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22 while you were sleeping
58 dynamic duo: Woodstock and Saugerties
Breastfeeding bolsters intelligence, hot weather increases violence, and haikus travel to Mars—find out what you may have missed.
23 beinhart’s body politic: De Fault, de lusion, de mocracy
Larry Beinhart on the delusion that the default political organization is democracy.
home 26 a home for obaasan: straw-bale chalet in bearsville
Music, film, art, and cuisine define the sister towns of Ulster County.
83 dutchess charm: Millerton, Millbrook, Amenia
Culture and nature are in harmony in these Dutchess County towns.
Kids and Family 50 from homeschool to higher ed
Jennifer Farley tours a Japanese-influenced bungalow designed for grandma.
When Hillary Harvey discovered that local homeschoolers were struggling with college admissions, she decided to investigate.
35 Mistakes Were Made: An Unironic celebration
54 Stage Moms, Soccer Dads, Stressed Kids
Michelle Sutton on embracing imperfection in the garden.
beauty & Fashion 41 Autumn Layers: Fall Gets Bright and cozy Our fall fashion spread with photographs by Kelly Merchant features seasonal pieces from Hudson Valley shops and boutiques set against the edgy sculptures at Omi International Art Center in Ghent.
Locally Grown 92 Planting the Seed: The Young-Farmers Movement For young farmers today, the career is a purposeful and well-considered choice.
99 u-pick farm directory A roundup of Hudson Valley farms that offer pick-your-own options.
How can parents avoid crossing the line from helpful enthusiasm to unrealistic, potentially damaging inflexibility?
56 kids and family events A listing of family-friendly, local happenings.
Whole Living 106 The Bug Cure
The vast colonies of bacteria that live inside our bodies may hold the key to our health—and our very survival.
Community Resource Guide 101 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 102 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 106 whole living Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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CONDUCTED BY LEON BOTSTEIN, MUSIC DIRECTOR Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka; Avner Dorman, Piccolo Concerto; and Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 5 SOSNOFF THEATER Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 at 8 pm Tickets: $25, 30, 35, 40
Live Arts Bard presents No Child . . .
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY NILAJA SUN | DIRECTED BY HAL BROOKS No Child . . . is an exuberant, thoroughly funny piece about life in a New York City public school. Inspired by Sun’s years as a teaching artist at high schools in the Bronx, this tour de force is an insightful and often hilarious look into New York City’s public education system. SOSNOFF THEATER Friday, October 4 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 5 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 6 at 2 pm Tickets: $25, all students $5
Live Arts Bard presents Elephant Room
DIRECTED BY PAUL LAZAR Filled with off-the-wall magic and sublime comedy, Elephant Room examines the childlike wonder of three deluded illusionists who choose to live their off-center lives by sleight of hand. THEATER TWO Friday, December 13 at 7:30 pm Saturday, December 14 at 7:30 pm Sunday, December 15 at 2 pm Tickets: $25 (no children under the age of 6)
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Join us at the Sosnoff Theater for a series of delightful concerts performed by the talented students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, with faculty and special guests. SOSNOFF THEATER Dawn Upshaw and Friends September 15 Music Alive! September 29 Conservatory Orchestra November 10 and December 8 All concerts at 3 pm Suggested donation: $15, 20
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90 Pharm to Table: Field Apothecary Peter Barrett pays a visit to the medicinal herb farm in Germantown—a resource for those interested in using locally grown plants to maintain wellness.
72 music: The Great Ascender Peter Aaron profiles composer and Bard College educator Joan Tower. Nightlife Highlights include Laura Marling; Dave Liebman's Expansions; Drum Boogie Festival; Upstart Fest; and The Waterboys. Reviews of Handmade Heavy Blues by Geezer; Too Far by Susan SurfTone; and The Escape by The Whispering Tree.
76 books: Notes From Underground Nina Shengold profiles author and Vassar College professor Kiese Laymon.
78 book reviews Marx Dorrity reviews Philadelphia Chromosome by Jessica Wapner. Plus the 2013 Poetry Roundup, with reviews by Lee Gould, Djelloul Marbrook, and Nina Shengold.
80 Poetry Poems by Angela Arzu, Andrew Brenza, Tom Christie, Nina M. Haskell, Billy Internicola, Donald F. Kenly III, Aidan O'Callaghan, Christopher Qualiano, John E. Soi, Lucy Tarver, Geneva Zane, and Irene Zimmerman. Edited by Phillip X Levine.
88 Portfolio: Hudson Chocolates Photographs of the avant-garde delicacies from the Poughkeepsie shop.
the forecast 114 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 115 A Tibetan art exhibit is on view at the Dorsky Museum through December 15. 117 The first annual Woodstock Comedy Festival runs September 20 to 22. 118 Sparrow previews the "fiercely independent" Woodstock Film Festival. 120 Four Nations Ensemble plays an intimate show in Kinderhook on September 21. 121 The BasilicaSoundScape Festival rocks Hudson September 13 to 15. 122 The Hudson Valley Wine and Food Fest runs September 7 to 8. 123 "Bill W. and Dr. Bob" runs at Shadowland Theatre September 13 to 31. 124 The Hoptember Harvestfest at Dutchess Hops Farm is September 14. 126 The Rosendale Zombie Fest brings the undead to life on September 28. 129 The Mindful Mosaic Women's Retreat takes place September 27 to 30 in Milton.
planet waves 130 Backstage: Uptown Kingston
Eric Francis Coppolino admits that he needs to get out more, and he's starting with guitar lessons from BSP Lounge's Dan Sternstein.
136 parting shot
132 horoscopes
What are the stars telling us? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.
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Rebecca Zilinski's recent drawings—inspired by interactions on the Walkway Over the Hudson—chart the intersection of data and its artistic interpretation.
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The 1990s brought us the World Wide Web, revolutionizing the parameters of human communication and discovery. The 21st century has ushered us into a new phase of electronic evolution.We are in the cultural moment of the meme—specifically, the cat meme. Since the early 2000s, cats have been the subject of digitally constructed images that are widely shared over the Internet.These memes, popularized by the website LOLcats in 2006, generally include humorous commentary on the cat’s depicted stance or expression. The cat meme’s development has spawned such serial gems as Hipster Kitty, Lenin Cat, and Cat Breading, which features pictures of cats with slices of bread around their necks. Last summer, there was even a film festival devoted to Internet cat videos held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The phenomenon is difficult to wrap your head around—at once absurd and oddly compelling. To reference a famous cat lover (T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats often gets lost in the shadow of The Waste Land), we are led—like the lonesome Prufrock—to an overwhelming question: Just what is it about cats? Retired elementary art teacher Becky Todd’s response comes in the form of her Cosmic Cat series. “I can understand why cats are in temples,” says Todd. “There is a sort of metaphysical association with cats and felineness.” The 12 digital constructions in Todd’s series depict photographs of cats—which she took at the Peace Plantation Animal Sanctuary in Walton—set against themed cosmic backgrounds. A white kitten poised on a shelf in the sanctuary inspired her image Zen Cat. “She was sitting there so fabulously,” Todd says. “There were 500 cats in this place, and she was so Zen.” The Cosmic Cat series evolved from one of Todd’s earlier projects, where she created vignettes based on characters from books. “I would look, for example, at little shell creatures with googly eyes, and would create an environment for them that seemed like the right place for them to live,” Todd says. “When I saw the [Zen] cat, she informed me of where she was ideally. She wasn’t physically in a Zen environment, but I imagined that she was in her mind.” The image on this month’s cover was designed with Chronogram in mind, inspired by Randal Roberts’s Portrait of Homer Simpson from our August 2009 cover. “It was always my favorite cover,” says Todd. “I loved the use of spiritual ideas combined with this commercial icon.” Todd, who works in a variety of artistic styles, says her Cosmic Cat series is her favorite, partly because of this marrying of the transcendent and the commonplace, and partly because it calls back to her time as a teacher making art with children. “These images have that same intention of playfulness and wonder,” Todd says. “It’s from the most playful and fun part of myself.” Todd is a member of the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild, which just opened a second gallery space in Delhi (in addition to the cooperative gallery in Margaretville). Todd plans to display and sell original work at the Delhi gallery, including pieces from her Cosmic Cat series. Catsguild.org. —Jennifer Gutman chronogram.com
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Instagram: Chronogram Block Party Chronogram’s 20th-anniversary block party was a huge success—thanks to all of you who came out for it. In addition to a slide show of photographs taken at the event by Chronogram photographer David Morris Cunningham, we also have an Instagram page at Chronogram.com with photos taken by block party attendees (tagged with #chronogramblockparty). Relive all of the things that made the block party memorable—the bands, Chronogram cover cutouts, food trucks, parrots, DIY art tent, dunking booth victims, beach balls, swing dancing, and the Wall Street skyline—as captured by our loyal fans. Since our first-ever Chronogram block party was such a hit, we've decided it won't be our last.
podcast: September Conversations We have some very special guests lined up this month for our weekly podcast, Chronogram Conversations. Chronogram Health & Wellness Editor Wendy Kagan will discuss fecal transplanting and the health benefits of poop; Faith Gilbert of Letterbox Farm Collective in Hudson will talk about the young farmers’ movement and her work with the collective; Brendan Burke, artistic director of Ellenville’s Shadowland Theatre, will preview “Bill W. and Dr. Bob,” a play about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous; and featured comedians from the Woodstock Comedy Festival will talk about the funny. A new episode of the Chronogram Conversations podcast is available every Thursday—find it on our website or subscribe to it on iTunes.
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Chronogram fashion photographer Kelly Merchant chose Omi International Arts Center in Ghent as the backdrop for our fall photo shoot. The 300-acre Fields Sculpture Park features over 80 contemporary sculptures scattered across the grounds. Art Omi’s sloping hills, wooded plains, and expansive Catskill views acts as a fitting backdrop for our fall fashion feature, showcasing seasonal pieces from Hudson Valley shops and boutiques. The trendsetting outfits are paired with Omi’s edgy sculptures, creating artistically stylish looks. Featured shops include de Marchin in Hudson, Ellipse in Kingston, and The Tailored Mermaid in Beacon. Check out additional photographs from the shoot at Chronogram.com.
PLUS • A video interview with September cover artist Becky Todd—creator of the Cosmic Chrono Cat—by Stephen Blauweiss • Tracks from our reviewed CDs by Susan SurfTone, Geezer, and Whispering Tree, plus Made in America by Joan Tower • A slide show of more images from our Hudson Chocolates portfolio • A trailer for The Greenhorns documentary, a recruitment film for young farmers that resulted in a widespread national community • Clips from films screening at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival • Music videos by featured bands at the first annual BasilicaSoundScape in Hudson, like Pig Destroyer, Pure X, No Joy, and Julianna Barwick. • Additional shots from this month’s Community Pages
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letters Not the Preserve We Know To the Editor: As Clove Road residents and real estate donors to the Mohonk Preserve, we were surprised and dismayed by an article in the August 2013 Chronogram. In the Planet Waves section of the magazine an article by Eric Francis Coppolino asserts that the Preserve is guilty of attempting to claim acreage belonging to Michael Fink and Karen Pardini, also Clove Road residents and among the largest landowners in the area. The article, inaccurately in our opinion, depicts the Preserve as harassing Mr. Fink and Ms. Pardini over a number of years in attempts to resolve disputes over acreage claimed by both parties. Mr. Coppolino, who characterizes himself as an investigative reporter specializing in “fraud and crimes against the environment,” paints the Preserve as a land-grabbing, unprincipled entity that is harassing Mr. Fink and Ms. Pardini. This is not the Preserve we know. We donated property to the Preserve precisely because we have such faith in its stewardship of the acreage it owns and our satisfaction over many years with its conservation ethic. This opinion was formed in over 50-plus years of climbing, hiking, and nature appreciation at the Preserve. Indeed, this is not our opinion alone: The Preserve was recently awarded a coveted Land Trust Accreditation by the Land Trust Alliance. To state it stronger: We are Clove Road owners and residents because the Preserve exists. Without its protection of nearly 8,000 acres, development and commercial ventures would have long since destroyed our interest in being here. In discussions with our neighbors over the years, we find that nearly all agree. Like us, they value the Preserve both as a neighbor and a collaborator in the preservation of the Shawangunks. Burt and Anka Angrist, High Falls The Relentless Mr. Fink To the Editor: As a member of the family who sold the land in question to Mohonk Preserve, I was appalled to read the column “Moving Mountains” in the August issue of Chronogram magazine. The mischaracterization of this transaction, which was initiated by my mother in honor of her father, Nils J. Johanson, who had purchased the land in 1940, as some attempt to “steal” land from nearby landowner Mike Fink is patently absurd. Not only had my family owned and paid taxes on the property for two generations, but Mr. Fink had previously approached my mother for permission to cut timber on this land, acknowledging her ownership. He then removed a significant quantity of timber and completely reneged on his promise to pay my mother. Further, surveys commissioned by Mr. Fink list my mother, and subsequently the Preserve, as the owners of record. The fact that Mr. Fink was relentless in his attempts to claim this property, whether by alleged deed or by adverse possession, does not alter the fact that it had an unbroken chain of title for over 100 years, and that since 1940 there were only two legal owners of the land—my family and Mohonk Preserve. My family elected to sell this land to the Preserve because of their longstanding stewardship of the ridge, and because we wanted to honor our father and grandfather and our long-term family commitment to the Shawangunk Mountains. To try to characterize what was and is an act of conservation and love on the part of both my family and the Preserve as some sort of devious plot is both malicious and reprehensible. GaryW. Finger, Accord Mohonk’s Side of the Story To the Editor: Imagine that you were approached by a long-time neighbor who wanted to sell some environmentally sensitive, legacy family land next to yours. After a public subdivision process, you purchase the surveyed land, insure your title, then record a deed and your approved subdivision survey map with Ulster County in the public records, and properly mark your boundaries.You then protect and maintain your property for nine years, at which point another neighbor begins to remove your boundary signs and cut down your trees. That is exactly the situation Mohonk Preserve faced with Michael Fink, and why we are so disappointed in the column “Moving Mountains” that appeared in the August issue of Chronogram.We feel that the story is an inaccurate and one-sided representation of the property litigation between the Preserve and Mr. Fink and Karen Pardini. Here are just some of the significant facts of this case: Mohonk Preserve legally purchased the land in question in 1994 from a long-time Shawangunk Ridge family whose direct ownership dated back to 1940, with an unbroken and uncontested chain of title dating back to the 1800s. Prior to that purchase, there was a public hearing by the Town of Rochester, with notice given to neighboring landowners, including Mr. Fink and Ms. Pardini. After the Town approved the subdivision and stamped the survey map, it was filed in the Ulster County Clerk’s Office as “Filed Map #9953.” The deed was also filed in the Clerk’s Office in Liber 2397; Page 47. The property’s boundaries were clearly posted and it was patrolled regularly by Preserve staff, and no subsequent contest of ownership was made by Mr. Fink for at least nine years.
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letters For 19 years, the Preserve has been shown as the owner of record with the land publicly mapped and assessed to the Preserve as Town of Rochester Parcel #85.1-1-1. Two surveys commissioned by Mr. Fink and Ms. Pardini also acknowledged the Preserve’s ownership, one in 1988 that shows the Finger family as the Preserve’s predecessor in title, and another in 1995 that shows Mohonk Preserve as the owner, even referencing the Preserve’s filed deed and survey map. In 2004, after repeated incursions by Mr. Fink onto Preserve property, which included removing Preserve signs and cutting trees, and over a year of attempts by the Preserve to reach an amicable resolution, the Preserve’s title insurance company brought an action to quiet title on our behalf as a means of last resort. Five years later, in 2009, Mr. Fink filed a deed from himself to himself, a highly irregular action, that overlapped the Preserve’s known ownership of record. Reasonable people can disagree about the deed, title, and survey evidence presented in this case, but what is incontrovertible is that the Preserve was the publicly acknowledged legal owner of this land beginning in 1994, and that the aggressive actions and adverse claim to it were made by the defendants, not the other way around. Mohonk Preserve’s lands are held in trust for the public benefit. As such, we take our responsibility to protect and preserve these lands very seriously. The Preserve respectfully disagrees with the court’s decision for the defendants in this case, and as a result we are seeking an appeal. Ultimately, and regardless of the outcome of the appeal, we hope that this land, with its fragile ridgetop pine barrens within the scenic viewshed of much of the already protected land in the Shawangunks, remains undeveloped and is given the care and stewardship it deserves. Since its inception in 1963, Mohonk Preserve has held itself to the highest ethical standards of land acquisition, stewardship, and protection, as evidenced by the organization’s national accreditation by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. During that time, the Preserve has worked amicably with dozens of our neighbors who have sought us out to protect their land. We are proud of the many positive long-term relationships that we have developed over the years, and take this opportunity to reassert our deep commitment to the values of fairness, sensitivity, and respect which will continue to underscore all of our interactions with neighbors, visitors, and community members. Ronald Knapp, President of the Board and Glenn Hoagland, Executive Director Mohonk Preserve, Gardiner Eric Francis Coppolino’s Response to Mohonk Preserve Letter I have taken apart Mononk Preserve’s response sentence by sentence. Each statement they make conceals a significant underlying reality. I don’t have the space to explain every point, so I will cover just one, representative of how Mohonk is presenting its version of “the truth.” Mssrs. Hoagland and Knapp write, “Five years later, in 2009, Mr. Fink filed a deed from himself to himself, a highly irregular action, that overlapped the Preserve’s known ownership of record.” Here is the backstory: The 2009 deed filed by Michael Fink to himself was an action ordered by the State Supreme Court to correct an error in the deed record. The error involved several missing pages in his deed, with the last available page in the record ending in a comma. Mohonk Preserve was aware of that error as early as July 5, 1974, when its co-administrator, Bradley Snyder, wrote to Wilbur Smith (then the owner): “For your own protection of title this should be remedied by filing a corrective deed. I would be glad to show you where the pages are missing.” Smith did not file the corrective deed; he did not understand or care much for property records or real estate law. When he sold the land to Michael Fink and Karen Pardini in 1987, the deed error was passed on to them. Aware of this problem, in 1994, Mohonk’s land acquisition agents, The Shawangunk Conservancy, in the persons of Robert Anderberg (a former Mohonk board member) and Normal Van Valkenburgh (Mohonk’s surveyor), used it to their advantage. They exploited the error by attempting to purchase some of the property described by the missing pages from Wilbur Smith’s elderly ex-wife, pretending that she still owned it. Then they sued Fink and his partner Karen Pardini for that land in a case that dragged on for five years—and that Fink and Pardini won after two trials and two appeals. The 75 acres described in my recent article were included in the description missing from the deed, but Pardini, Fink, and their lawyer did not discover this fact until 2009, when they filed the proper corrective deed that included the 75 acres in question—the one that Mohonk mentions in its letter. This was not a “highly irregular action.” It is a routine action that is used to correct deed errors, in this case ordered by the State Supreme Court—errors that have been exploited by Mohonk and its agents in an attempt to take the land involved. To turn this around and accuse Pardini and Fink of doing something illegal or deceptive is the very essence of how this is being played by Mohonk. Many allegations in Hoagland and Knapp’s letter conceal similar stories. I stand by the rest of my reporting on this matter, and would be happy to explain any issue raised in my story to anyone who is interested. There is more information at PlanetWaves.net. Eric Francis Coppolino
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: “Do you think the universe is trying to tell you something?” a friend asked as I relayed a situation that was presenting difficult and inscrutable obstacles. The question gave me pause, as I considered what the universe might be trying to impart. I reviewed the unfolding events, scrutinizing my conduct for signs of manipulation, and considered the hindrances for hidden messages. The phrase from the I Ching—“Perseverance furthers”—began resounding in my mind like a pulse. But in what, I asked the voice, am I to persevere? Faced with the problem, any problem, I see myself squirm not knowing the solution. I watch avoidance strategies come in to fill the void. Per Eva Pierrakos’s brilliant formulation, they can pretty much all be classified as domination, submission, or withdrawal. In Pierrakos’s model, everyone gravitates toward one or another of these means of dispatching the discomfort of relationship. Some tend toward forcing a situation to match an image or agenda; others find comfort through acquiescence, giving in to a forcing current; still others seek satisfaction by stepping away altogether. Though they may not look like common impulses, these are all forms of self-defensive contraction. These impulses to avoid relating are oddly disguised as modes of engagement. They pretend to offer solutions, but really only give temporary relief. More directly, they are a means of avoiding real contact with events or people. All three reactions are automatic, knee-jerk habits that are not essential responses to the situations at hand, but survival tactics for the ego. All three impulses have as their center of gravity what Gurdjieff calls “the inner evil god self-calming”—the impulse not to be bothered placed on an inner pedestal to be worshiped and served. Indeed, if we look not only at ourselves, but also at world events, we find endless war and enslavement promulgated for none other than this selfsame impulse to avoid egoic discomfort. All of our highest ideals are easily trod underfoot when challenged in this way. What else could lead Christianity from Jesus’s teaching of unconditional love to the inquisition and crusades? There are manifold examples of manifest higher impulses hijacked and rerouted by those identified with form, and lacking the capacity to know the spirit. If domination, submission, and withdrawal are a negative triad to avoid relationship with the impulse to remain in an undisturbed hypnotic, waking sleep, then there must be a positive triad with a different center of gravity. At its center would be the aim of awakening authentic, genuine being—of allowing the essential self to make contact, and be available to engage with life. That being is like a child locked in the trunk of a car, occasionally catching glimpses of light and scenery and endlessly craving freedom from the shackles of a body of habit to avoid. With the aim of awakening comes the willingness to face the real impact of experiences. And nothing in life requires this kind of impulse to authenticity. It can only spring from a deep wish and decision. With the aim of awakening, it is that presence that perseveres—a perseverance of watching in the face of every impulse to dominate, submit, or withdraw.That presence is free from spasmodic reactions; it is free from doubt, impatience, grasping, and self-love. These qualities sound like high ideals, but they are real and extant, just as the qualities of waking sleep are very real dramatizations of negativity and destruction. Life circumstances and “problems” present endless opportunities to choose between staying comfortably asleep or following the aim of awakening. Here’s a portion of an unattributed collection of practical principles that support the emergence of presence in the face of problems, with an introduction: Life puts problems before us to challenge us and to further our growth. By overcoming problems we gain substance and knowledge. A principled approach will save us from being ground under the wheel; and will sometimes reveal that there was no problem at all. Remember That You Are Not the Problem Start with the Whole Go from What is Most Important to What is Least Don’t Enhance Its Difficulty Don’t Mix the Levels Solve One Aspect at a Time Stay Out of the Way of the Solution When Done Never Look Back Master Principle: THE MEANS MUST BE CONGRUENT WITH THE DESIRED END. —Jason Stern
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Boustrophedon from top left: Volunteers Teresa Giordano, Christy Milford, and Andy Milford selling Chronogram T-shirts; Peggy Danz in our Winterlude cover cutout; Brooklyn-based band Crystal Stilts play on Wall Street; Chronogram editor Brian K. Mahoney gives a speech at the block party; Emily Huston, Chronogram marketing coordinator Samantha Henkin, and Jennifer Remauro; block partiers dance on Wall Street; Jessica Murray, John Murray, Chronogram production director Jaclyn Murray, and Mackenzie Parker; Theresa Widmann and Anthony Molina; Dr. Tom Cingel and Eric Francis Coppolino; Studio Stu, Mayor Shayne Gallo, and Brian Cafferty; swing dancers during Got2Lindy's lesson and dance; Chronogram cofounder Amara Projansky with her son, Ezra Stern; Stephen Bock, Lee Anne Albritton, Andy Turnbull, and Jessica Montemayor; Tim Rogers and Ariana Basco sporting handmade masks from the DIY art tent; Arram Reyes. All photographs: David Morris Cunningham. Opposite, clockwise from top left: Nee Nee Rushie belts it out during The Big Takeover's set on Wall Street. Photo: Bob Krasner; Elena Brandhofer hula hooping. Photo: Bob Krasner; Gloria Waslyn of the Kingston Festival of the Arts with her parrots. Photo Bob Krasner; Chronogram editor Brian K. Mahoney takes a plunge in the dunking booth. Photo: David Morris Cunningham; Pete Palmer in our Man With Axe cover cutout. Photo: David Morris Cunningham; Emcee John Cox in a Mexican wrestling mask introducing Superhuman Happiness. Photo: David Morris Cunningham; aerial shot of Wall Street during the block party. Photo: Mike Amari.
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hat a night. Those of you who attended our little shindig on August 17 know what I’m talking about. There are precious few times in life when something—anything—can truly be declared a total and unmitigated success. Our 20th anniversary Block Party was that thing. The scene outside our office was magical: thousands of people in the street, music playing, people dancing, children laughing, wine spilling. A community celebrating its own good fortune. Thanks to whatever mixture of metrological phenomena and divinity conspired to provide such clement weather. Thanks to all who attended. Thanks to our sponsors. Thanks to the City of Kingston for allowing us to take over the street. Thanks to the bands and all the entertainers. Thanks to all the local businesses that collaborated with us.Thanks to all the volunteers.Thanks to Eric Francis Coppolino for supervising the Tarot Fair.Thanks to the staff of Luminary Publishing, especially the Block Party Coordinating Committee—Michael LaMuniere, Jennifer Gutman, and especially Jaclyn Murray, who art directed the event. And great big gobs of thanks to our marketing and events coordinator Samantha Henkin, the logistical genius who steered the event from rough idea to glorious reality.
medicine, nor personal development, nor artisanal food, nor the idea of a local economy. But we’ve been talking about it since 1993. Because that’s what we cared about, that’s the kind of magazine we wanted to create. It’s also the kind of place the Hudson Valley was, and is. A place that allows the space—both physically and psychically—to chase seemingly impossible dreams. Chronogram started out as one of those. Twenty years later and the world has caught up with us. The mainstream has embraced local food, spiritual development, buying locally. The world has caught up with the Hudson Valley. The world has caught up with Chronogram. The mission of this 20-year endeavor has not been to create a product that we will eventually merge with Disney, or be bought by Jeff Bezos. Chronogram is not a product to be consumed. It is not market-researched and aimed at a particular demographic in order to maximize shareholder value. It is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Chronogram is an attempt to provide something honest and beautiful to our community that’s created in our community. It’s a reflection of what the Hudson Valley is as well as a vision of what the Hudson Valley can be, of what we can be. A stab at greatness. We should demand no less of ourselves.
Dunk You Very Much Thanks to all the good sports who got soaked for a good cause in our Block Party dunking booth: Joe Concra of the O+ Festival, Paul Maloney from Stockade Tavern, Ulster County Commissioners of Jurors Paul O’Neill, Sarah Lipari of the Perseverance Foundation, Dr. Tom Cingel, Steve Ackerman of the YMCA, Tim Weidemann of Rondout Consulting, and Drew Andrews of the Center for Creative Education. We even had a few volunteers from the crowd clamber out onto the plank! We raised $1,000 for the Kingston YMCA Farm Project, which is going to break ground on a one-acre farm this month in Midtown Kingston. The YMCA Farm Project will be a place of both learning and food production, providing kids the opportunity to grow food for themselves, their neighbors, and their community.You can learn more here: Kingstonymcafarmproject.org.
20th Anniversary Issue In November, to cap off our anniversary year, we’ll be publishing a special retrospective edition of the magazine, with 16 pages of legacy content. We’ve already begun work on it, and its been a nostalgic hoot to dig through the archives and start pulling together our favorite content from the 234 issues we’ve published thus far. For long-time Chronogram readers, the names of the contributors featured will be quite familiar. Expect to see writing, photos, and illustrations by such former stalwarts of this magazine as Lorna Tychostup, Frank Crocitto, Lorrie Klosterman, Sparrow, Beth Wilson, Emil Alzamora, Jennifer May, Todd Paul, and many others. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to have collaborated with these creative and insightful folks over the past two decades. Please forgive us if this year seems like one long victory lap. But 20 years in, while other publications—both national and local—continue to close or drastically scale back their operations, it feels good to still be here, still be strong, and still be telling the unfolding story of the Hudson Valley. And remember that this is your victory lap too. Without you, my brilliant neighbors, we’d neither have stories to tell nor anyone to tell them to.
An Idea Whose Time Has Come When this thing began—when two brash and visionary youngsters named Jason Stern and Amara Projansky decided to try their hand at publishing— sustainability was not a household word. Neither was yoga, nor alternative
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The Kingston Farmers’ Market is open every Saturday from 9am to 2pm, rai––n or shine, from May through November on Wall Street in Kingston. The market offers a variety of local food vendors that provide fresh fruits and vegetables grown in the Hudson Valley. Kingstonfarmersmarket.org
Hudson River Rising Hudson Rising is an unprecedented grassroots effort to celebrate the greening of New York, to engage the public with their communities, and help catalyze smart sustainable growth in the region. The next Hudson Rising Tour will take place on Saturday, September 21, from 11am to 10pm at Public Dock and Harbor Square in Ossining. Hudsonrising.com
Rondout Valley Common Ground Celebration This community locavore festival celebrating a healthy, creative, regenerative, and sustainable community will take place on September 15 from 11am to 6pm at Stone Ridge Orchard in Stone Ridge. The celebration is a zero-waste event. Rvcgc.org
Rondout Valley Growers 10th Anniversary Celebration The Rondout Valley Growers Association celebrates 10 years of keeping farming strong on September 28 at the Epworth Center in the heart of the Rondout Valley. Rondoutvalleygrowers.org MASS MoCA FreshGrass 2013 This three-day family-friendly bluegrass music festival, headlined by the Infamous Stringdusters, will take place at Mass MoCa in North Adams from September 20 to 22. Massmoca.org 23rd Annual Taste of New Paltz Taste all that New Paltz has to offer at New Paltz Chamber of Commerce’s annual Taste of New Paltz— taking place at the Ulster County Fairgrounds on September 15. Newpaltzchamber.org
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In late July, Halliburton, the oilfield services company, has agreed to plead guilty to destruction of critical evidence after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. The company said it would pay the fine of $200,000, and will be subject to three years of probation for the explosion that killed 11 workers and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches. All three oil companies charged in the oil spill including BP and Transocean—the operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig—have pleaded guilty. Halliburton had recommended that BP, the British oil company, use 21 metal centralizing collars on the well before drilling, but BP chose to use only six. After the accident, during an internal investigation, Halliburton ordered workers to destroy computer simulations that showed differences between using six and 21 collars. After investigation Halliburton continued to say that BP was neglectful to follow its advice. The presidential commission that investigated the accident reported that Halliburton officials knew before the explosion that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable, but still went ahead with the cementing. After the oil spill, Halliburton made a voluntary contribution of $55 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Source: New York Times
A study conducted on 1,300 moms and their children, who were breastfed for between less than a month to more than a year, found that each month of breastfeeding bolstered a 0.3-point increase in intelligence by age 3, and a 0.5-point increase by age 7. Another 2010 study published by the journal Pediatrics, in testing 10-year olds who were breastfed for six months or more outscored their formula-fed peers in reading, writing, and math. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while three out of four new moms start out breastfeeding, less than half continue for six months or more and just 15 percent breastfeed exclusively for six months. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, breastfeeding benefits both moms and their newborns. Breast milk is loaded with nutrients and antibodies that strengthen immune systems. Breastfeeding is also found to protect moms against chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and asthma. Source: ABC News Starting August 1, the North Carolina legislature agreed to give $10 million to 7,000 victims forcibly sterilized between 1929 and 1974. The state’s eugenics program was among the most extensive and long-running of its kind. Since the early 20th century, more than 60,000 Americans who were in institutions, deemed feebleminded, had unfit human traits, or were children of abandoned alcoholics were victims of forced vasectomies or hysterectomies by the government. Thirty-three states had forced sterilization programs, with California’s being the largest with a record of sterilizing 20,000 people. Only about 200 North Carolinians have come forward, with their compensation amounting to about $50,000. Source: CNN In order to combat vitamin A deficiencies in developing countries—a malady which causes the death and blindness of over a million children each year—German scientists have develop and harvested Golden Rice in the Philippines. This genetically modified grain contains extra genes that allow it to produce beta-carotene, which humans convert to vitamin A. The researchers started the initiative in 1993 and were just weeks away from submitting the crop to authorities for a safety evaluation when about 400 protestors attacked the trial field and uprooted all of the plants. The members of the dissenting organization, Sikwal-GMO, said they oppose the crop because they believe global agrochemical corporations are behind Golden Rice, and that it poses a danger to health and biodiversity. Nonetheless, researchers maintained they would persist in their efforts to bring the project to fruition. Source: BBC News (UK)
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A survey published by Science took the first ever view of raw data from 60 quantitative studies gathering evidence that suggests high temperatures increase interpersonal violence with more than a 50 percent increase in intergroup violence. For every one standard deviation of warmer temperatures, the median frequency of interpersonal violence—murder, rape, assault, etc.—rose by 4 percent. The study also found that case studies of places with exceptionally high or low rainfall—particularly those that impact agricultural production—leads both to interpersonal and intergroup violence. The Syrian civil war is a recent example of the correlation between climate and conflict. It’s not just isolated hot days that spur increased violence; the study found increased conflict in warmer-than-usual periods over timespans ranging from an hour to thousands of years. Source: Mother Jones Over 1,100 haikus will travel to Mars on NASA’s spacecraft MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) in November. In a competition announced in May by the University of Colorado called “Going to Mars,” individuals could submit poetry for a chance to be included on the DVD that would be carried aboard the spacecraft during its mission to study the red planet’s upper atmosphere. Entries followed the classic threeline poetic structure of the haiku. The first-place winner United Kingdom’s Benedict Smith, won with 2,031 votes: It’s funny, they named / mars after the God of war / have a look at Earth. Due to the popular response to the competition the contest organizers decided to ship off any haiku with two or more votes to Mars, instead of the top three. Source: Slate Though Apple stores typically attract young job seekers in their mid 20s who are enthusiastic to work for the global retailer, life as an employee is far from hunky-dory. On a regular basis, workers must wait in line for about 30 minutes after every shift in order to have their bags checked for stolen goods. Last month, former workers filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple alleging that the company owes them wages for this additional time spent in the workplace, which amount to $1,500 a year. Though many people assume Apple workers must reap the benefits of working for a company that last year sold $16 billion in merchandise, employees make an average of $11.91 an hour and work in perpetually hectic environments. Store technicians are only permitted to spend 10 to 15 minutes with each customer, which often amounts to helping multiple people at a time—a circumstance that also doesn’t allow for many statemandated breaks. In 2009, Apple was named in a lawsuit for alleging that they violated California labor laws, prompting the company to add a feature to workers’ computers that requires them to affirm they had taken their two 10-minute breaks before punching out for the day. However, employees said many of them check the box even if they haven’t because taking a break would mean overburdening their colleagues. Other stores have implemented attendance policies that threaten workers with getting fired if they miss more than four days of work in a 90-day period, no matter the reason. Though Apple expects workers to stay with the company for an average of six years, most quit after about two due to these issues and the job’s lack of upward mobility. Source: New York Times Compiled by Caroline Budinich and Marie Solis
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n America today, perhaps in much of the Western world, we have the delusion that the default option for human political organizations is democracy. When the Nazis in Germany, the Fascists in Italy, and the militarists of the Japanese imperial system were defeated, each of those countries became a democracy. At the same time, a vast portion of the world went Communist. Their rhetoric featured democratic ideals, but they were totalitarian countries in which elections meant nothing and power was enforced by purges, secret police, and military force. Then, in 1989, the people of East Germany tore down the Berlin Wall. The West had been terrified of a “domino effect” for years. If one country went Red (when that color meant Commies, not a right-wing American state committed to saving the fetuses and killing the government), its neighbors would also fall. Now the tumbling went the opposite way, and the Eastern European regimes toppled, one after another, all by themselves. In 1991 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics itself came apart, splintering into 15 separate nations, all eager, it appeared, to embrace good old American democracy. Those two mega-episodes seemed proof that humans, given the chance, would organize their governments as democracies. The counter indications were dismissed. People on the left dismissed the dictatorships, along with the sectarian and ethnic violence of Africa and the Middle East, as legacies of colonialism. On the right, they dismissed the right-wing coups in Latin America as necessities in the fight against Communism. The Bush Administration, famous for its blunt-force simplemindedness, embraced the belief in democracy as the default position the way George embraced Christ on the campaign trail. Remove the Taliban from Afghanistan, voting would bloom like the poppies. Removing Saddam Hussein was “a watershed moment in the story of freedom,” in which Iraqis would, naturally, choose democracy, and “serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region.” There are two great arguments for democracy. Autocratic and hereditary systems are bound to put idiots, incompetents, and bloodthirsty maniacs in charge at some point. They can only be removed through violence. Since the first thing any sensible ruler does is attempt to acquire a monopoly on violence, most revolts end in bloody failure. In a democracy, voters may elect leaders just as bad, but they have a limited time in which to do their damage, and if the population doesn’t like their government run by fools, warmongers, murderers, and thieves, they can replace them, peacefully. This is much more pleasant. And less expensive. Yes, strange as it may seem, even an American presidential election is cheaper than a full-blown revolution. Yet people don’t always choose democracies. And when they choose them, they don’t always like them. They may become instant battlefields, like Iraq. The deposed despots may lie doggo for awhile, then relaunch themselves, with popular support, as in Afghanistan.
Leaders, once elected, may make moves to consolidate their power that others consider to be beyond the bounds of good taste. That appears to be the primary complaint in Egypt. The same could be said for the Islamic Republic of Iraq. The presumption that democracy is the default position of humanity is charming. But it’s probably false. The handmaidens of that ideal, who act as if democracy is easy, should be gently spanked and sent back to school. Certainly in modern times, America is the birthplace of democracy. Even before the Revolution it was being tried in the individual states with the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, and William Penn’s Frame of Government. But as soon as the United States was born, armed resistance began. The first was Shay’s Rebellion in western Massachusetts in 1787. The New York City Brothel Riot took place in 1793. Very little seems to be known about it, but it has a wonderful name and possibly harkens back to the Boston Brothel Riot of 1737. The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 is more important. George Washington himself, at the head of 13,000 troops, rode into Pennsylvania to put it down. There were also slave revolts, as well as abolitionist and anti-abolitionist riots, leading up to the Civil War. The population at the time was 31 million, including four million slaves. Some three million men went to war and 600,000 died. After the war, the South was occupied by Federal troops for 11 years. As soon as those troops were withdrawn, white Southern traditionalists launched a reign of terror to restore white supremacy. They were successful. Their system of oppression remained unchanged and hardly challenged for very nearly a century longer. The French Revolution followed on the heels of America’s. They decided to execute members of the old regime and possible counterrevolutionaries. That’s been called the Reign of Terror. Then there was a parliamentary coup, followed by The Directory, followed by Napoleon, who made himself emperor. All in the space of 15 years. In 1815 the French monarchy was restored. There was much fuss and bother from 1830 to 1848, when the Second Republic was established. The first leader they elected was Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the real Napoleon.With his four-year term coming to an end, Bonaparte decided to make himself emperor. He kept the job for 22 years. The Third Republic came into being in 1871, the Fourth Republic after the German Occupation. The French are now on their Fifth Republic. The point of this long tour is that democracy is neither easy nor automatic. We may not think that Russians should be nostalgic for Stalin, but the voters certainly like Putin’s man of steel poses and actions. Why should the Egyptians be quicker to function in a parliamentary fashion than the French? How can we expect the Iraqis, the Syrians, and various others to sort out their sectarian differences more swiftly and smoothly than we ourselves settled the issue of slavery and welcomed people with African origins as full citizens? 9/13 ChronograM 23
The House
Above: Keiko Knowles with her son, Takemi, and husband, Martin, on her mother’s front porch. Opposite above and below: Preparing tea in the kitchen; custom-built bookshelves in the library.
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hen Keiko Knowles’s mother, a widow from Tokyo who prefers to remain nameless, decided to buy the lot adjacent to her daughter’s family home in Bearsville, “Obaasan” (Japanese for “grandmother”) knew that because of building restrictions attached to the property, her future home would have to be small. She did not anticipate, however, that soon she would risk most of her savings to become a “patron of the arts” in commissioning a 1,000-square-foot modern straw-bale architectural gem that “really makes no investment sense at all.” “I want to leave something behind for the world, and I feel that this house is actually really important in some way, but we’ll figure all of that out later,” says Obaasan. “I could never have gotten a permit to build a McMansion here, and that’s the opposite of my taste, but for what this ended up costing, I could have had something like that.” A Japanese-influenced Bungalow Overlooking Yankeetown Pond Obaasan bought the property—four pitched acres with a view of Yankeetown Pond mirroring Acorn Hill—in 2010 for $100,000. Located on a ridge within the Ashokan Reservoir watershed, the lot had belonged to a well-known developer who bought it as an investment that foundered. Due to difficulties obtaining permits plus an overly optimistic flipper’s price tag, it sat on the market for several years noted for weak housing demand. The tract was once part of a Jewish boys’ summer camp attended by family comedy legends the Marx Brothers. In the ’70s, it was a thriving pot farm until the owner got busted. When Obaasan bought it—at the developer’s land-purchase cost—the two rundown cabins that had stood on the property had recently been torn down. The “buildable footprint” they justified was enhanced by a new septic system for which the City of New York covered half the cost—had it been owned by a full-time resident, it would have been 100 percent, due to a need to safeguard the water supply. The developer had also cleared trees obscuring the view, put in a new driveway, and towed away abandoned cars. He ate the expenses associated with those improvements, and was gracious and gentlemanly about the loss.
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While still an anomaly even among green-building sophisticates, straw-bale construction is admired and appreciated as one of the oldest and best building methods. A well-made straw-bale timber-frame home built today might easily last for several hundred years. It’s warm and quiet, with a resonant solidity. In Obaasan’s cottage, Johnson amplifies that “built-to-last” vibe with quality woodwork such as pocket doors and custom-built rot-resistant mahogany windows. The countertops in the bathroom and island kitchen, which faces the 280-squarefoot porch, were made on the premises from cast concrete. The premium Toto toilet, with water jets, is in a separate enclosure from the updated Japanese style bath, comprised of a spacious stall shower opposite a soaking tub. They broke ground for construction in September 2011. The project was put on a six-month hiatus while Obaasan sold off some investments that enabled her to continue to build her dream home without having to borrow money. In theory, it might have been difficult to obtain a construction loan, mostly because it would be all but impossible to establish comparables. Final cost was about $275 per square foot. “Building this house was a poignant and spiritual experience,” says Johnson. “I moved to the region from Georgia 25 years ago to build a Japanese-style gazebo on Yankeetown Pond. I can see how I’ve grown in my craft. I made a friend back then, an old man named Dave Van de Bogart, who belonged to the Wittenberg Sportsmen’s Club and used to tell us “back-then” stories. One day he gave me a giant antique timber-framing chisel called a slick. I used that chisel on this house.” Obaasan says Johnson’s reflective, meticulous professionalism gave her the confidence to splurge on highly considered aesthetic simplicity. Her late husband did many things with craftsmanlike precision; he made his own bamboo fly-fishing rods. “He was shokunin katagi, the true craftsman soul. Will is that too,” says Obaasan. A Spare Beauty She Intends to Share Obaasan finally moved in this July and “couldn’t be happier” with the way her home looks and feels. She doesn’t feel her “hodgepodge” furniture quite does the design justice, and the living roof, vegetable garden, and permaculture landscaping remain on the to-do list. But she’s having a wonderful time living next to the Knowles family and looks forward to soon hosting her other two daughters as houseguests. “My grandchildren come over for miso soup, rice with egg,” says Obaasan. “But even for a snack, they must eat at the table; I don’t care if they use silverware or chopsticks. But no shoes in the house!” “It is really a miracle that this house happened. My mother took a huge gamble with this, but she will probably be able to live here independently for the rest of her life, and she’s in excellent health and we have every reason to anticipate that could be quite a long time,” says Knowles. “It’s been a pleasure to be her collaborator in creating this, together with Will. During construction, I was on the site almost every day. But it’s so satisfying! With all the details in place, it’s really breathtaking. My mother is very private, very modest, but we want to share this place with the world in some way, so we’ll see what happens.”
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Mistakes Were Made: An Unironic Celebration By Michelle Sutton Photographs by Larry Decker
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n the summer of 1992, when I was 23, I tried my hand at market gardening. A friend from New York City graciously offered me free use of an acre of land in the Poconos. At dusk on June 22, the air felt ominously crisp. I’d grown up in Virginia, where we planted tomatoes as early as March. Higher Pennsylvania elevations be damned, there was no way we could get a hard frost on June 23, was there?! Earlier that month, I had lovingly planted and mulched more than 200 tomato plants. On that fateful June night, I covered as many of them as I could with pots and row cover cloth, but many remained exposed. I had gotten too late a start, I was tired, and I was still in denial. I had uneasy sleep—and a good newfarmer’s cry the next morning. The mistake I’d made was setting up my market garden in a microclimate notorious for late-season frosts. If I wanted to grow lots of tomatoes and other warm-season crops, it would always be a battle. I have more confessions, like the times I planted “dwarf ” trees too close to a home. (“Dwarf,” I came to learn, means very slow growing, but not necessarily
remaining small.) Or how more than one water-loving plant came to my dry sandy soil to die, like bog rosemary—bog rosemary! Yet, I think I had to make mistakes—lots of them. I’ve learned much from my failures, and they broke me of bringing crippling perfectionism to my gardening pursuits. I think more people would garden if they weren’t so afraid of making mistakes.The beloved late plantsman J. C. Raulston said, “If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.” I asked horticulturists I admire to share their own experiences with imperfection: Hudson Valley Seed Library Co-Founder Ken Greene “We tried to start our farm with a broadfork. (A broadfork [see photo] is a really useful tool that has a row of wide tines on the bottom and two tall handles. You jump on the bottom bar to force the tines into the soil and then lean back while holding the handles.) It was a mix of idealism, energy, inexperience, 9/13 chronogram home 33
(Left): An honest oversight had big consequences for a bonsai collection, as nurseryman Drew Zantopp tells in this story. (Right): Mugho pines and other “dwarf” conifers can get embarrassingly large, the author found.
and lack of funds that led us to try opening up a new field with nothing but a broadfork. It was fun, hard, slow work—and the beds we created were pretty awesome—but this was stage one in our inappropriate-technology saga. Stage two was jumping from a broadfork to the other end of the farm technology spectrum by borrowing a friend’s tractor and trying to disc the field. It was like using a sledgehammer to drive in a finish nail. It did the trick, but did some damage (soil compaction) along the way; we had to bring the broadfork back out to undo the compaction! I’m happy to say we’ve finally honed in on the right tools for our seed farm.” Hudson Valley Garden Association Co-Founder Laura Wilson “As a self-taught gardener I went about my studies in a serious, methodical way. Shortly after starting to read about pruning I was visiting a good friend in Brooklyn. The centerpiece of her small city garden was a happy red-twig dogwood. Having just discovered the practice of coppicing and pollarding, I enthusiastically told her to chop that baby down: ‘You’ll get more, redder branches!’ The poor shrub never recovered, and the lesson was twofold: 1) Don’t make your friends do your horticultural experiments for you. 2)When it comes to pruning, take it slow—you can always remove more later.” Norbert Lazar, Owner of The Phantom Gardener in Rhinebeck “My first organic vegetable garden in Westchester was a shared experience with my housemates.We fought over treating the eggplants when they were covered with flea beetles. My roommate wanted to use poison and I was convinced that the eggplants would grow through it like the tomatoes were able to. 34 home ChronograM 9/13
Well, we were both wrong. Poisons aren’t necessary but I learned that organic gardening is not gardening by neglect. Education is the key and a good gardener learns which insects are problems and which ones are helpful or at least tolerable. (The eggplants didn’t make it.)” Teri Condon, Owner of Gardensmith Design in Highland “I was looking for the perfect back-of-the-border perennial when I came across plume poppy, a plant with broad, gray, oak-leaf-shaped leaves that grows 10 feet tall. I found out it could be very invasive, but I figured I could outsmart it. I dug a trench two feet deep and buried aluminum flashing vertically to contain the root system. For a few peaceful years I pulled out any little seedlings, and the mother plant remained contained. But one day I noticed that the roots had found an escape route, growing underneath my trench! I finally had to remove the plume poppy and admit defeat. Someday I will find a home for this magnificent plant, away from my garden, all on its own.” Drew Zantopp, Owner of Zantopia Gardens in Mumford (near Rochester) “I used to really like creating my own bonsai plants, and I had a nice little collection of about 15 plants of varying ages. They needed to go dormant for the winter and spend a few months in cold conditions waiting for spring. I built a cold frame box by the side of my house with thick wooden walls and ¼-inchmesh galvanized screen on the top and bottom. In the fall, I’d gingerly place all my prized bonsai inside, put the mesh screen
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cover on, and then rake a bunch of leaves, completely covering my bonsai cold frame with about a foot of leaves on all sides and across the top. Then I would just forget about the bonsai plants for the winter. And for 10 years, that’s what I did. Every April, I’d push off the leaves and all my bonsai were budded up and ready to start growing for the new season. Then one April, I pushed the leaves off my cold frame, looked in, and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. My bonsai plants, each and every one of them, looked like white, bleached bones sticking up out of their pots. What the hell? I got down on my knees and looked closer. There was no bark on any of the bonsai. After a moment of sheer and utter depression I started looking around for clues to my bonsai disaster. And there, in the corner of my cold frame, was a little hole. A short distance away from the hole was a mound of soft bits of grass, leaves, and other debris. After years of neglecting to inspect my cold frame and just assuming it was impenetrable, a tiny mouse or vole had gnawed its way in and spent the winter warm and toasty in a nest, feeding on the bark of all of my bonsai! That was the end to my bonsai collection, and I never started a new one. Actually, that experience was a great lesson about overcoming attachment—a true Zen realization. After I got over my crushing disappointment, of course.” Happy Accidents Finally, I love this garden blunder I found online, posted by “George” on GardenWeb: “My wife thought that a small clump of bamboo would lend a nice touch to my half-acre wildflower garden. I now have a lovely half-acre bamboo grove and no wildflowers.” I think that puts things into perspective, even if George does blame his wife.
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all is the season of comfort. Picture this:You sip on hot apple cider with a mouthful of earthy pumpkin pie after a midafternoon stroll through the wooded paths lined with the season’s foliage—warm hues of red, orange, and gold. Later, you wrap yourself up in an oversize cable-knit sweater, where fall’s chillier temperatures can’t get to you. As we pack up string bikinis and dig into packed-up boxes of traditional plaids and soft wools, we find ourselves falling into classic styles that—unlike autumn—will never die. Chronogram’s fall fashion photo shoot bundles up Hudson Valley shops and designers to showcase must-have autumn wears. According to Michelle Elise, owner of Ellipse in Kingston, fall is the least trend oriented of the seasons and has the most classic styles. “You can always count on plaids being part of the fashion landscape,” says Elise. “It is perennial. It’s just a question of how you style it, which can be anywhere between by-the-books traditional and überpunk.” Ellipse’s seasonal collection is inspired by nature’s fall colors, featuring pieces like dresses with fitted bodices and flared skirts (but with a vintage twist). Ellipse, which opened in May of this year, refurbishes pieces from flea markets and has a growing collection of goods from artisans and designers from around New Paltz, Red Hook, and Saratoga.
Although Paul de Marchin, owner of de Marchin in Hudson, notes that black is a classic fall hue, he says more and more color is popping up this season. “The traditional blue jean is being replaced by oranges, reds, green, and purples,” says de Marchin. Sarah-Maria Visher, owner of the newly opened Tailored Mermaid in Beacon, says that whereas summer features the lightest, most comfortable fabrics, fall is about layering luxurious fibers, such as wool and heavier knits. Visher has a handmade knitwear brand, Meerwiibli, whose autumn collection is inspired by her home in Phoenicia. “I went with a neutral color palette, but incorporated much of my signature reds. Knit dresses are my signature fall pieces,” Visher says. “They are supercozy but a bit more dressy than a sweater.” Chronogram fashion photographer Kelly Merchant chose Omi International Art Center in Ghent as the backdrop for our fall shoot. The 120-acre Fields Sculpture Park features over 80 contemporary sculptures scattered across the grounds. Art Omi, with its sloping hills, wooded plains, and expansive Catskill views, provides a harmonious space to cozy up on a blanket and look at the autumn foliage—a perfect spot to show off some of your favorite fall fashion. —Caroline Budinich 9/13 ChronograM beauty & fashion 39
Painted Pink Luis Mojica wearing Ralston jeans ($135), a plaid shirt ($99), and vest ($129)—all Scotch & Soda brand—with a Tretorn Karlstad canvas shoe ($80) from de Marchin in Hudson. Art: Erwin Wurm, Big Kasternmann, 2012.
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Staying Neutral Shalyni Paiyappilly in a Little White Dress brand dress, made from 100 percent “Peace Silk� hemp and vintage lace ($229) from Ellipse in Kingston. Art: Oliver Kruse and students at Peter Behrens School of Architecture, Interfere(nce), 2012.
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Capped Off Saadah Garbey in a Meerwiibli foldover knit and embroidered dress ($168) and '80s-styled “Little Red Leia” bamboo cap ($68) by Sarah-Maria Visher of Beacon’s Tailored Mermaid. Makeup by Saddah Garbey. Art:Work by Nathan Carter in Art Omi's gallery.
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from homeschool to higher ed PLANNING A SUCCESFUL TRANSITION Story and Photographs by Hillary Harvey Homeschooler Marley Alford on the Bard College campus.
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here comes a moment in every homeschooling parent’s life when they wonder, “Can I really keep this up?” There are definitely downsides to homeschooling, and I have encountered many in the course of homeschooling my daughter from kindergarten through fourth grade. But I never blinked because the rewards far outweighed the challenges. My great moment of doubt is about college. Of course, I know that homeschoolers go to college, and not always as a 12-year-old prodigy. But I recently heard that local homeschoolers were having trouble translating their educations for admissions committees. And I wondered: If the rigorous homeschooling of the talented kids I know isn’t acceptable to colleges, could homeschooling be a viable alternative for education at all? I decided I needed to research just what the problem was before going any further. Luckily, a friend was hosting a college admission information session at her house. She posted the invite to the homeschool community on a Yahoo group list, saying she’d like “to share what I’ve learned and what I wish I had done differently.” It was this last piece that especially compelled me. Options for High Schooling at Home Beatrice Alford has a deep gaze. She’s been involved in forging co-ops, hiring tutors, and enriching her own learning life with French conversation groups and online classes. And she’s homeschooled her two daughters, Marley, 17, and Eleanor, 12, since the beginning. As someone I admire, I am eager to hear her experience with college applications. 48 kids & family ChronograM 9/13
Starting with a single math workbook, Marley’s education at home went from field trips and unstructured reading time, to online classes through Home2Teach.com and WriteGuide.com, to summer camps in writing at UMass Amherst and physics at Brown. This mix of learning at home and beyond is not uncommon for homeschoolers. Locally, there are part-time school options like Sojourner Truth Schoolhouse in New Paltz, parent-led cooperatives like The Alternative Learning Center in Columbia County, and private class series offered by certified teachers who are often on sabbatical (while teaching their own children). Alford and Marley added subjects, one by one, as interests and opportunities arose. But it was Bard’s Bridge Program, where Marley took 100- and 200-level classes in theater, biology and math, which proved pivotal to her college applications. The Bridge Program is Bard’s enrichment for juniors and seniors within commuting distance—50 miles—who are thirsty for challenge. Bard solicits guidance counselors, who encourage strong candidates to apply. Recently, homeschoolers have heard of it through word-of-mouth. Once accepted, students are invited to enroll in classes for a reduced fee if there’s room. They can access the library, campus center, and lectures, but not student clubs, the gym, or campus parties. It’s not meant to substitute for high school. Bard has another program for that at Simon’s Rock, where kids ages 16 and up can be with others their age, doing college-level work. “Bridge students are not treated as high school students in a class. They’re
Left: Joanna Baker, Assistant Director of Admissions, with Greg Armbruster, Associate Director of Admissions, outside their office at Bard College. Right: Homeschoolers Noah and Silvie Lundgren with their mother (and teacher) Deb.
treated like every other student,” says Joanna Baker, assistant director of admissions, “Which is good. But we need to determine if they’re ready, and the interview is really a big part of the application.” In fact, right before we spoke, Baker interviewed a homeschooler. “It’s not a homeschool program per se,” Baker explains, “but high school students often have trouble coordinating their schedule with the Bridge Program, so it does tend to be better for homeschoolers because of their flexibility.” The Bridge Program shows that participants are independent, committed, mature, and able to thrive in a classroom and/or seminar setting. All things colleges are looking for in applicants, especially from homeschoolers, who might not have this kind of credential otherwise.
• The tutor Alford hired to instruct Marley in writing college-level research papers was KellyAnne McGuire, a graduated homeschooler who designed the nine-week course on the subject. (Full disclosure, McGuire is a former Chronogram intern.) McGuire “didn’t homeschool in [her] pajamas.” She and her brother sat down to lessons at the kitchen table five to six hours a day, five days a week. “It was serious,” she says. Her parents pulled her out of public middle school and wanted her homeschooling to be stimulating. McGuire took liberal arts and 101 classes at Ulster County Community College so that when she entered four-year college (Mt. Holyoke), she could spend her time doing specialized
classes towards her major. Her mother encouraged certain classes, which helped her determine what she liked, and also kept meticulous records of all the books read, the curriculum used. She wrote it all into the quarterly reports submitted to the local school district. When it came time for grad school, McGuire only applied to her top choice—and got in. Students often apply to a dozen colleges, but McGuire thinks that’s spreading oneself too thin, which can show in an application. And she may be right. Bonnie Marcus, senior associate director of admissions for Bard, says, “In general, the applications are getting more and more homogenous by use of the Common Application.” It allows students to apply to a number of colleges with one application form, but with restrictions. For example, there will be a 650-word limit on the essay. For schools like Bard, this is a limit that wouldn’t otherwise be applied. “If a student wanted to write a 1,000-word essay, we’d read it,” Marcus laughs. But the Common Application will cut them off. Marcus recommends personalizing the application with a cover letter and portfolio, and McGuire suggests focusing on favorite schools. “Just trust that you’ll end up where you want to be,” McGuire advises. “It should be about finding the best fit.” Getting Organized Lachlan Brooks could be a poster child for homeschooling-to-college. Bright, personable, and a talented actress, Brooks’s homeschool experience began with first grade and ended last spring with a letter of completion from the 9/13 ChronograM kids & Family 49
Homeschooler Lachlan Brooks will be starting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts this fall.
local school board, which her mom, Cheryl Taylor, requested in writing when submitting the fourth quarterly. The letter simply states, to whom it may concern, that Brooks’s education has been overseen by the district and satisfactorily completed. It will serve in lieu of a GED or diploma, and it’s the only proof colleges will need. The transcript that Taylor compiled of Brooks’s studies at home tells them something else. In the early years, there were nature-based learning groups like Roots & Shoots and a one-room schoolhouse cooperative. Later, there was a weekly study group where the girls discussed subjects from economics to geography, plus wrote their first college entrance essay, when there was no pressure. They relied on local libraries. Through them, Brooks was able to do the college-level Great Courses. There are also language programs like Mango and lecture series on CD like Modern Scholar. To track it all, Taylor devised a paperwork method that continued the conversation between her and Brooks. “By high school, I used a weekly planner to track and organize work and log the hours daily spent on each subject,” Brooks explains. “We’d print a new one every Monday, and my mother would use these to compile the quarterlies.” Taylor slid the stack out of a hard file folder, unwinding the thick thread that held it closed. They were spreadsheets that Taylor designed inWord, which tabled what was assigned and accomplished, including a reading list. The last column was reserved for notes from Taylor to Brooks. One read, “This is a top priority,” in red.
• Deb Lundgren is a certified teacher in English, Latin, and special education. But she hasn’t earned more than $1,100 in the past 18 years combined, she boasts. Instead, she’s been homeschooling her children, Noah, 18, and Silvie, 16, creating all the lesson plans and writing her own curriculum. 50 kids & family ChronograM 9/13
After taking every music class offered at UCCC, Noah was accepted to the Bridge Program, where he fell in love with college life. Namely, Bard’s college life. So when Noah applied to Bard, he and Deb had a highly recommended preinterview to determine what was needed for his application. “Homeschoolers come to us from differing backgrounds,” Marcus says. “So we recommend an interview to help us understand each individual circumstance.” During the interview, it was determined that Noah’s application would need further documentation beyond a transcript. “Our job is to make a decision,” Marcus explains, “that is in the best interests of the college, the faculty, the current students—and for the applicant. We want each student to be successful.” Deb went back to her quarterlies and found all the projects, book titles, and topics covered. She went online to fill in gaps with tables of contents. Deb compiled a 42-page document, essentially recreating Noah’s four years of high school. And it worked. He’ll be entering his sophomore year at Bard this fall. With Silvie, Deb wishes she were already creating that substantiated transcript, and updating each month. “But it’s like choosing not to bring your digital camera to an event,” Deb says. She’s choosing to live the event of Silvie’s education “rather than chronicle it,” knowing that she will have a full-time job come admissions week. “Even if you don’t want to detail everything in the quarterlies and end of year assessments, a personal log will be very useful,” Taylor suggests. The more I learned, the more I saw that the quarterlies function not only as a tally of achievements but also of what’s accepted by the school district. Deb has started to show units at the bottom of Silvie’s. So at the end of high school, she’ll have a stack of papers with earned credits, stamped as received.
• In the course of her education, Brooks has been in 15 theater productions, 11 of those through the Shakespearean youth theater, New Genesis Productions,
SATs at all. “Many colleges don’t require them because the scores don’t say anything about students,” she says. When she started applying to schools, she learned that she didn’t need the scores to get into her top choices. “I could have saved myself the stress.” Research into each school’s individual policy is necessary, though, because the reality is that some schools that don’t require scores do mandate that homeschoolers submit them. The thinking is that for students who have few standardizations and evaluations primarily from their mothers, the SATs provide a measure for comparison that can help colleges predict the potential success of applicants. It’s a debate that continues.
Above: Béatrice and Marley Alford. Below left: The author and her daughter Zoë.
which is how I met her family. Brooks has performed as Hamlet and the Shrew, and was the assistant for my daughter’s summer intensive. Brooks believes that it was this dedication that lent credence to her college applications. “Homeschoolers learn to be self-directed and driven,” Brooks says. “Our time is more flexible so we can dig deep into subjects of interest. In a way, it’s the prelude to college, where you get to really focus on and commit yourself to your passion.” This fall, Brooks will be starting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she’ll study acting as well as playwriting and directing through their Playwrights Horizons Studio. “I guess I went with the most academic BFA option I could!” she says. She hopes that the choice will prove to be a good fit for her. “The work that I want to do doesn’t require any kind of technical degree so, really, I’m getting this education because I want to improve myself, intellectually, before going out into the world.”
At What Cost? During the info session, Alford confided that college costs were a major concern. She’s an ex-pat from France and, there, higher education is just the next step—and it’s affordable. But she describes her experience at French university as uninspiring. A demanding application process could filter out the slackers, leaving only the curious and driven. But there’s still the question of how to pay for it. “If your kids decide that they want to go to college, I would say that money is the key factor in the education equation,” Alford says. Marley agrees with her mom. “There seems to be a myth that once a college accepts you, they will provide whatever financial help you need in order to attend,” she says. “In actuality, it means massive loans.” The NewYork Times notes that the average student borrower these days leaves college with $27,000 in debt. “Thinking about it early gives you the immense luxury of looking into the zillions of scholarships out there,” Alford notes. She sites the Foundation Center, a scholarship and grant organization, and Gale Cengage Learning, which archives learning resources and makes them accessible through libraries. On Marley’s handout, there are two sites, if you simply enjoy applying for scholarships: Zinch.com and ScholarshipPoints.com, with essay challenges and surveys. “Now applying is like a sport for her,” Alford says. But she advises looking to scholarships that substantially reduce tuition rather than spending time applying for many small ones. This is where Marley’s experience with Bard’s Bridge Program was especially successful. It was during the Bridge Program that Marley discovered she had a passion for math, and it was the math professor who suggested she apply for a Distinguished Scientist Scholars award. In the fall, Marley will attend Bard on a free ride.
• In the end, the trouble simply lay in the paperwork, and perhaps the lesson to be learned is to determine early if you’re on the college track. These homeschoolers decided in the 11th grade, and the refrain I heard from all of them was, “I wish I’d thought about it sooner.” There was less scrambling for those parents who anticipated college even before there was a decision. Perhaps our task, as parents, is to see the potential and prepare for many paths our kids may uncover. One of the perks of being a homeschooling family is that you get to address everything together, with creativity. And with a healthy dose of organization, it can go a long way.
Standardized Achievement Terror For all her accomplishments, Brooks notes one place for improvement. “As my homeschooling experience wasn’t test based, I felt at a disadvantage compared to others who had a lot of practice,” she says. In fact, if she could do it all again, she would have started preparing for college sooner, taking the PSAT at the earliest possible date and choosing two topics for the new SAT subject tests sooner so she could have ample study time. This is where she and McGuire differ. McGuire wouldn’t have taken the 9/13 ChronograM kids & Family 51
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Stage Moms, Soccer Dads, Stressed Kids Walking the Line Between Encouraging and Irritating By Robert Burke Warren Illustration by Celia Krampien
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f you’re a Hudson Valley parent with a child involved in extracurricular activities, you’ve no doubt encountered the Overanxious Mom, the Shouting Soccer Dad, the Overscheduler, the Sideline Screamer, or some variant thereof. Rather than “being there for the kids,” these folks often seem ego driven, unconcerned with their child’s needs, intent mostly on creating the next Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, Macaulay Culkin, or Yo-Yo Ma (all celebrities with controversial “stage parents”). The drama is often worrisome, especially when aspects of overbearingness emerge in one’s own parenting style. Yet, part of the parenting job is to spur, encourage, even occasionally goad, so how can moms and dads avoid crossing the line from helpful enthusiasm to unrealistic, potentially damaging inflexibility? Kingston-based child psychologist Dennis McCarthy, author of A Manual of Dynamic Play Therapy: Helping Things Fall Apart, the Paradox of Play, says, “It would be ideal if we only pushed our children to do things based on a profound understanding of who they are, and what their needs are, uncolored by our own needs. But that’s not an easy place to get to.” McCarthy has worked with
kids for 40 years, and in the last decade he’s seen a marked increase in children stressed out by parental expectations. He says this corresponds to an increase in parents’ stress levels. “Parents are working more,” he says, “spending more time in front of a screen. There isn’t a lot of time to consider what’s best, what’s going on; you’re trying to catch a glimpse of what your child might need while you’re in the midst of a text, or a Facebook check. There isn’t a lot of ‘hanging out with,’ which I think allows for a sense of what the kid might need.” New Paltz’s Joanne Secky, mother of two naturally athletic sons, admits the environment in youth sports can get toxic. “I see moms’ identities totally associated with their sons’,” she says, “and overanxious dads with agendas, living vicariously.” When the intensity adversely affected her gifted baseball player son Jaxson, she allowed him to switch to basketball, a choice for which she received harsh judgment from other parents. “They said, ‘You can’t let a 10-year-old make this decision.’ But I don’t feel my 10-year-old should be concerned with making parents or coaches happy. He needs to make himself happy. One upset coach said, ‘But he could be a Yankee!’ I said, ‘I don’t want a Yankee, I want a happy child.’ I tell my sons, ‘Sports is something you do, not who you are.’” McCarthy advises a “middle way,” and suggests trying different activities, stressing that every situation, each parent-child relationship, is distinctive. “It gets tricky,” he says. “The challenge is figuring out what your motives are and what your kid needs.” Shandaken’s Marcey Brownstein, mother of six-year-old Elias, approaches the “How much activity?” question with memories of her experiences as the daughter of a passive mom. “My mom exposed me to violin, tap, ballet, gymnastics, and tennis,” she says. “I rebelled against it all. And she let me bowl right over her. She didn’t force me to stick with anything, and I never acquired a skill. Elias is obstinate just like I was, but my own experience says it’s not always good to let a kid give up. He plays soccer, takes swimming lessons, and goes to pottery classes.” As a former New Yorker, though, she notes that when it comes to packing kids’ schedules with activities, she and her husband are lightweights. “We know Manhattan parents who’ve put their kindergarteners on the Harvard track,” Brownstein says. McCarthy thinks obsessing over college too early is ill advised. “It’s a mistake to worry too much about college résumés and jobs when kids are twelve or younger,” he says. “The world is changing so fast, it’s hard to project what’s going to be right for a kid 20 years from now. Are they connecting to people? Are they expressing themselves? Those are the important things. If you’re going to push a kid to do something, the motivating factor should be them feeling better about themselves, as opposed to them looking more polished for something down the road.” Overeager parents aren’t always the problem, according to McCarthy. As often as not, he encourages parents to get their kids involved in activities. “This seems to be a generation of kids who are not very good at initiating things,” he says. “It sometimes behooves parents to suggest something. It’s easy to blame everything on kids growing up more passive and screen based, but those are components. Children play outside 85 percent less than they did 25 years ago. I have a sandbox in my office, and many times it’s the only time a kid has played like that in their life. Outside, kids have to initiate what to do, and find out what they want, who they are, whereas with video games you don’t have to initiate as much, and you don’t get that kind of feedback. So this is a generation who sometimes needs parents to push them a little bit. You might want to grapple with them and push them in the direction of doing an activity for a month or so. That’s okay. But if you have to grapple every time, it isn’t okay. It is a fine line. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is this working? What am I doing this for?’” Brownstein, a Broadway fan and admitted “theatrical person,” recently took Elias to see “Annie” and “Newsies,” both of which she and her son loved (and her husband did not care for). While they aren’t actively planning on getting Elias involved in acting classes, she says they listen to the cast albums every day, and they sing along, loudly. For Secky, switching her son from baseball to basketball worked wonders. “I got the smile back,” she says. “The double dimples. And Jaxson tells me he doesn’t have any aspirations to be a professional athlete. He says, ‘Mom, I want to be a doctor.’”
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Saturday Art Labs Everyone needs a creative outlet, and SUNY New Paltz’s art workshops are a great place for children of all ages to plug in. If your kids love to have messy fun—maybe you’ve found some crayon murals on the wall or magic marker on the carpet of your home—Adventures in Art for grades K-2 might be right for them. At the lab they have the freedom to experiment with media of all kinds to create their own expressive masterpieces. The program offers similar classes for middle school and high school adolescents, with a closer attention to technique and portfolio building under the instruction of the college’s staff, local art teachers, and community artists. For young musicians, there’s piano for beginners and Movement Ensemble, where students learn to compose and create original scores. (845) 257-3850; Newpaltz.edu/sal
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Genji’s World This collection of woodblock prints depicts Japanese Court Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s ancient story, The Tales of Genji, a work widely regarded as the first modern novel. Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will showcase this artwork throughout the fall, marking the first time an exhibit outside of Japan has featured Genji-inspired prints. On September 28, the gallery will host a special family day, which will include special art-making activities, storytelling with tales of Prince Genji’s life, and an interactive tour for children ages four to ten. (845) 437-5237; Fllac.vassar.edu.
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By the Time We Got to Woodstock…
Virtually anywhere in the world, the name “Woodstock” will conjure up some very powerful images of an Aquarian Exposition, those Three Days of Peace and Music in 1969. Of course, as most of us living in our region know, Woodstock the festival took place in Sullivan County at Max Yasgur’s farm, known today as Bethel Woods, 43 miles southwest as the crow flies. As to the origins of the town’s name, according to Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner, there is actually little agreement. “There is no doubt that Robert Livingston”—an early settler of the town who was one of the Founding Fathers and held the post of Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1781-83—“named it Woodstock. However, it is unclear as to the reason why.” Alf Evers, in his book Woodstock: History of An American Town, writes: “There is no evidence presently known to tell us why Robert Livingston gave the name of Woodstock to his settlement.” Two other American places had already received the same name. The first of the American Woodstocks was the one now in Connecticut but originally part of Massachusetts, which was named for the one in Oxfordshire, England. The name itself is derived from Old English and means “a clearing in the woods,” and though there are Woodstocks in Vermont, Connecticut, Virginia, Georgia, and the Ur-Woodstock in Oxfordshire, it is our Woodstock that gave its name to the festival, lifestyle, images, and attitudes that we continue to associate with it. The legacy of the 1969 festival lives on in a remarkably vibrant music scene in and around the region. Venues such as the Colony Café and the Bearsville Theater feature both local and nationally recognized performers. “The overall scene is flourishing right now in a beautiful way,” says Mike Merenda of the West Hurley-based folk-rock duo Mike and Ruthy. “With Amy Helm (daughter
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of Levon Helm, one of Woodstock’s favorite sons) stepping out on her own, The Midnight Ramble’s commitment to keep it going, Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton making absolutely gorgeous, Grammy-nominated records and hiring a score of local players to record with them, not to mention the dozens of world-class recording studios hiding in these hills, the Paul Green Rock Academy coming to town, The Felice County Fair at Opus 40 in August, and our own Summer and Winter Hoot at the incredible Ashokan Center—I could go on and on! There’s a lot of folks making things happen; it’s something I’ve been waiting to see since I arrived here in 2001, and it’s happening now.” Mike’s wife and musical partner, Ruthy Ungar Merenda, whose father is legendary fiddler Jay Ungar, grew up in the region. “The WoodstockYouth Theater was a real saving grace for me. I am still very close with several of my good friends from that group. And that’s the experience that launched my performing career in a way. From there I went to Bard College for drama and dance, and then to New York City, where I met Mike and switched to songwriting and music.” Mike and Ruthy are producing their own festival they call The Hoot, with winter and summer incarnations. The first one took place in February of this year and the Summer Hoot was held August 23-25, including performances by The Wiyos and Natalie Merchant. “In an area so chock-full of artists it’s great to have an excuse to come together and celebrate our community. Our goal with the Hoot is to draw all of the fun-est, most positive, creative, friendly people out of their homes, gardens, and studios,” says Ruthy. Mike and Ruthy will be opening for banjo-playing duo (also husband and wife) Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn on September 1 at Opus 40. They will also perform three shows on September 13-15 at the Grouse House in Saugerties, a very cool B&B/recording studio, that will be recorded for an upcoming live album. 9/13 ChronograM woodstock + Saugerties 59
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The village of Saugerties lies 10 miles east of Woodstock on Route 212, down the aptly named Saugerties-Woodstock Road. If you’re hungry on the way, stop at Hudson Valley favorite New World Home Cooking, where Chef Ric Orlando has been offering “global sustainable cuisine” for the past 19 years. The restaurant combines upscale casual service with fun, vibrant, but seriously executed “Clean Food” from around the world. Saugerties—the only Saugerties in the United States—derives its unusual name from a stream called Sawyer’s Kill, where Barent Cornelis Volge operated a sawmill between 1652 and 1663. The Native Americans called Volge “The Little Sawyer” and the area became associated with the Dutch word for this moniker, which, with some Anglicization of the spelling, became Saugerties. The land upon which the town rose was purchased on April 27, 1677, by New York’s Governor Andros, who signed an agreement with the Esopus Indian Kaelcop, chief of the Amorgarickakan family, to purchase “a place called Sagiers” for a blanket, a piece of cloth, a shirt, a loaf of bread, and some coarse fiber to make socks. The village has seen some considerable development in the past several years, perhaps most notably with the opening of Diamond Mills on South
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The music scene is in some sense anchored by WDST, Radio Woodstock, which has been on the air since 1980. Gary Chetkof has been the principal owner and general manager for the past 20 years. Offering a mix of classic rock artists and emerging new artists, Radio Woodstock has also produced hundreds of concerts throughout the Hudson Valley and coproduces the Mountain Jam Festival and the Taste of Country Music Festival at Hunter Mountain. “Woodstock has always been about creativity, open-mindedness, and music, and so has WDST,” says Chetkoff. “Our music spans 50 years of rock, which allows us to be very inclusive and to play great artists that were at Woodstock in 1969 alongside artists that were influenced by those musicians and continue to impact today’s world with their music. Radio Woodstock is also more active in community and cultural events than ever before, which I think is reflective of the growth of these events in our area.” There is another festival that actually does take place in Woodstock. The Woodstock Film Festival has been running since 2000 and will be held this year from October 2 to 6. The festival initially began as a small, completely independent venture in the town of Woodstock for cofounders Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto, and has since branched across five neighboring towns in the Hudson Valley. The festival now shows in Woodstock as well as Rhinebeck, Rosendale, Kingston, and Saugerties, and presents year-round programming of film events throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond. “Woodstock was a natural choice because of its deep history in the arts, its quaint, small art house [now Upstate Films], and its close proximity to New York City, the mecca of independent film,” says Blaustein. Asked about the festival’s motto, “fiercely independent,” Blaustein says, “it is not just a tagline for the festival but a way of approaching the film industry that aligns with our goals. While these days an ‘independent’ production means any film produced outside of a major studio, the festival subscribes to the creativity, unique thinking, lifestyle and idea of independence, both in film as well as in spirit. It also describes Woodstock, in that the town, to this day, dares to be different. Not only are the people unique, but the town itself is as well, with a main street lined with independently run stores rather than major chains.” Some of those independent stores include the recently opened Little Apple Juice Bar at 21 Tinker Street, which offers raw juices and organic frozen yogurt, and Mirabai, at 23 Mill Hill Road, an eclectic emporium that features such modern essentials as a ceramic energy bead that, apparently, helps to combat the effects of debilitating frequencies from cellular phones and towers and other sources of microwave energy.
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Partition Street. Tom Struzzieri, president of Horse Shows in the Sun (HITS), which produces horse shows annually in Saugerties (as well as across the country), purchased the land of the former Cantine Paper Mill and built the Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern, which opened in 2011 and includes a 7,000-square-foot meeting space that can accommodate up to 400 guests for conferences or receptions. With paned windows and red brick facing, the look of the two-story hotel is reminiscent of the old mill. Diamond Mills offers the sort of luxury accommodation sought after by folks in the “horsey set.” Saugerties has much to offer, including the wonderful Kiwanis Ice Arena, part of the Cantine Field complex located on Washington Street. Closed for the summer, the rink usually makes ice in early September and offers public skating throughout the season. For hockey fans, regional high school teams take to the ice here, as do two adult leagues—this year, the Honey Badgers (for whom Mike Merenda plays defense) will be defending their championship title. The annual Hudson Valley Garlic Festival is also held here on Cantine Field, taking place this year on September 28 and 29. Now in its 23rd year, it has grown to become one of the most successful food festivals in the country. Garlic farmers, food vendors, musicians, craftspeople, and around 50,000 garlic lovers come together each year to celebrate the “stinking rose.” Books • Music In the past few years, Partition Street has become remarkablyGifts vibrant. • Anchored by Inquiring Minds Bookstore at the corner of Main Street, veterans like Montano’s Shoes—one of the oldest and largest family-owned shoe stores in the country, established in 1906 by Louis Montano Sr. and operated today by third and fourth generations of the Montano family— share the sidewalk with relative newcomers like Lucky Chocolates, where chocolate lovers will find handmade, luxurious, small-batch chocolates made from organic and fair-trade chocolate. The Imogen Holloway Gallery on Partition Street features the work of regional and not-so-regional artists. The aesthetic is cool, crisp, urbane, and sophisticated without being stuffy, specializing in the sort of funky abstraction that one often sees these days in the studios of Willamsburg, Brooklyn. Diane Dwyer opened the gallery in May 2012. “I wanted a small space, intimate and easy to move around in. It’s 350 square feet and the fact that it’s situated inside the ‘Golden Triangle,’ bracketed by Montano’s Shoe Store, Lucky Chocolates, and Partition Street Wine Shop, made it the obvious choice,” says Dwyer. “I couldn’t ask for more support from the local art community—they pack the house on First Fridays: The local press has been fantastically loyal, writing about the gallery’s events, and we have an abundance of enthusiastic NewYork City friends who are part of the broader art scene.” With so much going on in the way of music, art, food, and recreation in a spectacular natural setting framed by the Esopus Creek, the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains, the sister towns of Woodstock and Saugerties exemplify what we love about living in Ulster County.
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Above, a cartoon by Liza Donnelly from “New Yorker Cartoonists,� an exhibition at Atwater Gallery in Rhinebeck through September 17 that will feature both published and unpublished works from five New Yorker cartoonists: Michael Crawford, Liza Donnelly, Carolita Johnson, Michael Maslin, and Danny Shanahan.
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Autumn in Conway, Meadows Looking Toward Mount Washington, Albert Bierstadt, oil on canvas, 19” x 28”, 1858. Estate of the Price family. An exhibition of Bierstadt’s East Coast paintings, “Albert Bierstadt in New York & New England,” will be on display through November 3 at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill.
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“USCO: The Company of Us—A Retrospectacle.” Through September 21.
“Harvest of Light.” New watercolors by Betsy Jacaruso and Cross River Artists. September 1-30.
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“Hannah Mandel and Joan Giummo: New Paintings.” Through September 29. Opening reception September 7, 3pm-6pm.
“Robert W. Weir and the Poetry of Art.” Through November 30.
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“The Luminous Landscape™ 2013: 16th Annual Invitational.” Through October 20. ANN STREET GALLERY 104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 784-1146.
“The Sublime Revisited.” September 14-October 26. Opening reception September 14, 6:30pm-8:30pm. ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.
“The Great Out Doors.” Group show. Through September 15. Atwater Gallery
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BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.
“Gimme Shelter.” Outdoor sculpture exhibit. Through September 29. “Woven.” Through September 29. CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.
“The Man Show.” Through September 15. CLARK ART INSTITUTE 225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 458-2303.
“George Inness.” Through September 8. COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.
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“Threads: Fiber Art.” Through September 21.
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“Heavy Equipment.” Site installations. Through September 15.
“Helen Marten: No Borders in a Wok That Can’t Be Crossed.” Through September 22. “Haim Steinbach: Once Again the World is Flat.” Through December 20.
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“Keeping Track.” Recent work by Rebecca Zilinski. Through October 5.
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“Works by Ed Benavente, Tadashi Hashimoto, and Insun Kim.” Through October 15. BEACON ARTIST UNION 506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177.
“bauMoCA: The Worlds Smallest Museum of Controversial Art.” Through September 8. BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS 200 HURD ROAD, BETHEL 454-3388.
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“The Dancer as the Invisible Girl.” September 6-October 6. “Monster and Other Tales.” September 6-October 6. Opening reception September 7, 6pm-8pm. DOWNTOWN CATSKILL MAIN STREET, CATSKILL greenearts.org.
“Eastern Standard: Indirect Lines to the Hudson River School.” Through September 20. DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STreet, TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580.
“Thinking Inside the Box.” Works by Eugenia Ballard. September 7-28. Opening reception September 7, 5pm-8pm.
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“Realism and Abstraction.” Works by Franz Heigemeir. Through September 27. THE FALCON 1348 ROUTE 9W, MARLBORO 236-7970.
“The Paintings of Commander Cody.” Through September 30. FAMILY TRADITIONS 3853 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 377-1021.
“Works by Lawrence Bush.” Through September 2. FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN STreet, BEACON 765-2199.
“The Gun Show.” Through October 6. FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237.
“Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection.” Through September 8. “Genji’s World in Japanese Woodblock Prints.” September 20-December 15. FRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON 63 MAIN STREET, KINGSTON 339-0720.
“Greetings From Kingston: A Story in Postcards.” Through October 26. THE GALLERY AT R&F 84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112.
“Gregory Wright: Forces.” Through September 21.
Heaven’s Gate by Kevin Cook (Oil 24 x 36)
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“Works by Chloé Valentine.” Through September 30. GALLERY 66 NY 66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838.
“In Times of Chaos.” Through September 29. GRAY OWL GALLERY 10 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 518-2237.
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“Art ..On Vacation.” Through September 6. GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400.
“Cancer Journeys: Expressions of Hope and Transformation.” Through November 2. HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER “Latino-American Artists of the Hudson Valley.” September 7-29. Opening reception September 7, 3pm-5pm. HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-4181.
“Gala Veinte!” Rodney Alan Greenblat’s watercolor and ink on paper. Through September 28. IMOGEN HOLLOWAY GALLERY 81 PARTITION STreet, SAUGERTIES (347) 387-3212.
“Wood.” New works by Douglas Wirls and Christina Tenaglia. Through September 29. JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.
“Jenny Snider” Through September 8. “La Wilson: 5 Decades.” September 12-October 6. JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250.
“Sub Rosa: The Chatham House Rule.” Through September 7. KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (KMOCA) 103 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON Kmoca.org.
“Careful Carelessness & Loosely Planned.” September 7-28. Opening reception September 7, 5pm-7pm. LIFEBRIDGE SANCTUARY 333 MOUNTAIN RoaD, ROSENDALE 658-3439.
“David Hall: Light Beneath the Sea.” Through October 13. DOWNTOWN BEACON MAIN STREET, BEACON beaconwindows.org.
“Windows On Main Street: Past, Present, and Future.” Through September 14. MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241.
“Summerscapes.” A group show. Through September 7. MATTEAWAN GALLERY 464 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901.
“Borrowed Lines.” September 14-October 5.
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“Anthropoliths.” Stone sculpture by Harry Matthews. Through October 14. NEUMANN FINE ART 65 COLD WATER STreet, HILLSDALE (413) 246-5776.
“The Power of Place.” Through September 2. NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 ROUTE 183, STOCKBRIDGE, MA (413) 298-4100.
“Jarvis Rockwell: Maya, Illusion, and Us.” Through October 20. OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON (518) 828-0135.
“Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church’s Landscapes.” Through October 31.
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“Works by Caroline Kaars Sypesteyn.” Through October 2. THE OPEN STUDIO 402 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-9531.
“Follow the Thread.” Through September 20. ORANGE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ROUTE 94, NEW WINDSOR (866) 676-2837.
“Black Dirt.” Through September 13. PS 209 3670 MAIN STreet, STONE RIDGE Pspace209@gmail.com.
“Vessel.” Through October 6. RED HOOK CAN NORTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK 758-6575.
“Big Show: Little Art.” Works no bigger than 16”. Through October 6. RENAISSANCE ART & COLLECTIBLES 356 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-6758.
“Inaugural Art Exhibit.” September 21-October 31. Opening reception September 21, 5pm-8pm. ROOS ARTS 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE (718) 755-4726.
“Keiko Sono: Saunter and Repose.” Through October 19. Opening reception September 14, 6pm-8pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz Newpaltz.edu/museum.
“Screen Play: Hudson Valley Artists 2013.” Through November 10. SAUNDERS FARM 853 OLD ALBANY POST ROAD, GARRISON Facebook.com/pages/Saunders-FarmGarrison-NY.
“Collaborative Concepts: The Farm Show 2013.” Through October 26. SCOTT DUTTON ARCHITECTURE GALLERY 15 CANFIELD STREET, KINGSTON 339-2039.
“Connecting the Dots.” September 8-October 6. Opening reception September 8, 12pm-2pm.
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STARR LIBRARY 6417 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-4030.
“The Cannon Roar All Night: Profiles of Local Civil War Soldiers.” Through October 31. THE RE INSTITUTE 1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON (518) 567-5359.
“Immaterial.” Through September 14.
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THEO GANZ STUDIO 149 MAIN STREET, BEACON (917) 318-2239.
“Judy Sigunick: Sculptures.” Through September 8. THOMAS COLE NATional HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-7465.
“Albert Bierstadt in New York and New England.” Paintings. Through November 3. THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336.
“Necessity and Chance.” Through September 22. TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342.
“Barbara, Frana and Just Desserts.” Through September 22.
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“Common Denominator.” September 7-October 6. Opening reception September 28, 4pm-6pm. UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482.
“Impressions of the Hudson Valley.” Through October 12. UNISON 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.
“The Five: Contemporary Arts From Japan.” September 1-October 27. WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY
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“Passion for Color. New paintings by Debbe Femiak and Dennis Fanton.” September 1-30. Opening reception September 7, 5pm-7pm. WASHINGTON’S HEADQUARTERS 84 LIBERTY STREET, NEWBURGH 562-1195.
“Unpacked and Rediscovered.” Through December 31. WIRED GALLERY 1415 ROUTE 213, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613.
“Group Show #6: Cars, Tools, Doors..and an iPad.” Works by 9 artists. Through September 29. WOODSTOCK FRAMING GALLERY 31 MILL HILL ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-6003.
“Anne Crowley: The Urban and Country Landscape.” Through September 15. X ON MAIN CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY 159 MAIN STREET, BEACON Xonmain.com.
“Works by Sculptor Eric Stein.” Through September 9.
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Music
The Great Ascender Joan Tower
By Peter Aaron Photograph by Fionn Reilly
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n late 2008, Joan Tower was about to celebrate her birthday with a pair of concerts and had been recently nominated for three Grammy Awards—all which she ended up winning. Five years later, the composer and Bard College educator is once again the focus of a musical program in her honor, an event commemorating the 75th year of her birth and taking place on the campus this month. “It’s lovely to have your birthday celebrated, especially when you get older,” she observes from the desk of her photoand-memento-lined office. “I just try not to think about the fact that [the birthday concert] means that everybody knows how old I am. [Laughs.] Seriously, though, I do have a great life. I have a really good job at Bard, with great students. I’m doing what I want by making music with great musicians. I feel like I’m one of the most blessed people in the world.” Thanks to Tower’s amazing music, the world is pretty blessed itself. One of America’s foremost contemporary composers, the Red Hook resident is revered for her dramatic, colorful, rhythmically dynamic, and frequently percussive works, which are as accessible as they startling and challenging. Her signature efforts include the frenetic chamber piece Petroushkates (1980) and such expansive orchestral opuses as Sequoia (1981) and Silver Ladders (1986), the latter of which made her the first woman to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Prize for musical composition. But the Grawmeyer and the Grammys are by no means the only honors she’s accumulated over her nearly fivedecade career. Besides being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1998) and the Harvard Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), Tower has a Guggenheim fellowship (1976) and an honorary doctorate from the New England Conservatory (1972); has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic; and has served as composer-in-residence for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and other esteemed ensembles. In 1993 she composed Stepping Stones for the Milwaukee Ballet, and later ended up conducting a segment of the work for a concert at the White House. Not too bad for the daughter of a nomadic mineralogist. Born in New Rochelle, Tower spent her earliest years in nearby Larchmont. She started piano at age six, initially transfixed by Chopin. “I just fell in love with [his music],” she recalls. “Chopin just has this incredible combined sense of melody and harmony. His music is very piano-centric, unlike with Bach or other composers, whose music you also hear played on harp, guitar, whatever. Chopin’s DNA is the piano. And since I was discovering the instrument back then, that just made his music even more magical.” When she was nine, her father took a job in the mining industry that saw the family resettle in South America. “It was kind of a jolt, coming from Larchmont, which was very comfortable, and going to where there were revolutions every week,” Tower says. “But it turned out to be a great childhood education. I learned Spanish in two months—I guess I’ve always had a good ear.” The clan lived in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, and the composer traces her love of percussion, dance, and rhythm to her time in the latter. “I had an Incan nanny who used to bring me to the All Saints Day celebrations in La Paz,” she says. “The musicians would hand me native percussion instruments and let me play along.”The future luminary also got into her share of trouble as a young expatriate, however. “I used to flirt with surfers and visiting American servicemen,” says Tower. “One time, the Harlem Globetrotters were in town and I invited them to our house. I called home and said, ‘Hey, Mom, I’m bringing over some new friends!’ Boy, was she surprised. [Laughs.] It must’ve been hell, bringing me up. I went to private school.You had to a wear uniform and all that. I wasn’t good with rules. I was a rebel.” When the family eventually moved back to the States, as she prepared to enter college it looked like Tower’s rebellious tendencies would continue to cause contention. “I was interviewing for admission to Radcliffe College [in Cambridge, Massachusetts], and after a few minutes the administrator said to me, ‘You won’t be happy here. You should check out Bennington College instead,’” Tower says. “So I did, and I absolutely fell in love with it. The professors were all in blue jeans, they were like-minded rebels themselves. Bennington turned out to be the perfect place. That Radcliffe administrator saved my life.” As encouraging as Bennington was, Tower didn’t remain there for long. She next attended Columbia University, earning her doctorate under the operatically inclined Jack Beeson and electronic pioneers Otto Leuning and Vladimir Ussachevsky, and supporting herself by giving piano lessons. In 1969, she cofounded the Da Capo Chamber Players, which evolved into one of the nation’s leading chamber ensembles. The group became the vehicle for several of Tower’s most acclaimed early works, such as Platinum Spirals, for violin (1976); Amazon I, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (1977); and Wings, for clarinet or alto saxophone (1981); as well as offerings by Phillip Glass, John Harbison, and Tower’s fellow Bard faculty member Kyle Gann. (Tower continued to play with the ensemble until 1984.) During her Columbia years she immersed herself in the serialism movement. A stylistic revolution then being popularized in New York by Milton Babbitt and Charles Wuorinen, the modern serialist technique expands Schoenburg’s notion of the defined 12-tone chromatic scale into other elements of music, such as rhythm, timbre, pitch,
and dynamics, all of which can be grouped into fixed sequences (series), which are then themselves manipulated at intervals (often irregular) throughout a piece. Despite serialism’s insurgent reputation, its method of disregarding “traditional” tonality grew wearying for its detractors—one of which Tower herself eventually became. “I grew to hate serialism,” she groans. “I didn’t really understand it. I just kind of fell into it when I was at Columbia, following Babbitt and all these other people around like a puppy dog. It took me 10 years to figure out I needed to get out of it.” The transition that inspired her later works came in 1973, a year after she’d taken her position at Bard, when she witnessed a performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time (1941). Serial in nature yet richly melodic, the piece draws on birdsong and Messiaen’s deep liturgical leanings and remains a landmark of modern chamber music. “[The performance] was, like, ‘Whoah!’” Tower remembers. “It was just so straight ahead and powerful. Hearing George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn [1965] back then was also really influential.” The directness of Messiaen and Crumb that increasingly shaped Tower’s own work is a quality mirrored in other aspects of her life. “Her music and her personality are incredibly similar,” says Max McKee, a four-year student under the composer. “Which is to say no bullshit, totally straightforward. She knows who and what she is and what she wants. Studying with her is like getting inside her head; there’s so much I’ve learned that’s practically been by osmosis. But she’s more than just a teacher. She has a really full relationship with all her students. It feels like she really cares and invests in us.” One of Tower’s most talked-about compositions is Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (1987–92), a five-part orchestral work commissioned by the Houston Symphony in 1986. Though intended purely as “an homage to Copland and an homage to women,” there were those who nevertheless took its title as a parody of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man or a political statement or both. “Naturally, I’m a feminist,” maintains Tower. “I never thought [the piece] would become this big political thing, though. But people made such a big deal about it.” Ironically, it would be her concerto Made in America (2004), which was bankrolled by the Ford Motor Company in the middle of the George W. Bush years and appropriates “America the Beautiful,” that would make Tower an even bigger musical heroine. A sweeping, panoramic epic that evokes the entirety of the nation’s diverse landscape, from its colorful deserts, to its rocky peaks, its bustling urban centers, and, yes, its fruited plains and amber waves of grain, Made in America was commissioned via Ford’s Made in America arts program for 65 small-community orchestras and performed in all 50 states. Peppered with pounding passages that might be interpreted as the iron fists of a power-hungry authority, the 2006 performance of Made in America by the Nashville Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin was released on Naxos Records, and in 2008 won Grammys in the categories of Best Orchestral Performance, Best Classical Album, and Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Tower’s 75th-birthday concert takes place at Bard’s newly built, sonically stunning Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Conservatory Building (which she herself helped design) and doubles as a benefit for the college’s Conservatory of Music composers scholarship fund. A hand-picked program of Tower’s chamber works, the evening includes Très lent (Hommage à Messiaen), for cello and piano (1994); Up High, for soprano and piano (2011); Dumbarton Quintet, for piano quintet (2008); WhiteWater, for string quartet (2013); and Simply Purple, for solo viola (2008), and will feature performances by soprano Dawn Upshaw, cellist Peter Wiley, the Horzowski Trio, the acclaimed Daedalus Quartet, and Blair McMillen, Kayo Iwama, and the maestro herself on piano. “I had always been intrigued by Joan’s music, and I had actually wondered why she hadn’t written much vocal music,” says Upshaw, who was profiled in the April 2010 issue of Chronogram. “So I asked if she would please consider taking the leap and using me as her guinea pig. How tickled I was that she said yes!” While continuing to compose and teach in earnest, Tower has lately also been busy helping to care for her 65-year-old brother, who suffered a debilitating stroke seven years ago. “He’s at Northeast Center for Special Care, which is an amazing rehabilitation facility in Lake Katrine for traumatic brain injury,” explains Tower. “He can’t walk at all or speak well, so that’s been tough. It gives you an increased sense of how blessed you are, just being able to do things like walking or eating.” But, as heartbreaking as seeing a loved one endure such hardships must be, does the satisfaction of being a triple Grammy winner at least help to offset the difficulties? “Oh sure, it’s great, the Grammys are the most-known award in the world,” Tower says. “But, at the same time, like I tell my students, awards are short-lived. What really gets you moving is your music. If you write good music, it will have a life of its own and take you much farther than any credentials ever will.” A concert celebrating Joan Tower’s 75th birthday will take place in the main hall of the Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Conservatory Building on September 7 at 7:30pm on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson.Tickets for the Bard College Conservatory of Music Composers Scholarship Fund benefit are $75 (75 cents for students). Bard.edu/conservatory. chronogram.com Listen to Made in America by Joan Tower.
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nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Laura Marling September 6. New folk light Laura Marling traded her rainy British homeland for the smoggy air of L.A., leaving most of her backing band behind for the recording of her fourth and latest long-player, Once I Was an Eagle. Though decidedly sparse when compared to her previous albums, the disc, supported by this evening at the Bearsville Theater, has Marling flavoring her wandering, waifish Joni Mitchell influences with those of the hippie acousticpsych aspects of vanguard U.K. acts like Pentangle, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin. (Todd Clouser and A Love Electric sparks September 8; Aztec Two-Step walks on September 20.) 9pm. $25, $35. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com.
Dave Liebman’s Expansions September 6. Jazz nuts generally know saxophonist Dave Liebman from his years with Miles Davis’s early ’70s fusion band or via the other legends he’s worked with, like Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, John McLaughlin, and Elvin Jones. No mere sideman, Liebman has over the years also led his own amazing bands, such as the trio Open Sky and his current Expansions quintet, which makes magic at the Falcon this month. “Conceptually,” the band’s bio reads, “the repertoire traverses elements of free jazz and rearrangements of standards, all infused with complex time signatures and harmonies.” (Dave Stryker strikes September 14; Kenny Werner keys in September 22.) 7pm. Donation. Marlboro. (845) 236-7970; Liveatthefalcon.com.
Drum Boogie Festival September 7. Originating in 2008, the day-long, family-friendly, multicultural Drum Boogie Festival assembles world-class artists playing jazz, Japanese taiko, Middle Eastern, rock, classical, Native American, African, Jamaican steel pan, and other percussion-oriented styles. Held outdoors at Andy Lee Field, the event begins with a tribute to ragtime xylophonist George Hamilton Green at the nearby Woodstock Artists Cemetery and features Jack DeJohnette, the Midnight Ramble Band, NEXUS, Simon Shaheen, members of Broadway’s “The Lion King” and “Stomp,” the Saturday Night Live Band, SO Percussion, and more. 10am. Free. Woodstock. (845) 657-0455; Drumboogiefestival.com.
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September 18, 20. Sponsored by Kingston-based label Altercation Records, the multiband Upstart Fest tour is being touted as the “Northeast’s biggest and best punk rock party.” Now in its third year, the riotous roster rolls its way into a pair of regional rock haunts. September 18 at Valentine’s in Albany features the Koffin Kats, Turbo AC’s, Hudson Falcons, New Red Scare, Svetlanas, Two Fisted Law, and Bourbon Scum (6pm; $10). September 20 at the Chance in Poughkeepsie promises the Koffin Kats, Turbo AC’s, Hudson Falcons, New Red Scare, Svetlanas, Two Fisted Law, American Pinup, Cry Havoc, Bourbon Scum, and Fort Street (6pm; $12, $15). Valentine’s: (518) 432-6572; Valentinesalbany.com. The Chance: (845) 471-1966; Thechancetheater.com. General tour info: Upstartfest.com.
The Waterboys September 26. The Waterboys, who play the Egg this month, were founded in 1981 by their literate leader, Scottish-born singer-songwriter Mike Scott. The group hit its stride with 1988’s landmark Fisherman’s Blues and waxed two more acclaimed albums before Scott went solo. In 2000, however, Scott resurrected the Waterboys name for a new lineup and hit the road once again. Last year’s An Appointment with Mr. Yeats has the front man setting the poetry of the great William Butler Yeats to the band’s freewheeling modern Celtic folk rock. (Richard and Teddy Thompson perform September 28; Steve Hackett presents “Genesis Revisited” September 29.) 8pm. $29.50, $39.50. $49.50. Albany. (518) 473-1845; Theegg.org. Laura Marling plays Bearsville Theater on September 6.
cd reviews Geezer Handmade Heavy Blues (2013, Blues Blvd. Records)
Blues rock too often gets short shrift on my turntable/ mp3 player/CD carousel. Unfortunately, it’s a genre that at times lends itself to cliché and a mild mannered bythe-numbers approach that could be shorthand for the last 40 years of Eric Clapton’s career. Thankfully, the debut full-length offering from Kingston’s Geezer dispenses with any such niceties and produces some welcome, evilsounding, stoner-blues boogie that’s perched somewhere alongside ZZ Top, Sleep, and Free. Much like those in the trio’s fellow Hudson Valley act the Jonny Monster Band, Geezer’s members attack their instruments with devil-may-care abandon. Pat Harrington (guitar/vocals) uses his slide to great effect as the songs lurch menacingly back and forth like some feral critter along the highway. Chris Turco (drums) and Freddy Villano (bass) provide a booming bottom end, imbuing the set with a bracing, stripped-down intensity. The album offers eight originals, along with well-chosen covers of the Beatles’ “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” and Muddy Waters’s “Still a Fool.” Harrington’s snarling vocals are the perfect sonic guide to the sludgy, turbid depths of Geezer’s sound. The opening track, “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,” storms out the gate with harmonica fanfare courtesy of Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper, before Harrington bellows “Gonna buy a big old truck just to run you over / Gonna tie you to the tracks of a rollercoaster.” To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Geezertown.bandcamp.com. —Jeremy Schwartz
Susan SurfTone Too Far (2013, Acme Brothers Records)
Susan SurfTone’s back in more ways than one. The Hudson-bred guitarist is now back east, after a long stretch on the northern Pacific Coast. And she’s back with her second solo album, the follow-up to 2011’s Shore. Area fans will remember SurfTone (née Yasinski) from her days with the popular Rochester-based instrumental combo Susan and the SurfTones, which plied (not surprisingly, given Yasinski’s stage name) organ-heavy Third Wave surf music. But her new disc, Too Far, like Shore, largely eschews the organ in favor of crisper guitar lines, which drive danceable tunes like “Green Light,” the chirpy “Chelsea Twist,” and “Buckle Up.” SurfTone—who notoriously quit her Special Agent post at the FBI when her superior wouldn’t allow her the night off for a CBGB gig—avoids the über reverb of the genre’s earliest days, leaning on the clean, bright sounds of ’80s instrumental combos. Think Jon and the Nightriders and Georgia’s esoteric, eclectic Love Tractor, rather than the funky angularity of the Raybeats. SurfTone also handles bass chores here, putting a Kim Deal-like throb below her melodic lead work. Canadian producer and drummer Steve Kravac occasionally pushes the skins too hard in the thin mix on Too Far; and his playing is sometimes busier than the tunes warrant, especially on the off-kilter opening track “Start Again.” But everything meshes wonderfully on more relaxed numbers like the Vibraslap-tinged “Steve Dallas,” which boasts a haunting Theremin-y warble; the twangfest of “Ponderosa;” and the breezy “White Sand.” Susansurftone.com. —Michael Eck
THE WHISPERING TREE THE ESCAPE (2013, INDEPENDENT)
This seven-song EP instantly transported me back to college, when I obsessed over soulful indie folk-rock bands such as Cowboy Junkies and Over the Rhine—mellow alternative rock with luminous female vocals, wistful melodies, and introspective lyrics. Beacon-based duo the Whispering Tree—classically trained vocalist/pianist Eleanor Kleiner and French guitarist Elie Brangbour—resurrect a kindred musical sensibility. They have joined up with additional players on The Escape to expand their textures, making a bit of a departure from their full-length debut, Go Call the Captain. Readily apparent is an intensity of yearning that all listeners can relate to; the title refers both to being left behind and being set free. Simple acoustic guitar and piano introduce “Where Have You Gone?,” an expression of longing for a loved one who has vanished. The motif continues both musically and lyrically in “Remember Waiting” before breaking into faster-paced folk jam. The upbeat cover of “Over the Rainbow,” a song famous for its escapist theme, has an unexpected gypsy jazz feel. “I wanna run from this world” is the repeated opening lyric of “No Love,” a tune that’s at first sullen, then driving, with a hunger to return to home (or innocence, perhaps). Kleiner’s vocals billow and soar in the final eloquent ballads “Better Off” and “Pink House,” as the subjects fly away into a world of possibilities. Thewhisperingtree.com. —Sharon Nichols
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iese Laymon is in the zone. Agate Bolden Books just released his fireball essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, and—fueled by the title essay’s cult status on Gawker and a recent appearance on NPR’s Morning Edition—it’s climbing the charts. So is Laymon’s debut novel, Long Division, which came out in June to glowing reviews. It’s the kind of one-two punch writers dream of at night, and it’s been a long time coming. Laymon enters Julie’s Restaurant, across Raymond Avenue from the Vassar campus, where he’s immediately greeted by two smiling colleagues. They talk for awhile before he ambles over, introducing himself with a warm smile. (His first name is pronounced Key-Essay, which seems like a Joycean pun.) He’s wearing an olive-drab hoodie over a T-shirt, mesh shorts, and untied sneakers with bright orange laces. With his shaved head and scruffy goatee, a camouflage backpack slung over one shoulder, he could easily pass for a student. Laymon sits at a table which seems too small for his frame and orders a small stack of pancakes (“You mean a short stack?” asks the waitress, and he nods. “Yeah, that.”) Then he kicks back and starts asking questions. He’s not being pushy, just curious: This interview thing is a two-way street. So is teaching. The first time Laymon saw Vassar College, he was fresh out of grad school and still in his 20s; he’d just driven 14 hours from Indiana for a job interview. “MapQuest sent me over the bridge on 84 and up Route 9, so I missed the city completely. I’m from Jackson, Mississippi, which is 85 percent black, so when I saw these towers and shit—the word I kept thinking was ‘frou-frou.’ Then I got to the gates.” Laymon pauses. “Because of where I’m from, my experience with security and police, I turned around and went straight to Alumnae House. I’d never been in a hotel without a TV before, and it was March Madness, man! So my first impression of Poughkeepsie was strip malls and no game.” He laughs. “The next morning I went for a run and saw there was more to it. It wasn’t all just Route 9 and the castle.” Laymon landed the job. For the past decade, he’s been teaching English and Africana Studies courses with titles like “Narratives of the Underground,” “Writing the Diaspora,” and “Shawn Carter: Autobiography of an Autobiographer.” He’s also been turning out essays and struggling to publish Long Division, which started as his MFA thesis at Indiana University. Like the novel itself, it’s a twisty tale. Narrator Citoyen “City” Coldson, an iconoclastic black teen, is cherrypicked to represent Mississippi on a televised sentence contest (think National Spelling Bee with a splash of the dozens). When the judges give him the word “niggardly,” he launches into a Kanye-style rant that becomes a YouTube sensation. City’s mother packs him off to his righteous grandmother in small-town Melahatchie, and he brings along a mysterious, authorless book called (wait for it) Long Division. The hero of this book-within-a-book is another City Coldson, living in 1985 and crushing on a girl named Shalaya Crump, who finds an underground portal into his future and back to 1964, uncovering—and possibly changing—the roots and branches of his own history. In his autobiographical essay “You Are the Second Person,” Laymon describes Long Division as “a post-Katrina, Afrofuturist, time-travel-ish, black Southern love story filled with adventure, metafiction, and mystery.” It’s also snortingly funny and packs an emotional wallop. Two things it isn’t: familiar and safe. That may be why it took three book deals to get it in print.The first was with “a prominent African-American imprint” Laymon prefers not to name. After acquiring the manuscript, his editor moved to a young adult imprint of industry giant Putnam Penguin, urging Laymon to follow. Though he worried about retooling his complex book for a young-adult market, the editor assured him he wouldn’t have to change much. “Not true,” Laymon says bluntly. “They wanted me to rewrite to a fifth- or sixth-grade level, with ‘less racial politics, and more about the adventure.’ They mentioned Percy Jackson.” The headbutting took years. Pub dates came and went; Laymon‘s health and relationships nosedived.Vassar colleague Paul Russell, who’s published with both large and small presses, said, “I can’t tell you what to do, but if there’s an independent press you respect, you’ll have a much better chance of getting the book you want.” Laymon did a final draft and turned in a book he felt proud of. When the editor told him it still wouldn’t fly, he left.
“I was walking away into nothing,” he says, acknowledging he couldn’t have taken that risk if he’d had kids to support. He chose Agate because National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, a friend and fellow Mississippian, had published her first novel there. “I thought they’d get me,” he says. They did. Agate offered him a two-book contract. Meanwhile, Laymon posted “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America,” a blistering personal essay on race, guns, and “being born a black boy on parole in Central Mississippi,” on his blog Cold Drank. Emma Carmichael, a former student and Gawker editor, asked if she could reprint it. Before the weekend was out, it had racked up more than 100,000 hits and a trail of passionate comments. “I am guilty of being too much like my kind, which means I am one mistaken moment from being a justifiable homicide, or a few planted rocks from being incarcerated,” Laymon wrote; Gawker reran the piece during George Zimmerman’s trial, and his words spread like wildfire. “The thing that feels best to me is after ‘How to Kill Yourself’ went viral, so many editors and agents who wouldn’t touch me before came back. And I was like, ‘No, man, I’ve got my publisher,’” Laymon says gratefully. Both his parents were undergrads at Jackson State when he was born; his mother was 19 years old. “She was dealing with college and money and everything else. When it got to be too much, she’d send me to stay with my grandmother,” Laymon says. “She worked at a chicken plant. She had to get up at 4:30am, and she’d come home really irritated and just want to take her shoes off. It was a shotgun house up on cinderblocks, a supersmall house. She’d say, “Ki, go outside and don’t come back.” He and the other kids on the block were obsessed with an underground hole where a “humongous tree” had been uprooted. “We thought there were kids living down in that hole. Whenever we saw someone in the woods, we’d say they came out of the hole,” he recalls. “That image kept haunting me, in the best way, all my life.” There was also a work shed behind his grandmother’s house, where he wasn’t allowed to set foot; both locations are crucial to Long Division. If real life provides jumping-off points for fiction, Laymon’s essays get up close and personal. How To opens with a letter to a crack-addict uncle, “a lanky, living, breathing warning” of what could happen if young Kiese kept breaking rules and his mother’s heart. The title essay details the racist provocations and gadfly responses that got him suspended from Millsaps College on trumped-up charges, and the cutting edge of his mother’s tough love: At one point, she pulled a gun on her son and ordered him out of her house. Later, he turned the same gun on himself. Basketball helped. So did “telling and listening to each other’s odd-shaped truths” with his best friend, and a scholarship offer from Oberlin. “Too many people my age didn’t make it out of Jackson,” Laymon explains; his mother, who finished college on her own and became a political science professor, wanted to make sure he did. Throughout his childhood, she insisted he read “white classics: Treasure Island, Silas Marner, Hemingway, Faulkner, Jane Austen. This is when I’m 10 or 12. Before I could go outside, or read what I wanted to read, I had to read the book she gave me and write about it. If I didn’t, I got a whupping.” Though his mother is now “really proud of me,” Laymon asserts, “she and my aunt wish my writing was different—you don’t have to show everyone your insides. For me, it’s just a way of starting that dialogue.” One of How To’s most striking pieces, “Echo,” is a conversation in letters, written by Mychal Denzel Smith, Darnell Moore, Laymon, Kai M. Green, and Marlon Peterson. Examining identity politics through a deeply personal lens, it ends with an exhortation to “keep the flow going.” Laymon lives that advice, writing “two hours in the morning and two hours at night, every day of my life.” One of his teachers told him that writing needs to be like running. “Nobody wants to go running, but you get better at it if you have that discipline. And then sometimes you get that runner’s high and write more than you have to, just because you’re in the zone.” Current projects include “another kind of funky nonfiction book” and a novel that doesn’t take place in Mississippi. “Actually, it’s set in upstate New York,” he admits. Anything readers might recognize from Raymond Avenue? “Yup.” Kiese Laymon laughs. “I think you gonna recognize everything on Raymond Avenue. If you don’t, I messed up.” 9/13 ChronograM books 75
2013 poetry ROUNDUP
Reviewed by Lee Gould, Djelloul Marbrook, and Nina Shengold
Letters & Found Poems of Edisa & Chloe
A Study of Extremes in Six Suites
David Appelbaum
Irene Mitchell
Codhill Press, 2013, $16
Cherry Grove Collections, 2012, $18
These poems are catenaries of bridge-like architecture. An elegant mind thinks like lovers’ body language: “But I won’t believe / her sugar is a trance / to do with a mouth / sweet so any manner / as can keep from lying.” Superb grammar dares this austerity. SUNY New Paltz professor Appelbaum’s intellectual synapses fire improbably. In “Ethanol” he begins: “Listen the glass turns silently / on special hinges / a difficult birth...” Only the French poet Valerie Rouzeau makes such long shots logical. In depth of inquiry, austerity in intellectual reach, purity of language, this inquiry into two lives is poetry after my own heart. —DM
A Study of Extremes in Six Suites invites us to rethink who we are and the nature of our world. The cover art, by Mitchell herself, offers a key to her vision: Two lovely porcelain cupids play in a leafy bower as a pale tiger, dreamy but dangerous, approaches. The image, though beautiful, is mysterious and unsettling, as are Mitchell’s delicate poems. In Venice, “bathers revel / as if all our homes were not a sinking paradise.” The Columbia County resident’s poetic palette includes travel, art, film, love. Nature is her muse (“Beneath the sea-grape / my plot evolves”) and music (“to subdue / the scorpion’s beating heart”) her solace. —LG Cadillac Men
The Book of Hooks
Rebecca Schumejda
Cornelius Eady
NYQ Books, 2012, $16.95
Kattywompus Press, 2013, $16
The confluence of poetry and music is a fertile delta, embracing art songs, bebop, rap, and more. Pulitzer Prize finalist and Greene County part-timer Eady has written poems about music and music-theatre pieces, but this double chapbook/CD dives deep into songwriting. Abetted by able musicians and literati with chops (Kim Addonizio, Joy Harjo, Robin Messing), the poet spins “words for singing,” pinpointing such details as “Holes in your socks, and a / Secret war of wills” (“The Old Married Couple”). Like many double albums, the material is uneven, but the best tracks burrow under your skin. Don’t be surprised to find “Rita Hayworth’s Last Film” circling your memory. —NS Fugue for Other Hands Joseph Fasano Cider Press Review, 2013, $17.95
Rarely does a volume of poetry start with such a startle as “The Joy That Tends Toward Unbecoming”: “Someone has pushed his wrists through his belt / so it seems he has been out gathering blue flowers.” From this corpse bearing proceeds a poetics of the rural experience morphed to metaphysics. “In Dutchess County everybody who is dead / goes down to the river / to plead his case. / I know this,” Fasano writes, and we believe him. The true glory of this book is its synergy between ordinary and extraordinary, between humble detail and momentous issue. The poems don’t cloy or contrive; rather, they plumb the poet’s awareness. —DM Under the Sign Ann Lauterbach Penguin Poets, 2013, $20
National Book Award nominee and Bard professor Ann Lauterbach’s dicey sensibility posits poetics in far outposts. Restless prosody, impeccably attuned to intent, reflects awareness, intelligence, honed observation. The title is key; the poet quotes social theorist Brian Massumi: “The sign is the vehicle for making presently felt the potential force of the objectively absent.” She rises to the challenge. Note the title poem’s interplay of mundane and speculative: “Having dreamed of my dead sister / raging with urgent / need, she / conducting us through intolerable / passages, now forgotten, I / have burned my right hand....” This songful, astute mind limns the state of poetry. —DM
When Schumejda and her husband bought a fading Kingston pool hall in 2008, the poet learned that “more people come in to sell their stories than to buy table time.” In these unsentimentally eloquent poems, players known as Mikey Meatballs, Spanish Fly, and Bobby Balls-in-Hand spin lies, bet the boots off their feet, ignore wives who “iron the wind’s collared shirts, scrub the crevices / of longing with retired toothbrushes,” and always, always play the game. Detailing their hardscrabble lives—and the business’s eventual failure—Schumejda etches a vivid group portrait of working-class America laid low by recession. “This side of town / wears down people’s words; / passersby only grunt / if their eyes meet.” —NS 3 Sections Vijay Seshadri Graywolf Press, 2013, $22
Vijay Seshadri is a poet of sweep and vision; his poems, peopled by reckless, flamboyant characters, clearly recognizable as ourselves, chase their “unsolved equations blowing down the cobblestones.” Life, a mishmash of difficulty and brief pleasure, is spent trying to “reach the shiny object fallen through the grate.” Yet insights, “graphic, tense with energy, simple yet elegant,” offer “faint evanescing beauty.” The poems, deftly made and often funny, allow fantasy and reality to mingle like old pals. Sarah Lawrence professor Seshadri moves easily among rhymed and unrhymed lyrics, a prose memoir sited in Alaska’s salmon fisheries, and philosophical meditation in this extraordinary collection. —LG The Sea at Truro Nancy Willard Alfred A. Knopf, 2012, $26
Where in the literature is a finer homage to the poem than Nancy Willard’s “Learning by Heart”? “Let the clocks keep its time. / Let the chairs speak as one, / a collective noun, poetry.” Vassar professor Willard endows things to speak, or they endow her to hear; she sees as a child sees. She is a celebrant of the taken for granted, the disregarded. “When they said I would die, even my chair fainted.” Reading her, we believe ancient Egyptian priests animated statues, we believe in conversing with elementals. If alter egos sang like this, life would be a song. “Oh, why did I let that boy go? / God himself loved the sight of us”—these lines from Willard’s poem “Bridget’s Confession” soar where many novels fail. This book is a glade of light, a glen of acumen. —DM
Looking for Small Animals
A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Authors of the Hudson Valley
Caitlin Grace McDonnell
Editors Laurence Carr & Jan Zlotnik Schmidt
Nauset Press, 2012, $12
Codhill Press, 2013, $20
McDonnell creates a compelling, sometimes frantic voice focused on defining the self, then “owning up.” Nature clarifies nothing: “The moon has tired / of earring metaphors” and loss is ever-present: “Your insistence on living / tempers me like punctuation.” Her poems often begin by displacing us (“Let’s live in this illusion.... Pull over / and let your tender one lead....”) and then, in short jolting lines, engage us (“Memory … hovers at the top of the stairs / we fall down.”). Imagining a shared smoke with Emily Dickinson, the poet revels in dark humor: “She’d like that—the slip of suicide / punctuating the moment.” A terrific collection by a former SUNY New Paltz professor and Chronogram contributor. —LG
Carr and Schmidt’s generous anthology offers an astonishing diversity of female voices, including poets Anne Gorrick, Janet Hamill, Kate Hymes, and Gretchen Primack; novelists Carol Goodman and Laura Shaine Cunningham; and Chronogram writers Lee Gould, Lorna Tychostup, and Pauline Uchmanowicz. In these pages, women lose their virginity, obsess over burnt toast, cast spells, survive. Judith Kerman’s heroine buys her own diamonds at an auction; Mala Hoffman’s conflates the scent of tobacco and sex. These writings explore individual and collective identity, from Celia Bland’s “savoring ‘I’ like / a phosphorescence” to Leslie LaChance’s “here we are, all at once.” Events 9/21 at 4pm, Golden Notebook, Woodstock; 10/4 at 7pm, Inquiring Minds, New Paltz; 10/6 at 3pm, Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. —NS
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
A collection of life-changing columns from the Publisher of Chronogram.
Jessica Wapner Experiment Publishing, 2013, $25.95
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n par with the discovery of penicillin and development of antibiotics over a half century ago, the most revolutionary advance in medicine in recent times has been the advent of a pill that fights cancer at the genetic level and stops it at its root. A mention of cancer evokes a pang of dread. Treatments have often been as horrific as the disease, and its cure has long been a holy grail of science. In 2001, a drug called Gleevec was approved by the FDA after clinical trials proved miraculous against one of the direst cancers, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)—30 out of 31 patients had their white blood cell count return to normal, and the ravaging of their bodies reversed. The Philadelphia Chromosome, by Beacon resident Jessica Wapner, is the story of this cure. The starting point is the University of Pennsylvania in 1959, where two scientists—stumbling onto a way of enhancing the visibility of leukemia cell samples by rinsing them in tap water during slide preparation—observed an abnormally short chromosome in CML. They photographed the chromosome and published a 300-word article on their discovery. It would be decades before the notion that cancer is genetic took hold, but there were pioneering researchers who picked up the trail that the truncated Philadelphia chromosome pointed to. Improved techniques for looking at cells, such as the use of fluorescent dyes to create colorful banding patterns, enabled a University of Chicago scientist, Janet Rowley, to notice in 1973 that CML had not only a short chromosome, but also a long one; that a mysterious swap of DNA had occurred, a migration from one chromosome to another. Rowley then found “translocations” in two other cancers, thus establishing the causal link to genetic mutation. Though interesting that a landmark discovery in cancer research was made by a woman in the same year that tennis pro Billie Jean King became a women’s lib icon, unsung heroism in contemporary science is a matter of course. The author explains the progress toward Gleevec as being “like a hundred painters applying brushes to a canvas at one time or another over twenty-five years, driven only by curiosity, and sometimes, a vague hope that their work may be relevant to human cancer.” An empathetic oncologist, Brian Drucker, was so dismayed by the failure of treatments that he switched his focus to oncogene research and ended up doing the most to develop this drug. The plot to invent Gleevec, which stops a trigger in a cell (a phosphate-toting enzyme called a kinase), emerged at a time when biotech breakthroughs such as cloning and synthetic insulin were entering the subcellular arena. Wapner familiarizes readers with molecular biology, taking care not to mire the nonscientist in a swamp of acronyms. The compound ATP (adenosine triphosphate) might seem in her rendering to have a dab of personality, a scrappy character in a suspenseful drama rather than a structure diagram in a textbook. The very process of medicine by what is termed “rational design”—a targeted microengineering of mechanisms, instead of trial and error—is the paradigm shift Wapner’s reporting covers. Nowadays, pharmaceutical companies and academia are forced to collaborate, because scientists doing cutting-edge genetics are spread throughout both camps. Corporations would rather spend on marketing existing products, and shy away from paths of inquiry that are not certain to yield profits. The macroeconomics of health is certainly problematic. But Gleevec, made by Novartis, is a triumph for our species. —Marx Dorrity
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our October issue is September 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
Anger is red
Self Medication I use depression to cope.
It sounds like a volcano erupting It smells like rotten fish It tastes like spoiled meat It looks like a thunder storm Anger feels like stepping on tacks
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—John E. Soi (7 years)
There’s A Lot Going On
Poughkeepsie Is A Color You Do Not Understand
There’s so many things to do right now. The left side of my heart needs to process oxygen, the right needs to release carbon dioxide, both need to pump and throb together and so the left’s oxygen-saturated blood will reach where it needs to be and the oxygen-deprived will return to where it started. My left lung is smaller than the right one, my right lung is taking up my entire body. Motor-rad means motorbike in German. This is unrelated but it’s still the truth.
I looked at something and it made everything seem like I was standing with you in a field. We were in the middle of it, the field. You were caring about everything, everything until the sky was filled with your care for empty places you can only forget, like your care for Poughkeepsie. And the space near the field was what no one could see. And there was a window made of non-road into a place where there are no cars, no cars only your memories of forgetting Poughkeepsie, memories meant for nothing your memories of the fields meant for doing nothing, the fields meant for doing nothing near Poughkeepsie. And we were doing nothing together wearing shirts made of things you can’t remember and feelings. But we were above the field and without road, without road, without it with the color you don’t understand that makes Poughkeepsie never be with you, the color that makes Poughkeepsie a pure truth within us through care used and gone and great fields of disappearance which hold us upon its emptiness always.
I have a secret, I lied about my body, I’m really just a ribcage. My ribcage stretches from my neck to my wide ankles. I have 141 ribs, the same number of dimples on a standard-issue golf ball, hundreds of dolphins! We watched them for hours, it was a HANDS-ON LEARNING EXPERIENCE. It was apparently, obviously–and they stressed this–“very cool.” All the other girls went to a classroom to learn about the changes in their body but I was taken aside into the locker room to learn about proper rib care: soak them in baking soda and lemon to keep the tartar off; no harsh pontification, my ribby body can’t take it. I like my learning like I like my fingers, on hands. I’m afraid your mitsy paws won’t cut it, your digits dangling off your cheeks like jointed whiskers, rubbing your face against my thigh while the fingers count the ribs inside. Oh, no, you just won’t cut it. —Geneva Zane
Never Again
—Brian Loatman
Tivoli Bays Tell me something... Did you see? A thing that wasn’t . there Tell-me tell-me tell-meWe are tired. (above Say. This sky the sea) and stones and stones. Are still. I blinked and saw blue eyes. No, no broken glass. Say —This is the end of things. —Let’s walk the tracks awhile. 7:35 P.M. The sun is setting soon. I cannot hear you. I cannot hear you. —Give me things I cannot have, they are things I need. “Give me peace.” —Keep your peace and I’ll keep mine. Please,
speak the words I speak.
“Remember when we took two grains of sand- two single, so alike? Placed them beneath the microscope and watched one disappear?” —Because it was a speck of a salt, now selfless in the sea..
“You are afraid.”
Once, you told me Never again But then again Never again An instantly invalid phrase Only tempts me more.
8:35 P.M. There are lights across the river, now. Hidden in the trees.
—Nina M. Haskell
–Aidan O’Callaghan
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Tomorrow we will walk again(You’ll forget you cannot speak)
“You cannot speak to me.”
I’d rather watch the trains tonight and listen for my name.
For Irene, or Things to Remember:
Attorneys
Dear Irene, There is a lesson to be learned in the backward motion of tires through water in the criss-cross of reflections through an unannounced eye through the tearing of gravel upon flesh, upon the soft and tender mind I know that your temper is scattered as shards of a self an identity blown apart by the loss of icons and heroes of the heroes we imagine in our Selves, when young when water smelled like summer and rust smelled like Christmas
Don’t forget there is a garden waiting for you a long way off that there is a fig tree that needs pruning and a broke-down outhouse needs transforming into a terraced planter Don’t forget to drink plenty of water and don’t forget to love, despite yourself to believe that you will find a man who will love you the way he does and to love yourself, despite them both —Me
The Coop each day ends like a coop-door held open, the farmer waiting in the half-light, the silhouette of some stubborn hope, his chickens roosting elsewhere.
because she was showing a film to the tired students. a few had fallen asleep on the floor in front of the screen.
I know that your second cup of coffee is a sugar coating for the blood of any given morning the barrier between a penny and a pickax between the sun and the ground
—Irene Zimmerman
it was dark inside the classroom
Lady Death Death, my friend, you’re sit, sit, sitting on my tail bone like a chair in the waiting room, flipping through People Magazine and flirting with doctors. Your nail file is chisel, chisel, chiseling through my oxygen hose— through my prison bar.
—Andrew Brenza
Why are you here? & Where is your scythe?
“Wings”: A Poem
—Donald F. Kenly III
“a book,” she heard him say. she began sketching the pages in her head.
they were splayed out; the summer heat will wear one out more quickly than you’d think. she asked: “does anyone know what an attorney is?” one of the children replied: “someone that gets you out of jail?” she laughed. “yes. sometimes.” —Christopher Qualiano
Red one to think you’d be gone the year after we saw all those lighthouses —Tom Christie
Now With Clear Eyes I See Now, with clear eyes I see That in the years past. This cage has set me free Society tells us how to be The darker one comes last Now with clear eyes I see The holes in our equality Still no different from the past This cage has set me free
:this is her walking away with a mouth/full of love :this is him in a small house she made of bits of stuff she found around :this is her upside down on the trapeze he hung in the apartment on east 6th street that they never lived in :this is him when he was a boy :these are her children that crack her heart with their beauty and devour her with their love :these are the wings he gives her :this is the day she realized she shouldn’t keep them (they are too obvious stuffed under her shirt like that) :these are his hands she remembers can push through her as if she is made of water :this is her holding a giant rock in a crowded room unable to find a place to set it down :here is the camp she’s set up for him in a remote area of her heart “there’s no real plot to it yet,” she hopes out loud and hikes up her shirt to give those wings a stretch before she fixes dinner.
The gap between you and me Has become far too vast Now with clear eyes I see
—Lucy Tarver
—Angela Arzu
The beauty of ethnicity Soiled by the bigot’s gas. This cage has set me free Tolerance too much to ask True equality too big a task Now with clear eyes I see that Within this cage we’re far from free.
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here are a lot of reasons why out-of-towners tour the Hudson Valley. We have spas nestled in seclusion, fine dining established by some of the world’s most talented culinary graduates, wineries with vintages known throughout the country, endless miles of hiking trails and mountain ranges, and seasonal festivals that people from far away flock to. Few neighboring towns offer as much edible, natural, and cultural charm as Millerton, Amenia, and Millbrook do, though, and this segment of Dutchess County is well worth a weekend visit. Tea barons Harney & Sons have a location in Millerton that is a tasting room, café, and gift shop all in one. The café has a four-seat counter with brown suede stools; yellow walls with hanging photographs of the tea process; small lamps as sconces; and light burlap curtains over the windows. Order unfiltered ginger ale, black currant iced tea, a scone plate, or organic carrot and pineapple cake with lemon and cream cheese frosting. The store sells taper candles, books about Paris, tea sets, luxurious linens, and Belgian chocolate. Pick up a box of their Birthday Tea sachets—berry, pomegranate, and vanilla flavors mix with marigold petals, rose hips, and other ingredients for a sugary, candy-like aroma, and the more it steeps, the sweeter it gets. The Hunter Bee antique shop on Main Street isn’t musty, cluttered, or overpriced. Instead, they have something for everyone’s taste and budget, including industrial pieces, eccentric folk art, classic designs, and a few unexpected items here and there. In 1996, a small coffeehouse called 71 Irving Place was established in Manhattan’s Union Square. Soon after, the founders decided to roast their own coffee, and three years later, a Hudson Valley farm at the foot of the Catskills was converted to a roasting facility. Now, Irving Farm perfectly blends the company’s love of both city and country. Set up in front of the counter is a farm table with a display of honey, cookies, coffee plants, and rolled-up T-shirts in Chinese takeout containers. Green plants line an indoor windowsill near a table for two and a tiny fireplace is topped with a few books that lean against one another. Coffee lovers can visit the Millerton café to pick up a bag of beans, grab coffee and a bagel to go, or nosh on a grilled sandwich during lunchtime. If they have it, order the chocolate-coconut bread pudding, which seems more like a brownie and is just as delicious. For java connoisseurs, you’ll notice that Irving has unique blends that taste unlike most other brews found in the area.
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The Moviehouse shows everything from Hollywood hits and art-house films to cultural events like live broadcasts of performances from the London National Theatre and on-screen exhibits from the National Gallery. The Gallery Café shows twodimensional work from local artists and sells coffee, tea, and chocolates. Taconic State Park is located along 16 miles of the Taconic Mountain Range. The trail systems near Copake Falls and Rudd Pond have terrain for every level of hiker. Both rustic and more homey campsites are available, with tent and trailer areas as well as outfitted cabins. Bike on the Harlem Valley Rail Trail, go swimming in the lake and sunbathe on the beach, climb Brace Mountain to get a view from the highest point in Dutchess County, or fish for brown trout in Bash Bish Brook. On a rainy day, visit the Iron Works museum, which is at the former site of Copake Iron Works, established in 1845. During the winter, you can go cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling. In the Berkshire foothills is Cascade Mountain Winery, which serves table wines and artisanal breads and cheese. The wine bar is open weekends from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment during the week. Guests are welcome to picnic either indoors or outside, using the winery’s restaurant facilities. Two of their most popular wines are the dry Seyval blanc aged in stainless steel and the full bodied Private Reserve Red, which is a blend of cabernet sauvignon and French-American hybrids. The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is home to one of the world’s foremost independent environmental research organizations, with 16 scientists who specialize in areas including environmental chemistry, climate change, freshwater, and invasive species. Studies by in-house scientists have helped with the Clean Air Act, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and practices on the Hudson River and the Catskill and Adirondack forests. The institute hosts events for birding enthusiasts, fall foliage photographers, and overall nature lovers of all kinds. For visitors who are more interested in sightseeing than unraveling the complexities of biodiversity, the 2,000acre campus has hiking trails, scenic lookouts, and internal roadways. See how many rabbits you can spot as you roam around—they’re all over the grounds.
Trevor Zoo at the Millbrook School was established in 1936 by Frank Trevor, the coeducational, independent high school’s first biology teacher, who had a passion for wildlife. The six-acre zoo now has more than 180 exotic and indigenous animals representing 80 different species, seven of which are endangered, as well as a veterinary clinic. Trevor Zoo is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day of the year. The Millbrook Deli (3281 Franklin Avenue) is busy and bustling, and it’s the best place to stop for coffee and a breakfast sandwich early in the morning. Slammin’ Salmon (3267 Franklin Avenue) is one of the Hudson Valley’s best gourmet shops, known for their hand-cut aged steaks and, appropriately, their always-fresh salmon. Breads and produce are brought in from New York City daily and dairy products are locally sourced. Café Les Baux (152 Church Street) has been a neighborhood staple since 1986. Opened by Chef Herve Bochard after he left France in the mid-’80s, the menu includes classic French dishes and an extensive wine list. The Millbrook Antiques Mall (3301 Franklin Avenue) has 5,000 square feet of American and European antiques spread out across three floors, with pieces from 25 dealers and even more consignors. The Merritt Bookstore (57 Front Street) hosts writing seminars and book signings, and is a large component of the annual Millbrook Literary Festival. Shop at the Millbrook Farmers’ Market every Saturday through October from 9am to 1 pm, located across from the Bank of Millbrook, in the municipal parking lot. Vendors sell fruit and veggies; chicken, pork, and beef; wine; herbs; fresh pasta; artisanal cheese; hand-spun yarn and knitted products; and handmade cutting boards. Clinton Vineyards boasts several award-winning single-grape wines and has a line of acclaimed estate-bottled wines. In 2010, the limited-edition Tribute wine was given to guests of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. The property is a reflection of founder Ben Feder’s love of the French countryside, where he lived as a painter following World War II. The vineyards’ 100 acres have been modeled to look like a scene from 19th-century Europe. During the economic downfall, emerging New York artists and musicians didn’t have many options for showing off their work. The Wassaic Project’s motto was, and 9/13 ChronograM Millerton + Amenia + Millbrook 83
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The Hudson Valley Mountain Range bar by Hudson Chocolates in Poughkeepsie looks like something from a haute couture fashion show—striking, angular, and a bit mystifying. With its asymmetric bright moss cubes jutting out of a soft, pebbled base, the piece is an attention grabber. “If someone puts this in the middle of the table, you’re not going to not acknowledge it,” says chocolatier Francisco Migoya. “It’s not going to be like, ‘Yes, so as I was telling you…’ It’s going to be like, ‘All right, let’s have some chocolate!’” Francisco Migoya and Kristina Peterson Migoya’s products reclaim chocolate’s place as a staple of a special occasion—these aren’t chocolates that you mindlessly eat to satisfy a craving. They are chocolates that you must engage with and share. “I want people to think of them as centerpieces,” says Francisco. “Instead of bringing out a cake, we bring out a beautiful chocolate bar.” The Migoyas, who opened Hudson Chocolates in 2010, get inspiration from the Hudson Valley, where they moved after Francisco was offered a job running the Apple
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Pie Bakery Café at the Culinary Institute of America (which he ran for seven years). “Fall in the Hudson Valley is spectacular,” says Francisco. “You start to cook food for longer—there are smells of baking apples, cinnamon, pecans. Eating our Hudson Valley Terroir Bar is like eating a place and moment in time that’s very special.” Hudson Chocolates offers over 20 specialty products, ranging from traditional flavor pairings—like candied California almonds coated in dark chocolate and cinnamon—to more experimental options, like white chocolate-covered Niçoise olives. The wide variety of flavor and texture combinations is not meant to shock people, Francisco notes. Rather, it’s meant to facilitate a memorable experience with chocolate—what Migoya refers to as a bliss moment. Hudson Chocolates is open to the public every Saturday from 1 to 6pm, or by appointment. All products are also available online. Hudsonchocolates.com —Jennifer Gutman
OPPOSITE: The Espresso Bar, filled with an espresso ganache made with dark roasted espresso beans, is inspired by Richard Serra’s sculptures at Storm King Art Center and DIA:Beacon. clockwise from top: Each mountain in the Hudson Valley Mountain Range Bar is filled with a different flavor ganache and anchored with 68% dark chocolate and puffed rice coated in dark chocolate. The mossy look is created with a green-white chocolate velvet coating; Wasabi Peas, coated with white chocolate and a dusting of Granny Smith apple peel powder; the Yuzu Bar is filled with a milk chocolate ganache made with the juice of the Japanese citrus fruit, and wrapped with a thin layer of lemon verbena ganache followed by a crispy layer of candied almond nougatine; the Sunflower Seed Praline with Malted Milk Ganache bar has a dark chocolate shell striped with multi-colored ribbons of icing; the Mix and Macs Collection includes 12 pieces filled with chocolate versions of macaron flavors— put two together for a classic flavor combination.
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Pharm to Table Field Apothecary
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Top: Dana Eudy mixing calendula, comfrey, oats, and plantain that will be infused in oil to make a healing salve. Bottom: Dana and Michael Eudy harvesting Blue Vervain.
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ealth care has been much in the news these last few years, and preventative care understandably looms larger in the landscape. Helping people stay well is in everybody’s best interest. On three acres behind their spacious Victorian house in Germantown, Dana and Michael Eudy are hard at work building a medicinal herb farm into a prosperous business. Field Apothecary, in its second year, offers a resource for those interested in using locally grown plants to maintain wellness. Both from Texas, by way of Brooklyn, the couple came to their love of herbs over the course of several years. For Dana, it was childbirth that sparked the interest. For Michael, a year spent in Italy earning an MFA in painting was his turning point: “We had never tasted food like they have there. All the food at the markets was from local farmers.” Eyes thus opened, Dana began taking classes in homeopathy and naturopathy while Michael stayed home with their two children, working part time. Then he took an eight-month intensive course that she initially planned to do, since he worried about her workload. “I started off just being the supportive husband, and then I fell down the rabbit hole too.” Dana is the more mystically inclined, speaking frequently about the plants’ energies, while Michael approaches them with a cook’s (or bartender’s) experimental curiosity. It appears to be a potent pairing; they frequently finish each other’s sentences and their enthusiasm is evident and contagious. “We have lost our understanding of plant-based preventative medicine,” Michael says, describing a health-care pyramid analogous to the food pyramid we all know. “Emergency and hospital care is at the top, with specialists below, then your family doctor, then holistic care below that and grassroots care at the bottom.” Like the food pyramid, the things at the top should be consumed in small amounts. “If we can treat our fevers, coughs, and some of our mental health at home, we take a huge amount of demand off of the overburdened
Clockwise from left: Pouring olive oil into an herb mixture; Carrying just-harvested Holy Basil to the drying room; Spilanthes flowers.
health-care system.” Since the Eudys are not certified to prescribe anything, Michael says, “when people come to us with specific problems, the best we can do is say, ‘These are herbs that have traditionally been used.’” Walking through the neatly ordered garden, with well-weeded beds separated by mulch or mown grass, Dana expounds on the value of medicinal plants. “We evolved from the plants. They are our ancestors. They evolved these immune systems that absorb every toxin and pathogen in the environment and develop compounds to fight them.” Holding up a mint leaf, Michael continues. “We have spent millions of years evolving so we can extract nutrients from plants. There are probably 2,000 compounds in this leaf. Modern medicine tries to isolate between one and five of them and standardize the dosage. Nobody knows how all of them function together.” An herbal CSA forms the center of their business. Last year 30 members received one large delivery in late September: tinctures, syrups, dried herbs, salves, salts, and “fire vinegar,” macerated with garlic, onion, horseradish, and cayenne. They hope to expand the CSA to 60 members and four seasonal deliveries by next year. They also have a truck, which they are renovating into a food truck of sorts and which they hope to use as a combination mobile pharmacy and base of operations for the “pharm-to-table dinners” they are planning with a local chef. They also offer classes in ayurvedic medicine and growing and using medicinal plants at home. “Spilanthes is a great teaching aid,” Dana says, proffering a tight yellow bud for tasting. Initially citric acid-sour, the sensation quickly expands to a tear-inducing, almost wincing intensity, accompanied by copious salivation and a numbing heat not unlike Sichuan peppercorns. “We use it in our mouthwash.” Back in the house, preparing a lunch of rice with tarragon pesto and sorrel soup (with lemon balm added to enhance the lemony tang and some kale to keep the color green since sorrel browns quickly) blended with chicken
stock, Michael apologizes unnecessarily for his improvisational method in the kitchen: “I’ve never actually made this exact thing before.” The result is bright yet hearty, with the lemony tang of sorrel burnishing the sturdy stock, and the pesto on rice, simple food to be sure, nonetheless commands attention, especially for a diner who was in the field when the herbs were cut. Knowing their provenance, having seen and smelled and nibbled them outside, one becomes more receptive to and appreciative of their complexity and benefits. That intentionality, the awareness and presence during harvest, cooking, and eating, is a big part of what the couple hopes to convey to their customers and students. “Fast food is always the same,” Michael says. “But handmade food is unique, and beautiful. We use all our senses to experience it. Time slows down when you focus on an aesthetic experience—something happens that can be deeper, even healing.” Their goal is to change herbs’ status in our minds from something we add a pinch of to something we feature more prominently as an ingredient. While teas and tinctures allow for larger doses (it takes a fair amount of plant to make a dried teaspoonful, after all) eating fresh leaves does give your body everything they contain, not just the water (tea) or alcohol (tincture) soluble compounds. Those eager to begin their education on the subject of healing plants should buy a copy of Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook (Botanical Arts, 2013) by renowned local expert Dina Falconi. The first half is a guide to common wild edibles, beautifully illustrated by Wendy Hollender, and the second part is a cookbook, full of recipes not just for the plants covered in the book but also master techniques for beans, grains, desserts, and more.You will recognize most of the plants’ pictures from your yard; the book provides information and inspiration you can use right away to broaden and deepen your culinary rapport with the plant kingdom, increasing your health and pleasure simultaneously. 9/13 ChronograM food & drink 89
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The Eudys own a popular gadget for making still water fizzy, and they use it regularly to make sodas flavored with their many tinctures, syrups, and decoctions. An iced glass of hyssop syrup and dill tincture stirred into carbonated water makes a sophisticated and satisfying summer beverage. They like to serve it before meals. “Hyssop opens up your bronchial tubes and esophagus, preparing your body to smell and taste and swallow the food,” Michael explains. “Dill is a carminative; it helps digestion and reduces flatulence.” Thus a simple drink readies one’s body at both ends for a more enjoyable meal. They plan on creating a line of herb-infused Vitamin Watertype sodas and drinks as well, “They’re a great way to get kids to take their herbs,” says Dana, getting up to capture a wasp using a glass and a plate, releasing it out the side door facing the garden. While some of their preparations are sweet, Michael speaks frequently about the importance of bitterness. “Bitter has been lost from the American diet. Bitterness stimulates the brain; it wakes up the gut.” Apart from the medicinal benefits of many such compounds, they have underappreciated culinary value as well. Bitter is one of the five tastes, after all, so avoiding it reduces one’s palate by 20 percent. All the members of the chicory family—dandelion, endive, radicchio, puntarelle, escarole, and more—make wonderful eating, both raw and cooked. Cooking, especially caramelization in a pan, can mitigate some of the bitterness, but a vivid pesto made from dandelions or pan di zucchero is the friendliest foil a fatty chop or a lentil salad ever met; the bitterness of the greens makes the sweetness of other foods pop. Wild edibles, having evolved to survive on their own and free from humanity’s domesticating interventions, contain more varied compounds and thus can often offer more potent medicinal properties. Some of the stronger, more unusual flavors—marigolds, for example—are best suited as garnishes; a few leaves or petals, elegantly topping a seared scallop, say, can make for fascinating bursts of flavor, revealing previously unknown facets of the food. The limitless possibilities for combining these intense aromas and tastes should inspire anyone to cook more and better. For dessert, chunks of peeled peaches sauced with heavy cream to which Michael adds a dash of lavender tincture illustrates the subtle magic their potions can work on a seemingly simple pairing; peaches and cream, pretty fine on their own, become perfumed by a gently insistent lavender note, floral and resinous, that lingers on the finish. A recent trial run of their impending supper club featured no alcohol but included several similar herbal beverages throughout the meal. Senses undiminished by drink, Dana reports, their guests “were able to notice all the flavors and effects of the plants; they were really high by the end.” To be clear, there were no controlled substances on the menu, but your correspondent can report that a heightened awareness does attend the conscious consumption of their products. Cocktails have proven to be an unexpected vector for bringing herbs to the public. Bitters and extracts, many originally developed as digestive aids and medicines, have become hugely popular as a result of the current passion for unique, handmade drinks. The Gallow Green restaurant in Chelsea developed a nettle julep with the Eudys’ tincture, which has morphed into a chamomile version on their current menu. Olana, the historic site just up the road, has invited them to design a cocktail for the upcoming Olanafest. Working with Coppersea Distillery in West Park, they’re macerating chicory, sumac, clove, and yarrow individually with rye, and plan on blending the results to get the profile they want—something like what Frederick Church would have had growing in his garden. The couple possesses a notably generous attitude about their venture, which originated with its inception at a class taught by William Siff at his Goldthread Farm in western Massachusetts. “He told us to start an herb farm like his,” recounts Dana. “He wasn’t protective at all of his knowledge.” This open-source attitude, based on the assumption that success is not a zero-sum game, might seem at odds with turning a venture as untested as theirs into a viable enterprise, but they wouldn’t have it any other way. They plan to phase out their vegetable garden, using the space to grow gentian and other plants for Michael’s expanding line of bitters. “It’s too much work for us to have the farm and grow vegetables as well,” Dana confesses. “We’ll probably join a CSA and support another local farmer.”
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The Young-Farmers Movement By Jennifer Gutman Photographs by Turnquist Photography
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ccording to Anthony Mecca of Great Song Farm in Milan, it hasn’t been difficult finding people who are interested in working, volunteering, or becoming a member of his CSA, which is in its third season. “There’s a lot of interest in farming,” Mecca says, despite the uncontrollable and often unpredictable rigors of the job. “My mom grew up on a farm, and she says, ‘Why would anyone want to do that?’” says Mecca. “She grew up in the ’50s and wanted to work in the city.” For young farmers today, though, the career isn’t an inescapable family inheritance—it’s a purposeful and well-considered choice. In 2007, five people set out to create a recruitment film for young farmers. The project developed from a documentary, which took three years to make, into a widespread national community for young farmers—The Greenhorns. “Making the documentary was a great excuse to travel all over the country to start connecting the dots, formalizing the solidarity that exists within this movement,” says Severine von Tscharner Fleming, founding member of The Greenhorns, which was based out of Hudson until Fleming moved to the Champlain Valley in Essex, New York, last year. “Ultimately, our success will be judged by how much land we are farming sustainably.” Currently, there are an estimated 30,000 people in the Greenhorns network, which includes a blog, nationwide events, a newsletter, and radio programs. Fleming notes how there are organizations around the country working to support new farmers, such as the Northeast Organic Farming Association and Agrarian Trust, a land-access resource. Despite a growing support system, though, farming remains an antiquated career. A 2011 report published by the National Young Farmers Coalition (a sister organization of The Greenhorns cofounded by Fleming) notes, “For the past century, the total number of American farmers has steadily declined—from over six million farmers in 1910 to just over two million farmers in 2007. For each farmer under 35 there are 6 over 65,
and the average age of farmers is 57.” The advent of factory farming shifted the vehicles of production from humans to machines, effectively wiping out a large population of workers. According to Fleming, now is the time for young people to take back the land. “There’s 400 million acres of land about to transition from retiring farmers that need stewardship,” says Fleming. “It’s a strategically important moment if you care about how we cultivate our planet—it’s a turnover moment.” When I Grow Up In 2012, The Greenhorns published Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement, a book of essays by young farmers about why farming is important to them. “The reasons are very personal for different people,” says Fleming. The dispatches range from practical perspectives, like Jon Piana’s essay on community effort turning a week’s worth of farm work into an hour of labor, to environmental issues, such as Alyssa Jumars’s piece on draft horsepowered farming. Before founding Lineage Farm on Route 217 in Claverack three years ago with her partner Jon Ronsani, Jennifer Carson, 31, was working as a mediator in Dutchess County. “I thought that’s what I’d be doing for a good while,” Carson says.That is, until a friend asked her to help out on a small CSA farm. “I just loved it,” Carson says. “The connection with food and with the CSA, getting to know members, and learning how plants looked and tasted when they were so fresh—it was all kinds of enjoyable.” “A lot of the young farmers I know are of the class of people that are extremely brave—ethically and morally driven,” says Faith Gilbert, 24, of Letterbox Farm Collective in Hudson. “They are independent people that value quality of life and autonomy, and are looking for meaningful work. The search for meaningful work is one of the defining questions of our generation. Farming becomes appealing for a lot of us within the context of that question. 9/13 ChronograM locally grown 93
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You can see the direct impacts of [the work] and believe those impacts to be good.” Letterbox is a business in its first year that includes a one-acre vegetable garden as well as culinary and medicinal herbs, bees, and a few experimental grains. Next year, they plan to incorporate small livestock. The farm, which supplies food to restaurants in Hudson as well as New York City, is housed on a property that belongs to a group of community-minded friends. “There are two intersecting circles of collaboration,” says Gilbert, garden manager and one of the founding members of Letterbox. “We have multiple farmers on one piece of land managing different enterprises that are complementary.”The cooperative model allows small businesses to do what large businesses can do by increasing buying and borrowing power. “On our small-scale garden, even if we get really savvy about everything we grow and sell, and maximize what we can make, there’s still a very low cap for what we can generate—dollar for vegetable,” says Gilbert, who says remaining a small farm is a high priority for the collective. “The idea is to link up several enterprises so we can do a lot more together.” Eight Days a Week Finding more to do isn’t a concern for farmers on a day-to-day basis, though. In addition to founding Letterbox and managing its one-acre garden, Gilbert is also the office manager for The Greenhorns and the project lead and founder of the Cooperative Farming Info Project, a resource for people interested in a multi-owner farm business. The jack-of-all-trades lifestyle is a common trope for young people starting up farms. In addition to being the main farm worker, Anthony Mecca, 30, juggles a number of other responsibilities to keep the business afloat. “I’m doing a lot more management and coordinating of people—making sure people are happy and everyone knows what their job is,” he says. Off the field, Mecca creates seasonal plans, orders seeds, coordinates CSA memberships, writes newsletters, and handles financing and taxes. “There’s [also] a lot of educational things if you have an apprentice,” says Mecca. Jen Carson and Jon Ronsani at Lineage deliver to their CSA members. “We harvest on Tuesday and Friday mornings generally, and deliver vegetables Tuesday afternoon and Saturday morning,” Carson says. “The other days are full of farmwork: greenhouse work, getting starts ready for transplanting, hulling, cultivating, getting beds ready for planting. We generally take a break for lunch at the hottest part of the day—sometimes that includes a nap—and then head back out to work again until sometime in the evening.” According to Gilbert, starting a small farm is unlike any other entrepreneurial enterprise. “With any other small business, you’re working toward regular vacations, continual profit, a second home,” Gilbert says. “With farmwork, you’re investing so much time, energy, and capital for the privilege of continuing to work.” Fleming adds, “Starting a small business in America is hard enough. With farming, you’re starting a small business that has a lot of risk factors: high labor costs, perishable products, a lot of capital investment.” Land access and lack of health care are other high risks in farming, especially since it’s a job where the main tool is your body. “Another risk is presented by the weather,” Fleming adds. “This is the seventh year
in a row that the weather has been crazy.” You can’t just be a good farmer to be a successful farmer, it turns out. “You have to be a good businessperson,” Fleming says. “You have to be a little bit of a ninja.” This Land Is Your Land Luckily, there are more and more resources cropping up for young farmers looking to pursue this challenging career path. In addition to media and information-based resources, like The Greenhorns, there are more practical programs that help young farmers get started. Anthony Mecca found the 88 acres of land that he leases through the Columbia Land Conservancy’s Farmer Landowner Match Program. “It’s like a dating service,” says Mecca. “They have a directory of farmers looking to lease or rent land. Then there’s a directory that lists landowners looking for someone to farm their land.” Carson and Ronsani, who are currently leasing seven acres on Ronsani’s cousin’s land, are actively searching for a more permanent situation, both through the Columbia Land Conservancy and Northeast Farm Access, which enables
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investors to purchase farms to lease or later resell to farmers. The Hudson Valley is also filled with apprenticeships and educational opportunities, such as Glynwood’s CRAFT program (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training), which offers farm training in cooperation with a number of local farms; whole-farm planning courses and workshops through Hawthorne Valley’s Farm Beginnings; and Farm Catskills’s Growing New Farmers program, which offers both a paid farm internship and a new-farmer incubator. “Agriculture is fundamental for human identity,” says Gilbert of Letterbox, adding that there are a lot of seemingly insurmountable challenges in the world right now, much of it relating to the industrialized food system. “Farming sits nicely as a small, specific, direct solution to a lot of these simultaneous challenges at a time when it’s not easy to see positive solutions for the future. Farming emerges as one thing you can do right now that is a clear investment in humanity. If you believe in human civilization, you have to believe in food. Food is representative of both our relationship with the world and our relationship with each other. Taking on food production is taking on the sustaining of human culture.” RESOURCES Great Song Farm Greatsongfarm.com The Greenhorns Thegreenhorns.net Letterbox Farm Collective Letterboxfarmcollective.com Lineage Farm Lineagefarmcsa.com National Young Farmers Coalition Youngfarmers.org
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Richard Miller, AIA (845) 255-4480 www.RichardMillerArchitect.com
Art Galleries & Centers + Space Gallery The Chocolate Factory, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-5252 www.plusspace.org
Brill Gallery 243 Union Street, North Adams, MA 1 (800) 294-2811 www.brillgallery109.com
Cold Spring Arts (845) 265-3618 www.coldspringarts.com
Dorsky Museum SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu
Eckert Fine Art—CT Inc. 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 592-1330 www.eckertfineart.com
Exposures Gallery 1357 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-9382 www.exposures.com
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Gray Owl Gallery Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.grayowlgallery.com
James Cox Gallery 4666 Route 212, Willow, NY (845) 679-7608 www.jamescoxgallery.com
Attorneys Traffic and Criminally Related Matters Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys, 30 East 33rd Street, 4th FL, New York, NY (212) 213-2145 fax (212) 779-3289 www.newyorktrafficlawyers.com
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services Fleet Service Center 185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812
Banks Mid Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union (800) 451-8373 www.mhvfcu.com
Beverages
Longyear Gallery 85 Main Street, Margaretville, NY (845) 586-3270 www.longyeargallery.org
Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Renaissance Art & Collectibles 256 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-6758 www.renaissanceartandcollectibles. com
Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org
Vassar College: The Frances Lehman Loeb (845) 437-5632 www.fllac.vassar.edu
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.byrdcliffe.org events@woodstockguild.org
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250, Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251
Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts
Artisans Charles Geiger www.charlesgeiger.com
Binnewater/Leisure Time Spring Water 25 South Pine Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0237 www.binnewater.com
Cabinet Designers 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Cord King (845) 797-6877
Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704
H. Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com
Herrington’s Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com
John A Alvarez and Sons 3572 US 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com
L Browe Asphalt Services (518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com
Marbletown Hardware True Value 3606 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2098 www.marbletownhardware.com
MarkJames & Co.
Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www. thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com
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Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!
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Will III House Design 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0869 www.willbuilders.com office@willbuilders.com
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Monkfish Publishing 22 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Bookstores Golden Notebook 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY www.goldennotebook.com
Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603, (845) 373-8309, (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com
Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery Street, Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515, 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608, NY www.upstatefilms.org
Clothing & Accessories de Marchin 620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657
Ellipse 329 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.ellipseny.com
Evoke Style 6406 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 516-4150 www.evokestyle.com
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Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com
Craft Galleries Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us
Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts: the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.
Custom Home Designer Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY (888) 558-2636 www.LindalNY.com and www. hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com info@LindalNY.com
Education 15 Railroad Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-7664 www.CCE4ME.com
Montgomery Montessori School 136 Clinton Street, Montgomery, NY (845) 401-9232 www.montgomeryms.com
Equestrian Services Horse Leap LLC 3315 Route 343, Amenia, NY (845) 789-1177 www.horseleap.com info@horseleap.com
Events Collaborative Concepts 853 Old Albany Post Road, Garrison , NY
348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 www.beaconnaturalmarket.com
Berkshire Co Op Market 42 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-9697 www.berkshire.coop
Brookside Farm 7433, Gardiner, NY (845) 895-7433 www.brookside-farm.com
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon-Sat 7:30 to 7, Sundays 9 to 5
A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic bakery and creamery. Farm-fresh foods include cheeses, yogurts, raw milk, breads, pastries, sauerkraut, and more. Two miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit. Farm tours can also be arranged by calling the Farm Learning Center: (518) 672-7500 x 231. Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY
McEnroe Organic Farm Market 5409 Route 22, Millerton, NY (518) 789-4191
161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com
TheGreenSpace 73B Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 417-7178 www.ShopTheGreenSpace.com
Farms Jones Farm 190 Angola Rd, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-4445 www.jonesfarminc.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adam’s Fairacre Farms 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-0303, 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Apple Bin Farm Market 810 Broadway, Ulster Park, NY (845) 339-7229 www.theapplebinfarmmarket.com
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Hair Salons Joseph’s Hairstylists 257 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-5588
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Historic Sites Boscobel House & Gardens 1601 New York 9D, Garrison, NY www.boscobel.org
Motorcyclepedia Museum 250 Lake Street (Route 32), Newburgh, NY (845) 569-9065
Trolley Museum 89 East Strand, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3300 www.TMNY.org
Home Furnishings & Decor Lounge High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com
Home Improvement Certapro Painters (845) 987-7561 www.certapro.com
Gentech LTD 3017 US Route 9W, New Windsor, NY (845) 568-0500 www.gentechltd.com
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William Wallace Construction (845) 750-7335 www.williamwallaceconstruction.com
Interior Design Mercer INTERIOR Warwick, NY (347) 853-4868 www.mercerinterior.com
New York Designer Fabric Outlet 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-1555 www.nydfo.myshopify.com
Internet Services DragonSearch (845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dreaming Goddess 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com
Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com
The Hudson Valley’s culinary emporium for anyone who loves to cook or entertain. A selection of fine cutlery, professional cookware, appliances, barware and serving pieces. An assortment of machines for fine coffee brewing. Expert sharpening on premises. Open seven days.
Coral Acres, Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634
The Crafted Garden (917) 701-2478 www.thecraftedgarden.com
Webster Landscape Sheffield, MA (413) 229-8124 www.websterlandscapes.com
Lawyers & Mediators Pathways Mediation Center 239 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0100 www.pathwaysmeditationcenter.com
Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
Musical Instruments Imperial Guitar & Soundworks 99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com
Organizations Re>Think Local www.facebook.com/ReThinkLocal
Outfitters Potter Brothers Ski and Snowboard Kingston, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Middletown, NY www.potterbrothers.com
Performing Arts Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org
Falcon Music & Art Productions 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236 7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org
Tannery Pond Concerts New Lebanon, NY (888) 820-1696 www.tannerypondconcerts.org
The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org
The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with worldrenowned artists, academy award-winning directors, headliner comedians, and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.
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The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
9W & Van Kleecks Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 338-4936 www.augustinenursery.com
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
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Photography Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com
Park Avenue Photo Rhinebeck, NY (253) 380-8932 www.parkavenueartphoto.com
Ulster County Photography Club 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen, NY (845) 338-5580 www.esopuslibrary.org
The Ulster County Photography club meets the 2nd Wednesday each month at 6:30pm. Meet at the Town of Esopus Library, 128 Canal Street, Port Ewen, NY. All interested are welcome.
Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004
farm, Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School supports the development of each child and provides students with the academic, social, and practical skills needed to live in today’s complex world. Also offering parent-child playgroups and high school boarding. Local busing and regional carpools. Nurturing living connections, from early childhood through grade 12.
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SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews
Trinity-Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org
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A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and CPF since 1991, has 25 years experience in the framing industry. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
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Pools & Spas Aqua Jet 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
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Specialty Food Stores Lucky Chocolates 115 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-7337 www.luckychocolates.com
Sunrooms Hudson Valley Sunrooms Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com
Tourism Green County Tourism (800)-355-CATS www.GreatNorthernCatskills.com
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Real Estate Paula Redmond Real Estate Inc.
Wine & Liquor B&R Wine and Liquor 153 New York 94, Warwick, NY (845) 988-5190
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Schools Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School 330 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7092 www.hawthornevalleyschool.org
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THE BUG CURE
The vast colonies of bacteria that live inside our bodies may hold the key to our health—and our very survival.
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hen Emily Taylor was desperately sick with a bacterial infection that ravaged her gut, she found an unlikely cure: her father’s stool. After being treated for Lyme disease and chronic fatigue with a course of antibiotics in 2009, Taylor had developed the potentially deadly Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection. “In one month, I lost 40 pounds. I couldn’t keep food down,” says Taylor (not her real name), a Kingston-based artist. “I was extremely fatigued and in bed, and at the end of it I couldn’t take care of my young daughter. I was going to have to be hospitalized pretty soon.” Since all her doctor could offer were more antibiotics, which only made her worse, Taylor took matters—including waste matter—into her own hands. It was on the Internet that she came across the idea of a fecal transplant. A simplified version of the process involves taking fresh, donated stool from a healthy person (in Taylor’s case, her father), whirling it up with water in a blender, and inserting it via enema where the sun doesn’t shine. Almost immediately, the “good” bacteria from the donated stool help to repopulate the sick gut, keeping the pathogenic bacteria in line and restoring the system to health. “It’s pretty gross because it smells horrible, and, you know, it’s poop,” says Taylor. “But it was so worth it. It made a huge difference right away—it was incredible.” After just a three-day course of this unusual, not-for-the-faint-of-stomach solution, she was back to living a more normal life. And the blender? “I threw it away,” says Taylor. A Friendly Invasion Radical as it sounds, fecal transplant is just one example of a game-changing way of thinking about health and disease, and it’s taking the scientific and medical worlds by storm. A storm of bugs, that is. Researchers are looking to the human microbiome—the vast colonies of bacteria that live in and on just about every part of our bodies—for the secrets to understanding and treating a range of diseases, from rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease to diabetes, autism, and cancer. “This idea that we were raised with, that the only good bug is a dead bug, may sound intuitive but it’s not true,” says Lita Proctor, coordinator of the Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. “The vast majority of microbes that we come in contact with on a daily and lifetime basis are actually either benign or in many cases beneficial. In fact, we couldn’t live without the microbes. This is a supernew idea, and it’s about thinking of the human body as a whole ecosystem.” In this ecosystem, it turns out that there’s more “them” than “us.” If you added up all the human cells and all the microbial cells in your body, the microbial cells would outnumber the human cells by 10 to 1. In other words, you’re not alone—although it takes a few years to develop the mature microbial communities that populate the body. An unborn fetus does not host a single microbe, but during delivery, vast bacterial communities from the mother’s birth canal colonize and inoculate the infant. From then on, life is a snowball effect of microbes gathered from food, people, clothing, pets, air—in short, everything.
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“By the time a child is approximately three years old, it has trillions of microbial cells inside its mouth, its skin, its nose, its GI [gastrointestinal] tract—every surface has its own particular microbial community,” says Proctor. “They’re unique to each body site and they do many things, including acting as a major trigger for the child’s immune system. They can create antimicrobials that fight off pathogens. In the gut they play other important roles; they help digest our food, and they also make anti-inflammatories.” Most of them—about three pounds’ worth—live in the gut: About 50 percent of the dry mass of human stool consists of microbial cells. Something so omnipresent in our bodies is bound to impact our health, and the microbiome may well be the elephant in the room of the scientific and medical worlds. “We’re starting to recognize that when we think about disease we have to include now this major contributing factor, which hasn’t necessarily been a normal part of our thinking,” says Proctor. “Not only do we need to think about genetics, but we need to think about the contribution of these microbes to human health.” Science Is Abuzz Since the Human Microbiome Project started in 2008, with its initial goal of creating a map of all the common microbes in the human body, waves of scientific papers have come out about this field of biomedical research. One team of researchers set up camp at a roller derby to observe and measure the microbial swapping that occurs among players during contact sports. Other studies have connected the destruction of certain bacteria in the body to a higher incidence of chronic illnesses like asthma and obesity. Then, of course, there are the fecal transplant studies, including one that was so successful with C. diff patients that the trial was stopped early because it was considered unethical to withhold the treatment from the control group. Yet as effective as they are, fecal transplants are controversial, and not just because of their ick factor. Earlier this year, the FDA banned doctors from offering fecal transplants to patients because there was not yet enough research proving their safety. A public outcry prompted the FDA to retract this policy in June, though only for C. diff patients; doctors are still banned from offering fecal transplants to other patients, including those who might find relief from inflammatory digestive scourges like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. So despite the fact that a doctor-governed transplant—in which the donor-stool solution is administered through a colonoscope—is potentially safer and more effective, many people are resorting to DIY fecal transplants like the one that Taylor whipped up in her own bathroom. Could fecal transplant become the new coat-hanger abortion? The FDA hopes not, and is trying to set up a donor registry that will screen potential stool donors for parasites, communicable diseases, and other hazards. Ultimately, researchers are looking for ways to replace the messy procedure with a sanitized version—and Big Pharma will likely find a way to profit on the microbiome. Says Proctor, “We’re really
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hoping that scientists can come up with a combination of microbes that people could take in the form of a pill or enema that’s free and clean of fecal waste.” In fact, that’s already happening. Emma Allen-Vercoe, associate professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of Guelph in Canada, has created a fecal transplant cocktail that she calls, with a wink of scatological humor, RePOOPulate. “There are around 500 to 1,000 different microbial species in the average gut,” explains Allen-Vercoe. “Our RePOOPulate mixture, which is a prototype microbial ecosystem therapeutic, contains 33 different bacterial strains and so is nowhere near as diverse as the human gut microbiota. However, we have included microbial species in our mixture which are considered to play potentially important roles in gut health through the metabolites they produce.” So far the microbial cocktail has been tested on two C. diff patients, both with excellent clinical outcomes—but before Allen-Vercoe and her team can conduct further trials they must sort out regulatory issues, which are very stringent because microbial mixtures are considered biologics, not probiotics, and thus subject to rigorous safety testing. Meanwhile, she is trying out new versions of the ecosystem in her “Robogut,” a lab-based model of the human gut. But it could be a while before regular Joes can get an Rx for something like RePOOPulate from the family doctor. In Defense of Dirt While we’re waiting on the science, what can we do? In some cases making small changes can help, suggests Sheryl Leventhal, MD, of Hudson Valley Functional Medicine in Valley Cottage. Many of Leventhal’s patients come to her with chronic autoimmune and inflammatory disorders—tough nuts to crack with traditional Western medicine. “We always start with the gut,” says Leventhal about functional medicine’s integrative method. “And this new thinking about the microbiome is in some ways validating that approach.”When a patient comes to her with arthritis, she might start by asking them about their bowel habits. “They’ll look at me sort of strange, but I’ll point out that about 70 percent of your immune system is in your gut and takes instruction from the gut flora. Part of healing for them might involve a rehab of their digestive flora.” Much more careful use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, which wage war against not only pathogens but good bacteria too, is important—as is avoiding antibiotic-laden meats and animal products. Leventhal recommends introducing naturally pre- and probiotic foods into the diet such as kefir, miso, and kimchi. “We’ve done so many things to make our food dead. There’s less diversity in the bacteria we encounter in our food and in our homes. But we have some tools available to us to improve the flora and maintain it better, to make ourselves more robust and more resistant to illness.” A little dirt, too, is not so bad. “We might not want to wash everything quite so much,” says Leventhal. “Antibacterial soaps make sense in the hospital, but in the home, maybe not. The way we’re raising our kids is so sterile, and they’re indoors so much. We may not be doing them a favor.” Life-Saving Potential At the Human Microbiome Project in Bethesda, the first phase—which involved mapping the microbes of 242 people tracked over two years—is already complete. A second phase, to begin in October, is looking into exactly what all of these microbes are doing. “We need to understand all the kinds of activities and roles they play,” says Proctor. “Now we’re going for the biology of the microbiome.” We already know that many microbes are context dependent—that is, they live as normal microbes in one environment yet can become pathogens out of context. One example is E. coli, which lives happily in the gut but if smeared on the skin could cause a raging infection. There’s quite a lot more that we don’t know about the microbiome, and some potentially life-changing answers will come out of studying it further. “An old idea has come back now that microbes may be at the root of many kinds of cancer,” says Proctor. “There’s evidence that not only does a disturbed microbiome cause inflammation in tissues but it can also cause DNA damage, which is a hallmark of cancer.” Could eliminating a microbe cure one of the deadliest diseases of our time? Science can’t say for sure yet. In the meantime, we’d do well to take care of the bugs that have co-evolved with us for millennia and that call our bodies home. It could be that they hold our health—and yes, our survival—in their proverbial, ever-so-tiny hands. chronogram.com Watch a TEDx Talk about the microbiome by Emma Allen-Vercoe.
High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts
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Transformational Energy Work Priscilla Bright, Ma
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Private practice in Rhinebeck & Kingston, NY, and mid-town Manhattan. Phone sessions also available. Profound individual energy-healing work with the former School Dean of the world-renowned Barbara Brennan School of Healing and presenter at Omega Institute and NYC Open Center. • Reconnect with your intuitive inner awareness • Open blocked energies • Increase relaxation - decrease stress • Learn skills for energy self-care • Life-transitions - career issues - relationships www.priscillabright.com • priscilla@priscillabright.com • 845-417-8261 FREE INITIaL PHONE CONSuLTaTION
Acupuncture Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, LAC 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.creeksideacupuncture.com Private treatment rooms, attentive one-on-one care, affordable rates, many insurances, sliding scale. Stephanie Ellis graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in pre-medical studies. She completed her acupuncture and Chinese medicine degree in 2001 as valedictorian of her class and started her acupuncture practice in Rosendale that same year. Ms. Ellis uses a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanesestyle acupuncture, and triggerpoint acupuncture. Creekside Acupuncture is located in a building constructed of non-toxic, ecofriendly materials.
Hoon J. Park, MD, PC A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence: relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more. Group sessions include expressive art activities - it’s not all talk! Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York Facilitator: Amy Frisch, LCSW For more information call: 845-706-0229 or visit: www.itsagirlthinginfo.com
1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060 Transpersonal Acupuncture (845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 (845) 338-2965 joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy
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Hoon J. Park, MD, P.C. Board Cer tified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Auto and Job Injuries • Arthritis • Strokes • Neck/Back and Joint Pain • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net
Body and Skincare Columbia Beauty Supply 66 North Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996 Dermasave Labs, Inc. 3 Charles Street Suite 4, Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-4087 www.hudsonvalleyskincare.com
Counseling Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com Kristen Spada, LCSW (845) 419-2378 kaspada@gmail.com The Accord Center for Counseling & Psychotherapy (845) 646-3191 www.theaccordcenter.com
Dentistry & Orthodontics Center for Advanced Dentistry 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 thecenterforadvanceddentristry.com Holistic Orthodontics‚ Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729, (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com
Healing Centers Villa Veritas Foundation Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-3555 www.villaveritas.org info@villaveritas.org
Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes54@gmail.com Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG) and ARCB Certified Reflexologist offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.
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The Art of Happiness Living Unto Death: Dying Into Life Howard CutlerThurman Mark Epstein & Robert September – 22, 2013 August 1620- 18, 2013
After a 10 minute warm-up, join your heat in the Cycle Room with Judy engaging in energizing music & extreme sprints & hills. Then join Steve in the Upper Gym for some serious interval training. Lastly, head to the Wellness Center for your choice of Treadmill, Eliptical, Rower, Airdyne Bike or AMT!!
The Joy of the Yogini:Healing Women’s Retreat Medicine Buddha Retreat Lama Colleen Palden &Saidman Robert Yee Thurman September – 29, 2013 August 1927- 26, 2013
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In the Garden of of theHappiness Medicine Buddha The Art David Crow, Jai Howard Dev Singh, & Robert Thurman Cutler October 20 3 ––6,22, 2013 September 2013 Buddha the Martial Arts: The Joy of the& Yogini: Women’s Retreat Combating EnemyYee Within Colleenthe Saidman Justin Braun &27 Robert September – 29, Thurman 2013 October 11 – 13, 2013 the Garden of theinformation, Medicine Buddha To In register for more visit us at Sufi or Dance of Oneness Retreat David Crow, Jai Dev Singh, &call Robert Thurman www.menlamountain.org or 845-688-6897 Banafsheh Sayyad October 3 – 6, 2013 October 18 – 20, 2013
Buddha & the Martial Arts: Tibetan Bön Healing Combating the EnemyRetreat Within Tempa Dukte Lama Justin Braun & Robert Thurman October 11 24 –– 13, 27, 2013 October 2013 To register or for more information, visit us at www.menlamountain.org or call 845-688-6897
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Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT‚ Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 www.holisticcassandra.com Hudson Valley Center for Neurofeedback 12 Davis Avenue, Vassar Professional Building, Poughkeepsie (845) 473-4939 www.HVCNF.com
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Rolf Bodywork Stand taller. Feel better.
715 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, and Raindrop Technique.
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Stone Ridge Healing Arts, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 332-9936 www.stephaniespeer.com
Mediation Design Your Own Future Nurture Your Children Preserve Your Assets
Movement 4 Life
Rodney Wells, CFP 845-534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
Beacon, NY (845) 386-8343 www.movement4life.net Nancy Plumer, Energy Healing and Mystery School Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net
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Priscilla Bright, MA Rhinebeck & Kingston, NY (845) 417-8261 www.priscillabright.com Stone Ridge Healing Arts 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com
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Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org
Energy Healing and Mystery School with One Light Healing Touch in Stone Ridge begins October 2013. The School is based in Shamanic, Esoteric, and Holistic teachings across the ancient wisdom traditions. Learn to increase your intuition; release old programming—hurt, grief, sadness, pain; become empowered, grounded, and heartcentered; access Source energy; increase spiritual awareness; and more. Also, private OLHT energy healing sessions are available.
Health Alliance 396 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 334-4248 www.hahv.org Health Quest 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 283-6088 www.health-quest.org Sharon Hospital 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT (860) 364-4000 www.sharonhospital.com
Massage Therapy Botanica Massage and Wellness 21 South Chestnut Street, Suite 108, New Paltz, NY (845) 594-7807 www.botanicamassage.com amymosbacher@gmail.com Amy Mosbacher, LMT and her associates offer a peaceful environment that allows for healing treatments such as Therapeutic, Deep Tissue, Oncology and Pregnancy Massage. They use Warm Stones and Crystals, Aromatherapy and Herbal Compresses. Whether you need healing of acute or chronic physical injury, or are looking to relieve anxiety and stress, Massage is a great way to help achieve well-being in many different areas of life.
Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and nontoxic cleaning products.
Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
Osteopathy
Retreat Centers
Stone Ridge Healing Arts
Garrison Institute
Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com
Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.com
Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.
Psychics Psychic Life Readings 709 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 481-4159 www.lifereadings.net
Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River.
Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 www.menla.org menla@menla.org Recharge Retreats 960 Route 6 #210, Mahopac, NY (845) 225-5192 www.recharge-retreats.com liz@recharge-retreats.com
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40 Mill Hill, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6801
33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com Jwalzer@flowingspirit.com
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Psychotherapy Amy Frisch 5 College Avenue, New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229 www.itsagirlthinginfo.com amyfrischLCSW@yahoo.com Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy, coaching, and supervision practice. Janne specializes in childhood trauma, addictions, codependency, relationship issues, and inner child work. Coaching for Life Transitions and Practice Building for Health Professionals. Starting in 2013 monthly Trauma Training Workshops for therapists and healers and Circle of Women Workshop Series. Call for information or consultation. FB page: www.BrigidsWell.com/facebook. Sign up for Newsletter on website.
Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7502 www.hvpi.net Legga, Inc. New Paltz, NY (845) 729-0608
Mesayok Medicine Spiral 9 (845) 831-5790 www.medicinepsiral.com xoeolovemore@gmail.com
Tarot Tarot-on-the-Hudson‚ Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com
Yoga Clear Yoga, Iyengar Yoga in Rhinebeck 17b 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6129 www.clearyogarhinebeck.com Classes for all levels and abilities seven days a week including meditation, restorative, prenatal, and regular weekend workshops with senior Iyengar yoga teachers. Iyengar Yoga builds strength, stamina, peace of mind, and provides a precise framework for yoga practice based on what works for you.
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org Pilates on Hudson 8 John Walsh Boulevard, Peekskill, NY (914) 739-1178 www.PilateOnHudson.com
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Wisdom in Aging: Waking Up the Mind and Revitalizing the Subtle Body September 20 - 26
Gelek Rimpoche
Jewel Heart Annual Fall Retreat October 11 - 14
Janice Marturano
Cultivating Leadership Presence through Mindfulness October 23 - 27
www.garrisoninstitute.org
Garrison Institute, Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY Tel: 845.424.4800
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Medical. Swedish. Deep Tissue. Hot Stone. Shiatsu. Craniosacral. Lymph Drainage. Reflexology. Specializing in relief of back neck & shoulders Advanced trainings in working on people with cancer
845.255.6482 Kristen Spada, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker
243 Main Street, Suite 230, New Paltz, NY phone: (845) 214-8477 fax: (845) 419-2378 email: kaspada@gmail.com
Individual ~ Marital ~ Substance Abuse ~ Depression Codependency ~ Self-esteem ~ Relationships In a respectful, compassionate environment we will work towards understanding and healing the source of your pain so that you may experience greater happiness, enhanced self-worth, and improved relationships.
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The Olana Partnership Presents
Olanafest 2013 A celebration of food, art and farming featuring art-inspired hors d’oeuvres, craft beers, local wines and a silent auction
Creations by some of the most talented chefs of the Hudson Valley:
Bistro Brie & Bordeaux, Bonfiglio & Bread, Cafe Le Perche, Fish & Game, Helsinki Hudson, Le Petit Bistro, New World Home Cooking Co., Panzur Restaurant and Wine Bar, Red Devon and The Roundhouse at Beacon Falls
Saturday, september 21 5-7pm
Olana’s Historic Farm Complex
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T THEATRE www.newpaltz.edu/theatre Box Office 845.257.3880 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Sept. 26-28, 8:00 p.m. Oct. 3-5, 17-19, 8:00 p.m. Sept. 29, Oct. 6 & 20, 2:00 p.m. Box Office opens Sept. 16 Tickets: $20, $18, $9
Jamyang 2013
The Tempest by William Shakespeare Nov. 14-16, 21-23, 8:00 p.m. Nov. 17 & 24, 2:00 p.m. Box Office opens Nov. 4 Tickets: $18, $16, $10
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www.newpaltz.edu/sal 845-257-3850 Saturday Arts Lab 8-class sessions in the visual arts, theatre, music for ages K-12 Sept. 21 & 28 Oct. 5, 12, 19, & 26, Nov. 2 & 9
D THE DORSKY MUSEUM www.newpaltz.edu/museum 845.257.3844
M Sacred Music, Sacred Dance Sept. 14, 7:00 p.m. Tickets: $20, $15, $5 Tickets available at the museum or online at www.newpaltz.edu/museum Artist’ Talk - Screenplay: Hudson Valley Artists 2013 Sept. 21 & 28, 2 – 3:00 p.m., Free
www.newpaltz.edu/music 845.257.2700 Faculty Showcase September 10, 8:00 p.m. Julien J. Studley Theatre Tickets: $8, $6, $3 at the door
Faculty Jazz Recital September 24, 8:00 p.m. McKenna Theatre Tickets: $8, $6, $3 at the door
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Live Music from the Jazz Performance Program September 21, 3:00 p.m. McKenna Theatre, free
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON NY To purchase tickets call (518) 828-1872 www.olana.org
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THE FOREST UNSEEN: A YEAR’S WATCH IN NATURE Friday, September 6 at 7 p.m. Author and biologist David Haskell will talk about the secret world hidden in a square meter of Tennessee forest. Tracing nature’s path through the seasons, he provides a unique look at the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Seating is first come first served.
ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF OIL SPILLS IN THE DEEP OCEAN Friday, October 18 at 7 p.m. Marine scientist Samantha Joye will discuss how oil spills impact ocean life. Recovery from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the need for improved oil-removal technologies will be covered. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Seating is first come first served.
Learn more at www.caryinstitute.org 2801 Sharon Turnpike (Rte. 44)|Millbrook, NY 12545|845 677-5343
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Rabkar Wangchuk, Spiritual Mind and Modern Technology, acrylic on canvas, 78" x 48", 2013. Courtesy of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection.
Western Fantasies/Tibetan Myths “Anonymous,” on display at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art through December 15, is the first comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in the US. Featuring paintings, installations, photographs, and videos by 27 artists, some based in Lhasa, the show reveals a Tibetan art culture that has emerged only in the last decade. Emblems of consumerism and modern technology, the military-industrial complex, and pop culture are combined with traditional Buddhist imagery, illustrating the profound displacement, political disempowerment, and identity crisis experienced by Tibetan artists who are either living under Chinese rule in the Tibetan Autonomous Region or abroad. Many works are imbued with pathos, even as they express an irrepressible vitality. The paintings especially appeal through their supreme beauty and delicacy of touch, reflecting the traditional thangka training of many of the artists. In Phurba Namgay’s acrylic painting Dragon and Hummer, a writhing dragon confronts the vehicle floating amid arabesques of flower-like clouds. The dragon’s contortions seem histrionic in contrast to the impenetrable, utterly banal Hummer; the message “bumps ahead” on a yellow traffic sign trivializes its raging force and hints at the collisions between religious tradition and consumer culture. Nortse’s sculpture The Cans, in which metal cans are printed with images of people whose faces are obscured by thick bandages superimposed with Chinese script, refers to the commodification of the sacred: Each can contains yellow barley, a staple of the Tibetan diet that’s used as an offering in Buddhist ceremonies. Gade’s scroll-like photograph depicting a floating ice Buddha melting in a lake, with the Dalai Lama’s former palace visible in the background, conveys transience with an ironic twist. A number of works reference the self-immolation of Tibetan monks protesting Chinese rule, including Kesang Lamdark’s pair of melted purple and orange plastic vests; Nortse’s floor installation of monks’ robes, each crumbled piece of fabric posed on a base of sand with an offering of Chinese money, a butter lamp, and Buddhist scriptures; and Tulku Jamyang’s exquisite piece, Untitled, in which the enormous, transparent silhouette of a Buddha head, created by burning tiny holes in rice paper with an incense stick, reveals an underlying red Tibetan script consisting of the final, loving message of a monk who committed suicide. Traditional Tibetan art, like medieval cathedrals, was made anonymously, in the service of religion, notes guest curator Rachel Perera Weingeist, senior advisor to the Shelley
and Donald Rubin Foundation, based in Manhattan. (The foundation loaned many of the works in the show; the Rubins also founded the Rubin Museum of Art, dedicated to Tibetan art.) This tradition is in direct opposition to the individualism of contemporary art, she says. “One of the most important themes in the show is the artists’ struggle using very traditional skills to distort, exaggerate, or reinvent traditional imagery,” she notes. It’s an art practice that “comes with a cost,” given the disapproval it has spurred within traditional Tibetan art circles. Contemporary Tibetan artists face other challenges. Those living within the Tibetan Autonomous Region are hampered by the restrictions imposed by the Chinese government. (To cite one example, the anonymous artists from Lhasa contributing videos to the show were unable to upload them via the Web nor send them by snail mail; instead, each had to be delivered by hand.) Some of the artists were trained in social realism at Chinese schools, following the Chinese crackdown on Tibetan art and religion in the 1960s and `70s. Sodhon’s two Recollection cartoon paintings contrast his training as a youth by the Chinese Communist authorities and his Tibetan uncle in a colorful style that combines both stylistic traditions. Tsering Nyandak’s Buddha Head, which depicts a severed stone Buddha head hoisted over a foreshortened, prone figure blowing up a red balloon, uses the didactic, myth-building vocabulary of social realism in a surrealist narrative about the destruction of Tibetan culture. The viewer is challenged upon making this first encounter with contemporary Tibetan art to question her own assumptions (what catalog essayist David Elliott, a renowned European curator, calls “the disingenuous Western fantasy of a picturesque, closeted, mythical Tibetan culture that existed outside time and place”). The crisis of faith, culture, environment, peace, freedom, and identity chronicled in “Anonymous” is evidence of a vibrant cultural movement that serves to remove one’s own blinders. “Though this exhibition examines the development of a visual language for Tibetan art, that search is in many ways universal, a startling mirror in which we may all see ourselves,” writes Weinstein in the exhibition catalog. “Anonymous” will be exhibited at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, at SUNY New Paltz, through December 15. (845) 257-3844; Newpaltz.edu/museum. —Lynn Woods
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SUNDAY 1 Art Galleries and Exhibits 11th Annual Fine Art Auction 1pm. Featuring 19th-century, 20th-century, and contemporary American, European, and worldwide art from estates and collections. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. 6th Annual Art Studio Views Tour 11am-5pm. Meet 17 talented artists and step into their private (and some hidden) studios. Mill Street, Rhinebeck. Facebook.com/ArtStudioViews.
Fairs & Festivals 2013 Columbia County Fair 10am-11pm. $8-$12. Agriculture activities, live music, schoolgirl queen competition, demolition derbies, painted pony rodeo, livestock judging, firefighters parade, monster tractor pull, and over 200 rides, shows, exhibits, and other attractions. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. (518) 392-2121. Festival of Books 10am-5pm. Used book sale, two days of readings and book signings by nationally known/local authors, and a children’s program. Featured authors this year include Peter Biskind, Charles Dubow, Hugh Howard, Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Taylor Mali. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. Spencertownacademy.org. Psychic Fest 10am. $1/minute. A day of insights and knowing, including a healing demonstration. Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro. 888-2547. Woodstock-New Palt Arts and Crafts Fair 10am-6pm. $8/$7 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. Quailhollow.com.
Film VOB International Film Festival 1pm. $5. 3-day event showcasing short films on the great lawn, and feature films and documentaries at Studio Around the Corner. Food, ArtBeat sidewalk art show, live music. Check website for specific events and times. Walter Brewster House, Brewster. 278-0018.
Food & Wine D&H Canal Museum Wine Tasting Fundraiser 1pm. $15. “Wine Tasting on the Five Locks Walk”, a fundraiser for the D&H Canal Historical Society. Delaware and Hudson Canal Museum, High Falls. 687-9311.
Kids & Family Children & Families: Silhouettes 1pm. Explore the collection and participate in a fun artmaking activity. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.
Literary & Books Terra Coda 7:30pm. $30/$20. A percussion ensemble led by John Marshall with professional percussionists Mark Ingram, Andrew Parker, Randy Steward, and Rick Quintanal performing original compositions and exploratory improvisational pieces. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306.
Music Breakaway with Robin Baker 7pm. A Goodbye To Summer dance party. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Britten and the Romantics 4pm. Daedalus Quartet, with Rufus Müller, tenor. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Brunch with Willa McCarthy 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Farm Music Round Robin and Potluck 4pm. First Sunday of every month. Farm music round robin and potluck. You’re welcome to bring a song to share, an instrument (or two!), your voice, or just your good cheer. Potluck at 6:30pm. Music until 9pm Brook Farm, New Paltz. 255-1052. Lorelei Smith 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. Rocsta Society Summer Concert 12-8pm. $5. Reggae, ska, steel drum and calypso. Dairy Field, Bloomville. Dia-inc.com/ROCSTA.html.
Theater Highlights From the Footlights 3pm. $22/$20/$18. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
MONDAY 2 Business & Networking Dutchess Peace 5:30-7pm. First Monday of every month. All those interested in peace, social justice, and the revolution of the 99% are invited Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 876-7906.
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2013 Columbia County Fair 10am-11pm. $8-$12. Agriculture activities, live music, schoolgirl queen competition, demolition derbies, painted pony rodeo, livestock judging, firefighters parade, monster tractor pull, and over 200 rides, shows, exhibits, and other attractions. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. (518) 392-2121.
The News of Poetry 6-8pm. $75. A six-week workshop with Andrew Tully. The class will take a new look at poetry and the poetic process, what makes or breaks a poem, where poems originate and where they end up. Fairview Public Library, Margaretville. (607) 326-4802.
Festival of Books 10am-3pm. Used book sale, two days of readings and book signings by nationally known/local authors, and a children’s program. Featured authors this year include Peter Biskind, Charles Dubow, Hugh Howard, Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Taylor Mali. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. Spencertownacademy.org. Woodstock-New Palt Arts and Crafts Fair 10am-4pm. $8/$7 seniors/children free. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. Quailhollow.com.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Mad Dash Race 8:30am. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. Maddashrace.org.
Workshops & Classes Learn to Meditate with Raja Yoga Meditation 6pm. First Monday of every month. Enhance or begin a meditation practice. Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga is an ancient spiritual discipline that is used for relaxing, refreshing and clearing the mind and heart to experience peace and positivity in the life Peace Village Learning & Retreat Center, Haines Falls, Hunter Mountain. (528) 589-5000. Sparks Inspiration Monthly Class 6:30pm. First Monday of every month. $25. Learn to do what sparks your interest by transforming life challenges into opportunities! Join a supportive community where you can be yourself in order to learn and be happier. Maria Blon, Middletown. 313-2853.
TUESDAY 3 Health & Wellness Sound and Light Activation Under the Guidance of Master Teachers 7:30pm. $20. Integration and Ascension: Divine Light Activation with Himalayan Singing Bowls, Metatron and the Master Teachers. With Suzy Meszoly. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Spirituality Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice & Open House with Dharma Talk 6-7pm meditation instruction available. 7:15-9pm Dharma Talk and Dharma Café. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
Sports 78th Annual Woodstock Open Golf Tournament 8am. $115. Host Professional: Judd Noto, PGA. Be a part of a historic event play along with area club golf professionals, who compete in their own division. America’s oldest running “open” golf tournament. Includes golf, favor, prizes, continental breakfast & lunch. Woodstock Golf Club, Woodstock. 679-2914.
Workshops & Classes Pastel Demonstration by Kristy Bishop 7pm. Saugerties Senior Center, Saugerties. 247-0612.
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THURSDAY 5 Business & Networking Free First-Steps Business Ownership Training Program 6pm. Women’s Enterprise Development Center MidHudson Satellite, Poughkeepsie. 575-3438.
Clubs & Organizations Hooks & Needles, Yarns & Threads 10am-2pm. First Thursday of every month. Drop-in for an informal social gathering Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
Film A Place at the Table 7-9pm. From the makers of Food, Inc., this film explores America’s food crisis and offers a solution for how hunger could be solved forever. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. Rvhhc.org.
Health & Wellness Qigong Practice Seminar 7pm. $10. Through September 7. Led by Sifu Patrick Fannes, a master of Shaolin Martial Arts and a medical Qigong healer. Kagyu Thubten Choling Monastery, Wappingers Falls. 297-2500.
Music Chris O’Leary Band 7:30pm. Dylan Doyle Trio opens. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Delta Saints 8pm. $35/$25. Bayou rock. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306. JP Patrick & Friends 8:30pm. Blues, rock, and jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Pigeons and Mad Nanna 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.
Outdoors & Recreation Pitch in for Parks 5:30-7:30pm. Help us maintain and build new trails. Black Creek Preserve, Esopus. 473-4440 ext. 273.
Workshops & Classes Community Drawing: Ink Wash From Life First Thursday of every month, 6pm. $25/$15 selfguided. Come enjoy an evening of large-scale still life drawing from observation, with teaching artist, Susie Tarnowicz. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. 679-6132. Teen Tech Tutors 5-7:30pm. First Thursday of every month. Computer help by appointment Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
FRIDAY 6 Art Galleries and Exhibits Paul Thiesing 5-8pm. One night only show. Weathervane Clubhouse, Washingtonville. 614-4066.
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Invitation to Join the Rhinebeck Choral Club 7:30pm. The Rhinebeck Choral Club has openings for new members and invites all Hudson Valley adults to join for our 2013 holiday season. Performance dates for this season will be December 14th and 15th. Archcare at Ferncliff Nursing Home, Rhinebeck. 849-5865.
HV:CREATE 8:30am. First Friday of every month. A no-agenda informal meet-up space for creatives to meet, connect, and inspire each other. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 679-9441.
Teen Club 3:30pm. Join other teens for games, crafts, and other miscellany. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Health & Wellness Hope After Neonatal Death through Sharing 6:30pm. First Wednesday of every month. Open to all who have suffered the loss of a child, before, during, or after birth Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. Handssupportgroup.blogspot.com.
Music Jesse Scheinin & Forever 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. M.R. Poulopoulos 7pm. Folk. American Glory BBQ, Hudson. (518) 822-1234.
Satr Nations Sacred Circle 7pm. First Friday of every month. $5. A positive, not for skeptics, discussion group for experiencers of the paranormal. Center For Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8083.
Dance Cajun Dance with the C’est Bon Cajun Band 7-11pm. $15/$10 FT student. Lesson at 7pm, dance 8pm-11pm. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.
Film Ghost Town: The Hebron Story 7pm. A documentary work in progress that tells the stories of Palestinian families in Hebron, threatened by the rise of illegal Israeli settlements that have came to play a major role in destroying the peace process. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884.
Food & Wine
Old Songs Acoustic Open Mike 7:30pm. First Wednesday of every month. $3. Walk in and sign up to play (fifteen minutes). Local performer Kate Blain will host Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 765-2815.
Saratoga Wine & Food Festival and Concours D’Elegance Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.
Spirituality
Evan Pritchard Presents Bird Medicine: The Sacred Power of Shamanism 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Private Soul Listening Sessions with Celestial Channel Kate Loye First Wednesday of every month, 12-6pm. $75 hour/$40 hlaf hour. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Literary & Books
The Forest Unseen. A Year’s Watch in Nature 7pm. Author and biologist David Haskell will talk about his new book “The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch In
Nature.” Haskell’s book reveals the secret world hidden in a square meter of Tennessee forest. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-7600 ext. 121.
Music Beau Bolero: Steely Dan Tribute 8pm. $25- $37. They play all the hits and more, note for note renditions that will leave you realin’ in the years and realizing you’ve just spent some precious time outta mind. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (860) 542-5531. Cantatrice Art Song Ensemble 7:30pm. $20/students and children free. Presented by Concerts Con Brio. A program Spanish, French and English songs. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452.8220. David Liebman’s Expansions 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. John Snyder Performing 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006. Kid Rock, ZZ Top and Uncle Kracker 6:45pm. $29. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 454-3388. Laura Marling 9pm. $35/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Saugerties Sunset Concert Series 6pm. Featuring Cleoma’s Ghost and Passero. Glasco Mini Park, Saugerties. 246-5306. Soul City 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Spirit Family Reunion 8pm. $12/$10 in advance. Americana, folk, indie rock. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Tony Pastrana & NY Latin Jazz 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits 20th Annual Card and Game Night 6pm. $7. Hosted by Northern Dutchess Hospital Auxiliary. Includes snacks, desserts and beverages. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001. Saugerties First Friday 6-10pm. Magicians, margaritas, fashion illustration, food, drawings, Doors songs, doggie donations, temporary tattoos and the Tango. Downtown Saugerties. Facebook.com/SaugertiesFirstFriday.
Theater Underneath the Lintel 8pm. $20. Presented by Hatmaker’s Attic Productions, Inc. in collaboration with Safe Harbors of the Hudson. The Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 784-1199.
Workshops & Classes Shambhala Training Level I: The Art of Being Human 7:30pm. $295/students and seniors half price. Weekend-long class. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
SATURDAY 7 Art Galleries & Exhibits Wanderings & Wonderings 3pm. Join poet Erica Ehrenberg on an imaginative exploration of Storm King. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.
Dance Swing Dance 7:30-10:30pm. $10. Basic lesson at 7:30 with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. First Saturday of every month, 8pm. $10. Workshop at 7:30pm with Linda and Chester Freeman MAC Fitness, Kingston. 853-7377.
Fairs & Festivals Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest 11am. $22-$40. A celebration of the gourmet lifestyle in the Hudson Valley. The Fest features hundreds of wines from all over New York and the world, more than 100 gourmet specialty food, fine art, & lifestyle vendors, food sampling from some of the region’s best restaurants and live entertainment. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 658-7181. License My Roving Hands 4:30pm. Music More 2013 Festival. Letters, Lyrics and Music from Chaucer to Donne. New Marlborough Village Association Meeting House, New Marlborough, MA. (413) 229-2785.
Health & Wellness 3rd Annual Wholistic Health & Wellness Fair 12-5pm. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255.5030.
Kids & Family First Annual Horse Show 10am & 2pm. In addition to several ribbon classes, our students will be presenting a demonstration of equestrian skills. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.
comedy woodstock comedy festival images provided. dick cavett by barbara friedman; bobcat goldthwaite by mindy tucker Clockwise from left: Mario Cantone, Dick Cavett, Clint Alexander, Josh Ruben, Bobcat Goldthwait. The Woodstock Comedy Festival hits town September 20-22.
Where’s the Funny? Woodstock! The first annual Woodstock Comedy Festival (September 20-22) isn’t simply aiming for belly laughs. Certainly, the three-day orgy of stand-up, improv, and film, stars veterans (Bobcat Goldthwait, Dick Cavett, Upright Citizens Brigade), newcomers (Rick Overton and Eddie Brill) and locals (Verna Gillis, James Judd, Adam Mamawala, and Audrey Rapoport) alike. But it will also feature a series of panel discussions by comedy writers, offering career tips for the chronically funny. Nor is this festival afraid to get serious; proceeds from the weekend will benefit Family of Woodstock, which supports victims of domestic violence and Polaris Project, a group dedicated to ending human trafficking. Headlining the festival is Mario Cantone, the purported love child of Totie Fields and Sam Kinison. Best known as Carrie Bradshaw’s sassy pal Anthony on TV’s “Sex And The City,” Cantone has proven his chops beyond the small screen: Broadway stints in “Assassins,” “The Violet Hour,” and “Love! Valour! Compassion!” led to the one-man show “Laugh Whore,” which received a Tony nod. On Saturday evening, September 21, at 9:30pm, Cantone will play the Bearsville Theater, offering up his signature “didhe-actually-just-say-that?” comedy combined with song. In a recent telephone conversation, Cantone told Chronogram about how he makes the job of being funny look easy. The hard-working comic-actor-singer claimed that he is really lazy—and explained why he’s okay with that. —Jay Blotcher With your style of comedy, does your audience have certain expectations? If people see me on “The View,” they get a sense of what I do and that I am musical also. But if people only know me from “Sex and the City,” they really have no idea what the fuck I’m gonna do—or what I do, period. People say, “I didn’t know you sang; I didn’t know you had a band. I didn’t know you did an opening number”—because [my] show is 90 minutes of comedy and music. Do you feel that your fans allow you to grow? Or do they just want to see “Laugh Whore” again and again? I don’t even think about it. I just kind of go out there and do what I love to do. My new one-man show is pretty much more of what I do: My impressions, my music, my
comedy—what I want to talk about. It’s somewhat structured, and at the same time all over the place, which is how I work. I’m also lazy, too. I really write onstage. I don’t like to sit down and write unless it’s actually a musical number. My husband writes that stuff. So I kind of have to get up on stage and work to write my ideas. I go to Gotham Comedy Club, which is right down the street from me—how convenient!—and I’ll [be] there a couple of times a year and work on material there or pop in and do a set. You can’t please everybody; there’ll be people who want to see the same thing and there’ll be people who want to see new stuff. The new show is mostly new stuff; there’s a few classics in there that I like to keep around. I’m allowed to go where I want to go, I think—without having to piss too many people off. How do you push yourself as a performer? It’s hard. I’m 94 years old, I’m like, Okay, I have one foot in [the grave]. I’m done. Someone just come and get me and give me money and produce me—or let me sit on the couch and watch Turner Classic Movies. I’m not as half as driven as I used to be. I don’t think I’m three-quarters as driven as I used to be. I don’t; I really don’t. But also, I enjoy my life and I like my downtime. I’m not a workaholic, which is a good thing. Because if I was, I’d really be fucked-up. What are your upcoming projects? There’s a couple of major things going on. And I’m working on the new one-man show and hopefully getting that to Broadway very soon. We have some producers. I’ve been doing it in different performing arts centers and casinos—because I’m the white Sammy Davis, Jr. Does this new show have a working title? “Mario Cantone Swings Both Ways.” And it’s such a lie, because I don’t swing both ways. People look at me and I [explain]: Comedy and music—not vagina and penis. Woodstock Comedy Festival, September 20-22, at numerous venues throughout Woodstock. For tickets and the full schedule, visit Woodstockcomedyfestival.org.
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woodstock film festival preview by Sparrow
A still from Birth of the Living Dead.
Indie Nirvana For those of us older than 17, movies are worse than ever. Yet films are still fabulous. By “movies,” I mean the android-killing spectacles at the multiplex; by “films,” I denote the works of freelance writers and cinematographers—in other words, independent films. The Woodstock Film Festival (October 2-6 this year), as you might guess from its name, specializes in the latter. The festival has an unerring flair for the dramatic. It feels like the circus coming to town, but in place of clowns, lion tamers, and acrobats are sound engineers, actors, and publicists. The gathering swallows up Woodstock, imbuing its shady lanes with cinematic glamour. The parties are busy, celebratory. “We don’t have a class system. At our parties, nobody’s behind a velvet rope, nobody’s behind a curtain,” observes cofounder Meira Blaustein. And somehow the celebration always occurs exactly when the autumn colors are at their height. The Woodstock Film Festival has never gone commercial. It has remained loyal to outsiders—who were called, in a simpler age, “guerrilla filmmakers.” As a result, the fest’s reputation has grown. This year, director and Kingston native Peter Bogdanovich, best known for The Last Picture Show (1971), will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. Director Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!) will be honored for her philanthropic work in East Africa, where she started a foundation to instruct African film artists. Stephen Dorff, starring in Motel Life, will participate in an actors’ dialogue. Andy Garcia, who appears in At Middleton, will also attend. A high percentage of the filmmakers come each year, and the panel discussions are often provocative. The Hudson Valley is the world’s center of artist-run festivals, and this one is no exception. Founded by Blaustein and Laurent Rejto—both documentary filmmakers—in 2000, the fest has grown year over year. This October, for the first time it will expand into the venerable Orpheum Theatre in Saugerties, in addition to locations in Woodstock, Bearsville, Rosendale, and Rhinebeck. The award ceremony will be held in Kingston for the sixth consecutive season. There are more films than ever, constituting a portrait of America in 137 stories. (About 10 percent of the films are foreign.) We have been trained by Hollywood to file movies into simple genres like “suspense” and “romantic comedy.” Independent films often fall between categories. At the Woodstock Film Festival you may see an “Israeli utopian science-fiction drama” or a “teenage birdwatching love story.” (I’m thinking of this year’s Under the Same Sun and A Birder’s Guide to Everything specifically.) As in ordinary life, the horrible and the funny are utterly intertwined. “Independent” usually means young, and in fact numerous beginning filmmakers yearly shoulder their backpacks and head to Woodstock. Bastards of Young, an NYU graduate thesis film by Josiah Signor, is one of this year’s standouts—and a world premiere. It’s very difficult to make a film—roughly as hard as writing a novel, buying a printing press, and publishing it yourself. Today’s independent filmmakers are the 118 forecast ChronograM 9/13
linear descendents of the artisans and artists who founded the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock in 1903. In Birth of the Living Dead (see sidebar) director George Romero is still astonished that he finished his first film—the horror classic Night of the Living Dead—with a budget of $114,000. These days, a working definition of an independent film is one made without a major studio for $10 million or less. “Often I’m asked, ‘Is there a theme to the festival?’ and I reply, ‘No, never,’—because I don’t want to have any preconceived notions. I want the filmmakers to tell us what the themes should be,” Blaustein explains. One new genre is the “diary film,” a documentary in which the filmmaker is a character, often including her personal life as a subplot in the larger narrative. Audiences are suspicious of the myth of objectivity that once characterized nonfiction films—as are filmmakers. Also, technology has made filmmaking much easier. Magical Universe (see sidebar) was shot for $10,000 over 10 years. Other “diary films” this year are Sick Birds Die Easy, The Manor, American Commune, and The Longest Game. Many documentaries engage with current political debates. Barzan, directed by Alex Stonehill, shows a suburban family ripped apart by a terrorism accusation. Filmed in Iraq and Seattle, it puts a human face on the immigration debate. Town Hall by Sierra Pettengill and Jamila Wignot documents two years in the lives of Katy and John, Tea Party activists from Central Pennsylvania. American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs describes the life of a 98-year-old Detroit activist and philosopher. Purgatorio, directed by Rodrigo Reyes, studies the US-Mexico border with a poetic eye. One of the secrets of Woodstock today is that the greatest artists in the area are jazz musicians: Jack DeJohnette, Don Byron, Tani Tabbal, Pat Metheny. In honor of this local heritage, the festival will present Sonny Rollins Behind the Notes, a documentary about the quixotic career of the legendary tenor saxophonist, by director Dick Fontaine. The J. D. Allen Trio will perform after the film, and Sonny himself will be present. A number of films are local in origin. To Be Forever Wild, directed by David Becker, is a work-in-progress growing out of an artist residency at the Platte Clove in West Saugerties, featuring interviews with Catskills historians, naturalists, scientists, and eccentrics, often in natural settings—like a Hudson River School painting come to life. Doomsdays, a “pre-apocalyptic comedy” about squatters in vacation homes, directed by Edward Mullins and starring Justin Rice of Bishop Allen, was also filmed in the Hudson Valley, as were 10 of the short films, including Mr. Lamb and Aerodrome. The Woodstock Film Festival is not an exclusive affair; locals are emphatically invited. Blaustein encourages Hudson Valley residents to read film descriptions on the website and order tickets in advance—and not to fear arriving at the last minute. All the films have standby lines, and most standers-by get in. The 14th Woodstock Film Festival will take place October 2-6. (845) 679-4265; Woodstockfilmfestival.com.
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Festival Highlights The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne Directed by Matthew Pond. Tells the true story of an international jewel thief who happens to be an African-American woman from rural West Virginia. Doris traveled the world, expertly palming diamonds, rubies, emeralds. Is Doris a sociopath, a trickster, a feminist hero? In the documentary, she is 80, accused of lifting a diamond from a Macy’s in San Diego. The movie recounts her trial and ultimate fate.
Bastards of Young (a world premiere) Directed by Josiah Signor. Details a Halloween party in Manhattan with merciless precision. Set against the crumbling marriage of two 30-somethings, the costumed cast—including Charlie Chaplin, a deaf gynecologist, a golden robot, a killer clown, Kurt Cobain, and Courtney Love—dance, drink, flirt, and seek love or oblivion. Watch for the mention of Chronogram magazine! The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
Birth of the Living Dead Directed by Rob Kuhns. A documentary about the making of Night of the Living Dead (1968), the horror film that invented the contemporary image of the zombie. Shot in black-and-white for $114,000 outside Pittsburgh by the 23-year-old director George Romero, who daringly cast a black actor as the hero, the movie was an inadvertent masterpiece. Many of the ghouls were clients of Romero’s advertising agency.
Under the Same Sun Directed by Sameh Zoabi. Set in the near future, this film describes the collaboration between two businessmen—one Israeli, one Palestinian—investing in solar energy. After numerous setbacks, the two spark a populist movement that improbably leads to a Middle East peace settlement. It’s that rare genre: a political tearjerker.
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Directed by Jeremy Workman. In 2001 the director met Al Carbee, an eccentric 79-year-old living in a converted barn in Saco, Maine. Carbee relentlessly photographed his collection of 251 Barbie dolls, in numerous outfits and hand-built dioramas. Over 12 years the filmmaker became intimate with Carbee, receiving nearly 1,000 letters from him, and growing to respect his childlike wisdom.
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Open Mike Night 7pm. First Saturday of every month. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Lectures & Talks Kris Verdonck: Ballad 7pm. Belgian theater maker/visual artist Kris Verdonck invites the audience to an open studio and lecture demonstration of the latest 3D techniques inspired by the apocalyptic science-fiction novels of J.G. Ballard. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Literary & Books Battle of the Books Trivia battle of regional students about summer reading books. Arlington High School, LaGrangeville. Beaconlibrary.org. Poetry & Prose: A Reading with Susan Sindall, Philip Pardi & Ingrid Hughes 4pm. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. Nan. goldennotebook@gmail.com. Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 3:30pm. Featuring Victoria Sullivan. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459.
Music
Joan Tower and Friends Celebrate Her 75th Birthday Gala 7:30pm. $7500 sponsorship/$75/$.75 students. Features Tower’s compositions performed by Tower, Blair McMillen, Kayo Iwama, Dawn Upshaw, Peter Wiley, Steven Tenenbom, the Daedalus Quartet; and the Horszowski Trio. To benefit the Tower scholarship fund. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7196. A Night of Illusion 7pm. $125/$225 couple/$400 party of 4. 7th annual fundraising event. Wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, followed by world-class illusionist Ryan Dutcher. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Opera Gala Fundraiser 8-10:30pm. $135. Help support Byrdcliffe with an evening of music presented by Maria Todaro. Champagne and dessert after. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Outdoors & Recreation Magnificent Monarchs 2-4pm. Following a talk about monarchs, we will capture, tag, and release them at this designated Monarch Waystation. Greenport Conservation Area, Hudson. Clctrust.org.
Acoustic Music by Paul Geremia 8pm. $13/$10 in advance. Storm King School, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-7892.
Bryan Gordon 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Casey Buckley 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. David Johansen Duo with Brian Koonin 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Dead On Live: Best of 70-74 9pm. $25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. die Schlauberger 3pm. World music. Windham Mountain Ski Resort, Windham. (518) 734-4300. Drum Boogie Festival 10am-8pm. A day-long, family-oriented, multi-cultural music festival, celebrating the diverse styles of music, dance and voice from around the world. Andy Lee Field, Woodstock. 657-0455. Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo: Jazz Guitar 8pm. $25/$21 members/$21 in advance/$17 members advance. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Fred Scribner Trio 9pm. Blues, originals, classis rock. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Heisenberg 8:30pm. Acoustic. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466. Jazz at the Maverick 6:30pm. Dan Tepfer, piano. Including an arrangement of J.S. Bach’s The Goldberg Variations. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Leaf Peeper Concert 7:30pm. $20/$70 series pass. Clarion Concerts in Columbia County presents Flute and Several Other Instruments featuring the music of Rohozinski, Debussy, and Wechsler, performed by Sanford Allen on violin, David Wechsler on flute, Amadi Azikiwe on viola, Susannah Chapman on cello, and Laura Sherman on harp. Hillsdale Grange, North Hillsdale. (518) 329-5613. Parnas Piano Trio 8pm. Tannery Pond, New Lebanon. (888) 820-1696. Petey Hop 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Randy Travis 8pm. $95. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. The Woodstock Concerts on the Green 1-5pm. Village Green, Woodstock. Woodstockchamber.com.
Nightlife Soul Sound Revue 8pm. $39/$29. Motown. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Creepy-Crawlies After Dark: BBQ and Open House 7-11pm. Music, campfire, and light traps for catching nighttime visitors. Project Native, Housatonic, MA. (413) 274-3433. First Saturday Reception 5-8pm. First Saturday of every month. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. These monthly events are part of Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.
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Children & Families: Tour with Educator Wally McGuire 1pm. Visitors of all ages are invited to enjoy a special tour with celebrated educator Wally McGuire. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.
Lectures & Talks Second Sunday Salon Series: A Conversation with Tap Legend Brenda Bufalino 2pm. $25/$20 members/$20 in advance/$15 advance members/student half price. Ms. Bufalino is a trailblazer in the renaissance of jazz and tap dance. She is also an author, actress, producer, director and vocalist. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Music American String Quartet 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. The Big Band Sound 6pm. $16/children under 10 free. Picnicking starts at 5pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org. Brian Marquis 9pm. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Four Nations Ensemble The exceptional chamber group the Four Nations Ensemble once again pays its seasonal visit to our area with an exclusive, intimate performance at the home of Dennis Wedlick and Curtis DeVito on September 21. Headed by harpsichordist Andrew Appel, Four Nations is further composed of cellist Loretta O’Sullivan, and violinist Tatiana Chulochnikova, and has asked several outside musicians to join the ensemble for its in Hudson Valley concerts. This appearance features guests soprano Rosa Lamoreaux, flutist Colin St. Martin, and viola da gamba master Joshua Lee in a program of sonatas and arias of Buxtehude, Bach, Telemann. 3:30pm. $100. Kinderhook. (212) 928-5708; Fournations.org.
The Bar Spies 9pm. Acoustic, electric rock. Shea O’Brien’s, New Paltz. 255-1438.
Walking Tour of the 1658 Stockade National Historic District 2pm. $10/$5 children. Friends of Historic Kingston, Kingston. 339-0720.
Spirituality Centering Prayer/Meditation 9-10:30am. Trinity Episcopal Church, Saugerties. (917) 710-3315.
Theater Underneath the Lintel 8pm. $20. Presented by Hatmaker’s Attic Productions, Inc. in collaboration with Safe Harbors of the Hudson. The Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 784-1199.
Workshops & Classes Plastic Dream Machine: Holga Photogrpahy Call for times. Two-day workshop by Michelle Bates. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Plein Air Pastel Workshop $90/$70. With Marlene Wiedenbaum. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Teen Geek Squad 10am-2pm. Get help with your technology problems. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241. Words: Where They Want to Go 1-3pm. Led by Roberta Gould. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459.
SUNDAY 8 Dance l’altra metà del cielo 2pm. $10/$6 children. La Scala Ballet in an HD cinema experience. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. Rosendaletheatre.org.
Fairs & Festivals Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest 11am. $22-$40. A celebration of the gourmet lifestyle in the Hudson Valley. The Fest features hundreds of wines from all over New York and the world, more than 100 gourmet specialty food, fine art, & lifestyle vendors, food sampling from some of the region’s best restaurants and live entertainment. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 658-7181.
Health & Wellness 3rd Annual Wholistic Health & Wellness Fair 12-5pm. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255.5030.
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Kids & Family
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell 5pm. $30/$25 in advance. HITS Showgrounds, Saugerties. 246-8833. JB’s Soul Jazz 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. MAZZ@TheFalcon Presents Lee Delray 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Noo Moves Entertainment’s Artist Appreciation Show 4pm. Featuring Gospel music. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Randy Travis 5pm. $30/$25 in advance. Country. HITS Showgrounds, Saugerties. 473-2072. Spirit of Unity 3pm. $12/$10 seniors/children free. Gospel sounds. St. James’ Episcopal Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820. Swearingen & Beedle Performing the Music of Simon and Garfunkel 7:30pm. $34-$49. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (860) 542-5531. Todd Clouser & A Love Electric 9pm. $5. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Sports 7th Annual Barry Hopkins Run 8:30am. $15/$10 Olana member. Enjoy this 3.8 mile scenic cross country run, primarily on historic carriage roads with a few hills and spectacular views. T-shirts guaranteed to the first 75 entrants. Overall and age group awards. There is a free 0.7 mile kids run around the lake. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 109.
Theater Underneath the Lintel 3pm. $20. Presented by Hatmaker’s Attic Productions, Inc. in collaboration with Safe Harbors of the Hudson. The Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 784-1199.
Workshops & Classes Nature Photography with Lisa Dellwo 9am. Photographer Lisa Dellwo will offer outdoor photography tips as she leads a walk on the Cary Institute’s grounds. Learn about topics like composition, working with natural light, and capturing moving water. Register online. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.
Health & Wellness Meet the Doulas 6pm. Hosted by the Doulas of the Hudson Valley. Expectant parents who come to this info session will be able to meet with local doulas, ask questions and find out how a doula can benefit them during pregnancy, labor and beyond. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Lectures & Talks Adobe Lightroom Demo 6pm. Topics will include: importing; sorting; keywords; catalogs; collections; retouching; color correction and exporting. Presented by instructor, Stephen Blauweiss. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Literary & Books Writer’s Group for Youth Literature Second Monday of every month, 6:30pm. Ever thought about writing for children and young adults? Bring you work to our writer’s group. We will give one another constructive criticism. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Music Mid Hudson Women’s September 2013 Open Rehearsals 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.
TUESDAY 10 Film Michel Carne’s: Les Enfants du Paradis 7:15pm. $7. A sweeping romantic epic of the rather rocky love between Garance, a sometime actress and Jean-Baptiste a mime for a local theater. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Music Faculty Showcase 8pm. $8/$6/$3. An eclectic and entertaining evening of jazz and classical works performed by members of the Dept. of Music. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Outdoors & Recreation Adult Nature Walks 9:30am. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston. 339-3053.
Workshops & Classes Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30-8:30pm. $60 series/$15. Led by Iris Litt. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
WEDNESDAY 11 Film Film Night: La Sirga 6pm. Spanish with English subtitle. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Health & Wellness Finding Freedom From Emotional Eating 6pm. $15. With Maia Macek. Discover The 3 essentials every woman needs to live healthy, feel beautiful and express herself. The Chinese Healing Arts Center, Kingston. 338-4325.
Lectures & Talks In Other Words Series: Commission Ursula Heise reflecting on J.G. Ballard’s depictions of violence and their translation into Kris Verdonck’s installation, Ballard 3D. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Literary & Books The Glaring Omissions Themed Reading Series 7pm. Presents three Hudson Valley authors reading from their recent work. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Music Deep Chatham 7:30pm. $10. Opening band: Yard Sale. A reprise of the successful garden fundraiser at the Barn in July, this time to preserve the hemlocks and ash on campus. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079. High Falls Café Open Mike Night with Jeff Entin 6:30pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Sound of Contact featuring Simon Collins 8pm. $45/$30. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306. Stephan Crump’s Rosetta Trio 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Workshops & Classes Passion for Plants—Study Group: Minor Bulbs for Spring Beauty 10am-noon. $25. Instructor: Elisabeth Cary. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Scene Study Workshop with Christine Crawfis 7pm. $90/$60 members. A practical workshop for adult actors. Explore intention, objective and style in scenes from contemporary and classic plays. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
music BasilicaSoundScape Festival
Matt Charland The Basilica SoundScape festival takes place at Basilica Hudson September 13 through September 15.
Critical Mass Built near the height the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, the enormous brick riverfront building now known as Basilica Hudson was once a foundry that banged out railroad car wheels. And when neighborhood residents Melissa Auf der Maur (yes, the former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist) and her spouse, filmmaker Tony Stone, took co-ownership of the structure in late 2010, they had a vision to match its size: that of transforming it into a viable arts center and performance space—plus an equally enormous list of renovations to make. But since then, the couple and their crew of collaborators have made good on the dream, swiftly putting the cavernous space on the map as one of the region’s leading alternative culture venues and filling it with exciting events that match its sheer physical mass. One of these is the BasilicaSoundScape music festival, which will take over the site from September 13 to September 15. “I couldn’t believe what an amazing place [the building] is when I first saw it,” says Pitchfork editor Brendan Stosuy, whose widely read online music publication is co-presenting BasilicaSoundScape with the artist-management firm Leg Up. “I’d been promoting metal shows at a warehouse in Long Island City, and the Basilica is similar to that space—but way better. It’s also in a much better location, right near the river and a three-minute walk from the Amtrak station. [Leg Up’s] Brian Deran and I had been looking for a place to do heavier music that also lends itself well to mixing in different types of performance and large-scale art, and the Basilica is totally perfect for that—the kind of unique environment that, because of how it’s laid out, feels huge and small at the same time.” Launched last year as, simply, the Basilica Music Festival, this season’s rechristened gathering kicks off on September 13 with a showcase assembled by Stosuy and inspired
by his metal-heavy Pitchfork column, “Show No Mercy.” The night features sets by grindcore unit Pig Destroyer; experimental electronica acts Evian Christ, Pharmakon, and Julianna Barwick; readings by punk pioneer Richard Hell and provocateur Peter Sotos; a large-scale collaborative sound piece by Stosuy, artist Matthew Barney, and composer Jonathan Bepler; and an oversized sculpture by Lionel Maunz constructed of “cast concrete, pewter, iron, grains, sulfur, and semen.” September 14 promises music by DIIV, Cass McCombs, No Joy, Pure X, Teengirl Fantasy, African kora master Malang Jobateh, and performance artist Genevieve White. According to Stosuy, September 15 will be an earlier, family-friendly wind-down affair, with live bluegrass music and other attractions. Late-night DJ sets will rock Front Street’s nearby Half Moon each night. “Bigger festivals have no rhyme or reason to their bills and seem to book all the same bands,” explains Stosuy. “[Basilica SoundScape] isn’t about having a bunch of mismatched bands on some stage sponsored by a big insurance company. It’s not about us finding an audience; it’s more about letting an audience interested in something different find us.” The BasilicaSoundScape festival will take place from September 13 through September 15 at Basilica Hudson in Hudson. Tickets are $60 (full weekend) and $35 (individual nights). Camping accommodations are available at $30 per person, per night. (Visit the website for set times, tickets, and more information.) (518) 822-1050; Basilicahudson.com. —Peter Aaron
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THURSDAY 12 Art Galleries and Exhibits 17th Annual Fall for Art Event 6-9pm. $45/$40 in advance. Fundraising art show, sale, and cocktail reception, showcasing Hudson Valley artists and benefiting the Jewish Federation of Ulster County and community programs it supports. Wiltwyck Golf Club, Kingston. 331-0700.
Business & Networking
Food & Wine Vegan Cupcakes 6pm. $50. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.
Health & Wellness Essential Waves: A Moving Meditation 7:30-9pm. Second Friday of every month. $15/$10 students and seniors. 5rythms-Bob. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.
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Clubs & Organizations
Alexis P. Suter Band 7:30pm. Opening act: Spoken word performance artist, Gold. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting 7pm. Second Thursday of each month. Learn more about regional garden organization dedicated to encouraging and inspiring gardeners, supporting local garden resources and aiding community garden projects. All are welcome! For more info visit hvga.org. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640. Kingston-Rhinebeck Toastmasters Club Second Thursday of every month, 7-9pm. Practice public speaking skills. Ulster County Office Building, Kingston. 338-5184.
Film FantaCon Presents the 45th Anniversary Cast Reunion of “Night of the Living Dead” 7:30pm. Q & A panel discussion with “Night of the Living Dead” stars John Russo, Russ Streiner, Judy O’Dea, Kyra Schon, George Kosana and Judith Ridley, followed by showing of the original 1968 film. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Acoustic Sludge 9pm. Shea O’Brien’s, New Paltz. 255-1438.
Jeff & Bob’s Second Friday Jam 8pm. Original tunes and jams. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Joan Osborne 8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 454-3388. John Scofield 8pm. $65/$45. Jazz improviser whose music generally falls somewhere between post-bop, funk edged jazz, and R & B. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306.
SPL Evening Book Club 7pm. The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Music 2013 Gala: Taconic Opera Takes a Walk on the Yellow Brick Road 7pm. $250/$200/$150. Featuring a sumptuous meal and entertainment from its top operatic artists. Proceeds support Taconic Opera’s 2013-2014 Season: Bellini’s Norma, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Rossini’s Italian Girl in Algiers, and more. CV Rich Mansion, White Plains. (855) 886-7372. David Kraai 7pm. $5. Acoustic singer/songwriter. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. An Evening With Tom Rush 8pm. $40-$60. He helped shape the folk revival in the ’60s and the renaissance of the ’80s and ’90s, his music having left its stamp on generations of artists. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (860) 542-5531.
Mark Hummel’s Blues Harp Blowout & Little Walter Tribute 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Oneohtrix Point Never 8pm. Electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never brings cinematic scope, orchestral textures, and detail driven production for an audiovisual performance of material from his new album. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921. Open Mike with Jess Erick 8:45pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Workshops & Classes When the Road Gets Tough 7-9pm. $20/$15 in advance. With Ray Bergen PhD. This class is open to couples or singles interested in exploring the core relationship drama in which we all participate. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
FRIDAY 13 Fairs & Festivals Woodstock Nights 6pm. Woodstock’s own version of a night market. Businesses will offer special night time deals, restaurants will create small bites or special menu items, artists will be recruited to create pop-up art shows and musicians invited to perform. Woodstock Nights, Woodstock. 594-6518.
Film Art 21 Free Film Evening 7pm. “Balance” with Sara Sze, Rackstraw Downes, and Robert Mangold. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. Friday the 13th 7pm. $13. Film screening and live concert with the band First Jason starring Ari Lehman. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. West Side Story 8:30pm. Rotary Park, Kingston. Kingstonparksmovies.wordpress.com.
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Oktoberfest Celebration 12-6pm. German foods, music, crafts and beer. See website for music schedule. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. 786-2701.
Film Zombie Fest 7pm. $13. Featuring three zombie movies- Zombies, Night of the Living Dead, and Return of the Living Dead. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Health & Wellness Baby Yoga 11am-noon. $16.50. Non-walking babies —including newborns through crawlers, along with their caregivers, establish early connections to yoga, body movement, and breath awareness. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Toddler-Preschool Yoga 12:15-1:15pm. $16.50. Toddlers through age 4 and their care-givers establish early connections to yoga, body movement, and breath awareness. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
Kids & Family Babysitting Preparedness Course 9am. $30. Course covers safety in the home, poison control and what to do in a medical emergency while caring for infants and young children. This covers
Hudson Valley Wine and Food Fest Foodies unite—the 12th-annual celebration of everything from gourmet hummus to handmade mozzarella, with hundreds of varieties of wine to wash it down with, is coming to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds on September 7 and 8. In addition to over 150 wineries and hundreds of specialty food and market vendors, this year’s festival will introduce two new components: local microbreweries and a dozen food trucks, like Yum Yum Noodle Bar and Black Forest Flammkuchen. While you’re browsing the booths and feasting on some good eats, you might even get your 15 minutes of fame; Celebrity chef Vincent Tropepe will film an episode of his new reality television show “Raw” at the event. Throughout the day, Tropepe, along with other chefs and certified wine specialists, will also host cooking demonstrations and wine-tasting seminars. (845) 658-7181; Hudsonvalleywinefest.com.
Literary & Books
Catskill Mountain Renaissance Consort 12:15pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.
live music. Advance tickets only. Dutchess Hops, LaGrangeville. Dutchesshops.com/.
LIttle Caesar 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Rhett Tyler 9pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Ted Daniels, IBMC, and the King Oliver Project 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Woodstock Nights 10pm. Peter Cody plays piano. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Celebrate Kinship Families 3-6pm. Sponsored by Relatives As Parents Program. RAPP staff and volunteers will offer educational activities, refreshments and a guided tour of the park. Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 677-8223 ext. 137.
Theater Bill W. and Dr. Bob 8pm. $35/$30/seniors and student discount. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. Camelot 8pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops & Classes Vegan Cupcakes 6-8pm. Guest chef: Maresa of Sweet Maresa’s Upstate Cupcakes. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.
SATURDAY 14 Dance Collaborative Dance Event 3:30pm. Experience the unique artist collaboration between sculptor Raquel Rabinovich and dancer Julie Manna. Lighthouse Park, Port Ewen. (914) 475-4340.
Fairs & Festivals Hudson Valley Hoptember Harvest Fest 11:30am-5pm. $75 VIP/$50. Featuring tastings from 15 local breweries and distilleries, local foods, and
basic first aid and Friends and Family CPR. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 475-9742. Ecology Walk at Hawthorne Valley Farm: Fall Flowers in Field and Forest 10:30am. Join ecologists from the Farmscape Ecology Program for a leisurely walk through the forest and meadows to appreciate the diversity of fall-blooming wildflowers on Hawthorne Valley Farm. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent. (518) 672-7994. Penny Social 5:30pm. Doors open at 5:30pm. Calling starts at 7:00pm. Church of the Holy Cross, Kingston. 331-6796.
Lectures & Talks William Seaton: Avant-Garde 2pm. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459.
Literary & Books Gernot Wagner 6pm. Author of But Will the Planet Notice? How Smart Economics Can Save the World. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/ James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079. Gernot Wagner, Author & Economist: But Will the Planet Notice 6pm. Book about positive economic solutions to the issue of global warming. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. Nan.goldennotebook@gmail.com. Kingston’s Second Saturday Spoken Word 7pm. $5/42.50 with open mike. Poet Anne Gorrick and author Darcie Whelan Kortan featured readers. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884. Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading 2pm. Featuring Greg Correll and Tyler Wilhelm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 679-7420.
Music Sacred Music Sacred Dance 7pm. $20. Performance by the Tibetan monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery. Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a means of promoting
world peace and healing through sacred performing art. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844. Chris Walsh 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466. Dave Stryker & Blue to the Bone 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Dennis Newberg 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. An Evening with Martin Sexton 7 & 9:30pm. $60/$45/$35. Covering the American musical landscape distilling soul, gospel, R&B, country and blues. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306. Jeremy Bergstein and Burnell Pines Album Release Party 8pm. $10. With Ben Perowsky. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079. Keller Williams 9pm. $55/$45/$35. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Pitchfork Militia 9pm. A blend of country, blues, rock and punk. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Steve Blacl 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Violin and Guitar Concert: Bob Israel and Daniel Morris 4:30-6:30pm. $10/$25 families. Melodies from 19th Century landscape artist Frederic E. Church’s music collection, as well as an array of folk, classical, and modern musical selections. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 109. The Wiyos 9pm. Unique blend of early swing jazz, rural folk, old-time blues and Appalachian music. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Tours Second Saturday of every month. $25/$10 children and members/$5 members’ children. Take a ferry from the Henry Hudson or Athens Riverfront Park to Emily Brunner’s former home: the 139-year-old lighthouse where she and her family lived until 1949. She’ll guide you through the structure where you can see lighthouse relics, like old family photos and the tower’s original fog bell. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. Hudsonathenslighthouse.org. Rhinecliff Fire Co Fifth Annual Chili Cook-Off 3-7pm. Featuring chili contest and field games. Rhinecliff Firehouse, Rhinecliff. 876-5738.
Outdoors & Recreation 4th Annual Ulster County Creek Week Through September 22. Ulster County’s 4th annual Creek Week seeks to encourage the enjoyment of water and watersheds in throughout the county. You can expect to find a variety of events all centered on one of our most precious natural resources. Ulster County Department of Environment, Kingston. 340-3522. North Bay Paddle 2:30-4:30pm. Journey to the North Bay and see the Greenport Conservation Area. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. (518) 392-5252 ext. 211. Open Days Program Garden Tour: Saugerties 10am. $5 per garden/children 12 & under free. Explore two private gardens in Saugerties, open to the public for self-guided tours to benefit the Garden Conservancy. Riverhill - Garden of Joe & Tamara DiMattio, Saugerties. (888) 842-2442.
Sports 31st Annual Croquet Tournament 9am. $22. A two-day, double-elimination tournament on Clermont’s historic Croquet Grounds. Novice and advanced divisions available Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-6622.
Theater Bill W. and Dr. Bob 8pm. $35/$30/seniors and student discount. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops & Classes Health Quest Babysitting Safety Course 9am-3pm. $30. Ages 12+. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001. Invasive Plant Control for Homeowners 10am-noon. $27/$22 members. Instructor: Jack Sprano. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Reinventing History Call for times. Two day workshop by Mark Klett. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Stalking Wild Mushrooms in the Berkshires 1-3pm. $27/$22 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Teen Geek Squad 10am-2pm. Get help with your technology problems. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
theater bill w. and dr. bob
Paul Cowell
Steve Brady, from Shadowland's 2010 production of "Yankee Tavern," returns to the theater to star in "Bill W. and Dr. Bob" September 13 to 31.
How Dry I Am There was a time when alcoholism wasn’t necessarily an ism. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the abuse of alcohol was viewed primarily as a social ill, an attitude that gave way to Prohibition and the temperance movements of the era. Addiction was regarded as a moral failing, not a sickness with a prospective remedy. Becoming sober was a lone journey back to virtue that was often unsuccessful. This month, the Shadowland Theatre presents “Bill W. and Dr. Bob,” the story of William Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith—the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous who offered an alternative to this doomed narrative of the moral pit of dipsomania. Janet Surrey and Samuel Shem, two psychiatrists working in recovery, decided 20 years ago to research the two men and create a theatrical portrayal of their lives. Their aim is similar to Brendan Burke’s, the play’s director and Shadowland’s artistic director. He says, “Part of our mission is to be socially relevant. This play is an important story that is pertinent to people’s lives—it’s a play that will have people talking about alcoholism after it ends.” Bill W. and Dr. Bob find themselves hopelessly down-and-out, with nothing but their own resolve to rescue them from their habit. Wilson, once a successful stockbroker, loses everything in the Crash of 1929. Though during this time finding a job was difficult for most Americans, his situation was worsened by his perpetual drunkenness. He sets out to sober up, and heads to Akron, Ohio, to look for work. “He has the temptation [to drink] one night at his hotel,” explains Burke. “He reaches out to a woman named Henrietta from the Oxford Group [a precursor to AA] and says, ‘I need to speak to another drunk.’ She puts him in touch with Dr. Bob.”
A surgeon who performs procedures drunkenly or, at the very least, hung over, Smith might appear to be more of a detriment to Bill W. than a source of support—the blind leading the blind. “This was the first time that this idea came about,” notes Burke. The revolutionary notion? Addicts can actually help one another. “There’s a moment when Bill W. tells Dr. Bob that his doctor called his alcoholism a disease—he tells him it’s something with progression, symptoms, and potentially a cure. Dr. Bob had never seen that perspective before, and it definitely represents a turning point for his character,” Burke says. The duo guide each other through what becomes AA’s 12-step program, soon realizing that they can replicate it to help others. However, alcoholism’s effects aren’t exclusive to the drinker—both Bill W.'s and Dr. Bob’s wives suffer the consequences of their husbands’ sickness. “Bill W. and his wife, Lois, aren’t able to bear children so they try to adopt a child. But they’re ultimately denied permission to do that because of his disease,” says Burke. Lois and Dr. Bob’s wife, Anne, are the only other two characters in the play. They add another layer to the show’s plot as they use their marital difficulties as the impetus for Al-Anon, a support group for the friends and families of alcoholics. “Most people, one way or another, have had their lives impacted by alcohol,” says Burke. “For me, theater has to have a 3-D impact. It has to be accessible to people who watch it. This is a universal story of recovering, healing—and it’s a great play.” “Bill W. and Dr. Bob” hits the stage at Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville from September 13 to 31, with Galway McCullough as Bill W. and Steve Brady taking on the role of Dr. Bob. Ticket prices start at $30. (845) 647-5511; Shadowlandtheatre.org. —Marie Solis 9/13 ChronograM forecast 123
SUNDAY 15 Dance West Coast Swing Dance 6-9pm. $8/$6 FT students. Dance to DJ’d music. Lesson at 5:30pm Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. Hudsonvalleydance.org.
Fairs & Festivals New York State Craft Beer Experience noon. $65. Visit ten progressive beer tasting stations. Each station will also offer a farm-to-table culinary pairing created by Chef Kroner. Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro, Rhinebeck. 876-3330. Oktoberfest Celebration 12-6pm. German foods, music, crafts and beer. See website for music schedule. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. 786-2701.
Health & Wellness Meditation, Intention and Zero Point Field 2pm. $20. Ricarda O’Conner takes you on a lively exploration of consciousness and intention: how to set it, release it, and hold space for it to manifest. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Kids & Family Children & Families: Aquatic Creature Feature 1pm. Join Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Educators for a hands-on exploration of Storm King’s pond life. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115.
Camelot 8pm and 3pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
may stay to ask questions about, or discuss your experience. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
Workshops & Classes
Workshops & Classes
The Power of Bird Medicine 2-4pm. $20/$15. With author Evan Pritchard. Explore and discuss how Algonquin people (Native Americans of our region and their descendants) receive messages from spirit in times of need through birds. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Painting the Living Landscapes of Frederic Church 3pm. Maine artist Evelyn Dunphy will teach a 3-day watercolor workshop in Olana’s autumnal landscape. Dunphy will have daily informative demonstrations and address personal artist techniques. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 109.
Clubs & Organizations
Health & Wellness
ABC’s of Flower Arranging 7pm. Speaker: Erna Gundlach- past president of the New Paltz Garden Club and accredited master judge since 1974, is both a FGCNYS and NGC Life Member and a Master Gardener in Ulster County New Paltz Garden Club, New Paltz. 255-8856.
Able Together 6:30-8:30pm. Third Wednesday of every month. A support group focusing on helping to support mothers with disabilities and families who have children with disabilities Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
A Day of Healing with One Light One Touch 10am-5pm. $150. With Nancy Plumer, MS. Learn how to apply healing energies and clear emotional and
Iza Trapani: Little Miss Muffett 3pm. Book launch party. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Music Greg Westhoff’s Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Healthcare is a Human Right Benefit Concert 9pm. Uncle Funk and many other local bands. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. The KC Four & More noon. The Jazz at the Falls series. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Maggie Rothwell 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.
Workshops & Classes
Body, Mind and Spirit. Private Residence, Stone Ridge.
Dirty Girls: A Crafty Night Out Third Wednesday of every month, 6:30pm. $35 includes materials. Surround yourself with women, make a mess, get those creative juices flowing and emerge with something beautiful. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. 679-6132.
687-2252.
Kids & Family Clay Shop for Kids
Vocal Concert 2:30pm. $10. Vocal Concert Featuring Paulette Sibert (Sop), Celestine Campbell (Piano). Familiar classics & memorable spirituals. Church of the Holy Cross, Kingston. 331-6796.
things such as mugs, castles, wall hangings, animals
4th Annual Bowling for Brains Tournament 4-6pm. $20. Proceeds benefiting the Brain Aneurysm Foundation. Hoe Bowl, Kingston. 399-3581.
Rich Rosenthal Quartet 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
physical blockages and bring greater balance to your
Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. $7/$5 members. Sign ups at 3:30pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits
Music
Hoptember Harvestfest On September 14, join Lagrangeville’s Dutchess Hops Farm for the Hudson Valley’s first annual hops celebration. Ticket holders can taste samples from over 19 Hudson Valley breweries—including Kingston’s Keegan Ales and Chatham Brewing Company—that use hops from Dutchess Hops Farm, the first commercial hop farm in the Hudson Valley with four acres and 12 varieties of aromatic hops. A family-style BBQ featuring meats from Dutchess County farms includes hop-smoked pulled pork, bratwurst, and a pig roast, all smoked up by The Bacon Brothers—the winners of last year’s Hudson Valley Ribfest. Other specialty foods to pair with local brews include hop cheese from Sprout Creek Farm in Poughkeepsie and hopped-up certified organic maple sweet desserts by Crown Maple in Dover Plains. Bluegrass band Buck-Eyed Rooster will have beer-lovers hopping around all day. All proceeds benefit the Hudson Valley Hops Initiative to help establish the Hudson Valley Beer Trail and the Farmer’s Hop Harvester, which aim to cultivate support for American craft beer culture. (845) 456-1227; Dutchesshops.com
Literary & Books
Sunday Brunch: The Compact 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Kingston Paranormal Society 6pm. Christopher Di Cesare will be the guest speaker. He will discuss an experience he had with a spirit in the 80’s. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
The Back School Program 6-8pm. A simple approach to understanding back injuries, what causes them and their prevention. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 871-3427.
Youth Ensemble Theater $600. A pre-professional theater institute for middle and high school students, where emerging actors engage in a dynamic and intensive process to create and perform an original contemporary play. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 389-5889.
Miguel Zenon’s Rhythm Collective 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Lectures & Talks
Health & Wellness
Peter and the Wolf 2pm. $6/$4 students and seniors. National Marionette Series. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-1481.
Marji Zintz 8pm. Acoustic. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
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4-5pm. $125/$110 members. Weekly through Oct. 25. Students will learn hand-building techniques and make and more. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Literary & Books Murder and Mayhem in Ulster County 7pm. Authors AJ schenkman and Elizabeth Werlau will be at the library to talk about their brand new book.
Adult Writers’ Workshop 7pm. $90/$60 members. A practical workshop for adult writers. Explore ideas or experiment with works-inprogress. Material will be read in class with moderated peer feedback. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Passion for Plants—Study Group: Grasses in the Garden 10am-noon. $25. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
THURSDAY 19
Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Music
Clubs & Organizations
Volunter Training for High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center 2pm. Learn to assist people with special needs through equine assisted activities! Ages 14+. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.
Mid Hudson Women’s September 2013 Open Rehearsals
Hooks & Needles, Yarns & Threads 10am-2pm. Third Thursday of every month. Drop-in for an informal social gathering Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
Pets
Health & Wellness
Outdoors & Recreation
Pet 1st Aid, CPR & Disaster Preparedness Course for Dogs and Cats $40. Course provides instruction for basic pet first aid, choking maneuvers, CPR techniques and how to be prepared for your pet in the event of a disaster. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 475-9742.
Sports 31st Annual Croquet Tournament 9am. $22. A two-day, double-elimination tournament on Clermont’s historic Croquet Grounds. Novice and advanced divisions available Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-6622.
7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.
TUESDAY 17
Food & Wine
Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge.
Stocking a Healthy Vegan Pantry 6pm. $45. In this class, we’ll review pantry staples, herbs and spices, perishable and non-perishable foods that make up many delicious vegan recipes. Join the discussion and taste simple and delicious vegan recipes. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.
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Health & Wellness
Spirituality
Beginner Mediation 6pm. Learn the simple basics of meditation so that you can relax, let go of stress, obsessive thoughts, fear, worry and negative thinking. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Community Holistic Healthcare Day 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic healthcare modalities and practitioners are available free to the community.
Channeled Guidance to Further Your Journey 6:30pm. Third Tuesday of every month. $20/$15. We are all on a spiritual journey and need guidance
Theater
guidance is from a spirit guide who has distance from
Holistic Self-care Class 7-8:30pm. Family Traditions, Stone Ridge. 377-1021.
Bill W. and Dr. Bob 2pm. $35/$30/seniors and student discount. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
our worldly cares and who is understanding, wise,
Music
loving, compassionate, supportive, and above all,
Casey Erdmann and So Brown 8pm. $15. Join us for a night with two singer/
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on that journey. An excellent way to receive that
empowering. When the formal session is over, you
songwriters who are both celebrating the release of their debut albums! With the help of Kickstarter and endless support from local artists and musicians, Casey Erdmann was able to record her Debut album at the Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, NY with producer/world renowned guitarist Earl Slick. Listeners will also get a chance to hear the music of So Brown’s Point Legere, an album inspired by the physical and emotional landscapes of coastal Alabama. An all-star cast of 14 musicians appear on So’s debut album including grammy winner Norah Jones. Rock & Rye Tavern, New Paltz. 633-8015. Open Rock Jam & Band Showcase 8:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Preservation Hall Jazz Band 8pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Slam Allen 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Safe Harbors Annual Gala 6pm. Honoring Tricia Haggerty Wenz. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. 561-2327.
Theater Bill W. and Dr. Bob 8pm. $35/$30/seniors and student discount. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops & Classes Cooking and Remembering Workshop 6:30-9pm. $600. An innovative 10-week workshop hosted by Grief & Bereavement Specialist, Peter Gevisser, designed to help individuals move through grief and loss by cooking and remembering. School of Jellyfish, Beacon. Cookingandremembering.com. Library Knitters 7-8pm. Third Thursday of every month. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Meet Your Guides 7-9pm. $20/$15. With psychic medium Adam Bernstein. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Stocking a Healthy Vegan Pantry 6-7:30pm. $45. Instructor: CAS’s Chef Linda. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.
FRIDAY 20 Film Funny Girl 7pm. $8/$6 members/$5 children. The story of popular vaudevillian Fanny Brice, from her humble beginnings to international stardom, is filled with humor, wit, romance and song. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Kids & Family Kingston Night Market Third Friday of every month, 6pm. Parisian-style antique market, food & drink, artist meet & greet, historic tours, garden tour, photo booth, free tastings, music, art shows, WDST giveaways and more. Rondout Waterfront, Kingston. 338-8473.
Lectures & Talks Barbara Lockwood 4pm. Barbara (Biszick) Lockwood, an award-winning writer and SUNY New Paltz alum, will speak about her life in music, business, research and the arts. Nadia & Max Shepard Recital Hall, New Paltz. 257-2700. Woodworking in the Canal Era 7pm. $5. An interactive lecture by Bill Merchant and Steve Schneider. D&H Canal Museum, High Falls. 687-9311.
Music Acoustic Guitar Virtuoso Leo Kottke 8pm. $45. Blend of jazz, blues, folk. Pre-show wine tasting at 7:15pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. ASK for Music September 8pm. $6. Hear some of the finest singer songwriters in the Hudson Valley. This month features Brianne Chasanoff, Dick Vincent and Dave Kearney. Hosted by Michael and Emmy Clarke. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331. Aztec Two Step 8pm. $30/$25 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Jamey Johnson 7pm. $30. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Judy Collins 8pm. $80/$60. Interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306. Kath Bloom and Linda Draper 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006. Paul Green School of Rock Recitals Call for times. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079. Reality Check 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
ArtisticDirector: Director: Christian Christian Steiner Artistic Steiner May 25
6pm
Matt Haimovitz cello Christopher O’Riley piano
June 8
8pm
Sebastian Bäverstam cello Yannick Rafalimanana piano
June 22
8pm
Soovin Kim, Jessica Lee violins Ed Arron cello Maurycy Banaszek viola Christian Steiner piano
July 27
8pm
Miró String Quartet
August 17 8pm
Vassily Primakov & Natalia Lavrova duo piano
Sept. 7
8pm
duo parnas with Vincent Adragna, piano
Sept. 21
6pm
Brentano String Quartet
Performances at Darrow School in New Lebanon, NY www.tannerypondconcerts.org or 888-820-1696
Robert W. Weir and the Poetry of Art
Robert W. Weir, View of the Hudson River, 1864, 32 x 48 inches, oil on canvas, West Point Museum Collection, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
In the Exhibition Gallery at Boscobel House & Gardens August 11 - November 30, 2013
Exhibit is open during regular business hours and is free with paid House or Grounds admission. 1601 Route 9D
Garrison, NY
845.265.3638
Boscobel.org
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Robert Capowski with Cynthia Phillips 7pm. Acoustic guitars and vocalizing of original songs. Bread & Bottle, Red Hook. 758-3499. Tan 7:30pm. Opening act JB3 Trio. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Cornell Copoerative Extention D.C. Centennial Celebration and Chicken Barbecue 3-7pm. $15/$12 children. Featuring games, activities, exhibits and more. Dutchess County Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. Ccedutchess.org.
Theater Camelot 8pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Open Core 7pm. French artist Julien Maire revisits 16th century public demonstrations of anatomic dissections with a performance in which he deconstructs cameras. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Workshops & Classes Seize the Night Call for times. Three day workshop by Gabriel Biderman. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
SATURDAY 21
Kids & Family Ann Miceli Teed: The Shooting Star Express 10:30am. Make a voyage to this land of imagination with music and fun. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Bent Fest 2013 2pm. $12/$8 children/under 6 free/$25 family. Features live music, picnicking in the meadow, river and nature walks, food vendors, kids’ activities, bird watching, raffle prizes and more. Audubon Center at Bent of the River, Southbury, Connecticut. (203) 264-5098. BentFest 2013 2pm. $12/$8 child/$25 family. Family festival featuring live music, picknicking, hiking, bird watch, nature walks, food vendors, kids’ activities, raffle prizes and more. Audubon Center at Bent of the River, Southbury, Connecticut. (203) 264-5098. PSAT Practice Test 10:30am-1:30pm. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-1212.
Lectures & Talks Artists Talk: Screen Play 2pm. With featured Hudson Valley 2013 artists Shanti Grumbine, Jonathan Wang, and Harvey Weiss. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/museum. Kingston Paranormal Society 2pm. Donna Parish-Bischoff is the author of The Lee Avenue Haunting and coming soon Growing Up
Art Galleries & Exhibits
Art at Elm Lake 2pm. The barn debut launches with the opening reception showing three local artists, Daniela Cooney, George Centamore, and Joan Kehlenbeck. The artists will be present during the reception. The Barn, Middletown. 697-4291.
Comedy A Conversation with Bobcat Goldthwait, Hosted by Dick Cavett 7:30pm. Woodstock Comedy Festival. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Dance New Paltz Ballet Theatre “Nutcracker” Auditions 3:30pm. Girls ages 12+, on pointe. New Paltz School of Ballet, New Paltz. 255-0044.
Fairs & Festivals Hillsdale Arts Festival 10am-4pm. Over 40 artists and performers will transform the village of Hillsdale in to a giant arts venue. Downtown Hillsdale, Hillsdale. Artscolumbia.org.
Oktoberfest Celebration 12-6pm. German foods, music, crafts and beer. See website for music schedule. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. 786-2701. Repair Café 10am. A free meeting place to bring a beloved but broken item for repair. Mechanical, electric & electronic, clothing, things made of wood, dolls & stuffed animals, jewelry & digital devices. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. (646) 302-5835.
Food & Wine “Gala At Grinnell” Grinnell Library Annual Fundraising Event 5:30-8pm. $35/$30 in advance. An elegant evening at the historic library featuring live music, beer and wine, as well as delicious hors d’oeuvres by Simply Gourmet Caterers & My Brother Bobby’s Salsa. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428. Hudson River Craft Beer Festival 12:30-5pm. A celebration of New York State microbreweries craft beer, local artisans, live entertainment, tasty food and our Hudson Valley heritage Riverfront Park, Beacon. Hudsonrivercraftbeerfestival.com. Olanafest 2013 5-7pm. $115/$90 members/$250 VIP. Ten outstanding restaurants recreate Church works of art for a fun and tasty bite. Incredible views, fabulous food, and all for a great cause. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 x 102. Tomato Taste-Off 10am. Tomato Taste-Off. Calling all tomatoes. Bring your best tomatoes in the categories of Tastiest, Weightiest, and Most Unusual to win prizes and acclaim at the Saugerties Farmers' Market by 11am. Chef Demo for ideas about what to do with a bumper tomato crop; recipes and free tastes. Saugerties Farmers’ Market, Saugerties. (917) 453-2082.
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Presenting Half the Catalyst String Quartet 7:30pm. $20/$70 series pass. Clarion Concerts in Columbia County Leaf Peeper Concert “Presenting Half the Catalyst String Quartet” will feature the music of Fuchs, Roussel, Beethoven, and Ron Carter, with Sanford Allen on violin, Christopher Jenkins on viola, and Karlos Rodriguez on cello. Hillsdale Grange, North Hillsdale. (518) 329-5613. Dave Keyes Band CD Release Party 9pm. Blues. Turning Point Café, Piermont. 359-1089. Eric Newman 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Jazz Vespers 5:30pm. Featuring Sheila Jordan, Cameron Brown, Rob Scheps, Tony Jefferson, and Tom McCoy. 1st Presbyterian Church of Philipstown, Cold Spring. Presbychurchcoldspring.org. John Abercrombie Trio 8pm. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. John Coltrane Tribute Band 7:30pm. Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. 265-5537. Karl Allweier 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Marji Zintz, Dave Kearney and Don Sparks 7pm. Acoustic. Joma Café, West Shokan. 251-1114.
Rosendale Zombie Fest The undead will come to life in the town’s fourth-annual event honoring these fantastical flesh-eating friends on September 28. Come dressed in your drabbest clothes or get yourself a pallid makeover at Captain Cruella Moxham’s ZomBie makeup booth and creep your way over to Willow Kiln Park for a parade down Main Street. Musician Fre Atlast leads the march with her drum ensemble, Birds of a Feather. Later, head back to the park for a costume contest to see if your soulless-corpse look makes the cut, and listen to some tunes from local bands and DJs, including Gospel-funk group Voodelic. End the celebration with a screening of the ‘60s horror flick I Eat Your Skin at the Rosendale Theatre. Also, don’t forget to bring your nonperishables—canned goods, not your fellow zombies—to donate to the local food pantry. Redhopeproductions@yahoo.com.
Artist Talk for "Gimme Shelter" Exhibit 4-6pm. Artists talk about their work in the outdoor sculpture exhibition on the grounds of White Pines. Byrdcliffe Theater, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock. 679-2097.
Hudson Valley Apple festival 9am. $4 14+. Family fun including hayride, craft show, food and beverage, apple cart derby race, baking contest, children’s games and firworks. Palatine Park, Germantown. (518) 537-6687 ext. 301.
Chuck Davis 8:30pm. Acoustic. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466.
Paranormal. She will be discussing her family’s horrific experience as they lived through a real life paranormal phenomenon. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Mid Hudson Women’s September 2013 Open Rehearsals 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.
Literary & Books
The O’Jays 9pm. With a 15-piece orchestra and special guest BaseCamp. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
A Slant of Light, Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley 4pm. Welcome some of the writers who contributed to the anthology for an afternoon of poetry and prose readings. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000. Koren Zailckas: Mother, Mother 2pm. An electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
Music 1 Love Reggae Woodstock..Playing for Change Call for times. Authentic Jamaican food available. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. 1st Annual Founders’ Day Concert 8pm. $50/$45 in advance and members/$40 members in advance. Honors the vision and passion of the past presidents of our Board of Directors. Helping us to celebrate will be banjo legend Tony Trischka. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Apollo Trio 4:30pm. $25/$20. Music More 2013 Festival. New Marlborough Village Association Meeting House, New Marlborough, MA. (413) 229-2785. Brentano String Quartet 6pm. As part of the Concerts at Tannery Pond 2013 Tannery Pond, New Lebanon. (888) 820-1696. The Bush Brothers 9pm. The popular Bush Brothers return to the Café with their signature style of bluegrass and country. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Charlie Thomas’ Drifters 8pm. 50’s and 60’s rock. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333. Chris Bergson Band 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Paul Green School of Rock Recitals Call for times. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Golf Tournament to Benefit Marbletown Girl Scout Troop #60175 8am. $100. A benefit for the Stone Ridge Girl Scout Troop #60175 as they work towards their goal of studying ecology and sustainability in communities. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. ReCycle, ReCreate, ReImagine 5pm. $20. Presented by Columbia County Habitat for Humanity. Works by 32 Hudson Valley artists who were invited to create art by recycling, recreating and reimagining ordinary building materials or other items they chose from Habitat’s ReStore to be auctioned. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4747. Third Annual Cupcake-A-Palooza 12-4pm. $5. Hosted by Safe Harbors. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.
Theater Julien Maire: To Sublimate 7pm. $13/$6 students. Lecture-performance by French artist Julien Maire, stages experiments in search of a “blurry matter” closely related to speed and optics, philosophy, and mathematics. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Workshops & Classes Extending the Season’s Harvest: Growing Vegetables for Four Seasons 10am-3pm. $50/$40. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Introto Photographic and Encaustic Process Call for times. Three day workshop with Fawn Potach. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
The Nude in Nature 10am-4:30pm. $290. Through September 22. Watercolor workshop with Naomi Campbell. The Art Students League of New York Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263. Teen Geek Squad 10am-2pm. Get help with your technology problems. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
SUNDAY 22 Art Galleries & Exhibits Art at Elm Lake 2pm. The barn debut launches with the opening reception showing three local artists, Daniela Cooney, George Centamore, and Joan Kehlenbeck. The artists will be present during the reception. The Barn, Middletown. 697-4291.
Dance Dance Class Sampler 7pm. $75/$60 members. With Evan MacDonald. Different styles of dance will be covered. Two four week sessions. No partner necessary. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. New Paltz Ballet Theatre “Nutcracker” Auditions $25. Audition registration for girls ages 7 to 9 at 11:30 AM; girls age 9 to 11 and boys age 7+ at 12:30 PM. New Paltz School of Ballet, New Paltz. 255-0044.
Fairs & Festivals Harvest Festival, Latin Style 3-8pm. $5/children free. Music and dancing with Andes Manta; tamale contest, fresh local food, family games and more. Amenia Town Hall Gymnasium, Amenia. 675-8045. Hillsdale Arts Festival 10am-4pm. Over 40 artists and performers will transform the village of Hillsdale in to a giant arts venue. Downtown Hillsdale, Hillsdale. Artscolumbia. org. Oktoberfest Celebration 12-6pm. German foods, music, crafts and beer. See website for music schedule. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. 786-2701.
Food & Wine Fall Harvest Cooking Class 5:15-8:15pm. Thea Harvey will be hosting a Harvest Feast cooking class. The menu will include fresh local foods from farm stands and Fleishers Butchers. Family Traditions, Stone Ridge. 377-1021.
Health & Wellness Death Café Fourth Sunday of every month, 2:30pm. Sponsored by the Circle of Friends for the Dying. Part of a global movement to increase the awareness of death to help people make the most of their (finite) life. Hudson Coffee Traders, Kingston. (914) 466-5763. Qi and Psoas Release 2pm. $20. This workshop gives you a effective way to relieve lower back pain, neck, shoulder pain, GI disturbances, general tension and stress, and emotional stress and trauma as well. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Kids & Family Babysitting Preparedness Course 9am. $30. Covers safety in the home, poison control and what to do in a medical emergency while caring for infants and young children. This covers basic first aid and Friends and Family CPR. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. Health-quest.org. Children & Families: String Sculpture 1pm. Have fun creating an enormous string sculpture with Free Style Arts. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115. Community ReMIX Day noon. Celebrate the art of collage. Hear, see and learn about what makes collage an intriguing medium. Workshop, demo, music, and cretae your own art. The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah. (914) 232-9555. little painters: all about color 10:30am. $48 + tax (3 class series), $20 + tax (dropin, if space is available). grab your little one, put on your painting clothes and let’s draw, trace, stamp, paint, spray and splatter with color! this three-part parent-child workshop series is all about exploring colors, and most importantly, having fun as we create together! throughout the series, you and your child will play as a team to create a series of large, collaborative paintings. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. 679-6132.
Literary & Books Iza Trapani: Little Miss Muffett 3pm. Trapani presents her new children’s book. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Music The Danbury Mad Hatter Barbershop Chorus 2pm. The BAMM Concert Series presents this a cappella barbershop, Broadway and doo-wop group. Ages 12+. Mahopac Library, Mahopac. 628-2009 ext. 100.
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Charles & Bernard 1pm. Aocoustic. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Last Good Tooth, Breakfast in Fur, & Andrea Tomasi 2pm. Enjoy a fall afternoon of outdoor music surrounded by sculpture. Organized with Team Love Records. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115. Framing the Viewshed: Groundswell 2-6pm. Site-specific works by more than a dozen artists in sound, text, installation, and movement will reflect and react to Olana as a vast environmental work. Audiences can explore Olana’s undiscovered roads and iconic views as they encounter each project site. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 109. Hinder and Candlebox 7pm. $29.50. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Saints of Swing with Rene Bailey 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. South Kent School Benefit Concert 4pm. $40/$30 in advance. Proceeds from the concert will help enhance South Kent School’s music program. Featuring Sarah Sung Lee, Kyung Hak Yu, John Arida, Jacqueline Bolier. Saint Andrew’s Church, Kent, CT. (860) 927-3539. Toad The Wet Sprocket 7:30pm. $75/$55. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Women’s Studio Workshop 6th Annual Gala 5:30pm. Honoring Barbara Leoff Burge and Laurel & Tim Sweeney. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. Wsworkshop.org.
Outdoors & Recreation The Delight of Flight, the Joy of Puppets 2pm. $2-$10. Kite festival followed by the Redwing Blackbird Puppet Theater presenting Jack and the Beanstalk. Brook Farm, New Paltz. 255-1052. Hurley’s Legends and Lore Walking Tour 2pm. $5/under 12 free. Part of the Hudson River Ramble. Hurley Heritage Society, Hurley. 338-1661.
Spirituality Ashtar Interplanetary Guided Journey 2-4pm. $20/$15. Join us as Commander Aleon introduces us to Ashtar Command, a galactic spiritual body of great divine love here to assist planet earth. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Erica’s Monthly Spiritual Pregnancy & Adoption Circle Fourth Sunday of every month, 6pm. Gathering of currently pregnant or adoptive mothers-to-be to help awaken the relationship between you and your child. Together we will explore and practice ways to intuitively connect with this being. Reservations required Wyld Acres, New Paltz. 845 255-5896. Psychic Sylvia Browne 7:30pm. $60. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Theater Camelot 8pm and 3pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops & Classes Opening the Eyes to Nature: A Weekend of Herbal Discovery 10am. $80. Join master herbalist Julia Graves at this two-day workshop. Learn to look at herbs and healing in the living, energetic way that once was so common, focusing on the doctrine of signatures, or the language of plants. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent. (518) 672-7500.
MONDAY 23 Fairs & Festivals Third Annual Volunteer Fair 5-7pm. Bertelsmann Campus Center, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7453.
Workshops & Classes Awakening Soul Memory: Journeying Through Time Into Timelessness 7-9pm. $20/$15 in advance. A workshop and meditation with Jennifer Weiss. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
TUESDAY 24 Health & Wellness
Music
Film
Jimmy Cliff 8pm. $70. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Yamim Noraim (Fearful Days): A Trilogy, A Video Presentation with Artist talk and Reception 5:30 & 7:30pm. Free with General Admission. Daphna Shalom’s video trilogy title “Yamim Noraim (Fearful Days),” was made as a “time-specific” piece referring to the introspective and prayerful Hebrew month of Elul. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.
Tower of Power 6pm. $55, $75. No matter whom you may be, where you live, or your taste in music, Tower of Power will find you. And once that happens, it’s all over. You will come to believe not only that soul music is the salvation of us all, but that Tower of Power is one of those rare bands who can claim to be the real deal, 100 proof, agedto-perfection, ground zero Soul. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits
Health & Wellness
Healthy Choices NY Workshop Series Open House 2-3pm. The workshop meets once a week for 6 weeks as a small group to help provide support for caregivers through discussion and teach practical ways to deal with issues like pain and stress. The Annex at NorthEast-Millerton Library, Millerton. (518) 610-1331.
Sleep Divine Yoga Nidra 6:30pm. Fourth Thursday of every month. $10 nonmembers. Participate in gentle movement to relax the body. Allow the guided meditation to soothe you into deep relaxation, presented by Jean Wolfersteig. YMCA, Kingston. 338-3810 ext. 110.
Spirituality
Lectures & Talks
Private Hypnosis & Past Life Regression Sessions 11:30am-6:30pm. $90 70 min./$125 90 min. With Jennifer Axinn-Weiss. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
The Honk Falls Electrical and Power Company 7:30pm. Presented by Gail Whistance. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 331-4121.
Workshops & Classes
Deb Major & Steve Raleigh 8pm. Blues. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466.
Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30-8:30pm. $60 series/$15. Led by Iris Litt. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
WEDNESDAY 25 Health & Wellness
Music
Jim Campilongo Trio with Chris Morrissey & Josh Dion 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. London’s National Theatre in HD: Othello 7pm. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Celebrate Women’s Health & Fitness Day 6:30pm. $15. Zumba lesson, wine tasting, hair chalking demos and make-up tips from Adam Broderick Salon & Spa, jewelry, fashions and more will provide renewal for fall. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Outdoors & Recreation
Lectures & Talks
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 8pm. Through September 28. $20/$18/$9. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
LOC & WSW 7pm. The Library of Congress recently purchased the entire collection of the Women’s Studio Workshop’s hand-made artist’s books, spanning 30 years of creativity. Ann Kalmbach, Executive Director of WSW, will give a talk about this collaborative effort, and how important this is for the community and artists involved. Some of the books will be available to look through. Rosendale Public Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.
Literary & Books Stories for Inquiring Minds With Janet Carter Last Wednesday of every month, 7pm. Rediscover the timeless world of story through the voice of the storyteller. Join Janet Carter, and guest storytellers, while they regale us with tales of fear, love, fantasy, humor and history. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. Janet.carter332@gmail.com. Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Music The Howlin’ Brothers 8pm. $10. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Madera Vox 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Theater Flip Phillips: Deconstructing Perception 6pm. Skidmore College professor of psychology and neuroscience Flip Phillips tackles questions about the nature of human visual perception. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Workshops & Classes Dave Carlon and Jack Sobon’s Timber Framing: A Traditional Approach 9am-5pm. $480/$435. Four-day class. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 17-1137. Passion for Plants—Study Group: Woody Plants of Merit with Great Fall Foliage 10am-noon. $25. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Scene Study Workshop with Christine Crawfis 7pm. $90/$60 members. A practical workshop for adult actors. Explore intention, objective and style in scenes from contemporary and classic plays. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THURSDAY 26 Art Galleries & Exhibits
Healing Steps Support Group Last Tuesday of every month, 5pm. Join in to encourage patients, family members, and caregivers emotionally and spiritually through all steps of wound healing Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
Open Studios and Reception 6-8pm. Drink some wine, enjoy the gardens, and meet our Artists-in-Residence from around the world. See their paintings, drawings, and sculpture and installation, and have a discussion about their work. The Art Students League of New York Vytlacil Campus, Sparkill. 359-1263.
Lectures & Talks
Business & Networking
Ewcia Borysiewicz: How a Sausage Dog Works 6pm. A talk on the political dimensions of Julian Józef Antoniszczak’s cameraless workshop by curator Ewcia Borysiewicz. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Buy Local Business Expo 4-7pm. The Expo gives companies the opportunity to display their products and services to the area’s key decision makers, buyers and business leaders. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4417.
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Yamim Noraim (Fearful Days): A Trilogy 5:30-7:30pm. A video presentation with artist talk and reception. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.
The Fruit Garden of Lee Reich and Garden Tour 9am. $60/$50 members. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646.
Theater
National Theater Live: Othello 7pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Workshops & Classes Creating Harmony, Living in Abundance: Introduction to Feng Shui 7-9pm. $25/$20. With Betsy Stang. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
FRIDAY 27 Comedy Andrew Dice Clay 7:30pm. $31-$66.50. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Paula Poundstone 8pm. $60/$50/$45. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Russell Peters 7:30pm. $28-$98. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Dance Funk Haus 9pm. Fourth Friday of every month. $10. Live DJs spin funky music that will surely make you want to dance. This community dance event supports free and unconditional movement and dance. It is open to all ages. Bring your kids to Woodstock and Get in the Groove at the Funk Haus! Fourth Fridays this summer. Teens $5 and kids are free. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. funkhauspresents@gmail.com. Swing Dance to Live Music 8:30-11:30pm. Fourth Friday of every month. $15/$10 FT students. No experience or partner needed. Beginners’ lesson from 8pm-8:30 Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Glassman. For more information or to RSVP, please visit www.mindfulhealth.biz/retreats or call Mindful Health at (212) 245-3129. Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa, Milton. 795-1310.
Lectures & Talks Einstein, the Ancient Crystal Skull 7pm. $45. Multi-media presentation that covers many topics as well as Einstein’s story. Followed by a 20 min. touching heart opening meditation. Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro. 888-2547.
Literary & Books Author Mark Slouka 7pm. Presenting his latest novel, Brewster, a coming of age story that takes place in Brewster, NY. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Book Signing & Reading with Sylvia Lyon Rodman’s The Anglo Brambles 5:30-7:30pm. House of Books, Kent, CT. 860-9274104.
Music Chris Raabe 8:30pm. Acoustic. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466. Cyrille Aimee & The Guitar Heros 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Dangling Success 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. David Bromberg & Larry Campbell 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. An Evening with Delbert McClinton and Band 8pm. $100/$80. American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Delbert McClinton. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306. The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Americana. American Glory BBQ, Hudson. (518) 822-1234. Two Tree and Champu 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.
Nightlife Baam Bada House Music Parties Last Friday of every month, 8pm-midnight. $5 includes a drink. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240. SmashCrashBash Party 9pm. $5. Rock group Jay Vons and Hudson Valley garage punk trio Lovesick. The Half Moon, Hudson. (518) 828-1562.
Spirituality A Course in Miracles Retreat $600. Through September 30. Will provide a place of rest, renewal and contemplation. Gaia’s Garden Retreat, Warwick. 544-7085.
Theater Camelot 8pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops & Classes The Art of Letter Writing: Voice, Calligraphy & Spirit $375/$250 commuters. Through September 29. Weekend workshop with Barbara Bash and Christian McEwen. Spend a weekend with the “slow living” practices of calligraphy and illustrated writing. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Plein Air Painting Workshop $285/$210 Audubon members. Three-day workshop with landscape painter James Coe. Audubon Center at Bent of the River, Southbury, Connecticut. (203) 264-2313. The Story of Your Life $280 with lodging/$180. 3-day retreat. Work on your memoir. Find friends, fellow writers, and a new point of view on your life story. Start the day with gentle yoga, attend writing workshops, be inspired with creative writing prompts, share your work in the evenings in a salon-like setting. Olmsted Center, Cornwall. Bootcamp4writers.com/register/east-coast-bootcamp/.
Film Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then 7:30pm. $6. Produced in conjunction with EMPAC, the film will be screened, followed by a discussion with Green. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Food & Wine
SATURDAY 28 Art Galleries & Exhibits 2013 Cold Spring Arts Annual Open Studio Tour 12pm. Cold Spring and Garrison area artists invite art lovers into their private working environments with demonstrations for the annual open studios tour. Cold Spring Arts, Cold Spring. 265-3618.
Celebrate The Harvest 5-9pm. Dinner to benefit the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), which will mark the end of NOFA-NY’s month-long Locavore Challenge. W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island. 258-4574.
Newburgh Open Studios 11am. Self-guided tour. Newburgh Art Supply, Newburgh. 561-5552.
Talking Tea 201: Sri Lanka Black Teas 6pm. $20. Kim Bach teaches the basics of Sri Lanka Black Teas—their origin, harvesting, preparation, and taste. This is a hands-on class and will cover teas including Kenilworth, Lover’s Leap, and Lumbini. Reservations required. Verdigris Tea & Chocolate Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-3139.
Ballroom by Request 9-11pm. $12. Lesson 8pm-9pm. With Joe Donato & Julie Martin. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, Poughkeepsie. 204-9833.
Dance
Fairs & Festivals
Health & Wellness
Oktoberfest Celebration 12-6pm. German foods, music, crafts and beer. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. 786-2701.
Mindful Mosaic Women’s Retreat Three nights, 4 days, through September 30. Mixes relaxation with personal, spiritual growth led by Nicole
Rondout Valley Growers 10th Anniversary Barn Dance & Local Food Barbecue 3-10pm. $30/$25 in advance/$10 children 6-12/$5
children in advance. Music of Rich Hines & the Hillbilly Drifters, tasty local snacks, bake sale, barbecue by great local chefs, foot-stompin’ barn dance with Shoe String Band & Caller Liz Slade, and more. Epworth Center, High Falls. 626-1532.
Health & Wellness Learn to Meditate with Steve Clorfeine 10am. $60. Through the forms of improvisation and ‘deep play’ as meditative practices Steve has been able to present techniques that draw people closer to their creative strengths and awaken their healthy resistances. The Chinese Healing Arts Center, Kingston. 338-6045.
Son Step and Palm 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.
to bend branches and flowers so they appear to be blown by the wind, or create a leaf that is half eaten by insects. ArtsWAVE Center, Ellenville. 647-6604.
Tim Farrell 8pm. $25/$21 members/$21 in advance/$17 in advance members. Acoustic guitar. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Fall and Winter Bloom in the Solar Greenhouse, Unheated Glassed-In Porch or Spare Bedroom 1-3pm. $27/$22 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
Founder’s Day Concert with Tony Trischka 8pm. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Food Styling 101 Call for times. With Phil Mansfield. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
Whiz Bang Concert 4:30pm. Madera Vox CD release party. The Barn at Andy’s, Old Chatham. (518) 794-8720.
Kids & Family
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits
Unity Jam! An Interactive Music Experience For Children and Families Fourth Saturday of every month, 2pm. Musical storytelling, group drumming, freestyle dancing, calland-response singing, listening and other interactive activities. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 867-8707.
Grand Opening of Art Centro 3-6pm. Events will include interactive clay-throwing demonstrations, crafts, mini-session with yoga instructor Monique Dauphin, preview of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project bowl sale, and raffles. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. 485-8506.
Lectures & Talks Decisions Artists Make: A Dialogue With and About Artists 4pm. $12/$7 WAAM members. Using the life and career of Woodstock artist Eugene Ludins (190496) as a point of departure, Susana Torruella Leval, Director Emerita, El Museo del Barrio, will lead a broad conversation about the mysterious process of artists’ career decisions and their consequences. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. Kingston Paranormal Society 2pm. With guest speaker Julia Drahos. She is also a medium and holds paranormal events at Miss Fanny’s throughout the year. Saugerties Public Library, Saugerties. 246-4317.
Literary & Books Book Launch Party 7pm. Kelly Braffet’s Save Yourself and Lauren Grodstein’s The Explanation for Everything. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Laura Ludwig Presents Performance Art and Poetry 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Shya Scanlon & BC Edwards: An Afternoon of Fabulist Fiction 4pm. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
Music Anything Goes! Karen Akers Sings Cole Porter 4:30pm. $25/$20. Music and More 2013 Festival. New Marlborough Village Association Meeting House, New Marlborough, MA. (413) 229-2785. BoDeans 8:30pm. $75/$55. Indigenous roots elements-Heartland hoedown folk, Celtic-rooted mountain music, zydeco, Southern roadhouse soul, Chicago blues and 100-proof roots rock. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT. (866) 666-6306. Connor Kennedy 9pm. Original blend of upstate New York rock. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Fall Fete, An Early 19th Century Tea 2pm. $30/$25 for CCHS & Friends of Clermont members. Tea party straight out of a Jane Austen novel, with a variety of teas, historic foods, 1820s music, and dance instruction. Historic dress encouraged but not required. Co-hosted by the Columbia County Historical Society and Clermont State Historic Site. Vanderpoel House of History, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9265. The Gospel for Teens Choir 8pm. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (914) 739-2333. Helen Avakian 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. The Holmes Brothers 7:30pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Isle of Klesbos and Sheryl Bailey Duo 8pm. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079. The JB3 Trio 4-6pm. With The Love Taps. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (800) 942-6904. Kevin Allred 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.
The Postcard/Small Gems ArtsWalk kickoff and fundraising event. Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson. Cccaartswalk.webs.com.
Outdoors & Recreation Annual Harvest MoonWalk 7-9pm. $5/under 6 free. A nighttime walk on the trail, bonfire, storyteller, refreshments including popcorn, donuts and cider are served. Hudson Valley Rail Trail Depot, Highland. Hudsonvalleyrailtrail.net. Fall Mushroom Walk with Pathfinder Hikes 10am-noon. $10. Fall mushroom walk with Forager Rick Reilingh and Dave Holden. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079. Small Fish and Invertebrates 12:30-2pm. Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 637-0320. Volunter Training for High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center 10am. Learn to assist people with special needs through equine assisted activities! Ages 14+. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.
Photographer/Editor Collaboration: Publishing a Photographic Book Call for times. Two day workshop with Alan Rapp and Cig Harvey. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
Robert Herman: The New Yorkers 2pm. The book immortalizes the transformation of Soho, Little Italy, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side. These photos tell an authentic story of New York City: real New Yorkers living and working in their own neighborhoods. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
Jazz Guitar Duo Vic Juris and Bob Devos 3pm. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459. Jean-Michel Pilc’s “True Story” Trio 7:30pm. Featuring Billy Hart & Boris Kozlov. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. London’s National Theatre in HD: Othello 3pm. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Say Cheese: Take Home Feta 12-3pm. $65. Learn the science and art of turning fresh milk into fabulous curds, and take home your own handmade feta with Peter Findel. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent. (518) 672-7500 ext. 232. Teen Geek Squad 10am-2pm. Get help with your technology problems. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
SUNDAY 29 Art Galleries & Exhibits 2013 Cold Spring Arts Annual Open Studio Tour 12pm. Cold Spring and Garrison area artists invite art lovers into their private working environments with demonstrations for the annual open studios tour. Cold Spring Arts, Cold Spring. 265-3618. Newburgh Open Studios 11am. Self-guided tour. Newburgh Art Supply, Newburgh. 561-5552
Let’s Moove 5K Walk & Run 9am. $20. The event features an off-road trail through fields and gently rolling hills, surrounded by a beautiful vista. All net proceeds will support need-based scholarships for place-based learning programs. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent. (518) 672-4465.
Fairs & Festivals
Ikebana Workshop with Lee Long and Hideko Eda 1pm. $30 to participate (only 10 spaces available) $5 to observe. Learn the Art of Ikebana Design from Japan “giving life to flowers” through color, shape, line, form and minimalism. Hands on instruction in Design and Technique by Lee Long and Hideko Eda. In this workshop you will be introduced to the idea that the natural beauty of flowers can effectively convey feelings as well. You will see how Ikebana reflects the forces of nature with which plants live in harmony. Learn how
Iza Trapani and The Itsy Bitsy Spider noon. Iza Trapani will be with us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her book “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
The Steve Raleigh Quartet 12pm. The Jazz at the Falls series. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Dance Class Sampler 7pm. $75/$60 members. With Evan MacDonald. Different styles of dance will be covered. Two four week sessions. No partner necessary. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Workshops & Classes
Literary & Books
Glenn Dicterow Farewell Concert 3pm. $42.50/$15 students. Members of the New York Philarmonic will be performing a farewell concert to Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow. 3pm. $42.50/$15 students. Chamber Music Concert Series. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 454-3388.
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Mister Oh! 9pm. Original songs with all members contributing vocals, tunes, or arrangements. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Taking Care of Ourselves and Others 12:30pm. Forum discussion with topics that should be of interest to all-those who currently or prospectively need care or who are or expect to be caregivers. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884.
Angel Olsen 7pm. $18/$15 at the door. With special guests Pillars and Tongues. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
2nd Annual For Paws & Wright Naturals Family 5k 9am. $25/$20 in advance. Second annual family 5k to benefit the Ulster County Dog Park. Ulster County New Paltz Recreational Park, New Paltz. Info@forpawspark.com.
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National Theater Live: Othello 1pm. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.
Richard Thompson 8pm. 8pm. $39.50. British folk legend playing with special guest Teddy Thompson. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Life Drawing Intensive 10am-4pm. $45/$35 members. Work with experienced models for an entire day under controlled lighting. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Mindful Mosaic Women’s Retreat Find your happy place with a four-day getaway at Milton’s Buttermilk Inn and Spa from September 27 through 30. With the guidance of holistic nutritionist and wellness expert Nicole Glassman, experience a long weekend of relaxation and spiritual growth through daily workshops as well as free time to explore the inn’s grounds and amenities. Start your day with open-air yoga on the lawn and then take a nature walk or garden tour to catch a glimpse of Buttermilk’s resident wildlife, including llamas, goats, and peacocks. Pick some apples from their orchard’s trees and have them à la mode at an ice cream night following a dinner under the stars with cuisine from the on-site restaurant, Henry’s Farm-to-Table. Enjoy access to the sauna, steam room, and pool as well as a discount for all spa treatments. (212) 245-3129; Mindfulhealth.biz.
Lucky House 8:30pm. Classic rock. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466.
O’Solo Vito 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
Intro to Blacksmithing for Young Adults 9am-noon. $45. Ages 13-17. Live demonstrations, introduction to the tools, sights and sounds of the metal studio, and activities to explore what it is like to work with metal in the hot shop. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.
paint, spray and splatter with color! this three-part parent-child workshop series is all about exploring colors, and most importantly, having fun as we create together! throughout the series, you and your child will play as a team to create a series of large, collaborative paintings. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. 679-6132.
Oktoberfest Celebration 12-6pm. German foods, music, crafts and beer. See website for music schedule. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain. 786-2701.
Health & Wellness Akashic Records Revealed with June Brought 2pm. $20. The workshop will offer an opportunity to discuss some of the awareness’ from the Records. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Kids & Family Children & Families: 2D-3D 1pm. Drawing inspiration from works by Alexander Calder and Thomas Houseago, enjoy transforming flat shapes into sculptural forms. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115. little painters: all about color 10:30am. $48 + tax (3 class series), $20 + tax (dropin, if space is available). grab your little one, put on your painting clothes and let’s draw, trace, stamp,
Maggie Seligman 1pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. Steve Hackett: Genesis Revisited World Tour 2013 7:30pm. $58/$48/$38. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Sunday Brunch: Erik Lawrence Quartet 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Open Houses/Parties/Benefits 24th Annual International Wine Showcase and Auction 1-6pm. Presented by Greystone Programs, Inc. The Grandview, Poughkeepsie. 452-5772 ext. 119.
Theater The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 2pm. $20/$18/$9. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Camelot 8pm and 3pm. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. London’s National Theatre in HD: Othello 2pm. $12/$10 members. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Workshops & Classes Community Practice Day: Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Practice 10:30am-4pm. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Spiritual Protection for Self and Home 2-4pm. $20/$15 in advance. With Adam Kane. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. A Tour of Olana’s Geological Landscape 1 & 3pm. $10/$5 grounds fee. Join Robert Titus, Hartwick College geology professor in an exploratory walking tour of the Ice Age forces that shaped the 19th Century artists’ landscape. Learn too, about the bedrock geological history of the site. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 109.
MONDAY 30 Health & Wellness Meditation for Women with Cancer Meditation includes a wide range of techniques that can be practiced anytime, anywhere and in any way. In this four session workshop participants will be guided to practice meditation in many different ways. Mahopac Library, Mahopac. (914) 962-6402.
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Backstage: Uptown Kingston
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by eric francis coppolino
Gary Lucas during soundcheck at BSP Lounge in Kingston.
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’m one of those people who needs to get out more. In fact I need to get out so much that I hadn’t noticed that a music venue had mysteriously appeared down the block from my photo studio in Uptown Kingston—or rather, that it had taken up residence in a place called Backstage Studio Productions, known locally as BSP. I always thought the place had a lot of potential. It’s a bar with a small stage, connected to a 20,000-square-foot vaudeville house in the back, dating to 1920 or so. The place has needed love, attention, and promoters for a long time; it was waiting for something cool to happen. I didn’t discover that something was already happening until I mentioned to an acquaintance at a party that I was looking for a guitar teacher. He suggested that I go see Dan Sternstein, who co-manages BSP and also teaches music there. I’d seen Sternstein around town for a few months, not knowing who he was. He has this larger than life, swashbuckling demeanor, but is also easygoing and charming. Turns out he’s philosopher-in-chief at BSP, and doubles as its in-house music teacher. Not a guitar teacher—a music teacher who works primarily with guitar. So I started taking lessons. Another teacher, Rusty Boris, had taught me enough of the basics that I wasn’t quite starting from scratch. What I love about studying with Sternstein is that in addition to relating the elements of guitar technique in a clear, noncompetitive way, he’s passionate about music theory. As someone with a lot of Aquarius in my chart, I love the theory element of just about everything, from astrology to architecture to art to law. I want to know why someone thinks something works a certain way, how it got that way, and what the underlying philosophy is. Sternstein was a music major, but really his passion is composition theory. He’s 25 years old, and I don’t think there’s a song he hasn’t taken apart, figured out, and put back together a few different ways. I started taking lessons weekly, and because I need to get out more and also because my schedule is so over-the-top, I went up to twice weekly to compensate for times when practice is more challenging. We did most of our lessons in the club’s Green Room—the prep room for performers. I noticed that every time we sat down, the room was rearranged. After every lesson, he would tell me about whoever was playing that night or weekend, and I started coming out to shows. Every time I did, almost without exception, I was amazed. The performers were original and well-rehearsed. I thought it was pretty cool the first time—I could go out and see a hot show right in the neighborhood.
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That was an Oneonta-based Frank Zappa tribute band that turned out to be the creation of a SUNY music instructor named Mark Pawkett, Sternstein’s mentor. What better way to teach college students how to play than get them to learn a whole bunch of Zappa tunes. I’ll get to the Oneonta connection in a minute—the BSP ethos and the scene that’s grown around it is imported from a town two hours away. Soon after, I saw a Philadelphia-based band called Man Man—a high-energy ensemble of multi-instrumentalists who rocked a full house. Powerhouses of percussion, keyboards, guitar, and various horns, it was hard to believe this was happening in Uptown Kingston. The next Saturday, a group Man Man inspired called Grandchildren, also from Philadelphia, was the headline act. Somewhat less known, they didn’t draw as large a crowd, but that was everyone else’s loss. I stood there through the entire set amazed, taking in some of the best live music I’d seen in forever, marveling at the composition, vocals, and the astonishing performance by the rhythm section. That consisted of two drummers, each at one side of the stage facing one another, who seemed to perform superhuman feats of syncopation and synchronized playing. One drummer played physical drums, which seemed to consist mostly of tom-toms and bass drums; the other played a set of digital pads. The percussionists seemed to stretch a trampoline across the stage and pull it taut for the rest of the musicians to bring in their cosmic psychedelic vibration. After the show I went back into the Green Room, where the drummers were hanging out, and I asked them the only question I could think of: How do you do that? They said: “We know each other really well. We play a lot, and besides, Aleks Martray [the front man who plays acoustic guitar] composes all the rhythm parts.” One night I strolled into the club and saw Melisa Pelino and Haden Minifie of the band Snowbear breathing fire on vocals—in particular, impeccably performed rock and blues harmonies. Once again I stood there watching, astonished. After the show I met the ladies and said, “I bet that took a long time to learn how to do,” to which Pelino blurted out gleefully, “It did!” I have good music karma. If there were such a thing as A&R any more, I would be the guy for the record company to send out and scout talent. I’ve had fine musicians as housemates, therapists, parents, friends, mentors, and two buddies who are fantastic lawyers. All of my astrology teachers have been musicians, particularly David Arner. Some of the best CDs in my collection I bought directly from the artists: Eric Nicholas, Sloan Wainwright, Big Spoon, and others. After a few weeks showing up at BSP and seeing one brilliant show after the next,
I figured out that this wasn’t just my music karma. It wasn’t coincidence. It’s not just that there’s lot of young, unsigned musical talent out there. Something is going on at Backstage Studio Productions. The core crew consists of three guys who graduated from SUNY Oneonta around the same time: Dan Sternstein, Dan Votke (aka Rusty), and Trevor Dunworth. While they were students, they got into creating outdoor music festivals—in particular, one called liveLIVE. One day they needed some stage equipment, and someone told them that BSP’s owner, Teri Rossin, had some that she might lend them. She did, and when they returned it she asked them if they would consider promoting indoor shows at BSP. They said yes, arrived in Kingston in late 2011, and basically took over. I don’t just mean they took over BSP. They have their hand in just about everything that’s gone well in Uptown Kingston the past few years. If anyone is responsible for the reduced tumbleweed population Uptown, it’s these guys. They were instrumental in the creation of the wildly successful 2013 New Year’s Eve celebration that drew hundreds of people into the streets and businesses of Uptown. They created the Kingston Film Festival, featuring unpretentious screenings of movies and shorts (the most recent was in August). BSP is a major venue for the O+ Festival, a homegrown Kingston event where musicians and artists trade performances and artwork for medical, dental, and holistic health care. Each autumn, Uptown is flooded with street art, music, doctors, and lots of people who have never been here before. (The fourth O+ takes place in Kingston October 11, 12, and 13. There’s now a corresponding festival in San Francisco November 15, 16, and 17.) BSP also provided the stage and booked the musical acts for Chronogram’s 20th anniversary block party last month. They use the venue to help independent film productions that come to the area, for community meetings, as a rehearsal space, and as a sound stage. There is a dance studio upstairs. I could not think of better people to entrust with the 20,000-square-foot back room where basically anything can be created. (That will be ready for concerts some time next year.) It seems like anything that you can do with a large room, a sound system, and lights, they are experimenting with. The best thing that’s happening, though, is that they are bringing new faces and constant live music to Uptown Kingston. This includes a wide diversity of styles, spanning from experimental rock to heavy metal to some fantastic folk music. One person behind this miracle is Mike Amari, who specializes in the club’s booking of musical acts. They run hip-hop shows several times a year (a recent one featured Al Boges), and dance nights with DJs a few times a month as well. What I love about all these guys is that they are not trying to impress anyone with how cool they are. They simply are cool, and they are also competent, friendly, straightforward, honest, and helpful. Anyone who knows the music business knows how rare this is. I will say this a different way. The crew at BSP embodies the kind of community spirit that everyone wishes ran the world, and that few people can figure out how to get going. At the same time, they are devoted to promoting young musical acts. And they are all musicians, though they’ve put their own projects on hold to open up a little bandwidth so they can do all this business and community stuff. Personally, I think it’s healthy that people who have put 10 or more years into learning music, developing material, and touring are the ones in charge of a venue. The world needs music promoters who know how challenging it is to get good at being a performer. Since I get to spend a fair amount of time with Sternstein, I hear the respect and admiration he has for the acts that come through BSP. One of his favorites is a music and dance ensemble called Bujak. This consists of Jeff Bujak, who creates bass and rhythm beds, then performs improvised neoclassical music over them. His girlfriend, Jen Dulong, does a dance routine with electrified hula hoops. Along this journey, I figured out how to solve the riddle of getting high-quality independent music onto my weekly webcast, PlanetWaves.FM—hang out at BSP. If you listen to the past couple of months of programs, you can hear some of what you’ve missed (a recent program featured the astonishing Treetop Flyer from the UK). I will be hosting the BSP crew on an edition of PlanetWaves.FM the first week of September. One recent Friday, I finished my lesson and asked Sternstein what he had going on that night. “Gary Lucas,” he said. I had no idea who he was. I found out that (among other things) he was the musical mentor of Jeff Buckley. Toward the end of the Kingston Film Festival, they screened Greetings from Tim Buckley, who was Jeff’s father. The film is really about Jeff and his too-short, too-tragic journey. After the film, Gary Lucas gave a presentation and answered questions from the audience—then he played an absolutely beautiful set, mostly acoustic, partly electric. As Gary blazed on his guitars and soulful vocals, I stood there wondering: Where the f*ck am I?
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) One challenge of the coming weeks involves discerning selfinterest from your calling or desire to support others. Ideally, there would be no separation of those concepts. That we can and so often do play games that have one winner and many losers is a problem. That we tend to lack the idea of “the greatest good for all concerned,” or what are called win-win scenarios, is the deeper issue. It’s essential that you bear this in mind now. Your interests are not separate from the people you care about, and in truth, they’re not separate from those of anyone else. Understanding this requires reaching a new level of consciousness—which you’re reaching for, capable of, and where you may already be. In this scenario, it will help to know what you want, and at the same time you must also know about (and care about) the wants and needs of the people with whom you share space and time. To do that, you’ll need to ask, listen carefully, and listen to what people say when they’re speaking freely. Simply put, you’re being called upon to be fair, to the point where you set aside competition in exchange for creating a mutually beneficial situation. This calls for a heightened level of honesty, first with yourself and then with others.
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You’ve been through a lot recently—and I am sure you’d be grateful if things would cool off. Take any opportunity to slow down, remove commitments from your schedule, and give yourself a chance to focus inwardly. Consider each of the past five or so episodes in your life and notice how many would have benefited from extra introspection beforehand. Events in the early part of the month will repeat that reminder, serving as encouragement to understand yourself before you engage too deeply with others. This is the best way to keep your center and also to prevent yourself from getting into situations that are so deep you cannot see a way out or a way through. At the same time, you’re being invited to go deeper with others, or with someone in particular, and it may seem like you have to make a decisive move before too long. I would remind you of a fact often overlooked in our romance-obsessed world: Your first relationship is to yourself. That statement may be the ultimate blasphemy against the prevailing relationship mythology, though it’s based on the notion that you cannot relate to anyone unless you have a self to do that relating with. Once you do that habitually, it will be clearer what to do with others.
GEMINI (May 20-June 21) You may go through a few more emotional twists and turns before you figure out how safe you are, and how much freedom you have. You could go a long way by recognizing there is not a narrow formula for emotional security. You cannot just check off the points on a punch list and be done with it. This is not a technical matter; it’s a spiritual one. It also seems that your sense of confidence in your surroundings, and a sense of belonging, arise as a result of your own ability to tune in and be present, rather than from some external factor. It would help significantly if you were less obsessed with security and instead considered the many ways you can explore life and love. If I may offer some confirmation, your astrology is saying you’re ready to do that. Yet there’s another message about being called further—into true courage, creativity, and doing something that honors your passion for life. That involves taking emotional risks. Each time you heed this calling, you may be confronted with a new occasion to admit, confront, and go beyond another level or type of fear. Most people would take this as an opportunity to back off, give up, and go home. I don’t think you will.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Mars transiting the angle of your chart that addresses selfesteem is pushing you to act as if you had the confidence to do what you want. There seem to be plenty of details involved, though you have options for how you handle them. I suggest that you work your way from the big picture inward to the specifics, which is to say, in the order of priorities necessary to accomplish something. A large goal is always made of many small parts. Many small parts do not automatically add up to something meaningful. Therefore, stick to your vision, which your chart suggests you’ve been cultivating in its current form since around early 2011. Meanwhile, there’s likely to be some necessity that you encounter, one that makes you question whether all the effort you’re exerting is really worth it. You will feel better for having met this challenge or answering this question yourself, rather than giving up or getting someone else to do it for you. If this involves a financial matter, trust that you have the determination and maturity necessary to make it happen. This is not a test of your maturity—it’s an opportunity to cultivate and deepen it. It’s not about proving your creative power, but rather about putting your natural gifts to work for yourself and the world.
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LEO (July 22-August 23)
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If you encounter something that seems immovable—a person, a situation, an emotion—it’s more like a floating object than a stationary one. It will move, if you apply energy in the right direction; but I suggest you proceed more like a tugboat than like the Titanic. But do you really need to move this thing, whatever it is? Do you need to exert so much energy? Or would it be better to organize your life around its presence for a while? What you have over the next few weeks is an opportunity to determine the size and scale of the situation, and to make an assessment of how it’s influenced you in the past. That’s really the question—what you’re going to do about something that already happened, perhaps long ago, and potentially reaching into past generations. What you’re doing that your predecessors have not done is acknowledge its existence. What you seem to be dealing with is a secret of some kind. There are at least two levels to any secret: one is figuring out that it exists, and the other is figuring out what it contains. It may seem nearly useless to know that there is some concealed information, but to not know what it is. But in truth, you’re more than halfway there.
VIRGO
(August 23-September 22)
Exerting too much control is the best way for things to go out of control. I suggest that you embrace the uncertainty factor, especially the part about not knowing the impact people will have on your life, or the influence that you will have on them. One thing is for sure—that you and someone significant will shape one another’s experience and worldview. I can also tell you that the way to make this the most positive experience possible is to focus on communication. What feels like the impulse to take charge, get a handle on things, or to attempt actual control will best be sated by an exchange of ideas. That’s the whole point, anyway—and what makes this such a positive opportunity. In order to do that, you will need to develop the skill of responding rather than reacting. There are instances when you may be seized by emotions that seem to demand the latter—and the best thing you can do is pause. If something (or someone) seems like it might hurt you, I would urge you to remember that your astrology is saying that no matter how polarized a situation gets, that’s unlikely. To sum up: Communicate rather than control. Respond rather than react. One last: In any exaggerated situation, keep your sense of humor.
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LIBRA (September 22-October 23) I’ve written before that most of the problems that people face can be traced back to self-esteem. Your current astrology says that any question, issue, or emotion that you experience will come back to this same theme. This has been going on for a while, though it’s a special focus right now. I suggest you focus on who in the past has gone out of their way to make you feel less worthy of love or of any benefit or reward of life. What you’re dealing with is not an actual fact of worthiness—it’s a feeling, and that feeling did not emerge from a vacuum. Meanwhile, I suggest you be conscious of the people around you and what influence they have on you. While it’s true that on one level how you feel about yourself is your business, it’s also true that others have an influence on you, and they will at times run their own agenda. If you have to push back against that, then do it in a creative and positive way. Rather than rebel, set out to achieve something that you want to do, and give yourself credit for having done so. In the end, though, how you feel about yourself is a choice, and I would remind you that nobody is your judge and jury.
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You need to set your sights higher. When I say need, I mean it’s actually a matter of necessity: Commit to something more challenging, demanding more of your personal resources, experience, and talent. I see you involved in something visible that makes a difference in the world. Yet doing something challenging means encountering challenges. They may seem like they’re worldly in nature—involving your circumstances. In truth, all the territory you’re covering is personal. You’re being called to some new and potentially unexpected form of leadership, one that you’ve known for a while you were aspiring to in theory. This month, you go from theory to action. Action means taking charge, staying grounded, and bringing both a dynamic, even dramatic quality to what you’re doing at the same time you call forth your deepest maturity. As you know, maturity is useless unless it’s put to good use, and this is the order of the moment. As you see the rewards of this way of doing things, I suggest you reinvest them rather than take them as profits. What you need more than anything is momentum toward a tangible goal. Part of that quality is bringing yourself fully into what you’re doing, creating, and expressing—and every inner challenge you overcome will get you one step closer to that spot. 9/13 ChronograM planet waves 133
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Every time I see the charts from the point of view of Sagittarius, I want to write about sex. Maybe that has something to do with your ruling planet being in your solar 8th house—the one that represents the sex you want the most. Yet it may also represent what you fear the most, where you must encounter the most compelling aspects of relationship and where it’s possible to get lost in another person. That may indeed be your concern, and it could be valid. You may be wondering what to do: Go deeper, or extricate yourself? I suggest you start with a good meditation on Be Here Now. Jupiter is also in Cancer, the sign of nourishment and comfort. This is a meaningful place to be, and I can say with some confidence that at least it’s not boring. And you’re getting more of what you need than you may recognize. In fact you could get a lot more of what you need, and share with others what you have that they need. If relationships are about exchange, then you’re in the ideal place to do that. You have plenty to give, you have lots that’s being offered and all you need to do is be open—especially to doing that elusive thing known as receiving.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) How much are you willing to reveal about yourself, and why would you hold back at all? There seems to be some tension between what is “really going on” and what you want to be known in some public context. I don’t think the paparazzi are after you, but it may feel that way. You could entertain yourself with paranoia about what might come out, though if you’re hanging out there I suggest you ask yourself what you want the world to know about you. I don’t mean what soap you use. I mean what would ordinarily be considered entirely inappropriate, presumed to be damaging to your reputation or image, and even dangerous. The flirtation is between hold back and let go. There may be a diversity of opportunities you have that you want to explore and the deciding factor may seem to be what people might think. You have some options here: One of them is to blow the doors off and be happy that they might discover anything and everything. Assuming felonies are not involved, that could work out well for you. The obsession with secrecy is one of the things that is choking not just your experience but that of many, many people, and I would count the urge to set ourselves free as a healthy impulse.
AQUARIUS
(January 20-February 19)
Will you depend on others to push you, or will you allow yourself to do what you want? Will you play a game of resisting, perhaps to make some point to yourself or to them, or will you say yes when yes is appropriate to say? By that I mean: you have the option to do what you want to do, without a lot of drama, and it’s enough that you want to do it and nobody else’s influence needs to matter. Yet what I see in your chart is that you may decide it’s easier to allow someone else to provide the initiative or motivation, and you come along for the ride. You have that option, but it won’t be as much fun. This is akin to the difference between reading something in a book or discovering it yourself—or seeing a picture of someplace as opposed to going there personally. Which has a deeper influence on you? You will have a deeper experience of someone or something if you make the choice yourself, rather than allowing yourself to be pressured or seduced. The only question is what you want, though this is not as urgent as you think. This is about tuning into your feelings. It’s also about not being a control freak, though you would be surprised how much these two things have in common.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) Emotional material will be easier to move through than you may think. You may have the fear or expectation that going deep will mean having to process or respond to something you cannot handle. Ordinarily the astrology evoking this feeling might be more challenging, but there are mitigating factors— particularly, such an impressive collection of planets currently in the water signs. That’s providing you with plenty of your most important element. Said another way, you have what you need to have the emotional, relational, and sexual experiences you want. It seems more a matter of putting the ingredients together, and responding to your circumstances appropriately. One hint I can give you is to use emotional tension productively. If you have friction with someone, that is potentially a helpful indication that you have some energy with them. Take the risk, go beyond your prejudices and first impressions, and go deeper. Those prejudices might involve the residue of moralism from whatever source. This needs to be seen for what it is, which is a philosophy that will eventually determine that any human pleasure is wrong. This is more than unhelpful; it’s void on its face, and I suggest you treat it that way and move onto your mission of making contact with whoever focuses your attention in a lusty, sparky, appealing, or provocative way. 134 planet waves ChronograM 9/13
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Both pieces are Untitled, Rebecca Zilinski, acrylic ink, graphite, and water on paper, 6” x 4”, 2013.
Rebecca Zilinski’s recent drawings chart the intersection of data and its artistic interpretation. The result is a bit like what I imagine the interior of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings might contain: beneath the mathematical rigidity and calculated randomness lies an emotional response to the universe. For her Intrinsic Response series, Zilinski collected the data herself, taking regular walks across the Walkway over the Hudson and tracking the total number of people she passed versus those who made eye contact. Each passer-by is represented with an ink dot. If eye contact was made, a dot was added to the original dot. For another work, the Poughkeepsie-based artist biked across the pedestrian bridge and noted how many people
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smiled at her. Like much information-based art, these drawings ask the question: Do we fit in the boxes that the data defines as us? Zilinski’s answer isn’t straightforward; it’s complex and contradictory; it’s Schrodinger’s cat painting a self-portrait inside its chamber—an entanglement of science and art that’s a representation of the hot messes we are. An exhibition of recent drawings by Rebecca Zilinski, “Keeping Track: Collection, Recollection, and Reflection,” will be on display through October 5 at Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie. (845) 471-2550; BarrettArtCenter.org. Portfolio: RebeccaZilinski.com. —Brian K. Mahoney
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physician group practice. Dr. Clark has been practicing Orthopedics and Sports Medicine for over 13 years. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
Marty Clark, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon & Sports Medicine Specialist
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Hospital community. now accepting appoint dthe his Sharon family have relocated to the Dr. areaClark and isare looking forward to be ctice, Regional Orthopedics & Sports located in Sharon Ho the Sharon Hospital community. Dr. Medicine, Clark is now accepting appoint Dr. 50 Clark enjoys all aspects of Orthopedics and has a special interest in Sports Medicine. tes, Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT 06069. His procedures include: Arthroscopic Surgery of the Shoulder, Knee and Hip, Rotator Cuff Repair, ctice, Regional Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, located in Sharon Ho ACL Reconstruction, Joint Replacements including Total Knee and Total Hip, Tendon Repair, Carpal Tunnel Release, as well as Major and Minor Fracture Care. tes, 50 Hospital Road, Sharon, CT 06069. nformation or Hill to schedule an appointment, Dr. Clark and his family have relocated to the area and are looking forward to becoming members of the Sharon Hospital community. Dr. Clark is now accepting appointments in his new practice, Regional Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, located in Sharon Hospital’s Surgical Suites, 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT 06069.
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