Rock Falls (Ulster County), Zabriskie’s (Annandaleon-Hudson), and Little Deep (Woodstock). Be sure to carry out what trash you carry in, as abuse of public swimming holes in recent years has led to closures and restricted access. 9. Fly Fishing
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The Catskills are the birthplace of fly fishing in America, and although angling never really died out in the region’s streams and creeks, the pastime has seen a wide increase in popularity in recent years. In the process of this resurgence, fly fishing has become increasingly chic (look no further than the membership-based Livingston Manor Fly Fishing Club, which leads expeditions and hosts events at its headquarters on the Willowemoc), though with your waders, a pole, a map, and a bit of patience, you could find your own way, too. For those in need of guides, Esopus Creel, in Phoenicia, offers an instructional crash course as part of its half- and full-day fishing trips in the Esopus Creek. 10. Horseback Riding
Whether you’re a newbie equestrian or you’ve got your horses out back, there are lots of places to saddle up in the Hudson Valley. Westchester Trail Rides is a family-run equestrian trail guide service, while Netherwood Acres, Kirby Hill Farm, and Ivy Rock Farms are full-service riding and boarding facilities with lessons. Newcomers can also head to Juckas Stables in Pine Bush for beginner-friendly trail rides (there’s plenty for experienced riders, too). The Rocking Horse Ranch Resort offers an Old West overnight experience with more than 500 acres of trails, and Pine Ridge Dude Ranch provides a rustic equestrian experience in Kerhonkson. Saddle Brook Farm Animal Rescue rehabilitates horses at its horse motel before taking them out on the trail. 11. The Great Newburgh to Beacon Swim
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Each summer, some 150 to 200 swimmers push off from Newburgh riverfront to traverse the Hudson for the annual mile-long swim. Now in its 16th year, the Great Newburgh to Beacon Swim has become something of a mid-Hudson Valley tradition. It’s charitable, too: each swimmer must raise a minimum of $100 in donations, in addition to the $60
registration fee. It takes about an hour to swim across, but the reward, in the middle of the river, “is a feeling of being nowhere and everywhere at once,” says Nita Rae of River Pool at Beacon, the nonprofit that organizes the swim and is the charitable recipient. “The magnificence of the world around you and a sense of your own infinitesimal place.” This year’s swim will be held on July 20 (rain date: July 21), and registrations are open now.
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12. Outdoor Yoga
The ancient discipline of yoga awakens the senses and centers the body, effects that are only deepened by the soothing sounds and sensations of being in nature. Outdoor yoga is a growing trend in the region. Hudson River Yoga has classes on the lawn at Vassar College on Tuesday nights and at Locust Grove on one Saturday and Sunday per month. Hudson Valley Healing Center offers breathwork and meditation exercises in its salt cave as part of its Yoga 4 Cancer series, and nOMad offers outdoors classes in picturesque locations. There are integrated adventure yoga options like the yoga and kayak tours—kayoga—run by Hudson River Expeditions with Lauri Nemetz of Wellness Bridge. Stay tuned to Mohonk Preserve’s Slingerland Pavilion, which in the past has offered summer yoga classes with breathtaking vistas of the Rondout Valley and the Catskills. 13. Bird Watching
The variety of ecosystems in the Hudson Valley make it wonderful birding country. The Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge in Wallkill is a waypoint for migratory birds that depend on grasslands, and the Great Vly between Saugerties and Catskill is a freshwater marsh where you may see osprey, golden eagle, American bittern, blackbirds, and dozens of species of warblers if you go early enough in the season. On the Hudson, Kingston Point is a birding hotspot (keep your eyes peeled for a bald eagle), while the Wallkill National Wildlife Refuge Liberty Marsh is a good place to go in Orange County. There are plenty of guides, too: There are several regional Audubon chapters ( the society operates the Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary), plus Friends of the Great Swamp, the Basha Kill Area Association, and the Edgar A. Mearns Bird Club. 14. Skydiving
Willingly flinging yourself from a plane from 15,000 feet up? But think of the view! Skydiving isn’t for the faint of heart, of course, but daredevils will love Skydive the Ranch, which provides a chance to see the Hudson Valley from above. The skydive school, based in Gardiner, offers tandem jumps for first-timers and experienced jumpers up to level 13. Your first jump starts at $219, though groups of five or more get a discount. There are also courses in instructor-assisted freefall, for those who want to pursue a United States Parachute Association license.
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question of who merits a religious exemption taken entirely out of their hands. “We take no position on vaccination,” says Vicki Larson, director of communications and marketing at Green Meadow Waldorf School in the Rockland County village of Chestnut Ridge. “We believe in personal choice and responsibility. We believe in following the law. This is surprisingly controversial; we have people within our own community with all different opinions saying we should be doing something differently.” Green Meadow found itself making regional headlines after Rockland County health officials banned unvaccinated minors from public places. A group of Green Meadow parents retained civil rights attorney Michael Sussman and convinced a judge to overturn the ban. The school itself did not take part in the legal action, nor have they had a single case of the measles within their school community. What has gone viral, says Larson, is the debate. “We have parents who think vaccination is a public health obligation, parents who believe the school should join the lawsuit,
and everything in between. People are being called pro- and anti-vax, and in my experience, very few fall on either pole,” says Larson. “At the moment, New York recognizes a religious exemption, and it is our legal right and responsibility to review those requests and grant them to those with a sincere religious belief.” Vaccine Hesitancy Community-specific culture seems to be the biggest factor in whether exemptions are accommodated easily or grudgingly. Of the 25 public schools in New York with the lowest rates of total immunization, 14 are located in the Hudson Valley, including the entire districts of New Paltz and Onteora, with rates in the lower 90s. Among private schools, although the median rate remains the same, the situation varies wildly; Green Meadow’s rate is now above 95 percent at the high school level, 83 percent in the early grades, up from the 50s a couple of years ago, a good-sized handful of independent Hudson Valley schools have vaccination rates in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and at one—the Fei Tian Academy of
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the Arts in Orange County, run by the Falun Gong, a Chinese religious group—only 14 percent of the students are vaccinated; the rest have religious exemptions. “When my son was born 10 years ago, I was in my third year of med school, at a place in my training when I was saturated in research,” says Anna, a 30-something mother of two from New Paltz. “I knew I needed to educate myself on the science before giving my consent to any drugs, and I didn’t expect to find what I found—there are no double-blind, long-term inert placebocontrolled studies of vaccines, and that’s the gold standard for all pharmaceutical drugs. And the pharma companies have no liability at all.” In the late ’70s, questions arose about the pertussis component of the DPT vaccine (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) being implicated in cases of encephalopathy; the incidents were later attributed to infantile epilepsy, but the lawsuits meant skyrocketing liability rates and prices. In 1986, the federal government stepped in with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, requiring information statements with doses, establishing a database of reported of adverse episodes, and shielding manufacturers from liability by establishing a dedicated arbitration court and a fund from which settlements could be paid. Since then, the number of required vaccines has increased from seven doses to 72 doses of 16 required vaccines. “Vaccine-hesitant” parents like Anna point to the increases in various brain, nervous system, and immunological issues over more or less the same time period and to Merck’s recall of Vioxx, in which the pharmaceutical industry and Food and Drug Administration have had to acknowledge problems with previously approved medication. Vaccine-hesitant parents point out that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out some $4 billion since its establishment; CDC scientists respond with the fact that between 2006 and 2017, there was one compensated claim per million doses of vaccine. Placebo-controlled double-blind studies of vaccines, the kind Anna mentioned, are not done because it’s considered unethical to leave an individual wondering whether they have been immunized or not. Other kinds of studies are constantly underway, and have repeatedly vindicated the benefits of mass vaccination for public health. The Centers for Disease Control agrees that no treatment is completely without risk and that insisting that people inject their babies is a big ask; on their website is a 23-page PDF, Vaccination Mandates: The Public Health Imperative and Individual Rights. The CDC maintains the Vaccine Adverse Episodes Registry as a feedback system. Vaccine-hesitant parents point to the many reports therein; the CDC responds by pointing out that few are actually proven episodes of causality that go beyond a sore arm. A Conversational Shift Is Needed Green Meadow School’s Larson is struck by the vitriol around the tone of the conversation around vaccination. “A primary concern is: Are we modeling the same values that we’re seeking to cultivate in students?” Voices for Vaccines, a nonprofit advocacy site organized by the Task Force for Global Health, offers first-person accounts of why the hesitant ultimately opted to vaccinate. But they are the exception; the internet is riddled with both anti-vaccine propaganda and smarmy blogs mocking each and every concern. Bills currently active in the New York State Legislature include one that would eliminate the religious exemption, another that would require parents to sign an affidavit that they’d been advised about risk, and a third that would allow children above the age of 14 to be immunized without parental permission. “Yes, the state is considering a bill that would eliminate the religious exemption, and we don’t have a position on that either,” says Larson. “Our primary concern is educating children. And we were very happy to be able to welcome our students back.”
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here are a lot of places you could begin when discussing the state of Beacon today, but we should probably start with the juice bar. “The Main Squeeze was ahead of its time,” says Mike Burdge, who used to work there. “If that juice bar was open today, it would kill.” The year was 2013. Beacon’s renaissance, which had been building since the opening of Hudson Beach Glass and Dia:Beacon at the turn of the millennium, had just shifted into a higher gear with the arrival of the Roundhouse, a boutique hotel, restaurant, and cocktail lounge perched at the bottom of a waterfall. But the twin sparks that would really kick the city into overdrive—the relocation of legendary music venue The Towne Crier to Beacon and the transformation of an old diner on Main Street into the ramen and live music club, Quinn’s— hadn’t yet ignited. So maybe Beaconites weren’t yet ready for The Main Squeeze and their $8 locally sourced juices (although they were ready to complain about Beacon turning into the kind of place that sold $8 locally sourced juices.) 62 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 5/19
Above: Old and new buildings in Beacon. Below: Nancy Soriano strolls past Beacon Pop Mart.
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The Main Squeeze shuttered a year later, but it cemented its place in Beacon lore forever. Not because of what happened when the lights were on, but because of what happened in the bar at night when the lights were off. A native Beaconite, Burdge had left town in 2005 and joined the military to earn money for film school. After graduating, he came home, got a job at the juice bar, and realized that he liked talking about films more than making them. So at night, he transformed The Main Squeeze into Story Screen and began hosting films and discussions. If not many people in town were up for top-shelf, fresh-squeezed juice, they sure as hell were up for watching and talking about movies. Soon, Story Screen began popping up at other bars and restaurants after hours or on slow nights—a clandestine, moveable feast for cinephiles. Now Showing Jumpcut forward a few years. The old Beacon Theater on Main Street, which at various times in the past 100 years had been a performance venue, church, roller skating rink, and jazz club, was up for grabs again. The family that had developed the
Roundhouse bought it and drew up plans to convert some of the cavernous space into apartments, and some of it into…something. The site’s most recent iteration as a live theater hadn’t proved successful. Would a movie theater work? Who in town would know something about movies? In a plot twist not even the hoariest Frank Capra crowd pleaser could pull off, Story Screen transformed into an actual movie theater: Two big screens, with a third, more flexible space still being built out to accommodate screenings, lectures, and performances. Cushy, stadium-style seating. $10 tickets. A rotating three-film lineup that usually consists of a second-run popular film, an arthouse film, and a kid-friendly revival (one week in April, that lineup translated into the latest version of A Star is Born, First Reformed, and The Iron Giant.) Plus the occasional surprise (Burdge was able to screen two showings of the new Avengers movie on opening night) and, yes, locally sourced beverages from a block away: sodas from Drink More Good and cold brew coffee from Big Mouth Roasters. It might sound like a one-in-a-million miracle, but walk down to the other end of Beacon and you’ll see it playing out again. In
the back of a building that hosts such other recent success stories as Two-Way Brewing and a new, much-needed hardware store, sits Mother Gallery, which was opened two years ago by Paola Oxoa and Kirsten Deirup. Oxoa had been in Williamsburg for 10 years and didn’t think she would ever leave. The plan was: Don’t get married, don’t have kids, make art, die in your loft. It’s a plan that probably sounds all too familiar to generations of female artists in New York City. But eventually Oxoa started to wonder why the first few waves of feminist artists were expected to sacrifice having a family in order to be an artist and how to change that. That led to Beacon. “Beacon has paved the way for the artists who are still coming up here, and it’s been really supportive,” she says. She and Deirup now each have families of their own yet are still managing to navigate the maledominated art world as not just artists, but gallery owners. And the work is paying off. On May 11, they’ll open up in a new space just up the hill: the bottom floor of a stately brick building that they’ll be sharing with the renowned New York City gallery Parts & Labor, which is moving in upstairs. The move is born out of necessity, as Two5/19 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 63
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other things years ago, when Beacon was still trying to attract developers and happy to let projects sail through with minimal attention. People are paying attention now. Beacon’s rents have skyrocketed in the past few years, forcing many longtime residents to move away and deterring new businesses from setting up shop in the area in the first place. There’s hope that at least the new housing will help take some pressure off the market, but many of the apartments are being listed at prices comparable to Brooklyn. Will Greenpoint residents pay the same amount of money to live in Beacon? What happens if rents get so high that Main Street is once again as desolate as it was 20 years ago, only this time around the storefronts won’t all be empty from lack of interest but because no one can afford them? And what’s going to happen when all these new residents link up to the ticking time bomb that is the city’s 100-plus-year-old sewage system? A Bright Spot This is the difference between speculative development and grassroots community improvement: The former is done by people seeking short-term gains, the latter by those who have been putting in sweat equity for years, because they know it will pay off in the form of a stronger city. The new Beacon Theater, containing both Story Screen and apartments, prove that building housing and improving a city’s cultural and civic scene don’t have to be an either/or proposition. But how many other developers will follow their lead? Tensions continue to rise as Beaconites push back in zoning board meetings and at the ballot box, while developers insist that their new buildings, some of which are full of apartments priced two to three times the average price in the city, are the future of Beacon. And a friend of one of the developers recently wrote a letter to the editor in the local paper, the Highland Current (which, full disclosure, I write for), suggesting that the citizenry anti-development fervor proves that Beacon has become hostile to outsiders. But anyone who thinks the city is hostile to outsiders has never bothered to come inside. No one embodied this communal spirit more than the Beaconite who would have turned 100 years old this month, folk icon and activist Pete Seeger. When Pete passed away in 2014, I asked many people in town to tell me about the first time they met him. Many of the stories began the same way: “I went down to a meeting of the Beacon Sloop Club to check it out, Pete saw me walk in and saw that I was new, smiled at me, got up, and offered me his chair.” That Sloop Club that Seeger helped found is still going strong over 40 years later, still offering free weeknight sails aboard the Woody Guthrie throughout the summer. Head down for a sail and see what the river does to you. Talk to the all-volunteer crew about what they do for the boat, for the river, and for the city. If you don’t walk away thinking about what you’re doing to make sure that all these things are still going to be there for the next generation, then that’s on you. If you’ve come to Beacon to make a killing, expect resistance. If you’ve come to make a living, someone here will always pull up a chair for you.
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Visit Beacon 1. A Little Beacon Space
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A Little Beacon Space is an inspiring place to work or host a private event, always evolving to meet the needs of the different types of creators who use it. Designed to be a connection point with people, you’ll find yourself engaged and happy when occupying our space.
Gabby Grace Landscaping is a female-owned and operated company based out of Beacon. With over 20 years of experience, my crew is the best in the business! From lawn care to masonry, we do it all and at the best prices.
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2. Aryeh Siegel Architect 84 Mason Circle (845) 838-2490 Ajsarch.com
Architectural services.
3. Beacon Natural Market 348 Main Street (845) 838-1288 Beaconnaturalmarket.com
Health food store and natural market, organic deli and juice bar, vitamins, herbal supplements, and Kombucha on tap.
4. Beacon veterinary Associates 385 Main Street (845) 202-7 129 Thebeaconvet.com
The Beacon Veterinary Associates is a full-service animal hospital. We welcome both emergency treatment cases as well as pet patients in need of routine medical, surgical, and dental care. Open 7 days a week.
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Big Mouth Coffee Roasters is a family-owned, small-batch specialty coffee roaster aiming to make specialty coffee more approachable by offering a diverse lineup of single-origin coffees and blends.
6. Binnacle Books 321 Main Street (845) 838-6191 Binnaclebooks.com
Find a hidden gem among dense shelves of tightly curated new and used books. From dollar books to first editions to new literature that challenges the status quo, there's something for everyone at Beacon's independent bookstore.
7. Blackbird Attic 442 Main Street (845) 418- 4840 Blackbirdattic.com
A consignment boutique with an orderly, well-curated mix of reasonably priced modern, vintage, and designer clothing, and more!
8. Brother's Trattoria 465 Main Street (845) 838-3300 Brotherstrattoria.com
30 delicious years of award-winning Italian cuisine! Come and see for yourself.
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Colorant is a brand that uses 100% botanically blended dyes to color modern apparel for the everyday woman. Our flagship carries plant-based beauty products, contemporary objects, and local goods. Live Colorfully!
10. Dogwood
47 East Main Street (845) 202-7500 Dogwoodbeacon.com
An old school bar where locals gather to enjoy food, drinks, conversation, and live music. Sixteen ice cold beers on tap and daily food specials.
11. Drink More Good 383 Main Street (845) 765-0115 Drinkmoregood.com
Our retail location is where it all began and our mission is simple! We believe in and strive for global impact through local success, offering locally sourced and fair trade organic loose leaf teas and spices/herbs that we use to create our own delicious and healthier soda syrup concentrates. We have everything to make your daily and night life More Good.
12. Eileen o'Hare 11 North Cedar Street (845) 831-5790 Eileenohare.com Shamanic healer.
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1 Vine Street / (845) 549-3751 Gabbygracelandscaping.com
14. Gate House realty
492 Main Street / (845) 831-9550 Gatehouserealty.com
Boutique real estate agency specializing in Beacon and Hudson Valley properties.
15. Green Mountain Minerals 412 Main Street / (802) 272-2968 Greenmountainminerals.com Fine minerals for the connoisseur.
16. Howland Cultural Center 47 7 Main Street / (845) 831- 4988 Howlandculturalcenter.org
Now celebrating our 40th year of presenting art, music, and theater in the picturesque historic library building called "the jewel of Beacon."
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12 Hanna Lane (845) 831-1100 Hudsonhillsmontessori.org
Hudson Hills Montessori utilizes the teachings of Maria Montessori to create a safe environment for children to flourish and discover their capabilities.
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1 East Main Street, Retail 3 (845) 765-2900 Lambshillbridalboutique.com
This award-winning bridal shop carries a curated selection of wedding gowns, bridesmaid and flowergirl dresses, and accessories.
19. Malouf's Mountain Campground Nestled in the Fishkill Ridge (845) 831-6767 Maloufsmountain.com
A unique hike-in/hike-out camping experience. The best camping accommodations, paired with the convenience of a hassle-free getaway. Quietly nestled in the woods—just an 80-minute train ride from NYC.
20. river pool at Beacon North Shore of Riverfront Park (845) 288-3852 Riverpool.org
Located just off the north shore of Riverfront Park in Beacon, the River Pool at Beacon is partially submerged, allowing the Hudson River to flow through it. It is a great way to introduce kids to river stewardship one splash, one swim, one laugh at a time.
21. Smokers Mecca 285 Main Street (845) 765-1690 Smokersmecca.com
The mecca of everything vape and smoke! A large variety of vape, e liquid, e cigarettes, pipe tobacco, and a ton of top quality smoking accessories!
22. The Leaf 498 Main Street (845) 558-347 7 Theleafny.com
The Leaf is a wellness store honoring the world’s most versatile plant. Featuring all things hemp, The Leaf will showcase cannabis-derived wellness products and a variety of sustainable earth-friendly merchandise.
23. The pandorica
165 Main Street (845) 831-6287 Thepandoricarestaurant.com
“Doctor Who”-themed restaurant with traditional British and international menus which include many gluten-free, vegetarian, and vegan options. Beer and wine plus assorted teas.
24. West End Lofts 1 & 2 Liam Drive (845) 306-7 705 x107 Westendloftsny.com
Affordable housing for artists with sweeping views of the Hudson River. This directory is a paid supplement.
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Eileen Fisher’s “Waste No More” exhibition in Milan.
GREEN EILEEN EILEEN FISHER’S SUSTAINABLE FASHION By Daisy Alioto
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ne million garments would be enough to populate a landfill. Instead, one Hudson Valley-based fashion brand wants to return garments to your closet and lead the fashion industry toward a sustainable future. The Eileen Fisher headquarters in the Westchester village of Irvington are located in a 40,000-square-foot former Lord & Burnham factory, which manufactured greenhouses until the late 1980s. Today, the saw-toothed roof—designed to optimize light without trapping heat—looks like a row of yogis in downward dog position. Eileen Fisher, the woman and the brand, was once associated with women who have tidied up and closed the door on the decade between their 20s and 30s, maybe even 30s and 40s, and are ready for the breezy, uniform-like garments of the unbothered. In 2017, the popular fashion blog Man Repeller deemed the look “menocore” (after menopause) and announced that young women were now lusting for it. “Menocore is the aesthetic leap to styles we would
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embrace as middle-aged women, taking us forward in time to a more marinated version of ourselves, our mothers, and our world,” Harling Ross wrote. This moniker, and sentiment, was echoed across fashion media. Tiny Factory Eileen Fisher eschews trends, but the resonance of the brand with the present moment is more than just aesthetic. In 2009, before the concerns about climate change had reached the fever pitch we’re experiencing today, the brand began informally collecting used Eileen Fisher garments from its employees. By 2015, they were taking used garments back from customers as well and reselling them for a discount under the label Green Eileen. That same year, artist Sigi Ahl paired up with the brand to create new garments and felted textiles from the old ones. These works have been exhibited and sold as part of the campaign Waste No More since 2017. Eileen Fisher has now collected over a million garments, and the brand estimates
they bring in 2,000 to 3,000 units every week. Each garment returned West of the Mississippi is sorted in Seattle, and everything to the East is sorted in Irvington. The Irvington operation, nicknamed Tiny Factory, was opened in 2017 across the street from the headquarters. In February, the UN hosted a Sustainable Fashion Summit in New York to discuss how the fashion industry can support the goals of the Paris Agreement and other international environmental commitments. “Sustainability is no longer a trend, but a business imperative,” says the nonprofit Global Fashion Agenda. An oft-repeated factoid that “the global fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world,” has been debunked by experts. However, some of the industry’s impact is confirmed in a 2009 Business for Social Responsibility report: 18 percent of carbon emissions from a single garment come from fiber production, 16 percent from yarn production, and 39 percent from consumer behavior (washing and, ultimately, disposing of it.)
“The best thing you can do for a garment is keep it as it is,” says Carmen Gama, a designer at Eileen Fisher. But that’s not always possible. Gama says that only 40 percent of the garments returned are sellable and resold through Green Eileen. The standard for sellability is high, and garments that make the cut are laundered locally in Westchester County. A quarter of returned clothing is termed “not quite perfect” with minor flaws and resold at select stores. The remaining 35 percent is too damaged to resell and falls under the re-manufacturing efforts of Waste No More, which has just launched its own website and social media channels. Previously, these clothes were recycled into limited-edition garments, like a jumpsuit made from five to seven pairs of discarded jeans. Eileen Fisher is now focusing renewal efforts on the textiles by dismantling and machine-felting the garments to create new raw material. Fisher tells me that the impetus behind this shift is scalability. “We’ve been trying to do both, and I think what we found with the clothes is
Top: Artist Sigi Ahl with a Tiny Factory employee Bottom: “Waste No More” exhibition at the Eileen Fisher store in Brooklyn
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that they’re not so scalable. It’s not so easy to do—they all become one-of-a-kind, practically,” says Fisher. Now, the Tiny Factory hums with the sound of machines fondly termed Lanettes, after the woman who sold the brand its first felting machine back in 2015. “We don’t have a solution for everything, but we don’t throw away anything,” says Gama. Walking around the Tiny Factory floor, one sees buckets of Eileen Fisher tags and buttons. Gama estimates that of the 35 percent of unsellable goods, 20 percent of the material has no current remanufacturing purpose within the company. (Shoes fall into this category, piling up like hopes for the future.) Fashion is an industry obsessed with dramatic reveals, so the fact that Eileen Fisher spent a decade quietly moving the needle on their own climate footprint is revolutionary. That the brand developed new methods to do so likewise makes them a standard bearer for corporate responsibility. However, Fisher herself is self-effacing about her leadership in the industry. In a 2013 New Yorker profile, she told writer Janet Malcolm, “I’m just an ordinary person. It’s only because I created this company and these clothes that I’m interesting.” A Sense of Urgency Tiny Factory (the linguistic opposite of Mass Consumption) has strong feminine energy. Upstairs is the Eileen Fisher Learning Lab, where employees undergo professional development and the brand hosts workshops, most of them geared toward women. On the day I tour the facility, there is a pile of Gloria Steinem books left over from a recent event. The lobby of the lab is decorated with (live) plants, cream-colored wall hangings, and throw pillows—examples of the home goods also being produced by Waste No More. The Hudson River sparkles just beyond the Metro-North tracks. “I’m very water-oriented, I like living on the water,” Fisher tells me. (She lives in Irvington, in a farmhouse-inspired home with river views.) A trip to China in the early 2000s spurred Fisher to do more to curb the company’s environmental footprint. “I had personally become acutely aware of the water crisis that was happening not just in our country on the West Coast but across Asia too. It just seemed urgent to begin to do more.” Top: Only 40 percent of the garments that are returned can be resold. Bottom: A view of the Tiny Factory floor in Irvington. Opposite, top: Waste No More is also producing home goods like throw pillows and tapestries. Opposite, bottom: Tiny Factory has developed their own sorting process for returned items. 74 FASHION CHRONOGRAM 5/19
Fisher started her brand in 1984 with the idea that quality natural fibers and timeless design would automatically lend themselves to fashion sustainability. (It takes 2,700 liters of water to make one cotton shirt, according to the World Resources Institute.) “I feel responsible for some of the mess without being this aware in the early days, thinking organics were good for the environment,” Fisher says, “I felt good about that without realizing I was part of the problem.” In 2012, the power of water and climate change hit home when Fisher’s Irvington facilities were walloped by Hurricane Sandy. The New York Times reported that “even the cash in the register at the Irvington store had to be taken home and blown dry” and the total loss amounted to “$1.5 million, 12 Dumpsters, and eight moving-truck-size mobile storage units of damaged goods.” Fisher was honored by environmental nonprofit Riverkeeper in 2015. The clean water advocates called her “a strong and loyal ally in the work to protect the Hudson River, and a model in the sustainable business community.” An Industry Leader In addition to launching Waste No More’s online presence this spring, the brand showed off the potential of their textiles in simultaneous Brooklyn and Milan exhibitions. Textile and product designer Salem Van Der Swaagh points to the symbolism of the old Lord & Burnham space in Irvington: “There’s something transparent about a greenhouse,” she says. “And I think you’re making a company that’s very transparent but also, of course, green.” However, for a long time Eileen Fisher was too nervous to advertise the risks she was taking—like that first $20,000 needle-felting machine. “We were just overwhelmed by how much work had to be done,” says Fisher. “We were saying ‘Just take baby steps. Let’s just get started.’” Now that their methods are out in the open, the “teach a person to fish” phase of Waste No More is in motion. Streetwear designers Public School and Heron Preston have spent time at Tiny Factory learning their methods. So have representatives from global fastfashion conglomerate H&M. In looking to change the world, Eileen Fisher has brought the world to Irvington. “We realized that we need to share what we know, we need to teach other people, because we’re like a drop in the bucket. We’re one mid-sized company, and that’s great, but unless the rest of the industry follows then we’re not going to solve the problem,” Fisher says. “We can’t do it alone.” 5/19 CHRONOGRAM FASHION 75
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Fashionable Destinations “I got it at a little shop in Hudson” is a sentence that’s been heard everywhere from a party in New York City to a friend’s gettogether in a living room in the Catskills. That’s because in the last 10 years, fashion has become Upstate New York’s best-kept secret. Discovering a small designer or a one-of-a-kind vintage piece that feels like it was put there just for you is now a pastime integrated into the fabric of life in the tiny towns north of the Tappan Zee Mario Cuomo bridge. In Hudson, you have the punk-chic aesthetic of Kasuri; in Catskill, you have small vintage stores curated and organized in a way that makes browsing for quality pieces easy; and in Newburgh, you get a tiny boutique representing small designers. While there are dozens of incredible shops throughout Upstate New York, these seven boutiques are worth stopping in when you get the chance.
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Kasuri sits at the end of Warren Street, slightly hidden from the main strip of shops and things to see. Despite its lower-profile location, this little shop is one of the main shopping attractions in the region offering luxury high fashion with a punk twist. While many other upstate locations offer a premium product, Kasuri is the only place you’ll find a beautifully curated selection of iconic avantgarde designers like Rick Owen, Vivienne Westwood, Y-3, and Commes des Garçon. 1 Warren Street, Hudson.
NFP:Beacon
NFP:Beacon is the studio storefront for designer Gail Travis’s collection of geometric wardrobe staples. Though her flagship store is in Los Angeles, Travis has built an impressive base at her small shop in Beacon offering a selection of layerable garments that never go out of style. From a handmade jumpsuits to tailored tops, these pieces will last a lifetime. 457 Main Street, Beacon.
Mikel Hunter
Mikel Hunter’s shop on Warren Street in Hudson is an eclectic mix of fine art, apparel, and apothecary. His eponymous store very much exudes the “person of the world” vibe that its owner embodies. Hunter explains, “I moved to Hudson for a civilized way of life amongst an eclectic array of creatives and an ever-changing stream of sophisticated, well-heeled patrons from all points north and south, east and west.” 533 Warren Street, Hudson.
Vaux Vintage
Hunting for vintage is one of the most rewarding parts of shopping Upstate, thanks to stunningly curated shops like Vaux Vintage in Red Hook. From a 1990s shell top to a 1910 Edwardian dress, there is a throwback style for every person that walks in the shop. Owner and artist Aly Barohn’s passion for vintage goes beyond just loving styles and garments from the past; it’s also about sustainability. “We believe buying and selling vintage is a sustainable practice promoting reuse and recycling,” she writes on her site. “It is a way of rejecting the irresponsible manufacturing practices, wastefulness, and ecological harm caused by materialism and unmindfulness in the fashion industry.” 21 West Market Street, Red Hook. 76 FASHION CHRONOGRAM 5/19
Converted sweater over silk gown from NFP Studios in Beacon.
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Nettle & Violet
The sleepy town of Rosendale might not seem like it hosts one of the best vintage shops in the tristate area, but step inside Nettle & Violet and you’ll find an eclectic selection of pieces at some of the most reasonable prices around. From over-the-knee leather boots to a silk ball gown fit for the Met Gala, owner Shabbat Rusciolelli has a little something for everyone. 446 Main Street, Rosendale.
Cream Boutique
If you’re looking for an in-person shopping experience but can’t stand the site of a mall anymore, Cream in Newburgh is the place to be. Along with their affordable contemporary women’s pieces, they carry a curated selection of high-end vintage and consignment clothing. Come for a new jumpsuit to wear to your next party and leave with a pair of Gucci pumps. 101 Liberty Street, Newburgh.
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Ambika Boutique
Ambika Boutique in Mountaindale gives a 360-degree experience of Upstate New York. All of the swimwear and winter garments are made ethically with local fiber by area artisans. “Mountain Dale is very community-oriented and people are pretty down to earth and appreciate well-made designs,” owner Ambika Conroy says. “I have a range of things from more expensive humane angora products that are hand-spun and hand-crocheted, to very affordable, natural fiber-oriented vintage. I try to make sure that I have something for everyone that walks through the door. I have lots of repeat customers and I love seeing familiar faces and getting to know everyone. The small town vibe is where it’s at!” 63 Main Street, Mountain Dale. —Alyssa Hardy
Extraordinary Flowers, Beautiful Jewelry and Unique Gifts 1204 RT. 213, HIGH FALLS, NY THEGREENCOTTAGE.COM 845-687-4810
Over 45 dealers & 11,000 sq ft of shopping under one roof.
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KATHY RUTTENBERG’S
WAKING DREAMS ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY By Lynn Woods
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ew York City is famous for being a no-nonsense, all-business kind of town, but starting last spring, six large-scale sculptural tableaux placed along Broadway from Lincoln Center to 157th Street brought a touch of storybook magic to the busy thoroughfare. “In Dreams Awake,” the installation by Kathy Ruttenberg, who lives and works on an isolated mountaintop outside Woodstock, bewitched harried passersby with its cast of mythological, hybrid animal-human characters. Figments of an imaginary world, the sculpted figures also seemed at home in the urban setting: a deer-headed man, pants slung low over his hips, and a high-heeled tree-woman strolled down the sidewalk arm in arm like any other theater-going couple, while a giant mouse in striped pantaloons, tight jacket, red bow tie, and gold shoes was quite the dandy.
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New Yorkers connected to the works and responded in unexpected ways. For example, people left offerings, such as broken eyeglasses and candles, at the base of Fish Bowl, installed at 157th Street. The sculpture depicts a kneeling goat-man offering a bouquet of flowers to a mermaid seated on a shell inside an enormous glass fish bowl, someone scribbled a heart in red crayon on the goat man. “People were taking pictures of it,” says Ruttenberg, who says one of the exciting aspects of the project was how the placement of pieces that derived from personal narratives took on larger meanings and associations in public spaces: “Fish Bowl is about diversity,” she says. “It’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ interpreted as a modernday West Side Story.” The installation was taken down in February, but now there’s a book, In Dreams Awake: Kathy Ruttenberg on Broadway, documenting the project. Published by Pointed Leaf Press, it includes photos by Fionn Reilly and others, along with essays by Anne Strauss, Deborah Goldberg, Naza Semoniff, Adrian Dannatt, and Alan Rosenberg, as well as commentary by the artist. Ruttenberg mainly works in ceramics, but for durability’s sake, she needed to scale up the new pieces—the tallest is 15 feet high— and re-engineer them in cast silicon bronze, cast polyurethane resin, glass mosaic, cast concrete, and acrylic. Each piece presented a distinctive technical challenge, whether it was how to cast a giant snail shell in acrylic that was transparent enough for the seated Top: Watercolor studies of Fish Bowl Right: Fish Bowl on 157th Street in Manhattan. Cast silicon bronze, polyurethane patina, ceramic, acrylic, cast polurethane resin, cast concrete, LED lighting. Opposite: All the World’s a Stage in transit and on 64th Street in Manhattan. Cast silicon bronze, polyurethane patina, cast polurethane resin, glass mosaic, cast concrete, LED lighting. Photos by Fionn Reilly
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nude woman inside to be seen or how to ensure the pair of strolling figures would be aligned properly. “I was a little naïve saying I could do it in a year and a half,” the artist recalls ruefully, noting that she and her team were working out the technical challenges “to the bitter end.” Two foundries, one of which was Workshop Art Fabrication, located in Kingston, did the bronze casting. The sculptures were then painted by the artist with a patina application. A tall cast-concrete column supporting a masked figure in All the World’s a Stage was covered in colorful mosaic; based on Ruttenberg’s painting, the stones were set by hand in a workshop in Munich. The giant fish bowl was fabricated by an aquarium company in California. Ruttenberg also installed LED lighting on some of the pieces, such as the aquamarine translucent Renaissance-style globe resting on the feet of an upside-down bronze woman supported on her spreading hair. Titled Topsy Turvy, the piece was located near the gates to Columbia University and Barnard College and relates to the importance of education, according to the artist. Ruttenberg says her collaboration with the various teams involved in the fabrication process was “pretty exciting” and has opened doors to new possibilities. “So many roads have opened, and I don’t yet know which I should take,” she says. “I read my horoscope in Chronogram last night and it said, ‘You have a pot on every fire and you must feel so confused, but by June you’ll realize it all makes sense.’” Top: Ms. Mighty Mouse watercolor study, packed for transit, and installed on 79th Street. Cast silicon bronze, polychrome patina. Below and opposite: Topsy Turvy watercolor study and installed on 117th Street. Cast silicon bronze, polychrome patina, cast polurethane resin, cast concrete, LED lighting. Photos by Fionn Reilly 82 FEATURE CHRONOGRAM 5/19
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arts profile
A Sense of Place Simi Stone
By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly
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lowers and boxes. Those are the things singer-songwriter Simi Stone is absent-mindedly doodling on the page in front of her while she talks. She laughs a little when asked why. “In high school I was always sketching,” she says. “Boxes were something I was always drawing, for some reason. I don’t know why.” Artist types will commonly spend their teens and 20s doing their best to break out of the box they were born into. And often that box is some slow, quiet neck of the woods, far from the flashing lights and constant cool of the big city. But in the end, after a Homeric journey of self-defining and wild-oat-sowing, some of them return, spiritually if not physically, to the very place they once chafed so relentlessly against. Having lived the life of a hard-rocking frontwoman and, more recently, toured the world with some of music’s major acts, Stone has come back to the quietude of her hometown, Woodstock. In some ways, Stone’s upbringing is classic modern Woodstock, although she wouldn’t grasp the distinctiveness of her surroundings until after she’d been out of them for several years. She was born Simi Sernaker in 1979 to a free-spirited Jamaican writer father and a New York-raised mother who taught at Saugerties High School. (Her mother is a disciple of Indian spiritual mentor Satchidananda Saraswati, whose famed followers include Alice Coltrane, Carole King, and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. “When I was little, I’d meditate with my mom,” Stone says. “She’d put me in her lap, and then we’d sit. It was just what we did. And when I was a teenager, I did a lot of walking around barefoot with my friends while we were tripping and listening to NWA and Bob Marley,” Stone says with a laugh. Stone’s creative and performing impulses were apparent very early on and her parents encouraged them, enrolling her in ballet classes and, at age seven, classical violin studies. At 10, she began to get a taste for Manhattan’s performance world when she started commuting there to study musical theater, jazz dance, and vocals at the New York Conservatory of the Arts. Her older sister’s record collection (Devo, Talking
Heads, David Bowie) lit a flame, and after high school she moved to the city to study in the theater department at Marymount College. There, she and some fellow students formed a rock band called the Slithy Toves, named for a line in Lewis Carrol’s famous poem “The Jabberwocky.” (Other bands with names sourced from the surreal, monikerrich opus include Frumious Bandersnatch and T’was Brillig.) The Toves made inroads into the Lower East Side, where the exotic, statuesque Stone and her electric violin soon became fixtures of the late-1990s club scene. In 2000, she hooked up with some other Downtown rockers and formed Suffrajet, a post-grunge hard rock outfit that stormed the stages of CBGB, the Bowery Ballroom, Irving Plaza, and Central Park, opening for such acts as Joan Jett, Erykah Badu, and the Roots while the city was at the height of one of its periodic rock revivals. “It was such an amazing time with the Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and all the other great bands who were starting up in New York back then,” she recalls. The group released its self-titled debut album in 2003.The following year, they moved to Chicago, where they made two more records, appeared in the 2006 film I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, and toured hard with the likes of Cheap Trick, Urge Overkill, and Eagles of Death Metal before checking out in 2008. After living the “crazy rock ’n’ roll dream for six or seven years” and “partying like Led Zeppelin—but without the hits,” it was time for the rolling Stone to roll home. “I had no plan. I felt like I was living at the bottom of a fish tank,” she says. “I went back to New York for a few months. I started doing Buddhist chanting and moved back to Woodstock, but I was still getting fucked up a lot. I lived in a place with pretty much just my guitars, my violin, a TV, and a bed.” Through it all, however, she kept playing, doing local solo acoustic gigs. One of them was at town venue the Colony, supporting Felice Brothers cofounder Simone Felice’s project the Duke & the King. Felice liked what he heard and invited her to open dates on his group’s impending US tour; soon enough, he asked her asked to join his band. Alas, the Duke & the King’s reign was brief. After some heavy European and UK touring and numerous TV appearances for the 2010 album Long Live the Duke & the King, which saw Stone’s live performances singled out for praise in the press, the act disbanded. Landing back in Woodstock, she continued to perform on her own and as an accompanist for an impressive list of touring and local artists that includes Conor Oberst, Dan Zanes, and Natalie Merchant. (Stone appeared on Merchant’s 2014 self-titled album and 2015 record Paradise is There.) She also put together her own band to play the poppy mix of folk and contemporary
soul she’d eventually dub “mountain Motown.” Working with producer and songwriter David Baron (Lenny Kravitz, Michael Jackson, Meghan Trainor), she recorded 2015’s Simi Stone with a cast of players that includes bassist Sara Lee (Gang of Four, B-52s), bassist Gail Ann Dorsey, and drummer Zachary Alford (the latter two of David Bowie’s band). She also spent time collaborating with other local musicians like Tracy Bonham, Amy Helm, and the New Pornographers’ Carl Newman, performing a version of Neil Young’s “Birds” with him at a 2015 Woodstock Day School benefit. About a month after the concert, she got an email from Newman. “He said that [founding New Pornographers harmony vocalist] Neko Case couldn’t do the tour they had coming up and he asked me if I wanted to do it,” she excitedly remembers. “We did the first show of the tour at the Bearsville Theater and then got on the tour bus and did the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago to thousands of people. We also did two sold-out shows at [Chicago venue] the Metro, which was a really spiritual thing for me, since I’d lived in Chicago for a few years with Suffrajet. It was like a dream.” Since the New Pornographers dates, Stone has remained on call as a touring member. Despite the highs of her rocketing musical career, not long before the 2015 tour Stone hit rock bottom emotionally. “I was going through a really bad breakup,” she says. “I had a total breakdown.” To express the crippling heartbreak she was experiencing, she turned to another medium. “[Woodstock artist] Richard Segalman did a painting of me, and I started obsessing over some books of paintings by Van Gogh and Gaugin that I came across. Then I was in a studio in New York, working with David Baron on a film score, and I got hit again with this psychosis I’d been going through. David’s girlfriend really wanted to help me and was asking what she could do. I was crying, having this meltdown, and then out of nowhere I just said, ‘I need to draw.’ She started digging around the studio and found this big pad of drawing paper and an old box of pastels—nobody had even known they were there or who’d left them—and she put them in front of me. For the next two days, all I did was draw.” In the years following the breakthrough, Stone has continued to draw and has picked up a paintbrush as well, creating a body of outsider art—bare female figures and bare trees are a recurring motif— that brims with a brooding folk-art aesthetic. Her first official showing was at Woodstock’s ARdnaglass gallery in spring 2016. On the music-making end, she released an acoustic EP that year and reconvened with Baron to make her sophomore full-length album The Rescue. The moody 2017 disc 5/19 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 85
February, a pastel by Simi Stone.
Opera to pops June 15, 2019
An exquisite evening of dinner, champagne, pastries, and glorious sounds from Mozart to Miles.
Join us at the beautiful Byrdcliffe Barn for this annual celebration of music across the ages. Cocktails, dinner, music, and champagne, with a raffle of amazing items. Proceeds support our arts programming.
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mixes organic acoustic instrumentation with modern electronics and pulls elements from across the spectrum of Stone’s performing past. After its release, she’d barely caught her breath when another well-known musical name came calling: Talking Heads main man David Byrne, who hired her as a backup vocalist and dancer. “I heard Simi’s recordings with her band and enjoyed them,” says Byrne via email. “I heard a great, expressive voice. I sought her out, which led to us working together twice: at a celebration with the Brooklyn Steppers and Marching Band at Carnegie Hall and on my American Utopia tour during 2018, all of which was very well received. She has a great stage presence and energy.” Stone recalls the heady experience of the epic rehearsals for the tour’s intricately choreographed shows, which commenced with concerts in Brazil and were followed with engagements in North America (including a stop at UPAC in Kingston) and on “Late Night with Stephen Colbert.” “It was really intense, but David was really delighted about everything—a totally peppy, likeable person,” Stone says. “I remember rehearsing [1983 Talking Heads single] ‘This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)’ with the band and it just being totally surreal. My sister had had that record, and that song was one of the first songs I’d loved when I was little.” Unfortunately, her time on the tour was cut short when she injured her foot. “Since we were dancing every night and there was this constant impact on it, there wasn’t time for it to heal,” she says, clearly still somewhat frustrated about the accident. “After I got off the tour, I had to wear one of those boot braces for a while. It was pretty bad.” Now well on the mend, Stone, who is opening for the Gipsy Kings at London’s Royal Philharmonic Hall as this is being written, hasn’t missed a step. Earlier this year through her website she launched Simi Space, a fan-funding platform offering exclusive monthly downloads of the new songs being recorded for her next album, limited-edition prints of her artwork, and other subscriber-only premiums. “It feels really good to be back home in the mountains, taking walks in the woods,” she says. “Taking care of myself. And finding myself.” Simi Stone will perform as part of the Earth Day celebration at Forsyth Nature Center in Kingston on May 11. The event begins at 12pm. Simistone.net.
books The Gabriels Richard Nelson Theatre Communications Group, 2019, $18.95 The 2016 election year was full of fervent debate—and scandal. But even though national politics loomed large, the squabbles, chores, and challenges of everyday life still happened. And for the fictitious Gabriel family of Rhinebeck—a lot of life happened in the kitchen. In 2016, Hudson Valley-based playwright Richard Nelson wrote a series of plays: “Hungry,” “What Did You Expect?,” and “Women of a Certain Age.” These three works offer snapshots of the Gabriel family at different points during 2016 and together make up The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family. Six characters, ranging from age 52 to 81, enter and exit the kitchen of George and Hannah Gabriel on South Street in Rhinebeck. They shout to the living room and grab ingredients from the refrigerator and pantry. Everyone pitches in on the meal preparation and the conversation, talking over each other, interrupting with questions and commands regarding the culinary tasks at hand.While the election year is used to frame the timeline of the plays, politics is not a prevalent theme. Instead, talk of the election is scantily peppered throughout other conversations. George is a cabinetmaker who seems to keep getting the short end of the stick. He used to teach piano, but he had to sell the piano to pay for his 81-year-old mother Patricia’s assisted living. They would have sold Patricia’s house, but she took out a reverse mortgage without telling anyone. George’s brother, Thomas, a 64-year-old playwright and novelist, has just died. Thomas’s third wife and first wife both occupy the kitchen in all three plays. Hannah, George’s wife, and Joyce, Thomas’ sister, round out the cast. Actress, costume designer, caterer, cabinetmaker/piano teacher, retired doctor and recent widow, aging mother—everyone has something to talk about besides politics. The singular setting of a family kitchen keeps the drama compact. Money trouble, aging parents, the death of a loved one, children in college (when money is tight), first wife and recent widow—all these conditions are hot kernels that are perpetually popping into the conversation with a bang. This triptych of plays offers an intimate look into the household of a not-particularly-political American family during an election year. The Gabriels weren’t discussing candidates and policy at length. They were simply chatting in the kitchen, grappling in real time with issues of money, history, art, and politics. Through Nelson’s spot-on dialog, the characters reveal themselves through this everyday conversation. Absorbed in their own reality, the Gabriels carry on, only to wake up one day with a president none of them thought would win. —Brian Turk
THE TRUMPIAD
WASTED: A STORY OF LOVE GONE TOXIC
TERRA NOVA PRESS, $14.95, 2019
CHRONIC PUBLISHING, $19.75, 2018
Written as an epic ballad, The Trumpiad is a deliberately unsubtle marriage of satire, poetry, and comic illustrations. Drawing from the humor of John Oliver and Stephen Colbert and the poetic form of Emily Dickinson and Edward Lear, Eisenberg narrates the life of Trump, from his monied origin to his presidency, in digestible five-lined stanzas. Complementing his caustic quips are politically charged illustrations by Brodner, who was inspired by greats like Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier. This uproarious comedy is published by David Rothenberg’s Cold Spring-based Terra Nova Press.
This heart-racing novel by Biff Thuringer (aka local journalist Steve Hopkins) follows the character Nate Randall, a failed rockstar in a shaky relationship with his successful but nihilistic girlfriend Sheila McNally. On 9/11, Sheila calls Nate from her office at the World Trade Center as it is crumbling to the ground. In her last moments, she tells Nate the combination to a safe in her apartment, which contains damning evidence that implicates her employer, United Silicon Enterprises, government officials, and the mob in a scheme to profit from toxic waste produced by the company. With his life turned completely upside down, it is up to Nate to expose the malicious plans of United Silicon Enterprises to the world while mourning Sheila.
Evan Eisenberg with drawings by Steve Brodner
STRANGE ATTRACTORS: LIVES CHANGED BY CHANCE
Edited by Edie Meidav and Emmalie Dropkin UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS, $22.95, 2019
Has a chance encounter ever rerouted your life in an unanticipated direction? Did that redirection seem inevitable? The scientific concept of the “strange attractor” describes an inevitable occurrence that is born out of chaos. Editors Edie Meidav and Emmalie Dropkin invited leading contemporary writers to submit stories contemplating their life experiences through the lens of these questions. Strange Attractors brings you 35 accounts of chaos, fate, and lives changed through chance. With wild stories that include everything from a stranger on a train to advice from a yellow fish, each response is as imaginative and arresting as the next.
THE BOOK OF ISRAELA Rena Blumenthal
Biff Thuringer
GROW GREAT VEGETABLES IN NEW YORK Marie Iannotti
TIMBER PRESS, $19.95, 2019
In Marie Iannotti’s newest how-to book on gardening in New York, the veteran green thumb offers insider advice on the tips and tricks for a fruitful veggie garden. Illustrated with colorful photos of the bounty you can cultivate in your own backyard, Grow Great Vegetables in New York will inspire you to unearth your gardening gloves and trowel and get outside. This book includes all the know-hows of sun, soil, fertilizer, mulch, water, and the best plant options for your specific region. To help plan your garden this summer, take Iannotti’s advice on growing seasons and crop rotation. Her book even includes a planting and harvesting chart on 50 different fruits and vegetables.
NOWHERE TO ARRIVE
WIPF AND STOCK PUBLISHERS, $26, 2018
Jenny Xie
The Book of Israela takes place in 2002, at the height of the second intifada in Jerusalem. Middle-aged psychologist Kobi Benami’s life begins to fall apart at the seams after he is put on work probation and his wife throws him out for infidelity. During this tumultuous time, Kobi takes on a new patient, the alluring Israela, whose life is full of eerie biblical coincidences. Her mysterious husband, Y, has gone missing and Israela claims to be followed by his prophetlike emissaries, members of Y’s ominous organization, The Outstretched Arm. Kobi becomes entangled in Israela’s issues and preoccupied with the peculiar nature of Y. By helping Israela, Kobi is forced to confront his own broken life and tragic past in the midst of an endless war in this debut novel from Rena Blumenthal.
Nowhere to Arrive, a new collection of poetry by NYU professor Jenny Xie, arrives on the heels of her 2018 Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize. Xie’s poetry explores the loaded themes of home, belonging, uprootedness, identity, and otherness as she threads a delicate needle, stitching together the familiar and the foreign. With a world constantly in flux, Xie ultimately recognizes that there is no destination, just a complex journey of self-discovery, which she effortlessly conveys with a careful balance of silence and stark imagistic juxtapositions. Since the release of Nowhere, Xie has been named a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry for her newer collection Eye Level. —Shrien Alshabasy
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS, $11.94, 2019
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CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION presents The Academy of Fortepiano Performance Concerts An immersion into the world of historical pianos Saturday, May 25, 2019 Audrey Axinn, Maria van Epenhuysen Rose, Yi-heng Yang fortepianists, Cynthia Roberts, violin, and winners of the 2019 Sfzp International Fortepiano Competition The sound world of Mozart, Beethoven and others are brought to life as music is performed on the instruments of their time from the Steven E. Greenstein collection of the Piano Performance Museum. Sunday, May 26, 2019 Beethoven, Dussek and Romanticism ALEXEI LUBIMOV, fortepiano Sonatas by Beethoven and Dussek on a Broadwood grand piano and a selection of works by Chopin, Glinka, Field, and Pleyel on an 1840 Pleyel piano.
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Lorkin O’Reilly Heaven Depends (Team Love Records)
Finger-picking guitars lay a bluestone bedrock of folk stylings on this debut album by Lorkin O’Reilly. The fact that the lad hails from Scotland and has Irish heritage would seem to further narrow the musical definition, but most things in life are not black or white, and Heaven Depends mines the grey areas between traditional American, Celtic, and indie folk. The music is original yet influenced, intimate yet expansive, haunting yet serene, searching yet grounded. As the songs weave in and out of a young man’s psyche, they take on life’s experiences and complexities with an old soul’s perspective and the wisdom of a traveler, a transplant, and ultimately an artist. The close-miked voice, personal lyrics, and acoustic instruments welcome the audience into the weathered home and tender heart, where the songs were birthed. Sitting at the kitchen table, we feel the emotions of the wind and the seasons and the sad and beautiful world as it dances and mourns outside. Lines like, “I’m here to raise suspicion / I’ve come to collect your debt / I’m the coming of the seasons, I’m the bookie breaking even” (from “I Reside”) reward the listener with piercing prose as the languid delivery and subtle melodies betray a gentle aloofness. There is an array of thoughtful instrumentation including slide guitar, cello, organ, piano, bass, fiddle, and scant, but well-placed percussion by Lee Falco, who also recorded and produced the album. Lorkin O’Reilly is based in the Mid-Hudson Valley, so keep an eye out for live performances. Team-love.com. —Jason Broome
Bill Brovold Bill Brovold’s Stone Soup (Public Eyesore Records)
On Stone Soup, Ulster Park avant-folk notable Bill Brovold plays an arpeggio on a rattling guitar— prepared in the John Cage fashion—over and over through 13 tracks. It’s a neutral D-A-D across a low octave, and it is the song. The spartan pattern is played without academic exactitude: earthy, broken, with stray rattles and flams making it seem that a rural blues may be impending, or that a Nick Drake tune skipped right after measure one. Each track features a different partner who engages in textural ways with Brovold’s monotune, a series of minimalist dialectics. Mark Ormerod leads it toward irressolute, luminous folk. Scott Burland imports an alien, legato melody that evokes both L. Shankar and sirens. Rhys Chatham fills the ample open space with vocalic drones and winged flutes. Leonardo ProtoPeople delivers the first real disjunction with his asynchronous beats and samples. Steady state and continual change: Brovold holds at center, but not so fiercely, just a guy with an old guitar. Publiceyesore.com. —John Burdick
Nightmares for a Week Celebrations
Ted Daniel Zulu’s Ball
(Boneshaker Records)
(Altura Records)
Kingston’s own Nightmares for a Week have released the follow up to 2013’s Civilian War, and though bands often have an issue of living up to the acclaim of their past work, this collection of 10 tracks does not disappoint in the slightest. There are a remarkable number of very pretty moments on the record: Sugary chorus melodies and spacey, arpeggiated guitar leads add an element of palatability to the vague and widely varied term “punk.” The band takes clear note and influence from artists such as the Get Up Kids and other mid2000s Vagrant Records alumni. Stand-out tracks are the lead single “Arrows” and track three, “Summer”; the latter, like many of the album’s songs, is bubbly and bouncy, with an ear-worm guitar hook and a “whoa-oh” singalong gang vocal coda. But for all the pop, there is still a decent dose of grit making for a successful melange of tones. Nightmaresforaweek.bandcamp.com. —Mike Campbell
What do you get when you let a gaggle of free players loose on the deepest roots of jazz? To put a finer point on it, if you’d let Ted Daniel and his gang loose in midDecember 2015 at the Samurai Hotel Studio in Queens, you would’ve come away with Zulu’s Ball, the Newburgh trumpeter/cornetist’s tribute to the music of King Oliver. Truthfully, this is more celebration than tribute, with the quintet taking modern liberties at will. Charlie Burnham’s fiddle veers from archaic to up-to-the-minute hip; Joe Daley’s fine tuba proves the glue for the whole project; and Marvin Sewell’s guitar is an excellent counterpoint throughout. Sewell trades his genteel electric skronk on the opening “Riverside Blues” for a sliding steel resonator on a bonus duet closer of the song with Daniel. The latter, in its simplicity, its love of the tune, proves the most satisfying take on the whole disc. Facebook.com/Ted-Daniel. —Michael Eck
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poetry
EDITED BY Phillip X Levine
Post, Like, Comment They say it connects us Unites us together as one All the hateful, rude comments We are told that no harm has been done Words hurt, they let out a silent plea for help Yet all we see are kids having fun The world mindlessly Posting, Liking, Commenting An endless cycle, nothing left to do. Nothing left to live for, nothing left to die for They just Post, Like, Comment They try to say it As loudly as they can They yell and scream It hurts More than we know Yet all we hear is POST LIKE COMMENT —Isabella Harris (13 years)
My tattoos are on the inside And just as hard to remove —p
Brooklyn 1953
You Named Yourself
August afternoon hours spent baking in the Ebbets Field cheap seats, six years old, eating undercooked hot dogs, drinking warm orange crush,
At sixteen, you told me you were not a boy, had never been a boy And you named yourself a new name The only name I will ever call you Your hair grew long, and it’s thick and dark, like your dad’s You said, “Mom, I’m ready”, and we went shopping for new clothes When you saw your reflection, you beamed, and it was a smile I had Not seen, maybe ever, till now
nibbling soggy vanilla ice cream cones well into the extra-inning dusk, Willie Mays ends it; driving one out over the center field wall. Leaving, crushed against dusty Exit walls, the aggressive sweat soaked fans, mumbling anathemas, outside, parking lot fist fights, the cobblestoned streets of Brooklyn. Riding home, the sick smell of a low tide that extended the length of Brooklyn; mother smoked incessantly, as always, her unfiltered cigarettes clouding the unventilated, don’t ever, don’t even think about, opening your windows, black Ford.
—Tracey Long
In the Corner on the Floor My son just came home from the war and he sits folded in upon himself in the corner on the floor
—Alan Catlin Omens two mangled fawns on the drive police cruiser before the school blood in my stool and on my gums and in the eye of the dog a crow the size of a child struggling to lift off from the lawn six unanswered calls from andover massachusetts two concrete domes reflected on the hudson in the windows of the moving train an old song heard for the first time a place where something once was —Maggie Mitchell Words He was a writer. I am a writer. And that was just too many words bouncing between us like an echo against a canyon wall. Hard, with jagged edges.
—Sheila Petnuch Fields
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Chase in the 1950s suburbs when I was a boy, dogs ran loose in the neighborhood we were playing in Lenny’s yard when the local pack chased a flatbed truck THUMP
Lights off and in the semi-darkness he seems so small in the corner on the floor As I stand poised in the doorway I see three sons infant child man broken open
a dachshund was caught behind the rear wheel and it was over the driver stopped, picked up the pooch and took it to the door we all pointed to and we followed him cradling his “I’m so sorry” our teacher told us to write what we knew about and it was this —Neal Whitman
in the corner on the floor I wait expectant but he does nothing So, I walk in and sit by his side in the corner on the floor
—Lu Ann Kaldor We Are
Pour Lily Petals on Her Headstone I’d rather take the blade to my own throat than have your fingers curled around it —Meagan Towler
We are the wild The wicked We breathe in deep Release a howl Create harmony with the crickets We let the yellow of the moon Drive us forward As we ride the earth into the morning —Liula Marcellina
Where am I now?
Notes on Osmosis
What a relief.
I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac sitting cross legged on my shoulders. My choice. I put them there.
Language of tea leaves as they settle into a cup.
what a relief when you take off your hat and let me grab your hair. let me be 43 to your 26.
The rock and roll I liked at 17 sounded like Torah to me. It was the sound that came from the jukeboxes hidden in the corners of the pizza parlors and soda fountains of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. At 18 I took a bus to Woodstock, NY Where I met Jennifer, A flower child woman of twenty-five. Later I would find myself running from Tear gas canisters on the Berkeley Campus. Or riding in long haul trucks at 4am with some mad man high on bad weed, Scotch and White Crosses. Always speeding. Always speeding. Now and then I’d land in Jail. It’s the risk you take If you want to be a young, hippie hobo. And I wanted that very much, all those years ago. Half a century, in fact.
Breath. Condensation. Vital force. We float between god and gravity. Pliant, steady. The mind concentrated purified light. Here, now. This. Fluid atmosphere registers all desires on earth. Soul. Body. Body. Soul. Exits through a silver cord in the spine. The atmosphere registers all desires on earth. Water into root. Root into water. Drops of water in the ocean can be counted by the wisdom trance of a six syllable mantra. We reach for one another. Night birds sing all night long.
—Ava M. Hu
No lessons. I was just thinking, that’s all.
Florence
My Dangerous Early Years as a Poet
I hold it there in secrecy. Hold it there in memory. Her breathless finality.
—Dean Goldberg
When I was young, I hung with a dangerous crew. We did line after line till we got haiku. We called ourselves the Villianelles. You didn’t want to meet us in the street. We’d take a large volume of Kerouac and then you’d learn what it means to be beat. We got into all kinds of rhyme schemes. A repeated pattern for us. Sometimes they’d look the other way. But often they’d end in CADA. We were just the kind of men who find themselves going to the pen. As sure as the morning crow of the cock. They’d lock us up in the writers block where we would remain semi-composed until we finished our sentence. But I gave up all that shit when I realized if I wanted to get ahead I’d just have to submit. — Dan Vollweiler
—Jessica Judith Beckwith
It Started With Desperado. I went through your mountain Of notebooks Picked a piece of paper off my carpet Labeled “Songs to play at my funeral.” A tiny scrap Overlooked by everyone Filled with rock ballads And ’80s electronic music. I’ve memorized all of the songs You wanted to die to. —Nicholas Trieste Taps I sound death from the gallery with Trumpets made of gold. I will not dance for your journey. I don’t know where you go. —Gary Barkman
every poem could start with ‘what a relief ’ and that would make sense. Here—what a relief to know only your first name, to allow you to be sweet on me, make love to me in the afternoon winter light, for me to want you just like this. what a relief to know all i need to— the refugee camp where your mother lives the maqluba your sisters served you from a kitchen you weren’t allowed in, your declaration ‘Palestinians are romantics’… everything so awkward and gentle and perfect. what a relief your fresh attention your solicitous concern of the nature of this affair ‘yes, dear, i understand’ your soft young back rounding to collect my jeans from the floor. and when you go your strawberry shisha lips linger, and i find your sticky scent hidden in the warmth. what a relief. —Elsie O’Keefe
The Backward Easel In the Fall i am your ladder In the step of my Father i am my son He can see us blind Truth shelves defiance —J Sweet
laughing lemon drops scatter across green landscape dandelions tease —Fern Suess
voles and chipmunks a feeding frenzy goodbye crocus. crickets and peepers smoldering air soil tickled by sprouts. grasshopper worm red robin swoops down one remains. —Lori MS
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Cinematic Collage An untitled collage by writer, artist and filmmaker Guy Maddin from the upcoming exhibit “Guy Maddin/Rise of the Blind Wombs,” opening June 1 at One Mile Gallery in Kingston.
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May 24 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 May 3: Pete Seeger's 100th Birthday May 5: Neil Gaiman at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck May 8: Craig Ferguson at Bard College May 10: Mushroom Festival in New Paltz May 13: Meat Puppets at Colony Woodstock May 18: Gardiner Cupcake Festival May 21: Mark Dion at Storm King Art Center May 25: Dirty Projectors at Hudson Hall May 26: Field + Supply Spring MRKT at Hutton Brickyard May 28: X at Daryl's House
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The crowd at the fair.
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ong before the maker movement, Neil and Scott Rubinstein, Woodstock-based brothers and woodworkers, set out to create a Hudson Valley arts festival—an event that would showcase handmade products from across the country. In the early ’80s, the Rubinsteins formed Quail Hollow Events, an event promotion business centered on the arts that is now rounding out its fourth decade. Although the initial plan was to hold the festival in Woodstock—a town Taking tickets in the ’80s. synonymous with arts and creativity—the town board wouldn’t allow it, forcing the Rubinstein brothers to look elsewhere. After seeing the beautiful vistas of the Shawangunk Ridge at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz, they immediately felt this was the perfect spot. Thus the Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Crafts Fair found its permanent home and over the years, became a beloved staple of the Hudson Valley, returning every year on Memorial and Labor Day weekends. Quail Hollow Events, now in its 38th year, continues to celebrate the culture of craft—business is viewed as a means of supporting
The Rubinstein family at the fair.
the creative lifestyle. Many Quail Hollow vendors spend the year traveling to and participating in dozens of juried shows throughout the country, resurrecting a form of livelihood based on artistic expression. These makers aren’t bohemian vagabonds drifting from place to place, they are skilled crafters who are as equally business savvy as they are creative. “Many of our exhibitors demonstrate their artistic processes during the festival, allowing visitors the chance to connect with the artists while gleaning a real understanding of their virtuosity and dedication to craft,” said Ola Rubinstein, director of Quail Hollow Events. At this year’s Memorial Day weekend festival, a wide variety of media will be presented, from jewelry, pottery, fiber art, metal, glassware, fine art, and woodworking to small-batch healthcare products like soaps, serums, oils, and elixirs. There will also be edible crafts in the form of cookies, drink mixes, maple syrup, honey, and chocolate. The vendors are curated to ensure a selection of purely handmade goods—this is not a festival for mass-produced items or imported products. A selection of craft beer, wine, and spirits will also be available for purchase at the festival. “I’m thrilled that we can play a real role in revitalizing the culture of handmade in our country,” says Ola Rubinstein. “My husband, Tate Rubinstein, and I love that we are exposing our kids to the magic of creativity and the value of human interaction.” A variety of children’s acts have been lined up, including a performance by master storyteller Jonathan Kruk, who is known throughout the Hudson Valley for regaling children and local history buffs with lively tales of Pirates on the Hudson. Parents can browse festival offerings while their children enjoy the kids’ tent, brimming with creative materials and projects. Local bands are also scheduled to perform live throughout the weekend. Cosponsored by longtime arts supporter Ulster County Tourism, the Woodstock-New Paltz Art & Craft Fair will take place at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz on Memorial Day weekend, May 25 and 26, 10am-5:30pm, and May 27, 10am-4pm. Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, and children 12 and under enter for free. Veterans also enter free on Monday. Discount tickets, coupons and a weekend pass are available online. Later this year, in addition to their annual Labor Day weekend festival, Quail Hollow Events will be hosting the first-ever Oktoberfest Handcrafted at Rhinebeck: A Family Harvest Celebration, to be held at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck on October 5 and 6. Quailhollow.com
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art
Mark Dion, Memory Box, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
Follies were whimsical outbuildings that became popular with European aristocrats beginning in the 16th century. Built in imitation of foreign wonders like Tatar tents, Chinese temples, or Egyptian pyramids, these elaborate decorative structures were flights of fancy, usually serving no functional purpose. In the mid-1990s, artist Mark Dion began his own series of “Follies.” Thirteen of Dion’s built environments will be on display at Storm King Art Center beginning May 4, along with the world-class, permanent collection at the Mountainville sculpture park. “Collecting is at the heart of many of Dion’s works throughout his career,” remarks senior curator Nora Lawrence. Many of the “Follies” include Dion’s own collections. Bureau of Censorship, located in the museum building, is a desk with a 1980s-style computer, beneath a large collection of scissors mounted on particleboard. Nearby is a library of censored books. The Storm King grounds host two hunting blinds—mock accommodations for hunters of distinct social classes. The Dandy Rococo is fitted out with Baroque furniture and a chandelier, while The Glutton displays a plate of sausages on a camouflage tablecloth. Thus can architecture paint a portrait of absent deerstalkers. Grotto of the Sleeping Bear consists of a life-size bear dozing on a pile of American trash. (The bear, incidentally, is not a taxidermied animal but a realistic duplicate—essentially a giant teddy bear.) At least one Dion’s installations has a practical purpose. Storm King Environmental Field Station is fully equipped as a classroom for visiting students with specimen jars, microscopes, telescopes, binoculars, and butterfly nets, plus a library stocked with field guides on birds, plants, and insects. The walls are metal so that
a teacher may set out charts with magnets. Here is a collection of tools for making more collections. Is Dion suggesting that censorship, hunting, and even butterfly collecting are human follies? Certainly that interpretation seems tenable. Can humans find another way to interact with nature besides classifying and killing it? Of course, a collection is never finished; it’s always a work in progress. Many of Dion’s works are site-specific, and pieces that have previously been shown are being reworked for this exhibition. As I write, Dion is scouring auctions, thrift shops, and vintage stores of the Hudson Valley, searching for eccentric beauty. (He prefers to avoid the seductions of the internet.) The staff and volunteers at Storm King have also helped search for the vast array of materials that “Follies” requires. The new season will also mark the inauguration of “Outlooks” by artist Jean Shin, known for her sitespecific installations made with cast-off materials. When she learned that Storm King was planning to remove a group of unhealthy Green Mountain maple trees, Shin conceived of a tribute to them: an epic 50-foot table built from their wood. Seven trees contributed to this super-long picnic table, which anyone is welcome to use as they explore the grounds. Shin had a second idea: to make maple syrup from trees on Storm King’s 500acre grounds. Shin will hold public syrup tastings: an interactive art performance involving all five senses. —Sparrow
In Praise of Folly MARK DION'S WHIMSICAL OUTBUILDINGS May 4–November 11 stormking.org
“Follies” will be on display May 4–November 11. Storm King Art Center is open Wednesdays through Sundays, 10am-5:30pm. (845) 534-3115. stormking.org
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SHIFTING LIGHT
Find Your Center
Fresh Landscapes of the Hudson Valley
JUNE 1–30, 2019 ART AT LEEDS GALLERY
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Self-Realization as a Spiritual Practice
Free demos/workshops. artatleeds.com Detail from View in Coxsackie by James Cramer
JUNE 16 – JUNE 21 This workshop is an entry point into our own wisdom. Using creative exercises, poetry, storytelling and video, we learn the secrets of mysticism and non-duality. We learn how to let go of the fears that have kept us silent and create a life that is full of purpose, spirit and prophetic power.
Mandala: Creating from the Center JULY 12 – JULY 14 The mandala is a symmetrical design that has historically appeared in art forms, architecture and ceremonies around the world. During the retreat individual mandalas are created as a form of self-expression and personal insight. No prior art experience is needed.
Mindfulness and Empowerment Retreat
Rosendale, NY 1 2472 | 845.658.8989 | rosendaletheatre.org Music Fan Film US FRIDAY 5/3 – MONDAY Peterloo FRIDAY, 5/10 – Amazing Grace 5/6 & THURSDAY 5/9, 7:15pm. MONDAY, 5/13, 7:15pm. WED & THUR, matinee 1pm
To Kill a Mockingbird
AUGUST 2 – AUGUST 4
TUESDAY 5/7, 1pm matinee & 7:15pm. Q&A after both screenings with Mary Lois Adshead, Daisy Foote and Robert Clem
PULSE (Perception Uniting Life Spiritual Energy) Manifestation is an empowerment program that gives you a complete step by step process to help you create what you want in your life and eliminate the blockages that have stopped you up until now. Experience how powerful the Re-Creation lens can be, and be a part of creating the life of your dreams.
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The Baker’s Wife
WEDNESDAY, 5/8, 7:15pm. Sponsored by The Bakery, New Paltz & Le Canard Enchaine, Kingston
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church WEDNESDAY 5/15,
7:15pm. THURSDAY 5/16, 2 shows: 1pm matinee & 7:15pm
Live Theatre
SUNDAY 5/19 – MONDAY 5/20 & THURSDAY 5/23, 7:15pm. WED & THUR, matinee 1pm
Burkinabe Rising: The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso WEDNESDAY 5/22, 7:15pm
Rehearsing in Rosendale National Theatre Coriolanus by William Shakespeare SUNDAY,
FRIDAY, 5/17 & SATURDAY 5/18, 7:15pm. SUNDAY 5/19, 3pm. $18 at the door / $15 in advance
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Artwork by ChAntelle norton
Plein air works painted & auctioned same day On the riverside at Garrison’s Landing Silent Auction through May 19
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Clockwise from left: Works by two of the artists participating in LAB Fest 2019, Plate No.350 by Johanna Goodman and a still from The Widow by Eva Depoorter; Vacant Lights, a photograph by Antonio Ruiz.
Repurposed by an arts association and a brewing company, the Garner historic district, a Civil War-era factory complex in West Haverstraw, is a triumph of adaptive reuse. A warren of cavernous brick warehouses linked by winding alleyways, the former textile complex has a dreamlike quality even on an ordinary day—an industrial wonderland for the modern Alice. And on the weekend of May 18 and 19, the 14acre compound will explode into life with immersive projections, live music, site-specific installations, and performance art, as guests sample craft beer and partake in the festivities during the annual LAB (Live, Art, Beer) Fest. The Garner Arts Center, founded in 2003, is dedicated to creating and presenting contemporary, experiential art, providing studio space to nearly 40 artists. LAB Fest is the distillation of this mission, immersing festivalgoers in a whirl of sound, light, shape, and motion that offers something new and different around every turn. The complex is also home to Industrial Arts Brewing Company, and a distinctive home it is. “The design elements grew out of the renovation of this historic site, which is pretty tech-forward for a small brewer,” IAB proprietor Jeff O’Neill told Forbes magazine in 2017. “The contrast and tension between those two factors is pretty cool, you’ve probably got to see it in person to know what I mean.” For the festival weekend, 40 breweries will be on tap in all, bringing together the Hudson Valley’s twin brewing and creative scenes. “Around every corner will
be something special to see or hear, and at every beer maker’s table, something special to taste,” says Kris Burns, Garner’s new Creative Director. Eight food trucks will be offering everything from raw foods (Raw Roots Cafe) to wood-fired sourdough pizza (The Hudson Oven), with a strong accent on fresh, local ingredients and variety (ever had craft beer peanut brittle?). Organizers will be in an especially celebratory mood this year. “This new immersive arts and craft beer festival is being introduced at a strategic moment in the future of the Garner historic district, which has recently secured the necessary approvals from the local government to welcome cafes, restaurants, and boutique retail—a big step towards our long-term vision,” says founder and president Robin Rosenberg. “This is the perfect way to kick off that exciting next phase.” Free shuttles will convey festivalgoers from MetroNorth and Suffern/New Jersey Transit train stations, as well as from free dedicated parking areas around town. And despite the craft brew focus (the festival is limited to those 21 and over), those who want to skip the suds and soak up the arts can take advantage of a half-price admission option. (One of the food trucks offers locally roasted coffee.) Immerse yourself in art, marvel at acrobats, join in the dances, walk the curving Creekside Sculpture Trail, and taste some world-class craft beer. LAB Fest 2019 will take place May 18, 2-6pm, and May 19, 12-4pm. $20-50. Labfestny.com. —Anne Pyburn Craig
Down the Rabbit Hole LAB FEST 2019 AT GARNER ARTS CENTER May 18–19 Labfestny.com
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David Halliday Plays With Tradition
or the past three decades, David Halliday has been engaged in making photographic still lifes, infusing the genre with surrealism, intimacy, and a dynamism that is all his own. Black-and-white silver gelatin printmaking has been the standard for Halliday during most of his career, but with the emergence of digital technologies, color has found solid footing in his overall image-making. His latest photographic series, on display now at Carrie Haddad Gallery, chronicles four trips to Greece over a 10-year period. Halliday creates mesmerizing, full-color still lifes using largely natural subject matter—bougainvillea blooms, freshly caught fish, market produce—with a startling splattering of the manmade. While no stranger to eccentric compositions, in this body of work Halliday goes further, challenging the contiguous twodimensionality of photography, splitting many of his works into two frames. His objects get up and off the horizontal plane, the stock still-life tabletop, and wander off to a new position, leaving the viewer to absorb the separate but related components and contemplate the mysterious in-between. The result is a space that courts the tension between the commonplace and the unexpected. One of the first artists to exhibit at the Carrie Haddad Gallery when it opened in 1991, Halliday never ceases to intrigue viewers, as his subjects are transported from the mundane into a realm of fantastical beauty. His images range from striking in their simplicity to timelessly elegant to head-scratching. He now lives and works in Schodack Landing.
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fairs & festivals Field + Supply Spring MRKT
CRAIG FERGUSON AT BARD COLLEGE
Field + Supply, a modern spin on traditional craft fairs, started in 2014 with a desire to showcase the wide range of artisans from the Hudson Valley. The festival is known for its fall Columbus Day weekend event, but Memorial Day weekend, for the first time Field + Supply will introduce Spring MRKT, with an emphasis on the great outdoors. Browse through fine furniture, apothecary, jewelry, apparel, home accessories, and more from a wide variety of vendors. The MRKT will kick off Friday night, May 24, with a cocktail party, dinner, and live music, and run through Sunday afternoon. $15. Fieldandsupply.com
food & drink Mushroom Festival
The Mushroom Shed, a community-based public art project in New Paltz, will be home to edible and medicinal mushrooms grown on spent beer grains and coffee grounds from local businesses. An extension of The Reformed Church’s Community Garden, The Shed already has a crowd of supporters and collaborators including several community businesses like the Mid-Hudson Mycological Association, Catskill Fungi, Bacchus Brewery, and People’s Cauldron. The Shed will be inaugurated with a Mushroom Festival on May 10. Attendees will be able to try all sorts of fungal treats like mushroom beer, mushroom chocolates, and mushroom coffee. The festival offers mushroom-themed activities and workshops as well, including art, yoga, puppet theater, and a mushroom inoculation demonstration. Built in the style of a historic smokehouse that existed on Huguenot Street in the 1700s, the Shed welcomes every member of the community to enjoy the funky festival. Facebook.com/communitymushroomshed/
books & authors Amy Hempel Reading
On May 4, Bank Holiday, a new Catskill-based reading series presented by After Hours, will celebrate its launch at Bills Bar. Award-winning writer Amy Hempel will headline the show, with a reading from her new story collection, Sing to It. Hailed as the “master of the minimalist story,” Hempel’s collection emphasizes moments of revelation and transcendence, tying together the most private and fundamentally shared human experiences. Since the venue’s conversion from a First Niagara Bank branch to Bills Bar is still underway, drinks will be served by a neighboring bar, HiLo, and Hudson’s Spotty Dog will be teaming up with Bills for book sales. Acclaimed author Marie-Helene Bertino will introduce Hempel’s work and spark discussion. The next reading, on August 3, will showcase poet Ariana Reines, whose collection Sand Book goes on sale this June. Billsbillsbills.bar
books & authors Neil Gaiman + Coraline Screening
Award-winning author Neil Gaiman will be at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on May 5 for a matinee screening of the captivatingly dark film Coraline, directed by the stop-motion master Henry Selick. Based on Gaiman’s fantasy children’s novel of the same name, the film portrays the magical-yet-sinister journey of Coraline as she ventures into a fantastical Other World. Things are seemingly better than real life in this mirror realm, but suddenly everything begins to unravel and Coraline must find her courage to make a challenging choice. Following the screening, Gaiman will answer questions from the audience. $12-$18. May 5, 12:30pm. Upstatefilms.com
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Craig Ferguson reads at Bard College on May 8.
Craig Ferguson is famous. But when you read his stories, it feels like he is your witty Scottish friend sitting next to you in a bar, shooting the breeze. Ferguson’s third book, Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations (Blue Rider Press), is a collection of stories told with transparency, guttural honesty, and fluidity. There are no barriers separating reader and writer, just the gap between two bar stools. American audiences were introduced to Ferguson via “The Drew Carey Show,” where his role as Mr. Wick lasted from 1996 to 2003. He then moved on to host “The Late Late Show” for over 10 years. Those two opportunities (and many others) allowed Ferguson to build a global audience, but the confines of network television never fully suited Ferguson. His writings enable him to open up in a way TV execs would never let him. Although Ferguson is best known as a stand-up comedian and actor, Riding the Elephant proves that the written word is another one of his strong suits. For this Renaissance man, his mode of expression is a question of matching medium to subject matter. “These stories, events, or thoughts, wouldn’t fit into stand-up, or any other medium of expression,” says Ferguson. “More nuances are available when I write, more moods. You can be more experimental, take your time, and craft different layers. These stories are best told through writing. And there are more. These are just the buns that are out of the oven.” Ferguson didn’t write the stories in Riding the Elephant independently from each other. He wrote the book from beginning to end, as a whole. “That way, I
was able to echo from one story to the next,” explains Ferguson. In the book, he doesn’t pull punches nor try to save face in any way. “These stories are honest and to the best of my recollection,” shared Ferguson. “And if you frame them correctly, your past humiliations can be entertaining for someone else. That’s good recycling. If you have trash in your mind and soul and you recycle it for the entertainment of someone else, then I think that’s a good use of it”. Bad decisions make good stories. And Ferguson has got some good stories—stories that could only come from a man who played drums in multiple bands in the early ’80s, before launching a career in stand-up comedy, theater, and television in the UK. These stories could only come from someone who was stifled by the bottle and a bad attitude, but then sobered up and made a life-changing move to the States that quickly launched him into the global spotlight. Ferguson, now is in his late 50s, is ready for a new chapter. “I don’t know how much longer I am going to be doing stand-up,” he divulges. “I am losing the appetite for performance. I have been doing it since I was a teenager. I don’t really want to anymore. I much prefer writing now.” Lucky for fans, Ferguson’s writing is just as enjoyable as the performances he has given on stage and screen. Craig Ferguson will be at Bard College’s Olin Hall reading from his new book Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations on May 8 at 7:30pm. $33 admission includes a copy of the book. —Brian Turk 5/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 99
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food & drink Gardiner Cupcake Festival
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Launched on the village’s Main Street in 2009, the Gardiner Cupcake Festival has become a beloved springtime tradition. This year’s festival (May 18) will begin with a Gardiner 5K Cupcake Classic run through the apple and peach orchards of the Wright’s Farm, a 453-acre property with majestic views of the Shawangunk mountains. The festival boasts cupcakes of every variety, plus other food, music, local vendors, local wine tastings, and plenty of fun opportunities for the children. The vendors hail from the sweetest communities of the Hudson Valley, like Deising’s Bakery from Kingston; Peace, Love and Cupcakes from Woodstock; and Mid-Hudson Cakes from Wappinger Falls. But if you’re watching your sugar, don’t worry. The festival also includes Jamaican and Mexican food, pizza, and creations from Hudson Valley BBQ. Gardinercupcakefestival.com
fairs & festivals Chancellor’s Sheep & Wool Festival at Clermont
Hosted by the Clermont State Historic Site, the Chancellor’s Sheep and Wool Festival brings together over two dozen local vendors and more than 30 skilled artisans and local craftspeople for a day of shearing, spinning, carding, dyeing, and weaving. This fiber-forward festival is geared toward families, and children will be entertained by the colorful yarns, 18th century reenactors, and arts and crafts. Showcasing sheep and wool farmers and vendors from across the Hudson Valley, the festivities celebrate historic fiber arts, culture, and techniques. $8-10. May 4. Friendsofclermont.org
fairs & festivals Basilica Farm And Flea Spring Market
Talented farmers, creators, collectors, and artisans from the Hudson Valley unite at the Basilica Farm and Flea Market on May 7 and 8. Spring-inspired goods will be sold inside Basilica Hudson’s epic industrial venue, including handcrafted apparel and vintage garden sets. If you get hungry strolling through the tables of vendors, there are plenty of opportunities to eat. On Saturday, Swoon will host a pop-up, with a bar and complete menu. On Sunday, Bonfiglio and Bread will take their spot, serving up a spring menu and bar. Originally created on Thanksgiving Weekend 2013 as the antithesis to Black Friday, the fair has grown into a general celebration of the ingenuity and talent of community members while remaining committed to sustainable practices and supporting the local economy. $5. Basilicahudson.org
food & drink Food is Medicine
If your stomach gets queasy after a simple meal, or if you’re tired of popping digestive pills before dinner, consider attending Chef Mike Dederick’s five-course feast “Food is Medicine” at Talliaferro Farms. Working as a chef for 30 years, Dedrick has developed a fascination with food as natural medicine for the mind, body, spirit, and gut. He argues that while American consumers are bombarded with new research every day relating to proper food habits, in reality the majority of foods that we consume are made toxic by pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics. This healthsupportive five-course meal includes a lactofermented vegetable salad, fresh salmon and trout, local rabbit with Wild Hive polenta, apple cake, and fermented kefir ice cream. May 18. $85. Taliaferrofarms.com
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Pete Seeger at home in Beacon in 2011. Photo by Fionn Reilly
On May 3, Pete Seeger would have turned 100 years old. America’s most iconic folksinger, a tireless social/ environmental activist, and a proud Hudson Valley resident, Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94. Beloved by locals, who over the decades encountered him at the countless cause-touting concerts, marches, and casual hootenannies he loved championing—or even just bumped into him while he was out running errands in his hometown of Beacon—Pete left a bittersweet, unfillable hole in our hearts when he passed. And lord, how we need him now. But, of course, Pete Seeger hasn’t really gone away, and he never will. Like Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a character whose peripatetic quest for justice seemed to mirror Pete’s own, he is all around us. Through his songs and the music identified with him— “If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” “Talking Union,” “Which Side Are You On?,” “We Shall Overcome,” and so many others— his legacy embraces and inspires us. It is a constant reminder of our duties to each other as fellow human beings and to the planet we all live on. On June 15 and 16, Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival returns to Croton-on-Hudson. Dubbed the Clearwater Festival for short, this annual, familyfriendly musical gathering celebrates and raises funds for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, an environmental organization Seeger cofounded. But before that, May brings a wealth of concerts and events all across the country honoring the centennial of his birth. Below is a selected regional roundup. —Peter Aaron
May 3 Schenectady “Steering Pete’s Course: Maritime Songs from the Seeger Song Bag” with the Rix (Captain Rick Nestler and Rik Palieri). The Underground at Proctors. 7:30pm. Proctors.org. Northampton, Massachusetts “If I Had a Hammer: A Celebration of Pete Seeger on His 100th Birthday.” Singalong hosted by the Nields to benefit Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity’s Interfaith Build. 7pm. Pvhabitat.org/events/peteseeger.
May 4 Hartford, Connecticut Singalong concert with Magpie, Charlie King, Annie Patterson & Peter Blood. Unitarian Society of Hartford. 7pm. Ushartford.com. Beacon Concert with Pat Lamana, Lydia Adams Davis, Hudson Valley Sally, and Sharleen Lahey. 8pm. Opening on May 4: a month-long art exhibit focusing on Pete Seeger’s life. Howland Cultural Center. Howlandculturalcenter.org. New York City Concert with Piedmont Blüz, Bev Grant, Hudson Valley Sally, Lindsey Wilson, Mike Glick, Vincent Cross, others to benefit People’s Voice Cafe. Community Church of New York U.U. 8pm. Ccny.org.
May 5 Poughkeepsie “Turn, Turn, Turn.” Dance concert by Vanaver Caravan with musical performances by Happy Traum, Maria Muldaur, Kairos, and the Southern Dutchess Coalition Choir. The Bardavon. 7pm. Bardavon.org. Putnam Valley Concert with Pat Lamana, the Trouble Sisters, Rick Nestler, Melissa Ortquist, Andy Revkin, Sarah Underhill, and Susan Wright with Carla Springer and Rick Aparicio. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center. 2pm. Tompkinscorners.org.
May 23 Albany New York Living Legacy Series concert with Arlo Guthrie, Amythyst Kiah, Cary Morin, Dan Zanes & Claudia Eliza, Dar Williams, Tony Trischka, Toshi Reagon, and Bill and Livia Vanaver. The Egg. 7pm. Theegg.org.
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MAY 11 - JUNE 9, 2019 Juror, Kimberly Camp President, Galerie Marie
RECEPTION MAY 18, 4-6 PM
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
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Beacon
Just My Type:
Linda Montano: Angela Dufresne Curated by The MelissaArt/Life Ragona & Anastasia James Hospital Curated by Anastasia James
LeeChelsea Ufan Opens May 5
Sites
Linda Montano, I’m Dying–My Last Performance, 2015, video, color, sound. Video still copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Angela Dufresne, Kerry Downey, 2016, oil on canvas, courtesy the artist
JANUARY 23 – APRIL 14, 2019 FEBRUARY 9 – JULY 14, 2019
Dia:Beacon 3 Beekman Street Beacon New York www.diaart.org
Affiliates
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exhibits
Snap the Whip, Winslow Homer, 1872, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Works by Homer are on display this month are on display this month in Hurley.
“On the Way to Woodstock” at Woodstock Art Exchange New York City-based photographer Amy Lee Hochman finds beauty in unexpected places—the textural surface of rusted metal, the raindropstrewn windshield illuminated by traffic lights, the arc of a fountain jet. Her photographs slow time to a halt, allowing viewers to take in sights they would normally brush past. Hochman’s extensive background with film infuses her digital photography with a nuanced understanding of light, form, and color. The Woodstock Art Exchange is hosting an exhibition of her art, which features abstract photographs printed on aluminum. Through May 15 “Cut & Fold” at Queen City Gallery The dimensional work of Randy Orzano builds a complex and collaborative relationship with honeybees through art. Orzano folds and lays his ink and watercolor paintings into beehives. Over time, by intuition the bees make their own imaginative marks with propolis and pollen on the artworks, sometimes systematically removing sections of the paper with their mandibles. The result is a textured interspecies collaboration, which Orzano will display in “Cut & Fold” at the Queen City 15 Gallery in Poughkeepsie. May 3-June 1
Mark DeLura, Joel Schapira, and Diane Schapira at Re Institute Diane Schapira, Joel Schapira, and Mark DeLura are three artists who all share a personal relationship but express themselves with notably distinct art styles. Diane Schapira uses clay to explore the mysteries of interior space, probing themes of home, community, and hidden treasures. Joel Schapira, husband to Diane, is takes a streamof-consciousness approach to art, writing, markmaking, or painting whatever inspires him in the moment. Mark DeLura, friend to the Schapiras, strips his art down to the bone in what he calls flensed paintings. This minimalistic style creates an immediacy between the viewer and the art’s message. This exhibition at the Re Institute in Millerton is intended to offer you a chance to admire the individual works of these artists, while remaining open to the possibility that their personal relationships create a conversation in their art. Through May 25 “Polly Law: Bricolage” at Albert Shahinian Fine Art Law is best known for her vocabulary-themed works: paper dolls illustrating such unfamiliar words as “lissotrichus,” “napiform,” and “slimikin.” Law’s assemblages, which will be on display at the Albert Shahinian gallery in Rhinbeck, are made from a collection of found objects and fine art materials that, when combined, are more than the sum of the parts—paper dolls that are metametaphoric extensions of human essences. Through June 23
“New Sculpture” at Holland Tunnel Gallery Though primarily known for her colorful abstract paintings, artist Vivien Abrams Collens began experimenting with sculpture in 2015, beginning by modeling the stacked vertical geometry of city blocks using small painted blocks of wood. In the years since, the scale and complexity of her sculpture and installations has grown. as she experiments with architectural themes from past wall constructions and paintings. She has now installed five large-scale public sculptures around the country. Collens will debut new sculpture in a mixed indoor/outdoor exhibition at the Holland Tunnel Gallery in Newburgh. May 4-June 23 Winslow Homer at Hurley Heritage Society Museum in Hurley Twenty-four pieces of artwork by the renowned American landscape painter Winslow Homer are on display at the Hurley Heritage Society Museum. These works in particular were inspired by the landscape, houses, and people of Hurley. The exhibition includes “Then and Now” photographs of the locations painted by Homer along with reproductions of his artworks in vivid color. Through October 27
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exhibits
“An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions” at the Lehman Loeb Art Center During the nearly three decades James Mundy worked as the director of the Lehman Loeb Art Center, he nearly doubled the number of artworks in the permanent collection, reaching over 21,000. As a tribute to his leadership and in honor of his retirement, the museum presents, “An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions,” which chronologically traces Mundy’s acquisition of more than 90 works of art from around the globe. Many of these works are light-sensitive and are being brought from the depths of the museum archives for this exhibit, including an exceedingly rare print One Hundred Images of the Amida Buddha. Through September 8 One Hundred Images of the Amida Buddha, ink stamps on paper, Japanese, Heian period, 12th century Image courtesy of The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY
BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN
HUDSON AREA LIBRARY
"Polly Law: Bricolage." Through June 23.
"Nature Narratives: The Botanical Art of Carol Ann Morley." A retrospective collection of botanical art works. Through May 26.
"Letters To Wild Women." Abstract collages by Hudson-based artist Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda. Through May 31.
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY
HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY
"Catching the Light." May 3-26. Opening reception May 3, 5-8pm.
"Recent Paintings: Bruce Pileggi." Through May 5.
22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK
THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT
"Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art." Through September 15.
AMITY GALLERY
110 NEWPORT BRIDGE ROAD, WARWICK "Colorflow: Watercolors by Linda Barboni and Patiricia Foxx." May 4-26.
ANN STREET GALLERY
104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH "Julie Tremblay: Unpacked." Through June 1. Gallery talk on May 25, 2pm.
ART OMI
1405 COUNTY ROUTE 22, GHENT Gold: Katherine Bernhardt. Through May 16.
BANNERMAN ISLAND GALLERY
5 WEST STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA
43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK
THE BLUE STAR GALLERY
107 MAIN STREET, FALLS VILLAGE, CT "Harper Blanchet: Abstract Paintings." May 18-June 30. Opening reception May 18, 5-8pm.
BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
"The Haiku Box Project." Explore the grounds in search of artistmade haiku boxes installed on the mountainside. Through June 30.
CLINTON STREET STUDIO
4 SOUTH CLINTON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE
51 NORTH 5TH STREET, HUDSON
162 MAIN STREET, BEACON
HUDSON HALL
327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON "Hudson Athens Light". A group exhibition of paintings, photography, and sculpture. Through June 9.
HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM 50 RONDOUT LANDING, KINGSTON
"Rescuing the River: 50 Years of Environmental Activism on the Hudson Presented by Bank of America." Through December 31.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON Peter Bonner: The Plains, New Paintings. Through May 19.
"Charles Geiger—Quasibotanics: Smells Like Smoke." New oil paintings and drawings of cactus fields. Through June 28. Opening reception May 3, 6-9pm.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY
"The Contemporary Landscape Art Exhibition." Representational landscape paintings by artists. Through May 26.
BARD COLLEGE: CCS BARD GALLERIES
CMA GALLERY AT AQUINAS HALL
KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER
"2019 Spring Exhibitions and Projects." 14 exhibitions with more than 40 artists. Through May 26.
"Explorations in Form." Works by Sienna Martz and Erica Hauser. Through May 22.
BARRETT ART CENTER
DIA:BEACON
"Saturated: An Eye for Color." A national juried exhibition featuring works by 29 artists. Through May 18.
"Lee Ufan." Three sculptural works by Mono-ha pioneer Lee Ufan. Ongoing.
BEACON ARTIST UNION
EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY
"Eva Drizhal: Enigma." Through May 5.
"Drawings and Paintings Exhibit by Vinnie Gesue." Botanical artwork of local artist Vincienne (Vinnie) Gesue. May 1-31.
150 MAIN STREET, BEACON
33 GARDEN ROAD, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON
55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON
BEAN RUNNER CAFE
MOUNT SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE, NEWBURGH
3 BEEKMAN ST, BEACON
348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION
201 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL
GARRISON ART CENTER
"David Craig Ellis: Make Trump Dance." Loosely political musings rendered through Ellis’ absurdist and irreverent eye. May 7-June 15. Opening reception May 19, 1-3pm.
"Environmental Works: New Sculptures by Kurt Steger." Through May 5.
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23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON
19 CENTRAL SQUARE, CHATHAM "Up With People." Through May 25.
34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
"Labyrinths of the Mind." Group show. May 17-June 30.
LABSPACE
2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE "Susan Carr: Flipside." Sculpture, painting and drawing. Through May 19.
M GALLERY
350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL "Contemporary Artists: A Group Show." May 16-July 15.
MANITOGA/RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER 584 NY-9D, GARRISON
"Michele Oka Doner: Close Your Physical Eye." May 9-November 11.
exhibits
“Far & Wide National” at WAAM From 191 entries, Kimberly Camp, president of Galerie Marie in New Jersey, selected 34 artists from across the country to feature in the second annual “Far & Wide: National” exhibition at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. The various works represent the best of a mix of approaches, mediums, concepts, and cultures. Featured art includes A. E. Richardson’s fantastical digital photography, which catches the eye with its distinctive composition and coloring, and Camille Eskell’s mixed-media sculpture, which offers abstract commentary on gender inequality. May 11-June 9
Everett Kane, untitled, archival pigment print, 2019, from the "Zoltar" series.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART
TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY
"Andrea McFarland: Landscapes Near and Far." Plein-air pastel landscapes. Through May 25.
"In Celebration: A Recent Gift from the Photography Collection of Marcuse Pfeifer." Through July 14.
"Small Works, Large in Meaning." May 3-June 2.
THE MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY @ SUNY ULSTER
SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ARTS CENTER
17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ
1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ
790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN
60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT
"4th Annual Members’ Art Show." Through May 5.
"Unstructured Structures." Featuring the art of Mark Wilson, digital art pioneer. Through May 5.
STANDARD SPACE
TUBBY’S
"John-Paul Philippe: Pond Life." Through May 12.
STORM KING ART CENTER
"TEMP x Tubby’s: Light/Touch." Featuring local artists who approach their practice with lightness. May 4-5. Opening reception May 4, 7-9pm.
5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON
"Mark Dion: Follies." A survey of Dion's compact, decorative structures. Through November 11.
VASSAR COLLEGE: THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER
"In Frederic Church's Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature." May 12-November 3.
THE ART EFFECT
45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE
"An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions." Through September 8.
"Exposure." 16th annual national high school photography competition. Through May 10.
WIRED GALLERY
THE CHATHAM BOOKSTORE
"John Mernin: Latest Works." Through May 19.
"Quiet Light." Stella Elliston exhibit of oil paintings on canvas. Through June 17.
WOMEN’S STUDIO WORKSHOP
491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE “Student Works 2019.” Through May 18.
THE NEWBURGH COMMUNITY PHOTO PROJECT 102 SOUTH WILLIAM STREET, NEWBURGH
"Newburgh Barbershops: Shaping Community." Photography and interviews celebrating nine barbershops. Through June 1.
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE
ONE MILE GALLERY
475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON Works by Mark Hogancamp. Through May 31.
QUEEN CITY 15
317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE "Cut and Fold." Randy Orzano’s artwork explores the intersection and collaboration with bees. May 3-June 1. Opening reception May 3, 5-8pm.
RHINEBECK ANTIQUE EMPORIUM
147 MAIN STREET, SHARON, CT
1 MUSEUM ROAD, NEW WINDSOR
27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM
THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 1946 CAMPUS DRIVE, HYDE PARK
5229 ALBANY POST ROAD (ROUTE 9), STAATSBURG
"Appetites for Change: Foodways in Post-War America." Through July 31.
"Emporium Sculpture Park." This exhibit curated by Franc Palaia includes 14 sculptures by 11 regional artists. Through May 31.
THE RE INSTITUTE
RHINEBECK STARR LIBRARY
68 WEST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK
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"Natural Progressions." Site-specific installations in The Catherine Konner Sculpture Park at RoCA. Through April 30, 2020.
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Meat Puppets play Colony in Woodstock May 13.
CHRIS CORSANO/MARK TRECKA
May 3. The Hi-Lo cafe is quickly becoming a hot spot for cool music. Witness this double bill featuring New England-based drummer Chris Corsano (Björk, Evan Parker, Thurston Moore) and Hudson Valley sound artist Mark Trecka (Pillars and Tongues, Dark Dark Dark). Corsano, who has also done time with freak folkers Sunburned Hand of the Man and Six Organs of Admittance, has been called “a peripatetic ace of the avant-garde” by the New York Times, and “arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz” by The Wire. Trecka, also a writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New Enquiry, will perform selections from his upcoming release, Everything Falling Crosses Over. (Kulton the Maker raps May 2; Bobby Previte and Tony Kieraldo jam May 4.) 8:30pm. Donation requested. Catskill. Hilocatskill.com.
0+ NORTH ADAMS
May 10-11. Nine years on from its local launch, the revolutionary 0+ Festival franchise of music, art, and wellness continues to expand its healing reach into other cities. This month sees the celebration arrive in Western Massachusetts with the inaugural 0+ North Adams festival. Headlining the happening is French-Cameroonian duo Les Nubians, who are known for their inimitable fusion of Francophone hip-hop and sweet R&B. Also among the event’s 20 musical acts are Frenchy and the Punk, Home Body, JB!! AKA Dirty Moses, Kortnee Simmons, MSL, Spero, Hill Haints, Belle-Skinner, Mama’s Marmalade, Jagweed, and Weegee and the Wondertwins. Nine visual artists will be showing their work, and wellness clinics will be open to participating artists. See website for passes and schedule. North Adams, Massachusetts. Opositivefestival.org.
THE FELICE BROTHERS
May 11. In a manner befitting the biblical-parable vibes of many of their songs, the prodigal sons of Palenville return to the regional stage with this night in BSP’s back room to unveil their first album in three years, Undress. In the time since 2017’s In the Dark, main songwriter and vocalist Ian Felice became a father and released his first solo record and his first book of poetry, and the band welcomed new bassist Jesske Hume (Conor Oberst) and drummer Will Lawrence. Last month brought the third single from Undress, “Special Announcement,” a timely snipe at political corruption. With Jonathan Rice. (And the Kids kill it May 5; Los Mirlos make psychedelic Peruvian chicha sounds May 13.) 7:30pm. $25, $30. Kingston. (845) 481-5158; Bspkingston.com.
THE MEAT PUPPETS
May 13. In the mid-1980s hardcore scene, Arizona’s Meat Puppets stood out like a tie-dye T-shirt in a room full of black leather. Although they began as blistering thrashers, with their 1984 album Meat Puppets II they found their defining M.O.: a surreal, sunbaked blend of loping country, Grateful Deadish psychedelia, hard-rock boogie, and noisy punk. The Pups’ crazy-cactus cocktail influenced many who caught them during their own tours or with their SST label mates Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, and the Minutemen—notably the members of Nirvana, who invited them to collaborate on “MTV Unplugged”; 1994 brought their hit “Backwater.” Colony welcomes the original trio of brothers Chris (bass, vocals) and Kurt Kirkwood (guitar, vocals) and Derrick Bostrom (drums) augmented by Kurt’s son Elmo (guitar) and Ron Stabinksi (keyboards). With Sumo Princess and Steve Maglio. (Kevin Devine and John K. Samson sing May 12; Carla Olson and Todd Wolfe come by May 19.) 7pm. $25, $30. Woodstock. (856) 679-7625; Colonywoodstock.com.
DIRTY PROJECTORS
May 25. Since being launched in 2002, Dirty Projectors have seen enough transitory members pass through their ranks to fill a phone book (do they still make those?). Led by main man David Longstreth (vocals, guitar), the Brooklyn-born collective’s 30-plus list of past players includes notable names like Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend), Tyondai Braxton (Battles), and Olga Bell. Currently a sextet, the group is still basking in the glow of last year’s Lamp Lit Prose, their 10th album of arty, lo-fi pop confections. In preparation for their playing the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona at the end of the month, the Projectors have trained their lenses on Hudson Hall, where they’ll be rehearsing before doing this rare area date. (Shenel Johns and the Dominick Farinacci Quintet pay tribute to “Ladies of the Blues” June 1.) 8pm. $35. Hudson. (518) 822-1438; Hudsonhall.org.
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May 28. Unquestionably among the leading lights of the early Los Angeles punk scene, X, which formed in 1977, will play Daryl's House. The foursome’s formula of bassist John Doe and singer Exene Cervenka’s skewed harmonies and desperate lyrics, guitarist Billy Zoom’s rootsy/buzzsaw riffing, and drummer D.J. Bonebrake’s rock-steady, unflinching beat sounds like nothing else that came out of LA during the era. Crystallized across their first four Ray Manzarek-produced albums—1980’s Los Angeles, 1981’s Wild Gift, and 1982’s Under the Big Black Sun, and 1983’s More Fun in the New World, all of them essential American rock ’n’ roll records— the band’s deep sound crosses the straight-punk attack of contemporaries the Ramones and the Sex Pistols with timeless rockabilly, country, folk, and blues influences. (Rhett Miller returns May 3; Chuck Prophet plays solo May 19.) 7pm. $40. Pawling. (845) 289-0185; Darylshouseclub.com.
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Horoscopes By Lorelai Kude
WE SING THE BODY ELECTRIC May is when we feel our deep connection to the natural world in our very DNA. Disturbances and imbalances in our bodies and souls are not isolated from the rest of creation. It’s with this knowledge that we understand there is nothing status quo about the status quo when Mother Earth, in all her glory, dons her fanciest robes for the new moon in sensual, Venus-ruled Taurus on May 4. She doesn’t dress like a doctor, but that’s what she is—and she’s offering healing. Sun and Mercury join erratic, original, revolutionary, shock-jock Uranus in Taurus on May 8, inviting us to wake up and smell the coffee in a most vehement and decisive way. The coffee in this case is our increasingly undeniable interconnectedness and the impossibility of isolating our personal choices from collective consequences. Mighty warrior Mars moves into maternal Cancer on May 15, giving us the tools to fight against forces that value short-term gain over long-term good. Halfway through the month, our collective condition is eclipsed by personal priorities. We sing the body electric when Venus conjuncts Uranus in Taurus opposite the full “blue” moon in passionate, possessive Scorpio on May 16. It is indeed a bridegroom night of love, working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn! What magic is made there will have staying power if terms can be agreed upon between commitment to others and truth to one’s self. The Sun and Mercury enter lively, communicative Gemini May 21, creating a buzz that turns into a deafening roar around May 30, when enlarging Jupiter in solar opposite Sagittarius turns the noise up to 11 on the amplifier dial. If you’ve banked a decent amount of tranquility earlier in the month, you’ll survive the tornado of escalating chatter. Accept the healing remedy Doctor Mother Earth gives you during May to keep you grounded!
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Venus in assertive Aries and Mars in data-driven Gemini through May 15 drives you to pursue romance and conduct courtship via the communicative arts, perhaps with someone “exotic,” “foreign,” or far away. Weighing security and risk/reward returns against the quest for love gets serious about May 7. Is this a step in the right direction or a rerun of past relationships in a different disguise? Events of May 16-17 confirm your decision, and then comes the hard work of stepping up to the plate. Come out swinging on the full “blue” moon on May 18, and hit a home run!
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New moon in Taurus on May 4 refreshes your heart, ruling planet Venus’s ingress into Taurus on May 15 refreshes your soul, and Mercury’s swift ride through Taurus May 6-21 refreshes your mind. Harness your powerful creative forces this month, and ride them to the uttermost; conditions are excellent for progress on every front. You’ll surprise yourself, and everyone else, with declarative truths May 8 and powerful passions May 16. You’ll want to put a deposit down on a sure thing May 14-15 but delay until May 21-22 to stress-test your comfort zone. Cozy emotional conditions on May 31 produce intense intimacies.
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GEMINI (May 20–June 21)
Guess who’s not having a Mercury Retrograde during May? That’s right: Gemini. You’re all zippity-do-dah all month long, as ruling planet Mercury skips from fiery, impatient Aries through May 6 to solid, steady Taurus through May 20, and then straight on till morning into your home sign on May 21. You’ll be plenty busy pollinating vertical ideas and accomplishing horizontal tasks, especially around May 5-7. Take care not to overextend your optimism as gigantically hopeful Jupiter opposite your sign tempts you to bite off more than even you, with your prodigious jaws and multitasking skill set, can chew.
CANCER (June 21–July 22)
Assertive Mars enters Cancer May 15, bringing progressive energy and great urges to push forward, though not necessarily in a straight line. Cancer is a Cardinal/Initiating sign, but like the crab for which it is named, Cancer travels forward by a series of switchbacks. Despite feeling like it’s two steps forward and one step back, the direction is clear, momentum is strong, and determination is high as you feel yourself moving toward your destiny. The full “blue” moon in sensitive, passionate Scorpio on May 16 stimulates a heart opening in surprising ways, supporting your powerful urge to achieve your goals.
LEO (July 22–August 23)
Ruling planet Sun in Taurus through May 20 challenges your concepts of the status quo. Break through to a higher level of leadership and authority around May 11 as you initiate a new role. With the Sun and Mercury in Gemini after May 21, you’ll be busy in the communications sector, but what people really want from you is your radiant presence and compelling charisma, which are best served warm and in-person. No matter how techie you are, nothing will ever replace the power of your face-to-face presence. When tempted to phone it in or hide behind a screen, don’t.
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Ruling planet Mercury traveling through not one but three constellations during May will keep you running! The Sun and Mercury in fellow Earth sign Taurus May 6-20 support all your efforts toward stability, strengthening of foundations, shoring up of vulnerable areas, securing competencies, and conscious care of resources. You’ve worked hard to prove yourself in challenging environments, and you’ve done your homework. Shifting into warp-speed hyperdrive May 21-24 as the fruits of your efforts ripen is exciting and your accomplishments are prodigious, but beware of how many balls you’re juggling now. Good self-care is crucial to avoid burnout, especially around May 26.
LIBRA (September 23–October 23)
Ruling planet Venus in your solar opposite Aries through May 14 brings dynamic tension between partnership and individuality. Venus’s move into sensual Taurus on May 15, coupled with the ingress of desire-driven Mars into domestic Cancer the same day, harmonizes emotions, resets priorities, and resolves tensions via the most old-fashioned and effective of remedies: intimate bonding. Yet it may even feel entirely new and perhaps different and surprising, infusing you with a newfound appreciation for your partner and fresh levels of wonder at the resurrecting power of renewable love energy. Revive worthy relationship status by solidifying only healthy commitments May 30-31.
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SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)
The full “blue” moon in passionate, possessive Scorpio on May 18 is high tide for the ship of your emotional state to sail. Mars in Gemini the first half of the month sees all roads leading to proverbial Rome but, after moving into fellow Water sign Cancer May 15, understands wisdom: water seeks its own level. Pluto in conservative, value-driven Capricorn, conjunct Saturn and the South Node, asks you to choose what is built for not just life, but for afterlife. As Egyptian tombs contained supplies for the next world, your heart factors eternity when calculating the cost of commitment.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22)
Ruling planet Jupiter’s retrograde in home sign Sagittarius isn’t so bad, as retrogrades go—except if you’re averse to weight gain or debt accrual. Your job through August is to keep from losing hard-won ground you’ve been fighting for since January. Stay connected to your visionary dreams and understand you’re gaining torque rather than linear force. The force of your trajectory depends on self-control and the focus you exert until the time when that rotational, twisty energy is finally released around late summer. Tighten your grip May 11 and allow events the week of May 19-25 to recalibrate any slippage.
CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20)
Ruling planet Saturn snuggling with Pluto and the South Node stimulates nostalgia for the “good old days,” but were they really that good? Or is your memory selective when it comes to power struggles, possessive patterns, and unhealthy constrictions? Your task is to bring forward what was truly good and to leave behind the unhelpful, unproductive, and toxic bits. You can’t do an emotional remodeling job like this without making a bit of a mess, so prepare for some backsplash, especially around May 21-23. Do the hard but important personal growth work and reap rich and lasting rewards.
AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19)
A puzzling person or annoyingly incomprehensible challenge you’ve been working on suddenly makes surprising sense May 6-8. Deeper realms of self-understanding lead to more profound personal responsibilities. That quest for knowledge has also brought you power—how you use it is your test. Because you’re the famous humanitarian of the zodiac, you’ll want to use power for good. Consider your definition of “good,” and make sure it applies broadly to everyone in all cases. You shine brightly May 23-25 with a contagious charisma: It’s a great time to pitch your ideas to those with open ears and resources.
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Mars in emotional Cancer after May 15 and the full “blue” moon in Scorpio on May 18 recalibrate your overstimulated self and help reset your gears, which may have felt a bit stripped recently. If you fell off a wagon you didn’t even know you were on last month, don’t despair—you’re only bruised, not broken. The secret of your famous fragility is that you’re really like spider silk—impossibly fine and yet surpassingly strong. Hidden resources of wisdom and near-supernatural sensitivity to others create a perfect storm of power clothed in humility: the ultimate secret weapon.
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A Little Beacon Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Adams Fairacre Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Apple Bin Farm Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Aqua Jet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Antiques at Rhinebeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Arrowood Farm-Brewery . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Art at Leeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Aryeh Siegel Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Aston Magna Music Festival . . . . . . . . . . 88 Atlantic Custom Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Atlas Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Augustine Landscaping & Nursery . . . . . . . 47 Bacchus Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 The Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Bardavon 1869 Opera House . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Beacon Natural Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Beacon Veterinary Associates . . . . . . . . . 67 Benjamin Custom Modular Homes . . . . . . . 44 Benmarl Vineyards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Binnacle Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Bistro To Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Blackbird Attic Boutique . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Bodhi Spa, Yoga, & Salon . . . . . . . . . . . 108 The Brew Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Brother’s Trattoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Buns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Cabinet Designers, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Cafe Mio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Carrie Haddad Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Cassandra Currie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Catskill Art & Office Supply . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Catskill Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Catskill Mountain Foundation . . . . . . . . . . 88 Catskill Mountain Railroad . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Clinton Shops Antique Center . . . . . . . . . 77 Colony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Colorant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 CO. Rhinebeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Country Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Country Living Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Daryls House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Dental Office of Drs. Jeffrey & Maureen Viglielmo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Design Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries . . . . . . . . . 102 Dogwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Douglas Elliman Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dr. Ari Rosen - Stone Ridge Healing Arts . . . . 51 Dreaming Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Dutchess Pride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Edward Tuck Architect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Eileen O’Hare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Elyse Harney Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 embodyperiod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 The Falcon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Fionn Reilly Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 From Europe to You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Gabby Grace Landscaping & Masonry . . . . . 67
Garrison Art Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Glenn’s Wood Sheds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Glynwood Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Green Chimneys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Green Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Green Mountain Minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Gunk Haus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Hales Hardware & Home Supplies . . . . . . . 44 Harney & Sons Fine Teas . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Hawthorne Valley Association . . . . . . . . . 57 Health Quest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back Cover Herrington’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Historic Huguenot Street . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Holistic Natural Medicine: Integrative Healing Arts . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The Homestead School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Hotchkiss School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 The Howland Cultural Center . . . . . . . . . . 67 Hudson Fashion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Hudson Hills Montessori School . . . . . . . . 61 The Hudson Underground . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Hudson Valley Distillers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Hudson Valley Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc. 98 Hudson Valley Sunrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Hummingbird Jewelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Hurleyville Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Inner Alchemy Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Jack’s Meats & Deli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Jacobowitz & Gubits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 John A Alvarez and Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 John Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Kaatsbaan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Kary Broffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Kasuri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Kearney Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Kingston Consignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Kol Hai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 L Browe Asphalt Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 The Leaf Brands, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Liza Phillips Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Love Apple Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Lorraine Goldbloom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Lush Eco-Salon & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Majestic Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Malouf’s Mountain Campground . . . . . . . . 67 The Mariandale Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Mark Gruber Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Maya Gold Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Menla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Michael’s Appliance Center . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Mid Hudson Home Inspectors . . . . . . . . . 44 Mid Hudson Regional Hospital . Inside Back Cover Mod66 Salon & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Mohonk Mountain House . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Montgomery Veterinary Hospital . . . . . . . . 55 Mountain Laurel Waldorf School . . . . . . . . 57 My Cleaning Ladies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 N & S Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Newburgh Free Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Newburgh Illuminated Festival . . . . . . . . . 106
Newburgh Vintage Emporium . . . . . . . . . . 77 North Plank Road Tavern . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Omega Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Oz Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Pamela’s on the Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Pandorica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Pegasus Comfort Footwear . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Peter Aaron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Hudson Valley Native Landscaping . . . . . . . 47 Poughkeepsie Day School . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Primrose Hill School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 61 Quail Hollow Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 94 Redeemer New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Red Hook Curry House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Red Mannequin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Regal Bag Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Regent Tours, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Rhinebeck Crafts Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Ride for Mental Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 River Pool at Beacon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Rocket Number Nine Records . . . . . . . . . 106 The Rodney Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Rosendale Theater Collective . . . . . . . . . . 96 Ryan Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art . . . . . . . . . 102 Schatzi’s New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Schatzi’s Poughkeepsie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Scribner’s Catskill Lodge . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Shady Knoll Orchards & Distillery . . . . . . . . 31 Solar Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Stacie Flint Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Stamell String Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Stewart House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Suffern Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . . . 54 Sunflower Natural Food Market . . . . . . . . . 10 SUNY New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Tanglewood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Third Eye Associates Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Tiki Temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Town and Country Liquors . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Transcend Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Transpersonal Acupuncture . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Tuthilltown Spirits, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Ulster County Office of Economic Development . . . . . . . . . . 2 Unison Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Upstate Chiropractic Care . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Vitality Bowls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 WAAM - Ulster Artists On-line . . . . . . . . . 102 Wallkill View Farm Market . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 WAMC - The Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 The Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock . . . . . . . 86, 88 Wild Earth Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Williams Lumber & Home Center . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover Wimowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Woodland Pond at New Paltz . . . . . . 1, 26, 27 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild . . . . . . . . . . 86 YMCA of Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Yoga on Duck Pond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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For 25 years, artist Gerard Wickham lived in the Hudson Valley and commuted daily to a job in Manhattan. “During that time, I was still creating artwork as often as I could, but it was necessary that I develop a more planned and structured approach,” he says. “I don’t think my work necessarily suffered from this, perhaps just evolved into something else.” In 2017, Wickham retired and began spend more time on his creative pursuits. “Nature drew me here,” he says. “Only later did I start to discover that there were a lot of venues here that were supportive of the arts.” After retiring, Wickham began attending the weekly life drawing sessions at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz, which became a space for encouragement, feedback, and creative camaraderie. “I discovered what a great resource just getting together with an everevolving group of local artists on a weekly basis can be,” he says. “We share information on materials, art stores, current exhibitions, and even movies and TV shows on art and artists. After years of working on my own, I can’t express how helpful I find this.” In May, Wickham will have his first solo show at Unison. The majority of the pieces in the exhibition were created during his years commuting to the city, a transitional and significant time in his artistic process. Time freezes in Wickham’s pieces, offering a rare, intimate, and often comical window into his home life. The realistic paintings capture an intensity of expression, telling a story for each moment. “A Matter of Time” will be on display at Unison Art Center May 5-29. Opening reception is on May 5, 4-6pm. Unisonarts.org —Shrien Alshabasy 112 PARTING SHOT CHRONOGRAM 5/19
Gerard Wickham, Aloft, oil on canvas, 2006.
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