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12 On the Cover 16 Esteemed Reader 19 Editor’s Note 20 Q&A with Eva Tenuto 21 The Impossible Dream 24 Chronogram Conversations Recap
62 Right Down the Line
FOOD & DRINK 28 [Skin] Contact High Winemakers at Wild Arc Farm embrace organic, low-intervention methods.
37 The Drink: Blueberry Cardamom Fizz This spin on a classic fixx blends the rich nutty flavor of port with the tarness of berries.
HOME & GARDEN 40 Tent, Deconstructed Inspired by geometry and nature, two architects redefine the concept of “open house.”
50 Saving Heirloom Seeds In her latest book, writer, gardener, and seedsaving activist Amy Goldman Fowler shares the tips for growing, picking, and eating melons.
HEALTH & WELLNESS 58 Psychedelic Nation
These four day-trip itineraries take you through town and country, showcasing the Hudson Valley’s natural and cultural splendors.
COMMUNITY PAGES 64 Endless Waves: Hudson As a new generation comes of age in Hudson, we look at the age-old and distinctly modern issues facing the riverfront city.
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82 Minding the Mind As the stigma around mental illness decreases, New York State schools are working to incorporate mental health first aid programs and teacher training to better support students.
86 Waldorf Education’s Centennial On the 100th anniversary of the first Waldorf school, a look at the history, principles, and practices of these mindful, child-centric learning institutions.
HOROSCOPES 124 Sifting for Gold Lorelai Kude scans the skies and plots our horoscopes for September.
90 one impulse from a vernal wood
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111 Inside the only combination sculpture parkcattle farm in the Northeast.
A review of cider-maker Andy Brennan’s new book, Uncultivated: Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living, plus a roundup of six egional cookbooks spanning artisanal breadmaking, plant-based cuisine, sauce-making, and the inspired reinvention of leftovers.
105 Music Album reviews of When This Life is Over by And The Kids; All My Relations by Cochema; Upstate’s Healing; and the self-titled Brutalism.
106 Poetry Poems by Farrell Greenwald Brenner, OHC, Paula Dutcher, bge, Thomas Festa, Brother John Forbis, William J. Joel, Mike Jurkovic, Audrey Lodato, Jennie ML Ossentjul, Anne Richey, Richard J. Treitner, and Alyx Twining-Nelson. Edited by Philip X Levine
113 Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers bare all, tackling themes of natural disasters, nudity, Puerto Rican corruption, and queer pride. 115 Queer Latinx artists explore liminal spaces, identity, and trauma in “Entre Espacios.” 117 Artist RR Pollak exhibits his collection of vintage comic strip art at the Ellenville Library. 119 A gallery guide for September. 123 Six live music shows to pencil in this month, from Basilica Soundscape to Polo G.
128 Parting Shot Photojournalist Lowell Handler captures the personal, intimate moments in a complex, political narrative.
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Chronogram the unaided human hand is everywhere felt. All those stripes? Free-handed one by one, reflecting the focused efforts of a painter using her art to delve into the mysteries of life embodied. She made “Pressed” shortly after giving birth to her son and the painting was a continuation of a series about the experience of breastfeeding. The title refers to both the sense of pressure evoked by the painting’s compositional momentum and the time limitations and tensions of being a new mother. Though not a meditator, Kemp reports that when immersed in her repetitive process, “time operates in a different way.” Deaccelerated, highly focused—the slow reveal. The compositions have been sketched loosely in a notebook and she has a good idea of where her signature zipper-like stripes will go. But the colors run deep to that place where decisions are felt out, not thought out. Sometimes the colors reveal their necessity in the painting process, where the brush meets the substrate, and the artist’s eye watches as the bloom of the image unfolds. The ongoing dance of biomorphic form and energizing stripes gives rise to the evolving work, including passages that could be perceived as peripheral moments but are actually seeds of surprise. Kemp’s wordless narratives of embodied truth are open-ended. Dispatches sent back from an unfolding voyage of discovery. The artist states, “Once things get towards overt territory that’s when I change path towards open ground.” “Pulse” is on display through September 15 at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson. —Carl Van Brunt
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In order to create, it is necessary to be liberated by voluntary death, the death of the ego. Creative vision only belongs to one who dares to look into the depths of himself as far as the void. —Jeanne De Salzmann, The Reality of Being She never stumbles, she’s got no place to fall She’s nobody’s child, the Law can’t touch her at all —Bob Dylan, “She Belongs To Me”
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: When my two boys were small we had the garden-variety battles of will. Something needed to happen—going to school or to a gathering, raking leaves, practicing an instrument, or signing up for a class or activity. Every so often, as we struggled about whether this or that thing would happen, they would ask the key question. “Do I have a choice?” My answer was always the same. “Of course you have a choice. It is one choice—the thing that must be done.” This was not the answer they expected or wanted. As they did the math, they found that it didn’t add up. How could only one option represent choice? “That’s not fair, Dad! It makes no sense” they argued. “It makes perfect sense,” I countered. “You can choose the inevitable. Instead of the task being foisted and your participation coerced, you can bring your will to it and make it your own. Then it is truly your choice.” Though they denied that they understood my meaning, I know that they did, because I saw them secretly struggling with themselves to first of all accept and then choose the inexorable eventuality. “Delivery from preferences, from your likes and dislikes,” I lectured, as their eyes began to glaze, “is real freedom of choice. Only when you are free from the desires for one or the other can you have the perception and discernment to see what liberates creative possibility.” Now the boys are teenagers, and we laugh about those early lectures. Recently, one asked if my nuanced argument was a subtle form of coercion. I said it was true that it was easier for me if he had cooperated, and that my true aim was to give him a chance to see that his resistance could be transformed into a positive intention. Laying it out for children is far easier than dealing with similar dilemmas in myself. I am faced with this collision of yes and no many times a day. Sometimes it has a sharp quality, like the shock of the queue ball hitting its mark on a pool table. Other times it is a slow burn, a simmering resentment that another person is behaving other than how I want, something isn’t happening as it should, or that I am unable to rise to an occasion and accomplish the work that is needed. In these events I am confronted with the feeling that there is no escape from an insoluble conflict and contradiction. Like being crucified, I see no way out and can easily collapse into anger, hopelessness, or some variant of dissociative withdrawal. In the midst of the struggle, I recognize my helplessness in the face of the dilemma and perhaps catch a fleeting glimpse of the nothingness at the core of all the sturm und drang. Of a sudden it looks like that scene from Vanilla Sky in which Tom Cruise walks through an empty and silent Times Square. Struck by an unexpected silence, I become aware that an invisible source of help is present, an energy which is at the same time an intelligence. Movement becomes possible in the situation that was, only moments before, utterly intractable. The help is silent, like an angelic hand reaching down from the Cloud of Unknowing. When I see that I can do nothing and that I am reliant on a source of help beyond my own resources, I see that real choice is no choice at all. What is needed is to choose what leads to refinement, to something new. Allowed to be completely honest, I see that the real choice, the only choice is always clear. The words of Krishna to Arjuna on the battlefield in the Bhagavad Gita echo through all time: “Great hero! Cut the knot of ignorance in your heart with the sword of self knowledge, and do your duty!” —Jason Stern
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Geysers of Power
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and make peace with the circumstances, or else to commit to changing the reality. But it became clear that my old stand-by of stay-and-sulk was an abominable abdication of power. To those older and wiser than myself, this truth may seem so obvious and self-evident
It suddenly became clear that my old stand-by of stay-and-sulk was an abominable abdication of power. that it doesn’t merit mentioning, but it was ground-shaking for a 27-year-old who was simultaneously dodging accountability and deeply craving a stronger sense of agency in my life. This lesson has returned to me time and
again in the last year. Since that summer day, I have moved out of the home I shared with that partner for years, travelled to Argentina and back, and stepped into greater responsibility at work. I find myself alone in an echo chamber, testing things, rejecting things, shifting pieces, and responding to my own actions, trying always to read the landscape and detect the geysers of power. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I succeed. I share this story not to illustrate some moral high ground but rather to humanize this magazine, produced as it is by a team of lovely, fallible, earnest individuals like myself. Growth takes many forms. Sometimes it’s catalyzed by psychedelics, sometimes it’s spurred by desperation. It’s almost always uncomfortable, but the trek forward is infinitely better than stagnation. And as we all sprint, stagger, nap, and bootstrap on the road to transformation, my hope is that this magazine provides a breathing picture of our progress as a community. 9/19 CHRONOGRAM 19
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No Such Thing As Too Much Information When we did that first production, there was a response that I had never seen. People felt really honored to be in the audience— and they could see themselves in the performers. It also had this contagious truthtelling ripple effect. I just instinctively knew we had to keep going.
Kingston-based nonprofit TMI Project was founded in 2010 with the honorable mission of “offering transformative true storytelling workshops and live storytelling performances to underserved communities.” Over the course of several months, storytellers workshop monologues, bringing to light the “TMI” parts of their stories, the parts they usually leave out because of shame or embarrassment. These workshops culminate in an evening of live performances. Over the next four months, we will be featuring monologues from TMI Project’s archives in Chronogram. To kick things off, we sat down with the organization’s cofounder and executive director, Eva Tenuto. TMI Project’s annual benefit, Voices in Action, will take place on September 21 at BSP Kingston, with a cocktail hour at 7pm and the show at 8pm. Tmiproject.org —Marie Doyon Ten years ago you started TMI Project. What was the original idea, and why was storytelling the mechanism? ET: It started a bit unintentionally. I had been hired to direct “The Vagina Monologues” for a local organization’s benefit in 2008 and 2009. It was really successful. In 2010, they asked me to do it again, but I had worked with pretty much the same cast of women both years, and I knew they had their own stories— some had written memoirs and tucked them away, some had solo shows. So I asked if I could curate a lineup of our own stories. And they took a chance.
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Since 2010, TMI Project has held 90 workshops and worked with 1,750 storytellers. Performances have been held in school auditoriums, detention centers, and mental health facilities. Were you also finding storytellers in these communities? Yes. We’ve been doing ongoing work with the Mental Health Association (MHA) of Ulster County. We hold two 10-week workshops a year through them. We also created a documentary called Vicarious Resilience, which shows the kind of transformation that takes place from the moment someone walks through the door to the moment they step off stage. What always strikes me is that it’s a population that we so often hear other people talk about, but I’d never heard someone with paranoid schizophrenia talk about their own experience. We also worked at the Highland Residential Center with incarcerated teen boys. They contracted us to come in, and it was the hardest work that we’ve done to date. They are the most abandoned population I’ve ever worked with—no guidance, no support working through things. TMI Project’s annual benefit, Voices in Action, is coming up on September 21. What can attendees expect? We have a storytelling showcase that highlights storytellers from the previous year’s programs. This year we will have a participant from a program we did with RUPCO at the Lace Mill. We’ll feature a storytellers from LifeLines: Queer Stories of Survival, a program we did with the Trevor Project that brought people from all over the country. We are in production for our first-ever podcast series, and we are going to debut audio to the audience. We’ll have some musical surprises. There is also a cocktail hour with food and drinks. Almost every performance we do other than this is free and open to the public. This is our one major fundraising event to fuel programming for the following year.
As part of the benefit, TMI honors local agents of change. This year you are recognizing Jeff Rindler, Executive Director of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center; artist Ubaka Hill; RUPCO; and Secret City founder Chris Wells. How do these individuals and institutions reflect the mission of TMI? Jeff has really changed the culture and accessibility of the LGBTQ Community Center and has been so supportive of the work we’re doing with that community. Ubaka has been using drumming as a form of activism and vehicle for connection for years. We’ve been partnering with RUPCO for a couple of years now, and they are really interested in helping us create stories about housing insecurity. Chris is a phenomenal storyteller in his own right, and he is using art and storytelling as a way to unite people. Past initiatives have included race, gender, mental health, and the LGBTQ community. How does TMI Project come up with ideas and partnerships for new initiatives? Our guiding principle is focusing on stories that don’t often get told in mainstream media. We want to create and amplify stories from people who don’t often get to tell them. We want to share them with audiences who don’t often get a chance to hear them, and audiences who can relate but don’t often have the experience of having their story reflected back at them. The two biggest issues threatening our life right now are patriarchy and white supremacy, so if we are creating stories that are going against that, we are doing our part. We just did a program with Kingston High School football team. The way patriarchy has impacted boys and men is as serious in some ways as how it has impacted women and girls. It is really important to teach our methodology to boys to help them have coping skills and a new way to communicate. They can’t do it on their own. Aside from the housing initiative, what else is TMI Project working on? We’re teaching a true storytelling workshop for women at Omega Institute in September. We have another MHA workshop series starting in September, we are releasing our documentary Locker Room Talk this fall, we’ll be part of Black History Month in Kingston next year, and our first podcast series will launch in December or January.
TMI Project Essay
The Impossible Dream
by Sam Briton
Last fall, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Trevor Project, which was founded in 1998 to provide crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth under 25, Hudson Valley-based nonprofit TMI Project organized a storytelling initiative called Life Lines: Queer Stories of Survival. In line with TMI Project’s mission of turning up the volume on marginalized people’s stories, the Life Lines series was designed to raise awareness about the struggles, dangers, and triumphs of the LGBTQ community. What follows is the monologue developed by workshop participant and performer Sam Briton, who focused on their childhood experience with conversion therapy. The stories from Life Lines were performed live on November 5, 2018, at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City. Select storytellers from LifeLines will perform at the Voices in Action benefit on September 21. A warning: This story includes references to suicidal thoughts. If you are thinking about suicide or are feeling alone and need someone to talk to, please call the Trevor Lifeline at (866) 488-7386 for immediate help. It’s free, confidential, and available 24/7. —Marie Doyon (Sung) To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go (Spoken) An impossible dream. An impossible change. That’s what conversion therapy feels like on the best of days. At 11 years old, my therapist whispers to me, “You are the last gay child left alive. Your body will wither and die of AIDS. You are an abomination.” On the worst days, conversion therapy feels like a knife cutting deeper and deeper into my very essence with the hopes of cutting out that sense of myself which I hold so dear but now so desperately want gone. And so, on a Thursday in Sanford, Florida, when I should be out playing in the sunshine, I decide I will die. I don’t want it to hurt (I’m a mess when I stub my toe). And I don’t want it to be messy (I am famously known in my family for crying every time my hands get dirty). I just want this horrid life to end. I’ve heard if you take a lot of pills you will never wake up again. So, I look at the bottle of Advil. Two pills is the recommended dose. So, I carefully count out three pills. Yes, three. I lie down on my 101 Dalmatians sheets. I arrange my plethora of teddy bears around me. I cross my arms like the Snow White that I dream to be.
And I begin to pray for forgiveness. “Oh, God, why did you make me like this. Why would you create this love inside of me if that love is a sin? Why would you put me on this Earth with such evil in my soul?” I close my eyes. I sing myself a lullaby. I fall asleep. I wake up, without a headache. I sometimes imagine my guardian angel looked on as I counted out these pills. “Oh, goodness this one isn’t the brightest bulb. And thank Heavenly Father for that.” In the morning, my mother doesn’t know why I’m found looking like Snow White and the Seven Teddy Bears and I promise myself that I will try harder to change. I know God wants me on this planet and I will do all I can to make Him proud. But try as I might, the change never comes. And so, my conversion therapist moves on to bigger, better, more brutal ways of changing me. First, my hands are tied town and placed in ice while pictures of men holding hands dance across the screen. As the cold intensified, so does my repulsion for ever wanting to hold a boy’s hand. After weeks of ice, we move to heating coils. They’re wrapped around my hands, and as images of men holding hands again slide in front of my eyes, the heat grows hotter. But, mercifully, the heat dissipates if an image of a woman holding a man’s hand replaces the previous image. “Don’t touch a boy, Sam. It will hurt. But see, girl’s touch won’t hurt you.” The months of hell are soon to follow. I begin to cry as electrodes are connected to my fingertips. I scream in pain as the first gay porn I’ve ever seen is etched into my brain while electricity shoots through my body. “Mommy, mommy, please please make this stop.” She doesn’t make it stop. I look into the eyes of a mother who loves me so much she takes me to the conversion therapist every week. She has to know it’s wrong. But she’s been told this is the only way to save her son. The irony that this is killing him must be cutting her like a knife. I have just finished my last conversion therapy session. The sun is starting to set. A Florida lake sparkles before me as my legs dangle off the edge of the roof of our missionary commune. I hope that three stories of height will be enough to make the pain end. I try to calculate the impact velocity speed. I’m such a nerd. I hear my mother walk up behind me. I don’t move. I can’t move. I turn and whisper, “Mommy I tried, I really tried.” She cries. “I know you did honey,” she answers. “I promise I will love you again if you just change.” “I will, mommy. I will.” My heart breaks.
******* Oh, beautiful little Sam, I, the grown-up you, now your fairy godmother, am here to tell you that you tried more than you ever should have. There is nothing to change. You are a perfect, beautiful, little 12-year-old boy. I wish I could have been with you on the rooftop but I’m here now, to thank you for finally lying to your mother. You saved yourself from years and years of more trauma. That lie saved your life. You are going to grow up to do great things. A call to The trevor Project will save your life. You will go on to answer calls, calls from people just like you, and your voice and experience will help them too. You will speak on the floor of Congress in stiletto heels. President Obama will cry when he hears what a therapist did to you. States from coast to coast will pass laws making sure no child goes through what you went through. You didn’t take too many pills. You didn’t jump. You survived, and you will live to meet Kevin. On a special day you will realize your hands are intertwined and it won’t hurt. It will feel beautiful and you will ask him to marry you, and he will say yes. Live life, little Sam, and know, YOU ARE LOVED. (Sung) And the world will be better for this That one life, scorned and covered with scars Still strove with their last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star
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t’s been 10 years since I wrote a (not very enthusiastic) survey of Hudson Valley wines for this magazine. In the ensuing years, there have been some heartening developments as the growing global movement away from chemical wines has gained purchase in the region. A new crop of young winemakers are embracing organic, low-intervention methods to transform our local fruit into compelling libations. Most interesting among these new arrivals is Wild Arc Farm, now in its fourth year producing a range of wines and wine-adjacent drinks using native yeast, little to no sulfur, and organic fruit whenever possible. Todd Cavallo, 39, moved to a farm in Pine Bush from Brooklyn in 2016 with his wife, Crystal Cornish. Initially they were looking for a weekend house, but they couldn’t afford that, so they focused instead on choosing somewhere close enough to the city that he could continue commuting to his job as project manager for a web development company. He had been doing all sorts of fermenting in their apartment—pickles, beer, and the like—and wanted to take his passion public, so to speak. The move, to a house with a barn on roughly nine acres, made it possible. Their evident skill and work ethic made it successful: “We got a farm winery license, bought half a ton of fruit from the Finger Lakes, and people liked it.” Thanks to his brother’s connections in the industry, some of those people were influential sommeliers and figures in the New York wine world. As a result, Cavallo’s 10-year plan turned into a twoyear plan. In a linen shirt, baggy shorts, and Birkenstocks, with his scruffy beard and laid-back demeanor, Cavallo looks every bit the Brooklyn hipsterturned-farmer/winemaker, a far cry from his (and Cornish’s) formative years spent in Syracuse’s hardcore punk scene. But that DIY ethos of honesty and integrity still pervades their efforts. The labels, which the couple designed themselves, are clean and simple (“minimal, yet pastoral,” in his words), with witty descriptions and as much information as they can legally put on there. “I’m in favor of total transparency, but I have to be careful not to ruffle any feathers at the TTB” (the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which regulates labels). Sweetheart, for example, named for one of his old bands, is Northern Spy cider fermented on grape skins. But, because it contains grapes, he can’t legally use the word cider on the label. 9/19 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 29
Top to bottom: Using a thief to barrel-taste wines ready for bottling; the glass demijohns on the floor hold wine used for topping up the barrels during fermentation and aging.
They buy fruit from different parts of the state, but the bulk of their output comes from the Amorici vineyard in Washington County, home to a dozen hybrid varieties. The blend is a juicy, light red suited to drinking on the cool side. In its austere New York way, the wine is reminiscent of those California field blends made from unknown old vines planted in the 19th century: greater than the sum of its parts. Luca, a traminette macerated on the skins for two weeks, has a strong elderflower perfume outlined with bracing acidity. The riesling, an oily ochre juice that we tasted out of barrel (where it spent 14 months) opens up to reveal classic peach and petroleum notes, but with the rounder texture resulting from malolactic fermentation, a characteristic of many natural wines. Cavallo enjoys this unorthodox version: “Someday, I might get a filter, block malo, and make a clear, laser-focused riesling like other wineries, but it kind of goes against my desire to let the grapes do what they want.” Last winter was brutal: With a hard freeze in January and another one in April, they lost 70 percent of their vines. Others in the area also suffered severe losses. Climate change is already forcing growers in many parts of the world to adapt to increased uncertainty, and here is no different. While warmer weather could be a boon for growing vinifera grapes (less cold-hardy European wine varieties), the reality so far is more extreme fluctuations: colder freezes, heavier rains, drier droughts. So nobody knows what the region will be like in 50 years, let alone 20. “Initially, I wasn’t super thrilled about hybrids, but a vineyard with Cab Franc and Chardonnay also had Traminette, so we did skin contact, and it was our favorite. That was the year our daughter was born. So we named it Luca, after her.” The quick takeoff of the business means that they’re making do with the facility they have for the time being. They produced about 1,500 cases total this year, and are hoping for 2,000 next year. This target, along with doubling direct retail sales to half their total, would mean viability for the business and represent just about the maximum they could do and still have it be a handmade product. “We never intended to do production in here,” Cavallo says, gesturing at the barn. “But we had no choice when we got started so quickly.” In time, he plans to build a new structure for fermentation, aging, and bottling and renovate the barn into a tasting room and store where they can sell the herbal teas, tinctures, and other products they’re developing. They also plan to build a couple of small houses for volunteer workers (who play an important role when it’s time to bottle and label) that could be rented out as well. Cavallo’s brother recently opened the Golden Russet Cafe in Rhinebeck, which could be a venue for dinners and other events. Regarding revenue sources, as with their beverages, they’re open to all sorts of possibilities.
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Every Last Drop Behind the barn, a large field hosts an acre of vines and a half-acre of trees in adjacent blocks. The vines are an assortment of vinifera and hybrids, the trees a variety of pomes and stone fruit. Using what’s known as guild planting, a method popular in permaculture circles, they’ve planted sea buckthorn, aronia berries, and New Jersey tea shrubs in rows between the trees. As the trees mature, they’ll continue planting flowers to attract pollinators and pungent herbs to repel pests. The idea is to create a self-sufficient ecosystem within the orchard that nourishes and protects the trees while dramatically increasing the yield of other fruit and flowers from the understory plants. Piquette has been key to their quick success. An old tradition in Europe, where grape must (skins and seeds) left over from winemaking is refermented in water, creating a low-alcohol drink that was often given to vineyard workers instead of wine. Cavallo makes his more interesting by using local wildflower honey to boost the fermentation, adding back 15 percent of the original wine to increase the alcohol and flavor, and bottling or canning it with a little residual sugar so that fermentation continues and creates carbonation. It’s sparkling, pink, sour, and irresistible. Wild Arc releases single-varietal piquettes as well as a blend; the vicissitudes of each year’s crop and quality will likely mean more blends in the future. Blending has a way of smoothing out rough edges and creating richer results. It’s currently available in 750-milliliter bottles and 375-milliliter cans; next year Cavallo plans to dilute it to six percent, so it can be sold in 12-ounce cans at grocery stores. At seven percent alcohol, it drinks like a rosé but hits like a beer: the perfect crowd-pleasing summer jam. “People who hate natural wine like it; beer people like it; people who love natural wine like it. This is the one thing I can bring home at Thanksgiving. Nobody knows what it is, so there are no preconceived notions.” The skins, from Teroldego grapes he bought from Long Island, were a byproduct of making wine, then piquette, and finally ended their wild, three-episode arc by imparting a lovely pink color and juicy vibrancy to the Sweetheart cider. If there’s a more frugal and efficient way of extracting flavor and value from an agricultural product, I’d love to hear about it. And when their dozen chickens arrive (the coop is built and ready for them) they will feed future batches of spent skins to them. The chickens will be pastured on the vineyard and orchard, where they’ll eat the beetles that eat the vines and fertilize as they go. Apart from wasting nothing, the piquette also allows them to nearly double their output, which makes the business viable. “We could sell our wines for $40, but we prefer to sell them for $25 and get the extra $15 from piquette. It makes things affordable and keeps us afloat.” This open-source approach, appropriate for someone who studied computer science, is what sets Wild Arc apart from many other producers in the region. Expanding the scope
Pouring the 2018 Chardonnay.
of their efforts beyond wine, beyond cider, being flexible with their sourcing, and leaning into the sometimes unusual flavors that result from these methods shows a resourceful imagination devoted to promoting a way of farming. Holding his glass of Sweetheart up to the sun, Cavallo explains, “Purists might say that we shouldn’t sell anything that’s not organic, or we shouldn’t use any sulfur at all. But in order to move the needle, we have to sell what we’ve got. We’re buying from people who are moving towards organic. People in the hardcore scene talk about selling out as a negative, but if I were able to scale up dramatically, I think about how many more acres I could get under organic management in my state.” Cavallo recently organized the Kaatskill Wine Summit at the Emerson Resort
in Mount Tremper. A dozen New York winemakers, leaning heavily toward the natural end of the spectrum, convened to show off their wares. The Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, and Long Island were all represented, and over 100 paying customers circulated, tasting, talking, and buying. Some, like Wild Arc, are just out of the gate. Others, like natural pioneer Eminence Road, are selling their 10th vintage. The wines cover a lot of ground, both literally and figuratively, ranging from true-to-type crowdpleasers to some seriously out-there efforts. The event made clear that while this region presents many challenges to winemakers, the new generation is rising to meet them, experimenting boldly, and choosing to err on the side of natural, embracing the possibilities for flavors and products that are uniquely of this place. 9/19 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 33
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sips & bites Hudson Valley Food & Wine Fest September 7-8 A popular favorite among local wine connoisseurs and devoted foodies, this festival toasts the Hudson Valley’s culinary bounty and craft producers. Guests can browse some of the region’s best concessions and makers, including over 150 wineries, cideries, distilleries, craft brewers, food trucks, and gourmet food vendors. Find something you like? You can buy bottles directly from New York State grape-growers and vintners. Facilitated by regionally and nationally recognized wine authorities, the festival’s wine seminars are another exciting highlight, helping oenophiles continue to build their knowledge base with topics like wine pairing, serving, tasting, and storage. The festival will be held rain or shine on September 7, 11am-6pm, and September 8, 11am-5pm.
Moveable Feast September 21 Does eating a gourmet dinner with new friends in an unknown location sound like a perfectly thrilling Saturday night? Movable Feast, Hudson Hall’s annual benefit dinner, is a culinary event cloaked in mystery. The annual fundraiser kicks off at Hudson Hall, where guests can mingle over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres before receiving their dinner assignments. Over a dozen private homes, shops, and galleries within walking distance of the historic theater will act as venues for this diffuse supper party. This year’s hosts include chef Tehra Thorp, Vogue food writer Tamar Adler, artist Francine Hunter McGivern and author Daniel Rothbart, and notable antiques dealer Colin Stair. Each location will serve up a curated meal and craft libations, with ticket sales supporting Hudson Hall’s arts and cultural programming. Seating starts at $100 per person.
Juicy Brews Craft Beer Festival September 28 Nearly 20 craft breweries from around the country are gathering at Beacon’s Riverfront Park to pour their latest beers during the Juicy Brews Craft Beer Festival September 28 from 1-5pm. Enjoy fresh beer samples including some limited releases, along with food vendors and family-friendly activities. Locavores can look forward to regional brews from West Kill Brewing, Equilibrium Brewery, Hudson Valley Brewery, and Industrial Arts Brewing Company, among others.
Oktoberfest Pig Roast September 28 Blue Arrow Farm, a picturesque horse farm overlooking Pochuck Creek in Pine Island, is home to the first annual Oktoberfest Pig Roast hosted by the Silver Fox Sportsmen’s Association. A local, farm-raised hog will be roasted onsite and dished up alongside classic picnic fare and craft beers by Long Lot Farm Brewery and Rushing Duck Brewing Co. The event takes place September 28 from 3-7pm, with a $40 entry fee that supports scholarships for New York State’s Department of Environmental Education summer camps.
Bonfire Cookout September 28 Playing with fire is encouraged at Paper to Table’s bonfire Ccookout on September 28 at Crown Maple Estate in Dover Plains. Starting at 2pm, an intimate gathering of guests will tour the scenic grounds of Crown Maple’s 800-acre estate, learning about the production of their renowned syrup before tasting their 12 of their products. Shortly after, the group will gather by the bonfire for live-fire cooking demonstrations by acclaimed New York City chefs and makers, including Gabriel Dudley of Gauchonfire, Stephen Yen of Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill, and other; a gourmet feast; and camaraderie until just before dusk.
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“A lot of the brewers come in person to pour instead of sending staff,” says Kugeman of the mix of Hudson Valley, Capital Region, and New York City-based brewers. “You can go sit and learn from the ones you like the best.” Last year’s Brew U brought together about 500 attendees, creating a welcoming environment for a diverse assortment of draft lovers. “It draws such a cool mix of people—craft beer lovers, casual fans, people who just love the CIA, people of all ages and walks of life from all over the valley and the tri-state area,” says Kugeman. “Put everybody together in a gorgeous room with huge patios overlooking the river at peak foliage season and have a good band. It’s joyous.” Those who attend Brew U this year can expect even more good cheer than usual. The CIA’s own microbrewery was honored as New York State’s Brewery of the Year for 2019 at the statewide Craft Brewing Competition, hosted in Rochester by the New York State Brewers Association. Not only that, two student creations won gold medals. Brew U takes place Saturday, October 19 from 2-5 pm. General admission is $85, designated drivers can attend (and enjoy seven mouthwatering food stations) for $30, and a $120 VIP ticket gets you in an hour earlier, to enjoy exclusive pours and tastings along with oysters and filet mignon. Ciachef.edu/brewu
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syrup created by Silvia chef and co-owner Doris Choi. (Feeling temperate? This syrup can also be added to seltzer for a tasty mocktail.) “I try to incorporate unusual flavors into classic recipes to create complex and bright drinks that still let the base spirit shine through,” Landsman says. “This play on a fizz swaps port for gin, and then makes up for port’s lower ABV by using prosecco in place of soda water.” All of Silvia’s specialty cocktails include a house-made syrup infusion that uses the fruit and flavors of the season. (The summer menu also saw a watermelon verbena margarita, which was understated and excellent). “In this drink, the rich nutty flavor of tawny port pairs well with the blueberry and cardamom, while the lemon and prosecco add tartness and balance. This cocktail is light enough to drink before dinner, and rich enough to enjoy with dessert.” —Marie Doyon
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he publication of Rachel Carson’s landmark book on pesticide use, Silent Spring, alone makes September 27, 1962, a momentous day in the modern history of American environmentalism. But a front-page story in that morning’s New York Times portended another development that would profoundly shape the nascent environmental movement: the utility giant Consolidated Edison (Con Ed) was planning to build the nation’s largest pumped-storage power plant at Storm King Mountain in the Hudson Highlands. Con Ed chairman Harland Forbes told the Times “no difficulties are anticipated.” He was wrong. By the 1960s, the deleterious effects of industrialization on air and water quality had become increasingly self-evident. In the Hudson Valley, citizens were beginning to question how and why the river had become so polluted. When Con Ed’s plans hit the news, some residents “quickly perceived the
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proposed plant to constitute a monstrous technological intrusion into a bucolic natural landscape and the defacement of a mountain many assumed had already been legally protected,” writes Robert Lifset in his book Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and The Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism. Opposition was indeed swift. By November 1963, a group of local activists had banded together to form the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, which petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to overturn the Federal Power Commission (FPC)’s decision to issue a license for the Storm King plant. In the opinion, Judge Paul Hays wrote that the FPC had to consider the proposed plant’s impact on the landscape: “The Storm King project is to be located in an area of unique beauty and major historical significance.”
Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission wasn’t the end of the battle over Storm King— Con Ed didn’t drop the project entirely until 1980—but in winning the case, environmentalists set an important precedent: citizens now had standing to challenge executive branch decisions in federal court (a provision later written into the Clean Water Act), and to do so on the basis of historical significance and natural beauty (a standard codified by the National Environmental Policy Act in 1969). The legacy of Storm King continues to be felt locally in the conservation and ecological work of organizations, including Scenic Hudson and Riverkeeper, that grew out of the fight. In his essential history, Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism, David Schuyler writes, “The Court of Appeals, in granting and affirming Scenic
Hudson’s standing, established a precedent that other environmental groups and citizen activists would use effectively in succeeding years.”
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The Past as Prologue In the decades since the Storm King battle, the grassroots resistance to corporate industrial threats has coalesced into a diverse network of nonprofits and environmental advocacy groups, land trusts and conservation organizations, and public agencies with a broad, lasting mission to protect the ecological diversity and landscape of the Hudson River Valley. Educational awareness and activism are now interwoven with the recent history of this region. The environmentalist J. Winthrop Aldrich, who helped challenge the construction of a proposed nuclear power plant at Cementon, perhaps put it best during a 2012 panel held by the Olana Partnership when he described the Hudson Valley as the “great national arena of the battle between the engineer and the poet.” Scenic Hudson and Riverkeeper are the two most notable private-sector stewards of this legacy, but there are many others. The Hudson Valley GREEN (Grass Roots Energy and Environmental Network) Coalition grew out of three citizen-organized energy-activist groups in 1981; it has helped prevent construction of multiple power plants that would be eyesores on the landscape and cause ecological damage to the area and was instrumental in the actions that convinced Governor Cuomo to phase out the Indian Point nuclear facility. The Hudson River Environmental Society, a nonprofit founded in 1970, conducts research and hosts workshops on environmental issues in the Hudson Valley. The sloop Clearwater and its organization, founded by Pete and Toshi Seeger, have heightened awareness of the river through educational programs. The Open Space Institute has preserved 149,000 acres of land through direct acquisition and conservation easements and runs the Citizen Action program which offers oversight for mission-aligned projects started by concerned citizens. And local land trusts from Westchester to the Catskills have protected thousands of acres of land. As Schuyler notes, public agencies have also played an important role in preserving the Hudson Valley, largely by coordinating efforts regionwide—crucial, given New York’s “home rule” law. In 1987, the Department of Environmental Conservation founded the Hudson River Estuary Program, which has helped protect wildlife and scenery, educate the public, and clean up the water across the entire 13,390-square-mile Hudson River watershed. And in the 1990s, congressman Maurice Hinchey wrote legislation designating the Hudson Valley a National Heritage Area and creating the Hudson River Valley Greenway, a state agency that coordinates land-use planning across local governments. Think Globally, Act Locally So much of what we love about the Hudson Valley today— parks, creeks, recreational opportunities, cultural heritage sites—might not exist without the efforts of concerned citizens beginning in the 1960s. The Hudson runs clearer now than it has in decades, but most of the fisheries are still closed, and the land remains threatened by industry. Two recent cases highlight the ongoing tenacity of local environmentalists. In 2015, activists thwarted a proposed bottling facility at Cooper Lake. Niagara Bottling’s plans included the purchase of 1.75 million gallons of water per day from drought-threatened
Cooper Lake, the largest natural lake in the Catskills and the main reservoir for Kingston. At nearby Onteora Lake, there’s an ongoing struggle against a steel and concrete plant near the Bluestone Wild Forest. An entity called 850 Route 28 LLC, owned by developer Tom Auringer, filed a proposal to build two 120,000-square-foot buildings, necessitating the clearing of 21 acres of trees and moving 405,000 cubic yards of material with a rock crusher running 11 hours per day over a five-year construction phase. The site is currently being used to store cranes Auringer has used for other projects, based on a permit issued to the previous owner. Representatives from the Open Space Institute and Woodstock Land Conservancy, both of which own and administer land adjacent to the site, immediately reported that they had not been notified of the proposal, which would potentially impact OSI’s plan of adding 208 acres to Bluestone Wild Forest and recreational activities in the area. The Woodstock Land Conservancy circulated a fact sheet measuring the ecological and quality of life
The battle for Storm King changed environmental law, but its greatest impact was to reawaken Hudson Valley residents to the region’s splendor— and their own role in preserving it. impacts of the facility, questioning many of 850 Route 28 LLC’s claims about its economic benefits and certification standards, and calling for an Environmental Impact Statement to be prepared. Word has spread, and opposition appears to be fierce: a July public hearing on the application in Kingston was shut down before it even began when the audience size exceeded the meeting room’s 150-person capacity. A new era of post-industrial development in the Hudson Valley has resurfaced the age-old tension between nature and commerce in this resource-rich region. Pete Seeger once said, “The world is going to be saved by people who fight for their homes, whether they’re fighting for the block where they live in the city or a stretch of mountain or river.” The battle for Storm King changed environmental law, but its greatest impact was to reawaken Hudson Valley residents to the region’s splendor—and their own role in preserving it. This clarity of vision has been necessary for the work that has followed. “The 1960s and ’70s sparked a new appreciation of the river as a scenic, ecological, and historic treasure, a storybook on which the pages of American heritage are written,” writes Hudson River Estuary Program director Frances Dunwell in The Hudson: America’s River. “And yet, the pressure on the Hudson has never been greater.” 9/19 CHRONOGRAM ART OF BUSINESS 39
Stella Betts and David Leven look out at their property’s surrounding campsite. The covered porch, which features retractable screen walls, “is actually one of our favorite rooms in the house,” Betts says. “Our designs are committed to capturing the relationship between the amazing, the sublime, and domestic space through the interplay of elements and crossing boundaries between inside and outside,” Leven adds.
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Tent, Deconstructed INSPIRED BY GEOMETRY AND NATURE, TWO ARCHITECTS BUILD AN “OPEN HOUSE” By Mary Angeles Armstrong Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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Looking back at the house from the outdoor kitchen and dining area. With multiple doors throughout the house allowing access between the landscape and the home’s interior, the couple and their guests use the home and campsite features interchangeably during the warmer months. “There’s an interplay of elements within the wrapper of the house,” explains Leven, “but also within the wrapper of the landscape and sky, and even within the wrapper of the Hudson Valley.”
Domestic Elements The couple bought the property in 2007 and began setting up their encampment. It remained largely a campsite over the next six years, as the couple gradually built up the outdoor features and explored their aesthetic, professionally. After clearing a few trees from the acre-sized meadow, they erected a tent platform and stayed upstate weekends from spring through autumn. A gravel patio with a barbecue and metal table served as an outdoor kitchen. They erected an unorthodox outdoor shower out of two concrete septic drywells bought at Keeler Precast Concrete in Hudson and utilized concrete septic distribution boxes as fireside seating for their fire pit. After three years, they added a garage and bought an airstream trailer so they could extend their season into the beginning of winter. Over the years, the land became their own private respite, where, living in the undulating woods and changing seasons, they were able to contemplate how they wanted to create a permanent indooroutdoor structure. “The whole idea of the
house grew from the campsite. Architects have been talking about indoor-outdoor space for a long time. We wondered how we could we push that idea even further,” remembers Betts. “We wanted the house to be a part of the larger landscape.” Meanwhile, the two designed multiple houses in Columbia and Greene counties and taught: Betts at Columbia University and Leven at Parsons. In 2016, their firm, Levenbetts, was asked to participate in an exhibit at Art Omi called “Unpacking the Cube.” Inspired by the prompt and their time weekending outdoors, the couple conceptualized a truly out-of-the-box camping pavilion. “Instead of making small squares, we created one perpendicular 130-degree angle,”explains Betts. The contest helped finalize the concept for their future home, called “Open House,” which they soon broke ground for in Hudson with the help of local contractor Javier Gomez. “We wanted to translate threedimensional sculpture into architecture, creating inhabited space that feels like it’s in a sculpture,” says Betts. 9/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 43
The Shape of It Built on an east-west axis, the basis of the 1,300-square-foot home is a series of mirrored and adjoining right trapezoids— each with one right-angled wall and an opposing wall set at either a 30- or 60-degree angle. “Throughout the house, the short dimension is always the same and the long dimension is always the same,” explains Leven. The four sections of the first floor, along with the second-floor master suite, nest and fit into one another. “A campsite is a pulled-apart domestic space—you take the spaces of a house and sort of scatter them on the land,” Betts says. “That idea has influenced a lot of the ways we think about houses. When you go camping, you have to be super efficient, because you have to pack everything in your bag, so everything in this
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house has a dual purpose.” “We really like how the geometries fit together,” says Leven. “We set up a system and then figured out how to live in it.” Eschewing both corridors and windows and instead utilizing pocket doors and full east- and west facing-glass walls, the home was designed to make the most of space while never losing the open, expansive feel of a campsite. They designed entryways throughout the structure so it could be entered from multiple points. Each of the cubes can be sealed independently from the others, allowing for every space to be utilized in a variety of ways. So as not to distract from the geometry, the couple finished the home’s walls and most of the surfaces with simple sealed plywood and built minimalistic furniture to fit within their design.
Betts descending the staircase from the secondfloor master suite into the home’s formal dining area. The couple finished all the home’s interior surfaces, including the built-in dining table, benches and kitchen island, with simple plywood. “We didn’t want anything to distract from the geometry of the space or the view of the landscape,” she explains. “But the plywood is beautiful in its own right—it has its own configuration and pattern to the screws and the paneling.”
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Function Follows Form At the home’s southern end, the trapezoidal cube remains open, forming a covered outdoor porch and ad hoc entryway. The white concrete space is entered from a gravel path and features retractable screen walls. Mirroring the open front porch, the home’s kitchen was designed to compliment the campsite’s existing outdoor dining area rather than replace it. A central kitchen island dominates the space, providing ample space for meal preparation and hiding multiple appliances—including two Subzero undercounter refrigerators, Fisher & Pakel dishwasher drawers, and a Smeg cooktop and oven. A low built-in bench along the northern right-angled wall provides seating and doubles as a mudroom area. Adding a bit of visual variety, the opposing angled wall serves as an open-shelf pantry. A screened pocket door integrated into the westfacing glass wall, allows for a constant back and forth between the indoor and outdoor kitchens. Adjacent to the kitchen, the home’s plywoodclad stairwell runs along the angled wall from the home’s center cube to the second-story master suite. The remaining space, currently configured as an indoor dining room, has a Morso wood stove set in the corner near the stairwell. Along the opposite straight-edged wall, a built-in bench faces the wood stove and serves as seating for the rectangular dining table built by their firm. During the winter months, the glass walls constantly bring the outdoors in. “We either eat outside or we eat here, but we always feel like we’re outside,“ says Betts. 46 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 9/19
The home’s kitchen features open pantry shelving and a large island with incorporated appliances. The sections of the home are separated by pocket doors—a design feature well thought through. “It seems mundane,” Leven says, “but it really impacts the way we experience the space. Swing doors would feel very different and even obstructionist here.”
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When One Door Opens… The northernmost box is split into two smaller spaces. The interior room houses a full bathroom and laundry room, both lit by skylights and connected through pocket doors to the meadow. Finished in deep grey poured concrete, the bathroom remains true to the home’s minimalistic themes, while changing up the finish. The step-in shower was designed to continue the feeling of an outdoor shower through the colder months. “In the winter it’s a very calm place,” explains Betts. “When it’s too cold to shower outside, you still get to shower under the skylight.” At the home’s edge, the living room looks through a wall of north-facing windows into the woods. Here, running along the angled wall, another built-in low plywood bench serves as seating and storage, forgoing the need for a couch or shelving. An additional pocket door separates the space from the dining area, allowing for privacy from the rest of the house, so it can double as guest quarters. The minimalist design also allows for maximum fluidity—with an exchange of the removable rectangular table from one room to the other, the dining and living rooms can be interchanged. The second-floor master suite breaks the geometric rule with a parallelogramshaped box perched on top of the first floor’s middle. The shape is bisected by the stairwell creating two right-angle triangular rooms, each with glass sliders. Here, they cleverly utilized the area above the stairwell as an angled closet space that deepens as it climbs. A dual-purpose door swings double—shutting off the bathroom when swung left, or the closet when swung right. On one side lies the master bedroom, on the other the full bathroom, which is finished in plywood and features a clawfoot tub. On either side, they planted a roof garden above the first floor. Through the glass, the soft lines of the wooded landscape contrast the sharp geometry of the home. Beyond the roof garden, there are views to the tent platform, fire pit, dining area and outdoor shower. “The house is intentionally small, so that you spend most of your time outside,” explains Leven. “But the surrounding 10 acres make it feel luxurious.”
From top: The master suite leads to north- and southfacing roof decks. The couple planted the first-floor roof with a garden. The design adds to the visual appeal as well as insulation. To create an innovative outdoor shower, the couple bought two septic dry wells from local concrete supplier Keeler Vault, stacked them and installed plumbing. “At first they said, ‘You want to do what with the septic wells?’ But now everyone gets it,” says Betts. 9/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 49
A melange of melon and watermelon seeds. Unlike menlon and other cultivated cucurbits, watermelon exhibits a wide variety of seed coat colors and patterns. 50 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 9/19
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he taste of melons at their peak, oozing honey, is incomparable, as is the air, sweetsmelling with muskmelon on an August night.” Thus begins the first chapter of Amy Goldman Fowler’s latest book, The Melon, an ode to the Cucurbitacae family. On a 200-acre former dairy farm in Rhinebeck, the food writer, gardener, and seed-saving activist has built an heirloom Eden, where she cultivates scores of melon and watermelon varieties among other fruits and vegetables. Perhaps unsurprisingly for such a devotee of the gourd family, this is not Goldman Fowler’s first but her second book on the subject. (Melons for the Passionate Grower was published in 2002). “I have grown and learned a lot more,” she explains in the foreword. “This book is more well rounded.” The beautiful 312-page hardcover is as suitable for the how-to garden shelf in your library as it is for the coffee table, with dozens of full-page, glossy melon portraits, plus recipes and tips for growing, picking, and seed-saving. Given her self-described “life-long love and calling” for melons—and the decade of research and experimentation that went into this book—there is no better guru than Goldman Fowler to guide you on your melon quest. As fall approaches and the harvest dwindles, here is an excerpt from The Melon on seed-saving. —Marie Doyon
Saving Heirloom Seeds AN EXCERPT FROM THE MELON Text by Amy Goldman Fowler Photos by Victor Schrager
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f you want to maintain a particular variety that you love and save pure harvested seed for replanting, you’ll need to prevent bees from transferring pollen from other varieties of the same species. If heirlooms are not allowed to cross, they produce plants with fruits that look and taste like their parents. Known as openpollinated or standard varieties, heirlooms differ from modern F1 hybrids, whose offspring don’t breed true. There are two basic ways for the home gardener to control pollen flow between varieties of the same species: isolation by distance, and hand pollination. Since melons and watermelons belong to different species and don’t cross with each other, I recommend that you begin with isolation. Limit yourself to one variety of melon and one variety of watermelon that you value and know to be heirlooms rather than F1 hybrids. Plant them in the same garden but make sure that they are at least eight hundred feet to a half mile from other varieties with which they could cross-pollinate. Check with your neighbors to see if they’re planning to grow these species. If not, you can let nature take its course. 9/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 51
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PSYCHEDELIC NATION AS THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHEDELICS EXPLODES, A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT IS EAGER TO SEIZE THE THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS.
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ince she was a kid, visual artist and musician Emily Ritz has struggled with Lyme disease and juvenile arthritis, an autoimmune disease that has wreaked permanent havoc on her body. Both conditions are under control and arthritis medication keeps her functional, but self-care remains a full-time job. “I’ve tried everything—holistic treatments, diet changes, exercise with a physical therapist and personal trainer to gain back some strength,” she says. “I was doing all this hard work and still having really bad days of inflammation and exhaustion,” she says. “I was frustrated by that, and obviously you get depressed because it all adds up.” About two years ago, Ritz heard about microdosing, which involves taking small amounts of psychedelics for a therapeutic effect. “I had done psychedelics recreationally growing up and loved them,” she says, “though I stopped tripping a long time ago because I felt like I had received all the messages I needed to download.” Exponentially more subtle, microdosing is very different from tripping and generally acts like a mood enhancer; the idea is to take a miniscule dose every few days to experience its benefits. So 56 HEALTH & WELLNESS CHRONOGRAM 9/19
Ritz filed it away in her mind as something she might try in the future. Psychedelics are illegal, making access tricky. Yet after finding a source for magic mushrooms last winter, she let a stash sit in her medicine cabinet for a couple of months. Come spring, it was calling to her. “After embarking on some other big efforts to feel better, including a ketogenic diet, I felt like I had space to add this other element in,” she says. “And honestly, from day one, it completely changed everything. I stopped having bad days, physically and mentally.” Ritz had dreamed of hiking and swimming in the magical places near her home in Hudson but had been too exhausted for adventures like that. Until now. “The day after I started microdosing, I would hop out of bed in the morning early to go hike and swim. I felt so energized. I was living my fantasy.” Ingesting a wee bit of mushrooms periodically also seems to help Ritz produce more of her art (featured in our August issue), lending her extra focus and inspiration. “It’s the most powerful antidepressant and anti-inflammatory for me, and I think it could help so many people. It’s amazing to me that a tiny bit of this fungus could give me such a leg up.”
Journeying, with White Lab Coats Interest in psychedelics is mushrooming these days, with research looking into use of the substances in a range of doses for a wide array of therapeutic applications—whether it’s LSDassisted psychotherapy for anxiety, ayahuasca or ibogaine for drug addiction, or ketamine for treatment-resistant depression. The science of psychedelics is not new, as an initial wave of enthusiasm swelled after LSD’s discovery in the 1940s. Yet after Timothy Leary’s infamous Harvard Psilocybin Project went up in smoke in 1963, and after the criminalization of psilocybin mushrooms and LSD in 1968, hallucinogens exited the scientific arena and went underground. About a generation later, in the early 2000s, public interest surfaced again thanks to the resuscitative efforts of a small group of scientists, psychotherapists, and “psychonauts” like Dr. Stanislav Grof. Last year, science and food writer Michael Pollan (Omnivore’s Dilemma) shone a national spotlight on the topic with his bestselling book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. “We have more clinical trials happening
now than at any time in history, even before psychedelics were criminalized,” says Brad Burge, spokesperson for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), the foremost US organization advocating for psychedelics’ therapeutic use. “The key challenge for psychedelic research for the last 40 years has been the chilling effect of the stigma. Once people see that this is a legitimate area of research, and the research is really promising, that encourages a lot more people to get involved.” The research is promising, indeed. MAPS itself supports a wealth of studies involving psychoactive substances, including a clinical trial on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy that shows remarkable results in treating PTSD. In that trial, researchers found that MDMA (a methamphetamine commonly referred to as Molly and a purer form of ecstasy, which is generally cut with adulterants) is safe when combined with psychotherapy and, in most cases either drastically improves PTSD or—56 percent of the time—cures the patient completely of PTSD symptoms. “In combination with therapy, [MDMA] reduces fear, enhances therapeutic alliance, enhances trust and intimacy, and helps people talk very clearly about their memories,” says Burge. “I’ve heard it said that if you could design a drug to treat PTSD, it might look a lot like MDMA.” And patients need only take it two or three times, in a guided therapy session, to reap lasting benefits. The FDA designated MDMA a “breakthrough therapy” for PTSD in 2017, fast-tracking its approval. If all goes as planned, MDMA will be the first drug of its kind available for clinical use, which MAPS expects to happen in 2021. Knowledge around psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms, is leaping forward too, alongside a push toward legalization of the substance by certain advocacy groups. Last year, the FDA granted breakthrough therapy status to a psilocybin-assisted therapy for treatment-resistant depression in trials conducted by a London-based life sciences company. And two 2016 studies from Johns Hopkins University and NYU Langone Medical Center found that a single, large dose of psilocybin in a closely monitored session could substantially decrease depression, anxiety, and the fear of death in terminal cancer patients, while increasing a sense of “life meaning” and optimism. Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins has active trials exploring psilocybin as a treatment for smoking cessation. Notably, psychedelics science has focused mainly on high doses rather than on microdoses—despite the growing popularity of microdosing mushrooms and LSD, which is largely a grassroots phenomenon. One popular use for microdosing is to enhance performance, whether it’s athletic, creative, or cognitive performance, although none of these applications have been tested scientifically. “[Right now,] there’s very little or maybe no completed research on microdosing for its specific beneficial effects,” cautions Burge. “All we have are case reports. We also know that a lot of people are doing it—and that the headlines about microdosing have gotten
way out in front of what we actually know about microdosing.” Trials are starting, including a basic safety study by the Beckley Foundation in the UK to see if small doses of acid can improve things like problem solving and creativity in healthy patients. (An LSD microdose is about 10 micrograms, roughly one-tenth of a typical recreational dose, taken once every four days or so.) Yet before running out to try Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds for your self-improvement project du jour, it’s best to stay tuned and wait for the science to catch up with the hype.
“Without an intention, tripping is like hitchhiking: it can go well or it might not. It can be dangerous, though it’s usually not, and it’s often uneventful unless you direct it in some way.” Laboratory of the Mind The psychedelics community is certainly tuning in to the science, but not everyone is waiting for legalization, or even a prescription, to get started. Brandon Richards, a counselor and life coach based in New Paltz who works as a “sitter” for people undertaking psychedelic tripping and as a guide for microdosing, says, “When we know that something works, we do it. We do it as safely and as ethically as we can.” Richards (not his real name) recently sat with a woman doing MDMA-assisted therapy, following a protocol laid out by MAPS. “This woman has been haunted by physical and emotional abuse by each of her parents, and it’s made her life almost undoable. She’s been in therapy for years and does yoga and prayer and journaling—all the right things. But the MDMA is the only thing that gave her the courage and the clarity to speak from a perspective that lifted the burden of what happened to her.” Self-medicating with psychedelics is risky business, and Richards notes that his client is working closely with professionals throughout her treatment journey. Of course, interest in psychedelics doesn’t just apply to people struggling with a mental health issue or physical illness. Plenty of regular folks are turning to hallucinogens as a route to personal growth and mind expansion. Jake Singer
(a pseudonym) first explored psychedelics about five years ago with his partner at the time and had a “very profound experience.” Setting out to understand what happened, he discovered the work of James Fadiman, psychologist and author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys. Singer followed Fadiman’s protocols and embarked on a program of microdosing mushrooms (one day on, two days off ) for four months to see how it might benefit him. He noticed two impacts right away, including a change in the way he perceived light (“everything had more depth to it”) and “a much better sense of empathy for the people I interacted with, whether it was coworkers, my partner, or people I would meet,” he says. But the impacts did not end there. He also gained deeper clarity about what he valued and a new ability to turn “vague notions” into concrete actions. Within a year of his foray into microdosing, Singer had uprooted his old life—leaving an education-technology job in New York City and moving upstate to start a career in agriculture technology. “It was an intentional shift as a result of doing a lot of work around my beliefs and values,” he says. It was, in short, a new understanding of his life’s purpose. Psychedelics, perhaps, have a unique power to shake us loose from habitual thinking patterns, making seismic shifts possible. “Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time we’re confronted with a new task or situation,” observes Michael Pollan in How to Change Your Mind. “Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay awake to the world: to attend, feel, think, and then act in a deliberate manner…. One of the things that commends travel, art, nature, work, and certain drugs to us is the way these experiences… [immerse] us in the flow of a present that is literally wonderful—wonder being the by-product of precisely the kind of unencumbered first sight, or virginal noticing, to which the adult brain has closed itself.” Pollan wrote about full-dose psychoactive experiences—not microdosing—as he set out to follow in the footsteps of current science. As we learn more about microdosing, we might find that it, too, gives us the power to break away from sleepy old patterns and wake up to new possibilities. A Roadmap for Exploring with Intention It’s easy to get swept away by a starry-eyed vision of psychedelics and human potential— although Pollan, ever the practical thinker, espouses a cautious approach. Embarking on a full-dose psychoactive experience is best done under the guidance of a sitter who will faithfully adhere to safety measures and other protective guidelines. In his own sitter work, Brandon Richards says that having an intention—a clear sense of what you want to get out of it—is very important when you’re about to trip with psychedelics. “Without an intention, it’s like hitchhiking: it can go well or it might not. It can be dangerous though it’s usually not, and it’s often uneventful unless you direct it in some way.” Equally important is having a positive “set and setting”—a phrase coined by Timothy Leary 9/19 CHRONOGRAM HEALTH & WELLNESS 57
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A Peek into the Mystical For many psychedelic journeyers—whether they do an ayahuasca ceremony every three to four months, or embark on an annual mushroom trip as a mental health tune-up—it’s about transcendence and experiencing the numinous. Such pursuits are therapeutic too, affecting our sense of wellbeing, purpose, and connectedness to the world. One participant in the Johns Hopkins’ psilocybin trial for cancer patients described feeling “bathed in God’s love,” even though she was a staunch atheist. “Psychedelics give you the direct experience of seeing that everything is made of the same energy,” says Aaron Dias, a Kingston-based meditation coach and yoga teacher who is studying shamanism. “Meditation does it too, though it’s a slower process. You can read spiritual books all day that say, ‘We’re all one energy.’ But some part of me doesn’t believe it until I see it. Psychedelics wake you up. They show you that you have direct access to all of it, and you don’t need to have it mediated by anybody else.” Recognizing this potential, Dias adds that it’s essential not to belittle the experience by saying, ‘Oh, it’s drugs.’ Such thinking reflects the kind of stigma that needs to dissolve if we want to absorb the teachings that psychedelics bring. “That’s why I call it medicine,” she says. “In shamanic circles, you don’t use the word drug, because right away it starts to separate you from the profundity of the experience. We have to treat [psychedelics] like they’re our teachers. They’re our guru. And so you treat them with great respect. Humans have been engaging with all sorts of psychotropics all over the world for a very long time. They’re some of the most powerful tools we have for self-realization, healing, and empowerment. I think it’s great that people are starting to get hip to that in the mainstream.” Ritz agrees that psychedelics, used cautiously, can help initiate a shift in consciousness that’s deeply needed in our world today—even just through the subtle effects of microdosing magic mushrooms. “Maybe if everybody were microdosing, we could fix the climate crisis,” she muses. Yet it could be a long and bumpy road toward psilocybin’s legalization, if it happens at all. In the meantime, Ritz is grateful to have access to her self-administered therapy, even if it is untested. She regards it as natural medicine, and for her, it works. “It opens my heart and it opens my mind,” she says. “It makes me feel more connected.”
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to describe a bulwark for your experience via your mindset (shortened to “set”) and physical and social environment (the “setting”). Finally, dose makes a big difference. Microdosing mushrooms, the mildest experience, involves a miniscule dose of .1 to .2 grams and “is very beautiful, creative, and expansive,” according to Richards. Between half a gram and a gram is elevating and energizing; it can raise the libido, fuel creative pursuits, or even help you create a plan for yourself. When you get to a gram, “The visuals kick in, so you don’t want to be doing anything that requires any responsibility,” he advises. And one to three grams is full-on journeying. “You’re going to another dimension where the room can disappear. I’ve had the awareness that there’s something brilliantly useful for me in this playground, in this laboratory,” he says. “It’s a place to go and bring something back.” It’s not always comfortable, but that’s not necessarily a reason to shy away. “A lot of people are afraid of a bad trip,” Richards notes. “But a so-called ‘bad trip’ teaches you more than a fun-filled fantasy adventure ride where you see colors and shapes, because you’re facing fear.” Some people describe experiencing a “dissolution of the ego” that can feel unstable or heart-opening, depending on how you look at it. A sitter can gently steer you back to a place of confidence and comfort so you can freely explore. Still, there are risks. Tripping is not recommended for those with a personal history or family history of psychosis. Certain prescription drugs interact poorly or even dangerously with psychedelics. Dependency is rarely an issue with larger doses, because a full trip is too intense to be habit-forming. Yet when microdosing, people with addictive tendencies might need to check themselves against craving that luminous, supercharged feeling every day. In fact, microdosing doesn’t work unless you take days off—otherwise you build up a tolerance for it. Emily Ritz learned this the hard way. “I was so excited about the effects that I took it every day at first,” she says. “I was like, ‘I need this.’ It was fine for a week or two, and then I wasn’t feeling the effects anymore.” Experienced mushroom microdosers recommend taking it every three days or so, though more research is needed into what constitutes the safest and most effective rhythm.
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or many, the idea of retirement conjures the image of happy silverhaired couple riding off into the Florida sunshine, ready to embrace the next chapter of their lives together. In reality, however, many retirees find themselves widowed or otherwise alone, unsure of what their next chapter will look like. Retirement communities have long provided these seniors a chance to have fulfilling social lives full of fun, laughter, and camaraderie, even as they adjust to life in a new home, without a significant other. In the past decade, a novel concept has been spreading through the world of retirement communities: communal living. While the term may call to mind collegiate hippy housing, the concept is actually a practical solution to the emotional and financial costs of living alone as you get older.
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Imagine: dear friends, siblings, cousins—you name it—realize that they are now in the same boat. Both know that they do not want to live alone, that life shared with someone is so much more appealing, and they decide that they can easily be roommates. Continuing care retirement communities, like Woodland Pond at New Paltz, offer these duos a viable option. Most units are built to easily accommodate more than one resident, and a joint residency in a two-bedroom home means having your own space (and bathroom) while still being able to share your morning cup of coffee—and your living expenses—with someone you love. Woodland Pond cites a growing number of non-romantically involved duos and trios finding a home in their community. Like many continuing care retirement communities, their campus’ population
is primarily comprised of single females. Just 30 percent of residents are part of a couple. Many of the community’s single residents, both male and female, live in spaces that could accommodate a second resident: someone to split the chores with, go to aqua aerobics with, and share a nightcap with. Or, maybe it’s someone you do none of those things with, but who will split the upfront and monthly costs—which can reach the six-figure range—while still offering that extra peace of mind that someone else there in case of an emergency. “This concept is really trending on the East and West Coasts and is very big in Europe,” says Ryan Cowmeadow, vice president of the National Shared Housing Resource Center, an all-volunteer clearinghouse of HomeShare programs, in a recent article for Retirement Living Sourcebook. “Our numbers are up about 15
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percent since 2007, and about 75 percent of applicants are female. We’re hoping to see a real surge with the Boomers entering retirement age now. They’re the ones who didn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Homesharing just makes sense.” As noted in The New York Times piece “Grow Old Like the Golden Girls,” you needn’t look further than Dorothy, Rose, Blanch, and “Ma” (two generations of retirees, to boot!) to see the value of retiring with friends. There is a reason this show remains such a success almost 20 years after the last episode: It allows the viewer to imagine a happy, healthy, and supportive environment for single folks during their retirement years. According to the Retirement Living Sourcebook, their last count of nonrelated retirees living together in 2010 exceeded 450,000, and it’s estimated that the numbers have only grown in the last nine years. More and more savvy retirees are realizing the myriad of social and economic benefits to cohabitation in nontraditional ways—and there’s something to be said about the knowledge that you don’t necessarily have to drive off into the sunshine solo. Wpatnp.org 9/19 CHRONOGRAM HEALTH & WELLNESS 61
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y home office, where I’m writing this outdoors column from, has a view of the Rosendale Trestle—the nearly 1,000-foot-long steel truss bridge that is a town symbol. The trestle was constructed in the 19th century as part of the Wallkill Valley rail line. When it opened, in 1872, it was the highest span bridge in the US, towering some 150 feet above Rondout Creek. Trains haven’t crossed the trestle in decades, however; it now serves as a visual reminder of intersecting bygone legacies, among them Rosendale’s cement mining history and American investment in longlasting infrastructure projects. The trestle was mostly closed to the public from 1977 until 2013, when it reopened as a pedestrian walkway for the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, which repurposes about 22 miles of the former rail line as a linear park running from Kingston to Gardiner. Now the trestle serves as an invitation to explore. Rail trails are opening all across the Hudson Valley, on former lines that once thrummed with freight and passenger activity, and now again are active; by the end of next year, the Empire State Rail Trail, which will link 750 miles of regional multiuse trails from Manhattan to Lake Champlain and Buffalo to Albany, is
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scheduled to be completed. Each trail offers new ways of exploring familiar landscapes and a richer transit from point A to point B. And while the scenery is great, if you want something more, here are four itineraries with suggestions for food, shopping, and recreational activities along the way. 1. Rosendale to Gardiner on the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, 13 miles Enter on the west side of Joppenbergh Mountain at the cutout near the Binnewater Kiln parking lot. After one-third of a mile, you’ll reach the trestle. Continue on the unpaved path to the Rail Trail Cafe (open summer weekends until dusk), which serves farm-to-table pizza in the woods. Additional options pop up about three miles further, on Springtown Road: Bradley Farm, which hosts tastings and sometimes has beer and live music, and Coppersea Distilling, which has tours and tastings on the weekends. For an educational break—or just a resplendent detour—scoot through Historic Huguenot Street, a National Historic Landmark that tells the stories of New Paltz’s early Dutch settlements (and also has public restrooms). Or head to Water Street market for shops and antiquing. South of New Paltz, the rail trail parallels
Route 208. After three miles you can stop again at Dressel Farms, which has cider, doughnuts, and U-pick apples in the fall, or continue on to Yard Owl Brewery (FridaySunday, 3-7pm) or Cafe Mio (open until 4:30pm) for a late lunch in Gardiner. 2. Lloyd to Poughkeepsie on the Hudson Valley Rail Trail, 7 miles For a scenic, family-friendly ride with fewer stops, try this route. Park in the dedicated lot at the 299 and South Street intersection and set forth on the Hudson Valley Rail Trail, which is asphalt paved. Nearby Tony Williams Park and the Black Creek Wetlands offer sporting and fishing opportunities. Follow the trail through wooded canopy as it turns south at an abandoned Southern Pacific boxcar and down into Highland, where you can stop at Underground Coffee & Ales for a brew and some pub food, Hudson Ale Works, or Frozen Caboose Ice Cream to refuel. Next, cross the epic Walkway Over the Hudson for the most picturesque views of the river. On the other side in Poughkeepsie, peel over to the Pulaski Park pool for an end-of-ride dip. Adventurous riders can continue all the way to Hopewell Junction via the Dutchess Rail Trail.
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3. Kingston to High Falls on the O&W Rail Trail, 11 miles This route is a favorite of Bryan Washington, owner of Utility Bicycle Works in Kingston. It provides a scenic wooded ride, but you’ll need a mountain or hybrid bike. Fuel up with a beer or coffee at Rough Draft, then pick up the trailhead just west of the intersection of Washington Avenue and Taylor Street. For about two miles, the trail is muddy and rough, but just south of Esopus Creek, it turns to asphalt while it parallels Route 209 for two miles. (There’s also a well-marked trailhead and parking lot where this section begins, in Hurley, if you’d rather start there.) Follow it south past scenic fields and a railroad tunnel toward Cottekill. About halfway there, the route becomes wooded and grassy again. It’s also wide enough to ride two or three abreast, for a leisurely social ride. Keep going until you reach High Falls, where you can visit the D&H Canal Museum, grab lunch at the Last Bite, the Egg’s Nest, or High Falls Kitchenette, and check out the hamlet’s eponymous falls. Note: Because the site is just downstream of the Central Hudson hydroelectric dam near the old D&H canal, the water quality is generally higher than other parts of Rondout Creek—but check online before you go swimming. If you go on a Sunday, thrift for vintage and second-hand scores at the High Falls Flea Market, which takes over Grady Park from April through October with dozens of vendors. 4. Ancram to Taconic State Park, 4 miles Here’s a bucolic, easygoing route on a paved trail that ends at one of the region’s most beautiful state parks. Park at the lot on Under Mountain Road just east of Route 22. There’s a short unpaved section, but otherwise this is a smooth ride. As you approach Taconic State Park to the north, you’ll pass over Bish Bash Brook (Bish Bash Falls are a mile east, across the Massachusetts border). Soon you’ll arrive at the park entrance, which has its own extensive trail system, swimming, and other aquatic activities at Rudd Pond and Ore Pit Pond, and the newly created Copake Iron Works Museum.
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here’s a story that Carole Osterink likes to tell to illustrate how much the city of Hudson has changed in the 26 years and counting that she’s been living there. One day in the mid-90s, before she served as an elected member of the city’s common council, before she started the indispensable blog The Gossips of Rivertown to chronicle everything going on in Hudson, she was tending to the ivy in front of her house when she struck up a conversation with a 10-year-old girl who lived in the neighborhood. The little girl asked her what she was going to do with all of her beautiful plants when she moved. Osterink explained she had no intention of moving. “But don’t you want to leave here when your life gets better?” asked the girl. When your life gets better! Osterink was part of a generation that was moving to Hudson in order to make their lives better. She had first visited the city a few years prior, after moving to Red Hook, because she needed a dining room table and had heard that “there were some antique shops in Hudson,” a statement similar to hearing that there were some hippies in Woodstock. What she found instead astonished and confused her, as it continues to do for anyone who visits the city for the first time: Who did this? Who put these throngs of Italianate villas, these Federal houses, these Queen Annes and Greek Revivals and Nantucket salt boxes here and smashed them all together on the banks of the Hudson River? And the answer is, of course: whales.
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Okay, not literally. But the architectural wonderland that is Hudson was built on the backs of leviathans, and the city owes much of its glory to the briny deep. Hudson was founded in 1783 when a group of merchants known as the Proprietors chose a small landing on the Hudson River, the farthest upstream they could get before the river got too shallow to support oceangoing vessels, to become a new nautical powerhouse. It became the first planned city in America—the Proprietors laid down a grid of streets, which pretty much still stands today— and with the launch of its whaling ships soon after, a city of riches. Hudson’s fortunes came in and out like the tides over the next 115 years: There were wars, fires, global economic slowdowns, what have you. But when the money came in, it was whale money: enormous and unbelievable. And the merchants turned their whale-begotten riches into whatever the hot architectural style of the day was. Even before whaling fell out of fashion, the city wisely transitioned to a more general merchant-based economy, powered by its ships and the new railroad system running through it. That kept the good times rolling for several more decades, during which even more architectural
styles became popular and folded into the vernacular of the city. But once the Great Depression rolled over town, Hudson’s forward progress stopped. A few local cement plants and the hospital kept the city from completely collapsing, but Hudson’s gilded age was over. Some of Hudson’s architecture was lost to the familiar scourge of “Urban Renewal” projects, but much of it remained. It may have been repurposed into multifamily houses or the local Elks Lodge or fallen into disrepair, but it was there. It was this architecture that caught the eye of antiques dealers in the 1980s, who took advantage of the large spaces and cheap rent to slowly populate Warren Street. It was the architecture that caught the eye of transplants like Osterink in the 1990s who began buying and restoring buildings, of galleries like Carrie Haddad, which opened in 1991 as the city’s first fine art gallery. It would soon have company. This is the Hudson that Nancy HorowitzFelcetto and her sister came to in the early 2000s from New York City to open up a Hudson Valley office of Halstead Reality. As lifelong New Yorkers and realtors, they remembered what it felt like right before the East Village, the Lower East Side, 9/19 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 67
and Tribeca each got hot. Hudson felt very similar. “There was something happening here,” she recalls. “We felt the vibes.” The newly opened Red Dot restaurant, still going strong today, emerged as the vital neighborhood hangout that every scene needs for people to make connections, forge alliances, or stumble upon during a weekend visit and soon decide that they’d never leave. “It was an intense scene, man,” someone recently explained to me at Hudson’s Spotty Dog Books & Ale, describing the creative energy flowing through the Red Dot in the dawn of the new millennium. “Think about it. All the crazy 60-year-olds in town were only 40 back then. It was wild.” This was the Hudson that soon caught the attention of people far and wide: the urban country hotspot of antique stores and art galleries. If you haven’t been to the city in years, you may still think that’s what Hudson is about. But the city continued to slowly change in subtle ways. The younger, creative class, who thanks to the new remote work and freelance economy found themselves no longer having to live and work in major metropolitan areas, 68 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 9/19
began to flee New York City in order to found tight-knit communities of makers and like-minded types who were finding the city to be increasingly too expensive and overwhelming. “Here you’d see the same people getting coffee in the morning as you would later at happy hour at the bar,” says Stella Yoon. “Especially coming from New York City, not being able to hide behind anonymity was a big adjustment. But you do get to know people.” Falling in with a group of other female makers and creatives, Yoon founded Hudson River Exchange, which started as an annual showcase of local craftspeople and artisans and is now a fulltime retail space on Warren Street. Through the Hudson River Exchange, local makers met each other and Hudson store owners found that they could stock their stores with locally made goods. “I don’t think Etsy even had the location-filter feature then!” says Yoon. Not coincidentally, the online marketplace soon opened up a Hudson headquarters in a former cannonball factory. Etsy was not the only heavy-hitter to come up from the city. Zakary Pelaccio closed his New York City-based mini-
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It will take more than a bus route to solve Hudson’s problems of economic disparity, but Chameides is also a member of the Columbia County legislature, which is wrestling with the question of how to zone for affordability in the city. It was problems with inclusion in Hudson that first got Chameides involved in politics when he moved to the city almost 15 years ago. The city had been trying to stop kids, mostly immigrants, from playing soccer at the riverfront. Chameides helped organize the kids to fight City Hall for their right to enjoy the waterfront, a battle the kids won. “What I took from that was that a small group of people can affect local government and make a change in people’s lives,” he said. “But if people aren’t engaged with their government, there’s a real risk that it will go off the rails and not be responsive to people.” That brings us to the last two common themes that come up time and time again when discussing Hudson with anyone who lives here. First, it is shockingly easy to get involved and make your voice heard here. Which is great because the second common theme is that, in an odd Legend Of Zelda-esque wrinkle of fate, the city seems condemned to confront a great evil once every generation, one in which calls for
unlikely heroes to arise and band together to stop it: the proposed nuclear power plant in the 1970s, the proposed waterfront refinery in the ’80s, the proposed toxic waste processing facility in what is now Basilica Hudson back in the ’90s, and the proposed cement plant in the early 2000s. The people of Hudson, despite long odds and heavy opposition, thwarted all of these plans. Now the riverfront is under peril again, as Colarusso, a local paving firm, seeks to build a haul road that would end at the riverfront. The company charges that this would help keep heavy trucks off of city roads, which were not built to withstand industrial trucking and are being slowly destroyed by the weight. Opponents say the road would pollute and destroy Hudson’s glorious waterfront, with its open, green space, and resplendent views of the HudsonAthens Lighthouse and the Catskills towering in the distance. As always, the chips seem stacked against the little guys. Then again, building a whaling city 150 miles away from the ocean once seemed like a bad bet as well. But if the younger generation remaking Hudson can join together with the ones who helped save the city before, they may snatch victory from the gargantuan, watery jaws of defeat once more. 9/19 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 77
6. Columbia Memorial Hospital 71 Prospect Avenue (518) 828-7601 Columbiamemorialhealth.org Hospital and Emergency Room
7. D'Arcy Simpson Art Works 1. American Glory 342 Warren Street (518) 822-1234 Americanglory.com Specializing in American comfort foods, wood-smoked barbecue, and local ingredients.
2. Basilica Hudson 110 S Front Street (518) 822-1050 Basilicahudson.org Non-profit multidisciplinary arts center in Hudson, NY, presenting a wide range of independent and innovative arts and culture, from free documentary screenings, to art + music festivals, to large-scale marketplaces of local, handmade and vintage goods.
3. BODHI Spa | Yoga | Shop 543 Warren Street (518) 828-2233 Bodhiholisticspa.com A place where people can come to yoga classes, drop by the boutique to shop for high-quality skin care, wellness products, crystals, and yoga essentials, then walk right upstairs to a beautiful eight-room spa and wellness center.
4. Brook n Wood Family Campground 1947 County Route 8 (518) 537-6896 Brooknwood.com Spend a night, weekend, vacation or season in refreshing beauty. Set on 62 lush acres in the heart of historic Hudson Valley, nestled between the Berkshire and Catskill Mountains.
5. Carrie Haddad Gallery 622 Warren Street (518) 828-1915 Carriehaddadgallery.com Representing artists of the Hudson Valley and beyond since 1991 with rotating exhibits of contemporary painting, photography, mixed media and sculpture. Open daily from 11-5pm.
409 A Warren Street (201) 452-7101 Darcysimpsonartworks.com Represents artwork that is original, beautiful, cool, informed, and well-crafted. Open weekends or by appointment.
8. de Marchin
620 Warren Street (518) 828-3918 Facebook.com/demarchin. demarchin A men’s and women’s clothing shop focusing on distinctive yet classic European, American, and Asian designers such as Pas de Calais, Hartford, Cotelac, ScotchandSoda, Barbour, and Danner.
9. Fig & Bella
525 Warren Street (845) 857-6551 Figandbella.com A collection of scarves, pillows, textiles, and apothecary products, as well as our carefully chosen assortment of other great finds
10. Gary DiMauro Real Estate 423 Warren Street (518) 822-0800 Garydimauro.com A boutique real estate agency specializing in antique country homes, fabulous moderns, and historic Hudson townhouses. Our four office locations and 22 agents serve Dutchess, Columbia, Greene, and Ulster County.
11. Geoffrey Good Fine Jewelry 251 Warren Street (212) 625-1656 Geoffreygood.com Jewelry designer
12. Halstead Property LLC
526 Warren Street (518) 828-0181 Halstead.com One of the top residential real estate brokerage firms in the New York metropolitan area.
13. Hudson Area Library
51 North Fifth Street (518) 528-1792 Hudsonarealibrary.org Enriching the quality of life by providing free and equal access to programs, services and resources, and by creating opportunities for all members of our community to connect, create, learn and grow.
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14. Hudson Cruises
Henry Hudson Riverfront Park (518) 822-1014 Hudsoncruises.com Private and public cruises on the Hudson River.
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443 Warren Street (518) 828-3000 Hudsonclothier.com Exclusively celebrates American manufacturing. The shop showcases quality products with a wide range of prices, focusing on day-to-day, simple necessities that promote functionality and make life comfortable.
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237 Warren Street jdamianigallery@gmail.com Jdamianigallery.com J. Damiani Gallery is located in historic BeLo 3rd in Hudson and offers oil paintings, photography, and composite imagery.
18. John A Alvarez and Sons 3572 Route 9 (518) 851-9917 Alvarezmodulars.com Family-owned business for over 60 years offering Custom Modular Homes, with over 5,000 homes to date. Experience is the difference.
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1 Warren Street (518) 249-4786 Kasuri.com Avant-Garde Japanese and European fashion from the likes of Westwood, Miyake, Yamamoto, Owens etc. Staffed by true fashion devotees, a place where experimentation and tradition integrate in ever-evolving ways.
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259 Warren Street (518) 822-9492 Liliandloo.com The shop atmosphere is worldly, stylish, and sophisticated with a fresh and unexpected mix of objects, furniture, and art.
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727 Warren Street (518) 929-6003 Nicolevidor.com We are a small, personal, fullservice real estate office. We give extraordinary attention to detail, networking and presentation and are committed to fulfilling the dreams and desires of our clients.
22. Olana State Historic Site 5720 Route 9G (518) 751-0344 Olana.org Olana, the home, studio, and designed landscape of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), a preeminent American artist of the mid-19th century, is the artist's greatest masterpiece.
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508 Warren Street (518) 822-7148 Redmannequin.com Collection of clothing, jewelry, and accessories for women, fine art photography, gifts and even a few small, carefully selected treasures for men.
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6 Park Place (518) 267-9744 Salunehudson.com A full-service hair destination specializing in Intuitive Dry Cutting™ and using all-natural products and ammonia-free color, with a mission to uncover your most low-maintenance, stylish expression.
25. Sarah Falkner
84 Green Street, Suite 2 (347) 436-6725 Sarahfalkner.com Sarah Falkner, LMT is an interdisciplinary artist and statelicensed healing arts practitioner.
26. The Abode of the Message 5 Abode Road, New Lebanon (518) 794-8095 theabode.org The Abode is a container for connection, growth, and happiness. We strive to embody our highest ideals in service to each other and the world.
27. The Dreams Doctor
258 Allen Street #2 (518) 444-7355 Thedreamsdoctor.com Dreamwork: providing space to learn about your dreams and how they can be used to deepen the meaning of your life.
28. The Hudson Underground 134 Warren Street Facebook.com/ thehudsonundergroundgallery Thehudsonunderground.com Radical art gallery, gift shop, and community performance space.
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705 Warren Street (518) 828-0033 Valleyvariety.com Valley Variety offers a casual, welcoming environment to explore tools for everyday living—from lifestyle products to internationallysourced furniture. Our wide-ranging collection is united by our pursuit of simple, beautiful, functional design.
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20 S Front Street (518) 828-1635 Wmfarmerandsons.com Rustic-chic joint for farm-to-table fare and craft cocktails, plus eclectic hotel accommodations.
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744 Warren Street (518) 828-0555 Wunderbarbistro.com Serving delicious, progressive American comfort food at affordable prices with high quality ingredients. Open seven-days a week for lunch and dinner.
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e tend to think of our groundwater as a safe, protected, reliable, long-term source of drinking water,” Dr. Michelle Crimi says. “But it’s not going to be if we contaminate these stores of water, or if we don’t do something about those that are contaminated.” Dr. Crimi has dedicated her career to developing technologies to treat chemical pollutants in groundwater. A professor and the director of the Engineering and Management program at Clarkson University, with appointments at both the Potsdam campus and Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Dr. Crimi is currently focusing on eliminating toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater—a major supply of drinking water. PFAS are synthetic chemicals used in food packaging, nonstick cookware (like Teflon), water-repellent clothing, and stain-resistant carpets. And now, they’ve gotten into our water. “Many PFAS compounds are toxic at extremely low concentrations,” Dr. Crimi explains. “And it seems like everywhere we’re looking for these compounds, we are finding them.” For the Hudson Valley, contaminated water has become a growing concern in the last few years. In 2016, Lake Washington, a 1.3 billiongallon reservoir that provides drinking water for Newburgh, tested positive for the dangerous chemicals, prompting the city to declare a state of emergency. Earlier this year, the New York State Department of Health found low levels of these acids in the Butterhill Wells water treatment facility in New Windsor. To help remove those dangerous PFAS compounds from underground water, Dr. Crimi is developing an in situ technology, which uses ultrasound waves to break down or neutralize contaminants. Instead of pumping water out of the ground to treat it, Dr. Crimi and her team are using horizontal wells, which capture water without requiring energy-intensive pumping and funnel it into their treatment reactor. But not being able to see the 80 EDUCATION CHRONOGRAM 9/19
process has introduced its own slew of challenges—mostly around educating others about what’s happening to their water while it’s still underground. “When you can’t see, feel, or touch something, people might be a little bit nervous about where the water is going,” Dr. Crimi says. “We really want to be sure we’re not creating any unintended consequences, and that calls for very careful design, lots of due diligence, and lots of technology validation, which is where we’re going with our next steps.” But what can the general public do about this problem in their daily lives? Along with learning about the problem itself, Dr. Crimi recommends that people have an open dialogue with their utility companies and implore their representatives to take action. “People can engage in a partnership with those who provide their community’s water to understand what [chemicals are in] there, and what can and should be done about it,” she says. “The public can also talk to their legislators, both at the local and state level—even at the federal level—to make sure the resources are being allocated to understanding this problem and, ultimately, to developing solutions.” Clarkson’s Beacon Institute is dedicated to inspiring sustainable water solutions in the Hudson Valley and across New York State and is also working to reach that goal. Established in 2000, the institute helps to advance science, motivate environmental literacy, and inform long-term public policy. The institute offers academic programs, public education, and scientific research, hosting everything from trail walks led by regional experts and hands-on nature education programs for children to exhibits showcasing environmental- and river-themed art. “There’s often a disconnect between the scientific community and the general public,” Dr. Crimi says. “But the Beacon Institute is the kind of place where we can bridge that gap.” clarkson.edu/beaconprograms
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MINDING THE MIND Mental Health Education Gains Traction in New York By Anne Pyburn Craig
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ids tend to accept whatever circumstances they’re in as “just the way things are.” Should their own thoughts and feelings begin to get dark, scary, or conflicted, they’re likely to assume that that’s just how it feels to have a human brain. Since anxiety often presents as early as age seven, and half of all chronic mental illnesses present around age 14, there’s a lot to be said for making sure that even the youngest members of society have a vocabulary and skill set for coping. Last year, New York State implemented a law mandating that mental health be taught as part of the health curriculum—by classroom teachers at the elementary level and certified health teachers at the secondary level. Mental health experts are willing and eager to share what they’ve learned about the mind, brain, and emotions with educators and, through them, with kids themselves. Teachers and administrators—who know all too well that kids with mood or behavioral issues beyond their grasp are extremely difficult to educate—have been stepping up. Though the success of these programs is hard to quantify, as they are largely preventative, John Richter, director of public policy for the New York State Mental Health Association (MHA), is heartened by the sheer volume of schools that have already reached out voluntarily. “We’ve had our online
resource center open for just over a year now, and we’ve engaged 70 percent of all New York’s schools,” he says. “Lots of people have downloaded the resources and are taking the training. That tells us that schools are gearing up, building curriculum, and getting staff trained.” The MHA spearheaded a five-year advocacy effort that led to the law’s passage in 2016; Richter authored a white paper in 2017 that lays out the rationale: “a growing recognition that people in general, and young people more specifically, are not ‘mental health literate.’” And when legislators funded the effort with $1 million in 2018 and $500,000 in 2019, Richter and his colleagues created the School Mental Health Resource and Training Center, with resources for educators, students, parents, and community partners. “The state came up with guidelines, and the commissioner added some fine print, but there’s no specific curriculum mandated,” says Richter. “There are broad criteria, and it’s the resource center that takes it from there and brings it to life. There is a consensus that schools are struggling because young people are struggling. We are discovering that they’re willing to do the work and go beyond the letter of the law. We encourage them to adopt a climate of overall wellness and incorporate mental wellness—mental wellness days, poster contests, weaving the discussion into other subjects—to embrace well-being from a pervasive cultural standpoint rather than wedge it into an hour.” New York State, Richter points out, has
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been encouraging districts to emphasize social emotional learning for the past few years, with benchmarks for the mastery of life skills such as self-awareness and selfmanagement laid out in 2018, an effort which “dovetails nicely,” Richter says. “Ideally, your mental health curriculum is a grand plan that emcompasses K-12, so you have a foundation that you build on in a coordinated, thoughtful manner.” On the curriculum development level, the incorporation of mental health ed is being handled through the Bureau of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). “Most of our districts have been working with health teachers to determine where to add or modify lessons that speak to the mental health component,” says Cora Stempel, Deputy Superintendent of Dutchess County BOCES. “In several cases, it’s just a matter of making sure the curriculum is up to date. We’re looking at the curriculum in our own facilities like the Salt Point Education Center and the alternative high school, making sure health teachers have what they need. In addition to the student programs, we do a lot of professional and staff development. The focus this year is social and emotional learning, so a lot of mental health is embedded in that.” Alongside BOCES, backing up the state-level resource center, local mental health associations are also playing a role in the effort to make mental health literacy universal. “Schools in Ulster County are very responsive, and they’ve been doing a great job,” says Zoe Mahan, wellness resource coordinator with the county-level MHA. “We just gave Kingston High School an award in recognition of their work to implement this legislation and their overall work to promote social and emotional learning for all students.” MHA has been providing Intro to Mental Health and Wellness 101, a training that covers basic mental health literacy, in schools around the county. “It’s an overview,” Mahan says. “It destigmatizes the subject and the conversation. I’d say most of the schools in Ulster County are involved. The superintendent requests it and we come in and train. We’ve done workshops for guidance counselors and health teachers and food service people. We’ve presented it to students in fifth and seventh grade, and in high school. It covers basic self-care, what that means, when to reach out for help.” MHA in Ulster also offers the Brain Architecture Workshop, an action-learning approach to understanding the effect of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs, which is defined by the Centers for Disease Control as “all types of abuse, neglect, and other potentially traumatic experiences that occur to people under the age of 18”). A seminal study in the late 1990s of over 17,000 people found that childhood adversity was often
a precursor to high-risk behaviors, chronic conditions, stifled potential, and early death. (It’s worth noting that the CDC identifies “strengthening economic supports to families” as front and center in prevention.) “It’s very interactive: We play a game where participants build a model brain using straws and pipe cleaners,” says Mahan. “Brain Architecture is on the trigger-y side for students, but it’s great for educators and care managers. It’s part of the discussion about trauma-informed practice in many fields.” People of any age struck by major trauma might well need help and are often aware that they do; the thing about ACEs, Mahan says, is that the effects can be subtle yet devastating. “Many of the experiences that can traumatize a developing brain aren’t perceived as trauma at the time,” she points out. “To the child, it’s just another ‘normal’ day.”
Overstretched teachers who haven’t been trained to recognize symptoms of anxiety, depression, or irritability as red flags have been known to respond with irritability of their own, leading to punitive consequences. Normal, points out New Paltz Youth Program director and therapist Jim Tinger, has gotten wildly intense. “When I started in this work 25 years ago, middle schoolers were little kids,” he says. “Now they have instant access to a ton of information they are in no way ready to handle. Drugs, alcohol, violence, demeaning pornography. I don’t mean to sound like an old fogey yelling about what’s inappropriate, but it’s just way too much developmentally. And if kids deal with it in isolation, having to figure out in their own heads what’s real or unreal, good or bad, it can breed anxiety. They can fall through the cracks into negative experimentation. Twentyfive years ago, the big fight was against boredom; now it’s not boredom so much as that isolation.”
Overstretched teachers who haven’t been trained to recognize symptoms of anxiety, depression or irritability as red flags have been known to respond with irritability of their own, leading to punitive consequences that can cause further anxiety, depression, and/or irritability, a cycle that can be a slippery slope in the school-toprison pipeline. Responding productively to someone’s distress signals can make all the difference in the world, interrupting the isolation Tinger mentions, which is why he and others are excited by the push to teach Youth Mental Health First Aid to as many people as possible. Mental Health First Aid Mental Health First Aid was developed in Australia in 2001 by Betty Kitchener, a health education nurse, and Tony Jorm, a mental health literacy teacher, and has been licensed and adapted for use in 25 countries. Adam Billingslea, program director for Mental Health Awareness at HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, is the point person for organizing trainings in the youth version, using a $300,000 grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. “I conscripted 12 educators to become trainers,” he says. “And we’re hoping to train 2,100 people in Ulster and Delaware counties. It’s an eight-hour course, and it’s great professional development for youth-centric workers and great knowledge for anyone.” The first half of the course is providing information and increasing awareness: the symptoms of the various disorders. Then participants learn the ALGEE action plan, giving people a structure for how to respond to a person in crisis: assessment of the chance of harm, listening nonjudgmentally, giving reassurance and information, encouraging appropriate professional help, and encouraging self-care. The first aid measures, like the mental health curriculum, are not designed to teach Psych 101, nor are they expected to replace professional care when it’s needed. “It’s like a CPR or physical first aid course, only it deals with emotional, behavioral, or mental emergencies,” says Billingslea. “There’s a lot of participation and role play. We familiarize people with resources and how to make referrals, de-escalation of crisis, and how to help people navigate away from harm to a calmer situation.” Free trainings can be arranged for groups of five to 30 people. A version of Mental Health First Aid training is currently being created for teens, something professionals have been eager to see happen. “Learning how to step up instead of walk away in an uncomfortable situation is essential knowledge for everyone,” says Tinger. “Learning how to do that in your own small circle can be way more important than getting on a soapbox. And putting those skills into practice encourages others to do the same.” 9/19 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 85
education Students in the play yard at Primrose Hill School in Rhinebeck. Photo by Hillary Harvey
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CELEBRATES ITS CENTENNIAL By Anne Pyburn Craig
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fter hearing Rudolph Steiner give a lecture in the spring of 1919, factory-owner Emil Molt invited the Austrian-born teacher and philospher to establish a school in Stuttgart, Germany. September 19 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of die Freie Waldorfschule, the first-ever independent Waldorf school. Three years after Steiner’s death in 1925, the first Waldorf school in North America opened its doors. Nearly a century later, there are over 1,000 Steiner schools in 64 countries—each independent, some very different from one another, but all aspiring to create healthy and balanced learning environments that cultivate clear thinking, balanced emotions, initiative, and perpetual curiosity. The Hudson Valley has a concentration of thriving Waldorf schools including Mountain Laurel in New Paltz, Primrose Hill in Rhinebeck, Green Meadow in Chestnut Ridge, and Hawthorne Valley in Ghent. While not every century-old concept keeps its freshness (1919 also saw the birth of Prohibition), Steiner’s insights about nurturing young minds have not only held up well, they’ve been reaffirmed over and over in state-of-the-art brain science research and pedagogy. When Harvard education professor Howard Gardner released his multiple intelligence theory in 1983, which posits that intelligence can be split into several modalities including visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, and bodilykinesthetic, it was hailed as revolutionary. But this wasn’t news in Waldorf circles. “In the Waldorf movement, the reaction was a big ‘Yay! Wonderful,’” says John Greene, head of faculty at Great Barrington Rudolph 86 EDUCATION CHRONOGRAM 9/19
Steiner School. “It was a sense of recognition that what Rudolf Steiner was trying to articulate has merit and was being more widely recognized.” The importance of art and music in brain development is central to Waldorf schooling. Art provides children with unstructured moments in which they can simply play, strengthening their muscles of creativity and imagination. Students in Steiner-based schools begin learning flute or recorder in first grade and are encouraged to consider adding a second instrument in third. “If the brain is a muscle, then learning to play an instrument and read music is the ultimate exercise,” wrote researchers from the University of Southern California in 2017, summarizing the results of two cutting-edge studies from the Brain and Creativity Institute. Many Waldorf schools also teach eurythmy, a method of harmonizing physical movement with speech or music through exercises, patterns, and games, as a teaching tool. (Yes, Annie Lennox studied eurythmy as a child long before forming a band with David A. Stewart.) The Waldorf approach to development is holistic, balancing the mind, body, and spirit in equal measures. Nature- and farm-based learning is weaved into curricula at Waldorf schools around the world. Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School uses its 900-acre biodynamic farm as a living classroom for the hands-on study of ecology, agriculture, biology, and art. “Early computer use doesn’t do anything for brain development,” says Hawthorne Valley teacher Karin Almquist. “We want students to slow down, open their senses, hear the leaves rustle, smell what’s
blooming.” This focus on mindfulness is woven into the fabric of Waldorf schooling. The Association for Mindfulness in Education lists 14 research-backed benefits of infusing schools with the practice, including increased self-esteem and emotional regulation. At its core, the Waldorf approach holds space for children to develop curiosity through experiential learning. Children in the early grades gain familiarity with letters and numbers through play, drawing, singing, and verse. “We take the children exactly where they are on their developmental journey and guide them,” says Christianna Riley, a teacher at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School. This sentiment is echoed by Ingrid Almquist, a teacher at Haleakala Waldorf School. “In the earlier grades the length of time that children are expected to sit still and concentrate is far shorter than it would be in a public school setting,” she says. “In grades one to three, ‘circle time’ activities begin the day, so that even though the children are learning, they are also moving around and generally on their feet, not sitting.” The highest goal of education, Steiner wrote over 100 years ago, is “to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose and direction to their lives.” Imagine, for a moment, what a world full of such individuals could look like. Waldorfeducation.org
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n 1937, spurred by the ideas outlined in American economist Henry George’s treatise Progress and Poverty, a young, inquisitive Leon MacLaren founded the School of Economic Science in London. While the original scope of the institution was focused on finding solutions to economic inequity, over time it became evident to MacLaren and his students that their approach to economics was missing something fundamental. “They were looking for something that would shed light on the human condition and could address the deepest questions that people had, in hopes that it would help with economics as well,” says Donald Wiegmann, a longtime student and teacher at the School of Practical Philosophy, which grew out of MacLaren’s original institution. In 1963, McLaren met Shri Shantananda Saraswati, a highly respected Indian philosopher. This began the introduction of philosophy and meditation into the curriculum, and they gradually became the primary focus of study. The secular origins of the School of Practical Philosophy underlie its broad, nonsectarian approach to spirituality and self-development. The school, which has locations in Manhattan and Wallkill as well as around the globe, takes as its tagline, “Wonder with us”—an open-ended sentiment that encapsulates the attitude of awe and ceaseless exploration cultivated by the school. “Really the question is ‘Who am I?’” Wiegmann says. “One of the things that makes the school distinct is the inquiry into that question through Western traditions as well as Eastern. It could be through Epictetus (a Stoic philosopher), Emerson, or the Upanishads. People find a passion in one of these areas and explore it, but at the core is self-discovery.” One of the core tenets of the school is the underlying unity of all things. “At our deepest level, we are one,” Wiegmann says. “The classic analogy is that there is one ocean and many waves.” New students begin with a 10-week introductory class called Philosophy Works led by a
tutor—a more seasoned student of the school. One of the first things taught is an awareness exercise. “It’s really not meditation,” Wiegmann clarifies. “It’s quieting your mental activity and letting your attention connect with the senses, allowing yourself to rest in what Socrates would call ‘pure being,’ as a way to find a simple, content, calm platform you can then work from.” From this open place, students are introduced to a concept or principle of study each week. “It could be a quote from Einstein, the Bhagavad Gita, Emerson, Plato, or Rumi,” Wiegmann says. The school emphasizes Socratic communication over rhetoric, seeking to explore and discover through dialogue rather than to convince. “We are really careful to remind people: don’t accept or reject anything, do put it into practice.” Students are asked to try a principle for a week, then report back about their experience. “Sometimes it’s transformational, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes they forget all together, but now have their own experience to go off of. If it’s effective for them, they can continue to build on that as subsequent practices are given.” Study continues with Foundation Courses, such as the upcoming Philosophy and Presence of Mind class, which will be offered at the Wallkill location every Tuesday for 10 weeks beginning September 10. After about two years of continued study, students are introduced to mantra-based meditation, which is the anchor of practice going forward. “Our students are anybody and everybody,” Wiegmann says. “They are young professionals, they are grandmothers, they are subway conductors, they are school teachers, they are attorneys. That reflects something that is very important to me: this is everyone’s subject.” The introductory class will run Wednesdays at the Wallkill location from 7-9pm starting September 11 and at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon Saturdays from 10am-12pm starting September 14. To learn more about the School of Practical Philosophy, visit Philosophyworks.org.
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ONE IMPULSE FROM A VERNAL WOOD Laura & Rick Brown’s Site-Specific Installation at Chesterwood
Text by Marie Doyon Photos by Kari Giordano
“Under the canopy of the trees, daily dramas and moving love stories are played out. Here is the last remaining piece of Nature, right on our doorstep, where adventures are to be experienced and secrets discovered.” —Peter Wohlleben The Hidden Life of Trees
Mother Tree Eastern white pine, steel A majestic full-growth eastern white pine tree nurtures a broad sweeping community of younger trees.
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ugust sunlight streams through a mixed canopy of hardwoods and conifers, casting dancing geometries of light on the leaf litter below. The path branches. A massive felled log curls impossibly around the base of a towering pine, like some slumbering mythical beast. Two fan-like sprays of milled boards form a casque that sunlight flits across. Around the bend, two storm-downed trees have been milled and reconstituted with mortise-and-tenon joinery in a zig-zag pattern, using the stumps as anchor points. “You don’t see them at first. They’re dancing through the woods,” artist Laura Brown says. “It’s a discovery, not a screaming statement.” We are trailing her and her husband Rick as they lead us through their installation of largescale, site-specific sculptures in the old-growth forest at the Chesterwood historic site in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. For the piece entitled Siblings, wedges of the trees have been cut away in places while in others, the full diameter of the trunk has been left intact, bark on, offering a rare and concise revelation about the milling process, which produces the foundational building blocks for nearly all of our modern structures. “They read like planks, and at the same time they resonate back to the origin of the trunk,” Rick says. Source and derivative, existing in tandem. The collection of nine sculptures, conceptually developed during the Browns’ artist residency in 2018 and installed this spring amidst torrential rain showers, were all milled and built onsite from standing dead and downed trees. “We both have a passion for making big things,” Rick says. “We are attracted to the physicality of building—that’s just part of our gestalt. But you never know if it’s going to work or not.” The installation takes loose inspiration from the research of botanist Suzanne Simard, who was one of the first to study the symbiotic relationship between trees. 9/19 CHRONOGRAM PORTFOLIO 91
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For the install, the Browns, who have been making art together for 48 years, created custom steel fasteners and connectors in their blacksmith studio outside of Boston, but the onsite assemblage was a oneshot deal. “We had the drawings, we had the model,” Laura says. “You get all the components together, but it’s never actually been here until it’s here, so the unknowns are huge. It’s quite a challenging and exciting install. You have to hit the mark.” Like Mother Tree, which spirals upward with unnerving levity, Dreaming, whose suspended loop-de-loop is simultaneously archetypal and out-of-place, and Singing Tree, whose spray of milled lumber echoes the dead lower branches of a lanky, forest-grown tree, all the installations in “One Impulse from a Vernal Wood” are confounding—altered yet at home, contrived yet collaborative, familiar yet off-kilter. “It’s the form that is unnatural, not the materials,” Rick comments. The premise is simple, and yet amidst a sylvan setting, to a score of birdsong, the result is profoundly disorienting. As the mind bends and flexes to accommodate the paradox of the installations, what the artists have achieved is to get you to pause in the forest and contemplate the wonders before you. A fitting effect for an exhibition that takes its title from the Wordsworth poem “The Tables Turned,” which ends with the entreaty, “Come forth, and bring with you a heart that watches and receives.” “One Impulse from a Vernal Wood” is on display at Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, through October 27. Chesterwood.org.
Siblings Two full-growth hemlocks, steel connectors Two siblings playfully cascade down the hillside over rocks and through ferns on the forest floor.
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. —William Wordsworth,“The Tables Turned”
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Rouse Hemlock, steel connectors A storm-damaged hemlock reconfigured to reflect trees’ tendencies to send out warning signals when sensing danger.
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Wisdom Eastern white pine, ceramics, steel A very old, standing dead tree continues to provide vital information and resources for younger trees.
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“Yes, trees are the foundations of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see. Underground there is this other world—a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate and allow the forest to behave as a single organism. It might remind you of a certain intelligence.” —Suzanne Simard
From top: Artists Laura and Rick Brown stand before Dreaming, which was created by connecting lumber from a storm-downed hemlock to a living ash tree; Singing Tree, made from a standing dead hemlock tree, is reconfigured as if singing to the surrounding forest.
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Branching Roots The 2019 FreshGrass Festival at Mass MoCA By Peter Aaron
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lthough its name nods to the acoustic-based, “high lonesome sound” of bluegrass born in Appalachia, the FreshGrass Festival, which takes place September 20-22 at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, began branching out musically from traditional bluegrass almost as soon as its seeds were sown in 2011. “The first year’s festival came together pretty quickly, and we actually hadn’t planned to make it a yearly event,” says Olli Chanoff, the director of programming for the FreshGrass Foundation, which oversees the festival’s planning (in the off-season Chanoff serves as Mass MoCA’s associate curator of performance and film). “But it went so well that right away we decided to do it annually. And even though the original idea had just been ‘Let’s do a bluegrass festival,’ we also decided early on to widen the scope of what a bluegrass festival could 98 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 9/19
be.” The core of FreshGrass’s programming is still traditional bluegrass, but added to that are artists who take a more contemporary approach to bluegrass. “We’ve been bringing in more and more artists playing different forms of global roots music, to show the connections between those styles and bluegrass and other kinds of American roots music,” Chanoff says. Although to casual listeners bluegrass music might appear to be the very picture of rigid, rural American tradition, it actually has a richly diverse, melting-pot backstory that makes a fine and fitting metaphor for the evolution of FreshGrass’s own catholic approach. The genre, whose name derives from that of pioneers Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, was born of a fusion of blues, jazz, old-time country, Christian hymns, African American gospel, and Celtic folk; the latter’s meandering penny whistle trills and serpentine fiddle lines are informed
Above: Tinariwen Photo by Marie Planeille Opposite: Ricky Scaggs and Kentucky Thunder at 2018 FreshGrass. Photo by Douglas Mason
by the undulating, snake-charmer-y melodies of the Northwest African Moors who colonized Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries and eventually made their way to the British Isles. Reflective of this hidden history of bluegrass, the fare at FreshGrass can be strikingly varied: Peppering the lineups of past years have been such acts as Malian singer-songwriter Vieux Farka Toure (2015), Punjabi bhangra revisionists Red Barat (2017), Irish string band Altan, and Tunisian vocalist Emel Mathlouthi (both 2018). For many, perhaps, the name that jumps out most on the bill this year is that of the Grammy Award-winning Malian band Tinariwen, whose hypnotic, electric guitarcentered, desert-blues sound serves as a living link to American folk music’s African origins. Made up of nomadic Tuareg rebel musicians from the Sahara Desert who in the 1970s fled to Algeria to escape Mali’s
oppressive Traore regime, Tinariwen claim Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, and Santana as influences alongside deep African musical traditions. Another arguably unexpected attraction this time around at FreshGrass is gospel and R&B icon Mavis Staples. A crucial member of America’s first family of soul, the legendary Staple Singers, the 80-year-old vocalist is an inductee of the Rock and Roll and Blues halls of fame, a multiple Grammy winner, and a Kennedy Center Honoree who has worked with Bob Dylan, George Jones, Ray Charles, and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, among innumerable others. Her newest releases are 2019’s Live in London, which includes songs by Tweedy, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, Curtis Mayfield, and Funkadelic; and We Get By, whose music was written and produced by Ben Harper. Also amid the main acts at this season’s event is Kalamazoo, Michigan-based
Greensky Bluegrass, whose driving, jamband sensibility belies the seemingly straightforward trad-branding of their own moniker. Formed in the fall of 2000 by guitarist and singer David Bruzza, mandolinist Paul Hoffman, and banjoist Michael Arlen Bont, the group expanded from a trio to a quintet with the additions of bassist Mike Devol and dobroist Anders Beck. Building on the progressive bluegrass style that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Greensky’s propulsive, rockinfluenced sound flirts with going off the rails while always remaining right on track. In the studio, the band has been produced by Los Lobos saxophonist Steve Berlin and Jack White’s bassist, Dominic John Davis. An especially intriguing entry this year is the collaboration between Calexico and Iron & Wine. Calexico, the desertnoir duo of multi-instrumentalists Joey Burns and John Convertino, evokes the 9/19 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 99
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wide-open vistas of their home state of Arizona, drawing on Mexican mariachi music, spaghetti western soundtracks, and jazz, surf, and Latin styles. The pair has worked with Neko Case, Lisa Germano, Richard Buckner, and Victoria Williams, and, more recently, Iron & Wine for the new album Years to Burn (a collaborative EP, In the Reins, appeared in 2005). Iron & Wine is the DBA of South Carolina singersongwriter Sam Beam, whose heartfelt indie folk has elicited undying critical praise and continues to crop up in countless TV commercials and movie backgrounds (see the 2004 smash Garden State). Leftover Salmon are FreshGrass faves, having played the fest twice prior to this year (in 2015 they delivered a storming set with Little Feat’s Bill Payne as a guest member). The Colorado jam-grass juggernaut, which has been burning up stages since 1989 (and briefly included banjo star Noam Pikelny), uses, yes, bluegrass as a jumping-off point. But it also liberally stirs country, rock, and Cajun/zydeco elements into its freewheeling fusion. The group’s current tour celebrates their third decade together, and their lengthy history is the subject of a new book, Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival! Singer-songwriter Andrew Bird’s art further embodies FreshGrass’s increasingly open-minded programming. Bird’s background is in folk and jazz: He performed with retro-swingers Squirrel 100 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 9/19
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Nut Zippers when they scored their 1997 hit, “Hell,” before forming the similarly inclined Bowl of Fire. With his 2005 solo breakthrough Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs, Bird began his fascinating flight into literate, melodic, and sonically adventurous folk rock. His newest album is the cheekily titled My Finest Work Yet. FreshGrass 2019’s further offerings include returning favorites Alison Brown, the Steep Canyon Rangers, the Travelin’ McCourys, the Gibson Brothers, Sam Amidon, and Tony Trishcka and Bruce Molsky; overdue bookings like Amy Helm, the Mammals, and Johnny Irion; and added ethnic spice from Swedish folk trio Vasen, Mogolian outfit Hanggai, and Latin Grammy winners Flor de Toloache, who are touted as “New York City’s first all-female mariachi band.” Among the event’s signature recurring components are the awards the organizers and festival cosponsors No Depression magazine give each year to selected emerging bands and individual musicians; its FreshScores commissions, for which chosen performers receive grants to write and play music for a silent film (the elected artists this time are the Mammals and FreshGrass 2019 artist-in-residence Aoife O’Donovan); and its flagship Composition Commission, for which the overseeing committee invites an artist to create and perform “roughly an album’s
worth of music that somehow pushes the boundaries of roots music.” (This year’s commission has been awarded to the worldrenowned Kronos Quartet for Music for Change: Pete Seeger @ 100, a multi-artist celebration of the legacy of Pete Seeger). Adding to the fun of FreshGrass is a wide range of musical workshops conducted by several of the performers; on-site demonstrations by skilled luthiers; diverse and savory food, with healthy options; nearby camping; and no shortage of family and kids’ activities. Then, of course, there’s the major bonus of the music festival happening right on the grounds of one of the world’s leading museums of contemporary art—with free admission for all FreshGrass ticketholders. “With the museum buildings right there all around you on the campus, it’s great to be able to just walk inside one of the galleries and see the art whenever you feel like you need a break between bands,” says Chanoff. “At Mass MoCA we have performing arts programs all year, and a big part of our ethos is to give music and the other performing arts a priority alongside the visual arts. FreshGrass is the culmination of that ethos. I always tell people, ‘Come for the music— but don’t miss the art!’” FreshGrass 2019 will take place at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, September 20-22. Freshgrass.com.
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Uncultivated: Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living Andy Brennan 2019, $24.95
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This hard cover artisanal bread cookbook from the head of the iconic bakery Bread Alone is as mouthwatering to flip through, with its full-page bread porn photos, as it is instructional, featuring anecdotes from Leader’s travels, information about the evolution of global breadmaking, and 60 recipes ranging from timeless to playful.
Make weeknight cooking simple with Every Day is Saturday, a new offering from Food Network veteran and former editor of Real Simple, Sarah Copeland. Beyond the 100 easy recipes, Copeland also offers tips for planning and shopping to simplify and streamline the food prep process, so you and your family can eat well without the stress.
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Gary Allen 2019, $28
Scrapping the traditional French culinary approach epitomized by Auguste Escoffier, Kingston-based food writer Gary Allen endeavors to illuminate the history and methodology of sauces from around the globe, grouping the recipes by physical properties rather than country of origin and encouraging budding sauce-makers to internalize the fundamental principles and qualities so they can innovate.
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Linda Soper-Kolton and Sara Boan 2019, $24.99
From the team inside the kitchen at the 150-acre Catskill Animal Sanctuary comes a vegan cookbook that highlights 125 of the best recipes from their Compassionate Cuisine culinary program, which is perfect for vegan foodies and animal lovers alike. Each section of the book is accompanied by a story about the rescued animals told by sanctuary founder Kathy Stevens.
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2019, $35
The Natural Gourmet Center has trained chefs in whole foods-based preparation for over 40 years. This comprehensive cookbook compiles more than 150 of their plant-based recipes into one visually stunning vegan manual—a must-have for vegans, vegetarians, and anyone looking to expand their plant-based culinary repertoire.
Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers Julia Turshen 2018, $35
Most of us spend the week avoiding the Tupperwares stashed at the back of the fridge. This new cookbook from the Hudson Valley’s award-winning writer and home chef Julia Turshen tackles the leftovers dilemma head-on with an accessible compendium of simple recipes for easy weeknight cooking and leftover makeovers.
As the dog days of summer dwindle and the U-Pick signs crop up at the end of dirt farm roads, calling the masses to pick apples from bounty-bent boughs, the time is ripe to read cider-maker Andy Brennan’s thoughtful new book, Uncultivated: Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living. In 2011, Brennan founded Aaron Burr Cider, which rapidly earned renown among the pioneers of New York City’s farm-totable movement for its limited-run bottles of full-bodied, unrefined natural cider made from hand-foraged apples. Love makes poets of us all, and this artist-turned-apple farmer is no different. Brennan’s prose in this ode to the wild apple tree blossoms with unassuming beauty as he earnestly explores the overlapping realms of history, nature, cultivation, and farm management. Uncultivated endeavors to tackle one of the white elephants looming in the shadow of American agriculture: What does the manipulation of food mean for the future of what we eat—and what are we losing along the way? Brennan’s own cider-making theory involves interfering with the natural cultivation processes as little as possible. The book opens with a request. Brennan entreats readers to “think of [apple trees] anthropomorphically,” explaining that they “have been attempting to communicate with us.” Neither how-to manual nor memoir, Uncultivated jumps between the history of the apple in America to personal experiences and observations of macro-social issues to form a captivatingly idiosyncratic and irreverent meditation on ecology, economics, and evolution. Quietly radical explorations of “forgotten wisdom and ethical questions which rarely surface” lead to the thought at the forefront of Brennan’s mind: “Could this mean the tree knows what’s best for itself?” “Uncultivation, for me, is about looking back at the progression of agriculture and deciding how we want it to continue,” Brennan says. “We’ve inherited 150 years of knowledge since the dawn of [industrialized] agriculture but not all that inheritance is for the best.” Brennan, who has been growing apples in Wurstboro for 15 years, built a small but thriving, environmentally conscious agricultural business on the backs of wild apple trees. He proposes that perhaps there is something in the lessons of de-domestication that we can extrapolate for ourselves. “I found that the more I tried to emulate wild apple trees, the more I discovered things about myself,” Brennan says. “We are cultivated too. We have overlooked other directions we could have taken.” Uncultivated: Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living is now available now from Chelsea Green Publishing Company. —Marie Doyon
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Brutalism is a school of architecture that rejects ornamentation, embracing broad, austere surfaces. It seems almost unfair to yoke the marvelous work of this resourceful trio—drummer/percussionist Chris Bowman, bassist Jim Donica, and tenor saxophonist Woody Witt—to such rigid pigeonholing. Nonetheless, a comparable tough-mindedness can be heard throughout this expertly recorded release. The group’s rubato rundown of the standard “What’s New?” serves as a sort of mission statement, though they are also at home with both hard-swinging, second-generation free jazz, as on the too-brief “Intro,” and an embrace of silence and solo statements on “Motif Lite” and “Dakota 2.” I generally lament the use of post-production reverb on jazz recordings, but its use here certainly imparts a dark-hued luster to Witt’s plangent lines, Donica’s resonant arco, and Bowman’s shimmering cymbal and gong work. Far from unadorned, Brutalism evinces nearly endless possibility, making me eager to hear this band live. —James Keepnews
A “technical note” inside Cochemea Gastelum’s All My Relations warns that the recording is a stereo experience. And how. There’s a bit of aural mescal going on, maybe even some sonic peyote or ayahuasca. The disc shoots straight out of 1972, calling up shadows of El Chicano, Malo, and Big Fun-era Miles Davis, with the leader’s treated saxophone and flute taking up the same sonic space as the guitar. The Sharon Jones sideman and Woodstock resident is joined by nine players, all of whom contribute percussion and chanted vocals, regardless of their main focus. Drawn from Native American, Mexican, and Indian influences, the overall sound is a sort of international, meditative funk—deep, rich, and tribal. Tracks like “Mitote” and “Al-Mu’tasim” are serious earworms, the latter highlighting Bosco Mann’s hypnotic guembri beneath Cochemea’s Chris Woodinspired electric reeds and mantra-like refrain. Try this one in headphones—with or without your mind-altering substance of choice. —Michael Eck
On Healing, the aptly titled Upstate (formerly Upstate Rubdown) does indeed lay down the parameters of an increasingly familiar upstate New York sound—rootsy, mostly acoustic Americana sounds shot through with elements of jazz, funk, and soul, often within the same song. The trio of female vocalists—Melanie Glenn, Mary Kenney, and Allison Olender—weave in and out of each other with the beauty of the Roches, the sass of the Pointer Sisters, and the complex, high-lonesome harmonies of Red Molly and Lula Wiles. Backed by a core group of musicians handling mandolins, guitars, bass, and percussion, supplemented by horns and keyboards as well as found sounds, the sextet combines intimate confessionals with upbeat folk-rock. All three singers also write, extending the New Paltz-born group’s sound stylistically and thematically. Produced by Wood Brothers percussionist Jano Rix and recorded at Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, this album is recommended if you like Lake Street Dive. —Seth Rogovoy
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poetry
EDITED BY Phillip X Levine
Autumn
all i ever do are chores without an allowance
When the rose garlands wilt it means autumn is near The kitten smiles The squirrel shakes in fear The bees become silent The rabbit goes to its hole and All is quiet All but the wind rushing through the sighing trees -Alyx Twining-Nelson (8 years old)
Eggs Everything was chipped Mugs, mannequins, door paint, Christmas lights. I’d watch your feet rocking, that stutter in my heart. In North Carolina, I came to move mountains, learned to hear silence, Carried groceries, the weight of you. Those sidewalks, that bench, those street lamps, they were filthy. When you knocked the air out of me, there, You never knew how hard you hit me. In Asheville, I tucked you up into doorways Bleached you with the bathtub Held you under my tongue, between teeth Spit you into rivers Traded you for eggs Pulled your hair while I braided my own I get caught up in your fingertips trying to walk home. Short stutter, your eyelashes, both thumbnails, unbelievable. Last night I made you breakfast, Smoked four cigarettes trying to scatter your ashes, Smashed down some dandelions, heel toe. I know I didn’t mean to make a monster You know I never mean to hunt you down. Block print, penmanship knife All I have to do is let it go. -Audrey Lodato On the Road to Rosendale Made mist by the heat, the old Widow Jane Mine’s cool exhalation washed over the road like an unexpected draft from a shop’s open door, just at the moment I saw them (my bike wobbling wildly, a driver passing wide: you crazy?)— a pair of high-flying albino red tails like in-spirited snow carvings, defying the sun. Weeks before, on Overlook, I’d seen only one, vanishingly. Now, here on the winding road to Rosendale in heat I cursed, their fleet fierce grace—wholly unsought— so reviving my spirits I set my sights on New Paltz (a few miles more than planned) where, over a cold beer in a semi-dark pub, I bent the ear of the bartender: Two! as if he cared. -Anne Richey
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The Woman of the House cut the grass & plunge the toilet & fling the chipmunk the cat drug in over the fence & bring home the bacon & pay the bills & tighten that p-trap nut so the sink stops leaking & grill the steak & shovel the snow & cull the chicken & cock the shotgun under the bed & pressure wash the deck & replace the lightbulbs & frame the shed & change the goddamn alternator with a flashlight in my mouth when it’s 17 degrees and 11pm & I cut my cold finger on the fan shroud & goddammit! this is why I need a man ! but i shoot a whiskey & i try again & the bolts slide in & the ratchet tightens & the truck turns over & I wonder maybe this is why a man needs me -Paula Dutcher Andalusian June (In memoriam Pauline Uchmanowicz) Bare feet flat on earthen tiles, cool soles pat arabesques. It’s solstice. Out tall window-doors, spires to remind us of what we’ll never be, reach… The sound of distant river’s unmistakable, smacks of wine spilled for you, water, friend, close by, a windswept fountain heard as laughing patios of praise. So like solace in this year of loss, the missed rising to the longest sun. Evanescent minds are minarets of grief, break silence nebulous as clouds, literal as belief, when we ignore the call to prayer trilling against that tendered sky, roseate twilight of pursed lips— this is how I remember losing… -Thomas Festa
The Beach One crow lands. A second Follows. They walk the Sand, Drink from the Lake. I sit quietly Nearby. -Daniel Brown
The Last Straw
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How To Dredge A Pond
Yesterday, moonlight. Today, the sunbeams. -When will this madness end?
Back and forth they reel as if they had the right, each, a masted ship chafing bloody sky;
You’ll want to begin with clean hands. Some might think this silly given the foulness inherent in the task, but you will be best served by fingers rubbed raw with lye. Consider your goals; has a ring or heirloom been lost to the silty depths? Are you leading a search party for your roommate, last seen on the dock at midnight? Has the duckweed eutrophied and the detritus gathered beyond recognition due to an increase in potassium and nitrates, due to an increase in the presence of goose shit, due to an increase in Canadian goose population, due to your desire to feed the geese? We are all brought to the precipice of the pond for different reasons, but the objective is nearly always the same: get it out. Get it out. Before any further algal blooms may erupt, slip into your favorite pond dredging suit and avail yourself of the other requisite tools: rakes, shovels, acids, goggles. An excellent excuse for a little neighborhood get-together, a pond dredging should always be preceded by invitations to friends and family. Now, with gusto, we plunge our hands into the muck and begin to sift. Feel the mud and leaves and stones slip between your fingers and float through the water. Like a meticulous archive writ in carbon, the chronology of every exhalation documented layer by layer. As you disturb and claw, the pond will soon grow murky with the swirling essence of dead matter. Despite every instinct telling you so, coffee filters cannot save you now. Resist the urge to scrub and purify every drop. It is just a pond, and you are just the pond-keeper. Apply suction. Deposit your hard-won sediment in the appropriate repositories. Bury, burn, or blast it into space. Disperse your dredging party, no matter how disappointed your debris-deprived guests may be—for they came out for a good show, and they did not even have a chance to stick their hands in the teaming mess and relish the feeling of your pond’s dead bits squishing under their fingernails.
-Richard J. Treitner If I speak, what will break? The other person’s cheek? My ribcage, hollow twigs snapping from the sheer force of a lifetime of silence? Even suppression deserves a hearing like the split second between impact and explosion and things as they ought to be collapse to the ground. -Brother John Forbis, OHC Last one left When you’re the last to die, there’s no one left to say goodbye, no final words to be remembered by. There’s just a wooden bed, a satin pillow for your head, some candles dripping on the floor, across the room, an open door. But no one ever crosses through, to count the losses, theirs, not yours. A silent room, unadorned by bloom. The chairs still neatly settled into rows. -William J. Joel
to & fro they swing, as though each were a clock prepared to strike each hour, hands against the face. -Marlene Tartaglione I gave some paper and a pen To my niece And asked her to draw an animal This animal Would be her protector and champion For the rest of her life Expecting a lion or a dragon, She drew a mouse A mouse? I asked Yes, I want someone as small And scared as me, she replied A friend, not a guardian Someone to share everything with Not to protect me But be part of my life I will take care of myself But I don’t want to be alone On my journey I asked my tiger to leave And started to look For my own mouse -bge
Whispers Watching me run I feel you this summer night a gentle breeze blowing back my hair
A breath on my neck
Looking over my shoulder I hear you on the silent trail you are nothing but a ghost
A song in my head
-Jennie ML Ossentjuk
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small time stuff Shit always falls they say so pardon my umbrella. It’s my only strategy at the moment ‘cos I’m feeling tapped out. Like the words are hard to say and my command of them fades like mists ascending Mohonk. Poof. All gone. Only the language of failed obligations in my mouth, my gluttonous mouth of happenstance and krill. Small verbs sculpted by fate into smaller stuff. A tarnished fringe. The sin being sadness and how we atone. -Mike Jurkovic
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Robert Wogan’s “Industrial Spirits” Palen Barn & Palen Barn Night (2001) “Industrial Spirits,” now on view at Hurley Motorsports in Kingston, is a 20-year chronicle of Robert Wogan’s light installations. The photographs, which showcase abandoned relics ranging from power plants to sunken ships, are a study in our society’s short attention span. Artist Notes: The Palen Barn is estimated to have been constructed in the 1690s. Typically Dutch barns were constructed before homes as they housed the provisions for a family’s survival. After leaving the urban environment of New York City and starting a family, I looked for new sites to reimagine with light. This barn was located on our property and allowed me the opportunity to see sunlight penetrating through the siding. I knew that lighting this magnificent piece of history from the inside out would be magical.
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September 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 Sundays in September: Harvest Festival at Bethel Woods September 7: Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers September 13-21: ”Flint” at Shadowland Stages September 20, 21, 28, 29: “Dracula” at Bannerman Castle September 21-22: ArtWalk Kingston September 21-22: ”Quarry” at Manitoga September 27-29: Women & Power Conference at Omega September 28: Woodsist Festival at Arrowood Farm Brewery Through September 30: “Entre Espacios” at the LGBTQ Center Through October 27: Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm
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Collaborative Concepts, an outdoor sculpture exhibit, returns to the cow pastures of Saunders Farm for the 14th year.
Normally in our society, cows and art are kept discreetly separate. But during September and October at the Saunders Farm in Garrison, the two worlds intersect, as Collaborative Concepts hosts its 14th annual sculpture exhibit. A herd of about 30 Black Angus cattle graze amid the art installations during “Sculpture on the Farm,” which debuted on August 31 and continues through October 27. Apparently, this is the only combination sculpture park-cattle farm in the Northeast. (Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, where 10 Cadillacs are buried nosefirst in the ground, also inhabits a pasture.) What type of art do cows prefer? They enjoy fabric and are attracted to the color red (though scientists claim their species is colorblind). The Saunders’ livestock have been known to nibble red sculptures. “We say that the cows are our severest critics,” explains Collaborative Concepts president Jo-Ann Brody. A few years ago, the artist Grace Knowlton created large mobile spheres that the cows enjoyed pushing through the fields. Over time, more and more of the artists have installed works in trees, where cows can’t deconstruct them. “Our very first year, we were worried about damaging the cows: no sharp things, no cables, no holes,” Brody recalls. Gradually, they realized that the cows could take care of themselves. In fact, the artwork was more in danger than they were. Besides the bovines, sculptures must withstand wind and rain, which dictates the art materials: cement, steel, ceramics, vinyl. Powder coating is often used on the metals to produce vibrant weather-resistant colors. All the art is for sale. Forty-eight artists contributed work to the 2019
show. Lara Saget and Jerry J. Adams collaborated on a memorial for trees on the farm that have passed away; the “gravesites” are guarded by a synthetic buckthorn tree. Octogenarian artist Christina Biaggi erected a mandala-like series of 14 canvases suspended between two trees. Kayla Gibbons cast a section of Albany Post Road—on which the Saunders Farm is located—in cement, and embedded it in a hill. Brody herself supplied Seated Figure, an armless woman on a swing, also in cement, for the current show. A strong wind will set the sculpture in motion. One sculpture, Caliburn by Marc Bernier, is intended as a collaboration with the cattle. Named after a private contractor that builds internment camps for refugees under the Trump administration, the piece consists of 12 abstracted huts composed of salt. Since cows love to lick salt, they will modify the sculpture during its two-month residency. “I like the fact that time will erase these pieces and, by analogy, hopefully those camps will eventually disappear,” Bernier comments. At the mid-run reception on September 22, a fluteand-harp duo will perform as well as a jazz combo. “Little Fish” by Susan Buroker and Friends is a puppet pageant on the subject of nitrogen pollution. Events at the farm are free. You may bring pets, as long as they remain on a leash. While walking through the pastures, keep an eye out for cow patties—minimalist works of art that the livestock produce, yet never sign. “Sculpture on the Farm” will continue until October 27 at the Saunders Farm in Garrison. —Sparrow
The Cow As Critic SCULPTURE ON THE FARM Through October 27 Collaborativeconcepts.org
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A September 2018 performance by Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers. Photo by David Gonsier
Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers, a dance troupe known for embracing nudity and sexuality in their pieces, will be debuting their work-in-progress, “El Pueblo de lo Olvidados: Part 2” (The Village of the Forgotten) at Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) on September 7. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, director and dancer Antonio Ramos is a trained jazz, salsa, and African dancer. He’s been working with the Gang Bangers, a group of eight or so American and Puerto Rican dancers, for more than five years. Ramos seeks to bring to light both his Puerto Rican heritage and queer pride through his choreography. He laughs when asked how crowds usually respond to his work. “You love it or hate it. It’s either black or white,” he says. “But it’s important to me to share the story in a way that is perceptive and resonating.” Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers’ expression of art is one of many in MTA’s Watershed Laboratory Program, whose name nods to the Catskill Mountains as an essential sustaining wellspring for New York City— both aquatically and creatively. Artists are invited into MTA’s space to perform publicly in collaboration with a variety of New York City organizations that will later premier the work. The watershed metaphor is apt, as MTA seeks to incubate fresh ideas and relationships before sending them “downstream” to the city—and beyond. “El Pueblo,” a sci-fi tale, tells the story of Ramos’s beloved Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria through the lens of an alien invasion. The protagonist, Tony Tacon, returns to his native country to find it under the colonization of an alien species, FIMA. In addition to discovering a secret laboratory and a new, transsexual species, Tony must reinvent himself to help free his people from FIMA’s spell. The story hints at Puerto Rican corruption, a saga which has continued unfolding with the recent resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló. Dancers
and audience members alike will struggle with ideas of colonization, sexuality, and identity statements as the choreography unfolds. Ramos uses nudity in his work to encourage body positivity and eradicate stigma while celebrating the beauty of the human form. In “El Pueblo,” Ramos intends for nudity to amplify the defenselessness that Puerto Ricans feel in the face of endless tides of corruption and capitalism. “Nudity allows for the body to be more of a blank slate, for the audience to imagine how they are socially organized and connected,” he says. Ramos views his piece as a celebration of all bodies, which he says reflects his invitation of all aspects of the queer community. “My work allows the space for the community to experience difficult and sexual expression, celebrate the variation of body, desires, and gender identity,” he explains. “The company is queer in its own way, and I myself identify fluidly in my queerness and gender. So as much as I want this to be accepted for myself, I want this to be accepted within the work as well.” Crystal Wei, executive director of MTA, says Ramos’s approach to art is precisely what the Watershed Laboratory aims to showcase. “Mount Tremper Arts nurtures experimentation in many forms: in how work is developed, in what artists create, and the nature of performance itself,” she says. “We invite our audiences to do the same—come with an open mind and experience a perspective that may be different from their own.” The preshow at Mount Tremper will be the second installment of Tony Tacon’s story, the first half of which will debut at Abrons Art Center on New York’s Lower East Side in April 2020. The Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens will feature Part 2 in October 2019. The Mount Tremper performance will take place on September 7 at 8pm. —Anna Barton
The Forgotten Ones ANTONIO RAMOS AND THE GANG BANGERS September 7 Mounttremperarts.org/Ramos
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September 13-29 An all-too-real unraveling of the American Dream comes to life on stage in the East Coast premiere of “Flint”. The intense play, written by renowned, Michigan-born actor and playwright Jeff Daniels, will be performed at Shadowland Stages in Ellenville September 13-29. The 75-minute play shows two neighboring families—a black couple, Mitchell and Olivia, and a white couple Eddie and Karen—as they grapple with conflicting reports about the impending water crisis in Flint. Everything comes to a head one evening in Mitchell and Olivia’s kitchen, as the four discuss the state of affairs since the men lost their jobs at the GM plant three years prior. As the stress mounts, deep-seated race and class tensions boil to the surface in this ambitious and tense play.
Theater “Dracula”
September 20, 21, 28, 29 For the second consecutive year, Theatre on the Road transforms Bannerman Island into Transylvania-on-Hudson for the traveling troupe’s production of “Dracula.” After reviewing multiple versions of the play, director Frank Marquette selected a loose adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel written by Crane Johnson in 1976 and based the setting in the 1920s, making full use of the island’s arsenal venue (commonly known as Bannerman’s Castle). Four nights of performances are planned: September 20, 21, 28, and 29, each starting at 7:30pm; tickets include ferry transportation between the island and Beacon’s dock.
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Art “Quarry” at Manitoga
September 21-22 After buying a former granite quarry in Garrison, Midcentury Modern titan Russel Wright spent 15 years studying its topography, creating trails, diverting a stream, and planting native species. The 75-acre property, Manitoga, has been preserved as a museum and performance art center with an artist residency program. On September 21 and 22, 2019 artists-in residence Ivy Baldwin Dance will premier the site-specific piece “Quarry.” set in Manitoga’s wooded landscape. Like Wright, who sought to blur the boundaries between the natural and artificial through a constant experimentation with form and material, Baldwin’s choreography explores our relationship to nature, while toying with perspective and scale in a mind-bending performance that invites viewers to observe the performance from great distances.
Art Art Walk Kingston
September 21-22 Art Walk Kingston offers you the chance to immerse yourself in Kingston’s burgeoning arts scene and increasingly diverse community of makers. Explore the city’s wide array of galleries and private studios throughout its three distinct neighborhoods through this self-guided tour of the studios of more than 100 artists specializing in paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, and more. This weekend event is presented by Arts Mid-Hudson and takes place September 21-22 from 12-5pm.When you get to the waterfront Rondout district, pop into the Kingston Wine Co. to enjoy a free wine tasting in conjunction with the Art Walk on Saturday from 1-3pm.
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"Entre Espacios" features the work of five queer Latinx artists. In a new exhibition entitled “Entre Espacios” (The Spaces Between), currently on display at the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center, artist and community organizer Susie Ximenez has brought together five of the region’s queer Latinx artists to reflect on the liminal spaces they occupy in contemporary American society. Part of a series of exhibitions organized through LatinX Project, this show spotlights the marginalized experiences of artists whose layered identities leave them shifting between worlds. The collected work reflects the complex, intersectional movement of the artists between national borders, between (majority white) queer communities and “the Latin home,” and between a range of affective states. Marie Liebana’s piece is set within the cool recesses of a former bank vault, adjoined to the LGBTQ Center’s main gallery space. Inside, a pink and white tiered quinceañera cake gradually melts. Perhaps Liebana wants us to imagine that the cake—a symbol steeped in sexism, double standards, and gender conformity—has melted from continued exposure to the artist’s queer identity. Yet, given its location within the bank vault, the cake may also stand in for migrant farm workers, their labor extracted by capital, their bodies exposed to the elements, their rites of passage tainted by consumerism. Depicting himself as a boldly neon yellow sun overlooking a pastoral green meadow, artist Marco DaSilva has crafted a self-portrait that may remind viewers of the aggressively cheerful sun infant from
“Teletubbies.” Fittingly, DaSilva is attempting to translate the experience of mania, wherein one can be convinced that they are, in fact, the center of the universe. In another work, DaSilva’s use of palm trees—and again in that blaring yellow—gently points to the irony of the middleclass association of the tropics as a restful vacation destination where people go to recover their own mental well-being on the backs of underpaid workers. Both Kaci Martinez’ abstract yarn quilt and Juan Hinojosa’s mixed-media collages, made with found objects, encourage viewers to consider what’s picked up, what’s discarded, and what can actually be carried during multiple border crossings. One of Hinojasa’s collages is filled with white space, compelling viewers to make sense of loose references to Catholicism, cosmetics, and sex, suggesting that a person’s whole self: their desires, their faith, their self-image, don’t disappear while in a period of traumatic transition. Border crossings—whether physical, emotional, or cultural—do not occur in a vacuum, and the art in this show, in rhythm with the ecologically and politically sweltering summer, is concerned with the frictional heat that accompanies perpetual movement. “Entre Espacios” will be on display at the Mid-Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center through the end of September Latinxproject.com/thespacesbetween —Kwame Holmes 9/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 115
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hough Bethel Woods, the famed site of the 1969 Woodstock festival, undoubtedly hit a high point last month with commemorative concerts by Ringo Starr and Woodstock alumni Santana and John Fogerty during Anniversary Weekend, the nonprofit cultural arts organization is not resting on its laurels: Rather it’s using the momentum of the event to power its calendar of year-long programming into the fall. Sundays in September will see the return of the Harvest Festival, now in its 21st year. In addition to the bustling marketplace of farmers, food, and craft vendors; family activities; corn and hay mazes; horse and buggy rides; and live music, each weekend will showcase a local featured partner. September 1 will welcome the Rosehaven Alpaca Festival, where guests can not only shop for alpaca-ware, but interact with the animals. On September 8, visit the Abandoned Hard Cider Garden, where you can sip samples of local craft cider from the Parksville-based cidery. The Fiber Festival celebrates all things soft and fluffy with wooly products and demonstrations of fiber harvesting on September 15. Next, Bethel Woods welcomes Sullivan 180 to celebrate well-being with activations from local health care agencies. To close out the month, September 29 will see Bethel Woods’ first ever pop-up vintage market, featuring a vinyl exchange and record shop plus vintage books, clothing, and antiques. The 800-acre property has a legacy of craft fairs. During the 1969 Woodstock festival, the Bindy Bazaar was a mystical sylvan marketplace of vendors bridging two major festival areas. Since May, the woodland area has been open to the public. In addition to the contextual annotations along the quarter-mile loop, guests can enjoy “Embracing Bindy: Crocheted Connections,” an installation by renowned fiber artist Carol Hummel. Her colorful crocheted shapes infuse the forest with color and light, embodying the bright creativity that a group of enterprising craftspeople brought with them to this stand of trees 50 years ago. BethelWoodsCenter.org
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Wellbeing Women & Power Conference
Local Character “A CAVALCADE OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIP ART”
September 27-29 Women from around the world have gathered annually at Omega’s three-day Women & Power conference for nearly 20 years, and the 2019 schedule doesn’t disappoint. The event brings more than 20 inspirational female speakers and instructors to Rhinebeck to lead morning sessions and breakout workshops in leadership skills, stress-reduction, creativity, and more. This year’s keynote speakers, panelists, and entertainers include Tarana Burke, a civil rights activist and founder of the #MeToo movement; Jamia Wilson, executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press at CUNY; and songwriter-activist-philanthropist Natalie Merchant, among others. The schedule also includes wellness classes such as yoga, meditation, and movement; healthy meals; and access to Omega’s serene grounds.
Music Woodsist Festival
September 28 Summer may be coming to an end, but the region’s music festival season is far from over. Hear more than 10 indie rock bands perform live at Arrowood Farms’ sustainable farm brewery in Accord during the Woodsist Festival, September 28 from 1-10pm. Crowdpleasing groups Real Estate, Waxahatchee, Bonny Doon, and Little Wings are just a few of the Woodsist Records label-mates performing at this outdoor event, which takes place amidst Arrowood’s pastoral setting. Grab a pint and explore the grounds’ hops trellises in between sets, visit the taproom for Arrowood merch or to fill a growler to go.
Outdoors Hudson River Valley Ramble
Every weekend in September The Hudson River Valley Ramble returns for its 20th year, celebrating the history, culture, communities, and natural splendor of the 10 counties that make up the Hudson Valley. The Ramble consists of concurrent events each weekend in September, centered around themes of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, including the Revolutionary War, Hudson River School artists, designated Greenway trails, and more. Daily activities allow participants to experience the full breadth of the region’s recreation opportunities, including scenic sunset kayak paddles, hikes with picturesque vistas, special events at historic sites, corn mazes and farm happenings, fairs and festivals, and bike tours.
Festivals Harvest Festival
Every Sunday in September Bring the whole family for a jovial afternoon of local food and handmade crafts at Bethel Woods’ 21st Annual Harvest Festival, taking place every Sunday in September from 11am-4pm. This long-running outdoor fest features more than 100 vendors including farm stands, artisan vendors, and more. Each weekend offers a special event, including the Abandoned Hard Cider Garden on September 8; the Catskills Fiber Festival on September 15; Sullivan 180—which teaches families how to adopt a healthier lifestyle—on September 22; and the Pop-Up Vintage Market, featuring a vintage record shop and exchange, comic books, clothing, antiques, and other unique goods on September 29.
For comprehensive calendar listings visit Chronogram.com/events.
A panel from the Jim Keefe-drawn Flash Gordon, one of the comics featured in the exhibit “A Cavalcade of American Newspaper Comic Strip Art,” on view at the Ellenville Public Library and Museum through October 31.
In the decades before television, millions of American kids looked forward to Sunday morning. Sunrise that day brought a whole section of the newspaper devoted to colorized episodes of the beloved blackand-white syndicated comic strips they’d been following all week—“the Sunday funnies.” By the 1960s, though, the apex of newspaper comics had passed, and most kids were more obsessed with the Saturday morning cartoon series that were overtaking network TV. Nevertheless, there was still a sizeable youth audience who remained fascinated with printed serial comics. One was R. Robert Pollak, who would himself go on to become a comic artist and whose collection of classic comic art is the focus of “A Cavalcade of American Newspaper Comic Strip Art,” an exhibition now on display at the Ellenville Public Library and Museum. “I loved how the strips were cliffhangers—you had to wait until the next episode to find out what was going to happen to the characters when they got into these desperate situations,” remembers Pollak, who was born in the Bronx and grew up in Ellenville, where his passion for comics began in the mid ’60s. “I loved Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, Prince Valiant. I started clipping them out of the paper and saving them. Then, when I got a little older, I started writing to some of the artists, like Sy Barry, who drew The Phantom, and Dan Barry, who drew Flash Gordon. Most of them were really nice and would write back and sometimes even send a drawing they did. The first really great artist I met was Milton Caniff [Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon], who was almost like another dad to me. I was about 16 or 17, and I’d started drawing by then, and he gave me lots of advice.”
As was the case with many of us who had our noses jammed in comic books as a kid, for the smalltown-raised Pollak, the art form offered an escape. “I was always a bit of a loner, and I lived vicariously through the characters,” he muses. “I was always artistic, and my parents encouraged me to draw.” Pollak, who credits a 1971 cartoon exhibition his father took him to as the inspiration for his current Ellenville show, went on to study at Pratt Institute; work as an art director for the J.C. Penney Corporation; draw for the Soho Weekly News and other publications; and teach fourth and fifth grade for 43 years in the Brooklyn public school system. In the latter vocation, he recruited legendary artists like Fred Laswell (Snuffy Smith), Jim Keefe (Flash Gordon), and Dale Messick (Brenda Starr, Reporter) to speak to his classes. Besides contributing to several comics anthologies and creating a coloring-book tribute to Bill Woggon’s 1940s-era character Katy Keene, Pollak, a recent New York Cartoonist Society Hall of Fame inductee, began drawing Ellen’s Adventures at The Shadowland in 2012. Chock full of local landmarks, the series (now compiled into two volumes published by Red Stylo Media) follows the exploits of Ellen Allen, a New York actress who comes to Ellenville to work at its historic Shadowland Stages. As with his beloved Golden Age comics, the series’ aesthetic recalls the Art Deco glamor of old Hollywood. “I like the nostalgia of it,” says Pollak. “It’s an homage to what the great people working then were able to do with just pen and ink and a brush.” “A Cavalcade of American Newspaper Comic Strip Art” is on view at the Ellenville Public Library and Museum through October 31. Eplm.org. —Peter Aaron 9/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 117
TOM NOLAN August 22 – September 15 Opening Reception Saturday, August 24 6 - 8pm
IZZY CUBITO September 19 - October 12
Opening Reception Saturday, September 21 6 - 8pm Artist Talk & Demo Saturday, September 28 6pm
MATT MALEY October 17 – November 10 Opening Reception Saturday, October 19 6 - 8pm
Dept. of Regional Art Workers Art Classes and Workshops for all levels Weekend, after school and evening classes available Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Mixed media and more
ALEX CANELOS November 14 – December 8
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GALLERY & GIFTS
Henry Klimowicz
TONALISM:
PATHWAY FROM THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL TO MODERN ART
sculpture installation
Sep 21– Nov 10, 2019 Reception Sep 21, 5 –7pm
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No Racist White God
HUDSON
UNDERGROUND
Birge Harrison, Lawrence River Sunset, n.d., oil on canvas, New York State Museum, Historic Woodstock Art Colony: Arthur A. Anderson Collection
AUGUST 28 – DECEMBER 8, 2019 SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ
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exhibits
Joe Zorrilla and Shino Takeda The art of site-specific installation is highlighted this month at the exhibition venue best known as the Ice House. Director Jayne Durst Johnson notes that the compound of mostly small buildings once functioned as servants’ quarters for an estate and remarks that it was a live/work space then and remains for her a live/work space now. In the visually striking Ice House itself, California-based Joe Zorrilla is installing three works, one of which is entitled The Wish and the Deed#4 (sun, moon) and will hang from the impressive building’s 20-foot-tall beams. “Enigmatic” would be one way to describe Zorrilla’s work, which Johnson categorises as bricolage—a practice that makes use of found objects. Think of it as a refined visual sauce, a reduction, with hints of existential musings, cooked up to encourage an open-minded response. Across the way in the modest Cottage space, Japaneseborn artist Shino Takeda is showing handworked pottery with colorful glazes that reflect her sensory responses to the landscape surrounding the gallery. Also on view is Takeda’s new fabric-based work which charmingly bridges the distance between the traditional Japanese patchwork technique Boro and the 20th-century Western avant-garde movement Suprematism. JDJ | The Ice House, opens September 21
Shino Takeda’s ceramic spoons.
Christie Scheele: “Atlas/Forms of Water”
Scout: “A More Perfect Union”
John P. Murphy: “A Life Celebrated in Paintings”
Those familiar with the work of Christie Scheele will know her paintings of water, which are distinguished by their purposeful simplicity, subtly expressive use of color, and compositional sophistication. Her current exhibition at Shahinian goes beyond celebration of nature’s fluid beauty in order to “ focus on our environment and the challenges it faces.” To take on this expanded mission, Scheele has created an interconnected web of works in multiple media representing water in many guises both natural and human impacted, from mountain watersheds to industrial contexts and shining seas. She also provides handmade maps as a wayfinding tool to both navigate the exhibition and to “help us find our way” through the glimmering surfaces of her work to the deeper call to action that lies beneath.
These days, being hopeful is getting harder and harder with each news cycle, but street artist Scout is giving it a shot. He notes that it is “important to find something local and grassroots to focus your energy on where you can see actual change.” Lately, the graffiti-meets-folk artist has been focusing on large canvases rather than the reclaimed materials he has previously favored, but the politicized layered mix that is his hallmark remains the same. In “There Is Nothing in the World More Dangerous than a Defeated Army Heading Home,” two partially overlapping faces vie for our attention, one of a young contemporary man looking directly at the viewer and the second a stenciled period piece from Midcentury America—a young boy pledging allegiance. The placement of the young boy’s hand seems to be silencing the young man. Is this a reference to blind patriotism silencing legitimate grievance, or does it point to a conflict taking place in our collective psyche and that of the artist himself? Or both? Look for signs of the complexity of our times in the works that Scout has brought back from the front.
Painter John P. Murphy (1934-2013) covered vast stretches of visual territory during the more than five decades of his career. Throughout this stylistic journey, he maintained a vigorous approach to composition rooted in his knowledge of graphic design and a fearless use of color. Beginning with landscapes that eschewed detail in favor of feeling, he moved on to figure painting, influenced by his admiration of German expressionism. The muse for the latter was his wife of the time, and there is nothing prudish about the raw energy with which he embraced the depiction of his subject. Those who take the time to absorb this body of work piece by piece may come to appreciate the range of emotions expressed. Others may be drawn to the succeeding abstract works, which convey a no-nonsense, no-frills approach to visual truth. Murphy’s later years brought paintings bridging the gap between representation and abstraction, including inventive spatial interpretations of railroad imagery and aerial views circling back to his days in the Air Force. Lovingly presented to the public by his daughters and granddaughter, “A Life Celebrated” is a testament to a skilled practitioner and true believer in the power of art.
Albert Shahinian Fine Art, September 14-November 17
Stephen Niccolls: “Informalism” When considering the abstract paintings in the Stephen Niccolls solo show “Informalism” at John Davis Gallery, you might want to ponder a quote from DeKooning about Mondrian, “that great merciless artist…the only one who had nothing left over.” And also, perhaps, the phenomenon of synesthesia. It can be argued, and Stephen Niccolls’s work seems to be doing so, that the ideal of eliminating all illusion from painting is kind of impossible to achieve, since seeing itself is illusory. So yes, there are willful (but open-ended) compositional ambiguities in Niccolls’ beautiful arrangements of form, adorned with his signature palette of reds, blues, yellows, and all their complementary cousins showingoff, unafraid to be themselves. Synesthesia? Well, there is certainly a color in one of the paintings that tastes like raspberry. You may indeed taste, smell, hear, and feel other unexpected sensations as you treat yourself to the feast that is Stephen Niccolls solo show. John Davis Gallery, September 14-October 7
Thompson Giroux Gallery, August 10-September 22
The Seligmann Center, through September 28
River Valley Arts Collective: “It’s Necessary to Talk About Trees” The recent formation of River Valley Arts Collective reflects a trend of top art professionals migrating from New York City to our region to join our already burgeoning arts community. Lead by Alyson Baber and Candice Madley, RVAC is promoting art rooted both conceptually and materially in our local environment. Their September offering at Foreland is a group show with a title borrowed from poet Adrienne Rich extolling the virtues of locality. Included in the exhibition are works by the likes of Polly Apfelbaum, Osi Audu, Padma Rajendran, and Arlene Shechet. To quote Rich’s poem, “this is not somewhere else but here.” Words to remember when contemplating the cultivated art in this locally sourced exhibition. Foreland, September 7-29
Raul Serrano: “Painting as Vernacular” Several of the large paintings in Raul Serrano’s show at Wired have almost balanced compositions; left and right. Everything in these works is just off, which is correct enough because akilter is Serrano’s gaze, which seeks neither narratives nor realism. Take Eau de Vie, depicting a woman’s red and very pregnant body split not quite in half by an oh-so-slow pour of…is it water or is it brandy? Whichever you choose, the mood evoked arises from the intoxicating depths of the unconscious. The tiny couple thsat hovers mid-canvas is also bifurcated, like the male and female polarities of creation itself. Take in the silence. Peruse. Stuff will definitely be happening in your head, but if you’re seeking meaning in Serrano’s paintings, abandon certainty and tilt in the direction of your poetic heart. Wired Gallery, September 20 -29 9/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 119
exhibits
Lucy Holtsnider, Monsoon Monotype print collage on handmade paper, 2019
Lucy Holtsnider: “Blind Spots” A relative newcomer to our region, Lucy Holtsnider rides in with splashes of saturated color for her first solo show on the East Coast. The collages included in “Blind Spots” are composed of overlapping, vibrantly-hued shards of fiber-based handmade paper, which she created and printed during a residency at Women’s Studio Workshop. Holtsnider states that her use of color references “the textures and hues of a warming planet” and “conjure associations with a sense of place, topographic maps, and climate change.” Be this as it may, when you visit Women’s Work to take in Holtsnider’s chromatic eye poppers, you will definitely feel the heat. Women’s Work, September 6 - 25
11 JANE ST
BEACON ARTIST UNION
GALLERY AT 46 GREEN STREET
“Michael Pope.” Award-winning video artist Michael Pope combines live musical performance and sound effects, tableau vivant, and installation elements. September 6-28.
“Swarm: Ceramics Artist Faith Adams.” New work featuring a collection of screen printed and hand detailed insects; some admired and beloved, some feared and reviled. Through September 8.
“Summer Flowers.” Summer Flowers combines plant drawings, glass sculpture and wall drawings by songwriter Slink G Moss to suggest an indoor/outdoor garden. Through September 29.
11 JANE STREET, SAUGERTIES
510 WARREN ST GALLERY
510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Linda Hertz: New Works.” September 6-28. Opening reception September 7, 3-6pm.
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 “Patterns and Rhythms: The Art of John Toth.” Toth uses a computer as an instrument to explore the layering of sculpture, painting, music, sound, dance, video, film, and written text. Opening reception September 7, 4-7pm.
ANN STREET GALLERY
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Pulse: Color & Form in a Visual Rhythm.” Examining the work of four gallery artists working in abstraction; Jeanette Fintz, Dai Ban, Ginny Fox, and Jenny Kemp. Through September 15.
CLARK ART INSTITUTE
225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA “Renoir: The Body, The Senses” and “Janet Cardiff: The FortyPart Motet.” Through September 22.
CUNNEEN-HACKETT ARTS CENTER 12 VASSAR STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE
“For the Love of Birds.” Photographs by Claudia Gorman and Avian Wire Sculptures by Dick Crenson. September 4-October 1. Opening reception September 6, 5-8pm.
46 GREEN STREET, HUDSON
GARRISON ART CENTER
23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON “Anthropocene Drifter by Zachary Skinner.” An exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Zachary Skinner.
HILO CATSKILL
365 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL Matt Bua. A visual story installation, pulling from the vaults of Bua’s life as a maker and artist. Through September 17.
HISTORIC MOUNT LEBANON SITE 202 SHAKER ROAD, NEW LEBANON.
“Granary: A Solo Exhibition by artist Amie Cunat.” Through October 14.
HUDSON HALL
327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH
DUCK POND GALLERY
“Text.” Exhibition explores the relationship between visual imagery and words in the practice of artists who integrate a text aesthetic into their work. Through October 19.
128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN
“Tema Stauffer: Upstate.” Photography exhibit. Through September 29.
“Jean Haines: Little Shop of Horses.” September 6-October 19. Opening reception September 6, 5:30-7pm.
HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM
ART OMI
EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY
“Rescuing the River: 50 Years of Environmental Activism on the Hudson Presented by Bank of America.” Through January 1, 2021.
“Tschabalala Self.” Works on paper, a new wall mural, studio work, sculpture, and neon. Through September 29.
“All Dressed Up By Nature.” Gemma Kahng is best known for her intricate and unique fashion designs. Today, she continues to channel her creativity in her striking paintings centered around birds. September 3-30. Opening reception September 6, 5-6:30pm.
HUDSON VALLEY MOCA
EMERGE GALLERY & ART SPACE
HURLEY HERITAGE SOCIETY
1405 COUNTY ROUTE 22, GHENT
ARTS MID HUDSON
696 DUTCHESS TURNPIKE, POUGHKEEPSIE “Summer Small Works Members’ Show.” Through September 8.
BARD COLLEGE: HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART ROUTE 9G, BARD, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON
“Acting Out.” Exhibition takes its prompt from artist Leigh Ledare’s “The Task,” a single channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference.
BARRETT ART CENTER
55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE Juried Members Show. Through September 14.
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228 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES
“Terrain: Art Inspired by Landscape.” A group show. September 7-29. Opening reception September 14, 5-8pm.
FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE
“Shape of Light: Defining Photographs.” Large-scale works. September 20-December 15. Opening reception October 12, 4pm.
50 RONDOUT LANDING, KINGSTON
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL “Anne Samat: The Greatest Love.” Artists-in-residence Anne Samat uses intricately-woven textiles and found objects to build elaborate totems evoking her familial lineage.
52 MAIN STREET, HURLEY
“Winslow Homer’s Hurley: An Artist’s View.” The display includes vivid color reproductions of paintings as well as six original 19th century wood engravings from the pictorial press of the day. Through October 31.
JAMES COX GALLERY
4666 ROUTE 212, WILLOW “Best of the Best.” A group of exceptional selections from over a century of American artwork, including pieces by well-known names, recent discoveries, and living and deceased artists. Through September 13.
exhibits Shanti Grumbine, Surplus De-acidified New York Times newspaper, matte medium, UV spray coat, newspaper stick, spray paint, 2017
Group Show: “TEXT” The use of text in visual art, employed by Cubists, Surrealists, Dadaists, Conceptual artists, and Pop artists in the 20th century can still be fertile ground in the 21st as demonstrated in the exhibition named, illustratively, “TEXT” at Ann Street. Ad gurus are keenly aware that the esthetics of typography can hone the meaning of copy which, when married to the appropriately emotive image, can lead to a powerful motivational synergy. Some contemporary artists use this commercial strategy subversively in an effort to expose the limits of this commodity culture gambit. The 18 artists in TEXT are up to many things with their word inflected imagery. Visitors will see examples of pure love of the beauty of typography, the sway of “POWER” writ large in cuddly pink sculpted caps, and text whirling around, Jackson Pollock-style in a blizzard of incomplete messaging. You may choose to be on the lookout works that employ words in conjunction with form to lead you to a space dominated by neither. One where you can employ your own eyes and mind to find meaning in this inviting word and image game. Ann Street Gallery, Through October 19
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TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY
“HOME/WORK.” Each of the artists in HOME/WORK were asked to think about the complicated relationship between work and personal life, and particularly, the invisible labor we perform in our domestic lives. Through September 2.
“Chronicles of a Life: The Art of Sergio Castillo.” September 7-29. Opening reception September 7, 2-5pm.
“Dana Matthews + Gilbert Rios: Road to River.” Hudson Valley photography. Through September 22.
ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
“Lois Dickson: Rocks and Caves.” Through September 9.
“Natural Progressions.” Large on-site installations address themes with interactive work, integrating sensory elements. Through April 30, 2020.
“Wild and Beautiful Creatures: The Life and Work of J.J. Audubon.” Through October 13.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY
ROELIFF JANSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM
“Paintings and Sculpture. Featuring Lawre Stone, Litcha Jimenez, George Spencer, Sean Bayliss.” Through September 28.
“The Hidden History of the Roe Jan Region.” Through September 2.
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JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
19 CENTRAL SQUARE, CHATHAM
LABSPACE
2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE “Christina Tenaglia: Houseperson.” Through September 29.
MANITOGA/THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER 584 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON
“Michele Oka Doner: Close Your Physical Eye.” Through November 11.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ “H2O—Water in Art: A Group Show.” Through September 7.
MILLBROOK FREE LIBRARY
3 FRIENDLY LANE, MILLBROOK “John Verner: Photographs.” Fine art photography. September 7-October 19.
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON
“In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature.” Multimedia design concepts and installations, developed by select architects and artists. Through November 3.
QUEEN CITY 15
317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “Those Amongst Us: Artwork by Undine Brod.” Undine uses animals as stand-ins for people to examine the human condition. September 6-30. Opening reception September 6, 5-8pm.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY
172 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Romantic Hudson Valley: New Work by Steve Duffy.” Through September 10.
27 SOUTH GREENBUSH ROAD, WEST NYACK.
27 SOUTH GREENBUSH ROAD, WEST NYACK.
8 MILES ROAD, COPAKE FALLS
STANDARD SPACE
147 MAIN STREET, SHARON, CT “Region One School Show.” Through December 31.
STORM KING ART CENTER
1 MUSEUM ROAD, NEW WINDSOR “Collaborative Concepts Farm Project 2019.” Large sculptural works located in a cow pasture. Through October 27.
THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 1946 CAMPUS DRIVE, HYDE PARK
“State of Ate: New York’s History Through 8 Ingredients.” This exhibit delves into the developing aspects of the history of New York State through the lens of eight ingredients: apples, beef, corn, dairy, oysters, salt, sugar, and wheat. Through December 31.
THE LACE MILL
165 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON “The Work of Earnest Frazier.” The Late Earnest Frazier a major contemporary artist will be shown in the West and Main Galleries. September 7-October 31. Opening reception September 7, 5-9pm.
60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI
11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT
UNISON ARTS CENTER
68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ “Composed to Decompose.” Forty-five artists have composed installations that are intentionally designed to decompose over the course of an entire year. Through July 31, 2020.
THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE
“An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions.” The exhibition is a tribute to James Mundy upon his retirement after 28 years as the director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Through September 8, 6:30pm.
WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION 330 MORTON ROAD, RHINEBECK
5th Outdoor Sculpture Biennial Exhibition. Through October 31.
WIRED GALLERY
11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS Geta Badea: Underbelly. Geta Badea paints bold, expressionistic human and animal figures in bright colors and juxtapositions that often belie darker emotions. Through September 15.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION & MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
“Thomas Cole’s Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek.” Through November 3.
“Woodstock Art Conferences.” WAAM co-sponsored the four Woodstock Art Conferences in 1947, 1948, 1950 and 1952, which brought artists, museum directors, philosophers, aestheticians, writers, and others from all over the country to Woodstock to talk on various topics. This exhibition displays some of the materials from the conferences to tell a bit of the stories of these important events in American art history.
THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART
“Scout: A More Perfect Union.” Scout creates graphic mixedmedia pieces influenced by graffiti and street-art that juxtapose colorful paint, vintage clip art and found images to create vital works of protest. The exhibition takes a hard look at what it means to be an American today.
Instructors’ Exhbition. Through September 7.
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL
57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM
2470 RTE. 212, WOODSTOCK
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September 4. Those who assume that traditional jazz is the stuff of old men in line for the retirement home would do well to check out Tuba Skinny. Formed in 2009 in the jazz cradle of New Orleans and led by cornetist Shaye Cohn (the granddaughter of legendary saxophonist Al Cohn), the youthful bandmembers began as buskers and have since taken their peppy, piston-poppin’ sound to stages around the world. And this month one of those stages is that of Colony, where the group will dish out their hot ‘n’ spicy gumbo of 1920s/1930s-era jazz, blues, ragtime, and gospelrooted high-steppers. (420 Funk Mob smokes at Colony September 20; C.W. Stoneking stops by September 24.) 7pm. $15, $20. Woodstock. Colonywoodstock.com.
September 7. Italian punks Giuda are an irresistibly stompin’ rock ‘n’ roll party. With a boot boy/soccer hooligan image straight out of England’s 1970s tower blocks, the five-piece band plays hard junkshop glam in the vein of Sweet, Slade, Gary Glitter, and their many one-hit-wonder contemporaries. The band, which comes to crush BSP for this long-awaited night, was a standout at 2017’s Meltasia festival—loud, tough, joyous, and unrelenting fun. If you or your parents happen to have a pair of those platform shoes like Elton John used to wear back in the day lurking in the closet, you best bust them out. With Three Dog Nightmare and Tonus Maximus. (Sundub stirs it up September 6; Los Wembler’s de Iquitos bring Peruvian jams September 20.) 8pm. $15, $20. Kingston. Bspkingston.com.
September 22, 21. Woodstock’s celebrated first couple of Americana, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, are recording a live album across two nights at the hallowed Levon Helm Studios. For the occasion, their crack band will feature drummer Justin Guip (the threetime Grammy Award-winning engineer of Helm’s Dirt Farmer, Electric Dirt, and Ramble at the Ryman albums) and bassist Jesse Murphy (Norah Jones, Brazilian Girls) plus Midnight Ramble alumnus Brian Mitchell on keyboards. The set lists will focus on traditional songs from Williams’s Tennessee upbringing, explorations of old favorites, and jams highlighting the players’ instrumental prowess. (Robbie Dupree returns September 22; Wile Nile wails October 4.) 7pm. $45, $70. Woodstock. Levonhelm.com.
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September 13-15. Basilica Hudson’s mighty festival of highly adventurous music makes its return to the sprawling riverfront venue, once again bringing a stacked roster of surprising sounds. This year’s lineup includes Low, SQÜRL (featuring Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan), Circuit Des Yeux, Alan Braufman and Cooper-Moore, Andrea Abi-Kalal, member of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra performing Johan Johansson’s Virdulegu Forestar, Waxahachie, Greg Fox, Jessica Moss, IONE, Big Brave, The Body, Chelsea Hodson, Cloud Rat, M Lamar, Bad Waitress, Dilly Dally, Jerusalem in My Heart, Crickets, Ela Minus, Zsela, and Lingua Ignota. Visual art, readings, food and drink, popup shops, camping options, and the WGXC Record Fair are part of the mix as well. See website for full schedule and ticket prices. Hudson. Basilicahudson.org.
September 22. Hey, how about a little something for the kids? Here’s a special afternoon concert at High Meadow School featuring four of the Hudson Valley’s most renowned family music acts: two-time Grammy nominee Elizabeth Mitchell, Dog on Fleas (led by Grammy-winning producer Dean Jones), and Sirius/XM radio kindie hitmakers Ratboy Jr and Uncle Rock (aka Robert Burke Warren). All proceeds from the event will benefit the construction of the school’s Jesse Kolber Music Center. Named for the late, beloved musician, teacher, and entrepreneur Jesse Kolber, the planned facility will provide students with a place at which to compose, perform, record, and enjoy diverse forms of music. 1:30pm. $20 adults, $10 children. Stone Ridge. Highmeadowschool.org.
POLO G September 7. Rapper Polo G has quite an interesting story. Born in 1999 in Chicago’s Old Town area, he was raised alongside his three siblings in a housing project. While in his teens, he started making music in the local drill style—dark and gritty, reflecting the area’s harsh urban realities—and releasing tracks via YouTube. In 2018, “Finer Things,” a song he wrote that year while he was incarcerated, led to a distribution deal with Columbia Records; next came the platinum hit “Pop Out” (featuring Bronx rapper Lil Tjay) and superstardom. Here, he hits the Chance in support of his debut album, Die a Legend, whose singles “Deep Wounds,” “Through Da Storm,” and “Dyin’ Breed,” show a turn to a more melodic sound. (PnB Rock rips September 6; Arrested Development arrives September 14.) 7pm. $25, $60. Poughkeepsie. Thechancetheater.com.
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three Jupiter-Neptune conjunctions on September 21, and the autumnal equinox on September 23 mark this month as the direction-setter towards 2020’s huge cosmic events, beginning with the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in January. September positions us to launch 2019’s big finish, preparing to put our best foot forward into the powerful forces of change in 2020. September invites us to shift around a bit, get comfortable, and find our sweet spot as we each assess our own personal and communal battleground. We do not fear shuffling through the deck of possibilities before landing on the one that’s exactly right, right now. In fact, the first two weeks of September feel a bit like sifting for gold, and if you’ve played your cards right during the preceding months, you’ve found just how to tell the difference between all that glitters. Ideally speaking, our collective discernment muscles should have been strengthened by the onslaught of organized disinformation that nobody living outside a gulag can deny has been bombarding us, publicly and privately. Let us live up to our own high standards and call out gaslighting by those who count on public complacency. The Full Moon in compassionate, empathetic Pisces on September 13 occurs simultaneously with servant-hearted Virgo sun’s trine to power-player Pluto in corporate Capricorn. Hearts that don’t melt are truly made of stone and deserve to sink to the bottom of the sea. The days between the autumnal equinox, September 23, and the New Moon in Libra, September 28, are the turning point of the year. The sifting and discerning process gives way to the discovery of true gold— flakes and nuggets in our pans—corresponding to the effort we’ve put into uncovering our own precious, intimate truth. Treasure every bit of it, hard-won and pure as it is.
ARIES (March 20–April 19)
Ruling planet Mars in Virgo during September highlights your mind-body connection and supports efforts to cleanse and detoxify just about everything in your life, including relationships, your environment, your work life, and your reputation. You are hyper-aware of what needs fixing and possess the strength of will and determination to do the job. Feeling integrated is your goal, and filtering what is useful from that which serves no purpose is your method. An emotionally supercharged September 14-16 powerfully propels partnerships to the forefront; the autumnal equinox September 23 emphasizes fair play. Raise the bar to receive what you deserve.
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Ruling planet Venus adjusts your comfort zone this month, but you’ll be glad she did by September 14, when you begin to enjoy what feels like a desperately needed second honeymoon. However, before you embark on your pleasure cruise, there’s the little matter of a gap between your long-term plans and your short-term needs that requires your attention September 1-6. Minor adjustments to time management become clearer September 17-18; partnerships take precedence over the individual and communal obligations over private priorities. Achieve the harmony and balance you crave the most by the New Moon in Venus-ruled Libra on September 23.
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GEMINI (May 20–June 21)
Mercury in his home sign of Virgo through September 13 acts like a little scrub brush of truth-telling, vigorously scouring disinformation from your environment and setting the record straight regarding all manner of misunderstandings and misinterpretations of your many recent goodwill efforts on behalf of others. The motives of those who oppose you are clarified by September 21, and power struggles climax September 26. When you know you’re on the side of the angels, you can’t lose. Open-handed support from those you’ve helped along the way comes in handy now. Payback is commensurate to your historic generosity.
CANCER (June 21–July 22)
You’re feeling downright spooky this month, anticipating every word and move with uncanny prophetic powers that peak at the Full Moon in Pisces September 13. Always ultra-sensitive, this month’s energetic assault on your porous emotions may feel like a meteorite barrage, especially September 3, 8, and 22-29. The good news is Cancer the Crab can and should retreat into their shells when things get too intense. Furnish your personal shell with supplies, fortify all vulnerable openings, ensure a good wifi connection, and hunker down into a comfortable nest, protecting your precious instincts from the onslaught of energetic vampirism.
LEO (July 22–August 23)
You’re “the Decider” this month, Leo! Everything is up to your ability to discern what is useful from that which no longer serves your purpose. What have you outgrown? What utilitarian compromise have you made that can no longer be justified? You’ll play Truth or Dare this month with yourself alone, internalizing present realities and sorting through all manner of commitments and priorities. Be sure you know what you really want! All this cleanup work is in preparation for the possibility of powerful partnership by the autumnal equinox September 23 and the New Moon in Libra September 28. Purge!
VIRGO (August 23–September 23)
September starts with the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in Virgo, and that’s just fine with you, as you deserve at least a small parade of planetary support during your special time of year, especially after the year you’ve had. Your gut instincts are confirmed when the Full Pisces Moon and Neptune station opposite all the aforementioned planets September 13, testing the limits of your imagination as well as the edges of any delusionary thinking you may have hoped to briefly enjoy. Clarity around money decisions September 26-27 takes a weight off your mind and perhaps even your shoulders.
LIBRA (September 23–October 23)
You’re tying up loose ends in the beginning of September, clearing energetic clutter, and creating space in anticipation: You literally can’t wait until Venus and Mars enter Libra September 14. Romantic austerity is not your style, and you long to be restored to your natural idealism, even if pure romanticism is utterly impossible now thanks to the stench of harsh reality. Lucky for you, Libra, past heartbreaks and disappointments don’t deter you forever. The Sun enters Libra at the equinox on September 23 and the New Moon in Libra on September 28. Renewal is just around the corner! 9/19 CHRONOGRAM HOROSCOPES 125
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SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)
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Much of your energy is devoted to your community this month, and you are inspired to take a closer and more piercing look into the goals and aspirations as well as the operations of groups you’re a part of. Leadership paths appear to a heart inclined towards service, and you want to dedicate your heart to what you believe in—but you need to know if what you intend to serve is worthy of your devotion. Uncover vulnerabilities September 3, contemplate consequences September 8, overcome objections September 12, and take the high road to power September 19.
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22)
First Quarter Sagittarius Moon September 5 stimulates; Sagittarian Jupiter square Piscean Neptune September 21 inspires. The more independence the better. It’s not that you don’t work well with others, it’s that others don’t always share your big-picture view of the situation, especially when there’s a (obviously temporary, from your viewpoint) mess on the ground. Pitch in and help clean up to build goodwill. You’re approaching a long stretch between now and December, and you’ll be given your head to gallop when you share a little bit of your magic with the mere mortals around you.
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Ruling planet Saturn in Capricorn stations direct September 14 after a nearly five-month retrograde, made even more constricting by the South Lunar Node’s transit through your home sign. You’ve done some hard excavation work around old wounds and the genetics of spiritual and emotional ancestral trauma. Now Saturn sets his sights for his rendezvous with power-player Pluto in Capricorn in January 2020. Your path to success is channeling the sure-footed, persistent gait of the mountain goat, ascending to commanding heights one step at a time. Supercharge your batteries September 7-8, rev your engine at the autumnal equinox September 23.
AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19)
Accurate and detail-oriented Messenger Mercury in Virgo brings clarifying information September 1 to ruling planet Uranus in Taurus around issues of your material world existence. Heed this news—even if it means unexpected or surprising temporary changes or perhaps an inconvenience, because ignoring it will cost you dearly in the end. Confirm your intuition around pressing matters September 9-11. Carefully guard your health from being compromised by attempts to subsume emotional overwhelm through September 13. Pay attention to the wisdom of your body, and don’t let your intellect try to argue against instinct. Suppressing the symptoms exacerbates existing problems.
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The third of three squares during 2019 of Neptune in Pisces to Jupiter in Sagittarius occurs September 23. This is like when Dorothy clicks her heels together three times and says, “There’s no place like home!” Get ready to be transported to what you’ve been wishing for. You’ll be surprised to discover it’s nothing like what you thought it would be. If going home, metaphorically, you’re returning as a changed person. Bring forward all those good and positive changes, and let them shine September 13 at the Full Moon in Pisces, your annual “personal Full Moon.”
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Glenn’s Sheds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Glo Spa Woodstock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Green Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Green Mountain Minerals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Gunk Haus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Harney & Sons Fine Teas . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hawthorne Valley Association . . . . . . . . . 81 Herrington’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Holistic Natural Medicine: Integrative Healing Arts . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Hotchkiss School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Hudson Area Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 The Hudson Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Hudson Cruises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Hudson Farmers Market . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Hudson Hills Montessori School . . . . . . . . 81 The Hudson Underground . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Hudson Valley Distillers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Hudson Valley Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Hudson Valley Native Landscaping . . . . . 18, 55 Hudson Valley Sunrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Hummingbird Jewelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Hurleyville Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Ingrained Building Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 54 Inn at 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Jack’s Meats & Deli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Jacobowitz & Gubits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 J. Damiani Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 J McManus & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 John A Alvarez and Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 John Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Kaatsbaan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Kary Broffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Kasuri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Kingston Consignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Kol Hai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Lili and Loo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Liza Phillips Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Love Apple Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 The Luminous Heart Center . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Lush Eco-Salon & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Majestic Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Manitou School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 The Center at Mariandale . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mark Gruber Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Menla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Mid Hudson Home Inspectors LLC . . . . . . . 54 Mid Hudson Regional Hospital . . inside back cover Mohonk Mountain House . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Mother Earth’s Storehouse . . . . . . . . . . . 59 My Cleaning Ladies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 N&S Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Niche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Nicole Vidor Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 North Plank Road Tavern . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Nuvance Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . back cover Olana Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Oldtone Productions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Omega Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 The Pandorica Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Pegasus Comfort Footwear . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Pet Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Peter Aaron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Poughkeepsie Day School . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Primrose Hill School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Quail Hollow Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Radio Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Red Hook Curry House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Red Mannequin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Rocket Number Nine Records . . . . . . . . . 122 The Rodney Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Roost Studios and Art Gallery . . . . . . . . . 118 Rosendale Theater Collective . . . . . . . . . 102 Rudolf Steiner School - Manhattan . . . . . . . 89 SaLune Hair Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art . . . . . . . 81, 118 Sarah Falkner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Schatzi’s New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Schatzi’s Poughkeepsie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 School of Practical Philosophy . . . . . . . . . 88 Shadowland Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Shalimar Alpacas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Sloop Brewing Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Small Bands of Misbehavior Inc. . . . . . . . . 23 Soft Microfinance Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Solar Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Stamell String Instruments . . . . . . . . 102, 104 Suffern Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . . . 63 Sunflower Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 SUNY New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Third Eye Associates Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Tiki Temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Timbuktu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 TMI Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Transcend Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Tuthilltown Spirits, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Ulster County Office of Economic Development . . . . . . . . . . 4 Unison Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Upstate Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Valley Variety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Vassar Haiti Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 WAAM - Woodstock Artists Association & Museum . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Walkway Over the Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Wallace and Feldman Insurance Brokerage . . 26 Wallkill View Farm Market . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 WAMC - Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Warren Kitchen & Cutlery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Way Interiors Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock . . . . . . . . 116 Wild Earth Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Williams College Museum of Art . . . . . . . . 96 Williams Lumber & Home Center . inside front cover Wimowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 WineRacks.com, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Wittus--Fire By Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Woodland Pond at New Paltz . . . . . . . 1, 60-61 Woodstock Film Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Center . . . . . . . . . 26 Woodstock Healing Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Wunderbar Bistro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 YMCA of Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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parting shot Lowell Handler, a Jewish-American photojournalist, spent 1992 traveling with a family of Ethiopian Jewish refugees en route to Israel to seek refuge from the advancing Eritrean Army. This was shortly after Operation Solomon, where the Israeli government rescued thousands of Ethiopian Jews from religious and ethnic persecution just before the first free elections in the nation’s capital, Addis Ababa. The Besufekad family, led by husband and wife Shimeless and Terefu, were among the last to be airlifted to Israel, as they had to wait for Terefu to give birth to their seventh child before they could depart. Handler followed the family, capturing moments of grief but also moments of joy. He fondly remembers witnessing and photographing the birth of the family’s seventh child, Moise—and reflects on what it means to bear witness to those deeply intimate moments of personal history in the wake of events that shaped international history. “It’s an incredible privilege,” he says, “People are allowing you to share a part of their lives.” Handler remained in touch with the Besufekad family over the years as their story continued: The eight children have all grown up, a grandchild’s been born, and Shimeless, the family’s patriarch, died of cancer in 2008. Terefu now lives with a number of her children (and the aforementioned grandchild) as Israeli citizens in Tel Aviv. In 2015, Handler returned to take new photos and to film a documentary, Terefu and Her Children: An EthiopianIsraeli Odyssey, which won Best Documentary Short at the Paris Independent Film Festival and the Grand Budapest Film Festival and it will be digitally distributed through WGBH in Boston. In the featured photo, “Family on a Hillside,” we shift away from the Besufekads to two young women and a child Handler had met in Ethiopia. Handler recalls it was a moment where everything— light, composition, and their expressions—came together, just for a split second captured on his Kodachrome. “We didn’t speak the same language but it felt like the perfect time to communicate,” Handler says. —Katherine Speller A photo exhibition entitled “Terefu and Her Children” will be on display Gallery Fifty5 in Kingston from September 7 to October 19.
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