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13 EDITOR'S NOTE Brian K. Mahoney listens to his back yard.

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14 LETTERS Phil Sullivan disagrees with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. 17 ESTEEMED READER Jason Stern takes a chance on living in the moment.

news and politics 18 DEADLY IMMUNITY Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. exposes the vaccine-autism link. 24 CASTLES IN THE SAND Lorna Tychostup reads the infamous Downing Street Memo.

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32 SERIOUS COMPETITION Kathryn Gill previews the upcoming Empire State Games. 34 HANG TIME Jonathan King takes hang gliding and paragliding lessons in Ellenville.

backbone 36 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson previews the Kingston Sculpture Biennial. 38 LIFE IN THE BALANCE Susan Piperato reports from the Earth and Religion conference. 40 FRANKLY SPEAKING Frank Crocitto stakes a claim for the greatness of Thoreau. 42 EAR WHACKS Delmark Goldfarb profile. CD Reviews, Nightlife Highlights. 46 PLANET WAVES Eric Francis Coppolino remembers Tricky Dick. Plus horoscopes. 52 POETICA Poems by Susan J. Behrens, Andrew Brenza, Christopher Carolei, John Chorazy, Kristen Henderson, Billy Internicola, Kaete Smith, and Ivan Shoal.

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54 SHARPER IMAGES Ann Braybrooks takes stock of the Image Works in Woodstock.

culinary adventures 57 ARTICLES, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES ON FOOD & DINING. 74 DINING OUT Jennifer May on where to eat when you want to eat outside. 77 TASTINGS A directory of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cooking and where to get it.

the book shelf 88 LOCAL COLORS Nina Shengold profiles the local publishing industry. 90 BOOK REVIEWS, SHORT TAKES, OUT & ALOUD

whole living guide 96 IMBIBED ENERGY Lorrie Klosterman examines the pros and cons of caffeine. 100 REST, RELAXATION, & SPIRITUAL REJUVENATION Lauren Yanks retreats.

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Full Moon Sergei Isupov | 2004 Porcelain, 22" x 11" x 5.5"

aking art, for Sergei Isupov, is a lifestyle rather than a profession. “Everything that surrounds and excites me is automatically processed and transformed into the final result: an artwork,” he says. “It is fascinating to watch the transitions from life to art. The essence of my work is not in the medium or the creative process, but in the human beings and their incredible diversity. When I think of myself and my works, I’m not sure I create them, perhaps they create me.” Treating ceramic sculpture as a “canvas” for his “paintings,” Isupov uses plastic, graphic, and painting elements to complement each other in a given piece, and mixes classical forms with comical elements. “I like the contrast of serious to humorous,” he says. “The front is cartoon-like, but the back of each figure features an intimate painting of the being’s spirit.” Full Moon is one of Isupov’s recent standing ceramic sculptures, featuring a neutral, vaguely rendered male figure whose back opens to reveal a serene Madonna-like female face, and through whose chest burst two leaping nude women; Isupov's work often explores male and female relationships. Although Isupov admits to including autobiographical elements in all of his work, he refuses to define his work according to a single narrative, leaving it open to viewers’ individual perspectives. Isupov emigrated from Estonia in 1994 and recently relocated to Cummington, Massachusetts. Although he remains relatively unknown in the US, he has a longstanding following in Northern Europe and the Baltics. Isupov’s work will be featured in the group show “Portraiture: Patron-Artist-Subject” at Ferrin Gallery, 69 Church Street, Lenox, Massachusetts, through August 7. An artists’ reception will be held on Saturday, July 9, 4-6pm. (413) 637-4414; ferringallery.com.

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Editor’s Note

here had been fitful discussions recently among my group of friends: What had become of the fireflies. It was going on the end of June, and no one had seen any yet this year, nor could anyone remember seeing any last summer, though we weren’t quite sure. Had we just not been paying attention? Was it another sign of global ecological catastrophe? Were our lives so out of tune with our surroundings that we had failed to notice these bugs that once so beguiled us? (One person offered the possibility that we had caused their extinction when we were kids, killing them off with an arsenal of mason jars.) Then on the solstice, we gathered to salute the sunset on the longest day of year from a scenic hilltop on the Mohonk Preserve. Afterward, we retired to Ed and Fairlight’s porch, just down the road in High Falls. There had been sightings of fireflies in the field below their house, and we had all come to confirm it. The scene was spectacular, something you could charge admission for—as vivid as any imagined scene an animator could dream up . The trees ringing the field were stitched with blinking white lights that jumped from branch to branch and off into the meadow grass, also laced with tiny bright bulbs. The silent field popping points of light. The next night, back home in Kingston, I spotted a firefly. Okay, three. They flew across my lawn then disappeared behind the side of the house. As I watched this paltry natural display, it occurred to me that cities do not excite the visual sense the way rural environments do; sure, one can make a case for architecture and the urban design forms, but cities are predominantly aural spaces. (They are also olfactory environments, but let’s save that for another time.) Often maddening, often referred to as “noise pollution,” urban sounds nonetheless create a unique sonic tapestry absent from rural spaces. What follows are sounds I heard while sitting on my back porch one morning in late June. They are in no particular order, and I offer them without judgment as “good” or “bad," but rather as a transcription of the aural landscape of my backyard, encompassing all the noise that crossed my ears. The background traffic noise ever-present like surf; the static hum that all other sounds usurp, compete against, or are submerged in. The jaunty puttering of a Volkswagen bus. The cacophony of birdsong, a shouting chorus: a lonesome coo of a morning dove, a cliché come to life; a sharp bark; a high-pitched note hit over and over; staccato twirps like the electronic gunfire from a video game; a deep trill, like Barry White yodeling; a disapproving cluck. A vacuum cleaner’s high sucking whine, and what sounds like bits of debris caroming off hard plastic beneath it; the sudden absence of that sound. The percussive sameness of a dog’s recurring one-note bark. A loose muffler rattling up the street, clanging through the potholes. The bleat of a freight-train whistle—a pedal-sustained chord from an out-of tune church organ. The pop of a new screen door as it opens; its plosive slap as it closes. An empty 12-ounce can dropped from a height and reporting two hollow bounces followed by a short roll. The slap of my hand on my arm, squashing a mosquito. The prolonged hiss of a garden hose like air escaping an incredibly large tire. The flutter of wings close over my head. The deep-throated engine of a school bus as it downshifts to climb the hill. The quick, loud shouts of sanitation workers echoing between close-set houses. The aggressive chatter of a tree full of tchrring squirrels; the splash and shiver of branches as they jump from limb to limb. Empty bottles ringing and shattering in the back of a trash truck. The percolating idle of a diesel engine. A woman exhorting her dog to evacuate its bowels; the dog not barking, the deficit of a space with a dog that doesn’t bark. Church bells, ringing in three separate churches, striking the hour like a lunatic carillonneur.

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Letters Suicide as Environmentalism To the Editor: It seems that Richard Dawkins is illogical when he posits how lucky each of us is to have been born [“The Root of Richard Dawkins,” 6/05]. According to his argument, no one ever existed before they were born. And if we are to say that the embryo and its subsequent development is fortunate to be given the limited experience of life, what about the lives of perhaps a majority of people in the world, whose lives are mostly one of hunger, terror, oppression and pain, and constant reminders of approaching oblivion? The last of which, except for the mentally disabled, we are all cursed with. After a short and accomplished (or not) life, then according to Dawkins, we pass out of existence and that life can be remembered neither as satisfactory, and wonderful, or even regretted. Should we then be loyal to the gene and strive to advance the evolution of homo sapiens? I think a case can be made that the answer is no, in view of the fact that the rest of nature, from the single day of the mayfly to the 30 centuries or more of the giant redwoods, would be far better off if we had never evolved. If we are not here in order to learn things applicable to some kind of subsequent existence, then it would be better for nature if everyone in the world committed suicide right now, and thus allowed evolution to try a course more friendly to the natural world. According to Dawkins we wouldn’t know, care, or regret afterwards; but perhaps in a hundred millennia or so some octopod archeologist might discover our mass exit and give thanks to “The Force.” Phil Sullivan, Woodstock

Department of Corrections In the June issue a photograph of Chris Daftsios and Christopher Burris accompanying a preview of the Shadowland Theater production of Kenneth Lonergan’s tragic-comic “Lobby Hero,” was uncredited. The photo was taken by Paul Cowell/ MirrorEyesPhoto.com. Our apologies.

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Esteemed Reader War or no war—it doesn’t matter. In our business we always make a profit. —Swami Haidayogananda If where we’re going is how we get there, we are already where we’re going. —Robert Fripp

Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine:

was once persuaded to take my vacation at sea—on a cheap cruise ship floating like a bloated corpse between Sarasota, Florida, and Cozumel, Mexico. I would not have given my assent to join this voyage if the invitation had not come from a certain teacher of shamanic practices; a teacher, it should be said, who is known for choosing unusual or at least unexpected settings for the study of esoteric principles. In his invitation he was adamant the trip was strictly for relaxing. If I had believed him I would not have gone, for I can think of far better places to relax than a prison-ship specially designed to induce maximum consumption of the lowest-quality pabulum. No, I was sure there was some learning to be had in the endeavor. Arriving on board I found my berth—depressing quarters that resembled every cheap, antiseptic motel room America. When I discovered that the lone window was fake—illuminated from behind by a dim fluorescent light, the space felt suddenly claustrophobic as I remembered the Lusitania. The first evening’s dinner at sea made clear what I was in for. The insipid, unfresh food arrived in massive quantities. The teacher seemed not to notice. Our two tables were full of his students, several wives, and children. He was all smiles and seemed to enjoy the pallid fare with gusto, praising each course more than the last. I was dumbfounded and assumed that though he may be a good shaman, and despite his Tuscan ancestry, he was obviously handicapped when it came to recognizing good food. As well I was reminded of the story of the dervish and the scholar—the one in which the scholar, spying on the dervish in the market, becomes convinced the dervish is a charlatan because he is sold a melon that proved to be tasteless (later the scholar is taught to understand how this error could be consistent with the perceptivity dervishes are famous for).* After dinner we journeyed to the casino, and I quickly realized that this was the place where our spiritual training would take place. I had never gambled in a casino or played blackjack or craps before so I mooned about for awhile, somewhat overwhelmed by the cacophony of bells and sirens, music, shouts, and flashing lights. I watched the craps table, for that was where the shaman teacher was playing. He was getting started fast, placing bets that seemed huge. I observed for awhile before I could tell that he was winning almost every bet, whilst laughing and joking. He was having a great time, with not an inebriant in sight. Joining him at the table he looked at me and spoke with quiet intensity, as though there was no one else in the room. “It doesn’t get any better than this!” He said it like there was nothing to be happy about. It was simply a statement of fact, a description. I arrived at the casino when it opened at 3p.m. the next afternoon. Armed with a review of the rules I sidled up to the blackjack table and plunked down a green chip. I looked at my cards and asked for another one. I knew it was a long-shot but I got the card I was looking for, and my $25 became $100. I bet again and the $100 became $400. The night was going well. I took my winnings and went back to the craps table where the teacher was hooting and yelling like he had just won the big one. I asked one of his wives what happened. “He just topped $10 thousand in losses tonight.” He was still laughing and joking exactly as he had the night before. He placed another eight green chips and threw the dice. By his response I though for sure he had won, but then I saw the dealer’s rake shoot out and pull back the eight green chips. The teacher turned to me once again, and in the same voice, but without a hint of selfrepetition, he reiterated: “It doesn’t get any better than this.” Debarking from the cruise my winnings were greater than the extra money in my pockets. I had a new insight that has carried forward to this moment, which is the only moment. And I know it is always true—even if something finer is possible, the doorway to it is only through this; here, where I am now, for this is the only place any recourse is possible. Not tomorrow, later, before, or yesterday. Only now. This is it! It doesn’t get any better than this!

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DEADLY IMMUNITY EXPOSING THE VACCINE-AUTISM LINK When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data—and to prevent parents from suing drug companies for their role in the epidemic.

n June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session—only private invitations to 52 attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in Geneva, and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth, and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly “embargoed.” There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left. The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency’s massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines—thimerosal—appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. “I was actually stunned by what I saw,” Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity, and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants—in one case, within hours of birth—the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteen-fold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children. Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. “You can play with this all you want,” Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results “are statistically significant.” Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting’s first day, was even more alarmed. “My gut feeling?” he said. “Forgive this personal comment—I do not want my grandson to get

a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on.” But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry’s bottom line.

THE COVER-UP “We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits,” said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. “This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff attorneys in this country.” Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that “given the sensitivity of the information, we have been able to keep it out of the hands of, let’s say, less responsible hands.” Dr. John Clements, vaccines advisor at the World Health Organization, declared flatly that the study “should not have been done at all” and warned that the results “will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of this group. The research results have to be handled.” In fact, the government has proved to be far more adept at handling the damage than at protecting children’s health. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to “rule out” the chemical’s link to autism. It withheld Verstraeten’s findings, even though they had been slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that his original data had been “lost” and could not be replicated. And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism. Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase thimerosal out of injections given to American infants—but they continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year. The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted vaccines for export to developing countries and allowing drug companies to continue using the preservative in some

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American vaccines—including several pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given to 11-year-olds. The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government’s vaccine-related documents—including the Simpsonwood transcripts—and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the “Eli Lilly Protection Act” into a homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism. Congress repealed the measure in 2003—but earlier this year, Frist slipped another provision into an antiterrorism bill that would deny compensation to children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders. “The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists,” says Andy Olsen, a legislative assistant to Frist. Even many conservatives are shocked by the government’s effort to cover up the dangers of thimerosal. Representative Dan Burton, R-Indiana, oversaw a three-year investigation of thimerosal after his grandson was diagnosed with autism. “Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic,” his House Government Reform Committee concluded in its final report. “This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin.” The FDA and other public-health agencies failed to act, the committee added, out of “institutional malfeasance for self protection” and “misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.”

THE THIMEROSAL GENERATION The story of how government health agencies colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks of thimerosal from the public is a chilling case study of institutional arrogance, power, and greed. I was drawn into the controversy only reluctantly. As an attorney and environmentalist who has spent years working on issues of mercury toxicity, I frequently met mothers of autistic children who were absolutely convinced that their kids had been injured by vaccines. Privately, I was skeptical. I doubted that autism could be blamed on a single source, and I certainly understood the government’s

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need to reassure parents that vaccinations are safe; the eradication of deadly childhood diseases depends on it. I tended to agree with skeptics like Representative Henry Waxman, D-California, who criticized his colleagues on the House Government Reform Committee for leaping to conclusions about autism and vaccinations. “Why should we scare people about immunization,” Waxman pointed out at one hearing, “until we know the facts?” It was only after reading the Simpsonwood transcripts, studying the leading scientific research,and talking with many of the nation’s preeminent authorities on mercury that I became convinced that the link between thimerosal and the epidemic of

childhood neurological disorders is real. Five of my own children are members of the Thimerosal Generation—those born between 1989 and 2003—who received heavy doses of mercury from vaccines. “The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of neurological or immune-system damage,” Patti White, a school nurse, told the House Government Reform Committee in 1999. “Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier; however, in 25 years of nursing I have never seen so many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is happening to our children.” More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism, and pediatricians diagnose more than 40,000 new cases every year. The disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed among 11 children born in the months after thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931. Some skeptics dispute that the rise in autism is caused by thimerosal-tainted vaccinations. They argue that the increase is a result of better diagnosis—a theory that seems questionable at best, given that most of the new cases of autism are clustered within a single generation of children. “If the epidemic is truly an artifact of poor diagnosis,” scoffs Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the world’s authorities on mercury toxicity, “then where are all the 20-year-old autistics?” Other researchers point out that Americans are exposed to a greater cumulative “load” of mercury than ever

before, from contaminated fish to dental fillings, and suggest that thimerosal in vaccines may be only part of a much larger problem. ’It’s a concern that certainly deserves far more attention than it has received—but it overlooks the fact that the mercury concentrations in vaccines dwarf other sources of exposure to our children. What is most striking is the lengths to which many of the leading detectives have gone to ignore —and cover up—the evidence against thimerosal. From the very beginning, the scientific case against the mercury additive has been overwhelming. The preservative, which is used to stem fungi and bacterial growth in vaccines, contains ethylmercury, a potent neurotoxin. Truckloads of studies have shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines—and that the developing brains of infants are particularly susceptible. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. Russia banned thimerosal from children’s vaccines 20 years ago, and Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain, and all the Scandinavian countries have since followed suit. “You couldn’t even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe,” says Haley, who heads the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. “It’s just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage.” Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage—and even death—in both animals and humans. In 1930, the company tested thimerosal by administering it to 22 patients with terminal meningitis, all of whom died within weeks of being injected—a fact Lilly ’didn’t bother to report in its study declaring thimerosal safe. In 1935, researchers at another vaccine manufacturer, Pittman-Moore, warned Lilly that its claims about ’thimerosal’s safety “did not check with ours.” Half the dogs Pittman injected with thimerosal-based vaccines became sick, leading researchers there to declare the preservative “unsatisfactory as a serum intended for use on dogs.” In the decades that followed, the evidence against thimerosal continued to mount. During the Second World War, when the Department of Defense used the preservative in vaccines on soldiers, it required Lilly to label it “poison.” In 1967, a study in

Applied Microbiology found that thimerosal killed mice when added to injected vaccines. Four years later, Lilly’s own studies discerned that thimerosal was “toxic to tissue cells” in concentrations as low as one part per million—100 times weaker than the concentration in a typical vaccine. Even so, the company continued to promote thimerosal as “nontoxic” and also incorporated it into topical disinfectants. In 1977, 10 babies at a Toronto hospital died when an antiseptic preserved with thimerosal was dabbed onto their umbilical cords. In 1982, the FDA proposed a ban on over-the-counter products that contained thimerosal, and in 1991 the agency considered banning it from animal vaccines. But tragically, that same year, the CDC recommended that infants be injected with a series of mercury-laced vaccines. Newborns would be vaccinated for hepatitis B within 24 hours of birth, and two-month-old infants would be immunized for haemophilus influenzae B and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis. The drug industry knew the additional vaccines posed a danger. The same year that the CDC approved the new vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck’s vaccine programs, warned the company that six-month-olds who were administered the shots would suffer dangerous exposure to mercury. He recommended that thimerosal be discontinued, “especially when used on infants and children,” noting that the industry knew of nontoxic alternatives. “The best way to go,” he added, “is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives.”

CUTTING COSTS WITH THIMEROSAL For Merck and other drug companies, however, the obstacle was money. Thimerosal enables the pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in vials that contain multiple doses, which require additional protection because they are more easily contaminated by multiple needle entries. The larger vials cost half as much to produce as smaller, single-dose vials, making it cheaper for international agencies to distribute them to impoverished regions at risk of epidemics. Faced with this “cost consideration,” Merck ignored Hilleman’s warnings, and government officials continued to push more and more thimerosal-based vaccines for children. Before 1989, American preschoolers received only three vaccinations—for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks to federal recommendations, children were receiving a total of 22 immunizations by the time they reached first grade. As the number of vaccines increased, the rate of autism among children exploded. During the 1990s, 40 million children were injected with thimerosal-based vaccines, receiving unprecedented levels of mercury during a period critical for brain development. Despite the well-documented dangers of thimerosal, it appears that no one bothered to add up the cumulative dose of mercury that children would receive from the mandated vaccines. “What took the FDA so long to do the calculations?” Peter Patriarca, director of viral products for the agency, asked in an e-mail to the CDC in 1999. “Why didn’t CDC and the advisory bodies do these calculations when they rapidly expanded the childhood immunization schedule?”

MORE VACCINES, MORE AUTISM After the Centers for Disease Control began recommending additional vaccinations in 1989, the number of autism cases nationwide spiked sharply. Figures for California show the link to the increasing “mercury load” in vaccines, as surveyed two years after birth.

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But by that time, the damage was done. Infants who received all their vaccines, plus boosters, by the age of six months were being injected with levels of ethylmercury 187 times greater than the EPA’s limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin. Although the vaccine industry insists that ethylmercury poses little danger because it breaks down rapidly and is removed by the body, several studies—including one published in April by the National Institutes of Health—suggest that ethylmercury is actually more toxic to developing brains and stays in the brain longer than methylmercury. Officials responsible for childhood immunizations insist that the additional vaccines were necessary to protect infants from disease and that thimerosal is still essential in developing nations, which, they often claim, cannot afford the single-dose vials that don’t require a preservative. Dr. Paul Offit, one of CDC’s top vaccine advisors, told me, “I think if we really have an influenza pandemic—and certainly we will in the next 20 years, because we always do—there’s no way on God’s earth that we immunize 280 million people with single-dose vials. There has to be multidose vials.”

CLOSE TIES TO BIG PHARMA But while public-health officials may have been well-intentioned, many of those on the CDC advisory committee who backed the additional vaccines had close ties to the industry. Dr. Sam Katz, the committee’s chair, was a paid consultant for most of the major vaccine makers and shares a patent on a measles vaccine with Merck, which also manufactures the hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Neal Halsey, another committee member, worked as a researcher for the vaccine companies and received honoraria from Abbott Labs for his research on the hepatitis B vaccine. Indeed, in the tight circle of scientists who work on vaccines, such conflicts of interest are common. Rep. Burton says that the CDC “routinely allows scientists with blatant conflicts of interest to serve on intellectual advisory committees that make recommendations on new vaccines,” even though they have “interests in the products and companies for which they are supposed to be providing unbiased oversight.” The House Government Reform Committee discovered that four of the eight CDC advisors who approved guidelines for a rotavirus vaccine laced with thimerosal “had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were developing different versions of the vaccine.” Offit, who shares a patent on the vaccine, acknowledged to me that he “would make money” if his vote to approve it eventually leads to a marketable product. But he dismissed my suggestion that a scientist’s direct financial stake in CDC approval might bias his judgment. “It provides no conflict for me,” he insists. “I have simply been informed by the process, not corrupted by it. When I sat around that table, my sole intent was trying to make recommendations that best benefited the children in this country. It’s offensive to say that physicians and public-health people are in the pocket of industry and thus are making decisions that they know are unsafe for children. It’s just not the way it works.” Other vaccine scientists and regulators gave me similar assurances. Like Offit, they view themselves as enlightened guardians of children’s health, proud of their “partnerships” with pharmaceutical companies, immune to the seductions of personal profit, besieged by irrational activists whose anti-vaccine campaigns are endangering children’s health. They are often resentful of questioning. “Science,” says Offit, “is best left to scientists.” Still, some government officials were alarmed by the apparent conflicts of interest. In his e-mail to CDC administrators in 1999, Paul Patriarca of the FDA blasted federal regulators for failing to adequately scrutinize the danger posed by the added baby vaccines. “I’m not sure there will be an easy way out of the potential perception that the FDA, CDC and immunization-policy bodies may have been asleep at the switch re: thimerosal until now,” Patriarca wrote. The close ties between regulatory officials and the pharmaceutical industry, he added, “will also raise questions about various advisory bodies regarding aggressive recommendations for use” of thimerosal in child vaccines.

WHAT WALT WANTS If federal regulators and government scientists failed to grasp the potential risks of thimerosal over the years, no one could claim

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ignorance after the secret meeting at Simpsonwood. But rather than conduct more studies to test the link to autism and other forms of brain damage, the CDC placed politics over science. The agency turned its database on childhood vaccines—which had been developed largely at taxpayer expense—over to a private agency, America’s Health Insurance Plans, ensuring that it could not be used for additional research. It also instructed the Institute of Medicine, an advisory organization that is part of the National Academy of Sciences, to produce a study debunking the link between thimerosal and brain disorders. The CDC “wants us to declare, well, that these things are pretty safe,” Dr. Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM’s Immunization Safety Review Committee, told her fellow researchers when they first met in January 2001. “We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is a true side effect” of thimerosal exposure. According to transcripts of the meeting, the committee’s chief staffer, Kathleen Stratton, predicted that the IOM would conclude that the evidence was “inadequate to accept or reject a causal relation” between thimerosal and autism. That, she added, was the result “Walt wants”—a reference to Dr. Walter Orenstein, director of the National Immunization Program for the CDC. For those who had devoted their lives to promoting vaccination, the revelations about thimerosal threatened to undermine everything they had worked for. “We’ve got a dragon by the tail here,” said Dr. Michael Kaback, another committee member. “The more negative that [our] presentation is, the less likely people are to use vaccination, immunization—and we know what the results of that will be. We are kind of caught in a trap. How we work our way out of the trap, I think is the charge.” Even in public, federal officials made it clear that their primary goal in studying thimerosal was to dispel doubts about vaccines. “Four current studies are taking place to rule out the proposed link between autism and thimerosal,” Dr. Gordon Douglas, then-director of strategic planning for vaccine research at the National Institutes of Health, assured a Princeton University gathering in May 2001. “In order to undo the harmful effects of research claiming to link the [measles] vaccine to an elevated risk of autism, we need to conduct and publicize additional studies to assure parents of safety.” Douglas formerly served as president of vaccinations for Merck, where he ignored warnings about thimerosal’s risks. In May of last year, the Institute of Medicine issued its final report. Its conclusion: There is no proven link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. Rather than reviewing the large body of literature describing the toxicity of thimerosal, the report relied on four disastrously flawed epidemiological studies examining European countries, where children received much smaller doses of thimerosal than American kids. It also cited a new version of the Verstraeten study, published in the journal Pediatrics, that had been reworked to reduce the link between thimerosal and autism. The new study included children too young to have been diagnosed with autism and overlooked others who showed signs of the disease. The IOM declared the case closed and—in a startling position for a scientific body—recommended that no further research be conducted.

FATALLY FLAWED STUDIES The report may have satisfied the CDC, but it convinced no one. Rep. David Weldon, a Republican physician from Florida who serves on the House Government Reform Committee, attacked the Institute of Medicine, saying it relied on a handful of studies that were “fatally flawed” by “poor design” and failed to represent “all the available scientific and medical research.” CDC officials are not interested in an honest search for the truth, Weldon told me, because “an association between vaccines and autism would force them to admit that their policies irreparably damaged thousands of children. Who would want to make that conclusion about themselves?” Under pressure from Congress, parents, and a few of its own panel members, the Institute of Medicine reluctantly convened a second panel to review the findings of the first. In February, the new panel, composed of different scientists, criticized the earlier panel for its lack of transparency and urged the CDC to make its vaccine database available to the public. So far, though, only two scientists have managed to gain access. Dr. Mark Geier, president of the Genetics Center of America, and his son, David, spent a year battling to obtain the medical records from the CDC. Since August 2002, when members of Congress pressured the agency to turn over the data, the Geiers have completed six studies that demonstrate a powerful correlation between

thimerosal and neurological damage in children. One study, which compares the cumulative dose of mercury received by children born between 1981 and 1985 with those born between 1990 and 1996, found a “very significant relationship” between autism and vaccines. Another study of educational performance found that kids who received higher doses of thimerosal in vaccines were nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with autism and more than three times as likely to suffer from speech disorders and mental retardation. Another soon-to-be-published study shows that autism rates are in decline following the recent elimination of thimerosal from most vaccines.

AUTISM &THE AMISH As the federal government worked to prevent scientists from studying vaccines, others have stepped in to study the link to autism. In April, reporter Dan Olmsted of UPI undertook one of the more interesting studies himself. Searching for children who had not been exposed to mercury in vaccines—the kind of population that scientists typically use as a “control” in experiments—Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who refuse to immunize their infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted calculated that there should be 130 autistics among the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other three—including one child adopted from outside the Amish community—had received their vaccines.

If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage. At the state level, many officials have also conducted in-depth reviews of thimerosal. While the Institute of Medicine was busy whitewashing the risks, the Iowa Legislature was carefully combing through all of the available scientific and biological data. “After three years of review, I became convinced there was sufficient credible research to show a link between mercury and the increased incidences in autism,” says state Senator Ken Veenstra, a Republican who oversaw the investigation. “The fact that Iowa’s 700 percent increase in autism began in the 1990s, right after more and more vaccines were added to the children’s vaccine schedules, is solid evidence alone.” Last year, Iowa became the first state to ban mercury in vaccines, followed by California. Similar bans are now under consideration in 32 other states. But instead of following suit, the FDA continues to allow manufacturers to include thimerosal in scores of over-thecounter medications as well as steroids and injected collagen. Even more alarming, the government continues to ship vaccines preserved with thimerosal to developing countries—some of which are now experiencing a sudden explosion in autism rates. In China, where the disease was virtually unknown prior to the introduction of thimerosal by US drug manufacturers in 1999, news reports indicate that there are now more than 1.8 million autistics. Although reliable numbers are hard to come by, autistic disorders also appear to be soaring in India, Argentina, Nicaragua, and other developing countries that are now using thimerosal-laced vaccines. The World Health Organization continues to insist thimerosal is safe, but it promises to keep the possibility that it is linked to neurological disorders “under review.” I devoted time to study this issue because I believe that this is a moral crisis that must be addressed. If, as the evidence suggests, our public-health authorities knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children, their actions arguably constitute one of the biggest scandals in the annals of American medicine. “The CDC is guilty of incompetence and gross negligence,” says Mark Blaxill, vice president of Safe Minds, a nonprofit organization concerned about the role of mercury in medicines. “The damage caused by vaccine exposure is massive. It’s bigger than asbestos, bigger than tobacco, bigger than anything you’ve ever seen.” It’s hard to calculate the damage to our country—and to the international efforts to eradicate epidemic diseases—if Third World nations come to believe that America’s most heralded foreign-aid initiative is poisoning their children. It’s not difficult to predict how this scenario will be interpreted by America’s enemies abroad. The scientists and researchers—many of them sincere, even idealistic—who are participating in efforts to hide the science on thimerosal claim that they are trying to advance the lofty goal of protecting children in developing nations from disease pandemics. They are badly misguided. Their failure to come clean on thimerosal will come back horribly to haunt our country and the world’s poorest populations. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for Riverkeeper and president of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is the co-author of The Riverkeepers. This article was originally jointly published in Rolling Stone and Salon.com. 7/05

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CASTLES IN THE SAND READING THE DOWNING STREET MEMO A belated storm began to brew after the May 1 publication of the now infamous Downing Street Memo. As more documents surface linking President Bush to a predetermined intent to topple Saddam, the question arises: Will this growing tempest lead to Bush's fall from grace?

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he Pandora’s box opened a mere four days before the British election, when Britain’s Sunday Times published the now infamous Downing Street Memo. The leaked document, headed “Secret and Strictly Personal—For UK Eyes Only,” summarizes a July 23, 2002 meeting held at 10 Downing Street and called by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, during which intelligence chiefs and top policy advisors were informed that ongoing talks with the Bush administration had revealed that war with Iraq was “inevitable.” Among those present was John Dearlove, (a.k.a. “C”) chief of MI6, the British equivalent of the CIA. Recently returned from Washington, Dearlove reported to the group: “Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy [emphasis added].” According to Dearlove, there was no “patience” for going the UN route or publicizing Saddam’s regime’s record. At the meeting, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced plans to meet with Colin Powell later in the week, stating: “It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea, or Iran.” The DSM also stated that previous to the July 23 gathering, separate meetings had been scheduled August 1-4, between British military planners and Centcom (a command of the US Department of Defense, responsible for US security interests in the Middle East), Rumsfeld, and then Bush, to discuss two US-stated options for waging war, and three British-stated options for their “involvement in US war efforts. There was no clear timetable, no plan of attack chosen, but the intention was clear—once “legal justification for the use of force” could be created, either by inciting Saddam or by “fixing” evidence, “we should work on the assumption that the UK would take part” in efforts to create regime change in Iraq. “The US had already begun ‘spikes of activity’ to put pressure on the regime.” While no specific definition was given regarding “spikes of activity,” there were reports of US Special Forces activity, in both the north and the south of Iraq months before the war began. I myself interviewed a retired 15-year Special Forces Marine in Baghdad last summer, a “weapons trainer”

for Dyncorp, who told me that pre-retirement he had been in Iraq—“down south”—working on operations before the war had begun. And it is well-known that after the “Operation Desert Fox” bombing campaign in December 1998, British and American aircraft patrolled Iraq’s “no-fly” zones in the north and south, flying thousands of smaller bombing missions meant to take out military targets, as well as killing and injuring hundreds of civilians. These bombing missions were undertaken, allegedly, to protect anti-Saddam northern Kurds and southern Shiites from retaliation stemming from their alliance with US forces against Saddam in the first Gulf War. In his introduction to the book Iraq Under Siege, Anthony Arnove states, “By the end of 1999,US and UK forces had flown more than 6,000 sorties, dropped more than 1,800 bombs, and hit more than 450 targets. The Pentagon alone spent more than $1 billion in 1999 to maintain its force of 200 airplanes, 19 warships, and 22,000 troops which [were] part of the operation. In 2000, the US and UK flew even more sorties than in 1999. These numbers dropped in 2001 and early 2002, but started to escalate significantly in summer 2002” [emphasis added]. In a recent TomPaine.com article, Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst with 27 years of experience, explains: “British government documents released to Parliament show that American and British aircraft dropped no bombs on Iraq in March 2002, 10 tons of bombs in July, and 54.6 tons in September. Nevertheless, this failed to provoke Saddam Hussein into the kind of reaction that could be used as an ostensible casus belli [motive for war].”

THE MEDIA MAKES ITSELF THE MESSAGE The contents of the DSM received widespread attention in Britain and throughout Europe, yet the American media showed little or no interest in investigating or writing about it. Interestingly, initially this fact received more attention in the media than the memo itself. According to a June 8 USA Today article, “The New York Times wrote about the memo May 2, but didn’t mention until its 15th paragraph that the memo stated US officials had ‘fixed’ intelligence and facts. Knight Ridder newspapers distributed a story May 6 that said the memo ‘claims President Bush...was determined to ensure that US intelligence data supported his policy.’ The Los Angeles Times wrote

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about the memo May 12, the Washington Post followed on May 15 and the New York Times revisited the news on May 20. None of the stories appeared on the newspapers’ front pages. Several other major media outlets, including the evening news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC, had not said a word about the document before Tuesday. Today marks USA Today’s first mention.” In a June 9 article, Salon.com’s Eric Broehlert wrote, “According to TV Eyes, an around-the-clock monitoring service, between May 1 and June 6 the story received approximately 20 mentions on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS combined. By contrast, during the same five-week period, the same outlets found time to mention 263 times the tabloid controversy that erupted when a photograph showing Saddam Hussein in his underwear was leaked to the British press.” (Salon published the DSM on May 19.) The DSM story “had no legs”—explained an article entitled “Readers’ Representative: Downing Street Memo’s Route to Paper,” article in the June 12 Minneapolis Star-Tribune— “unless you went online” where “cyberspace was roiling with it.” Tracking its own path of non-coverage to coverage—perhaps a model for what happened with newspapers across the country—the Star Tribune claimed it was a campaign mounted by Internet readers demanding coverage that prompted editors to action. Their action was, however, limited in that editors did nothing but watch and wait for the story to come across news wire services such as AP or Reuters. (On June 18, AP became the first wire service to run a memo story.) But the wires were silent. Finally a staff reporter at the Star Tribune was assigned the story and by May 11 it was ready to go. The assigning editor wanted page one placement for the story and held it back for two days due to “heavy competition” from other stories deemed more important. By May 13, he didn’t want to wait any longer and he ran the story on page three. It “was a good story and got good play on A3,” StarTribune managing editor Scott Gillespie, was quoted as saying. He admitted the memo story “lacked the impact of page one, but it wasn’t burying the story,” as readers claimed while continuing to demand more info and a page one story about the memo. On Memorial Day an editorial mentioned the memo. “Sorry, not Page 1,” but readers persisted in asking why the story didn’t get more play. On June 3 the Op-Ed page printed the entire Downing Street memo—and was the first newspaper in the US to do, according to the Star Tribune. However, the newspaper’s readers, still not sated, once again demanded Page 1. Five days later, after Bush and Blair commented on the memo at a joint press conference and stated that the claim in the memo that facts were “fixed” was untrue, readers finally got their wish as the story hit the Star-Tribune’s front page. But they complained again, albeit with a new gripe, that “reporters didn’t challenge Bush and Blair aggressively enough.” The Star-Tribune piece downplayed the validity “of e-mail campaigns fomented by political-action websites that smack more of Astroturf [form letters generated by these websites] than grassroots” and how the “technique

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isn’t fooling…ombudsmen around the country who chat regularly about the latest campaigns.” At the same time, the article admitted that “some of the Downing Street reaction…was genuine and spontaneous.” If anything, the article concludes, the DSM saga “reveals a rusty news industry infrastructure that still hasn’t absorbed the Internet into its newsgathering habits.” Salon’s Boehlert went to great lengths to track DSM media coverage. Citing community after community across the country where “readers have been badgering their local newspapers to examine the memo story,” he wrote, “None of the published correspondence appears to be form letters or so-called Astroturf letters designed to mimic grassroots support for a particular issue.” He blamed “a mainstream press…genuinely afraid to ask tough questions and write tough stories about the Bush administration.” Yet, at least two editors Boehlert quotes state clearly—the news was not new: “Given what has been reported about war planning in Washington, the revelations about the Downing Street meeting did not seem like a bolt from the blue.”—New York Times Washington bureau chief Phil Taubman. “The memo doesn’t say something we haven’t heard in one way or another over the last two-and-ahalf years.”—Jim Cox, USA Today’s senior assignment editor for foreign news.

THE POT BOILS OVER In the middle of all the apologies, excuses, self-admonishing and finger-pointing emanating from the media, on June 12, the Sunday Times published a second leaked “Personal Secret—UK Eyes Only” document— “Iraq: Conditions for Military Action.” Dated July 21, 2002, it perhaps served as an agenda to the DSM July 23 meeting, inviting Ministers to: “1. Note the latest position on US military planning and timescales; 2. Agree that that the objective of any military action should be a stable and law-abiding Iraq; 3. Agree to engage the US on the need to set military plans within a realistic political strategy, which includes identifying the succession to Saddam Hussein and creating the conditions necessary to justify government military action, which might include an ultimatum for the return of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq [emphasis added]; 4. Note the potentially long lead times involved in equipping UK Armed Forces… and agree that the MOD [Minister of Defense] should bring forward proposals for the procurement of Urgent Operational Requirements under cover of the lessons learned from Afghanistan; and 5. Agree to the establishment of an ad hoc group of officials under Cabinet Office Chairmanship to consider the development of an information campaign to be agreed with the US” [emphasis added]. The document went on to acknowledge that the US government’s military planning “lacks a political framework” and “little thought has been given to creating the political conditions for military actions, or the aftermath and how to shape it.” It also revealed an April 2002 meeting between Bush and Blair at Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas where Blair told Bush “the UK would

support military action to bring about regime change, provided that certain conditions were met: efforts had been made to construct a coalition/shape public opinion, the Israel-Palestine Crisis was quiescent, and the options for action to eliminate Iraq’s WMD through the UN weapons inspectors had been exhausted.” The LA Times followed with a brilliant article on June 15, citing text received from the London Times, of six new documents labeled “secret” or “confidential.” Providing excerpts, the article gives context within the timeframe leading up to the war. The article illuminates that the documents: • contain little discussion about whether to mount a military campaign. The focus instead is on how the campaign should be presented to win the widest support and the importance for Britain of working through the United Nations so an invasion could be seen as legal under international law; • present a picture of a US government fed up with the policy of containing Iraq, skeptical of the UN and focused on ousting Hussein; • state that the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War were likely to fail, and that, in any case, the US had already given up on them; • say the British view was that any invasion for the purpose of regime change has no basis under international law; • appear to rule out any action in Iraq short of an invasion. The article ends with a final comment from one of the documents dated March 8, 2002. “In sum, despite the considerable difficulties, the use of overriding force in a ground campaign is the only option that we can be confident will remove Saddam and bring Iraq back into the international community.”

ALWAYS ON HIS MIND For some the point is moot as to whether or not George Bush planned to remove Saddam Hussein long before he stated his intention to do so to the American people and to the world. Last October, journalist Russ Baker wrote an article based on two taped interviews and subsequent conversations he had with author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz originally posted at Guerilla News Network (www.gnn.tv). Herskowitz has written or co-written over 30 books, was hired by Bush’s presidential campaign team in 1999 to ghost-write the then-candidate’s autobiography and, according to Baker, had unfettered access to Bush on approximately 20 occasions. Herskowitz told Baker that Bush “was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999. It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade….if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency.” According to Baker, in addition to discussing the “floundering” of his own businesses, “Herskowitz said

Bush expressed frustration at a lifetime as an underachiever in the shadow of an accomplished father. In aggressive military action, he saw the opportunity to emerge from his father’s shadow.” Herskowitz also told Baker that “Bush’s circle of pre-election advisers had a fixation on the political capital that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher collected from the Falklands War…They were just absolutely blown away, just enthralled by the scenes of the troops coming back, of the boats, people throwing flowers at [Thatcher] and her getting these standing ovations in Parliament and making these magnificent speeches.” Baker wrote: “Republicans, Herskowitz said, felt that Jimmy Carter’s political downfall could be attributed largely to his failure to wage a war. He noted that President Reagan and President Bush’s father himself had (besides the narrowly-focused Gulf War I) successfully waged limited wars against tiny opponents—Grenada and Panama—and gained politically. But there were successful small wars, and then there were quagmires, and apparently George H.W. Bush and his son did not see eye to eye…According to Herskowitz, George W. Bush’s beliefs on Iraq were based in part on a notion dating back to the Reagan White House—ascribed in part to now-vice president Dick Cheney, Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee under Reagan. ‘Start a small war. Pick a country where there is justification you can jump on, go ahead and invade.’” This tactical strategy was fleshed out in the September 2000 report, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” published by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for a New American Century [PNAC]. It outlined plans to safeguard American “globally preeminent military capability” and “superiority,” advocated attacks on both Afghanistan and Iraq, and bemoaned the slow pace of bringing the military up to snuff—“absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.” It called for the US to “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars” as a “core mission.” As stated by Glasgow Sunday Times editor Neil Mackay, “it was “drawn up for Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, and Jeb Bush.” John Bolton served as one of PNAC’s directors. Two New Yorker articles appearing in May and October, 2003 provide details of how Bolton and other PNAC supporters, Runsfeld and Wolfowitz among them, made drastic changes to well-established intelligence avenues, according to writer Seymour Hersh, in order to find evidence of what they and the PNAC report claimed—“that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons.” Shortly after his swearing in as Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control in May, 2001, Bolton demanded that he and a “handchosen group” of loyalists have access to raw, unvetted, CIA-gathered data....The whole point of the intelligence system in place [previsouly]...was ‘to prevent raw intelligence from getting people who would be misled....In essence, [Bolton] would be running his own intelligence operation, without any guidance or support.” Then, in

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the days after 9/11, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz created the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, another like-minded “cabal” whose job it was to gather first-hand accounts of defectors like Ahmad Chalabi that supported the presence of WMD in Iraq. There was no oversight to either of these intelligencegathering entities, which, as the information came in, passed it on to the White House without running it through any traditional analysis. Yet a report authorized by Vice President Cheney to look into claims of Saddam purchasing nuclear ingredients, and investigated by former ambassador Joe Wilson, who concluded that no such sale ever took place, was ignored.

SSSHHH….BUSH LIED The question is: Why the fuss now? If this is all old news and the media actually has been saying Bush lied about the reasons for going to war and misled the American people for the last two and a half years, without anyone seeming to care, why all the fuss now? Perhaps it is the way the media has been saying it. A transcript of a panel discussion in Washington, DC, sponsored by Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and broadcast on C-Span last November, sheds some light on the media’s methods of expression. When a member of the audience said that she felt Bush stated a “lie” during his campaign “that was never objectively reported on,” and asked if there was a difference between “balanced” and “objective” reporting, panel members Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times and Susan Page of USA Today responded as follows: Bumiller: That’s why it’s very hard to write those [articles], because you can’t say George Bush is wrong here. There’s no way you can say that in the New York Times. So we contort ourselves up and say, “Actually”—I actually once wrote this sentence: “Mr. Bush’s statement did not exactly...” It was some completely upside down statement that was basically saying he wasn’t telling the truth. And I got an e-mail from somebody saying, “What’s wrong with you guys? Why can’t you just say it plainly?” But there’s just— Loren Ghiglione (Medill School of Journalism, Moderator): Why can’t you say it plainly? Bumiller: You can’t just say the president is lying. You don’t just say that in the…you just say— Ghiglione: Well, why can’t you? [Laughter from the audience.] Bumiller: You can in an editorial, but I’m sorry, you can’t in a news column. Mr. Bush is lying? You can say Mr. Bush is, you can say... [Murmuring and laughter continue from audience] Bumiller [to audience]: And stop the fussing! You can say Mr. Bush’s statement was not factually accurate. You can’t say the president is lying—that’s a judgment call. Page: I think it’s much more powerful to say, “However, the president’s statement did not reflect the record”— Bumiller: Or “was not factually accurate.”

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FALLOUT On June 16, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., D-MI and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, along with approximately three dozen members of Congress, held a public forum on the DSM and related evidence of efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence. The meeting was held in a tiny basement room of the Capital Building. Requests to hold the forum in a larger room were denied by House Republicans, who also scheduled what some called a “purposeful” and “unprecedented” 11 consecutive votes at the same time of the forum, with the intention of disrupting it. Speakers urged Congress to hold an official inquiry into the authenticity of the DSM and its ramifications. Addressing the question of impeachment, Representative Charles B. Rangel, D-NY, bluntly asked, “Has the president misled, or deliberately misled, the Congress?” At press time 122 members of Congress and 560,000 American citizens had signed onto a letter addressed to President Bush asking about the accuracy of the DSM, efforts to create an ultimatum regarding weapons inspections, his recruiting allies before seeking Congressional authorization for war, when he and Blair made the decision to invade Iraq, and if there was a coordinated effort to “fix” the intelligence and facts around the policy. The tumult over the DSM is only one gushing hole among many in the Bush camp dike. Bush’s ratings (and to a greater degree those of Congress) are plummeting in the polls on every topic from his Social Security plan and its chances of success, to his handling of the Iraq war, to his job performance. In a New York Times/CBS News Poll, 61 percent of those queried said “the country had gone off in the wrong direction.” More Americans say the economy is getting worse (to 36 percent from 30 percent in February). Fallout from the Iraq war is growing every day, and has begun to melt party lines as moderate Republicans and Democrats have started to unite with a loud singular voice, demanding that a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq be addressed via legislation. On the partisan front, Democrats seem to be holding tough in the fight against John Bolton’s nomination as UN ambassador, recently rejecting a Republican-offered compromise. Citing the DSM, they referenced Bolton’s possible involvement in exaggerating several countries weapons capabilities—among them Syria and Iraq, and “on classified National Security Agency intercepts,” according to Senator Christopher Dodd, D-CT. In August 2002, Bolton was apparently clear on his position regarding Iraq, expounding during a BBC radio broadcast, that he “certainly hoped” Saddam would be removed within the year. “Let there be no mistake, while we also insist on the reintroduction of the weapons inspectors, our policy at the same time insists on regime change in Baghdad and that policy will not be altered, whether inspectors go in or not.” It has yet to be seen whether a case for impeachment will be made proving that Bush lied. It is clear, however, that the majority of Americans are beginning to unite in a nonpartisan effort, questioning the actions of the Bush administration.

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Serious COMPETITION BY K A T H R Y N G I L L P H O T O S B Y T O M D I M A U R O

ANNE BURNS TAKES AIM WITH HER AIR PISTOL DURING TRIALS FOR THE EMPIRE STATE GAMES AT THE DUTCHESS COUNTY PISTOL ASSOCIATION IN WAPPINGERS FALLS.

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n August 16, 1978, 4,500 men and women began a solemn parade through the Archibald Stadium at Syracuse University for the first official Empire State Games. Among the men and women competing in the groundbreaking event was Brenda Goodknight, then 12. Today, the 41-year-old mother of four will again compete in gymnastics, as the Games makes its first appearance in the Hudson Valley on July 27, when more than 5,500 participants will descend upon the area to engage in the Olympic-style competition. “I became aware of the fact that the Empire State Games had been hosted in all corners of New York state except the Hudson Valley,” said Dutchess County legislator Jim Hammond, who spearheaded a campaign to bring the games to the area beginning in September, 2001. State officials told Hammond the fundraising requirements of the host community were $350,000. Over the next 12 months, Hammond and others raised $440,000 dollars, almost exclusively through donations from community businesses. The communities of Rochester, Long Island, and Plattsburgh also made bids to host the games, but in April of 2003 Governor Pataki announced the Hudson Valley would be awarded the opportunity. Hammond says that businesses will receive that money back and more; expected revenue from the 30,000 guests and 5,000 volunteers to the games could reach $8-10 million. Hammond said it has been “very satisfying” to be a part of bringing the Empire State Games to the Hudson Valley. “It is the single largest event in the US of it’s kind, and the largest event the Hudson Valley has ever had.” An opening ceremony will be held at Marist College in Poughkeepsie on July 27 at 7:30pm, complete with a parade of competitors and official torchlighting ceremony. The Games are a multi-sport event, with 28 different sporting competitions, and over 30,000 athletes from across the state trying out annually. Competition is fierce, and the games showcase some of New York State’s best amateur athletes. The games mimic the Olympics, although one key difference is the opportunity it gives to mature athletes. The Master’s Division of the Games consists of 12 sports for men and women. Master athletes compete in age brackets broken up into five-year increments in sports including track and field, cycling, diving, fencing, golf, gymnastics, marathon canoe, rugby, swimming, and volleyball. High school athletes can compete in either the Open Division, which qualifies them solely by competition results, or by the Scholastic Division, which requires a 90-percent grade average to qualify. Unlike last summer’s Olympics in Greece, which many considered a debacle due to rushed construction and poor planing, the region is “absolutely more ready” said regional game director Frank Intervallo, laughing. Intervallo, a Yonkers police captain, began his work with the games as a volunteer in 1984. While he admits to a “sore spot” for watching baseball (which you can check out at Dutchess Community College),

THE OPEN AND SCHOLASTIC DIVISION DIVING TRIALS FOR THE EMPIRE STATE GAMES WERE HELD AT VASSAR COLLEGE ON JUNE 12.

he attends as many events as possible. Summer baseball is The Empire State Games are a family affair for Brenda easy to find in the region, but many of the sports hosted by Goodknight and her daughter Dana. A junior at Guilderthe Empire Games are not. SUNY New Paltz, Marist, Vasland School in Altamont, Dana has been competing in the sar, and Mt. St Mary colleges will host 16 of the 37 events, games since 2001. Last year Dana took home the gold medal bringing local residents the unique opportunity to watch in the Scholastic Women’s balance beam finals. The win sports ranging from archery to synchronized swimming. As came at a critical point in Dana’s life. “I was going through the event truly encompasses the entire Hudson Valley, resia major growth spurt and couldn’t keep up with my traindents may be forced to chose their favorite sports to attend, ing,” she said. “I was questioning whether I was meant to as the far-flung locations make traveling to multiple locabe a gymnast.” The self-described “identity crisis” ended tions difficult in one day. Still, there is something to please with a gold medal win in the Games. everyone. Want to see some judo? Mt. Saint Mary College Dana’s rigorous training schedule was initially a chalhosts. Fencing lovers can get their fix at New Paltz High lenge for the teen, who began practicing four hours a day, School, while Beacon and Arlington High Schools share the five days a week, when she was 11. “It was difficult at first, duty of hosting track and field events. Some quintessential when I was in middle school,” Altamont conceded, “but Hudson Valley locations include the Hudson River, which now I’m used to it.” Nowadays she loves the sport more will be the competition site. Golfers will be playing at James than ever and says, “When you have a good day and get a Baird State Park, another unique Hudson Valley location, lot of adrenaline going performing you feel like you can do named for the famed local resident and contractor for the anything.” The 16-year-old envisions competing in gymLincoln Memorial. nastics in college, as her mother did during her four years While the mission statement of the games is dedicated on the SUNY Albany gymnastics team. to the recognition of the amateur athlete, what makes the Brenda remembers competing at the first Empire State LOW AND HIGH SPRINGBOARD DIVING WILL Empire State Games unique is the high caliber of these Games with fondness. “It was exciting,” the mother of BE FEATURED IN THE EMPIRE STATE GAMES. so-called amateurs. Many are former professional athletes, four said. “At the time, it was the biggest meet I had ever while some will go on to Olympic glory. Since its beginning in ’78, 40 other states have participated in.” However, unlike most gymnasts, whose competitive career usually modeled programs after the Empire State Games. However, the Empire State Games is ends before the time they can buy their first legal drink, Brenda kept attending the original, largest, and most say, the best of the state-level amateur competitions. meets. Though she took a decade off from training while busy with her kids, last Terry Borshoff, 58, began competing in the cycling portion of the Empire State year the 41-year-old swept the Master’s division of women’s gymnastics receiving a games in the early ’90s. At the time he was also a triathlete, competing in the Ironman gold medal in all four events; floor, vault, bars and beam. While her primary focus in Hawaii and other events around the country. After two cycling gold medal wins in is taking care of Dana and her younger siblings, Max, 15, Kara 11, and Nick 10, ’93 and ’94 he took time off because of work and family commitments. “I put cycling she also squeezes in two workouts a week at World Class Gymnastics. Brenda says in my back pocket,” said Borshoff with a smile, “other things were more important.” that she experiences little pain as she has aged, though she notes that stretching is Nowadays, arthritis in his hips makes running difficult, so the former triathlete focuses more important than ever. solely on biking. Borshoff is an advocate for exercise-therapy as a way to combat arthritis. Kingston High School student, Kayla Tegeler, 15, will compete in her first Em“The more active you are through exercise, the less pain and stiffness you experience.” pire State Games this year. Tegeler, who qualified for both the 200 and 100 meter This mantra certainly seems to work for Borshoff, who won a gold medal in the time- butterfly, says she is “very excited” and that she not only gets to “fulfill my goal of trial division of Master’s cycling last year in Binghamton, ending his nine-year hiatus the season,” but she gets to do so in her own backyard. from competition. For full events listings and locations, visit empirestategames.com.

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Hang TIME Jonathan D. King

Jonathan D. King

eonardo da Vinci conceived designs for the parachute and the helicopter in the late 1400s before focusing on glider wings as the best chance at realizing human flight. The dream of human-powered flight has flourished, and advances over the past 30 years in hang gliding have allowed it to evolve from a literally “killer sport”—when pilots built their own backyard gliders from bamboo, duct tape, and plastic, thanks to designs published in Popular Mechanics—into a relatively safe hobby, with its own governing and regulatory body, US Hang Gliders Association. Ellenville, a town nestled against the Shawangunk Ridge in the Rondout Valley, has been a hotbed of flying activity since the early ‘70s. Greg Black is owner of Mountain Wings Flying School and E-Ville Outfitters, located in the center of town on Liberty Street. Born and raised in Ellenville, Black is a masterrated hang-glider pilot with over 25 years’ experience. Kayaks, hang gliders, paragliders, and paramotors (motorized paragliders) fill his jumbled store. An intense man with a passion for extreme thrills (other hobbies include racing motorcycles and stunt-flying planes), Black is a straightforward teacher. The first hang gliding lesson a student receives from Black involves leaning basic concepts at the store, watching some videos, and then strapping into the hang-glider simulator—a harness ingeniously rigged to a Nintendo hang-glider game. Later, I chatted with “Driver Dan” Rogers of Westchester and Manuk of Ellenville, as they assembled their gliders at the Ellenville launch site, a precipitously sloped grassy ledge off of Route 52 overlooking the valley below, owned by Tony Cavelli, an important and colorful figure in the local hang gliding scene. Rogers said, “[Hang gliding] is not something you can do every once in a while. You have to keep your skills up. Today the cloud development tells me that there is a lot of thermal activity, so what we do is go out there and look for columns of rising air and try to circle in it and gain lift.” (Thermals are warm columns of air that spiral up from the earth’s surface into the atmosphere when the ground heats up, propelling gliders skyward.) Over the radio, Carlos, a pilot already in the air, excitedly announced that there was a thermal right over the launch area. As we looked up we MANUK SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF IN ELLENVILLE could see three gliders getting smaller and smaller, climbing in wide clockwise spirals. Rogers and Manuk were soon aloft. Hang-glider pilots generally fall into two categories: freestyle and cross-country. Freestyle pilots catch thermals, fly around in the general vicinity of where they launched from, and touch down at the landing zone (LZ) below where they took off. Cross-country pilots always try to land as far away from the launch site as possible, searching for thermals to keep them aloft. The world cross-country distance record was set in 2002 by Mike Barber, who flew 437 miles from his launch site. The Ellenville record is 141 miles to Rhode Island; and in 1989 T.J. Young traveled 57 miles from Ellenville to land in Central Park. This year, on the first week in June, Tom Nejame traveled 107 miles from Ellenville to Coventry, Connecticut. John Bilsky is a high school science teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania and president of the Ellenville-based Southern New York Hang Glider Pilots Association. Asked to describe his favorite apect of flying Bilsky responded, “Soaring on thermals. It’s the purest form of aviation, and unless you have done it, there is really no way of explaining how much fun it is.… And to have an eagle off your wingtip, it’s very special.”

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Photos this page: Paul Voight

PAUL VOIGHT AND SON RYAN, 1988; PHOTO TAKEN FROM WING-MOUNTED CAMERA

LAWN ART BY ROGER BAKER AT THE LANDING ZONE

aul Voight, owner of Fly High Hang Gliding, another of the major hang gliding schools and retailers, is a master pilot who took his first flight in 1972 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. He moved to the area in 1977. “The fun still hasn’t stopped,” he said. Asked what his favorite thing about flying is, he replied, “My favorite thing about flying now is flying with my son. He’s 20 now and he is a very good pilot. He started flying with me when he was four, and for his 10th birthday, found a glider in the garage with his name on it.” The Ellenville site, due to the high volume of launches, is one of the safest sites in the country. There have been five deaths in over 30 years of flying—four hang gliders and one paraglider. On a tragic note, the most recent death happened during Memorial Day weekend when paraglider Scott McHattie’s chute collapsed at about 90 feet in the air, too close for the back-up to deploy. Before that, it had been almost 10 years since a fatality. “I have never hurt myself in 32 years of hang gliding,” Voight said. “I’ve hurt myself worse skiing and playing hockey. And I certainly wouldn’t let my son do it if it was dangerous. Today it’s as safe as your decision- making process.” Several hang gliders expressed reservations about paragliding and the lack of a rigid airfoil, and there is something of a skier/snowboarder rivalry between the two. (Paragliders share the Ellenville air and launch/ landing sites with hang gliders.) Paragliding is more popular in Europe than in the US, as it was invented in the ‘80s as a quick way down out of the Alps for mountaineers. The sport attracts more thrill seekers than hang gliding; hang gliders tending toward the more traditionalist end of the spectrum. Curious about both mediums of flight, I took a para-

JONATHAN D. KING TRYING TO INFLATE A PARAGLIDER

gliding lesson with Alistair Ritchie and Alec Gordon, instructors who work out of Black’s store. Ritchie and Gordon took me to a Kerhonkson training hill to learn to fly. After a series of runs back and forth across a field pulling what felt like an ox yoke leaning to inflate the wing, I was able to move up the hill, and by the end of the day had nibbled my first exhilarating taste of flight—reaching about 10 feet in the air for five seconds. Bruised and exhausted, I wanted more. I came back the next week for my hang gliding lesson with Black, and as he assembled the glider he stressed two important things—stay relaxed and look where you are going. Another tip that turned out to be very useful was to imagine pushing a shopping cart loaded with 100 pounds of groceries, because a glider steers in exactly the same way. Before I knew it, I had the glider on my shoulders and was running down the hill as fast as I could. Modern hang gliders are designed to fly effortlessly. Once I achieved the proper speed I felt my feet lifting off the ground as the glider yoked me into the air. All I could do was hoot as I achieved my second flight in as many weeks. Over the day I learned how to steer, how to stay relaxed (not easy), and most importantly how to land properly on my feet with a “flair,” by pushing up on the bar. Having tried both paragliding and hang gliding (it’s called being bi-wingual), I thoroughly enjoyed both lessons, although I felt hang gliding was a bit easier to pick up. Back on the ground, I found myself gazing up and thinking of what da Vinci wrote: “When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

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Lucid Dreaming BY BETH E. WILSON

Art and Its Public(s) I

t’s another odd-numbered year. So as summer begins to heat up, it must be time for another edition of the

Biennial. The Kingston Sculpture Biennial, that is, not the bigger, flashier one you may have heard of that’s taking place in Venice. Two years ago, I traveled to the press previews of the Venice Bienale first, and then several weeks later I had the pleasure of attending the opening of the Kingston show, organized by guest curator Judy Pfaff. It made for an interesting contrast, to say the least. Pfaff, herself an internationally acclaimed sculptor, included work by a number of her famous friends (Mark di Suvero and Sol LeWitt, to name two) alongside a strong field of work by more regionally based artists. The sculptures were displayed throughout the city, although mostly in or near the Broadway corridor. It’s hard to believe, but the Kingston Sculpture Biennial is celebrating its first decade this year, having started in 1995 as the brainchild of Hendrik Dijk and Dennis Connors, when the whole thing was installed in Block Park on the Rondout. Over the years, it has prospered as an institution, growing to include more and more work by an ever-widening circle of artists and physically reaching out into the city, becoming a significant public presence in various locations every other summer. This growth has paralleled the phenomenal expansion of the Biennial’s founding organization, the Art Society of Kingston (ASK). ASK has served as a major catalyst for the regional art scene, pioneering the coordination of First Saturday gallery openings (a model that has been replicated throughout the Hudson Valley), and even organizing an international exchange of exhibitions with a group of German artists, the Künstlerinnenverband Erftkreis/Köln (KEK), several of whose members are contributing works to this year’s Biennial. Each edition of the Biennial has had its own flavor, a product of interests of the curator in charge of organizing the show combined with a pool of work that’s sent in by artists receiving the call for submissions. The cocurators this year are artists Steve Ladin and Judy Sigunick, and they’ve elected to bring the focus back to one of the trickier aspects of staging such an exhibition—art and its engagement with the public. Toward this end, they’ve tried to work more closely with the Kingston city government, placing the art in clusters of two or three (or more) pieces in a number of public parks.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: “BLIND FAITH” BY ANDREW COOPER; DETAIL FROM AN UNTITLED PROPOSAL BY NOAH RAPHAEL GRUSSGOTT; “PRAYING HOUSE” BY ROBERT HITE; SCULPTOR CHRISSY GLENN TURNING COPPER WEAVING. 36 Chronogram

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While much of the art in the 2003 edition

in the end, a traditional group of figures was

could be called avant-garde (or “advanced,”

added a few yards away from Lin’s powerful

or just plain abstract), Ladin tried to balance

monument.

this year’s program with work that was

At that time, Lin’s abstract sculptural

representational or figurative as well. “I’ve

language was considered powerful, if in the

spoken with a number of people in the

wrong way, and challenging to the viewer.

various neighborhoods,” he told me, “to try

In 1989, Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc was ripped

to match the work with its ultimate location,

out of the ground in Federal Plaza in lower

in terms of what people might be open to

Manhattan, after a politically charged fight

having next door.” A good example of this is

that claimed the sculpture—a 110-foot-long,

Scott Makemson’s fantasy animals, fabricated

12-foot-high wall of Cor-Ten steel—was a

from welded-together metal machine parts

visual blight, a safety hazard, and destroyed

and scrap that will take up residence outside

the public’s use of the plaza.

the children’s zoo in Forsyth Park.

Fast-forward to 2005, with abstract works

Sigunick is an experienced public sculptor

seeming quite comfortable in institutional

in her own right (her works include the

contexts. Seeking to offend no one, much

rhinoceros in Rosendale, and the enormous,

public art has adopted a benign air of safe

tile-covered whale swimming through Waryas

disconnection from the people and from

Park in Poughkeepsie), and she wanted to

the environment in which it is located. Solid

expand the circle of artists involved. Last

and confident, abstract forms easily win

year, she organized a sculpture exhibition

corporate and governmental contracts for

in Newburgh, and invited a number of those

public art, because it can express authority

artists to participate in Kingston this year as

while remaining noncommittal about subject

well. She worked on another project with a

matter, a can of worms that “old-fashioned”

design class she teaches at SUNY New Paltz,

representational work suddenly seems

producing a “door” decorated with storytelling

positioned to open up again.

relief panels, based on the example of Lorenzo

This is not so much an indictment of

quick.

Ghiberti’s Renaissance Gates of Paradise in

artists working in an abstract mode as it is of

Florence. The end product will be displayed

the play-it-safe officials and corporations that

in the Cornell Shops building on the riverfront,

have found an ingenious way to evacuate real

��

which this year provides the hub of the show. It

meaning from public art through mindless

��

provides an interior exhibition space suited for

abstract repetition, leaving us all impoverished

fragile or nonweatherproof work, and a map of

in the process.

the other Biennial sites throughout the city so that visitors can plan their next stop.

Steve Ladin is acutely aware of the impossibility of pleasing everyone. “No

Given the curatorial premise that the art

matter what you put up, at some point there

should be accessible to the public, and that,

will be somebody who decides they don’t

generally speaking, representational work is

like a particular piece,” he told me. “All that

easier for people to relate to, an interesting

I’m hoping to do is invite people to open up

snag came up midway through the process—at

a little bit, to think about the art and the city a

least one artist’s submission was considered

little bit differently, to be more broad-minded

inappropriate by the city authorities, largely

and tolerant of things that they maybe don’t

because of its human figurative content.

understand immediately.”

This brings full circle an issue that erupted

Amen, brother. I hope the 2005 Biennial

over 25 years ago, when Maya Lin’s design

will stimulate some thought and meaningful

for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in

discussion, but most of all, I hope it will help

Washington was unveiled. Conservatives

the cause of real artists making real work in the

declaimed its abstract, black granite V as some

Hudson Valley an ongoing part of the public

sort of dubious commentary on the war, and

consciousness here.

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“KINGSTON SCULPTURE BIENNIAL 2005,” FEATURING WORK BY MORE THAN 70 ARTISTS, WILL BE OPEN JULY 16 THROUGH OCTOBER 15 AT NUMEROUS SITES THROUGHOUT KINGSTON. THERE WILL BE AN OPENING RECEPTION AND AWARDS CEREMONY AT THE CORNELL SHOPS BUILDING (NEXT DOOR TO THE STEEL HOUSE RESTAURANT, 100 RONDOUT LANDING) AT 4PM ON JULY 16, FEATURING FOOD, MUSIC, POETRY, AND PERFORMANCE ART, WITH FREE TROLLEY-BUS TOURS FROM THE CORNELL SHOPS BUILDING TO THE SITES WHERE THE SCULPTURES HAVE BEEN INSTALLED. “THE MAQUETTE SHOW,” MODELS OF WORKS IN (OR PROPOSED FOR) THE SCULPTURE BIENNIAL, IS OPEN JULY 2 THROUGH THE SUMMER, AT ASK’S NEW HEADQUARTERS AT 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON EITHER OF THESE EXHIBITIONS, GO TO WWW.ASKFORARTS.ORG OR CALL (845) 338-0331.

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Life in the Balance BY SUSAN PIPERATO

Faith on Earth cratch an environmentalist and chances are you won’t find a religious fundamentalist. Scratch a religious fundamentalist and chances are not only that you won’t find an environmentalist but, that you might also find a believer in the “Rapture Index,” a countdown to the end of the world based on 45 prophetic categories, including drought, plague, floods, liberalism, and “the mark of the beast.” Only rarely do the paths of those who work to save the planet and those who hope to save the world converge. But Resurgence Association, a nearly 40-year-old nonprofit organization supporting the environment and peace, and publisher of Resurgence, an environmental magazine, is working to change that. Last month, 360 participants traveled to Bard College from throughout the US, Canada, Britain, and even Australia, to join 12 of the world’s most celebrated environmental and religious thinkers at "Earth & Religion," the fourth annual Resurgence Conference. Created to bring together and uncover common ground for people of ecology and faith, the conference took place beneath gilded, life-size panels of Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed by Woodstock artist Christina Varga. A fourth panel, featuring a heart and dove, represented the compassion of the emerging divine feminine. “Often people in the religious field think, ‘We have to save our souls. We don’t have time for the world. We don’t have time for saving the planet. If every individual saved their souls, the planet would take care of itself,’” Resurgence editor Satish Kumar told the audience. “And people who are involved in social justice or the environment would say, ‘Oh, saving yourself through your personal development and your personal pursuit of enlightenment is too selfish. We have to save the world first. But Resurgence has tried to bring these two opposites together. Saving yourself and saving the world, or the planet, are two sides of the same coin.” The conference’s 12 keynote speakers represented all major world religions: Riane Eisler, lawyer, sociologist, founder of The Partnership Way of resolving conflict (partnershipway.org) and the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (saiv.net), and author of The Chalice and the Blade; Daisy Khan, architect and executive director of the American Sufi Muslim Society; Mary Evelyn Tucker, BuckTOP: TRIPTYCH OF MOHAMMED, JESUS, AND BUDDHA BY CHRISTINA VARGA. BELOW: BRUCE CHILTON, RIANE EISLER, SATISH KUMAR, MARY EVELYN TUCKER, CHIEF OREN LYONS AT BARD.

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nell University professor of religion; Rabia Elizabeth Roberts, peace activist, Earth Prayers editor, and senior teacher in

the International Sufi Way; Dominican Sister

the earth are cut from the same masculine-

Miriam MacGillis, founder of the biody-

dominator-society cloth,” Eisler said, then

namic agriculture and learning center Gen-

suddenly smiled and drew laughter from the

esis Farm; David Suzuki, renowned scientist,

audience by adding, “For instance, women

broadcaster, and sustainable ecology leader;

never would have created nuclear waste

Columbia University professor of Buddhist

without any place to put it.”

Studies Robert Thurman; Traditional Circle

David Suzuki agreed. “If we don’t deal

of Indian Elders member Chief Oren Lyons;

with hunger and poverty, forget about the en-

Interfaith Partnership for the Environment

vironment,” he said. But the ills of society of-

of United Nations Environment Program’s

ten stem from being out of “sacred balance,”

Rabbi Lawrence Troster; modern-day mystic

he explained. “We have to stop thinking we’re

and environmental advocate Andrew Harvey;

at the top of the heap, with everything be-

Bard College Institute of Advanced Theol-

low us for us to use….There has never been

ogy executive director Bruce Chilton; and,

a species on earth, ever, that’s been capable

of course, Kumar, a former Jain monk who

of squandering as we are today.”

founded the London School of Nonviolence

But while the conference’s speakers were

and Schumacher College, and whose latest

stellar, many audience members shone, too.

book is The Buddha and the Terrorist.

Inga, a preadolescent girl helping her

“Do we care for creation? Or does cre-

parents represent The US Decade for Edu-

ation care for us?” asked conference orga-

cation in Sustainable Development, led a

nizer Judith Asphar. She described the event

“break-out” session on youth and sustain-

as “an interfaith environmental quest for a

able development. Dick Hogan of Green Fire

sustainable world.” Throughout the confer-

Farm in Ohio rode a 1974 BMW motorcycle

ence, speakers interwove spiritual and envi-

all the way to Bard. And as special guests,

ronmental concepts and concerns.

Alaskan resident Jack Sibbald and his part-

It wasn’t until John Cronin, director of

husky, part-wolf, Birch, sat quietly together

Pace University’s Pace Academy for the En-

in the audience each day. Jack and Birch are

vironment, went through a period of intense

walking penniless for peace across the US,

searching for meaning in his work in defend-

visiting with peace groups and schools along

ing the Hudson River with Riverkeeper and

the way, having begun at Ground Zero last

began dialoguing with a priest at Graymoor,

March on the second anniversary of the Iraq

the Franciscan monastery in Garrison, that

invasion. Their destination is Deer Park, the

he discovered the right way to approach

Buddhist monastery founded by Thich Nhat

environmentalism. “He gave me a tape by

Hanh in Escondido, Calif. Sibbald carries

Thomas Merton to listen to,” he recalled.

everything on his back—including a ban-

“One day while driving I was listening to the

ner stating “We Are All In This Together.”

tape and I heard Merton say, ‘In nature, ev-

He formulated his idea for the walk in the

ery single moment, every single thing around

weeks after the 9/11 attacks, having felt called

you is doing God’s will perfectly. And if you

upon to spread a message of solidarity and

can find a spot to fit into within nature, then

peace to counteract the despair, fear, and

you’re doing God’s will too.’ I pulled over

anger he sees everywhere, even among

and cried. The avenue to protect creation is

peace-workers, and chose to walk in order

through humanity.”

to highlight the harmful effects of fossil fu-

Yet humanity also blocks the avenue of

els. Sibbald heard about Satish Kumar—who

environmental protection. As Andrew Harvey

walked 85,000 miles for peace in the 60s, from

put it, “This is the dark night of the species

Gandhi’s grave to John F. Kennedy’s grave,

and the environment…an apocalyptic crisis

after which he was invited to meet Martin

that will destroy humanity and the world un-

Luther King, Jr.—and the Earth & Religion

less we wake up from our coma.”

conference in Boston, where Birch was hit by

“Darwin has been dealt a great injustice,”

an SUV this spring. After Birch miraculously

announced Riane Eisler. “He spoke 92 times

healed, Sibbald detoured to the conference.

of love in The Origin of the Species, and only

He wrote in his blog afterward: “Meeting

two times of natural selection—but natural

and listening to all these people gave me so

selection is all that was heard.” For Eisler, heal-

much hope because I know their actions are

ing spiritually and preserving the planet each

spreading a ripple effect around the world.”

involve “paying more attention in activism to

For

primary human relations. The most important

earthandreligion.org or contact conference

things about society are the things that make

organizer Judith Asphar (Resurgence Asso-

us most uncomfortable”—especially gender

ciation, PO Box 467, Woodstock, NY 12498).

issues. “The rape of women and the rape of

Resurgence magazine: resurgence.org

information,

visit

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Frankly Speaking BY FRANK CROCITTO

Regarding Henry

’m very fond of Henry David Thoreau. Everybody knows that his book Walden is considered one of

Western literature’s greatest achievements. High school kids are—still, I’m told—expected to at least have a working knowledge of who he was and how important his writings are. Mike Dubisch

But brave is the high school English teacher who would make Walden required reading for his class. In some ways, that reticence is understandable. Walden may be too rich a feast for young men and women who’ve grown up in a fast-food culture of Stephen King novels, video games, and Hollywood schlock. Nothing “happens” in Walden. The language is soaked in the imagery of the ancient Greeks, who are also often considered too “difficult” for students. Thoreau’s absence from even advanced-placement courses is understandable, in the sad way most cultural degeneration is. But why pick on high school kids or their teachers? How many adults do you know who’ve read more than what you’ll find in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations? Look at the back pages of this magazine. You’ll find page after page of “spiritual” help. All kinds of practices promising peace and relaxation and improvement. Self-improvement, as it is usually called. Thoreau was mightily concerned with the self, with its discovery and development. As practical as a meditation mat or a Pilates machine. Let me give you a quick example of the man’s insight, his essential ability to go to the heart of what he describes—in this case, waking up at Walden Pond: Morning brings back the heroic ages. I was as much affected by the faint hum of a mosquito, making its invisible and unimaginable tour through my apartment at earliest dawn, when I was sitting with door and windows open, as I could be by any trumpet that sang of fame. It was Homer’s requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings. There was something cosmical about it, a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of

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factory bells, and a fragrance filling the air—to a higher life than we fell asleep from….

significance to you. It works the same way for someone who

That’s just a tiny piece of the gold this man

has a mellifluous, beautiful voice. You don’t

mined in his writings. Maybe 150 words. How

have to be hypnotized by how they say a thing

did it strike you? I’m willing to bet a number

because you can just listen. You’re not taken

of you could hardly wait till it was over.

in. You can determine if there’s something

Why? Because, for one ostensible “reason”

truthful lurking beneath all the honeyed

or another, you found yourself disliking the

words, the graceful rhythms, the eloquence.

passage.

It’s the same with flattery and blame.

It was too wordy. Its metaphors too

Someone says a few words of praise and

obscure. It was confusing. It was antiquated,

we melt away. Or someone blames us for

corny, obscure.

something and we fall to pieces. It’s the same

You were bored.

thing. We’re either in a puddle or a pile of

Or maybe you found yourself liking the

jagged fragments.

passage. You caught its rhythms, enjoyed its

But if you can direct your attention, you are

classical metaphors, marveled at its insights.

not in that mechanical realm of like or dislike.

You were enthralled.

Someone can blame you and you can listen to

But how is that different from being bored

the blame. They can be mad—you did thus-

with it? Aren’t they—like and dislike—two

and-such-and-thus-and-such—and you can

sides of the same coin? It’s the way we usually

listen and see whether what they’re saying is

view the world, for a myriad of seeming

true. It doesn’t matter if they’re angry—their

reasons. Do I like what I’m reading or don’t

anger doesn’t affect you. You’re free to see

I? Am I interested? Do I like what that person

the veracity of what they’re saying, and to

is saying about me or don’t I? Do I like that

proceed from there.

person? Do I dislike him? Everything rides on

It works the same way for flatterers.

like or dislike. If we don’t like something or

A person comes on to you, saying how

someone, we turn our backs to it. We dismiss

wonderful you are, how sweet, how

it, or him or her. And that’s unfortunate,

beautiful— whatever. Instead of being lulled

because in doing that, we turn our backs on

to sleep and buying that ridiculous SUV or

ourselves.

marrying that sweet-talking ape, you can

If you don’t like something or someone,

actually see through them. Maybe there’s a

and you conduct your life accordingly, that

reason to buy a bloated land-yacht or to marry

puts you in the position of not being able

that fool you dated in high school, but if there

to place your attention where it needs to

is, you’ll want to hear it and not be swayed by

be, because if you’re ruled by your likes and

sweet words.

dislikes, you can’t keep your attention where

So it doesn’t really matter whether you like

it may need to be. And if you can’t control

or dislike Henry David Thoreau and what he

your attention, you won’t be able to control

wrote. If you can suspend your usual way of

your life.

treating most everything, you’ll be able to see

Here’s an example: You meet someone

what there is to find in Thoreau. He was, after

who has an unpleasant, screechy voice.

all, the kind of guy who didn’t care if you liked

They’re saying something to you. If you can

him or not, and that may have been one of his

get beyond whether you like or dislike their

greatest secrets—it opened the door and the

voice, you might be able to hear what they

windows of that famous cabin on the pond,

have to say, and it may be of tremendous

and let untold riches enter.

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Ear Whacks BY SHARON NICHOLS

Blues Behind Bars

hile sifting through all the Viagra ads, porno offers, jokes, and teddy bear hugs that deluge your inbox on a daily

basis, you may have seen this one—the widely circulated, hilarious e-mail explaining the fundamental rules of blues music. One of these rules involves location. For example, you cannot Josey Peterson

write about or sing the blues in an office or shopping mall because the lighting is wrong; you should go out to the parking lot and sit by the trash bin. You also cannot sing the blues at an ashram, golf course, or gallery opening. A good place for the blues would be a highway, a jailhouse, an empty bed, or the bottom of a whiskey glass. If this is true, then Delmark Goldfarb certainly qualifies as a bluesman, for he once sang the blues in a fitting place—a jailhouse. And even more fitting, it was in Memphis. “The actual charge was attempt to commit a felony,” he says. “I was with a whole bunch of Marines. We were crazy, we were always getting messed up, doing stupid things, if you can imagine that. Can you imagine that? I’m just saying it’s not that tough.” Goldfarb was 22 when they locked him up for a year. He’d been drafted in 1971, but instead of being sent to Vietnam, he was sent from his hometown Buffalo to a base just outside Memphis. Once he landed in prison, he found himself in danger, the only white man in a predominantly black Memphis jail. It was Goldfarb’s musical background that saved him. He’d started on the banjo at age 13—he bought it with his bar mitzvah money. He loved that Beverly Hillbillies sound, but found he couldn’t express himself fully on banjo. He started playing guitar and got heavily into bluegrass, jug band, and folk. So, when he heard that someone was looking for a piano player in the slammer, he jumped on it. “It was O.V. Wright,” says Goldfarb. “I’d never heard of him before, but when he came into jail, everybody was hollering. I thought they were joking, but he turned out to be this famous guy who was a big influence on guys like Robert Cray, a big soul writer like Otis Redding. One day he said, ‘I wish I had a piano player,’ and there was a piano out there for [church] services, and I said, ‘I can play the piano.’ So, I sat down and started playing, and O.V. started singing, and these guys all started dancing. Because I was with O.V., I was okay with everybody. I was the guy! It saved my life.” Goldfarb looks back at his short prison term as a rebirth, a chance to start over. “One thing I always wondered...as you get older and you achieve a voice, what is it you have to say? I’ve

DELMARK GOLDFARB

listened to a lot of albums and it’s ‘woman done me wrong, woman done me wrong, bad luck blues, woman done me wrong.’ I hear that over and over again, thematically. Well, once you’ve been locked up and you get your freedom back, all you really

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wanna do is walk on the sidewalk, go to the

It’s hard for us to imagine what schools are

grocery store, pick out something, buy it, and

like these days without all the arts and cul-

take it home. You just don’t understand the

tural stuff that we had. All for weapons! All

pleasures of that and how good that feels.

for weapons!”

We’ll that’s in my music a lot. It’s the basic stuff, little bitty things.”

The photo on the cover of Up to My Neck is a disturbing play on the album title. It’s

These simple freedoms are expressed on

the back of a man’s neck, and climbing up

Goldfarb’s new CD, Up to My Neck. He’s

the spine is a huge scar with black stitches.

joined by a handful of musicians, including

What isn’t apparent is who the man is. It’s the

Woodstock’s John Sebastian on harmonica

musician, who was struck with stenosis—an

and jug band master Fritz Richmond on jug

abnormal narrowing of the spinal canal—right

and washtub bass. Goldfarb provides acous-

in the middle of recording two years ago. It

tic guitar and a growling vox with nuances

was another prison for Goldfarb, and another

sometimes reminiscent of gravelly Tom Waits.

chance to be reborn.

On the infectiously upbeat “Got Something

“My hands stopped working. I became

Good With Her,” he expresses the simple

paralyzed in my hands and legs and couldn’t

joy of having someone fix him a meal. in

make music at all. It became worse and worse.

this case “my baby.” He explains: “It’s not

I had a constriction in my neck and spine.

rainbows or pots of gold, but when I need a

Mine was congenital, but you can cause your-

snack, she fixes me one, you know? What a

self the same sort of problem by scrunching

nice thing.”

yourself up to play guitar or violin. It comes

“Somebody’s Got The Blues” is a pensive

from sitting with bad posture.” Goldfarb used

tune about the pain and agony of boredom.

pre-illness recordings—some of them going

“Portable Man,” which has already been cov-

back 20 years—to create the nine-song, 26-

ered by soul singer Curtis Delgado, is about

minute CD. Two years after the operation and

homelessness. Goldfarb explains his own past

a great deal of physical therapy, he’s taught

as a “portable man”:“My daughter asked me

himself to play again. And he says he plays

about the guys sleeping in the park, and I

even better than before.

said there’s nothing wrong with sleeping in

“Just like the jailhouse, it was a rebirth.

the park. It’s only bad if you can’t stop when

To appreciate having your hands, putting

you wanna stop. Sleeping in the park itself is

on your shoes. I had as close a call at being

not that bad, I’ve done it. But instead of call-

a wheelchair person as you can get. A little

ing them homeless, which is sorta negative,

bit of jail is good for everybody. The point I

they’re portable. I’ve been there, it’s real easy

learned was that the music, any type of music,

to become that way.”

makes the bad times better. No matter how

The calypso-blues “Shoot the Angels

bad they are, music can make it better. I feel

Down,” which is currently receiving airplay

really fortunate that every day I can just get

on both folk and blues stations, is about the

outside. The sun feels so good, you know?”

human cost of the arms race. (“Build a rocket

Over the years, and between prisons,

to the heavens / wonder what this modern

Goldfarb explored various musical collabora-

magic is going to do to the neighborhood?”)

tions, taught music classes, and even created

Goldfarb’s latest project is sending copies of

exhibits at the Memphis Blues Museum and

this single to political leaders. “I’ve always

the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. Today he’s

been really pissed about Star Wars ever

living in Oregon, where he’s become a major

since it came down. In the ‘60s, I saw the

force in fundraising after founding the mam-

creation of a lot of good things, like medical

moth Waterfront Blues Festival in 1987, which

clinics and arts programs, and then to see all

has raised millions of dollars and collected

the good stuff of our culture, the stuff we’re

tons of food for the Oregon Food Bank. Now

really proud of, getting cut left and right, for

he’s heading back East for a few shows, one at

weapons, it really pissed me off.

the Rosendale Cafe, 434 Main Street, on Sat-

Goldfarb admits that blues music has always been political. “They’ve always been

urday, July 16, at 9pm ($10). And he promises much more than 26 minutes of music.

writing about the man, they’ve always been

Though John Sebastian dubbed Delmark

writing about the sheriff. It’s been music

Goldfarb “the best new writer of good-time

based on racism, but it’s a good way to get

music,” we know through the artist’s voice

your anger out. If you’ve got kids and they

that sometimes the good must rise from the

don’t have a music program anymore... no

bad. “It’s all good stuff,” he says.

music programs in the schools? I wasn’t self taught... I had music classes! I took chorus!

For more on the Delmark Goldfarb, visit delgoldfarb.com.

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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS

BY DJ WAVY DAVY

BOB GRIMM WITH JOURNEY BLUE HEAVEN July 8, 9. Before you make plans this weekend, read the bio at Bob Grimm’s website. This guitarist/arranger/teacher has lived a rock ‘n’ roll story and survived to tell it, from being discovered by the Four Seasons in New York in the late sixties to solo stardom in London a decade later. He leaves his Phoenicia studio for a full weekend at Gathers in the Holiday Inn, with guest artist Journey Blue Heaven—of eponymous fame and Monica’s Kneepads—who’s no slouch either. 9pm. No cover. Kingston. (845) 338-0400. BOBGRIMM.NET

Sundays,

CHIP TAYLOR WITH CARRIE LUZ RODRIQUEZ July 9. Taylor, back at the Towne Crier, is in the Who’s Who of rock for penning classics like “Wild Thing,” “Angel of the Morning,” and the Janis pearl “Try.” His discography is equally thick, including duets with Lucinda Williams, hits for Bonnie Raitt, and a solo collection of his own tunes, Hit Man (Gadfly Records). Taylor met violinist Rodriquez, a prodigy at 10, in her native Austin during the South-by-Southwest conference and recalled, “She had this certain magic onstage.” 9pm. $20/$17.50. Pawling. (845) 855-1300. TOWNECRIER.COM

METAL BLAST 2005 July 15. Next stop Sturgis, South Dakota as Dee Snider and crew tour their way toward the nation’s largest bike fest. Meanwhile, the Chance leaps down Main Street into the MidHudson Civic Center to host this hard-rock fiesta, starring Twisted Sister, WASP, LA Guns, Stephen Pearcy of RATT, and more. Go to www.twistedsister.com to help former soundman Charlie Barecca raise money for a life-saving operation. (Rob Zombie appears at the Chance Monday, July 18.) 7pm. $35. Poughkeepsie. (845) 471-1966. THECHANCETHEATER.COM

MAUREEN MCGOVERN July 16. Ms. McGovern joins the elite circle of performers (like Robert Goulet and Melissa Manchester) who’ve mastered stage and screen and show no sign of stopping. This year the Belleayre Music Fest boasts another ambitious schedule, but Ms. McGovern is bound to be a show-stopper. Currently on Broadway in “Little Women, The Musical,” this diva has hit every note from “There’s Got to Be a Morning After” to a recent album of Harold Arlen songs. (Get yer blues on July 9 when Ruth Brown and Roomful of Blues tear it up together.) 8pm. $55/$40. Highmount. (845) 254-5600. BELLEAYREMUSIC.ORG

SWITCH-IN-TIME WITH MARK RAISCH July 24, 29. The big-band sound is still around and Dutchess County has it at two historic locales. Switch-in-Time (named after a Count Basie classic) boasts 25 musicians on the bandstand and a repertoire from Artie Shaw to Zoot Sims. The wax is applied by velvet-voiced Mark Raisch, a true treasure who looks and sings the part. For these most “de-lovely” shows, start Sunday at Locust Grove (2pm,) and Friday slide up Route 9 to the grand Mills Mansion (7pm). Both shows free. Poughkeepsie/Staatsburg. (845) 471-9548. MARKSINGS.COM

TUTE CHIGAMBA OF ZIMBABWE July 29, 30. Tute and Irene Chigamba, father and daughter of the internationally known Chigamba family and founders of Mhembero Dance Troupe of Zimbabwe, return to our shores for the first time in six years. Both are masters of the Shona mbira, or metal-keyed thumb piano. They are joined by Ronnie Daliyo and Julia Chigamba, principal dancers and musicians in Mhembero Dance Troupe. Striving to preserve and promote their cultural identity, Mhembero performances weave an intoxicating mixture of traditional music and dance on consecutive nights at the Rosendale Cafe and Time & Space Limited. Rosendale: 9pm. $10. (845) 658-9048. Hudson: 8pm. $12.50/$7.50. (518) 822-8448. ASHOKAEDU.NET/MBIRA/CHIGAMBAS.HTM

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CD REVIEWS MARK MULCAHY: IN PURSUIT OF YOUR HAPPINESS MEZZOTINT RECORDS, 2005

The title track certainly sums up the current version and vision of former Miracle Legion frontman Mark Mulcahy; his deliciously dark, moody, yet melodic voice just hovers over the spare, eerie Farfisa organ and accordion of this irony-drenched ditty. Singing with elegantly profound world-weariness and loveleeriness, In Pursuit of Your Happiness stands up to his best work. “A lifetime of crime has put me here, with time off for bad behavior” (“Be Sure”) and “The things I love don’t bring me joy, the things I want I want to destroy” (“I Have Patience”) are just two of the many lyrical gems Mulcahy sprinkles around. Bass and cello carry “Everything’s Coming Undone,” and “Nothing But A Silver Medal” is unabashedly Dylan, while the epic “He Vanished” has a twisted “Leader of the Pack” kind of narration. Like the Beatles did at times, Mulcahy can paint dark pictures with such melodic majesty that they seem almost rosy. Mulcahy maintains an elusive, under-the-radar career that in ways suits him well. Seek out this CD. Sadness never sounded so good. Available for purchase at www.mezzotint.com. —David Malachowski

ELLEN BAND AND DAVID LEE MYERS: TWO SHIPS POGUS PRODUCTIONS, 2005

When the definition of music slips free from its commercial constraints, the results can be both undisciplined and energizing. Veteran sound artist and composer Ellen Band and sound and visual artist David Lee Myers have joined forces in an aural collaboration called Two Ships. But the result is more than two artists passing in the night. By blending sonic environments and specialized electronic circuitry, Band and Myers have crafted a suite of compositions on this CD, identified by three names: Valen Lagoon, Cape Viqven, and Laventiya Bay. Whether they have drawn musical inspiration from places fictional or actual is not apparent. (The map on the insert may have been conjured by the composers.) But what is obvious is that they have created tangible places in time that are, as Myers explains in the liner notes, “aquatic in nature” and “nocturnal.” Their style seamlessly melds radio static and a steam kettle whine with church bells and the croaking of frogs. Far more transcendent than Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music and more inviting than Steve Reich compositions, Two Ships offers a multi textured, sensual getaway for the ears and mind. Book passage now: www.pogus.com. —Jay Blotcher

ERIC ERICKSON: THE SHADOW OF THE MOON BOOMBOX RECORDS, 2005

Eric Erickson’s new songs are 13 sweetly melodious pop/rock pieces filled with gutsy lyrics that create a personal portrait of the singer-songwriter in his own, as well as the larger world. The album opens with the title song, written in honor of a love rekindled during a total solar eclipse, performed a capella by Erickson and his wife, Ellen Reitemeyer. “If I Could Do That Once,” “Just Getting Started,” and “On to Me” wax witty about coming to terms with success and failure at midlife. Four more songs focus on the moon: “Me and the Moon,” Bing Crosby’s “Moonlight Becomes You,” an instrumental duet between Erickson’s guitar and Betty MacDonald’s violin, and “Light of the Morning,” a lullaby . A personal favorite: “Slow and Steady,” a so far unrecorded James Taylor tune in which Erickson sounds eerily just like the man. Many guests, including Peter Davis, Vinnie Martucci, and Abby Newton add extra spice. www.EricErickson.com. —Susan Piperato

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Planet Waves BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

What Would it Take? My father is a communications and media professor, and he likes to make fun of his students for not remembering anything. His latest jab is to tell them they don’t have to worry about Alzheimer’s disease—because they have no memory to lose anyway. This would be sarcastic, were it not accurate. But it’s not just his students. Emil Alzamora

Western society seems to be in the grips of a collective amnesia that reminds me of the scene in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, in which the entire town forgets everything, and the local fortune teller reads the cards to tell people what happened to them in the past. In therapy work it’s generally assumed that people who can’t remember the past have a reason for not doing so. It’s either too disturbing, they feel guilty about it, or the burden is too great. I would say that all three count these days. But lately, we’ve had a vivid reminder of something called Watergate—something we really should remember, which seems logical enough not to. To most, Deep Throat was a long-forgotten movie character (Hal Holbrook in All the President’s Men), before he emerged from the recesses of secrecy and the past in early June, identifying himself by name: Mark Felt. He was the high-ranking FBI official and secret source who made the Washington Post’s exposes of the Watergate scandal possible. These were the articles, published between 1972 and 1974, that proved that Nixon really did know about the bugging of the Democratic campaign headquarters, and the associated money trail, and much else besides. While we have a lot to thank Deep Throat for, I think it’s a good time go over what else it took to bring down old Dick Nixon. I do so for the benefit of everyone who sees all the parallels between then and now: the war, the paranoia, the secrecy, the crimes, the lies, and the intense frustration of the people at having no impact on government. Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968, the year that Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated. The man who eventually presided over the most criminally intent White House before the present day came into power as two of the most articulate, beloved civil rights leaders lay recently buried. Nixon was elected, in part, because he had a “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War. Whatever that plan was, what actually happened was that Nixon secretly stepped up bombing campaigns and spread the war to Laos and Cambodia, laying waste to both countries and opening up Cambodia to the

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atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. Though the war

But consider that the Watergate story

had officially begun just four years earlier, in

broke in the spring of 1972 and developed

1964, Nixon’s secret plan extended US involve-

fairly steadily, such that by the November 1972

ment in the war for another six years.

election, people pretty much knew what had

Two short years after he took office, in

happened. Yet Nixon won 49 states, losing

the spring of 1970, Nixon made his infamous

only Massachusetts and Washington, DC, to

speech announcing that, behind the nation’s

George McGovern.

back, he had been bombing Cambodia. US

Meanwhile, in the years encompasing

campuses erupted in protest, and fully one

Nixon’s reign, the country had gone through

third of them were either closed down before

its greatest activist phase since the American

the semester ended or came close to being

Revolution. The decade following the Kenne-

closed. This was the spring of the Kent State

dy assassination was a time of unprecedented

shootings—when the National Guard opened

community involvement, protest, and creative

fire and killed four students, all of whom were

outpouring. Students had taken over college

either passersby or photographers. If you want

campuses—not just through demonstrations,

a taste of that era, dig out the Neil Young song

but also through changes in curriculum, ban-

“Ohio,” which was written, recorded, manu-

ning the ROTC from some places, taking over

factured, and available in record stores and

student governance, and many other changes.

on the radio just days after the shootings at

Many people were aware of what was going

Kent.

on—far more than today, despite our beloved

But the Vietnam War, tearing the country apart, dragged on. And this was the backdrop

Internet. Still, Nixon, his war, and his scandals marched on.

for the events of the spring of 1972—when five

Under the combined pressure of these

burglars with sophisticated bugging equip-

developments, one by one, the “president’s

ment, a lot of money, and the phone numbers

men” resigned. Some were convicted of felo-

of very powerful people in their pockets were

nies associated with Watergate. Some went to

arrested early one morning in the Watergate

prison. Many spilled the beans on the whole

complex, attempting to place eavesdropping

affair. There was the issue of the Nixon tapes

devices in the Democratic National Headquar-

and the long gap in one of them.

ters. Quickly, this bugging was connected to

Yet Nixon himself, as if enchanted by some

an organization called CREEP—the Committee

evil spell, or charmed by presidential power,

to Re-elect the President. The thing I love most

lived on like the undead. Somehow he kept

about the Watergate crooks is that at least they

enough people believing that he was totally

had a sense of humor.

innocent that they were reluctant to associate

You would think that the break-in, com-

him with the break-in, or blame him for the

bined with the endless, devastating war and

war. But a movement against him was brewing.

the Kent State shootings (along with the less-

Finally, Republican leaders in Congress took

publicized shootings of students at Jackson

action and, with their blessing, impeachment

State, SUNY Buffalo, and elsewhere), would

proceedings were discussed. It was at this

have been enough to wake people up. There

point that Nixon resigned, in the summer of

was, in reality, little else in the news. Bodies

1974. He quit more than two years after Water-

of American boys were coming home from

gate, four years after Kent State, and a decade

Southeast Asia at a shocking rate. And then

after the Vietnam War officially had begun.

Nixon was caught cheating on his opponents. His excuse was he didn’t know.

So, for those wondering what it takes to bring down a president or an entire adminis-

Then, one bit at a time, the shit hit the fan.

tration, you now have a basis for comparison.

There was a lot of help from Bob Woodward,

The past is not always a good predictor of the

Carl Bernstein, Mark Felt, and the editors of

future, but it’s usually the best one we have.

the Post, who kept up a stream of reporting

And by that method, it’s going to take a long

that could not be avoided by the media. And

time for people to gain their focus and find

though it took a long time, the blood-soaked

their voice. And the world scene may need

soil of the country was fertile. After that came

to get a lot uglier.

the Pentagon Papers story—a series of articles

And yes, it’s also quite possible that we

by Neil Sheehan in the New York Times that

will go on to see a Condi Rice or Jeb Bush

proved, through secret government docu-

presidency become a reality in 2008, no mat-

ments, that the Nixon administration knew

ter how badly Iraq is going, no matter what

about the atrocities of Vietnam, and that it

the state of the economy, and no matter what

had been working with a plan to lie to the

crimes have been committed so far. After all,

people.

crime is in the eyes of the victim.

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Horoscopes by Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net

ARIES March 20-April 19

fooled; you’re not on anyone’s path but your

All the planetary as-

own, and your own is pretty unique at the

pects of any consequence

moment. I take it that you’re reconsidering a

this month, and there are

major decision that once seemed to be plain

quite a few, are related to

and easy, or based on incontrovertible facts.

where your creative life meets your profes-

New information has entered the picture,

sional life. The story goes like this: For no

and it’s having a sobering effect on you. Just

apparent reason, you begin to take certain

do yourself a favor: Don’t decide anything

things you love to do seriously. You find

too soon, and don’t take any of this too seri-

yourself being disciplined where once you

ously. Reconsidering is not, in itself, a deci-

were impatient, focused where once you

sion. And you’re not necessarily being put in

were just overflowing with energy. You

a position where you need to retreat, though

get grounded in your creative process,

it may seem that way. What is happening is

you become oblivious to distractions, and

that you’re experiencing a series of life call-

you bear down on your creative talents.

ings in their two aspects: as challenges, and

Then, at the same time, you notice that

as opportunities to negotiate your fate. It’s

you’re doing something highly original,

true: Fate is often a matter of agreement be-

which, oddly, finds a place and a need in

tween two people. In your case, just make

the larger community. That place begins to

sure it’s someone you agree with.

open for you, and you discover that you’re more respected for your talents than you ever dreamed. The next thing you know,

CANCER June 21-July 22 Not everyone can carry the

you’re into certain career advances you would have deemed impossible.

TAURUS

that’s what you’ve been doing for quite some

April 19-May 20

was in you, rather than resting on your shoul-

ber of occasions in recent

ders as some outside force? The answer is,

months on which achieve-

some of it. If personal responsibility is lifted

ment and accomplishment

off you from the outside, you also need to

have called your name personally, but

let it go from the inside. You will feel better

where you were not willing to make the

the moment you allow yourself to live your

sacrifices for success. In a little while, the

life for the factors that are important to you,

things you thought you had to give up will

and nothing else. You don’t have to worry

no longer feel like losses. Perhaps they in-

about going on an egotistical rampage; what

volved your living space or geographic lo-

is important to you will work just fine for

cation. Perhaps they involved commitment

the world and for the people around you.

to your family. Perhaps they involved some

Indeed, it’s more about relationship than

personal insecurity or emotional crisis. The

you may have imagined, but remember:

events of this month will remove your rea-

You don’t have to make this decision on a

sons for fear and insecurity, presenting

committee basis.

if you discover you can do anything you

LEO July 22-Aug. 23

want, what exactly will you do? You may

So it begins, my little Leo. But as one

want to stand back and observe yourself,

born under the sign of the cat, you

or you may want to make decisions with-

need not fear the influence of

out considering the consequences. At this

the mighty Saturn, because

point, even doing nothing represents con-

your ruling planet is the very

crete action, so you might as well do what

Sun himself, source of all light and life.

you please.

Saturn taking its place in your birth sign

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time now. But how much of that heaviness

There have been a num-

you with the dilemma of freedom. That is,

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weight of the world, and in many respects it seems

for the next two years will help you make

May 20-June 21

your world a more solid place. By now, I’m

Opportunities that seem to

sure you’ve been feeling the process begin:

open up easily for others

plans taking on tangible form, decisions that

may not open up as eas-

were once cloaked in fog feeling much more

ily for you. But don’t be

tangible, and you having a sense of yourself

Horoscopes by Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net that stands outside your fears, your needs,

take charge. You’ve reached a stage of your

and the consequences of what lives in your

maturity and growth when you can trust that

secret world. This is a time of rebirth and

you will do the right thing. If you’ve taken

re-creation, a time of summoning yourself

on the Scorpio reputation for dicey ethics,

to your highest mission, a moment of truth.

it’s time to drop that false burden and be-

And if you want more out of life than that,

gin exercising the power that you’ve gained.

now is the time to go for it.

The fact that you’ve become so emotionally

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22

sensitive, particularly to the issue of group consensus, is truly an asset. But in the end,

You’re in the process of a

you must make each and every one of your

quick change of costume,

own decisions. There will be times when

or potentially an unexpected

you agree with what those around you have

change of identity. You now

to say; there will be times when you don’t

get to put away an entire

agree at all, and you’ll have to make your

dimension of who you thought you were,

choices and stand alone. You’re strong

and bring out someone you have long

enough. You’re smart enough. And simply

wanted to be. I suggest you indulge in the

stated, it is time.

pleasure of this, and also in the pleasure of finally facing your worst fears. I mean,

SAGITTARIUSNov.22-Dec.22

if you’re going to bother to confront that

You may feel like the universe

which scares you, it might as well be what

has put the kibosh on your most

scares you most. You’re in a rather fortu-

valued long-term plans, but

nate position: That state which is the most

don’t fall for it. You may

disturbing to you is precisely the position

also feel like you’re be-

in which you are strongest. The true revolu-

ing subjected to a test of faith,

tion of the moment is having arrived in the

but don’t fall for that, either. What’s hap-

space where no one and nothing outside

pening is that your way is narrowing; you’ve

yourself has the power to tell you who

reached a point where you must walk the

you are.

straight path rather than going whatever

LIBRA Sept. 22-Oct. 23

ay you choose at whatever time you feel like it. This may take a little getting used to

When the rewards for all

for your Sagittarian spirit, but before long

your hard work the past

you’ll appreciate the discipline, the sense

couple of years arrive, they’re

of focus, and the sober awareness that you

unlikely to be quite what you

must rise to the occasion of your own life.

were expecting. Often, the personal benefit

In this world, freedom is a right, but often it

of being in service is the opportunity to be

turns out that actually exercising freedom is

of even greater service. So get used to it. Is

a privilege. Such is reserved for those who

this not exactly what you’ve been asking the

recognize that faith is an act of courage.

universe for? What’s worth noting is that you’re being called upon to help in ways

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 20

that only you can. You’ve built a reputation,

This month brings the sec-

to a great extent, on this fact alone. Suc-

ond consecutive full moon

cess is no longer a matter of whether you

in your birth sign. As well,

fit in; it’s a matter of being entirely willing

Saturn, your ruling planet,

to play your precise role on the great stage

finally changes signs from

of life. As such, you can indulge fully in the

Cancer to

experience; you can take every advantage

of healing, awareness and standing apart

that comes to you; you can afford to take

from the crowd, begins a brief return to

a few risks, make a few mistakes, and be a

your sign, where it has spent much of the

bit wild. Please.

past four years. These are all rare develop-

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov.22

Leo. And Chiron, the planet

ments, and they portend unusual opportunities and what you might call highly origi-

You will need to balance being

nal changes. It’s about time, isn’t it? While

exceedingly sensitive to your envi-

Capricorns have a reputation for being the

ronment with the clear calling to

boss, you know you’re a lot more sensitive

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Horoscopes by Eric Francis Coppolino www.planetwaves.net than you let on, even to the point of being

to stick to your central agenda, and to get

sentimental. Now is the time to relate to

done now what is both necessary to do now

others from your soft inner core, and to take

and what can only be done at this time.

a chance and see what it feels like to be absolutely real—more real than you or any

PISCES Feb. 20-March 20

of your peers would ever consider being.

In the coming months,

This is called opening up to love.

and indeed the coming years, you must

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 19

garden

plants & supplies

garden

design & installation

garden maintenance

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carefully balance work

Imagine: It’s the dry season,

priori-

and you know you have

Pisces, you’re blessed with natural vitality

ties with health priorities. As a

to put a new roof on your

and also with an abundance of energy when

home before the seasonal

it comes to the tasks of life. Saturn’s forth-

rains come. It’s going to

coming ingress to your sixth solar house

take some work, but you

suggests a time of focus as well as a time

have time to organize the project, and a

of increased responsibility. You’re going

bit of excess energy on your hands. And as

to need to help yourself by staying in bal-

an Aquarian, you have a natural skill for get-

ance, keeping a pace you can live with, and

ting many hands involved, and creating an

making sure that your role in the world out

orderly, logical effort that actually functions

there is consistent with the real person you

in a spirit of cooperation. Despite much

are in your inner world. You’ve learned a lot

other activity in your life, I don’t suggest

about making sure that responsibility does

you delay; I suggest you begin now, even

not entirely dominate your life, and Saturn’s

before you need to. It’s likely, that once you

recent lessons have included the absolute

begin, you’ll see other projects that need

necessity that you enjoy existence. Now you

to happen, and you’re going to pick up the

need to enjoy your work, and to have a great

rhythm of accomplishment. Just remember

time taking care of yourself.

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POETICA

EDITED BY PHILLIP LEVINE . Our Literary Issue is coming in September. For that issue, I am seeking poetry about writing and poetry about reading. Ars Poetica. Send ‘em if you got ‘em. Deadline: August 10. 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401. E-mail: poetry @ chronogram.com. Subject: Literary Supplement.

i remember deep belly laughter running down a long narrow hallway —p

Anniversary

After an Earlier Incident

I went knocking on someone else’s poem to find some way to tell you other than my own, how I hold July for you, how I dream of lifting your heart from anything that feels too much like summer, and placing the seed of it in cool rain, alongside the flame of a great Laurel tree. I never trusted the sun, the pressure its light puts on us to smile despite its formidable heat. Then again, I have always resisted being me.

You will experience a slow-down of service Diminished impulse to open your mouth Or shoot off e-mail

—Kristen Henderson

—Susan J. Behrens

Confidence will be interrupted And emotions dulled But periodic guilt is predicted Along with recurring flashbacks of mortification Drinking will increase Normal service is expected to return within 100 days Thank you for your patience

Confusion fusion = merging confusion = merging together merging together = resolving difference resolving difference = accepting accepting = willing to live

Autism is a bright red fingernail, bitten to the quick or a painted sky, cracked, in two irreconcilable pieces. —Kaete Smith

Cosmopolitan clarity emanates from confusion just as calm follows the storm

con = together

A Poem For John, Who Glows

humanity disassembles nature difference is our business blurring distinction creates confusion indistinction provokes human anxiety splendor arises from confusion fearful things are most rewarding

or die as needed this is natural —Ivan Shoal

Yes I’ll sit down with myself for hours and swallow kvass and count the hairs and lines and words that drip across my chin. I’ll stand and shake my fist and drop my glass, dance and kick with one eye closed and shout against the darkness. I’ll go to court and prosecute the world. I’ve been hearing Edith Piaf cry and roll her tongue around the letter r again. I’ve been reading Pound and Chekhov. Every day I wake and watch the orange morning bump and glow. It’s always cold out there and yesterday it snowed. I’ll wear black socks and rainy overcoats. I’ll feast on sound and bread and stones. I’ll get myself right down to the river and let my white beard grow. —John Chorazy

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You (a pause) The Sea The moment Tangible in the circumference of its absence—

How Misinformation Spreads And it happens. ——

(a pause) Suddenly

Infinite regression. You (a pause) looking at you Looking, et cetera.

The rush of anything Sea grass Sand, sea (another long pause) Et cetera —— You are (spoken lightly) Whatever seems sudden (a pause)— Your entrances Become this,

What comes out of this Is it then (speak this with a smile); Over stretch of sand (a pause) Tidal rise (almost inaudible) Shells (adopt an attitude of reverie) filled with sea Really, as always, The whorl of (any way you want it) Your ear. —— There is nothing behind this (honestly) Some things are easier to see Than others. The event of a tangle of rockweed, Involution in equal involution, Same as you, the event of the sea.

that, or anything,

I paused to stare at White Squares, a Krasner painting from 1948, wondering what type of work her husband had been producing at the time. Two of Pollock’s paintings hung on the opposing walls, neither from ’48, and neither (in my humble opinion) nearly as interesting as the Krasner before me. As I looked at the paintings, a young couple entered the space. The woman tapped the placard describing Krasner’s painting and said, “She was married to Willem de Kooning.” “What was that?” her companion asked. “Lee Krasner,” she repeated, “she was married to Willem de Kooning.” “Oh,” he said, nodding his head.

(Which is what matters)

—— No matter

Anything.

But the same

——

(a pause in which you breath loudly)

I thought about correcting her, but instead continued on to the Edward Hopper collection in the next room, wondering if perhaps I should have turned back.

Joy of thought, cheap as cotton candy,

Degrees of motion,

—Christopher Carolei

The light of your temperature.

—— Hole (a pause) (the sea) these a (you) Wholeness

What is there But gaps,

Waking Up After the Dream Where I’m Happily Married To That Well Known Movie Star

The hole of you

I’m shocked to find you in the bed and not her.

——

As hole, to become (a pause, even in speech)… Et cetera?

crystal web, tied to its own sweetness.

——

From which you come

Quality of what follows ——

Leaning over the toilet paralyzed with depression I recall that it’s widely accepted in Hollywood that’s she’s not only a brilliant actress but one of the most fun women in the world.

(another pause) Anything in the gaps Which is the sea rising

The ocean around me, Against what might be my blood,

From nowhere (un-paused)

Then, suddenly, a pause, And you suddenly here.

Into the nothing that cannot be.

—Andrew Brenza

Think of it

You know, I’m sick of your problems. Even in South Beach or the Riviera you’d give me a headache, I’m sure. Stop laughing, you know I’m not going anywhere. I’d turn her into you within six months, and ruin the fucking movies for everyone. —Billy Internicola

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sharper images the image works

mark antman, founder and owner of the image works.

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photos by

jim fossett

n a warm Friday afternoon, the owner of a small company in Woodstock enters the office with an armload of 52-oz. bags of M&Ms. In the research department, behind a maze of metal file cabinets, a staffer swings back and forth on a sturdy swing attached to the high ceiling. A dog named Maisie wanders upstairs and back down again, looking for a floppy stuffed animal, a piece of frayed rope, or someone to feed it a treat. This is the environment that cofounder and president Mark Antman has created for the staffers at The Image Works, an independent digital stock photo agency that has grown from a two-person operation in 1983 to a global company that licenses editorial, commercial, contemporary, and historical images——to book and magazine publishers and other media. In the company’s archives, clients can find engravings of Napoleon and Charlemagne, photos of Civil War battlefields, slides of the bacchanal at Yasgur’s Farm, and digitized images of events that occurred in the world just minutes ago. On September 11, 2001, the company processed, archived, and delivered an image within a half-hour of the event’s happening. “In this business,” says Antman, “we learn new things every day. A few years ago, someone asked for an image of Phineas Gage. Who was he? The only thing we could find was a picture of the man’s skull with a hole in it. After more research, we learned that Phineas Gage was a railway worker who had gotten a spike through his head.” In 1848, during an accidental explosion, a tamping iron shot through the flesh beneath Gage’s left cheekbone and exited out the top of his head. The researchers learned that, after Gage recovered, his behavior changed dramatically, and this became crucial to early understanding of the functions of the brain. Antman chose to locate his company in Woodstock because “there was no reason not to start and grow a company here. I believe that part of business is to integrate work into a personal lifestyle. I looked in Kingston, but almost everyone who worked with me was from Woodstock. Why should I add almost an hour to everyone’s commute? Another wonderful thing about being in this part of the Hudson Valley is that there are so many creative people here. I have an extraordinary staff. The people who work here are very bright and incredibly curious about everything.” Antman and a dozen employees maintain an active archive of over 1.5 million images in analog form (old-fashioned color slides and black-and-white prints) and access more than 25 million images through their foreign affiliates. The images come from a variety of sources: photojournalists that are under contract; affiliated agencies in China, Germany, and other countries; and newspapers and specialized collections, such as the Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth, and Magic and Britain’s National Trust Photo Library. Every day, the company adds new images to its searchable online database, theimageworks.com. Antman became passionate about photography at around the age of 10. “I found an old enlarger and convinced my mom to buy the chemicals and set up a darkroom.

photo researcher sarah-maria-vischer-masino kicks her feet up on the office swing. Watching the print come up in the developer was the most magical thing I’d seen.” In 1983, after studying biology and chemistry at NYU and working as a photographer, Antman met kindred spirit Alan Carey when they were both taking pictures at the first New York State Duck Calling Contest. “Alan’s background was in news photography,” says Antman. “My background was in documentary stock photography. Alan became intrigued with the idea of becoming partners. The decision was not to start a photo agency. We wanted to hire someone to do basic office work to free us up to do more shooting and not be tied to the business end. Alan had the US. I covered the rest of the world.” The first incarnation of the company was located in a spare room in Antman’s house in Woodstock. All of Antman’s and Carey’s “stuff”—photographs from assignments as well as personal projects—filled two drawers of a metal file cabinet. A year or two later, Antman decided that he didn’t want to travel as much. He wanted to spend more time with his young child. The Image Works began to evolve, and as the photo archive grew, so did the need for space. Over the years, the company has changed location four times, each time to a larger facility, and is currently housed in a 10,000-square-foot building on 12 wooded acres. Carey retired from the company in 2002. Antman continues to run and expand the business. “Due to the current technology, it’s much easier to add many more images to archives, which would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. The digital revolution and consolidation of stock photo agencies have changed the industry. Now stock photography has become a big business. The question is: How does an independent business survive and compete against the richest and largest corporations in the world, corporations that are driven by different values? Big agencies can quickly provide digital images from the archives they’ve acquired. But their other material doesn’t affect us. Our editorial specialists can look in our digital files first, then search our extensive analog archive. Potentially, we can dig deeper.”

director of photography maya johansen views an image of a newly initiated priest in ujjann, india by jagdish hearwal.

racing stock

ince the company’s inception in 1983, Mark Antman has come up with a number of technological innovations that have given The Image Works a competitive edge. In 1989, two years before any other stock photo agency, The Image Works began using SlideFax, which offered an instant fax review of color slides. “In the old days, there was no way to show somebody a picture unless you actually took it to them,” says Antman. “We would gather the slides and send someone to the Trailways bus station in Kingston. The slides would go to Port Authority, then be delivered to the client. The whole process would take three or more hours.” To cut down on the time, Antman devised a way of converting a slide to a print that could be faxed. “The sooner we could get an image to an editor that would satisfy his or her needs, the greater the chance of a sale.” After SlideFax—before the Internet and current method of digital scanning— Antman came up with a system that allowed clients to dial into a computer and retrieve images that a staffer had put there for them. “I remember going to a conference and being asked if we had online delivery. Other agencies had been working on it, but they had not achieved it. We had.” Antman says that he wakes up with an idea, then goes out and does it. “I don’t need to get another person’s approval. The fact that I can do something immediately makes the job fun.” —AB

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In my bedroom, you’ll find

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Books, books books, some pictures and a big mess. Plus a Paul Wellstone quote and picture from his memorial in St. Paul.

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Last great book I read

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Orientalism by Edward Said. It examined the Western view of the Middle East and its errors throughout time.

”

Last great book I read

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The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power by Travis Hugh Culley.

”

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the slow food solution By Susan Piperato

he international Slow Food Movement is more than 20 years old, but many people still find themselves somewhat at a loss when they initially discover the phenomenon. Some people assume that the term refers to advocating food that takes a long time to cook, eat, or even digest. But perhaps, given American culture’s ever-quickening pace, it isn’t surprising that that we’re often a little, well, slow, when it comes to understanding Slow Food. Taking your time over dinner is certainly part of what Slow Food is all about, says Holly Shelowitz, certified nutritionist, proprietor of Nourishing Wisdom, Inc., and a member of the steering committee of the Hudson Valley chapter of Slow Food USA. “Something I teach my clients over and over is to literally eat slowly, to chew their food well, and appreciate the flavors and textures. An exercise I do with them is to have them notice how many times they chew each bite, then increase it,” she says. “In Europe,” Shelowitz points out, “appreciation of gastronomy is the lifestyle, [but] here in the States, we have gotten really busy as a culture and the pleasure of eating often is passed by.” However, she adds, members of the Slow Food Movement make a conscious effort to take things easier regarding all aspects of eating, by making the time to cook more often, to create the time to enjoy good food, with good company, s-l-o-w-l-y! Make believe you are in Italy enjoying it all! Not surprisingly, it actually was in Italy, a nation in which maintaining a languid pace and lingering over convivial meals is nothing short of an art form, that the Slow Food Movement was launched in 1986 as the most civilized possible backlash against the American fast-food industry. Founder Carlo Petrini and others objected to the homogenization of taste being promulgated

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by fast-food franchises like McDonald’s, which they saw as the cause of the annihilation of thousands of flavors and food varieties. Petrini wished to protect Italy’s gastronomic traditions, as the mainstay of his country’s culture. By 1989, Slow Food had caught on throughout Europe and beyond, with delegates from 20 countries signing a poetic-sounding manifesto that declared, in part: “We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes, and forces us to eat Fast Foods. To be worthy of the name, Homo Sapiens should rid himself of speed before it reduces him to a species in danger of extinction. Our defense should begin at the table with Slow Food. Let us rediscover the flavors and savors of regional cooking and banish the degrading effects of Fast Food.” Today, the Slow Food Movement is an international association that’s spread to more than 100 countries and attracted more than 80,000 members, from chefs to vintners to growers to foodies to regular folks who are dedicated to celebrating food through events hosted by local convivia, regional groups that work together toward preserving culturally significant foods and

traditional cultivation and processing techniques, and defending domestic and wild animal and vegetable species. Slow Food USA boasts 12,000 members, organized throughout the country into 140 convivia. Both the Slow Food Movement and its nonprofit offshoot, the Slow Food Foundation of Biodiversity (SFFB), which was established in 2003, have come about none too soon. Since 1900, the SFFB website reports, 75 percent of European and 93 percent of American food, product diversity has been lost; 33 percent of traditional livestock varieties have either disappeared or are close to disappearing; and over the past century, 30,000 heirloom vegetable varieties have become extinct, with one more being lost every six hours. Slow Food arrived in the Hudson Valley in 2002 courtesy of Gayil Greene, a longtime staff member of Phillies Bridge Farm Project in Gardiner, who headed the local Slow Food chapter until recently. Current Hudson Valley Slow Food (HVSF) convivium coleaders are Lani Raider, assistant professor, the Culinary Institute of America, and Leslie Coons, a writer and editor who contributes frequently to Valley Table magazine. HVSF attracts members from Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, and

Rockland counties who share an interest in food, culture, and the beauty of the Hudson Valley. The local convivium’s mission is to gather and share information with our members and the larger community about food and the farm heritage of the region; to support local farms, wineries, and other food purveyors in the Hudson Valley; to encourage the nexus of community, culture, and farm through outreach; and to celebrate the valley’s culinary riches by inviting people back to the pleasures of the table. “I believe that Slow Food is reminding people to enjoy the pleasures of the table with family and friends,” says Raider. “I think that people are enjoying Slow Food meals both in and out of the house. What is evident is that people are approaching both the meal and the foods being served with a kind of renewed enthusiasm, excitement, and anticipation. These meals gather family and friends and create a life that is rich, full, and grounded in our fast-paced world. Slowing down, one can enjoy life much more fully.” So far, says Raider, she has seen HVSF having a direct impact on local agriculture and food producers through establishing an annual chef-farmer dinner, bringing chefs and farmers together to network and work collaboratively and support each other. HVSF also hosts educational events, including a workshop for farmers on cold-weather cropping and a one-day festival of fermented products. Last month, HVSF screened the film Future of Food at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, and invited the community into an open discourse on concerns about agricultural practices that are endangering our future food supply. Although Slow Food is largely focused on dining at home, several area restaurants have begun to cook and serve the Slow Food way, says Raider, including New World Home Cooking Cafe in Saugerties, Gadaletto’s and the Village Tea Room in New Paltz, Gigi's in Rhinebeck, Miss Lucy’s Kitchen in Saugerties, the Country Inn in Kerhonkson, and at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, thanks to the enterprising new student group CSA Chefs Sustaining Agriculture. However, warns Shelowitz, have patience when visiting restaurants that are part of the slow food movement: Since the food is made fresh, it naturally takes longer getting to the table.

Hudson Valley Slow Food holds quarterly meetings and community dinners, and sponsors (and cosponsors) events that advance the convivium’s mission. Past events have included annual chef-farm networking dinners to enhance the regional farm-food connection; a bread-baking demonstration and tasting at the 1760 Elmendorph Inn’s restored brick beehive oven, in Red Hook; fundraising for the Phillies Bridge Farm-to-Family Project; harvesting produce from a member garden in Hopewell Junction for a local food pantry; and assorted tastings and potluck dinners featuring seasonal local products. The biggest annual event is HVSF Family Farm Festival, scheduled for Sunday, September 11. VSF is a proud sponsor of this event, says coleader Lani Raider. It brings the entire community together to gather, learn, eat, and have a great time. For more information on this and other upcoming events, or to join HVSF, visit hudsonvalleyslowfood.org.

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Follow the Grape

BY SUSAN PIPERATO

CALENDAR OF WINE EVENTS July 8-10, 15-17, 22-24 Shakespeare in the Orchard

Cajun music and wine sampling, including Peches,

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758-6335; hudsonvalleywinefest.com

ed to producing theater that’s life-affirming, provoca-

This much-anticipated annual event celebrates the

tive, and of high artistic merit. And there can’t be any

Hudson Valley’s bounty with music and the offerings

better way to behold scenes from Shakespeare than

of gourmet food vendors and more than 30 wineries,

while enjoying wine, soups, sandwiches, and baked

located from the Finger Lakes to Long Island. It’s the

goods by a Culinary Institute of America trained chef

perfect venue for families and adults, with a three-

while surrounded by bucolic, rolling orchards.

acre corn maze, fresh berry picking, hayrides, and the chance to shop for exclusive wine-related gifts. Grand

July 16 Music in the Courtyard: South of the Border

Reserve Tasting Event held Friday 6-9pm. Saturday

Brotherhood Winery, 100 Brotherhood Plaza

and Sunday hours 10am-5pm. $20 one day; $30 two

Drive, Washingtonville (845) 496-9101;

days; $10-15 designated drivers/minors.

brotherhoodwinery.net Wet your whistle for more than 30 wines by dancing

September 9, 10 & 11

Saratoga Wine and Food

to salsa music at America’s oldest winery. Estab-

Festival Saratoga Center for the Performing Arts,

lished in 1839, Brotherhood is a popular destination

108 Avenue of the Pines, Saratoga Springs (518)

for both tourists and local families, who enjoy the

584-9330 ext. 3021; spac.org

winery’s antique underground cellars and quaint

This festival’s theme is “decanting, dining, and

village atmosphere, featuring shops, an art gallery, a

conviviality.” At Friday night’s Grand Tasting (7pm),

restaurant, and of course, the chance to see wine-

music, dancing, and live performances onstage at

making in process.

the Amphitheatre will celebrate SPAC’s 40th anniversary; and Windows on the World One-Hour Wine

o the grape, the Hudson Valley isn’t always the most hospitable place on earth, with its vine-killing subzero

July 30 & 31 Bounty of the Hudson Food & Wine

Expert founder Kevin Zraly will conduct an auction

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of “must-haves” as guests share vintage wines from

Little York Road, Warwick (845) 258-4858;

more than 200 vineyard, paired with delectables from

wvwinery.com

area restaurants. Saturday’s public tasting begins at

Taste the products of the Shawangunk WineTrail’s

noon and continues through Sunday, accompanied

nine wineries and several others from throughout the

by dancing, live music, and further offerings from

Hudson Valley while sampling epicurean delights,

local chefs.

winter temperatures and often tough soils. But since

picking up farm-fresh produce, attending cooking

the French Huguenots first planted grapevines here in the 17th

workshops by Culinary Institute of America gradu-

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century, we’ve been a region of wine lovers who don’t give

ates, and enjoying live music at this annual event,

Rivendell Winery, 714 Albany Post Road, New Paltz

now in its eighth year. $15 advance, $20 door. $8

(845) 255-2494; rivendellwine.com

Designated Driver.

The annual Lobster Fest is the most popular event

up easily, leading very savvy—not to mention stoic—vintners to establish a thriving wine industry throughout the Hudson

The 10th Annual Lobster Fest

in the busy events calendar at Rivendell Winery,

Valley over the past 20 years. Today, Hudson Valley wines

August 13 & 14 August Wine and Food Festival

named for the elves’ homeland in The Lord of the

are exported throughout the US—even to Napa Valley. And

North Salem Vineyard, 441 Hardscrabble

Rings and located in an enchanted wooded area.

summertime, when the grapes hang heavy and ripe from the

Road, North Salem

Enjoy an authentic Down-East menu of lobsters,

(914) 669-5518;

northsalemwine.com

catered by Gadaleto’s Seafood in New Paltz, with all

This former dairy farm in Westchester, now planted

the trimmings. Live music all afternoon under a full

have to offer. Celebrate the local wine harvest by attending

with 13 acres of varietals, hosts an annual festival

tent. $43.45.

one of the region’s many innovative outdoor wine events, the

featuring the produce of over a dozen Hudson Valley

best of which are included here. For a comprehensive guide

wineries, local restaurants’ fare, and an onsite market

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of local farm produce. $15.

Whitecliff Vineyards, 331 McKinstry Road, Gardiner

vine, is the best time to see what local vineyards and wineries

to Hudson Valley vineyards, wineries, and distilleries—all of which are open throughout the summer for tastings/tours, and

Harvest Moon Twilight Wine Tasting

(845) 255-4613; whitecliffwine.com August 20 Cajun Jamboree

Set on 25 acres against the backdrop of the

many of which offer food and/or picnicking facilities—visit

Adair Vineyards, 52 Allhusen Road, New Paltz

Shawangunk Mountains, Whitecliff offers one of the

the Chronogram website: chronogram.com.

(845) 255-1377; adairwine.com

most spectacular views around—highlighted each

Adair’s annual summertime celebration takes place

year during an autumn full moon with local wine and

in the winery’s quintessential Hudson Valley setting,

cheese samplings on the deck, accompanied by a

complete with a 200-year-old Dutch barn. Along with

local artist’s opening and guitar and mandolin music.

blackened catfish and boiled crawfish, enjoy live

5:30-7:30pm. $7.50.

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Arlington Collegeview & Raymond Avenues Thursday, 3-7pm. Through late October. (845) 471-2770 Baked goods, produce, candy, jam, gourmet treats. Catskill Historic Catskill Point Park, Main Street Saturday, 9:30am-2pm. Through October. Artisan breads, goat and cow cheeses, fruits, vegetables, eggs, wine, cut flowers, herbs. Fishkill Grand Union Parking Lot, Main Street Thursday, 10am-2pm. Through October. (845) 897-4430 Organic vegetables and fruits, baked goods, flowers, preserves, honey, jams, apple cider. Highland Highland Village Square Wednesday, 3-7pm. Through early October. (845) 691-8112 Fruits and vegetables, plants, jams and jellies, artisanal bread, baked goods, crafts. Hudson North 6th & Columbia Streets Saturday, 9am-1pm. Through late October. (518) 851-9831 Grass-fed meats, produce, baked goods, honey, dairy.

Kingston Old Town Stockade Wall Street Saturday, 9am-2pm. Through October. (845) 339-5822 Certified organic and fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh-cut flowers, potted plants, cheeses, meats, poultry, fresh and dried herbs, artisanal breads, herbal remedies, prepared foods, jams and condiments, baked products. Millbrook Front Street Tribute Garden Parking Lot Saturday, 9am-2pm. Through October. (845) 677-3125 Organic fruits and vegetables, corn, fresh herbs, hearth-baked breads, meats, artisanal cheeses, humus and sauces, flowers, wine, soaps, lotions, maple syrup, honey, knit and wood crafts, live music. Newburgh Downing Park, Route 9W & South Street Friday, 10am-6pm. July 22 through October. (845) 565-5559 Honey, fruits, vegetables. New Paltz Elting Memorial Library Parking Lot, North Front St. Sunday, 10am-3pm. Through October 30. (845) 943-6439 Locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables, handcrafted cheeses, breads and pastries, fresh eggs and meats, herbs, flowers, honey, maple syrup, coffee, herbal ice teas, wine, soap, yarn, artists live music.

Hyde Park Route 9 Drive-in Saturday, 9am-2pm. Through October. (845) 229-9111 Baked goods, organic oils, homemade soaps and sundries, wines, produce, cooking demos.

Peekskill Bank Street between Park & Main Streets Saturday, 8am-2pm. Through November 19. (914) 737-2780 Breads, desserts, annuals, perennials, landscape plants and information, farmfresh fruits, vegetables, wine, Italian desserts, quiche, Amish bakery, Toussaint, Ouray, Barat and ricotta cheeses, rare-breed wool, eggs, jams and preserves. Cornell Extension Master Gardner to help solve plant problems.

Kinderhook Village Square & Green Street Saturday, 8am-1pm. Through Mid-October (518) 758-1232 Organic produce, flowers, plants, baked goods, goats-milk soaps, breads, herbs, cider, meats, organic eggs, maple syrup, wool, cookies, desserts.

Pine Bush Main & New Streets (behind Town Hall) Saturday, 9am-2pm. Through late October. (845) 744-6763 Organic produce, homemade soaps, wines, grass-fed meats, ice cream, maple-sugar products, jams, savories, stone fruits, berries, artisanal

breads, garden plants, flowers, local art, restaurant fare, basket making, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tent, coffee, music, horse-drawn carriage rides. Sweet Corn Festival on August 6. Pine Hill Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main Street Saturday, 10am-4pm. Though mid-October. (845) 254-5469 Local organic produce, plants, jams and jellies, eggs, meats, gourmet food items, coffee, snacks, arts and crafts, workshops and demonstrations. Poughkeepsie Mural Park Parking Lot, 200 block of Main Street Friday, 10am-2pm. Through October. Organic vegetables, ethnic produce, bread, flowers, music. Rhinebeck East Market Street Municipal Parking Lot Sunday, 10am-2pm. Through November. (845) 876-0805 Garlic, organic produce, homemade dairy foods, baked goods, meats, wine, flowers, jams, pickles, herbs, honey, maple syrup, live music. Saugerties Market & Main Streets Saturday, 9am-2pm. Mid-June through October. (845) 246-9371 Organic vegetables, orchard fruits and berries, artisan bread, fresh laid eggs, honey, jams and sauces, pasture-raised poultry and meat, mushrooms, wine, herbs, field-grown flowers, regional cheeses, locally roasted coffee, baked goods. Free cooking classes for kids 8-12. Town of Wallkill Gadner Mountain Parking Lot, Rt. 211 Saturday 2pm-7pm. Through October. (845) 344-1234 Fruits, vegetables, wine, flowers. Warwick South Street Parking Lot Sunday, 9am-2pm. Through October. (845) 987-9990 Fruits, vegetables, herbs and greens (including organic), fresh flowers, baked goods, cheeses, eggs, honey, New York State wines, jams, jellies, specialty products. Special events throughout the season.

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eating out a guide to dining in the open air

hether reading in the backyard, hiking on forest trails, or paddling along one of the many waterways of the region, some of the greatest pleasures in the warm months are simply ways of spending as much time as possible outside. Open-air dining is a way to extend your daily allotment of outside time, in a social or solitary setting. To make the following recommendations, I sought out places that evoked creativity and passion, both from the owners and from within myself. Food is important, as is audio selection—I prefer the rush of rivers and the twittering of birds to the recorded music of the Gypsy Kings or Loverboy— and furniture: white plastic chairs are a disappointment; and, as entertaining as people-watching can be, I avoided patios bordering car and pedestrian traffic. (Many towns have a favorite patio in the center of town, and these have been excluded as they are obvious finds.) Read on for choice outdoor dining establishments—from the rustic to the refined. The Bear Cafe No summer is complete without at least one evening spent dining riverside at Woodstock’s Bear Cafe. Favored as one of the region’s exceptional dining experiences, the Bear, on a warm summer night, is absolute magic. Tiny white lights twist up the trunks of gently swaying trees and the rushing creek can be seen from the stone tables that dot the bluestone patio. Black-clad waiters flit to and fro delivering delicacies, from palate-cleansing organic field greens to soft-shell crab to filet mignon with port garlic sauce and Stilton cheese. The menu is new American cuisine cooked from locally grown, organic ingredients whenever possible. Pastas, pastries, and breads are all made fresh in-house. Start with a cocktail, followed by appetizers before the entrée, and finish with coffee after dessert, if only to linger as long as possible. Entrées range between $18 (house-made cheese and fresh herb ravioli) and $29 (steak). Open Wednesday to Sunday for dinner. Route 212, Bearsville. (845) 679-5555, bearcafe.com. Reservations are a must.

the courtyard behind demitasse cafe—an urban oasis off main street in downtown poughkeepsie

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Rosendale Cement Company I can’t get enough of gardens—my own or anyone else’s. I love outdoor dining, at a table inside a garden, with birds flitting and chirping all around, at the edge of a wide waterway bordered by brilliant blooms. I found this all at the Rosendale Cement Company. A pebbled path leads to the garden, which is surrounded by perennial beds of sage, peonies, cosmos, and echinacea. Fences and wrought-iron metalwork separate the garden from the rest of the world and add an urban edge to the atmosphere. Until the cold weather returns, cocktails are available in the garden at night (excluding Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s), and appetizers from the bar can be carried over to your private table at the far end of the garden. There’s also a covered deck in back where full meals are served, and across from the cement fountain and koi pond a silver Airstream has been converted into a bar. The menu, according to coowner Scott Stewart, strives to be “post-fusion neo-global soul food,” and there is a wide selection of meat, fish, and vegetarian options. Prices range between $13 and $22 for a main course. On a hot day try the $8 Julius salad (hearts of romaine, creamy roasted garlic dressing, and focaccia croutons). Sunday brunch is served from 11am to 3pm and $12 buys your choice of pancakes, huevos rancheros, chicken Caesar salad, or the like, along with a Bloody Mary, mimosa, or juice, and coffee.

streamside dining at the bear cafe in bearsville—a magical environment for a summer evening’s dinner Open Thursday through Monday for dinner. 419 Main Street, Rosendale. (845) 658-3210; rosendalecement.com. Allyn’s Restaurant and Cafe After driving through Millbrook-area horse farms bordered by black split-rail fences, you arrive at Allyn’s—a restaurant housed in a renovated 1834 Episcopal church. The outdoor dining area is just off the road and on a day with a slight breeze the sound of traffic is masked by the gentle tones of a large wind chime. Tables are set on a lawn between formal perennial beds. Across the road, a hill dips into a valley over which the sun sets. It’s a beautiful place to watch the early evening light turn golden over the rolling fields and pastures. After a day of golf, horseback riding, or gardening, unwind in an environment both elegant and relaxed. CIA-trained chef and owner Allan Katz has built Allyn’s reputation on its food and wine list. “We like to work with peak seasonal ingredients to create vibrant, healthful, and very flavorful dishes,” says Katz. The crisp greens and purples of the radicchio, arugula, and Belgian endive salad is loaded with shaved grana padano parmesan cheese, and paired with a bowl of cream of sorrel and mushroom puree, it is a satisfying light summer meal. Entrées range between $17 and $24. Open Thursday through Monday for lunch and dinner. There is also a two-course price-fixed Sunday brunch from 11:30am to 4pm. 4258 Route 44, Millbrook. (845) 677-5888; allyns.com. Catamount Cafe Deep in the heart of the Catskill Mountains in Mount Tremper, the Catamount Cafe has made the most of its gorgeous setting, with a large wooden deck at the edge of

the Esopus River. The rushing river completely muffles the sound of the traffic, which is also hidden from view. The feeling is of comfort on the edge of the wild frontier. The deck has a partial canopy of white birches and maples, and on a day I visited two kayakers navigated the currents to reach our shore. In early evening the silhouette of the mountain beyond the river resembles an oversize limpet shell. The menu is contemporary Catskill cuisine and features regional specialties such as smoked trout and grass-fed dairy products from local-sources. For guests who fish, Chef Mike Fichtel will even cook and present your own fresh catch. Wine is poured generously, fried calamari are spicy, and barbequed shrimp are dressed in a sweet sauce. Entrees like spicy dry rubbed barbecued ribs and Dijon-balsamic glazed Atlantic salmon range between $15 and $20. After dinner, stroll the River Walk. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 5pm to 11pm; A lunch menu is being prepared for the summer. 146 Mount Pleasant Road, Mount Tremper. (845) 688-2828; www.emersonplace.com/dining/cafe. Peekamoose Restaurant and Tap Room Further north on Route 28, just north of Big Indian, the Peekamoose Restaurant and Tap Room has recently opened in the location of the former Jake Moon restaurant. Trees and carefully placed wood rails restrict the view of Route 28, and the large wooden deck offers mountain views. The menu features cuisine of the Hudson Valley with French and Italian influences. Locally grown food sources are emphasized, and with five vegetarian sisters, the chef and owner, Devon Mills (himself a Catskills native), knows how to cook delicious food for those who eschew meats. Or try the locally raised chicken that has been fed almost exclusively on

blueberries—apparently the meat is not only delicious but also high in antioxidants. Open for dinner Thursday through Monday, 4-10pm. (845) 254-6500; peekamooserestaurant.com. Demitasse Cafe Surrounded in red brick walls, the courtyard of the Demitasse Cafe is a spacious oasis in downtown Poughkeepsie. There is unpretentious and comfortable outdoor seating is for 65, yet tables feel private due to the separate environments: One stone patio is set between small angular lawns, a back patio is raised, and there is a courtyard within a courtyard—open on one side and bordered by stone and brick walls with a ceiling of lush tree foliage. A Victorian era inspired mural of a Paris street scene adds to the romantic ambiance. An outdoor kitchen is staffed by a chef who grills the gamut, from hamburgers to 1.5-pound Maine lobsters—including salmon steaks and New Zealand rack of lamb. Sides change daily and might include saffron pasta or grilled eggplant. The regular and grill menus were both created by new owners Christopher and Tony May (both trained at the Culinary Institute). For brunch on Saturday and Sunday try the challah French toast with orange mascarpone and macerated berries, or the lox platter served with capers and tomatoes. This is an ideal place to stop for dinner or drinks while strolling through Poughkeepsie for the Third Saturday ArtHop. And any afternoon it is a perfect place to read, dream, and sip a large, foamy latte. Brunch prices range between $6 and $12. Grilled lunch specials average $10. Dinner entrées range between $18 and $25. 202 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. (845) 485-8707; demitassecafe.net. Open 11am to 9pm every day. Outdoor grill is weather permitting.

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Cafe Tamayo Another intimate setting, the Cafe Tamayo in Saugerties, has a courtyard just off a busy street. You’ll hear the traffic, but you’ll likely be too engrossed in your exceptional meal to mind. Food is American in style with an ethnic influence, and regional ingredients are always used when available. Local farmers supply the restaurant with goat cheese, organic chicken, freshly smoked pork products, foie gras, and duck. Dinner is served Thursday to Sunday. 89 Partition Street, Saugerties. (845) 246-9371; cafetamayo.com. Hokkaido For sushi beneath the stars, try the small courtyard of Hokkaido. The bamboo-lined fence keeps street noise and other distractions at bay, allowing you to focus on the fresh and flavorful fish. Presentation, service, and relaxed atmosphere add to the experience. 18 Church Street, New Paltz. (845) 256-0621. Riverside Options The large patio of the seafood restaurant Mariner’s Harbor (marinersharbor.com) on the Strand in Kingston is always packed. For Mexican food, walk down the trolley line and you’ll find ample outdoor seating at Rosita’s; (845) 339-5372. Further down, you’ll come to the enormous Steel House (steelhouse.us), with an outdoor bar and an ample wooden deck right on the water. Food is eclectic American cuisine, although the restaurant converts into a full DJ-led nightclub scene at 10pm on Friday and Saturday nights. Both Mariner’s Harbor and the Steel House offer raw seafood bars. On very hot days, the shaded backyard garden of the Downtown Cafe (downtowncafekingston.com) is a peaceful respite from the bustle of the waterfront and serves creative cuisine. The atmosphere is old-Montreal funky, with a sloping brick courtyard and mismatched wood and plastic furniture. There are about a dozen restaurants along Newburgh Waterfront between the railroad tracks and the Hudson River, serving everything from the wood-fired pizzas of Cafe Pitti to the outdoor shrimp, lobster, and oyster bar of CENA 2000. Tuesday night is reggae night at Gully’s, a bar on a docked barge boasting an intense party atmosphere. There are so many restaurants that if one is full you’ll surely find a seat at another. The feeling here is of a beach resort without the swimming, but the views of the Hudson are good. Another place to breathe the saltwater air of the Hudson River estuary is at the seafood restaurant the Brass Anchor in Poughkeepsie (thebrassanchor.com). There are three choice tables at the far end of the large covered bar that are right on the water and are worth wading through the crowds and plastic furniture to access. Brand New Scheduled to open the last week of July, the new Emerson at Woodstock will have two outdoor seating areas, one a four-table gem on a stone patio beneath the trees with a “romantic beer garden” feel; the second will be on the covered front porch and will reflect the essence of country living, according to Michele Nischan, executive chef. The Emerson at Woodstock will have two menus, one for the upscale Riseley Room, and one for Rick’s Bistro (named after an historic apple grower in the region). Both of these outdoor dining areas will be part of Rick’s, where food will feature locally-grown Catskill cuisine. Here you will find great burgers and sandwiches prepared with cutting-edge culinary technique. Grilled cheese and tomato will be prepared with grass-fed cheese and three to four varieties of heirloom tomatoes—such as Green Zebra, Purple Cherokee, and Brandywine—served on thick, sliced homemade bread. Meals will be $20 per person or less. The intersection of Route 212 and Route 375, Woodstock. (845) 679-4861. Also of Note The Harvest Cafe (harvestcafenp.com) at the Water Street Market in New Paltz is a welcome breather from the bustling streets and sidewalks. Meals are seasonal American and vegetarian, and on Sunday afternoons there is live outdoor folk music; on Saturday evenings there’s live jazz. Should you crave a burger as you pass through Marlboro, stop at the rustic Raccoon Saloon (845236-7872) and request one of the three outdoor tables perched above a waterfall (size depends on recent rainfall) with distant Hudson River views. This novelty of a location is not for those with a fear of heights or for those who desire privacy when they dine as tables are close together. Food at the Raccoon ranges from burgers served with heaps of sweet-potato fries, to upscale American. Lifting pints beneath the Tivoli sky is optimal at the back courtyard of the Black Swan (845-7573777) on Broadway. The patio is paved and the tables are of the plastic or picnic variety, but the foliage-draped white picket fence and the quiet alley nearby are lovely. Dine with friends on pub fair in an utterly casual environment.

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tastings EAST & WEST OF THE HUDSON CATERING Claudia’s Kitchen

Personalized celebrations and weddings, using fresh local ingredients to create delicious and elegant menus. Homemade artisanal breads, Hudson Valley cheese, fabulous appetizers, meat and vegetarian entrées, out-of-this-world desserts. Claudia works one on one to custom design your menu, your party, your wedding or special event. (845) 868-7338 or (914) 475-9695. www.claudiascatering.com. Pad Thai Catering

Delicious, affordable, and authentic Thai cuisine served with authentic Thai hospitality to your group of six or more. Lunch or dinner served in your home by Chef & Owner Nuch Chaweewan. Please call (845) 687-2334 for prices and information. DAIRY Bobolink

42 Meadowburn Road, Vernon, NJ 07462. nina@cows outside.com. GOURMET MARKETS Totis Gourmet

Totis Gourmet is a market and cafe located at 490 Main Street in historic downtown Beacon. We feature locally grown produce, dairy, and meat in our cooking, and on sale in our market. We also provide a wide range of gourmet foodstuffs and inspiration for those who love to eat! (845) 831-1821. HOME MEAL DELIVERY Healthy Gourmet to Go

(845) 339-7171.www.carrottalk .com. See Vegan Lifestyle in the Whole Living Directory. Lagusta’s Luscious

Lagusta’s Luscious brings heartbreakingly delicious, sophisticated vegetarian food that “meat-and-potatoes people” love too to the Hudson Valley and NYC. We are as passionate about our politics – locally grown organic produce, environmentally sustainable business practices – as we are about our food, and it tastes just as good as any you’ll find at the

finest restaurants. End weeknight meal boredom forever. www.lagustasluscious.com. (845) 255-8VEG. MEATS Fleisher’s Grass-fed & Organic Meats

A retail and wholesale butcher specializing in pasture-raised and organic meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, and cheese. Also glatt Kosher meat and poultry. Special orders welcome. Curbside delivery available—call first. Chef/owners Jessica & Joshua Applestone will also create delicious meals-to-go on the premises including rotisserie chicken and hot soups. Open Monday-Friday 10am-7pm, Saturday 9am5pm. 38 John Street, Kingston. (845) 338-MOOO (6666). PASTA La Bella Pasta

Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Open to the public Monday through Friday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 11am to 3pm. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock. (845) 331-9130. www.labellapasta.com. RESTAURANTS 23 Broadway

A wine-friendly bistro with creative Mediterranean cuisine. Chef Rich Reeve has developed a menu featuring Spanish tapas, fine steaks, fresh seafood and pastas. In a restored historic building with exposed brick walls, brass-top bar, and a glass-enclosed, temperature-controlled wine room. This is a casual (cool spot) with (big, bright, bold flavors), Zagat rated, and a CIA destination restaurant (SoHo and Kingston). Dinner Wednesday through Sunday; Brunch Sunday. www.23broadway.com 23 Broadway, Kingston. (845) 339-2322.

Agra Tandoor Restaurant

Now open: “The Area’s Finest Indian Cuisine.” Open seven days a week with $7.95 lunch specials and $6.95 take-out boxes. BYOB. Open for Lunch: 12-2:30pm and Dinner: 4:3010pm. Saturday and Sunday Brunch: 12-3pm. Buffet Dinner on Wednesdays: 5-9:30pm. 5856 Route 9 South, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-7510. Aroma Osteria

114 Old Post Road, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590. (845) 298-6790. Bacchus

Celebrating our 28th Year! Enjoy creative cuisine with seafood and Southwest specialties in a casual, relaxed atmosphere. Offering a full salad bar; over 300 varieties of bottled beers, 13 on tap, plus a full wine list. Open Daily. Lunch 11am-4:30pm; Dinner 4:30-10pm. Weekend Brunch, late-night menu, and takeout available. 4 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-8636. Beech Tree Grill

Since 1991, this funky American bistro has entertained the Vassar College/Arlington Community and beyond with its sophisticated yet unpretentious menu that offers something for everyone in a comfortable and relaxing environment, including a fine selection of wine, beer, and microbrew that is as diverse as its clientele. 1-3 Collegeview Ave., Poughkeepsie. (845) 471-7279. Monday dinner 5-11pm; Tuesday-Saturday lunch 11:30am-3pm, dinner 5-11:30pm; Sunday brunch 11:30am-3:00pm, dinner 5:00-10:00pm. Live music Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. MC, V, AE, D. www.beechtreegrill.com. Beso

Located on Main St. in the heart of New Paltz is Beso, formerly The Loft. Spanish for “kiss, ”Beso offers casual fine dining by owners Chef Chadwick Greer and Tammy Ogletree. Fresh, modern American cuisine, seasonally inspired by local Hudson Valley 7/05

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farmers. Get cozy in the intimate dining room under skylights and glowing candlelit tables, or sit at the bar for a more casual experience. Housemade pastas like Acorn Squash Raviolis, Hazelnut Crusted Halibut, or Braised Beef Short Ribs. And for dessert, Maple Mascarpone Cheesecake. Private parties, families, children welcome. Dinner six days a week, weekday lunch and weekend brunch. Closed Tuesday. (845) 255-1426 www.beso-restaurant.com. Catamount Waterside Dining & Bar at Emerson Place

Located near Phoenicia and Woodstock, Catamount Waterside Dining & Bar is a great place to experience the beauty of the Catskills while you enjoy mouth-watering food. Dine Waterside and take in the vistas provided by the Esopus Creek and Mt.Tremper as you choose from a menu that includes rightoff-the-grill steaks, chops, chicken and fish, homemade pastas with delectable sauces, several dinner-sized salads, and irresistible desserts. The “Cat,” as locals call it, has a full bar including local micro-brews and international wines that can be taken out onto our streamside patio. Join us for dinner & cocktails for a fun and relaxed atmosphere that is children friendly. 5368 Route 28, Mt. Tremper, NY 12457. We are currently open for dinner 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Panoramic views are also the signature of weddings and banquets, featuring a beautiful outdoor pavilion. For reservations call: 845-688-2444 www.emersonplace.com. Catskill Rose Restaurant

Four-star dining and catering in a comfortable and elegant dining room with antique art deco bar plus gorgeous gardens and outdoor dining. Chefs and proprietors Peter and Rose draw on years of creative experience to prepare the familiar and comforting to the classical and innovative. Soups and desserts made inhouse from scratch. Route 212, Mt. Tremper. (845) 688-7100. www.catskillrose.com. Cosimo’s on Union Ristorante & Bar

The most unique modern Italian Restaurant in Orange County, featuring wood-fired pizza, gourmet Italian pasta dishes, and other specialties from our open-air kitchen.

Homemade Desserts, Espresso, Cappuccino, Full Bar, Party Rooms on request. Private Wine Cellar Dining; New Expansion; On- & OffPremise Catering; Highly Rated, Zagat’s; Award of Excellence, Wine Spectator; Winner, Best of Hudson Valley 1994-1998; “5-Star Service”–Poughkeepsie Journal. Union Avenue, Newburgh. (845) 567-1556. The Inn & Spa at Emerson Place

Choose to dine in the elegant tapestry Dining Room, in the privacy of the Wine Room, or under the moonlight on The Terrace. Extraordinary cuisine complemented by a 6,000-bottle wine collection and the impeccable service of our European-trained staff. Spa and Lunch packages available. Lunch 12:30-2:30pm and dinner 6:30-9pm served daily. Reservations required. 146 Mount Pleasant Road, Mt. Tremper. (845) 688-7900 or www.emersonplace.com. The French Corner

Routes 213 West and 209, Stone Ridge, just minutes from Kingston. Experience Chef Jacques’ menu, which features recipes using ingredients from his native Franche-Comte, France, combined with fresh seasonal products from Hudson Valley farmers. The French Corner dining room and bar are decorated with antiques and artifacts from Eastern France. Families and children are welcome, private dining room available. Dinner Tuesday through Sunday and Brunch Sunday. Closed Monday. (845) 687-0810. Gilded Otter

A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven & brewed locally! 3 Main St., New Paltz. (845) 256-1700. Hana Sushi

Best authentic sushi in the Hudson Valley! Superb Japanese sushi chefs serve the best authentic sushi with extended Dining 7/05

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Area. Sit at the counter or tables and enjoy all your favorites from Chicken Teriyaki and Udon to Yellowtail and Special rolls. Eatin, take-out, and private room is available. Hours: Tuesday-Friday Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm. Monday-Thursday Dinner 5-9pm. Friday Dinner 5-10pm. Saturday Dinner 4:30-10pm. 7270 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY. (845) 758-4333. www.hana-sushi.com. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse

Located on historic Route 28 between Kingston and Woodstock, Hickory offers diners Hudson Valley’s finest barbecue and smokehouse cuisine such as ribs, pulled pork, smoked beef, fish and free-range chicken. Whether enjoying your meal by the fireplace in Hickory’s threestar dining room or sipping a cocktail at the wood bar, Hickory’s staff is trained to make you feel as comfortable as you would at home. Hickory also features several vegetarian options, steaks, homemade desserts, happy hour specials, a complete take-out menu, and catering and special events in our private dining room. You can enjoy live music featuring the area’s hottest bands on Friday and Saturday nights. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 743 Route 28 (3.5 miles from NYS Thruway Exit 19). (845) 338-2424 www.hickory restaurant.com. The Hoffman House

Located at the corner of the Stockade District in uptown Kingston, the Hoffman House is a National Historic Landmark, which during the 1600s served as a lookout for marauding Indians canoeing up the Esopus. Today, you can enjoy relaxed dining as you warm yourself near a soothing fireplace in winter or outside on patio in summer. Take a step back in time as you dine in one of Kingston’s oldest stone houses and savor the cuisine and service that the Hoffman House has been providing to their customers for over 27 years. Open Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner, 94 North Front Street, Kingston. (845) 338-2626.

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Luna 61

“Best Vegetarian Restaurant.” –Hudson Valley Magazine. “Food is simply delicious, four stars.” –Poughkeepsie Journal. “Imagine spicy Thai noodles, delicate spring rolls, and the best banana cream pie you’ve ever eaten. Join the Culinary Revolution.” –Dutchess Magazine. Luna 61 is relaxed and funky, candlelit tables, cozy, and romantic. Organic wine and beer. Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday: 5-9pm. Friday and Saturday: 5-10pm. Now Accepting Credit Cards. 61 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY 12571. (845) 758-0061. Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant

The only authentic Peruvian restaurant in Orange County, NY. Family owned and operated since 1990. Serving the community traditional dishes from the mountains and coast of Peru. Trained in Peru, our chefs make authentic dishes come alive. Wine list available. Serving Lunch and Dinner Sunday through Thursday 10am10pm and Friday and Saturday 10am-11pm. Closed Tuesday. 301 Broadway, Newburgh. (845) 562-6478. www.machu picchuperuvianrest.com. Main Course

Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and freerange Hudson Valley products. Open Lunch and Dinner TuesSun, & Sunday Brunch. Wed and Thurs nights, food & wine pairing menu available. Voted “Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.” 232 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-2600. Visit our Web site at www.maincourse restaurant.com.

BISTRO & BAR “High quality sophisticated cooking” – The New York Times

Tel. 860.435.1011 Dinner Tuesday – Saturday Sundays – Brunch and Dinner Lakeville, CT.

Marcel’s Restaurant

Casual and comfortable dining, warm country inn atmosphere. Price range $13.95 - $32.95. Now offering daily 4-Course Prix Fixe specials starting at $15.95. House specialties : Pate Du Jour, Duck Laprousse Grand Marnier, Coquilles St Jaques, and Filet Tornodos. Marcels is proud to announce it is celebrating 33 years of fine food and service. Check out our web site for our seasonal menu@marcel restaurant.net or to check the date on our next jazz night. We have a complete take out menu, 7/05

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and catering is available. We have also recently added a vegetarian menu and a young guest menu.Our hours of operation are Thursday-Monday 5-10pm. Sundays 3-9pm. Located at 1746 Route 9W, West Park, NY. Call 384-6700 to place an order or to make a reservation.

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537 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534. cpmljs@ecoipm.com. (518) 828-7770. Neko Sushi & Restaurant

Voted “Best Sushi” Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch & dinner daily. Eat in or Take Out. We offer many selections of Sushi & Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls & kitchen dishes. Live lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Sun.-Thurs. 12-10pm; Fri. & Sat.12-11pm. Major credit cards accepted. 49 Main St., in the Village of New Paltz. (845) 255-0162. Osaka Japanese Restaurant

Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Daily Freeman. 18 Garden St., Rhinebeck. (845) 876-7338 or 8767278. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli. (845) 757-5055. Pastorale Bistro & Bar

Eat up, Dress down, in this hip country bistro. High quality, sophisticated cooking that could fit in anywhere says the New York Times. Serving updated bistro classics in a 1760’s colonial. Bar with signature cocktails, lively ambience. Tuesday-Saturday dinner. Brunch & Dinner on Sundays 12-8pm. Summer Patio. Private dining for up to 50. 223 Main Street (RTE. 44), Lakeville, CT 06093. (860) 435-1011. Plaza Diner

Established 1969. One of the finest family restaurants in the area. Extensive selection of entrees and daily specials, plus children’s menu. Everything prepared fresh daily. Private room for parties & conferences up to 50 people. Open 24/7. 27 New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz. Exit 18 off NYS Thruway. (845) 255-1030. 7/05

The Red Onion Restaurant & Bar

The Red Onion Restaurant & Bar, a robust international bistro, invites you to join us for casual, upscale service & dining in comfortable elegance. Offering the freshest quality seafoods, diverse daily specials, and entree varieties in a glamorous new smoke-free facility. Located just outside Woodstock on scenic Route 212. The Red Onion wants you to enjoy house-made ice creams & desserts as well as expertly crafted cocktails using nothing but freshly-squeezed juices. The Red Onion also boasts the region’s most extensive wine-by-the-glass program. Closed Weds. Dinner Daily 5pm. (845) 679-1223. Roasted Garlic at the Red Hook Inn

Elegant environment, comfortable atmosphere, internationally acclaimed chef/owner, the Red Hook ‘Country’ Inn, located in the heart of historic Red Hook/ Rhinebeck NY has it all. This 6 room Federal style colonial, built in 1842, offers guests a walk back in time as they enjoy modern amenities including luxury bedding, linens, jacuzzis, fireplaces and wireless internet. The dining room at the Inn, ROASTED GARLIC, features a mixture of French, American and Mediterranean menus with a focus on flavor and affordability.Meet Chef Nabil Ayoub and Hostess Patricia Holden as you enjoy charm, exquisite cuisine and warm hospitality. Soul Dog

Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts & many gluten-free items prepared in-house. Open for lunch Mon-Fri 11am-4pm. Redefining the hot dog experience! 107 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-3254. Springtown Green Grocers

A delicious mix of homestyle cooking and friendly service. Meat and Vegetarian Dishes prepared fresh 7 days a week at our hot table.Grab & Go! M-F, 7:30-7pm, Sat 8am7pm, Sundays, 9am-5pm. Route 32 south Rosendale, NY 12472 (845) 658-3164. Wasabi Japanese Restaurant

807 Warren Street, Hudson NY, 12534. Open 7 days a week. (518) 822-1888.

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LOCAL COLORS HUDSON VALLEY PRESSES HIT THE HEIGHTS

Most publishers at Book Expo America, the massive trade show that filled New York’s Javits Center in June, displayed their wares in booths surrounded by oversize posters, banners, and pop-up displays. Joan Schweighardt of GreyCore Press attended the BEA with a backpack full of her authors’ books. It’s a perfect metaphor for Schweighardt’s “shoestring” approach: The big houses may have the marketing money, but she has the stamina.

une was a great month for the Pine Bush based publisher. The Basket Maker, Kate Niles’s 2004 novel, won ForeWord magazine’s Editor’s Choice Book of the Year Award. And GreyCore’s newest release, Julie Mars’s A Month of Sundays, was selected as a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” title and a Quills Award nominee. This is especially gratifying for Schweighardt, since Mars’s 2000 novel, The Secret Keepers, was the first book she published. “It’s such a Hudson Valley story.” She grins, recalling how she met her second husband, Michael Dooley, and writer Mars at the same dinner party, hosted by Woodstock Film Festival founders Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto. “We were looking at their son’s rock collection,” she recalls, “and just got to talking.” Schweighardt and Mars traded books (Schweighardt’s novels include the award-winning Gudrun’s Tapestry), and The Secret Keepers blew her away. With the cash she’d earned from selling her former house, Schweighardt decided to start her own press. Never mind that she knew next to nothing about the publishing industry, or that her seed money wasn’t nearly enough to hire anybody who did. By the time the “What have I done?” panic set in, she was fully committed to launching Mars’s book. “I was so afraid I’d do something wrong, I did everything twice,” she recalls over breakfast at New Paltz’s Main Street Bistro. “I read every book, called

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people and asked stupid questions, made countless checklists.” GreyCore is almost a one-woman show: Though she’s quick to credit book designer Kathy Massaro, and her son Adam Mason is a valued manuscript reader, Schweighardt multitasks as owner, editor, and tireless publicist. There are distinct disadvantages to being a very small press. The workload is endless; distributors balk at working with start-ups; ad budgets are sparse. And no matter how good a book is, there’s no guarantee of reviews, even from industry publications like Kirkus Reviews. But Schweighardt is willing to do it the hard way. When Kate Niles landed a coveted NPR slot, she called Publishers Weekly repeatedly to request inclusion in their Authors on the Air listing. When PW didn’t comply, Schweighardt and Mason spent an entire weekend calling 350 booksellers around the country, so they could have titles in stock when the interview aired. Schweighardt is bold in her publishing choices. “If I can’t stop reading it, I know it’s for me,” she says, noting that she “can’t stop” publishing, either. “I love the challenge. It’s kind of like being a gambler.” The twin successes of Mars’s and Niles’s books seem to indicate she’s on a roll. GreyCore isn’t the only Hudson Valley publisher with something to celebrate. Paul Cohen of Monkfish Books is delighted that Gerard Jones’s irreverent Ginny Good just won an IPPY (the Independent Publishers Association’s top award) for best autobiography/ memoir of 2004. Cohen met Jones through the author’s take-no-prisoners website, everyonewhosanyone.com,

which outraged the industry by listing hundreds of insider names and reprinting actual rejection letters. “There’s a nice affirmation in publishing a book that’s famous for getting rejected,” says Cohen. Monkfish is housed in a two-story barn outside Rhinebeck, next to the home shared by Cohen and book designer Georgia Dent. Dent’s catering business is downstairs, and delicious smells waft through the comfortable Monkfish office, whose fixtures include three large desks, a grand piano, and a cat named Pip. Monkfish’s staff includes editor Charles Hirsch, publicist Linda Woznicki, and Marya Stanzione, an intern from Vassar. Cohen “caught the publishing bug” while working for Whole Life Times in 1986. He sold advertising for magazines ranging from New Age Journal to the Robb Report, featuring “toys for the uber-rich...Rolls Royces, limos, yachts,” then spent a few years of spiritual retreat in Vermont, studying Sufism and Tibetan Buddhism. Envisioning “a company that blended spiritual values and literary values,” Cohen published his first title in 2002: Sleeping in Caves: a Sixties Himalayan Memoir by Marilyn Stablein, then-owner of Kingston’s Alternative Books. The press’s name came to him as he free-associated words relating to spirit and searching: The bottom-dwelling monkfish sports a dangling antenna that emits light in the depths. Cohen sees Monkfish as “pluralistically oriented, religiously speaking—we on the liberal left can be pretty snobbish,” and says he’d publish evangelical literature alongside Eastern-themed books if the right

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MID-HUDSON VALLEY PUBLISHERS BLACK DOME PRESS, HENSONVILLE. BLACKDOMEPRESS.COM. Outdoor guidebooks & New York history. BLISS PLOT PRESS, MT. TREMPER. BLISSPLOTPRESS.COM. Works by Hudson Valley writers, including Prima Materia magazine. CERES BOOKS, WOODSTOCK. HEALTHYHIGHWAYS.COM. Natural foods, health, & green travel books. CODHILL PRESS, NEW PALTZ. CODHILL.COM. Fine poetry & prose. GREYCORE PRESS, PINE BUSH. GREYCORE.COM. Literary fiction & nonfiction. HOPE FARM BOOKS, SAUGERTIES. HOPEFARM.COM. Books on New York history & the environment. HUDSON VALLEY MEDIA ARTS CENTER/PUBLISHING, NEW PALTZ. HVMAC.COM. First title: Pride & Politics by Erin Quinn. HUNGER MAGAZINE/HUNGER BOOKS, PHOENICIA. HUNGERMAGAZINE.COM. Poetry magazine & books. MCPHERSON & CO., KINGSTON. MCPHERSONCO.COM. Literary fiction & nonfiction, translations, art & film books. MONKFISH PUBLISHING, RHINEBECK. MONKFISHPUBLISHING.COM. Eclectic mixture of “upmarket” spirituality books, fiction. OVERLOOK PRESS, MANHATTAN/WOODSTOCK. OVERLOOKPRESS.COM. Literary fiction, nonfiction, history, biography, design, local titles. PURPLE MOUNTAIN PRESS, FLEISCHMANNS, CATSKILL.NET/PURPLE. Books about New York state & maritime books. SHIVASTAN PUBLISHING, WOODSTOCK/KATHMANDU. SHIVASTAN@HOTMAIL.COM. Limited-edition poetry books, craft-printed in Nepal. STATION HILL, BARRYTOWN. STATIONHILL.ORG. Literary and Spiritual Books.

PUBLISHER PAUL COHEN IN THE RHINEBECK OFFICE OF MONKFISH PUBLISHING. GERARD JONES’S GINNY GOOD WON AN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER’S ASSOCIATION AWARD IN 2004 FOR BEST MEMOIR.

manuscript came along. Monkfish also publishes fiction, and will soon print its first graphic novel, Krishna in New York. When Bliss Plot Press founder Brent Robison launched his literary anthology Prima Materia in 2002, he deliberately chose to include only Hudson Valley writers. “We live in a special region that, along with its other great features, is amazingly abundant with talented writers. I wanted to give them a voice,” he explains. Shivastan Publishing also celebrates local writing, but with a distinctively global twist. Founder Shiv Mirabito has traveled to Nepal and India since 1988 to study Hinduism and Buddhism. Inspired by the legendary poetry press Starstream, which published books by Gregory Corso and Paul Bowles in Nepal in the ‘70s, Mirabito decided to print his own poetry there. Printing costs were low, the handmade rice papers were beautiful, and local residents were grateful for the work. When Mirabito’s poet friends admired his books,

he offered to print theirs as well. “I didn’t want to be a vanity press, and I had the connections in Kathmandu.” He sees his Shivastan as a cooperative, with authors frequently contributing to printing costs and maintaining an unusual level of control over editing and book design. Doing business in Kathmandu can be dicey— Mirabito’s letterpress printers speak no English, so he relies on translators and his Nepalese “computer whiz.” His last visit coincided with a coup d’etat: The Nepalese king declared a state of emergency, closing the country’s borders, jailing political opponents, and abolishing democracy. “It got pretty crazy over there,” Mirabito says mildly. To date, Shivastan has published 25 books by such local luminaries as Ed Sanders, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Janine Pommy Vega, in hand-numbered, limited editions. Mirabito coined the name Shivastan by joining the Hindu god’s name to the same suffix as Pakistan or Afghanistan. “It means ‘place of Shiva,’” he says, “which says what the press is about: handcrafted

in the Himalayas.” The Himalayas may be higher, but the Catskills and Shawangunks boast a remarkable diversity of publishers. A partial listing includes literary presses McPherson & Co. of Kingston, Station Hill of Barrytown, and Woodstock/New York hybrid Overlook Press, which publishes such local legends as Alf Evers and Milton Glaser; outdoor and regional specialists Black Dome Press and Purple Mountain Press; poetry publishers Codhill Press and Hunger Books, and Ceres Press, founded by veggie gurus Nikki & David Goldbeck. The newest kid on the block is the Hudson Valley Media Arts Center, founded by Susan Zimet and Beverly Spiri in 2000, whose fledgling Publishing Division will release its first title later this month. Pride and Politics: The Tale of a Big Story in a Small Town, by journalist Erin Quinn, which describes the media frenzy that followed when New Paltz’s Green Party mayor, Jason West, performed weddings for dozens of same-sex couples. What could be more Hudson Valley than that? 7/05

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SHORT TAKES THE TAROT: HISTORY, SYMBOLISM, AND DIVINATION ROBERT M. PLACE TARCHER PENGUIN, 2005; $16.95

Saugerties Tarot scholar Place traces the cards’ historical origins as medieval Italian playing cards, exploring their ancient, mystical, and Jungian imagery and offering interpretations of each card in the Major and Minor Arcana. See Out & Aloud for local workshops.

THE KING’S ENGLISH: ADVENTURES OF AN INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLER BETSY BURTON GIBBS-SMITH, 2005; $24.95

A delightful memoir by a maverick bookseller who set up shop in Mormon Utah, crammed with juicy author-tour anecdotes, insights into an increasingly corporatized publishing industry, and dozens of reading lists from fellow Book Sense independents, including Ariel Booksellers.

START MAKING SENSE EDITED BY DON HAZEN & LAKSHMI CHAUDRY CHELSEA GREEN, 2005; $12

Subtitled “Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 Into Winning Progressive Politics,” this diverse and inspiring anthology is an action-oriented wake-up call for disenchanted progressives. Contributors include Howard Dean, Arianna Huffington, Jim Hightower, Robert Greenwald, Tom Hayden, Barack Obama, and others.

THE WAVE: FLOWING AS ESSENCE LYN MAYO BLUE DOLPHIN PUBLISHING, 2005; $14.95

Lyn Mayo, a Woodstock psychotherapist and former teacher at SUNY New Paltz, describes self-realization as an ongoing process, akin to the flow of a wave. She offers gentle support and meditative wisdom for spiritual seekers of many paths.

TO SEE EVERY BIRD ON EARTH: A FATHER, A SON, AND A LIFELONG OBSESSION DAN KOEPPEL HUDSON STREET PRESS, 2005; $24.95

Koeppel’s father is a rara avis among birdwatchers, one of a handful who has collected more than 7,000 species worldwide. Koeppel explores the subculture of “Big Listers,” the thrill of the chase, and the human cost of single-minded obsession.

ADIRONDACK HIGH: IMAGES OF AMERICA’S FIRST WILDERNESS PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARDIE TRUESDALE, ESSAYS BY JOANNE MICHAELS COUNTRYMAN PRESS, 2005; $29.95

Stunning images of the wilder mountains north of our own, by celebrated outdoor photographer Truesdale, with graceful essays by his Hudson River Journey collaborator Michaels. Photo exhibition through July 20 at the Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz Plaza, (845) 255-1241; Book signing at Ariel Booksellers, New Paltz, 7/2 at 7pm.

Always Remember Me:

How One Family Survived World War II

Marisabina Russo

Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005, $16.95

Jewish grandmother gently takes the hand of her 10-year-old granddaughter and tells her about being in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The girl has never heard this before, and as she listens, subtle shifts in her family identity unfold. Always Remember Me, an adeptly sensitive children’s book about the Holocaust by award-winning Hudson Valley author/illustrator Marisabina Russo, skillfully balances horror with hope, showing the underside of persecution as determination and survival. Russo generally writes for grade-school ages. But Always Remember Me is a very different book, based on Russo’s family stories of how her grandmother, mother, and two aunts survived the Nazi takeover and concentration camp internment during WWII. For years Russo pored over family photos, connecting the dots with stories she’d heard as a child. The photos are re-created in the book with matte gouache and sepia line images, softening some of the harsher realities in the story. The story’s narrator, Rachel, is fascinated with her Oma’s (grandmother’s) picture albums and tales of her “first life” in Germany and “second life” in America, after the war. Oma wears a heartshaped locket signifying luck, handed down through generations of women in the family. Rachel has never seen all the pictures of Oma’s life in Germany, but now Oma senses that she is ready. By framing the story so it begins and ends happily, the Holocaust becomes less the focus and more a vehicle for strength and survival. The family endures anti-Semitism, separation, and despair to reunite and build new lives, shaping Russo’s main theme of perseverance and hope. As Rachel realizes the impact of the Holocaust, there is a poignant loss of innocence: “for a moment I think she [Oma] has made a mistake, this can’t be a story about being lucky...a concentration camp was a place where Jewish people were hurt and often killed.” Oma squeezes Rachel’s hand as she describes the forced death march out of Auschwitz, when Germans often shot the weaker prisoners. In muted pastels and darker sepias, a two-page montage shows pictures of concentration camps, children behind barbed wire, groups of interned women, closed gates. The centerpiece is a picture of Oma, freed and standing at her destroyed home in Leipzig. Another image shows Oma embracing her found daughter. Russo deftly combines the harder, more numbing visuals with the happier ones. At the end of the story, Oma tells Rachel how she and her three daughters were reunited in America. She unclasps her heart locket and gives it to Rachel, telling her, “When you wear this necklace, always remember me and the story of my two lives. May luck follow you wherever you go.” The inside covers of Always Remember Me reproduce actual pictures of Russo’s family when they lived in Germany, and Russo’s afterword relates the true story that compelled her to write the book. “Miraculously, my grandmother, my mother, and my two aunts—four Jewish women of one family—managed to survive the Holocaust, each in her own way...I thought that they were the bravest women in the world and that I was very lucky to be their granddaughter, daughter, and niece. I still do.” Introducing the Holocaust to children can offer life-long groundwork for the way in which youngsters, and later adults, perceive and accept the wide range of human behavior. Russo’s narrative, written for 9- to 12-year-olds, offers an easy path on the journey to understanding difficult truths. —Abby Luby

CHRONOGRAM BEST-SELLER LIST AVAILABLE AT WWW.CHRONOGRAM.COM The Book Sense best-seller list is updated weekly and compiled from sales data from 450 independent bookstores throughout the US. Book Sense is a marketing initiative of the nonprofit American Booksellers Association, an organization through which independently owned bookstores support free speech, literacy, and programs that encourage reading.

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Controlled Burn Scott Wolven Scribner, 2005, $22

mericans are strange about crime and violence. Pathways that “nice” people supposedly never walk are nonetheless the subject of intense curiosity—witness the endless “Law and Order” or “CSI” spin-offs, the rapt fascination with the trial du jour. But seldom do these productions get far below the surface and look into the hearts and lives of the human beings involved. For all the attention they get, veteran cops and career criminals are some of the least understood human beings on earth. Reading Controlled Burn, it’s impossible to know whether author Scott Wolven has been in prison or law enforcement or both. But if neither of these apply, he is possessed of a truly rare empathy and imagination, for this book of intertwining short stories— subtitled “Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men”—plumbs the waters of lives lived on an edge where nobody really expects to find himself. The book starts rather quietly, with a dispute about cutting some trees, taking place between an elderly woman and the state police investigator who helped put her grandson away for three years on a drug offense. “If I had known, if you had told me, don’t you think I’d have talked to him? My own grandson?” the woman asks. “It doesn’t work like that,” the investigator responds. “Well, this doesn’t work at all.” As the stories unfold, we are drawn into a series of lives that don’t really work—among prisoners and addicts, drinkers and brawlers, bounty hunters and their quarry. Wolven’s portraits of the hardscrabble circumstances and failed relationships surrounding these lives are spare, fresh, and unromanticized. He doesn’t pontificate; he just tells it how it is with elegant, simple language, and the picture that emerges is at once simpler and more complicated than most people realize. His characters are flawed but compelling; not for a moment are we allowed to forget that they are human, and that the world they inhabit is far more multifaceted than it looks when some event from it emerges into the police blotter or obituary column. To read this book (Wolven’s first) is to be carried on powerful currents into an empathy with hardened, misled people who do things—assault women, smuggle meth, even kill—that are the stuff of nightmares. Wolven has the skill to render the incomprehensible human, a few million light-years from the smirky outrage of tabloid crime reporting: “If I was lucky to be alive, I rarely knew it. Normal men get to be things. Sons and husbands, fathers and friends. I was not any of these things, I tried, but this is me telling you I failed,” muses the protagonist of “Vigilance,” the book’s final story. Moralists may jump to a knee-jerk assumption that he simply didn’t try hard enough. Apologists may be quick to explain that it all derives from a flawed upbringing. Wolven’s truth exists on an entirely different continuum of choice and circumstance combined, somewhere along which may exist a genuine healing. Not that Wolven is presuming to know what that might be. He never lets us forget, though, that even the toughest of the tough have emotional lives closer to our own than we might want to recognize. Moments of humor and kinship occur even among folks we’re conditioned to consider as dangerous as timber rattlers. And the disavowal of emotion leads, as they say behind prison walls, to nothin’ nice. Wolven, a native of Catskill, sets half of his tales in “The Northeast Kingdom” and half in “The Fugitive West,” and both landscapes are as vividly etched as the characters inhabiting them. Other reviewers have drawn comparisons to Steinbeck and Hemingway. I just want more. —Anne Pyburn

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n eclectic sampling of upcoming literary events.

CURATED BY PHILLIP LEVINE. Send your events listings to outaloud@chronogram.com. SUNDAY, 7/3, 2PM GWENDOLYN BOUNDS Reading and signing with author of Little Chapel on the River (William Morrow & Company). Merritt Bookstore Vol. III, 66 Main Street, Cold Spring, (845) 265-9100.

THURSDAY, 7/7, 7PM MATTHEW CANTELLO Book discussion and workshop with author of Communing with Music: Practicing the Art of Conscious Listening (DeVorss Pub). Benedictine Hospital, Kingston, (845) 338-2500, x4453 to register. Also: Saturday, 7/16, 10am.

SATURDAY, 7/9, 2PM DONALD LEV & MATTHEW J. SPIRENG Poetry readings by Donald Lev and Matthew J. Spireng at the Woodstock Poetry Society; followed by open mike hosted by Phillip Levine. Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street.

SATURDAY, 7/9, 8PM ANDY CLAUSEN Book reading and signing of poet/translator’s Songs of Bo Baba (Shivastan Press). Hosted by Shiv Mirabito. Dharmaware Patio, 54e Tinker Street, Woodstock. (845) 679-8777.

FRIDAY, 7/15 BOOK RELEASE PARTIES FOR HARRY POTTER Line up, you Muggles! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling’s sixth book in the monstrously popular young sorcerer’s series, goes on sale at midnight at bookstores around the region, with costumes, raffles, and special discounts. Golden Notebook, Woodstock; Ariel Booksellers, New Paltz; Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck and Millerton; Merritt Books, Millbrook, Red Hook, and Cold Spring.

SATURDAY, 7/16, 8PM MUSIC & POETRY Music by Gus Mancini and poetry by Patricia Martin. Woodstock Museum, 13 Bach Rd., West Saugerties, (845) 246-0600. woodstockmuseum.org; $10.

TUESDAY, 7/19, 7:30PM POETRY READING & OPEN MIKE Readings by Mikhail Horowitz and Will Nixon followed by open mike hosted by Teresa Costa. Cross Street Atelier/Gallery, 7 Cross Street, Saugerties, (845) 331-6713. $3 suggested.

SUNDAY, 7/31, 1PM TAROT WORKSHOP Conducted by Robert M. Place, author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination; Inquiring Mind Bookstore, 65 Partition Street, Saugerties, (845) 246-5155.

EVERY MONDAY, 7PM SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIKE 7/4 Diana Gitesha Hernandez, Frank Gomez, Jesus Papoleto Melendez; 7/11 Kathy Price, Michael Platsky; 7/18 Carol Graser, Shirley Powell; 7/25 Marina Mati, Mike Jurkovic. Hosted by Phillip Levine. Colony Cafe, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock, (845) 6795342. pprod@mindspring.com. $3.

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The External Combustion Engine Prose poems by Michael Ives

Futurepoem Books, May 2005, $14

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e excels in making us feel...the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange things.” So said Andre Gide of the French poet Henri Michaux. The same can be said of Michael Ives, teacher at Bard College and author of the new book The External Combustion Engine. Prose poetry has a distinctly Gallic bloodline. The vers libre of Mallarme, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud loosened the poetic line, allowing it eventually to uncoil into sentences, and one can see in Ives’s work an inheritance from such masters as Valery, Michaux, and Raymond Roussel. Here let us not dispute what makes some prose remain merely prose and other prose qualify as poetry. Those of us who read both for pleasure can reasonably abstain from classification, and trust that if it behaves like a poem, we ought to accept it as one. One thing we require of a poem is a kind of tensility—an inherent, cohesive force, like water, which can rise to a point above the rim of its container and yet not overflow. This quality can be encouraged technically by meter, rhyme, and lineation, but also by the way the imagination is engaged. An expository or narrative prose pace, challenged to make quick associative leaps of imagination, begins to adopt the rigors of poetry. Ives certainly makes a feast of language. He is both erudite and playful: Orotund dislocutions consort with chipper colloquialisms and vaudevillian patter. Call it oracular palaver. Its effect is both charming and disquieting, a navel-gazer alarmed by his own involuntary belly dance. The subject and object of most of these poems are the twin desolations of dream and fantasy, the vertigo that comes with looking inward. Ives manages to avoid the pitfalls of whimsy. His poems are always rooted in reality by hyperlogic, despite, or maybe because of, the bizarre occurrences they describe. Many of the poems are very funny, but very few are lighthearted. There is a tone of ache, of longing, beneath them all, a kind of nostalgia for a time that really never was and never will be. There is an attractive athleticism to these poems. Thought aspires to palpability. Thinking demonstrates a physical prowess. Perception, as physicist Werner Heisenberg posited, has a measurable effect on what is perceived. To remain conscious and perceiving in such a world means constant anxiety and inevitable self-betrayal. “The self betrays itself so predictably and with such fine rigor, one would think by now it had made an illuminated manuscript leaf of the ‘kick me’ sign taped to its back,” Ives writes in “Gong Drops.” The geography of the poems is most consistently one of interiors—postmodern variations on Plato’s cave—and within these interiors one senses the constant tension of opposition. The inside wants out, the outside wants in. The skull must contain its own firmament. Ives’s narratives seem writ on a Mobius strip. They transcend paradox by accepting it. As the narrator says in “The Four Fingers of the Left Hand,” “I told her I was ready to go. ‘We’re already here,’ she said.” Ives’s poems remind us that consciousness, consciousness engaged, self-consciousness, comes at a price, which he describes as something like actually, physically turning oneself inside out. Self-flagellation is not enough. What’s required is self-flaying, even a kind of auto-autopsy to determine not just cause of death but meaning of life. Here, from a poem called “Turf Farming”: “...for the proper man must betimes go a flensing, if not the shoulder of a whale, why then that of his own shall do, to release the dead trapped thereunder. There are always dead thereunder.” —Adam LeFevre

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CHRONOGRAM SHORT FICTION CONTEST We are seeking extraordinary short stories, up to 6,000 words, for publication in Chronogram’s upcoming Literary Supplement. Two winners will each receive $100. We request first publication rights only, with all other rights to remain with the author. Submission deadline is July 15, 2005. Manuscripts may be submitted electronically, preferably as a Word attachment, to bmahoney@chronogram.com or mailed to Chronogram Short Fiction Contest, 314 Wall Street, Kingston NY 12401. Please include your contact address, e-mail and phone number. All stories will be reviewed by Chronogram staff, with final selections to be judged by Columbia County author Dave King, whose acclaimed novel The Ha-Ha was just selected by the Washington Post as one of the season’s best (visit davekingwriter.com for details). We look forward to reading your work.

—Nina Shengold and Mikhail Horowitz, Literary Supplement editors

ARS POETICA For the Literary Supplement, we are seeking poetry that is specifically about writing and reading. Deadline: August 1, 2005. E-mail: poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Literary Supplement, or mail to the address above.

—Phillip Levine, Poetry editor

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Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town,

and the Search for What Matters Most

Gwendolyn Bounds William Morrow, 2005, $23.95

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he sky is a brilliant blue and clear, the air unusually warm for September-a sign we are still closer to August than October.” So begins Gwendolyn Bounds’s Little Chapel on the River. That brilliant blue day was 9/11, of course, and like so many other New Yorkers, 9/11 serves as a point of departure for Bounds—the start of a story, and a journey up the Hudson that she did not expect to take. Bounds and her lover Kathryn are at home, just blocks from the World Trade Center, when the first plane hits. Forced to vacate their apartment, which sustained damage in the attacks, Bounds and her girlfriend squat in friends’ apartments for a few months before renting a house in Garrison, a small hamlet just south of Cold Spring, after visiting friends there. In Garrison, Bounds and her girlfriend go to a cramped bar in the bottom floor of a house snug between the Metro North tracks and the river. It’s here, in this unassuming dive called Guinan’s that this young, career-driven reporter for the Wall Street Journal begins to reorder her priorities. What Bounds finds at Guinan’s is at once typical and extraordinary. One of Guinan’s habitués calls it “his riverside chapel,” and Bounds writes that, for its patrons, “coming to Guinan’s was something of a religion, with its own customs, community, and rites of passage. There was even a pastor of sorts—Jim [Guinan, the barkeep and owner]—who on a good night could tell a story that might run as long a Sunday sermon.” Now, all good neighborhood bars have this quality to a degree-providing safe haven for a cross-section of characters to mingle in a neutral setting. And Guinan’s has its share of characters-the loudmouth Fitz, an Vietnam vet and former intelligence operative; Dan, a liberal attorney who argues with the conservative Fitz; the handsome Preusser brothers, whose family has been in Garrison since the Revolutionary War; Donnery, an Albany bureaucrat who makes pilgrimages to Guinan’s every six weeks; Mary Ellen, a sassy single mother; and the Guinan family. Jim Guinan has been opening the bar since he emigrated from Ireland in 1957, but by the time Bounds arrives, Guinan’s grown children, John and Margaret, moonlight at the bar—in addition to working full-time jobs—to help keep the bar open. What sets Guinan’s apart, however, is that when the bar faces closure, the patrons pitch in to save it, a place that matters to them—and soon a flustered Bounds finds herself behind the rail, facing down an angry customer who she has served the wrong brand of beer: I look miserably at the open Ballantine bottle in his hand. They’re both green, I offer lamely, finally laying my hands on a Rolling Rock and hoping he’ll be a good sport and cut me a break. No chance. “Yeah, except this tastes like piss-water,” he says, plunking the Ballantine down on the counter before me. Fine, I say lightly, setting the Ballantine aside and hoping no one notices my hand shaking. I’m just wondering, though, I ask, forcing myself to meet his bloodshot eyes. How do you know what piss tastes like? Little Chapel on the River isn’t flashy and Bounds’s narrative voice, that of a nervous naïf ever-testing uncharted personal waters, often amazed at the pluck and generosity of those she encounters in Guinan’s and Garrison, has a gee-whiz quality that is trying at times. But what Bounds does accomplish is a modest reminder, simple yet profound, which she summarizes in her Author’s Note: “To anyone who has ever known a spot like this, a spot that feels more at home sometimes than home itself, I’d just like to add, go there if you still can. Be there. And don’t wait for tomorrow. Go today.” I’ll drink to that. —Brian K. Mahoney 7/05

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Caffeine, in its thousands of years as companion to humanity, is inextricably interwoven with civilization. Worldwide consumption is estimated at 120,000 tons a year—that’s more than a trillion cups of beverages, primarily coffee, tea, and soft drinks. Eighty-seven percent of Americans consume caffeine in some form, and many say they are addicted to it. Nearly two-thirds of thousands of respondents to National Geographic’s online poll (posted along with a January article on caffeine) chose the response: “I need caffeine to function during the day.” Caffeine is a stimulant whose effects mimic, in some respects, the sympathetic nervous system (the body’s subset of brain cells and nerves dedicated to keeping you alert, active, and ready for emergencies). It revs up metabolism, increases usage of stored fat, narrows peripheral blood vessels (decreasing blood flow in the extremities), and increases heart rate and blood pressure. The current favored theory is that it works by interfering with a naturally occurring chemical, adenosine. Adenosine binds to neurons in the brain, dampening their output and protecting against overstimulation. It gradually accumulates during hours of wakefulness, and as it does, generates a sense of fatigue and sleepiness. Caffeine, whose chemical structure is allied with adenosine’s, settles into adenosine’s attachment sites on neurons. That interferes with adenosine’s quieting action, allowing the person to maintain an alert state.

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ity, improving mood, enhancing athletic performance, and helping shed weight (if one’s willpower can ride through the nagging hunger it also stimulates). But should we worry about a dark side? That question becomes ever more relevant as drinking caffeinated beverages becomes a habit not just of adulthood, but for a lifetime, starting with soft drinks among children and even toddlers. Fortunately, the news is pretty good. Hundreds of studies have failed to associate caffeine consumption with any serious health problems, either short- or long-term, In fact, caffeine garners a lot of praise for enhancing alertness in settings where fatigue is both likely and dangerous, such as among cross-country truck drivers, emergency workers, pilots, and soldiers in battle. Nevertheless, health authorities suggest we keep daily intake below 300 milligrams—about three cups of coffee or twice that of typical soda or tea. That’s because adverse reactions start showing up at higher amounts, like the “jitters”—shakiness, restlessness, inability to concentrate, sweating, and irregular and pounding heartbeat. Excessive caffeine can cause dizziness, heart arrhythmias, cramps, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, confusion, and occasionally, seizures. Just how much caffeine is “excessive” is vague, and varies with a person’s ability to metabolize and clear it from the bloodstream (which in turn depend on liver and kidney health) and tolerance; some people are exceedingly sensitive to its effects. There is also the problem of withdrawal. Suddenly terminating one’s daily dose(s) can trigger a punishing headache, lethargy, poor concentration, and irritability for a few days.

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NOT FOR BABIES The clearest warnings about caffeine are for pregnant women and young children. Miscarriages and a lower birth weight have been associated with maternal caffeine intake of over 300 milligrams a day, and some breastfed babies of mothers who exceed that intake are abnormally restless or irritable. Caffeine metabolism is sluggish in children, especially toddlers (even more so in infants), so its effects last longer and successive consumption has more of an additive effect. (In adults, peak stimulatory effects of a single caffeinated beverage occur within an hour, but it takes four to six hours to clear half of it; most is gone after eighteen hours.) In-school performance by soda-drinking children indicates that (like adults), they are getting hooked. Studies that had kids skip their usual sodas found they were unfocused, tired, irritable, and did worse in school for several days after stopping. In addition, the calories in those soft drinks are a contributor to childhood obesity, a serious health risk. (The same is true for adults.) Parents should be aware that caffeine is included in some children’s medicines because it works synergistically with pain relievers. Dietary sources of the drug should be minimized while using such products.

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CAFFEINATED COMESTIBLES Although caffeine comes in pill form over the counter, most people enjoy it in beverages or food. The most popular caffeine vehicles are coffee, tea, and soft drinks, and the amount of caffeine in each varies greatly. Coffee’s content depends on bean type and preparation method; an average of 100 milligrams per 8-ounce of brew is commonly cited, though people often drink more than that. (A single shot of espresso, at a diminutive 2 ounces, has about 100 milligrams.) Caffeinated tea, whether green, oolong, black (also called red), or flavored concoctions like chai, all are from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. Black tea is dried longest and has more caffeine, roughly 50 milligrams per 8-ounce cup, though a long-dunked bag or extra leaf can offer the same as the average cup of joe. Caffeine content of soft drinks varies from about 30 to 50 milligrams per 12-ounce serving. No longer linked to caffeine-containing extracts of the cola nuts, today’s “colas” are synthetic look-alikes with caffeine added from the massive surplus generated by production of decaffeinated coffees and teas. Many soft drinks of other colors besides cola-brown are also caffeinated. Energy drinks like Red Bull, Full Throttle, Rock Star, Monster, and No Fear are skyrocket-

ing in popularity (though are banned in some countries), especially among college students, hard-driving professionals, fitness and exercise devotees, and all-night dance clubbers. Some contain green tea extract and guarana (see later), offering a caffeine whammy of up to 400 milligrams per serving (the FDA limits the addition of purified caffeine to six milligrams per ounce of beverage, but guarana and green tea extract are thus far unregulated). A printed warning accompanies them in the US: “Not recommended for children, pregnant or breast-feeding women, caffeine-sensitive persons.” Red Bull, the leader of the pack, has a tarnished reputation in Europe because of a few deaths linked with consuming multiple servings, though other ingredients are as suspect as caffeine. There is a lot of confusion about whether chocolate has caffeine. A careful chemical analysis found virtually none in raw cacao from which chocolate is made (.03 percent by weight compared to coffee beans at 1-2 percent caffeine). Chocolate does naturally contain theobromine, a chemical relative of caffeine but with much milder stimulatory effects. (Note that theobromine is highly toxic to animals, so don’t feed chocolate to your pets!) But some chocolate products have added caffeine. Dark chocolate typically has the most (a Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Bar has 31 milligrams in 1.5 ounces) and milk or white chocolate has about a fourth that in the same size bar. Chocolate milk or hot chocolate has only about five milligrams per eight-ounce serving. There also are coffee-flavored foods like yogurt and ice cream that harbor caffeine (e.g., 85 milligrams per cup of Ben and Jerry’s No Fat Coffee Fudge Frozen Yogurt, a little less than a cup of coffee). Some “energy bars” contain guarana, cola nut, or green tea—or combinations of these, though many, like PowerBar, the original in its genre, are packed with caffeinefree nutients. Energy gels are a newer edible product that sometimes have caffeine-containing ingredients. They come in single serving packets, meant to give a speedy energy boost, especially during exercise. Certain bottled waters have caffeine and/or guarana, in spite of names like “vitamin water” and “Fruit2O.” The latter, described as a “citrus energy boost” on its label, has no fruit, but does have 80 milligrams of caffeine per 16-ounce bottle.

NEW KINDS OF CAFFEINE FIXES What may seem like newer members of the stimulants club—guarana and maté (or yerba maté)—are actually ancient medicinal plants from South America, now finding their way to the US. Guarana bears orange-red fruit whose

seeds are roasted, peeled, and made into a paste used for hot beverages or soft drinks. As popular today in Brazil as coffee, guarana was crowned the “national beverage” in 1940. Maté is a hollylike shrub whose dried leaves are added to hot water, often with spices, sweeteners, or milk. It is preferred in Argentina seven to one over coffee and boasts an impressive list of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that serve as Argentinean cowboys’ “liquid vegetable.” The primary stimulant in both guarana and maté is caffeine. Guarana is the highest natural source of such stimulants currently known, with double to triple that of coffee beans. Maté is often said to contain “mateine” instead, but it’s chemically identical to caffeine. Its content is far less by weight (it’s a leaf), but Guayaki brand maté products contain a wide range, from about 25 to 135 milligrams caffeine per serving.

THE BETTER BUZZ: ADAPTOGENS Though caffeine has few black clouds of health dangers over it, we could do better in our choice of stimulants, counsels Bob Lesnow, Doctor of Chiropractic and Certified Dietician-Nutritionist from Accord. “When you are taking caffeine on an ongoing basis, you are depleting your system. By mimicking the activity of our sympathetic nervous system, caffeine creates a physiological loop that stimulates the adrenal gland, which impacts a lot of other physiological parameters. It alters glucose control, suppresses appetite, tends to increase insulin resistance, and can set people up for eating high sugar, high glycemic index foods.” In addition, Lesnow says adrenal overstimulation can impair immune functioning. Instead of caffeine, Lesnow explains, “there is a whole other category of substances that do fight fatigue and increase alertness, mental performance, well being, and energy.” These are called adaptogens. Rather than deplete organs, the complex mixtures of natural compounds in adaptogenic plants help tone them, returning the system to normal under stress. To earn the designation of adaptogen, a plant must be able to bring diverse types of maladaptive physiological change back to a healthful balance without harmful effects of their own. “Adaptogenic herbs keep the adrenal gland from going into the stages by which they burn themselves out,” says Lesnow. “Many studies support this. Years and years ago the first adaptogenic herb that was very much sought after was Siberian ginseng [Eleutherococcus senticosus; Eleuthero for short]. It improves the body’s ability to enhance performance under stressful circumstances.” Russian cosmonauts and Olympic athletes used Eleuthero as a general tonic and to reduce physical and mental stress. Asian ginseng

(Panax ginseng), also called Chinese and Korean, and American ginseng (Panax quinquefolium), are prized adaptogens as well. Rhodiola rosea (golden root, roseroot) is another adaptogen that’s been a traditional medicine in Russia and Scandinavia for centuries. It is widely used and commercially available in those regions today, and in health food stores here. It fights fatigue and depression, and increases physical endurance (The Vikings imbibed it—look where it got them.) Studies show it enhances cognition, memory, and learning by increasing levels of several brain neurotransmitters. Rhodiola comes as an alcohol-based extract, typically taken as 5-10 drops on an empty stomach a few times daily. Another favorite Lesnow suggests is licorice. “It helps to increase energy, resist fatigue, and support the body under stress.” Two other adaptogenic plants, astragalus and schizandra, are featured in energy capsules or tinctures offered by health food stores and Chinese herbal experts. Some are teeming with added vitamins and minerals. The catch is they can be very expensive. And if one is addicted to the behavior of sipping a nice warm beverage, a pill just isn’t the same. But drinking an herbal tea with ginseng or licorice can be enjoyed daily to maintain a healthful energy.

PROPER FEASTING Vicki Koenig, Registered Dietitian and Nutritional Consultant with offices in New Paltz and Kingston, has another reminder about stimulants: what you eat makes a difference in energy level. She tells you how in a Stonyfield Farm Wellness Moosletter called “Minding Your Moods with Foods.” “The key to quickly shifting your mind into a more alert and motivated mindset is to have protein with small amounts of fats and carbohydrates. For most people, three to four ounces of protein is enough. The best sources are lean protein with almost no carbs.” Fats tend to decrease alertness, so use them sparingly. Heed that advice at lunch especially, when the brain’s alertness neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine, both protein-based, are beginning to wane. Good lunch choices would be a Caesar salad with grilled chicken, salmon, or shrimp; or lightly sautéed fish, tofu or chicken fillet with vegetables (keep grain servings small). Visit Stonyfield’s website for specific food and menu recommendations, stonyfield.com. Koenig enjoys a bit of java, too. “I’m not immune to an occasional cappuccino when out, but I’m picky about what I drink. My personal choice is a locally roasted organic coffee mixed 50 percent with decaf.” 7/05

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REST, RELAXATION, AND SPIRITUAL

REJUVENATION

The modern world grows more complicated by the day. With cell phones, e-mail, and long commutes, life is busier and noisier than ever. This is why retreat centers are so important. Providing a respite from the workaday world, retreats allow people to go within to find their sacred selves. Here in the Hudson Valley we are blessed with numerous retreat options. Below is a listing of several local retreat centers, though space allows only a brief description of each. Call or check online to learn more.

Kriaplu Center for Yoga and Health

SPIRITUAL CENTERS

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Zen Mountain Monastery is an American Zen Buddhist monastery and training center on 230 acres in Mt. Tremper. From its inception in 1980, the monastery has maintained an ongoing daily schedule of prayer and monthly meditation intensives (sesshins). On average, 45 special retreats are offered each year, highlighting the Eight Gates of Zen Training, a modern manifestation of Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path, including “Zen and Chinese Wilderness Poetry” and “Drawn to be Wild.” You can participate in trainings devoted to “the clear and direct realization of enlightenment in practice,” and do so as a full or part-time resident or daytime visitor. (845) 688-2228; zen-mtn.org. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra is a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Woodstock, at the crest of Meads Mountain Road. Its name is Sanskrit and translates loosely as “the place under the spiritual guidance and protection of His Holiness where all three levels of the Buddha’s teachings are preserved and taught.” It is the North American seat of the Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, who escaped from Tibet in 2000 at age 14. Classes and meditation sessions are offered throughout the year. The monastery also works to preserve Tibetan culture. (845) 679-5906; kagyu.org. Menla Mountain Retreat and Conference Center in Phoenicia comprises 17 buildings on a 320-acre estate surrounded by the New York State Catskill Preserve. It is run by the Tibet House in New York City, a worldwide network of Tibetan institutions committed to preserving Tibet’s cultural and spiritual heritage. The Tibet House is dedicated to the idea that the wisdom and arts of all human civilizations vitally enrich the emerging global culture. It offers retreats in yoga, traditional Tibetan medicine and astrology, reiki, meditation, and lectures on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. (845) 688-6897; menla.org.

Elat Chayyim is a Jewish retreat center in Accord where people can explore ancient Jewish wisdom woven with contemporary practices, and learn about mysticism through the Kabbalah. Rabbi-in-Residence David Ingber brings his vision of an “Integral Judaism that honors and attends to all aspects of Spirit, to all its Faces.” Retreats are offered throughout the year, including family retreats, gay and lesbian retreats, holiday retreats, and trainings for spiritual leaders. (845) 626-2037; elatchayyim.org. With 26 acres on the Hudson River in West Park, Holy Cross Monastery has one of the largest monastic retreat facilities in the Episcopal Church. Its many retreat options include learning about monastic life, finding God in nature, meditation in the Christian tradition, and individualized combinations of worship, contemplation, silence, and group activities. (845) 384-6660; holycrossmonastery.com. Graymoor Spiritual Life Center in Garrison is part of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. The Friars’ mission is fostering “at-one-ment,” the unity of people of every race, religion, and walk of life with God and one another. Along with prayer and meditation, over 50 retreats are available for individuals or groups, some on specific topics like marriage or dealing with stress. Several include 12-step programs. Individual midweek overnight stays to relax, reflect, read, and pray are also available. (845) 424-3671; www.atonementfriars.org. Built in 1904, Mount Saint Alphonsus in Esopus is a former Catholic Redemptorist seminary situated on 400 acres overlooking the Hudson River. It offers the “solitude of retreat and the fellowship of group programs” for people who seek communion with God, self, and others. On site are a castle-like main building with accommodations for over a hundred guests, an exquisite Romanesque chapel, dining hall, and conference rooms. A Retreat Team designs daylong and overnight retreats, workshops, and programs about religion, human services, and education. (845) 384-8000; msaretreat.org.

GROWTH CENTERS The world-renowned Omega Institute in Rhinebeck turned 28 this year. Set on 195 acres of rolling hills, Omega’s core values are service, integrity, and simplicity, and it attracts some of the world’s most famous spiritual teachers. It offers 250 workshops, retreats, and wellness vacations each year from April through October, covering spirituality, body care, energy work, intuitive development, yoga, native wisdom and shamanism, community, the arts, and more. (800) 944-1001; eomega.org.

Peace Village opened six years ago on 300 forested acres in the Catskills (Hunter) as a haven for peace and spirituality. It is operated by the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization, a “family of individuals from all walks of life” dedicated to helping people bring into their daily lives a positive energy and deepest personal values. This is accomplished primarily through raja yoga meditation and positive thinking courses. Peace Village offers numerous workshops and nurturing retreats, plus specialized programs for healthcare workers, engineers, and other professionals. (518) 589-5000; peacevillage.com. Sky Lake Lodge, on the northern crest of the Shawangunk Mountains in Rosendale, is a Shambhala contemplative center for meditation, arts, and community experience. Shambhala is a practice of meditative understanding accessible to everyone, with a goal of creating an enlightened society through individual awareness. The Lodge welcomes anyone who aspires to bring gentleness and non-aggression into all areas of life and offers workshops, conferences, and personal retreat weekends on Buddhism and Shambhala Arts. (845) 658-8556; sky-lake.org. The Sivanda Ashram Yoga Ranch in Woodbourne is one of eight ashrams founded by Swami Vishnu-devananda for the practice of yoga and the study of Vedanta (positive thinking). Some of its offerings are week-long yoga intensives, family retreat weeks, a teen camp, and an intensive, month-long yoga teachers’ training with a work-study program. (845) 436-6492; sivananda.org. Pathwork in Phoenicia is a spiritual path of transformation based on 258 teachings (“lectures”) from The Guide, a wise presence in spirit channeled by Eva Pierrakos from 1957 until her death in 1979. The teachings emphasize the goodness inherent in people, and encourage self-responsibility and selfknowledge. Weekend retreats offer individual sessions with an experienced Pathwork Helper, as well as group teachings and applied movement exercises. (518) 688-2211; pathworkny.org. The Kriaplu Center for Yoga and Health is located in Lenox, Massachusetts and offers classes in yoga, spirituality, nutrition, ayurvedic medicine, and more. Healing arts therapists on staff provide individual massage, energy work, and specializied soul work. The Retreat and Renewal Option is a self-planned “vacation” of experiential workshops, nature walks, yoga classes, and healing arts sessions. (800) 741-7353; www.kripalu.org. Lauren Yanks teaches humanities at SUNY New Paltz; she goes on retreat at least once a year. 7/05

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Whole Living Guide ACUPUNCTURE Dylana Accolla, LAc

Treat yourself to a renewed sense of health and well-being with acupuncture, herbal medicine, Chinese bodywork, and nutritional counseling. My emphasis is on empowering patients by teaching them how to practice preventative medicine. Great for gynecological problems, chronic pain, and managing chronic illness. Two locations: Haven Spa, 6464 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, and Woodstock Women’s Health, 2568 Route 212, Woodstock. (914) 388-7789. Acupuncture Health Care, PC

Peter Dubitsky, MS, LAc, an acupuncture teacher for 12 years, examiner for the national board for acupuncture (NCCAOM), and member of the NYS Board for Acupuncture. He combines acupuncture, physical medicine, and traditional Asian techniques for effective treatment of acute and chronic pain conditions, and is available for acupuncture treatment of other medical conditions as well. Callie Brown, LAc, also an experienced acupuncturist specializing in acupuncture facial rejuvenation, combines her training in clinical nutrition with the latest in painless acupuncture techniques to treat the effects of aging. 108 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-7178. Stephanie Ellis, LAc, DiplCH

Ivy League graduate experienced in pain management, infertility, menopause, fibromyalgia, complementary cancer care, autoimmune conditions, and digestive diseases. Combining Chinese, Japanese, and trigger-point release needling techniques. Herbal medicine without acupuncture also offered. Special post-graduate training in classical Chinese herbal medicine. Rosendale and Beacon. (845) 546-5358.

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The Organic Tao, Inc.

Grace Okhiulu, RN, LAc, Diplomate Chinese Herbology (NCCAOM) combines Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs, and Pure Sound to treat many conditions. Sound Acupuncture is a needleless technique using specially designed tuning forks, not needles. Provides certified Acupuncture Detoxification, effective for smoking cessation, certified in Constitutional Facial Acupuncture Renewal® or facial rejuvenation (needleless option available). Main Office: 515 Haight Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 12603. (845) 473-7593. www.pcomgirl.byregion.net. Patients with Physical Therapy concerns are seen at Phyllis Moriarty & Associates, 301 Manchester Rd (Rte 55) Ste 101, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603. www.phyllismoriartyassociates. com. (845) 454-4137. Hoon J. Park, MD, PC

For the past 16 years, Dr. Hoon J. Park has been practicing a natural and gentle approach to pain management for conditions such as arthritis, chronic and acute pain in neck, back, and legs, fibromyalgia, motor vehicle and work-related injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, and more by integrating physical therapy modalities along with acupuncture. Dr. Hoon Park is a board-certified physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and electrodiagnostic studies. His experienced, friendly staff offer the most comprehensive and individualized rehabilitative care available. Please call the office to arrange a consultation. New patients and most insurances are accepted. 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590. Half mile south of the Galleria Mall. (845) 298-6060. ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Judith Youett The Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique is a simple, practical skill that, when applied to ourselves, en-

hances coordination, promoting mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Improve the quality of your life by learning how to do less to achieve more. Judith Youett, AmSAT. (845) 677-5871. AROMATHERAPY Joan Apter

Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes. Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information contact Joan Apter, CMT. (845) 679-0512. japter@ulster.net. www.joan apter.younglivingworld.com. ART THERAPY Deep Clay with Michelle Rhodes, ATR-BC, LMSW

See Psychotherapy. ASTROLOGICAL CONSULTING Eric Francis: Astrological

Consultations by Phone. Special discount on follow-ups for previous clients from the Hudson Valley. (206) 854-3931. eric@ericfrancis.com. Lots to explore on the Web at www.PlanetWaves.net. BODY & SKIN CARE Absolute Laser , LLC

Absolute Laser offers commitment to beautiful skin through outstanding care and service. Offering Laser Hair Removal, Microdermabrasion, Vitalize Peel, and Fotofacial RF. The Fotofacial RF is the next generation in high-tech skin enhancement. These gentle, no downtime treatments are used to improve cosmetic appearance of the face, neck, hands, and body. The results are brighter, smoother, more radiant and luminescent skin.

This process delivers results that skin care products alone cannot do! Recover and rediscover the youth and vitality of your skin. Call for a complimentary consultation: Janice DiGiovanni, (845) 876-7100. Springbrook Medical Park, Rhinebeck.

to offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy, thereby increasing their capacity to cope, create in the world, and love. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz. (845) 485-5933.

Blissful Beauty by Brenda

Rosen Method Bodywork

Relax and revive with a professional beauty treatment from Brenda Montgomery, Licensed Aesthetician. Specializing in Burnham Systems Facial Rejuvenation, Belavi Facelift Massage, Anti-Aging facials, Acne treatments, and Body treatments. Also offering airbrushed makeup for a flawless, natural look for your next big event. Your skin is not replaceable; let Brenda help you put your best face forward! Call (845) 616-9818.

The physical body is the gateway to our emotional and spiritual being. Rosen Method uses touch and words to contact the physical tension that limits our full experience of life. As the body relaxes or releases this muscular tension, awareness of the underlying purpose of this tension can become conscious. Rosen Method provides the safety to hear from within what is true for us and to trust that truth. Transformation then becomes possible. Julie Zweig, MA. (845) 255-3566. www.RosenCenterEast.com.

Made With Love

Handcrafted lotions, crèmes, and potions to nurture the skin and soul! Therapeutic oils, salves, and bath salts made with the curative properties of herbal-infused oils and pure essential oils. No petroleum, mineral oils, or chemicals are used. Host a home party! Products available at Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage, 243 Main Street, Suite 220, New Paltz. For a full product catalogue e-mail madewithlove@hvc.rr.com or call (845) 255-5207. BODY AWARENESS Body Central

Body Central Massage and Body Therapies is a multiple-therapist massage studio offering a variety of bodywork promoting injury recovery, pain management, stress reduction, and emotional balance. Treatments are tailored to the specific needs of clients. Therapies include facials, massage, ultrasonic facials, manicures, pedicures, reiki, acupuncture, body treatments, chemical peels, waxing, henna tattooing, hot stone massage, and craniosacral therapy. 8 Livingston Street, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-7222. BODY-CENTERED THERAPY Irene Humbach, CSW, PC

Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services. By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/ healing approaches, including Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I aim

BODYWORK bodhi studio

Through bodywork one can connect with the body’s own inherent wisdom and self healing abilities. With skill, intuition, and care, we offer therapeutic massage, bodhiwork, Reiki, warm stone massage, aromatherapy, earconing, and a full range of ayurvedic treatments including Shirodara, Abyanga, and Swedna. Melinda Pizzano, LMT and Helen Andersson, D.Ay. Call for an appointment. (518) 828-2233.

CHI GONG/TAI CHI CHUAN Second Generation Yang

Spiritual alchemy practices of ancient Taoist sorcerers yielded these two treasures of internal arts. Chi Gong prepared the body to withstand rigorous training and overcome the battle with time. Tai Chi Chuan became the expression of the energy in movement and self-defense. These practices have brought health, vitality, and youthfulness to myself and my students. The only requirement is determined practice of the principles and the will to persevere. Call Hawks, (845) 687-8721. CHILDBIRTH Catskill Mountain Midwifery

See Midwifery. Nori Connell, RN, DC

Nori combines 28 years as a registered nurse with 18 years of chiropractic experience to offer patients a knowledgeable approach to removing the interferences in the body that lead to disease. She combines accredited techniques such as Neuro-Emotional technique, kinesiology, and Network Chiropractic to work with the body’s innate intelligence and its ability for healing. Dr. Connell also offers workshops on natural health care for the family and is also one of the directors of Alternatives Health Center of Tivoli. (845) 757-5555. Also at Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center. (845) 876-5556. Kary Broffman, RN, CH

BOTANICA Gypsy Janet

See Hypnotherapy.

Reverend Gypsy Janet has 30 years training and experience in SANTERIA and life long lessons in “Native American Ways” from her father, who is Mohawk. This is NOT your ordinary Botanica/Religious Supply Shop. Gypsy Janet makes unique Hand Crafted one-ofa-kind Spiritual Gifts, Ritual Supplies, Carved and Dressed 7 day candles. The shop is full of many surprises and there are also a Native American, Reggae, and Belly Dancer sections. Gypsy Janet also reads TAROT and TEA LEAVES, she can “Legally Marry” couples in NY State, and loves to personalize and setup your own SACRED ALTAR. Saturday, August 20, 2005 is the 3rd Annual Gyspy Psychic Fair. The shop is located at 100 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY 845-679-2999.

Judy Joffee, CMN, MSN

See Midwifery. CHINESE HEALING ARTS Chinese Healing Arts Center

The Wu Tang Chuan Kung Association was founded by Doctor Tzu Kuo Shih and his family for the purpose of providing the American public with instruction in the ancient Chinese arts of Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Kung, and traditional Chinese Medicine. 264 Smith Avenue, Kingston. (845) 338-6045 or (203) 748-8107. CHIROPRACTIC Dr. David Ness

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quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries. In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today. (845) 255-1200. Dr. Bruce Schneider

New Paltz, New York 12561. (845) 255-4424. COLON HYDROTHERAPY Connie Schneider, Advanced Level I-ACT Certified Colon Hydrotherapist

Colon Hydrotherapy is a safe, gentle, cleansing process. Clean and private office. A healthy functioning colon can decrease internal toxicity and improve digestion; basics for a healthy body. New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-1516. See display ad. COUNSELING SERVICES Elizabeth Cunningham, MSC

Counselor, interfaith minister, and novelist, Elizabeth brings humor, compassion, and a deep understanding of story to a spirited counseling practice for individuals and couples. If you are facing loss, crisis in faith, creative block, conflict in relationship, Elizabeth invites you to become a detective and investigate your own unfolding mystery. 44 Schultzville Road, Staatsburg. (845) 266-4477. E-mail: medb44@aol.com. CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY Craniosacral Therapy

A gentle, hands-on method for enhancing the body’s own healing capabilities through the craniosacral rhythm. Cra-

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niosacral aids in the release of stress-related conditions such as anxiety, nervousness, insomnia, depression, digestive, menstrual, and other problems with organ function, breathing difficulties, and headaches. Increase energy, reduce pain, and improve immune system function. Effective for whiplash, TMJ, sciatica, fibromyalgia, scoliosis, arthritis, low back tension, and chronic pain. Also helpful for children with birth trauma, learning difficulties, chronic ear problems, and hyperactivity. Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage, Michele Tomasicchio, LMT. (845) 255-4832. DENTISTRY The Center For Advanced Dentistry Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD Jaime O. Stauss, DMD

Setting the standards for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad. Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes “old school” care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18. 494 Route 299, Highland. www.thecenterforadvanced dentistry.com. (845) 691-5600. Fax (845) 691-8633. FENG SHUI Healing By Design

Feng Shui consultations, classes. Explore how Feng Shui can increase the flow of abundance, joy, and well-being in your life. Create your home or office to support your goals and dreams. Contact Betsy Stang at bebird@aol.com. or (845) 679-6347.

HEALING SCHOOLS One Light Healing Touch: Healer Training School

Join us for an empowering, life-changing, six-month, transformational training. This comprehensive program includes: Meditation, Visualization, Sound work, Breath work, Movement, Sacred Ceremony, Essential Grounding and Releasing Practices, and 33 Professional Healing Techniques. School starts September 23, 2005. Free special intro evening: Self-Healing with OLHT August 26 + September 9, 7:00-9:00pm; Special Introductory Weekend: Access Your Healing Potential August 27-28 and September 10 -11. (NYSNA CEU’s available). Ron Lavin, MA, founder and director of the international OLHT schools, is a respected spiritual healer with 26 years of experience. He heads seven OLHT schools in Germany and one in Rhinebeck, NY. He has worked with the NIH in Distance Healing for eight years. Appointments and Distance Healing sessions are available in Rhinebeck, NY. Call (845) 876-0259 or e-mail ronlavin@aol.com. www. OneLightHealingTouch.com. HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES Healing, Pathwork and Channeling by Flowing Spirit Guidance

It is our birthright to experience the abundance of the universe, the deep love of God, and our own divinity! It is also our birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to do it. So why don’t we? Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully, the love and the abundance of God’s universe. We can have it in any moment. We can learn to purify our imperfections AND experience heaven on earth.

Jaffe Institute Spiritual Healing; Pathwork; and Channeling available. Contact Joel Walzer for sessions. 845-679-8989. www.flowingspirit.com. The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing

A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Specializing in Craniosacral Therapy, Stress Point Release through Chiropractic, Swedish & Sports Massage, Shiatsu, and Energetic Reiki. New offerings include meditation and nutritional counseling. 5 Academy Street, New Paltz. Call for an appointment. (845) 255-3337. HEALTH FOOD Pleasant Stone Farm

130 Dolson Avenue, Middletown, NY. pleasantstonefarm@ usa.net. (845) 343-4040. HEALTH PUBLICATIONS Hudson Valley Healthy Living

A comprehensive directory of MidHudson health services, products, and practitioners, along with articles on health issues of interest. Published biannually (April/ October) by Luminary Publishing, Inc., the creators of Chronogram, 50,000 copies are distributed in the region throughout the year. Contents are also available on the Web at www.hvhealthyliving.com. See www.hvhealthyliving.com for advertising rates or call the HVHL sales team at (845) 334-8600. HERBS Monarda Herbal Apothecary

In honoring the diversity, uniqueness, and strength of nature for nourishment and healing, we offer organic and ecologically wildcrafted herbs using tradition as our guide. Certified Organic Alcohol Tinctures, Teas, Salves,

Essential Oils, and more. Product Catalog $1. Workshops and Internships. www.monarda.net. (845) 688-2122. HOLISTIC CENTERS Annette’s Heart and Soul Holistic Center

Annette’s Heart and Soul is a non-profit, non-denominational ministry dedicated to helping you heal your heart and soul while enhancing your body. We have some of the most gifted spiritual counselors and body workers, who are fully trained in many areas. We offer fully accredited classes and much, much more. Twice a month we hold “Reunions,” getting in touch with those we have loved and lost. 500 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508. (845) 440-0724. HOLISTIC HEALTH Priscilla A. Bright, MA, Energy Healer/Counselor

Specializing in women’s stress, emotional issues, and physical illness, including stress-related anxiety, depression, and physical burnout. Women in transition, businesswomen, mothers, all welcome. Experienced counselor. Faculty, Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Convenient offices in Kingston & New Paltz. Initial phone consultation no charge. (845) 688-7175. Andrew Glick Certified Holistic Health Counselor Vegan Lifestyle Coach

The single most important step an individual can take to help save the planet’s precious resources, improve and protect one’s health, and to stop the senseless slaughter of over 50 billion animals a year...is to Go Vegan. What could make you feel better about yourself than knowing you are helping the planet, your own health, and the lives of countless animals all at the

same time? If the idea is haunting and seems undoable to you, then let your personal Vegan Lifestyle Coach take you through steps A to Z. Whether you’re a cattle rancher eating meat three times a day or a lacto-vegetarian wanting to give up dairy, it’s a process that can be fun, easy and meaningful. You can do it easily with the proper support, guidance and encouragement from your Vegan Lifestyle Coach. (845) 679-7979 andy@meatfreezone.org or www.meatfreezone.org. See display ad. John M. Carroll, Healer

John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor, who integrates mental imagery with the God-given gift of his hands. John has helped individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, including back problems and cancer. Remote healings and telephone sessions. Call for consultation. Kingston. (845) 338-8420. Spirittus Holistic Resource Center

See Workshops. HYPNOSIS One-Session Hypnosis with Frayda Kafka

Building on my success with smoking cessation in 1978, I have continued to help clients with weight loss, pain, childbirth, stress, insomnia, habits, phobias, confidence, and almost any behavior you can think of… Known for my easy, light manner and quick results, I have an intuitive knack for saying just the right thing at the right time so that a major shift can be initiated. Phone hypnosis, gift certificates, and groups are available. Please call me at (845) 336-4646. Offices in Kingston and Pleasant Valley. info@

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CallTheHypnotist.com or www.CallTheHypnotist.com. HYPNOTHERAPY Achieve Your Goals with Therapeutic Hypnosis Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt.

Increase self-esteem; break bad habits; manage stress; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, back pain); overcome fears and depression; relieve insomnia; improve study habits, public speaking, sports performance; heal through past-life journeys, other issues. Sliding scale. Certified Hypnotherapist and Counselor, two years training Therapeutic Hypnosis& Traditional Psychotherapeutic Techniques. (845)389-2302. New Paltz, Kingston. See also Psychotherapy. Kary Broffman, RN, CH

A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotherapy with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential. Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, Hyde Park. (845) 876-6753. INTEGRATED ENERGY THERAPY Integrated Energy Therapy

IET heals with the pure energy of SPIRIT and the gifts of the angels. Suppressed emotions, limiting beliefs, and past-life memories are cleared from the Energy Anatomy on a cellular level. Remember and LIVE the true expression of your soul’s purpose. Also combining Spiritual Guidance, IET, and Massage. 15 years experience. Dona Ho Lightsey, LMT, IET Master. New Paltz. www.learniet.com/dona_ho_ lightsey.asp. (845) 256-0443. INTERFAITH MINISTRIES Elizabeth Cunningham, MSC

See Counseling Services. Ione, Director, Ministry of Maat, Inc.

Spiritual and Educational organization with goals of fostering world community. (845) 339-5776. Reverend Kevin Kraft, Interfaith Minister

Sacred Intimate Joyful. “Honor

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Tradition and Have the Ceremony You Want.” Together we develop a meaningful ceremony that expresses who you are while considering sensitive concerns. Personal attention to details ensures your needs are thoughtfully addressed and creates a joyful ceremony expressing your vision completely. Weddings, Unions, Renewals, Rites of Passage, and Spiritual Counseling. Hudson Valley Interfaith Fellowship. 89 N. Front Street, Kingston. (845) 338-8313. E-mail: Kevin@spirittus.org. IRIDOLOGY Dr. Donald V. Bodeen

Iridology is the art and science of visually examining the iris of the eye to determine one’s inherent weaknesses and strengths, acute and chronic inflammations and more. We use the latest computer imaging technology enabling both doctor and client to view the iris on our monitor. We then suggest alternative therapies and nutritional information according to what the iris tells us. dr.bodeen@comcast.net. (845) 473-3276. JEWISH MYSTICISM/KABBALAH Chabad of Woodstock

Providing Jewish people from all backgrounds the opportunity to experience the depth and soul of the Jewish teachings and vibrant way of life. Offering Jewish resources, workshops, gatherings, and classes. Rabbi Yisroel Arye and Ilana Gootblatt, co-directors. (845) 679-6407. www.chabadof woodstock.com. JIN SHIN-JYUTSU Kenneth Davis, CPLT

See Psychotherapy. LYME DISEASE Lyme Disease Treatment

Get off antibiotics now! Colloidal silver is a natural, safe, and effective way to live symptom-free again. After 8 months on antibiotics for my Lyme, I went on silver and have been fine ever since. Guaranteed fresh and effective or money back. 16 oz. just $25. Call (845) 943-5985 to order. MARTIAL ARTS

Men, Women, Children (10+). All levels/styles (beginners welcome). Promote a positive attitude by learning to be selfconfident, aware and streetwise while developing coordination, improved physical fitness and discipline of the mind. Private/Small

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group instruction in your home by 6th degree blackbelt. Starting at $50/hr. (845) 255-4088, advancedfightingarts@verizon.net. MASSAGE THERAPY Joan Apter

Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes. Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter, CMT. (845) 679-0512. japter@ ulster.net. joanapter. younglivingworld.com. bodhi studio

See Bodywork. Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage

Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, specializes in Integrative Massage—incorporation of various healing modalities: Swedish, Myofascial Deep Tissue, Craniosacral, and stretching to facilitate the body’s healing process. A session may include all or just one modality. No fault accepted. Gift certificates available. By appointment only. 243 Main Street, Suite 220 New Paltz. (845) 255-4832. Shiatsu Massage Therapy

Leigh Scott is a licensed Shiatsu Massage Therapist with 20 years experience and a former teacher at the Ohashi Institute in New York City. Leigh uses her skills and knowledge of Shiatsu, as well as Reflexology and Polarity, to give a very satisfying hour-long massage. (845) 679-3012. MEDITATION Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch

See Yoga. Zen Mountain Monastery

Offering year-round retreats geared to all levels of experience: introductions to Zen meditation and practice; programs exploring Zen arts, Buddhist studies, and social action; and intensive meditation retreats. South Plank Road, Mt. Tremper. (845) 688-2228.

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MIDWIFERY Catskill Mountain Midwifery, Home Birth Services

Give birth as you wish, in an environment in which you feel nurtured and secure; where your emotional well-being, privacy, and personal preferences are respected. Be supported by a tradition that trusts the natural process. Excellent MD consult, hospital backup. (845) 687-BABY. Homebirth and Gynecology Practice of Judy Joffee, CNM

This practice offers a unique and exquisite opportunity for woman care in a powerfully compassionate and sacred manner. I offer complete prenatal care focused toward homebirth. For the nonpregnant woman, individualized gynecological care, counseling, and selfdetermination await you. No cost consultation. Also offering school, work, and general physicals for all ages. Call for no cost telephone consultation. (845) 255-2096. NATURAL FOODS Sunflower Natural Foods Market

At Sunflower we know the food we eat is our greatest source of health. Sunflower carries certified organic produce, milk, cheeses, and eggs; non-irradiated herbs and spices; clean, pure organic products to support a healthy lifestyle; large selection of homeopathic remedies. Sunflower Natural Foods is a complete natural foods market. Open 9am-9pm daily. 10am-7pm Sundays. Bradley Meadows Shopping Center, Woodstock. (845) 679-5361. NATURAL HEALING Suzanne Meszoly & Associates, Inc.

174 Palentown Rd, Kerhonkson, NY 12446. (845) 626-5666. NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE Naturopathic Medicine

Dr. Thomas J. Francescott, ND. Free Your Mind – Release Your Body – Energize Your Spirit! Solve health issues, enhance wellness, and gain awareness. Scientifically proven naturopathic solutions for challenging and/or chronic health concerns. I offer naturopathic expertise in a sacred space to help you feel better. Graduate of the prestigious Bastyr University. Call

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Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center: (845) 876-5556. www.drtomnd.com. NUTRITION Jill Malden, RD, CSW

Prominent Nutritionist specializing in eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level, cravings, concentration, energy level, and sleep, in addition to body weight. Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life! 199 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 489-4732. NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING Hopewell Nutrition Center

Are you doing the best you can for your body? Are you living the lifestyle that promotes optimal health? Are you ready to take charge of your nutritional health status? Our nutritionist team holds graduate degrees in human nutrition, and are New York State licensed and certified in nutrition. We offer comprehensive one-onone nutritional consultation that will assist you in weight management, heart disease, blood sugar disorders, chronic fatigue, eating disorders, cancer, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health and wellness, GI disorders, and other health issues. Hopewell Nutrition Center, 129 Clove Branch Road, Hopewell Junction, NY. Free consultations. (845) 223-5940. OSTEOPATHY Applied Osteopathy

Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO. Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We have studied with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO, and completed a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat newborns, children, and adults. 257 Main Street, New Paltz, (845) 256-9884. 138 Market Street, Rhinebeck, (845) 876-1700. By Appointment. For more info call or visit www.appliedosteopathy.com. PHYSICIANS Aruna Bakhru, MD,FACP

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fellow of the American College of Physicians. She also offers energy medicine by measuring the energy flow at the meridians. Herbal, homeopathic, nutritional, or flower remedies can be found, and tailor-made for your individual needs. It takes the guesswork out of spending hundreds of dollars at the health food store with out knowing if the product is helpful to you. Toxic emotions, thought patterns, chakra imbalances, dental issues can be identified and dealt with. Hidden toxins, energetic imprints of past infections, vaccinations, etc. can be uncovered. Poughkeepsie (845) 463-1044. Women Care Center

Empowerment through information. Located in Rhinebeck and Kingston. Massage and acupuncture available. Gynecology—treating our patients through the most up-to-date medical and surgical technologies available, combined with alternative therapies. Obstetrics—working with you to create the birth experience you desire. Many insurances accepted. Evening hours available. Rhinebeck (845)876-2496. Kingston (845) 338-5575. PSYCHOLOGISTS James Cancienne, PhD

Licensed Clinical Psychologist offering adult psychotherapy and couples counseling. Jungian-based psychotherapy for people in crisis, those with ongoing mental health difficulties, and those wishing to expand their personality and gain greater satisfaction from their relationships and work. Some insurance accepted and sliding scale. Hudson. (518) 828-2528.

Carla J. Mazzeo, PhD

Licensed Clinical Psychologist offering psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescents and adults. I have experience working with trauma, mood disturbances, sexual assault, depression, anxiety, grief/bereavement, eating/body image difficulties, alcohol/substance concerns, teenage problems, relationship difficulties, sexuality issues, or general self-exploration. Dream work also available. New Paltz location. (845) 255-2259. Reduced fee for initial consultation. Mark L. Parisi, PhD

Licensed psychologist. Offering individual psychotherapy for adults. Specializing in gay men’s issues, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, adjustment, issues related to aging, disordered eating, body image, sexual identity, and personal growth. Medicare and some insurance accepted. 52 South Manheim Boulevard, New Paltz. (845) 255-2259. Jonathan D. Raskin, PhD

Licensed psychologist. Insightoriented, meaning-based, problem-focused, person-centered psychotherapy for adults and adolescents facing problems including, but not limited to, self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, life transitions, family issues, career concerns, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and bereavement. 199 Main Street, New Paltz. Free initial consultation. Sliding scale. (845) 257-3471. PSYCHOTHERAPY Kent Babcock, MSW, CSW Counseling & Psychotherapy

Development of solutions through simple self-observa-

tion, reflection, and conversation. Short- or long-term work around difficult relationships; life or career transitions; ethical, spiritual, or psychic dilemmas; and creative blocks. Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy. Sliding scale. Offices in Woodstock and Uptown Kingston. (845) 679-5511 x4. Heather Bergen, LMSW

Holistic, heart-centered psychotherapy for adults, adolescents, and children. Healing process through dreamwork, art therapy, play therapy (for children), and spirituality by connecting to inner wisdom and highest self. Specializing in women’s issues. Alternatives Health Center of Tivoli. Specializing in work with women. Kingston, New York (845) 220-8602. Judith Blackstone, MA

Subtle Self Work is a transformative practice integrating nondual spiritual realization, psychological healing, and awakening the energy/light body. Private sessions for individuals and couples, weekly classes, monthly meditation retreats, teacher/certification trainings. Judith Blackstone, MA, author of The Enlightenment Process and Living Intimately, director of Realization Center, Woodstock. www.RealizationCenter.com. (845) 679-7005. Debra Budnik, CSW-R

Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most

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insurances accepted, including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY. (845) 255-4218. Deep Clay Art and Therapy

Deep Clay with Michelle Rhodes ATR-BC, LMSW. Individual, couple, parent and child, and group arts-based psychotherapy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dreamfiguresâ&#x20AC;? Clay Psychotherapy group for women. Expressive clay group and individual sessions for children and teens. A unique, creative, and grounding approach for crisis management, transitions, and deep healing. Sessions in Gardiner and NYC. (845) 417-1369. deepclay@mac.com. Peter M. del Rosario, PhD

Licensed psychologist. Insightoriented, culturally sensitive psychotherapy for adults and adolescents concerned with: relationship difficulties, codependency, depression, anxiety, sexual/physical trauma, grief and bereavement, eating disorders, dealing with divorce, gay/lesbian issues. 199 Main Street, New Paltz. Free initial consult. Sliding scale. (914) 262-8595. Rachael Diamond, CSW,CHt

Holistically-oriented therapist offering counseling, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy. Specializing in issues pertaining to relationships, personal growth, life transitions, alternative lifestyles, childhood abuse, codependency, addiction, recovery illness, and grief. Some insurance accepted. Office convenient to New Paltz and surrounding areas. (845) 883-9642. Eidetic Image Therapy

A fast moving, positive psychotherapy that gets to problem areas quickly and creates change by using eidetic (eye-DET-ic) images to promote insight and growth. The eidetic is a bright, lively picture seen in the mind like a movie or filmstrip. It is unique in its ability to reproduce important life events in exact detail, revealing both the cause and solution of problem areas. Dr. Toni Nixon, EdD, director. Port Ewen. (845) 339-1684.

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Amy R. Frisch, CSWR

Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls, and The Healing Circle: an adult bereavement group offering a safe place to begin the healing process after the death of a loved one. Most insurances accepted. Located in New Paltz. (914) 706-0229. Irene Humbach, CSW, CBT

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expressive movement classes. New Paltz. (845) 255-9717. lidesign@earthlink.net. Dr. Nancy Rowe, PhD, CET Heart Centered Counseling & Expressive Arts Therapy

Emotional healing for children and adults using talk, imagery, sandplay, expressive arts, and/or movement. Background in transpersonal psychology, play therapy, family therapy, spiritual guidance, authentic movement, and expressive arts therapy. Offices in Woodstock and Kingston. Call Nancy, (845) 679-4827. www.wisdomheart.com.

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Author and psychotherapist: Qigong, Meditation, Hypnotherapy, and Dreams. Specializing in the creative process. Healing retreats, Local and Worldwide. (845) 339-5776. Elise Lark, LMSW, LMT Acorn Hill Healing Arts

Soul Expressions utilizes bodycentered dialogue, touch, spontaneous self-expression, dreams, and self-awareness practice to explore bodymind symptoms and psychospiritual issues, and to access healing resources within. LGBT Guided Meditation, Trauma Recovery, and Women’s Groups; Traditional Sweat Lodges. Olivebridge (845) 657-2516. Adele Marcus, LCSW-R, ACHT

Life Design: Creative Healing. Heart/Body/Mind-centered psychotherapy. Gestalt, Hypnotherapy, Expressive Arts. Fifteen years experience working with adults/youth, families, and groups; anxiety/fear, depression, abuse/trauma, addictions, grief, spirituality. Honoring the Soul women’s group/workshops;

Change Your Outlook, Heal, and Grow Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt.

With combination of “talk” therapy for self-knowledge and hypnotherapy to transform negative, self-defeating thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Faster symptom relief. Feel better and make healthier choices. Sliding scale, Certified Hypnotherapist and Counselor. (845) 389-2302. New Paltz, Kingston. See also Hypnotherapy. Richard Smith, CSW-R, CASAC

Potential-Centered Therapy (PCT) alters thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that block growth. A psycho-dynamic approach incorporating NLP, EMDR, and hypnosis, PCT resolves addictions, trauma, limiting beliefs, and destructive behaviors. Twenty years experience and a gentle spirit guide you through an accelerated process of profound healing. Gardiner. (845) 256-6456. richard smithcsw@earthlink.net.

Judy Swallow, MA, TEP

Integrative body/mind therapist using Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama in her work with individuals, couples, groups, and families. Inquire for workshops and training, as well as therapy. New Paltz. (845) 255-5613. Wellspring

Evolutionary coaching using movement and breath to access and clear lifelong patterns and transform relationships. Rodney and Sandra Wells, certified by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks. (845) 534-7668. Julie Zweig, MA

New Paltz, New York 12561. jzweig@earthlink.net or call (845) 255-3566. REBIRTHING Susan DeStefano

Heart-centered therapy for healing the body, mind, and emotions. Improve relationships, release the past, heal the inner child through personal empowerment. (845) 255-6482. SCHOOLS & TRAINING Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

ITP is an accredited graduate psychology school offering clinical and nonclinical certificates, MA and PhD degrees. The curriculum combines mind, body, and spiritual inquiry with scholarly research and self discovery. Graduates have strong clinical skills and can communicate in a variety of complex relational circumstances. (650) 493-4430. itpinfo@itp.edu. www.itp.edu. SHIATSU Leigh Scott

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SPAS & RESORTS Emerson Place

This extraordinary, historic property has been beautifully transformed into an oasis for connoisseurs of fine living. The Asian-inspired spa immerses you in a world of personally tailored therapies and stressrecovery programs. The spa offers more than 40 personalized services for men and women by European-trained therapists, including an array of Ayurvedic Rituals, Vichy shower, Oxygen Facials, Aromatherapy Massage, Hot Stone Therapy, and Detoxifying Algae Wraps. (845) 688-7900 or www.emersonplace.com. Jenkinstown Day Spa

45 Jenkinstown Road, New Paltz, NY 12561. (845) 255-3160. SPIRITUAL Bioenergetics/Hands-On Healing, Irene Humbach, CSW, CBT

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Egyptian Mysteries, Scarab Teachings™, Journeys to Sacred Sites. (845) 339-5776. New York Region Pathwork

The Pathwork is a way of life, a community of seekers, a school, and a philosophy. It is based in a profound set of teachings channeled over a 30-year period by Eva Pierrakos that show a way to live in this world with complete inner freedom and happiness. Learn more at Pathworkny.org, or (845) 688-2211.

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Shakra Center for Humane Development

Our practitioners support individuals and communities on paths to enlightenment using different modalities. Transformational healing increases when we embody enough light that we feel safe to explore our shadows with an open heart. Please visit our website at www.shakracenter.com. Now excepting applications for the 2005 Mystic Apprentice Program. PO Box 747, Woodstock NY 12498. (845) 679-4553. Spirittus Holistic Resource Center

See Workshops. THERAPY Toni D. Nixon, EdD Therapist and Buddhist Practitioner

Offering a unique combination of techniques that integrate therapeutic goals & spiritual practice. The basic principles of Buddhism and psychotherapy are concerned with the goal of ending human suffering. Both paths to liberation are through greater self-awareness, a broader view of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, the realization of the possibility of freedom, and finding the means to achieve it. In essence, effective psychotherapy moves toward liberation, and Buddhist practice is therapeutic in nature. Eidetic Image therapy is a unique and powerful method that encourages the liberation of the mind and spirit from obstacles that block the way to inner peace. Specializing in life improvement skills, habit cessation, career issues, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues, & blocked creativity. By phone, online, and in person. (845) 339-1684. www.eidetictherapy.com. VEGAN LIFESTYLES Healthy Gourmet To Go

Try our colossal coconut macaroons dipped in dark chocolate or our delectable pan-seared cornmeal crusted homemade seitan cutlets over rosemary smashed potatoes with mushroom gravy. From old-fashioned home cooking with a new healthful twist to live/raw foods and macrobiotics, HGTG has dishes to please every palate. Weekly Meal Delivery right to your door. Organic, vegan, kosher. Baby Registry. Gift Certificates. Catering. www.carrottalk.com. (845) 339-7171. 7/05

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WEDDINGS & COUNSELING Reverend Kevin Kraft, Interfaith Minister

See Interfaith Ministries. WORKSHOPS Back to Basics at “The Barn”

Life Transformational Metaphysical Workshop Series begins August 5 in Gardener. Set in idyllic location - 130year old renovated barn abutting Shawangunk Mountains, Author, Hand Analyst/Life Coach shares joyous process of Evolving Consciously. Discover your Life Purpose/Life Lesson through your unchangeable Soul Goal hidden in your unique fingerprint patterns! To register for this workshop, call (845) 256-1294 or visit our website at www.terrasoleil.com/workshops. Spirittus Holistic Resource Center

The Spirittus Holistic Resource Center is a healing environment where people gather to explore Spirituality, Health, and Holistic Living. Each month we host 25 + workshops. Weekly meditation, monthly Nutrition, Astrology, and Reiki Study groups. We have a private healing room offering Reiki, Counseling, Hypnotherapy, and CranioSacral Therapy. We provide access to a holistic library, holistic referral network, and the holistic gift shop. 89 N. Front St, Kingston. www.spirittus.org. (845) 338-8313. Kevin@ spirittus.org. StoneWater Sanctuary

See Holistic Wellness Centers. WOMEN’S GROUPS Honoring the Soul with Adele Marcus, LCSW-R, ACHT

See Psychotherapy. WOMEN’S HEALTH Women’s Health & Fitness Expo

womensexpo@hotmail.com. (845) 338-7140. YOGA Jai Ma Yoga Center

Offering a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week, from Gentle/Restorative Yoga to Advanced. Meditation classes free to all enrolled. Chanting Friday evenings. New expanded studio space. Private consultations and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

sessions available. Gina Bassinette, RYT & Ami Hirschstein, RYT, Owners. New Paltz. (845) 256-0465. The Living Seed

Sivananda Yoga offered five days a week. Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize–Sivananda. 521 Main Street (Rte. 299, across from Econo Lodge), New Paltz. (845) 255-8212. Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center

Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center is located in the heart of Rhinebeck village, on the third floor of the Rhinebeck Department Store building. We offer classes for all levels, 7 days a week. There is no need to pre-register: we invite you to just show up. For more information, visit www.hudson valleyyoga.com or call (845) 876-2528 Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch

77 acres of rolling hills and woodlands. Breathtaking views, hiking, and cross-country ski trails, organic garden, swimming pond, and sauna. Daily Sivananda Ashram Schedule of Yoga Asanas, Pranayama, and Meditation. Year-round Yoga vacations. Weekend Workshops on health, Yoga, and meditation. Karma Yoga residential programs. Yoga Teachers Training, September 7-October 5. Founded in 1974 by Swami Vishnu-Devananda. Woodbourne, NY. (845) 4366492. YogaRanch@Sivananda.org or www.sivananda.org/ ranch.htm. Yoga on Duck Pond

Grounded in the alignment of the inner and outer body, yoga can reduce your stress, reshape your body, recharge your mind. “Working with Donna is a spiritual and physical adventure for me. I experience a renewed sense of well-being, increased mobility, clarity of mind, and a natural diet adjustment. She is helping me change my life.” –Carlo Travaglia, sculptor. Donna Nisha Cohen, director and certified instructor, over 20 years experience. Stone Ridge. Classes Sunday through Friday. Call for times, and information on pre-natal and private sessions. (845) 687-4836. 7/05

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MID-HUDSON EVENT LISTINGS FOR JULY 2005 JULY 8-10 Mid-Hudson Balloon Festival

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17 brightly-colored hot air balloons will be launched from three different locations during the three-day event. Evening launches at Waryas Park at the Poughkeepsie waterfront and the Sprout Creek Farm in the Town of Poughkeepsie will begin at 6pm on Friday. Morning launches from Sprout Creek start at 6am on Saturday and Sunday. Waryas Park will be the site of a carnival featuring live music, food and games Thursday evening through Sunday. Fireworks scheduled for Saturday night. (845) 4541700. www.pokchamb.org.

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JULY 8-10 ABOARD THE LOIS MCCLURE, AN

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88-FOOT REPLICA OF AN 1862-CLASS CANAL SCHOONER

SAILING BACK IN TIME

eed to get a mountain of stuff to Manhattan? Today, you could drive down the Thruway and be there in a couple of hours. But tooling down the Hudson on a wind-powered boat loaded with bricks or coal in the mid-1800s could taken anywhere from three to five days. If you’ve ever been curious about the sailing vessels that dominated commercial traffic before railroads and tractor-trailers, a chance to experience what it was like to walk the decks and look over the bow into the horizon is coming soon to a waterfront near you. As part of its “Green Mountains to Manhattan Grand Journey Tour,” the Lois McClure, an 88-foot replica of an 1862-class canal schooner, will be docking in Kingston, Poughkeepsie, and Newburgh this month. As part of a collaboration with the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (which is located on the Vermont side of one of New York’s great lakes), the tour was designed to help educate the public about the big boats that sailed through the Lake Champlain Northern Canal and into the Hudson River over 100 years ago. Completed in 1823, the canal connected Lake Champlain to the Hudson, opening a new commercial trade highway to New York City and booming the state’s industry in the process. The Hudson River Maritime Museum on Rondout Creek in Kingston will be the schooner’s first port of call as it retraces the historic route down the Hudson River corridor. The museum will host tours of the schooner as well as a photo exhibit detailing how it was built. Representatives from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum will be on board to guide visitors through the vessel, answer questions, and point out some of the schooner’s more unique features. Other activities on the water include boat tours of the Rondout Lighthouse by Mid-Hudson Estuarine Services. On land, book signings and lectures about canal boats plus live blues by the Ian Bennet Band will happen throughout the weekend. “Part of our mission is to bring community events to the Hudson River Valley,” says HRMM Chief Operations Officer Carol Osler “The focus is to create a family event—the kind that will make you want to spend all day or weekend with us, not just a few hours.” The interconnection between Hudson River Valley communities seemingly evaporated when seafaring took a backseat to the railroad as the major method of transporting goods. “But,” says Corinna Sutherland-Roth, museum membership and public relations manager “this is making history by reconnecting those links.” —Felicia Hodges THE HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM, 50 RONDOUT LANDING, KINGSTON, WILL BE THE FIRST PORT OF CALL FOR THE LOIS MCCLURE. TOURS FOR THE VESSEL WILL BEGIN AT 5PM ON FRIDAY JULY 15 AND CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY JULY 18. THE SCHOONER WILL ALSO DOCK IN POUGHKEEPSIE FROM JULY 21 THROUGH JULY 24 AND NEWBURGH FROM JULY 28 THROUGH JULY 31. (845) 338-0071; ULSTER.NET/~HRMM.

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Mountain Culture Festival Celebrated the second weekend in July each year since 2000, the festival encompasses the Catskill Region Fine Crafts Fair (featuring the work of local artisans, farm exhibits, and animals), the Great Catskill Mountain Quilt Show (regionally made Mohawk and Seneca Nation quilts), and the Music Festival (where The Dixie Hummingbirds and other Catskill-area musicians will perform Saturday and Sunday from 12-6pm). Mountainfilm on Tour begins Friday at 7:30pm in the Catskill Mountain Foundation Movie Theater where 18 films celebrating mountain life will be screened each night throughout the festival. Rain or shine. $8 adults/$1 kids. Admission to film festival is $7.50/$1 seniors and kids on Friday and free with festival admission for the rest of the weekend. Catskill Mountain Foundation, Village of Hunter. (518) 236-4908. catskillmtn.org.

JULY 8-17 The Great Hudson River Paddle Designed to help celebrate the Hudson River Greenway Trail and improve public access to the river, the event gives novice and experienced

ticker paddlers a chance to enjoy the waterway via kayak. The roster for 150-mile paddle from Albany to Manhattan is full, but you can paddle area river runs between Saugerties and Cold Spring from July 11-July 13, and festivals with free kayaking tours and lessons, information booths, local food and drink, arts and craft, activities for kids and environmental education programs at the Rondout Waterfront in Kingston (July 10; 2-6pm) and Waryas Park in Poughkeepsie (July 12; 10am2pm) for those who would rather watch from the shore. hrwa.org.

JULY 9 Rondout Valley Growers Association Wine Tasting and Dinner Stone Ridge Orchard hosts the association’s second annual dinner featuring a menu created by area chefs— including French Corner’s Jacque Qualin, Northern Spy’s Tim Celuch, the Inn at Stone Ridge’s Suzanne Hauspurg and the Depuy Canal House’s John Novi—using locally grown farm products. Each course is served with wines from Stone Ridge Wine & Spirits, and proceeds help support Rondout Valley farms and farmers. 6pm. $50 for members and supports, $60 for non-members. Stone Ridge Orchard, Stone Ridge. (845) 626-7919. rondoutvalleygrowers.org.

JULY 16 Purnama Sari Balinese Dance Company Balinese dance was created as an offering to the Gods and Goddesses of Bali, and believed to be a medium for traveling between the physical world (Sekala) and the spiritual world (Niskala). The company will present a classic court dance, mask dances, and more recent choreographies—each of which will be complemented with a talk on Balinese culture and spirituality. 8pm. $10 /$7 students Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. (845) 679-0901.

Art Galleries ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART 125 Washington Avenue, Albany. (518) 463-4478. “Albany and Troy Arts and Craft: 1907-1918.” Through August 31.

CHTHONIC CLASH COFFEE HOUSE 420 Main Street, Beacon 831-0359 “Works by Donna Marie Fischer” Photography. Through July 22

“Remembrandt and Titus, Father and Son.” Paintings by Thomas Locker. Through August 14.

CLARK ART INSTITUTE 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-2303.

“Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region.” Through September 4.

“Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile.” Exploring his post-Revolutionary years. Through September 5.

ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. “Contemporary Erotic Drawing.” Through August 7. “Emil Lukas: Connection to the Curious.” “Sarah Morris: Los Angeles.” July 10-October 9. “Fred Wilson: Black Like Me.”. “Lisa Sigal: A House of Many Mansions.” July 10-January 8. Opening Sunday, July 10, 3-6pm.

ART GALLERY AT ROCKEFELLER STATE PARK PRESERVE Route 117, Mount Pleasant. (914) 631-1470 ext. 12. “Photographs by Elinor Stecker-Orel and Linda Tommasulo.” Through July 27.

AWAKE GALLERY 10 Down Street, Kingston. 532-2448. “Chasing the Virgin in a Land Obsessed with Ham: Semana Santa in Spain.” Photographs by F-Stop Fitzgerald. Through July 9.

BACKSTAGE STUDIO 323 Wall Street, Kingston. 338-8700. “Kabbalah Art from Jerusalem.” Oil Paintings, serigraphs and prints by Dove Lederberg, Yael Avi-Yonah and Michael Avi-Yonah. Through July 31.

BAU 161 Main Street, Beacon. 591-2331. “Amalgam.” New work by Chris Albert. Through July 3.

BEACON FIREHOUSE GALLERY 162 Main Street, Beacon. 679-8825. “Nature Photography.” By Zen Master John Daido Loori. July 1-September 10.

BONNIE ANDRETTA FINE ART 415 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 828-1024. “Contemporary Landscapes.” Len Tantillo, James Gurney, James Cramer and Thomas Locker. Through August 31.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. “Group Show.” Photography, still life, abstracts and interiors. Through July 3. “3 Solo Exhibits.” Mark Beard, Harry Orlyk, and Dale Payson. July 7-August 14. Opening Saturday, July 9, 6-8pm.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 679-9957 “Play.” Group exhibition of work by eight photographers. Through August 21.

COFFEY GALLERY 330 Wall Street, Kingston. 339-6105. “Meyer Lieberman and Sharon Broit: Paintings and Prints.” July 2-July 31. Opening Saturday, July 2, 5-7pm.

D&H CANAL MUSEUM 23 Mohonk Road, High Falls. 687-9311. “Photography Exhibit.” Photographs of home and abroad. Through July 20.

DEBORAH DAVIS FINE ART 345 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 822-1890. “David Schneuer.” Expressionist paintings celebrating the artist’s 100 birthday. Through December 31.

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DIA 3 Beekman Street, Beacon. 440-0100. “Dia’s Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage.” Works by Andy Warhol. “In and Out of Place: Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol.” Includes images of works by Andy Warhol. “Vera Lutter: Nabisco Factory, Beacon.” 4 large scale pinhole photographs of the factory. Through April 10, 2006. “Agnes Martin’s Early Paintings 1957-67.” Through December 1. “Dia’s Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage.” Through April 1, 2006.

DOG HOUSE GALLERY 429 Phillips Road, Saugerties. 246-0402. “Cocktails with Ed Berkise.” July 23-August 21. Opening Saturday, July 23, 4-6pm.

DYE WORKS GALLERY Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, 55 West Railraod, Garnerville. (914) 844-6515. “Via:Beacon at GAGA.” Works by several Beacon artists. Through July 3.

EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY 348 Route 376, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943. “Watercolors and Oils by Marie Solis.” Through July 13.

ELISA PRITZKER STUDIO & GALLERY 257 South Riverside Road, Highland. 691-5506. “Old & New Friends.” Group Exhibit. Through July 30.

EVERETT & TREADWELL BUILDING 15 Canfield Street, Kingston. 339-2039. “Recent Paintings.” Susan Foss. July 2-August 10. Opening Saturday, July 2, 6-9pm.

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“The Number Series.” Paintings by abstract artist Myron Polenberg. July 23-August 20.

“Possessions.” Paintings and mixed media works by Nikki Peone, Christina Varga, Jaisy Hanlon and Nicole Blau. July 2-July 31.

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Opening Saturday, July 2, 5-10pm.

FENIMORE ART MUSEUM Route 80, Lake Road, Cooperstown. (888) 547-1450. “Eugene & Claire Thaw Collection of American Indian Art.” Through December 31.

FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

JAMES COX GALLERY 4666 Route 212, Willow. 679-7608. “Carved Devotion.” Carver Thomas Penning. Through July 31.

JAMES DOUGLAS GALLERY 22 Railroad Avenue, Montgomery. 978-1371.

GALERIE BMG 12 Tannery Brook Road, Woodstock. 679-0027.

“From the Sublime to the Sub-Sahara.” Photographs by Jeanette Stollar and Adam Pass. July 1-August 28.

“Group Exhibition.” Encaustic Photographs by Jeri Eisenberg, Leah MacDonald & Fawn Potash. July 1-August 1.

Reception Saturday, July 2, 3-6pm.

GALLERY 25N 25 North Division Street, Peekskill. (914) 293-0811. “Notions.” Acrylics on black paper by Koki Doktori. Through July 17.

GALLERY 81 Intersection of Routes 81 and 32, Greenville. (518) 966-4038.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 94 Broadway, Newburgh. 569-4997. “Two Visions.” Innovative fiber art by Ronnie Brown and Paula Pearl. July 1-August 31. Reception Sunday, July 10, 2-5pm.

KIESENDAHL+CALHOUN ART GALLERY 192 Main Street, Beacon. 838-1177.

“Nature Magnified.” Drawings from nature by Soly Zwick. Through July 2.

“The Sum of Parts.” Sequential Photography by Simo Neri. Through August 1.

GALLERY AT DEEP LISTENING SPACE 75 Broadway, Kingston. 338-5984.

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 679-3480.

“Universal Portraits.” Paintings by Sadee Brathwaite. Through July 30.

GALLERY AT R & F 506 Broadway, Kingston. 331-3112.

“B-5 Exhibit: Five Artists From Beacon.” Through August 7.

LUCINDA KNAUS FINE ART 3667 Route 212, Shady. 679-4758.

“Spatial Boundaries.” Paper and wax works by Lori Brown. Through July 30.

“Where Next?” Watercolor paintings on the road from around the world by Lucinda Knaus. Through July 23.

GARRISON ART CENTER 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison. 424-3960.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz. 255-1241.

“Carlos H. Uribe and Maria Malero.” Through July 3.

GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 Main Street, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. “Cloudscapes.” Susan Miller solo Exhibit. Through August 6.

GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY Main Street, Windham. (518) 734-3104. “Journeys in Clay V.” Through July 31.

HALF MOON GALLERY 18 Market Street, Saugerties. 246-9114. “Half Moon in June.” Recent works by Nancy Campbell, Angela Gaffney-Smith, Michelle Moran, Jacquie Roland and Lora Shelley. Through September 11.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

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“Jim Dine Prints: 1985-2002.” July 16 -Sept 11.

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HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 Main Street, Peekskill. (914) 788-7166.

“Eat Me.” Pictures of food. Through June 1. “Exhibition by Hardie Truesdale.” Photos from Adirondack High-Images of America’s 1st Wilderness. Through July 20.

MAXWELL FINE ARTS, INC. 1204 Main Street, Peekskill. (914) 737-8622. “Boxes and Foxes.” Jo-Ann Brody and Keiko Ikoma. Through August 9.

ticker JULY 17 Maverick Concert Series The Miami String Quartet, featuring pianist Lydia Arlymi, will perform selections from Shulman, Beethoven, and Dohnanyl as part of an ongoing summer concert series at the outdoor music venue in the woods. Twentyone concerts (including four Saturday morning “Young People’s Concerts”) will held there this season—Maevrick’s 90th—making it the oldest continuous summer chamber music series in the US. 3pm. $20/$5 for students. Maverick Concert Music Chapel, Woodstock. (845) 679-8217. maverickconcerts.org.

JULY 16, 17, & 22 “We Will Not Be Disappeared” Film Series Four movies document social and political issues in the US and abroad. Brothers and Others (Saturday, 5:30pm) examines the racial profiling of Muslims, thousands of whom have been detained and deported from the states. Señorita Extraviada: Missing Young Women (Saturday, 7: 30pm) talks to the families of some of the 350 women who have been kidnapped, raped, and murdered in Juarez, Mexico. Civil Rights and Wrongs (Sunday, 7:30pm) tells the story of Japanese-American Fred Korematsu’s resistance of forced interment during WWII. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (Friday, 7: 30pm) explores the media coverage of Iraq’s disappearing WMD. $6/$4 for students and members. Time & Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 8228448.

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MODO GALLERY 506 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 828-5090.

Columbia Berkshire Crafts Guild Open Studio Tour

“Couter/Cultured Pop Icons, Urban Landscapes, Skateboards & Gas Masks.” Group exhibition. July 30-September 3.

Billed as a treasure hunt with an arts theme, 23 artists will show their work at 15 different studios in Columbia, Berkshire, and Rensselaer counties. The public is invited to stop into the studio locations to view the pieces and talk to the artists before moving onto the

Opening Saturday, July 30, 6-8pm.

MORGAN LEHMAN GALLERY 24 Sharon Road, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-0898. “numeralisms.” Collages by Suzi Matthews. Through July 31.

“Night is a House.” Trent Miller works that explore the spaces between dreams and waking.

“Vanitas.” Works on Plexiglas by Jeff Perrott. Through July 31.

“Night is a House.” Paintings and drawings by Trent Miller. Through July 16.

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JULY 25-29 Brush & Sword Calligraphy and Aikido Retreat A five-day workshop that combines calligraphy and aikido to explore the interplay between the meditative mind and the body’s wisdom with Barbara Bash and Bob Wing. Participants make their own horsehair brushes and will investigate the use of physical movement disciplines as a springboard for the creative process. $625 for workshop, lodging and meals, $385 for basic workshop (plus $30 materials fee). Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. (845) 658-8556. sky-lake.org.

JULY 29 Young, Jewish, and Left Segments of the as-yetunfinished film by Konnie Chameides of Elizaville and SUNY New Paltz graduate Irit Reinheimer documenting marginalized activists working for social change will be screened between live music sets by Aquabird, Guitars and Hearts, and Michael Truckpile. The screening will benefit completion of the film. 8pm. $5 to $20 sliding fee scale includes food and beverages. 3rd Floor Underground (3FU), Kingston. (845) 756-3065. 3fu.org.

THROUGH AUGUST 7 The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography An exhibition of photographs examining what photography really means now that we’ve entered the digital age. More than 135 works featured, including photos by William Wegman, Doug and Mike Starn, Tina Barney, Edward Weston, W. Eugene Smith and others. Curated by SUNY New Paltz instructor and Chronogram art critic Beth E. Wilson. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz. (845) 257-3844. newpaltz.edu/museum.

NO-SPACE 449 Main Street, Rosendale. 658-9709.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 Broadway, Tivoli. 757-2667.

“Trimmed Fat.” Megan Irving. Through July 7.

“Fire Works, Taming the Flame.” Group show in multiple media. July 1-July 24.

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-4100. “The Art of the New Yorker: 80 Years in the Vanguard.” Through October 31.

NORTH POINTE CULTURAL CENTER 62 Chatham Street, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. “Mark & Vincent Pomilio.” Mixed media paintings, some based on scientific literature. “Paintings by Vincent & Mark Pomilio.” Through July 1.

PENDULUM GALLERY 230 Partition Street, Saugerties. 246-6791. “A Shade Darker.” New works by Kathy Ruttenberg. Opening Saturday July 9, 6-8pm.

DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY New Paltz. 257-3880. “Recycled, Revisited.” July 1-September 18. “The Maverick Festival: An Exhibition on the Centennial of the Maverick Art Colony.” Through August 28. “The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography.” July 1-August 7. Opening Friday, July 1, 6-8pm.

“Potter Susan Kotulak.” July 1-July 24.

Opening Saturday, July 2, 6-8pm.

20TH CENTURY GALLERY 605 Warren Street, Hudson. (518)-8907. “20th Century Contemporaries” Through July 31.

UBS/BARD COLLEGE EXHIBITION CENTER 7401 South Broadway, Red Hook. 758-7483.

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“Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Thesis Exhibition.” July 10-July 15.

VAN BRUNT GALLERY 460 Main Street, Beacon. 838-2995. “Thomas Huber.” Paintings and works on paper. Through July 3. “Group Show of Digital Art.” July 9-August 1. Opening Saturday July 9, 6-9pm.

VAULT GALLERY 322 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-0221. “Works by Leonard Baskin.” July 1-July 31.

WEBER FINE ART 8 Park Row, Chatham. (518)392-5335. “Floating Dreams & Flying Machines.” Paintings by David Konigsberg and mixed media constructions by David Barnett. Through July 31.

WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE GALLERY 27 North Division Street, Peekskill. 734-2367. “Sense of Self, Artists Revealed Through Self Portrait.” Through July 29.

WHITECLIFF VINEYARD GALLERY 331 McKinstry Road, Gardiner. 255-4613. SHAKER MUSEUM & LIBRARY 88 Shaker Museum Road, Old Chatham. (518) 794-9100. “Notable Neighbors: The Shaker Legacy in Columbia County.” Through October 31.

SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY 790 Route 203, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. “Works in Clay.” Ceramic pieces. July 2-August 14. Opening Saturday, July 2, 4-6pm.

STORM KING ART CENTER Old Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville. 534-3115. “Richard Bellany and Mark di Suervo.” Through November 13.

STRAY DOGS GALLERY 206 Main St, Pok (845) 473-2076

“Vineyard, Valleys, and Views.” Works by Martinez, Richichi, Zukowski. Through August 21.

WILDERSTEIN HISTORIC SITE 330 Morton Road, Rhinebeck. 876-4818. “Hudson River Art at Wilderstein.” Exhibition. July 23-August 14. Opening Saturday, July 23, 4:30pm.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS’ ASSOCIATION 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock. 679-2940. “The Art & Career of Carl Eric Lindin.” Through July 31.

YELLOW BIRD GALLERY 19 Front Street, Newburgh. 561-7204. “Exhibition by Michael Steiner.” Through September 5.

“Recent paintings.” Rebecca Zilinski Through July 12..

“Sculpture in Stone and Bronze by Bradford Graves” Through September 5.

THE PEARL 3588 Main Street, Stone Ridge. 687-0888.

ZAHRA STUDIO 496 Main Street, Beacon. 838-6311.

“Celebrate Cuba.” Art and Views of Cuba. Through July 10.

“Attraction Repulsion.” Works by Melissa Murray. Through July 24.

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have a romance with my life as an artist,” admits Jim Dine. He knew he was destined for this career since age two. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1935, Dine frequented the print collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum throughout his adolescent years. Both his father and grandfather owned hardware stores, and a fascination with tools appears early in his work. Soon after Dine graduated from Ohio University in Athens, he moved to New York City. There, he created Happenings, with Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, at the Judson Gallery in 1959. These were spontaneous events combining theater, environmental sculpture, and Dadaism. In his early work, Dine affixed tools, rope, neckties, shoes, and even a bathroom sink to his canvases. Jim Dine Prints: 1985-2002 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College focuses on Dine’s work since he turned 50 in 1985. Since the beginning of his career, Dine has painted, drawn, and made prints. The works in this show have a painterly feel. Dine calls himself a “messy expressionist.” “For instance, for The Carborundum Robe, he took a powdered grinding material called carborundum, mixed it into a liquid, then brushed it on—so there is this really sweeping, fluid quality, rather than the flat contour line quality you see so often in the ’60s,” explains Patricia Phagan, curator of prints and drawings for the Art Center. None of the prints are transcriptions of drawings; they are rather interactions between the artist, material, and printmaker. (Dine always works with a professional printmaker.) Over the years, he has often returned to motifs, sometimes using the same woodblock or plate, but modifying it, or coloring it anew. Some of Dine’s prints combine various processes. The largest print in the exhibition, Youth and the Maiden (1988), for example, which is approximately 6 1/2 by 11 1/2 feet, employs woodcut, heliorelief, etching, and drypoint. It’s a triptych, and hand-colored. One recurrent subject is bathrobes. Dine first saw a drawing of a bathrobe in a New York Times Magazine advertisement in 1964, and appropriated it. He said that he considered the empty bathrobe a self-portrait. Over the years, Dine has often returned to this image. A bathrobe has many connotations: luxury, pathos, illness, leisure. In all cases, it is the garment closest to nakedness. “I’ve designed one of the galleries to hold five of these large bathrobe prints. They’re very tall, about five feet, so they do have this confrontational air about them,” says Phagan. This is the first room you enter in the gallery. Dine in Black Grease, a turbulent self-portrait from 2000, shares the room. The show is organized by motifs: hearts, flowers, bathrobes, birds (crows, ravens, and owls), skulls, and images of Venus de Milo, with self-portraits scattered throughout. Four Jim Dine prints from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center collection accompany the traveling exhibition on its stop in Poughkeepsie. —Sparrow

“JIM DINE PRINTS: 1985-2002” WILL BE ON VIEW AT THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE JULY 16-SEPTEMBER 11. ADMISSION IS FREE. (845) 437-5632; FLLAC.VASSAR.EDU.

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Calendar FRIDAY 1 JULY ART 1st Fridays in Peekskill 5-8pm. Art galleries open late, music. Peekskill. (914) 734-2367. Recycled, Revisited The Material Image: Surface & Substance in Photography. The Maverick Festival: An Exhibition on the Centennial of the Maverick Art Colony 6-8pm. Dorsky Museum, New Paltz. 257-3844.

SATURDAY 2 JULY ART Paint and Swim 11am. Paint a ‘60s spirited theme on a bus that will become an exhibit. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. From the Sublime to the Sub-Sahara 3-6pm. Photographs by Jeanette Stollar and Adam Pass. James Douglas Gallery, Montgomery. 978-1371. Works in Clay 4-6pm. Ceramic works. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

DANCE Cajun Dance 8pm. Featuring The Back Porch Rockers. Colony Café, Woodstock. 384-6673. $10.

Meyer Lieberman and Sharon Broit: Paintings and Prints 5-7pm. Coffey Gallery, Kingston. 339-6105.

FILM Myth and Magic in the Twilight Zone 7:30pm. Screening and discussion. HV Humanists at Unitarian Universalists, Kingston. 247-0098. $3.

Vanitas 5-7pm. Jeff Parrott’s works on Plexiglas. Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-0898.

MUSIC Jazz Jam Session Call for times. The Black Swan, Tivoli. 757-3777. Second Gear 11am-1pm. Bluegrass. Poughkeepsie Farmers’ Market. 454-2571. Two Dollar Goat 5-7pm. Acoustic, bluegrass, old-time, Freak-out. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW. Cupid’s Final Folly by Aston Magna 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Olin Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425. Alison Dennis 8-11pm. Blues, folk, traditional. Maia Restaurant and Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 486-5004. The Blue Rays with The Shade 9:30pm. Blues, R&B. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. SPOKEN WORD Edward Schwarzchild Call for time. Author of Responsible Men. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. The Meaning of Patriotism 7pm. Panel to benefit for Kids’ Beat and Listen With Your Eyes. Rosendale Café 694-4287. $15/$20 at the door. First Friday Funnies Comedy Show 8pm. Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse, Wurtsboro. 888-2121. THEATRE Anna and Me Call for times. Personal, metaphysical and emotional odyssey through the 1990’s. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Love Child Call for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisation based on audience members’ experiences and dreams. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. $6. Life In The Theatre 8pm. Bird on a Cliff Theatre Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors & children. The Tempest 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575.

Possessions 5-10pm. Paintings and mixed media works by Nikki Peone, Christina Varga, Jaisy Hanlon and Nicole Blau. Farfetched Gallery, Kingston. 340-0730. Fire Works, Taming the Flame 6-8pm. Group show in multiple media. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 757-2667. Potter Susan Kotulak 6-8pm. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 757-2667. Recent Paintings 6-9pm. Susan Foss. Everett & Treadwell Building, Kingston. 339-2039. Haunted 5-7pm. Opening reception for exhibit by Lisa Lyons. Center for Photography, Woodstock 679-9957. DANCE English Country Dance Workshop 7:30pm. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 679-8587.$8. EVENTS Butterfly Mini-Festival 9:30am. Catskill Native Nursery, Kerhonkson. 626-2758. Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-6pm. Music, food, art. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, MA. (800) 834-9437. $5. 1658 Stockade National Historic District Walking Tour 2pm. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720. $5/$2 children. FILM The Cameraman 7:30pm. Silent film accompanied by a piano. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. $8/$6 members/$4 students 16 & under. KIDS Magic by Carlo 11am. Made for ages 7 and up. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. MUSIC A Birthday Tribute to Louis Armstrong 7-9pm. Steve Satten Group. Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties. (888) 275-2352. $12/$15 at the door. Neville Brothers Call for time. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. The Midnight Ramble Call for times. Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock. 679-2744. $100. Hydroshine 4-9pm. Blues, rock, roots rock and organic jam. Rondout Bay Restaurant and Marina, Eddyville. 339-3917.

Mei-Ting Sun, Piano 6pm. Chamber music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. Dori Levine and Giacomo Franci 7:30pm. Jazz piano and vocalist. The Deep Listening Space, Kingston. 338-5984. $5. Amati Music Festival 8pm. Jian Wang, cellist. Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext. 202. $15/$10 subscribers. Motown Royalty 8pm. The Temptations and The Four Tops. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. The Carl Richards Band 8pm. Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse, Wurtsboro. 888-2121. Traum CD Release Party 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079. $20/$15. Frank Carillo and the Bandoleros 9pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. $15/$12.50 members. Marc Black & The Funky Sex Gods 10pm. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-0367. THE OUTDOORS Singles Hike – Lost City 9:30am-3pm. Meet at the Coxing Trailhead. Strenuous, 7-mile hike with rock scrambling. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. 10th Anniversary Woodstock Playhouse Garden Tour 10am-4pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4940. $35. SPOKEN WORD Presidential Campaign Memories & Artifacts 10am. The Hudson Valley and Beyond. Bevier House Museum of the Ulster County Historical Society, Marbletown. 338-5614. Hardie Truesdale 7pm. His new book, Adirondack High. Ariel Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8041. THEATRE Anna and Me Call for times. Personal, metaphysical and emotional odyssey through the 1990’s. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Love Child Call for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. The Mikado 7:30pm. Lake George Opera. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. Life In The Theatre 8pm. Bird on a Cliff Theatre Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 247-4007. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Tempest 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. Little Shop of Horrors 7pm. Stages in the Arts @ BSP, Kingston. 338.8700.$10 in advance/ $13 at the door. WORKSHOPS Artist Next Door Showcase & Art Sale 10am-4pm. Pine Hill Farmers’ and Artisians’ Market, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

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Butterfly Gardening Workshop 10:30-11:30am. Catskill Native Nursery, Kerhonkson. 626-2758. SUNDAY 3 JULY ART Paint and Swim 11am. Paint a ‘60’s spirited theme on a bus that will become an exhibit. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Open Healing Circle 4-6:30pm. Mt. Tremper. 679-7215. EVENTS Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-6pm. Music, food, art. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, MA. (800) 834-9437. $5. Fourth of July Family Festival 3-10pm. Music, fireworks, games. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. (518) 392-2121. $5. MUSIC Rossetti String Quartet and Ursula Oppens 3pm. Chamber music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. Banshanachie & Friends 4-7pm. Traditional Irish music. Rosendale Café, 658-9048. All-Star Jazz 7-11pm. Chowhound Café, Saugerties. 246-5158. Amati Music Festival 8pm. Tribute to America. Catskill Mtn. Foundation Red Barn, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext. 202. $15/$10. Pops and Fireworks 8pm. Belleayre Festival Orchestra & The Community Chorale of the Catskills. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. Summer Chamber Music Series 8pm. Works include Brahms Piano Trio in B Major. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5900. THE OUTDOORS Rock Rift Scramble 9am-3pm. Strenuous 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. The Roving Ranger 2pm. 45 minute nature walk. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. $2. THEATRE Anna and Me Call for times. Personal, metaphysical and emotional odyssey through the 1990’s. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Love Child Call for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404.

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L’Italiana in Algeri 2pm. Lake George Opera. Saratoga Performing Arts Center (518) 587-3330. The Tempest 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. Life In The Theatre 8pm. Bird on a Cliff Theatre Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 247-4007. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

Berkshires Arts Festival 10am-5pm. Music, food, art. Ski Butternut, Great Barrington, MA. (800) 834-9437. $9/$8 seniors $5 students. KIDS Randolph Weekly Summer Adventures Ages 3-18, web design, film making, science, drama, photography. Randolph School, Wappingers Falls. 297-5600. SPOKEN WORD Monday Night Open Mike 7pm. Featuring readings by Diana Gitesha Hernandez, Frak Prez and Jesus Papoleto Melendez. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

DANCE Veritás Dance Company 8pm. Modern ballet. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $13/$11 seniors and children. Ballo della Regina, Barber Violin Concerto and Glass Pieces 8:15pm. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330.

Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

KIDS Improvisational Play: Theatre Games for Kids 9-11am. Workshop for ages 10-12. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

TUESDAY 5 JULY CLASSES Intermediate Hand-Building Ceramics 6-8pm. 6 sessions. Highland Cultural Center Pottery Institute, Highland. 691-6008. $155 + $30 materials. Performance Master Class with Jane Bakken Klaviter 6:30pm. Bel Canto Institute. SUN Y New Paltz. 255-7353. $15/$10. DANCE A Midsummer Night’s Dream 8:15pm. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. KIDS Summer Arts on the Hudson Call for times. 3-week art program for ages 6-13. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Summer Nature Explorers Program: Grow for It! 8:45-11:15am. Camp for 4-5 yr. olds, taking a look at plants. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. $110/$85 members. Summer Camp 9am-2pm. Winslow Therapeutic Center, Warwick. 986-6686. Summer Nature Explorers Program: The Native Way 9am-3pm. Camp for grades 4-6. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. $190/$175 members. Arts Camp 2 9am-1pm. Monday-Friday. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080 ext. 13. $450. Summer Nature Explorers Program: Grow for It! 12:15-2:45pm. Camp for 51/2-6 year olds, taking a look at plants. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. $110/$85 members. MUSIC Richie Colan’s Blues Night 8pm. Willow Creek Inn, Stone Ridge. 340-8510. $3. THE OUTDOORS Early Bird 6:30am. Bird watching walk. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0752.

WORKSHOPS Creative Writing Workshop 4-6pm. Using Amherst Writers and Artists Methods. Wallkill Valley Writers, New Paltz. 255-7090.

THEATRE The Mikado 2pm. Lake George Opera. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330.

MONDAY 4 JULY

CLASSES Performance Master Class with Jane Bakken Klaviter 6:30pm. Bel Canto Institute. SUNY New Paltz. 255-7353. $15/$10.

THEATRE Camp Broadway Musical Theatre Camp, one-week session. Hudson River Performing Arts Center, Fishkill. 896-1888.

Little Shop of Horrors 4pm. Stages in the Arts @ BSP, Kingston. 338.8700.$10 in advance/$13 at the door.

EVENTS Dutchess County Firemen’s Parade 10am. Town Hall, Hyde Park. 229-8086.

WEDNESDAY 6 JULY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT New Moon Meditation 7-8pm. New moon meditation w/ Tibetan singing bowls. West Hurley. www.LumenOcculere.com.

WORKSHOPS Summer Intensive Call for times. Theatre, dance, media and film with professionals. Ages 8-18. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

MUSIC The Kurt Henry Band 10pm. Original, progressive, solo. Bacchus, New Paltz. 255-8636. Peekskill Riverfront Concert Series 6pm. Music by Vickie Russel, Professor Louis and the Crowmatix Riverfront Park, Peekskill.(914)736-2000. THE OUTDOORS Nature Stories 11am. Stories and activities for preschoolers. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. Feature of the Week 4:30pm. Secret Life of Bees with Beekeeper Chris Harp. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. SPOKEN WORD Introductory Lectures 7:30pm. Who am I? Where am I? What am I here to do?. Heaven and Earth Books and Gifts, New Paltz. 255-5777. THEATRE Blue Door Call for times. Ghosts of a family’s past reveal history in post-Civil War America. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. The Tempest 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. L’Italiana in Algeri 7:30pm. Lake George Opera. Saratoga Performing Arts Center. (518) 587-3330. THURSDAY 7 JULY BODY/MIND/SPIRIT The Holy Names of God 7pm.Woodstock. 679-2358. Tarot on the Hudson 7-9:30pm. Monthly study. Rhinebeck. 876-5797. Guided Meditation 7:30pm. Thursdays with Janet Gardner. Marlboro. 236-4337. $10. CLASSES Louisiana Cajun Evening 6-9:30pm. Cooking demos, dinner, wine pairings. Blue Mountain Bistro, Woodstock. 679-8519. DANCE A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2pm. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. Ballo della Regina, Barber Violin Concerto and Glass Pieces 8:15pm. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. EVENTS Traditional Arts and Craft Weekends Call for times. Lake Conference Center, Monticello. (877) 807-2845.

BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO ROCKS THE DANCE FLOOR AT THE JOYOUS LAKE ON JULY

STEAMING BUCKWHEAT

or over a quarter of a century, the name Buckwheat Zydeco has been synonymous with “instant dance party.” His sizzling, gumbo-combo of zydeco, funk, R&B and swamp-boogie blues has been nothing short of a blast of Creole fireworks. He’s been all over the map, but this month he’s not playing the Olympics, performing with Eric Clapton, Neil Young, or the Boston Pops, recording with Keith Richards, appearing on David Letterman, or performing at a presidential inauguration. He’s coming to the newly resurrected Joyous Lake in Woodstock and, as always, he promises full-tilt delivery. Born in Louisiana in 1947, Stanley Dural, Jr. was dubbed “Buckwheat” by a childhood friend—his hair looked like that of the Little Rascals character. The first music Buck heard was the old time music of the black French-speaking Creoles—la la music or zydeco (the term zydeco is a “Creolized” pronunciation of the French word for “snap beans.”) His father played accordion, and his uncle played washboard—the same washboard Buckwheat had scraped his knuckles upon while washing clothes. Occasionally someone would accompany on percussion—a cardboard box. But Buckwheat was repelled by zydeco. The child prodigy was more interested in playing piano, and he fiercely resisted the accordion. He, like most children, preferred the contemporary music of the time—like Fats Domino—and was punished for playing pop tunes on the piano. At one point, his keyboard was taken away for an entire year. But his passion for playing reigned, and he would sneak into Lafayette clubs to play keyboard with various bands. In 1971, he formed his own successful 15-piece funk band, Buckwheat and the Hitchhikers, but his father continued to disparage any form of music for his son except zydeco. Dad encouraged Buckwheat to attend a performance by the master of modern zydeco, Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band. Buck finally agreed and was completely blown away by the blues sound that came from Chenier’s accordion. He wound up onstage playing keys that night, and continued playing backup for Chenier for several years. Buck’s life and music style was forever changed. Eventually he picked up and mastered the accordion, and in 1979 he launched Buckwheat Zydeco and the Ils Sont Partis Band (French for “they’re off”). Before he knew it, their albums were being nominated for Grammy after Grammy. Still going strong after all these years, Buckwheat and his band released Jackpot! last month, their first studio recording in eight years. Already called “the ultimate nonstop party ride,” this CD delivers a boisterous and full-bodied string of strutting, swinging, funky, slinky, boogie originals, with Buckwheat on his signature accordion and Hammond B3. Whether its zydeco two-beats or rolling 12-bar blues, this prime music is the stuff summer is made of. Pretend it’s Mardi Gras and catch the world’s best loved zydeco artist on your home turf while it’s still hot. And have a stompin’ good time. —Sharon Nichols BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO WILL PERFORM AT JOYOUS LAKE, 42 MILL HILL ROAD, WOODSTOCK, ON FRIDAY, JULY 15. (845) 679-8100; BUCKWHEATZYDECO.COM.

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LUTHER CREEK PLAYS CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN “BEHIND THE LIMELIGHT” AT POWERHOUSE THIS MONTH

LITTLE TRAMP, BIG VAMP

owerhouse Theater has been a summer institution at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie since its inception in 1985. This season, its 21st, a number of musicals will be running at the Martel Theater, a new space at Vassar. “Dangerous Beauty,” a musical adaptation of the film of the same name, is a story of forbidden love set in the royal courts of 16th-century Venice, where a penniless woman falls for a Venetian prince. His parents object and he is forced into an arranged marriage. She takes the only route available for a woman of her stature, becoming a courtesan, so they can continue to see one another. With book by Jeannine Dominy (the film’s screenwriter), lyrics by Amanda McBroom (a songwriter most famous for “The Rose”), and music by Michelle Brourman, the production will run from July 7-10. Jenny Powers, fresh from her role as Meg in the recent Broadway musical adaptation of Little Women, will assume the role of the courtesan. “Behind the Limelight,” with music, book, and lyrics by Christopher Curtis, under the direction of Michael Unger, will run from July 21-24. The production follows the life of Charlie Chaplin—from rough childhood, to Hollywood, to fame, to shame, to exile, and finally to his triumphant return to Hollywood in 1972 to receive an honorary Oscar for his life’s work. It is the volatile, often outspoken Chaplin, who was in and out of orphanages as a boy, who as a man had affairs with women less than half his age, that will be portrayed, more than his most famous cinematic creation, the mustachioed “Little Tramp.” Chaplin will be played by a number of different actors to better elicit the passage of time, with the “star” Charlie being played by Luther Creek, seen on Broadway recently in the smash “Urinetown.” According to Curtis, who has been working on the project for a decade, “Behind the Limelight” is “a pet project that has become, over time, a fully fleshed-out musical instead of a biography.” Though the project has been in the works for some time, Curtis is still surprised to find parallels to our own time in Chaplin’s persecution for his political beliefs. With the 1939 classic The Great Dictator, which was a more-or-less direct attack on Adolph Hitler, Curtis says, “Chaplin became the first filmmaker to use his own money to make a political film. Remember, this was way before Michael Moore.” The Powerhouse Program fosters the creative process by allowing writers to closely collaborate with directors, from the rehearsals all the way up to the performances. Audiences are given the chance to see the transition of theatrical performances from the author’s mind to the stage. Last season saw the first readings of John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt,” which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. —Sam Baden THE 2005 POWERHOUSE THEATER SEASON ALSO INCLUDES “THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT” (JUNE 24-26), “DONNA MORELLI,” BY GINA BARNETT (JUNE 22-25), “BLUE DOOR” BY TANYA BARFIELD (JULY 6-9), AND “BIG WYOMING” BY DAVID NEIPRIS (JULY 13-16). A NUMBER OF STAGED READINGS AND WORKSHOPS WILL ALSO BE HELD. (845) 437-5902; POWERHOUSE.VASSAR.EDU.

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Coqui on the Hudson 6pm. Ride on the Teal, music, Puerto Rican food. Meet at El Coqui, Kingston. 340-1106. MUSIC Pianist Jeff Brown 5pm. Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Prokofiey. Dutchess Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 431-8916. Stolen Heart 7pm. Country. Town Field, Highland. 691-6008. THE OUTDOORS Biennial Garden Tour 1:30/3. Features the Healing Plant Garden, Turtle Tree Seed Garden, and Kitchen Gardens. Camphill Village USA, Copake. (518) 329-7924 ext. 120. SPOKEN WORD Tivoli Bays Talks: Olana: Frederic Church’s Home on the Hudson 7:30-8:30pm. Olana State Historic Site, Tivoli. 758-7012. THEATRE Blue Door Call for times. Ghosts of a family’s past reveal history in post-Civil War America. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Dangerous Beauty Call for times. Romantic musical set in the decadent world of 16th Century Venice. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. The Tempest 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. The Mikado 7:30pm. Lake George Opera. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. WORKSHOPS Motherhood, a Sacred Journey 6:30-9pm. Center for an Examined Life, West Hurley. 331-3390. Chronogram05

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Communing with Music: A Music Healing Journey 7pm. The power of music for healing, vitality and spiritual growth. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 338-2500 ext. 4453.

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CLASSES Modern Dance Intermediate Class 5-6:30pm. For mature, motivated dancers in a noncompetitive atmosphere. New Paltz School of Ballet, New Paltz. 943-6700. $14. DANCE Martha Graham Dance Company 8pm. Cave of the Heart, Herodiade, Appalachian Spring. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream 8:15pm. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. EVENTS Mid-Hudson Balloon Festival Call for times. Poughkeepsie. 454-1700. Spring Farm Series I: Music and Stories as the Sun Sets 7-8:30pm. Stories and music. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. $10/$5 children. FILM Mountainfilm Festival on Tour 8:30pm. Catskill Mountain Foundation Movie Theater, Hunter. (518) 263-4702. $7.50. KIDS Traditional American Folk Music & Dance 11am. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. MUSIC Jamie Kay and Karen Heroy Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse, Wurtsboro. 888-2121. Granny & the Champs 11am-1pm. Irish. Poughkeepsie Farmers’ Market. 454-2571.

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Chanting/drumming Circle 7pm. Potluck dinner then music. The Barn, Gardiner. 256-1198. Bach’s The Art of the Fugue by Aston Magna 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Olin Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425. Eric Erickson 8pm. Acoustic, original, solo, traditional, vocals. Hickory BBQ and Smokehouse, Woodstock. 338-2424. Kat Mills 8pm. Acoustic originals and classics. Maia’s Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 486-5004. Bob Grimm 8pm. Blues, funk, r&b, rock, soul. Holiday Inn, Kingston. 338-0400. Robanic Call for times. Summer reggae grand opening. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-3382. The Trapps 10pm. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. THE OUTDOORS Hike for Tykes 10am. Explore at a toddler’s pace. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. SPOKEN WORD Lecture on Opera 6:30pm. Bel Canto Institute. SUNY New Paltz. 255-7353. $15/$10. Elizabeth Lesser 7:30pm. Author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Climbing PoeTree 8pm. Slam poetry. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $6/$4 students and members. THEATRE Blue Door Call for times. Ghosts of a family’s past reveal history in post-Civil War America. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Dangerous Beauty Call for times. Romantic musical set in the decadent world of 16th Century Venice. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Much Ado About Nothing 6pm. Masterpiece Supper. Blue Mountain Bistro, Woodstock. 679-8519. $45. L’Italiana in Algeri 7:30pm. Lake George Opera. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. Life In The Theatre 8pm. Bird on a Cliff Theatre Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 247-4007. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Tempest 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. SATURDAY 9 JULY ART Group Exhibition 5-7pm. Encaustic Photographs by Jeri Eisenberg, Leah MacDonald & Fawn Potash. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027. 3 Solo Exhibits 6-8pm. Mark Beard, Harry Orlyk, and Dale Payson. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Yoga by the Pool 10:30am. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $12. Connecting with the Spirit with Breath Based Yoga1-3pm. Sun Salutations 4-7pm. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-7715. $45.

Margaret Ryon

UNCLE WILLY, KING OF THE ROSENDALE STREET FESTIVAL

WHY ROSENDALE ROCKS

stablished in the early 1970s and revived in the 90s, the Rosendale Street Festival has helped refashion the town formerly known for producing cement as an it-crowd destination where urbanity mixes with country living. “Depending on whom you ask, the original festival was either Uncle Willy’s creation or an outgrowth of Dietrich Werner’s birthday party,” says Billy Liggan, 2005 co-coordinator, naming two iconic local fixtures. Those orchestrating this year’s event, to take place July 23-24, aim to prove why “Rosendale Rocks” (the unofficial town slogan) by featuring local musicians, artists, artisans, and crafts people—a whopping 80 bands and 80-plus vendors. Other scheduled events include a puppet parade (courtesy of Stone Mountain Farm) and multimedia “surprises.” Sandwich board directories will mark locations of five performance stages erected along Main Street, where musical acts will rotate throughout both days. (An additional spoken-word stage at the Rosendale Library was in the works as we went to press.) Food and vending booths (look for souvenir t-shirts printed with the festival’s official logo) will fill spaces in between. A children’s area will feature face painting, games, henna, hair braiding, and a strolling llama, while Rosendale Theater hosts jugglers, magic acts, and film shorts. Political and activist organizations will cluster along Snyder Avenue. Headed up by Michael Dmoch and Charlie Knicely (with thanks to WDST), the festival music committee has put together a diverse program, running the gamut from the classical strains of Helen Avakian and Terry Champlin to the bluegrass of Two Dollar Goat. Folk musicians, including Peggy Atwood, Dog on Fleas, and Redwood Moose will interchange with rock luminaries, such as Avalon Grey, the Trapps, Guitars and Hearts, Big Sister, and Pitchfork Militia. Also in the lineup, Renee Bailey and the Saints of Swing, and other combos should please jazz aficionados. The backbone of Main Street’s success story, restaurateurs have planned special activities for the festival weekend. Rosendale Cafe will offer both indoor and backyard-garden dining. Along with a performance stage, their parking lot will hold an art gallery. Across the block, expect Rosendale Cement Company to mount a street-side gourmet sausage bar and frozen-drink stand, and to provide dining and garden entertainment, including drag queen Lady Estrogen and fire dancer Mark of Fire. At newly opened Alamo, look for a taco bar and beer truck in the driveway and full-service dining inside, where Latin band Soñando headlines Saturday night. Co-organizer Jack Walsh, driving force behind many of Main Street’s renovations, also sees the festival as an opportunity to showcase the town’s revitalization, with new and makeover businesses on board for the event, including gift and household shops Cakewalk, Sapphire, Outdoor Décor, and Rosendale Wares as well as food purveyors Big Cheese and Blue Wolff Desserts. —Pauline Uchmanowicz THE ROSENDALE STREET FESTIVAL TAKES PLACE ALONG MAIN STREET (ROUTE 213), WEST OF ROUTE 32, BEGINNING AT 10:30AM ON SATURDAY, JULY 23 AND ENDING AT 6PM ON SUNDAY, JULY 24. UCAT WILL PROVIDE SHUTTLE BUSES, ORIGINATING AT ULSTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE BLOOMINGTON FIRE HOUSE. FREE ADMISSION. ROSENDALESTREETFESTIVAL.COM.

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CLASSES Painting Class 9am-1pm. 4 sessions. Highland Cultural Center, Highland. 691-6008. $140. Performance Master Class with Jane Bakken Klaviter 10am. Bel Canto Institute. SUNY New Paltz. 255-7353. $15/$10. Reiki I & II Certification 10am-5pm. Woodstock. 336-4609. DANCE New York City Ballet 2pm. Ballo della Regina, Romeo and Juliet, Barber Violin Concerto, and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. Swing Dance 7-11pm. Swing. Reformed Church of the Comforter, Kingston. 236-3939. $7. Ben Munisteri Dance 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 679-2079. Martha Graham Dance Company 8pm. Cave of the Heart, Herodiade, Appalachian Spring. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 8:15pm. New York City Ballet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm. Shoe, alcohol, drug and smoke free. Tillson. 658-8319. $7/$3 teens. EVENTS Mid-Hudson Balloon Festival Call for times. Poughkeepsie. 454-1700. Wurtsboro Founders Day Call for times. Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse, Wurtsboro. 888-2121. Used Book Sale 10am-3pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213. Mountain Culture Festival 10am-6pm. Music, crafts, quilts. Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext. 202. RVGA’s 2nd Annual Orchard Dinner and Wine Tasting 6-9pm. Stone Ridge Orchard, Stone Ridge. 626-7919. FILM Mountainfilm Festival on Tour 6pm/8pm. Catskill Mountain Foundation Movie Theater, Hunter. (518) 263-4702. $8. Spirit of the Sixties 4pm. Documentary about the 60s Woodstock Festival. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. KIDS Nature of the Hudson 10am. Fish - What Will We Find In Our Seine Net?. Kowawese Unique Area, New Windsor. 534-5506 ext. 204. $7/$5 children. Incredible Larry 11am. Comedy juggling. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $7/$5 children. The Firebrid 11am. By Puppet People. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. $7. MUSIC Cliff Korman & The Brazilian Tinge 7/9. Music from the heart of Brazil. Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties. (888) 275-2352. $12/$15 at the door. Johnny Asia Call for time. Jazz guitar jam. A.I.R. Studio, Kingston. 331-2662. Monica’s Kneepads Call for time. Disco funk. Oasis, New Paltz. 255-2400. Voicepoint Ensemble 4pm. Rumi: poetry, music & dance. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Cheek to Cheek, Homage to Astaire 6pm. Cabaret. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

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Frederic Chiu, Piano 6pm. Chamber music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. Chicky’s Boy 7pm. Folk and roll. Riverfront Park, Beacon. 691-6008. Voicepoint Ensemble 7pm. Celebrates the life and message of the Rajasthani princess Mirabai. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Viva Quetzal! 7-10pm. Latin. Hasbrouck Park, New Paltz. 255-1559. Blues at Night 8pm. Ruth Brown and Roomful of Blues. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. Johnny Asia 8-11pm. Jazz guitar. AIR Studio, Kingston. 331-2662. Tympanic 9pm. Volcanic local neo-classic postpunk duo. Hudson River Theatre, Hudson. (518) 828-9550. $5. Ann Carlson 10pm. Voice, sound and choreography. Resnick Theatre Studio, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. Stadium Size Rock 10pm. Featuring Plan A. Michael’s, Fishkill. 896-5766. Joey Eppard and 3 10pm & 11pm. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. THE OUTDOORS Camphill Village Garden Tours 1:30/3. Camphill Village Garden, Copake. (518) 329-4851. $15. Singles Hike – Bonticou Crag 10am-2:30pm. Moderate to strenuous, 5-mile hike, with rock scrambling. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Dog Days 11am-1pm. 4-mile hike for kids and dogs. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. SPOKEN WORD A Spiritual Poetry Celebration 12pm. Hosted by Cassia Berman. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. Poets Donald Lev and Matthew J. Spirengwill 2pm. Woodstock Poetry Society meeting. Woodstock Town Hall. www.woodstoc kpoetry.com. Introductory Lectures 6pm. Who am I? Where am I? What am I here to do? New Paltz Healing Arts, New Paltz. 255-2225. Book Reading and Signing with Andy Clausen 9pm. Author of Songs of Bo Baba. DharmaWare Patio, Woodstock. 679-2079. THEATRE Blue Door Call for times. Ghosts of a family’s past reveal history in post-Civil War America. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Dangerous Beauty Call for times. Romantic musical set in the decadent world of 16th Century Venice. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. The Mikado 2pm. Lake George Opera. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. Life In The Theatre 8pm. Bird on a Cliff Theatre Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 247-4007. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Tempest 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575.

Estate of Clifford Odets/couresty Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

PLAYWRIGHT CLIFFORD ODETS

AMERICA VIA BROOKLYN

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his is a Brooklyn-born, homosexual, Jewish, left-wing composer who writes music that has come to define the American sound in classical music,” notes music professor Christopher Gibbs of Aaron Copland (1900-1990), subject of the Bard Music Festival this year. Summerscape features theater, opera, jazz, and other performing arts illuminating Copland’s legacy. “Rocket to the Moon” by Clifford Odets, a rarely produced play from 1938, connects to Copland through several links. The play’s original director, Harold Clurman, was Copland’s roommate in Paris in 1921, and Copland dedicated a breakthrough piano sonata to Odets in 1941. Written in 1938, while Odets’ marriage was falling apart, “Rocket to the Moon” tells the story of a young struggling dentist during the Depression and his grieving wife. The Nazi menace was growing in Europe at the time, and this mood affects the action. “Jeanne Donovan Fisher from True Love Productions gave me the play, and she said, ‘Read it, let me know what you think,’ and when I read it I was just knocked out,” says Daniel Fish, the play’s director. “His dialogue is phenomenal! It will go from heartbreaking to sardonic to devastating to really funny in the course of a page or two. And he’s also someone who really writes for the theater. You want to hear his play; you want to be in the room with it.” Andrew Lieberman, the set designer, has re-created a dentist’s waiting room in New York City in the 1930s in Theater Two of the Fisher Center For the Performing Arts. The audience will actually be onstage, on either side of the main action, looking in through windows and open walls. “The production seeks to make the audience intimate witnesses of the play,” explains Fish. Odets is known for provocative political plays like “Waiting for Lefty” and “Awake and Sing,” but “Rocket to the Moon” is more personal. “It’s not necessarily political in a facile way, or in an instantly recognizable way, but a play about the choices that people make in an uncertain world resonates pretty powerfully right now,” notes Daniel Fish. Fish is currently resident director at the McCarter Theater at Princeton. He directed the world premiere of David Rabe’s “The Black Monk” at the Yale Rep. Another highlight of Summerscape will be the opera “Regina” by Marc Blitzstein, based on the Lillian Hellman play “The Little Foxes.” The opera features the brilliant soprano Lauren Flanagan in the title role. The sets are designed by Bard faculty member and artist Judy Pfaff, recipient of the 2004 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” Martha Graham Dance Company will be performing to “Appalachian Spring” and several films scores by Copland: Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and Our Town. Two jazz big bands will play: Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. —Sparrow “ROCKET TO THE MOON” WILL BE PERFORMED JULY 14-17 AND JULY 22-24. “REGINA” WILL BE PERFORMED ON JULY 29, 31, AUGUST 3, 5, AND 6. (845) 758-7900; FISHERCENTER.BARD.EDU.

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WORKSHOPS Instant Creativity With Polaroid Seeing Color Call for times. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957. Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Finding Love 10am-4:30pm. Center for an Examined Life, West Hurley. 331-3390. SUNDAY 10 JULY ART Two Visions 2-5pm. Innovative fiber art by Ronnie Brown and Paula Pearl. Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Newburgh. 569-4997. Emil Lukas: Connection to the Curious Fred Wilson: Black Like Me Lisa Sigal: A House of Many Mansions Sarah Morris: Los Angeles 3-6pm. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Sufi Zikr 4pm. Mt. Tremper. 679-7215. DANCE Martha Graham Dance Company 3pm. Cave of the Heart, Herodiade, Appalachian Spring. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. EVENTS Mid-Hudson Balloon Festival Call for times. Poughkeepsie. 454-1700. Mountain Culture Festival 10am-6pm. Music, crafts, quilts. Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext. 202. 10th Annual Latin American Festival 12-8pm. Riverfront Park, Beacon. 220-2227. $5. FILM Dodsworth 7pm. 1936, directed by William Wyler. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. KIDS Camp Session Three Call for times. For teens, Extreme West Virginia. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291. Camp Session Two Call for times. Traditional Camp, Ranch Camp, Art Camp, or Farm Camp. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291. MUSIC Bedtime Stories in Words and Music 1pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Life In The Theatre 8pm. Bird on a Cliff Theatre Company. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 247-4007. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. WORKSHOPS African Drumming 2-4pm. Followed by African dinner. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $20. Creative Writing Workshop 4-6pm. Using Amherst Writers and Artists Methods. Wallkill Valley Writers, New Paltz. 255-7090. MONDAY 11 JULY BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Karma and Reincarnation 8pm. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799. SPOKEN WORD Monday Night Open Mike 7pm. Featuring readings bypoets Michael Platsky and Kathy Price. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Hudson Valley Landscape in Watercolor 9am. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Sprouts 10-11:45am. Art, music, theatre, dance workshop for kids 3-7. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 943-3400. Legacy Writing 6-8:30pm. 3 sessions. Center for an Examined Life, West Hurley. 331-3390. TUESDAY 12 JULY CLASSES Felting For Kids 11am-1pm. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. $25 plus materials. DANCE New York City Ballet 8:15pm. Fanfare, Concertino, Allegro Brillante, and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. FILM Oracle Rising 8pm. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600.

YMCA Summer Programs Call for times. 2 week sessions. Shokan, Kingston, or New Paltz. 338-3810.

Junior Naturalist Adventures 10am-2pm. Ages 4-7. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-2011.

Summer Nature Explorers Program: Wildlife Everywhere! 8:45-11:15am. Ages 4-5. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204.

THE OUTDOORS Early Bird 6:30am. Bird watching walk. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0752.

Summer Camp 9am-2pm. Winslow Therapeutic Center, Warwick. 986-6686. Children’s Theatre Workshop 2005 9:30-11:30am. By SummerStar Theatre for ages 6-9. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. $150. Children’s Theatre Workshop 2005 12-2pm. By SummerStar Theatre for ages 10-12. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. $150.

Arts Camp 3: Technical Theatre 1-5pm. Ages 13 and up. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080 ext. 13. $175.

John Waite 7pm. Pop. Hudson River Theatre, Hudson. (518) 828-9550. $35.

Summer Nature Explorers Program: Frog Camp – Water World 9pm. Grades 3-4. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204.

THEATRE Dangerous Beauty Call for times. Romantic musical set in the decadent world of 16th Century Venice. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404.

WORKSHOPS Figure Painting 9am. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

KIDS Improvisational Play: Theatre Games for Kids 9-11am. Workshop for ages 10-12. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

Dave Ellison and Gian Starr 5-9pm. Acoustic, alternative, folk, original, rock. The Alamo, Rosendale. 658-3300.

The Roving Ranger 2pm. 45-minute nature walk. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. $2.

Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

KIDS Randolph Weekly Summer Adventures Ages 3-18, web design, filmmaking, science, drama, photography. Randolph School, Wappingers Falls. 297-5600.

Summer Nature Explorers Program: Wildlife Everywhere! 12:15-2:45pm. Ages 51/2-6 years old. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204.

THE OUTDOORS Singles Hike – Lake Awosting 9:30am-4pm. Strenuous, 10-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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Griffes/Barrere III: The Incredible Flutist 3pm. Chamber music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254.

All-Star Jazz 7-11pm. Chowhound Café, Saugerties. 246-5158.

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L’Italiana in Algeri 2pm. Lake George Opera. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330.

THE OUTDOORS Babes in the Woods Hike 10am. Hike for grown-ups with babies. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0752. SPOKEN WORD Lecture on Opera 6:30pm. Bel Canto Institute. SUNY New Paltz. 255-7353. $15/$10. Monday Night Open Mike 7pm. Featuring poets Michael Platsky and Kathy Price. Colony Cafe, THEATRE Camp Broadway Musical Theatre Camps, one-week session. Hudson River Performing Arts Center, Fishkill. 896-1888.

WORKSHOPS Networking with a Purpose 7:30-9am. With life coach Denise Lewis. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 454-1700. Woodstock Writers Workshops 6:30-8:30pm. Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir, or Creative NonFiction. Woodstock. 679-8356. $60 for four sessions. WEDNESDAY 13 JULY CLASSES Felting For Kids 11am-1pm. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. $25 plus materials. DANCE New York City Ballet 8:15pm. Octet, Agon, Union Jack. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. THE OUTDOORS Nature Stories 11am. Stories and activities for preschoolers. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. Feature of the Week 4pm. Butterflies and Blooms. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. SPOKEN WORD EFCL Afternoon Book Club 1pm. Discussing Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943. Creating: Doing the Work You Love 7pm. Pottery artist Polly Myhrum. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943.

THEATRE Big Wyoming Call for times. A Romanian philosopher relives memories of Paris. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. The Tempest 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. THURSDAY 14 JULY CLASSES Cooking class 6-9:30pm. Cooking demos, dinner, wine pairings. Blue Mountain Bistro Catering Company, Saugerties. 679-8519. $75. DANCE New York City Ballet 2pm. Fanfare, Barber Violin Concerto and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. New York City Ballet 8:15pm. Allegro Brillante, Concertino, New Martin Ballet, Glass Pieces. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. EVENTS St. Joseph’s Festa 6-11:30pm. Games, food, music. St. Joseph’s Church, New Paltz. 255-5635. FILM Come and Get It 7pm. 1936, directed by William Wyler. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Plow That Broke the Plains 7pm. 1936, directed by Pare Lorentz. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Westerner and the River 7pm. 1940, directed by William Wyler and 1938 directed by Pare Lorentz. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. MUSIC Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Call for times. Rothvoss Farm, Ancramdale. (888) 946-8495. Lydia Adams Davis 7:15pm. Singer/song writer. Town Field, Highland. 691-6008. THEATRE Big Wyoming Call for times. A Romanian philosopher relives memories of Paris. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. The Tempest 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. Rocket to the Moon 8pm. A play by Clifford Odets. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. WORKSHOPS Stop Smoking with Hypnosis 6-8:30pm. Center for an Examined Life, West Hurley. 331-3390. FRIDAY 15 JULY CLASSES Modern Dance Intermediate Class 5-6:30pm. For mature, motivated dancers in a noncompetitive atmosphere. New Paltz School of Ballet, New Paltz. 943-6700. $14. DANCE New York City Ballet 8:15pm. Octet, Agon, Union Jack. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. EVENTS Harry Potter Release Party 9am. Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000. Grand Journey Tour of the Lois McClure 5-7pm. Presented by the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071 ext. 11. $2.

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St. Joseph’s Festa 6-11:30pm. Games, food, music. St. Joseph’s Church, New Paltz. 255-5635. Spring Farm Series II: Betty and the Baby Boomers 7-8:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. KIDS Motoko, Storyteller 11am. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Family Fridays 12-2pm. Make a paper aquarium of Hudson River fish. Tivoli Bays Visitor Center, Tivoli. 758-7012.

WORKSHOPS Beyond Savasana Call for times. A Retreat for Hatha Yoga Teachers of 10 (plus) years. Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. SATURDAY 16 JULY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Spiritual Tours of the Hudson Valley Call for times. Presented by New Age Center and Point of Infinity. 358-6448. $150. Yoga by the Pool 10:30am. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $12.

MUSIC Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Call for times. Rothvoss Farm, Ancramdale. (888) 946-8495.

CLASSES Smart Bells Instructor Training 9am-5pm. Norwegian Wood Farm, Kerhonkson. 255-6360. $295.

Tuesday Night Music Club 11am-1pm. Jazz. Poughkeepsie Farmers’ Market. 454-2571.

Kayaking Course 9:30am-4:30pm. Ages 14 and older through SUNY Ulster. Call for location. 339-2025. $115.

Asha Nan 7pm. Reggae. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. 691-6008. Bar Scott with Members of Prana 7-8pm. A cappella, acoustic, original, solo, vocals. Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties. 246-5071. $8.

Reiki I Certification & Attunements 10am-2pm. West Hurley. www.LumenOcculere.com. Learn to Crochet 1-3pm. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. $15.

Italian Opera Recital 7:30pm. Bel Canto Institute. Reformed Church of New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-7353. $15/$10.

DANCE New York City Ballet 2pm. Octet, FanfareUnion Jack. Saratoga Performing Arts Center. (518) 587-3330.

Kurt Henry 8pm. Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse, Wurtsboro. 888-2121.

Balinese Dance Performance 8pm. Featuring Purnama Sari. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901. $10/$7 students/children free.

Love Stung by a Bee by Aston Magna 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Olin Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425. David Kraai Buckwheat Zydeco 10pm. Creol and zydeco. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. 10:30pm. Acoustic, country, folk, original, solo, traditional. Snug Harbor, New Paltz. 256-0825. The Cosmos Sunshine Band 11:30pm. Blues, original, rock. Snug Harbor, New Paltz. 256-0825. THE OUTDOORS Hike for Tykes 10am. Explore at a toddler’s pace. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. SPOKEN WORD Thunder Ridge 7-9pm. East Fishkill Recreation Department, Hopewell Junction. 757-5676. THEATRE Big Wyoming Call for times. A Romanian philosopher relives memories of Paris. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Get What You Need Call for times. A couple faces a life-altering choice whether happiness can be found. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. All My Sons Call for times. Shows the underbelly of the American dream. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Contradance 8pm. Featuring Steve Howland with Mark Schmidt and Michael Fleck. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050. $8/$4 students. EVENTS Innovative Beads Expo 10am-6pm. Best Western Inn, Poughkeepsie. 352-9735. $4. Rondout National Historic District Walking Tour 11am. Kingston Heritage Area Visitor Center, Kingston. 339-0720. $5/$2 children. Greig Farm Blueberry Festival 11am-4pm. Greig Farm Marketplace and Bakery, Red Hook. 758-6561. Grand Journey Tour of the Lois McClure 11am-5pm. Presented by the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071 ext. 11. $2.

Dr. Marmalade 11am. Travel the world with puppets. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $7/$5 children. MUSIC Gala Dinner Call for reservation. Bel Canto Institute. Village Tea Room, New Paltz. 255-7353. $35. Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Call for times. Rothvoss Farm, Ancramdale. (888) 946-8495. The Midnight Ramble Call for times. Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock. 679-2744. $100. Violin Explosion 7/9. Christian Howes Group. Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties. (888) 275-2352. $12/$15 at the door. Pleasantville Music Festival 11am-8pm. Parkway Field, Pleasantville. (914) 679-1786. The Battle of Pokelogan 1:30-7:30pm. Benefit concert for flood victims featuring Guitars and Hearts, Salix and others. Stone Mountain Farm, Tillson. Adults $10. Kids, 5-12 $5. Under 5 free. 331-2471. Woodstock Museum Fundraiser 2-4pm. Featuring James Krueger. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $10. Grand Finale Recital of Italian Opera 3pm. Bel Canto Institute. Reformed Church of New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-7353. Miró String Quartet 6pm. Chamber music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. Twisted Sister 6pm. With W.A.S.P., LA Guns, Stephen Pearcy, and Wednesday 13. MidHudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-3388. $35. Louis Landon 7pm. Jazz. Riverfront Park, Beacon. 691-6008. Tangoman 7pm. Tango-blues. Hasbrouk Park, New Paltz. 691-6008. Send Bush to the Moon 7-10pm. Featuring Time Hunter. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. ALMS Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.

Golden Age Biplane Fly-in 2pm. Old Rhinebeck Aerodome, Rhinebeck. 752-3200.

Doc Fry Benefit 7:30-10:30pm. Featuring Bernstein-Bard Trio and Tina Ross. Doc Fry Community Cente, Warwick. 986-6422.

St. Joseph’s Festa 6-11:30pm. Games, food, music. St. Joseph’s Church, New Paltz. 255-5635.

Dutchess Trio 8pm. Piano, violin, cello. Sunnyside Theatre, New Paltz. 255-9081.

PK Hip Hop Coalition Lounge 7pm. Turntables, graffiti art, emceeing, dancing. Children’s Media Project, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480.

In The Moment 8pm. Improvisational Jazz. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $10.

Annie 8pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790.

FILM Brother and Others 5:30pm. Immigrants and Americans struggle in the climate of hate. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $6/$4 students and members.

Rocket to the Moon 8pm. A play by Clifford Odets. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Screening of Ras Cuba 7pm. Followed by discussion with Susanne Moss. Lady Washington Firehouse, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480. $5.

Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Women 7:30pm. Story of 350 young women raped and murdered in Juárez, Mexico. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

The Tempest 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575.

Cinderella 11am. Balloon-fest storytelling. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. $7.

KIDS Nature of the Hudson: Topography – Is the Hudson River a Fjord 10am. Kowawese Unique Area, New Windsor. 534-5506 x204. $7/$5 children.

Maureen McGovern 8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. Painting Live to the Music of Saxophonist 8:30pm. Nancy Ostrovsky with Patrick Cress. Norwegian Wood Farm, Kerhonkson. 626-7710. $15. Prof. Louie & the Crowmatix 9pm. Americana blues. Hudson River Theater, Hudson. (518) 828-9550. The Subdudes 10pm. Joyous Lake, Wdstk. 679-8100. THE OUTDOORS Singles Hike – Windham High Peak 9am-4:30pm. Meet at the McDonalds, Saugerties. Strenuous 12 mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2919. Fire Hike 10am. Difficult 5-mile hike to the 1999 fire site. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011.

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Wings of the Plain 2pm. Intro. to the grassland birds ofHawthorne Valley Farm. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent. (518) 672-7500 ext. 1. SPOKEN WORD Lecture and Book Signing by author Russell Bellico 1pm. Author of Life on A Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley 1861– 1889. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071 ext. 11. THEATRE Big Wyoming Call for times. A Romanian philosopher relives memories of Paris. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Get What You Need Call for times. A couple faces a life-altering choice whether happiness can be found. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Annie 8pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. Rocket to the Moon 8pm. A play by Clifford Odets. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Tempest 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575.

Miami String Quartet 3pm. Chamber music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. All-Star Jazz 7-11pm. Chowhound Café, Saugerties. 246-5158. Voodelic 10pm. Gospl, R&B, groove and psychedelic blues/rock mix. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. THE OUTDOORS Birds, Butterflies, Blooms and More! 10am-1pm. Moderate 4 mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. The Roving Ranger 2pm. 45 minute nature walk. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. $2. SPOKEN WORD Book signing by author Joanne Michaels 1pm. The Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains, An Explorer’s Guide. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071 ext. 11. Reading by Wil LaBossier 7:30pm. Author of Nervous Water and Other Florida Stories. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

KIDS Randolph Weekly Summer Adventures Call for sessions and times. Ages 3-18, web design, film making, science, drama, photography. Randolph School, Wappingers Falls. 297-5600. Summer Nature Explorers Program: Fins, Feathers and Feet! 8:45-11:15am. Ages 4-5 1/2. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. Summer Camp 9am-2pm. Winslow Therapeutic Center, Warwick. 986-6686. Summer Nature Explorers Program: Frog Camp – Water World 9am-3pm. Grades 3-4. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. SummerStar Children’s Theatre Workshop 2005 9:30-11:30am. Vocal classes, improv., dance, and more. Ages 6-9. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. $150. Performing Arts Summer Camp 9:30am-4:30pm. Ages 6-10. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-8031. SummerStar Children’s Theatre Workshop 2005 12-2pm. Vocal classes, improv., dance, and more. Ages 10-12. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. $150.

THEATRE Get What You Need Call for times. A couple faces a life-altering choice whether happiness can be found. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404.

Hudson Valley Photography Workshop 9am-5pm. Concentrates on portraiture. Studio of Lori Adams, Hopewell Junction. 227-3775.

Annie 3pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790.

Arts Camp 4: Scene Design 1-5pm. Ages 13 and up. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080 ext. 13. $175.

Rocket to the Moon 3pm. A play by Clifford Odets. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

THE OUTDOORS Babes in the Woods Hike 10am. Hike for grown-ups with babies. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0752.

Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Pottery Workshops 10am-4pm. Pine Hill Farmers and Artisians Market, Pine Hill. 254-5469. A Sacred Art, Yantra Painting of the Divine Mother 10am-4:30pm. Center for an Examined Life, West Hurley. 331-3390. Rainbow Weaver 4-6pm. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $7. SUNDAY 17 JULY ART Westport Arts Festival Call for times. Main Street, Westport, CT. (203) 227-3887. EVENTS Innovative Beads Expo 10am-5pm. Best Western Inn, Poughkeepsie. 352-9735. $4. Grand Journey Tour of the Lois McClure 11am-5pm. Presented by the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071 ext. 11. $2. Golden Age Biplane Fly-in 2pm. Old Rhinebeck Aerodome, Rhinebeck. 752-3200. FILM The Westerner and the River 7pm. 1940, directed by William Wyler and 1938 directed by Pare Lorentz. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

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MUSIC Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Call for times. Rothvoss Farm, Ancramdale. (888) 946-8495.

Grand Journey Tour of the Lois McClure 11am-4pm. Presented by the Hudson River Maritime Museum. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071 ext. 11. $2.

WORKSHOPS Light Like a Pro The Moving Story Call for times. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Communing with Music: The Healing Voice 10am. The power of music for healing, vitality and spiritual growth. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 338-2500 ext. 4453.

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Of Civil Rights and Wrongs 7:30pm. Korematsu challenged the forced internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII. Time and space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

The Tempest 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. WORKSHOPS Hudson Valley Photography Workshop 9am-3pm. Concentrates on portraiture. Studio of Lori Adams, Hopewell Junction. 227-3775. Creative Writing Workshop 4-6pm. Using Amherst Writers and Artists Methods. Wallkill Valley Writers, New Paltz. 255-7090. MONDAY 18 JULY ART Stephen Kerner “Giclee Digital Prints” 7pm. Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock. 679-2940. $6. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Buddha, Christ, and Gnosis 8pm. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799. CLASSES Learn to Mediate 8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218. EVENTS 1st Annual Autism Awareness Golf Tournament Call for times. Branton Woods, Hopewell Junction. 297-9004. $150.

Summer Nature Explorers Program: Fins, Feathers and Feet! 12:15-2:45pm. Ages 5 1/2-6. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204.

SPOKEN WORD Louise Shaffer 7pm. Author of The Ladies of Garrison Gardens. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943. Posture, Posture, Posture 7pm. With Dr. Joseph F. Grable. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482. Monday Night Open Mike 7pm. Featuring readings by poets Carol Graser and Shirley Powell. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. THEATRE Camp Broadway Musical Theatre Camps, one-week session. Hudson River Performing Arts Center, Fishkill. 896-1888. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. Underneath the Lintel Call for times. A play by Glen Berger. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518)822-9667. WORKSHOPS Figure Drawing Parks and Garden in Pastel and Oil 9am. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Sprouts 10-11:45am. Art, music, theatre, dance workshop for kids 3-7. Coxsackie Elementary School, Coxsackie. (518) 943-3400.

TUESDAY 19 JULY CLASSES Knitted Scarf in Linen Lace 11am-1pm. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. $15 class/$17 yarn. DANCE New York City Ballet 8:15pm. Swan Lake, After the Rain and Agon. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. FILM The Inner Journey 7:30-8:30pm. Journey of self-discovery. Colony Café, Woodstock. 431-6921. KIDS Junior Naturalist Adventures plus Eco-Adventures 4-8pm. Ages 4-7, 7-10 or 10 and up. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-2011. THE OUTDOORS Early Bird 6:30am. Bird watching walk. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0752. WORKSHOPS Finding Love 6pm. Frayda Kafka, a therapeutic hypnotist and singles coach. Center for an Examined Life, West Hurley. 626-3126. WEDNESDAY 20 JULY CLASSES Sweater Techniques: Easy Raglans Workshop 10:30am-12:30pm. Three sessions. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. $50. DANCE Kinetic Chaos 8pm. Original choreography. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. New York City Ballet 8:15pm. After the Rain and Harlequinade. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. THE OUTDOORS Nature Stories 11am. Stories and activities for preschoolers. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. Feature of the Week 4pm. Shawangunk Place Names. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. THEATRE Lintel 7:30pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. WORKSHOPS Life Drawing 10am-5:30pm. Six sessions. Shuster Studios, Kingston. (518) 755-4733. Spirit & Money: Prospering by Doing What You Love 7-9:30pm. Life Coach Cary Bayer. Spirittus, Kingston. 338-8313. $20. THURSDAY 21 JULY CLASSES Cooking class 6-9:30pm. Cooking demos, dinner, wine pairings. Blue Mountain Bistro Catering Company, Saugerties. 679-8519. $75. Med-Style Vegetarian 6-9:30pm. Blue Mountain Bistro, Woodstock. 679-8519. Magick 101 Class & Full Moon Ritual 7-9pm. West Hurley. www.LumenOcculere.com. DANCE New York City Ballet 2pm. Symphony in Three Movements and Harlequinade. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. New York City Ballet 8:15pm. Swan Lake, New Martins Ballet, and An American in Paris. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330.

FILM Jezebel 7pm. 1938, directed by William Wyler. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. MUSIC Betty McDonald 7:15pm. Jazz. Town Field, Highland. 691-6008. Frank Wakefield 8pm. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. SPOKEN WORD India: A Visual Tour of Ancient and Living Craft Traditions 7pm. Kalika Stern. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497. THEATRE Behind the Limelight Call for times. Musical about Charlie Chaplin. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. The Tempest 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. Lintel 7:30pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. WORKSHOPS Living Values Educators Training Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Communing with Music: Ecstatic Movement 7pm. The power of music for healing, vitality and spiritual growth. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 338-2500 ext. 4453. FRIDAY 22 JULY ART Open Studio and Celebration 5pm. Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock. 679-8540. BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Meditation for Busy People Call for times. Raja Yoga Meditation. Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. CLASSES Modern Dance Intermediate Class 5-6:30pm. For mature, motivated dancers in a noncompetitive atmosphere. New Paltz School of Ballet, New Paltz. 943-6700. $14.

Bar Scott with Jen Starr and Callie Hershey 7-8pm. A cappella, acoustic, original, solo, vocals. Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties. 246-5071. $8. All Ye Whom Love or Fortune Hath Betray’d by Aston Magna 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Olin Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425. Belleayrians II - Recital in the Lodge 8pm. Bellayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. Alison Dennis 8-11pm. Blues, folk, traditional. Maia Restaurant and Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 486-5004. John Hickey Band 10pm. Funk. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. THE OUTDOORS Hike for Tykes 10am. Explore at a toddler’s pace. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011. SPOKEN WORD UnCommon Poets Reading Series 8pm. Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse, Wurtsboro. 888-2121. THEATRE Behind the Limelight Call for times. Musical about Charlie Chaplin. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Reading Festival #2 Call for times. Readings from several works. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Murder Mystery Dinner Show 6:30pm. Squire’s Inn. Blue Mountain Bistro, Woodstock. 679-8519. $45. Annie 8pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. Bye Bye Broadway 8pm. Musical comedy. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $18/$15 seniors and groups. Lintel 8pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Rocket to the Moon 8pm. A play by Clifford Odets. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

DANCE New York City Ballet 8:15pm. Harlequinade and An American in Paris. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330.

Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children.

Hot Cat Jazz Band: Swing Dance 8:30pm. Lesson at 7:30. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571. $10.

Two Gentlemen of Verona 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575.

EVENTS Putnam Kennel Dog Show 8:30am-4:30pm. Stormville Airport, Stormville. (914) 248-7363. $5.

WORKSHOPS Meditation for Busy People III Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat Center, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.

FILM Weapons of Mass Deception 7:30pm. Explores the coverage of weapons of mass destruction. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. KIDS Magic, Music and Ventriloquism! 11am. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. MUSIC Monica’s Kneepads Call for time. Disco funk. Alamo, Rosendale. 658-7648. Noble Johnson “Keyboard and I” 11am-1pm. Poughkeepsie Farmers’ Market. 454-2571. The Greyhounds 7pm. Rock. Waryass Park, Poughkeepsie. 691-6008.

SATURDAY 23 JULY ART Cocktails with Ed Berkise 4-6pm. Dog House Gallery, Saugerties. 246-0402. Hudson River Art at Wilderstein 4:30pm. Exhibition and sale of fine art and antiques. Wilderstein Historic Site, Rhinebeck. 876-4818. The Number Series 6-8pm. Paintings by abstract artist Myron Polenberg. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Yoga by the Pool 10:30am. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $12.

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CLASSES Knitted Scarf in Linen Lace 10:30am-12:30pm. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. $15 class/ $17 yarn. Reiki I Certification & Attunements 11am-3pm. West Hurley. www.LumenOcculere.com.

Amati Music Festival 8pm. Arnold Steinhardt, violinist. Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext. 202. $15/$10 subscribers.

Organic Cooking Class- Sinful, Yet Healthful Desserts 6:30-9:30pm. Boces, Port Ewen. 331-0902. $35.

Kathy Mattea 8pm. CMA performer of the Year. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

DANCE New York City Ballet 2pm. Harlequinade and Symphony in Three Movements. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330.

Vladimir Feltsman Recital 8pm. Bach, Beethoven and Mussorgsky. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3880.

Action Council Gala 8:15pm. NY Export Opus Jazz and An American In Paris. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330.

Dave Ellison and Gian Starr 9pm. Acoustic, alternative, folk, original, rock. The Guilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.

New York City Ballet 8:15pm. Swan Lake, After the Rain, Symphony in Three Movements. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 587-3330. Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm. Shoe, alcohol, drug and smoke free. Tillson. 658-8319. $7/$3 teens. EVENTS Columbia Berkshire Crafts Guild Open Studio Tour Call for times. Various locations. (518) 785-8850. Rosendale Street Festival Check website times. Rosendale. rosendalestreetfestival.com. Taste Of Hits-on-the-Hudson Call for times. Area restaurants provide samples of food. Hits on the Hudson, Saugerties. 246-8833. Putnam Kennel Dog Show 8:30am-4:30pm. Stormville Airport, Stormville. (914) 248-7363. $5. Summer Magic Antiques Fair 10am-5pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-1989. $7. Olana Ooh La La 7:30-10:30pm. Charity benefit. Olana Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135 ext. 319. FILM Spirit of the Sixties 4pm. Documentary about the 69 Woodstock Festival. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. Notre Music 7:30pm. Written and Directed by JeanLuc Godard. Time & Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $6/$4 students and members. KIDS Is the Hudson River a Fjord? 10am. Kowawese Unique Area, New Windsor. 534-5506 ext. 204. $7/$5 children. Sleeping Beauty 11am. Musical fairy tale. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $7/$5 children. MUSIC TK Blue Ensemble 7/9. Virtuoso jazz and blues. Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties. (888) 275-2352. $12/$15 at the door. Young People’s Concert 11am. Featuring Jason Vieaux. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. Shirae 4pm. Irish traditional and contemporary music. Dolan’s Lake, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext. 202. Jason Vieaux 6pm. The Spanish Style. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. The Howland Wolves 7pm. Blues. Riverfront Park, Beacon. 691-6008.

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The Sugerbees 7pm. American. Hasbrouk Park, New Paltz. 691-6008.

Cabaret Voltron 9pm. Electro party. The Sweetwater Café, Kingston. 339-7800.

Women, Money and the Power of Abundance and Prosperity 2-4pm. With life coach Denise Lewis. Arlington Yoga, Poughkpsie. 473-9074. SUNDAY 24 JULY BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Encounters in the Spirit of Universal Brotherhood 4pm. Mariapolis Luminosa, Hyde Park. 229-0230. $12. CLASSES Fiddle and Dance Camp Northern Week. Ashokan. 246-2121. Introduction to Spinning 1-3pm. Three sessions. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. $60. DANCE Dance Performance and Discussion 3pm. With Krithika Rajagolapan. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

The Flying Neutrinos 10pm. Blues, jazz, street beats. Resnick Theatre Studio, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

EVENTS Rosendale Street Festival Check website times. Rosendale. rosendalestreetfestival.com.

Monica’s Kneepads 10pm. 70s disco dance extravaganza. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100.

‘60’s Revelation 4pm. Music, art, film, photography. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600.

THE OUTDOORS Singles Hike-Table Rocks 9:30am-3pm. Meet at the Spring Farm Trailhead. Moderate, 7-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. SPOKEN WORD Two Journalists, Two New Books 7pm. Gwendolyn Bounds and James Stewart. Ariel Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8041. Thunder Ridge 10pm. The Inn at Leeds, Leeds. (518) 943-6451. THEATRE Behind the Limelight Call for times. Musical about Charlie Chaplin. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404.

FILM Brothers and Others 5pm. Controversy of racial profiling of Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. The Little Foxes 7pm. 1941, directed by William Wyler and. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. KIDS Camp Session Three Traditional Camp, Farm Camp, Art Camp or Ranch Camp. For teens, building for Habitat for Humanity. Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291.

Reading Festival #2 Call for times. Readings from several works. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404.

MUSIC Monica’s Kneepads Benefit for Molly Farley Call for time. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100.

Annie 8pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790.

Switch- In Time Jazz Ensemble 2-5:30pm. Featuring Mark Raisch. Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 471-9548.

Bye Bye Broadway 8pm. Musical comedy. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $18/$15 seniors and groups. Lintel 8pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Rocket to the Moon 8pm. A play by Clifford Odets. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 7587900. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. The Tempest 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. WORKSHOPS Introduction to Photography The Body Call for times. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957. Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. A Playgroup for Women With Difficult Bodies 10am-4:30pm. Center for an Examined Life, West Hurley. 331-3390. East Indian Craft Workshops 1:30-3pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

Pacifica String Quartet 3pm. Chamber music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. All-Star Jazz 7-11pm. Chowhound Café, Saugerties. 246-5158. THE OUTDOORS Singles Bike Ride – Rail Trail 10am-2pm. Meet in Rosendale. 16-mile ride. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Babies in Arms and Strollers 1:30-3pm. Easy 2 miles. Newborns to 4 years welcome. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. The Roving Ranger 2pm. 45-minute nature walk. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. $2. SPOKEN WORD Talk and Book Signing with Marc B. Fried 3-4:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. THEATRE Behind the Limelight Call for times. Musical about Charlie Chaplin. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Reading Festival #2 Call for times. Readings from several works. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Bye Bye Broadway 2pm. Musical comedy. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $18/$15 seniors & groups.

Lintel 2pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Monday Night Open Mike 7pm. Featuring readings by poets Mike Jurkovic and Marina Mati. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Annie 3pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790.

THEATRE Camp Broadway Musical Theatre Camps, one-week session. Hudson River Performing Arts Center, Fishkill. 896-1888.

Rocket to the Moon 3pm. A play by Clifford Odets. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Tempest 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. Bridgeman and Packer Dance 8pm. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 679-2079. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $20/$18 seniors and children. WORKSHOPS Creative Writing Workshop 4-6pm. Using Amherst Writers and Artists Methods. Wallkill Valley Writers, New Paltz. 255-7090. MONDAY 25 JULY BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Lao Tzu’s Path of Inner Silence Call for time. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799. CLASSES Learn to Mediate 8pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218. FILM Brother and Others 5pm. Immigrants and Americans struggle in the climate of hate. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $6/$4 students and members. KIDS Randolph Weekly Summer Adventures Call for sessions and times. Ages 3-18, web design, film making, science, drama, photography. Randolph School, Wappingers Falls. 297-5600. YMCA Summer Programs Shokan, Kingston, or New Paltz. 338-3810.

WORKSHOPS The Brush & The Sword Call for times. Five-day calligraphy/aikido retreat. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. Floras and Still Life in Pastel 9am. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Sprouts 10-11:45am. Art, music, theatre, dance workshop for kids 3-7. Greenville High School, Greenville. (518) 943-3400. TUESDAY 26 JULY CLASSES Fair Isle Headband 11am-1pm. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. FILM Bob Marley Tribute 8pm. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. KIDS Junior Naturalist Adventures plus Eco-Adventures 10am-2pm. Ages 10 and up, 7-10, or 4-7. Minnewaska State Park, New Paltz. 255-2011. MUSIC Community Shape Note Sing 7pm. Songs from The Sacred Harp. Holy Cross Church, Kingston. 658-3485. WEDNESDAY 27 JULY DANCE Mad Agnes 8pm. Genre bending trio of musicians and vocalists. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $15/$13 seniors and children. FILM In The Realms of the Unreal 7:30pm. Documentary video screening. Children’s Media Project, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480.

Summer Art Institute Call for times. Total immersion program for ages 14+. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

THE OUTDOORS Nature Stories 11am. Stories and activities for preschoolers. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011.

Summer Nature Explorers Program: Hide and Seek! 8:45-11:15am. Ages 4-5 1/2. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Feature of the Week 4pm. Fire on the Ridge. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011.

Arts Camp 5: Teen Scene Study 9am-1pm. Ages 13 and up. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080 ext. 13. $175.

THEATRE The Tempest 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575.

In Story and Puppet: Everyday Heroes 9am-2pm. Puppet workshop. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. $150/$160 non-members + supplies.

Lintel 7:30pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Farm Camp 9am-2pm. Week long sessions. Phillies Bridge Farm, Gardiner. 255-1559. $160/ $180 non-members.

BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Sufi Zikr 7pm. Woodstock. 679-2358.

Summer Nature Explorers Program: Hide and Seek! 12:15-3:45pm. Ages 5 1/2 to 6. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. MUSIC The Dirty Dozen Brass Band 9pm. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. SPOKEN WORD The Power of Antioxidants 7pm. Steve Petai. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 221-9943.

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CLASSES Secret Life of Spices 6-9:30pm. Cooking demos, dinner, wine pairings. Blue Mountain Bistro, Woodstock. 679-8519. FILM The Best Years of Our Lives 7pm. 1946, directed by William Wyler and. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. MUSIC Cantilena 7:15pm. Town Field, Highland. 691-6008.

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THEATRE A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7pm. All new Bollywood-style production of Shakespeare’s comedy. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $10/$07 seniors and children. The Princess Bride 7pm. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. $10. Two Gentlemen of Verona 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. Lintel 7:30pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. FRIDAY 29 JULY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Restorative Class 8-10pm. Beginner’s yoga. Shakti Yoga, Woodstock. 679-0706. $20. CLASSES Modern Dance Intermediate Class 5-6:30pm. For mature, motivated dancers in a noncompetitive atmosphere. New Paltz School of Ballet, New Paltz. 943-6700. $14. FILM Young, Jewish, and Left 4pm. Documentary with live music. 3rd Floor Underground, Kingston. 756-3065. $5-$20. Notre Music 7:30pm. Written and Directed by JeanLuc Godard. Time & Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $6/$4 students and members. Lost Boys of Sudan 8pm. 2 Sudanese refugees take a journey from Africa to America. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 687-7116. KIDS Playing the Palace: Baroque Music 11am. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Family Fridays 12-2pm. Lunch at Tivoli Bays Overlook. Tivoli Bays Visitor Center, Tivoli. 758-7012. MUSIC Wayne Fugue and Friends 11am-1pm. Bluegrass. Poughkeepsie Farmers’ Market. 454-2571. Bar Scott with Pianist Peter Tomlinson 7-8pm. Acoustic, solo, vocals. Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties. 246-5071. $8. Switch-In-Time Jazz Ensemble 7-8:30pm. Featuring Mark Raisch. Mills Mansion, Staatsburg. 471-9548. Denise Jordan Finley 7-9pm. A Summer Evening of Songs. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. 845-691-6008. All Beethoven by Aston Magna 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Olin Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425. Prez 8pm. Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse, Wurtsboro. 888-2121. Helen Avakian 8-11pm. Blues, folk, traditional. Maia Restaurant and Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 486-5004. Tute Chigamba and Mhembero 9pm. Music of Zimbabwe. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. Soñando 10pm. With performer Ruben Quintero. El Coqui, Kingston. 340-1106. Holmes Brothers 10pm. Gospel-inflected funk. Joyous Lake, Woodstock. 679-8100. THE OUTDOORS Hike for Tykes 10am. Explore at a toddler’s pace. Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New Paltz. 255-2011.

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THEATRE The Talk Call for times. Four brothers are forced to confront family demons. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7pm. All new Bollywood-style production of Shakespeare’s comedy. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $10/$07 seniors and children. The Princess Bride 7pm. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. $10. Annie 8pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. Bye Bye Broadway 8pm. Musical comedy. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $18/$15 seniors and groups. Lintel 8pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Regina 8pm. An opera in three acts by Marc Blitzstein. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7900. Two Gentlemen of Verona 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. SATURDAY 30 JULY ART Artist Next Door Showcase and Art Sale 10am-4pm. Pine Hill Farmers and Artisans Market, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Couter/Cultured Pop Icons, Urban Landscapes, Skateboards & Gas Masks 6-8pm. Group exhibition. Modo Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5090. BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Meditation Instruction 7:30-8am. Shakti Yoga, Woodstock. 679-0706. $20. Women’s Traditional Sweat Lodge 9am. Acorn Hill Healing Arts, Olivebridge. 657-2516. Yoga by the Pool 10:30am. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $12. Embodying the Breath 12-3pm. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-7715. $45. Personalizing Your Yoga Practice 1:30-4:30pm. Shakti Yoga, Woodstock. 679-0706. $40. Men’s Traditional Sweat Lodge 3pm. Acorn Hill Healing Arts, Olivebridge. 657-2516. CLASSES Fair Isle Headband 10:30am-12:30pm. Yarn Swift, Poughkeepsie. 454-7444. EVENTS Kids Day Call for times. Pony rides, face painting and much more. Hits on the Hudson, Saugerties. 246-8833. Annual Library Fair 10am-5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-2213. Revolutionary War Encampment 10am-4pm. Col. Jonathan Elmendorf House, Hurley. 331-0593. KIDS Sleeping Beauty 11/2. Musical version. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $7/$5 children. Nature of the Hudson: Birds – Which Ones Use the Hudson, and Why? 10am. Kowawese Unique Area, New Windsor. 534-5506 ext. 204. $7/$5 children.

Saturday Children’s Workshop 10am-1pm. On the Hudson River’s maritime history. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071 ext. 13. $13. MUSIC Paul Bollenback & John Hart 7/9. Jazz guitar duel. Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugerties. (888) 275-2352. $12/$15 at the door. The Midnight Ramble Call for times. Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock. 679-2744. $100. Young People’s Concert 11am. Zuill Bailey, cello. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra 4pm. Classical, solo, symphonic. Downing Park Amphitheater, Newburgh. 562-1800. Autumn in New York 6pm. Vernon Duke celebration. Spencertown Academy, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Don Haynie and Sheryl Samuel 7pm. Folk. Riverfront Park, Beacon. 691-6008. Kurt Henry 7pm. R & B. Hasbrouk Park, New Paltz. 691-6008. Mamapalooza 7-11:30pm. Uncommon Grounds Coffeehouse, Wurtsboro. 888-2121. Amati Music Festival 8pm. Latin Passion. Catskill Mtn. Foundation Red Barn, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext. 202. $15/$10. Belleayre Festival Opera 8pm. GiueseppeVerdi‘s Rigoletto. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406. Jacob Flier Piano Competition Winners Gala 8pm. SUNY New Paltz. 278-3880. Tute Chigamba 8pm. Master musicians and dancers from Zimbabwe. Time & Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $7/$10/ $12.50. Woodstock UpBeat: Paul Winter and Friends 8pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. Blind Mice 9pm. Acoustic, folk, original. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424.

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SPOKEN WORD Lecture on Andy Warhol 1pm. Douglas Crimp. Dia, Beacon. 440-0100 ext 44. Mohawk Storyteller Kay Ionataie 2-4pm. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $5/$3 children. Wolf Clan Mohawk Kay Ionataie 8-10pm. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $8. THEATRE The Talk Call for times. Four brothers are forced to confront family demons. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. The Princess Bride 3pm. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. $10. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7pm. All new Bollywood-style production of Shakespeare’s comedy. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $10/$07 seniors and children.

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The Princess Bride 7pm. Cocoon Theatre, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. $10. Annie 8pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. Authentic British Music Hall by Theater 10/10 8pm. Catskill Mountain Foundation Red Barn, Hunter. (518) 263-4908 ext. 202. $15/$10. Bye Bye Broadway 8pm. Musical comedy. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $18/$15 seniors and groups. Lintel 8pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Two Gentlemen of Verona 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. WORKSHOPS A Sense of Place Call for times. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957. Write Saturday 8:30am-4pm. With Wallkill Valley Writers. New Paltz. 255-7090. Hudson Valley Photography Workshop 9am-5pm. Concentrates on portraiture. Studio of Lori Adams, Hopewell Junction. 227-3775. Communing with Music 10am. The power of music for healing, vitality and spiritual growth. Benedictine Hospital, Kingston. 338-2500 ext. 4453. Photographing the Nude in Nature 10am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Tenets and Practices of Buddhism 3:30pm. By the Venerable Lama Pema Wangdak. Buddhist Center, Philmont. (518) 672-5216. Rainbow Weaver 4-6pm. Woodstock Museum, Woodstock. 246-0600. $8. SUNDAY 31 JULY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT The Three Keys to Liberation Call for time. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799. Women‘s Traditional Sweat Lodge 9am. Acorn Hill Healing Arts, Olivebridge. 657-2516.

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Yoga - Asana and the Chakras 1-3:30pm. Call for location. (914) 489-9270. Men‘s Traditional Sweat Lodge 3pm. Acorn Hill Healing Arts, Olivebridge. 657-2516. Zikr 4pm. Pot luck at 6:30. Mt. Tremper. 679-7215.

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Lifestyle Choices: Ayurveda and Yoga 9-10:15am. Shakti Yoga, Woodstock. 679-0706. $35.

FILM Notre Music 5pm. Written and Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Time & Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. $6/$4 students and members. The Heiress and Redes/The Wave 7pm. 1949, directed by William Wyler and 1936 directed by Emilio Gomez Muriel. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. MUSIC Goldilocks and the Three Bears 1pm. Children‘s Opera. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Zuill Bailey, Cello and Simone Dinnerstein, Piano 3pm. Chamber music. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 338-5254. All-Star Jazz 7-11pm. Chowhound Café, Saugerties. 246-5158. THE OUTDOORS Herb Walk with Aleese Cody 9:30am-12pm. Easy 2.5 miles. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Singles Canoe/Kayak – Black Creek 10am-2pm. Meet at New Paltz park and ride. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Guided Tour of Main Street 2pm. David Baker, Hurley town historian. Main Street, Hurley. 331-0593. $3. The Roving Ranger 2pm. 45 minute nature walk. Kenridge Farm, Cornwall. 534-5506 ext. 204. $2. THEATRE The Talk Call for times. Four brothers are forced to confront family demons. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7404. Bye Bye Broadway 2pm. Musical comedy. North Pointe Cultural Center, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9234. $18/$15 seniors and groups. Lintel 2pm. Comedy with a librarian detective. Stageworks Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3pm. All new Bollywood-style production of Shakespeare’s comedy. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. $10/$07 seniors and children.

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Annie 3pm. Presented by SummerStar Theatre. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4790. Regina 3pm. An opera in three acts by Marc Blitzstein. Sosnoff Theatre, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7900. The Tempest 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison. 265-9575. WORKSHOPS Hudson Valley Photography Workshop 9am-3pm. Concentrates on portraiture. Studio of Lori Adams, Hopewell Junction. 227-3775. Workshop on the Tarot 11am-6pm. Inquiring Mind, Saugerties. 246-5155.

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Business Directory ACTING Sande Shurin Acting Classes

Revolutionary new acting technique for Film/Stage/TV. The book: Transformational Acting...A Step Beyond, Limelight Editions. The technique: Transform into character using current emotions. No recall. No forward imagining. Shurin private coaches many celebrities. The classes: Thursday eves. at 7pm, Woodstock. Master classes at the Times Square Sande Shurin Theatre. (917) 545-5713 or (212) 262-6848. ANTIQUE RESTORATION Antique Clock Repair and Restoration

Specializing in Grandfather clocks, Tubular chime clocks, European, Atmos and Carriage Clocks, Antique Music boxes. Pickup and delivery. House calls available. Free estimates. One year warranty. References available. For appointment call Ian D.Pomfret at (845) 687-9885 or email idp1@verizon.net. ARCHITECTURE DiGuiseppe Architecture

Inspired, Sensitive, and Luxurious…these are the words that describe the quintessential design work that is DiGuiseppe. The firm, with Design Studios in Accord, New York City, and Boca Raton, provides personalized Architecture and Interiors for each and every client. Whether the project is a Sensitive Historic Renovation, a Hudson Valley Inspired Home or Luxurious Interiors, each project receives the attention of the firm’s principal, Anthony J. DiGuiseppe, AIA RIBA, an internationally published architect and award-winning furniture designer. Accord (845) 687-8989, New York City (212) 439-9611 diarcht@msn. com, www.diguiseppe.com. ART CENTERS The Living Seed

The Living Seed Yoga Center offers Sivananda Yoga classes 7 days a week. All levels and ages welcome. Morning meditations are free. Yoga Day 2nd & 4th Sundays. Sauna. Art Gallery.

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Dance. Drum. Workshops. And so much more. Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize Sivananda. 521 Main St. (Route 299) New Paltz (845)255-8212. ww.thelivingseed.com. ART CLASSES Ceramic Classes

Develop your creativity and learn the art of clay in a small Saturday class for adults with any experience level. Classes are taught by Doris Licht in a large, working pottery studio with gas kiln. Learn handbuilding, wheelthrowing, decorating, glazing, and kiln firing. Visit the showroom by appointment. Phone: (845) 679-5620. ART GALLERIES The Gallery@Highland Studio

A wide variety of art using highend digital printmaking. Large format on heavy papers and canvas using archival ink. Printing done on premises. Bi-monthly shows. 176 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-3700. Van Brunt Gallery

Exhibiting the work of contemporary artists. Featuring abstract painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new shows each month. The innovative gallery Web site, www.vanbruntgallery.com, has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work. 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508. (845) 838-2995. ART SUPPLIES Catskill Art & Office Supply

Traditional fine art materials, studio furnishings, office products, journals, cards, maps, and gifts. Creative services, too, at all three locations: photo processing, custom printing, rubber stamps, color copies, custom picture framing, and full-color digital output. Pushing the envelope and creative spirit for over 20 years. Woodstock (845) 679-2251; Kingston (845) 331-7780; Poughkeepsie (845) 452-1250. Manny’s

Since 1962, big city selection and small town service have

made Manny’s special. We offer a full range of art materials, custom picture framing, bookmaking supplies, and the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store. 83 Main Street, New Paltz. (845) 255-9902. R & F Handmade Paints

Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery. Open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm. 506 Broadway, Kingston. (845) 331-3112. www.rfpaints.com. ART THERAPY Deep Clay Art and Therapy

Deep Clay with Michelle Rhodes ATR-BC, LMSW (see Psychotherapy in Whole Living Guide). ATTORNEYS Schneider, Pfahl & Rahmé, LLP

Manhattan law firm with offices in Woodstock, provides legal services to individuals, institutions, professional firms, companies, and family businesses. Specific areas include: Real Estate, Estate Planning, Corporate, New Media and Arts, and Entertainment Law. Each matter is attended to by a senior attorney who develops a comprehensive legal plan with the client. (845) 679-9868 or (212) 629-7744. See website www.nycrealestate attorneys.com or www.schneider pfahl.com AUTOMOTIVE Roberti Motor Cars

Specializing in previously owned SAABs. Over 150 pre-owned SAABs in stock at all times. Authorized SAAB service center. Large selection of new and used SAAB parts available. Prices range from $1,500 to $25,000. All cars warranteed bumper to bumper. (845) 339-SAAB. 385 Foxhall Avenue, Kingston, NY. www.roberti.com.

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A romantic getaway serving a full gourmet breakfast, 15 minutes from New Paltz and Kingston, nestled between the Shawangunk and Catskill Mountains. This registered brick Colonial farmhouse sits in a stand of 200-year-old black locust trees. Each morning, Chef Howard, a graduate of the New York Restaurant School, delights guests with his culinary talents, served fireside or on the patio. Entire facility is air-conditioned. Antique-decorated rooms, some with fireplaces, will make your getaway complete. You only need to decide among the many activities and fine restaurants just minutes away. BEVERAGES Esotec

Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 20 years we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. sales@esotecltd.com. or www.esotecltd.com. (845) 246-0965. Leisure Time Spring Water

Pure spring water from a natural artesian spring located in the Catskill Mountains. The spring delivers water at 42oF year-round. The water is filtered under high pressure through fine white sand. Hot and cold dispensers available. Weekly delivery. (845) 331-0504. BOOKSTORES Alternative Books

Fine used and out-of-print books, and new books from great local presses. Tens of thousands of handpicked beauties you won’t find at the mall. Art monographs, poetry, signed and first edition fiction, Americana and regional history. Hundreds of current magazine titles and unusual journals. We have the largest collection of French language books in the region. Children’s books, film, music, theatre, dance, spirituality, esoterics, classics, humanities, sciences, travel, home, garden, cookbooks. More. We travel from town to town searching through attics to fill our store just for you. We also buy books at the counter. Special orders, book searches, libraries purchased. 35 North Front

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Street in lovely uptown Kingston, at the head of Wall Street. Open 7 days 11-5, occasionally more. (845) 331-5439. Barner Books

Used books. From kitsch to culture, Thoreau to thrillers, serious and silly. We have the books you read. Monday - Saturday 10-7, Sunday 12-6. Located at 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-2635. E-mail: barnerbk@ulster.net. The Golden Notebook

A feast for book lovers located in the heart of Woodstock, we are proud to be a part of Book Sense: Independent Bookstores for Independent Minds. In addition to our huge database, we can special order any book in or out of print. Our Children’s Store located right next door has an extensive selection of books and products exclusively for the under14 set. We also carry the complete line of Woodstock Chimes. 25-29 Tinker Street, Woodstock. (845) 679-8000, fax (845) 679-3054. the goldennotebook@hvc.rr.com. www.goldennotebook.com. Mirabai of Woodstock

The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, Bali. Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/interpretation available. 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock. (845) 679-2100. www.mirabai.com. BUSINESS SOLUTIONS Articulate Solutions: Organic, Inspired Marketing

Holistic, Creative, and Service Professionals: Don’t know where to start with your marketing? Coach with a seasoned, intuitive marketing expert to discover your unique niche. We’ll handle the rest while you enjoy your work and the abundance! Starter and custom Web packages, brochures, marketing plans, ads, and more. Call Kathleen Boyd at Articulate Solutions, (845) 255-5541. www.articulatesoul.com. CARPETS / RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings

Direct importers since 1981– Natural-dyed Afghan carpets; Balouchi tribal kilims; Russian sumaks; antique Caucasian

carpets; silk Persian sumaks; Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes without obligation. Open 6 days a week 12-6pm. Closed Tuesdays. MC/Visa/AmEx. 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock. (845) 679-5311. CINEMA Upstate Films

Great International Cinema. Contemporary & Classic. 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-2515. www.upstatefilms.com. CLOTHING Haldora

Haldora, a family name from Iceland meaning Goddess of the Mountains. Haldora designs a lifestyle in women’s clothing and scarves—styles which are timeless, understated, and have a forgiving elegance. She designs and cuts her own line, then sends it to her seamstress where it is sewn locally in New York State. Her fabrics are mostly natural, including many kinds of silk, linens, and cotton in many colors, with wool added in winter. Also at Haldora, you will find other complimentary lines. In season, she has wool, cotton, and cashmere sweaters, which include Margaret O’Leary and Kincross Cashmere. Haldora carries a full line of Hanro of Switzerland undergarments and sleepwear. Shoes are also important to finish your look. Some of the lines carried are Arche, Lisa Nading, and Gentle Souls. Haldora also carries jewelry in a wide range of prices. Open Daily. 28 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, New York. (845) 876-6250. www.haldora.com. COLLEGES Dutchess Community College

Dutchess Community College, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, was founded in 1957. The College offers an educational policy of access, quality, opportunity, diversity, and social responsibility. DCC’s main campus in Poughkeepsie is situated on 130 scenic acres with facilities that are aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced. The College has a satellite campus, Dutchess South, in Wappinger Falls, and learning centers in Carmel, Staatsburg, and Pawling. (845) 431-8020. www.sunydutchess.edu.

Marist College

Ranked among the top 10 percent of all American colleges by the Princeton Review, Marist College stands with over 70 years of educating adults. The School of Graduate and Continuing Education offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, and certificates, noncredit professional programs, and personalized services in Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, Goshen, Monticello, Kingston, and online. Phone: (845) 575-3000 x6039. Fax: (845) 575-3166. E-mail: Josh.Reed@marist.edu. Web: www.marist.edu/gce. Mount Saint Mary College

An independent liberal arts college offering more than 30 undergraduate programs; graduate programs in business (MBA), education, and nursing; and noncredit courses. 2,500 women and men. Its beautiful campus overlooks the Hudson River and is conveniently located off I-84 in Newburgh. (845) 569-3222. www.msmc.edu. COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS Hawthorne Valley Association

Cultural renewal through education, agriculture, and the arts. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Hawthorne Valley School, Visiting Students Program and Summer Camps, Adonis Press, Alkion Center for Adult Education, Farmscape Ecology Program, Center for Social and Environmental Responsibility. 327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY 12075. www.hawthornevalley association.org, or call us at (518) 672-5118. COMPUTER TUTORS 4-M Contemporary

Need help with your PC? We can help you set it up, navigate the internet, learn Word, Mail Merge, Access, InDesignCS, IllustratorCS, PhotoshopCS, GoLiveCS, layout and print documents and more. We are patient and will instruct in layman’s terms (beginners to advanced). Charges by the hour - your home/office or ours. (845) 246-9038 CONSIGNMENT SHOPS Past ‘n’ Perfect

A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, shoes, and accessories, and a unique variety of high quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of

merchandise from casual to chic, contemporary to vintage, with sizes from infant to adult. Featuring a diverse and illuminating jewelry collection. Open Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm, and Saturday 10am-4pm. Conveniently located at 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY–only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge. (845)635-3115. www.past nperfect.com. The Present Perfect

Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry accessories, and knickknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers. Open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday 12-5pm. Located at 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. (845) 876-2939. CRAFTS Crafts People

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 & 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday 10:30am-6pm. 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley. (845) 331-3859. DANCEWEAR First Street Dancewear

First Street Dancewear in Saugerties, NY offers quality dancewear for Adults and Children. We have dancewear, knit warm-ups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates. Phone (845) 247-4517. www.first streetdancewear.com. DESIGN Actionpact Solutions

Actionpact Solutions is your premiere, award-winning, full-service graphic, Web, and multi-media design firm located in Kingston, NY. We offer fresh, fun, and functional advertising and design solutions for businesses of all sizes. Make a pact for action and contact us today for your free consultation! (845) 532-5398 or support @actionpactsolutions.com.

Bluebird Artworks Studio

Get your ugly mug on one of our beautiful ceramic mugs. Let Bluebird design for you. We can create elegant and efficient websites, clean business cards, effective print ads or just create a great logo. Visit the studio of multimedia artist Jonathan James. Use his web & graphic services. Buy a gift mug, a freeform crochet hat or a fine oil painting by artist Dahlia Nichols. A small studio with big ideas. 8 Tinker Street, Woodstock, behind Walkabout. (845) 679-4659. BluebirdArtworks.com or email mrwander@gmail.com. DISTRIBUTION Chronogram Is Everywhere!

Have you ever noticed how wherever you go, Chronogram is there? That’s because our distribution is so damned good. We can distribute your flyer, brochure, business card, or publication to over 700 establishments in Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia, Greene, Putnam, and Orange counties & now with new stops in Peekskill, Westchester County. Call us at (845) 334-8600 x107 or e-mail distribution@chronogram.com. DIVORCE SERVICES Lois M. Brenner

See Attorneys. EDITING Manuscript Consultant

See Literary. EVOLUTION Discovery Institute

To Know. To Understand. To Be. Offering intensive training in a living school of psychotransformism in the tradition of G.I. Gurdjieff. (845) 255-5548. discover@bestweb.net. FAUX FINISHES Faux Intentions

Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in Custom Faux Finishes for your home and business. With infinite possibilities, your walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes and many other mediums, help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhiliration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away (845) 532-3067. 7/05

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FINANCIAL SERVICES Center for Financial Wellness, Inc.

I don’t sell anything! I help you become financially independent – retire early, reduce your taxes, build an investment portfolio, do work that you love, get out of debt! Robin Vaccai-Yess, Certified Financial Planner™, Registered Investment Advisor, Fee-Only. Visit www.financiallywell.com to receive my free E-newsletter and to register for workshops. (845) 255-6052. www.financiallywell.com.

The Phantom Gardener

At Phantom we provide everything you need to create and enjoy an organic, beautiful landscape. Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff will help you choose from an unbeatable selection of herbaceous or woody plants, garden products and books. We offer professional design, installation, and maintenance services. Visit us! Rhinebeck, NY. 9am – 5pm daily. (845) 876-8606. www.thephantomgardener.com. See display ad. GIFTS

FRAMING Catskill Art & Office

See Art Supplies. Manny’s

See Art Supplies. GARDENING & GARDEN SUPPLIES Blue Mountain Gardens

Ulster County’s newest garden center specializing in unusual annuals, proven perennials, shrubs and vines and located next to Beyond The Pail, a fine gift store offering accessories for the gardening lifestyle. 3524 Rt. 32 North, Saugerties. Open daily 9am-6pm. (845) 246-6978. Mac’s Agway in Red Hook /New Paltz Agway

Specializing in all your lawn and garden needs. We carry topsoil, peat moss, fertilizers, organics, grass seed, shavings, straw, fencing, pet food, bird seed, bird houses, and more. Mac’s Agway, 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY (845) 876-1559; New Paltz Agway, 145 Route 32N, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0050. Hours for both locations: Monday-Friday 8am-5:30pm; Saturday 8am5pm; Sunday 9am-3pm.

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Sapphire

The newly opened Sapphire is a unique gift shop like none other. Featuring handmade quality gifts of pottery, stained glass, jewelry, wooden bowls, bags, prints, cards, and home accents made by American and Hudson Valley artisans. Located in downtown Rosendale, Sapphire is open Monday: 2-9pm, closed Tues. & Wed., Thurs: 2-9pm, Fri: 2-9pm, Saturday: 12-9pm, and Sunday: 11-4pm. 415 Main Street, Rosendale. (845) 658-3315. sapphire skyllc@hvc.rr.com. GLASSBLOWING Glassblowing.com

The glassblowing.com studio offers Beginner Workshops in both Glassblowing and Beadmaking. Lee Kind has been teaching glassblowing since 1990 and has the ability to make this hot medium safe for anyone to try. In addition to teaching, Lee creates a line of “one of a kind” lamps and lighting installations for both homes and businesses. For more information call (845) 297-7334 or www.glassblowing.com.

HAIR SALONS Trends Hair Design

Trends is a cutting-edge hair design center offering New York City styles at Hudson Valley prices, specializing in modern color, cut, and chemical techniques for men and women. Waxing and nail services available. Open Tuesday through Friday, 9am to 7pm; Saturday, 10am to 3pm. Gift certificates available. 29-31 West Strand, Kingston. (845) 340-9100. HOME DESIGNS Eco-Arch Design Works Janus Welton, AIA, BBEI

An award-winning design architect, offering over 15 years of Traditional Chinese Feng Shui expertise to her Ecological and Healthy Building Design Practice: combining Building Biology, Solar Architecture, and Feng Shui to promote “Inspiring and Sustainable” environments for the 21st Century. Unlock the potentials of your site, home, or office to foster greater harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity. Services include: Architecture, Planning, Commercial Interiors, Professional Seminars and Consultations. E-mail: ecoarchitect@hvc.rr.com or see www.JanusWeltonDesign Works.com. (845) 247-4620. HOME FURNISHINGS & GIFTS White Rice

531 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534. (518) 697-3500. shaunwr03@aol.com. HORSEBACK RIDING LESSONS Frog Hollow Farm

English riding lessons for adults and children. Solarheated indoor, large outdoor, cross-country course, extensive trails. Summer camp, board-

ing, training, and sales. Emphasis on Dressage as a way of enhancing all horse disciplines. Holistic teaching and horse care. 572 Old Post Road, Esopus. (845) 384-6424. www.dressage atfroghollowfarm.com. Green Heron Farm, Inc.

We offer riding instruction to children and adults beginner through advanced all year round in a safe, fun environment with qualified instructors. We also offer summer day camp for children. We are located 3 miles from the center of Woodstock. 446 John Jay Road. For more information call (845) 246-9427 or visit us at www.greenheronfarm.com. INTERIOR DESIGN DeStefano & Associates

Barbara DeStefano. (845) 339-4601. See Whole Living Guide under Feng Shui. INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS Hudson Valley Internet

Local Internet access and commercial Web site hosting. Fast, reliable, easy to use, flexible pricing…Want more? How about: free software, extra e-mail, K56Flex support, personal web space, helpful customer service, and no setup charges. (845) 255-2799.www.hvi.net. Webjogger

Blazing fast broadband Internet access. Featuring symmetrical bandwidth, superior personal attention and technical support, rock-solid security and reliability, and flexible rates. Complementary services include e-mail, Web hosting, accelerated dialup, server collocation and management, and customized networking solutions. Webjogger is a locally grown

company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. (845) 757-4000. www.webjogger.net. LITERARY Submit to Chronogram

Seeking submissions of poems, short stories, essays, and article proposals. Accepting pieces of all sorts. With SASE, send submissions to Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, 2nd floor, Kingston, NY 12401. info@chronogram.com or check out our web site: www.chronogram.com. Ione

Writing workshops and private instruction for writers. (845) 339-5776. MAGAZINES Chronogram

The only complete arts and cultural events resource for the Hudson Valley. Subscribe and get the lowdown first. Whether you live in the Hudson Valley or just visit, you’ll know what’s going on. Send $36 for yearly subscription to: Chronogram, 314 Wall Street, 2nd floor, Kingston, NY 12401. info@chronogram.com. www.chronogram.com. MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION Pathways Mediation Center

A unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce, or families in conflict, with the innovative, combined services of two professionals. Josh Koplovitz has 30 years as a Matrimonial & Family Law Attorney, and Myra Schwartz has 30 years as a Guidance Counselor. This male/female team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultation to find out about us. (845) 331-0100.

Rodney Wells, CFP, Member AFM & NYSCDM

If you’re separating, divorcing, or have issues with child support, custody, or visitation, choose mediation. On average, mediated agreements are fulfilled twice as often as litigated court decisions and cost half as much. I draw on my experience as a financial planner, psychotherapist, and pro se litigant to guide couples in a responsible process of unraveling their entanglements, preserving their assets, and creating a satisfying future. Cornwall, New Paltz, and NYC. (845) 534-7668. www.mediated-divorce.com. MUSIC Burt’s Electronics

Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs. 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston. Monday through Friday 9am-7pm; Saturday 9am5pm; and Sunday 12pm-4pm. (845) 331-5011. Drums of Woodstock

The ultimate source for all your jammin’ needs. Check out our diverse collection of Djembe, Dun Dun, Conga, Bougarabou Drums, Didgeridoos, Rain Sticks, Chimes, and Hand-Held Musical Instruments. 77 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498. (845) 810-0442. www.drums ofwoodstock.com. Magnetic North Studio

Attention musicians - win one free day in our recording studio. To enter - email info@magnocd.com All entries receive $50.00 discount

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toward studio time. Experienced recording, mixing, mastering, editing. Complete CD/DVD packages in any quantity. Magnetic North Studio - vintage analog warmth with digital precision. (845) 247-0113 www.magnocd.com

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WVKR 91.3 FM

Office and personal assistant more than able to provide fullspectrum support. Intelligent, dependable, industrious, discreet long-term resident can handle it all. Plan a travel itinerary or a dinner party? Organize a wardrobe or a year’s worth of accumulated clutter? Bring order to chaos? No problem. Treat yourself. Free yourself. Your style is my objective. Contact lucabra@earthlink.net or phone (518) 945-3311.

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. A listener-supported, non-commercial, student-run, alternative music station. Programming is provided by students and community members, and includes jazz, new music, folk, hip hop, polka, new age, international, blues, metal, news, and public affairs programming. WVKR Web casts at www.wvkr.org. (845) 437-7010. MUSIC LESSONS Girls Rock!

Female guitar teacher available to help you develop strength, co-ordination, great sound and fearlessness. Specializing in pop/rock. Electric or acoustic. Beginners welcome – all ages. Learn to play your favorite songs, move beyond generic folk chords, expand your understanding of technique and theory. New Paltz and beyond. Guys welcome too! Modest Pro tools set up but INCREDIBLE piano! If you need a stellar piano recording, I have a 1947 Steinway upright and can record you simply and inexpensivly. Perfect for songwriters, students and pianists. Located in Minnewaska area. $20/hr. www.bibifarber.com. (646) 734-8018. NURSERIES

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PAINTING Professional Painting Co.

Hire the best for residential and commercial painting. Our skilled staff uses quality materials and combines the necessary resources to complete each job to your satisfaction. Painting improves the appearance of your residence, protects your investment, and increases its value. Call Trevor @ (845) 430-1290 or (845) 679-4232. PERFORMING ARTS Hudson River Performing Arts Center

29 Elm St, Fishkill, NY 12524. (845) 896-1888. hudsonriver performingarts@yahoo.com.

Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604. (845) 437-5902. befargislanc@ pop.vassar.edu. PERSONAL ASSISTANTS Personal Assistant

PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES Pussyfoot Lodge B&B

The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-petplant-sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets’ health and happiness. Also offering a cats-only resort with individual rooms. Extensive horticulture and landscaping knowledge in addition to domestic and zoo animal experience. Better Business Bureau Metro NY/MidHudson Region Member. (845) 687-0330. PHOTOGRAPHY France Menk Photography & Photodesign

A fine art approach to your photographic and advertising requirements. Internationally exhibited. Major communications/advertising clients. My work is 100% focused on your needs. www.photocon.com. (845) 256-0603. Michael Gold

Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish, off-thewall personalities. Complete studio facilities and lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional. Unconditionally guaranteed. www.micha elgoldsphotos.com and click on to the “Headshots” page. The Corporate Image Studios, 1 Jacobs Lane, New Paltz. (845) 255-5255.

Andy Wainwright

Creative photography of artwork, architecture, people, and products. Grant proposals require outstanding 35mm slides to be successful, and your web site can be improved with fresh and imaginative images. The impact of a stunning postcard/announcement should never be underestimated. Andy possesses cutting edge digital skills and 28 years of experience exceeding the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectations. Spectacular lighting, all the tools, and an impassioned interest in your goals. Take a look: andywainwright.com. (845) 757-5431. Michael Weisbrot Studio

Wedding Photography. Color and Archival, Museum-quality, B&W Photography. Customized packages. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an experienced professional whose work combines sensitivities of an artist with storytelling skills of a photojournalist. General commercial freelance. Studio and location. Portraits, Theatre. Custom B&W darkroom work. Exhibition Printing. Call for prices, samples, and appointment. mandm8377@usadatanet.com or (845) 338-0293. PLUMBING & BATH N & S Supply

205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY 12524. (845) 896-6291. cloijas@nssupply.com. PRINTING SERVICES New York Press Direct

At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason - to delight our customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shopping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions are leading edge in the industry. Our pricing is among the most competitive in the northeast region. Call John DeSanto or Larry Read for more information. (845) 457-2442. PUBLISHERS Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Monkfish publishes books that combine spiritual and literary merit. Monkfish books range from memoirs to sutras, from fiction to scholarly works of thought. Monkfish also publishes Provenance Editions, an imprint devoted to elegant editions of spiritual classics. Monkfish books are available at your favorite local or online bookstores, or directly from us. Rhinebeck, NY. www.monkfishpublishing.com (845) 876-4861.

REAL ESTATE Willow Realty

Willow Realty is a small, personalized Real Estate Agency in Ulster County, New York. We have access to all the properties in the Multiple Listing Service, but highpressure tactics are not part of our sales kit. We have extensive experience in buyer agency and new construction. We listen to you!!! New Paltz. (845) 255-7666. SAILBOAT SALES & INSTRUCTION Great Hudson Sailing Company

Purchase a new Beneteau sailboat from us and receive 20 hours of free instruction. We have sales offices in Mamaroneck and W. Haverstraw, NY. Our sailing school also offers sailing lessons in private or group sessions in three locations: W. Haverstraw, Kingston, Jersey City. Phone (800) 237-1557 www.greathudsonsailing.com SCHOOLS Anderson School

Anderson School is an educational residential community, serving children and adults (ages 5-21) with autism and related developmental disabilities, in Staatsburg, New York. Education and residential programs are designed to foster continuous growth, independence and social interaction. Students are accepted year-round. Funded by NYS Dept. of Education, OCFS and OMRDD. Contact Kate Haas (845) 889-4034 x534 or visit www.andersonschool.org. Hawthorne Valley School

Hawthorne Valley School offers Waldorf Education pre-K to twelfth grade in Columbia and surrounding counties in an expanded campus with a new kindergarten, teaching kitchen, and fine arts wing through a curriculum integrating academics, arts, and practical work. The goal is to educate young people in mind, heart, and body. 330 Route 21C, Ghent, NY. (518) 672-7092. Hudson Valley Sudbury School

A radically different form of education based on the belief that children are driven by a basic desire to learn and explore. We trust that children, given the freedom, will choose the most appropriate path for their education. Our 7/05

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democratic School Meeting expects children to take responsibility for their lives and their community. Year-round admissions. Sliding-scale tuition. www.hudsonvalleyschool.org (845) 679-1002. High Meadow School

Pre-kindergarten through 8th grade, committed to a childcentered education that engages the whole child. Intimate, nurturing, with small class size and hands-on learning. A program rich in academic, artistic, physical, and social skills. Fully accredited. Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY. Call Suzanne Borris, director. (845) 687-4855. Maria’s Garden Montessori School

Cultivating independence, confidence, compassion, peace, and a lifelong love of learning. Serving children 3 years through first grade in a one-room country schoolhouse surrounded by gardens, woodlands, and streams. 8:30 am-3:30 pm, with part time options for preschoolers. Half or full day kindergarten. Affiliated with the American Montessori Society. 62 Plains Road, New Paltz, NY 12561. (845) 256-1875. info@marias gardenmontessori.com. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School

At the Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, not only can all students do their best in academic basics, they can find and achieve a balance in rich programs of drama, speech, Spanish, Russian, painting, music, creative writing, woodwork, and more. Waldorf Education: for the head, heart, and hands. Nursery-8th Grade. 16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz. Call Judy Jaeckel. (845) 255-0033.

STONEWORK

See Landscape Products & Services. STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Hudson Valley Structural Integration

Structural integration is a form of soft tissue manipulation based on the lifelong work of Dr. Ida P. Rolf. It is a process-oriented whole systems approach that seeks to improve one’s health and vitality by balancing the body and re-establishing appropriate relationships. Benefits include feeling lighter, more energy, greater freedom of movement, relief from chronic pain, and positive psychological effects. We offer a safe place for exploration and work with sensitivity and compassion. Krisha Showalter and Ryan Flowers are certified practitioners of the KMI method. Rhinebeck, (845) 876-4654. TAROT Tarot-on-the-Hudson Rachel Pollack

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Woodstock Day School, a state-chartered, independent school and member of NYSAIS, providing quality education for pre-school through high school students since 1972. Small classes and a 6:1 student-toteacher ratio allow us to give each child the individualized consideration necessary for a positive learning experience. PO Box 1, Woodstock. (845) 246-3744. www.woodstock dayschool.org.

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Discovery Institute / Present Company Division Street Grill Donskoj & Co. The Dreaming Goddess Drums of Woodstock Dutchess County Fairgrounds Dutchess Community College Dutchess Mental Hygiene E.A. Coon & Company Eco-Arch Design Works Ed’s Service Motorcycles Ellinwood, Lydia Emerson Place Entelechy Episcopal Church of Christ the King Esotec Eveready Diner E-Ville Outfitters Exclusively Equine Properties, LLC Falcon Ridge Folk Festival The Farmer’s Wife Faux Intentions Feldenkrais Fete Accompli Fionn Reilly Photography Fleisher’s Grass Fed & Organic Meats Flowing Spirit Guidance Flower Nest Forest Studio for Body/Mind Fitness Foreign Wide Forged & Fired Planet Waves The French Corner Fresh Company Frisch, Amy Frog Hollow Farm Gabriels Galarie BMG The Garrison Garrison Art Center The Garrison Gendron Catering George Cole Auctioneers Gino’s Restaurant Glassblowing.com Golden Notebook Grandiflora Graham Construction Great Food & Co Greig Farm Roy Gumpel Photography H Houst & Son Haldora Hansen Caviar Company Hana Sushi Hand In Hand - A Healer’s Connection Hawthorne Valley School Healthy Gourmet To-Go, Inc. Heaven and Earth Hickory BBQ Smokehouse Highland Cafe Highland Cultural Center Hoffman House Tavern Honda of Kingston Hopewell Nutrition Center Hoon Park, MD Houlihan Lawrence Lavery Real Estate Hudson City Bed and Breakfast Hudson River Maritime Museum Hudson River Performing Arts Center Hudson Sailing Hudson Valley AIDS Auction Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc. Hudson Valley Learning Center Hudson Valley Modern Dance Co-op Hudson Valley School of Massage Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Hudson Valley Photography Hudson Valley Pottery Huguenot Historical Society Hudson Valley Photography Humbach, Irene Hummingbird Jewelers In Good Taste Inquiring Mind Bookstore Institute of Transpersonal Psychology Institute of Ecosystem Studies Intuitive Vision IONE Jacks Meats & Deli Jacobowitz & Gubits Jacob’s Pillow Jai Ma Jenkinstown Day Spa

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Rambling Rose The Red Onion Red Hook Natural Foods Rhinebeck Antiques Fair Rhinebeck Cooperative Health Center Rhinebeck Women’s Health Riley, Shantal Roasted Garlic at The Red Hook Inn Roberti Motor Cars Rose Crossing Rosendale Street Festival Rosendale Wares Sadhana Yoga Center The Sanctuary Sapphire Satya Yoga Center, Upstate Yoga, LLC Saugerties Ballet Center Schneider, Bruce Schneider, Connie Schneider, Pfahl and Rahme Shakti Yoga Silo Ridge Simmons Way Sindhu Porter Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch Skydive The Ranch Solid State Masonry Something Sweet Dessert Cafe Soul Dog Sparrow Hawk Bed & Breakfast Spirittus Holistic Resource Center StageWorks Theater St. Charles Hotel/Maharani Restaurant Stein-way Dog Training St. Francis Hospital Storm King Art Center Sunflower Natural Food Market SUNY Continuing & Professional Education SUNY School of Fine and Performing Arts Suzy Meszoly, Natural Healing Swallow, Judy Table Rock Bike Tara Engberg Photography Tarot on the Hudson Taylor CSW-R, Mary Tenuto, Eva Terrapin Thinkfit, Inc. Three Crazy Friends, Inc. Tibet House US Time and Space Limited Timely Signs Tischler Family Dental Center Torches on the Hudson Total Immersion Swim Studio Totis Gourmet Town Tinker Troutbeck Ugly Gus Cafe & Bar Umami Cafe Unison Arts & Learning Center Upstate Films Upstate Reggae Utility Canvas Van Brunt Gallery Vassar Brothers Medical Center Vegan Lifestyle Coaching The Village Psychic The Village Tearoom Violet Alchemy Vitamin Navigator Wainwright, Andrew Warren Kitchen & Cutlery Wasabi Japanese Restaurant WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Webjogger Internet Services Wellspring Wellness Center of Hyde Park Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty White Rice Wilderstein Preservation Williams Lumber & Home Center Wish, Ron Women’s Care Center Woodstock Day School Woodstock Design Woodstock Film Festival Woodstock Moveable Feast Woodstock Museum Woodstock School of Art Woodstock Womens Health Spa WVKR Yoga on Duck Pond Zen Mountain Monastery

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Endless Views of the Shawangunk Ridgeline from this gracious sunbathed contempo. Lovely new hardwood floors, soaring two sided fireplace, 3 beds/2 baths, separate studio/office space on lower level, breezy screened porch, deck & patio. High-end cul-de-sac close to the fun of Village & rail trail. New Reduced Price $449,000. Helen Nickerson @ Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty. helenindia@msn.com. (845) 255-9400, ext 104.

Highland- New 3,100 SF, 4-Bedroom, 2.5 Bath Colonial. Fabulous Master Bedroom suite + balcony with views. Family Rm + F/P, formal Living Rm and Dining Rm, on level 1-acre, New Paltz schools, $ 479,000. Also New 3Bedroom Colonial on 2.5-acres $469,000. New 3-Bedroom R/R $ 329,000. Cornwall realty (845)471-2605.

This lovely 3000+ sq. ft. contemporary Center Hall Colonial sits on 16+ acres with a pond. It features 3 or 4 BRs, 3 full baths, plus a 20’x30’ living room w/ 10’ ceiling, custom media wall & a slate fireplace. Walk outside on a huge cedar deck that overlooks apple trees, woods, fields & a Bluestone niche waiting for your hot tub. 3 separate garages (total 2100 sq.ft.), 1 is heated! Rondout Schools. Perfect for horses or an active life. $535,900. Cindy Graham. (845)626-3402.

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Sophisticated country home with open floor plan and cathedral ceilings. Incredible home office designed by renowned clutter specialist. Stunning bright kitchen. Relax on the expansive 53 foot Wrap around porch overlooking the lovely garden. Plenty of parking and small outbuilding complete this gem. Furnishings available separately. $268,000. PrudentialNutshellRealty(845)658-3737.www.Nutshellrealty.com.

Private and located in the heart of wine country. Quick drive from the Mid-Hudson Bridge, NYS Thruway & Metro North trains. Set well off the road with great landscaping. Open floor plan, hardwood flrs, multiple fireplaces with one in master bedroom. 2-car attached garage w/electric. Spanish Terrazzo tile in kitchen,Andersen windows,ceiling fans in every room, skylights, and a Jacuzzi tub. Master bedroom is a wonderful loft space.Third bedroom currently used as an office. Part of Esopus View Estates subdivision, but you would never know by looking at it. $429,000. Prudential Nutshell Realty (845) 658-3737. www.Nutshellrealty.com.

Built in 1820; walk to marina’s; located on dead end street with Rondout Creek across the street for world class bass fishing and view of waterfall. Wide plank floor under current wood floor. Oak hand hewn beams; Lots of gardens for garden parties on almost acre of land. Quiet dead end street. Low taxes. New mechanicals within last 5 yrs; two brick fireplaces, one in basement, one in downstairs bedroom closet, could be made serviceable. Existing foundation for garage which was torn down.Note:kitchen chandelier does not stay. $274,900. Prudential Nutshell Realty (845) 658-3737. www.Nutshellrealty.com.

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Impeccably maintained, private 3000+ sq ft.contemporary in Cottekill.All the amenities provided - central A/C, alarm system, den with fpl, formal LR and DR, office and 3 full tiled baths.MBR w/ whirlpool tub and cedar closet.Large deck,oversized 3 car gar.with 42 foot unfinished space above for studio/office and full unfinished basement. 1.6 acre private lot. $429,000. Prudential Nutshell Realty (845) 658-3737. www.Nutshellrealty.com.

Look out the large windows of this country cottage to your own stream fed pond. Inside, cathedral ceilings and an open plan create a sense of space. Light streams through skylights. Stone chimney & stove for warmth. Hike, bike and climb in the Gunks or Catskills, them sauna at home.$185,000. Prudential Nutshell Realty (845) 658-3737. www.Nutshellrealty.com.

Well preserved & restored. 1830 center hall Colonial in Marbletown, NY w/ original wideboard floors. Exposed beams throughout. Cook’s kitchen with 6 burner Wolfe stove and double soapstone sink.Working fpl. in living room. Home office/den. Spacious screen porch overlooking massive stone piazza w/lush gardens and orchards.Pristine modern artist’s studio building.Charming little summer cottage/playhouse. Preserved historic barn. Catskill views. Contact Barbara Hallam. Flemming Realty (845) 687-4451.

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JOHN FASULO /

The Engineer

ntil recently, photography was John Fasulo's avocation as he made his living as a TV cameraman for more than 20 years. Now, having accepted a buyout from his last employer, Fasulo is focusing on photography full-time. His photography credits include National Geographic, Hudson Valley magazine, US Lighthouse Association magazine, and US Naval Institute Press. He says his

photograph of an engineer taking the smoke arrester off a train's stack in Lovinia, NY, is "the photo that I've done in my life that, after I'm dust, I want to be remembered for. It's a timeless image and could as well be 1934 as 1974." Fasulo can be contacted at ship1949@aol.com.

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